Chapter 20: Dead

"Maozi, come!"

Jin Mingyin gathered the remaining short crossbows around him, picked four that were more useful, two for himself, and two for the young militiaman named Mao Zi who he called just now.

The two of them slowly moved towards the entrance of the cave, Jin Mingyin cautiously stuck his head out of the cave, determined the direction and approximate distance of the following two guard towers, retracted his head and said to Mao Zi: "I'll go out first, you go out later, you left and I right, let's have a total of one hundred and twenty arrows with two short crossbows, and greet him vigorously!" ”

Mao Zi nodded, and then Jin Mingyin stretched out three fingers at him, and said in his mouth: "Three, two, one, rush!" As soon as the words fell, he rushed out with an arrow. Maozi, who was following him, took a few deep breaths and ran out with a brisk walk.

The wooden watchtower is not very tall, with a rudimentary platform on it. The guards in charge of the sentry look around the platform, and can clearly see the surrounding area of the forest farm. Jin Mingyin and Maozi, who rushed out one after the other, immediately aroused their vigilance, because they thought that there were still guards patrolling the periphery, and they thought it was just two carpenters who were running in a hurry.

The guard on the watchtower shouted at them both, "Stop! Which wooded area? ”

Hearing the shout, Jin Mingyin knew that the other party had noticed him, but he hadn't clearly distinguished between friend and foe, so he couldn't help but speed up his pace, and silently counted the approximate number of steps in his heart, seventy, sixty-five...

Seeing that the shouts did not receive the response they should have, the guard immediately became vigilant, picked up his crossbow, and pointed it at the two people who were moving.

"If you don't answer, you'll release the arrow!"

Jin Mingyin didn't answer, his feet became more and more forceful, and he was running desperately. Because of the positions of the two of him and Mao Zi, one after the other, the two arrows that flashed cold light from the sentry tower were surprisingly consistent with Jin Mingyin, and Mao Zi was temporarily safe.

"Fifty-two!"

"Fifty-one!"

"Whoosh~"

"Whoosh~"

The arrows rushed towards their targets with a screech that tore through the air,

The crossbow in the guard's hand is extremely powerful and fast, and the only drawback is that it can only shoot one arrow at a time, and then it needs to be manually loaded into one before firing.

Jin Mingyin had often studied all kinds of mechanical weapons, and he understood the power of this kind of crossbow arrow in the guard's hand, so as soon as he heard the sound of the bowstring, he fell sideways to the side. He could have dodged the first one, but the second arrow still tore through his left sleeve like scissors, tearing a big hole in the "huh~~" and leaving a bloody mark on his arm.

"Fifty steps!"

He let out a loud shout, then used his legs to steady his body sliding to the side, raised two short crossbows with both hands, and slammed them at the guard on the right watchtower, without aiming at them.

"Whoosh Whoosh~~"

The guard had just put a new arrow into his crossbow, and as soon as he looked up, a rain of short arrows instantly pierced him into a hedgehog. Maozi, who came later, also fixed the guards on the left guard tower on the wooden pillar of the tower.

After confirming that there were no other guards around, Mao Zi hurriedly put away the short crossbow and ran over to help Jin Mingyin, who was lying on the ground. Then he waved at the comfort under the wall.

Jin Mingyin tore off two pieces of cloth from his left sleeve, which had been torn into strips by arrows, and simply wrapped them around his left arm.

"Ming Yin, are you okay?" Seeing that Jin Mingyin was injured, An Yi stepped forward quickly and asked with concern,

Jin Mingyin waved his hand at him, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I was scratched by an arrow." ”

An Yi patted the shoulders of the two of them with both hands, "Well done, your short crossbow is really powerful." ”

Hearing others praise his short crossbow, he completely forgot the hot pain just now, and said with a look of anger: "That's not it, his kung fu to change arrows, I will shoot out these twelve or thirteen short arrows, even if he is a god, he can also be dressed into a honeycomb." ”

An Yixin said that this kid really couldn't help but boast, but let him get in touch with these things more in the future, maybe he could make some new research. While thinking, he looked around and found that there were no people around, but the guard before said that there should be carpenters here, so he said to Jin Mingyin: "Mingyin, take a look around, that Western Regions person and a lot of foresters should be here." ”

Jin Mingyin agreed, and led a few militiamen to search privately.

An Yi came to the pile of wood on the site and looked at the wood carefully. The timber is indeed mahogany, and it looks intact, and it doesn't look like it's been hollowed out in the middle, is this a place where timber is harvested at all? Impossible, he wouldn't believe such a big forest farm, there are not a few people not to say, a businessman who makes a living from mahogany, why are there so many guards outside?

Thinking about it, he picked up an axe from the ground and slammed it down on the wood in front of him. The axe had been left on the ground for many days, and it was already rusting, and the mahogany was covered with moss. The axe slashed upward, but instead of holding on, it slipped away and slashed into the gap between the two mahogany.

"Ding~"

An Yi felt a little numb in the tiger's mouth, and the sound should have been cut on the metal. How can there be metal on this rotten wood? He hurriedly cut open the rotten wood around him, and found a thick steel nail exposed, connected between the two rotten woods. When I looked inside, there was no wood in it at all, and the black hole was actually empty.

In other words, there are piles of wood on the ground that seem to be piled up like hills, only the top layer of rotten wood is connected by steel nails! Then the sides of this "hill" should be accessible. An Yi circled around the wooden pile, and sure enough, he found a door about two or three people high and three or five people wide on the side of the wooden pile, he smashed the door lock with an axe, and pushed the door open with both hands, and found that there was a hole inside.

This door is made of several pieces of wood of different thicknesses, and if this door is closed, it will be a veritable pile of Sichuan mahogany from a distance, no matter which direction you look at. Through the sunlight shining in, An Yi found that there were piles of burlap bags inside, and a pile of hollow wooden stakes that were split in half next to it.

He stepped forward quickly, and cut a hole in the sack with his axe, and the golden particles in it were sprinkled out, grain!

"Sure enough, I knew this wasn't a serious place." An Yi said to himself, but this forest farm is really cunning, the outside is full of guards, not to mention, even if you go inside to search, it is difficult to find any clues from a distance. What's more, this Long'an Forest Farm is already in Sichuan, and the Sichuan Cheng announced that the political envoy is Taketori's father, with this relationship, who would be bored to check this forest farm?

"Brother Yi!"

Jin Mingyin's shout came from outside, and An Yi hurriedly walked out. Jin Mingyin was surprised when he saw An Yi coming out of this wooden pile, "This is ......"

An Yi smiled and said, "What do you call me?" ”

"Brother Yi, we caught a few carpenters, and that person from the Western Regions!"

This is good, that guy must know a lot of inside information, he said to Jin Mingyin: "Go, take me to see." ”

An Yi followed Jin Mingyin to the bottom of the guard tower, and saw a few militiamen holding a short crossbow and scolding them from time to time at a few shirtless people squatting on the ground. One of them, blonde and blue-eyed, dressed in a silk brocade robe, squatted beside him with his hands tucked into his wide-sleeved robe.

"What's your name?" An Yi asked the man from the Western Regions,

The people of the Western Regions looked at Anyi and did not answer.

Seeing this, a militiaman next to him kicked him and scolded: "Childe asked you, are you deaf?" ”

An Yi waved his hand to stop the militia, he squatted down, looked at the blonde and blue-eyed man from the Western Regions, and said with a smile: "It's okay, if you don't want to speak, I'll take you to Huayang County, and Zhou Zhutou will let you speak." Then he motioned to the militia beside him to move the horse over, and he planned to let Jin Mingyin bring this person from the Western Regions back to Huayang County.

The militia led their horses and quickly came from a distance, rode under the watchtower, and were about to dismount and hand over the reins to Anyi. Suddenly, the man from the Western Regions took out a sleeve arrow from his sleeve robe, raised his hand to the militia on the horse, and it was three arrows.

"Whoosh~"

The three arrows hit the chest, and the militia on the horse arrived, and the people from the Western Regions ran to the horse in a few steps, stepped on the saddle and prepared to beat the horse. All this happened between the lightning and flint, and by the time everyone reacted, the people from the Western Regions had already rushed out of the forest farm wall on horseback.

Seeing this, Jin Mingyin, who was beside Anyi, snatched the short crossbow in the hands of the militia next to him. Shoot two arrows at a man and a horse in the distance,

"Whoosh!"

I saw that the horse in the distance gradually slowed down with the sound of the wind brought by the arrows, and the man on the horse shook and fell off the horse.

"Quick! Check it out! "An Yi's heart is not good, this person who has just arrived is gone, and he is also to blame for his negligence.

Sure enough, after the militia went to investigate, they brought back the corpses of the people from the Western Regions, Jin Mingyin's two arrows, one arrow was shot in the back, and the other arrow was hit in the back of the head, and the militia who was hit by the sleeve arrow died in Huangquan.

"Brother Yi, I was just trying to intercept him, but I didn't expect to shoot him by mistake." Jin Mingyin also knew that this person from the Western Regions was an important source of witnesses and clues, he scratched his head and said very embarrassedly.

An Yi hurriedly waved his hand, indicating that the responsibility was not on him, and asked him not to blame himself too much, and said: "If it weren't for your quick reaction and accurate arrows, let this guy get away, it would be a disaster." ”

For a while, An Yi also felt that things were a little tricky, the people from the Western Regions who had dealings with Taketori died, which means that the clues that had been touched for a long time were broken, so the people who participated in this matter were left on Taketori's side, and it was really whimsical to let them spit out some truth.

"Childe! Master! ”

Suddenly, a figure ran in the distance, shouting as they ran. An Yi looked at the person, this person was the militia who arranged to replace the guards when they advanced to clear the guards around the mountain pass.

The militiaman turned over and dismounted, and hurriedly said to the two: "Childe, young master, there is a group of black-clothed people in the distance, riding horses and rushing towards us!" ”