Chapter 161: Killing from the Source

"Swish swish swish!"

More than twenty crossbows were launched almost at the same time, blocking Chen Ying's possible retreat.

A dense sound of breaking through the air sounded, and the two personal guards blocking Chen Ying, together with Chen Ying himself, splashed blood flowers on their bodies. Under the light of the fire, these countless blood flowers looked extremely charming.

Accident, absolutely accident.

Chen Ying never thought that as the most outstanding military commander of the Tang Empire, he did not die under the enemy's swords, nor in the enemy's conspiracy. He was assassinated outside Yanshi City in the eastern part of Luoyang, the heart of the Tang Empire.

And it was an almost unsolvable assassination.

Chen Ying likes to experience and do it himself, especially steam engine trains. As long as there is a problem with the train, he always likes to come forward to observe. Even if Chen Ying does not understand the structure of the train or does not know about repairs, this is just concern.

Usually when Chen Ying goes out, in order to protect him, his personal guards around him want to assassinate Chen Ying who has a strengthened Zhechong Mansion. The number of people is too small and he cannot tear away Chen Ying's Tiger Yi Yi protection network. As long as there are too many people, he cannot avoid the surrounding eyeliners.

The only omission was that it appeared here. He had only four personal guards around him, two of whom died instantly, and two protected Chen Ying and retreated quickly.

Chen Ying was shot in four arrows, causing cold sweat to burst into his forehead.

The more than twenty assassins had no time to load crossbow arrows, threw away the crossbow machine, pulled out the short sword, and rushed towards Chen Ying.

However, they no longer have a chance.

Just as the crossbow was ringing, the tiger Yichen, who was located in the front of the steam engine train, had already gotten off the train. Although they didn't have time to protect Chen Ying, the crossbow in their hands was OK.

As a metal tremolo sounded, the dense rain of arrows enveloped more than 20 assassins. As Chen Ying's personal guards, they knew very well that they needed to leave a living mouth. Although this dense rain of arrows was terrifying, it did not go to the vital point, but only nailed the more than 20 assassins to the ground, causing them to lose their ability to move.

Guo Luo held the shaking Chen Ying with a look of horror and said, "How about the master?"

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Die..., no vital damage... I can't die!"

Yang Rong also rushed over after hearing the news. She looked at Chen Ying covered in blood and said in a crying voice: "You said it's okay, look at you, what are you hurting? Here comes... medical officer... military officer..."

Chen Ying's brain became dizzy, and his throat felt sweet. When he looked down, he saw blood flowing out, which turned out to be blue and purple. His face turned pale even more.

"The crossbow arrow is poisonous!"

Chen Ying struggled to look at Ma Zhou who was running in single clothes and said, "Ma Zhou obeys the order!"

Ma Zhou and his personal guards leaned over and obeyed the orders.

Chen Ying knew at this time that his time was getting less and less, so he said a long story short: "The army cannot be messed up, the money house cannot be messed up, and the steam engine research and development cannot be stopped..."

Chen Ying's head drooped softly, and the military doctor also ran over with the medicine box at this time.

They stopped Chen Ying with all their might, but the military doctors' faces were even more ugly.

"The crossbow arrow is poisonous!"

As Chen Ying was carried onto the train by a stretcher, the train did not start, but nervously performed surgery on the train.

Yang Rong looked at Chen Ying in the operating room and said word by word: "I will find out the truth!"

At this moment, a short guard suddenly drew out his horizontal sword and rushed towards the assassins.

"kill!"

A cold light flashed across the horizontal knife, and a blood arrow ejected out.

Ma Zhou screamed: "Stop him...you must leave a living!"

The guards stepped forward to seize Li Siye's sword and hugged him tightly.

Li Siye was indignant.

They all knew that Li Siye was Chen Ying's eldest son. Seeing that Li Siye's emotions stabilized, they let him go.

Li Siye swung his fist at the train carriage, one punch heavier than the other. After a while, his boxer was bleeding, revealing white bones.

Guo Luo was also very guilty and upset.

Ma Zhou said with a gloomy face: "Closed the news immediately, and anyone around the train should be approached."

Guo Luo waved his hand to show the tiger Yicong to act according to Ma Zhou's orders.

He said to Ma Zhou: "The Tianzi plan should be activated and Chenjiabao should be ordered to evacuate!"

Ma Zhou knew part of Chen Ying's Tianzi plan. In this plan, if Chen Ying suffers an accident, Chang'an, Chenjiabao, Lingzhou, and even Henan Prefecture will all take action.

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "No, we can't start the plan so early now. Let's do it. Let's make preparations. All the Anxi Army units, Luo Shixin, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Liu Tong, Guo Xiaoke and other units must not act rashly..."

Ma Zhou's heart was in chaos. The court was at the forefront. If the news of Chen Ying's assassination was leaked, it would definitely cause a bloody storm.

However, Chen Ying was the backbone of the Anxi Army and the war god in the army. Once the soldiers of the army knew that Chen Ying was assassinated, they would definitely go crazy. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was in a real crisis. If you were not careful, you might fall into a place of doom.

...

In the north of Chang'an City, this is the red light district of Chang'an City, and it is also a place where dignitaries and nobles drink and have fun. A carrier pigeon lands in a luxurious house in Beili.

At this time, in the lobby of the house, a manager carefully untied the small bamboo tube from the legs of the carrier pigeon, and then quickly came to the front hall.

At this time, more than a dozen nobles were drinking and having fun in the front hall.

The silk and bamboo are melodious, and the dancers dance to the rhythm of the music.

Ten young men in the gorgeous clothes passed notes to each other, and everyone was smiling.

A middle-aged man in white robe in the next seat laughed incoherently: "Okay, okay, okay, finally get rid of a disaster..."

The man in blue-clothed clothes on the main seat looked at the man in white-clothed clothes coldly and said, "Mr. Feng, don't be happy too early. Just being shot in an arrow may not necessarily die. As long as he wakes up and knows that I have plotted against you, you must know what will be waiting for us, right?"

The man in white robe looked like he was taught, "Mr. Du taught him a lesson, why not buy more assassins, and do it all the time..."

The man in blue shirt hasn't been waiting for the answer.

The old man in purple clothes on the side said, "Mr. Du, we have done what you asked us to do. Should we do what you promised us?"

Du Gong smiled and said, "Everyone is at ease. The plan is in progress. Now our top priority is to open the gates of Anxi and Anbei. You don't have to worry about Anbei Army. General Qin knows how to do it. First find out if that guy is dead. If he doesn't die, the Anxi Army will not be in chaos. If we don't get the Anxi Army's treasury, our allies do not have the ability to cross thousands of miles and reach the city of Chang'an. Once it goes well, the Lord will enter Chang'an at this time next year. You and others will be the heroes! The glory and wealth are endless, and the descendants will have high officials and generous salaries from generation to generation!"

After hearing his promise, everyone present showed a gloomy smile.

So what if you destroy the Great Wall yourself?

So what if you lead a wolf into the house and cause the creatures to suffer?

As long as we have the final say in the world, as long as our descendants enjoy wealth forever, even if they are thousands of miles away from the ground and millions of corpses, it doesn’t matter!

This world is always our world, no matter who becomes the emperor, it will be the same!

If the emperor wants to take this privilege away from them, then change it to another emperor!

...

Chenjiabao, it's a little late. Li Xiuning has been restless these days. Even though the night is already deep, she still hasn't sleep.

Li Xiuning habitually walked around Chenjiabao until she arrived at the account room and found that the lights in the account room were still on.

Changsun Wugui was still making plans.

Li Xiuning entered the account room and looked at Su Yin who was yawning in the sky and said, "Go to sleep!"

Su Yin was instantly sleepy and hurried to pour tea for Li Xiuning.

Changsun Wugui put it in the tent book, looked at Li Xiuning with a smile and said, "Why haven't Sanniang been asleep yet?"

Li Xiuning shook her head and said, "I don't know why, I just can't sleep."

"Maybe I miss General Chen!" Changsun Wugui deliberately bit the word "I want to be" seriously.

Maybe!

Just as Su Yin brought the tea, she saw He Yueer walking in in a panic look.

"What happened to the princess!"

Li Xiuning's hand trembled, and tea spilled out of the cup. She threw away the cup and let out a low roar: "Is this true? If you dare to spread rumors, I will kill you!"

Li Xiuning looked grim and looked like cold lightning. She stared at He Yue'er. Her meaning was clear: If she dared to joke about such a thing, even if she was like a sister, her head would fall to the ground!

He Yueer said: "I hope this is a joke, too, but this is really not... it is true! Three days ago, Chen Lang came back from Pyongyang City and arrived outside Yanshi City, was attacked. He was hit by four arrows, seriously injured, and was already unconscious!"

Li Xiuning shouted like a female wolf: "Who did it? I want to kill them?"

He Yue'er shook her head.

Changsun Wugui said coldly: "It's obvious. A while ago, something big happened in Chang'an City. Jie Li and Songzan Gampo all ran out of Chang'an City. Xue Yantuo from the north of the desert also pulled the flag to rebel. The imperial court also felt strange and thought that they could do nothing, but now..."

Li Xiuning gritted her teeth, her expression became a little ferocious, and she said word by word: "Hmph, a clan!"

The clan group existed earlier than the autocratic imperial power, and the ancient patriarchal system was based on the existence of the clan.

However, the rapid development of clans under the conditions of feudal possession of land and workers is a matter after the emergence of the autocratic imperial power. This is an inevitable trend and does not recognize that this development will eventually be consistent with one's own interests. Therefore, whenever a new development stage begins, it is always an attempt to curb this development.

The economic contradiction between the development of the clan and the autocratic imperial power always exists more or less.

However, as long as the imperial power is relatively stable, the clans are generally willing to be loyal to the imperial power politically. They tend to place their clan interests on the dynasty in one surname. They were the main body of the intellectual class during this period and the main body of the dynasty officials. If the dynasty is stable, the development of the clan will not be much risk, and they will always be more smooth;

On the contrary, if the dynasty disciplines and disciplines are not established, the political situation is unstable, and the chaos continues, the clan will also suffer setbacks and will not get smooth development conditions. Therefore, although the Eastern Han clan has a great social influence, he did not dare to covet the court lightly. When abnormal phenomena occurred in imperial power politics after the emperor, the ministers and officials fought against the court, and the common people privately discussed the rescue of defeat, all in order to restore the normal imperial power political order.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, clans were under the control of imperial power. If the imperial power was stable, they were the supporters of imperial power; if the imperial power declined, they tried to restore it; if the imperial power had collapsed and there was no way to turn things around, they would naturally become contestants of new imperial power, but they did not dare to compete clearly. If the contestants were not representatives of powerful clans and had to make other claims, they actually united as strong clans as possible, fought for support, and even transformed themselves and gradually became representatives of powerful clans. Cao Cao, who defeated Yuan Shao, was like this.

After the imperial power was stabilized, the above-mentioned relationship would appear between it and the clan. The Cao Wei regime was a bit special. Before it could be truly stabilized, it was replaced by the powerful clan Sima family. However, the same was true for the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Sui Dynasty was replaced by the Li Tang Dynasty before it could be truly stabilized.
To be continued...