In the end, a few soldiers dismantled the corpse tied to the pillar and buried it on the side of the road, and the army marched in a depressing atmosphere, and returned to the gang leader army of the Tongzi battalion, and the horse thief secretly stuffed the remaining liter of rice wine to the guy boss sitting on the donkey cart, and the guy boss put it away with a smile, and Ma Xiao asked in a low voice what had just happened, why a sergeant was hanged.

The boss of the gang put away his smile and lamented and told Ma Xiao what had just happened, it turned out that the Suizhou City was broken, but the officers above planned to continue to go to Taizhou City, the soldiers below were rebellious, and they disobeyed the order to kill back to Suizhou City, a few soldiers with military merits took the lead in the incident, and it took a long time to be suppressed, and a few leaders disturbed the morale of the army, and were dealt with by military law, because they had military merits and could not cut off their heads, so they were hanged to death, although the gang boss also had no relatives in Suizhou City, but the sergeants who went out together were corrected, several of them were old acquaintances who fought together many years ago, and it was inevitable that some rabbits died and fox sorrows, I can't go on talking about it.

Ma Xiao also sighed after hearing this, the reinforcements had fleeing soldiers every night in the next few days, but the leading generals did not send people to chase back, because it is very likely that the people sent out also ran back to Suizhou, and finally arrived in Taizhou City three days later, the original two thousand reinforcements were only more than 1,200 people, and the morale fell to the bottom, and there was no trace of the besieging Chu army near Taizhou City.

The Taishou who guarded the city personally led a group of civil and military officials in the city to greet him, this Taishou is the cousin of Ning Zongzan, the general of the Zhanzi battalion, named Ning Zongrui, both of them are the military generals of Peiguo, half a year ago Ning Zongrui personally led the army to collect the important town of Taizhou City, I didn't expect the Chu army to use this sound to attack the west to collect the following small cities.

Ma Xiaoda saw this majestic Taizhou city from a distance, only to see more than ten zhang high city wall densely covered with flags, large and small city towers are full of armor, every ten zhang away there is an enemy platform that stretches out of the city wall, standing in front of the south gate, both sides of the city wall can not see the head.

After the reinforcements entered the city, they were placed in the camp in the city, the streets and buildings in the city were many times wider than the city of Suizhou, although the city was still a bleak scene, but there were a large number of civilians and military dependents, and it was the most living city that Ma Xiao had ever seen.

There was no war for more than three months after entering Taizhou City, and the restless atmosphere of the reinforcements was finally relieved, and the reinforcements from several other small cities arrived in Taizhou City one after another, and the city gradually became lively, as if it had restored its former prosperity.

During this time, Ma Xiao held a branch to find Wei Chao to practice javelin during the day, and gradually found the way to make the force under the diligent practice, at the beginning of the practice can only throw more than a dozen steps away, now under the full effort, can throw more than 30 steps away, see that he has made such a big progress Ma Xiao practiced more and more energetically; , Sooner or later, one day died tragically under someone else's iron gun, these two times to escape from death is pure luck, the means to save life in the future can learn one more trick is a trick, as the saying goes, the skill is not pressing, and the boss of the gang has been very excited recently, becoming like a young man, and privately told Ma Xiao that he is very likely to break through the bottleneck in these days, and cultivate to improve to a higher level, Ma Xiao also followed the excitement for a long time, if this senior brother can cultivate his qi successfully, then he must follow the right path.

And said that one night after three months of settling in Taizhou City, Ma Xiao and the boss of the gang were practicing Tuna, as usual, in a dilapidated yard, this courtyard was originally a brothel in the east of the city, once the customers were like flowing water, the business was very hot, the house was also built magnificently, the small building has three floors, and there are countless rooms inside, but unfortunately after the chaos in the world, Taizhou City has changed hands several times, and the people in the courtyard have long died and escaped, and the later people dislike the dirty and obscure here, no one came to live here, and it was dilapidated after a long time, and the two of them were also to avoid being disturbed, so they found such a quiet place。

Just when Ma Xiao was trying to use his mind to sense the vitality and dantian meridians, he suddenly felt a cool breeze coming from his back, and his whole body shivered for no reason, and he woke up from his practice, turned his head to look back, and there was nothing behind him except the withered yellow weeds and the beams that collapsed on the ground, and he couldn't even hear the cry of a cricket under the quiet moonlight.

After all, he is still a child, Ma Xiao began to feel weak, and the yard now seems a little gloomy, I'm afraid that there are ghosts wandering around here? The more he thought about it, the more he shot, he quickly got up and moved to the vicinity of the gang boss, and saw that the gang boss was sitting quietly in the corner, and his heart was a little calm, so he sat next to the gang boss, closed his eyes again and planned to continue practicing. However, the buoyancy has risen, and it is difficult to enter the state of cultivation, and after trying a few times, I can't succeed, so I simply finish the practice, open my eyes and admire the moon, and wait for the boss to finish the practice.

After looking at the moon for a while, Ma Xiao felt that something was not right, in the past, the boss of the gang practiced and gasped for a long time, and there would be white breath exhaled in the nose, why did he sit beside him today without any movement, the curious Ma Xiao did not look at the moon again, stared at the boss for a long time, and found that the boss didn't even seem to be breathing, in order to verify his conjecture, Ma Xiao patted him lightly with his hand, who knew that the body of the boss of the gang actually "exhaled" and fell to the ground.

Ma Xiao was so frightened that he shrank back, "Senior brother。。。。。。 Senior brother?" didn't even respond to shouting two sentences, after a while, he pedaled with his foot and still didn't respond, Ma Xiao cautiously came to the front of the gang boss, and used his hand to probe his snort, but no, as soon as he touched his arms and his body became cold, this time Ma Xiao blew up his hair, jumped up on the spot and ran out for his life, ran to the barracks when he got out of the yard, fell several times on the road, and even the young man who had killed people was inexplicably scared at the moment, and quickly put the old Wang who was still sleeping when he entered the barracks of the gang leader. Lao Liu and the blind man both screamed, telling them that the boss might be dead.

When a few people in the gang room heard this, they hurriedly put on their clothes and shoes, and followed Ma Xiao back to the yard just now, and saw the gang boss lying on the ground, Lao Wang stepped forward with a lantern, rolled up the gang boss's sleeve and touched the pulse, and after a while stood up, shook his head and sighed at a few people, everyone understood what he meant.

Everyone turned around and asked Ma Xiao what happened, Ma Xiao told what had just happened, everyone in the gang room knew about the boss's qi cultivation, and everyone knew about Ma Xiao's qi cultivation with the old university, but everyone heard that qi cultivation should be a matter of dispelling illness and eliminating disasters and prolonging life. The joints in the middle of the people can't figure it out, so they can only be the boss of the gang when the life of the boss has arrived, and he has registered with the king of Hades.

A few people took the body of the gang boss back to the gang room, wrapped it in a mat, and discussed reporting to the camp tomorrow morning, Lao Wang said that someone should guard it at night, let a few people go to sleep first, he came to keep vigil, Lao Liu and the blind man said a sigh and went back to sleep, Ma Xiao did not feel sleepy, and walked to the yard listlessly, sitting in the corner of the yard in a daze, thinking that in the few months since he came out of Shicheng, although the gang boss often scolded him, he always took care of him like an elder, carefully taught him to cultivate qi, and let him steal the things in the room。

Just when he was thinking about things with his little head, there was a chuckle in the room, listening to the voice of Lao Wang, and then the room suddenly lit up with a flash of yellow light, which attracted Ma Xiao's attention, the yellow light flashed brighter and brighter, Lao Wang's shadow was reflected in the window, looking at the shadow He seemed to be holding something in his hand, flickering and dimming, laughter sounded again, although the voice was lowered but in this silent night sky, in the alert Ma Xiao's ears, the laughter was clear and abnormal, the yellow light flashed more than a dozen times and then dimmed, and there was no movement, Ma Xiao in the corner held his breath and continued to prick up his earsHe waited with his eyes open, but there were no other sounds or lights coming from the room.

A burst of suspicion filled Ma Xiao's heart, although he didn't know what happened in the room, but Lao Wang's weird laughter and unknown yellow light made him feel very wrong, Ma Xiao suddenly recalled the night of the Chu army's night attack, several people in the room were blocked in the hut, Lao Wang can use what he spits out of his mouth to kill, this is not training can be practiced, in order to check the situation in the backyard, he can still lie on the wall like a gecko on all fours, this has nothing to do with good skills, everyone has no time to investigate the life of the night, now I think about this kind of action is done by ordinary people, is itCould it be that this old king is also a person who cultivates qi?

Thinking of this, Ma Xiao didn't dare to stay in the yard longer, tiptoed back to the barracks, climbed into bed and got into his quilt, thinking a lot, how could he not sleep, he began to rummage through the memories of Lao Wang in the past few months, this person is usually silent, the body is obviously very strong, is a battle material but only in the gang room chores, the gang room as soon as the work is done this person disappeared, I don't know why to go, the gang boss seems to have never scolded him in the gang room, and the night of the night attack he didn't care about anyone, after confirming the safety of the backyard as soon as possible to send the gang boss out of the window。 After the boss died suddenly, why did Lao Wang propose a vigil? Why did he laugh weirdly during the vigil? And what was the flashing yellow light? These doubts kept Ma Xiaoye awake, and listening to the snoring of Lao Liu and the blind man next to him, his heart became more and more irritable.

In this way, almost after a stick of incense time, Lao Wang also returned to the barracks, the footsteps were deliberately lightened, Ma Xiao hurriedly turned sideways and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but Lao Wang's footsteps stopped after entering the house, there was no sound for a long time, Ma Xiao's heart was beating wildly, he felt that Lao Wang seemed to be standing in the house staring at him, this feeling made him dare not breathe, his palms tightly clutched the corners of the quilt, and soon sweat oozed, did Lao Wang know that he was peeking in the yard? .

After a cup of tea, Lao Wang finally moved his body to go to bed, Ma Xiao's nervous heart also quieted down, at this moment his body was covered with sweat as if it had been rained, he secretly swore that he must find out what the death of the boss has to do with Lao Wang, and in the future, he must bring a weapon with him, even when sleeping, Ma Xiao, who was tired like this, finally fell asleep slowly.