Chapter 22: The Horse Gets Lost
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The Jade Gate Pass is not as simple as a rammed earth wall.
It is a closed city.
Except for the weathered walls on both sides, it resembles a huge castle, and although the two-story gatehouse above it has collapsed, the 11-meter-high base is still intact.
The castle is more than 50 meters long and about 30 meters wide, and it can be called a ruined wall because it has been abandoned for a long time.
For example, the black city gate hole, the rotten wooden door, the smelly sergeant's residence, and the disappeared "Yumen Pass" three big characters.
It's late at night.
Sitting on the city wall, staring at the desert under the starry sky in the west, Yang Shuang was in a complicated mood.
After losing consecutive lotteries, you still get a top skill.
Shield Battalion: A top-level clan active skill that increases the chance of your clan to block by 80% for 15 minutes and has a cooldown of 24 hours. Limit: At least 50 sword and shield soldiers form a military formation, and each additional 50 soldiers will increase the chance of blocking by 1%, up to a maximum of 100%!
It's awesome.
But what he urgently lacks now is the soul of a soldier!
The upper limit of the commander reached 500 people, but there were only more than 100 horse thief captives in his hands, and less than one-third of the soldiers could be used.
What's more, there is also a big dog in construction!
Where to get the soul of the soldier?
He felt that there was not only one way to "kill the enemy and have a chance to get the soul of the soldier", and perhaps there was a method that he didn't realize.
Adding a few pieces of rotten wood to the bonfire that was about to be extinguished, Yang Shuang leaned against the rammed earth wall, ready to take a nap, and waited until dawn to return to the ancient city of Hecang alone to see if the Turks had come to take revenge.
After killing the Northern Zhou Dynasty's defeated army, there was no shortage of equipment for the time being, and after two hundred pairs of tattered armor, weapons, and fusion souls, they were already intact, which could be regarded as a major help from the system.
For now, it seems that we need to quickly figure out other ways to obtain the soul of the soldier!
"Bang ······"
Just as his eyes narrowed slightly, and he was about to fall asleep, there was a sudden soft sound on the broken wall.
Stopping Abba and the two sword and shield soldiers who wanted to go over to observe, Yang Shuang quietly crawled over.
Iron Hook!
Just like the artifacts used in ancient movies to climb the city walls or sneak attack the city.
Someone is shut!
Yang Shuang hurriedly summoned Wu Kun and commanded in his ear: "Take the armor soldier down from the other side, if there are many people on the other side, withdraw!" If you hear the shouts of killing, rush out of the pass! ”
When he came to ancient times, he realized that not all of the ancients had night blindness described in novels, and even, because they often walked at night, many people had better eyesight than him!
Unless there are years of war, all the people and soldiers are not well fed, and all of them are malnourished!
As for why there are few night raids, this is due to the backward means of communication.
Five people in a team, ten in a team, the team is set up, with a team flag.
The two teams are a brigade, one hundred people, with a brigade flag.
The two brigades were a regiment, two hundred men, with regimental flags.
The fourth or sixth regiment is a government, with military flags, and the commanders and generals also have their own flags.
Fight together, watch the flag and act.
There are only a thousand people, so many flags, not to mention that they can't be seen clearly at night, even during the day, the soldiers may be scattered.
Night raid is not an ordinary difficulty!
With a sigh, Yang Shuang picked up the war knife and lay down beside the iron hook.
It didn't take long for a scar-faced man to climb up.
The man was short, lean, carrying two short sticks, and his movements were very quick, and after climbing the city wall, he found that there was no one around in the bonfire, and just wanted to shout a warning, a pair of big hands had pinched his throat.
"Click······"
Putting down the corpse, Yang Shuang put on a felt cloth to cover his body, grabbed the rope and quickly swung down the city wall.
"How?"
There were three figures squatting under the city wall, and when they saw someone coming down, there was no movement on the city wall, so they hurriedly surrounded them.
However, the response was a fierce wind, and the three of them felt a cold neck, and then lost consciousness.
Yang Shuang put away his knife and quickly disappeared into the darkness of the city wall.
The moon is in the sky, the stars are shining, the earth is white, as long as there is a move, it will definitely be discovered by the enemy hiding in an unknown corner!
Sure enough, maybe the other party saw what was happening under the city walls, and several black shadows sneakily ran west.
Yang Shuang didn't catch up.
Since they dare to pass, the people who come naturally will not be the only one, and those few black shadows may be the bait released by the enemy!
Now it's about endurance and insight!
Yang Shuang looked left and right, and followed the shadows to the west.
There are still two hours of dawn, and after an hour, the starlight dissipates, and perhaps the night is darker, assassination and ambush, as a veteran, there is no less learning.
Horse Lost is not the title of a horse thief, but the name of a region.
The Sand River is extremely dangerous, and even the ancient country of Loulan is buried by the wind and sand.
In the place near the Yumen Pass, there is a place of death, and those who walk into it have never returned, either dying of thirst or starvation.
There are no monsters in it, but there is no sense of direction, even if it is an old horse, it has no effect, so it is called a horse lost.
It is said that Yumen Pass was not named after the Han Dynasty when it entered and exited jade, but because of the fierce domain where the horse was lost.
Back then, there was an old way, who couldn't bear to come and go to the merchants and guests who died in other places, condensed a piece of jade with great mana, inlaid it on the gate, refracted the sun during the day, and corresponded to the stars and moon at night, guiding the merchants who lost their direction in the sand river, so there was the saying of the Yumen Pass.
Since the Yumen Pass was abandoned, there are few people here, and there is no trace of businessmen.
At some point, a gang of horse thieves learned the skill of walking on horses as usual, and also obtained a large amount of treasure, and the news spread, and the dangerous place became lively again.
Unfortunately, this gang of horse thieves is not a good stubble, and most of the gold diggers who are attracted are buried deep in the sand river.
Yesterday, the leader Sha Tong received news that the horse thieves in Yumen Pass came out of the nest en masse, which was a good time to take Yumen Pass, so he came overnight and prepared to take the pass!
"Chief, there's only one person who has slid down the wall!"
Sha Tong is very bold, otherwise he would not have been lost in the horse for so many years, hearing the words of his subordinates, he pondered for a long time, "Let the brothers in front of him put on their shields, lift out the battering hammer, and attack!" ”
This time, the horse thieves who got lost are here!
Five hundred!
If the horse thief at Yumen Pass was still there, he naturally didn't dare to attack, and now it is said that there are only a dozen people, and he can still hold it?
"Kill !!"
As soon as Yang Shuang walked along the shadows to a mound, he was startled by the shouts of killing.
Looking up, a large group of people suddenly poured out under the moonlight, each with weapons, spears, bows and arrows, swords and shields, and more than thirty of them carried a huge log!
Broken!
Thinking of the previous instructions with Wu Kun, Yang Shuang couldn't hide himself, picked up his sword and ran to the city gate.
Sure enough, with the sound of killing, the city gate was immediately opened, and the thirty sword and shield soldiers who had replaced the armor equipment rushed towards the rushing crowd.
"Stay at the gate!! Don't come out!! ”
Too much!
So much so that Yang Shuang was a little frightened.
It's not just the group of people who came to the gate!
Just after being behind the mound, he saw that there were many strips lying on his stomach in the Gobi Desert under the moonlight!
"More than thirty?"
Seeing the horse thief in the Yumen Pass who rushed out of the pass, Sha Tong was slightly stunned, but he still smiled, because the gate had been opened, and there was no need to sacrifice his men to hit the door!
"Little ones, follow Lao Tzu and take down the Yumen Pass, and in the future, the group of girls in Hecang City will all be our !!"
"Kill!"