CHAPTER XXXIII

"Sulphur ore? How would you know? "It's strange in Murakita. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"My lord, my father told me when he was dying, he found it in a battle with the Ming army, and then ran back to China due to defeat." Hasei said.

"Yoxi, you're good. But right now we need food, do you know where it's available? "The village is most worried that his subordinates will be hungry, let alone fighting, the morale of the army will be unstable.

"My lord, did you mean to eat?" Hasei said.

"Yes, the soldier needs to fill his stomach!" Murashita felt that Hasei would ask such a stupid question.

"My lord, at the beginning, you wanted to strengthen the grain, and you couldn't grab that kind of raw rice, but you couldn't grab much. But it's not easy to have a full stomach. There is an orchard in front of us, and we can pick some fruit to eat. There are still more than 50 families at the foot of the mountain, and there is no Ming army stationed around, so we can go to the farmhouse to eat. Hasei said.

"Good! It's up to you. Murashita said that he was very happy, but he didn't expect Changgu to know Ningbo quite well.

The village led the soldiers through the woods, and the soldiers were so hungry that when they saw the orchard, they picked apples and ate them, and some of them rubbed apples on their sleeves a few times, and then filled their mouths with two mouthfuls. The village watched the soldier eat for a while, and said, "Okay, through this forest, there is a farmer in front, let's go to the front to eat!" ”

These few shouts of him are better than giving orders on the battlefield, and when the soldiers hear that they have something to eat, they are immediately full of energy. In addition, with the fruit in their stomachs, they could take advantage of it for a while, and the soldiers quickened their pace.

Soon came to the village, and seeing that every household was still lit up, the village was very happy and said: "Baga, the farmers are very hardworking, and they haven't slept at night, so they can just cook for us!" ”

At this time, Hagatani walked up to the village and said, "My lord, you have to be careful. It's already the middle of the night, why is the light still on in every household? Will they be ready to deal with us? ”

After Nagatani said this, Murashita thought, yes, why don't farmers sleep at this time? Don't they have to do farm work during the day? He faintly heard the cries of women in the distance, followed by the laughter of the crowd and the sound of horses' hooves. Soon, a group of horsemen on horseback galloped from the village, led by a large number of soldiers standing at the entrance of the village, and they were so frightened that they pulled the reins of their horses, and the horses screamed rhythmically, and then stopped.

"Big brother, there are soldiers in front!" Another horse stopped, and the man on the horse whispered.

"I'm not blind!" The man known as "Big Brother" was a bandit from the neighborhood who had a nickname called "Drunken Centipede". His best weapon is the centipede scissor, and no one in this area is invincible in martial arts. He usually lives by robbery, and has a group of faithful brothers under his command. Usually like to drink two sips, always drunk, so it is called "drunk centipede".

He whispered to the people around him: "Fat man, let the brothers in the back shut the mouth of that girl!" Don't let the officers and soldiers see it. "It turned out that the drunken centipede was a group of bandits who had just robbed from the village and were about to return to the mountain, and a group of them rushed out of the village on horseback to see the Japanese soldiers.

The bandits came to the entrance of the village one after another, and they looked at this group of soldiers, who were in the dark, and there must be hundreds of people. The black centipede weighed in his heart, he only had forty brothers, how to fight?

The village looked at this group of bandits, and because of the darkness of the night, he regarded the bandits as a people, and said in his heart: "Every house in this village has lights on late at night, presumably they know that we are coming to grab food." They were able to find out where we were, indicating that the people of the village had planted a secret guard a few miles away. Villages that can have this kind of awareness and preparedness must not be underestimated! "Murashita thought in his heart, tonight was really not smooth, he was almost served by the Ningbo officers and soldiers, but fortunately it rained, and their firecrackers couldn't be used, so they ran away. But I haven't found anything to eat, and it's really tricky to meet such a village again. If you turn around and walk away when you are not big, will you be harassed by Minzhuang? As Hasei said, a person who runs away in wartime is a coward and will be looked down upon. But if you fight, you may not be able to do any good. His own soldiers have been frightened, and now they are hungry and tired, and it is okay to bully the good people, but there will still be a lot of losses when fighting with the brave people of the township.

Now the two sides are facing each other like this, less than fifty paces apart. The rain is getting lighter.

Just when Murashita was hesitating, the drunken centipede jumped off his horse, held the centipede scissors in one hand, pointed at Murashita and said, "I'm going to fight you alone!" ”

Murashita looked at the drunken centipede suspiciously. Although Murashita has been a thief in China for many years, he is not proficient in Chinese, but only knows some basic vocabulary. The "heads-up" that the drunk centipede just said, Murashita couldn't understand.

Changgu looked at the village, and one of the villagers was cowardly, and whispered, "My lord, he wants to fight you!" Let the villain try to fight first. ”

Only then did Murashita understand what was going on, he stretched out his right hand, blocked it with his arm, and then gently pushed Hagatani behind him, and Hagatani immediately stood up and bowed his head respectfully.

Since Murashita knew that the Chinese in front of him were going to fight, there was no need to talk other nonsense. He strode forward, his cloth shoes wet under his feet, and he stepped into puddles of mud one step at a time.

The drunken centipede saw that the leader of the official army came out of the battle, and it felt really fresh, and he had heard that the commander of the official army relied on the old and sold the old, and rarely fought in person, but let the soldiers go on, and the officer he met tonight actually stood up in person. Oh no, could it be that this person is a martial idiot? Only a good martial artist will be keen on fighting, otherwise the two armies will face each other, and the other side will have an absolute advantage in numbers but will not rush to the top. Thinking of this, the drunken centipede was afraid of a loss, so before the village could stand firm, he rushed to meet it first.

Murashita walked into the drunken centipede, which was between the two sides, and before he could see the other party's face clearly, he felt a cold light flash, and then four water droplets hit his forehead one after another, and the cold light was next to the water droplets, and it was about to fall on the head of the village. Before Murashita could pull out his sword, he was short and blocked it with a scabbard. secretly praised in his heart: "The master is in the folk, I didn't expect such a country horseman, and his martial arts are really not to be underestimated." Then he pressed the centipede scissors with the head of the scabbard, pressed the scabbard left and right, and pulled out the knife with his right hand.

The drunken centipede was also taken aback, his hand centipede scissors rarely encountered opponents, let alone that the other party could suppress himself with one hand. Obviously, the person in front of him is very strong, and he can even use a free hand to make a knife! Forget about the knife, he holds the knife in his right hand, and he is certainly not left-handed. And it is incredible that this person can compete with the strength of his own hands with a left hand that he usually does not use well!

Seeing that the knife was about to be split on the shoulder, the drunken centipede jumped backwards and immediately bounced back to the left front, and at the same time the centipede scissors were handed out to the belly of the village, this time the drunken centipede also opened the scissors, in order to cut off his knife when the other party used the knife again! Take the opportunity to kill him!

But the drunken centipede is used to dealing with bandits from all walks of life in the mountain nest on weekdays, and the murata's sword is indeed the steel-clad technology of the Tang Dynasty, how can the ordinary sharp iron scissors cut it? Even if the scissors of the drunken centipede are beaten and thickened, it will not help. But in the middle of the night, the drunken centipede couldn't see the beauty of the sword in the village's hand.

When the second scissors of the drunken centipede were sent out, Murakata really blocked it with a knife, but the knife was unscathed, and the scissors of the drunken centipede were cut off a piece of the tip of the scissors. The drunken centipede was stunned for a moment, knowing that he had met a master tonight, this military master's preparation was very good, whether it was the soldiers and horses or the weapons in his hands, they all revealed the strength of the military master. I secretly calculated in my heart: Be careful, you must be careful. If this is a little negligent, it is strange that you will not die!

The drunken centipede saw that the village was about to take advantage of the situation to come over, and hurriedly shouted: "Slow, look at the ground!" Then he looked at the ground. Murashita could understand this simple sentence, and he only felt that there was something important on the ground, and he also looked down at the ground. The drunken centipede stretched out its fingers, and its left hand had already reached for a knife from between its sleeves. It turns out that the drunken centipede is not only good at cutting centipedes, but also good at throwing knives. At the moment when Murashita bowed his head, the drunken centipede flying knife was thrown out and hit Murashita's shoulder at once.

"Ahh Murakisha gritted his teeth, held the knife with both hands, attacked a few times, and shouted while attacking: "Yaga Ya Road!" ”

The drunken centipede then stumbled left and right a few times, but he was surprised to hear that Murakita actually spoke Chinese. has been fighting for a long time, and the emotional opponent is not the official army! He hurriedly shouted at the village: "Don't fight, don't fight." You are not officers and soldiers! ”