Chapter 425 Assassin's Attack

The night was dark, and more than a dozen horses galloped from the post road from Longxingfu to Yuezhou, in a hurry.

Zhao Kui is undoubtedly a rare good official. Although he has now become a senior official of the provincial party secretary in the 21st century, he is still concerned about the people, worrying about the court and the people, thinking about how to resist the invasion of the Mongols and revitalize the Song Dynasty.

This time when he heard that there was a natural disaster in Yuezhou, Zhao Kui, with the spirit of his parents and officials, was not afraid of difficulties and dangers. He did not hesitate to set a model of a clean official for the Southern Song Dynasty to save the Southern Song Dynasty, which gradually lost the hearts of the people.

In front of it is a small town. In the past, this small town was a mountain road of more than ten miles, and this area was deserted.

"Huh... Lord Zhao, let's rest here for one night and go tomorrow? The mountain road ahead is difficult and dangerous, in case there are bandits or something unsafe!" Le Ma, a personal bodyguard named Kong Yong, proposed.

"No, continue to hurry. The people of Yuezhou are like hanging water and fire at this moment. As a local governor, how can I eat and sleep? What if there are bandits on the road ahead? I am a court official, and there are more than a dozen of you escorting me. Are you still afraid of bandits? Go at full speed!" Zhao Kui ordered in an irrefutable tone, and then patted the horse on the road, taking the lead.

More than a dozen bodyguards knew the stubbornness of their big character, so they had to follow Zhao Kui's horse closely and marched towards the difficult mountain road ahead. They secretly clenched their weapons one by one and silently prayed in their hearts not to encounter any accidents.

A group of 16 horses galloped, gradually left the town and entered the mountain road. Among the sixteen people, there were two civil servants in addition to Zhao Kui, and the rest were guards. The number of people in the team was not much, much less.

The road is getting narrower and narrower, the mountain wind blows, the trees on the mountain make a bleak sound from time to time, and the sound of apes and wolves howling from time to time in the mountain forest, which is horrible.

There were stars in the sky, and a moon in the east gradually climbed up the treetops and quietly peeped into the troubled world.

"Your Excellency, the mountain road is steep. Let's slow down to avoid accidents." Kong Yong, who was walking in the front, once again took the lead and proposed to Zhao Kui.

"Okay, everyone, slow down and pass this mountain road carefully. After this place, there is a flat road." Zhao Kui was not an unhumane. He nodded and agreed to Kong Yong's proposal.

Kong Yong immediately ordered seven or eight bodyguards to dismount and cut a batch of branches, smear easily burning pine seed oil on the top of the branches for lighting. More than a dozen bright torches were lit up, and the mountain road suddenly shone like the day. The group moved forward with confidence. Although the road was rough, there was no danger. It took the group an hour to successfully pass through this mountain road of more than ten miles.

After getting out of the mountain road, the front suddenly opened up, and the tense hearts of the group of people were relaxed. The words were no longer like the enemy. They began to talk and laugh, and the tense nerves slowly relaxed.

Kong Yong laughed in front of him and said, "Haha, for the blessing of Lord Zhao, we are still safe on the way, and we haven't even met the wolves. If we hurry up, I guess we will arrive at Yue tomorrow evening..."

Before Kong Yong's words fell, the sound of breaking the sky suddenly sounded, and a hidden weapon emitting cold light in the night shot like lightning. Kong Yong hurriedly dodged and found that the hidden weapon was not aimed at himself.

"Ah..."

A scream sounded, and a bodyguard turned over and fell from his horse. His throat was pierced by a snake-shaped knife about ten centimeters long. Blood flowed out of his throat. The bodyguard covered his throat and struggled to scream a few times. He kicked his legs and died.

"No, there are assassins! Protect Lord Zhao!" Kong Yong shouted that the bronze knife in his hand came out of the sheath, and the horse protected Zhao Kui in front of him. His face turned pale because of nervousness.

Kong Yong practiced martial arts in Nan Shaolin Temple for three years before he defected to Zhao Kui. He was also a man in the world. He didn't pay attention to the ordinary thief, but the information leaked by the snake-shaped flying knife just now made Kong Yong nervous.

This is not what ordinary robbers can do. This hidden weapon technique is definitely launched by today's first-class masters. It is fast and accurate. It pierces the bodyguard's throat with one knife and kills death with one knife. It is absolutely first-class hidden weapon technique!

"Who dares to hurt people? Do you know who we are? We escorted the official in charge of the government, Lord Zhao, the governor of Hunan. Get out of the way and spare you not to die!" Kong Yong clenched the bronze knife in his hand and shouted boldly.

"Haha... Thank you for reminding me. Otherwise, we can't really be sure whether it's Lord Zhao or not. We are really worried that we will make a mistake and kill others by mistake. Now we can finally do it with peace of mind, and we don't have to worry about it anymore.

With a soft voice, a tall voice came out of the woods. He was wearing a black robe and a cyan cloak. His face was wrapped in a black scarf and a bucket hat on his head, revealing only two eyes that did not look fierce...

However, although there is no murderousness in his eyes, the person who does not show him is not murderous, because his murderous spirit comes from his hands.

The man in black is holding more than a dozen inch-long, silver-shaped snake-shaped knives in his hand. This is an invisible hidden weapon. As long as the man in black raises his hand, a bodyguard's throat will be pierced immediately.

On both sides of the man in black, two people dressed in Jianghu came out. One of them was fat and white, looking like a rich man; the other was thin, dark, and seemed to be a slave. In this way, the extremely unsuitable person became a pair of combinations. The fat man held a pair of iron hooks in his hand and the thin armpits. He was carrying two red guns about one meter long.

Although Kong Yong can't recognize who the black scarf is, this fat and thin name has long been heard of. These two people are famous figures in the Jianghu underworld four or five years ago, known as "South China Sea Shuangsha", who are iron hook Ding Da Pang and double gun Lv Xiaohei.

In the early years, this fat and thin man was a gangster who killed people in the world. Later, he made a case in Dali and killed a minister in Dali. Therefore, he angered the master of the Southern Emperor at that time and was hunted down by thousands of miles. Later, he didn't know where the two people were hiding, and the people in the world did not know who they were. Death is life, so the two of them were gradually forgotten, and they didn't expect to appear here.

"South China Sea Double War?" Kong Yong couldn't help asking.

"Hee hee... Well, well, it's rare for you, an official, to remember the name of our brother. We are really flattered, but today we are just a supporting role, and the protagonist is the gentleman in the middle. He came to take the lives of your Lord Zhao and you dog legs." Ding Dapang said with a smile, his tone was strange, and a pair of silver hooks in his hand turned around like a rotating electric fan.

Zhao Kui pushed his horse forward angrily without fear. He shouted harshly, "Who are you? I am a second-grade member of the current dynasty. How dare you block the way and commit murder? Don't you have a king's law? It can be seen that the ambush is a death penalty!"

The man in black sneered and said disdainfully, "Tut... Lord Zhao is such a great official power. Don't you know that your officials in the Song Dynasty are worthless now? Even the two emperors Hui and Qin have become other people's prisoners, not to mention you ministers. Just be obedient and die!"