Great Song Pirate

Chapter 696 Assassination
In this way, under the busyness of all parties, the day of the founding ceremony of the Jinghai Kingdom finally came under everyone's expectation.

A few days in advance, a large number of elite soldiers put the entire Dading Mansion under martial law. A large number of members of the poisonous snake squad scattered into various parts of the city in plain clothes, and strictly controlled the strangers in the city. Fragments organized a large number of people from Dadingfu in the city to monitor various areas in the city. The Little Foot Detective Team made an honorable debut and also contributed to the founding of the Jinghai Kingdom.

There are many reasons for choosing to build the country in Dadingfu. The first is that there are ready-made palaces here, and there is no need to spend money to build this stuff for the sake of saving face;
The second largest Dingfu is basically a peaceful seizure, the city has not been damaged, the basic conditions are complete, and there are more people and more prosperous;
The third is the aspirations of the people here. After the Fubo Army entered, the masses have a good foundation and the people's hearts are useful;
The fourth is that it is located in the hinterland of Zhongjing Road, which has a certain depth, which can prevent the Jin army from raiding here on the day of the grand ceremony, and the safety is guaranteed.

Based on these reasons, Dading Mansion was selected by Xu Yi as the temporary capital. All the conditions were relatively complete for the founding of the country here. Before this day came, the city had already been filled with silk banners, and there was an atmosphere of celebration everywhere.

But under this festive atmosphere, there was an undercurrent surging, and a group of people kept making small moves, trying to sabotage this grand ceremony.

As the mortal enemy of the Fubo Army, the Kingdom of Jin would naturally not be so resigned to it. Even if they were not prepared to attack aggressively, they dispatched quite a lot of meticulous work to the Fubo Army's founding of the country inside and outside the city of Dadingfu. The canon was destroyed.

In the few days before the grand ceremony, many vicious incidents occurred inside and outside the city of Dadingfu. Houses caught fire, sentries were killed, war horses were poisoned, and even water wells were poisoned. The secret work dispatched is basically thought of.

A large number of leaflets even appeared in Dading Mansion, threatening that if the people here dared to support the Jinghai Kingdom, when the Jin army came to kill them, they would destroy the city and slaughter the city.

The occurrence of various incidents cast a shadow over this grand ceremony, but these events could not stop the progress of the founding ceremony of the Jinghai Kingdom.

With the full efforts of the members of the Viper Squad and the Longwei Army to arrest them, as well as the cooperation of the public, a large number of Jinren spies were arrested. Once these people were arrested, they would be taken to the school grounds outside the city to skin the heads of the owls. The methods were extremely cruel. The purpose is to deter those Jin Guo spies who have not yet been arrested, and let them know that as long as they are arrested, their end will be very miserable.

After such thunderous means were launched, the situation was finally brought under control before the grand ceremony, and no similar vicious incidents occurred again, basically paving the way for the grand ceremony.

Xu Yi was picked up by Ma Zhe, the master of ceremonies of the grand ceremony, before dawn in the palace. He had to wash and change clothes, and he was so busy that he was dizzy.

However, the problem of his attire caused conflicts between Yingchun and other concubines and Ma Zhe. In Yingchun's opinion, Xu Yi should look more powerful this day. Ma Zhe and his gang of civil servants strongly urged Xu Yi to wear a dragon robe to show that the yellow robe would be added to his body. Both sides held their own words, and the lawsuit came to Xu Yi.

Of course, Xu Yi wanted to listen to the opinions of Yingchun and his wives, so he asked for military uniforms. Ma Zhe and the emcees of ceremonies stopped talking, but never heard of emperors or kings wearing military uniforms during the history of dynasties. For those who participated in the celebration, they could only slander inwardly that they, the protagonist, were indeed different.

So Xu Yi was unlucky. The golden helmet and armor outfit that he hadn't worn for a long time was immediately found out in advance by Yingchun and the others. It was polished and polished for a long time, and gold leaf was pasted on it, making it shiny golden. In order to show Xu Yi's mighty aura, he specially made Xu Yi another golden cape, which seemed to be as fashionable as he wanted.

But this season happened to be midsummer, and it was really hot to wear this outfit. Although Xu Yi didn't want to, he couldn't resist Yingchun and the others. He hadn't taken care of them for such a long time. Xu Yi couldn't bear to ignore their wishes, so he had to reluctantly Put on this outfit, let's swagger once, anyway, this opportunity is rare in a lifetime!Before the celebration started, he was sweating all over his body. Fortunately, Yingchun was by his side to wipe his sweat constantly, otherwise, the profuse sweating would be enough for others to see.

On the whole, the program of this grand ceremony is very compact, grand and simple, without too many lengthy ceremonies, and the core part is mainly that Xu Yi ascends the South Gate Tower, where he receives congratulations from all the people, and then worships the heaven and the earth, Finally, there was the military parade outside the south gate. In the evening, a fireworks display specially made by Dulong Island Gunpowder Workshop was arranged for this grand ceremony. There was a simple atmosphere everywhere, but it still felt grand.

In the sound of drum music, Xu Yi walked from the palace to the martial arts hall in front, and sat on the dragon chair in the hall. At this time, all the civil and military officials who came from all over the world immediately congratulated Xu Yi three times and nine times. At this time, Wu Min, sent by the Song Dynasty, held a scroll of yellow silk and pretended to read it out. In short, the Song Dynasty court recognized the establishment of the Jinghai state and officially conferred Xu Yi as a gift. King of Jinghai Kingdom.

Regarding this matter, Xu Yi's subordinates also had disputes at the beginning. At first, Xu Yi was unwilling to accept Zhao Xu's imperial decree, thinking that he was a head short of him, but in the end, it was Ma Zhe who persuaded him to accept this arrangement. Li, no matter how you say it, can’t be regarded as Zhengshuo. In general, the Fubo Army also started in the Song Dynasty. This face should be given to the officials of the Song Dynasty. In this era, this is the virtue. After the edict of the Song Dynasty officials, the Jinghai Kingdom is legally justifiable.

Although Xu Yi was unwilling, but considering the overall situation, in the end he reluctantly accepted the canonization, but it was just a formality, no big deal!
And Zhao Xu of the Great Song Dynasty was able to send Wu Min to be the special envoy this time, which is already quite high in terms of specifications. After all, Wu Min was very famous in the Great Song Dynasty, and he was among the right ministers. The post, at least from the surface, is regarded as a special emphasis on Xu Yi, so Xu Yi agreed.

He has never been interested in this Wu Min. This guy is a minister of power, a guy who plays with the wind, and is very good at speculation. At the beginning, he supported Zhao Xu's fight against gold, and he was a hardcore main fighter. So he immediately fell into the camp of the main peace faction and became a vanguard. Later, when he saw Zhao Xu changed his attitude, he immediately turned into the main battle faction again, and no longer sang against Zhao Xu. The position is safe and secure. Although Xu Yi doesn't know him, he knows who he is.

In addition, this time Wu Min came here, basically empty-handed, just holding a worthless imperial decree. Xu Yizhen didn't like him very much, and he also heard that Zhao Xu had ordered the local government to stop supporting him. It was all purely a matter of face, therefore, after Wu Min's mission arrived, he only received him for a while, and after some perfunctory perfunctory, he was placed in the post house.

Wu Min came here this time, in addition to being responsible for the mission, he also had another task, which was to inquire about the real combat power of the Fubo Army, to see if the soldiers and horses of the Fubo Army were as powerful as the legend said, So as soon as he arrived in Dading Mansion, the old guy was not idle for a while, and ran out all day long to investigate the news of the Fubo Army, but his behavior was quickly discovered by Ma Zhe, so he arranged for Daniel and sent someone His movements were restricted, and he was not allowed to wander around the barracks casually. For this reason, Daniel almost clashed with Wu Min's accompanying guards.

So the two sides are basically on the verge of tearing their faces apart. Faces and hearts are at odds, and everyone knows it.

After Wu Min proclaimed the imperial decree in the Martial Arts Hall, Xu Yi smiled and asked someone to take the imperial decree from Zhao Xu, handed it to Ma Zhe for safekeeping, and then sent someone to invite Wu Min and his party to watch the ceremony on the South Gate Tower without mentioning it. He took all the civil and military officials out of the palace and headed towards the south gate.

Xu Yi did not take a car along the way, but rode his group of tall horses, accompanied by guards and ministers, through the main street in the middle of the city, walking all the way, and there were two rows of people standing on both sides of the road. The Longwei soldiers, who were as straight as javelins, put the street under strict martial law, and the common people in the city knelt down and kowtowed to Xu Yi after seeing Xu Yi's king appeared.

Xu Yi walked all the way, nodding to the soldiers and civilians in one street and two rows. After seeing Xu Yi, the soldiers stood up and saluted, and looked at Xu Yi eagerly. Such a scene made people have to His heart was surging. Xu Yi would never have imagined that he would be able to establish a country and become king a few years ago, but now, all of this has become a reality.

But when Xu Yi and his party walked to the middle of the street, a pair of eyes with fanatical expressions stared at Xu Yi in the crowd, silently calculating the distance to Xu Yi in their hearts. His appearance was unremarkable, with a standard flat face, and if he was thrown into the crowd, no one would even notice his existence.

As for Xu Yi, who was riding on a horse, among so many people, he would naturally not see the existence of this person. He still maintained a smile and kept raising his hands to the soldiers and civilians on both sides. His outfit today, Greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians here, as if like a god of war in golden armor, people looked up to, and all the soldiers and civilians sighed sincerely in their hearts. Under the torture of others, he was rescued, and people continued to cheer for Xu Yi, and the waves of cheers echoed in the sky of Dading Mansion for a long time.

Just when Xu Yixing came in front of this unremarkable person, a cold light flashed in the eyes of this person who had been kneeling on the side of the road, his figure suddenly exploded, and he immediately rushed out from the side of the street, and took out a bag from his arms with one hand. He suddenly raised his hand and waved the small black machine crossbow, pointing at Xu Yi who was turning his face to the other side to signal to the soldiers and civilians.

After two inaudible machine spring sounds, two black lights shot towards Xu Yi like lightning.

All of this happened almost in an instant, so fast that people couldn't react at all. When someone saw the assassin's figure bursting up, they only had time to let out an exclamation, but at this time, the machine crossbow in the assassin's hand But it had already been sent out. After Xu Yi only heard a burst of exclamation, he knew that his heart was broken, so he twisted his body instinctively, turned his head and tried to dodge, and also wanted to check what happened.

When he saw this grim-looking assassin, it was already too late. He only felt a sudden pain in the right side of his body. into his body.

Damn it, I got caught!This was Xu Yi's first thought. At this time, the people around were in chaos immediately, and the assassin had already dropped the short crossbow in his hand at this time, and took out a shining dagger from his arms. To Xu Yi.

This assassin was also very depressed. He was looking for Xu Yi's unprotected neck with an arrow just now, and wanted to shoot through Xu Yi's neck with a crossbow, but Xu Yi's reaction speed was very fast, and he immediately lowered his head and dodged the first one. The short crossbow shot at his neck escaped the fatal blow, but it did not escape the second arrow shot by the assassin, and was hit in the ribs.

Although Xu Yi's outfit this time was a little uncomfortable, it brought a lot of trouble to the assassin. He was dressed in gold armor, which basically wrapped his body in the armor, making it difficult for the assassin to start. Only those who choose him The face and throat were two places to attack, so the assassination was very difficult, and it was only at such an emergency that he saved his life.

The assassin knew very well that this crossbow was not fatal enough, and he had already had the will to die before he did it, and he had no intention of leaving here alive, so he immediately threw away the short crossbow in his hand after missing a hit , pulled out the dagger and jumped on it, trying to get close to launch the second fatal assassination again.

But at this time, he had no chance, because Hou Cheng had already jumped out from behind Xu Yi at this time, blocking his way, with a cold light flashing, he swung his knife and slashed at the assassin.

Just now because of his status, Hou Cheng couldn't stay by Xu Yi's side. He could only hide among the officials behind him and keep a relatively close distance from Xu Yi. He never thought that under such circumstances, someone would Use a crossbow to assassinate Xu Yi. The guards, this time, have already controlled all the high places on Xu Yi's action route. , but it can't prevent someone from using this short crossbow to carry out assassination.

When Hou Cheng saw the assassin attack violently, even if he was a god, it was too late for Xu Yi to block the arrow. He roared in anger, drew his knife and rushed at the assassin. He was really angry this time His lungs exploded, and someone hurt Xu Yi in front of his eyes. This time, his face will be embarrassing!
So in anger, his knife was frighteningly fast. As soon as the assassin rushed forward, he felt the cold wind blowing against his face. He was so frightened that he instinctively gave up and continued to rush towards Xu Yi, raising his short knife to block Hou Cheng's attack. Yan Lingdao tried to fight a trapped beast, but although he was good at martial arts, he was far from being Hou Cheng's opponent. At this time, Li Bo, Xiao Jianfeng and other generals who accompanied him also drew their swords and rushed towards the assassin.

Poor assassin, he didn't survive even a second, so he was cut into pieces by many masters on the spot, and blood was sprayed all over the place.

This assassination incident caught everyone by surprise, and the soldiers and civilians on both sides also panicked after seeing this situation.

Xu Yi frowned, stretched out his hand to touch the short arrow under his ribs, pulled out the short arrow from under his ribs with force, thinking in his heart, today is really not going well!As soon as he showed his head, he was plotted against.

After taking a deep breath, he felt the injury and felt that his breathing was still smooth. He knew that after the arrow was blocked by the armor, it could not penetrate deeply into the lung, and the injury was not serious, so he immediately blocked the right rib with the cloak In the wound, he quietly stuffed the short arrow into the hands of Hou Cheng who rushed to his side.

Seeing that the soldiers and civilians on both sides began to panic, Xu Yi knew that if there was such a chaos, today's grand ceremony would be over, so he immediately smiled, raised his hands, and shouted: "Everyone, don't panic, I'm just a clown Forget it, there is nothing wrong, everyone please calm down, today is the founding ceremony of the Jinghai Kingdom, don't let this clown spoil everyone's fun! Calm down! Calm down!"

Xu Yi's voice was very loud, and immediately spread far away. The common people who had just started to be confused saw Xu Yi's smile and calmly comforted everyone, so they immediately calmed down. At this time, those people The generals of the Longwei Army who were in charge of the martial law also reacted, and immediately spoke out to appease the people around them, telling everyone not to panic, the matter is over, don't run around.

So under the appeasement of Xu Yi and all the soldiers, the people onlookers in this section of the street immediately calmed down again, no longer planning to escape, and the occurrence of this incident made them admire Xu Yi's calmness even more, and they all expressed their admiration for Xu Yi. Xu Yi applauded again, and King Jinghai's voice resounded through the sky for a while.

Several soldiers quickly gathered the assassin's body, dragged it into the crowd, and wrapped it in sackcloth. If it wasn't for the large puddle of blood on the ground, it would be unbelievable. Just now, a man here was dismembered by knives. up.

This incident happened very quickly, and Xu Yi handled it in a timely manner without letting the commotion spread, so the people on both sides of the street didn't notice such a big incident at all, and they were still looking forward to the direction of Xu Yi's team , the Grand Ceremony has not been greatly affected.

But Xu Yi himself was enduring the severe pain in his ribs. This kind of arrow is triangular in shape, and the effect of piercing armor is very good, and the wound is also torn. He can feel that his wound is bleeding continuously , the clothes under the right rib were sticky and soaked with blood, but fortunately the armor was covering the outside, the blood did not soak out, and the wound was covered by the cloak, so only a few people knew that he had been injured.

Hou Cheng was probably the most nervous. After taking the short arrow that Xu Yi handed him, he immediately retreated into the crowd, looked down at the short arrow carefully, and sniffed it under his nose again. After a while, he felt relieved, shook his head to a few people who came over, and said softly: "The arrow is not poisonous, it will not cause serious problems!"

So these civil servants and military generals felt relieved. Seeing Xu Yi continue to ride his horse and walk forward slowly, he quickly put away the worried look on his face, forced himself to smile and continued to follow Xu Yi towards the direction of the south gate.

And this matter soon spread to the ears of Yingchun and other concubines behind them, and they were so scared that their faces paled. They immediately asked Hou Cheng to inquire. After learning that Xu Yi might not be seriously injured, he was relieved down.

Yingchun gritted her silver teeth tightly, and told the guards: "After today, catch the golden man again and give him some sky lanterns alive. Don't destroy the body of the assassin who was killed. I will take it back with my own hands." Chop him into minced meat and feed it to the dogs!"

The guard felt a chill in his heart. This princess of theirs was not a good person, but she was also a pirate, and her wrist was definitely not simple, so she quickly bowed and agreed, and turned around to arrange it.

Under such circumstances, the Grand Ceremony continued as if nothing had happened. Xu Yi, accompanied by everyone, came safely to the bottom of the south gate tower. He was never assassinated again, and the tense nerves of everyone were finally relaxed. Some, here, there are no ordinary people and other casual people who can get close to Xu Yi. It is the Fubo Army's own people who have tightly protected the tower, and no one can attack Xu Yi in this place.

"My lord, how do you feel about the wound now? Do you want to go down to rest and bandage first, and then go to the military parade?" Ma Zhe, who had rushed to the city tower in advance to arrange the military parade, also learned the news of Xu Yi's assassination at this time, and moved to Xu Yi's side, whispering to Xu Yi he asked.

Although Xu Yi felt that the wound under his ribs was very painful, but at this moment he could feel that the wound was not very deep, nor was it too big, and the bleeding had stopped. Stop bleeding, I can't go down at this time, it's too troublesome to wear this outfit, let's talk about it after the military parade, don't let outsiders see our jokes! You just make arrangements, we are ready to start now!"

So under Ma Zhe's greeting, the generals immediately left the south gate, returned to their respective troops waiting for inspection outside the city, mounted their horses and waited for Xu Yi's inspection, while the civil servants accompanied Xu Yi to the south gate tower .

On the tower, Xu Yi saw Wu Min and others, and had a warm chat with them, as if nothing had happened, and even started a conversation with an old friend, Pu Yinjian, who came to participate in the founding ceremony of the Jinghai Kingdom. After making a few jokes, the people who were worried about him were relieved.

(End of this chapter)