Chapter 299: Azure Dragon Trap
Chapter 299: Azure Dragon Trap
At dawn the next day, Xiao Xia was pushed awake by Xiao Qing.
"what happened?"
Xiao Xia's mind was in a mess. He fell asleep in the second half of the night and slept for less than an hour.
"Sister Li said there's something urgent, very urgent!"
"I see!"
Xiao Xia turned over and sat up, quickly getting dressed and putting on his leather belt. His leather belt was hung with some small things, such as jade pendants, keys, evil-repelling plaques, bronze masks and the like. It was troublesome to take them off, and he didn't have time to do that.
Xiaoqing handed him a wet towel.
While Xiao Xia was washing his face, Xiao Qing simply tied his hair into a bun.
Xiao Xia rushed out, and Xiao Qing chased after him, "Sir, bring your sword!"
What a considerate young lady! Xiao Xia took the sword and ran straight to the courtyard.
Li Luming paced back and forth in the courtyard, feeling very anxious.
At this time, Li Luming heard hurried footsteps, and she hurried over, just in time to see Xiao Xia coming out.
"My Lord, it's bad. Yuwen Shu is going to Qinglong Temple to burn incense, but he has already made preparations!"
This sentence made no sense, but Xiao Xia's scalp was about to explode. He understood that Zhang Jue would not go to the mansion to assassinate Yuwen Shu again since he failed in Xiangyang. He would choose to do it outside, and Qinglong Temple was his best opportunity.
What’s even more terrible is that Yuwen Shu is already prepared and might set a trap.
"How do you know he's prepared?"
"Sun Lei said that Wei Wentong led 500 soldiers to surround Qinglong Temple, and Yuwen Chengdu followed Yuwen Shu on horseback."
"what?"
Yuwen Chengdu was actually there too. Xiao Xia's eyes suddenly widened and she asked anxiously, "Has Yuwen Shu arrived at Qinglong Temple?"
"Probably not yet. He was just going out when I came over."
Xiao Xia didn't wait for her to finish, and rushed out like a gust of wind, leaving a message in the distance, "Immediately notify Sun Lei and the others to stay away from Qinglong Temple, and don't let the Wuhou Guards find you!"
Yuwen Chengdu is also here, so Sun Lei and the others cannot get involved because it is too dangerous.
Xiao Xia entered the metropolitan city through the small gate of the City God Temple. He did not take the secret passage because it would be too troublesome to take the secret passage and he would have to find the key. Besides, it was not as close as going through the City God Temple.
After entering the metropolitan city, go straight to the South Gate. Opposite it is Anyifang. Yes, if you want to take a shortcut, you have to enter Anyifang. There is a small door in the southeast corner of Anyifang. After going out, you will see Xinchangfang opposite. Qinglong Temple is in Xinchangfang.
Just after leaving Anyifang, opposite was the wall of Xinchangfang. Xiao Xia saw Sun Lei standing in front of the wall with several of his men.
Sun Lei stepped forward and said, "Sir, the gate to Xinchangfang has been temporarily closed by them. We have set up a ladder here so you can get in."
"Where are the other brothers?"
"We don't know where the young master came from. We have arranged people and ladders at the four corners. Yang Fukun is in the town with a few brothers, but we can't contact him."
Xiao Xia nodded, "Just leave two brothers here to watch the ladder, you go back to Zhentian Martial Arts Hall first and provide support there!"
"Why don't I accompany you inside?"
"No, Yuwen Chengdu is here. You will all die if you go in. It will also be a burden to me. It will be the same if you go to the martial arts hall to meet me."
"I humbly obey my orders!"
Sun Lei remembered something and said quickly, "Sir, there is a small door in the northwest corner of Qinglong Temple, close to Maitreya Hall. You can go in from there. There are only a dozen soldiers there."
"I see!"
Xiao Xia disappeared after climbing the ladder into the studio. Sun Lei then left two people to watch the ladder while he took the others back to the martial arts hall.
Before dawn, the three Zhang family members sneaked into the Qinglong Temple. Zhang Jue and Zhang Lian hid in the main hall, and Zhang Jue hid behind the Medicine Buddha. He stepped on the spot and found an empty space behind the Medicine Buddha where he could hide someone. When Yuwen Shu came in to burn incense, he was less than ten feet away from him. He prepared a poisonous flying knife, and as long as it hit any part of the body, the person would be killed.
Zhang Lian hid behind an Arhat, holding a short crossbow. If Zhang Jue missed the first shot, she would shoot a second arrow, which would also be highly poisonous.
Zhang Qiao hid in the Maitreya Hall, holding a bow and arrow. If the two of them came back, she would support them there.
Yuwen Shu's carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of Qinglong Temple. He walked into the carriage and the guards around him raised their large shields to protect him.
At this time, the Grand Tutor Liu Zhiren stepped forward and saluted, "Greetings, father?" "Is the assassin here?" Yuwen Shu asked.
"They have come, three in total. They are hiding in the Qinglong Temple, but we don't know where they are hiding yet, and we dare not go in to search for them, for fear of alerting the enemy."
Yuwen Shu nodded, and then asked Yuwen Chengdu: "Chengdu, where do you think they are hiding?"
Yuwen Chengdu thought for a moment and said, "I think the Great Hall is the most likely place!"
"What about you?" Yuwen Shu turned to Wei Wentong again.
"I think it's the Mahavira Hall too!"
Yuwen Shu sneered and turned back to the carriage road: "You can go and burn incense now!"
A middle-aged man walked out of the carriage. He was dressed exactly like Yuwen Shu, and his figure and appearance were very similar to Yuwen Shu.
He is Yuwen Shu's substitute. Of course, his demeanor is different and rather wretched. People who are familiar with Yuwen Shu can recognize him at a glance, but the assassin may not be familiar with him.
The substitute had no choice but to enter the Qinglong Temple with a few incense sticks in his hand, with a dozen guards following behind him pretending to protect him.
Yuwen Shu laughed coldly. It takes a thousand days to raise an army and only a moment to deploy it. Today he wanted this substitute to die. Only then would future assassins know that Yuwen Shu had a substitute, and these assassins would not dare to kill him easily.
Yuwen Shu waved his hand, and Wei Wentong immediately led a large group of soldiers into the Qinglong Temple.
Yuwen Shu also entered the Qinglong Temple accompanied by Yuwen Chengdu.
The door of the main hall creaked open, and the originally dark main hall suddenly became bright.
Zhang Jue's heart suddenly rose to his throat, he saw Yuwen Shu walking into the main hall holding three incense sticks. Zhang Jue had met Yuwen Shu twice, he recognized him at a glance, this man was the culprit who wiped out their Zhang family. He had waited for this day for fifteen years.
Just as Yuwen Shu walked to the front of the futon and had not yet had time to kneel down, Zhang Jue's flying knife shot out, "Puff!" The flying knife hit his neck right.
Yuwen Shu screamed and fell on his back. Zhang Jue was overjoyed and jumped out, wanting to take Yuwen Shu's head.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, Zhang Jue instinctively looked outside the gate, only to see a man standing a few dozen steps away, looking at him with a sneer on his face. He was guarded by a large group of warriors. Who else could it be but Yuwen Shu?
Zhang Jue suddenly realized that he had fallen into a trap. He turned around and shouted, "Run! This is a trap!"
Zhang Lian had just jumped out from behind Luohan. When she heard her second brother shouting, she was stunned for a moment, turned around and ran. The brother and sister rushed out from behind the main hall one after another, and faced dozens of Yuwen Mansion warriors.
Zhang Jue roared, slashed several warriors with his sword, and shouted: "I will hold them back, you take A Qiao and leave quickly!"
Zhang Lian also stabbed two warriors to death, rushed out and ran towards the northwest. Zhang Jue fought and retreated, attracting a large number of warriors to chase him.
Zhang Lian ran two hundred steps and was about to reach the Maitreya Hall when suddenly a large number of soldiers attacked from the south. Although she escaped the interception of the two hundred warriors from the Yuwen Mansion, she encountered the soldiers of the Left Wuhou Guard on the periphery.
At this moment, Zhang Qiao also came to help, and Zhang Lian shouted anxiously: "Qiao, run!"
The leading general was none other than Wei Wentong. As soon as he saw Zhang Lian and Zhang Qiao, he immediately shouted, "Shoot them with crossbows!"
Hundreds of soldiers raised their crossbows together. Zhang Lian suddenly heard the sound of a crossbow. She turned around and saw countless crossbow arrows coming towards her. Without thinking, she turned around, opened her arms, and used her body to block Zhang Qiao behind her.
"Puff puff!"
Zhang Lian was hit by more than thirty arrows. Although she was wearing leather armor, she was hit by seven or eight arrows in the head and throat. She screamed, fell on her back and died on the spot.
Zhang Qiao yelled and rushed over, "Auntie!"
She was raised by Zhang Lian since she was one year old. She was called her aunt, but in fact she was her mother.
She picked up her aunt's body and saw that she was dead. She burst into tears.
At this time, a dozen warriors from the Yuwen Mansion had caught up. Seeing that she was a girl, they rushed up and tried to catch her. Zhang Qiao jumped up and swung his sword at the warriors like crazy, killing four of them in a row and forcing a dozen warriors to flee in panic.
In the distance, Wei Wentong was furious. He drew his bow and shot an arrow. Wei Wentong was the fifth place in the horseback archery competition and his archery skills were superb. The arrow hit Zhang Qiao right in the left chest. Zhang Qiao cried out, and his sword fell to the ground, and he fell on his back.
A dozen warriors were overjoyed and rushed forward again, trying to kill Zhang Qiao with their swords. At this moment, a white shadow rushed in, with a flash of cold light and screams. A dozen warriors were all killed, all with their throats cut by a sword.
Wei Wentong was about to draw his bow and shoot again when he suddenly saw a cold light shooting towards his face at an incomparably fast speed. Wei Wentong was horrified and turned his head away. The flying knife grazed his earlobe, wiping off a large piece of oily skin and causing a burning pain.
When I saw the man in white in front of me again, he had already picked up the girl who was shot by an arrow and was running towards the side door in the distance.
(End of this chapter)