Who says sleep is not spiritual practice?

Chapter 274 Midnight Assassination
Just as hundreds of men in black were pouring into the station, and behind it, thousands of men in black were massacring the imperial guards, five feet away from the room where Jiang Qingyu was, there were eighteen veterans who were in charge of guarding the station. It became an army formation, everyone held a long knife and faced the door.

The leader is none other than Yicheng Huang Pu.

These 18 people are all veterans of the Anxi Army, almost all of them are disabled, and their strength is not as good as the peak.

However, this place is less than a hundred miles away from the capital, and the post station is a place that the royal family values ​​very much. I was happy to be leisurely, and I didn't encounter any opportunities to work hard.

But tonight, the opportunity finally came.

"Old Huang, you have won."

"The news in that anonymous letter is true! Those dignitaries in the capital couldn't sit still, and hired a group of thieves to take the life of His Royal Highness on our territory!"

An old soldier with two missing fingers on his right hand clenched the long knife in his hand, with a ferocious look on his face that he hadn't seen for many years:
"Unfortunately, there are too many people here..."

"It seems that the pot of Baihua Niang that I lost to you has no chance for you!"

"If after tonight, there are still some of our brothers who can survive, remember to go to the warehouse. My old Hu buried several jars of good wine in the ground in the southwest corner! I was reluctant to taste it when I was alive. I hope that someone will pour it in front of the grave after death. I'll drink it to my heart's content!"

Another old soldier touched his empty right trouser leg, and smiled heartily:
"Old Hu, you usually go to the warehouse every now and then, as if to see your wife. Who doesn't know that your jars of wine are hidden in the warehouse!"

"Want to drink? Live on your own!"

"Brother, I guess I'm going to die!"

As soon as this remark came out, the rest of the veterans also laughed out loud:

"Baihuaniang? Who cares about it! You, Hu, have always regarded it as a treasure!"

"Old Hu, why don't you hide behind your brother, the chance of surviving will be higher!"

……

"You, you..."

The old soldier surnamed Hu was so angry that he blew his beard and stared:
"What are you talking about!"

"My old Hu is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death!"

The rest of the veterans hurriedly laughed and said:

"Who said you are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"Old Hu, we disabled people are already useless people, death is not a pity, but you are different."

"You are the youngest among us. You just turned 40 last year, and your body is the best among us. I heard that Lao Huang introduced you to a marriage last month. You said that you would not meet each other. , but secretly entrusted an official to help you go to Beijing to buy a jade hairpin and a new dress!"

"Obviously, you still want to start a family!"

The old soldier surnamed Hu blushed and argued:

"It's not what you think! My jade hairpin is, it's..."

"Okay, old Hu!"

An old pawn patted him on the shoulder:

"My brothers are all happy for you if you can get married. My brothers have been single all their lives and have been worried that no one will visit the grave after death. If you get married, give birth to a few more fat boys and remember to make them clear." Come pour a jug of wine and burn some paper money in front of the graves of the elder brothers, then we will have no worries!"

"It's just a pity that I can't drink your wedding wine!"

Another echoed:

"Yeah, Hu, hurry up to the end, we are not for you, we are for someone to clean the grave after our death!"

"Yes!"

……

At this moment, all the old soldiers were talking non-stop about the old man surnamed Hu getting married, with cheerful smiles on their faces, it seemed that what poured in from outside the post station was not a group of murderous men in black, but a group of people who came to attend the wedding banquet guests.

Only Yi Cheng Huang Pu who was standing at the front sighed:
"Brothers, I'm sorry."

"It was my old Huang who didn't follow the advice of that adult, and caused you to lose your life with me!"

This morning, when Huang Pu woke up, he found an anonymous letter beside his bed, which said that the rich and powerful in the capital had hired a group of thieves to assassinate Jiang Qingyu, the son of the prince who rejected the North, on the night he stayed in the inn!
There is a paragraph at the end of the letter, which is to persuade Huang Pu to find an opportunity to take a group of veterans out of the station, so as to avoid being accidentally killed by bandits!

Huang Pu is a smart man, he knows that within a hundred miles of the capital city there is no bandit who has become popular, and he also knows that if the dignitaries want to hire someone to kill Jiang Qingyu, Dong Shen and his thousand guards must be avoided. Army, this matter must not be hidden from the eyes and ears of Emperor Jing Hong!

and so……

If what the letter says is true, then tonight's attack was probably acquiesced by the emperor himself!

Huang Pu respects Jiang Qingyu, who has made great contributions to pioneering the territory, but at the same time, he is also grateful to Emperor Jing Hong for placing a dozen of their veterans in the post station, so that they can rely on each other.

Therefore, in order to repay Jing Hong, he did not tell Jiang Qingyu about this matter.

But at the same time, in order to show respect for Jiang Qingyu, and to safeguard his responsibilities as a soldier and a postman, he chose to guard his door with his life!
And the other seventeen veterans, after learning about this, also chose to live and die with Huang Pu!
"Old Huang, what are you talking about?"

"We, a group of veterans, have already stepped into the coffin with one foot. Thanks to His Majesty's love, we came to this inn to retire. We have eaten and waited for five or six years to die, and we have enough happiness! Now there are bandits coming, How can you leave your post without authorization and live up to the grace of God?"

"That's right! As a person in the station, it is an honor to die for guarding the station!"

Huang Pu's face was tragic, with tears running down his face:

"My old Huang has you guys in my life, it's worth it!"

"In the next life, I will be your cow and horse, and I will repay you!"

The veterans laughed heartily:
"In the next life, we will still be brothers!"

"It's okay to be a husband and wife! Lao Huang, why don't you be reincarnated as a woman in your next life, and be my daughter-in-law?"

"Go, go, go! You're almost as good as my daughter-in-law!"

Huang Pu scolded with a smile.

The crowd laughed in unison.

Suddenly, someone frowned and said:

"Brothers, I heard the footsteps just now, I'm afraid there are no less than a hundred bandits coming, but it's been so long, why don't you see anyone breaking into the yard?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was slightly taken aback.

They both closed their mouths by coincidence and listened to the movement around them, but after listening for a long time, they didn't notice any strange sounds.

It seemed that the footsteps heard not long ago were all hallucinations.

Suddenly, someone stretched his finger forward to the left and said in a low voice:
"I, I seem to hear someone screaming and falling to the ground, right behind that wall!"

Everyone looked around after hearing the words, but they couldn't see anything behind a wall.

"You guys wait here, I'll go out and have a look."

Huang Pu clenched the long knife in his hand and began to limp towards the front yard.

The rest of the people didn't listen to his order and stood still, but followed closely behind and rushed out together.

……

After a while.

When eighteen veterans opened the door and walked to the front yard, they saw a shocking scene——

I saw that the yard was full of corpses, there were hundreds of them as far as the eye could see, all of them were masked and dressed in black, and without exception, they were all killed by one blow!
An old soldier leaned over and tore off the face scarf of a dead body, and his pupils froze.

"Old Huang, this man has lost his face!"

He took a few steps and tore off the facecloth of another corpse, and found that the same person had the same scars on his face, bloody and bloody, and it was hard to identify his appearance!

"There are fresh wounds on my face in recent days, and I haven't even applied medicine, and some wounds even festered!"

Seeing this, the rest of the old soldiers also lifted the veils from the corpse:

"This one too!"

"Same!"

"Same!"

……

"Obviously, the original identities of this group of people are questionable, so they all ruined their appearance, so as to save them from being found out as the mastermind behind the scenes!"

An old soldier frowned slightly:

"However, it can also be seen from this that the behind-the-scenes master has all-hands and eyes! To cultivate such a large number of loyal and dead soldiers near the capital, they must be at least third-rank officials in the court, right?"

Another old soldier wondered:
"But who killed them?"

"This group of people has already broken into the front yard, less than [-] steps away from where we are. If we want to kill them all quietly without making a sound, the strength of those who do it is probably higher than that of the sun. Bar?"

"Could it be that a certain father-in-law obeyed His Majesty's order to protect His Royal Highness in secret?"

Huang Pu stared at all this and remained silent.

After seeing the anonymous letter, he guessed that the team that attacked tonight might have been arranged by Emperor Jing Hong.

Since Jing Hong arranged for this assassination, it is absolutely impossible for him to send another great eunuch of the Sunshine Realm to protect Jiang Qingyu and slaughter his own people.

But right now, hundreds of corpses are lying in the front yard, and they, a group of veteran soldiers who have experienced many battles, have not heard a single movement, which is enough to show that the guards accompanying His Royal Highness to Beijing this time are also terrifying!
Perhaps, the other party had already expected that there would be danger tonight?
At this moment, outside the gate of the front yard, there was another burst of shouting and killing.

"There are still enemies fighting with the Imperial Guard!"

Huang Pu yelled, and rushed out with others, pushed open the door and went outside the station.

The next moment, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

I saw corpses piled up like a mountain, and blood flowed like a river!
There are men in black, and there are guards, each of them died in a miserable state!

Ten feet away, Dong Shen, the commander of the imperial guards, was half-kneeling on the ground, his abdomen was pierced by a spear, blood was gurgling out, and his breath was weak.

His mount, a precious horse worth thousands of gold, was pierced through the head by another spear, and died directly, falling into a pool of blood.

However, beside Dong Shen, more than 300 imperial guards formed a circle to protect him in the center.

Two of the lieutenants of the Haoyue Realm were seriously injured, and only six of the ten Fate Star Realm were left!

They are fighting with more than 500 men in black.

"Leave me alone! Don't get entangled with them, go and protect His Royal Highness!"

Dong Shen endured the pain and shouted an order.

In the next moment, he saw Huang Pu and his group rushing out of the yard, his eyes flashed with astonishment, but it disappeared quickly, and at the same time he shouted:
"Huang Yicheng, hurry up and protect His Royal Highness!"

"Dong was negligent and failed to stop all the enemies. Hundreds of thieves have already broken into the station!"

However, Huang Pu and the veterans looked at each other in blank dismay:

"It seems that General Dong didn't know that the group of people had been stopped and slaughtered."

"Right now, he needs to worry more about himself!"

"Depending on the situation, there are many powerful people among this group of attackers. Even General Dong, who is at the peak of the Bright Moon Realm, was seriously injured!"

"Shall we go over and help?"

Huang Pu looked at Dong Shen, narrowing his eyes slightly.

For some reason, he always felt that the other party and the man in black were on the same team, and everything he was doing right now was just acting!

After all, how could someone at the peak of the Haoyue Realm be so easily seriously injured?

Huang Pu glanced roughly, and found that most of the corpses on the ground belonged to the imperial guards, but as far as he knew, this imperial guards were carefully selected elites, even if they seldom went to the battlefield to hone their skills, they should not It will collapse at the first touch, with so many casualties in a short period of time!

In addition, if it is really to protect the prince of the North, then this imperial guard should stand in front of the post station fearlessly to prevent the enemy from breaking into the post station, instead of being surrounded by men in black and letting hundreds of assassins He went in, but he didn't see a guard enter the front yard!
"Although I really don't want to guess like that, but..."

"Nine out of ten this matter was planned by that one!"

"He is the only one who dares to exchange the life of a thousand Imperial Guards and even Commander Dong Shen for the life of His Royal Highness!"

"but……"

"Which one is doing this, is he really going to kill His Royal Highness, to force the North King to rebel, or is it just a warning, or is there something else?"

Huang Pu couldn't figure it out, so he could only sigh in his heart and shook his head at the same time:

"No need, with our meager strength, we will die if we go there. Listen to General Dong and go back to protect His Royal Highness!"

Since he saw that the Imperial Guards and the man in black were in the same group, of course he would not rashly go up to join in the fun, otherwise he lost his life, wouldn't he be innocent?
"His Royal Highness is protected by that mysterious Sunshine Realm master, so why do we need old men like us to join in the fun?"

An old soldier smiled wryly:
"By the way, what about the five hundred An Beijun he brought?"

"The fighting outside is raging, and nearly [-]% of the Imperial Guards were killed or injured. Why is there no one from the Anbei Army?"

"Didn't the Anbei Army get close to this group of Imperial Guards before?"

Hearing this, Huang Pu also frowned deeply, and began to look around for the Anbei Army and the [-] Xiong family guards.

But after searching for a long time, I found nothing!
It was as if all the 800 people had disappeared out of thin air.

……

at the same time.

Dong Shen, who was leading the army to fight against the men in black, glanced back at the night behind him, and cursed secretly in a low, inaudible voice:

"Damn it, according to His Majesty's plan, the [-] Anbei Army should have been involved, and these [-] corpses should be used to give a warning to the King of the North and his son!"

"But Jiang Langya actually ordered them to ignore the men in black and turn around to search for other enemies farther away!"

"It's absurd!"

"The master was assassinated, and not only did his subordinates not try their best to stop the enemy, but they all ran away. If it were the soldiers of my imperial guards, they would all be beheaded!"

"Could it be that Jiang Qingyu is so unpopular in the Anbei Army?"

"Or, Jiang Langya wants to use someone else's hand to kill Jiang Qingyu, and use his adopted son's name to win the northern military power?"

The next moment, he lowered his head and glanced at the front, and suddenly sneered again:
"Although His Majesty didn't intend to kill His Royal Highness, if someone misses and kills him..."

"It seems to be a good result!"

(End of this chapter)