Chapter 496
On the fifth day of the fifth month, sacrifices and crowns are suitable. Cai Yong chose this day for Liu Bei. As early as May, Jian Yong led his men to build a high platform on the east side of Xuchang City. Now the high platform has been completed, and a team of soldiers have also been sent to guard the place.
Early in the morning of the fifth day of the fifth month, Liu Bei took a shower and changed his clothes. Then he took the civil and military ministers to the high platform by car. The road was unobstructed and he came under the high platform.
Liu Bei got out of the car and led him to the platform by Jian Yong and others. Finally, he stood down on the platform alone, and then Liu Bei took out a small piece of paper from his sleeve, which was a sacrifice for the heavens.
As Liu Bei began to recite the sacrifices, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven began. At this moment, a team of men in black came from the southeast, west and northeast to kill him. It turned out that Cao Pi and Sun Quan had already conspired to kill Liu Bei in one fell swoop when he sacrificed to heaven.
But at such an important moment, how could Liu Bei be unprepared? What's more, Han Fei had already reminded Liu Bei that he must prevent assassination. On the high platform, Liu Bei saw the man in black jumping out and sneered. With his sneer, some people stood up from the crowd below the audience and rushed to the man in black and killed him.
The two sides fought under the high platform. The man in black was selected to perform this mission, which shows that these people's martial arts were very extraordinary. However, the dark sword under Liu Bei's command was obviously better. The battle between the two sides continued, and there were not much time left and many people dead.
At this moment, someone ran to the high platform. This man was a guard in the audience. He ran to the high platform and saluted Liu Bei and said: "Lord, there are too many sluts in the audience, and this high platform is not safe. The military advisor asked you to go down and avoid it for a while!"
After Liu Bei said that, he didn't care, but the guard who ran to the high platform did not turn back. Instead, he quietly leaned over to Liu Bei when he was not paying attention.
Liu Bei's personal guard followed Liu Bei. When he saw the guard's movements abnormally, he shouted and said, "What are you doing? Why don't you go down quickly! Can you stop here? As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the man step forward suddenly. When he met a knife, he stabbed into the guard's throat. Then he pulled the knife and a blood arrow sprayed out. The guard covered his neck and couldn't say a word. He stared and threw himself to the ground and died with his eyes open.
Ah, there are assassins! There are four personal guards on the platform. Seeing that the companion was killed, the three of them all shouted. The two drew their weapons and rushed to the assassin disguised as guards and killed them. The other retreated to Liu Bei and blocked Liu behind him. He said that at that time, everything was born between lightning and flashing. From the first personal guard to the other two, it took only a few breaths to rush forward. At this time, the assassin moved. He did not dodge but rushed towards the two. The three figures overlapped and touched, and then the two personal guards all covered their necks and showed a painful expression.
Immediately afterwards, blood flowed out along the fingers of the two, and could not cover them at all. It turned out that at the moment they were in contact, the assassin wiped the necks of the two. With extremely unwillingness and infinite attachment to the world, the two fell to the ground together. The assassin threw the knife and killed three people, but there was not even a drop of blood on his knife. This is really a good knife!
At this time, the assassin raised his head, his eyes passed over the last guard and directly locked Liu Bei behind the guard. That was his ultimate goal. Only by killing Liu Bei, what he did today would make sense. The men in black in the audience were all to cover him. They were all dead soldiers, in order to create a chance for him to climb to the platform. Everything was about to end, and those people would not die in vain. Thinking of this, he held the knife in his hand tightly and rushed towards Liu Bei.
Just as he took a step, the wooden board under his feet suddenly cracked and two people jumped out from under the platform. The two were wearing black clothes, but their masks were purple. After they appeared, they immediately showed off their swords and rushed to the assassin and stabbed them. These two were the people who were guarding Liu Bei's dark swords. They were Liu Bei's real trump card.
The assassin did not expect that there was a master beside Liu Bei. He paused the sword in his hand and tried his best to block it. As a result, he had only time to block one sword, and the other sword stabbed directly into his weakness. The assassin let out a muffled groan, and the sword in his hand forced the two to take a step back. He seized the opportunity and passed through the two of them, rushing towards Liu Bei like crazy. The two of the Dark Swords knew that they had been fooled at this moment, so they immediately turned around and chased, and the long sword rushed to the vital point behind him.
But the assassin was dead at this time, and only Liu Bei was left in his eyes. Even if he died, he would kill Liu Bei. Seeing that he rushed to the last guard, the sword light flashed and rushed towards his neck. He was almost sure that the sword was avoided by the guard. The assassin thought it was not good, and just as he was about to dodge it, a light flashed in his eyes. Then he felt a dizzy turn, and then he saw a headless corpse and a sharp steel knife in his eyes. The fastest knife was faster than mine.
At this time, the guard who had used the sword raised his head and showed Guan Yu's face. It turned out that he had always been by Liu Bei's side, and only he could use such a quick knife. All of this was Han Fei's arrangement. He expected that Liu Bei's ascension ceremony would not be peaceful, so he asked Guan Yu to pretend to be a guard and follow Liu Bei to the platform. Guan Yu in the audience stood there by a man of similar figure to him in his armor. Originally, in order to prevent trouble, he did not expect that in the end, he really needed Guan Yu to take action.
The assassin was killed, and all the men in black under the high platform were soon killed. After the bodies were cleared away, the ceremony of ascension began again. This time no one came to make trouble again. Liu Bei was registered as emperor amid the praises. After ascending the throne, Liu Bei was granted the title of ministers, Guan Yu was granted the title of General of the King of Lu, and the late Zhang Fei was granted the title of King of Yan. Han Fei was granted the title of Grand Marshal, the 73-year-old Lu Zhi was granted the title of Situ, and Cai Yong was granted the title of Sikong. Zhao Yun was granted the title of General of the Marquis of the Champion, Taishici was granted the title of General of the Marquis of Nanyang, Zhang He was granted the title of General of the Marquis of Fenyang, the late horse was posthumously named General of the Marquis of Wuwei, and the late Dian Wei was granted the title of General of the Marquis of Chenliu.
Chapter completed!