Chapter Seventy-Four: The Blacksmith's Descendants
The Sword Pavilion was built between two mountain peaks, from which a large group of people could pass, and it was the only way for caravans to pass through the canyon formed between the two mountain peaks. At the beginning of the war between the two countries, it was a hub for trade between the two countries, so it was not inferior to the capital.
Moreover, in the past few years when the Great Wei and the Tang Dynasty were at war for many years, some merchants were willing to take risks to continue to trade, and they really made a lot of money.
The place where Yang Li and the others came was the back tower of the Sword Pavilion impartially, although there were not many soldiers in this place, but because a large group of soldiers and horses from the enemy country had been found in front, the security here was also much stricter than usual.
Just now, the sharp-eyed soldiers had already seen a streamer of light coming towards them in mid-air, and some of them had already wound their arrows and swords out of their sheaths, and thought that the enemy had used some kind of magic to rush up from behind.
The junior officer who looked like a captain hurriedly ordered the people behind him: "Go and ask the general!" Here we found that the enemy army is a spy and has been surrounded by our regiments, and I don't know what kind of magic they will appear in the future, so I ask the general to send support. ”
It's just three people, and it's no wonder that the defenders of the Sword Pavilion have been regarded as a big burden, there is a tiger and wolf division in front, and a sneak cavalry in the back, they are not nervous, so it is not normal.
It's also a strange thing to come, obviously the front line is still far away from here, but the enemy army doesn't know what method was used, and such a large number of troops were parachuted here, and according to some cultivators in the defenders, there was the breath of demon beasts in the enemy army.
In other words, the defenders will not only face soldiers who are attacking by surprise, but also fierce monsters.
Therefore, the garrison here has only ignited the billowing wolf smoke, if the rear does not send people, although there is no one man here, and there is enough grain and grass for the garrison for half a year, and the merchants and traders have been moved, the number of permanent residents of the cluster has been reduced to the minimum.
However, the tens of thousands of people in Sword Pavilion City could hardly resist the army of tigers and wolves.
Yang Li came in a hurry, except for carrying the arrows ordered by the soldiers, he did not lead a large army to come to support, so he simply descended on the top of the city, and also saved the trouble of opening the city gate.
After the light dissipated, three figures flashed out of the streamer. Sword eyebrows and starry eyes, handsome and incomparably is naturally Yang Li himself; and another person who is dressed as a son of a family with the same fine skin and tender flesh, he is naturally a knife; and the last one is a big fat man who is "extremely strong" and no horse dares to carry it.
As soon as the big fat man landed, he couldn't hold back and let out a few loud sneezes, and the waves were so big that the soldiers in front of him stood unsteadily, and if they didn't hold the battlements, they would have been overthrown by this wave of air and rolled to the bottom of the tower.
"We are a garrison in the western suburbs of the capital, under the command of General Li, and the vanguard officer of the front is printing. Call your guard to come and speak, and his reinforcements have arrived!!"
After the big fat man's sneezing, he picked at his nostrils with his thick fingers very gracefully, and then said arrogantly, with a commanding attitude, the posture of Lord Qincha, he knew his own strength, and he didn't want the two of them to concentrate on the beginner level cultivators, they were rare talents in the national capital.
Even Yang Li, who he couldn't see through his cultivation, seemed to him to be a generalist at the level of a national teacher, so of course he would be angry.
The big boss who is on duty on the city tower, you look at me, I look at you, and I don't see these three "brigade of people" who came to the rescue, wearing the same armor as them.
yes, not bad. They lit the wolf smoke, and the people in the national capital will definitely see it, and they will definitely send people to rush to help, but the wolf smoke, the people of the enemy ** team can also see it, and they may also send people to pretend to be galloping troops, and then try to open the city gate, which is not without precedent, and Yang Li and his party came quickly enough.
This place can be 300 miles away from the capital, even if you fly, you may have to arrive before the next morning, so Yang Li and their arrival time is not right, leading the troops to come, only the number of three people is not right, and they can enter from the city so quickly, the location is obviously not right, right?
Judging from the analysis of all aspects, these guys, especially the fat guy, should be the enemy's spies. Therefore, the soldiers of the Sword Pavilion were on high alert, and none of them were willing to joke with their lives!
"What are you doing here?" Zhu Da Fat, who dreamed of making meritorious contributions to the front line and killing the enemy, and didn't want to be a cook, did not dare to show his cultivation in front of people for many years, so when they were hostile to the defenders, they rubbed their hands together, eager to try, wanted to perform in front of the general, and even wanted to vent the suppressed emotions in their hearts in the past few years.
"Where can they be? Why don't they lead the way!" a nice female voice suddenly sounded at the bottom of the stairs of the castle tower, obviously guarding the future.
Yang Li didn't need to listen to the voice, he could also detect from his divine sense that the original guard general turned out to be a female general, which was beyond his expectations, he thought that in such an important military town as the Sword Pavilion, His Majesty the Emperor would send a general to guard it, but he didn't expect to send a delicate female general.
Zhu Da Fat also heard the sound from below, so it was not good to make any more moves in front of the friendly army, and he put his posture back in a stupid manner. Then he stood behind Yang Li and returned to his humble and fat appearance. At first glance, humans and animals are harmless.
"Oh! The reinforcements are them? You didn't look away, did you?" The female general who had just come up was dressed in a strong suit, red clothes and red pants, red armor and red armor, and the red helmet on her head was even more dazzling. "It's just three of us. Yang Li relied on his identity as a general, and did not talk to him, this sentence was the one behind him.
"Oh~ Just the three of you, can you also call it reinforcements? Since you claim to be reinforcements, do you have a certificate? Since you don't have a certificate, then don't you take it for me!"
The female general's personality is quite hot, she didn't say a word after she came up, and before Yang Li and his gang took out the military talisman arrows, they took it for granted that they were spies sent by the enemy, and the analysis of the reasons was no different from the analysis in the previous paragraph.
"Wait!"
This time it was the handsome student standing in front who spoke, and he looked like he was only about 20 years old, but he was faintly the leader of the three. "Give her General Lee's talisman. ”
"Order!" The fat man was still fierce just now, as if a god had descended, and when he heard the errand given to him by Yang Li, he twisted his big buttocks, and his exaggerated posture, pulled out the talisman arrow from his body, and then shook it three times in front of the female general before handing it over to the soldier next to her.
The whole process of handing over the talisman and arrow was not long, but everyone felt a slight tremor on the ground under their feet, if it weren't for the slightest movement of the enemy army in front, everyone really thought that the enemy cavalry rushed over. Maybe only Yang Li and the others knew about it here, and this kind of movement was only known to their companion Zhu Da Fatzi.
The female general suspiciously took the talisman arrow from her subordinates, glanced at it a few times, and felt that she was indeed a little familiar. But she wasn't sure yet, so she softened her tone at Yang Li and said, "Since it's really the reinforcements sent by General Li, then please wait where you are."
Because of the humble position of the last general, he has never seen General Li's military talisman arrows.
And after the last general went back to the chief general, and after facing the two talismans there, he could set up a banquet for the three to welcome. Yang Li could clearly feel that there was still a hint of vigilance in the female general's tone, and it was no wonder that the enemy suddenly fell from the sky at the moment when a few people claiming to be reinforcements came, and no one could believe who they were lying there.
So Yang Li smiled slightly, stretched out his hand forward, palms facing up, and bowed slightly, which means that the mistress general is at his own convenience, and they can stand up to inspection here!
The female general quietly instructed a few of her subordinates, and then she gave up her hand, turned around and went down the city tower, presumably she went to the main general to check Yang Li's identity.
During this period of time when the female general turned around, Yang Li was naturally relaxed, because he had already rushed to the Sword Pavilion in advance, and as for whether he could connect with the general of the Tang Dynasty, that was the next step to plan.
So he took the lead to come to the city tower, leaned down and looked down, and found that there was a wide official road under the city gate tower, it is estimated that if it were not for the war between the two countries for many years, it is estimated that there would not be many weeds on this official road.
There are mountains on both sides of the left, green and verdant, if it weren't for military affairs, he would probably take the fat man and a knife deep into it, what to do? Of course, hunting, this is the fun of his childhood, this kind of fun has penetrated into his blood and bone marrow, even if he cultivates to such a realm, he will not forget.
Looking at the depressed official road downstairs, there was not a single caravan, and Yidao sighed on the side: "Sure enough, it is a hundred things to mourn from the smoke of the beacon!" Yidao is a descendant of a blacksmith, and he also has the identity of a businessman, of course, he hopes that the two countries will be friendly, so that his business can be developed in both.
Of course, the goods he deals in are special iron tools, more precisely, most of them are weapons, and the two countries have been fighting for many years, which has also made them excellent weapons forged by strong winds, and sold them at a very good price in the country, but Rao is so, he still hopes that the countries can live in peace, so that the common people will not suffer from the displacement, and the worries of the war and chaos, so a knife on the top of the city tower has this feeling.
The three of them are like this, you talk freely on the top of the city tower without saying a word, and the soldiers who are eyeing each other do not dare to approach half a minute, but they will not withdraw half a minute. But they waited for the female general like this, and a whole stick of incense had passed, could it be that there was something wrong with the female general?
Yang Li unconsciously rose in his heart with a sense of vigilance, this was his natural reaction after his experience in the Land of Blood Sacrifice, in the world of the jungle, threatening to look around, he was talking and laughing on the surface, but a palm thunder condensed in the palm of his hand, ready to meet the enemy's attack at any time. Now the prince and Lan Yi in the capital are incompatible, as the meat eaters of the Great Wei Dynasty, that is, the adults above the temple, which one is not scheming, observing words and feelings, for fear of standing on the wrong side and suffering a catastrophe.
As an important military town like the Sword Pavilion, it is difficult to guarantee that the two factions will not send their henchmen to guard here. Of course, Datang also saw this, otherwise how would the other party dare to send surprise soldiers and go deep alone.
Yang Li thought that between the female general and the main general, it might be from different factions in the capital. It's really easy for the enemy to retreat and get rid of internal worries!
If he wasn't in a hurry to find the five-colored soil, he wouldn't be too lazy to wade into this troubled water, if he didn't want to experience himself in the war, Yang Li would not be too lazy to climb the Sword Pavilion, no, it's obvious that reinforcements are coming, and he will be suspicious of others, but if he is suspicious, as long as his affairs are done properly, then there will be no regrets about this trip.
Yang Li and his party enjoyed the scenery on the city tower, and the time was not short!
"Will they ......" A knife knocked quietly next to Yang Li and asked, the voice was not loud, it was not a secret voice.
But the anxiety on Yidao's face was beyond words, he was very worried, because he had dealt with people in the army all the year round, and knew that these guys, especially the generals with heavy troops, none of them would easily trust anyone other than themselves, don't look at them on the surface and call them brothers and sisters, but at the critical moment, they still believe in their own personal guards, and these personal soldiers who followed him from birth to death were all selected by their own hands.
Among the soldiers, some of them were their fellow villagers who knew their roots, some were their old subordinates, who were loyal, and some were the people they had received who were in distress, and of course they were grateful to them. The commanders of the entire army are like this, except for one person in the Great Wei Dynasty, and that is His Majesty the Emperor Lan Yi.
His personal guards are called the royal guards, but most of them are recommended by the prince under the pretext of going there, and there are many mermaids among them, and it is inevitable that many of the prince's eyes and ears will act as royal guards.
"Don't worry, I feel like a troop of men is marching towards us. Yang Li smiled slightly, and quietly comforted him, "It's a big deal, I'll just fly away with you, can they control our freedom if there are more of them?"
Yang Li's words were not completely finished, and there was a person at the bottom. This person came in a hurry, almost all the way to the back tower of the Sword Pavilion. After he came to the city tower, a number of soldiers who were originally on duty to monitor Yang Li and his party stood aside very restrainedly, making way for those who came to not count, which shows that this person's status in the army is not low.
However, the female general who did not follow Fang just went out behind him must have come to contact him first. Zhu Fatzi told Yang Lihe his judgment to listen to it, and then took another step forward to greet the other party's contact with the posture of the pioneer officer of the front department.
The comers lined up and walked forward from behind, but when they saw a huge fat man in front of them, they did not see the other two, nor did they see any armor on the huge fat man.
Unconsciously frowned, and then after stopping, he stopped stepping forward, pulled the two people next to him, and asked quietly: "Aren't there three people from the capital? Why is there only one big fat man here, where are the other two Ran?"
It turned out that this general was ordered by the lord to come first to inquire about the situation, if the other party was really the army assigned by His Majesty the Emperor to come to reinforce, then they delayed for such a long time, it would definitely make the other party dissatisfied, so the lord sent him to come over first to talk to one or two;
But if the details of the other party are unknown, and it is really possible that it is a spy sent by the enemy, then this general can also come here first to stabilize the army's morale and keep Yang Li and his group in the cluster.
The generals who came first hurriedly came to find that they were still there, because they were relieved, but they found that only one fat man was there, and the other two people were gone, and they thought that the other party had used some golden cicada to get out of the shell, so they hurriedly pulled over the two soldiers to ask about the situation.
"The general doesn't know, this big fat man is too fat, so he resists your sight. The other two were right behind him. The general was dumbfounded when he heard this, then twisted his neck, and glanced twice at the back of the big fat man, and then realized that there were two well-proportioned and very unusual guys there!
Only then did Jiang Guan breathe a long sigh of relief, then straightened his clothes, clasped his fists at the big fat man, and said loudly: "Fang Cai, General Lan will go back with the military talisman arrows you and others are carrying." After the comparison of General Lan, it was indeed a military talisman arrow issued by His Majesty the Emperor. ”
"Now that you know my identity, you won't arrange a banquet to wash the dust for us. Of course, the big fat man Zhu was very worried about eating and drinking! He remembered that just now, the beautiful female general had once, as long as their identity was confirmed, they could enjoy a good meal.
At this time, Zhu Da Fat Man also had a large amount of cumin in his bag, which could help him cook it himself, and it would make people drool when he thought about it.
"This is natural. My generals will arrive later, and we will be able to hold a feast and welcome you to come! However, since you are the vanguard of the troops who have come to the rescue, it is better to ask the three generals to invite the soldiers you have brought into the Sword Pavilion together. ”
After the female general returned to the main general, the chief general instructed the general to greet him, and second, to see how many troops had come with these three people, otherwise how could it be that the army had arrived to help?
"There were no other sergeants behind us. It is 300 miles away from the capital, and it takes a horse or two to get here, right?!" Yang Li turned around and strode forward, only then did he unhurriedly bypass the huge body of the cook, and then said the above words unhurriedly.
The words clearly stated that only the three of them came here in advance, and explained the reason why General Li could not arrive today.
However, when the general heard this, his face immediately turned unpleasant, thinking that they released a few puffs of wolf smoke, but it was not for a few people to come. If it is really calculated carefully, could it be that a puff of wolf smoke just urges the capital to send one person to eat?
Of course, they don't expect people to come here after they release wolf smoke, but just a few people who come here dare to be the vanguard support force, isn't it a joke to make fun of their Sword Pavilion. The generals look at their image again, this dress, where is there a little bit of the spirit of the force, they are not here to cheat and eat, but what are they here for?
Their Sword Pavilion found a large number of them in the front gate tower today, and the Tang soldiers suddenly appeared, so they hurriedly released wolf smoke, not to attract scammers who cheated to eat and drink. Therefore, the general's face not only sank, but also held the handle of the sword, and then let out a cold muffled snort in his nose, and his contemptuous attitude was self-evident.
Seeing this, the other Sword Pavilion defenders who were still surrounding him also opened their eyes with anger and were extremely angry! They were born and died here, frightened and conscientious, but they didn't expect that the defense only sent "three generals", this was not contempt for them, did they still attach importance to them?
Some soldiers suddenly thought about opening the city gate and surrendering, but they only thought about it in their hearts, and they never dared to come out, because it was a felony to lose their heads.
"Although we didn't bring a large number of soldiers, we did bring a military material that can alleviate your urgent needs!"
When the sulking general heard this, he looked at Yang Li very seriously, feeling that this person was very handsome and abnormal, with a lofty spirit and extraordinary bearing, and he should not be a child's play with military aircraft, so he was very serious and asked with some joy:
"What exactly are the military supplies you have? Can you take them out? Let's take a look?" Yidao was very puzzled by the side, obviously a few of them came in a hurry, and they didn't bring any military supplies.
If you insist on bringing any military supplies to talk about, then Yang Li may be referring to the cumin powder that the big fat man collected halfway.
But this thing has nothing to do with the military, right? Could it be that as long as a handful of cumin powder is fed to the soldier's mouth, then the combat effectiveness of this video can be increased several times? If this is the case, then Yang Li, the master, he can't see through it.
Zhu Da Fat Man also felt very strange next to him, and hurriedly gave way to the side, listening to Yang Li's bamboo tube, what kind of beans did he want to say?
"If you insist on knowing, I'll tell you, it's wolf dung. Yang Li felt that the generals in front of him were very rude, and some of them made fun of him, so he brought a large amount of wolf dung with his party, so that after you see the enemy army in the future, there will be a large amount of wolf dung to raise puffs of smoke. The irony in it speaks for itself.
The fat man finally understood at this time, and he felt a bad breath, so he said loudly next to him: "The wolf dung we brought is square, round, and spherical. I don't know which bite Your Excellency General usually has?! As long as you ask for it, I will bring it to you. ”
As soon as these words came out, even the people standing next to the general couldn't help laughing, if it weren't for the general's blue face, trembling all over, and being angry, they would probably not be able to hold back and laugh out loud. How can there be such a loss, scolding people without half a dirty word, and the Japanese words seem to care about you very much and want to help you, then you can't find the slightest reason.
After hearing the ridicule of the two Rao, Yidao also stepped forward next to him, and cleared his throat as if he wanted to say a sentence or two.
The general finally couldn't bear it anymore, and after a crisp sound, he pulled out his saber, and then pulled a few knife flowers, and was about to fight with Yang Li.