Chapter 400: Xu Anyuan Reborn (19)
Under the counterattack of some assassins who were proficient in hidden weapons, but only a hundred paces away, there were already twenty men of the Divine Machine Gate who had fallen to the ground and died with highly poisonous hidden weapons, and the guards Temujin and their five guards had all been killed, and in the critical situation, the heavy crossbowmen on the roof of the car lit the fireworks fixed on the roof of the car, and three red, yellow, and purple fireworks exploded in the air like a thunderbolt in the clear sky.
Just rushed out of the distance of a kilometer, the last ground cover of the Shenji Gate man in the five sharp blades inserted into the vital position of the body, at the last moment of life with his head on the right arm of the crossbow tension spring, continuous arrows with him fell to the ground, taking the lives of the two assassins for burial, some of the assassins on horseback had blocked the road in front of the ironclad carriage, the surrounding assassins surrounded over, some of the assassins also brought the automatic fire crossbow taken from the right arm of the Shenjimen man, aimed at the driver and heavy crossbowman on the ironclad carriage.
One of the assassins said in a stiff Yan language: "The two altar masters of the Divine Machine Gate, now leave the carriage, we can let you live without blame, otherwise don't blame our subordinates for being ruthless, and send the two of you to the underground to meet with your men!" ”
The old man in the driver's position glanced at the heavy crossbowman on the roof of the car, pretending to beg for mercy and the heavy crossbowman raised his hands to move down the iron-armored carriage little by little, and moved out step by step, the movement was so slow that it could fight with a snail.
One of the Bol Empire's Assassin Leaders saw the clue and shouted that this was a delaying tactic by the Divine Machine Gate, delaying time and waiting for their reinforcements! Drink ordered his subordinates to launch an attack on the two altar masters of the Divine Machine Gate.
When the assassins raised their hands, the main and deputy altar masters of the Shenji Gate Kaiping City Branch Altar immediately lay on their backs on an iron plate bridge, rolled on the spot quickly, hid behind the wheels, dodged the arrows and hidden weapons that flew in, raised their crossbows, aimed slightly, and launched a return shot. With a single arrow that kills an Assassin, the high accuracy of the arrow, and the rate of fire of twenty arrows per minute suppressed the arrogance of many Assassins.
The two altar masters in the Shenji Gate ran out of arrows, looking at the hundreds of assassins gathered over, not worried about their lives, but ashamed that they could not complete the mission delivered by the master of the Song Fade Gate, and suddenly heard the rumbling of horses' hooves on the official road in the distance, and looked up, a group of undead cultists dressed in black skull robes and holding skull scepters rode over.
A masked woman at the head shouted: "On the orders of the king and the sect leader, come to the rescue of Xing Qiming, Edward, and Saddam. The five allies of Ingle, Tenggemu, and Temujin, the rescue is late, please forgive me! Friends of the Divine Machine Gate, the reinforcements from your other three altars are also about to arrive, don't be reckless and leave it to our Necromantic Sect to deal with these rats! ”
There was still a distance of 100 meters, and the ten Necronomicon knights in the front were in the forefront, raising their skeletal scepters and waving them at the assassins, a black mist shrouded the nearby group of assassins out of thin air, and the eyes of the enveloped assassins became red, as if they had a hemophilia, they attacked and bit all the living creatures around them, sucking blood, and the horses under their crotches also became equally violent and bloodthirsty, and when the Necromantic knights came closer, all the assassins had fallen into madness, and the area around the ironclad carriage was like a forbidden area, Any bloodthirsty assassins or steeds avoided this area.
The two altar masters of the Shenji Gate drove the ironclad carriage under the escort of the Necromantic knights, quickly retreated to the west along the official road, and joined the reinforcements of the Shenji Gate, and it took half a month to escort Temujin and Tenggemu back to the Western Continent. Ingle, Xing Qiming, and Edward boarded the merchant ship to return to their homeland, and let Temujin, Tenggemu, Xing Qiming, Edward, and Saddam Hussein. Ingle has personally experienced how much help it is to have a strong ally as a backing, going out by friends, friends are also different, pig-like friends will only help more and more chaotic, only this kind of friends who can be at the same level as themselves, or beyond can form a help, joining the World Alliance is the wisest decision in their lives.
Song Zhenkou and his entourage entered the territory of Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion, and were shocked by the scene in front of them, the official road in front of them was covered with thick fallen leaves and dust, which was not much different from the land in the protective forest, in the fallen leaves and dust, from time to time poked out a section of the bones of a man or a beast, the bark of the protective forest on both sides had been stripped off, and the trees had withered, probably because the grass roots in the forest had also been pulled out, and several hundred-meter-high moving sand dunes were faintly seen not far away moving and advancing in the cold wind, perhaps because there was no rain for several months, The wind swept the sand and dust, staining the front in a gray patch.
Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan) muttered in his heart, this is the Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion that his father praised with picturesque landscapes? How does it look more like the Huangquan Road in the Yin Cao Difu, there are dry bones everywhere, even the sparrows can't see a single one, the only living creatures around are their group, full of sand and dust, and after a while, their clothes will be dyed yellow.
Song Zhenkou touched the scene, and said very sadly: "Shangguan girl, Kunxianghu brothers, Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan), when I led the Jing'an army to Anxi Mansion and passed by this Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion, it was just a big drought here, and there was a locust plague, the mountains here overlapped and green, although not high, but the shape was peculiar, there was a beautiful scenery, there were waterfalls in the mountains, and the three stacks were very spectacular, and the most beautiful landscape in the Dayan Empire was Shaanxi and Gansu Mansion, and I couldn't imagine that the local officials concealed the disaster and did not report it, did not open the warehouse to release grain, and did not provide disaster relief. It has made the cluster into such a situation, the bark and grass roots have been eaten, those bones may be the remains of the wives and children who exchange cooking with each other, the officials forced the people to rebel, the people had to rebel, there was a large-scale rebel army in Shaanxi and Gansu Prefectures, and the cluster was the only way to the grain and grass supply of the border five prefectures, once it was out of control, the grain and grass shortage of the border five prefectures would be unimaginable! ”
Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan) and Shangguan Yi's faces became a little pale, Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan) also understood for the first time the importance of agriculture as the lifeblood of the country, no wonder the mysterious commentator focused on Cao Cao's strategy of garrisoning, even if the soldiers of the five border provinces began to reclaim the farmland now, it will not be harvested until next summer, this long food consumption of more than five months is a literary number, and it is really a headache. It's enough for his father Song Zhenkou to be busy, plus training soldiers and horses, building military fortresses, and training new weapons to operate sergeants, it's simple to get up, but it's actually a very cumbersome and troublesome affair to do, no wonder Liu Chan is incompetent, tired Zhuge Wuhou Zhuge Liang, dealing with these affairs needs to be comprehensive, taking into account the details of the interrelated influences, to avoid chain reactions.
Song Zhenkou instructed everyone to slow down the speed of travel, on the one hand, the bones on the road may scratch the horses, and on the other hand, they should be cautious about the bandits who block the road and rob, they are not just robbing money, I am afraid that they want to eat and spare, and there are likely to be traps hidden on the road.
Song Zhenkou took off the bright silver spear that was dismantled into three pieces from the saddle victory hook, pressed and rotated the buckle of the connecting part, butted it, and formed a three-meter-long bright silver spear, riding on the horse and poking the suspicious road surface with the bright silver spear, and really found three traps with sharp tree trunks at the bottom, seeing the black-brown blood stains on the sharpened tree trunks, you can guess that someone has been accidentally killed, Shangguan Yi took out the willow leaf flying knife with a chill, vigilant of the surrounding movements, ready to kill the robbers at any time.
Song Zhenkou saw from a distance that there was a row of horse-rejecting piles blocking the official road in front of him, and he could vaguely see a few unclothed guys sitting on the official road about two meters behind, and he hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Everyone's heart, there are robbers in front, and it seems that there are sergeants who escaped from the barracks to participate in its Zheng."
Song Zhenkou and Shangguanyi slowed down the speed of the horses under their crotches, trying to reduce the vibration and sound of the horse's hooves on the ground, and the white tiger Kunxianghu carried Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan) away from the distance and followed behind, in case Song Tai'an (Xu Anyuan) was accidentally injured during the battle, when Song Zhenkou and Shangguanyi marched to a hundred steps away from the horse rejection pile, a man who was roasting the fire vigilantly leaned over the ground and listened for a while, then stood up and looked, and whistled sharply, more than 60 homeless people poured out of the dead wood forests on both sides of the official road. The whole body was covered with chilblains blown by the cold wind, cracks that were opened one after another, and the skin that was frozen into blue and purple was shocking, and most of the hands were rakes and wooden sticks, and only the three people who were headed by them were holding Pu knives full of gaps.
One of the leaders of the exiles saw the three-meter bright silver spear in Song Zhenkou's hand and the willow leaf flying knife in Shangguan Yi's hand, and knew that it was not easy to deal with, it was a hard stubble, so he said with a soothing attitude: "Two good men, can you reward us with some food to eat, we haven't eaten for three years." If the hero refuses to reward, then go and don't embarrass our poor brothers. ”
Song Zhenkou looked at the leader of the displaced people coldly, and asked Shangguan Yi to be on guard in situ, Song Zhenkou urged him to immediately raise his gun and hook the horse-rejecting stake in front of the leader of the displaced people to stand in front of the open space area, and the 100-pound rejecting stake flew up more than a meter high, and accurately smashed on the open space between the rejecting stake and the leader of the displaced people, only to see the rejecting stake and the fallen leaves falling together, revealing a trench less than a meter deep behind the rejecting stake, the trench was covered with sharp wooden stakes, and the sharpened part of the head of the stake was very new, there was no bloodstain, and it seemed that it had not been sharpened for a long time.
Song Zhenkou said coldly: "You three are scouts who escaped in which town in Shaanxi-Gansu Mansion?" Soldiers are defending the country, and what are you doing? If you are willing to become a bandit, can you be worthy of the master who taught you how to fight? A hundred years later, you gangsters may have entered the ancestral grave? ”
Seeing that Song Zhenkou was extraordinary, it was not something they could fight against, and there was still room for maneuver in his tone, so he hurriedly threw away the big knife in his hand, and shouted at the hungry people behind him to kneel on the ground, and the leader of the displaced people in the middle begged: "Lord Huiyu, the three of them are scouts from Lingshan Town, Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, and their hometown has no harvest this year, and the squire who rented our land is going to tie up the wives and children of the tenants in our township who can't pay the taxes, and sell them to pay off the debts, which has aroused the indignation of the village fathers and elders, and they are forced to rise up and kill the bully squires who bully men and women. Zheng Zongbing wanted to kill the sergeants who came out of our village because of the rebellion in our village, and our master used his own life to block the pursuers, so we were able to survive, and fled here with the villagers, planning to go to the nearest house to do some labor, begging for food, but the old and weak who accompanied him were already hungry and sick, so they had to make this decision, to kill or chop the three of us, and let go of our wives and children and fellow villagers. ”