Chapter 3: Wild Roses (1)

"Heaven -- rain -- rain, earth -- flow -- --

Brother--My Heart--Lile--Yoyo--

Hey--Hi--Le--Yo--Yo--

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After a long journey of nearly a month, Luo Shiyin led Shi Lang, Xie Yuan, Shi Tianji, and Du Heng to the Changbai Mountain area on the border between China and North Korea. Out of secrecy, they did not take the official route on this trip. Nearly a month of getting along day and night made everyone familiar with each other. Walking on the forest path of Changbai Mountain, Shi Tianji, a big man in Shandong, couldn't help but shout his own tune.

"Brother Shi! With your broken voice, you still want to sing songs? Beware of the she-wolf! ""Jin Jiao in the waves," Du Heng said jokingly.

"What's wrong with my broken voice? I think back then, when I stood on a high slope and roared, the big girls and little daughters-in-law in the whole village all ran out of the house......" Shi Tianji said ostentatiously.

"What are you running out for?" Du Heng asked.

"Of course, they ran out to listen to me sing!" Shi Tianji said.

"I don't think I'm running out to hear you sing. Instead, they run out and beat you! Du Heng continued to tease Shi Tianji.

"Hahaha......" heard the two amused. Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang, and Xie Yuan next to him all laughed loudly.

"Not to mention, Brother Shi's singing is indeed very penetrating, quite shocking!" Shi Lang also joined in to join in the fun.

"It's still Brother Shi Lang who can speak, much stronger than that water ghost!" Shi Tianji smiled happily at Shi Lang.

"But ......" Shi Lang deliberately sold off.

"But what? Speak up and listen! Xie Yuan had already guessed what Shi Lang was going to say, and asked deliberately.

"But it shook me so much that I just wanted to pee." Shi Lang said loudly.

"Hahaha......" everyone burst into laughter again.

"You're not a good thing!" Shi Tianji realized that he had been fooled, and ran over to raise his foot and kick Shi Lang, but Shi Lang turned around and dodged.

"Hey, Lao Shi, where did you get the nickname of 'Thunderbolt King Kong'?" Du Heng asked.

Before Shi Tianji could answer, Luo Shiyin said: "Old Shi was originally from martial arts. A few years ago, there was a small-scale attempt to reform the martial arts examinations. The content of this reform is mainly to increase the content of the examination, specifically, the content includes: an examination immediately arrow, step arrow, knife, gun, sword, halberd, fist fighting, stabbing, etc.; two tests of camp formations, mines, gunpowder, chariots, etc.; Each of the three speaks to those who are familiar with the art of war, astronomy, and geography. Lao Shi participated in the martial arts examination. In the first exam, the old hand swept all the references with a pair of iron and eight-edged double maces, and the first in the first exam. In the second exam, he did well in his fortes of minelaying and explosive blasting, and he also scored first in the second exam. It is said that Lao Shi was asked to use mines and explosives to set up an ambush circle on a wilderness path. He reasonably placed all the mines and explosives on each explosion point, and the scene when the detonation was like a thunderbolt in the sky, which amazed the examiners who watched on the spot. The examiner blurted out a compliment: "It's really a thunderbolt King Kong! Since then, Lao Shi has been given the nickname of "Thunderbolt King Kong". The content of the third field test is Lao Shi's weakest one, and he only scored 28th, ranking last among all the references. In the end, Lao Shi was hired by the imperial court with the seventh overall score and was arranged to serve as a captain in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies in Beijing. ”

"I was an upright person who didn't know how to be flexible, and was later persecuted in the dispute between friends in the court and was dismissed from office. Thanks to my acquaintance with the commander, it was he who brought me under his command when I had nowhere else to go. Therefore, the most grateful thing in my life is the commander. I will not hesitate to go to the soup for him. ”

"Lao Shi, that's a big deal. The reason why I recruited you to the Jinyi Guard Yamen in the first place was completely out of love. ”

"I understand that my lord will recruit me into the team this time, which is a trust in me. There's nothing to say, I'll do my best, and I'll do everything at your command. ”

"Haha, Lao Shi is actually serious like a child, it's rare, it's rare." Luo Shiyin looked at Shi Tianji's serious demeanor and said teasingly.

In early summer, Changbai Mountain is full of life, and from time to time, unknown birds are startled by the footsteps of the five people, and fly from the grass on both sides to the birch forest in the distance.

Before approaching the Shanhai Pass, Luo Shiyin received a report from Jinyiwei stationed in Liaodong: Japanese spies had been found in Liaodong. For safety, the five men disguised themselves as merchants. Along the way, I didn't encounter any trouble.

In front of you, you will come to a woodland, a typical northeastern birch forest, with tall and stout trees. Walking in the forest, the dead leaves on the ground emitted a strong musty smell.

"Will there be bandits in this wilderness?" Shi Tianji couldn't bear the loneliness, so he said in passing.

"Bandits? If there really is, if he runs into a few of our brothers, even if he is unlucky! Du Hengliang flashed the back wrap of the weapon inside.

As soon as Du Heng's words fell, a group of foraging gray magpies flew up from the treetops in the forest in horror and fled into the distance.

"Everyone, be careful!" Luo Shiyin stopped vigilantly and looked around.

"Babbleβ€”yahβ€”" With a long roar, a dozen big men dressed as savages swung down from the treetops, holding the ropes tied to the trees in one hand and the bright machetes in the other, and quickly slashed at the five people from the air.

"Click!" Shi Tianji, who was walking in the forefront, couldn't dodge and was stabbed heavily in the back. But he didn't get hurt in any way. However, the knife in the hand of the big man who cut him was knocked away, and it stabbed heavily on a birch tree ten meters away. It turned out that this knife was slashing at the double hammer in Shi Tianji's backpack.

In this operation, the six people accompanying him were all personally selected by Luo Shiyin. When Mingshenzong secretly ordered him to form a small detachment, he clearly realized that this operation to Korea was not as simple as carrying out tasks such as arrest and surveillance in China. In terms of the selection of candidates for the formation of the team, there are many masters in the Jinyi Yamen in the capital, and there are many candidates whose martial arts are higher than Shi Lang and Shi Tianji. However, the team that Luo Shiyin wants to set up must first and foremost require unity among its members, and secondly, they must be absolutely loyal to themselves. He doesn't like to choose people who are too heavy, no matter how high his martial arts are. He knows the selected subordinates, most of whom are upright and cheerful, and they are all dignified men who can defend the reputation of Jinyiwei and even the national honor with death at critical moments.

In terms of the selection of weapons for the squad, in addition to Shi Lang's habit of using embroidered spring knives, Luo Shiyin authorized Shi Tianji, Du Heng and others to carry the weapons they were good at, and there was no mandatory requirement for them to wear the standard weapons of the brocade guards - embroidered spring knives. The main purpose of this operation was to go deep behind enemy lines to spy on and reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the embroidered spring knife was used as a standard weapon of the Jinyi Guard, and sometimes carrying it with him would invisibly reveal his identity. At that time, the Ming army was already equipped with a large number of various firearms, as the emperor's personal guards, Jinyiwei was no exception, and officers at all levels were equipped with the most advanced repeating arquebus with a crank at that time - Wansheng Furang machine. However, Luo Shiyin considered that it was inconvenient to carry this thing on long journeys, and he thought that this thing was sometimes not easy to carry with cold weapons in enemy-occupied areas. Therefore, he did not let the entourage carry it. However, in order to prepare for emergencies, Luo Shiyin still asked Shi Tianji to carry a certain amount of explosives.

"Your grandma's!" Shi Tianji scolded loudly and turned to look for the man who cut him. The dozen or so swordsmen did not attack again, and when they saw that they missed the blow, they swung up to the treetops with the inertia of their bodies and disappeared without a trace like apes.

"Your grandmother's turtle bastard, you have the ability to come back and fight your grandfather and me for 300 rounds!" Shi Tianji was slashed, although he was not injured, but he was on fire.

"Everybody stay in formation and pick up the pace. Try to get out of the woods before it gets dark! Luo Shiyin looked at the vast primeval woodland in front of him and urged everyone.

The five of them marched forward quickly in a semicircular formation. Shi Lang and Shi Tianji walked in front, and the other three followed. The five of them didn't have the joke just now, and they all walked vigilantly and observed the movements around them.

"My lord, there seems to be a fight ahead." Shi Lang walked, turned around and whispered to Luo Shiyin.

Luo Shiyin leaned down and listened quietly for a while. There was the sound of a fight, coming from behind the slope in front.

Five men climbed up the slope and crouched behind the rocks to look down the slope.

At the bottom of the slope was a slightly open area, and the distance between the trees was much farther than in the forest where the five men had walked.

On the tall birch trees in the open belt, a group of savage-like knifemen were holding the rope with one hand and swinging their bodies in the air, condescendingly holding knives to besiege a woman dressed in black. The woman was wearing a black tights and pants, and a pair of cyan fast boots on her feet.

Shi Lang was stunned. She had seen the woman's face clearly, and a complicated expression immediately appeared on her face.

I saw that the woman faced a group of big men who took turns slashing and slashing, and calmly coped with it. With a move of the rabbit kicking the eagle, she kicked one of the knifemen who slashed at her and flew diagonally, and when she touched another knife hand in the air, the two fell heavily from the air, lying on the ground unable to move. The woman followed up with a carp, and with the momentum of her body reversing in the air, she used her palms to knock two approaching knife hands ten meters away, and their heads hit the tree, and their brains suddenly exploded. The other three swordsmen were about to attack the woman from the tree at the same time, but as soon as their bodies flew away from the tree, they were hit in the face by the stone that the woman kicked from the ground, and the three of them screamed and fell from the air.

In the blink of an eye, the first wave of attacks from the swordsmen was easily defused by the woman.

The remaining knifemen in the tree stopped attacking, and one of them shoved his thumb and forefinger into his mouth and let out a long whistle. As soon as the whistle fell, there was a violent shaking of the branches, and a dozen more swordsmen swung from the trees around the woman, climbing ropes in one hand and knives in the other, ready to launch a second wave of attacks.

"It's really despicable and shameless, saying that they would make peace with each other, but they are treacherous and ambushed halfway. Tell you, the lord, that we will not succumb to his authority! The woman realized the seriousness of the situation, pulled her weapon from her waist, pulled out her stance, and prepared for battle.

At the moment when the woman pulled out her weapon, a strange expression flashed on Luo Shiyin's face on the hillside. He pondered for a while, then opened his mouth and ordered: "Shi Lang, Shi Tianji, you go over and help that woman." ”

"Yes, sir." Shi Lang agreed, jumped up, and ran towards the woman in black at a very fast speed.

Seeing Shi Lang who came to the front, the woman's eyes widened in surprise: "Shi ......"

"It's inconvenient for you and me to recognize each other at this time!" Shi Lang approached the woman, and the woman defended against the opponent's attacks back-to-back.

"Hmm!" The woman immediately understood.