Chapter Twenty-Three: The Castle in the Middle
Chao Xing looked at Fang Qingze beside him with a big sword on his back and said with a smile: "How many cities have we beaten?" Fang Qingze also looked at each other and replied with a smile: "Since the day of our expedition, it has been the fifteenth day, and the city in front of us is the eighth, with an average of less than one every two days. ”
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go straight into the city. We are invincible, even if the main force of the frontier defenders touches us, it will be crushed at the touch of a button, and I think it is possible to directly enter the capital with our strength. I don't know what my nephew is up to, so I have to walk around the frontier. Chao Xing took the big sword from behind his back, put it in his hand, and said with a smile.
Fang Qingze smiled noncommittally, thought for a while and said: "I think things are far from being as simple as we thought, and uncle, you see that we have fewer troops, and we don't have too many troops to defend the city after we conquer the city, we are like a bear breaking a stick, next a city to recruit new soldiers and then throw one." Now we have brought with us the recently recruited recruits, your disciples and the soldiers I have trained, and the people led by the leopard as a group, and we have traveled all over the northwest with elite troops. According to the information I have received, they have already conquered a lot of cities, and I heard that they have conquered nine cities, but they have also encountered the same situation as us, and they can attack but not defend. The lack of troops to defend the city was a real headache, and I was considering whether I should join forces together. ”
"Let's talk about whether to join forces to capture the small city in front of you." Chao Xing shouted and waved the big iron sword, Fang Qingze's mercenary did not move at all, and the disciples of the iron sword line did not move their feet. Hundreds of new recruits moved, and they began to roar and push dozens of cannons at the small city in front of them. Fang Qingze shouted: "Release!" ”
Dozens of artillery pieces were fired together, and the city wall suddenly collapsed and was in dilapidation, and Fang Qingze ordered again: "Load the watermelon shells and prepare to fire again." A hint of mockery suddenly appeared on Chao Xing's scarred face, and he pointed to Xiaocheng and said, "Wait, Fang Xian's nephew, you see them hanging the white flag." ”
"Soft eggs!" Fang Qingze scolded viciously and spat on the ground. Chao Xing ordered: "The first team will follow me into the city, and the second echelon will carry equipment into the city." Fang Qingze nodded, as the second team, he began to beckon people to tie their horses and push cannons to prepare to transport cannonballs and equipment into the city, while the Iron Sword disciples and the feudal mercenary corps were in a neat formation, and they followed the swift horses towards the city gate.
The city gate was opened, and the magistrate who guarded the city took several officials out of the city with white flags to greet them, and the people led by Chao Xing rushed to the city gate in the blink of an eye, and the team was neat and orderly. Chao Xing immediately used an iron sword to pick up the white flag held in the hand of the magistrate, and asked: "Why is it so cartilage, why is the eldest husband afraid of death, why should he grovel and surrender!" ”
The magistrate didn't dare to answer when he heard Chao Xing's violent shouting, but just lowered his head and clenched his fists above his head and bowed deeply. Chao Xing snorted coldly, and everyone behind him who urged the horse to enter the city also followed closely, and after a few steps into the city, Chao Xing suddenly gasped, and muttered: "It's not right." ”
Whenever the army enters the city, the surrounding dwellings must be silent and the chickens and dogs do not sing, but although it is the same now, it is a little quiet and terrible, as if this is an empty city, and the most important thing is that Chao Xing feels a murderous aura. Chao Xing shouted at the people behind him: "There may be an ambush, everyone pay attention to the upper body of the big shield, dismount and stand, and slowly advance into the city in a defensive formation." If this group of dogs can't be beaten, they will hurt people with secret arrows. Hmph, I'll make you lose your hearts if I punish you. ”
After the execution, all the troops dismounted, and lined up on both sides of the line with large shields, the round shields held flat above their heads, and spears pierced out through the gaps in the shields. Chao Xing also slowly dismounted his horse, forming a circular formation with the Iron Sword disciples in front of the mercenaries, and the whole team lined up in a defensive formation and slowly advanced towards the city.
Fang Qingze curled up his fist into a small hole and looked at the city with one eye, and muttered, "What is Uncle Chao doing, how can he line up after entering the city." Saying that, Fang Qingze suddenly felt that there must be something strange in the city, it must be that he was competitive and competitive, and he wanted to find out. So Fang Qingze ordered the artillery to be relocated to the small city and was ready to go.
Chao Xing ordered everyone to stop, and he suddenly regretted his rash advance, because this was obviously a huge trap, and the killing intent was getting stronger and stronger, so Chao Xing ordered: "The rear team will change into the front team, and quickly retreat outside the city." The team turned their heads sharply, and not far from the city gate, the horses they had ridden just now seemed to have gone mad, and rushed towards the nearest mercenary group.
The mercenary regiment was well-trained, with its large shield stretched diagonally upward, spears sticking out of it, waiting for the horses to step on the shields and plunge into the horse's belly as they leaped. I saw that many domestic animals appeared in the surrounding houses, and they all approached the team unusually quickly, their eyes revealing infinite hatred, and their eyes turned blood red.
"Exorcist Beasts!" Chao Xing roared, and he already knew why the animals were crazy. The heavens, earth, and people are incomparably complex, and the art of exorcism and ghost defeat, the celestial phenomena, and various strange techniques are different. The cultivation of the beast repellent vein is extremely special, because the willpower of the animal is relatively weak, so it is easy to control, and the beast repellent vein is to use the power of ghosts to invade the body of the beast, control them and achieve the effect of driving the beast.
Although the control is not as easy as that of the ghosts, if the ferocious animals are controlled, they are also infinitely powerful, at least more than enough to deal with ordinary people. If the vein of repelling beasts encounters the stronger branches of heaven, earth and man, it can be said that it is vulnerable, as long as you try to uncover the ghosts that control the beasts, this method will be self-defeating. These beast-repellent veins in front of him gave Chao Xing a headache, because according to the number of animals they drove, the beast-repellent vein should be pouring out of the nest, although the power is not strong, but the number is huge, and it is difficult to annihilate them all.
Chao Xing shouted in a low voice: "The big sword purifies the ghosts." The disciples of the iron sword waved their big swords and kept scratching the spirit runes on the ground, and then inserted the big sword into the spirit rune, knelt down on one knee and held the hilt of the sword in both hands, resting their heads on the hilt of the sword, and chanting silently in their mouths. The surrounding animals stopped running and suddenly became panicked, and it seemed that the attack of the beast driving vein had been lifted.
The chief of the torture breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was slightly relieved, but then another group of animals rushed towards everyone as if they were enchanted, and everyone in the iron sword vein could only continue to use the big sword ghost purification technique. At this moment, dozens of fluttering figures rushed out of the deep alleys of the dwellings, breaking up the defense line of the mercenary army at once.