readytorunbook Chapter 746 Shooting in the Street
Chapter 746 Shooting in the Street
Men are all the same; once they get tired of the ordinary, they want to try something new. Wen Dai was no exception. Last year, he saw a pair of beautiful sisters who had fled from Jiangdong and decided to buy a house to keep them as his mistresses.
While the entire military camp was suffering from diarrhea today, Wen Dai was having dinner with his sisters at his private residence, and naturally, there were plenty of erotic and suggestive scenes on the table.
After the meal, Wen Dai was preparing to go further and casually eat the twin sisters as well, but just as he was about to do so, the door was suddenly pushed open, and his personal guard rushed in and said urgently, "General, something bad has happened."
Wen Dai was very annoyed that his pleasant mood had been interrupted. He angrily shouted, "What's wrong? If you don't give me a straight answer, I'll teach you a lesson!"
The guard knew he had come at the wrong time and didn't dare to mince words, so he went straight to the point: "All the mansions and military camps in the city have been given laxatives, and even the soldiers guarding the city have not been spared. Now everyone is suffering from diarrhea."
"What..." Wen Dai shrieked as she turned around abruptly, asking incredulously, "When did this happen?"
Without waiting for his personal guards' reply, he rushed out, ordering as he went, "It must have been done by the spies of the pseudo-Han people. They're trying to get Sun Lang to come to their aid. Immediately summon all the doctors in the city to the military camp to treat the soldiers. At the same time, order all the major clans to gather their private armies and bring them into the city for my command. Make sure to hold Xiling until the soldiers recover."
"Tell all the powerful clans that Sun Lang has entered the city and is about to seize the land from the wealthy and distribute it to the rich. If you don't want to end up like the Runan clans, don't even think about staying out of it."
As early as the beginning of the year, the imperial court issued a document reminding various prefectures of the existence of spies and traitors who were actually Han Chinese. Therefore, Wen Dai has recently been searching for and cracking down on these spies and traitors, but he really has no experience in this area, so the results of his crackdown are naturally not ideal.
The main reason is that the spies from Jiangxia who were pretending to be Han Chinese did not cause as much trouble as Sun Lang, but remained silent for a long time. This kind of silence is the most difficult to deal with. Not to mention Wen Dai, even the best investigators from the School Affairs Office might not be able to solve the problem.
After all, you can only solve a case if someone commits a crime. How can you solve a case if no one has committed a crime?
So after several unsuccessful attempts, Wen Dai relaxed his vigilance and adopted the attitude that as long as the pseudo-Han spies did not cause trouble, he would treat them as if they did not exist, and the two sides lived in peace.
This situation continued until news of Sun Lang's entry into Jiangxia was received.
When Wen Dai received the news that Sun Lang had entered Jiangxia, he was indeed taken aback. However, after thinking it over, he decided to defend Xiling to the death. As long as Xiling City was held, Sun Lang would not be able to cause any trouble. As for the spies of the pseudo-Han people who were lurking in the city, what could a few spies do? Could they possibly wipe out his five thousand garrison troops?
Wen Dai never took the so-called spies seriously, but unexpectedly, the spies made a big mistake and wiped out his entire army of five thousand.
Is a tiny spy really that destructive?
The incident happened so suddenly that Wen Dai had no time to think and rode his horse to the prefect's residence.
At this moment, he had only one thought: first, to take over the private armies of the aristocratic families and use them to defend the city; second, to treat the sick soldiers and help them recover as soon as possible. Once the soldiers were cured, all the problems would be solved.
The idea was good, but little did he know that a surprise awaited him ahead.
Five hundred meters in front of Wen Dai’s private residence, there is a three-way intersection. The houses on both sides of this intersection are mostly shops. One of the shops was bought by Guan Yan for a lot of money half a year ago and used as a temporary base. At this moment, Guan Yan is standing by the window on the second floor of the shop, secretly watching.
As the head of the secret agents in Jiangxia County, Guan Yan was most concerned about Wen Ping and his son Wen Dai, as well as several other key officials who could influence the county's political affairs.
Wen Dai, who currently controls the military power in Xiling, naturally became his most concerned target. So, after learning that Wen Dai had kept a mistress here half a year ago, Guan Yan decisively bought the shop, thinking that it might come in handy.
This afternoon, after poisoning various prefectures, he naturally wanted to find out where Wen Dai was. He learned that Wen Dai was not staying at the prefect's residence, but had gone to his mistress's house to seek pleasure. So Guan Yan arrived here in advance to lie in ambush and wait.
Soon, the sound of horses' hooves reached his ears. Guan Yan saw through the crack in the window that Wen Dai was arriving with his personal guards and immediately gripped the precious bow in his hand.
Wen Dai had three or four hundred personal guards, but he couldn't possibly bring them all when he went to his mistress's house for pleasure. He only had thirty or forty men with him at the moment. Moreover, Wen Dai was on horseback, not in a carriage, which gave Guan Yan the opportunity to shoot him.
Guan Yan stared at Wen Dai and silently counted the distance between them. When Wen Dai was about fifty paces away, he suddenly pushed open the window, aimed, and shot. The arrow, gleaming coldly, cut through the air and shot toward Wen Dai at an extremely fast speed.
As the arrow was fired, the teammates who were lying in ambush behind him suddenly stood up, pushed open the window, raised the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow, and pulled the trigger at Wen Dai's personal guards.
At that moment, Wen Dai's mind was completely focused on how to defend the city, and he had no energy to observe his surroundings. Therefore, he was completely unprepared until the sound of arrows cutting through the air reached his ears. He was so startled that he looked up and saw arrows shooting towards him. His hair stood on end, and his pupils shrank to pinpoints.
What terrified him even more was that his body seemed unable to move. Although his mind was frantically urging him to draw his sword and fight back, his body wouldn't obey his commands, and he could only watch helplessly as the arrow shot towards his brow.
To put it bluntly, he lacked experience. Wen Dai was too well protected by his father and had never experienced such a dangerous moment. In his haste, he inevitably panicked.
Fortunately, there were still personal guards. When the captain of the personal guards saw Wen Dai in a daze, he decisively swung his sword and slashed. The blade successfully hit the arrow shaft, but because it was a hasty move, he lacked the strength to cut the arrow in two as expected. He only parried it. The arrow, blocked by the blade, was forced downward and finally avoided Wen Dai's forehead and shot into his shoulder blade, causing Wen Dai to scream in pain.
Guan Yan was somewhat disappointed that he hadn't killed Wen Dai, but he didn't dare delay and fired two more arrows before decisively shouting, "Retreat..."
After saying that, he turned around, rushed to the opposite window, and jumped down. His eight subordinates followed closely behind and landed safely. Then he got up, tore off the face mask, stuffed it into his clothes, and left through the back door.
No sooner had they left than Wen Dai's personal guards rushed into the shop and searched everywhere, but it was clearly too late. They found no one, only the footprints left by Guan Yan and others in the vegetable garden in the backyard. They knew that Guan Yan had slipped out the back door, but dared not chase after him.
The previous wave of Zhuge crossbow bolts had wounded nearly half of their brothers. There were not many brothers left, and they did not know if there were any other ambushes. Therefore, they did not dare to separate but quickly returned to Wen Dai's side to protect him.
At this moment, Wen Dai only had a dozen or so soldiers left to fight, and the safety risks had not been eliminated. Therefore, he dared not make a big move and could only return to the prefect's mansion in a miserable state, clutching his wounds.
Upon returning to his residence, he immediately summoned a doctor to bandage his wounds. At the same time, he sent people to invite the heads of the major clans to the prefect's residence for a meeting, but unfortunately, they could not come. All the clan heads he could rely on were currently squatting in the latrine.
Upon receiving the news, Wen Dai felt a chill run down his spine, but he dared not delay and immediately ordered each aristocratic family to take a section of the city wall and send their private soldiers to guard it. He even transferred prison guards to the area.
In Wen Dai's view, the murderer has no troops and cannot take Xiling City for the time being. Sun Lang has just entered Jiangxia and it will take at least two days for him to arrive. This long period of time is enough for the soldiers to recuperate.
In other words, he only needs to hold out for two days, or even less, as long as the soldiers recover, Xiling City will remain an impregnable fortress.
But is this really the case?
After Guan Yan wounded Wen Dai, he did not return to the brothel, but instead went to another stronghold in the city, a warehouse temporarily storing goods passing through Xiling City. The members of tonight's operation were already waiting for him inside.