Chapter XVII: Barracks

When the group of bandit archers on the right side of the avenue shot the sharp arrows in their hands, Lin Fan suddenly turned around, and lifted a sack from the carriage with his right hand to protect him, and more than a dozen sharp arrows were shot unevenly on the sack he raised.

Taking advantage of the fact that the bandit archer on the right pulled out the arrow from the quiver behind his back, Lin Fan's legs jumped suddenly on the spot and jumped in front of one of the bandits in the group of archers more than ten meters away.

Lin Fan only instilled spiritual power into his whole body, so as not to show the traces of cultivators, Rao was like this, Lin Fan's strength, speed, endurance, and so on were more than ten times higher than mortals.

"Click", the masked bandits with bows standing beside Lin Fan didn't even snort, they were choked off by Lin Fan's bare hands, these bandits were all outlaws, and they were not afraid to see their accomplices die, they all threw down the wooden bow in their hands, pulled out the dagger from their waists and shouted at Lin Fan.

A masked bandit was behind Lin Fan, and when the dagger in his hand was about to stab Lin Fan's waist, he only felt a faint pain in his right hand holding the dagger.

"Ah~~"

The miserable screams of the bandit who was clenched by Lin Fan's right wrist sounded, that was because Lin Fan crushed the bandit's wrist, and after snatching the dagger, the bandit knelt on the ground in pain, Lin Fan was expressionless, and the dagger in his right hand stabbed into the bandit's neck.

Pulling out the dagger that was infested into the dagger, blood splashed out from the bandit's neck, the bandit lying on the ground covering his neck, kept twitching his limbs, and stopped breathing after a few breaths, at this moment, another bandit rushed to Lin Fan's left wing, holding the dagger with both hands, and when he was three or four steps away from Lin Fan, he jumped up and stabbed the dagger at Lin Fan's Tianling Gai.

But the next bloody scene made the other bandits frightened, only to see Lin Fan directly kick on the spot, his right leg actually kicked through the bandit's stomach, and when he retracted his leg, the bandit's body was still hanging at Lin Fan's feet, when Lin Fan slowly raised his right foot, the right foot was still hooked with a few intestines, and the blood was dripping continuously.

"Oh my God, who is the bandit, and this one-armed boy in front of him is tyrannical and bloody."

This was the thought of the bandits who saw this bloody scene, and before the stunned archers and bandits could react, Lin Fan had already held a dagger and killed the other archers and bandits.

From time to time there was a wailing and screaming sound in the woods, and the remaining bandits were all cut off alive by Lin Fan with a dagger, Lin Fan had eight years of experience as a chef in the Ethereal Gate, although he had never personally disemboweled an animal, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, he also knew which places were the connection points of bones, so he could use a dagger to cut his arms and calves without hindrance.

The bandit leader bald man saw what the young man in front of him was doing, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, smelling the heavy smell of blood wafting in, and his heart had already retreated, Lin Fan, who was covered in blood, looked at the archers on the left side of the avenue, and suddenly jumped in place again, and actually jumped from the woods on the right side of the avenue to the woods on the left side of the avenue.

Looking at Lin Fan who was holding a dagger dripping with blood, the archers and bandits on the left side of the avenue were all frightened, and they forgot to shoot the sharp arrows in their hands for a while, but Lin Fan didn't give them a chance at all, as soon as Lin Fan landed, he cut off the neck of the nearest bandit, and the blood splashed up more than three meters high, the sharp arrow in the bandit's hand lost control, and snorted towards the carriage, the feathers of the arrow tail kept trembling, and the stabbing made a clanging sound on the wood of the carriage.

"Ah~~Ah~~Ah~~"

Like the archers and bandits on the right side of the avenue, the remaining archers and bandits on the left side of the avenue had their limbs cut off and wailed miserably on the ground, the mourning did not last long, and the archer doors on both sides of the road had lost so much blood that they had stopped breathing.

"Quick, pick up your weapons and take this group of bandits under control"

Seeing that the remaining bandits had lost their momentum, Chen Shihua quickly gathered his mind and asked his subordinates to pick up their weapons.

At this time, a deafening thumping sound came from the front of the avenue, it was actually a group of cavalry, the number of which was probably not less than a hundred, the horse's hooves quickly knocked on the ground, the yellow earth mist continued to float under the horse's hooves, and after a while, the cavalry came to a stop more than ten meters in front of the caravan.

The cavalry were all four horses side by side, all wearing bronze armor and helmets, each holding a spear, each horse was equipped with a bow and crossbow on the left, a broad knife on the right, and the leader was wearing a light black armor helmet and a black cloak, which was a powerful man, and this person was a commander of the cavalry.

"The officers and soldiers are coming, run"

The bald man shouted in horror, if it were ordinary officers and soldiers, the bald man would not be so afraid, but the army of more than 8,000 people next to the post station was just withdrawn from the elite soldiers who fought bloodily on the battlefield last year.

But last year, this army was replaced, killing bandits within a radius of hundreds of miles, the bald man was originally the king of the mountain range about 150 miles away from the post station, last year he had nearly 300 people, some people have a village as a prestige, but since this army came, less than ten days to kill him only more than 50 subordinates, even the stockade was a nest, at this moment after seeing the cavalry of this army, quickly threw away the heavy meteor hammer in his hand, and ran towards the rear of the avenue.

With a bang, Lin Fan jumped from the woods on the left side of the avenue to the bald man, and there was this killing star in front of the cavalry, the bald man's cheeks continued to sweat, and before he could act, Lin Fan kicked the bald man's crotch, and with a snort, the bald man covered his crotch, his face was pale and painful and he kept rolling on the ground.

Throwing the dagger in his hand to the side, Lin Fan smelled the strong smell of blood exuding from his body, and immediately frowned, what was wrong with him, how could he use such cruel means to deal with bandits, looking at the empty left sleeve, Lin Fan thought to himself, couldn't it be because after he was cut off his left arm and cheek by that Pan Dacheng, he changed his mind and became a brutal and bloodthirsty cultivator?

Looking at the mighty cavalry army in front of him, Lin Fan, who had just gathered his heart, fell into confusion again, how could the army? Zixing have an army? His master Lin Shike told him that the Ethereal Gate is in charge of the Eastern Continent, and there should be no army.

In fact, Lin Shi did not make it clear to Lin Fan that there are armies among mortals, and there are also government regimes, and in the past few years that Lin Fan has been in a coma, Purple Star has undergone earth-shaking changes, that is, many land plates have been connected into one.

Mortals also have countries, and now, what the Ethereal Gate controls is the great kingdom of mortals, and the same is true of the Zhenglei Sect and the Lihuo Sect, all of which control a superpower of mortals, and these countries naturally have armies, and there are not a few of them

And the Xiuzhen sect, in addition to cultivation, also has to prepare to resist the attack of cultivators from other planets, and the floods, earthquakes, locust plagues and other disasters in the Purple Star mortal world, while mortals supply the resources needed by cultivators, for disputes between mortals, unless there is a war to destroy the country, the sects of cultivation will not participate in it.

At this time, the remaining bandits were controlled by the caravan, and the cavalry also dismounted one after another, controlling the bandits, and the cavalry commander sitting on horseback smelled the blood in the air, drove the horse forward a few meters and jumped off the military horse, squinting at the tragic situation of the bandits in the woods on both sides of the avenue and suddenly frowned.

"Hey, your bald head was still caught by us, and you can be in exile in our hands for more than a year, so you have some ability."

The commander looked at the bald man moaning in pain on the ground and smiled, beckoning, and asked the two cavalrymen to escort the bald man away.

"You did it?"

The cavalry commander pointed to both sides of the avenue and asked Lin Fan, who was covered in blood.

"What, this military master, we are a caravan, this guy has just been a bandit who has been against twenty or thirty people, I testify, he is not a bandit, no, this is my business card", Chen Shihua hurriedly ran over, took out a piece of paper covered with printing from his arms, and handed it to the cavalry commander.

"When did I say he was a bandit"

The commander took Chen Shihua's business card and looked at it for a while, then handed it to Chen Shihua, and said: "This group of bandits is afraid that they have no money, otherwise how dare they block the road and rob so close to the camp, after the sentry found out, we immediately came, fortunately, it's not too late, you go to the post station to rest first, it's handed over to us here."

"You're pretty good, what do you call you?

The commander let the cavalry retreat on both sides of the avenue, and let the caravan set off first, but left Lin Fan, at this time, the commander asked curiously.

Picking up a branch from the ground, Lin Fan wrote on the ground: I am dumb, the commander frowned slightly, this guy with a broken arm is still dumb.

"You're a dumb man, and I ask you, did you kill all the bandits in the woods, what's the scar on your face, and why is your left hand gone?", the Commander asked again.

Lin Fan didn't want to explain too much, so he wrote a word on the ground, and at the same time drew a tiger roughly.

"Are you saying that the loss of your left hand and the scar on your face were caused by a tiger attack?"

After determining that the bandits in the forest were all killed by Lin Fan, the leader's attitude was much better, so he explained to Lin Fan endlessly.

"Commander Qiqi, there are fifty-nine bandits, and thirty-one of them have died."

A cavalryman confirmed the number of bandits and reported to the commander at a trot.

The commander nodded with satisfaction and said, "It just so happens that all the bandits have been cleared, and the fifty-nine people who escaped are sent to bury the dead bandits on the spot, and take the living back to the barracks."

After giving the order, the commander said to Lin Fan again: "You also go with us, first, you are the party, you have to make a record, and second, you will receive your bounty, kill a bandit ten taels of silver, these fifty-nine bandits were brought to justice, you have contributed a lot, the specific reward needs to be issued by the general, by the way, will you ride a horse?"

Seeing that Lin Fan shook his head, the commander said to a cavalryman beside him, "Wait for him to go with you."

"Commander, it's all packed"

After half a pillar of incense, the dead bandits were all dug and buried by the cavalry, and the rest of the bandits were tied up by Wuhuada.

"Okay, back to camp"

The commander shouted, Lin Fan followed the cavalry on the horse, each bandit who was tied, there was a rider who tied a rope to the saddle, and a cavalryman with a spear, monitoring the bandits in a row, the cavalry and the bandits, slowly moving towards the direction of the barracks.

"Commander, don't you just give that kid a reward, why do you have to take him back to the barracks", looking at Lin Fan, who was sitting behind the cavalry more than twenty meters behind him, a cavalryman said to the commander.

"What do you know, although this kid only has one hand, he is still a mute, but his martial arts are very strong, one person can kill thirty-one outlaws, can you do it?

"Commander Wise"

This cavalry stretched out his thumb to flatter, this cavalry army of 100 people was under the control of this deputy commander, and in private this cavalry would call him the commander, not the deputy commander, and he was happy to do it.

In fact, the deputy commander of the cavalry did not say everything, he fancied, in addition to Lin Fan's ability to kill thirty-one bandits with the strength of one person, more importantly, bring Lin Fan back to the barracks, let the general decide, if he can give Lin Fan an official and a half position, then he has one more friend in this army, although this young man is a one-armed mute, but strong martial arts, if he stays in the army, I believe that it will not be long before this young man's position will be higher than him, and he will not promote himself at that time.

Thinking of this, a sly smile appeared on his face, he has been conscripted into the army for more than seven years, from ten chiefs, one hundred chiefs to the current deputy commander of the cavalry, he has stayed in the position of deputy commander for four years, and it is time to think about it for himself.

Lin Fan rode with a cavalryman, thinking about the purpose of the so-called Red Dust Trial, and why he was tyrannical, because of Zhou Chenxi, or because of the nameless land, shaking his head, Lin Fan smiled bitterly, and secretly said Let it be.

After more than an hour, the cavalry escorted the bandits for more than twenty miles, and then arrived at the post station that Chen Shihua said, Lin Fan jumped down from behind the cavalry and looked at the so-called post station in front of him.

Said to be a post station, I'm afraid a little modest, you have to use a large restaurant to describe it, the avenue of the post station has been a lot wider, it is estimated that there should be more than five zhang wide.

On the left side of the avenue, in the woods, a large area of flat land has been artificially cleared, and on the left side of this flat land there is a row of more than fifty simple houses, in the middle of which are four wooden sheds, and on the right are stables.

Chen Shihua and his entourage were already in one of the wooden sheds, eating food at a table of eight people, and after seeing Lin Fan, Chen Shihua quickly got up and stood up and greeted him warmly.

"Little brother is really hidden, thanks to you, otherwise my caravan would have drunk the northwest wind"

Chen Shihua just wanted to pull Lin Fan into the seat, but he smelled the pungent smell of blood on Lin Fan's body again, thinking of Lin Fan's feat not long ago, he almost vomited out all the food he had just eaten.

"This little brother, please come with me", a cavalryman walked to Lin Fan's left and said.

Following behind this cavalryman, Lin Fan glanced at the four large wooden sheds, each of which had nearly forty rectangular tables, two of which were filled with caravans of different shapes, and the other two wooden sheds were also full of men in military uniforms, it seemed that they should be soldiers from the nearby military camp, drinking wine and eating meat, and from time to time there were sounds of guessing and cheering.

"This general is really a good brain, in addition to sheltering merchants, he can also earn merchants' money, and he can win a good reputation, and most importantly, there are no towns nearby, and the soldiers pay their salaries and spend at the post station opened by this general, and the money, fame and prestige are three harvests, which is really powerful", Lin Fan thought as he looked at the drunken soldiers.

"This is the bathroom, you go in and rinse up, No, this is the clothes for you, you ...... You wait for me to finish speaking, what are you anxious about?"

The cavalryman led Lin Fan to the door of a room, and before he could say anything, Lin Fan had already snatched his clothes and boots from him and rushed into the bath.

"Little brother, hurry up and wash Sasa, the commander is waiting for you."

The cavalryman stood at the door of the bathhouse and shouted, and after speaking, he took a few steps and looked around vigilantly, as if he was protecting Lin Fan, and as if he was staring at Lin Fan, as for the bandits, most of the cavalry had already escorted back to the barracks first.

Lin Fan was not in a hurry to take a bath, but he felt that he was about to break through, so he rushed into the bath room in a hurry and quickly closed the small wooden door.

The area in the bathhouse is not large, there are seven wooden planks separated into eight bathing spaces, there are four large water tanks on the side of the wall, as well as several wooden barrels, Lin Fan looked at the bathhouse, fortunately there was no one else, holding a water tank weighing hundreds of catties in his right hand against the wooden door, Lin Fan began to close his eyes and concentrate, ready to impact the next small realm.

The ascension of the small realm is very different from the breakthrough of the large realm, in addition to dealing with the catastrophe, the breakthrough of the large realm also has to deal with the trouble caused by the empty spiritual power in the spirit pool, such as the pursuit of the enemy, while the small realm is much simpler, as long as it is not affected by external forces, it can be smoothly improved.

Wow~Wow~

It was the sound of spiritual water churning and slapping the dam fence in the spiritual pool, Lin Fan relaxed at this time, and guided the spiritual water to open the dam fence with all his body.

The rumbling sound sounded in Lin Fan's mind, but it was the dam fence that kept retreating, and finally stopped more than ten zhang away from the spiritual water, and the spiritual water also expanded, and the realm also reached the double heaven of the gods.

"Whew~"

Lin Fan took a deep breath, then opened his eyes, and a spiritual power shot out from his right index and middle fingers, leaving a finger-thick hole in the earthen wall of the bathhouse, and then submerged into the woods.

"No wonder it is said that the heart is the power source of the human body", Lin Fan said secretly.

The spiritual energy is taken into the heart and internalized into spiritual water, and the spiritual water is drawn out of the spiritual pool and can be converted into spiritual power, it seems that there are still many places where Lin Fan still does not know enough deeply.

Lin Fan walked to a small wooden window in the bathhouse, stretched out his right hand out of the window, and continuously gathered the nearby spiritual energy into the spiritual pool, this process lasted for half an hour, filling the newly expanded spiritual pool with spiritual water.

There was also a knock on the wooden door, and the voice of the cavalryman came in: "Little brother, are you alright?

Lin Fan hurriedly divided the clothes by two, took off his clothes and rinsed them briefly, put on the clothes and boots given to him by the cavalry, and opened the wooden door by lifting the water tank aside.

"Why have you washed for so long?" the Commander is impatient, come with me," said the cavalry at the gate now.

"Let's go back to the camp when people come", Lin Fan and the cavalry had just arrived at a table in a wooden shed, and the deputy commander of the cavalry stood up.

Lin Fan still continued to walk with the cavalry and rushed towards the barracks.

There was a five-zhang wide dirt road opposite the post station, and after walking along this dirt road for only three miles, Lin Fan saw the military camp mentioned by the deputy commander of the cavalry.

This barracks are surrounded by wooden fences more than three meters high on all sides, and before entering the barracks, there is a sound of soldiers practicing and shouting, and the tents have to be set up quite reasonably, each tent is separated by more than ten meters from each other, and Lin Fan outside the wooden fence can also see a group of soldiers with spears and spears patrolling.

In the wooden fence, there is a wooden building about five feet high every 100 meters, and on the wooden tower there is a soldier with a spear, a soldier with a scimitar and a crossbow soldier.

There were more than a dozen soldiers stationed at the entrance of the barracks, and it was estimated that they recognized the deputy commander, and they let them enter the barracks without doing any inspection.

After entering the barracks, the deputy commander of the cavalry and the other cavalry dismounted, Lin Fan was also asked to dismount and walk, it seems that there is no emergency in the barracks is not allowed to ride horses, walked for more than ten minutes to a large tent guarded by four soldiers with swords, the deputy commander of the cavalry shouted outside the tent: "Deputy commander of the cavalry Xie Jun has something to tell the general"