forty-four

In Chinese history, when troubled times are approaching, a striking feature is the collapse of the legal system and the rise of thieves. Although the Central Plains in the Guannai at this time probably hadn't started to be in chaos yet, and Li Zicheng might still be his little soldier, as far as Yue Xiang could see, the area outside the Guanguan was already completely chaotic at this moment.

Common sense is that bandits and thieves only dare to gather in the mountains and forests to rob houses and houses, and when they meet officers and soldiers, they generally walk around. It is not surprising that there are Jurchen horse thieves pretending to be on the south bank of the Hunhe River, but I did not expect that there are also Han bandits on the north bank who openly haunt in groups. This is probably also because the officers and soldiers of the cities did not dare to show their heads in the city, which caused the thieves to grow more and more bold.

There are many mountains and forests in eastern Liaodong, and the place where Yue Xiang camped was about a mile away from the river bank, which was a natural clearing formed in the middle of a large birch forest. And outside the jungle, the two groups of men and horses fought fiercely, fighting on foot and horse, with swords and swords.

This group of officers and soldiers does not seem to be as incompetent as imagined, and the soldiers form a team to advance and retreat together, and there is a bit of discipline. But these bandits did not show weakness, and the accents that listened to their shouts were clearly Han Chinese, probably professional bandits, and the weapons in their hands were quite sophisticated, slashing and killing, and they were very fierce.

Of course, there was no time to take a closer look now, and countless torches danced wildly in the darkness, dazzling the firelight, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

Yue Xiang didn't know who had the upper hand, but it was best to evacuate this place of right and wrong first. Because at the moment, although he is an officer and soldier (he doesn't know if he is still an officer or soldier), he is wearing civilian clothes. There were several people dressed as bandits under his men, but there were constantly officers and soldiers clashing with them, shouting and explaining, people on both sides were beating them, and they were also throwing arrows here, and three people were already slightly wounded, so that they didn't know what to do.

But it wasn't that easy to evacuate, it was the middle of the night, and there were woods all around. If a few of them are men, it's okay to say, but there is still a Xiaowan by his side, what if he gets separated halfway and something happens. Besides, there were constant shouts of killing in the surrounding woods, and they had no idea where it was safe, and besides, with their horses and luggage, it would be really bad if they were lost.

"Protect the horses! Snatch the horse out and go! Yue Xiang swung his knife and knocked away a feather arrow that flew from nowhere, and shouted loudly, and everyone spontaneously formed a battle group and quickly approached the horse. However, after walking a few steps, I heard a shout from overhead: "Where to go!" Leave the horses! Then the hulala wind sounded, and a black shadow flew down like a roc spreading its wings.

The master is coming! Probably this man had been hiding in a tree beforehand, otherwise it would have been possible to jump so high at once. Knowing that there was a pile of people below, he dared to jump down with his head pierced. As soon as Yue Xiang's figure turned, he immediately covered Xiao Wan behind him, and the next moment the sword was already shining in his hand. The two housekeepers on the left and right roared and swung their knives up, and the black shadow actually exchanged two or three shots with them in the air, and when they were about to land, a harrier rolled over and landed firmly on the ground.

Good Kung Fu! Inheriting the outstanding martial arts level of the deity, Yue Xiang naturally became an "expert", although the black shadow does not really see the face of this person, but from the series of skillful and beautiful movements just now, it can be seen that this person's solid foundation and clever tricks, just like practicing gymnastics. And listening to the voice, it turned out to be a woman!

I saw that after she landed, her body spun like a whirlwind, and the tiger tail three-piece stick in her hand pointed east and west, turning into a raging storm, and the single knife in her hand was knocked off the air under the surprise of a housekeeper, and then finally dodged quickly, and swept it on his waist, and directly threw him out more than a foot away.

What a heavy force! There can be no woman in the army, and this woman is naturally on the bandit side. If people don't say that the Northeast people are powerful, even a woman is so terrible. I saw that the female bandit was shouting again and again, the three-section stick in her hand danced like the wind, and the sound of weapons was continuous, and she actually relied on the strength of one person to disperse Yue Xiang's battle group from the middle.

"Stinky! You're looking for death! "At this life-and-death juncture, Yue Xiang doesn't have any pity for the jade, whoever stands in the way will die. He pushed Xiao Wan behind Yue Shan, and the tiger roared and jumped up, and it happened that the female bandit's move was exploited by Yue Xiang, holding a knife in both hands and slashing Huashan with a force, and the knife light was like a match, and went straight to the female bandit.

The female bandit's movements are fast and skillful and coherent, and ordinary people can't catch her flaw at all. Originally, they went down the mountain this time to rob the grain, but they didn't expect to leak the news before they got into a fight with the officers and soldiers, and it was a pure coincidence that they met Yue Xiang here. But when he saw Yue Xiang's more than 20 horses, he suddenly had the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob, anyway, who is a robber is not robbing. She hid in a tree and watched for a while, deciding that she could handle the attack of the people below with her own kung fu.

She had a good idea, but Yue Xiang had never made a move, and the level of this boss was much higher than that of his subordinates. The female bandit suddenly saw a person suddenly popping out next to her, just inserting it into the flaw on her flank, and then the knife flashed in mid-air, and Sen Han's murderous aura rushed to her face, and she knew that something was wrong.

While! There was a piercing sound of gold and iron, sparks splashed everywhere, and iron filings flew sideways.

The female bandit is finally unambiguous, although she is the first to light the enemy, but she shows her real kung fu under the crisis. Seeing that the blade and body were forcibly adjusted to her, she raised a stick to parry. This knife did not slash on her head, but it slashed on the iron chain of the three-section stick, fortunately, the iron chain was also forged of steel, and it was not completely broken with the advantage of the sword, but this powerful and heavy knife still made the female bandit involuntarily be swept to the ground, and the three-part stick also let go.

"Die!" Yue Xiang shouted, and stepped forward to slash wildly. The female bandit was forced to parry because of her awkward posture before, but now her wrists are numb from the shock, and it is even more awkward when she falls to the ground, and it is difficult to stand up for a while. In the face of Yue Xiang's frightening soul out of the body, he could only roll on the spot all the way and dodge for his life, while shouting frantically for help in his mouth.

Yue Xiang didn't expect this woman to be as slippery as a loach, and even rolling on the spot rolled so smoothly, several knives in a row failed, and he immediately yelled at the others: "Go, cut her!" But no one could get out, it turned out that the bandits around heard the cry for help and immediately turned around and rushed to them, and the family members had already fallen into a melee with them, desperately pushing them outside, where to take care of the things behind them.

"!" Yue Xiang scolded angrily, forcibly raised his strength and chased after him, and made up his mind to put this woman to death. Seeing that he had forced her into a corner, as soon as his knife was raised, he suddenly felt a cold current in his spine rush to his brain, and the hairs behind him stood up.

Murderous! There's someone behind it!

As soon as this thought passed through his mind, Yue Xiang's body flashed to the left as if reflexively, and at the same time, he swept back with a backhand knife, and a fist with Gangfeng flew under him, which was avoided by him, and his knife was swept away. A figure quickly rushed past him, and then snatched into his arms as soon as he turned around, and the fists came like shadows.

This is the standard green forest Jianghu kung fu, on the battlefield pay attention to an inch long and an inch strong, there are weapons with absolutely no empty hands, and it is definitely not a trick to directly hack the enemy to death. This guy has weapons and doesn't need to fight hand-to-hand hand-to-hand with his bare hands, and at a glance he knows that he is a wild fighter who has not received formal military training.

However, the strength of this person's fists is very heavy, and his fists are whirring in the wind. Yue Xiang flew back on tiptoe, and the sword slashed horizontally and vertically, and he took a few big steps back to distance himself from him. He was not interested in competing with him in martial arts moves to fight for strength, and when he reached the power range of the sword, he wanted to see if this kid's fist could block the sharpness of the steel knife. This person's rapid attack was ineffective, and the attack route was blocked by the random knife, but he did not rush forward, and turned to guard in front of the female bandit who had just risen.

Now the scene is really a chaotic battle, with officers and soldiers, bandits, and Yue Xiang fighting in one place. In addition, it was dark, and only by the light of the torches, there were figures shaking everywhere, and the shouts, howls, and metal collisions had become a pot of porridge.

Yue Xiang became more and more anxious in his heart, and rushed forward with an arrow step, and chopped his head with a knife, this knife was extremely powerful. The female bandit lost three sticks, and she couldn't find where to throw it for a while, and when she saw Yue Xiang rushing up violently, she was so frightened that she dodged and hid. The man shouted violently, stepped up and dodged, intending to flash the knife first to find a gap and counterattack.

However, Yue Xiang had already prepared, and without waiting for the move, he suddenly accelerated a dragon scroll with his old man, and the long knife reversed the figure and slanted upward. The bright sword light like thunder and lightning soared again, and the man just flashed the first blow and was about to speed up to Yue Xiang's side, but he didn't expect to be recognized and his intentions, and at the same time, Yue Xiang's sword skills and martial arts also shocked him, obviously much stronger than himself. Seeing that the sword light had arrived in front of him, he didn't have time to dodge, so he roared and turned his body away, and actually waved his left arm to meet the blade of the sword that broke through the air.

I only heard a shocking sound of gold and iron intersecting, and what exploded from the man's left arm was not a blood flower, but a spark, Yue Xiang was shocked by the powerful reaction force and his chest was so stuffy that he was almost out of breath, his palms were numb for a while, and the sword almost flew out of his hand, and he stepped back several steps in a row, and he changed two ways to stand firm.

Look at the man's screams of pain, holding his left arm, he staggered several steps and fell to the ground. Yue Xiang was full of strength just now, the sleeve of this guy's left arm was broken, and then he was wearing a stainless steel arm guard inside, but it had been almost shattered by the slash just now, and it turned out that he was also wearing a special iron fist on his hand. It looks like these fists are really his lethal weapons. It's just that it seems that his left arm has begun to swell, and it seems that the arm bone has been broken.

Looking at the sword in his hand again, there was not even a single cut or curled blade on the blade, Yue Xiang thought to himself that it was worthy of being a domestic specialty that the little devil was proud of, and he couldn't tell what kind of famous sword it was.

But now that there is no time to think about this, Yue Xiang shook his wrist to ease the uncomfortable feeling of paralysis, and raised his knife to step forward. But the man rolled back on the spot when he saw that it was not good, but he just rolled in front of a bush, and suddenly heard an exclamation from behind, Yue Xiang's head suddenly became bigger, and it turned out that Xiao Wan was hiding behind the bush. The man inadvertently rolled near her hiding place.

Yue Xiang and the man were stunned at the same time, and then the man's eyes showed a terrifying fierce light.

"Fuck me!" Yue Xiang's eyes suddenly turned red, and just as he was about to go forward, the female bandit found three sticks and swept them towards him, and the cooperation between the two was tacit. Yue Xiang raised his knife to block it, and the female bandit took advantage of the situation to entangle her, and was so entangled by her, Yue Xiang didn't stop the man, only to see him laughing wildly and pounced behind the bushes, accompanied by Xiao Wan's scream......