Chapter 198: Danger and Progress
With Ning Jun's shout, Su Qin also noticed something unusual, and the two hurriedly stood against the stone wall next to the path. In front of them, feathered arrows flew like raindrops.
Su Qin thought to himself: "It's so dangerous, Ning Jun is worthy of being a general who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and he is extremely sensitive to the sound of dark arrows. That's why I dodged in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. ”
The feathered arrow was shot for more than a quarter of an hour, and finally stopped. Su Qin bent down and picked up a stone and threw it on the path, only to see another burst of feather arrows shooting down.
He looked up again, and saw that there was no human figure to be seen except for the potholes of the path.
Su Qin pondered the mystery, and slowly he figured it out: this may be the first line of defense of the cottage, there should be a bend in front, and the people of the cottage are hidden behind the bend.
The defenders, who were hiding in the shadows, saw someone coming up, and they came out and released arrows for a while, and now they hid again.
Su Qin gestured to Ning Jun, and Ning Jun nodded, indicating that he also knew the strangeness.
Su Qin then picked up five or six stones, and after a while, he threw one out, and he found that as long as there was a sound, some figures would flash out of the bend in front of him, and he would release arrows at the lun.
Finally, the people above also found out that they had been deceived, they stood at the bend and observed the movement below, and when they saw that there was no one on the road, they were also very strange: "Where did the figure just now?" ”
Ning Jun saw someone appear at the bend, so he made a gesture to rush up with Su Qin, but Su Qin waved his hand and disagreed.
The two waited quietly below for another quarter of an hour. The group of minions at the bend saw that there was no figure below, so they hid again.
At this time, Su Qin threw more than a dozen stones out of the road in a row, and the minions at the bend heard the loud noise on the road, where could they stay, and they all jumped out again, and some couldn't help but put an arrow down.
However, the road turned out to be empty again. The group of minions choked on the noise, and they staggered back to the bend and hid again.
Su Qin and Ning Jun only appeared at this time, and once again climbed along the path towards the mountain, and they tried to make as little noise as possible.
The minions who were guarding the bend also heard a slight noise on the road, and they lazily came out to see what was going on. At this time, Su Qin had already taken the Juntong crossbow given by Shi Changxiang in his hand, and when he saw the minions appearing, he pressed the mechanism to shoot a short crossbow, only to hear a few flutters, flutters, and those minions fell to the ground one after another.
When four or five of them were about to shoot them with their bows, it was too late, and Su and Ning had already reached their approach, and their swords fell and stabbed them to the ground.
Su Qin and Ning Jun successfully reached the bend, and when they looked around, they were both very surprised.
Originally, the cottage is more than 30 zhang on the left side of the bend, it is a high platform surrounded by a large stone with a radius of 7 or 80 zhang, more than a dozen stone houses are built on the platform, the height is staggered, and in the middle is a particularly tall house, which should be the center of the cottage.
What made Su Qin's backs chill was not the scale of the cottage, but the extent to which it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
From the bend to the stone wall, there is only a road about one zhang wide, one end of the road is the bend where Su Qin and the others are, and the other end is connected to the gate of the cottage, and below the road is the deep valley of Qianren.
Su Qin thought to himself: "Behind the gate of the cottage and the walls on both sides, there must be more archers hidden, if they shoot arrows at the road, I'm afraid it will be difficult for even birds to fly across this road, let alone big living people." ”
Su Qin and Ning Jun stood at the bend, looking at the cottage, thinking hard about how to break through.
Ning Jun looked at the bows and arrows scattered on the ground, thinking about it, he discussed with Su Qin, the two of them divided the labor and cooperated, Su Qin walked forward against the rock wall on the inside of the road, responsible for blocking the arrows, Ning Jun held a strong bow in his hand, and took the opportunity to shoot arrows at the minions who showed their positions in the cottage.
In this way, both offense and defense are prepared, which not only kills and injures the opponent, but also slows down the intensity of the opponent's attack.
The two of them had made up their minds, so they ran forward together, running five or six zhang away, and as expected, more than thirty minions appeared behind the gate and wall of the cottage, shooting arrows at Su Qin and Ning Jun frantically.
Su Qin and Ning Jun hurriedly stuck to the rock wall, Su Qin dialed the feather arrow, and Ning Jun opened his bow and shot arrows behind him to suppress the opponent's attack. The two slowly approached the cottage.
Ning Jun is proficient in battle formations, in the end, it is not comparable to ordinary people, the function of bows and arrows in the hands of minions and in his hands is simply incomparable.
I saw Ning Jun quickly pull his bow and shoot arrows, almost one person with one arrow, and soon shot more than a dozen minions. Shoot the people in the cottage so that they don't dare to come forward, they only dare to appear instantly, shoot the arrows and quickly hide.
In this way, the strength and accuracy of the attacks in the cottage were greatly reduced, and although Su Qin and Ning Jun were not fast, they gradually approached the gate of the cottage.
When they were only a little more than a foot away, the two suddenly jumped quickly towards the gate and hid under the gate.
The gate of the cottage was made of thick wooden boards, and Su Qin and Ning Jun pushed it inward, but the gate did not move at all.
At this time, on the walls on both sides of the gate, there were constantly minions dodging and shooting arrows, which made Su Qin and Ning Jun very passive. Su Qin's eyes rolled, and he remembered his Qingshuang sword, he raised his sword and slashed along the crack in the door from top to bottom, only to hear a bang, and the iron bolt in the door was cut off by the Qingshuang sword.
The two of them pushed the door hard again, and finally opened it. After entering the cottage, I found a large square behind the door.
The minions behind the wall, as well as the people who were originally arranged to defend inside, either held spears in their hands or wielded scimitars, and surrounded Su Qin and Ning Jun.
Su Qin and Ning Jun no longer left room for their opponents at this time, and fought hard, and Su Qin's Qingshuang Sword was instantly covered by the blood light.
While fighting, Su Qin shouted: "We are here to ask for someone, as long as you release people, we will spare you, otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless." ”
A strong man in the crowd, in his thirties, armed with a machete, very fierce, shouted: "You must not be arrogant, no one can get out of my cottage alive, and today next year will be the death day of the two of you." ”
"Brothers, cheer up and kill these two children in one fell swoop."
Su Qin guessed that this person might be the thief, so he shouted to him again: "You robbed our carriage this morning and kidnapped the coachman. If you promise to release the people and return the money you have stolen, then we will take our troops and go our separate ways. ”
The thief laughed and replied, "Whatever has gone into my thief's mouth, it hasn't been spit out yet." You two also want to get people and money back! I'm afraid that you will also leave a small life. ”
Su Qin saw that he couldn't talk, so he simply started killing, he used all the Heavenly Dance swordsmanship, the sword edge was abnormal, and the person who was involved was either killed or disabled. Kill those minions who fell to the ground, retreated backwards, and became a mess.
Su Qin and Ning Jun pursued in the direction of the minions' retreat, Su Qin saw them retreat straight to the main hall in the center, and no one avoided on both sides of the square, obviously retreating in a premeditated manner. I thought to myself, "There must be a conspiracy in it." ”