Chapter Twenty-Three: The Peak Turns Around

Jin Mingyin and Mao Zi were very flustered, holding two short crossbows, facing Zhutori for a while, and pointing at the soldiers and errands around them for a while.

Lin Moxuan was a little at a loss at this time, he looked at both sides, humming and chirping and couldn't say why, "Lord Zhu, this ......."

An Yi looked at the circle of people around him, and felt as if he had been surrounded, it turned out that Taketori was here to kill the people of the Western Regions today, and then use Lin County Cheng as the scapegoat. Unexpectedly, I happened to let myself get involved by mistake. His eyes kept drifting around, and he quickly thought about how to dodge the first round of arrows from Taketori, so that he could make plans for his life. He said to Zhu in a cold voice: "Lord Zhu has good means, stealing and selling official food, filling his own pockets, bending the law for personal gain, killing Song Zhong without permission, and now he is plotting to kill his colleagues, do you really think that the Great Xia Dynasty has no royal law?" ”

"Hahaha...."

Taketori laughed insolently, clutching his belly trembling from obesity, as if tears of laughter were about to come out. He put his hand on Liu Heng's shoulder, reluctantly straightened his waist, took out a square towel from his arms, and whispered to himself while wiping his face: "What kind of royal law." ”

Suddenly, he suppressed his smiling face, and looked at An Yi fiercely with his sharp triangular eyes, "Wang Fa? I'll let you know today what the royal law is! ”

Taketori said aloud to the soldiers and servants around him with an expressionless face: "This official has received a report that Chenglin Moxuan of Huayang County has colluded with the son of a wealthy merchant in this county to bend the law for bribes, fill his private pockets first, fornicate with Liaoguo, and resell official grain later. According to the laws of my Great Xia Dynasty, this is a great crime of rebellion! According to the law, this county will correct these thieves on the spot and release arrows! ”

"Whoosh ....."

With Taketori's order, the sound of bowstrings was endless, and for a time there were arrows raining down in the forest farm.

An Yi had been prepared for a long time, he knew that Taketori would shoot arrows, and he had counted Taketori's charges before, but it was also to buy himself some time to find a way out.

Before Taketori could fully exit under this order, An Yi pulled Jin Mingyin and Maozi behind him and ran desperately towards the passage where they came under the wall.

Being pulled by Comfort, how can Jin Mingyin and Maozi not return to the province? The two of them followed behind An Yi, and held the short crossbow in their hands against the wall. In the dark night, they were in a hurry, and there was definitely no accurate head, but with this shot from the two of them, the small group of people on the wall of the passage could not load the arrows so calmly, and it was also a disguised way to buy time for the three of them.

Lin Moxuan and the messengers he brought to escort the timber convoy were all holding crotch knives in their hands, and these people never expected that they were still following the county to "promote national prestige" just now, and now they were cleaned up by Taketori as thieves, so that they didn't even pull out the knife, and they were firmly nailed to the ground by arrows that broke through the air.

The county Cheng Lin Moxuan is even more dead, and it is still unknown so, he still naively thinks that Lord Zhu may have misunderstood. He dragged a stump leg that had been hit by two arrows, climbed onto the cart with difficulty, and shouted at Taketori, "Takeda... My lord, I.... I'm Lin Moxuan..... You.... You don't recognize...."

"Whoosh!"

Before he could finish speaking, he felt a sweetness in his throat, and blood was pouring out of his mouth as he was shouting. He looked down and saw that a bright arrow stretched out from under his throat, with a strong force running through his throat, and Lin Moxuan, whose eyes were wide and his pupils were gradually dilating, fell down on the cart together.

"Big... My lord...."

Lao Xiancheng didn't understand until he died, why he was diligent all his life, respectful to Shangguan, respectful to the court, and respectful to everyone to practice the etiquette in his heart, but in exchange for such an ending.

The militia in the forest farm is still slightly better, after all, they all have short crossbows in their hands, and at such a close distance, short crossbows have the advantage of rate of fire, but for people on the low slopes outside the wall, they are beyond the reach of whips. With the help of wooden piles, they dodged arrows from the walls and low slopes, and fought back in real time, although they suffered heavy casualties despite the disadvantage of numbers, and they were not slaughtered at will.

Although An Yi and the three of them ran fast, they still didn't completely avoid the sword rain in the sky, Mao Zi was hit by two arrows in his arm and leg, Jin Mingyin's shoulder was also scratched, An Yi's face was also painted, and the three of them were panting in the passage.

"Brother Yi, what now?"

An Yi panted heavily, he was a person who didn't like to move, he basically didn't have a good rest in the past two days, just now he ran so hard, he felt that he was at the limit of his fast track, and said to Jin Mingyin: "Maozi can't go, let's go out from the other end of the passage and take him to the mountains and forests, which is safe for the time being." You and I, with these two short crossbows, we can find a way to detour from the forest to the guard tower, find a way to control Taketori, and create some chaos for them. Taketori's side is in chaos, and these officers and soldiers are simply a rabble. ”

Jin Mingyin nodded, he knew that listening to Anyi was right.

The three men struggled to climb over the iron fence and then through the passageway, running out from the other end. After An Yi walked out of the passage, he climbed a few steps up the high slope, looked back in the direction of the forest farm, and found that the battle was still going on, but the field was almost a sea of fire. Taketori came with a bow and arrow stained with fire oil to burn all the evidence here in the Longan Forest Farm.

But now he didn't care about any evidence, he and Jin Mingyin settled down, and then the two of them walked through the dense mountain forest with their waists bent, and walked in the direction of the sentry tower.

At this time, Taketori was still standing in front of the door of the forest farm, watching the raging fire. The shouts of killing and the sound of arrows breaking through the air in the forest had faded away, replaced by the sound of a huge flame "crackling" and burning wood.

"Second uncle, it looks like they all died inside."

Liu Heng, who was behind him, pointed to the corpses in the forest farm and said to Taketori.

Taketori glanced at his nephew helplessly, and did not answer, but asked him: "You came to Huayang County from your hometown to follow me out for three or four years, right?" ”

Liu Heng didn't know why Taketori suddenly asked this, and replied, "Yes, uncle, it's been more than four years." ”

Taketori's eyes still did not leave the forest farm in the fire, "The old man is going to Wangjing soon, and I will also sit in the position of the prefect of Chengdu soon, if the old man goes well in Wangjing, it won't be long before the black yarn of the Sichuan Chengxuan envoy is also Zhu's." You also want to get an official and a half-job, and go back to glorify your ancestors, right? ”

Liu Heng hurriedly said with a shy smile: "That's not it, second uncle, when you become a political envoy, you can also get me a Chengdu garrison to do." ”

Taketori turned his head, staring at Liu Heng coldly, and there was no trace of warmth in his tone, "Then you should be clever and use your brains to do things." Anything I explain to you, don't jump to conclusions until you see the results with your own eyes, it will not only hurt you, but also me, do you understand? ”

Liu Heng listened to Taketori's words, looked at his eyes again, and felt that he was suddenly in the cold winter of the ninth winter, and he didn't dare to say much, so he could only accept it.

"Who?"

Beside him, a guard in a nightcoat suddenly shouted at the dark redwood forest.

"Whoosh~"

In response to him was a cold light,

"Poof~"

The cold light with the sound of entering the flesh was inserted on the top of the guard's head, and the guard's eyes instantly lost their vitality, and he fell to the ground softly.

"Protect your lordship!"

Liu Heng quickly pulled out the sword from his waist and took a few black-clothed guards to protect Taketori. The surrounding soldiers turned around and shot sharp arrows into the darkness not far away.

The arrow was originally stained with fire oil and flames, and although it was nailed to the trunk of the tree, it did not ignite the trees, but it was like a small torch, shining the figures of An Yi and Jin Mingyin.

An Yi and Jin Mingyin quickly responded with the advantage of their rate of fire, and short arrows like raindrops continued to pour out, but the soldiers on Taketo's side kept falling in response. Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Heng beckoned the errand officers and soldiers on the wall to come over for support, and at the same time hugged the bamboo and kept retreating.

Liu Heng escorted Taketori all the way to the bottom of the watchtower, and the soldiers who kept coming from all sides could withstand the power of these two short crossbows with full firepower. They gradually formed a semi-circle of encirclement, and gradually approached the redwood forest where they were comfortable.

"Brother Yi, I'm running out of arrows."

Jin Mingyin fought back at the soldiers who gradually surrounded him, and said to An Yi, "Let's go back and take Maozi to the woods, it's already dark, and it's impossible for them to catch us." ”

"Whoosh~"

An Yi shot an arrow over a soldier who was about to surround him from the side, and responded: "If we run away today, tomorrow the streets of Chengdu Mansion will be plastered with wanted notices to arrest us." ”

In this situation, they can only hold Taketori, and even if they shoot Taketori, the initiative will be on their side. As long as An Yi and they are killed on the spot or flee from the road, then with Taketori's political influence, they will definitely be wanted by the imperial court as An Yi said, and An Zhiyuan and An Xin of Huayang County will be imprisoned immediately, even if the King of Shu has the heart to save them, there is no way, after all, the war is imminent, and in the absence of conclusive evidence, the imperial court will not convict Taketori based on the words of a person who has died. So they had no choice but to fight to the death.

Gradually, An Yi and Jin Mingyin's arrow boxes have bottomed out, and the arrow rain that poured out at the beginning has become sparse. Liu Heng saw that their offensive had weakened, and knew that they had no arrows, so he shouted to the soldiers who were slowly surrounding: "They have no arrows, hurry!" Go around, kill the thieves, and reward fifty taels of silver! ”

Hearing this, these soldiers were red-eyed as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, as if An Yi and Jin Mingyin in the woods were not two people at all, but two piles of white silver.

Seeing this, Jin Mingyin pulled out a dagger from his boots and stood in front of An Yiyi, ready to make a final fight with them. An Yi shot the last arrow, looked at the arrow box was empty, he threw the short crossbow on the ground, looked at the encirclement approaching step by step, and laughed, oops, the chess is a bad move.

"The people in the col quickly lay down their weapons!"

The sound of a bell came from the high slope and echoed in the col, and the majestic sound sounded like a beautiful movement in Anyi, and the aftermath was endless.

An Yi looked towards the shouting place, and saw countless torches on the high slope for a while, and the figures on the horses were standing full.

"Zhao Lingfeng, who is in the camp of thousands of households, came to arrest the thieves on the order of the King of Shu, and the people under the mountain quickly stopped resisting, and if there were any disobedient people, they would be regarded as thieves and killed on the spot!"

Jin Mingyin looked at the leader, the tall horse stood in front of the mountain, tears of excitement were about to fall, and hurriedly said to An Yi on the side: "Brother Yi, look! It's the cavalry of the Fenwei battalion who is coming! ”

An Yi looked at Zhao Qianhu's figure and the banner of the word "Xia" hunting in the wind, smiled and said to Jin Mingyin: "It seems that Ruyue saved us." ”