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Chapter 294 Xiao Qi's Assassination

Chapter 294 Xiao Qi's Assassination

Although the son-in-law said that this time it was not for war, but to call them back after giving them four marquises, Ma Shoucheng followed Xiao Qi for so long.

Still from Xiao Qi's recent actions, I feel that something is wrong with my son-in-law these days.

Ma Shoucheng knew that his son-in-law had been leading the four of them to lead an army overseas all these years, and he returned to Song Dynasty not more than a few days earlier than himself.

But now the son-in-law is neither the first princess Zhang Xiu, nor the second concubine Yongjia and the son-in-law Xiao Qin who is very beloved by the son-in-law.

This situation made Ma Shoucheng, who was also fighting abroad all year round, the alarm bells rang in his heart!

There is only one explanation for such a situation, that is, King Zhenbei is aware of the danger he will face.

In order not to affect the two concubines and the prince, he tried to find an excuse to distract the two concubines and the prince.

Ma Shoucheng, who has been fighting abroad all year round, how could he not know how much he misses his family when he is fighting abroad all the year round.

Not long after the king of Zhenbei returned home, he sent a sword battalion to send his two concubines and his eldest son Xiao Qin back to the palace in the capital. He must have sensed that something was wrong.

Feeling something was wrong, Ma Shoucheng quickly wrote letters to Qin Tu, Linzheng and Zhang Jiangong, telling the three of them his worries.

I hope that the three of them will make arrangements for the matters in hand as soon as possible, so that they can rush back as soon as possible after receiving the military order from King Zhenbei.

At this time, Ma Shoucheng was more anxious than ever, hoping to see his three colleagues as soon as possible.

Lin Zheng, Qin Tu, Zhang Jiangong and Ma Shoucheng, although they are now able to stand alone outside, but that is after Xiao Qi explained to them what they need to do in the future.

If they were to make important decisions by themselves, the four of them would have to discuss it together, and no one would dare to make a decision alone anyway.

Seeing that the letters to the other three were sent away by his three personal soldiers, Ma Shoucheng let out a long breath.

This is the most difficult thing that Ma Shoucheng has encountered since he joined the Changsheng Camp and followed Xiao Qi to fight everywhere.

He never thought that the God of War existence in the hearts of himself and all the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion would be in such a dangerous situation.

Perhaps Xiao Qi had encountered such a thing before, but the few of them didn't realize it.

In Ma Shoucheng's letter to Qin Tu and the others, he found out in detail that his son-in-law sent the two concubines and his eldest son Xiao Qin a battalion of saber cavalry to escort them back to the palace in Lin'an, the capital.

And they stayed there to protect the safety of their mother and child. Such a strange thing that had never happened before, plus some of Ma Shoucheng's own judgments, told the three of them in the letter.

Urge them to hand over the matter at hand to the people below as soon as possible, so that they can leave immediately and return to the Song Dynasty after receiving the military order from King Zhenbei, and discuss how to solve this matter together.

A few days after Ma Shoucheng sent someone to send the letter to Qin Tu and the other three, Xiao Qi wrote to Emperor Zhao Shen requesting that Qin Tu Linzheng and four others be made marquises, which was also approved by Emperor Zhao Shen.

After receiving the imperial decree agreed by the emperor, Xiao Qi immediately sent someone to send an order to Qin Tu, Lin Zheng, and Zhang Jiangong who were still overseas, ordering the three of them to hand over the matter at hand to their agents and hurry back to Song Dynasty.

Xiao Qi's letter was sent away only three days later than Ma Shoucheng's letter. Zhang Jiangong's side was fine, he was only half a month away, and Zhang Jiangong would be able to return to Song Dynasty.

However, because of the long distance between Qin Tu and Linzheng, it took them two months to travel back and forth.

Xiao Qi felt that these days of waiting were idle, so it was better to go to the already built 'Da Song Advanced Technical College' and a few new railways.

As for the world's first high-level institution that he undertook to build, Xiao Qi had long wanted to come and visit again.

Xiao Qi still attaches great importance to this 'Da Song Advanced Technical College' that cultivates technical elites for Da Song.

Since the establishment of this academy, Xiao Qi has been busy fighting around. Now that he finally has free time, he decided to visit this academy first.

For Zhenbei Wang Xiaoqi's sudden visit, both the students of the 'Dasong Advanced Technical College' and the teachers in the college were very excited.

The person in charge of the academy asked Xiao Qi to give lectures to the students of the academy after learning that the founder of the academy had time recently.

Of course, Xiao Qi has no problem giving lectures to students of various disciplines. Many tutorials and textbooks here are written by him.

Xiao Qi also stayed in the academy for a while, giving lectures to students of various disciplines.

Of course, what Xiao Qi talked about at the beginning was not the courses of these subjects, but why these subjects were established, and he described in detail what learning these things would bring to the technological progress of Song Dynasty.

As time passed, Xiao Qi left Dasong Advanced Technical College and began to inspect the newly built railway stations in various places, and took the newly opened trains to wander around.

At this time, the one hundred assassins selected by the Mongol Qiyan Department had already entered the Great Song Dynasty through the Xixia Kingdom disguised as various merchants and pawns, and quietly gathered at the place where Xiao Qi appeared.

In order to succeed in the assassination this time, these people not only carried out various assassination drills, but also researched several sets of assassination plans, and made preparations for assassinating Xiao Qi under various circumstances.

However, what troubled the hundred people was that they had learned the news of Xiao Qi's location several times, and when they arrived there, they found out that Xiao Qi, who was about to be assassinated, had already taken the train to another place. .

Unbeknownst to him, Xiao Qi followed the hundred assassins from the Begging Yan Tribe and went back and forth a few times in the northern part of the Great Song Dynasty.

This broke the one hundred assassins from the begging Yan tribe, Xiao Qi could take the train, but they didn't dare!

These 100 people dare not take the train openly, so every time they get news, they can only find their own way or take a boat, a four-wheeled carriage or simply walk to the new place where Xiao Qi is.

Although these 100 people were very careful to hide their whereabouts, they still needed to find out where Xiao Qi was. Even if they were all careful to eat and live in the wild, they tried to avoid the sight of the people of Song Dynasty.

However, Ma Shoucheng, who had sensed that Xiao Qi was likely to be in danger, had already dispatched a large number of scouts from the Changsheng Battalion to spread around the periphery of Xiao Qi's location.

Although the hundred assassins did not gather together, and usually hid them very carefully, the scouts from the Changsheng Battalion still discovered some abnormalities.

These situations were quickly reported to Ma Shoucheng, and the several strange things reported to Ma Shoucheng all happened near Xiao Qi's location.

And as long as Xiao Qi arrives at a certain place, it won't be long before there will be some people who are very good at hiding around there.

Ma Shoucheng is considering whether to send troops in advance to encircle and suppress those people.

Zhang Jiangong, who rushed back to the Song Dynasty in only a dozen days after receiving Xiao Qi's military order because of the proximity, directly found Ma Shoucheng and asked him if what he said in the letter before was true.

It just so happened that Ma Shoucheng finally found someone he could discuss with, and told Zhang Jiangong all the clues he had found with his scouts.

Afterwards, he told Zhang Jiangong that he was planning to send the Changsheng Battalion into the next place where the generalissimo would go, and lay an ambush on the periphery first, and then arrest all suspicious-looking people for interrogation.

Zhang Jiangong slapped his thigh: "Then what are you waiting for, do it quickly, even if you catch the wrong person, as long as you explain to them clearly that someone wants to harm the king of Zhenbei, the wrong person will never have any complaints! "

After the two discussed it properly, they each took a thousand elites of the Changsheng Battalion and rushed to where Xiao Qi was now, wanting to ask where Marshal Xiao was going next.

Those one hundred assassins from the Begging Yan Department had already been worn down by Xiao Qi running back and forth.

These one hundred assassins also rushed here two days after Xiao Qi arrived at Guide Mansion. I don't know if they were afraid of being run away, or they thought it was not easy to catch up with Xiao Qi once.

After learning that Xiao Qi was still living in Guide Mansion and hadn't left, these people realized that this place was not suitable for assassination, so they chose the surprise attack with the lowest success rate!

Thinking about it, these 100 people already felt that if they didn't do anything, let alone whether they could meet Xiao Qi next time, they would be exhausted on the road first.

So when someone proposed a direct raid, no one objected, and all agreed to carry out this suicide attack.

Also for these 100 people, they were all dead when they set off.

Even if the raid is unsuccessful, as long as they die in the raid, their relatives and descendants can get what the elders promised, which is better than being dragged to death on the way back and forth.

The elders of the clan said very clearly that as long as those who died in this assassination of Xiao Qi, their family members would receive cattle, sheep and blessings from the clan. If they were dragged to death on the road, they might not have those things.

These people quickly gathered together, took out their hidden bows, arrows, knives and guns from the hidden items, and then quickly rushed to Xiao Qi's location.

After being discovered by Xiao Qi's personal soldiers on the periphery, he even rushed towards Xiao Qi's direction like crazy.

The soldiers guarding Xiao Qi's residence immediately protected the government office where Xiao Qi lived after receiving the warning from the guards patrolling outside.

All the guards on the periphery and the local security forces rushed to the direction of the warning just now.

These one hundred so-called warriors from the Qiyan tribe only used their superiority in numbers to kill the two soldiers when they first met Xiao Qi's soldiers guarding the outside.

However, those two personal soldiers still killed and wounded as many as seven or eight of them before they died.

This result made these 100 people completely desperate for their assassination this time!

There were only two people on the other side, and against one hundred so-called enemy warriors selected from the Qiyan Department, so many people were killed by them!

Who is the enemy of a hundred men?

But they didn't have a chance to think about this. Following the signal of encountering the enemy sent by the two soldiers before they died, they, the so-called elite warriors from the Qiyan tribe, were quickly stopped by the soldiers.

Moreover, more and more City Defense Forces from Guide Mansion were driven from all around, and they were completely surrounded.

Although the scale of this fight was small, it was extremely tragic!

These one hundred assassins from the Begging Yan Department all came with the determination to die. None of them chose to surrender.

Those Xiao Qi's personal soldiers were battle-hardened one by one, plus they were all masters selected from the Ever-Victorious Battalion, they didn't care much about the cruelty of these hundreds of people at all, and quickly put the people in front of them The Assassin killed them all.

The group of Guide Mansion City Defense Forces who had never experienced battle suffered heavy casualties.

To them, these people are simply murderous lunatics. Every time they kill one of their assassins, they have to fall two or three assassins.

If it wasn't for the soldiers of King Zhenbei on the opposite side, they would have quickly killed all the assassins on their side, and rushed to kill the assassins who were fighting against them.

Maybe tomorrow there will be news that hundreds of Guide City Defense Forces will be defeated by dozens of assassins.

These hundreds of city defense troops, who were still in shock, looked at the extremely fierce assassins who were fighting with their side just now, and were instantly chopped up by dozens of Zhenbei King's soldiers who rushed over like melons and vegetables.

These hundreds of city defense troops were all stunned!

In the past, I always heard that the Song Changsheng Battalion was invincible in combat power, but I thought it was only slightly stronger than people like myself.

Now I have finally seen how the prestige of the Great Song Changsheng Camp came about!

As far as people like myself are concerned, let alone being compared with others, they are not worthy of carrying shoes for others!

After these personal soldiers cut down all the assassins, the leader immediately sent someone back to report that the assassins had been dealt with, but the opponents were all dead soldiers, and they all came with the intention of dying, so they couldn't keep their hands. live.

Then these soldiers took out the wound medicine and began to hug each other's wounds. After the bandages were finished, they saw that the city defense army didn't know how to deal with the wounded soldiers.

They were all from the Song Dynasty, and they fought side by side again just now, and these personal soldiers went to help the wounded soldiers of the city defense army bandage their wounds and rescue their seriously wounded.

Xiao Qi who heard the movement at this time also rode Heitantou and rushed over with his own soldiers, and frowned when he saw the situation on the battlefield.

One could tell at a glance that none of these assassins were Song people. Although they were dressed in Han clothes, the weapons they used could not be disguised.

Judging from the weapons of these people, these people should be nomadic people, because most of them carry bows and arrows and hold scimitars.

At this time, Ma Shoucheng and Zhang Jiangong also arrived with a thousand Changsheng Battalion soldiers each.

Seeing that the battle was so tragic and Xiao Qi was in the battlefield again, Ma Shoucheng and Zhang Jiangong were frightened. They quickly knelt down and apologized to Xiao Qi, saying that they were not well defended on the outside and so many assassins slipped in.

Xiao Qi waved them to stand up, took out two weapons with words on them from the weapons collected by the soldiers, and handed them to the two of them.

"This king knows that this matter has nothing to do with you, so he quickly sent someone to take the weapon with the writing on it for inspection, and find out which family the writing on it belongs to and what it says."

Ma Shoucheng and Zhang Jiangong took the order. While asking people to jump out of the weapon with writing, so that they could go back and find someone to identify the writing on it, they asked the soldiers to help treat the injured city defense troops.

(End of this chapter)