Chapter 18: The Crossbowman Strikes
Seeing that Huo Changdao's tone was not good, Yang Zheng hurriedly said: "Huo Er is in charge, Yang has something to say." ”
Huo Changdao looked at him coldly, "What do you want to say?" ”
Yang Zheng took a deep breath and said: "The ransom of 30,000 taels demanded by Guizhai is really not available to the village, although this time it only brought more than 14,000 taels of silver, in fact, there is no intention of despising Guizhai. ”
After that, Yang Zheng turned over and dismounted, and under the escort of Tao Yunlong, walked quickly to the front of the convoy, opened several large wooden boxes full of antique calligraphy and paintings, pointed to the items inside, and said: "Although the ransom is not enough, in these five boxes, all the antique calligraphy and paintings of our Yang family are inherited, as long as they are taken out and sold, there are definitely more than 30,000." ”
Speaking of this, Yang Zheng took out a brocade box about two feet long from the box and asked Tao Yunlong to hand it to Huo Changdao.
"Huo Er is in charge, this brocade box contains a picture of flying snow and mountains, which is the true work of Xu Pingzhi, a white horse exploring flowers, if this painting meets someone who knows the goods, it is worth a thousand gold. In addition to the picture of the flying snow and mountains, there are also the jade tripods of the former Xiaoyao King and the 'Cold Night Sigh' calligraphy of Guangling Gong outside the Guanwai, these things are all valuable and marketable......"
Seeing Tao Yunlong walking up to him with a brocade box, Huo Changdao, who was sitting on the horse, didn't look at him, and said expressionlessly: "Master Yang Zhuang is holding so many boxes of broken calligraphy and paintings, and he wants to fool us, is it really a fool when we are Black Tiger Village?" We said before, 30,000 cash, we only need cash, what? Can't you understand people? ”
Yang Zheng never expected that this Huo Changdao would be so difficult, and immediately held back the anger in his heart, "Huo Er, don't be angry first, and listen to Yang's explanation!" ”
"Enough!"
Huo Changdao's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said coldly: "What kind of thing are you, what qualifications do you have to bargain with our Black Tiger Village!" Since the ransom is not enough, there is a price to pay! ”
After saying that, he waved his hand and said coldly: "Come on, drag that kid out for me!" ”
"Yes, second master!"
When the minions heard the command, they immediately turned and ran into the jungle, and a moment later, they dragged out a young man covered in blood from the woods.
The young man who was dragged out was tall and majestic, probably tortured enough by the thieves of the Black Tiger Village, but now his face was pale and his expression was extremely depressed.
After seeing the person's appearance clearly, everyone in the Yang family was shocked, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Third master......"
Seeing Yang Meng's unhuman appearance being tortured by thieves, Yang Zheng took a deep breath, tried his best to calm his mood, and then called in a trembling voice: "Third brother! Third brother! ”
Yang Meng was thrown under Huo Changdao's horse, and after a long time, he struggled to get up from the ground, and when he saw the eldest brother and the others close in front of him, he looked very excited, "Big brother...... The eldest brother ......" After speaking, he was about to rush towards Yang Zheng.
"Lie down!"
At this time, Huo Changdao slammed his horse chopping knife, smashed Yang Meng to the ground, and then pressed the tip of the knife against Yang Meng's heart, and said lightly: "Master Yang, your third brother broke one of my brother Huo Jinya's arms, since the ransom is not enough, let him take his life to make up." ”
After speaking, Huo Changdao raised his horse chopping knife high, wanting to swing the knife to cut down.
The chopping knife weighs dozens of catties, and if it is slashed down, Yang Meng's head will definitely fall to the ground.
Seeing this scene, Yang Zheng couldn't bear it, and shouted on the spot: "Raise your noble hand!" ”
As soon as the password came out, everyone in the Yang family was shocked, knowing that the time had come to do it, they took out the crossbow hidden in the car one after another.
At the same time, Yang Xiu, Yang Shiyuan, and Yang An, who had been waiting by Yang Zheng's side for a long time, immediately took out the hidden crossbow with lightning speed.
At this time, Huo Changdao, who was sitting on the horse, had not yet cut off the horse chopping knife in his hand, and due to the wide field of vision, he clearly saw that the Yang family had quietly taken out the weapons and crossbows from those cars.
Huo Changdao was stunned on the spot, he never expected that the people from Yangjiazhuang would come prepared.
Seeing this scene, Huo Changdao hurriedly shouted: "Be careful, these people have a strong crossbow ......"
Before the words fell, Yang Zheng had already ordered someone to attack.
"Shoot the arrows!"
With an order, Yang Xiu, Yang Shiyuan, and Yang An, who had already prepared, raised their crossbows at the same time and pulled the trigger towards Huo Changdao, who was a few zhang away.
Woohoo......
Three arrows shot out like lightning, and the sound of a strong wind breaking was endless.
At the moment when the bowstring sounded, Huo Changdao, who had already sensed that something was wrong, immediately turned over and dismounted to dodge.
But no matter how fast a man moves, where is it as fast as a lightning-fast crossbow arrow!
Huo Changdao had just dodged the crossbow arrows shot by Yang Xiu, but his left shoulder and thigh were shot by Yang Shiyuan and Yang An's crossbow arrows.
The lethality of the little yellow crossbow was so amazing, without any protection of iron armor, Huo Changdao's shoulders and thighs were pierced by the powerful crossbow arrows on the spot.
"Hurt me!"
After the arrow landed, Huo Changdao let out a roar with a furious expression, "Everyone give it to me, kill them all!" ”
But it's too late......
In the face of this group of Black Tiger Village bandits who only had swords and other melee weapons, Yang Jiazhuang and others could be said to have the upper hand.
Fifty trained Yang family crossbowmen, as early as when the mountain bandits came to the front, they had already taken out their crossbows and aimed them at those mountain bandits who were screaming wow, and pulled the trigger.
All of a sudden, arrows rained down and blood splattered!
Dozens of fierce-looking mountain bandits, before they could run within five meters of the Yang family, they were shot through their bodies by powerful crossbow arrows, and then fell to the ground screaming and wailing.
In such a short period of time, dozens of people were killed and injured in the Black Tiger Village.
Under the shooting at close range, the hit rate of the Yang family's crossbowmen really reached 100%.
Since Yang Zheng brought hundreds of crossbows this time, when the first wave of arrow rain offensive was over, the servants who drove the carriage immediately followed the plan arranged by Yang Zheng before, and quickly handed the second crossbow to the hands of the crossbowmen.
In this way, it greatly saves everyone's time to pedal the strings.
Immediately afterwards, when the second wave of mountain bandits had just rushed to the front, fifty crossbowmen of the Yang family pulled the trigger again and launched a second wave of shooting at the enemy.
As for the sixty servants who were in charge of driving the carriage, they took advantage of this gap to kick the crossbows that had just been used into the strings as fast as possible, so as to ensure that their crossbow attacks could be carried out in a steady stream.
Fifty Yang family crossbowmen, hundreds of strong crossbows.
Almost all the arrows hit the target, and there were no missed shots.
Basically, every time the sound of a bowstring vibrating sounds, someone falls.
This made those mountain bandits in the Black Tiger Village turn pale with fright and tremble.
Their Black Tiger Village has been crisscrossing the Lianyun Mountains for many years, how could they have encountered such a battle?
After two rounds of crossbow shooting, more than half of the more than 100 people who came to the Black Tiger Village this time fell, and the remaining mountain bandits, seeing that the situation was not right, where did they dare to entangle, and fled directly into the dense woods on both sides of the valley, and disappeared cleanly in the blink of an eye.
Now, in the entire valley, except for those mountain bandits who are still lying in a pool of blood and wailing and screaming, basically, as long as they can still move, all the mountain bandits have run away.