Chapter six hundred and twentieth IX The palace hits a wall
"Brother, isn't it okay?" Xiahou Dun came behind Cao Cao.
"It's okay, what's going to happen? Compared to the big things in your hands now, what's going on is just a trivial matter in comparison." Cao Cao shook his head and took his mind back.
Xiahou Dun turned around and looked at Xiahou Yuan, and then he let go of his defense.
Xiahou Yuan, who came to Cao Cao, looked puzzled and asked, "Brother, why didn't I let me shoot Jian Shuo with one arrow just now?"
"Miaocai, are you sure you can really shoot Jian Shuo with one arrow?" Cao Cao asked with a smile.
"This..." Xiahou Yuan thought about his status just now carefully and measured the possible meaning. In the end, he could only admit helplessly. "I only have a 50% chance of shooting Jian Shuo."
"Is that right?" Cao Cao continued to ask calmly.
"Brother, I think this is the case. 50% is enough to gamble. People are not a target for motionlessness. It is impossible to be 100% sure, 50% is enough." Xiahou Yuan always felt that he had the chance to shoot Jian Shuo just now.
Cao Cao shook his head. His clan brother is good at everything, but sometimes he is too confident and cannot see through some places. There will be no problems with small things, but in big things and battle formations, these small problems can turn into fatal crises at any time.
Cao Cao spoke and denied, "No, you only have 30% chance. Because Li Ru was beside him, the black man stood in front of Jian Shuo again. What they were guarding against was not us late-coming lieutenants, but were the cold arrows shot from the dark."
Xiahou Yuan frowned. After careful consideration, he was indeed like this. The reason why he hesitated just now was that he did not shoot out the feather arrows that were already on the bowstring was because of the black man blocking Jian Shuo. Xiahou Yuan had tried to find the gap, but he did not see that around Jian Shuo, his personal guards surrounded him, and only the black and strong man blocked in front of him. It can be said that what the black man blocked was Jian Shuo's weakness, which was the direction that Xiahou Yuan first captured, and wanted to kill Jian Shuo with an arrow.
Unfortunately, there was such a big black man. Although he looked stupid, Xiahou Yuan could see the brilliance in his eyes. When he looked around, he seemed to be looking for something.
War generals! People like them who come and go on the battlefield always have a special sense of the same person, and they can sense the same aura as themselves from the other party. Therefore, he is really not sure whether he can pass through this black man and shoot Jian Shuo. Especially when the other party is prepared, the 50% chance has dropped to 30%.
No, it is lower than 30%, only 10%. For a person who uses a bow, if the other party is prepared and guarded, the chance of the feather arrow hitting the other party is pitifully few. Even a sharpshooter like him is not sure.
Xiahou Yuan was silent and did not hear Xiahou Yuan speak again. Cao Cao nodded. He wanted Xiahou Yuan to think and make him understand that everything should not be too confident. Too confident is too conceited. Conceitedness often will kill people and mess up something. Cao Cao didn't want to be missing the clan brother Xiahou Yuan, who was by his side.
"Meng De, this time I failed, it's hard to start after that." Xiahou Dun sighed softly.
After a failure of assassination, Jian Shuo will definitely strengthen his defense. If he wants to successfully assassinate him, there is not much possibility. Xiahou Dun was just sure to kill Jian Shuo, but it was impossible to kill Jian Shuo in an instant. Then, before Jian Shuo died, a mutiny would inevitably occur. They had no right to be loyal, and they would only become rebellions in Jian Shuo's mouth and besieged by soldiers.
"Yes. But he must die. No matter what method is used, he must be asked to die as soon as possible, otherwise there is still a possibility of both jade and stone burning."
"Wait..." Cao Cao fell into deep thought, his right hand clenched into a fist, hit the center of the palm of his left hand, making a crisp sound.
"All jade and stones are burned, and the stones are burned, and the stones will be burned and smashed. There will be no problem with jade. Since you want to be a turtle with your head, I will let you stick your head out and have to be my knife." Cao Cao laughed loudly, and had already made up his mind.
Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun looked at each other, then looked at Cao Cao's back, with confusion on their faces. Although they didn't know what the eldest brother was laughing, they could probably feel the joy in his heart with his laughter. Out of trust, the two believed without hesitation that the problems in front of them would not become any problems.
"Stop!" A shout came from the palace wall. Under the flames, a soldier of Yulin Army leaned out from the palace wall, and the feather arrows on the longbow in his hand pointed to the head of the palace wall, and the figures that were getting closer and closer to the palace gate.
At the same time, two crossbows placed on the palace gate and the merging marching at the angle, aiming at the position where the figure is. As long as these people step into four hundred steps, the crossbow will be launched, shooting these people into scattered limbs.
No matter who it is, after the curfew is at night, and when the curfew is over, the Yulin Army will not need to consider any consequences. The only thing they will do before killing the other party is a warning. After a warning, if the person who comes does not take out a certificate that can prove his identity, does not listen to the warning, does not retreat, and continues to move forward, then shoot him decisively.
It was approaching again. When those figures came to the fire range of the fire in the farthest brazier standing in front of the palace gate avenue, the identities of these people were about to emerge. Several eunuchs in eunuchs served by eunuchs. The Yulin soldiers on the palace walls only needed to look carefully and could immediately tell them. In the palace, the most common soldiers of the Yulin soldiers were eunuchs and palace maids, but seeing that there were eunuchs who dared to attack the palace late at night, it was rare to see in a century.
These people are eunuchs and palace ladies. But, so what? No matter who they are, officials of all sizes, or eunuchs and maids in the palace, after nightfall, no one can come in and out at will. If you repeatedly persuade them, you will die if you die.
Looking at the eunuchs getting closer and closer, several Yulin Army soldiers began to count their steps silently in their hearts, staring at them without blinking, as if they were watching the hunters whose prey was about to fall into the trap. The Yulin Army soldiers also had little good feelings for the eunuchs, especially the old people who had felt the most deeply. When the ten regular attendants were powerful in the past, no one of their Yulin Army soldiers was beaten and scolded when they were slightly dissatisfied.
When did the Emperor's Guard become a group of slaves, and the eunuchs were driven and ignored by them at will, and it was time to beat and scold them? It was not until they changed a new commander that something changed and they no longer suffered from such cowardice. Especially during the current period, the few strokes Liu Xuan and Liu gave Zhang Rang to make his teeth fall out even more excited, and the afflictions in their hearts were all exaggerated.
Now, the Yulin soldiers who were counting their steps in their hearts were already ready to go. What is it to kill a few eunuchs? Then stepping into the demarcated line and killing a few eunuchs is not a big deal.
"Who is coming?" The Yulin Army soldier guarding the palace gate stood up, pointed the spear in his hand at the eunuchs in the distance, and asked loudly.
"I...we can't get closer, right?" An eunuch shrank timidly and never wanted to move forward. He felt the murderous aura. He was as timid as him, and he had always felt this kind of aura deeply.
He would die, but he would really die. He felt that he was almost breathless, and even more illusions appeared in front of him, shooting down the feather arrows on the palace wall and flying towards him.
"Yes, yes. If we get closer, we will really die. Besides, we are just here to send a message, and we cannot enter the palace at this time, so we just stand here and shout a few times from afar." Another eunuch echoed. If Song Dian, whom he served, hadn't died, he wouldn't have come here!
Originally, he had to wait until dawn to send a message. Anyway, Song Dian died and no matter how powerful he had, he would be dead, and he could not pose any threat to him. But think about it, although Song Dian was dead, the other Zhongchang Sushi were not dead yet! Anyone was dissatisfied with him and stamped his feet was enough to make him doomed. So, he rushed to send a message immediately, and met other eunuchs who came to send a message on the road, and then learned a terrifying fact.
Tonight, four general servants who were not in the palace, outside the palace were all dead! They were Song Dian, who served him, and Feng Xu, Cao Jie, and Xia Yun, a total of four general servants, all died at the hands of the assassin.
In the past, this was enough to shock the court. I don’t know how many officials would be imprisoned. Those were the ten eunuchs, the most trusted persons of the emperor. In the past, ministers impeached them, but they were all imprisoned by the emperor without hesitation!
But now is different from the past. Even eunuchs like him can feel that the power of the Ten Constellations is declining now, and even he feels a little uneasy. He is afraid that the Ten Constellations in front of him, Song Dian, whom he serves, will fall down, and even he will be torn apart by the officials who are eyeing him outside. However, he did not expect that this day would come so quickly.
"Okay." The other two eunuchs nodded.
The atmosphere was wrong, and for eunuchs like them who were good at observing their faces, they felt it very clearly. The bad looks on the faces of those Yulin soldiers were not hidden at all under the reflection of the fire.
Not to mention, when they first entered the palace, these eunuchs had recited the rules of the palace. It had been many years since they first entered the palace, but they still knew what to do and what not to do.
There is no problem if you want to leave the palace and be blocked back at night, because you are a person in the palace, at most you come from where you go. But at night, after night, you want to enter the palace from outside the palace, which is absolutely impossible. If you don’t have a certificate for entering the palace, you will have to die!
No matter how you wear it or whether you are familiar faces, you are considered outsiders! Outsiders of the palace are people who are threatening. When you approach the palace, the Yulin Army will kill the threat without hesitation.
From afar, the four people stopped. Look at me, I look at you, no one wants to move forward any more.
After hesitating for a while, the eunuch who served Song Dian stood up and shouted to the Yulin Army soldiers at the palace gate in a long voice: "We are eunuchs under the Central Changshi. If you want to report it today, please ask the elder brother of the Yulin Army to inform the eunuch Zhang in the palace or the eunuch under the Zhao army, and let them stand on the palace wall and listen."
"No. The night is already clear, we are in military affairs and cannot leave without permission!" The Yulin Army soldier guarding the palace gate replied decisively.
When he heard the answer, the eunuch sighed a little, which was exactly the same as what he thought. In the past, it was very normal to be so comfortable, and these Yulin Army soldiers would not refuse so decisively. Now, it is not surprising that the leader of the Yulin Army beat Zhang Changshi, nothing happened except that these Yulin Army soldiers were afraid of the eunuchs under the Changshi?
"That's the problem, can we pass on our news to the palace?" He tried to inquire again.
"No." Another decisive rejection was made. The Yulin Army soldiers at the palace gate stood straight and were full of confidence when speaking.
"Damn it, these martial artists are really hateful!" The eunuch who served Cao Jie whispered, venting his dissatisfaction.
His voice was very low, so low that he could only hear it by himself and the eunuchs around him. If he was a little farther away, it would become blurry. He didn't dare to curse. He knew what these Yulin soldiers would do. At that time, his small body would not withstand several beats.
Like Zhang Changshi, after being beaten, you can also ask an imperial physician to treat him. If he invites an imperial physician, he may not necessarily come now. He may be licking the wounds in a corner.
"What should I do?" The eunuch who was brave enough to talk to the soldiers of the Yulin Army turned around and asked.
Look at me, and then I look at you, the four of them looked confused. They couldn't go in anyway, let alone sending messages and shouting outside that, except for the Yulin soldiers guarding the palace wall, no one could hear a slight sound when they went in.
"But that's fine..." One of the four eunuchs had his eyes turned around, and he couldn't send a message to the palace. Anyway, they didn't want to enter the palace, but they were blocked by the Yulin Army soldiers! In this way, there was also a way to explain.
Someone had a sudden enlightenment and suddenly realized that there were more than four people not in the palace. He said, "By the way, Shi Jian, it should be fine, right?"
"It should be nothing. In the army, Shi Changshi Jian also has close eunuchs to accompany him. If something happened to him, then there would be no only four of us here now."
"Then...we can go and find Shi Changjian!"
"The soldiers outside are not as difficult as these Yulin soldiers. At least they will not offend us!"
Chapter completed!