Late Tang

"What did Zhu Wen just say?"

"He wanted to marry us, marry his sister to me, and offered to give 500 million yuan as a dowry." Li Keyong replied.

An Jinquan was stunned for a moment, "Maybe it's worth thinking about." It's not just because of the 500 million dowry, but Zhu Wen's strength is indeed not small, especially when he is at odds with Li Jing and the Chang'an court Next, if they get married, they must follow the lead of Hedong Town.With Zhu and Wen's large territory in Henan, together with allies such as Wang Chongrong, they can even overthrow the Chang'an court.

"There is nothing to consider. If you want to cooperate, you have to find a strong ally. Zhu Asan is not qualified." Li Ke shook his head.

At this time, a group of servants carried a huge roasted camel into the hall. This was the last big dish of the night, and it was also a famous court dish.There is also a calf in the roasted camel, a sheep in the belly of the cow, and a goose in the sheep.This is an incomparably luxurious royal dish.

Returning to the main seat in the hall, Zhu Wen, who was sitting on the ebony couch, suddenly slapped twice with those powerful palms, but the hall was too noisy, and few people noticed.Fortunately, that group of bad musicians noticed it, and immediately stopped the chaotic music. Once the chaotic sound stopped, everyone in the hall immediately fell silent.

"King Jin, I'm going to ask you again, you really don't want to marry your sister-in-law, so that you can marry her for a hundred years?" Zhu Wen said with a gloomy face, but he said something that surprised everyone in the hall.

Li Keyong's face also became ugly. He didn't expect Zhu Wen to say such words in public.What is this, forced marriage?

"King Liang, what do you mean by that?"

"Hmph, King Jin looks down on me, Zhu Wen?"

"Boom, boom, boom!" At this moment, with Zhu Wen's hands clapping heavily on the table, the band with a short pause played again, the snare drum sounded first, then the big drum, and then the flute. …

"How can you be so virtuous, how dare you look down on Gu!" Zhu Wen sneered a few times, "Since you don't want to drink a toast, let's have a drink!" Zhu Wen's crazy laughter echoed in the hall.

Li Keyong finally felt a trace of uneasiness at this moment. Zhu Wen's words...

Amidst the chaotic music, the eighteen sword girls in the hall waved their swords again, but this time, their swords were no longer pleasing to the eye, but thrilling. They screamed, already like leopards , Dancing swords went straight to the generals and schools of the Jin Dynasty in the hall.

Li Keyong just stood up, when suddenly the group of ugly musicians dropped all kinds of musical instruments in their hands, and took out a bunch of crossbows that had already been stringed from under the case that no one noticed.As soon as Li Keyong took a step, he stopped suddenly, and a steel crossbow spike pierced Li Keyong's body, penetrating from the back and under the shoulder blades.He let out a cry of pain, but it was immediately drowned out by louder shouts of killing and the sound of bows and crossbows piercing the air.

The second crossbow nail had shot into his thigh again, and Li Ke fell down.For today's banquet, he thought he was in control of everything, so he didn't even wear a piece of inner armor.As a result, facing the musician's crossbowman who suddenly launched an attack close at hand, he was unable to defend himself. He was hit by two arrows in a row and fell to the ground.

One after another, the musicians had all put down their instruments and took out their repeating crossbows.

The generals and academies of the Jin Dynasty were shocked and angry, and they did not expect this sudden change at all.Li Cunxian yelled, picked up a big lamb leg and swung it as a hammer, blocked several crossbow nails one after another, and then rushed all the way to Li Keyong.But just halfway through the rush, he was struck in the back by a sword girl who looked delicate, and then hit a mat table, and fell on the mat-covered floor.

"King Jin!" He shouted repeatedly.

An Jinjun over there has already lifted the table in front of him and threw it on Li Keyong who fell to the ground.

There was a beeping sound, and countless crossbow nails were inserted into the wooden board.

At this time, those Liang Fan generals who were still drinking and guessing with them just now also took out their swords hidden in the dark, and quickly surrounded the people of Jin Fan.This sudden change changed everyone's face in Jin Fan.In an instant, they were completely at a disadvantage and were almost surrounded.In the original plan, they did not put Liang Fan's generals in their eyes.Therefore, when they went to the banquet after entering the city, they generously put their weapons outside and only carried some short knives and daggers on their bodies.I thought that even if they didn't have weapons, the Liang Fans didn't have weapons either, and they would easily restrain Zhu Wen and the others.

But now, it was Zhu Wen who raised the issue, and they were the ones who were caught off guard.

The assassin posing as a dancer, the crossbowman posing as a musician, and those Liang Fan generals who had already prepared their weapons and wore inner armor in their clothes, all of them showed that Zhu Wen had already laid in ambush.

The number of Liang and Jin generals in the hall was about the same, but this did not include 36 sword girls, [-] crossbowmen, and dozens of killers who acted as waiters.

The two An Jinjun brothers stood shoulder to shoulder, each of them was holding a small mat and waving it, while Captain Hedong next to him was holding a plate as a weapon. As a result, a crossbow nail shot directly into his mouth and came out from the back of his head.He screamed and fell forward, overturning a row of banquets, cups, plates, wine jugs flying around, wine, vegetables and blood flowed on the mats in the hall.

Li Cunxian was hit with a sword on his back, the wound was like a raging fire burning.Protecting King Jin was his only thought at this moment.An Jinjun gave Pang Shigu a severe blow with a camel leg, and knocked back the general Liang Fan a few steps, but at this moment he only had two short knives tied to his legs, and he had no time to untie them.He had just repelled Pang Shigu, but was immediately shot by a crossbowman, half kneeling on the ground.

The generals of Liang and Jin fought fiercely and mercilessly.

Most of the generals of the Jin Fan Hedong Army were generals from the northern frontier. They were dominated by Fan people and supplemented by the Han army on the frontier.And Liang Fan's generals are also not weak.Most of these thieves who followed Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao to fight north and south, and ran amok all over the world, also couldn't crawl out of the dead.In terms of desperation, they have never been afraid of anyone.

As soon as a Liang Fan general chopped down a Jin general, he was immediately thrown down by another Jin general. A large piece of flesh was bitten off his neck and his throat was bitten off.

The musicians who achieved the greatest results were the crossbowmen. Although their instruments were sloppy, the crossbowmen shot very accurately.In a short while, hundreds of crossbows have been shot, and more than a dozen Jin Fan generals have shot arrows.An Jinquan slammed into the sword empty-handed, twisted the arm of a sword girl, and slammed her head against the beautiful woman's forehead, knocking her unconscious, then grabbed the sword from her hand, and rushed to help Li Ke who had been shot Use it, and run to the hall door.

As soon as he arrived at the door, the closed hall door suddenly opened, and a group of black crow soldiers rushed over with their swords in hand.

"Save King Jin!" Li Cunxian yelled sharply.

But in the blink of an eye, behind that group of black crow soldiers, another group of soldiers and horses appeared.But they poured in from the corridors on both sides, all wearing iron armor and holding golden spears.As soon as they rushed over, they shot a burst of crossbow arrows, shooting down seven or eight Black Crow Soldiers in an instant.Li Cunxian originally thought that he was saved, but when he saw Liang Jun's golden gun soldiers pouring out from both sides, his hope was blown out by the strong wind like a candle.

Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Liang Wang Zhu Wen still sat tall on the black sandalwood couch carved with complicated patterns, watching the massacre with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth.

He gave Li Ke a chance, twice.Unfortunately, he didn't appreciate it.

The ground was in a mess, with dozens of corpses lying on the ground, both from the Jin army and Liang Fan, and even those killers disguised as sword girls and waiters had many corpses lying on the ground, bleeding profusely.An injured general from Hedong crawled towards a long sword on the ground. The owner of the sword was just a few steps away. The beautiful sword girl had a short dagger stuck in her chest, and she would never use that sword again.Captain He Dong crawled towards the long sword, he felt his limbs were heavy and his mouth was full of salty taste of blood.He wanted to pick up that sword and kill Zhu Asan of Gouyue.The distance to the sword was getting closer and closer, but when his hand touched the hilt, a big foot stepped on his hand. The next moment, there was a sound of crossbow, and a crossbow nail shot into him In the forehead, the Jin Army Colonel widened his eyes unwillingly, and died.

In front of the hall door, Li Ke moved and struggled to wake up.King Shatuo's shoulder blades, thighs, and chest each had a crossbow spike.

Zhu Wen raised his right hand, and the hall fell silent.

"Is this how you treat guests?" An Jinquan, who was supporting Li Keyong, shouted.

Zhu Wen giggled, "King Shatuo stood up again, oh, I'm so sorry, King Shatuo, Gu's subordinates seem to have accidentally hurt you. Hey, look, Gu apologizes to you on behalf of them, How. I really hope we can resolve this misunderstanding and form an ally again. This king really wants to form an alliance with the king, hey!"

An Jinquan screamed sharply: "Let us go, we promise not to pursue it afterwards!"

Zhu Wen sneered a few times, "Are you really a fool? Even a fool would not believe your words. Wouldn't it be a return to the mountain to let you go?"

"King Liang, don't forget, there are [-] elite soldiers from Jin Fan outside. As long as you let King Jin leave, I will stay as hostages. After King Jin withdraws from Xuanwu Town, you will release us again." leave."

"Why should I let him go?" Zhu Wen shouted angrily, stood up, and looked at the weak Li Keyong coldly. "Don't you think I don't know that you and Yang Fuguang have conspired to sell me? If I hadn't prepared beforehand, I would be the one who was arrested tonight. Just ask, if I fell into your hands, how would you Let me go? Don't blame me for being ruthless. I gave you two chances. Originally, as long as you can marry your sister-in-law and we form an alliance, there is still room for choice. Unfortunately, Li Ya'er is determined to I'm dead, so now it's no wonder I'm ruthless and merciless."

"You have to consider the consequences. If you kill King Jin, not only the [-] elites from Hedong outside the city will not let you go, even the [-] Jin troops from Taiyuan will not let you go, nor will the court of Chang'an. Let you go. If you are willing to take a step back, as long as you are willing to let King Jin go, no matter what the conditions are, you just ask, and we will try our best to agree to you. Even if it is the court, we will deal with it for you and let the court cancel it. The plan to annex Xuanwu."

Zhu Wen sneered a few times, then waved his hand without hesitation, and rows of crossbow arrows were shot out. After a while, there was no Jin person standing in the hall. (To be continued.)