Chapter Forty-Eight: The Lockdown of the City
Not long after Yu Ji and Yu Si left, the rain stopped, and the sergeant who fell to the ground and convulsed did not survive, and the tragic image was extremely terrifying.
Sun Lin, Feng Xunzhi, and Yuan Mutou chased all the way, and finally caught up with Yu San and Shi Jin. The puppets and the garrison sergeants fought together, and after chasing all the way, the garrison sergeants' physical strength decreased greatly, and the heavy shields were frequently knocked away by the puppets, and in just a while, there were many casualties. Yuan Mutou never dared to look down on these garrison sergeants, but he ignored that these sergeants had been training for a long time, and their physical fitness naturally could not be compared with those elite legions in the martial arts camp, and a period of chasing had exhausted the only physical strength of these sergeants.
Yuan Mutou was very annoyed, and hurriedly asked the sergeants to gather on the spot, with the heavy shield on the periphery, and the spear and Pu knife hidden behind the heavy shield, forming a circular formation to defend the puppets from rushing and killing.
Yu San and Shi Jin keenly grasped the weaknesses of these garrison sergeants, on the contrary, they had no physical problems controlling the Blood Curse Puppets, and seemed to never know about exhaustion, so they immediately ordered the puppets to frantically charge towards the circle formed by heavy shields. In a few moments, the circle was knocked out of many gaps, and without the defense of heavy shields, the blood curse puppets rushed into the formation, and after a burst of slashing, the garrison suffered heavy casualties.
Yuan Mutou, Sun Lin, and Feng Xunzhi saw that the garrison was on the verge of rout, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, but although the three of them were brave, there were many puppets, and the garrison had begun to flee backwards. Yuan Mutou finally gave up, and he ordered the garrison to retreat.
Yu San and Shi Jin didn't chase after them, both of them had injuries on their bodies, and once Sun Lin and the three of them seized the opportunity, they would most likely end up the same as Zhang Da. After the garrison withdrew, the two roughly counted the number of puppets, but they didn't expect that nearly two hundred puppets had been lost in this formation, and Yu San and Shi Jin felt a chill in their hearts when they thought of Yuji. At present, the two of them don't know whether to set off to Lincheng again or go back to the government for the time being, after hesitating for a while, Yu San decided to go back to the government first, after all, now that the garrison has stood with Sun Lin and the three of them, they are afraid that it will be inappropriate to leave Wankou at this moment. The two of them led the blood curse puppet and didn't go far, they met Yu Ji and Yu Si head-on, Yu Ji listened to Yu San's report briefly, and was very angry, and a black water energy swung out and knocked the two to the ground. Yu San and Shi Jin didn't dare to make a mistake, so they quickly got up, knelt on the ground, and begged the elders for forgiveness.
Yuji was silent, turned around and disappeared into the night. Yu Si came over to help Yu San and Shi Jin, and informed the two of them that the corpse water in the Master's Soul Devouring Array had wiped out Zhu Gang and the rest of the garrison. The two of them were a little frightened, and they didn't know what to do at the moment. Yu Siyou comforted a few words, and asked the two to lead the puppet to the camp tent for the time being, and not to return to the mansion for the time being.
Sun Lin and the three of them led the remaining garrison sergeants to prepare to return to the camp, walked for a while, and found that there were many corpses of the garrison lying densely in front of them, the corpses were all decomposed, emitting a burst of corpse smell, a group of people were stunned by the tragic image, and many garrison soldiers vomited on the spot. Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi were also churning in their stomachs, this kind of tragic image was extremely shocking to the two of them, they had always known that Jiuli had many evil arts, and the blood curse puppet had surprised the two, and now they couldn't believe what was happening in front of them when they saw the rotting corpses of the entire garrison.
Yuan Mutou was stunned in place, he blamed himself deeply in his heart, it was his idea to come to the garrison, and it was he who provoked the garrison to fight with Yuji, at this moment he had doubts about himself for the first time, if he hadn't won over the garrison and Yuji to confront him, these people should not have ended up like this, he vaguely saw Zhu Gang's corpse from afar, although he was extremely disdainful of Zhu Gang, but if he didn't have his own coercion, maybe he could live a little longer.
Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi noticed Yuan Mutou's strange appearance and came over to persuade a few words, but when Yuan Mutou saw the two of them coming, he waved his hand and signaled that he was fine. Sun Lin instructed the remaining garrison not to stay here and leave quickly. At this time, most of the garrison suddenly fled in all directions, and when they saw such a tragic image, they had completely lost confidence in defeating Yuji, and they did not believe that Sun Lin and the three of them could defeat Yuji and take them out of Anhui alive. They just want to live, and survival is the only hope for everyone at the moment. Sun Lin looked at the fleeing garrisons, and he didn't stop them. Feng Xunzhi came over and pulled Sun Lin and Yuan Mutou, and the three of them and some scattered garrisons did not go back to the barracks, but came to the city and hid for the time being.
After dawn, in the government of the Shukou Mansion, Yu Ji asked Yu Si to call Yu San and Shi Jin, who lost two hundred puppets last night, and asked Yu Si and Shi Jin to take their subordinates to use the remaining charms, and refine two hundred blood curse puppets in one day, and set off again for Lincheng the night after tomorrow. The two of them did not dare to slack off, and immediately took people to find the corpses of the garrison and seized the time to refine.
Yu Si had been standing beside Yu Ji, and he wanted to ask why Master was in such a hurry to send someone to Lincheng, but he didn't dare to speak. Yu Ji looked out the window, the sky had been gloomy because of the black fog, and he suddenly asked Yu Si: "When you and Yu San laid out this formation, did you pay attention to the turbid qi around the mouth?" ”
"I noticed that the turbidity in this area is a little stronger than usual, but for some reason." Yu Si hurriedly returned to Yuji.
Yu Ji walked to the window, stared at the black fog in the air and said, "Because there are several core elders of our clan buried here, one of them is your ancestor, Yu Hong. ”
When Li Si heard that the elders of the previous generation were buried here, he hurriedly asked, "Master, where is the cemetery of the ancestor and the core elders?" Do you want to worship? ”
"There was no cemetery, they all blew themselves up and died, and their flesh and blood were buried in the ground." Yu Ji turned around and glanced at Yu Si.
Yu Si hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to say anything more. Yu Ji sighed and continued: "The corpse water in the Soul Devouring Array last night was borrowed from the corpse qi of these elders who remained here, you must hurry up and go to Lincheng, you can also go down and prepare, and set off with Yu San the night after tomorrow." Yu Si promised to step back. Yuji was alone and looked out the window in a daze.
Yuan Mutou hadn't spoken since he saw Zhu Gang and the corpses of the garrison last night, Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi knew that he was deeply remorseful, and wanted to persuade him a few times, but seeing that he had kept his head down, he didn't step forward and let him be quiet alone for a while. There are probably less than a hundred garrison sergeants who followed Sun Lin and the three of them, and many of them actually don't understand why they still follow Sun Lin.
Several garrison soldiers whispered, pushed an officer out, and asked Sun Lin: "General Zhonglang, what should we do next?" ”
As soon as these words came out, Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi also asked themselves again, Yuan Mutou heard the sound, his body shook slightly, he got up and walked over slowly, looked at the people who had no morale, and said with a hint of decadence in his tone: "Don't go out for the time being, hide here." ”
The officer looked at the three of them and asked in a wooden manner, "Can we still get out alive?" ”
Sun Lin's expression was calm, he looked at Feng Xunzhi and Yuan Mutou, and said firmly: "I must get out alive." "Sun Lin came out of Qinggu, experienced the rebellion of the Jianye Wang clan, and then it was the mouth of the Xu, and then here, he personally felt the evil and cruelty of the Jiuli clan, although the tragic scene last night was quite shocking, but on the contrary, it stimulated his fighting spirit even more, firmly believing that evil does not prevail over good, and he has people to worry about, master, senior brother, Wei Qingyue, he must live, and live to take these sergeants away.
Feng Xunzhi laughed, he also really felt Sun Lin's belief, patted Sun Lin and Yuan Mutou, and said, "I must get out alive." Yuan Mutou was infected by the two of them, and his mood was better, instead of being decadent, it was better to cheer up, fight to the death, and live after death.
Dongyue, Lincheng, Captain Wu Xihuan, and Lincheng Garrison Deputy General Pang Tuo led a team of personal soldiers, and arrived at the main camp of the garrison early in the morning. As soon as the generals and officers saw that it was Chen Feng, the chief general of the garrison, several Chen Feng's cronies and generals immediately drew their swords and angrily attacked Wu Xihuan and Pang Tuo. Who knew that Wu Xihuan came over with an arrow, quickly grabbed the blades in the hands of the two people in front of him, and with a backhand stroke, the throats of the two generals were cut, and the blood gushed like a spring, and then they lay on the ground. This scene stunned everyone present, and the soldiers quickly stepped forward and quickly pushed the other officers who had drawn their blades to the ground.
Wu Xihuan saw that the scene was under control, and said to everyone: "You are all my brothers for many years, we have been stationed in this city for several years, and we have never been on a business trip, but the emperor is suspicious of us, and I have been promoted to the captain on the bright side, but I have been sent to serve as the main general to contain us, recently received news that the emperor suspects that we are the henchmen of the Wang family, and is about to send someone to call me to enter Beijing, once I enter Jianye, I will definitely die, in desperation, today I will be reversed, if the brothers are willing to join me, they will stay, unwilling, You can leave now. ”
After saying these words, these generals and officers all looked at each other, extremely incredible, and a bold general opened his mouth and asked Wu Xihuan: "General Wu, our Lincheng is in the center of East Vietnam, surrounded by garrisons, even if we follow your rebellion, as long as the royal family orders, there will be many people coming to encircle and suppress immediately, relying on us alone, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist." ”
Pang Tuo took a few steps forward from behind Wu Xihuan at this moment, and said slowly: "It's not just us, the emperor of Dongyue is mediocre, these months, I don't know how many people have been killed, since we have decided to raise troops, there must be some arrangements, in the next few days, there will be people from all walks of life, as long as everyone works together, we will turn against Dongyue, and you will all be the founding heroes at that time." ”
Pang Tuo's words are quite heroic, but the officers and generals below are not ignorant, once the army is defeated, it will be all dead. So everyone was silent, and the atmosphere froze for a while. Wu Xiheng saw that everyone was extremely hesitant to speak again: "Over the years, I, Wu Xihuan, have never treated everyone badly, at this moment the mutiny is also a last resort, the Dongyue Emperor is insidious, summoning me to enter Beijing is a death, anyway, it is all death, why not Bo once, I am not a reckless person, we are not the only one who raised troops, I have agreed with the armies, once there is an incident, echo each other, then the Dongyue royal family will be attacked from many sides, and the defeat has been decided." ”
After hearing this, several officers began to move, but a few others suddenly spoke: "General Wu, you said before, if you don't want to, you can leave now, I will resign and return to my hometown at this moment, I hope the general will understand." With that, the three officers turned around and were about to leave the camp. Pang Tuo suddenly moved, flew over, pinched the back of the necks of the two officers with both hands, and kicked the third officer in the back at the same time. Before everyone could react, Pang Tuo used both hands hard, and the two officers tilted their heads and immediately stopped breathing, and the officer who was kicked in the back and fell to the ground saw Pang Tuo's methods, and quickly got up and wanted to run.
The officers and generals present also have a friendship with Pang Tuo for many years, but looking at Pang Tuo at this moment, he is extremely unfamiliar, and he didn't expect him to have such a means. This killing hand was quite effective, and Wu Xihuan asked again: "Is there anything else you want to leave?" ”
The officers and generals in the camp immediately replied in unison: "Obey General Wu's orders." ”
Pang Tuo and Wu Xihuan looked at each other and smiled, and then, Pang Tuo personally led the sergeant to sweep the Lincheng Mansion, and Wu Xihuan ordered: Seal the city.