Chapter 178: Moths to Fire
Wu Zhongyuan shouted very loudly, and the warning could be heard far away in the dark night, but everyone in the city was beating gongs, drums, singing and dancing at this time, and they couldn't hear his shouting at all, only a few sentries heard the sound and walked out of the gatehouse on the city wall and looked in the direction where he was.
Seeing that he could not pass the news back in the first place, Wu Zhongyuan became more and more anxious, although the people in the city could not hear his shouts, but the enemy could hear it clearly, and when he learned that his whereabouts had been exposed, he would definitely seize the time to circle and surround him.
At this time, every second counts, in order to return to the city as soon as possible, he can only repeat the old tricks, seal the nine acupoints urgently, and then perform the wind technique.
The sentry on the city wall was shouting loudly, asking what was going on, but Wu Zhongyuan did not reply, even if the sentry ran to the city immediately, it would not be faster than him.
Urging the wind technique, in an instant, he was outside the city wall, jumped over, and ran wildly into the city.
The people in the city did not know that the enemy was approaching, and they were still immersed in the festive atmosphere, because of the noisy voices, in order to attract the attention of the clansmen at the first time, Wu Zhongyuan rushed to the sidelines and immediately jumped up, shouting, "The enemy is coming!"
This move successfully attracted everyone's attention, and the jubilant noise instantly fell silent, and after two ups and downs, Wu Zhongyuan fell in front of Wu Qin and the others, meaning simply, "The five purple qi masters of the Niu clan are approaching from the west, and there are also a large number of red and blue warriors from the north and south to outflank. ”
At this time, all the warriors, including Wu Qin, had already stood up, and hearing Wu Zhongyuan's words, Wu Qin frowned, and after thinking for a while, he ordered in a deep voice, "Leave the field immediately and prepare to meet the enemy." ”
Wu Qin's words, everyone immediately moved, the scene at this time can only be described in one word, that is, chaos, everyone could not imagine that the enemy would come to attack on the night of the festival, there was no preparation at all, the warriors and soldiers did not carry weapons, and they needed to go back to get them.
The situation is critical, after the order, Wu Qin also hurried back to his residence to get weapons, the scene was chaotic, Wu Zhongyuan could not find the two of Aluozu and grandsons, and had no choice but to rush to the post field to find out the cloth and pen and ink, no matter what the enemy's motive for this trip was, their strategy had been exposed, that is, to besiege the city, and it was necessary to release the letter bird before the red and blue warriors of the north and south roads completed the siege.
Now he is the only one in the whole post field, and there is no one to help, in order to pursue speed, he did not write words, but drew three crosses on each strip of cloth, as long as someone sees these strips of cloth, they know that something big has happened to Daqiu.
Drawing more than a dozen strips of cross cloth, Wu Zhongyuan rushed to the birdshed and began to release the letter bird, but at the critical moment, he didn't have time to stuff it into the bamboo tube, and tied it directly to the feet of the letter bird.
Worried about the night blindness of the letter birds, after the release may fly indiscriminately, at the same time of the release of the watch and observe, the release of these letter birds did not fly randomly, they fly which route is fixed, fly directly to the established direction after flying, but unfortunately they have not been able to fly out of the mound, at this time the enemy outside the city has approached, all the letter birds were shot down by the enemy.
Seeing this situation, Wu Zhongyuan complained bitterly, and hurriedly returned to the room to write again, but found that because the weather was too cold, the ink had begun to harden and dry, and in desperation, he directly grabbed a handful of cloth strips out, and wanted to bite the index finger of his right hand, but he sent it to his mouth, only to remember that he would have to pinch the arrow and open the bow later, and hurriedly changed to bite the ring finger.
These letter birds flew in all directions, and after they were released, he looked again to observe, and he could not be distracted from observing all the letter birds, but the few that he noticed flew out of the city and were also shot down.
"Stupid, I don't know how to fly high. Wu Zhongyuan cursed angrily.
What should I do? It is not clear how many red and blue warriors have come from the other side, there are five purple qi masters alone, no matter how powerful Wu Qin is, it is impossible to defeat five with one, he must send the news out and ask for help from the capital.
At the moment, there is only one letter bird left to fly to the capital, and it must be allowed to fly out alive.
After thinking eagerly, he re-drew the strip of cross-cloth, tied it to the leg of the letter bird, grabbed the letter bird and put it in his arms, raised his spirit, and stepped on the eaves wall and hurried east.
At this time, the five purple qi masters of the Niu clan had already flown over the city, and were collecting their wings and falling, their target was obviously Wu Qin, and the location where they landed was Wu Qin's residence.
At this time, the city had become a pot of porridge, although the clansmen were not frightened and shouted, but they were mostly calling for their families who were scattered by the crowd, and the scene was noisy and chaotic.
The reaction speed of the warriors was much faster than that of ordinary clansmen, and at this time, most of the warriors had already grabbed their weapons and rushed towards the four walls.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't care about it, rushed to the east city wall as fast as he could, jumped up on the ground, and jumped out after stepping on the city wall.
"Wu Zhongyuan, where are you going?" Wu Pingsu shouted from the city wall.
The enemy warriors who had previously bypassed from the north and south were meeting with each other at this time, and they were only less than 200 meters away from completing the encirclement.
"You coward, I read it wrong!" Wu Pingsu scolded angrily.
Wu Zhongyuan only had the gap in front of him that quickly closed in his eyes at this time, and he did not hesitate to spend money to urge the Fengxing technique to the extreme, galloping, and rushing forward.
The city was empty, the enemy soon found him, and when he entered the range of the bow and arrow, they opened their bows to shoot him, Wu Zhongyuan had no time to fight back, and ran desperately, the other party miscalculated his running speed, and the arrows shot were left behind by him.
While rushing forward, Wu Zhongyuan eagerly estimated that although his speed was amazing, the opponent was in the opposite direction, and it was difficult for him to rush out before the opponent completed the encirclement, but the matter had come to this point, and he had to try it anyway.
As the distance shortened, the arrows fired by the other party were getting closer and closer to him, and the enemy was more than he had expected, and the distance between them was very small, and at this time there were seven or eight of his feet who shot him with a bow, and he had to fight back, otherwise he would be shot dead before he could rush out.
Take the bow in your hand, change the vertical holding to a flat grip, take two arrows, open the bow and shoot the nearest two people, and take the opportunity to rush more than ten zhang.
When rushing forward, it was estimated that the encirclement had been closed, and there was no hope, and it would definitely not be able to rush out.
Whether or not the news can be sent out is related to the fate of everyone in Daqiu, at the critical moment, the blood surged, completely ignoring the current enemy, gritted his teeth and shook his feet, jumped up hard, reached a high place, took out the letter bird from his arms, and threw it up.
In mid-air, with no shelter, it instantly became a live target, and everyone within range shot arrows at it.
Not all of them were very good at archery, but not all of them were bad, six of the nine arrows missed, and three hit, hitting his left shoulder, right leg, and hind hip.
It was precisely because the nearby enemies were targeting him that the letter bird had the opportunity to flap its wings and climb high, and after stumbling to the ground, he saw someone open his bow to the sky, and he hurriedly took an arrow to shoot the person who opened the bow, but after taking the arrow, he found that the other party had already shot the arrow, so he had to change the target sharply, bend the bow hard, and chase the arrow that was off the string.
Xuanzhi is mysterious and dangerous, he himself didn't expect to be able to intercept that arrow before it hits Xinniao, but he really did it, Xinniao took the opportunity to fly high and far, and the enemy had no hope of shooting.
These Niu clan warriors may have been ordered to strictly prohibit the letter bird from flying out before they set off, and they were all stunned to see a letter bird slip through the net, Wu Zhongyuan took the opportunity to pull out the arrow stuck in his buttocks, turned around and ran back.
When they came to their senses, they shot him with their bows, and though he ran fast, he still ran back with two arrows on his back.
When I jumped on the city wall, I felt the pain, but the wall was full of my own soldiers, and I couldn't grin and cry out in pain, so I could only grit my teeth and hold on.
"Zhongyuan, I have no eyes, I blame ......"
"Oh, don't talk about that, help me pull out the arrows. Wu Zhongyuan bared his teeth and inhaled.
The two sticks inserted in the back are shallow, and the pain can be tolerated when they are pulled, but the two sticks on the left shoulder and right leg are inserted very deeply, and after pulling out, Wu Zhongyuan's teeth trembled and trembled.
Women are all emotional, Wu Pingsu had wrongly blamed Wu Zhongyuan before, and he felt very guilty in his heart, and when he helped him wrap up his injuries, he remembered that he did not hesitate to do the moth to fight the fire in order to release the letter bird, Dasheng was touched, his eyes were red, and he apologized vigorously.
Wu Zhongyuan was covered in sweat and his scalp was numb, and he tried his best to support Liandao, 'It's okay', and when he came to his senses, he raised his hand to unlock the previously sealed acupoint, and the Fengxing technique could not be used all the time, otherwise he would collapse.
"What are you doing?" Wu Pingsu asked.
"Seal the acupuncture points to relieve pain. Wu Zhongyuan said casually, the sealing and unraveling of the acupoints of the Fengxing technique is intricately corresponding, and the order of sealing the acupoints is not consistent with the order of solving the acupoints.
The fighting would not be suspended or stopped because someone was injured, and at this time the enemy on all sides had begun to attack the city, although there were only more than 200 people, but they were not ordinary soldiers, all red and blue warriors.
Even if the Niu Clan is stronger than the Bear Clan, it is impossible for a single walled city to have so many warriors, and the other party's invasion is likely to be the joint action of several walled cities.
At this time, there were only two warriors on the eastern city wall, Wu Pingsu and Wu Zhongyuan, and seeing the enemy approaching, Wu Pingsu looked at Wu Zhongyuan eagerly.
Wu Zhongyuan frowned and looked at the enemy warriors who rushed forward, the other party was so arrogant that he had never transformed into a beast body when he rushed forward, Daqiu only had more than twenty purple qi masters, and there were a few of them who were bedridden, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great, and all the resistance was a mantis arm.
"How is it good?" Wu Pingsu asked eagerly.
"If you can't hold it, you can only retreat from the city wall and fight them in the streets, trying to buy time as much as possible. Wu Zhongyuan said.
"If they are allowed to storm the city, there will be casualties among the people. Wu Pingsu said.
"If we all die in battle, the casualties of our people will be even greater. Wu Zhongyuan Zhengse said.
At this time, the enemy had already rushed closer, and Wu Pingsu could not tolerate any further hesitation, so he had to give a loud order, "Retreat from the city wall and deal with them from the city......