Creed of the heavens

"For Patch! For the Holy See!"

Before the young and vigorous Vieri rushed out from the crowd to help his father, the resolute Lu Xiao had already come behind him, covering Vieri's mouth that was still drooling with his left hand, and stabbing him with the Hidden Blade in his right hand back heart.

"Uh!"

The heart was pierced, and Vieri, who was bleeding profusely, lost his strength rapidly. Looking back unwillingly, Vieri finally left a sarcastic smile with unknown meaning.

"It's you again, you just won't let me go, right?"

After saying this, Vieri died with his eyes wide open.

Lu Xiao laid Vieri's body flat on the ground, and closed his eyes skillfully, "May death bring you peace."

On the other hand, Francesco and Giuliano fought. The playboy Giuliano couldn't stop the continuous offensive launched by the crazy Francesco. hand.

"clang!"

Lorenzo's long sword stretched out from the side, helping his brother block the fatal blow.

Bernardo Baroncelli, who was in charge of smuggling weapons for the Templars, saw the timing and planned to kill the enemy with one blow while Lorenzo was negligently defending himself. He raised his dagger high and prepared to stab Lorenzo's back .

Giovanni, who had dealt with Stefano and Antonio Maffei, happened to see this scene, and threw a small throwing knife at Bernardo from his sleeve, hitting Bernardo's right hand holding the dagger, interrupting the attack. his attack on Lorenzo.

Without waiting for Bernardo, who was in pain, to react, Giovanni popped out the Hidden Blade and pierced him under the chin, ending the sinful life of the smuggler.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Francesco took a step back and raised the weapon in his hand and ordered: "Archers, shoot!"

The Templar archers who had been prepared above the church immediately drew their bowstrings. Just as Francesco smiled wantonly in victory, a group of hooded assassins suddenly sprang out from the empty roof behind these archers.

"Ugh!"

The assassins who had already been fully prepared assassinated all the archers on the roof without leaving. Francesco and Rodrigo, who was watching from a distance, showed incredible expressions at the same time.

The crisis has not been completely resolved so far, and the ground troops ambushed by the Templars around the church rushed out desperately.

Lorenzo's prepared counter-hands also stood out from the crowd, firmly blocking the group of Templars from the core area guarded by Giovanni.

Francesco's brain circuit couldn't keep up with the development of the situation at all, he yelled out the Italian national curse angrily, turned around and ran away in the direction where the crowd gathered.

"Vaffancuo! Medici, you will pay the price, I swear!"

Giovanni stood beside Giuliano who was still in shock, staring vigilantly at Uberto who was at a loss and didn't know whether he should jump back on the spot, and quietly signaled to Lu Xiao with his eyes.

give it to you.

Lu Xiao nodded, climbed up to the roof in two or three steps, and followed the fleeing Francesco all the way.

Let me see where the hell you're hiding remote control, Rodrigo Borgia.

Chapter 38 Fire!Master, I am on fire!

Florence is not Rome, the headquarters of the Holy See, nor is it San Gimignano, which is controlled by the Pazzi family.

It is impossible for Rodrigo to arrange a large number of guards in Florence to protect himself. This approach will only indicate his position to the local ruler.

Once he found a place where a large number of guards gathered, Lorenzo would definitely arrange for countless soldiers to flood Rodrigo's hiding place as soon as possible.

Before the plan was launched, Lu Xiao and his companions from the fraternity had some discussions about it, and finally came to the conclusion that there was a high probability that Rodrigo would hide in a secret place not far from the scene of the incident with a small number of personal guards Watch the situation secretly.

Francesco, who had suffered a disastrous failure in his plan, could not think calmly at all now, and he might subconsciously flee to where Rodrigo was, seeking instructions from the Grand Master for his next move.

Lu Xiao did not rush to assassinate Francesco, but followed him closely from the roof.

At this time, Rodrigo was no longer in Uberto's home. Seeing the failure of the plan, he immediately moved his hiding place.

Francesco ran away from the unknown crowd who were far away from the scene of the accident, and stumbled into a quiet second-floor courtyard.

Lu Xiao, who followed closely behind, slowed down. He had already seen the archer hiding behind the bunker on the roof of the courtyard.

As guessed by the Brotherhood, in order to avoid the suspicion of Lorenzo due to too many troops, the number of guards around the mansion where Rodrigo was hiding was greatly reduced.

There were only five archers on the roof, counting the heavy armored guards guarding the courtyard, there were no more than a dozen people in total, which was a big gap compared with the situation when the Spaniards responded in San Gimignano. .

There were only five archers on the roof keeping watch, and in order to avoid the idea of ​​the Florence guards, these Templar archers seemed a little timid and did not dare to patrol around openly.

With the help of the bunkers where these archers were hiding, Lu Xiao first aimed at one of the archers who hid behind the chimney, and used long-range shooting to shoot him at a precise point, pulling out one corner of the all-round sight monitoring.

Now that there is a loophole in the monitoring perspective, the next step is easy. Lu Xiao used arrows and personal assassination to kill the archers on the roof one by one, completely eliminating the surveillance from high places.

The two-story courtyard that Rodrigo specially chose had a strange structure. There were no windows around the entire mansion, and the only entrance was the main entrance of the courtyard.

It's pretty well prepared.

Lu Xiao hid behind the chimney and carefully observed the guards below.

The remaining eight elite Templars were all wearing heavy full body armor, and although their mobility was ruined by this, their defense was also strengthened to the greatest extent.

The sharp Hidden Blade is not impossible to pierce full body armor, but every time a heavily armored guard is killed, it will cause a lot of wear and tear to the thin Hidden Blade, and the frontal attack is twice the result with half the effort.

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Xiao took out two bottles of translucent liquid from the small package around her waist.

Tear off two small strips of cloth from the hem of the undershirt of the assassin, and soak them into the opened bottle. Lu Xiao then ignites the strips with a flint and steel, and the two original bottles of incendiary bombs are thus completed.

The liquid contained in the vial is relatively primitive kerosene.

As early as the 9th century, there were records of using kerosene lamps in Baghdad in the Middle East, but more efficient modern kerosene did not come out until the 19th century.

"boom!"

Lu Xiao waved his arms and threw two bottles of incendiary bombs into the courtyard one after another, hitting two artificially planted green belts.

"Fire! Extinguish the fire!"

"Enemy attack!"

Two flame bombs falling from the sky caused quite a commotion. The elite heavy-armored guards were divided into two groups. A small group went to find water to put out the fire. trace.

A few minutes ago, Francesco de Pacci rushed into the small courtyard in a hurry, panting and met Rodrigo Borgia who had just been transferred here under the guidance of the guards.

"idiot!"

The first time we met, Rodrigo pointed at Francesco angrily and cursed: "The plan has failed, what are you doing here? You completely forgot the retreat plan you prepared in advance? You want to lure the assassins over to kill me?" Is it also served in one pot?!"

Francesco, who was still breathing, froze for a moment, and calmed down out of danger, only then did he realize that he had made a stupid judgment under the crisis.

"It should be okay, I don't feel anyone following behind."

"Oh!"