Chapter 70: The Head Falls to the Ground
Chen Sheng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, as long as he got out of this walled gate, he and Ling Suyun would be basically safe. As long as they were outside, even if Meng Yi and Su didn't have time to respond, Chen Sheng was sure to escape from this place with Ling Suyun.
But just as the two of them stepped on the horses, a voice sounded behind them: "You guys come down!" There's not enough people on the guard team, so you're going to help! ”
Looking back, it was Xiong Leopard talking, and the object he was talking to was a few people around Chen Sheng. After drinking like this, Xiong Leopard walked quickly to Xiang Liang and explained a few words. It turned out that Zhang Lianggongzi issued a new order, requiring some men to be transferred to assist the guards guarding the labor. In order to search for the invaders until tonight, a large number of guards have been evacuated, and if the labor in this matter is disorderly, I am afraid that there will be a big problem. Regarding Zhang Liang's words, Xiang Liang was not easy to refute, so he could only nod his head. He and Zhang Liangke have formed a solid cooperative alliance, and the common interests between them are huge.
When several knights heard the cry of the bear and leopard, they immediately dismounted and saluted the bear and leopard. Xiong Zhen's internal guards rarely discount the orders of their superiors to carry them out. Hearing this, Chen Sheng and Ling Suyun looked at each other and smiled bitterly, turned over and dismounted. I was resentful in my heart, this bear and leopard was really a bastard, and the dispatch of people was actually selected from the scout team, which was too unreliable.
A scout team of fifteen people was cut down to five people at once, and headed for the outside. Looking at the knight in the distance, Chen Sheng's heart was dripping blood. Such a good chance to escape was ruined.
"You guys, follow me!" The voice of the bear and leopard was similar to that of the beast, and he said to several people: "Go and drive all the servants back to the cell!" Listen to Shangfeng's orders, and if necessary, set fire to them all! "The voice of the bear and leopard is eerie.
Hearing this, Chen Sheng's heart felt cold, and Ling Suyun's body trembled even more. Both of them knew that Zhang Liang had already prepared for the worst, if he didn't find the whereabouts of Chen Sheng and Ling Suyun in the time he could bear, then he would definitely destroy this place and erase all clues.
"This Zhang Liang is really ruthless!" Chen Sheng sighed faintly.
Ling Suyun was silent. Some of the slaves who were captured were members of her caravan, and these members, along with her, were captured here by the Xiong Zhen internal guards after being betrayed by Ling Fengdu and used as coolies.
Thinking that his subordinates might be set on fire, Ling Suyun's little face had turned pale. However, after panicking for a while, a fox-like sly smile slowly appeared on her face. As the key cultivation object of the next head of the Ling family, although Ling Suyun is not very old, he has the cunning of a fox. She thought for a moment, then approached Chen Sheng and whispered a few words.
Chen Sheng, who was originally a little depressed, suddenly flashed a gleam in his eyes when he heard Ling Suyun's words.
It was difficult for the guards here to know how many slaves had been captured. These laborers were treated like pigs and dogs, and were kept in simple but well-guarded cells, eating, drinking, and lazing in them, and the stench was naturally so bad that no one ever counted the number of these laborers, only that these people were between one hundred and fifty and two hundred. Such a large number of hard laborers, even if they are unarmed, are also a group of extremely dangerous beings. So there are usually fifty to nearly a hundred guards guarding them.
But tonight's guards were drastically reduced. On the one hand, it was because Chen Sheng rescued Ling Suyun on Zhang Liang's ship, and on the other hand, because Chen Sheng shot and killed the two guards on the city wall.
No one linked the two events to the same person, so hundreds of guards searched for the entire camp, not knowing how many intruders there were. Chen Sheng knew that Zhang Liang could deduce that all this was done by him, but Zhang Liang was not an immortal after all, and it would take time for him to wake up.
The laborers, dressed in thin and tattered clothes, shouted bitter trumpets, took heavy steps with difficulty, and carried sacks of grain in the cold night3. Although the guards here don't treat them as human beings, they still have enough food. No matter how demanding the slave owner is, only a slave with a full stomach will have the strength to work. Therefore, although the life of the laborers here is hard, there are not many deaths for some time.
Normally, under the sword monitoring of the guards, all the slaves are honest, but tonight, many of the slaves have some impulsive feelings in their hearts. For they found that the guards had plummeted by two-thirds tonight, and that the guards looked a little nervous, and seeing the bands of guards busy throughout the camp, the laborers knew that something was wrong.
"Tonight's handling stops! Everyone's back in their cells now! Line up one after another as you did before and walk back slowly! The bear leopard looked at the five guards standing behind him, plus the few guards scattered around, and felt a little relieved. Among these guards, many of them have been captured for a long time, and these people have already given up resistance, but the new caravan guards captured in the past two days, they are not good at stubble. If they hadn't caught their master, the eldest lady of the Ling family, and threatened them with the safety of the eldest lady of the Ling family, they would have already fought with the guards to the death. These dogs' Ling family guards are not weak in combat effectiveness, even if they are Xiong Zhen's internal guards, their overall strength is only better than them.
Chen Sheng swept through the crowd and found that Ma Lie, the escort of the Ling family's caravan, was in the crowd. Ma Lie, like everyone else, was unkempt. But he was strong and tall. Sticking into the crowd is also the feeling of standing out from the crowd.
However, among the nearly 200 hard laborers, there was a strong man who was even more burly than Ma Lie, who looked like a black tower when he was more than two meters old, Chen Sheng grinned, God knows how this guy was caught.
Hearing the cries of the bears and leopards, all the laborers put down what they were doing. Under the shouting and driving of the sparse guards, he slowly walked towards the bear and leopard.
"Do it!" Ling Suyun's voice could only be heard clearly by Chen Sheng.
Chen Sheng didn't hesitate at all, the steel knife in his hand was immediately raised high and slashed down towards the neck of the bear and leopard!
The bear and leopard were shocked to find a strong wind behind him, and Marx wanted to dodge, but it was too late. With a "poof...... sound, a cavity of blood spurted out, and the head of the bear and leopard suddenly rolled to the ground.