Volume 1 Southern Regions Chapter 36 Sword Competition Willow Camp
The southern region of Yan Kingdom, the north of Heyang City.
Bai Ze went out of Dushan, bought two jujube red horses in a nearby village, and traveled to Heyang City under the stars.
The seven kingdoms in the north, the Great Zhou Dynasty lives in the north of the Yan country, and the Yin Mountain is the barrier to divide the national border. Whether it is the Northern Great Zhou or the Northeast Patriotic Kingdom, they are all unparalleled cavalry.
The difference is that the Great Zhou Dynasty used heavy cavalry to charge into battle to deter the six countries, especially Ji Wuzi, one of the four gods of war who emerged in the Great Zhou War, studied the art of war and pioneered the three-stage cavalry charge, so that the Great Zhou cavalry crossed the border like a torrent and swept the eight wildernesses.
And the defense of the country is known for its archers, which come and go like the wind, and surprise attacks are the main means of attack. During the national war, there were many military columns in various countries, only to see the smoke and dust billowing from the sky, and the three arrows rained down, even the soldiers wearing heavy armor also had many casualties, and when they reacted and wanted to pursue, the patriotic archers and cavalry took the billowing smoke and dust and left.
Although there is a danger in the northern region of Yan and the Great Wall of Yan as a barrier, once the cavalry of the two countries enters, it is bound to be devastated, and the Yan army cannot resist head-on at all, so it can only defend the city.
Therefore, in the years when the national war was about to begin, King Yan Zhao promulgated the horse policy, ordering all farmers in the country to raise horses instead of cattle, plough the fields with horses, and kill cattle for cooking. It is a decree of "getting off the horse to plough the field, and getting on the horse to carry a knife".
As soon as this order was issued, the Yan cavalry was quickly armed. Although compared to the strong horses of the Great Zhou and the Northern Defense, the height is close to zhang, and the angry horses are hoofed, but there is still a huge gap between the pig iron shield and the pig iron shield with one foot, but during the hot period of the national war, the field battle of the Yan Kingdom will no longer be pressed to the ground by the two countries and cannot get up.
The two jujube red horses that Bai Ze bought are the products of Ma Zheng, although the speed is far less than that of the nine-colored spirit deer traveling thousands of miles a day, but its endurance is quite good because of perennial farming.
Bai Ze's congenital Dao fetus is not as good as Xie Xuan's supreme knowledge, but he always has the ability to never forget. Before entering the mountain, he had already memorized the map of the southern region of Yan Kingdom.
"There's a small town ahead, not far away. "Bai Ze galloped on his horse, and Mu Qingling followed closely to his side," It is said that it was the camp where King Yan Zhao went out of the city to confront Tian Dan, the general under King Qi Cheng, because there was an old willow in the camp gate, so it was called Liu Ying, and its name continues to this day. ”
"Tian Dan, Tian Dan, one of the four gods of war in the national war seventy years ago?" The two of them were already sleepy at this time, Mu Qingling just wanted to enter the willow camp to rectify and rest, "What was the result of the battle?"
"The Qi State was unparalleled in foot battle, the Yan State cavalry charged on the plain, the two sides were deadlocked, and they fought for three days, with more than 50,000 dead and wounded, and each retreated. Bai Ze said, "Thinking back to the years of the National War, the army tide was like a sea, thousands of horses were galloping, and Jia Ge was vertical and horizontal. The strategists of the Seven Kingdoms plan the world, there are many famous generals, and the swords compete in the rivers and lakes, if you can see it with your own eyes, you will have no regrets in this life!"
"The nations fight against each other, and the blood flows. Mu Qingling frowned and said, "Fighting, killing, killing, and suffering, it is still yourself." ”
"Haha," Bai Ze smiled, Liu Ying was already in front of him, "If you and I are both kings, you must be a king who does benevolence and wins the hearts of the people in the world! ”
Talking and laughing, the two of them rode through the stone gate of Liuying Town, the watchman carried a lantern, and saw the jujube red horse angrily spewing white steam, although the two people on the horseback were embarrassed, but they were all extraordinary, famous, and they didn't dare to be presumptuous at the moment, just asked: "Two young heroes, passing through the disdainful land, I don't know?"
"People and horses are in trouble, I don't know this old man, is there an inn in the town to rest and have a full stomach?" Bai Ze turned over and dismounted, and bowed his hand to the old man.
Seeing Bai Ze's sword eyebrows and starry eyes, the double swords on his waist, he was a monk of the rivers and lakes at a glance, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly said: "Go straight for more than fifty zhang, to the east, it is the only inn in this town." ”
"Thank you, uncle. Bai Ze turned over and went straight to the inn with Mu Qingling.
Liuying population of thousands, the town road bricks and stones paved, after the years, inevitably potholes, the horse's hooves knock crisp into the ear, the lights on both sides of the town road are extinguished, the late autumn cold wind is cold, the horse is beaten through, but there is a different flavor.
The inn lights have been turned off, the two dismounted and knocked on the door, and it took a while for Xiao Er to rub his sleepy eyes and open the door with a lantern, "Who?"
"Xiao Er, a pot of old wine, three catties of beef, two good dishes, two upper rooms!" Bai Ze greeted people with a smile, pushed the door and got in, threw the silver casually, and threw it to Xiao Er, "Don't look for more, count your reward." ”
"Well, please come inside the guest officer!" Xiao Er's weight of silver, he suddenly got up and lost his breath, smiled brightly, wiped the table and light, and went to the kitchen to prepare wine and food.
The two waited for two quarters of an hour, the wine and food were ready, the shopkeeper nodded, threw the towel, and said: "The guest officer uses it slowly!
"Gotcha!" Bai Ze picked up his chopsticks and ate them in a hurry.
Mu Qingling is also tired and hungry, and she doesn't have everyone's beautiful demeanor when she eats, but compared with Bai Ze's gobbling up, she is still much more delicate.
Bai Ze took a bite of the sauce beef, poured a cup of farmer's grain aged turbid wine, drank it all, and said, "Good wine, have a cup?"
Mu Qingling was holding the rice, glared at Bai Ze when he heard the words, and said vaguely: "How old are you, you actually drink?"
"It's cold to drive away the cold, you taste it, it's not good to drink. Bai Ze poured Mu Qingling a glass and said with a smile.
As soon as Bai Ze said that, Mu Qingling really felt that it was cold. Especially the horses galloping for thirty miles, the autumn wind is bleak, and the cold is pressing, and the body cold has not faded at this moment.
"Okay. Mu Qingling picked up the wine glass, sniffed it, and stuck out his tongue, "It's a pungent taste, I won't drink it!"
"You taste a little. Bai Ze encouraged her to say, holding back a stomach full of bad water. If Mu Suifeng knew that Bai Ze had bad intentions and tricked his daughter into drinking, I am afraid that he would have to break Bai Ze's thigh into three sections.
Mu Qingling took a sip, immediately snorted, spit out the wine, it was so spicy that he stuck out his tongue, and his face was red, "Okay, you Bai Ze, you dare to lie to me!"
"Haha. Bai Ze smiled happily.
The candle flame flickered, illuminating the two of them like freshly dressed angry horses, young chivalrous women who have just entered the rivers and lakes. It's a pity that the jujube red horses of the two are not angry horses, and their clothes are also low-key, so they change into ordinary coarse cloth wide clothes at the uncle's house who bought the horse.
Full of wine and food, the two of them washed their clothes and fell asleep. Ke Mu Qingling was preoccupied, always worried that the Southern Regions family would not be good this time, afraid that something would happen to his father, and he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, so he finally tied his hair with a coarse cloth, grabbed the green smoke at the head of the bed, and knocked on Bai Ze's door.
Bai Ze was sleeping soundly, when he was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door, and asked, "Who?" grabbed the Yellow Mountain beside him and secretly guarded.
"I can't sleep, come and talk to you. Mu Qingling said.
Bai Ze put his mind at ease, "Come in." ”
Mu Qingling pushed the door in. The room was dim, Bai Ze's doors and windows were closed, and the moonlight was hazy tonight, and he could finally distinguish the position of the tables, chairs and benches. The girl touched Bai Ze's bedside, poked him with a green cigarette to signal to get out of the way, and then sat cross-legged without scruples.
Bai Ze dragged himself out of the quilt and sighed: "I said that Lord County, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, and we are lonely men and widows, so it's not good to be in the same room?"
"Phew!" Mu Qingling looked at him with disgust, "You are a little boy, when my brother is almost the same, and he is still a lonely man and a widow?"
"Hello sister. Bai Ze beat the snake and put a stick, and said shamelessly.
Mu Qingling: "......"
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"In the middle of the night, watch out for the candles!" "The watchman is on the watch, carrying a lantern and yawning for a long time.
There were horses that thundered like thunder, and came from the north.
The watchman's eyes widened, and his heart said strangely, tonight's visitors, it's really wave after wave, this is the third wave, whether it's the first uncle and girl combination, or the second wave of young heroes and heroines, or the current ......
The watchman sensed the killing intent of Zongheng.
Six people and six horses. The people were all dressed in big hats, the first one was dressed in yellow, and the remaining five were all dressed in iron black. The horse is by no means a cultivated horse produced by Ma Zheng of Yan Kingdom, but a Dawan horse from the north of Yin Mountain, which is nearly zhang tall, and the horse's hooves are embedded with the best horseshoe of Yan Kingdom, the size of the bowl, and can break the bluestone with one foot.
Six horsemen galloped and strangled in front of the watchman, Dawan horse neighed, the sound was as loud as the morning bell, and the white steam mallet sprayed from the mouth and nose hit the face of the watchman, wet and hot, like the steam of hot water.
"How to get to the inn?" the yellow robe who took the lead looked at the watchman condescendingly, and his voice was as cold as iron.
"Go straight to the third fork and head east. The watchman found that his voice was shaking.
The six horsemen rode away, and the sound of the horses' hooves shook the town, and the sound was amazing, and they flew away, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
In the room, Bai Ze suddenly found that the bladeless sword at the head of the bed was shaking, his eyes were sharp, Mu Qingling just wanted to ask what was going on, and the young man spoke: "Brother Lu said, there is a murderous aura." With that, the two swords were handed, hung on their waists, and one pushed open the wooden window, "Go!"
Mu Qingling mentioned Cui Yan, didn't think about it, jumped up and down with Bai Ze through the window, jumped off the second floor of the inn, and went straight to the manger in the dark.
At the same time, the six horsemen went on a rampage, and the leading yellow-robed horse broke through the door of the inn and broke in.
There was a loud bang, and the shopkeeper woke up in his dream. Woke up at the same time as him, and the girl in the upper room on the second floor of the inn.
"What's the matter?" the girl who woke up from the dream got up, and saw an oil lamp lit on the square table in the room, and a cold man was sitting at the table drinking, and a fierce knife stood by his hand, standing still.
"It's okay, just the one who is looking for death. The cold man gently put down his glass, and he didn't see the wind rising, but the wind had already blown out.
To be exact, it was not a wind, but the fierce and domineering blade of the unsheathed sword.
The sword gang crossed the border like a strong wind, passed through the door, but did not damage the door, rushed down the second staircase to the next floor, the leader of the yellow robe only felt the murderous aura coming, jumped over, the long sword only had time to come out of the sheath, and the fierce horse under the crotch had been torn to pieces by the fierce knife.
Before the remaining five horsemen could reach the door, they faced them with thirteen knives, swept away their leaves by the wind, and all of them flew out and smashed into the houses opposite the inn.
Three of the black-robed men stood up, and none of the nearly tall Dawan horses stood up, and all of them fell in a pool of blood.
"The Infinite Knife really lives up to its reputation. The yellow robe said astringently, his eyes went straight to the room where the man was, and a demonic evil sword slashed out, the yellow mang flashed, like thunder and lightning, blinked and broke the door, and stabbed at the man's face, "Huang Lao Evil will visit!"
"Yellow Evil Sword, self-defeating. Zhao Dun, the Grand Duke of Yan Kingdom, snorted coldly, and the Wuji Knife was unsheathed by an inch, and the sword was like a shield, and it collided with the evil sword qi of the sword training, and the second floor of the inn was immediately half destroyed by the qi of the four directions.
Bai Ze and Mu Qingling rushed out of the back door of the inn, only to hear another loud noise, and when they looked back, the roof of the inn exploded, and the residual sword qi blew the two of them back.
"Not an assassin?" asked Mu Qingling.
"It's an assassin, but it doesn't seem like the target is us. Bai Ze's legs clamped the horse's belly fiercely, "Let's go, stay here, I'm afraid something will happen." ”
The two horses galloped out of the town, but the horses were less than thirty feet, but the road ahead was blocked.
In the way of the way, it was the Thirteen Horsemen. Chasing cloud horses under the crotch, everyone is dressed in black and masked, with thirteen long swords in hand, and the murderous aura is awe-inspiring.
"It seems that this batch is against us. "Bai Zelema, the Yellow Mountain on his waist suddenly came out of the sheath, and confronted the roadblock assassin.
Mu Qingling looked back, and the retreat was also sealed. The old man with the hat was alone, his sword was not unsheathed, and he was sitting on a horse, but the pressure he gave Mu Qingling was stable on the other side.
At swords' points.
Thirteen horsemen didn't say a word, galloped on horseback, and thirteen long swords swallowed the dark light under the night sky, killing Bai Ze and the others!