Chapter 116: Robbery and Killing
I found that my colleague's GPS navigation was so cute, this time we were away on a business trip, we liked to listen to it command the driving route with a milky voice, and once the driver didn't listen to it, it immediately went crazy, desperately repeating "Please don't go up the viaduct!" Please don't go up the viaduct! There was a lot of laughter in the car......
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The continuous wind and snow suddenly stopped on the day of Laba, and the sky was clear, the sun was golden and crisp, and it seemed to be warm. However, after a night of clear skies in the deep snowy capital, it became even drier and colder, and when I took a breath of cold air and spit out a mouthful of white mist, the cold feeling seemed to freeze all the internal organs, flowing inward along the nasal cavity.
The weather is so cold, and there are only two days before the New Year, so everyone who can not go out naturally snuggled up at home, enjoying the warm fire and hot food and drink. And at this time, people who have to run around are even more hard and lonely.
Early in the morning, the officers and men of the patrol battalion opened the gate of the city at the specified time. The four people on the first shift at each gate stood at the bottom of the gate on both sides and watched the flow of people entering the gate. When the patrol battalion was under the rule of Xie Yu, the military appearance was originally good, King Jing governed the army more strictly, and no one dared to slack off, so it became more and more tidy, although after standing for a while, his feet were a little cold and painful, but the four people on duty did not walk around and stomp their feet to keep warm.
There were not many people in the winter morning, especially the West Gate, which led to the land of smoke and miasma, and no one had ever entered except a few who had gone out. When the sun rises to the third pole, it gradually becomes more popular, and the vendors who set up stalls by the city gate also come out one after another, lazily shouting to the customers who pass by the stalls. After another half an hour, a group of dark shadows faintly appeared on the skyline outside the city, heading in the direction of the city gate.
"Is that a caravan?" One of the guards craned his neck and looked at it for a long time, "It's rare to see such a long line." β
"You newcomer doesn't know," a local veteran next to him immediately answered, "that's a caravan carrying medicinal herbs." Except for two or three states in the west of our Daliang, most of them are alpine and smoky lands, but the more places like this, the more precious medicinal materials are produced. My uncle runs a pharmacy, and he said that the best medicines are brought from the west, so caravans often pass through our west gates. But the day after tomorrow will be thirty, and this caravan has just arrived, which is really hard......"
As the two spoke, the team in the distance was getting closer and closer, and they could gradually see the carriages, horses, and people's costumes.
"What do I think...... Doesn't that look like a caravan......" The recruit stared at it for a long time, and finally couldn't help but express his opinion euphemistically, "The caravan won't be escorted by officers and soldiers, right?" β
At this time, the veteran also noticed the difference, sizzled twice, and said with some surprise: "It's really not a caravan...... There was only one cart in the middle, and it didn't seem to be carrying medicinal herbs, but it looked like it was...... Be...... Ah, it's a prisoner car! β
By the time he had reached his conclusion in a positive tone, the other guards had seen it clearly. Approaching the city gate was a procession of prisoners. However, what was different from usual was that there were at least 300 officers and men escorted before and after, and there was only one prisoner car being escorted.
What kind of important prisoner should be escorted into Beijing so hard and guarded? Could anyone still dare to intercept the government's prisoner car?
Under the curious gaze of the guards at the West City Gate, the long procession finally walked to the bottom of the city tower. Unlike the escort officers and soldiers in the queue, the man who seemed to be the commander at the front was wearing only ordinary soft and civilian clothes. This man rode a gray horse, slender and flexible, very well-proportioned and straight, although he had a bun on his head, his shoulders were scattered, and each sideburn had a silver wire tied into the top bun, and a jade ring was fastened. Look at the appearance of his face, very handsome, although there are some wrinkles, but it is difficult to judge the age, and there is also a male and female taste in his temperament, and the tall eyes at the tail of the eyes always show some evil and cold breath.
"Ah......" The veterans had already judged who was coming, and they all bowed their heads and bowed. The recruit didn't know the situation, but he thought that he could lead such a large escort team, and the man must be a high-ranking official, so he hurriedly followed suit.
In the middle of the procession is the prisoner car, although the size and style are basically the same as ordinary prisoner cars, but a closer look shows that the cage of this car is actually made of wrought iron, the iron bars are half a palm wide, and the interfaces are welded and forged to death. The prisoner in the car was curled up in a corner, heavily flailed and chained, his face covered by black messy hair, and his face could not be seen clearly, and it could be seen from the way he sat and the blood soaked in the bandaging cloth that he also suffered a serious external injury to his left thigh, and I wonder if he had fought with officers and soldiers when he was arrested.
The walls of Jinling are very thick, and the gatehouse is naturally very long, but after the man in the lead slowly rode into the shadow of the gatehouse, he reined in the horse's reins and stopped. The soldiers of the patrol battalion guarding the city did not dare to ask what was wrong, so they could only look at him blankly. After a while, the man laughed coldly twice, and suddenly raised his voice: "We're going to enter the city soon, and we won't have a chance to enter Kyoto, do you want to try again?" β
This sentence flew like a flight in the air, and people were confused when they heard it. However, there was not much time left for the guards to be confused, only a little silence, and the murderous aura was instantly flourishing, and about fifty or so strong men rushed out of the woods on the west side of the city gate, all armed with long knives, and rushed straight to the convoy. At the same time, the small vendors on the main road of the city gate also drew their swords and weapons from the shadows neatly, and quickly formed a formation, three or four of them attacked the main way, and the rest of them made a detour and cut between the leading man and the prisoner behind them, as if they intended to drag him first. Immediately, the man's pupils shrank, and the blade between his hands was unsheathed, so that it was a bearded knife with a great curvature, and he simply waved his hand, and the light and strength had rushed straight to the eyebrows of the comer, and the person who rushed towards him no matter what angle he had, felt that the blade was coming, and he had to stop to protect himself, only one of the people in the red shirt seemed to be unaware, and his body shape remained unchanged, but when he was near, he suddenly flickered, and appeared in another direction in the blink of an eye.
The leading man said "Huh", as if he was very surprised, his face froze, he didn't dare to be careless, the knife momentum was changed, the response was very fast, and the comer had suddenly exchanged several moves.
Seeing that the red-shirted man had successfully dragged the leading man and was not left behind, he immediately let out a few whistles and led all the people in the city to rush to the prisoner cart, and together with his companions outside the city, he flanked the officers and soldiers guarding the city.
Although the number of 300 officers and soldiers escorting the prisoner car is large, but it is only an ordinary soldier, and the combat power of these Jianghu guests who are obviously armed with martial arts is unbalanced, and there is even more disorderly chaos, except for the dozens of elites around the prisoner car who still insist on fighting, the others have already been separated by several rushes, and there is no advantage of many people at all, and after a while, two of the prisoners have rushed to the side of the car, but the cage is too strong, they slash hard, but they can't split the cage even if they roll the knife, so they can only try to escape by the whole vehicle.
I don't know if it was because someone came to the rescue or because of something else, the prisoners in the prisoner car were very excited, trying to drag the heavy flail on their bodies and shaking the iron bars of the cage wildly, whining in their mouths, but unable to say clear words, as if they had been gagged. Because his excited appearance was very abnormal, the prisoner commander suddenly realized something, and immediately shouted: "Withdraw!" Evacuate all! β
Before he could finish speaking, a sneer appeared on the face of the leading man. At the same time as the cold aura in his smile permeated the aura of death brought by the nearly 100 hard archers who suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall. The prisoner cart was parked a few feet outside the city gate, and the robbers surrounding it, except for a few hidden under the gatehouse, were almost all within the range of the arrows of the archers on the city walls. Although everyone had immediately ended the attack and fled at full speed the moment they received the evacuation order, how could the human footsteps be as fast as the flying feathers of a meteor? In an instant, the sound of breaking the sky and screaming echoed into one another, and the outside of the imperial capital had become a slaughtering prison. Even if he is a Jianghu person with martial arts, unless he is a peerless master, he can only be a live target under the random arrows, the difference is only how long he can resist and how far he can escape.
After a few rounds of arrow rain, only about half of the captives fled into the dense forest outside the city under the desperate cover of their companions, and the corpses lay on the snow, some of them were shot like hedgehogs, and the snow was soaked black with Yin Yin's blood. In the face of such a tragic situation, the commander's eyes were red. However, he was obviously a man of tenacity, and in the blink of an eye, he had already controlled his almost madness, and ordered a dozen people to rush out of the city, and after being frustrated, he was lucky enough to retreat to the inner side of the city gate and flee. But the adversary is not an ordinary person, and if there are ambushes on the towers of the city, how can there be no in the city? The hundreds of officers and soldiers pouring out from several alleys formed a thick encirclement in the blink of an eye. Judging from their uniform blade style and gray leather armor clothing, it is clear that they are the elite soldiers under the command of the Hanging Mirror Division, one by one, like wolves and tigers, waiting for the order of the peak menacingly.
But at this critical moment, the leading man on the side of the government was silent for a long time, which was a bit surprising.
From the beginning to the present, no matter how the tide of battle turns, there is one person who has not been affected by the drastic changes in the surrounding situation in the slightest, and that is the red-shirted man who is fighting against the leading man. He just focused and played seriously, the leading man's superb martial arts seemed to make him very satisfied, the pair of dark and cold eyes on his dull face flashed with the light of victory, and he was ruthless in his shots.
If you can let the red-shirted man capture the leading man as a hostage, of course the situation will turn again, but the commander of the prisoner robbery has a very accurate eyesight, and he can see at once that if he wants to achieve this goal, he is afraid that he will have to fight for a while, and the soldiers of the Hanging Mirror Division are not stupid, although the leading man can't open his mouth, they will not always stand still like this, and it won't take long for them to react and take the initiative to attack. So after thinking about it quickly, he immediately said loudly: "Good boy, we are going back, come and tear a strip!" β
When he heard that he was going back, the red-shirted man looked a little unhappy in his eyes, but he finally listened, turned around and jumped, and changed the target of attack ghostly. In fact, when he heard the words of the commander, the leading man had already made preparations, and he did not expect to be easily separated from the battle by the opponent, and almost turned around and left, without any sense of stagnation and embarrassment. Because I didn't expect such a high-level person to make a move, and I wanted to catch a few more lives, there were no archers in the ambush in the city, although they were stronger than ordinary soldiers, but the martial arts of the red-shirted people were even helpless to the leading man, and they were almost unstoppable when they rushed over, and the dozen or so people who were surrounded were all killed, and they naturally tried their best to fight for their lives, and after a while, they really tore a crack in the encirclement, and many people escaped.
However, the strength of the two sides was really very different, although some escaped, but the leading man also captured three or four people with his own hands and handed them over to his men to escort away. He knew that the red-shirted man's martial arts were too high to be useless in chasing him, so he simply told people to ignore him and go all out to track down the commander who had fled into the alleys of the city.
The roads and alleys in Jinling City are not particularly complicated, except for the one near the river in the center of the city, most of the squares are in the shape of Qianmo, the leading man followed the bloodstains all the way, and several times he could almost see the figure of the fugitive, but after turning over a broken wall, the bloodstains were suddenly gone, probably the other party found out that he was dripping blood, and did a treat. At this time, there were two similar intersections in front of him, passing through two different neighborhoods, and the leading man judged quietly for a moment, smiled coldly, quickly chased to the left, passed through a path with courtyard walls on both sides, and rushed to the road surface at once. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a carriage came from the right, both sides were not slow, and almost collided together, the leading man reacted very quickly, twisted his waist and jumped up, and reached the other side of the road, and the carriage driver also slammed the reins of the horse, and stopped the carriage abruptly.
"What's going on?" The people in the carriage were probably made to fall by this sudden stop, and they poked their heads out and complained angrily, "Who is so rampage during the New Year?" As he was speaking, his eyes fell on the leading man, and he was stunned for a moment, and cried out in a lost voice: "Sister Xia Dong, when did you come back?" β
The lead man shrugged his shoulders and glanced at him.
"Uh......" The person in the car scratched his head, tightened his eyebrows, and called tentatively after thinking about it, "Brother Xia Qiu?" β
The glance turned into a glare, and the person who was stared at breathed a long sigh of relief and complained, "Say it earlier! Brother Qiu, your problem is really bad, why do you have to pretend to be exactly the same as Sister Xia Dong? It's scary, you know? β
"I said Ozu, I'm not pretending, I'm looking like this, okay?" Xia Qiu walked over and slapped Yan Yujin on the shoulder, "I haven't seen you for more than a year, but it's grown and strong." β
"It's true that your face grows, but what about your hair? These two white ones are not what you deliberately dyed? The relationship between Yan Yujin and Xia Qiu is obviously closer, without the slightest sense of fear, and he speaks loudly, "How did you make this white?" I've tried a lot of dyes, but none of them worked. β
"Let's not talk about this for now," Xia Qiu smiled evilly, and suddenly leaned in front of Yan Yujin and stared at his eyes tightly, "Tell me first, did you see a wounded person passing by nearby just now?" β
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