Chapter 46: The Dragon Boat Festival Incident in Liangshan (4)
"Bang" a rainbow bridge under the canopy boat suddenly burst out a figure, the figure black bear-like stout, burst out of the canopy roof burst, bamboo strips overflowing flying, the person holding a pair of plate axes, from mid-air towards the "viewing platform" slashed, the axe shadow with a strong wind.
"Officer! Your grandfather's 'Black Whirlwind' is here! Take your dog's life! The change came so quickly, and the stout figure suddenly slashed the right-hand plate axe towards Dong Chengmian's door.
"Protect your lordship!!" A group of officers and men in big felt hats rushed over, pulled out their ring-headed straight knives, raised their knives and hugged the "viewing platform," shouting and shouting.
Deputy General Gan Hong pulled out the Longling scimitar and jumped on the "viewing platform", only to hear a sound, the scimitar hit the plate axe, and then bang, the plate axe was retracted, the plate axe was fierce, he Zheng retreated three steps, the step was not yet steady, the second plate axe had been split forward, the scimitar met the plate axe, Qiang, Qiang, Qiang, sparks.
Gan Hong confronted the rough man like a black bear, and seeing that he was no longer attacking in the direction of Dong Cheng, but fighting with him, his eyes flickered, he calculated, and fought and retreated, leading the rough man away from the "observation deck" and coming to a flat land. At this time, there were many figures on the flat ground, side by side, and many people did not know what was going on.
The rough man who called himself "Black Whirlwind" jumped up in front of Ganhong with his legs, he was stout and strong, his eyes were like red silk, his thick yellow eyebrows were like a caterpillar, his hair was like an iron brush, he was fierce and vicious, and he was as hideous as a black bear.
"Beware of other accomplices!" A large group of officers and men in felt hats surrounded the "Black Whirlwind." Several captains on horseback also rushed to the side of the Hongqiao, the spear team rushed in, and Dong Cheng was surrounded on all sides, like an iron bucket, and the water could not be drained.
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly lit signal fireworks to the sky, and dozens of people dressed as crop men in the black tent and in the crowd threw the hats on their heads, and each took their weapons and looked straight in the direction of Hongqiao.
With a bang, more than two dozen black-clothed water ghosts who had been lying in ambush in the river suddenly appeared on the surface of the water, and rushed up to the shore with knives in their hands.
"They're Liangshan thieves!! Kill me!! One of the officers and soldiers shouted at the head, and the pikemen hurriedly divided into two groups and raised their guns to meet the battle. Both of them fought back and forth.
Hearing the words "Liangshan Thieves", Song Ting, who had already walked to the other side of the Hongqiao, pulled Zhao Yuanzhen and ran a few steps, and when he saw that he was temporarily out of danger, he looked back.
At this time, there were hundreds of boats of all sizes moored in the river, and there were nearly 10,000 people on both sides of the river......
"Don't look, let's go!" The ghost sword pulled the placket of his clothes, and pulled out half of the sword, at this time, there was a crowd of people, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, and the ghost sword ruthlessly pushed out the crowd of people who squeezed over.
"Brother Tie Niu, if you rescue my master, you will withdraw, don't be reckless!" Among the people from Liangshan, a man in green clothes held a long sword in his hand, brushed the ground and stabbed an officer and soldier with a large felt hat to the ground, and the four pikemen stabbed straight with their spears, and he rolled over one by one, and hurried towards the strong man like a black bear.
The strong man like a black bear began to kill, a pair of plate axes cut off the head of a pikeman, kicked the round head away, suddenly a spear pierced him under the armpit, he clamped the spear body, "drink", the pikeman flew up, rushed up, two axes chopped, the man's two arms were cut off, let out a miserable cry and fell to the ground. The black bear-like man stomped his feet in his face, and the man died before he could scream.
All the officers and soldiers were shocked when they saw this person so fierce, and Deputy General Gan Hong was so bitter that he had to stay away from Dong Cheng and protect this third-grade master, but he didn't dare to step forward to fight, and he was so anxious that his forehead was sweating.
Both of them hit the horses and rushed to fight with the black man, but suddenly saw the silver light flashing, a set of sun and moon double knives slashed towards the horse's legs, the left side was frightened, abandoned the horse and jumped to the ground, holding a red tassel spear, hoping to make the woman with two knives stab directly, but the woman suddenly flew out of the red brocade lasso, strangled the horse's neck, and jumped on the horse's back, it turned out to be to rob his horse.
The man was furious, chased after him with his spear, and stabbed out with a shot, wanting to stab down with the man and the horse, when a silver spear suddenly came out next to him, and fought with his red tasseled spear.
"That's my lady! If you want to chase, you have to ask me if I agree with this soul-chasing gun in my hand! The person who spoke was the bantam tiger Wang Ying, who was born with a short body and a pair of bare eyes, and the woman who just grabbed the horse was his lady Hu Sanniang.
"A lot of people have come to Liangshan, and they have mobilized the crossbowmen on the street!" After another Dutou rode on a horse and cut down a Liangshan soldier, he held a big knife and drank coldly. Four cavalry captains, carrying pennants on their backs, rode in the rain and rushed straight in the direction of the street.
"Brother Xiaoyi, don't see Brother Lu Junyi!" After Shi Xiu, who was wearing a cloak among the people from Liangshan, stabbed over two officers and soldiers with large felt hats, he said back to back with the prodigal son Yanqing.
"Take that dog official for my master!" Yan Qing's eyes looked at Dong Cheng on the "observation deck", Shi Xiu nodded after hearing this, and the two of them looked at the other side to kill, but Dong Cheng was protected by layers of officers and soldiers, and he couldn't kill him at all for a while.
"Brother Tie Niu, take that dog official for my master!" Yan Qing and Shi Xiu couldn't kill it, so they called Li Kui, and Li Kui had a pair of plate axes to kill, and there were no less than ten dead souls who died on his board axe, where could I hear the call of the two.
"Get your Excellency to the other side! Defend Hongqiao!! "Zuo's deputy general Gan Hong escorted Dong Cheng across the Hongqiao, and when he arrived at the north bank, a large group of pikemen stood on the bridge.
The river is about three zhang wide, and he can't fly even if he has Liangshan people and horses winged, and when the crossbowmen arrive, if the Liangshan people and horses have to break through the bridge, they only need to fly the crossbow and shoot them to death - after Gan Hong made this plan, he guarded Dong Cheng without moving, and other officials, large and small, he didn't have time to care, and he didn't know where to go in the crowd.
All the officers and soldiers hugged Dong Cheng to the north bank, which made Song Ting feel bitter, he, Youjian and Zhao Yuanzhen were crowded in the crowd, and they couldn't rush out left and right, Xiaoman didn't know when he was scattered, and he could hear her shouting next to him, but he couldn't see anyone. At this time, the transfer envoy is still coming here, isn't it because he is determined not to give him a way to live......
"Hu Sanniang! Have you seen my master? Seeing Hu Sanniang riding a horse and killing a few officers and soldiers back, Yan Qing hurriedly asked.
"I didn't see the prisoner van." Hu Sanniang said.
"Kill it! Capture that dog officer!! ”
"Good!!"
Yan Qing Savior was anxious, and took the lead in rushing towards Hongqiao with a horizontal sword, Shi Xiu and Hu Sanniang followed closely behind, and the bantam tiger Wang Ying shouted, "Lady, wait for me!" ", also hurried to catch up.
More than 200 officers and soldiers in the big edge felt hats, the Iron Forbidden Army, and the pikemen have been killed or injured more than 100 people, Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang and others are okay, in order to save people, they stabbed the officers and soldiers to the ground and ignored them, but Li Kui was different, he caught one and killed the other, and at this moment he had already killed the red eye, at least 20 officers and soldiers died on the pair of plate axes, and a few innocent people, who did not have time to hide, were also hacked to death by him with a pair of plate axes.
"Brother Iron Bull! Hugh wants to kill innocents indiscriminately!! It's important to save my master!! Hearing Yan Qing's shout, Li Kui was a little sober, carrying a pair of board axes, and also killed on the Hongqiao.
Dong Cheng had already been shocked, so frightened that his legs trembled and his teeth chattered under the support of Deputy General Gan Hong, and a long-winged hat was already trembling crookedly, pointing at the people in Liangshan, but he couldn't say half a sentence in a trembling voice.
"Defend the Hongqiao!" Deputy General Gan Hong handed Dong Cheng to an officer and soldier, holding a dragon feather scimitar, came to the side of the bridge, and asked left and right: "When will the crossbowman arrive?"
"General! There are also Yangsan bandits on the streets!! ”
"How many?"
"I don't know, at least a few dozen."
Gan Hong stared at the direction of the street, pondered for a while, and then shouted categorically: "Go and tell over there, take Lu Junyi to the county government prison, guard the county office, and the extra people will come here to protect the adults!"
"Yes!" The cavalry captain planted a pennant on his back and went to the direction of the street to give the order in the face of the wind and rain.
More than ten black-clothed crossbowmen rushed over with crossbows, swishing crossbow arrows flying, several Liangshan soldiers were killed by crossbows immediately, and saw the flag captain waving the flag on the north bank, so they rushed towards Hongqiao.
"Capture the ship!" Yan Qing shouted, took the lead in jumping into the water from the south bank, grabbed a canopy boat, and forced the boatman to row to the north shore with a straight sword, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Shi Xiu and others also knew that Hongqiao could not be attacked, and they also jumped into the water to seize the boat, Li Kui was still slashing and killing in the south of Hongqiao, and killed several people under the axe in an instant.
Woohoo! Shout! The crossbow bolts flew straight away, and with a scream of "uh", an old boatman was caught in the throat, his body fell into the water, his body floated on the surface of the river, and the blood flowed down the river......
"Don't!" The captain of the crossbowman waved his hand, and the crossbowmen stopped firing the crossbows. Yan Qing and the others had already arrived on the north shore.
Li Kui slashed over the two crossbowmen, saw a painting boat, hurriedly jumped over, and landed his feet on the bow of the painting boat, the girls on the bow of the boat were already frightened, screaming again and again, running around and hiding in the cabin. Li Kui suspected that a girl was in the way, so he slashed over with an axe and cut off the girl's arm.
"Brother Iron Bull! Don't kill innocents indiscriminately!! Yan Qing shouted, but he was in a hurry to deal with the officers and soldiers in front of him, and he couldn't stop it.
"Hehe, just listen to Xiao Yi!" Li Kui smiled, kicked the broken arm to the river, jumped off the boat and came towards the north bank, and as soon as he landed on the shore, he fought with the officers and soldiers.
"Haruka! Haruka! A woman in green lifted up the girl with a broken arm and hugged her and cried.
The spear is like a fire, the sword is like rain, the sword is like a shadow, the sky is like rain, and the wind and rain change color for it!!
There were corpses floating in the long river, there were officers and soldiers, innocent people, and Liangshan soldiers, and the blood soaked the river!
The two boats wanted to retreat, but there were countless boats blocking the way back, and the boats had no choice but to stop at the shore, and the girls abandoned the boat to escape.
The people have long lost their minds, people crowd people, people trample on people, cry for heaven and earth, crying babies are trampled into meat cakes, officials and soldiers are running around, and they don't care about the people, and those who are injured and killed occasionally happen.
"Whew!" A crossbow arrow hit Li Kui's ankle, Li Kui's big eyes glared angrily, but he found that it was shot by the crossbowman on the other side of the river, and the crossbow captain was staring at him coldly, as if looking for an opportunity to shoot a crossbow arrow.
"Take that dog officer!!" Yan Qing, Hu Sanniang and others have already killed Dong Cheng, Gan Hong fought the four heroes alone with a dragon feather scimitar, and fought more than 30 moves, and gradually lost some physical strength, Yan Qing made a false move, Gan Hong leaked a flaw, Hu Sanniang Sun and Moon double knives cut through his leggings and cut out a blood-red mouth. The four heroes were busy fighting Ganhong, and no one bothered to glance back at Li Kui, who was hit by an arrow in his ankle.
Song Ting's location at the moment was only five or six zhang away from Dong Cheng, and everything that happened had already been seen clearly, and the ghost sword finally escorted Zhao Yuanzhen to break through the crowd and come to a small mill.
The ghost sword turned around and flew up directly in the flow of people, pulling Song Ting up from the crowd, Song Ting only felt that the sky and the earth were spinning for a while, and he couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest for a while, and after a while, he was taken out of the crowd by the ghost sword and came to the door of the small mill, and the three of them were happy to reunite, but they didn't see Xiaoman, and they were worried for a while.
"Xiaoman is there!" Song Ting saw Xiao Man in the sea of people, pointed with his hand, glanced at the ghostly sword, flew up, flew over the head of the crowd, and landed beside Xiao Man, and was about to pull Xiao Man's arm, when suddenly a small leader of Liangshan next to him pressed a knife on her shoulder: "Hehe, little lady, born so beautiful, will you be a lady for me?"
But before he could react, the long sword had already penetrated through his throat, the ghost sword sneered, stretched out his hand to draw the sword, and the little leader's throat suddenly bled like an infusion, and his hand pinched his throat: "You, you ......" couldn't spit out half a word more, and fell down, so that he couldn't die anymore.
"Hey! Woman! Dare to kill me Liangshan hero! I'm going to take you back and hand you over to Brother Song Jiang to deal with!" The man came with a thick body like a black bear, screaming fiercely and angrily, holding a pair of plate axes and slashing at the ghostly sword.
The ghost sword will protect Xiao Man behind him, the long sword meets the plate axe, a sonorous sound of mutual strike, sparks in the air are everywhere, the long sword pulls out the sword flower, and is comfortable between a pair of plate axes, Li Kui and the sword fight can not be ten moves, can not parry, three steps back, the bull's eye glared, unconvinced to raise the axe to attack, the sword cold eyes, the long sword out of hand, like a spirit snake, fly straight over, in the air dripping a few drops of rain, buzzing, the tip of the sword straight into Li Kui's left chest, right in the heart.
The ghost sword flew up and attacked, and the right palm "Ice Lotus Palm" hit three palms in a row, all of which hit the hilt of the sword, and with each palm, the long sword was inserted into Li Kui's left chest for a few points, and the three palms struck in a row, and the long sword had already penetrated Li Kui's body.
The ghost sword made a move "fairy phantom", swept to Li Kui's side, stretched out his hand to draw the sword, the black bear-like body, the chest kept bleeding, the big eyes of the copper bell were complacent and disbelieving, and the ghost sword said lightly: "My master is the Ice and Snow Sword Nangong Xue, the first time I killed someone who is good at martial arts, let you die ......clearly" After speaking, he kicked him into the river.
Li Kui's body floated on the surface of the river, staring at the beads of his eyes until he died, his face full of disbelief......
At this time, there was a lot of commotion everywhere, anxious fighting, everything happened too fast, no one could see what was going on here, and the ghost sword didn't bother to pay attention to the eyes of others, and carried Xiao Man to fly straight to the door of the small mill.
Looking at the battle on both sides of the riverbank, Zhao Yuanzhen sighed in a daze, and said sadly: "They are all the people of Daliang, why ...... this is the trouble?"
Song Ting also witnessed such a terrifying murder scene for the first time, and was stunned for a long time before rubbing Zhao Yuanzhen's arm and saying, "Zhen'er, don't care, let's go home."
The four of them walked towards the "Linshui Xuan" step by step with complicated feelings...... I don't think about whether Dong Cheng will be arrested in the end, and I don't think about what the consequences will be if I kill Li Kui.
Witnessing this large-scale indiscriminate killing, Song Ting's head seemed to explode, he had always wanted to live a leisurely life, and felt that it would be good to live his own small life, but in the past few days, he has understood a truth: in troubled times, if you don't look for trouble, trouble will find you; In troubled times, if you don't kill others, others will kill you. Just like the last time the robbers entered, and this time the Liangshan prisoner car was robbed, innocent people are always the first to suffer.
Song Ting closed his eyes, unable to imagine how he would respond if someone else really wanted to raise a knife to kill him one day; I can't even imagine how I should respond if a group of people raise a knife to kill themselves......
It's as if there is only one answer: you must be better than others. Without strength, without power, in troubled times, you are nothing.
Strength, power......
Thinking of this, Song Ting glanced at the ghostly sword, and said in his heart that he really wanted to put down his son and humbly ask her for a few tricks, a living big woman was by his side, not to mention martial arts, it was also good to learn some self-defense techniques.
As for power, in addition to being an official, in addition to being a bandit occupying the mountain as the king, in addition to being a soldier and fighting a war, he will succeed in ten thousand bones...... It's hard for him to follow these three paths, is there any other way to get them?
Seem...... I guess there is. Although he couldn't think of it for the time being, he believed that it would definitely be.
There were no words all the way, and after walking for half an hour, the four of them arrived home.
As soon as he approached the door, he was surprised to find a person lying on his stomach next to the pyre, this person was tall, with eight eyebrows, but his clothes were ragged, and his face was covered with blood......