Volume 1 The Eagle Flies at the End of the Han Dynasty Chapter 35 The Night Feast of Death
The vast mountains stretch for hundreds of miles, and the mountains are stacked on top of each other, rolling and undulating. The ancient road in the mountains is tortuous, the giant trees are towering to the sky, the sun is cloudy, and there are mountains in the morning mist, which adds a layer of dark and illusory color to the mountains.
Groups of black-clad and masked samurai rushed along the rugged mountain road, breaking the silence of the mountains.
Zhang Lu Zhuoran stood on a boulder on the side of the road, staring at the groups of subordinates under his feet like a slender and turbulent jet-black stream.
A ghost pawn quietly appeared under the stone, knelt down on one knee and said, "Great sacrifice wine!" 1,500 brothers have been assembled, and now there are 100 people in a team, separated by five miles before and after, and they are advancing rapidly towards Black Tiger Mountain! ”
Zhang Lu said: "How far is it from Black Tiger Mountain?" ”
The ghost pawn replied: "At the current speed, we can reach the Black Tiger Mountain Pass tomorrow night!" ”
"Good!" A hint of excitement flashed in Zhang Lu's eyes, "Pass the order!" Camp after twenty miles! Waiting for the arrival of the grain and grass team behind them, after replenishing the dry grain and water, they went straight to Black Tiger Mountain in one go! ”
After saying that, he jumped up like a big bird and swept towards the advancing team.
When Zhang Lu and the ghost pawns went away, a grass pile behind the boulder moved slightly, and two heads poked out, and one said: "You quickly go to report to the high leader and Brother Sanshan, there are about 1,500 good hands in the Heavenly Master's Dao, led by Zhang Lu himself, the big sacrificial wine, and will camp 40 miles away from Black Tiger Mountain tonight!" ”
"Yes!"
As the night grew darker, the Heavenly Master Dao Brigade stayed in place in a small valley on the side of the mountain road, lit piles of bonfires, and soon the air emitted bursts of meaty fragrance.
Zhang Lu and more than a dozen ghost pawn leaders gathered in front of a big fire.
His eyes were fixed on the dancing flames, listening to the "crackling" of the dead branches in the fire, and after a long time, he said in a deep voice: "There is still one day to go, and we will enter the Black Tiger Mountain!" All of you brothers are talented in teaching, what do you think about this battle? ”
All the leaders of the ghost pawns said in unison: "I wish to listen to the teachings of the Great Sacrifice Wine!" ”
Zhang Lu said with a solemn face: "Actually, I don't have any high opinions!" I just know that there will be a bloody battle! I don't even know, how many of the 1500 brothers will survive? ”
Everyone was silent, and one of them couldn't help but say: "Great sacrifice wine!" How many enemies are there? How strong is it? ”
Zhang Lu smiled bitterly: "I don't know! ”
Everyone exclaimed, "What? ”
Another humanitarian: "The Art of War: Only by knowing the other can you survive a hundred battles!" Even the Great Sacrificial Wine doesn't know the reality of the enemy, so will we be a little risky in this operation? ”
Zhang Lu sighed and said, "Why don't I know? But now it's ready to be sent! All of you are the leaders of the sect, and you must know the treasures of Black Tiger Mountain! ”
Everyone nodded in unison.
Someone asked, "I heard that even the Taiping Dao has given up that treasure, so it can be seen that the enemy who occupies this mountain should be strong!" Why should we fight for it with all the strength of the Church! ”
Zhang Lu's eyes flashed coldly, and he shouted in a low voice: "What do you know!" ”
The man was startled and quickly bowed his head.
Zhang Lu's face gradually softened, and he sighed: "That's why I said that the arrow has to be sent, of course Taiping Dao can not want this treasure, because they have to work hard to travel thousands of miles, and they must be careful to beware of the government and all forces, if they insist on fighting, the gains will outweigh the losses!" ”
Everyone nodded in unison, and someone answered, "In this way, if we take this mountain, we will have the treasure to ourselves!" ”
Zhang Lu smiled and shook his head: "Wrong! Taiping Road can not do without treasures, and we can also do without! ”
Everyone was stunned and said, "Don't? So why do we still have to take this mountain? ”
Zhang Lu stared blankly at the flames in front of him, and said slowly: "You can not have treasures, but the enemies under your eyelids must be swept away!" Because, that will be a stumbling block for my Heavenly Master Dao to start things in the future! ”
Everyone was stunned.
Zhang Lu was stunned for a while before he said, "I won't hide it from you!" This time, the enemy is indeed a strong enemy, first wiped out the four masters of Taiping Dao with a snap of his fingers, and then easily surrendered the fierce plate shield barbarian, and a few days ago, he silently cut off 48 scouts of my sect. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure about this fight! ”
Everyone was terrified.
Zhang Lu stood up and said in a surprisingly calm tone: "But the more unfathomable the enemy, the greater the harm, we must not sit idly by and watch them grow and grow day by day on our side of the couch!" It must be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise it will cause us immeasurable damage! Now, you get it, right? Why did Shi Jun and I still attack in a passive situation where we didn't know the enemy's situation! ”
Everyone bowed down and said, "Shijun and the Great Sacrifice Wine are far-sighted!" I'll wait! ”
Zhang Lu's eyes flashed with Sen Han's murderous intent: "The battle of tomorrow night!" It can be said that it is related to the rise and fall of my Heavenly Master Dao in the next few decades, no matter how heavy the price we will pay, we must also destroy the enemy in one fell swoop! ”
Everyone roared: "Obey the order!" ”
In a dense forest a few miles away from the Heavenly Master Dao camp, dozens of black shadows lurked quietly among the grass behind the trees.
One of them said in a low voice: "Brother Feng, all the brothers who are ambushed everywhere have arrived, a total of 53 people!" ”
Brother Feng nodded slowly, and under the dim starlight, it was Gao Feng.
Luo Sanshan was a little anxious and said, "Ah Feng! What shall we do? It's been half a day since I sent the Tiger to bring the news back to the valley! Why hasn't you heard back yet, sir? ”
Gao Feng gritted his teeth and said, "I can't wait any longer!" In three hours it will be dawn, and if we miss tonight, we will lose the best opportunity to attack! ”
Luo Sanshan exclaimed: "Do you want to use more than 50 of us to force 1,500 people of the Heavenly Master Dao?" ”
Gao Feng said coldly: "What? You're scared! ”
Luo Sanshan was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "Fart!" I'm afraid of you! Lao Tzu is just worried, the sir's ......"
Gao Feng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry! I'm sure I'll support that, sir! ”
As he spoke, he gently slapped his palms twice, and everyone slowly gathered around.
Gao Feng took a deep breath, and although his voice was low, he revealed an indomitable firmness and said, "Brothers, we have no choice!" If the enemy rests overnight, he will launch a major attack on the valley tomorrow night! In order to prevent the war from spreading to our homeland, we have to stand up for it here! Buy them more time for the sir! ”
He sneered and said, "Brothers, don't look at the number of them, the chief said that it's just a group of paper tigers!" Let's kill them all! ”
All the brothers shouted in unison: "Trapped! Kill! ”
"Well said!" Not far behind him, a voice came without warning.
Everyone was shocked.
Only Gao Feng and Luo Sanshan were ecstatic in their hearts, and said in a trembling voice: "It's the chief!" ”
Nan Ying slowly walked out of the dark night, the dark shadows behind him, but silently, he gradually approached, and Gao Feng's most familiar and terrifying cruel smile appeared on his lips.
Gao Feng couldn't help but look up at the sky, there was no moon in the night sky, only a little faint starlight, and a thought flashed in his heart: it was another murderous night!
After several days of trekking on the mountain road, all the Heavenly Master Dao people were sleepy, except for dozens of people who had been arranged to patrol the periphery of the camp, the others had already fallen asleep.
The two ghost pawns walked slowly with knives, and one of them suddenly said: "Lao Zhang, you keep an eye on it first, I'm so anxious!" ”
Another scolded in a low voice: "It's convenient for you kid to get away!" Didn't you see that the big sacrificial wine and the brothers were sleeping on the ground? If the stench wakes them up, you will suffer it! ”
He just let out a long breath of breath easily, and suddenly saw the grass under his feet move slightly, and he was just about to make a sound in shock, a rope loop hung down from the tree, accurately put it into his neck, and hung him up.
The ghost pawn was hung so that the neck bone clicked softly, where could he make a sound, he tried his best to reach out to pull the rope loop in his neck, but it was getting tighter and tighter, he finally remembered the long knife at his waist, just pulled out the knife in his hand to cut the rope, but felt that the strength of his body was gradually lost, and his eyes had fallen into eternal darkness, and the long knife in his hand fell weakly.
As the long knife was about to reach the ground, a hand reached out of the grass under the tree like lightning, grasped the hilt, and slowly retracted into the grass.
The old Zhang Zheng couldn't wait patiently, and finally saw a black-clothed masked man sticking out his head from behind the tree and beckoning to him again and again, he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, what the hell is this kid doing, peeing and asking people to see!
He had no choice but to go, scolding in a low voice, "Damn! If Lao Tzu wasn't afraid of waking up the big sacrificial wine, he would give your kid a stinky beating first! ”
When he walked behind the tree, he couldn't help but open his mouth in astonishment, the back of the tree was empty, where was there a figure?
Another loop hung silently and was around his neck.
At the outermost end of the camp, several ghost pawns lay in a row under the trees, snoring sweetly, and several guards in the same costume walked past their feet, and suddenly struck at the same time, covering their mouths and noses with a cotton cloth with their left hand, and stabbing their short knives into their hearts with their right hands. After a slight twitching struggle, there was no more sound, and the killer covered the wound with a cotton cloth so that the blood would not flow out, and then slowly drew his knife out, and then lined up in a neat patrol and walked down as if nothing had happened.
Wandering through the night like ghosts with a few of his brothers, he had no idea how many people he had killed, and after removing all the outer guards, they changed into ghost costumes and began a silent slaughter of the enemy who was still asleep.
He shot like lightning, killing silently, and the whole process was like a perfect performance, which was completed when the clouds were flowing, and several brothers who followed couldn't help but look at it with straight eyes.
Nanying watched as he was about to go deeper into the camp and quietly made a withdrawal gesture.
A ghost pawn was sleeping soundly, and suddenly felt a cold piece under him, and when he reached out and touched it, it was a pile of water, and he was furious in his heart, who unintentionally knocked over the water bag or did someone make it convenient anywhere? And let no one sleep! He turned over and sat up, and was about to scold, when he suddenly felt something strange about the liquid in his hand, and when he put his nose to smell it, his face suddenly showed a look of horror.
He jumped to his feet, opened his mouth wide and was about to speak, but when he looked up, he saw countless rockets in the dark night sky, reflecting his miserable pupils with a little fire.
Zhang Lu suddenly woke up from his sleep, and there was an indescribable uneasiness in his heart, he listened attentively for a while, and there was nothing unusual, so he had to fall asleep again. After a while, the fear in his heart was even worse, and he no longer had the mood to sleep, and walked out of a simple tent, ready to check the situation of the guard himself.
The first thing he saw when he stepped out of the tent was dozens of rockets in brilliant shadows and falling towards the center of the camp.
In Zhang Lu's incredulous gaze, as soon as the rocket landed, it made a miraculous "boom", rushing into dozens of huge flames.
For a while, the camp was boiling like boiling water, and countless ghost soldiers were awakened by the intense scorching heat in their sleep, and then they were shocked to find that they had been swept by the flames, and they all ran and rolled around screaming, only to ignite more flames, and more people were swept into the flames.
Countless people of fire were desperate in vain in the fire.
Nanying watched with satisfaction that the camp in the distance had become a purgatory on earth in an instant, but Gao Feng, Dian Wei and the others around him gasped together.
Gao Feng stammered: "No wonder some people say that water and fire are ruthless!" It's so powerful! ”
Nan Ying looked at Dian Wei and smiled: "This is really thanks to your old friend Li Yong!" If he hadn't prepared so much oil for us! How could we possibly give such a great gift to our Heavenly Master Dao friends who came from afar! ”
Dian Wei smiled bitterly: "Lord, you can still laugh!" This gift was almost enjoyed by yourself! ”
Nan Ying laughed again, and suddenly the laughter stopped, and he said coldly: "Brothers! Another great gift for Heavenly Master Dao friends! Bow and crossbow waiting! ”
A dense rain of arrows poured down into the bright daylight of the fire, and the writhing and struggling fire men were excellent targets.
Dozens of ghost pawns escaped from the fire with rolling and crawling, and finally found a water source, and they were hungry dogs fighting for food and lying at the water's edge to drink desperately, suddenly hearing a low roar from the grass beside them, a pair of green fierce eyes flashed from the grass, tightly, a pair of green fierce eyes lit up from the grass near and far.
All the ghost pawns were so frightened that their feet were weak, and some people shouted "Mom"! Everyone scattered and fled, and in a short time, one after another screams resounded in the night sky.
Zhang Lu also heard these desperate and helpless screams echoing in the night sky, for a long time, he couldn't care about feeling sorry for his subordinates, because he was also running for his life.
The sorrow in his heart was incomprehensible, not only for the inexplicable annihilation of the entire army tonight, but also because of the terrifying enemy he had just encountered.
Zhang Lu has always had a strong self-confidence in his skills, he is known as the second master of the Heavenly Master Dao, over the years, countless opponents who claim to be comparable to him have hated him, which has created his extremely firm confidence in victory when the enemy is born.
However, just now, this confidence was shattered, and he did not even take three rounds in the hands of the enemy who was wielding the double halberd, and he had already suffered a lot of internal injuries.
He unleashed all the potential in his body, and ran quickly through the mountains and forests, and couldn't help but shout in his heart, who is the enemy? It's so powerful! A great sense of remorse rose in his heart, not only did this battle throw all the 1,000 ghost soldiers handed over to him by Zhang Xiu in the fire, but he was afraid that not many of the 500 dead soldiers he had painstakingly cultivated over the years would survive, not to mention how to face Zhang Xiu's crazy anger after he went back, only this unprecedented fiasco since his debut had cast a shadow on his soul for the rest of his life.
He stopped suddenly, and his scalp was numb as he watched the three black shadows in front of him flash out of the tree like a ghost, completely sealing the road in front of him, and secretly said in his heart, my life is over!
Nan Ying stretched out his hand to stop Gao Feng and Luo Sanshan, who were about to pounce, and chuckled: "The other side is Zhang Lu, the Great Sacrifice Wine of the Heavenly Master Dao?" ”
Zhang Lu said miserably: "Not bad! Before I die, can I be a ghost? At whose hands did I die? ”
Nan Ying pretended to be surprised and said, "Why did the Great Sacrifice Wine say this? How can I harm you? I just have a word to ask the big festival sake to bring back! ”
Zhang Lu rekindled his desire to survive, and said in a dumb voice: "Please instruct!" ”
Nan Ying said lightly: "Tell Zhang Xiu!" If people don't offend me, I won't offend anyone! If you dare to do it again, you will destroy your whole clan! ”
Zhang Lu trembled and couldn't help but take a step back.
Nan Ying turned sideways to get out of the way and said with a smile: "The Great Sacrifice Wine goes all the way!" Forgive me for sending it not far away! ”
Zhang Lu hesitated and took a few steps, then turned around and said, "Why did you let me go?" You can also let someone else take it back! ”
Nan Ying grinned and said, "Do you want to hear the truth from the Great Sacrifice Wine?" Good! I'll be honest too! If I kill you, the Heavenly Master Dao will be completely in the hands of Uncle Ling in the future, although I am not afraid of him, but I will be even happier to have you go back to help restrain me! What's more, the Great Sacrifice Wine has great ambitions, and he will not be willing to die here! ”
Zhang Luru was shocked by thunder, and lost his voice: "Who are you?" ”
Nan Ying bowed slightly and said, "Nan Ying, a man of the mountains and wilderness, say hello to the big sacrificial wine!" ”
Zhang Lu was stunned for a long time, and then said, "Make an oath here!" In the future, when I hear the name of Brother Nan, I will always retreat! ”
With that, he turned around and ran away.