Chapter 346: Four people enter the tent [Thanks to everyone for your support! Bow again!]

The moon in late March,

only comes out after the midnight hour (zero o'clock at night).

At this time,

it was still quiet, with the sound of night birds coming from time to time.

Shizhou,

West City Gate,

having slept for half the night, Qingyun, who was standing behind the Li family brothers, yawned.

Li Taotie raised his head with bright eyes, looked at the waning moon hanging high on the flying eaves of the city gate tower, and the twinkling night stars in the sky.

After exhaling a breath, he looked at the respectful Bai Gao Kingdom squad leader opposite him, as well as the seal held in his hands, and said expressionlessly in Bai Gao language:

"No problem now, right?"

"Yes, yes! My lord, no problem!"

"Hmm, then trouble you to open the city gate!"

"Yes, my lord, wait a moment!"

Afterwards, after a series of talking and scolding at the city gate,

"creak,"

"creak,"

the lowered thousand-jin gate was wound up by the soldiers in the city gate tower.

Li Taotie led the three people behind him to lead their horses across the thousand-jin gate, but the city gate did not open.

"Clang!"

The thousand-jin gate behind them was lowered again,

and afterwards, the city gate was opened just enough for people and horses to pass through.

After exiting the city gate, Li Taotie and the others got on their horses.

After pacing forward a few steps, Li Taotie looked back again;

he wasn't looking at the soldiers holding torches on the city wall, but at some things hanging under the light of the torches...

Xu Zaijing also looked back in the same posture as Li Taotie;

his eyesight was very good, and he could see several human-shaped things hanging with ropes on the crenellations of the city wall directly above the city gate.

Li Li Chi Mei wiped his tears with his sleeve, and Qingyun beside him patted his shoulder.

Xu Zaijing turned his head and said to Li Taotie: "Who are they?"

Li Taotie sniffed and said:

"The family of the uncle who was enfeoffed as the Eastern Courtyard King under the Prince of Yue."

"The mothers of my two brothers and this Princess are cousins."

Xu Zaijing nodded and said: "Let's go! The person named Rendo who did this is right there!"

"Hmm!"

"Ha!"

With the shouting to drive the horses, the four of them quickly ran south along the city wall.

Looking at the direction of the four, the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers on the west city wall looked at each other curiously.

Soon,

the four of them circled halfway and arrived at the east side of Shizhoucheng.

The soldiers at the east gate of Shizhou stood on the city wall; the two city gates were far apart, so they naturally didn't know that this group of people had just exited the city at the west gate.

There were even soldiers who curiously poked their heads out to look at the people and horses circling over.

Nowadays, Great Zhou's offensive is fierce; the war has only been going on for more than ten days, and they have already captured several military stockades of Bai Gao.

Maybe one day Great Zhou will attack the city of Shizhou.

Therefore, a stockade was set up outside the city, forming a pincer formation with Shizhoucheng to facilitate the defense of the city.

At the entrance of the stockade, the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers standing there looked at the four people immediately after hearing the sound of hooves.

"Urgent military intelligence!"

Li Taotie shouted urgently in Bai Gao language.

"Urgent military intelligence sent from Xingqing Prefecture!"

At the entrance of the military stockade, when the soldiers behind the anti-cavalry obstacles heard the Bai Gao language with the Xingqing Prefecture accent, their guard dropped by half.

Although their guard hadn't been high to begin with!

After all, Li Taotie's group didn't come from the east where the war was raging, but from the direction of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of the Bai Gao Kingdom in the west.

The squad leader guarding the gate checked the seal and shouted toward the stockade wall.

Afterwards, a hanging basket was lowered from the stockade wall.

Li Taotie pulled Xu Zaijing out from behind him and pretended to be somewhat out of breath from riding a horse, saying: "The thing... is on him, pull him up!"

Soon,

Xu Zaijing took off his weapon, wore his armor, and stood in the hanging basket; Li Taotie patted Xu Zaijing's shoulder and said in Bai Gao language: "It's up to you!"

Xu Zaijing nodded; afterwards, Li Taotie shouted toward the wall: "Pull!"

Xu Zaijing sat in the hanging basket and rose to the same height as the stockade wall; after scanning around, he knew that this was just a squad, a configuration of ten people.

Among the five people on the stockade wall, two were standing in the guard posts on both sides of the wall.

Afterwards, Xu Zaijing looked at the three Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers on the wall and extended both hands in a friendly manner.

Looking at their somewhat curious gazes, Xu Zaijing glanced at the bows and arrows they were carrying, smiled, and then moved his palms to signal them to pull him up.

Seeing Xu Zaijing get on the stockade wall,

Li Taotie at the entrance of the camp suddenly grabbed the collar of a person at the entrance and shouted something in Bai Gao language.

The two people in the guard posts on the stockade walls on both sides of the entrance were also attracted by the situation below.

At this moment, Xu Zaijing used an elbow strike with his left arm, hitting the soldier on his left, and his left hand took advantage of the momentum to slash at the throat of the person opposite him,

the two could only make coughing sounds and then knelt to the ground clutching their necks.

Before these two had even fallen,

Xu Zaijing's right hand had already covered the mouth of the soldier on the far right, pulled him into his arms, and twisted his neck.

He quickly pulled out the bows and arrows from the Bai Gao Kingdom soldier's bow bag.

When the soldiers in the guard posts on both sides of the wall noticed the abnormality and looked toward Xu Zaijing's side,

their last feeling was a heat in their left or right eye, and then they lost consciousness.

Xu Zaijing's movements were fast enough,

but in the quiet night, the sound of a human body falling to the ground was loud enough.

Outside the camp gate, the Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers behind the anti-cavalry obstacles were talking to Li Taotie, while the other four were looking at the wall.

But Xu Zaijing stood on the stockade wall, solving the two people furthest from Qingyun and the others with two arrows from a commanding position; the remaining three were so close to the Li family brothers and Qingyun.

The outcome was already determined.

And looking from the Shizhou city wall toward the camp, there were only figures moving.

Xu Zaijing walked down the stockade wall and easily moved the huge door bolt that required two people to lift.

Qingyun followed the Li family brothers and led the horses in, each dragging a corpse.

After a commotion at the camp gate, except for the younger Li brother, Li Li Chi Mei, the other three changed into the clothes of ordinary Bai Gao Kingdom soldiers and their own weapons.

Then the four lit torches, the Li family brothers in front, Xu Zaijing and Qingyun behind, and the four walked straight toward the main tent of the camp.

The patrolling soldiers who passed by mostly took a look; those who were curious would ask a question, but they were all dismissed by Li Taotie in a few words.

Arriving before the main tent,

Li Taotie walked to the front of the tent, looked at the burly personal guard holding a Great Gao iron sword, and said in Bai Gao language: "Please wake up the Commander; there is an urgent matter from Xingqing Prefecture to report."

The burly personal guard waved his hand, and someone entered the tent.

The personal guard looked at Li Taotie and said: "Is it a person or a letter?"

"A person!"

The personal guard shook his head and said: "Then you can't enter; tell me, and I will go in and relay it to the Commander."

Li Li Chi Mei behind Li Taotie stood out and scolded angrily:

"This concerns the disposal of a Great Zhou nobleman in the military stockade; is this something you can relay?"

As he spoke, he revealed the Chuihuan Division seal in his hand.

"Since when did the Rendo family's personal guards become so powerful?"

The personal guard was stunned, staring at Li Li Chi Mei's dark and uncertain expression under the torch for a while.

Li Li Chi Mei stared back without any fear.

The personal guard finally lowered his head and said: "Please wait a moment."

Li Li Chi Mei continued:

"Also, send someone to bring that Great Zhou nobleman; he will be useful later."

The personal guard waved his hand at the other personal guards at the entrance of the main tent.

Xu Zaijing, who was on the side, looked at the direction the personal guard who went to fetch the person left, exchanged a look with Qingyun, and then turned to look at Li Taotie.

Li Taotie understood and said a few words to Li Li Chi Mei in Bai Gao language; Li Li Chi Mei slapped his brother in the face without a word and cursed in Bai Gao language.

Xu Zaijing and Qingyun walked toward the younger brother Li Li Chi Mei; it looked like the soldiers in the camp were displeased with Li Li Chi Mei, the envoy from Xingqing Prefecture, bullying his comrade, and wanted to give Li Li Chi Mei some color to look at.

The burly personal guard leader waved his hand at Xu Zaijing and said a few words in Bai Gao language.

Xu Zaijing ignored him, but while walking, he pulled out the fine steel mace from his waist.

Inside the main tent,

past the hanging map,

the personal guard walked into the back tent to report.

Rendo Zhanji rubbed his face and sat up from the bed.

Looking at the personal guard who entered the tent, he waved his hand and said: "Let them in."

The personal guard responded and retreated.

At this moment, talking sounds came from outside the tent entrance,

and then there were sounds of exhaling when exerting force, muffled groans, sounds of something colliding, and finally the sound of a heavy object falling.

Rendo Zhanji frowned, and just as he was about to speak,

a black shadow suddenly flew past in front of him; Rendo Zhanji looked carefully, and it was the personal guard who had just retreated.

He reacted quickly, rolled off the bed, and blew out the candle.

Watching Xu Zaijing kick the personal guard away, the Li family brothers carried their knives and walked forward quickly.

Xu Zaijing's ears moved; he took a quick step, reached out to pull the Li family brothers back, and said: "Qingyun!"

Qingyun, who had trained with Xu Zaijing for many years, had a tacit understanding; he raised his shield and topped the front.

At this moment, the tent fell into darkness.

Clang!

A collision sounded, and Qingyun, holding the shield, took a step back and said: "This guy has quite some strength!"

Before Qingyun's voice fell, a cry for help in Bai Gao language came over.

Xu Zaijing crossed the Li family brothers,

"Ding!"

After Xu Zaijing waved his mace to knock away a long sword, he flashed over, and then the cry for help in the tent disappeared.

Only the groaning after being injured remained.

Li Taotie held the Great Gao sword in one hand and took out a fire starter from his bosom with the other; after blowing on it, he looked at the bearded man with a flustered expression under the faint firelight and said in Bai Gao language:

"Rendo Zhanji?"

The bearded man looked at Li Taotie under the firelight and smiled: "So it's the little dog of the Li family; it was your grandfather..."

Before he could finish speaking, Li Li Chi Mei's long knife had already pierced into Rendo Zhanji's chest.

Rendo Zhanji looked at the long knife with a broken edge in his chest, looking at Li Li Chi Mei with eyes full of confusion, shock, and hatred; his eyes looked like he wanted to eat him.

Then, he was stabbed again, two stabs...

Early April,

Xingguo Lane,

Marquis Ningyuan Mansion,

Physician Ren wiped her sweat, looked at Pingmei on the bed, and said: "Madam, push, the head is already out!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 347 =====