Chapter 42: Jiayuan City
Five days later, in the Juyi Cave, Ma Yun, Gao Tang, Tong, Qin and Shangguan Feng were sitting together and talking.
Qin Ming was barearm at this time, wearing only a light gray vest.
"Old boy, come and give me a knife and see what the defense looks like!" Tong Guanshan glanced at him and said nothing.
"Ignore me, then I'll cut it myself!" After speaking, he got up and walked to the weapon rack and picked up Tong Guanshan's treasure knife.
"Brother Qin, slow down. Although this soft armor is tough and difficult to hurt with ordinary weapons, the sword in your hand is a treasure sword, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist!" Gao Tang hurriedly stopped Qin Ming's actions.
"Don't worry, Lao Qin is not stupid, I'll try it gently!" Seeing Qin Ming's scoundrel appearance, several people smiled helplessly.
"Old boy, I can try, if you are injured by your sword, you have to be responsible!"
"Forget it, I'll cut it myself!" After speaking, he also stood up, and was about to take the sword.
"Don't mind, I'll come by myself, if you hurt me in the heat, I'll suffer a dumb loss!" After speaking, he flashed to the side and cut the soft armor with a knife, leaving only a trace of knife marks.
"It's really good, I know this treasure knife, and the force just now can cut a mark on the iron. You can also put it on, old boy, and try it. Qin Ming was full of praise.
"Hmph, I'd better go back and wear my one, like you. ”
"I, what's wrong with me!"
"Okay, Brother Qin, you can be quiet. You should also thank Mr. Shangguan for this soft armor, if he hadn't recognized the magic silver hand, I would have thrown it away as useless. ”
In addition to being proficient in formations, Mr. Shangguan can also recognize such strange things, and Lao Qin admires them. ”
"Mr. Shangguan is a well-educated person, and I also admire Gao Tang. ”
"Where, where, you have a good reputation!" Shangguan Feng waved his hand embarrassedly.
"There is a precedence in hearing the Tao, there is a specialization in the arts, everyone has their own unique strengths, people cannot be pretentious, nor can they be arrogant. We all have to keep practicing and improve ourselves. Men are ambitious!" Ma Yun looked at everyone with a smile.
"Shaoxia, sometimes you don't say what you say like a vulgar martial artist, just like what you said just now, but like a learned person!" Gao Tang said with emotion.
"The main reason for this is to convene you here. Brother Tong, come on!"
"Here's the thing, since the capture of Tong'an City, I have cut off contact with my family, after these days of inquiry, my family is still imprisoned in Tong'an City, so, I proposed to the owner of the village, to rescue my family. Tong Guanshan said in a deep voice.
"Now that you know, you have to save it!" Qin Ming was the first to agree.
"Save is definitely to be saved, although Mr. Gao has never proposed it, but I know that you also miss your family, I want to go out this time to save both of your families in one fell swoop. ”
"Shaoxia has a heart, the rescue is not easy, the cottage is an eventful time, how can I make this request. Gao Tang said solemnly.
"Well, it was before, but I think it's the right time these days. First, we have foiled King Lu's conspiracy many times, and it should be difficult to take action for a while; second, King Lu's front line is at a critical time, and it is difficult to draw out a large army to encircle and suppress it. These two months are a good time for the rescue. Jack Ma spoke his mind.
"I'm worried about another black and white ghost. Tong Guanshan said.
"Regarding this, just like Brother Qin said, how rare are such masters, since there is no way to take us twice in a row, King Lu should not send someone to send him to death. ”
"Well, I think so too. Shangguan Feng rarely spoke.
"Who is that going to send?" asked Gao Tang.
"I want to take a few brothers with Brother Tong, and leave Brother Qin to guard the cottage. ”
"No, Lao Qin is also going, I haven't been out for a long time, and I'm about to suffocate to death. ”
"Brother Qin, the cottage needs you. Brother Tong still has some connections in the city, which is convenient for us to save people. So I can only leave you behind. Mr. Gao and Mr. Shangguan also have to worry a lot. Especially the seven-star arrow array, although it has only been practiced for a few days, I can also see that it is very powerful, and I must step up my practice in the next few days, in case there is an emergency, there are many means. ”
Everyone argued, but Ma Yun had made up his mind, and the rescue was something to be done sooner or later, and finally several people agreed.
At the same time, in the study of King Lu, King Lu, who had a cold face, was pacing back and forth in the house, and the green-clothed ghost was standing aside.
"Over there in Black Wind Village, there is still no news coming?" After a long time, King Lu said coldly.
"Back to the prince, there is still no news. ”
"It stands to reason that there should have been news two days ago!"
"Even if something happens and there is a delay of some time, there should be news back at this time. Ghost Ce said hesitantly.
"In this way, the black and white ghosts and those more than ten masters have died in Heifeng Village!" King Lu looked at Ghost Ce coldly.
"Lord Wang, his subordinates are guilty. Three times disappointed the prince. Ghost Ce hurriedly knelt down, cold sweat flowing.
"Forget it, being able to kill black and white ghosts is by no means an ordinary character, you and I are underestimated. Get up. ”
"Thank you, Lord Xie!" the ghost chief breathed a sigh of relief.
"The war at hand will be over in less than two months, so send another army to exterminate the thieves. ”
"Lord Shengming, if you can endure ordinary people, you can't bear it, and the great cause will be accomplished!"
"Ghost Ce, when it comes to the great cause, what should I do next after unifying the state?"
"Next, we should make friends and attack closely, and join forces ......" The two began to discuss other things, putting Xiong'an Village aside, just as Ma Yun thought.
Early the next morning, Ma Yun and Tong Guanshan quietly descended the mountain with eight other brothers, and the more secret these things were, the better.
Tong Guanshan's family was imprisoned in Tong'an City, more than 300 miles away from this, and Zhu Ti City was about 300 miles north of Tong'an City. But the first thing is to go to Jiayuan City to buy ten fast horses.
The horses gallop 40 miles per hour, but this way can not run for a long time, two hours have to rest for a long time, if the normal speed of jogging is only 20 miles per hour, so that the run for four hours and rest for two hours, in the afternoon can run another four hours, can run eight hours a day 160 miles, only four days to reach the city of Juti.
Everyone traveled lightly, and it only took half a day to arrive outside Jiayuan City before noon, which was also the first time Ma Yun saw the city, which was more majestic than he imagined. The walls are about eight zhang high, and there are horses placed on the top of the wall, which is extremely difficult to climb, and the moat outside the city is about three zhang wide, and it is not known how deep it is. There were still a few corpses scattered on the moat, presumably specially used to scare Xiaoxiao.
At this time, it is very lively outside the city gate, a group of people and merchants line up to enter and exit the city, and the soldiers guarding the city ask and search the passers-by before letting them go, and several strong crossbows above the city gate are facing the pedestrians who enter and exit, just afraid that there is a slight difference, those strong crossbows will shoot out mercilessly.
"Brother Tong, how do you enter the city? What should I do if the guards interrogate me?" Ma Yun is not afraid of fighting, killing and killing, but this kind of experience in the rivers and lakes still depends on Tong Guanshan.
"It's about as expected, so many of us going in will definitely arouse suspicion, let them stay outside, just let the two of us go in. ”
At this time, Tong Guanshan was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, tattered, wearing a straw hat and carrying a burden on his back, like the people. Ma Yun is also dressed in cloth clothes, his hair is messy, and more importantly, he used the disguise method he learned when he was bored these days, and after a few casual clicks on his face, he became crooked and slanted, looking crazy.
"So be it. Ma Yun thought for a moment and agreed with Tong Guanshan's attention.
"You stay here, find a place to hide, and the young man and I will go in and buy horses, and at most an hour will be able to come out." If we all carry weapons, we will not be put into the city, and you will also hold the weapons of me and the young man for us first. Although those soldiers insisted on refusing, at Tong Guanshan's insistence, they reluctantly agreed.
"After a while you pretend to be crazy and don't know anything, and I'll take care of the rest. The two of them soon arrived at the city gates.
"Stop, where are the people, what are you doing in the city?" a soldier glanced at Tong Guanshan and stopped him.
"Tell the official, we are from Daliu Town, twenty miles south of the city, and my nephew suddenly had a strange illness, so he had to come to the city for medical treatment. After speaking, he pointed to Ma Yun. I saw Ma Yun babbling gibberish, and saliva flowed into his neck.
The guard glanced at Ma Yun, groped around the two of them, and then waved his hand and let the two in.
When I arrived in the city, people came and went on the streets, the shouts of buying and selling were endless, and the colorful flags in front of various shops were flying one after another, and it was indescribably lively.
"Brother Tong, this Jiayuan City is quite lively. ”
"Shaoxia doesn't know, in addition to the garrison in this Jiayuan City, there are tens of thousands of people, although the rebels are brutal, but they don't dare to hit the people in this city casually, if Jiayuan City is gone, what's the point of occupying here. So it's still very stable on the surface. but it afflicted the people outside the city. ”
Tong Guanshan stopped a few people and asked where the horse seller was. After turning a few streets, I found a market with cows, horses, donkeys, pigs, chickens, ducks, and many animals that Ma Yun didn't know, which should be unique to this world.
When he arrived at the horse shop, there were only a dozen horses in total, and all of them were thin, Tong Guanshan looked at them again and again, picked out ten of them, paid the silver, and asked the store to send someone to help him send the horses out of the city.
When I went out, I specially changed the city gate, so as not to be recognized by the guards at the previous city gate, so I was stopped and checked, and finally Tong Guanshan privately stuffed a few taels of silver for the guards, so that he was able to get out of the city.
As soon as they left the city, the two men immediately mounted their horses and led the other horses towards the soldiers waiting outside the city.
"Brother Tong, with the strength of you and me, we can open a city gate, if there are enough people outside the city, it will not be difficult to occupy this Jiayuan City. After some reconnaissance in the city, Ma Yun had an intuitive impression of Jiayuan City.
"Since the young man has great ambitions, this Jiayuan City will be ours sooner or later!" Tong Guanshan looked back at Jiayuan City, with a hint of fanaticism in his eyes.