Chapter Twenty-Seven: Thorns in the Bamboo Forest

It was indeed a big trouble, at the edge of the bamboo forest, there was a group of wild boars eight hundred steps away from everyone, the largest of which was the giant beast mentioned by Shan. The tusks are about the same as the elephant's tusks, and the height of the forelimbs is at least two and a half meters, which seems to be much higher than Ouyang Xuan, this is not a fucking wild boar, it is about the same size as an elephant. His eyes were blood-red as he stared at the group, and his hind limbs were digging the ground. The others are ordinary wild boars, with tan fur and a very thick appearance. If a giant wild boar Ouyang Xuan didn't think it was a trouble, and now there were more than twenty of them, it would be a big trouble.

While the wild boar was still preparing to attack, he took out the safety rope from his backpack and let the crowd disperse slowly. Have people tie safety ropes to trees on both sides of the road, as tall as the knee joints of wild boar's forelimbs. Stand in the middle of the road with a sword in your right hand and a crossbow in your left. The white wolf siblings and the concubine had been taken by the guards to hide behind a large rock behind the cliff. When everyone was ready, Ouyang Xuan slowly took a dozen steps back. Then he raised his sword and roared twice, with a clear provocation in his voice.

The giant wild boar is still a beast in the end, with a snort, it kicked its hind legs, and it slammed out, and came straight to Ouyang Xuan, and the other wild boars followed and galloped wildly, and the speed was not much slower than that of a horse. In a moment, it has reached the position of the safety rope, the giant wild boar is tall, and the safety rope has no effect on it, and it is easy to cross. With his head down, the curved giant fangs in front of his mouth came out, and there were secondary teeth next to the two giant teeth, which were not small.

At the moment when the wild boar crossed the safety rope, Ouyang Xuan leaned to the left, aimed the crossbow at the wild boar's eyes, calculated the amount in advance, and pulled the trigger. Before the crossbow arrow could be fired, the sword in his right hand had already been drawn to the end, and his right leg retreated, lowering his body and getting out of the way. The bolt is stabbed diagonally into the head from the eye area. The bolts didn't seem to do much damage to it, and it was still running forward. The little wild boar in the back was already almost at the safety rope position, judging the attack line of the neck, when the giant wild boar just passed by Ouyang Xuan's side, the sword in his right hand stabbed the wild boar's neck, and then pierced into the soft tissue, the waist and abdomen shook hard, and the strength of the whole body was used on the right hand, and the sword slashed the wild boar's neck diagonally upward. When you feel a bone in the way, let go and take a step back. Quickly take the bolt, wind it, raise your hand to your head and fire another arrow. The bolt went into the head from behind the ear, leaving it mostly outside, the sword still stuck in the neck. He ran a few steps forward by inertia, and finally collapsed on the road.

After firing the crossbow arrows, Ouyang drew his knife in his hand again, facing the wild boar herd behind, the wild boar running in front had already tripped, and the guard's bow and arrow had already frantically greeted the wild boar herd. The injured wild boar is the most terrifying, for these fledgling players, Ouyang Xuan did not blame too much, and now there is no time to blame. Watch the giant boar fall to the ground and convuls, and quickly hang up the crossbow. With knives in both hands, stand in the middle of the road and face a crazy herd of wild boars. These are ordinary wild boars, with very short tusks and thin bodies. Swinging the knife left and right, splitting the wild boar in the front attack line in half, the sharpness of the knife with the help of Ouyang Xuan's strength, it was really invincible, and there were already several corpses of wild boars divided into two halves in front of him.

There were still more than a dozen wild boars galloping past Ouyang Xuan's body, and the siege of 500 people could only end up falling on the way to the charge. After more than 20 wild boars were hung up, the surrounding sounded "Waiting for the mighty!" Waiting for the mighty! Cheers. Ouyang Xuan walked over to the giant wild boar that was still twitching, drew his sword, and cut it horizontally on his neck again, completely cutting the carotid artery, and purple-red blood gushed out. Look at the huge fangs, which are thirty centimeters long, with a perfect arc, and the whole is yellow. It seems to be a good thing too.

"Junhou, this giant beast is a monster in this bamboo forest, and it has injured countless hunters. Looking at this posture, this monster is at least two thousand catties."

"Send someone to the camp of the Yulin Army, find some men to come over, and carry the prey down." "No".

The concubine and the white wolf also came out from behind the stone and circled around the giant boar, and the little one was not afraid of this bloody scene, and touched the giant fangs from time to time. Four exposed wild boar fangs, golden yellow throughout, with a somewhat blunt tip, Ouyang Xuan took out a short knife, pried open the wild boar's mouth, and pried off the four teeth, all four teeth are yellow and solid, and the dentice is very good. Scrape it clean with a knife, clean it with sand and gravel in the stream, and throw it to the concubine, "Take it and play with it, I'll take care of it for you when you go back, and carve it." The little girl excitedly took the fangs, "Thank you, master." grabbed Buick's collar and compared it with the monster's teeth, and grabbed Guli again, comparing it. Only then did he grab Guli's collar, mount it, and run around with fangs in front of the guards, and the laughter like silver bells attracted the envious expressions of the guards. In the end, the twenty or so boar teeth were given to the little girl.

Ouyang Xuan took Shanhe and the two guards, took the headlamp, and went to the cave where the giant wild boar lived, and there was a spacious hall. In a corner there is thick hay. The soil on the ground is soft, and the further you go inside, the darker the light becomes. Ouyang Xuan turned on his headlamp and glanced around the cave inside. Water seeped from all sides of the cave walls, converging into a message on the ground. There were some mottled velvety patches by the stream, which attracted Ouyang Xuan. Pulling out a short knife, he dug up a few patches of different colors. Out of the cave, the shape of the fluffy patches in the sunlight varies, and there are obvious filamentous connections in the soil matrix. Ouyang Xuan judged based on years of experience that these should be streptomycetes, as for what kind of species, he couldn't tell. When I go back, I have to get an optical microscope to judge. Let Shantou keep these Streptomyces colonies, and went to the bamboo forest to dig up some spring bamboo shoots, and returned to the camp without seeing anything abnormal.

The Yulin army came quickly, with more than 3,000 people. Seeing that it was getting late, the Yulin Army was arranged to the cave, and Ouyang Xuan's camp was also moved outside the cave. Because of the existence of the bamboo forest, there are too many unknown factors, and the dinner is naturally roasted all kinds of mountain delicacies. Additional manpower was assigned to guard posts, and light and dark posts were also deliberately set up, because Ouyang Xuan had a feeling of unease.

Nights in the wild are not destined to be peaceful, and today is no different. In the middle of the night, the secret whistle set up by Ouyang Xuan in the pit was the first to ring the brass bell of the guard, and Ouyang Xuan gestured to keep the others vigilant and not to move. Under the cover of darkness, he got up and went to a dark outpost behind a stone and looked around. Under the faint starlight, there were faint figures swaying in the distance, and the number of people could not be seen clearly, but the formation seemed to be more than a hundred people, gathering at the edge of the bamboo forest. At this time, there were very small stones falling from the cliff, Ouyang Xuan looked up at the cliff, and there were also faint people. Quickly returned to the camp, called Shan, and asked him to take the concubine and the white wolf into the cave.

The others quickly assembled into an army and stood in the cave, not to come out without orders, because they had come to help carry things, these people did not carry shields, and sealed the entrance to the cave with long spears. The terrain here is narrow, the military formation cannot be used, these assassins are obviously coming on their own, these are all soldiers, and without a battle formation, a ranger can easily deal with ten soldiers. These people may choose this place because they think that the team will not be able to perform, and it is better to fight alone than this, so as not to cause casualties among the soldiers. Ouyang Xuan was sitting on the stone at the entrance of the cave, dressed neatly, holding the knife in his left hand and the long sword in his right hand on the ground. shouted: "What person, show up".

As soon as the words fell, the crowd that was gathering at the edge of the bamboo forest in the distance quickly fanned over, and several ropes were thrown down from the cliff. In an instant, there were hundreds of people around Ouyang Xuan, all of them were black Hanfu and square scarves, and in their hands were the kind of seventy-centimeter single-edged long knife, which should be made of fine iron by starlight. Ouyang Xuan got up, carried the sword, and said, "Who is the leader, come out, I don't want to have a nameless ghost under the sword."

Among the black-clothed people in the front, a middle-aged man with a medium stature, a square face, and sword eyebrows walked out, and said: "I have seen Hu Hou in the Lower Chu State, and a certain person has also been entrusted by someone to bring Wu Chu Xingxia to take the head of the prince and the marquis, and he has reported the grace of King Wu."

"Oh, with your qualifications, do you think you can be sure?"

"Hmph, on the military array, we may be afraid of the monarch, and we have not been afraid of this chivalrous art." The speaker was a young chivalrous man.

"Who are you?" Ouyang Xuan pointed his sword at this person and said.

"Fu Li Wang's Meng, this may be the last time Hu Hou hears it."

"Haha, joke, I haven't been afraid of a thousand wolves, so why be afraid of hundreds of people like you."

Ouyang Xuan Tai Chi stood up and made a gesture of please. Zhu Bo took a few steps back and waved the knife in his hand. A crowd of people rushed to kill with swords. Ouyang Xuan used a long knife as a shield, and a long sword volleyed flowers in the air. Blocking and stabbing is a fatal move, these people's kung fu is all ranger skills, and there are many false moves, Ouyang Xuan relies on the sword sharpness, the sword is wide, but he does not fall behind at all, and in a moment, hundreds of people have died under the sword. The rangers' offense had slowed down, they really couldn't help it, Ouyang Xuan was too strong in terms of strength and reaction speed. Every time, the sword flicks open and stabs directly into the vital point, and the long knife on the weak side is like a shield, blocking the attacking knife, and the tip of the knife is often backstabbed, or the blade is cut horizontally, which will directly break the knife.

In the case of many ineffective attacks, Zhu Bo chose to surround but not attack, and they were thinking of countermeasures. Zhu Shanshan did not know when he came out of the cave with five hundred guards. Spread out in a battle formation in groups of five and surrounded the men. Ouyang Xuan raised his sword and motioned for Shantou not to move. Since Ou Yaxuan did not use troops and guards to give them dignity at the beginning, then it should continue.

Seeing that the guards were only besieging and not attacking, these rangers gave up their plans to break through and continued to attack Ouyang Xuan frantically, all of them were attacking alone, and they did not cooperate with each other. If it is changed to a guard trained by Ouyang Xuan, at least they will work in groups of three, defending and attacking to cover the three-dimensional attack. The group of five was designed by Ouyang Xuan himself according to the characteristics of cold weapons, with two main attackers, two defensive covers, and a long-range bow and arrow strike.

Dealing with these lone rangers, Ouyang Xuan coped with it with ease, with a quick reaction speed, and made a judgment at the first time. The acquired exercise and the powerful muscles after soaking in the hot spring water ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the movements. In less than an hour, Ouyang Xuan's body was already covered with the corpses of the rangers, and there were less than five people who could still stand now, standing ten steps in front of Ouyang Xuan. Three people couldn't stand this torture of facing death, and raised their knives to make a last suicide rush, full of loopholes. Ouyang Xuan simply blocked and stabbed the three people, and a big blood hole appeared in his chest and throat. As one of the last people alive, Zhu Bo opened his mouth and said: "Hu Hou is really brave, six hundred rangers can't hurt a single shot, and it is an honor for us to die under Hu Hou's sword." "I have never been afraid in this life, and just now a sword almost killed me under the sword, which is the first time in this life to be afraid. In my lifetime, I can see such a brilliant swordsman's skill, and I have no regrets," Wang Meng said.

"To whom do you entrust us? Let's talk about it." "I'll give you all the time." After saying that, Zhu Bo raised the knife and Wang Meng to kill left and right, both of them had fought with Ouyang Xuan just now, knowing the characteristics of Ouyang Xuan's attack, the two of them automatically formed a double attack method, Wang Meng attacked the right side, and Zhu Bo attacked in practice. When the two of them took a step away from Ouyang Xuan, they both raised their knives and slashed obliquely from the bottom to the top, one left and one right. Ouyang Xuan's left-handed knife naturally blocked Wang Meng's attack line, and the right-hand sword slammed Zhu Bo's knife with the back of the sword, and at the moment when the knife was bounced open, Ouyang Xuan's weak force from the back of the knife in his left hand judged that this was a false attack, and he turned around with a horizontal knife in his hand, and cut off Zhu Bo's left abdomen with the help of the inertial sword, and the knife in his left hand cut Wang Meng's chest and several sternums. The two men fell to the ground almost simultaneously, twitching weakly. Ouyang Xuan turned around, walked in front of the two people, raised his sword and stabbed it into the head. Waving his hand and calling Shan: "Bury these Jingchu swordsmen, just bury them here, the beautiful scenery here is also a good place to belong." The bodies of those two heads will be carried down the mountain tomorrow, and you will hand them over to the court lieutenant to explain the situation." "No", Shantou took the order and left.

Go back to the cave and let the Yulin soldiers assist the guards in disposing of the corpses, and return to the villa early tomorrow morning. The thick smell of blood drifted with the wind, attracting a huge pack of wolves before dawn. To deal with the wolves, these people are all bowed and aimed in the direction of the wolves. Ouyang Xuan didn't let them release the arrows, but patted Buick and Gu Li and pointed in the direction of the wolves. The brother and sister immediately understood, rushed out, stood still on a higher rock, and howled briefly at the wolves, who hesitated for a moment before turning away.