A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 275 Female Assassin

Horses neigh and people howl.

There was blood and blood, and swords clashed.

Wu Huaiyu quickly lay down in the carriage. He never expected that he would be attacked in Lingzhou City.As soon as he came out of the Dudu's mansion, someone was ambushing him halfway.

Wu Huaiyu, who was lying in the carriage, had to wonder whether this matter had anything to do with Li Daozong.

"Shijun, are you alright?" Chen Sheng shouted outside.

Huaiyu looked at the crossbow arrows that shot into the carriage, but fortunately he avoided it in time.

"I'm fine, just be careful."

After Wu Huaiyu finished speaking, he kicked the door of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage.Right now, the carriage has a bigger target, and it is impossible to see the outside situation clearly while hiding inside.

The coachman who was driving the coach had already been shot in the body and fell there.

All the horses pulling the cart were hit by arrows and fell to their knees.

Looking quickly around, he found that there were many attackers, and from their appearance, with broad faces and big eyes, and big gold rings on their ears, they were obviously mountain beards.

After careful observation, I found that there are many people with braided hair behind these mountain beards, who look like Turkic people.

The mountain beards in fur coats and fur robes strode forward with copper hammers and iron whips, and the Turkic men in leather armor carried bows and crossbows behind them.

A strong man with a mountain beard roared and swung a huge hammer and flew towards him. Huaiyu quickly rolled over, and the next moment, his carriage was hit.

The carriage was hit, and half of the carriage disintegrated and shattered.

A trilogy was pierced through the neck by flying fragments, and he fell to the ground, with blood gushing from his mouth and nose. Seeing that he was hopeless, Wu Huaiyu hurriedly picked up his shield and knife without caring about anything else.

Jihu and Turkic people have already rushed forward.

On the contrary, the fighting slaves were at the front and fought with them first. These fighting slaves had no weapons, but they were still fierce.

Wu Huaiyu did not retreat.

Holding swords and shields, shouting orders, three and three fight together, and at the same time let people break out of the encirclement to report for help.

This is in Lingzhou City, as long as we can hold on for a while, reinforcements will arrive.

Several injured maidservants fled in a panic.

Chen Sheng shouted at them, "Get out of the way."

But they were like a frightened flock of sheep, rushing into them regardless, as if they could find a sense of security in this way.

A maidservant's white dress was stained red with blood. She didn't know if it was someone else's blood or hers. She ran over with a face full of horror. When she was about to pass by Wu Huaiyu,
suddenly changed.

The terrified woman suddenly slipped a dagger out of her sleeve, then gnashed her teeth and threw herself at Huaiyu, she didn't have a pitiful look of panic and helplessness, her flying movements were very vigorous, obviously she was proficient in martial arts.

"Dog officer, take your life!"

Huaiyu raised his shield and raised his knife.

Chen Sheng rushed over from the side, knocked the woman away, Huaiyu followed a shield, the woman was hit twice in succession, and fell heavily to the ground.

But she rolled over, got up again, and rushed to Huaiyu with a short knife.

"Officer Dog."

In the sandstorm weather, the city is full of wind and sand, and the sun in the sky is covered by the wind and sand, making it gray and dark.The woman looked at death as if she were home, her mouth was bleeding, her white skirt was blood-stained, and she still rushed at her with a knife.

Huaiyu swung the horizontal knife.

Is this woman one of the maids that Li Daozong sent him, or did she sneak in temporarily?For a moment he couldn't figure it out, this woman was very tall and young, her appearance was even a little weak, and he couldn't even tell whether she was a Jihu or a Han woman.

Who would have thought that this woman was also an assassin.

Huaiyu looked at her indifferently.

"I have no grudge against you, why did you assassinate me?"

"Damn you all!" the woman shouted coldly, rushing as she shouted.

But Wu Huaiyu won't give him the slightest chance,

The woman rushed close, Huaiyu struck her with a shield, blocked her with all her strength, and then chopped her down a few times, making her unstable. Taking the opportunity, she kicked her down. Before she could get up, Huaiyu directly threw her The knife rested on her neck.

But didn't kill her.

He wanted to know who they were and why they wanted to assassinate him.

Is there someone instigating behind this?

Chen Sheng tied up the woman with a cowhide rope, and the woman kept cursing.

Fighting in the streets continues.

Those assassins are fierce.

Wu Huaiyu's troops are also very elite. The streets are narrow, with square walls on both sides. The two sides are fighting close to each other. Wu Huaiyu's side has more people.

After a fierce battle for a long time, many people fell to each other.

The assassins were very anxious.

It is too late to succeed, and the longer the delay, the worse it will be for them.

Sure enough, the footsteps of the brigade came soon, and Wu Junwei led a team from Yanzhou Yamen to kill him, "Erlang, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Wu Huaiyu stepped on the female assassin without any injuries.

"I have already sent people outside the city to ask Su Sima to bring troops into the city."

Although Wu Junwei didn't bring many people, they were all armored warriors, and when they came, they fired a volley of bows and crossbows, and then lined up to kill them with shields and spears. The fierce assassins only had some leather armor. He is also holding swords, maces, bows and crossbows, and he is already exhausted, so he will be killed by another charge, and he will lose his support immediately.

The leader of the assassins let out a long cry, and they began to retreat.

Wu Junwei asked Chen Sheng to stay with the original people and continue to protect Wu Huaiyu, and he led people to chase after him.

"Stop chasing!"

Wu Huaiyu called out.

"They can't escape," Wu Junwei said.

"This is Lingzhou City, these assassins should be handed over to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion for arrest."

Wu Huaiyu didn't want to be passive here. If it would be more dangerous to be transferred from the mountain again, he would no longer go back to the Yanzhou Yamen in the city. The corpse went directly to the barracks outside the city.

Since it is suspected that Li Daozong may be involved, it is no longer safe here.

Even if Li Daozong is unlikely to make a public move, but the son of a daughter cannot sit down, and a gentleman cannot stand under a dangerous wall.

Get out of town quickly.

Wu Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief after entering the Yanzhou Army Barracks.

Today's inexplicable attack made him understand more and more that the water in Shuofang is very deep and dangerous.

Hearing that the governor was attacked in the city, Su Lie, Niu Jianwu and others in the camp were very angry and came to inquire one after another.

Huaiyu sent someone to the Governor's Mansion to inform Li Daozong.

The enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, and now we have to be more careful with every step.

He thought silently, if he was in the Dudu Mansion, he basically agreed to cooperate with Li Daozong, and even accepted the [-] mu of land he gave him, as well as the fighting slaves and maidservants, etc. How to distribute the benefits has not been discussed in detail, but normally, Li Daozong has no reason to do anything to him again.

But he happened to be attacked in Lingzhou City, and he had just come out of the Dudu's Mansion. The timing was so good, and even the location of the ambush was so appropriate, it was impossible to say that it didn't matter.

This puzzled him.

After thinking for a long time, he still planned to be careful and watch out, first to see what Li Daozong had to say.

Wu Huaiyu went to interrogate the female assassin.

The woman was tied up with cowhide ropes, and her tall body was tightened and seductive.

Although the dress was stained with blood, it was still hard to conceal the beauty of this woman.

"Who are you and why did you assassinate me?"

The woman looked down on Wu Huaiyu, "If you want to kill or cut up casually, don't talk nonsense."

"If you want to kill me, you have to give a reason. I'm new here, and I don't think I've offended anyone yet."

"I am a mountain beard and you are a Han Chinese. Isn't that enough?"

"I heard that Jihu was originally a remnant of the Huns. Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, he has lived with the Han people in Shaanxi and Jin for hundreds of years. What kind of enmity is there?"

"Girl, if you really have grudges or grudges, it's better to talk about it and listen."

The woman who was tied up by five flowers had long been prepared to die in her heart, and now she saw that the young Han governor was only questioning, not tortured or insulted, and she was no longer so hostile.

A sandstorm was raging outside the military tent, and the wind was howling, blowing the sand on the tent, as if it would pull the tent up and sweep it away at any moment.

It was very quiet in the tent.

On the stove sat a kettle with water boiling in it.

While the water was boiling, Huaiyu roasted and boiled the tea calmly. This set of movements was calm and skillful, with a touch of elegance.

The aroma of tea is overflowing.

"Do you need to add salt and milk?"

The woman didn't expect him to make tea for herself, she shook her head disdainfully, "It's not rare."

"From now on, you have been tied up without drinking water, and you have been yelling and scolding for a long time. I guess you should be very thirsty now. This tea is the best Jiannan tribute tea, Mengdingshi tea group tea, although It’s last year’s tea, but the tea cakes that have been stored for a year are even more fragrant.”

"Do you Shanhus usually have the habit of drinking tea?"

The woman said angrily, "Did you take us, Bu Luoji, as savages in the mountains?"

"That's right. You have moved inland for hundreds of years. You have lived together with the Han people for so many years, and you have already become Sinicized. Farming silkworms in the mountains is almost the same as the Han people. The headmen of the tribe should also have the habit of drinking tea."

Huaiyu added salt, some milk, and finally some sugar, then a piece of ginger, and some chopped green onion.

Put the tea in front of the woman.

"I'll untie it for you. Don't mess around. You have seen my martial arts just now. You are not my opponent. This is my personal soldier. Don't ask for trouble."

Huaiyu untied the ropes that bound the woman's hands, but still did not untie the ropes that bound her legs and feet.

"Now tell me, what's going on? Where are you from, what's your name, and why did you assassinate me?"

A woman may be really thirsty.

The scent of tea in front of her was bursting, she couldn't hold back after all, picked up the teacup and drank it.

After drinking a cup of tea, Huaiyu refills her another cup.

The woman didn't bring another cup of tea right away, she sat there, narrowing her eyes, as if lost in memory.

"My family used to be in Lishi on the east bank of the Yellow River, and the Han people called us Lishihu," she said slowly,
"According to the elders of the clan, our ancestors were a branch of the Southern Xiongnu attached to the Han Dynasty. After the fall of the former Zhao Dynasty, they traveled to the eight hundred li valley in the northeast of the river, formed a family with the local Han women, and lived a lonely life. And peaceful days,

But from time to time, there will be oppression from the imperial court, and there will always be people in the clan who can't bear it and resist. It is said that from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the present Tang Dynasty, our clan has also produced several rebellious emperors, but they all failed in the end.

During the time of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court conscripted us Jihu to build the Great Wall, but it was not too difficult. Later, when Yang Guang came to the throne, he extorted and extorted money, and our Jihu became more and more oppressed. Liu Longer, the leader of our Lishihu, called on everyone to rise up and resist During the violent Sui Dynasty, tens of thousands of people responded, even many Han people followed.

Liu Longer was defeated and killed by the court not long after he proclaimed himself emperor. His son Liu Jizhen later united Liu Wuzhou and the Turks, and claimed to be the emperor.

His uncle Liu Liu'er continued to call on everyone to resist the Han court, proclaimed himself the emperor, and captured Shizhou, but he was defeated in the end, and he had no choice but to surrender to Tang.

After Liu Jizhen descended to the Tang Dynasty, he became the governor of Shizhou, and Liu Liuer became the governor of Lanzhou. Liu Jizhen was even given the surname of the country and named the king of the county.

But they still had rebellious blood flowing in their bones, and the Tang people didn't really trust them. The two sides were suspicious of each other, and soon they met again.

But in the fourth year of Wude, Liu Biaocheng, the leader of Jihu on the west bank of the Yellow River, gathered troops to fight against the Tang Dynasty and invaded Fuzhou. Later, the Tang Dynasty sent Prince Li Jiancheng to lead an army to conquer. Without faith, he pretended to send troops to build a city to resettle Jihu, but killed [-] Jihu soldiers and surrendered.Liu Biaocheng and the rest had no choice but to flee to Liang Shidu, but Liang Shidu pretended to accept it, but found an opportunity to kill Liu Biaocheng, and then sold us Jihu to the Tang people as slaves..."

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Jihu fought several times with the Tang army, and the scale was not small. One was Liu Longer, Liu Jizhen, his father and son, and Liu Liuer. .

There is also Jihu in northern Shaanxi on the west bank. Under the leadership of Liu Yucheng and others, he invaded Fu, Yan and other places several times, and hit the vicinity of Guanzhong. He even formed [-] Jihu troops and defeated Dou Gui.

But in the end Jihu's several allied forces were defeated, and today's Jihu no longer has a leader who can resist the flag, and a large number of Jihu have become slaves that are plundered and sold by all parties.

"Today's Babaili Valley used to be our home, but now it has almost become a hell. We are hiding in Tibet, escaping from hunting, just like lonely ghosts. These are all evils made by you Han. Back home, even the family is scattered, the family is ruined, reduced to slaves, and become a lonely ghost in a foreign land..."

Wu Huaiyu sighed after hearing this.

But he still wants to remind this woman.

"You said that the eight hundred mile valley in Shanxi and Shaanxi is your home. There is a problem with this. If you have read books, you should know that the Huns were originally nomadic tribes living in the grasslands outside the Great Wall. Later, the Southern Huns belonged to the Han Dynasty. I have pity on you, so I graciously allowed you to move inland and resettled you in Daibei and other places.

But you were not grateful for this, but later, together with Jie Di and others, you messed around in China, opening the darkest part of our Chinese history.

You almost destroyed Chinese civilization.

Later, after the fall of the former Zhao established by the Huns, you settled down in this eight-hundred-mile valley, but you have never been safe, rebellious, and often plundered..."

"Oh, winners and losers, you Han people are the winners, so you can say whatever you want," the woman said unconvinced.

In her childhood perception, they are pitiful, weak, oppressed, persecuted, homeless, and even reduced to slaves, and the culprits of all this are Han Chinese.

But now Wu Huaiyu said that they almost wiped out the civilization of the Han family in China. Isn't this a backlash?

Huaiyu sighed, "You are telling the truth, and I am not lying. For hundreds of years, there have been disturbances, beatings and killings, and they can't be cleared up with a sentence or two, let alone what they say. right or wrong.

What's your name, let me tell you about your situation, you are a servant in Rencheng Prince's mansion, but why did you become an assassin and attack me? "

(End of this chapter)