Four 2
At this moment, a soldier suddenly rushed in from the entrance of the military camp in a panic, threw himself into the tent and shouted, "No! No! There's an assassin!"
Liu Qingye was startled and almost drew his sword.
Fu Chakang's voice was heard in the military tent, asking calmly, "Where is he? When was he found? Can he be captured?"
The soldier who reported the news replied, "General, we were patrolling the town just now and found several of our brothers killed in the poplar forest. Their clothes had been stripped off. It was obvious that the assassin had sneaked in."
Liu Qingye knew that his and his master's whereabouts were about to be exposed, and he was determined not to delay any longer. He stopped eavesdropping on the conversation in the military tent and went behind it.
Behind the military tent, there were several soldiers holding medicines and food, chattering in Manchuria, as if it was a shift change. One group handed over their things and went to the left, while the other group carried the things and went to the right. Liu Qingye followed them on tiptoe and came to a tent at the edge of the camp.
There were several soldiers guarding the door of the tent, and shouts and curses could be heard from the closed door curtain: "Tell that old thief Fu Cha to stop pretending! I, Wang Chunshan, am a Han Chinese in life and a Han ghost in death! You want me to surrender... humph..."
As soon as the soldiers carrying medicine and food entered the tent, there was a loud banging noise inside. It was obvious that Wang Chunshan had smashed the dishes. He cursed, "Get out! Get out of here! Tell the old thief Fu Cha and Mang Keshan to come here. If you have the guts, don't use this kind of vile poison. Fight me openly!"
He continued to yell and curse, and then drove the soldiers out. The soldiers were obviously very angry, but they couldn't vent their anger. They complained in Manchu dialect and had a long conversation with the soldier guarding the door before returning to their positions.
Liu Qingye thought: This place is heavily guarded. If I force my way in, I will only be exposed faster. I must think of a way to outwit them! He thought for a moment, gathered his strength, dodged to a bright place, and swaggered to the door of the tent. He said to the soldier in charge, "Thank you for your hard work, brothers. Old man Wu still doesn't want to eat?"
The soldiers were stunned when they heard him speak Chinese. Then one of them said in awkward Chinese: "Hey, kid, you... well, you don't need to show off your Chinese in front of us to please the general!"
Liu Qingye smiled and said, "How dare I show off? The general said that this old man Wu is soft-hearted and not hard-hearted. My Chinese is OK, so I was asked to persuade him."
The soldier said, "So that's how it is..." He didn't doubt it, patted Liu Qingye on the shoulder, helped him lift the curtain and said, "You, be careful. This guy is powerful."
Liu Qingye said "thank you" and went into the tent.
"Get out!" The first words he said were a curse, "Get out, you Manchu Tartar!"
Liu Qingye looked up and saw a skinny man sitting on the felt. He must be Wang Chunshan, about fifty years old, with gray hair and beard. He looked exhausted and didn't have the strength to yell. Next to him was a middle-aged woman, about the same age as Master Cao Mengsheng. She must be Wu Shuiqing. Her eyes were closed and her face was pale. She must have been seriously injured. Liu Qingye didn't learn to bow like the Manchus, but took two steps forward and clasped his fists towards the two people and said, "Senior Wang, Uncle Master..."
Wang Chunshan was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "Little Tartar, what are you doing?"
Liu Qingye said loudly, "I am here to see you on the orders of the general ." Then he said quietly, "I am a disciple of Songqiao Academy."
As soon as these words were spoken, Wu Shuiqing opened his eyes slightly, looked at him with difficulty, and was full of suspicion.
Liu Qingye lowered his voice and said, "Uncle Master, I don't care about life or death, but I care about the humiliation of my body."
Wu Shuiqing's eyes suddenly showed surprise, and he said: "You...you are..."
Liu Qingye said: "I am Liu Qingye, the son of Liu Wensheng and Su Mei, and my master is Cao Mengsheng."
Wu Shuiqing couldn't help but say happily: "Junior Brother Liu and Junior Sister Su's son...is actually this big...your master is here too?"
Liu Qingye knew that this was not the place for a conversation, so he just nodded and said, "Junior and Master are here to rescue Master Uncle and Senior Wang, and also to assassinate the old thief Fu Cha."
Wang Chunshan spat and said, "If the old villain Fu Cha is not eliminated, there will be no peace in the world. And that Mang Keshan is the biggest enemy of us anti-Qing patriots!"
Liu Qingye looked back and saw the lights of the military camp flickering through the gap in the curtain. He didn't know whether his master had found Fu Chakang and assassinated him successfully, or whether the assassin had made a mistake. In any case, he couldn't stay here for long. He said to Wang Chunshan, "I just heard from you that you were poisoned by the Tartars. I don't know what the drug is. Can you move now?"
Wang Chunshan snorted coldly and said, "What kind of poison is this? It's called 'The Imperial Concubine's Gaze Back'. It made me completely powerless. I can't even stand up."
The Imperial Concubine Looks Back! Liu Qingye pondered over the name, thinking of Dan Ying's blue eyes - a woman as beautiful as a fairy, looking back and smiling, which really made people feel intoxicated and powerless.
But he also knew that this was not the time for him to be "drunk". He heard a few rustling sounds outside, followed by a few gurgling sounds, and the curtain was lifted, and a girl in her twenties jumped in, holding a pair of fine steel scimitars in both hands. As soon as she entered the door, she turned around and killed a Qing soldier with a single blow.
Liu Qingye saw that she was agile and had strange moves. He was wondering which group she belonged to when the girl rushed forward and attacked him with two swords. Liu Qingye quickly drew out his sword to block her attack, but he felt that the girl's force was so strong that his palms were about to split. Although he held the sword tightly, he had already retreated several steps.
Wu Shuiqing on the other side shouted, "Mingxin, stop it! This is your junior brother!" It turned out that the person who came was Li Mingxin.
Li Mingxin was stunned for a moment and said, "Junior brother?" He glanced at Liu Qingye and slowed down his moves a little.
Before she finished her words, she heard another commotion outside, with footsteps and shouting, and then Fu Chakang and his party rushed in. The one rushing in the front was Ke Hai, who shouted, "Sure enough, the assassin is coming for this old man! Take him down quickly!" As he spoke, he swung a golden-backed machete in his hand and chopped it down on Li Mingxin's head.
Li Mingxin raised her knife with her left hand and cut Kehai's throat with her right hand, forcing Kehai to retreat. She took advantage of the opportunity and suddenly shouted, "Fu Chakang, give me your life!" She stepped on the ground and rushed towards Fu Chakang.
“Protect the general!” A loud shout came from the crowd, and the soldiers drew their weapons one after another. One of them even shouted at Liu Qingye, “Hey, are you stupid? Why don’t you protect the general?”
Liu Qingye was startled, and suddenly realized that Li Mingxin's rushing in like this was to clear himself of suspicion, and he could take the opportunity to kill Fu Chakang! He responded, held his sword across his waist, and rushed forward.
But just as Li Mingxin pounced in front of Fu Chakang, Fu Chatao's body shook and floated up. He turned in the air and hit her right wrist with a palm, causing her to drop the scimitar immediately.
How could Li Mingxin have expected that this Manchu youth was actually a master, he quickly jumped backwards, shouted, switched the scimitar in his left hand to his right hand, danced out thousands of cold lights, and pounced on Fu Cha Tao.
Fu Cha Tao's movements were flexible and sometimes fast, sometimes slow. He made a feint to the east and attacked in the west, pointed south and attacked in the north. He responded to the enemy's moves calmly in the center of the military tent, and even moved up and down, blocking Fu Cha Kang in a blind spot behind him, preventing anyone from getting close to him.
Liu Qingye was stunned watching from the side. He felt that although Fu Chatao was only disassembling the moves, there were complex changes, and the slowness contained continuous strength, and the retreat controlled infinite opportunities. If he was not bare-handed, but holding a long sword... Oh! If he was holding a long sword, wouldn't this be the "Song Tao Swordsmanship" of Songqiao Academy!
How could this person, this person, know the martial arts of Songqiao Academy? Could it be that there was a traitor in Songqiao Academy? Liu Qingye thought that Songqiao Academy, a century-old foundation, would actually fall into the hands of an enemy. He gnashed his teeth in hatred and held the long sword in his hand horizontally, wishing he could jump into the battle and kill Fu Chatao with one sword - but Fu Chatao was as agile as a dragon, and his palm wind held him and Li Mingxin tightly, leaving no room for a third person to intervene.
However, at this moment, there was a commotion outside, and a faint flame could be seen in a corner of the military camp. The soldiers were screaming and wailing. Some shouted in Manchu, and some spoke in Chinese. They said, "Assassins! There are assassins! The assassins set the fire!"
In this chaos, Fu Chakang's face changed, and he hurried to the door to look at the situation. This move made him out of his son's protection. Liu Qingye saw it clearly, and flew up cleanly and chopped him down with a knife.
The people in the military tent had never expected such a change and were all extremely shocked. Ke Hai was the first to realize what was happening. He cursed in Manchu and swung his sword to block.
Liu Qingye had no fear of such a reckless soldier. He cut Kehai's wrist with just one knife, forced him back with another knife, and still forced Fu Chakang in front of the third knife.
Fu Cha Kang took off his sword and cut with the sword and scabbard. But Liu Qingye did not wait for the move to become old, and suddenly changed his reality into illusion, stretched out his left hand to grab Fu Cha Kang's sword, and shouted: "Let go!" and took the sword away.
Fu Chakang was startled, but Liu Qingye had already swung the long knife in his hand, using it as a sword and stabbing straight at him.
Liu Qingye had intended to kill Fu Cha Kang with this strike, but a gray shadow suddenly flashed before him, and Fu Cha Tao's sleeve had already rolled up his blade, shouting, "Little brother, are you in league with this girl? What deep hatred do you have with my father?"
"Kill someone and pay with your life—" Liu Qingye shouted, and at the same time, he tried to grab the knife. However, when he pulled it, he was shocked: Fu Chatao's sleeve was like a magnet, sucking the knife firmly. Only then did he realize that his opponent was not only good at external skills, but also had a much better internal skill than himself. He could no longer fight hard, so he let go and drew out Fu Chakang's long sword, simplified all the tricks, and swung the sword straight to the opponent's throat.
Fu Chatao slightly tilted his body, and Liu Qingye's sword passed by his neck without any damage. He said, "Little brother, are you also an anti-Qing person? Why are you so confused?"
Liu Qingye did not answer. Seeing Fu Chatao reaching for his sword with one hand, he turned his elbow and slashed the sword horizontally, cutting his wrist.
Fu Cha Tao did not stop, but leaned back about a foot to avoid the attack and continued to try to grab the sword.
Liu Qingye saw that he changed his move to a move from his own school's "Free Flying Flower Palm". He had originally mastered it very well, but seeing him so calmly, he suddenly felt that no matter what move he made, it would be under his control. He was so confused that he even forgot to fight back. It was not until Fu Chatao's palm wind came close to him that he shrank back a little bit to the ground with his sword, and then rolled on the ground, leaving Fu Chatao no chance to catch him.
His move was a way to seek his own death. The soldiers on the other side had already drawn their swords, and the sinister wind of the swords was coming towards him. Fortunately, at this moment, the sword flashed, and Li Mingxin attacked again. She killed the soldiers approaching Liu Qingye in two moves, and then leaped up and attacked Fu Chatao again. However, her martial arts skills were far inferior to Fu Chatao's. As soon as Liu Qingye turned over and jumped up, Li Mingxin screamed "Ah", and a long bloody wound was cut on her right arm, and she fell sideways.
Liu Qingye called out "Senior Sister", and with two swords, he killed the soldiers around him and rushed to help Li Mingxin up. But several soldiers had already attacked and wanted to capture Li Mingxin. Li Mingxin fell to the ground, and blood flowed from her arm, but she kept attacking, shouting, "Save my mother first, there are people outside to help!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Qingye drew his sword and charged at the soldiers escorting Wang and Wu, but a flash of cold light appeared in front of him, and Fu Chatao's sharp blade approached him again. He was in a panic, not knowing what to do. Just at this moment, he heard a dragon roar, and Cao Mengsheng rushed into the tent.
Cao Mengsheng slapped and killed the soldier who was trying to capture Li Mingxin, and then chopped down the soldier who was escorting Wang Chunshan. Kehai rushed over screaming and almost hit the tip of Cao Mengsheng's knife, but Fu Chatao kicked him away and said, "Protect your father out, send a signal to Lord Mang Keshan and Mr. Li! I'll take care of the assassin!" As he spoke, he left Liu Qingye behind and grabbed Cao Mengsheng's shoulder with one hand.
