Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 44 Assassin

In the middle of the night, everything is silent.

Li Cunming held up a candlestick, leaned over to look at the map spread out on the table, and moved his fingers between Huai'an and Yangzhou.

After taking down Linhuai, Liu Liangzuo's power has already collapsed.In just two or three months, Gao Jie died, Liu Liangzuo was imprisoned, Huang Degong showed his attitude of standing with the emperor, and Liu Zeqing was the only one left in the four towns in Jiangbei who was still stubborn.

"Liu Zeqing, let's see how long you can be arrogant!"

Li Cunming is in a good mood, the army has almost recuperated these days, it's time to clean up Liu Zeqing.

When Liu Zeqing is captured, the warlords in Jiangbei will be wiped out, and a big confidant's trouble will be eliminated, and half of the country will be considered solid.

There was a slight sound from the window, Li Cunming suddenly felt a cold chill, turned around and asked, "Who?"

Five steps away, stood a masked man in night clothes, his eyes were full of cold killing intent.He held a crossbow arrow in his hand and pointed it at Li Cunming's chest. The arrow glowed with an emerald green light, obviously poisoned.

Li Cunming was about to draw his sword, but the masked man raised his crossbow arrow and said, "Don't move! To tell you the truth, all the Jin Yiwei guarding outside are on the right track, even if you shout loudly, by the time others arrive, you will already be dead! "

"What a formidable method. It's not a small skill to be able to break into the heavily guarded palace alone." Li Cunming stabilized his mind and asked, "Who sent you here? Was it Liu Zeqing?"

The masked man said: "Wrong, this matter has nothing to do with Liu Zeqing. Anyway, you are going to die, so you might as well make it clear that Liu Liangchen sent me here."

Li Cunming said: "Liu Liangchen, Liu Liangzuo's own younger brother, it is reasonable for him to kill me. Why didn't he do it?"

"I want to ask you for something first."

"What?"

"God anointing!"

Li Cunming raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why does Liu Liangchen want God's anointing?"

"Dedicated to Prince Yu Duoduo. Alright, everything that needs to be said has been said, take out the divine ointment!" The masked man took a step forward.

Li Cunming instantly understood that Duoduo must have smoked opium, and there was not much left of the two pieces of opium cream. In order to flatter Liu Liangchen, he sent killers to Laihuai to snatch it, and at the same time to avenge his brother Liu Liangzuo.

"Heh, Liang Zuo Liang Chen, one supports himself, and the other sends assassins to assassinate me. How can these two brothers look like Da Ming Zuo Chen? The names their parents gave them are useless!" Li Cunming laughed.

"Take out the god's ointment!" The masked man was very impatient, and even more annoyed when he saw Li Cunming laughing, "What are you laughing at?"

"I laugh that your life is not long, don't you know that the villain died because of talking too much?" Li Cunming suddenly withdrew his smile, looked behind the masked man, and said coldly, "Shadow, if you don't do anything yet, you shivered for a long time Already!"

The masked man suddenly felt a severe pain in his waist. He looked down and saw a dagger stuck in his back, and then turned around to see a thin person standing behind him.

"When... did you enter the house? Are you a human or a ghost?" The masked man was shocked, and he raised his crossbow to shoot the shadow.

In the blink of an eye, Li Cunming pulled out the seven-star sword and chopped it out, cutting the masked man's head and shoulders into two, blood splashing all over the ground.

"He is neither a human nor a ghost, but my shadow."

Li Cunming was sure that the masked man was dead, so he took away the sword, but saw that the shadow was still trembling and dumbfounded, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Are you stupid? Just as the masked man broke into the house, I saw you standing behind him, Waiting for you to do it. Good guy, how much saliva I wasted, I am really anxious to death!"

Shadow is powerful, but timid.

A few days ago, he was thrown into the pond to be with the tiger. This kid's ability to hide is rare in the world, and the tiger really didn't find him.

But he was so scared that he peed in the crotch of his pants.Good guy, the tiger has suffered a great crime. He clearly smelled the pungent smell of urine, but he couldn't find the source. He scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks and jumped up and down, exhausted to death.

The guards outside the house were finally alarmed. Zhou Yuji led many people to rush in. Seeing the situation in the house, he asked in one voice, "Your Majesty, are you alright? What's going on?"

"Liu Liangchen sent a rat to assassinate me, but the shadow killed him. I'm fine." Li Cunming said indifferently.

"Rebellious ministers and thieves should be hacked to death!" Zhou Yuji scolded, and glanced at Yingying, "Shadow, what's wrong with you?"

"He was so scared." Li Cunming laughed.

Zhou Yuji couldn't help but laugh, and walked over to pat Shadow on the shoulder, trying to comfort him.Unexpectedly, the shadow yelled "Wow", turned around and ran behind the pillar to hide, and never showed up again.

The two monarchs and ministers looked at each other helplessly and smiled, Zhou Yuji's face became serious, and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from Liaocheng that the city has been broken, and the three of Yan Yingyuan died heroically and unyieldingly. Jiannu... Jiannu slaughtered the city for ten days, and there were as many as 17 victims. Ten thousand……"

"what?"

Li Cunming felt the ground was thundering, his hands and feet were icy cold, he stumbled back a few steps, and stopped when his back hit the table.

In ten days of massacre of the city, 17 people were killed, dog tartars, god damn Jian slaves!
17 fresh lives may be just a number when reading history books, but now that he has seen dead people on the battlefield, Li Cunming can imagine the tragic scene of corpses strewn all over the field.

Before I knew it, my face was full of tears.

Zhou Yuji saw the emperor crying for the first time, panicked, and hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, please take care!"

Li Cunming raised his head with difficulty, and said solemnly: "I cry for the three of Yan Yingyuan, for the 17 wronged souls, and for my incompetence. I blame myself and feel very sad. I am ashamed of the three sages and the people of Liaocheng!"

"Your Majesty blamed himself too much. The defeat of Liaocheng has nothing to do with His Majesty." Zhou Yuji comforted him.

"Zhou Aiqing, you don't understand." Li Cunming waved his hands.

As a time traveler, maybe he has done well enough, but he still couldn't avoid the massacre of the city. Li Cunming blamed himself from this perspective.

Suppressing the grief, the majesty of the emperor was restored on his face, and he asked, "Where are the soldiers of the dog tartar?"

Zhou Yuji said: "The spies came to report that the Qing soldiers went all the way south and went straight to Xuzhou. It is estimated that they will arrive at the city in seven or eight days. I came to see your majesty late at night, and I just asked for an order to lead the troops to fight the Tartars."

Li Cunming pondered for a while, and said: "The Tartar cavalry is too strong. We are not opponents now. We can't take the initiative to attack. We can only fight for the city. General Zhou, you leave ten thousand soldiers and horses for me, and then lead the rest of the soldiers. Go back to Xuzhou and defend the city with the military division."

"Your Majesty, aren't you going back to Xuzhou?"

"No, I want to continue to attack Liu Zeqing, and wipe out the Jiangbei warlords in one fell swoop, don't give up halfway!"

"Ah!" Zhou Yuji was quite surprised, and analyzed the situation, "Liu Zeqing has more than [-] soldiers and horses in his hands. Besides, the Qing soldiers have gone south, so he is even more confident. Your Majesty only brought [-] soldiers to attack him. The disparity in strength is too great. In case of being unable to attack for a long time, the Qing soldiers will encircle from behind, and the situation will become extremely dangerous."

"No, this won't work! Your Majesty, if you decide to continue attacking Liu Zeqing, let me go and go back to Xuzhou."

"Aiqing has a heart of fists, I can understand it. But I have made up my mind and cannot change it! I will not attack Liu Zeqing by force, I must outsmart him."

Zhou Yuji asked: "Could it be that your Majesty wants to send the shadow to assassinate Liu Zeqing and take advantage of the chaos to win? Besides, I really can't think of any wise strategy."

Li Cunming shook his head and smiled wryly: "Shadow is too timid. He still needs to practice. The matter is of great importance. I can't take the slightest risk. Don't worry, I have a good plan."

Zhou Yuji was still talking, but Li Cunming drew out his sword and slashed it on the table. The table cracked and he fell to the ground.

He was furious, and said harshly: "When the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses! The Man Qing massacred my people in the Ming Dynasty, and I will pull out his minions and use his dog legs to punish him!"

The two monarchs and ministers discussed until dawn and decided on a countermeasure.

Zhou Yuji got up to make arrangements, walked to the door, and heard the emperor say: "General Zhou, you go back to Xuzhou and tell Junjun Yan that Duoduo is addicted to cigarettes, and he will understand everything."

"Remember, you can only stick to it, and you can't fight! One word, delay, delay for a while, and Li Zicheng will help us."

(End of this chapter)