When they arrived at the North City Gate, Tie Xuan and Luo Shicheng were already there. By the light of the fire above and below the city, I saw a large group of soldiers gathered together quite far from the city wall. However, at a cursory glance, there are not more than 1,000 people, but more than 100 people.

"You see, so many people are standing together as Kui nails, and the soldiers on the other city gates report that they also have them, and they add up to exactly seven piles, which are exactly the seven Kui nails of the Tiangang Array. ”

Why did Dao Yan, the old bald donkey, have to set up a Tiangang array today? Could it be that Xia Rumei's birthday is not the third day of the fourth month, but the first day of the fourth month?

"I've never seen a Tiangang array of this scale," Wuchen looked at the soldiers huddled together, and said blankly, "I'm in the same array as Master at the beginning, and when I compare it with this, it's like child's play." They want to stir up all the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the entire Jinan City. ”

Ma Junwu once described this scene to me. When I see it now, I also think it's a little scary. The "Kui nails" surrounded by the soldiers of the Northern Army are twenty or thirty meters in diameter, and the torches in the outer ring are very imposing when you look at them from afar. And this is still less than a thousand people, if there are more than a thousand people, it will be even more fatal.

"Do you have a way to crack it?" I asked Wuchen as I looked at the city.

Wuchen turned his head to me and smiled bitterly, and said, "Yes, yes, just pull out one of the seven nails." Either it is the same to catch the person who set up the formation and prevent him from urging the formation. ”

"Don't talk about these useless, you see that the northern army below is scattered but not chaotic, there are thousands of heavily armed soldiers around that "Kui Nail", and the current one must be archers to prevent cavalry from assaulting. Moreover, the infantry must be followed by cavalry, and the number of people is not really visible from a distance. "Kui Nail" is a hundred feet away from the city gate, and the arrows can't be shot, so the cavalry can only go out. Although the cavalry is the natural enemy of the infantry army, the cavalry rushed out from the opening of the city gate, and approached the "Kui Nail", to say the least. Even if the war horse is at the gate of the city, it has already attacked at full speed, and it will be subjected to three rounds of bows and arrows from the northern army. How many horses do we have in the city? I'm afraid they will all be wiped out before they even arrive. It's impossible to get out of the city. ”

I haven't said yet, now everyone in the city, from the soldiers to the common people, use the remaining hundreds of war horses as a lifesaver. There is only so much rat meat, it doesn't take a week to eat it, and then you have to rely on war horses, and one war horse can top hundreds of rats. It is estimated that except for Luo Shicheng, there are few people in Jinan City who are willing to take the last war horse to take this risk.

"Brother Mu, have you really thought about going out of the city to break the formation?" Wuchen asked me with some surprise.

When he was surprised, I told him, "Everybody knows how to do it." It's not like I haven't been out of town. ”

"The point is that you're also speculating on the possibility of getting out of town. "Dustless interface," I don't know how to break the formation in the city, if only the master was here. ”

I'm not interested in knowing how capable his master is, and where he is now. Since there is no way to break the formation, I still have to make sure that Xia Rumei stays safely in the prefect's yamen first.

"Mr. Mu Wu, I heard General Luo say that this is what kind of formation the Northern Army is arranging......

"Tiangang Array!"

"Yes. It is said that it can trap all the lonely souls and wild ghosts in Jinan City and make them go crazy and kill. ”

"I'm afraid this is just General Luo's guess. And do you really believe in ghosts and gods?"

"Iron someone worships ghosts and gods, but does not believe in ghosts and gods. Tie Xuan said, "I just don't know what tricks Zhu Di is playing, so I can't take precautions as soon as possible." ”

It is useless to take precautions, and now we can only hope that the Tiangang Array, where hundreds of people are doing "Kui Nail", will not be as terrifying as expected. I glanced up at Luo Shicheng, trying to see a little confidence in his eyes.

"I've thought of a strategy to go out of the city and assault the 'Kui Nail'," Luo Shicheng seemed to see my thoughts, "If I lead the team, at most I will scatter the 'Kui Nail'." And it is necessary to get out and annihilate the whole army. ”

"It doesn't help at all," Wuchen said, "it's impossible for someone who can come up with such a heavenly array not to be a good follower." You break up the 'Qui Nail', and before you have time to release the ghosts, they can be regrouped. ”

Luo Shicheng nodded. The path of destroying the Tiangang Array is completely unworkable.

"Find a soldier who can ride a horse and take me back to the prefect's yamen. I said to Luo Shicheng.

It's a shame not to be able to ride a horse, just like not being able to drive in modern times. But I grew up at a time when horses had completely withdrawn from the stage of transportation. People on the grassland side of the country who can ride horses regard horseback riding as a pastime, and it is a very expensive pastime.

"Do what?"

"There's an urgency. ”

How could I tell him that I went back to the prefect's yamen just to see if Xia Rumei was still there.

Two big men ride a horse, and I feel awkward in any posture. It's completely like a good friend, although it's only a few minutes, and when I get to the door of the prefect's yamen, my sweat has soaked my entire spine.

"Is you unwell, sir?" said the herald who brought me back cared for me.

"Oh, it's okay, you wait here for a while. ”

As soon as he stepped through the door, he saw Twilight coming towards him. My heart sank, could it be that he already knew that Xia Rumei was hiding here?

"It's late, is there something urgent for the prefect's yamen?" I stood inside the door and stopped Twilight.

"I heard that Zhu Di's army outside the city had another change, so I rushed over to take a look. ”

"So, Lord Tie, they have all arrived at the North City Gate, and I have just returned from there. Sir, where are you going?"

"Oh, I'm just going to go to the North Gate. ”

It's the rhythm of trying to escape. He knows Taoism, and he just gets white. If he came over on purpose, he would stay behind for nothing, and he would give it for nothing. Or I was careless, thinking that I had worked hard in vain, and I felt that it was foolproof.

"Sir, can you ride a horse? I stopped him from walking out, "That herald, is there a horse in the yamen to ride?"

"Yes, it's in the stable. The young man who brought me back replied.

"No trouble, I don't know how to ride a horse. ”

"Oh, I don't know how to ride a horse, so I have to be brought back. I laughed, and looked back at the herald who had just tied up my horse.

"So, sir, stay here for a while, and I'll come back and get some things. I had to rush back to the north gate, and the two of us happened to be together. As I spoke, I went to pull Twilight's arm, "Herald, go find another horse, and a soldier with the best equestrian skills, and take Mr. Twilight for a ride." ”

"This ...... This one...... All right. ”

In the end, Dusk Wen didn't turn me around, and returned to the prefect's yamen with me. I just want him to be by my side, so that I can rest assured.

Walking to the small courtyard where we lived, I saw Bai Qi standing at the door of Xia Rumei from afar, staring at the two of us coldly.

"Mr. Mu Wu, I'm waiting for you here. It may have been the white dead man's eyes that frightened him, and he stopped at the gate of the courtyard.

"It's fine. ”

As he passed by Bai Qi, he nodded at me first, and then pointed to Twilight over there with his chin.

"Mr. Twilight is going with me to the North City Gate," I said aloud, "that dustless kid just didn't have a score, and he forgot to take it...... I'll come back and get the weapon for him. Don't wake them up. ”

"There was such a big commotion, and I woke up early. Bai Qi replied coldly.

I was relieved to hear this, this is the code that Bai Qi gave me, "wake up" means it's okay.

On the way from the gate of the prefect's yamen to the courtyard where I lived, I racked my brains to find something to make Twilight feel right. Later, I finally thought that the kid who was dustless really didn't bring his iron sword.

I went to his house and rummaged for a while before I found the iron sword under the mattress. As soon as I turned around to go out, I remembered that it was already inappropriate to break into his house, and it was a little inauthentic to mess up other people's quilts.

When I turned around to put down the mattress, I found a long wooden box in the inner part of the room. I don't know what kind of wood the box is made of, about five centimeters wide and about twenty centimeters long. The oil that has been touched is shiny. Curiosity led me to open the box, only to find that it was a miserable white bone. I knew a little bit about anatomy, and I knew that the bone was the ulna or flexure bone inside the forearm bone. Because you can't see the olecranon process, you can't tell the difference.

Whose bones is this, so that he treasures it so much, and he still has to carry it with him when he comes out to run the rivers and lakes?

There's no time to dwell on that now, and it's his private matter, and I shouldn't be interested either. Putting the box back under the mattress, I hurriedly took the iron sword out of the dust-free room, feeling a little like a thief.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I felt a gust of wind blowing over.

I'm rubbing, the Tiangang Array has been launched. After a little bit of concentration, I could still see streams of black gas scurrying in the air. Then there was a feeling of dizziness, probably my soul was agitated.

That is not the soul of Lu Jia and Zhang Lele, and it is possible that they will be trapped by the Tiangang Array. The Tiangang array that Wuchen described to me yesterday afternoon was like a furnace, where could they stand it.

"Lu Jia, are you feeling unwell?"

I know it's not polite to break into a woman's room out of the blue, but she's not my girlfriend. It's just that I still feel a little guilty when I see Bao'er's body lying on the bed.

"What's wrong?" Lu Jia sat up from the bed and asked me.

"It's nothing, you're fine. "I was a little afraid to look at her, under the thin clothes, I couldn't hide Bao'er's angry figure. Her figure is indeed better than Lu Jia's. At this time, I still have the figure of thinking about Bao'er, which means that I am evil.

"Is something wrong?" Lu Jia said, "I also heard a chaos outside, and I couldn't sleep when I woke up." ”

"The army outside has begun to attack the city again. I'll come back and see if you're okay. ”

"Well, I'm fine, don't worry. ”

"You don't feel a little uncomfortable?"

Lu Jia shook his head: "Is there any Dao Formation again?"

Lu Jia was so smart that he immediately thought of the point.

"Don't think about it. ”