Chapter 133: Crime and Murder
Although Zhao Shi is an enemy general, but his iron bones are so that Jiang Ming and Lin Han have to admire and move, thousands of armor soldiers are surrounded and difficult to attack, and it is not helpful for Zhao Shi's danger, now Chu Hong and Huanziyu have their hands freed, as long as Zhao Shi is besieged, the siege of this armor soldiers is all useless, and Zhao Zi is in danger.
Lin Han was stunned, stopped the silver-white brake spear that attacked Zhao Shi again, and said: "Zhao Shi, you take your people and leave! We are each our own masters now, and today's defeat is not in your lack of strategy, not in your lack of courage, but in the cowardice of the generals." It's useless to kill you, if you are interested, you will quickly withdraw the soldiers and horses and send us out of the city, and then we will fight on the battlefield in the coming day. ”
Jiang Ming also retracted his halberd, and any armor soldiers surrounded the two of them and did not attack again, but he knew that if he wanted to make a move, these armor soldiers would not be able to keep up with his speed.
After listening to Lin Han's words, Zhao Zhi did not relax because of this, but instead raised his head and laughed, and said: "It is rumored that Lin Han, the sixth commander of Wohua Mountain, is an upright and virtuous person, acts in righteousness and kills in a righteous manner, and even if he is worldly and skillful, he still abides by his own way even if he treats his enemies, and is called a 'white-faced gentleman', which can be described as famous. When I heard that you helped Jiaozhi Liu Qidun escape out of the city, I was quite skeptical, but today I am convinced. ”
"It's just that since I, as His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, personally enthroned the subordinate of Pang Lu, the governor of the bandit army, I can only fight to the death, how can I run away greedily? Even though you are a white-faced gentleman, but you are just a mountain bandit, today you will be ordered to kill, if you have no merit, how dare you return to the camp?"
"The governor of Pang Lu treats me well, the governor entrusts me with the defense of Xiaoyongcheng, I can not drive out the mountain bandits and create meritorious deeds, how can I escape without merit and ruin the reputation of the governor? Today, I Zhao is the most here, fighting the four bandits in Huashan, even if they die, they can be proud of the battlefield. If I can trap the four of you in the city, and wait for reinforcements to arrive, and eradicate you pests that have plagued the country, I will have a meritorious service. ”
Lin Han saw Zhao like this, he couldn't persuade him to surrender, and he couldn't persuade him to retreat, so he was left to fight to the death and decide life and death, but this kind of ending was not what he wanted, but Zhao was the most insistent, and he couldn't force it.
"Jiang Ming, in the past, when reinforcements came, you and I should join forces to get rid of him with the strongest killing move, and give him the dignity he deserves as a general!" Lin Han said loudly, his words full of regret.
Jiang Ming nodded.
I saw Zhao throw out the long knife as a feint, and then quickly snatched the spear of the armor soldier on the side, and stabbed towards Jiang Ming like a poisonous dragon, Jiang Ming's reaction was also extremely agile, and he used the Fang Yuan halberd to support the ground, and swept a blow at the moment when Zhao stabbed the most. Zhao stuck Jiang Ming's halberd blade with the barrel of the gun, and wanted to push it away with domineering, but found that the barrel of the gun was not made of steel, and was easily broken by Jiang Ming.
Zhao grabbed a handful of loess and killed it in the air, blocking the sight of the two for a few seconds, and then snatched the short halberd of the armor soldier in his hand, and held the preemptive way, when he was about to slash at Jiang Ming again, a feather arrow flew and stabbed Zhao Shi's right elbow impartially, and the halberd also landed. But I saw that among the thousand armors, Chu Hong and Huanziyu had already found a horse to sit on, Huanziyu surrounded him and killed the offender with a long sword, and Chu Hong was sticking to the arrow and aiming at Zhao Shi.
Zhao shouted: "The archers appeared, regardless of any price, shot that man and a woman!"
As Zhao Shi's words fell, dozens of armored soldiers armed with bows and arrows appeared from the city wall and in front of the high platform, and they lurked among the armored soldiers who participated in the siege and moved at the right time, which was enough to see Zhao Zhi's thoughtfulness. Arrows rained down, although dozens of archers at this time were aiming at Chu Hong and Huanziyu, but they were actually shooting indiscriminately, and the hundreds of armor soldiers besieging Chu Hong and Huanziyu suddenly rioted, and they clearly saw that those arrows were shot into the chests of their own people, and the arrows that killed the enemy were also arrows that killed their own people.
"Woohoo!"
Chu Hong and Huanziyu hurriedly waved their weapons to resist, in their kind of martial arts cultivation, as long as they reacted a little more sensitively, they could sense the direction of the arrows and respond quickly, although there were many arrows, they could not hurt two people, but shot many armor soldiers.
Chu Hong said: "I'm looking for the commander of these archers, as long as the commander is shot, they will lose the discipline of attack, even if there are more archers, we don't have to worry." ”
Jiang Ming and Lin Han launched a fierce attack on Zhao Shi again, because only by subduing Zhao Shi could they control the situation, and those archers could stop, in such an attack, countless armor soldiers became the fish of the city gate, and were accidentally assassinated by Jiang Ming and Lin Han, but Zhao Shi still stubbornly fought with the two of them for more than a dozen answers, although he had left Jiang Ming and Lin Han's gun and halberd wounds, but he didn't seem to have the intention of fleeing at all.
Zhao Shi shouted again: "Archer, shoot the two people in front of me, don't care about me, as long as you shoot, you can get a rich reward!"
The archer changed the target of the archery again, and after hesitating for a moment, one of the armored soldiers holding a small flag among the archers appeared, waved the flag at Jiang Ming and Lin Han, and motioned for the arrow to be shot.
Jiang Ming shouted angrily: "I want to see how fast your archers shoot arrows, or whether my halberd is fast!"
At this moment, Jiang Ming turned over and smashed a halberd towards Zhao Shi, and Zhao Shi grabbed a handle
The short knife came to block, but it was split by Jiang Ming's halberd, fortunately, Zhao reacted in time, otherwise he would have been split in half by Jiang Ming.
Also at this moment, the rain of arrows flew again, although Lin Han had the intention to block the flying arrows for Jiang Ming, but the flag bearer in the archer was obviously also a martial artist with excellent archery skills, taking advantage of Lin Han's inability to take care of the front and back, he shot an iron arrow, the arrow flew from afar, instantly penetrating Jiang Ming's arm, Jiang Ming lost his strength, and the halberd was also released.
Seeing this scene, Chu Hong sneered: "Dare to put a cold arrow in front of me, do you think I really can't see you?" He took the arrow and wound it, and without even going through the aiming step, the feather arrow passed through the group of soldiers and instantly penetrated the throat of the archer who held the flag. When the leader of the archers is dead, the archers are just a bunch of rebels, no longer threatening.
Chu Hong was unwilling, and shot an arrow again, his target this time was Zhao Shi.
Zhao Shi was already alert, and dodged the moment the arrow came, but Chu Hong didn't give up, his fingers actually stuck three arrows, and the string was fired in a volley, and the three arrows were in a row, and Zhao Shi dodged them one by one. Seeing that he missed the target, Chu Hong took out three arrows again and shot them towards Zhao Shi. This shot, Zhao was the most unable to dodge, was shot through the knee, lame to dodge.
Lin Han seized the opportunity, and immediately held the tip of the spear, jumped and stabbed at Zhao Shi. Zhao was most unable to react, although both hands had tried to grab the silver-white spear, but Lin Han's move was double speed and strength, Zhao missed and did not catch it, the tip of the spear instantly pierced Zhao Shi's throat, I saw him spitting blood foaming at the mouth, his eyes were open angrily, and after more than ten seconds, his hands fell weakly, and this general who had fought for many years finally died on the battlefield.
Lin Han pulled out the silver-white brake gun, there was a trace of regret in his eyes, Jiang Ming keenly noticed the change in Lin Han's expression, and said: "For a veteran, dying on the battlefield may be the best ending. ”
Lin Han said: "I'm just a little tired of this, he just fights for their respective beliefs, in his eyes, we are evil mountain bandits, but we ourselves think that we are different people from mountain bandits." This contradiction may be emotional, but I can't get excited about killing another enemy general. ”
Jiang Ming saw the world in Lin Han's eyes at this time, and the reason why he was similar to himself may be because his heart would be moved by these things. For Yequan and Lin Shi, for Kwai Ji, and for Shen Yi's worries, he chose to stand up, and this reason was also the reason why Lin Han stopped, he didn't think much about it, picked up the fallen halberd, and said, "I understand." ”
Lin Han knew, he really understood.
Brotherhood is probably the strongest in this simple understanding.
"Zhao is dead, and you won't stop fighting!"
As Jiang Ming raised his arms and shouted, the thousands of armored soldiers scattered and fled, and Jiang Ming and the four immediately fled from the city.
There is only one person in the mansion of the lord of Jiaozhi City on this day, and there are no idlers in the mansion, this is the rule he has set, and none of his entire guards have ever entered, and the mansion is as deserted as before.
Yang Tafeng walked into the mansion, just now he received the news that the Wohua Mountain bandits invaded Xiaoyongcheng, as if to find a person, and controlled the young master of the main bookkeeper of Xiaoyongcheng, and killed a retired veteran named Yang Xiongxuan, the current Xiaoyongcheng city defense generals Zhao Shi and Di Lang are leading the armor soldiers to besiege and kill, and the army on the Pang Lu side is also about to move.
Yang Tafeng is still accustomed to facing the window in the bedroom, because there is no one in the house, he can tell his thoughts as much as he wants, and the listener is sometimes a blessing, but more often it is just his own shadow, and the wind and waves outside the window.
"Yang Xiongyu, it's a pity, I've been with me for all these years, and I finally survived to peacetime, and I saw that I was about to let the people of Jiaozhi live a good life, but you died again. I've been dealing with Wohuashan for so long, but I never knew that they killed an ordinary old man indiscriminately, and you seem to be caught up in some kind of game, it's really sad!"
"Xiaoyong? But Wohua Mountain is so troublesome, I can stretch my hand over again, it is a good opportunity for me to implement a new reform policy, so I do this, and when the people of Xiaoyong are settled, the other two affiliated cities will follow, and it will not take much work to think about it. ”
"I let Pang Lu enter Jiaozhi City, the purpose is to befriend him and let him give a hint to the people in the capital, so that I can sit firmly in the position of the lord of Jiaozhi City, now it seems that although the army into the city has caused a certain degree of turmoil, but the benefits still outweigh the disadvantages, at least as long as the Pang Lu army is here, whether it is victory or defeat, Jiaozhi City is safe. ”
"Time should be enough, during the period when I am the lord of Jiaozhi City, I will try my best to build Jiaozhi City just right, especially these suffering people, those gentry and tyrants have been oppressed for so many years, and it is hard to take a breath, how can I let this kind of leisure life leave so quickly? I will make your life better. ”
Yang Tafeng sat down slowly, poured a glass of white water, and when he was about to drink, he suddenly noticed a light flashing in a cup, and he shouted, "Who is it?"
Yang Tafeng suddenly stood up, but it was too late, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind him, although Yang Tafeng hurriedly dodged, but still did not let go of the blade to stab into his chest, but because of Yang Tafeng's quick reaction, the blade did not pierce the vital part of the heart, otherwise he would have died on the spot.
Yang Tafeng endured the severe pain, covering his chest and back with his hands
He stared at the black shadow on the bed, and said, "Who are you, who sent you to kill me?"
The black shadow didn't speak, and raised the short knife again to stab at the sheep tower wind, just when the sheep tower wind felt that his life was in danger, it was a black shadow that blocked the blade, and the latecomer was the blessing of misfortune.
Zhu Yu said: "Are you okay?"
Yang Tafeng said: "It's okay, catch him and ask for his identity." ”
But seeing that the black shadow had taken a few steps back, but the blade had already been taken away by the other party, there was a trance in his eyes, and he exclaimed, "Nine-Rank Sect Master?"
Zhu Xuan said, "You can detect my strength after a move, you should also be at the level of the seventh or eighth rank, let's say, I don't want to kill you." ”
The black shadow's eyes were solemn, and he said, "I thought it was just a very simple task to meet a martial arts master of the Nine Rank Soul Realm here, but if you want to keep me, you still need to pay the price." ”
saw that the black shadow and black robe waved, and several flying knives were shot out from under his legs, and he jumped out of the window directly and fled in panic. Zhu Fu grabbed the flying knife casually, and before he had time to tell Yang Tafeng a few words, he also jumped out of the window and chased away.
Yang Tafeng endured the pain and did not call for help, but found bandages and medicine from the box in front of the couch, washed it with white water, slowly bandaged it, and then lay down on the bed, panting heavily, waiting for the blessing to come back.
About half an hour later, Zhu Wu returned to the house with a black scarf, briefly inspected Yang Tafeng's injury, and then made it to the table, and said: "That person is an eight-stage person, and his martial arts are not very strong, but he is extremely good at assassination and evasion. However, he was slapped by me, and I hit him in the spine with all my might, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to survive. ”
Yang Tafeng paused and gasped: "Then you saw his appearance?"
Zhu Xuan said: "I saw it, it's just a new face in the rivers and lakes, and it may be covered by a mask, I can't see his origin from his appearance." ”
Yang Tafeng said: "Although you don't know, but I just thought about it carefully, and I probably know who is going to kill me." ”
Zhu Yu said: "Who? Could it be the old horseman of Pang Lu?"
Yang Ta Feng said: "It's not Pang Lu, although he may have this idea and want to use this to master Jiaozhi City as the basic position for him to stabilize his plot against Wohua Mountain, but he doesn't have such a strong killer under him." The killer refused to say a word, and he didn't say anything when he was about to succeed, which is enough to show that he is very targeted, he should be a specially cultivated killer, of course, he can also be called a dead soldier. ”
Zhu Wu asked: "There are really not many people who can have such dead soldiers, except for the Tiangang Sect, which is very famous in Zhu Tianye, only the emperor and several princes in the territory of the Qin Dynasty have this kind of subordinates, do you suspect those princes?"
Yang Tafeng said: "There is no doubt, I am almost sure, among the several princes, the eldest prince Qiuling's hand is in the capital, and he may not take the risk of killing me, an irrelevant person, although the seventh prince Qiuyuan is ambitious, but there is no reason to kill me, not to mention the ninth prince and the eleventh prince, who have the ability to kill me, and feel that killing me is beneficial to the overall situation can only be the fourth prince Qiujue." ”
Zhu Yu said: "Qiu Jue, why did he kill you?"
Yang Ta Feng said: "It may be just a joke, or it may be a temptation, I don't know very well." But since he helped me quell the death of the blood red agate and the new city lord, I have become his person on the surface, but I have not been able to listen to him, when I was about to kill Liu Qidun, Qiu Jue also sent me a message to leave Liu Qidun's life, but I didn't listen, this is like a betrayal, enough to cause his killing intent. Moreover, since the beginning of the Blood Red Agate case, you have often told me that there are secret spies in the house, I used to speculate a lot, but now I finally understand that the Blood Red Agate is the bureau set up by Qiu, and those people in the shadows are here to spy on me. ”
Zhu Xuan said: "You think a little highly of yourself, Qiu Jue is a person who can compete for the throne of the Qin Dynasty, how can he take care of the city lord in your small city?"
Yang Tafeng said: "I wasn't sure at first, but this assassination made me think of a lot of things, don't you think that since Qiu Jue dedicated the blood red agate, all the things that happened behind it seem to have been predicted by someone? The blood red agate appeared, who revealed the top secret news? The new city lord died, Pang Lu led the southern expedition, and who participated in the decision? Pang Lu's subordinates are all people from several princes, but where are Qiu Jue's eyes placed? Pang Lu was defeated, Xu Cong fled, and then the army entered Jiaozhi City, who is controlling the process of this battle? All the clues do not see the shadow of Qiu Jue, but all events Qiu Jue seems to be able to plan first, except for his peerless wisdom and speculation, then there is another explanation, he is the arranger. ”
Zhu Xuan frowned in disbelief and said: "Although it is hard to believe, although there are many doubts in your statement, but after your pointing, the whole line is much clearer, and it seems that the possibility of the layout of the autumn is very great." ”
Yang Tafeng said: "The situation is getting more and more blurred, and it is difficult for me to see who is fiddling with the means, I just want to be able to defend the people of this city and fulfill my unfulfilled wish." ”
Zhu Wu's face was solemn, and he said: "The killer's escape means that my identity is exposed, and you want to continue to defend it, but it is not easy." ”
The wind outside the window is like a sudden blow, and the hair is like frost.