The caravan was attacked again as it was leaving Wuwei County. While they were resting in the wilderness, a nearby gang of bandits stormed the camp. It's just ordinary bandits trying to rob their property, and the guards don't let them get their way. More than a dozen corpses were left behind, and the remaining bandits scattered in the mountains and forests.

There was no fighting, and the bandits were crushed at the first touch.

Ma Yue was no longer so afraid, and in the flickering firelight, he looked at the hideous face of the yellow-skinned bandit's corpse, and only sighed silently.

They don't even have decent weapons. In this era, the Han Empire had popularized steel weapons, but these bandits still had weapons such as bronze swords and bronze swords. This is just a group of peasants, the northwest winter hangs a fierce white-haired wind, Ma Yue wears a three-layer cloth coat wrapped in a leather jacket and still feels cold in such a night, but the bandits wear single clothes to commit murder.

Even if they weren't killed by the guards, they wouldn't have survived for more than a few days.

In the early morning, people boiled gruel on the bonfire and broke the buns into it. The bodies of the bandits who died in last night's battle were not buried, but were placed not far away. It was difficult for him to accept that he was eating at the corpses of his own kind, and that others were eating comfortably Ma Yue was spitting sour water behind the tree, and there was nothing in his stomach, so he couldn't eat anything and could only hurry on an empty stomach.

On the way, Ma Zong took out a bun from his arms and handed it to Ma Yue, as well as half a bag of water.

"That's what the world is. My eldest brother and I once entered the territory of Xianbei in northern Xinjiang, where the herdsmen were poorer and more miserable, and even killed horses and starved to death, so they went to other tribes to kill people. Either I kill you or you kill me, there's no way around it. ”

Smiling self-deprecatingly, Ma Zong said: "Isn't our family the same, every year we rely on me and my eldest brother to kill people to earn military merits." ”

The more the horse seems to have lost the desire to talk to people, and becomes quiet. This state lasted for four days, until they stepped into the Hexi Corridor, where there were blue skies and white clouds, and fine horse grass. There is also the Great Wall stretching here, and the beacon towers are one after another. Along the way, you can see majestic Qiang men with leather armor and knives driving herds of cattle and sheep, and there are also a group of Han soldiers holding Changge straddle horses from the fort to run out of the fort to walk the horses.

Here, it is an excellent horse farm of the Han Empire.

The inventory of important military places has obviously become strict, and there can be no people for dozens of miles, but there must be a post for thirty miles to check on passers-by. Ma Yue and Wei He didn't dare to blatantly play with the hand crossbow, Wei He had a certificate to carry but Ma Yue didn't, so the hand crossbow was placed in Wei He's salute, and his customs clearance documents were checked many times in a few days.

Ma Zong and Guan Yu's eyes lit up every time they passed by the fort, the Han army here was the real Han border army. Their armor is bright and their weapons are complete, and the spirit on their bodies is like a hundred battles at a glance.

When they arrived at such a strict check, everyone was relieved and no longer worried about being attacked. It turned out that it was not time to relax, and less than a hundred miles from Jiuquan, they were attacked again.

This time it was a real attack.

That night, they stayed at a hotel next to the official road, because they had already been on the Silk Road, so there were many wild shops in the wilderness for these merchants who ran and lived on the Silk Road. The price is higher, but it is clean and comfortable, and it is better than sleeping in the middle of nowhere.

Ma Yue has a room with Ma Zong, Guan Yu and Chen Guang have a room, and Wei He and Peng Tuo have a room. Ma Zong slept and snored, Ma Yue was very helpless about his brother's habit, he was tired enough to wake up Ma Zong. It didn't wake up Ma Zong's snoring, and the amplitude was so loud that Ma Yue was worried about whether the beams of the inn could hold up.

Ma Yue, who couldn't sleep, could only close his eyes and think about things, he was wondering if the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao really had the ability to live and die and be a ghost.

Suddenly, he heard a small sound outside the inn, like the hoofs of a muffled horse.

These days, Ma Yue has been running all the way, and he has some vigilance, and he quickly got dressed, and he looked downstairs through the window, and secretly said in his heart.

Thirty or so men with knives straddled horses and were about to dismount a hundred steps away from the inn, and at a glance, the black pressure pressed a piece of sharp weapons in the hands of the people, reflecting the moonlight at night, it looked extremely cold!

Ma Yue hurriedly took out his crossbow and woke up Ma Zong.

"Second brother, there are thieves!"

Ma Zong was still a little bored, and was about to scold Ma Yue when he was suddenly covered in his mouth, but when he heard Ma Yue say this, he got up from the bed and pulled out the long knife under the pillow.

"It's in the courtyard, second brother, I'll wake them up when you get dressed."

Ma Zong nodded, Ma Yue opened the door and saw that there was no one in the corridor, so he ran to the next door and knocked on the door.

"Brother Guan, open the door! Open the door! ”

Guan Yu was sleepy-eyed, and when he heard Ma Yue say that there was a thief downstairs, he hurriedly woke up Chen Guang and got dressed. Ma Yue felt a little at ease after waking up Guan Yu, his second brother and Guan Yu were both excellent in martial arts, as long as his two strong opponents were prepared, at least their own lives would be saved.

Then he went to wake up Wei He and Peng Tuo, who opened the door and dragged Ma Yue into the house to cover his mouth.

"Shhhh

Ma Yue looked at the two of them and saw that they had already reacted, it seemed that Peng Tuo had discovered the traces first and was about to go out to call someone, and Wei He was putting on his shoes.

"I know, I'm here to tell you, go! Go and wake up the guards with me! ”

Ma Yue and Peng Tuo called the door around, time was running out, and soon those thieves would go up to the second floor, and after the two patted the door, Ma Yue said to Peng Tuo: "Brother Peng, our room is on the outermost, you take some of your brothers to go down from the second floor to copy the back road of the thieves, we are crowded, and the narrow corridor is not good for us." ”

Peng Tuo didn't say much, he had traveled south and north for many years, and experienced many dangerous battles, so he naturally knew that he was forced to fight by thieves in the corridor, and once he had long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows, he would die without a place to be buried.

Ma Yue returned to the room and found that Guan Yu and Chen Guang were both in the house, and after closing the door, Ma Yue was pulled behind the bed by Ma Zong, and the two wooden beds had been erected and put together, leaving only a small gap in the middle.

"San Lang, you aim at the door with a crossbow behind the bed, and when you see a thief coming in, give him an arrow first!"

Ma Yue nodded and asked, "What about you?" ”

Guan Yu and the three of them shook the unsheathed head knife in their hands at him, Ma Yue also smiled, and when he saw the three of them hiding on both sides of the door, he squatted behind the two beds, and after he put arrows on the crossbow through the gap, he squatted on the crossbow and aimed at the door.

Ma Yue was still a little nervous, but he was not afraid. He had something else on his mind, the way the gang came from.

He felt that the gang was the same as the thieves they had encountered for the first time, and it was obvious that they were only trying to kill people and not to seek money. And they clearly know their route, they are the only ones who live in this inn, and it will not be an accident.

The sound of light footsteps stopped abruptly at the door, as if waiting for something, and at this moment, Ma Zong suddenly snored.

That's right, he's pretending.

As if it was determined that there was someone inside, a short dagger went through the crack in the door and hooked the door, and the door valve fell to the ground.

The moment the two doors were pushed open, Ma Yue only saw a black shadow and pulled the trigger without even seeing his face clearly, "Boom! There was a soft sound on the ground, and crossbow arrows shot out with the momentum of wind and thunder.

The thief who opened the door only had time to let out a short "Doom!" The body went limp, and Ma Yue's arrow shot at his head, and the whole crossbow was almost lost to its roots. There is absolutely no hope of survival.

"Bang", the sound of the corpse smashing on the ground shook everyone's heartstrings, and there was a low cry outside the door, and then three black shadows rushed in with steel knives, and Ma Yue hurriedly pulled the crossbow string on the arrow, but the hand trembled greatly and couldn't stop.

It was the first time he had killed someone, killing his own kind. If the white-knuckled war horse is close, the more afraid it will be, and the fear will be covered by ruthlessness until the end of the battle.

Knowing that there was a crossbowman in the house, the three thieves rushed in and rushed towards the two striking beds, where they were about to kill the crossbowman before he could shoot his arrows. Otherwise, the crossbow is a powerful long-range weapon, and shooting one more arrow means falling a brother.

The moment they entered, three fierce men with knives sprang out from the door, slashing them down one by one. Then Ma Zong and Chen Guang rushed out of the house, Guan Yu carried a long knife to the back of the bed and pulled Ma Yue up, and said, "San Lang pulled out the knife, let's fight back!" ”

Ma Yue's trembling hand had just loaded the crossbow arrows, holding the crossbow in one hand, and pulling out the head knife at his waist with the other hand, and followed Guan Yu.

At this time, there is nothing more reassuring than Guan Yu's name, and seeing Guan Yu Ma Yue is like seeing the backbone. Guan Yu is Ma Yue's steel helmet that saves his life on the battlefield, when he sees Guan Yu, he has a nameless courage that arises from his heart, even if there are thousands of troops, he believes that Guan Yu will protect him and kill him.

Although Guan Yu and Ma Zong's strength were not much different, Ma Zong could not give Ma Yue a feeling of absolute protection, although Ma Zong was also able to fight to the death for him.

This is the celebrity effect.

Ma Yue always felt that the nine-foot beard in front of him was the green robe with a red face that he saw in the comic book when he was a child.

Coming out of the house, Ma Yue instantly found himself on the battlefield, and the five-step-wide corridor was crowded with people at this time. There were sword-wielding caravan guards and black-clad thieves.

The long knives in the hands of Guan Yu and Ma Zong opened and closed widely, and there was no enemy in front of them. Chen Guang's guard kept stabbing out the Han sword in his hand beside Ma Yue, making up for the fish that slipped through the net for Guan and Ma. Ma Yue didn't see Peng Tuo and Wei He, there were relatively few people in the corridor, although there were already eight or nine ghosts under Guan Ma and the others at this time, the enemies in the corridor still exceeded the number of his own side.

Peng Tuo successfully jumped to the first floor with some of his brothers.

"Brother hold on, as long as it takes a moment, Brother Peng will take his brother to fight back."

Guan Ma and the others were a little confused about this, and they might not even listen to it, they were all worried about where they would be distracted to listen to what Ma Yue said, but Chen Guang turned his head and asked, "Kill it?" They're not in the house? ”

At that moment, "Boom! Ma Yue heard a shout of killing downstairs, and turned his head to see Wei and the white fox Qiu bloodstained chuckling at him, while flowing with arrows to the crossbow. Peng Tuo held a long knife and led a group of guards to rush up from behind the thieves.

As soon as Wei He appeared, he was discovered by the sharp-eyed thief, and his white fox fur was too conspicuous.

"Wei He is down there, go kill him!"

The thieves fought and retreated towards Wei He to kill, but if they wanted to kill Wei He, they had to step on the corpses of Peng Tuo and others, although Peng Tuo's martial arts were not as strong as Guan Yu and Ma Zong, but how could he be the leader of the guards of the caravan, a long knife was wielded without leaking, and two thieves were killed in an instant.

Ma Zong was holding the head knife in one hand at this time, and the three-foot Han sword that he had snatched out of nowhere in the other, and when he saw that the thieves were all towards Wei He, he shouted angrily: "Where to go, stupid thief, look at the strength of your grandfather of the Ma family." Guan Yu saw that the remaining dozen or so thieves were all heading towards the other side of the corridor to guard and kill, and Peng Tuo hurriedly chased after him under pressure, killing the thieves who stood in front of them along the way.

Ma Yue saw that there was no one around him, and he hurriedly ran towards Guan Yu, there were more than twenty corpses lying in the narrow corridor, he didn't want to stay here alone.

Ma Yue, who was running, suddenly fell to the ground with a clench of his ankle, and the sword flew out of his hand, and he turned over to see that his ankle was actually caught by a thief who was not dead, and he couldn't escape at all. The thief had his arm cut off by someone, and the only remaining hand grabbed Ma Yue's ankle and dragged him step by step.

In desperation, Ma Yue screamed, grabbed the crossbow, and pulled the trigger on the thief's head with both hands.

"Ahh