The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 547 Assassination
Early the next morning, when Dai Xiuyuan was going to see Li Zhen, an eunuch came to the door with two large boxes of jewels and belongings, and told him with a smile on his face that His Majesty the King would preside over the sacrifice to heaven in the future, and he was busy with fasting and cooking for the past two days. Prepare, I'm afraid I won't have time to meet the angels.

The eunuch put down the gift and left, Dai Xiuyuan frowned and looked at his back, angrily said in his heart, this is not a new year or a festival, what day is he offering sacrifices to?

Li Jing clearly wanted to delay the time. In a few days, when the North Korean navy completed its supplies and left Hong Kong to go south, he would definitely send someone to "recover" the navy in a pretentious manner.Of course, if you think about it with your feet, you know that the people who were sent must have returned without success.

Dai Xiuyuan touched the letter of pardon he was carrying with him again, and thought to himself, if he wants to hide, will he be fine?Sacrifice to heaven?Most of the civil and military courtiers of North Korea will be there, but it is just right!
The sun and the moon changed twice again, and at [-] o'clock on this day, Dai Xiuyuan led people to wait on the road in the outskirts of the city.Sure enough, at dawn, seven hundred people came out from the south gate of Seoul carrying sacrifices such as cattle, sheep, wine and meat, as well as ritual vessels such as bells and chimes. No small pomp.

Dai Xiuyuan was not polite, and immediately stepped forward to stop Li Zhen's team of offering sacrifices to heaven.

The king of North Korea was obviously taken aback. He hurriedly asked the angel to come to his car, and carefully asked, "Angel Dai... what are you going to do?"

After all, Dai Xiuyuan was from the Ming Dynasty, and he was still in awe of such things as offering sacrifices to the heavens, so he bowed his head and said: "I want to go to sacrifice with Your Highness." He planned in his mind that after the sacrifices to the heavens were over, he would ask for it in front of all the North Korean officials. Li Jing refused Jianlu's request to dispatch a navy, and if he refused, he would immediately read a letter of amnesty admonishing him.

Li Zhen had no choice but to force out a smile, so he had to ask the eunuch to spare a car, take the Great Heavenly Angel with him, and sent out more than a dozen imperial guards to protect him.

The North Korean officials in the heaven-sacrificing team witnessed this scene, they couldn't help but look sideways at Dai Xiuyuan behind the team, and started talking in low voices...

"This Angel Dai suddenly stopped him, his expression is not good..."

"I think, I'm afraid something big will happen."

"Could it be that Daming learned about the former Hu captives coming to Seoul..."

"Hush, keep your voice down! Master Min, are you dying? You can't mention this matter."

"Yep……"

On the side of the road on the outskirts of Seoul, three men dressed as farmers but masked with rags squatted in the grass, staring at the heaven worshiping procession hundreds of steps away.

The imperial guards guarding in front of the team walked past them with their heads held high, but they all turned a blind eye to them. Cui Minhou, the officer in charge of the imperial guards leading the team, even gave those people a wink.

The masked man at the head saw Li Zhen's car gradually approaching, calculated the distance, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates in a low voice: "Light it up!"

The masked man next to him responded, took out the torch and blew it on, then picked up a fuse on the ground and put it on it.

After a while, the leader turned his head and said anxiously: "Are you ready?!"

The masked man who lit the fire was sweating profusely and his face turned pale. "It's probably because the ground is damp in early winter, and the fuse can't be ignited!"

"Trash! Change it!"

"Yes Yes."

The other two masked men hurriedly took out a spare fuse from their back pockets, inserted one end into the barrel in front of them, and were about to turn back, when the leader scolded angrily: "Xiba! You idiot! Put something under the fuse or you'll get wet again!"

"Yes, yes..."

The two hurriedly took off their clothes and put them under it, then re-ignited the fuse, and then ran towards the distant weeds without looking back.

Because the three people delayed this moment, when the four-foot-long fuse burned halfway, Li Zhen's car had already passed by.

"What's smoking?!"

Finally, an officer of the Korean Imperial Army saw something strange in the grass, and hurriedly brought his subordinates to check.As soon as the few people picked up the weeds with the tip of their knives, they heard a loud noise, and were immediately torn into powder by the violent explosion.

Starting from the middle of the heaven-worshiping procession, more than 20 gunpowder barrels exploded one after another on the east side of the road.

The imperial guards guarding the two wings of the team were the first to suffer, and the officials near the east side were not spared either. In an instant, nearly [-] corpses were scattered in all directions, screaming one after another.The chariots, horses, and ritual objects in the guard of honor were also blown to pieces, blocking the road, and the surrounding area immediately became a mess.

The carriage that Dai Xiuyuan was riding was in the middle and back of the heaven-worshiping team. Although it was more than three feet away from the core of the explosion, it was still overturned by the strong air wave and fell heavily to the side. The main beam of the carriage was broken into several sections .

"There are assassins!"

"Protect Your Majesty!"

Shouts sounded everywhere, and Li Jing was covered in white sweat from fright—if he had walked a little slower just now, he might have been locked in by the impermanence of black and white.

Cui Minhou, who was walking in the front, heard the explosion and hurriedly turned his head to wait and see, only to see that the king's chariot was escaping.

He stomped his feet in frustration, it was rare that Li Jing suddenly wanted to leave the heavily guarded palace to go to the suburbs to worship the heavens, but this idiot Zhang Dongjun missed it!
"Sir, what should we do?"

Cui Minhou saw that there was a mess in the middle of the road. Although Zhang Dongjun failed to blow up the real master, he obviously used a lot of gunpowder. At least half of the imperial guards beside Li Zhen died.

He gritted his teeth hard, and said to his confidant: "Send a signal, let Zhang Dongjun and the others fight together! There are more than a hundred of us in total, and we will kill the Hunjun while we are in chaos!"

"Yes!" He immediately took out his whistle and blew a few times.

Cui Minhou drew his sword and shouted, "Follow me! The great meritorious service is just around the corner!"

At the same time, more than 50 masked men holding knives and guns appeared from the grass in the distance, shouting and running towards Li Zhen's car together.

The imperial guards beside Li Ji had just recovered from the panic of the explosion, when they saw the officer in charge of the imperial guards rushing over with people, thinking that he was here to respond, but unexpectedly, these people chopped up without saying a word, and there were people in the blink of an eye. Twenty or thirty Custodians were killed.

"Cui Minhou plotted rebellion!" Jin Zaichun, the deputy of the Joseon Guard, rushed forward to stop him, and then ordered others to protect the king and retreat to Seoul.

Although there were a large number of Imperial Guards loyal to Li Ji, they were in a state of unrest when they encountered sudden chaos, while Cui Minhou's side was in full swing, killing Jin Zaichun with difficulty, and they collapsed within a short while.

Cui Minhou saw Li Ji's figure from afar, and quickly pointed with a knife, "There!"

But some courtiers who were loyal to the king picked up the weapons of the dead imperial guards and stepped forward to intercept them. Cui Minhou broke his heart and shouted: "I will kill anyone who stands in the way!"

"Yes!"

Dozens of assassins immediately slashed at everyone they met, forcibly cutting a bloody path in the heaven worshiping team.

Although Dai Xiuyuan brought more than a hundred people to North Korea, but today is a sacrifice to heaven, so there are only three attendants by his side.In the explosion just now, one person was seriously injured and the other was unconscious. When the only remaining old servant dragged him out of the carriage, half of his body was soaked in blood.

At this moment, Cui Minhou's people were already jealous, when they saw Dai Xiuyuan in the middle of the road, they stepped forward and kicked the old servant away, then raised their sabers and stabbed Dai Xiuyuan.

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