Poor Family Chapter 536

  Chapter 536 Fierce Battle in the Backyard

  At dusk, Li Yanqing brought Zhang Ying and Zhang Bao back to his mansion. Sisi and Qing'er were not there, so the mansion was much deserted, especially there were only two maids left in the inner house, so it was really quiet at night.

  As soon as Li Yanqing entered the gate, Yang Guang rushed up to greet him, and said nervously: "Report to the officials, there are people watching us outside."

   Someone was actually watching, Li Yanqing was slightly taken aback, and asked again: "How did you find out?"

   "Someone alerted us!"

  Yang Guang handed a note to Li Yanqing, and Li Yanqing unfolded the note. There were only four words on it, 'There are surveillance outside! '

  The handwriting was crooked, Li Yanqing frowned, who wrote this to him?

   "A child gave it to me this afternoon. I searched around and found two boats moored under the Yunqi Bridge. There were men in black on board, and they kept staring at our gate."

Li Yanqing's mansion is about 60 steps away from Yunqi Bridge. There is a mooring place under Yunqi Bridge. Ships often dock there. It is not surprising if two ships have been parked there. The key is There was a man in black, which made Li Yanqing immediately think of Yujie Baoyanzhai. Could it be that the men in black who set fire to the shop were the same group of people?

   It is said that the mastermind of burning Baoyanzhai was Liang Fangping's cousin Liang Zhi. Today, the emperor of the Great Dynasty has decreed to remove Liang Fangping from all positions, and ordered Dali Temple to arrest him in the capital for questioning. How could Liang Fangping not hate himself to the bone? Liang Zhi did have a motive to attack him.

Li Yanqing also doesn't care about the person who wrote the note for the time being. He will call Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying and tell them about Yang Guang's discovery of doubts. That's it for them!"

  Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Don't worry, listen to my arrangement!"

The three of them immediately quieted down, and Li Yanqing said to them, "We have to take care of everything. Although there are only four of us, it is enough if we use it properly. Take charge of the atrium, cut off their escape route, and I will deal with the inner house."

   "You can go to Baoyanzhai to borrow some staff!" Yang Guang suggested.

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "If they find out that we are prepared, they might not come."

   "What about the servants in the mansion?"

This is a difficult task. There are still eight servants in the mansion. Li Yanqing thought for a moment and said to Zhang Bao: "Arrange them to go out and stay in the inn. Don't leave through the main entrance, go through the back door, and directly borrow the back door of Fayun Temple." leave."

   "The humble official understands, let's make arrangements."

Zhang Bao left, Yang Guang and Zhang Ying also went separately to deploy. Li Yanqing returned to the inner house. He prepared his sword, bow and arrow, and took out twenty throwing knives from a box, and put them into a leather bag. Take the weapon and walk quickly to the highest gazebo in the inner house, from here you can see everything around.

It is the beginning of February, and the night is still very early. After a while, the night fell quietly, and the two ships moored at Yunqi Bridge still did not leave. These are two medium-sized passenger ships, and the cabin can accommodate twenty people. But all the windows of the ship had curtains drawn down, so the situation inside the cabin could not be seen.

   There were thirty black-clothed men in the two boats. They were all equipped with sharp knives, and they waited for night to sneak into Li Yanqing's mansion.

  Although assassination has always been a taboo in the court struggle, because it will cause mutual harm, the civil servants are very cautious in this regard, but if there is a desperate situation, any means will be unavoidable.

  Liang Zhi knew the seriousness of the problem after he got the news that his elder brother was dismissed from office for questioning.

   It took Liang Zhi two days to find Li Yanqing's residence, but now he had no scruples, so he sent a reward order to a group of his subordinates, and each of them would reward Li Yanqing's head with a thousand guan.

The night is getting darker, and at the second watch, most of the people in the capital have fallen asleep, and the area around Yunqi Bridge is also completely silent, only the cooing of night owls can be heard from a small forest in the west, and there will be a night owl from time to time Fluttering Leng rushed out of the woods, rushing towards the night mouse looking for food on the ground.

  At this time, there was movement under the Yunqi Bridge, and one after another, men in black jumped out of the cabin and jumped onto the shore, moving quickly and agilely.

Thirty-four men in black surrounded a circle, and the leader of the men in black whispered to them: "I repeat, today's goal is a hard idea. If there are few people, we can't kill him. Let's concentrate on killing him, and then Money wants women to do whatever you want."

   After speaking, he ordered four people to guard the perimeter, and waved his hand again, thirty men in black rushed towards Li Yanqing's mansion.

  Yang Guang was hiding on a big tree outside the grove,

   Seeing it very clearly, he immediately imitated the night owl and made a rhythmic cooing sound, and passed the information to the mansion.

  In the mansion, Zhang Ying ran up to the gazebo, and whispered to Li Yanqing: "Yang Guang sent news from outside that the other party is going to attack."

  Li Yanqing nodded, "Follow the plan!"

Zhang Ying turned around and ran away, Li Yanqing drew out an arrow and put it on the bowstring. At this moment, thirty black-clothed men had already rushed outside the mansion. They climbed in from the west wall by building a ladder The mansion, quickly ran to the backyard, each carrying a sharp steel knife, and several of them also carried firearms and flints. Once they killed the target, they would set fire to the house.

The mansion was also unusually quiet. The thirty black-clothed men did not encounter a single servant, but it was not surprising that everyone was in a deep sleep at this time. The thirty black-clothed men were divided into three teams, from east, west, and south. The direction rushed to the backyard.

In just a moment, the first man in black turned over from the east wall and entered the backyard. There was a bush under him. He jumped onto the bush, but before his body landed, an arrow shot through him. His head, by the time his feet hit the ground, had turned into a corpse.

  Li Yanqing quickly drew his bow and set his arrows, turned to the west, the second arrow and the third arrow were shot at the same time, only two screams were heard, and the two people who came in from the west wall were killed by one arrow.

  He turned around suddenly, took out the fourth arrow, and shot towards the south without hesitation. A man in black who had just appeared on the roof in the south screamed and rolled down from the roof.

   "Not good! There is an ambush."

The leader of the man in black was outside the west wall. He screamed, but saw two of his subordinates had rolled over from the wall and fell in front of him. Both of them shot through the eyebrows with one arrow, and the powerful arrow shot into the head. The leader of the man in black trembled in fright. This kind of arrow method made him terrified.

   "Wait a minute!" He yelled, and several men in black who were about to rush up the wall were stopped by him abruptly.

"Find cover and go in!" The leader of the man in black knew that rushing in like this would be a living target, so he had to seek cover. He saw a firewood house in the garden twenty steps ahead. The roof and walls were exposed above the fence, and the rear window was open. With a wave of his hand, he rushed to the woodshed with seven of his men.

At this time, Zhang Bao was lying in ambush behind a Taihu stone on the opposite side of the firewood room. Holding a short fine steel spear in his hand, he clenched his teeth and restrained his urge to go out. The censor hadn't sent a signal yet, so he couldn't attack yet. .

At this time, Li Yanqing had changed his strategy and focused on dealing with the men in black on the roof in the south. He shot four arrows in a row, killing all four people on the roof who had turned over the ridge, scaring the other five people in the south from showing up again. Only then did he turn around and concentrate on dealing with the man in black to the west.

  There were ten people in the west, two of them had been shot and killed before, while Li Yanqing was in the middle of dealing with the men in black in the south, the other eight people had climbed over the wall and entered the back garden, quickly outflanking the gazebo.

Li Yanqing sneered, he was condescending, these men in black ran around thinking they could dodge his arrows, so he simply shot arrows one after another, with each arrow someone fell to the ground screaming, instantly He shot and killed five people, and the other three were so frightened that they turned around and fled.

Li Yanqing didn't care about them, and handed them over to Zhang Ying. He quickly pulled out a rocket from the rocket pot beside him, took out a fire bag from an iron can on the ground beside him, and blew suddenly, the fire bag ignited, and he lit it up immediately. Rocket.

Li Yanqing raised his bow and shot an arrow towards the window in the firewood room. The firewood room was a trap he had set up. It was filled with hay sprinkled with kerosene. The firewood room burst into flames. There was a sudden scream, and the seven men in black hiding in the woodshed suddenly panicked, and the leader of the men in black yelled, "Get out!"

  He kicked the firewood room away, and jumped forward, but it was useless to use any posture. A cold light flashed, and a sharp arrow shot through his back. The leader of the man in black screamed and died immediately.

The other six men in black panicked and rushed out desperately. They were shot and killed by Li Yanqing's continuous arrows. At this time, Zhang Bao had already jumped onto the fence, roared, and rushed towards the remaining three. , The lighting of the firewood room was the signal, and Zhang Bao and Zhang Ying came out of hiding at the same time.

  Li Yanqing turned his eyes to the south again. There was no one on the roof. He squinted his eyes and stared at the inside of the house. His intuition told him that someone had already sneaked into the room.

  At this time, the fire in the east wing room flashed, and Li Yanqing shot an arrow at the light without hesitation. The sharp arrow pierced through the window paper and shot into the house. There was a scream in the house, and the fire went out again.

  Li Yanqing saw that Zhang Bao had killed two people and was fighting fiercely with the last one, and Zhang Ying's roar also came from outside the wall to the west, he should have stopped the three fleeing from the west.

Li Yanqing simply drew out his sword and ran towards the house. Just entering the house, he felt a gust of wind blowing from behind. Li Yanqing was already on guard. He turned sideways and avoided the attack from behind. He quickly stabbed back with the sword in his hand. The speed was unparalleled, and a sword pierced the chest of the attacker.

He hardly thought about it, and pulled out a dagger from his waist. A cold light flashed in his hand, and the flying knife shot out. There was a scream from the corner of the room, and the sharp knife fell to the ground with a clang. Another attacker hiding in the corner was shot dead by the flying knife. .

At this time, he heard a slight sound from behind another door, he turned around abruptly, pierced the wooden door with a sword, there was a shrill scream from behind the door, and the sound of a long knife falling to the ground, Li Yanqing didn't Going to take a closer look, he knew from the feel and position of the long sword entering the body that the person behind the door had been assassinated. He stood still and listened for a while, but there was no movement in the house, so he rushed out of the house and ran westward. go.

  Zhang Bao has killed the remaining three and is assisting Zhang Ying in the west. Li Yanqing ran to the wall, and saw Zhang Ying and Zhang Bao appearing on the wall at the same time, "Censor, all the black-clothed assassins have been killed!"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "Go and put out the fire!"

   At this time, the firewood house had been engulfed by the fire, but there were no houses or big trees around, and the fire was not big and would not spread. Before Zhang Ying and Zhang Bao approached, 'Boom! ', the roof of the firewood house collapsed, and most of the open fire was covered by the roof rubble. The two hurriedly fetched water from the pond hall to put out the fire.

  Li Yanqing searched around the backyard again. He quickly calculated in his mind that in just a quarter of an hour, they killed about 30 men in black. If the other party came in a whole number, there should be none.

  At this time, he suddenly heard a painful groan from inside the room. There were still people alive in the room. Li Yanqing turned around and strode into the room.

  (end of this chapter)

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