(Starting from the second volume, the historical drama unfolds, seeking collection)

Chapter 43: Eyes

Fang Xie is a knowledgeable person, not only has he traveled a lot of places in the past fifteen years, but he has not been to the imperial capital in his previous life, so in his thinking, Chang'an City is just an ancient city with blue walls and red tiles and many wooden buildings. So when Xiang Qingniu talked about how majestic the imperial capital was, he really didn't mention any interest.

However, Cui Luo listened with relish, and soon became fascinated.

"Do you know how high the walls of the imperial capital are?"

Xiang Qingniu sat on the carriage next to the big dog, proudly picked his chin and stood up and gestured: "It's so high!" ”

Fang Jie, who was riding on horseback, chuckled: "Respected Dao Chief, can you not use your height as the basis for the majesty of Chang'an City?" Even if you stand up from the carriage and gesture...... If the walls of Chang'an City can be compared with your height and arm span, then I really doubt that the name of the first city in the world is a bit false.

He stretched out his hand and gestured above Xiang Qingniu's head and said, "Even the city wall of Fan Gu is so high. ”

Xiang Qingniu was a little annoyed by the fear of this young man who was not very clear about his origins, and he didn't know if it was because of the four intersecting lines and the red mole in Fang Jie's palm, or because this guy was a little stronger than him in terms of thick face and black heart.

So he just snorted coldly, and after a while, he felt that he had to save some face, and then pretended to be very arrogant: "You are not a candidate of the Martial Arts Academy, otherwise I guarantee that you will not be able to pass the test." ”

Cui Luoshang was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Fang Xie and said: "He is a candidate of the Martial Arts Academy, and he is also a candidate from the military, it is easier to say than those of us who get the identity of a candidate." You know that my aunt was newly named a concubine, and she has this layer of face and I don't know how many gifts I gave to Lu Dao to get the quota. He only needs to accumulate enough military merits in the border army, and then have a recommendation to take the exam. ”

"Aha!"

Xiang Qingniu immediately became interested, and his eyes widened: "You are really a candidate of the Martial Arts Academy, then you are miserable!" ”

Fang Xie ignored Xiang Qingniu, but looked at Cui Luoshang and said solemnly: "It seems that in the eyes of those of you who come from big families, the soldiers in the army are not qualified to get the quota of the Martial Arts Academy?" It seems that in your eyes, it is easier for us ordinary soldiers without a prominent background to get a quota than you noble children? ”

Cui Luoshang paused for a moment and asked with some surprise, "Isn't that so?" ”

Fang Xie couldn't help laughing, his smile was so gloomy: "I don't know how much silver you use, and I'm not interested in knowing how much face your family has sold to help you get a place." But you don't know what I got it for, maybe even if I told me that I got it for twenty-one military exploits, you wouldn't feel anything about it. ”

He said seriously: "I'll just ask you, do you know what the twenty-one military exploits of the Dao mean?" ”

Cui Luoshang asked, "What?" ”

Fang Xie said word by word: "It means that my life is big, and I should die for twenty-one times...... You people will never understand how important a reference quota for a martial arts academy is to an ordinary soldier, and what a luxurious dream! It was an opportunity for them to change their fate after working desperately countless times and perhaps never in a lifetime. You relied on your family's fame and gold, silver, and jewelry for that place, and we ...... It's by exchanging your own life. ”

He slowly breathed a sigh of relief and laughed at himself: "Of course, in your eyes, the lives of our border soldiers may not be worth the amount of silver you gave away. ”

"I ......"

Cui Liushang blushed, couldn't help but shake his head and explained: "I really don't think so. ”

Fang Xie sneered and asked, "Then let me ask you something, if you or those noble friends of yours, because it was intentional or not, killed an ordinary soldier." Once this happens, how do you solve it? ”

"Indemnification."

Cui Luoshang said seriously: "The compensation is a large sum of silver, which is enough for the relatives of the deceased to live in peace for a lifetime." Of course...... There will also be some scum from a family who use the power behind them to forcibly suppress this matter, and they will not mention the lawsuit in the yamen at all. Li Yuan killed a helper who caught Kuai's men in Xiangcheng at the beginning, and he didn't pay a single copper coin, and drove the family out of Xiangcheng...... I knew it was wrong to do this, and I advised him......"

Fang Xie interrupted Cui Liushang's words, and asked, "What if an ordinary soldier accidentally kills a noble son like you?" ”

"Yes...... Reach ......"

Cui Liushang's face changed, and he found that his voice was so small that it was almost inaudible. He had never thought of this question before, but now that he thought about it, he was indeed touched in his heart.

"It's over?"

Fang Xie snorted coldly: "If that gang in Xiangcheng accidentally kills Li Yuan, he is afraid that it will not be as simple as resisting his fate, and his family will be ruined...... It can even cause trouble to relatives and friends! ”

"How many thieves do the soldiers of the border army kill to accumulate military merits?"

He asked.

Cui Luoshang shook his head.

Fang Xie said slowly: "If you injure an enemy, you will be awarded nine times, and you will accumulate military merits once after killing or injuring more than three people, and if you want to participate in the examination of the Great Sui Martial Arts Academy, you need to accumulate at least twenty military merits...... Have you counted how many thieves you killed? Do you know that every time you kill someone, you face a big risk of being killed? ”

What Fang Xie didn't know was that Li Xiaozong deceived him. According to the rules of the Great Sui, after accumulating five military merits, you can sign up for reference to the Martial Arts Academy. In order to retain Fang Jie, Li Xiaozong told this lie for at least two years.

And just as Fang explained the word killed, a powerful crossbow came quickly and went straight to his throat!

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The crossbow comes from the earth!

Dozens of black-clad men suddenly jumped up in the grass on both sides of the official road, or hid in the pit dug in advance, just waiting for Fang Xie and others to pass by, these people suddenly jumped into the air like dozens of eagles suddenly flapping their wings out of the grass. They all had the same single crossbow in their hands, and the power was amazing.

Single-shot crossbow arrows are naturally slightly less lethal than repeaters, but it also depends on the occasion in which they are used. If the two armies are facing each other, the power of the repeater is definitely a killing weapon. It can be used for assassination, and the advantage of a single crossbow is extremely obvious. A single crossbow has a longer range and more power, and can be shot through even a door panel.

Dozens of single crossbows are fired at the same time, just like dozens of lightning bolts slashing at a target at the same time!

Fang Xie was defenseless, because he had long been accustomed to the perception ability of Mu Xiaoyi and Big Dog around him. One can sense the enemy's cultivation, and the other can sense the murderous aura. In the past, no matter what kind of crisis they encountered, these two people were able to warn in advance.

But this time, there was no warning.

Mu Xiaoxiao in the carriage didn't feel the presence of a master nearby, and the big dog didn't even smell the murderous aura that he would never smell.

Such a sudden assassination was the first time Fang Xie had encountered it in his life!

He wasn't with the big dog, and he wasn't in the carriage.

He rode a tall horse, and his goal was extremely obvious. In addition to Cui Luoshang, who was also riding a horse in addition to the two steps beside him, he didn't even find an obstacle that could resist the crossbow arrows. The assassins leaped into the air from both sides of the official road, only twenty paces away from the nearest one. This distance is a blink of an eye for a single crossbow shot.

And the last second, Fang Xie was still holding grievances for the border soldiers, and he was unguarded.

But in the next second, the horizontal knife behind his back was already in his hand.

Between the lightning and flint, Fang Xie slashed down the hard crossbow that had arrived in front of him with a knife, and then jumped off the horse without hesitation, regardless of whether he would be accidentally injured by Cui Luoshang and the war horses he guarded, he rolled out of the gong on the official road, and then adjusted his posture and rushed forward like a cheetah pounced on the enemy.

Instead of hiding behind the carriage, he unexpectedly rushed into the midst of the Assassins on one side. Behind him, the bolts stuck in the official road.

If his movements were half a second slower, he would have been pierced by at least three crossbow arrows.

Just as he jumped out of the official road and pounced on the assassins, a red silk flew out of the carriage like a giant python, and swept the assassin closest to Fang Jie.

In the next second, Mu Xiaoxiao had already rushed out of the carriage.

And the big dog has crushed the neck of an assassin.

In this short period of time, other people reacted differently. One of the tallest guards beside Cui Luoshang kicked him off his horse, and then jumped down and pressed on Cui Luoshang. After the rain of arrows, Cui Luoshang's four guards were all nailed to death, and the guards protecting Cui Luoshang were hit by three arrows in the back, and they looked like they were not alive.

And Xiang Qingniu got into the carriage at the first time.

Fang Xie lowered his body, almost pressing forward against the ground. Taking advantage of the fact that an assassin had no time to discard the single crossbow in his hand, Fang Jie's horizontal knife slashed out. The knife slashed through the air, and in an instant it was in front of the assassin. With a pop, half of the Assassin's head was removed by the sharp blade.

The assassin didn't have time to scream, and before he could fall, Fang Xie had already rushed towards the second assassin. At this time, the second assassin dropped his crossbow and drew the ring-head knife at his waist.

But he was still slow.

Fang Jie's horizontal knife stabbed at an unimaginable angle below the side, piercing the assassin's jaw before the blade emerged from the top of his head. After the knife was successful, Fang Jie's wrist twisted, and the blade swirled in the man's mind before pulling it out.

As the corpse fell, white brains mixed with blood slowly poured out of the wound. Because these two things are mixed together, it looks extra sticky.

In the third knife, Fang Xie directly cut open the lower abdomen of an assassin. The intestines and internal organs almost squirted out as they burst through the cracked opening, and a slimy mass landed at the man's own feet with a clatter. A piece of intestine hung from the wound, attached to the mud-like mass on the ground. The assassin was about to stab Fang Xie in a stride, but he stepped on his internal organs, his intestines tripped his ankle, and his body fell uncontrollably.

Just when he killed three people in a row, Mu Xiaoxiao had already killed seven people, and the big dog had killed six.

For pure killing, the novice solution doesn't seem to be much slower than the two of them. You must know that Lu Dao Fang Xie is a person who can't cultivate, and the speed of killing people like this can almost be described as perverted. He didn't look like a cowardly person who had never killed a single person in the border city, but more like a veteran of a hundred battles who crawled out of a sea of corpses in a mountain of swords!

"Something is wrong!"

The dog leapt over and smashed a punch through the heart of an assassin, holding half of a bloody heart when his hand was withdrawn from the man's chest.

"These assassins are too weak, at best ordinary warriors! I don't even have the strength of a product! ”

Fang Xie unloaded half of an assassin's shoulder with a knife, dodged a ring-headed knife that slashed over, and replied: "Why don't you smell murderous!" ”

The big dog clicked and directly pulled the two arms of an assassin off his shoulders, and then kicked the man's bare body out of the coffin: "I don't know the way, I haven't figured it out!" ”

When the three of them were busy killing, the frightened Cui Luoshang looked at the guards who died to protect him in a panic, completely wasting his second-grade cultivation, while Xiang Qingniu, who was hiding in the carriage, couldn't help but sigh.

"Fang Jie, you bastard! What the hell did you come from, how did you get into trouble with this group of first-class difficult guys in the world! Whoever is targeted by them will surely die! ”

But Fang Xie didn't die this time.

After the dozens of assassins had killed and wounded more than two dozen people, the man at the head turned and ran away after making a whistle. The big dog and Mu Xiaoxiao chased after each other, and after a short time, each of them captured one. But it didn't make sense, because the two assassins bit the poison hidden in their teeth as they were captured.

Trying to chase the others, a dozen horses rushed out of the forest by the roadside, and the remnants of the assassins fled.

Fang Xie took a mouthful of bloody spit, jumped over and dragged Xiang Qingniu out of the carriage.

"Who are they!"

Xiang Qingniu trembled with fright, and his body almost fell limply. Not because of this assassination, but because Fang Xie didn't know when the Dao turned into red eyes.