Chapter 16 Calamus for the Dragon Boat Festival

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There was a rustling sound in the dense forest beside the road, and a branch of feather arrows shot out from the forest like lightning, like a bamboo, shooting towards the carriage where Sun Qingyang and Zhao Yaoying were.

This carriage originally belonged to the crown princess, because she thought that Sun Qingyang was frightened, in order to make them sit more comfortably when they went back, the crown princess changed her spacious carriage to her.

In order to let them lie down comfortably, except for Sun Qingyang and Zhao Yaoying, Zhu Zhanji pointed to the maid Du Ruo waiting in front of them, and the other eight or nine maids and women were all crowded on the carriage behind.

Almost at the same time, Xuanwu shouted, "There is an enemy attacking, protect the carriage." At the same time, he jumped on the horse's back and jumped into the chariot, swung his sword like the wind, and shot down the sharp arrows that were fired at the chariot.

It was almost an instinctive reaction, and the bet was right. When Xuanwu roared at the enemy's attack, he only heard the movement in the dense forest, and he didn't know that there would be arrows shooting at the carriage, but he knew that the enemy would definitely not come at the guards, and his first reaction was to protect the people in the carriage.

When Xuanwu yelled, Sun Qingyang had already pulled the long pillow behind his waist, protected himself and Du Ruo and Zhao Yaoying, and then pulled Du Ruo and Zhao Yaoying down together and lay on the bottom of the carriage.

Hearing the sharp sound of feather arrows breaking through the air and the sound of swords and arrows hitting each other and falling, although they were terrified, the three of them still took more pillows off their seats with their backhands and blocked them in front of their heads and bodies.

"Enemy is coming!"

"Protect the concubine!"

"Formation!"

The guards sent by Zhu Zhanji to escort them were not ordinary guards, but his personal attendants, the shadow guards in the twenty-eight constellations. After hearing Xuanwu's roar, the shadow guards immediately shouted, and almost in a moment, they circled in layers, surrounding the carriage of the maids and women sitting behind them, as well as Sun Qingyang's car.

The arrows that were as dense as the rain kept shooting into the air, swishing, whistling in the wind, but they were constantly being dropped by the sword of the shadow guard, the first layer of shadow guards was injured, and immediately the second layer of shadow guards made up for the gap, and the injured shadow guards did not retreat, still gathered around the carriage to pick up the scattered feather arrows that leaked through the net, and after half a day's effort, although three or four shadow guards were injured, none of the arrows shot in front of the carriage.

Xuanwu saw that the arrows were gradually weakening, and shouted: "Their arrows are running out, brothers, be careful of their second wave of hand-to-hand combat, the other party has about fifty or sixty people." โ€

Just by the momentum and speed of the arrows, he judged that the enemy was coming.

When the shadow guards heard that the number of opponents was only three or four times that of their side, they were relieved, knowing that they were all good at one top ten, and ordinary enemies were not in their eyes at all.

"Whew!"

A feathered arrow shot deftly through the gap in the circle of the shadow guards towards the carriage, only to encounter the sword wielded by Xuanwu. Although this feather arrow was shot down by Xuanwu, he felt that the arrow shook his body slightly, this is a hard stubble, his heart tightened, his eyes looked back in the direction of the arrow, looking into the depths of the dense forest, as if to see the person who shot the arrow.

Such a movement could not be directed at the princess, this carriage belonged to the crown princess, did they think that the princess was in the carriage?

Xuanwu narrowed his eyes, took out three arrows from the quiver behind him, took the bow from his back, and stood on the wheel to stretch his bow and arrows.

The shadow guards around him were shocked, Master Xuanwu's archery skills are outstanding, and he can pass through Yang in a hundred steps, although he can count arrows in a row, but he rarely shows them, and the opponent who can let him shoot with three arrows in a row will definitely not be simple.

Xuanwu released the arrows, although the three arrows were fired at the same time, but they broke through the air in different directions and at different speeds, and one of them even came first.

Only to hear a muffled snort coming from the dense forest, Xuanwu put away the arrow, and smiled slightly, "They should be coming." โ€

In the official road, the other party wants to assassinate the crown princess, and the one used must be a loyal, fierce and unafraid dead soldier, even if he shoots the master of arrows among them, the arrows are almost used up, and the next step is to cover up and fight at close range.

This is a never-ending battle, and one side will be slaughtered. The sword in Xuanwu's hand seemed to sense the excitement of being about to lick blood, and it trembled slightly and let out a slight roar.

Sure enough, the killers in the depths of the dense forest had already pounced quickly, they were not even masked, one by one, wearing strong suits, wielding swords in their hands, and killing them quickly and ferociously.

The shadow guards had already been stimulated by the previous rain of arrows, and raised their weapons to meet them, and the hand-to-hand combat was close to each other, the tip of the knife touched the blade, and people were constantly injured, and blood continued to spray out from the wound, staining the soil under their feet red, but none of them flinched and fled, and the blood inspired more killing intent.

Sun Qingyang and the others only heard a fierce sound of blade collision outside the carriage, the wail of the sword, the snort of the knife, the roar of people, the neighing of the horse, and the screams of the maids and wives were intertwined, and they did not dare to lift the curtain to look, and shouted uneasily Bodhisattva bless, bless themselves to win.

Zhao Yaoying was so frightened that her stomach began to turn over, and she covered her nose tightly, as if she could block the increasingly thick bloody gas. Du Ruo trembled with fright, but after the initial confusion passed, she firmly protected Sun Qingyang under her, determined that if there was any accident, she would desperately protect Miss.

Sun Qingyang was also afraid, but in addition to being afraid, there was also a hint of insight, although her body was lying flat on the car board, her head was raised by half an inch, and she could see the sunlight projecting the figure of Xuanwu standing on the wheel on the car curtain.

comforted Zhao Yaoying and Du Ruo in a low voice, "It's okay, Lord Xuanwu is still outside, which means that we have the upper hand." โ€

Xuanwu was swinging his sword from time to time to slash and kill one or two killers who rushed to the carriage, but his ear power was extraordinary, and when he heard Sun Qingyang speak, a thought couldn't help but swell in his heart, "No wonder His Royal Highness the Imperial Sun likes her so much, this girl is indeed different." โ€

The hissing sound gradually became quieter, and Sun Qingyang was about to raise his head, but there was an arrow whistle that struck the air.

Xuanwu saw five arrows coming in a row, and there were shadow guards blocking them halfway, and they were directly brought down by the arrow wind, and the chain of arrows carried the momentum of cracking stones and steel, and came unstoppably with the wind. Wulianzhu, when did the other party come to such a master? Moreover, it is still used with arrows, how amazing this strength is! Before he could think about it, he yelled, "There's hard stubble." Swinging the sword to meet it, the first arrow, the second arrow, the third arrow, even Xuanwu, even after picking off the three arrows, was also shaken and crumbling, the remaining two arrows, accurately shot into the carriage, the curtain was torn apart by the arrow wind, into pieces of rags, the box was shaken into a pile of waste materials, the situation in the car box at a glance.

Zhao Yaoying was already so frightened that she fainted, Du Ruo was shocked by the arrow wind and rolled aside, and Sun Qingyang's pretty little face was terrified.

Two arrows carried the remaining momentum, and then the carriage behind the maid woman was shot apart, one of the women lifted up, the arrow went directly through the chest, and the other shot through the arm of a maid, and the pain was so frightened that she woke up again, screaming.

Xuanwu was shocked, even he, at such a range, after shooting five arrows, would never be able to achieve such power.

It seems that today, even if you fight to the death, it is difficult to escape, only to escape with your grandson and concubine, or there is still life, after all, in this world, there are very few people who can catch up with their own footsteps.

Not only Xuanwu, but also the shadow guards who had been holding swords and swords to protect the periphery of the carriage were also terrified because of the attack of the five-sided beaded arrows, but they still did not retreat, and still fought with the enemies they were fighting against, and even, because they had the determination to die, they were even more ruthless.

These five crossbow arrows were fired, quickly turning the enemy's already declining situation, and the victory and defeat were divided.

Before Xuanwu could escape with Sun Qingyang, a hurried whistle suddenly sounded in the dense forest, and the killers who were fighting heard it, turned around and left, regardless of the sword that the shadow guard was pestering them, using all possibilities, regardless of the disregard, the sword stabbed into the arm, go: the knife was stabbed into the chest and abdomen, go: the two were entangled, obviously they had already stabbed the key point of the shadow guard, and as soon as the weapon was pulled out, they lost it and left. And these killers only care about their own walking, don't look at the people around them, and don't care about those who have been seriously injured, they use all means to retreat to the depths of the dense forest as soon as possible, and if they are seriously injured and can't walk away, they stab the sword in their hands into themselves with their backhands, which is a little more ruthless than when they stabbed the shadow guard before, and in an instant, on the official road, in addition to the two carriages, the shadow guard, there are more than a dozen corpses left.

Everyone looked at each other in astonishment, no one could understand what was happening, it was clear that the other party was already victorious, and they could be driven away, but they suddenly withdrew, or in such a way as if they were being chased for their lives.

Spend so much effort, kill and wound so many elites, but when the victory is in hand, give up the fruits of victory that are about to be won and walk cleanly, why?

Xuanwu sank his face, he had done assassinations and assassinations many times, and there were only three possibilities for such a situation to happen: first, his side came to help, and the other party was attacked from both sides and had to retreat; Second, the other party suddenly has a more urgent task and must be evacuated; Third, the other party found out that he killed the wrong person.

There is no help at the moment, it can't be one, His Royal Highness's other courtyard is the stronghold of the shadow guard, and the strict guards are comparable to the palace Ouchi, and it can't be that there is danger over there, then, it can only be three.

Someone wants to kill the crown princess, I don't know if the prince is in danger? Fortunately, there are many guards in the East Palace, and today the prince accompanied the emperor to go out on patrol, and the emperor's eldest grandson sent Qinglong and Baihu over, so there should be no big problem, let's talk about the present first.

Xuanwu looked back and found that Sun Qingyang had passed out because of the relaxation after the fright, and frowned, "Find water to wake up the maid and mother-in-law, and protect the two masters back to the courtyard." โ€

Their hands were wounded, they died to death, and the carriage was destroyed again, so they had to go back to the other courtyard to see His Royal Highness the Emperor Eldest Sun, and then seek other things.

I hope nothing happens on the way back.