Volume 1 The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 57 Encountering a thief at night
Far away from a forest almost three hundred meters away, Gu Xuan and Jinglong quietly slowed down, turned over and dismounted, and left the two horses of Hulan Ranch in place, these two horses are extremely spiritual, can understand the code, rather than being tied here in the end What accident outweighs the loss, it is better to stay here, anyway, a whistle can rush over.
The two of them each held a stainless steel broadsword, and Gu Xuan even deliberately took out the imperial sword from the package, tied it firmly to his waist, and the two took advantage of the cover of night to sneak out of the burning village over there.
The two of them are not stupid, the movement here is so big, it must be either horse bandits or those Inhuman races, if there are many people on the other side, it is naturally the best policy to quickly notify the garrison here to come to encircle and suppress, if you really don't care about anything, you rush directly into it recklessly, maybe you will explain it here today.
But with the skills of the two of them, they both felt that it was no big problem to secretly check the situation, this place was not close to the nearby garrison, even with the foot strength of the Hulan Divine Horse, it would be better for a while, but as long as there was a delay here, more than a dozen lives might be lost, Gu Xuan cared about the people, and he was unwilling to do a more secure way.
Although Jinglong was reluctant to take risks from the perspective of protecting Gu Xuan alone, he was originally a member of the Youzhou army, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he had a deep hatred with these horse bandits, so he didn't be able to say the words of going back like this, but instead covered Gu Xuan and went over there together.
At this time, in the village, there is a fire rising, mourning all over the tragic situation, everywhere you can see naked corpses, or disemboweled, or directly beheaded, there are men and women, the tragic situation is different, even many people's houses are deliberately lit, because every household is next to each other, the fire spreads very quickly, the house has collapsed a lot, it seems that even if someone comes to the rescue immediately, it is only afraid that it will be difficult to restore the original state afterwards.
This village is called Majia Village, from the generation of the villagers who live here most of the surname Ma, here is already relatively close to the border, so there are often horse bandits who come to rob, but Majia Village has a lot of young and strong people in the village, the second is that there are a lot of tunnels dug in the village over the years, there are traps around, there are simple city walls and fences outside, and there are even special lookouts to monitor the Quartet, so that the ordinary horse bandit team is really not easy to break here.
Over the years, Majia Village has not known how many times it has been attacked, and it has relied on various methods to make the other party return, but a few days ago, an idle young man in the village brought back a beautiful woman who said that he bought it, and the disaster in Majia Village began.
It turned out that this woman was actually a spy sent by the horse bandits to infiltrate Majia Village, and after gaining the trust of the people in the village, she finally secretly killed the sentry on the lookout tonight, opened the gate, and led the horse bandits in, which led to the tragedy in front of her.
In fact, there were only about 20 horse bandits who attacked, but on one side were the brave horse bandits who had been in ambush for a long time and rushed in with recuperation, and on the other hand, there were still sleeping and ignorant villagers, who were strong and weak at a glance, which led to the battle that should have been evenly matched completely turned into a one-sided massacre.
In the square in the center of the entire Majia Village, a horse bandit with pockmarked faces, a stocky body, and a fleshy face, who seemed to be the leader of this group of people, shouted: "Who didn't open his eyes to order the house so early, didn't you know that there was a garrison nearby?"
The horse bandits are certainly brave, but that is also relative to the villagers, if it is against the Youzhou army, it is not enough to see, the two sides really want to fight, and most of the horse bandits here are going to be killed, so seeing that his subordinates lit the house and provoked this place to become angry, it was very conspicuous, and the face of the leader of the horse bandits suddenly became a little unpleasant.
And next to him, a thin monkey-like horse bandit with a black face like carbon comforted him with a flattering tone: "Hehe, boss, it's okay, no one is going to report the news, those people won't come, not to mention that there are sentry brothers outside, and they can withdraw at any time if something is wrong." ”
At this moment, a tall, thin man like a bamboo pole ran over with a young woman on his shoulder, with a flattering smile on his face.
"Boss, this woman is so good-looking, I specially caught the boss and brought it back to the boss as a wife in the village!"
"Huh?" The pock-faced horse bandit turned his head sharply, jumped off the horse, pulled the woman from the other party's side, and threw it heavily on the ground without pity, until the latter screamed in pain, Mazi stepped forward and brushed away the hair blocking the woman's face, and looked at it carefully, then grinned at the corners of his mouth, showed a mouthful of rotten teeth, and laughed, "Okay!
Ignoring the woman's struggles, she took the rope off the horse, tied it to the horse, and prepared to take it away.
"Where's the bitch of Black Narcissus?" Mazi asked abruptly as she tied the village woman in front of her.
Black Narcissus is the initiator of today's tragedy, if there is no her as an internal response, where can this group of horse bandits attack.
Hearing the boss's question, the two horse bandits looked at each other and shook their heads, and finally the thin monkey pondered for a moment and replied carefully: "The black narcissus has always gone back early, and she will divide the money afterwards, this is her rule." ”
Mazi snorted coldly, and didn't say anything.
At this time, in the ancestral hall in the village, where the ancestors of Majia Village were ranked, the remaining villagers had gathered together, and they were locking the gate and hiding inside, secretly looking outside.
On the ground outside, in the room, there were corpses everywhere, either with their throats cut or beheaded, because they were all dragged out and killed in their sleep, so most of them were naked, and even daughters and children were disemboweled, and they were thrown on the side of the road like broken sacks.
This is not a group of horse bandits who came purely for looting, but a group of murderous demon kings!
"Village Chief!"
In the ancestral hall, several young and strong men covered in blood are holding big knives, holding their breath and concentrating, quietly guarding the door, the door door is closed, the door bolt is also plugged in by the people inside, and the horse bandits outside are still searching for property everywhere, and they have not found out the meaning of the situation here for the time being.
In the central courtyard of the ancestral hall, in the moonlight, an old man with white hair kept spitting blood from his mouth, his eyes were scattered, and he saw that it was no longer possible, and several remaining women in the village were guarding the side, crying and crying one by one, at a loss, and his eyes were full of fear and despair.
The village chief was an old man who was more than 10 years old, he had been stabbed in the abdomen by a horse bandit before, and he ran all the way, and when he arrived at the ancestral hall, even his intestines had slipped out, and in front of the old village chief, a young man who looked no more than fourteen or fifteen years old was scrambling to stuff it back.
The young man's figure is lean, his face is also full of tears at the moment, and there are a lot of blood stains on his body, obviously like those young men, he also escaped here after a tragic battle.
"Grandpa the village chief!"
The boy fell to his knees and cried incessantly, who would have thought that the village would suddenly suffer such a bad luck overnight, and in an instant the family was ruined, and the familiar people on weekdays had fallen to the ground one by one, turning into cold corpses, and the godless pupils seemed to be indicting this inhumane world.
Xiaomei, a childhood sweetheart, Aunt Wang, who will cook a meal and send it to herself, Uncle Ma, who will pull himself to brag about his experience in the Youzhou Army when he was young, these are the most ordinary good people, why did they suddenly die?
Even the grandfather, the village chief who adopted him since he was a child, is now dying.
The teenager couldn't figure it out, he really couldn't figure it out.
Outside, after the remaining horse bandits looted it, someone finally discovered the problem here, and hurriedly ran to the square in the center of the village to report the situation to Mazi Face.
"Boss, two brothers have been killed, and the rest of the villagers should be hiding in the ancestral hall of the village!"
Mazi turned his eyes sideways, and roared loudly with a fierce face: "Who dares to kill our brothers, come with me!"
The remaining dozen or so horse bandits suddenly gathered together, held torches high, and rode together towards the ancestral hall in the village.
At this time, at the gate of the village, a thin horse bandit was carrying a bag of gold, silver and jewelry, ready to transport it to the place where the horse was, but he had just entered a somewhat dark alley, and two figures suddenly fell from the sky, and the horse bandit was shocked, and the good things he had scavenged in his hands were scattered all over the ground, and he just asked 'who it was', and a punch came out to knock him to the ground.
"Shh
Gu Xuan stepped forward and stepped on the latter's chest, with such great force that he almost didn't trample on the back of this somewhat thin horse bandit.
At this time, there was fire everywhere in the village, and the fallen horse bandit could be regarded as seeing the face of the comer clearly by the light of the fire next to him, a young handsome young man, dressed in a strong suit, dusty and dusty, it was estimated that he was a young man who came out to break into the rivers and lakes, and a black-faced man next to him fell behind, pricking up his ears and checking the surrounding situation vigilantly, obviously a careful master.
Facing the indifferent eyes of the young man in front of him to the extreme, his heart jumped suddenly, knowing that he was a ruthless character, he immediately gave up resistance obediently, and lay on the ground like this, regardless of the cold of winter.
"I ask, you answer!" Gu Xuan took out the knife and cut off one of the other party's ears without hesitation, and the steaming blood suddenly gushed out, because he was too close, even his face splashed a few drops, although it was the first time to face such a scene, but from Gu Xuan's face, he could not see the slightest emotional exposure, excitement, or fear, not at all, so calm that even Jinglong, who was watching the wind on the side, was a little surprised.
It's him, the first time he killed someone on the battlefield, and he vomited for a whole hour, this Xuan Gongzi may not be an ordinary person by nature.
The ears were suddenly cut off, Rao is Gu Xuandao was quick, and the ears were already frozen, but they also made the horse bandit roll on the ground and twitch in pain, but he just clenched his teeth and didn't dare to make a sound.
"He's a smart man, very good, let me ask you, how many horse bandits are there in the village now?"
Gu Xuan opened his mouth and went straight to the point, because they had already cleared all the horse bandits guarding outside, and they were sure that there was no ambush team outside, so they dared to sneak in.
He is the fifth prince of Liang Kingdom, the sky is noble, and it is also his innate responsibility to protect the people of Liang Kingdom, seeing that the other party has invaded the village, even if he takes a risk, it is impossible for him to find the nearby garrison first for safety, not to mention that he is a young man who has practiced martial arts for many years, and he should always be a little confident and chivalrous.
When the horse bandit on the ground heard the question, it was easy to recover from the pain, only when the other party was a passing hero, he secretly said that he was unlucky, and said carefully.
"Yes, there are more than fifty people!"
Gu Xuan didn't hesitate to directly chop off one of the other party's palms, and the horse bandit on the ground was in pain, and finally couldn't help but scream.
"Who are you deceiving? A team of fifty people can commit abuse in Youzhou, and you really can't be blind when the Youzhou army is a fool? Besides, such a small village is worth a whole fifty people to rob? Dare to deceive me, it seems that there are not many people, and there is nothing to reward you, so I will send you on your way as soon as possible!"
Gu Xuan had already gotten the answer, so he naturally didn't bother to ask again, and directly chopped off the head of the horse bandit on the ground with a knife, and when the blood sprayed, Gu Xuan had already rushed out with a knife.