Turbulent Times Chapter 71: Moon High Killing Night

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Su Jingxiang originally wanted to use the excuse of falling in love with Wang Junlin at first sight, to find an opportunity to "lose her body" to Wang Junlin, so that her father would cut her off from her marriage with the little prince of Tuyuhun, Geshu, but Wang Junlin saw what she thought was a perfect plan. Not to mention the transparency, and relying on this information, she can infer the general situation of Shazhou City at present, which makes her even more curious about Wang Junlin's identity and origin.

Thoughts flashed in Su Jingxiang's mind, and Su Jingxiang said: "Princess Kaye of the Rouran tribe married the current head of the Murong family of Xianbei last month. The people of Rouran and the Murong family have already formed an alliance and want to drive our Su family to extinction. They shared Shazhou City. My father had no choice but to secretly contact King Bailan of Tuyuhun, hoping to use the Tuyuhun people to deal with the Rouran people and the Murong family, and the Nu family is the bridge between the Su family and the Tuyuhun alliance."

Wang Junlin frowned and said: "Your Su family is a clan of the Han family, why didn't your father contact Da Sui secretly, and use the power of Da Sui to fight against the Rouran people and the Murong family."

Su Jingxiang said: "Young Master, I don't know that the Su family has a deadly feud with the Dugu family in the Great Sui Dynasty. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, our Su family was originally a big family in Qingzhou, but after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the Dugu family was the descendant family. Apart from the royal family, the most powerful family in the Sui Dynasty. At that time, my grandfather was aware of the catastrophe of the genocide. Taking advantage of the time when the Dugu family was helping the Sui Emperor to stabilize the government, the family moved to Shazhou. After more than ten years of development, it was only in Shazhou Zhou has the situation it is in today. Therefore, as long as the Dugu family is still powerful in the Sui Dynasty, it will be difficult for our Su family to serve in the Sui Dynasty."

Wang Junlin sighed, but he didn't expect that there was a story behind it. The Dugu family's influence in the Great Sui was indeed too great, especially as long as Queen Dugu was still alive, even Sui Emperor Yang Jian wanted to accept her. The Su family had to worry about the Dugu family.

In this way, it cannot be blamed that the Su family did not contact Sui, but secretly allyed with Tuyuhun, but with the power of the Su family, even if Tuyuhun was beaten and disabled by Sui last year, the alliance with King Bailan is still undoubtedly seeking skin from a tiger ah!

Furthermore, King Bailan is considered courageous and resourceful, and there are many tribes scattered in Tuyuhun in the Western Regions. With the golden city of Shazhou as his base, King Bailan will soon be able to gather all the tribes of Tuyuhun together. In a few years, the power and military strength of the heyday can be restored again, and thus once again become the confidant of the Sui Dynasty in the northwest, second only to or even surpassed the Western Turks.

After pondering for a while, Wang Junlin said: "How many troops does your Su family have, and how many troops do the Rouran people and the Murong family have?"

Su Jingxiang said: "Our Su family has 10,000 troops in Shazhou, including 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry. The Murong family and the Rouran people each have 8,000 cavalry."

Wang Junlin thought that the three families were equally powerful, no wonder they divided Shazhou equally before, but now that the Rouran people and the Murong family are allied, the Su family is naturally no longer an opponent, and they cannot borrow strength from Da Sui. The only one who can borrow strength from here is Tuyuhun Humans and Turkic people, but the Turkic people are too powerful. Asking the Turkic people for help will undoubtedly lead wolves into the house. Although the Tuyuhun people also plot Shazhou City, but compared with the Turkic forces, the Su family can only choose Tuyuhun.

Not to mention that Wang Junlin is alone now, even if he came with 5,000 Sui troops from Gaotai City, it would be very difficult for him to make a difference in the internal struggle in Shazhou City, which is 600 miles away. Therefore, in the end, he did not immediately agree to any of Su Jingxiang's requests. Instead, Su Jingxiang stopped asking at this time and bowed to Wang Junlin Yingying. Without saying a word, he prepared to return to the gauze tent.

"Miss Su, are there any of these nine guards?" Wang Junlin asked suddenly, stroking the little lynx with one hand.

Su Jingxiang's eyes lit up, she had some expectations in her heart, and said, "They are all my father's people. Although they respect me, they only listen to my father's words."

Wang Junlin said: "How about I kill them tonight?"

Su Jingxiang froze for a moment, and said: "Kill them! They are not good people. Relying on my father's power, they often bullied men and women in Shazhou City. They even pretended to be horse thieves last year. Robbed a Han caravan and killed all of them."

Wang Junlin said: "That's good." He knew that Su Jingxiang was not lying. When he saw those guards for the first time during the day, he knew that these people were not good, not to mention full of evil, but they must have killed many people. Innocent, and there are actually many such people in the Western Regions.

The behavior of these guards at night proved this point even more. Obviously Wang Junlin rescued them during the day, but the leader of the guards ignored him after thanking him at that time, and even became more vigilant towards him. Two tents, Miss Su and the maid Naturally, one roof was shared, and the other roof was shared by nine guards. When Ms. Su offered to let Wang Junlin live in it, the nine guards refused on the spot. This made Wang Junlin feel less guilty about killing them.

Wang Junlin hugged the little lynx and led the female gazelle. He found a place near the tent by himself, and then began to practice sitting cross-legged.

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The night is as cool as water, and the moon is in the sky.

Wang Junlin finished his practice, glanced at the cub who was already sleeping with the female gazelle, got up and walked towards the vigilant guards. He looked light and vigorous, and his steps were almost light. smell.

Passing more than 400 steps quietly through the Gobi Desert, the slightest noise will make him look like a beast looking for food, and he will lurk first alertly. He never despises anyone.

When he was a hundred steps away from the guard who acted as a warning sentry, he crawled on the ground. The terrain here is flat, without any shelter, and there is a lot of moonlight tonight. He rushed over like this and could kill the guard soon, but he couldn't guarantee that the guard would not make any noise before he died. Make sure to kill all nine guards and leave no one alive.

So he chose to crawl forward more safely. There is wind every night in places like the Western Regions, and the sound of howling cold wind can completely cover up the sound of Wang Junlin crawling forward in a low posture.

After more than forty breaths, he touched behind the guard who was dutifully watching outside.

The so-called murderous night when the moon is high, and the sky where the wind is high and set fires.

This night, the moonlight was clear and the wind was howling. It was really a good day for murder and arson.

Wang Junlin jumped up suddenly, as vigorous and swift as the female lynx the night before yesterday. By the time the guard noticed, Wang Junlin had already covered the guard's mouth with one hand and broke the guard's throat with the other.

Gently putting the body on the ground, Wang Junlin untied the guard's waist knife and hung it on his body, and found a sharp short blade from his arms.

Then, Wang Junlin touched the tent where the guards lived, and stopped ten steps away from the tent door.

He didn't enter the tent right away, because he found that these guards were indeed vigilant against him, and there was a simple and low-level warning trap in Wang Junlin's view at the entrance of the tent - a circle of rope with a few bells tied to it.

Wang Junlin easily bypassed the trap and was about to enter the tent when suddenly the curtain of the tent was lifted from the inside and a figure came out. Wang Junlin turned around and hid in the shadow on the side of the tent.

Whether this person is going to use the toilet, or changing the whistle, etc., it doesn't make any difference to Wang Junlin or this person.

Wang Junlin, who was hiding in the shadows, gently pulled out the short blade and put the scabbard on the ground.

He quietly came behind the figure, covered his mouth, and at the same time cut his throat lightly with a knife. If the throat is cut too hard, it will make too much noise.

Then Wang Junlin gently placed the corpse on the ground. At this time, it was meaningless to hide the corpse aside, because everyone inside would die.

The next moment, Wang Junlin lifted the curtain of the tent and walked in like a night cat.

This is a tent made of sheepskin, the inside is indeed much warmer than the outside, but compared to the moonlight outside, the inside of the tent is pitch black as soon as you enter, and you can't see your fingers. Wang Junlin stood quietly by the door, adapting to the darkness in the room.

Because there are no windows, and the nine guards haven't washed their feet or bathed for some time, and the air doesn't circulate very well. It doesn't smell good at all.

The ground was covered with thick sheepskin, and the remaining seven guards lay on it and fell asleep. Heavy snoring was the main theme in the tent.

The next step is very simple, Wang Junlin is here to kill people, without any other purpose.

Covering your mouth, cut the throats of the sleeping people with a short blade, hold them down so that they don't make any noise, and then move on to the next one.

Wang Junlin is like a hardworking ant, repeating the same movements over and over again.

The smell of blood was getting stronger, and Wang Junlin finally found the most important target.

The leader of the guards is not weak, but he is already a little fat, and he is not too young.

Lying on the innermost side, the sheepskin pad under his body was very thick, two or three times that of other guards, but he slept soundly.

Without much thought, Wang Junlin came to the top of the head of the guard, just like before, squatting gently to cover the mouth of the head of the guard, but the guard was obviously more vigilant than the others, and suddenly opened his mouth. He closed his eyes, but before he could do anything, Wang Junlin still covered his mouth, and stabbed him in the neck like lightning.

The leader of the guards quickly released blood froth from his mouth, and his eyes gradually turned red due to the congestion.

The still strong body twisted and twitched involuntarily, but was suppressed by Wang Junlin.

The tent was still dead silent, Wang Junlin exhaled slightly, waking up the two girls in the middle of the night is not good, it would be even worse if he saw a pile of corpses, generally speaking, Wang Junlin is still sympathetic.

Wang Junlin threw all the corpses out of the tent, opened the door curtain, let the tent breathe for a while, then went to carry the little lynx in and put it on the sheepskin inside the tent, then lay down and began to sleep.