Chapter 60 Assassination (recommended)
In May of the seventh year of Guanghe, Huangfusong set fire to Bocai's army in Changshe.
At this time, Zhong Yu, who had already pacified the entire Jingzhou, was bringing his personal guards to Jiangling city.
It is spring in southern China, when the ice and snow melt and turn into streams to irrigate the earth. Everywhere is filled with a kind of vigorous and upward vitality, and the green shoots are full of fields.
"drive!"
There was a sound of horseshoes, rattling. I saw hundreds of cavalry walking quickly on the main road on the plain, and pedestrians on the side of the road bypassed one after another, lest they block the way of these officers and soldiers and be killed by them innocently.
"Your Majesty, I'm only bringing a few hundred guards here. Is it a little weak? If someone has evil intentions, what should I do about my Majesty's safety?" Said a man who looked like a general next to Zhong Yu, who took the lead and took the lead.
"It doesn't matter, now that the entire Jingzhou has been crushed by the king's army, who dares to come out and hide at home, do you want the king to kill his nine clans?" Hearing the guard general beside him Zhong Yu said with a disapproving face.
A group of people, riding fast horses, quickly walked across the road and turned to a trail. After walking not far, I finally arrived at the destination. This is a forest with few people and many prey. It is a good place for spring hunting.
Since the two counties of Jingzhou were pacified, the army was divided into four, and each went to attack the remaining counties of Jingzhou. Zhong Yu sits in the center of these two places alone, coordinating the four directions, and he feels a little boring after a long time.
It's not the first time he has come out to hunt, go hunting, and relax. Counting the number of times, it must be more than ten times!
At the beginning, Zhong Yu led his army of several thousand to patrol the route constantly and disperse pedestrians, so as to avoid those with malicious intentions.
However, after several visits, no assassination attempt was found, let alone any danger, and the number of guards gradually decreased, ranging from several thousand, over a thousand, to hundreds. This time, he only brought three hundred cavalry with him, not any infantry.
As usual, the surrounding guards went to the forest to drive away the prey, and drove them to Zhong Yu, so that he could hunt better.
The whole group was like this, chasing after each other, constantly hunting the prey, seeing those prey fleeing in front of him in a hurry, in order to survive, Zhong Yu had a sense of enjoyment of controlling all living beings and manipulating their fate.
This is also the reason why he chose to take the difficult road of being an emperor, instead of being a lone ranger, surrounded by countless people, and with one order, tens of thousands of people will do their best for him and die.
If in the end, this road is smooth in this life, then who can experience this feeling of being a man above a man, a god above a god, and a heaven in the sky!
Zhong Yu, who was playing games to his heart's content and enjoying the fun of power, didn't realize that he was a thousand meters away from him. There were pairs of eyes looking at him full of hatred, those eyes full of vengeance, extremely red.
The eyes are burning with fire, and there is an emotion called pain and despair, tormenting these people who are still alive.
Those people were waiting, when the guards around Zhong Yu were the least and their vigilance was most relaxed, they would fall into their ambush circle, and then they would swarm up.
Let this devil who killed their whole family and took away all their family affection, glory, wealth, and status pay the price he deserved, so as to show their loved ones the dark spirits under the nine springs.
Finally, this opportunity came. There were only fifty guards around Zhong Yu, and the other guards were hundreds of meters away, chasing prey for Zhong Yu.
If he wanted to rush to Zhong Yu's side, he would need at least two or three minutes in the jungle. This was the moment when Zhong Yu's guards were weakest in half a year, the moment they attacked Yizhou from Zhong Yu and slaughtered countless aristocratic families.
Countless assassinations were planned around Zhong Yu's side, but they were uncovered in advance because of those guards who were strictly vigilant and defended without any loopholes.
After losing countless manpower and material resources, like-minded people, batch after batch of meaningless deaths, they finally recognized the reality.
It is impossible to assassinate this tyrant when he is prepared. He could only wait until the tyrant himself slacked off and showed his flaws before he could perform a one-hit kill.
After half a year, this opportunity finally came. Zhong Yu finally relaxed his vigilance after not being assassinated for half a year, and dared to go hunting, not caring about possible assassinations at all.
Perhaps he also thought in his heart that those young people had been overwhelmed by his majesty, so they didn't dare to move. They could only live in the shadowy corner, secretly licking his bruised body.
Here it comes, Zhong Yu is only a hundred steps away from the ambush circle of those assassins, if he gets closer, the guards may discover him in advance, and thus miss the opportunity.
The leader of the assassins couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and issued an order. Immediately, dozens of crossbow arrows flew from all around, and went straight to Zhong Yu's surroundings.
The guards seemed to be a little surprised that someone was assassinated, and they couldn't react for a while. Only the seven or eight guards around Zhong Yu quickly flew up and rushed towards Zhong Yu's side, blocking the dozens of crossbow arrows with their bodies.
The sound of puffing into the flesh sounded one after another, and all the guards were shot into a hornet's nest by the crossbow arrows, and blood flowed continuously from their bodies.
But the will in their hearts supported their bodies so that they could not fall down. They stood up tightly and blocked Zhong Yu's surroundings. Although their consciousness gradually dissipated, the solidity of their bodies did not dissipate. The loyal guards stood Beside Zhong Yu.
"Kill, kill this tyrant, avenge our dead relatives!"
"Come on, for the hatred in our hearts, for our will to live."
Words declaring their determination and purpose came out from the mouths of those assassins. In the blink of an eye, Zhong Yu had already gathered around him, hundreds of assassins, and thousands of people from farther away came quickly.
And Zhong Yu's side after the round of attack just now, there are only more than 30 people around him. The guards of more than 200 people in the distance were also held back by a group of 500 dead men desperately.
All of a sudden, the situation was extremely dangerous, Zhong Yu's life seemed to have been manipulated by others and out of his control, which could also be played by these assassins.
However, there was no panic on Zhong Yu's face. Instead, surrounded by the more than 30 guards, he looked calmly at the leader-like assassins who came out slowly.
Those leaders were not in a hurry to kill Zhong Yu, for the past few months, the eagerness in their hearts to kill Zhong Yu quickly, so as to comfort the spirit of the whole family in the sky, how can it be expressed clearly in a few words of it.
If you let the enemy die like this, and don't give vent to him before he dies, the distortion in his heart must be difficult to calm down.
So they are not in a hurry, they want to appreciate the face of this extremely cruel and foolish king before he died.
Seeing him kneeling in front of me crying bitterly, begging for my life and forgiveness. Seeing his expression full of despair, pain and helplessness because of the shattered hopes he gave time and time again, can truly heal the hatred and pain in their hearts.
Can anyone guess? How on earth did our protagonist escape? It's hard to guess personally.