Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 462 Assassin
There is a strong smoke and fire in the workshop, and people are not very comfortable inside. The main reason is that several old and new iron furnaces need a lot of water, and they are also close to waterways, which is convenient for the transportation of fuel and iron materials. Wang Tong also went there After a lap, I was drenched in sweat from the inside to the outside when I came back.

His whole body was sticky and uncomfortable, but there was no change of clothes for him here, so he had to go back to the city to change, and walk around the market by the way.

Leaving the workshop, the wind mixed with water vapor blows from the Sanjiao Lake, which immediately makes people feel much more comfortable. The distance from the workshop to the nearby residential area is about [-] steps.

Wang Tong didn't expect the distance to be so close. When this place was built, he specifically told him to stay away from the town. In the first half of the eighth year of Wanli, Wang Tong was very busy. He only came to the newly established workshop a few times. Today he is in a relaxed mood. Noticed more things.

Although the prosperity of Tianjin Wei was created by him, but he was always in it, and what he saw was incomplete. Only when he left the city and came here today did he know what he had done.

This place is more than a dozen miles away from the city, and it is full of houses and residences. This place is different from the tidy and prosperous side of the canal and the Haihe River, so this place looks chaotic.

There are thatched houses, board houses, and even shacks. The gaps between houses are roads. Women wash vegetables and clothes by the river, and children run around laughing and screaming.

The main road leading from the workshop to the outside divides this residential area into two halves. Wang Tong was in a hurry when he came here, and Wang Tong didn't pay attention to observe. On the way back, he felt a lot more relaxed, but he had time to take a closer look.

Ever since he was ambushed by archers when he came out of the school field, Wang Tong usually has fifty cavalry guards around him when he travels, and the cavalry and the battalion he rotates to are all ready to attack. On the ground of Tianjin Wei, something is wrong. It can be killed within half an hour.

Moreover, if Wang Tong is going somewhere, the Security Army will also send two battalions of troops to Jing Street to guard and disperse the idlers. There is no need to engage in such a big show for the position of the battalion officer of the Huwei camp that has been vague until now.

Thinking about it later, there are thousands of young and strong security forces. In addition to training, they patrol the Haihe River every day and spend half a day working everywhere. There are really few opportunities for actual combat. The task of idlers is also considered as training, so it will be done according to Tan Jiang's intention.

Wang Tong and others rode in the middle of this residential area, only some bold children poked their heads on both sides of the road. Wang Tong looked back and forth, and when he saw a child, he screamed and ran away. After a while, there was laughter. come around.

The girls are okay, but the boys have a natural yearning and admiration for well-armored and majestic soldiers, and Wang Tong's Jinyiwei pays attention to military discipline, these boys are all dazzled by it.

It was already noon at this time, and walking on the road, I could hear a woman calling her children to go home for dinner. The children who had been watching the excitement just now ran to the house immediately, and the men who were working nearby came back for lunch at noon. Seeing the government team on the road, he quickly stepped aside.

The smell of this area is not good, and it is full of poverty and mess, but it can make people feel full of vitality. Wang Tong looked carefully at the horse, and suddenly asked:
"Who are the people living here?"

The people behind looked at each other, but they couldn't answer, Wang Tong didn't say anything, this time they were all guards, they were by their side every day, so naturally they wouldn't know.

Wang Tong swiped the whip around and asked again:
"What do you think it looks like here!?"

The personal guards have been staring at Wang Tong's role. They only looked around when they heard this. They are used to the clean-up of the military camp and the prosperity of the city. They really don't like such a messy place. After a while, someone smiled and said:

"It looks like a fat pit in my house..."

This description is also appropriate in a sense, Wang Tong was taken aback, and laughed, and the people around him laughed, and Wang Tong stopped laughing, and then he said:
"This officer looks like a piece of white paper, but also looks like an uncultivated black soil wasteland."

It's so dirty, I don't know that it's like a white paper, this black soil wasteland is the most fertile place, and I don't know what it has to do with the scene in front of me.

After Wang Tong said this, he didn't explain. He just rode his horse slowly and looked at both sides of the road. The group of them walked slowly, and some people recognized that this was Wang Tong's team from Jinyiwei Qianhu, and they hid in the distance and pointed.

Unlike other local officials and herdsmen, in Tianjinwei, the only name heard from the top and bottom is Lord Wang Tongwang. Wang Tong, who is an official, has to take care of some conveniences. He is doing business to make money, and he doesn't care about things at all. He keeps a low profile, so the common people naturally don't notice.

While walking and watching, Wang Tong was actually delayed here for more than half an hour...

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Walking out of this area is the earliest prosperous place in Tianjin Wei - the canal.

A large number of goods are unloaded and loaded here every day, and they have to be transported to various places in Zhili in the north, to the city, and to the Haihe River. manpower.

Everything on the Haihe River is planned. Shops, warehouses, commercial firms, warehouses, freight yards, docks, and factories are all located there, and there are houses built for these people to live in. If you want to allocate more people, you often can't live there.

It used to be that there were many shacks in the area between the Haihe River and the seaside, but now they are being rebuilt there, and a large number of people have been driven to the area between the Triangle Lake and the city.

Wang Tong has been thinking about how the slum-like area was formed on the horse, and he has come to the edge of the canal without knowing it. After the workshop is built, a large number of young and strong people will be used in it. The families of these people must also live in it. over there……

Just as he was engrossed, he heard the rapid sound of horseshoes, and it was on the outside of his own team. Wang Tong was stunned for a moment, and as soon as he raised his head, he heard the guard behind him shouting.

With a sound of "Boom", a cart pulling firewood rushed out from the intersection on the side, and crashed into Wang Tong's personal guard forcefully.

The street is not wide, even though passers-by have dodged, dozens of Wang Tong's riders could only march in a single file. The cart rushed past, the driver in front reined in desperately, the horses stopped, and the cart just divided the team into two groups. two cuts.

Five people, including Wang Tong and Tan Jiang, were cut off from the team. The cart rushed past just now, and some guards were knocked off their horses. People shouted, screamed and cursed at this moment.

"There are assassins!!"

Wang Tong realized it immediately, as soon as he put his hand on the handle of the knife, three big men in yellow clothes jumped out from the haystack of the cart, but they all held crossbows in their hands, and they were all loaded with arrows.

"Boom", although the sound was noisy, the sound of triggering the spring was extremely clear. Wang Tong was reining in his horse and turning around, but it was too late.

"On the battlefield, if you are marked with a bow and crossbow nearby, if you don't know it, then appoint it. If you see it and want to avoid it, it is inconvenient to ride a horse. Get off the horse first."
In the martial arts hall, Yu Dayou once said that in the blink of an eye, Wang Tong threw off his stirrups and slumped to the other side.

With this hasty movement, everyone thought that Wang Tong was hit by an arrow. General Tan threw the knife in his hand and hit a big man in the chest. The remaining two big men shouted:
"Go, go!!"

The coachman in front frantically beat the horse, but another guard had already rode over and slashed at one of them with a knife. The car fell down, and the waist had already been stabbed with a short spear by another soldier of the Huwei camp.

The horses pulling the cart neighed, and the carriage rushed to the other side of the street. The remaining big man in yellow grabbed the side of the cart for fear of being thrown off. Unexpectedly, Wang Tong's personal guards reacted so quickly, and just shot the crossbow arrows, I don't know if the target was shot or not. Just as I was about to turn around, I suddenly heard a piercing scream at the back of my head...

There was a muffled sound of "touch", a long arrow pierced straight into the brain, the big man fell directly from the cart, and the wooden wheels of the cart running wildly just happened to run over it.

The two-wheeled cart was running at high speed, it was already unstable, and it was collapsed by the corpse, and it tilted over. The cart overturned halfway, and the driver who was driving the cart was also crushed under the cart.

"Lao Liu, the coachman is going to live!!"

General Tan shouted loudly, Tan Gong was still holding a bow and arrow in his hand, he raised his hand, and led the men on horseback to chase after him. The time was very short, and the people behind were blocked. They didn't know what happened here, so they rushed over At that time, Wang Tong disappeared, and everyone panicked, but General Tan saw Wang Tong's horse lying on the ground, with two crossbow arrows stuck in the horse's neck.

"General Tan, send someone to dispatch troops to come, seal off the four streets, ask each person one by one."

An arrow stuck in Wang Tong's shoulder, and he stood up covered in dust. He fell to one side, but there was still an arrow that didn't dodge, and his shoulder was shot.

Seeing that Wang Tong was fine, everyone was relieved. General Tan dispatched immediately, sent people to ask for help, and sent people to block the street. Just after saying a few words, they saw a peddler pushing a wheelbarrow beside Wang Tong. Already petrified, standing there gaping.

In such a fighting field, other people would rush to kneel down and cover their heads. Why is the peddler still standing? Something is wrong. Before General Tan made a sound, the peddler has already moved.

He pushed the wheelbarrow down, but stopped between Wang Tong and Tan Jiang. As soon as the car moved, the peddler also rushed towards Wang Tong, slammed into Wang Tong's arms, and threw Wang Tong to the ground.

Tan Jiang will see clearly right away, the 'peddler' is holding a dagger in his hand...

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The 'peddler' was overjoyed when he succeeded with the blow, but the knife didn't seem to be able to penetrate into the flesh, and before he could react, Wang Tong bumped his forehead suddenly, caught off guard, his mouth and nose were bleeding immediately, and then he was kicked away by Wang Tong.

Watching the team come up, Wang Tong climbed up, the 'hawker' turned and ran, ran two steps, and was chopped down by Wang Tong...

(End of this chapter)