Chapter 270: Thousands of Dangers and Difficulties Finally Leave the City (Unfinished)
The two were waiting for help, at this time there were guards in front of them and then there were pursuers, and the dart masters gave up their lives to block the Janissaries, but there were still pursuers blocking the retreat, although they would not be attacked by the enemy in a short period of time, but they still needed to fight a bloody way. In such a dangerous situation, it is almost impossible to protect the women and children from retreating, and the only way to do this is to kill and wait - wait for the dead soldiers in the Moon Gate to be killed!
Due to the terrain, it took a lot of time for the three thousand guards to clean up, and how long it would take for the dead soldiers to arrive, the blood shadow and the pothos did not dare to speculate, and they fought in the dark secret passage, and both of them had a dull perception of time.
The blood shadow looked deeply at the righteous soldiers who were full of long knives, and he didn't have time to say goodbye, so he only squeezed out a word from between his teeth, "Go!" ”
At this time, Yang Shi held a sword and the dart masters to resist the pursuers, but they couldn't parry, a dart master cut off the oil lamp on the wall with a knife, and slapped it violently, the candle flame ignited the lamp oil, and the tongue of fire was drawn in mid-air, falling to the rear of the pursuers, and the crowd of people under black pressure was like a tide.
The siege of the Yang family was temporarily lifted, and when he saw the people who were pressed by the black, his heart sank in an instant.
Behind the curved wall outside Zhangxu, there was a sudden cold light!
The eyes of the dart masters were attracted by the pursuers, and no one noticed the cold light that was as faint as a distant star, and the sound of the blood shadow "walking" was like a stone breaking through a landslide, pulling back the sanity of the dart masters, but they heard a roar, screaming like a whistle, like lightning!
Hidden Arrows!
Just by the sound, the experienced dart masters in the rivers and lakes know what the secret weapon is, but although the idea is fast, it is not as fast as the arrow, and no one has time to hide, and one person is going to die when they see it!
The blood shadow suddenly turned around and grabbed it with his cross arm! This grasp is virtual and not real, the internal force is like the wind, not the fierce and gentle wind of the Gangfeng, but it contains the entanglement of the strands. The blood flower came as scheduled, but it bloomed in the palm of the blood shadow's hand, and it was faintly visible that the arrow feathers had cut the palm, revealing the white bones of Sensen. He threw his backhand without changing his face, and the bloody sleeve arrow shot at the source, only to hear a bang, and the wall at the bend exploded a hole the size of a human head, and the blood behind the hole bloomed, and a muffled sound rose and fell, and a human life was over.
The sleeve arrow came and went, but in the blink of an eye, the wall pierced through the dead, the tongue of fire fell to the ground, the flame did not burn, and it was extinguished after a few strokes.
The secret passage quickly turned into darkness, but the blood shadow gasped - the moment the fire was extinguished, behind the hole in the wall, a faint starlight could be seen!
There is an ambush!
The blood shadow glanced around, and his heart was cold, there were only his own people left in these four weeks!
When the pursuers chased into the secret passage, they took off their armor and walked lightly, with hidden arrows tied to their wrists, but they were restricted by the terrain and failed to attack. After encountering the Governor's Mansion and the Dart Master, a scuffle suddenly broke out in the secret passage, and in order to prevent his own people from being injured, the Hidden Arrow became more and more useless. However, just now, Wan Dart and others sacrificed their lives to block the Praetorian Guard, and the fire tongue forced back the pursuers, and only the Blood Shadow and the dart masters were left in the middle of the secret passage.
The dart master is in front, like an arrow target, and there is nowhere to hide.
Before the blood shadow could even give a warning, the sharp arrows pierced the silence and rained down!
At this moment, most of the dart masters did not find the ambush, only an old dart master standing at the same angle as the blood shadow caught a glimpse of the killing machine behind the hole in the wall, in a desperate situation, there was nowhere to hide, the old dart master kicked out a corpse in front of him, the body of the janissary in armor turned around a few times in mid-air, blocked several arrows one after another, and the wind blew the arrow rain to be biased!
is so quick and wise, only the slightest siege is solved, although the arrow rain is biased, the dart division still has casualties.
Almost at the same time, the blood shadow angrily killed the front, this is the first time in his life, he put aside the master's life, and fought the enemy with the dart master, just to repay the kindness of the "human wall" behind him.
Green Pothos gritted her teeth and stuck to the rear, her mouth was filled with bloody gas, she stared at the front, and for the first time in her life, she didn't see a person who rushed to the front with the blood shadow because she was distracted.
"Miss!" It wasn't until Xiang'er's voice came that the green pothos came back to her senses in horror and saw that the person running forward was actually Yao Huiqing!
"I am the Yao clan of the Governor's Mansion, and the soldiers in front of me are holding arrows! If not, shoot me with you!" The Governor is a person who values love and righteousness, if the Hou Ye wants to become an enmity with the Governor from now on, he will slaughter all the people in the Governor's Mansion today! Yao Huiqing held a hairpin, the hairpin bone was sharp, its sharpness was not inferior to the sleeve arrow, she pushed away the dart master, and before she reached the front, the sharp hairpin bone had been pierced in the neck.
She is the daughter of Yao's concubine, because she has no mother's protection, she has always acted carefully and prudently, and never gambled. But this time, she gambled, bet that even if the man was going to rebel, even if he wanted to kill all the holy people, he would not kill the people of the governor. This bet, if you win, the siege of the dart master can be solved, if you lose...... She died, but not in vain, everyone in Shengjing City knew the love between the Hou Ye and the governor, as soon as she died, the general who led the army must be worried that the Hou Ye was to blame, the army was unstable, and the arrow attack would stop.
Life or death, it's worth it!
The woman's voice was not loud in the whistle-like sound of arrows, but it was clear and powerful, and the sharp blade resting on her neck and her unstoppable footsteps shocked me and the enemy with the intention of going to die.
In fact, after all, she has more heart to die, not for anything else, but for the indelible guilt in her heart. She used to be proud of her intelligence and not lose her studies, if she was born a man, she would have something to do, but now it seems that she is not as good as a man after all, and it is difficult to bear the weight of countless lives on this battlefield.
A hidden arrow came as she cut through the crowd, but the old dart master beside her didn't have time to cut it, a bloody flower bloomed on her shoulder, and the piercing pain came, but she clutched the hairpin and forced her neck to move.
"Stop! Stop! ”
"Tsk! The women in the Governor's Mansion are crazy! ”
"Miss!"
The secret passage is full of chaotic human voices, it is impossible to distinguish who it is, only vaguely can distinguish the sound of the herald, but there is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, the arrows have been fired together, it is difficult to collect halfway, a sleeve arrow is coming, the snow cold arrow light reminds people of the snow in the winter moon in Shengjing, white and dazzling, cold to the bones.
She closed her eyes and waited, feeling that this moment was incomparably long, the cold light was approaching, the breeze was blowing in her ears, the blood was spreading, but the pain did not come as expected.
Yao Huiqing opened her eyes in surprise, and the breeze swept back like silk, carrying a string of blood beads and splashing them backwards. She subconsciously turned her head and saw that the breeze was vaguely entering the sleeve of a man, who was wearing a night coat, not amazing, but with a restrained bearing, like a sword in a sheath, not seeing its blade, but knowing its edge.
The sound of the arrows faded away, and for a moment, the silence in the secret passage was terrifying.
A muffled sound came from a distance, like the sound of a heavy stone falling to the ground, but it smashed out a strong bloody gas.
Yao Huiqing followed the dart masters to follow the prestige, and saw a person in front of the chasing army, I don't know what was split into two from it, although I couldn't see the five internal organs and intestines flowing out of the darkness, but I could smell the strong bloody gas.
In the dead silence, I don't know who shouted a general, and the chasing soldiers were suddenly in chaos, and they retreated like a tide, and it seemed that the person who died tragically should be the general, and it was this person who gave the order to stop firing arrows.
Temporarily relieved, the dart masters looked at the man in black, and the shock was still there, but the blood shadow breathed a sigh of relief and complained: "It's finally here, it's really slow!" Why are you alone? ”
The person who came was an old acquaintance, who had been a buddy in the Xiangji Restaurant with the Blood Shadow, after the poisoning case of Bu Xisheng, the restaurant was burned, and the Blood Shadow pretended to be the son of the Yang family Cui Yuan and entered the Governor's Mansion, and the ghost and others disguised themselves as several other poor students who went to the south of the Yangtze River, often going in and out of the Wangshan Tower, inquiring and passing on news.
"The others are still clearing the road, this place is not easy to clean, and if it drags on for a longer time, I'm afraid Yuan Xiu will find that something has changed. In order to prevent further incidents, I came first, the Praetorian Guard has been killed, and the rest do not need to be ignored, and there are others who will help me to go out. "Ghost said.
"Good!" The Blood Shadow nodded and looked behind the ghost.
The ghost shadow doesn't know whether it is intentional or unintentional, it happens to stand in front of the human wall, but it can only block the most tragic corner, and the scene in front of the person is still stinging. The soul of the righteous man is gone, but the wall has not collapsed, and there is only a severed hand lying in a pool of blood, but the bloody wrist of the severed dart master holds another hand...... No matter how the Janissaries slashed, the dart masters refused to fall, and when one person's hand was cut off, the person next to him grabbed the mutilated arm, even if it was his own arm that was cut off to the ground the next moment. Behind the ghost, a round thing can be faintly seen, vaguely a human head, the head can fall, the wall cannot fall, the scene is impossible to see.
The blood shadow only glanced at it, then turned around and cut off the tail of the arrow on Yao Huiqing's shoulder, this knife suddenly fell neatly, and after the remnant arrow landed, Yao Huiqing felt pain, and cold sweat suddenly wet his face.
"This arrow cannot be pulled, and we will talk about it when we get out." The blood shadow swept his eyes at the dart master, and there were only a few dozen of the more than two hundred people left, and half of them were wounded by arrows.
Those who were lightly injured and had good light skills were singled out, and those who were seriously injured and difficult to walk on their backs were led by ghosts, and everyone planned to leave quickly by taking advantage of light skills.
It is not easy to cultivate the secret passage in Shengjing City, so the secret passage under the Guanyin Temple is quite short and narrow, when the dead soldiers first arrived, the three thousand Praetorian Guards packed the secret passage, and they can poke the top of the secret passage by raising the knife, so it is impossible for the dead soldiers to pass over the head of the Praetorian Guards by light skill, and they can only kill. Now that the Praetorian Guards have been slaughtered and scattered in the secret passages, the ghosts can come, and the group can go out with light merit.
Xiao Fang gave up the wheelchair and was carried by Luluo, the ghost shadow took Yao Huiqing, the blood shadow took Yang, Xiang'er was carried by a dart master, Cui Ling and Cui Xiu sisters were young and light, and an old dart master took over the two. Before everyone left, the dart masters went to move the human wall, and found that the person was stiff and could not be broken, so they had to pull out the knife on the wall and work together to move the entire human wall. There was no time to mourn and say goodbye, so when the dart masters left, they only picked up the stumps on the ground and put them away, and when they turned to leave, no one looked back, but they were all in tears.
The scene in the back section of the secret passage is like Senluo Hell, with corpses paved for a long time, and there are almost no corpses at a glance. Those Praetorian guards who wanted to break through the human wall had been killed when the ghost arrived, and the remnants fled into the back of the secret passage, and there were still dead soldiers cleaning up the enemy army, but there were not many people left, and the group walked on the corpses, and when they encountered the guards, they took hiding as the top, not seeking to kill the enemy, but only to go quickly.
At this time, the pursuers stopped shortly after the rout, and a young general walked under the lamp and said, "You can't just run back!" ”
"Do you want to go back and die?" The general is dead, this young general is just a small colonel, most of the guards are children of the scholar clan, and every family can count a few noble relatives, and they do not take this young general's words as a military order.
"Escape and live?" The young general sneered, "Master Hou has raised the anti-flag, and even the saint dares to kill, will he still save the lives of our people?" We are different from the people who came in before, they were ordered to cut off the back of the Imperial Guards, and we were just the ones who took the Governor's Palace. But a few women and children, a few empty carriages deceived us, and now the Hou Ye secretly told us to take people back, and we actually missed again, you say...... Such a waste, can Master Hou keep us? ”
"So what do you say?"
"Touch it back! We still have more arrows in our hands, don't catch the people in the governor's mansion, those two women are the best, if not, it is better to take one than to return empty-handed. ”
The guards looked at each other and said, "Say it lightly!" How can those dead soldiers be defeated? ”
The young general leaned against the wall and snorted, and the flickering candlelight reflected his face, looking unpredictable. He then beckoned to the Praetorian Guards.
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The dead were still clearing the remnants of the Praetorian Guards, who were scattered at various bends in the back of the tunnel, responding to the ghosts and their party to ensure that they were not entangled by the remnants of the small Praetorian Guards, and then retreated after the group had passed. With such a division of labor, the road was quite smooth, and because they were worried that the holy car would encounter another incident, everyone was determined to shorten the evacuation time, and no one was left to defend the back road. Therefore, when the blood shadow heard the suspicious sound, his heart couldn't help but sink, he didn't expect that someone would dare to catch up!
At this time, the group had already arrived at the exit, and the dart master who was guarding the Guanyin Temple all the way was already waiting anxiously, and after seeing people, he urgently reported the situation in the outer city. The Praetorian Guard was ordered to cut off the back road of the Holy Driver and the Imperial Forest Army, and did not appear for a long time, Yuan Xiu really noticed that something had changed, and layers of crossbowmen had been lined up on the city wall, but they were afraid of the life of General Hua, so they did not shoot. At this time, the two armies are ready to fight, and the battle is about to break out!
As soon as the blood shadow heard this, he quickly let the ghost shadow lead the people to leave first, and the saint general's top martial arts in the door were divided into two groups of people, one group of people went out of the city to find people first, and the other group of people entered the secret passage to save people, and now only Li Chaorong was escorted by the side, and the Shenjia army only had a thousand people, and they had been ordered to protect the people. The people who went south with the army have gathered at the gate of the city, these people maintain the morale of the army, and they are also the key to going south, so naturally they can't afford to lose, but the people have been sent out, and there are not many people available around the holy driver, if there is another incident, I am afraid that no one can send it.
The ghost shadow knew that the situation was urgent, and when he saw that he had reached the secret passage, the dart masters were on top, protecting a few women and children in the governor's mansion, and they were very manpowered, so they didn't say a word and led the people back to the holy driver, and when they left, they asked the blood shadow and others to go directly to the city gate, and after they went back to pay respects, the holy car would leave the city immediately.
But unexpectedly, as soon as the ghost and his party left, a suspicious sound came from the back road of the secret passage.
The blood shadow and the pothos are already covered in injuries, and they take people to perform light skills all the way, and the internal force consumed is not small, and the power of the ears and eyes is indeed not as good as before. But it's not as good as before, the master is still a master, they can still detect the abnormal noise, but in order to go quickly, they don't have time to kill all the Praetorian Guards they met on the way, so it is normal for someone to have a voice behind them, and the Praetorian Guards have been killed so frightened that they don't dare to follow.
But at this time, the strange noise obviously indicated that the pursuers had arrived, and these people had the ability to follow the approach, and there was only one possibility, that is, they used those scattered Praetorian Guards as a cover and touched all the way. And since they only appeared at this time, it means that these people were waiting for the opportunity for them to come out of the secret path in the first place!
Hiss!
Flash of thought swept through the blood shadow's mind like lightning, and he didn't have time to think about who made the originally broken Praetorian Guards become smart and fearless, because the killing machine came quickly, and just as they reached the second half of the stone steps, the sound of the arrows in their sleeves had already been heard!
The dart masters waiting above can see the situation clearly, but their own people are also below, the poison cannot be used, and the stone steps are narrow, jumping into the secret passage to save people will block the way for their own people to come up.
"Come on!" The dart masters stretched out their hands and picked up the people one by one, but the speed of the pick-up was not as fast as the arrow.
In order to save the people in the Governor's Mansion, Shengyuan Dart Bureau paid not only the lives of those righteous people who stayed in the secret passage, but also the foundation of the entire Jiangbei. Providence or carelessness, when they saw the exit, the people in the governor's mansion got out of the way, letting the seriously injured dart masters go out first, and when they encountered the pursuers, they gave their backs to the rain of arrows.
(To be continued)
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The back was not well written, and I felt that the rhythm was not tight enough, so I deleted and changed it many times, and it took a whole day, and it was not much more than yesterday. But since I said that this chapter is going to finish the plot of going out of the city, the follow-up about going out of the city will be made up later in this chapter, and the extra content is considered a benefit for the friends, group~