Chapter 215, Suppression of Bandits
When others saw such a strange scene, they couldn't help but be shocked.
Just now, he regarded death as home, and he didn't say anything about it, but at this moment, he knew everything about Xue Jian's questioning, and he said everything.
The horse thieves all raised their heads slightly, and looked at the "young man" in Tsing Yi who was sitting on a chair and holding his cheeks with both hands.
The "boy" squinted, dozing off, with a delicate face and small and delicate facial features, anyone with a discerning eye could see that she was a little girl dressed as a man.
"What kind of magic is this person performing, it's terrifying. ”
The leader of the horse thieves said secretly in his heart, glancing at the quicksand dead man not far away, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, he thought that the Nanming wizard was the best at witchcraft, and he shuddered.
Through this quicksand dead soldier, Xue Jian learned a lot of information about the frontline battles.
Now that the country of quicksand has been in turmoil, it has held the city three times and repelled the Nanming army, but the losses are too heavy.
The Quicksand Capital has less than 10,000 troops, and if there is a fourth major attack, the capital is likely to be breached.
However, the country of quicksand has a deep heritage, and for tens of thousands of years, there have been countless powerful warriors who believe in the desert god, and they are willing to sacrifice everything for the desert god.
Before dying, these warriors would seal their souls in their bodies with a special secret method, and then bury them deep in the desert underground.
Over time, these warriors who were still dead turned into powerful heroes.
They call themselves the servants of the desert god, and they will fight to protect the desert god before and after death.
In this crisis, the Quicksand Nation launched a god-calling ritual with the power of the whole country, summoning those powerful heroic spirits buried in the ground.
If it weren't for this, the quicksand country would definitely not be able to hold on to it now.
But because of the long preparation time for the Divine Summoning Ceremony, at most one Heroic Spirit can be awakened in a month, and if the Quicksand Country wants to win, it can only delay as long as possible.
But just as the second Heroic Spirit was about to be awakened, they learned the news of the arrival of Nanming reinforcements, which would be devastating for the Quicksand Country.
Therefore, the country of quicksand sent a lot of dead soldiers to stop the arrival of reinforcements, and these six people just happened to be nearby, and received the order, the fastest group of people.
Hearing these news, Xue Jian smiled faintly, since the Quicksand Country needs time, then give them some time.
He stood up and turned to look at the horse thieves.
There was an unpredictable depth in his eyes, and when the horse thieves saw it, they all lowered their heads, only the leader of the horse thieves was extremely clever and said with a flattering smile.
"General, if you ask casually, the little one must know everything, say everything, and never dare to have a lie. ”
Xue Jian said lightly.
"I'll give you a chance to atone for your sins, take advantage of it, if you catch it, you can live, if you can't catch it, don't blame me. ”
A group of horse thieves were immediately shocked and showed joy.
At noon the next day, Xue Jianqin led a thousand White Tiger guards and left the camp.
The dozen or so horse thieves also followed the team, and one of them, the leader of the horse thieves, rode a horse and followed closely behind Xue Jian, and said.
"General, eighty miles to the east, there is a stockade, and there are many bandits in that stockade, more than a hundred people. ”
Xue Jian nodded and spoke calmly.
"Take your brethren with you and make the way ahead. ”
The leader of the horse thieves was a middle-aged strong man with short hair and a scar on his face, he grinned, waved his big hand, beckoned a dozen horse thieves, and rushed to the front of the line together.
A team of more than 1,000 people, riding in parallel, pulled out a team hundreds of meters long, which was extremely conspicuous in this place where there was yellow sand as far as the eye could see.
When they had traveled more than fifty miles, and were less than thirty miles from the stockade that the leader of the horse thieves had spoken, some secret sentinels discovered them.
The 1,000 White Tiger Guards accompanying him this time were all members of their White Tiger Chamber of Commerce, and all of them were very strong.
They practiced Xue Jian's exercises, and were personally taught by Xue Jian, Senhu and Du Xiaoqing for a period of time, and their combat power far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers.
Although they were very good at concealment, they discovered them, and a team immediately chased them out and eliminated them.
Along the way, they encountered many spies, but these spies had just spotted them, and before they had run far, they were caught up and killed on the spot.
This strange army of 1,000 people marched swiftly in the desert, trampling on the yellow sand with horses' hooves, kicking up sand and dust that covered the sky and the sun, and there was a lot of movement, but none of the spies returned alive to report the news.
In this way, led by a dozen horse thieves, a thousand people quietly came to the stockade.
The stockade was built in an earthen city, surrounded by not too high walls, making it look like a fortress, but in Xue Jian's view, it was full of flaws.
There were five people patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and when they saw a large army suddenly rushing in the distance, their eyes widened and they were stunned in fright and at a loss.
These horse thieves and bandits usually attack each other from the stockade, and at most there are only two or three hundred people fighting, and there are thousands of people who have come to attack the stockade.
When the soldiers came to the city, the five came to their senses and hurriedly sounded the trumpet.
Xue Jian looked at the leader of the horse thieves and said.
"The opportunity to atone for your sins has come, and if you can break down this gate, you will be spared the death penalty. ”
When the horse thieves heard this, their hearts trembled.
A dozen people broke through the city gates, didn't they go to die?
All of them immediately turned over and dismounted, and fell to their knees and pleaded.
Xue Jian was indifferent and said calmly.
"If you don't take advantage of this opportunity, when their men climb the walls, you will surely die. ”
The leader of the horse thieves saw that Xue Jian was not joking, and a touch of decisiveness suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he immediately turned over and said loudly.
"Brothers, whether you are dead or alive, it all depends on today, and you will be rushed by Lao Tzu. ”
A dozen men mounted their horses together, led by the chief, and charged towards the city gates.
The gate of this small earthen city is not strong, and if Xue Jian stepped forward, he could punch through the city gate.
The horse thieves also went out and twitched their whips so hard that the horses neighed and rushed forward like madness, and slammed their heads against the gates.
The horses wailed, and the first man to strike the gate fell to the ground.
Immediately after that, the second and third people, they all crashed into each other.
Finally, with a bang at the city gate, they knocked them to the ground, and more than a dozen people quickly got up from the ground, their faces showing ecstasy.
At this moment, they saw hundreds of people in the city charging on horseback and carrying large swords.
The leader of the horse thieves immediately fled with a roll and a crawl, and the others fled as well.
Xue saw a wave of his hand, and more than a thousand horses rushed out behind him, and one of them, a burly man more than two meters tall, jumped off his horse directly and strode forward.
Every time he fell, the ground seemed to tremble, and when he approached the city wall, the big man jumped violently, his body flew up more than ten meters high, and jumped directly to the city.
Then he looked at the more than 100 people rushing below, and the whole person fell from the city wall into the crowd like a meteorite, overturning a large number of people and horses.