Chapter 13: Side by side with Kou
As Xu Ruyu spoke, Luo Xiaohu took the opportunity to smash down a stone the size of a blue brick, and excitedly probed to go, and several long arrows went straight to the door.
Xu Ruyu pulled his knife lightly, glued down several long arrows, and said, "What I said, do you hear it clearly?" ”
"Let the breeze rip off the captives' clothes and give them the wet clothes we have replaced." Luo Xiaohu quickly repeated what Xu Ruyu said, but his eyes were fixed on the enemy who was climbing up the ladder.
"Let them dry before wearing. After this thing was done, he asked Qingliu to escort Luo Xu and Tu Wenyong to the wall. With that, Xu Ruyu grabbed Luo Xiaohu by the collar and threw him into the open space behind the wall. Luo Xiaohu somersaulted in mid-air, landed firmly on the ground, and ran towards the barracks behind the stockade.
Xu Ruyu didn't have time to look at Luo Xiaohu's beautiful somersault, one of the enemy's shields had already been raised over the battlement in front of him, and a person beside him stabbed out a halberd, which was sealed by the other party with a shield, and he was shocked back by Shengsheng.
The clothes within the Twelve Kou Alliances are chaotic, and the Kou chiefs and ordinary rogues are often dressed in the same way, only after handing over, they can judge one or two from the other party's cultivation. This person can shake the halberd hand alive, and his strength is not weak in the crowd. Xu Ruyu pointed the knife on his shield, and with a press of luck, dozens of fine cracks cracked on the shield from the tip of the knife to the edge. The man slowed down, and lifted his shield half a minute. Xu Ruyu sighed in his heart that it was a pity, the blade of the knife wiped out the resistance on the shield, and suddenly a huge force surged towards the shield, only to hear a few "Titica" sounds, the person kicked the ladder several wooden steps, and fell down the wall. Xu Ruyu watched as the man spurted a mouthful of blood from behind the shield, struggled to his feet, and retreated back.
His head and face were always hidden behind the shield, Xu Ruyu looked at the knife in his hand, and finally did not inject Dan force into the man's back. In the blink of an eye, there were no less than twenty soldiers pouring into the city, and four or five of them were carrying each other on their backs, attacking in depth. Xu Ruyu didn't dare to use powerful and easily consumable moves, and only used the simplest moves to defeat the enemy. At first, the group of gangsters who climbed the wall and were chaotic often had no one who could withstand his one-and-a-half moves. If you let several celebrities join forces on the wall, it will take a lot of effort from Xu Ruyu.
Xu Ruyu single-handedly slashed, raised his foot and kicked out of the wall, wrapped in knife light and forcibly broke into the circle formed by nine rogues, although the enemy formation was scattered, the shock in his hand was still constantly transmitted, with one enemy nine, even a master like Xu Ruyu may not be able to take it calmly.
Xu Ruyu coldly watched as the soldiers around him split the nine rogues into four strands, and in an instant, three halberds and two knives pierced into the body of one of them.
After attacking all night, the Twelve Kou League finally sent the elite out to attack the village.
I don't know how long it took to suppress this wave of offensive, watching the enemy drop more than 200 corpses, rolling up the so-called Kou flag and leaving the wall, Xu Ruyu did not breathe a sigh, looking at the slightly rolled blade, Xu Ruyu sighed, the strength of the saber, the standard saber that followed Xu Ruyu for nearly a year, buzzed and vibrating, a faint blue brilliance flashed, and the saber did not enter the vest of an enemy robber. The man took a few steps forward, plunged headlong into a muddy puddle, and could not get up.
After the fierce battle, the tired soldiers applauded.
Xu Ruyu picked up a spear, stepped over the corpses that were hiding horizontally, and walked to the sentry tower in front. Feng Yuanyuan's left arm was wounded, and the thick-backed knife stood aside, and the blood that slipped from the blade congealed on the ground. The gate guarded by the soldiers of the Black Warrior Battalion and the wall in front of it were the most attacked, but the casualties were the fewest among the three sides. Xu Ruyu knew that the elite combat power of the Liukou was not necessarily worse than that of the Suwei Battalion, not to mention the second battalion of the Xuancheng Light Armored Infantry Battalion, which had just been formed.
"What are the surnames of Luo Xu and Tu Wenyong?"
Feng Yuanyuan was slightly stunned, and thought: Xu Ruyu asked about the situation of the two owners of the village who were captured in the village at this time, there must be his intentions, and he thought about it and said: "Luo Xusheng's surname is Liangbo, cruel and ruthless, and the law is also extremely cruel, Tu Wenyong was taken into the village by Luo Xu's 'shengkou', and later joined the gang, read for a few years, and had some scheming, which was quite relied on by Luo Xu, and became the second master of the secret village, but he was a little greedy for life and afraid of death. ”
"It's best to be greedy for life and afraid of death, do you think it's possible for him to be used by us?" Xu Ruyu said lightly.
"You said ...... at this time" Feng Yuanyuan looked at Xu Ruyu in surprise, not daring to confirm what he meant, and said hesitantly, "Is it too risky, it is better to solve it cleanly." ”
Xu Ruyu shook his head and said: "It's an iron law not to kill prisoners, it's really not good, just drive them to the village, since there are five thousand rogue soldiers surrounding the village, I'm not afraid of three or four hundred more." ”
Feng Yuanyuan thought that if there was no iron law of killing prisoners, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape the butcher's knife in Wei Yu's palm, and nodded helplessly. At this time, Qingliu led a few people to escort the two of them to the wall.
Luo Xu's beard was full of beard, his eyes were fierce, and he was grabbed by the collar and lifted up by the light stream, and struggled twice very impatiently. With a look of disdain, Qingliu slammed him straight through the stone wall, knocking him into a nosebleed. And Tu Wenyong, who was in Qingliu's other hand, was thirty-three or four years old, with a bit of beauty between his eyebrows, and his face was like a man at this time, and he was dejected and lifeless. Qingliu gently put him in front of Xu Ruyu, said "give the order", and respectfully stepped aside.
Xu Ruyu said: "You should have guessed my intention to bring you up, right? ”
Luo Xu snorted coldly, facing the female wall, ignoring Xu Ruyu's words. Tu Wenyong thought that he really couldn't live today, his scattered eyes glanced at Xu Ruyu, and his body couldn't help shaking, thinking that it seemed too useless, and his heart was filled with shame. Before this trace of shame could help him calm down, he thought again: Death is dead, how can you care about any face? Thinking about it like this, his mind calmed down, looking at the weak-crowned young man in front of him, his eyes were deep and looking at him as if he was on the edge of an abyss, and his eyes were like dragons like stars, and he thought: He wants to deal with us and others, and he will not waste time on this juncture.
Although he couldn't guess Xu Ruyu's intentions, he knew that it was not a fatal situation.
Xu Ruyu saw that Tu Wenyong's face was full of vitality, and thought: "Scare you again, and said loudly: "Since the establishment of the Blue Flame Army, prisoners are not allowed to be disposed of without trial. At this time, it is critical, and as a last resort, he exercises his authority to pronounce a judgment on the 359 rogues in the secret village......"
Tu Wenyong's face turned dead again, and he thought: This erector, what kind of false name do you care about killing prisoners, grandma's, it's a death anyway, who wants to listen to your nonsense. He sat there, closing his eyes and waiting for his head to be stabbed, and he couldn't help but hope that the rogues outside would rush into the village soon. In his ears, Xu Ruyu's voice continued: "...... Luo Xu, secretly known as the chief of Zhaikou, rampant in the countryside, invaded the prefecture, killed people and caused more trouble, * captivity, and should be punished. Light stream, execution. ”
Tu Wenyong suddenly opened his eyes as if he was stimulated, and saw Qingliu wielding a long knife to wipe Luo Xu's neck, and before the blood gushed out, he was picked out of the wall by Qingliu. Thinking that he was in such a situation at this moment, Tu Wenyong immediately calmed down, the past suddenly flowed through his mind, sighed, got up from the ground, straightened his collar that had not yet dried, and sat upright on the rolling stone on the side, waiting for Xu Ruyu to announce the verdict.
"Master Tu, what do you want to say?" Xu Ruyu asked softly, in the afterglow, Liukou was advancing here, and said hurriedly: "Wait until this offensive is repelled before dealing with your business, and you will take him down lightly." ”
Qingliu also restrained his hands and feet and threw him into the open space under the wall, and ran to the wall to fight. Tu Wenyong tried to break the ban, but his cultivation was too weak, so he had to watch the wall of the village being breached, the village being attacked, and he might be able to leave a life.
Lying on the field, he couldn't see the fighting on the wall, he could only hear the tragic sound of fighting, and thought: This Qingfeng general can go without abandoning his subordinates, and he is also a rare person. remembered that when he was twenty years old, he was still living at home and preparing to take the advanced examination of the Yuejun family. The advanced examination is a talent selection system adopted by the family in imitation of the inner court, and the children of the poor family are not qualified to participate in the advanced examination, but the talents of the Yuejun family have withered in the past ten years, and they have to use the cold house, and the advanced examination is not so strict to exclude the children of the poor family, but it must be recommended by the famous people in the county. Liukou, Liukou, was victimized by Liukou at that time, but now he has become a Liukou to be eliminated, that's it, that's it, and there is no chance to choose again, but I don't know if the second elder escaped the disaster in that Liukou attack on the village.
I don't know when, the sound of fighting on the walled wall gradually weakened, and Xu Ruyu resisted the attack again. Tu Wenyong thought to himself: The Qingyan Army is only a mile away from the nearest army here, why hasn't it appeared now, it is rumored that Xu Ruyu is good at using strange soldiers, could it be that there is another strange strategy among them? Wan Er smiled and muttered to himself: "I don't have much time in my life, how can I spend my brain energy thinking about such a headache." ”
Tu Wenyong was once again brought to the wall to stand in front of Xu Ruyu, who was picking the corpse of an enemy off the wall. The soldiers guarding the wall, their faces were tired, and everyone was more or less injured, even Xu Ruyu was no exception. A corpse being removed from the wall suggests that the defenders paid a considerable price for repelling the attack.
The left lieutenant who was sticking to the western wall, his left foot was cut off at the knee of the rogue, so he had to send the light stream over and temporarily take command. Compared with the east and front, the morale of the guards of the west wall is much weaker. In the battle just now, the leather armor was pierced by a spear, and the left rib was not lightly injured, and the wound was wrapped, but there were still blood stains oozing out.
Xu Ruyu's sharp gaze swept over Tu Wenyong, who was now quite calm, and said calmly: "It is a dereliction of duty for a major general to let more than 300 of your captives stay in the village and contain a considerable part of my troops who cannot get out of the wall and resist. However, the suppression of bandits only exposes the first evil, and coercion is not prosecuted. This makes me very embarrassed, Tu Master, you have heard about Qingjiang in many ways, what can you teach me? ”
Tu Wenyong was stunned, and couldn't guess what Xu Ruyu meant for a while.
Xu Ruyu said: "You have been pardoned, but I don't want you to be a threat to me, what to do, I hope Tu Dangjia can teach me." ”
"It's... This ......" Tu Wenyong's throat rolled, he couldn't say a word for a while, and after a while, he asked hesitantly, "Let's leave the village, okay?" ”
"Yes. Qingliu, you go and bring the captives over, and let them down from this wall. After that, he smiled apologetically at Tu Wenyong, "If you can repel the rogues who are surrounding the village, you can open the gate of the village and let Tu Dangjia lead the brothers away." ”
Tu Wenyong smiled embarrassedly, and was about to go down the wall with the light stream, but heard Xu Ruyu say in the back: "It's cold outside, you might as well let them dry their clothes thoroughly before coming out." He was suddenly shocked in his heart, remembering that he had just been forced to take off his clothes and put on the wet clothes of the Blue Flame Army. Tu Wenyong stopped abruptly and looked back, Xu Ruyu had already turned around and looked outside the wall.
Tu Wenyong looked at the wall of the village mixed with many people wearing dark village costumes, most of the blue robes were hidden in leather armor or chain mail, but the dark logo embroidered with black silk thread on the right arm was very distinct.
Tu Wenyong sighed and said, "How about we stay in the village?" ”
Xu Ruyu suddenly turned around, and his words became sharp for a while: "Master Tu, are you still lucky?" Even if I don't do this, how much hope will you have to survive when you go down from this wall? ”
Tu Wenyong was in a daze, and then said dejectedly: "With Hao Ziming's suspicious and murderous surname, if we go out at this time, we will most likely be shot by people outside. ”
"If you stay in the stockade until they break through it, how much hope do you have for your life?" Xu Ruyu asked coldly.
Tu Wenyong was shocked, and thought: The attack and defense are only a day, and the casualties on both sides are so heavy, if the village is really breached, the soldiers on the periphery must also kill the red eyes, and it is inevitable that the village will vent. The Twelve Kou Alliances suffered heavy losses, so they naturally carved up the Dark Village as compensation. At this time, the soldiers guarding the village were mixed with soldiers wearing dark village costumes, which had become a dead end, could it be ...... Tu Wenyong looked at Xu Ruyu with some doubts.
Xu Ruyu looked solemn and said, "If I can use Feng Yuanyuan, I can also use you, you can decide for yourself." After a pause, he said, "It's okay if you refuse, as long as you finally repel the rogues, you can also leave the stockade and survive elsewhere." ”
The whistle sounded, and the tide of soldiers surrounded him from all sides. Tu Wenyong sat there with a stump, looking at the heads that came up one by one, and instantly shot blood and sank. Stray arrows, spears, and finally someone climbed the wall, one, two, three, more...... The defenders suffered casualties, and a bloody hole was poked out of a front door and fell beside him. Tu Wenyong laughed twice, picked up a long knife, and stabbed at the head of the person who came up in front of Xu Ruyu.
Xu Ruyu flicked his fingers several times, unlocked the ban on his body, and said: "The ban has just been lifted, and the blood is not clear, you look behind me for me, don't leave." With that, he swung his knife and wrapped the two rogues who had climbed up the wall into the sword light.
Tu Wenyong watched Xu Ruyu expose the empty door of his back and abdomen in front of his eyes, his heart couldn't help but move, no one else looked at him in the afterglow, raised the sharp blade in his hand, only to feel that the knife was as heavy as a thousand pounds, and in an instant, he lowered the knife in his hand and turned sideways to Xu Ruyu's winged back. The two came around, Tu Wenyong had just lifted the ban, and his luck was a little sluggish, so he could only use subtle moves to deal with the enemy.
Xu Ruyu turned around, blocked the attack of the two rogues for him, and said to him: "There are still more than 300 people waiting for you to convince, you go down with the light." ”
Tu Wenyong just went down the wall ladder and thought: Why didn't you let you go down the wall in the first place? Thinking of the matter of raising the knife behind his back, a strange feeling arose in his heart that he was being seen through, and he was in a cold sweat for a while, and he no longer dared to have his thoughts in his heart, and trembling and following Qingliu to the barracks where the prisoners were held.
Qingliu stretched out his hand and nudged him, saying, "It's up to you whether you can hold the stockade or not." ”
In the pine forest in the southeast of Cheonggang-eup, a thick layer of needle-shaped leaves has accumulated, and last night's heavy rain filled the fallen leaves with stagnant water, and when you step on it, water traces immediately seep out.
Wei Yan stepped on the fallen leaves viciously, and a stream of water shot out from the soles of his feet, and Wei Yan waved his sleeves very impatiently to blow the water away, and the scattered water droplets shot into a pine tree with its bark like water bombs.
Xu Ruyu did not appear in the secret assembly of Qingjiangyi last night as promised, and this morning he found that the Twelve Kou Leagues were assembled in large numbers near the Dark Village, and Liang Bao, Ming Xi, and Wei Yan immediately guessed that he was trapped in the Secret Village. Wei Yan suggested that the army should be waved immediately to relieve the siege.
Ming Xi, who temporarily commanded the army on behalf of Xu Ruyu, did not echo his opinion, and said: "Returning to the Dark Village at this time will inevitably attract all the troops of the Twelve Kou Alliances to the Dark Village, not only can not relieve the siege of Mr., but will make the decisive battle between the Qingyan Army and the Twelve Kou Alliance advance, which is extremely unfavorable to us. ”
Although Liang Bao was worried about Xu Ruyu, he also knew that what Ming Xi said was the truth, and now Qingyan could only mobilize more than 7,000 foot soldiers, while the total strength of the Twelve Kou Alliances reached 12,000 to 14,000 people, and it was a decisive battle in the hilly belt familiar with the Twelve Kou Alliance.
Wei Yan said: "What do you say? Now in the dark village is the six hundred men and horses of the second battalion of the Xuancheng infantry battalion, as well as Feng Yuanyuan's two hundred black warrior battalion troops, Feng Yuanyuan is not reliable to talk about him for the time being, how long can he be able to hold on to these eight hundred? If something happens, sir, he will kill the Twelve Kou Leagues cleanly, and he will not do anything. ”
"If Feng Yuanyuan repeats, we won't have time to rush over, Mr. is sure of employing people, we don't have to worry about this. I never thought that the Twelve Kou Alliance was determined to fight a decisive battle with us at this time, and it seemed that there were still others pushing behind. If you rush to the dark village and rush to the decisive battle, even if you win, it will be a miserable victory, and Mr. will not want to see this result. "Liang Bao has followed Xu Ruyu for the longest time and knows Xu Ruyu's surname best.
Wei Yan said: "Since it is not suitable for a decisive battle, I led 300 soldiers of the Qingjiang cavalry battalion to abandon their horses and rush from the small road to secretly help Mr. Zhai. ”
Ming Xi said: "Secretly said that the back of the village is on the dangerous cliff, but the dangerous cliff is not something that everyone can climb, you select a hundred masters from the Qingjiang cavalry camp to join Mr. As long as the three days are not lost, Xuancheng can mobilize enough troops, and with our men, we should be able to fight a decisive battle with the Twelve Kou Alliance. The Twelve Kou League hopes that we will be desperate to save Mr., I might as well rush to the Dark Village, and draw out the Twelve Kou Alliance forces east of the Dark Village, and solve this worry first. ”
Xu Ruyu gathered three hundred prisoners of war in the empty field in the village, with a dignified expression, looking at this group of prisoners of war who were still doing evil ten days ago, and said: "The Qingyan Army eliminates evil, only the first evil, regardless of coercion. The 5,000 soldiers of the Twelve Kou League were surrounded outside the wall, but now there were only 4,000 left. I want you to pick up your guns and guard the cottage with us. Without your participation in the guarding, the stockade would not have been able to defend the future, and you would have been slaughtered in the chaos at that time. Of course, the guards of the Shangzhai wall may also die in battle, but when you die, you are no longer a rogue, but a soldier of the Qingyan Army, who died defending the 180,000 people in the Lishui River Valley. ”
Tu Wenyong followed Xu Ruyu's words and said: "As long as they participate in the defense, they all belong to the soldiers of the Qingyan Army, and they can leave the identity of the Liukou, divide the fields and land, marry and have children." Between the words, it was as if he was saying that joining the Blue Flame Army had a future than being a bandit.
Xu Ruyu saw that he was impassioned, which made Tu Wenyong's next words rush to pieces, and he was a little helpless. The POWs did not respond enthusiastically, but had to accept reality. The participation of 350 prisoners of war in the village greatly relieved the pressure on the defense of the village.
The offensive of the Twelve Leagues hit the stone wall, and it has not been able to break through the rock-solid defense, leaving countless corpses under the wall like a shattered wave. On the morning of the third day (fifth day), before the arrival of Wei Yan and 100 soldiers of the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion, the defenders suffered 600 casualties and the 12 Kou League suffered 1,400 casualties.
Wei Yan looked at the cliff fifteen or sixteen zhang high behind the dark village, the moss was slippery, pursed his lips, spit out the grass roots chewed in his mouth, and asked loudly: "Did we sneak into the village from the back cliff, or did we rush in from the flank?" ”
The 100 soldiers who came with Wei Yan this time were all good at the Puji Biaofeng Battalion, and they all said, "Rush in." ”
Wei Yan and a hundred elites suddenly launched an attack on the company camp of the Twelve Kou Alliance from the east side, and a stick of incense unexpectedly penetrated the east company camp and came to the bottom of the wall.
Hao Ziming sent 500 people to the wall to block, and with the assistance of the bow and arrow on the wall, Wei Yan rushed to the gate in front of the wall while fighting. When they arrived at the gate of the wall, the hundred elites and the remaining three hundred rogues were entangled together, and Xu Ruyu had to order the gate to be opened and put in together. At this time, the second wave of rogues rushed over, and it was too late to close the door, Xu Ruyu smiled bitterly and blocked the door alone, and he was worried that he wanted to use the "god-killing" style that he had never performed before to block the enemy, but the iron spear could not withstand the violent Dan energy, and it shattered into countless pieces and shot out before the "god-killing" move was successfully launched. Xu Ruyu himself was inevitably injured in six places.
The enemy who rushed forward fell one by one, and Wei Yan took advantage of the enemy's panic to snatch the injured Xu Ruyu into the village. The 300 rogues who were put into the village were annihilated in less than a moment.
At this point in the fierce battle, the most serious injury on his body was caused by himself, Xu Ruyu smiled bitterly, and said: "Although the back cliff is slippery and difficult to climb, but there is a response from the village, it should not be difficult for you Qingjiang cavalry camp hundreds of good hands to climb the back cliff, you want to make it so powerful." ”
Wei Yan scratched his head and said: "The blow of your broken spear is deeply imprinted in the heart of the Liukou, it can be said that it is your battle of fame in Qingjiang, and now as long as you stand on the wall, the Liukou will definitely go around you." ”
The arrival of Wei Yan and the good men of the 100 Qingjiang cavalry battalion made the attack of the 12 Kou Leagues completely hopeless. At this time, most of the houses in the village were demolished, and the rolling stones, corpses, and sassal wood piled up in front of the wall filled the entire foot of the wall.
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