Chapter 7: Immortals
In the afternoon, a trumpet sounded, and the Northern Barbarian army retreated. Zhao Quan stood on the terrace of the City Lord's Mansion and watched the Northern Barbarian army slowly retreat, with a sense of foreboding in his heart, he looked sideways at Chen Bao, Chen Bao naturally saw what he meant, and nodded with a heavy face.
Zhao Quan took a deep breath and called Yu Shi: "Quickly send someone to send a message to all departments and prepare to punish the demon." Yu Shileng took a moment to react, and rushed downstairs with a little nervousness in his expression.
Seeing Yu Shi leave, Chen Bao smiled and said to Zhao Quan: "The old man has also gone, and I will leave everything to you next." ”
Zhao Quan nodded solemnly and bowed to Chen Bao's departing back.
As the war drums beat rhythmically, the soldiers in the city jerked and then ran nervously in all directions. After a while, Ma Shouxin led a group of tightly wrapped strange people to the city wall and the city to change guards, except for Ma Shouxin, who showed his head and face, the others did not show any skin, the upper and lower cuffs were tied with ropes, and even the eyes were covered with a layer of light veil, with bows and arrows on their backs, some with braziers in their hands, and some with blankets, these people were all elites from the shooting battalion, and their skillful skills made them even if they wore this linen gloves, they could shoot without missing arrows with light veil in front of them. They each took their positions, crouching quietly in the shadows of the wall, not showing a trace.
On the city wall, Ma Shouxin looked towards the inner city wall, and before he could make tea, he saw a person dressed in the same clothes as him walking out of the urn city, and this person was Chen Bao's deputy general Wu Hong. Wu Hong nodded heavily at Ma Shouxin, and Ma Shouxin also nodded in response and walked outside, watching the movements of the Northern Barbarian army.
Zhao Quan and the others had a foreboding, and the Northern Barbarian army retreated to the camp, and with another horn sounding, several guards protected a huge carriage towards Baishan Pass. Hearing the news from ahead, Zhao Quan's heart sank: "Sure enough, it's here." ”
The carriage came to a halt a mile outside the White Mountain Pass, and several guards carefully lifted a luxurious chariot from it. Ma Shouxin's eyesight was very good, and he saw a middle-aged Taoist in an indigo robe from a distance.
When the chariot came to a hundred steps outside the city, the Dao talent slowly got up from the chariot and looked at Baishan Pass. Seeing that Ma Shouxin was the only one on the city wall, the Taoist secretly said: "It seems that these mortals have made some preparations." Thinking about how these mortals would struggle later, the Daoist couldn't help but be a little excited.
The Taoist said loudly towards the city wall: "Poor Dao is the national teacher of the Desolate Clan's royal court, and now I am on the order of the Desolate King to go on a northern expedition, and I advise you to open the city gate and surrender as soon as possible, otherwise you will blame Poor Dao for being ruthless." ”
Chengshang Ma Shouxin was not angry, but discussed the matter after the surrender with the Taoist, and after a while, he said helplessly: "Daoist, the conditions you gave are a bit harsh, the last general can't be the master, can you let the last general go and discuss with my general?" ”
The Taoist nodded happily.
I saw that Ma Shouxin turned around and a group of people suddenly appeared on the city and the city wall, raised his hand and shot, everything was in the lightning. Ma Shouxin chatted with the Taoist people not to delay time, but to let these elites better listen to the voice and distinguish the position, so that they could complete the lore in an instant.
However, the Taoist had already taken precautions, and before the arrow rain fell on the top of his head, a gray mist was emitted from his body, covering the Taoist, and the arrow rain fell on the mist and made a sound of gold and iron, and they bounced away. The city did not stop, the rain of arrows kept falling, and the Taoist smiled contemptuously: "Hmph, stubborn and unknown." "No longer entangled with the city, raise your hand and release a large cloud of insects.
The black insect cloud appeared, the sound of flapping wings was deafening, although everyone was frightened, but they still quickly lit the brazier and the torches in the brazier according to the plan, everyone held torches, squatted back to back around the brazier, carefully guarding against the poisonous insects flying in.
The brazier was filled with sulfur and some other insect repellent things, and when it was lit, the smoke was billowing out, and everyone was holding a torch in one hand and covering their mouths and noses with a wet hand towel in the other.
The poisonous insects were smoked by the thick smoke, and the momentum of flying suddenly stagnated. The Taoist smelled the smell of sulfur under the city, and couldn't help but show a hint of mockery: "How can the insects of the poor Dao be driven away by such mundane things as sulfur." ”
Before the people of the city could rejoice, they saw the poisonous insects rushing towards them, despite the smoke.
And they were astonished, but the worm was not afraid of brimstone.
In a panic, the soldiers could only wave the torch to drive away the swarm, but they didn't expect to be driven away by the fire, which aroused the ferocity of the swarm. Waves of insects rushed towards the soldiers, and finally some of them could not withstand the torment of fear and fled under the city walls.
"Don't run! …… Fool "Ma Shouxin had already put on a special helmet and hid with everyone, using torches to drive away the swarm with difficulty, he saw that the sulfur was not completely useless, but it did not have much effect, because the poisonous insects stayed close to the brazier and left immediately, but one after another poisonous insects took turns to pounce down, so it seemed that they were not afraid of sulfur, seeing that someone was running away in fear, they couldn't help but roar angrily, at this time leaving the range of sulfur smoke alone, it was no different from the fat sheep fleeing from the flock.
Sure enough, before Ma Shouxin's words fell, he saw that the fleeing soldier had not left a few steps before he was pounced on by a large number of insects, and after a while, he saw a large number of insects flying away from the dark corpse, only to see that the original sturdy clothes had been torn, and some poisonous insects were still continuing to eat the few flesh and blood on the corpse.
This scene fell into the eyes of the other soldiers, the soldiers were terrified, they had killed countless people, and they had seen countless miserable corpses, but the terrible scene of being swallowed by the insects in the blink of an eye like this still made them tremble, and they only felt their bodies tremble in disobedience. As time went on, more and more soldiers were bitten through their clothes, then bitten by poisonous insects, and screamed one after another.
Zhao Quan was in the city lord's mansion, looking at the tragic situation on the city wall, the screams kept coming, his face was already pale, and his cheeks trembled as if he was about to crush his teeth.
Yu Shi was also a little anxious on the side, and when he saw that the water crane cart on the inner city wall was finally in place, he excitedly shouted: "It's in place!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of gongs and drums.
The soldiers on the city wall quickly fell to the ground and covered themselves with wet blankets. I saw that on the inner city wall, a group of soldiers who were also tightly covered pushed several water crane carts, aimed the water dragon mouth at the insect swarm above another city wall a few zhang away, and sprayed a large amount of fire oil, taking advantage of the opportunity of the insect swarm being sprayed by the fire oil, the soldiers on the city wall quickly climbed to the nearby ladder mouth, ready to leave the city wall.
The swarm was sprayed with fire oil, and in a moment it came back to its senses and prepared to pounce on the water hose cart.
The soldier controlling the water dragon car suddenly stopped spraying fire oil in a panic, and Wu Hong hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and ignite the fire!" ”
The soldier who had been waiting for a long time immediately let go of his fingers and shot a lit rocket into the swarm, and in an instant, the flames soared into the sky, and countless poisonous insects were burned to death in an instant, falling to the ground like raindrops.
The Daoist under the city was still enjoying the screams of the soldiers of the Longyan Kingdom when they were devoured by the insect swarm, and his face was like frost at this time, although he had some Taoism, but he had not yet reached the realm of seeing things, and the insect swarm and the city wall blocked his vision, and it was too late for him to smell the smell of fire oil.
The Taoist was furious, and he flew into the air and was about to make a move, but he heard a string sound from the corner tower not far away. A tricky arrow, in the blink of an eye, shot towards the heart, but the Taoist is not easy to follow, in an instant it sank half a head, the upper body fell, both hands pushed, the wind suddenly rose, and the sharp arrow was blown up a few points, grazing the Taoist's ear.
The Taoist's heart suddenly relaxed, but he heard a louder sound coming from behind him, it was the sound of the launch of the bed crossbow!
The Taoist secretly said, "Not good! Hurriedly shouted angrily and gathered Zhenyuan on his back.
Just listen to 'Do! The bolts of the bed crossbow made a loud noise as if they were nailed to a giant tree, and they came to a dangerous stop within an inch of the man's vest, and then fell to the ground.
As soon as the Taoist body was loosened, there was a burst of saltiness in his mouth, he had not flown into the air before to guard against the bed crossbow that might be prepared on the city wall, thinking about cleaning the city wall with poisonous insects before flying up, but unfortunately he almost fell into the plot, this tricky crossbow arrow, although it failed to kill him, but it still shocked his internal organs.
After taking a few breaths and recovering from the afterglow of escaping from death, the Taoist was furious.
"Ants! Ann dares to deceive ...... like this."
He didn't finish his words, only to hear another string sound in the corner tower at the beginning, although the Taoist was very angry but still on guard, in the blink of an eye, a gray horse training from his hand straight towards the corner tower, sharp arrows and horse training struck, and was instantly smashed, and the gray horse training still flew towards the corner tower, only to hear 'boom! With a bang, half of the corner tower was destroyed by Pilian, and after a while, a person crawled out of the rubble with difficulty, and this person was Huang Liming.
He is the most powerful archer of the Yinyan Army, he has never participated in the battle for half a month, even if the Northern Barbarians almost attacked the city wall in the past few days, he is still in the rear, and the whole half month of recuperation is only waiting for today! The two arrows that he shot with a five-stone bow were already his full strength, but unfortunately he still failed to shoot down this demon path.
Seeing Huang Liming crawling out of the ruins, the Taoist showed a cruel look on his face, he waved his sleeves, Huang Liming was thrown into the air by a gray mist, and fell into the swarm of insects that were not burned, the swarm was burned by the oil and suffered countless losses, but there were still a large number of poisonous insects surviving.
There was an intermittent scream from the swarm, and in the blink of an eye, it was silent, and the people under the walls did not even dare to imagine the scene. Some have even vomited.
Moments later, the swarm scattered, some of the broken clothes and pitch-black bones fell from the sky.
Terrible poisonous insects, the demon road that can't be killed by a sneak attack on the bed crossbow, even a warrior who has survived a hundred battles can't afford to fight again.
Seeing that Huang Liming had turned into a pile of broken bones, a burst of happiness appeared in his heart, and he also laughed on his face, as if the previous sneak attack had never happened, he had never taken this group of mortals to heart before, which almost capsized in the gutter made him extremely angry, but at this moment, it was also a different kind of pleasure to be able to crush these damn ants.
He turned around and looked at the other turret where the crossbow had been fired, the bed crossbow was not something that could be reloaded in a moment, and if the other bed crossbows had just been fired together, he might really capsize here, but fortunately, the castle was too conspicuous, and the corner tower could not accommodate a second bed crossbow, so he was sure that there was no one around him who could hurt him at this time.
The corner of the Taoist's mouth chuckled: "Hehe, do you want me to ask you out?" ”
I only heard the voice of the person inside: "The national teacher spares his life!" The national teacher spares his life! The villain is out of ......"
Before he could finish speaking, a crossbow bolt was shot out of the corner tower, but this crossbow was just a normal crossbow arrow, not a bed crossbow.
Naturally, the crossbow arrow failed to hurt the Taoist, and the Taoist grabbed the crossbow arrow with his bare hands.
At this time, a person walked out of the corner tower, it was Chen Bao who had left the City Lord's Mansion before. Afraid of being detected by the demon Dao in advance, only he and Huang Liming were the two people who sneaked attack, and the transfer of a bed crossbow is also the limit of the front-line war, Chen Bao secretly said in his heart that it was a pity, and walked towards the Taoist step by step, and then his fate would be miserable, but he was not afraid in his heart, he was also aware of this task, the husband is not born to eat, and death is to cook!
Chen Bao's eyes were full of hatred, and he glared angrily at the Taoist: "Countless soldiers under the old man's command have died in the hands of your demon, and the old man will turn into a powerful ghost if he dies, so that you can't ......."
Before Chen Bao finished speaking, he was stuck in the head with a crossbow arrow, which was the one he had just shot at the Taoist.
"Turning into a ghost? This way will leave your bones without bones first! With that, the Taoist threw Chen Bao's body into the swarm.
The Taoist no longer looked at Chen Bao's fate, but turned his head to look at the soldiers under the city.
"What about you?"
The soldiers were looked at by him and couldn't help but retreat.
At this moment, Zhao Quan finally walked out from the rear.
Feng Yun saw Zhao Quan walking towards the city wall with Yu Shi and the others, and he was in a hurry, and was about to rush out, but he was pulled back by a big hand covering his mouth, Feng Yun was about to struggle, and when he looked back, he saw that Liu Dapang, who came at some point.
Feng Yun wanted to say something, but Liu Dapang didn't take away the big hand that covered Feng Yun. Liu Dapang shook his head at Feng Yun and signaled Feng Yun not to do anything, if he rushed out and shouted at this time, it would break the morale of the army.
Feng Yun struggled a bit, and finally spread weakly in Liu Dapang's arms. He saw the insect cloud on the city wall, and also heard the screams of the soldiers before, without the sound of the previous fighting, such screams were particularly harsh. In the end, the scene of Huang Liming and Chen Bao being thrown into the swarm was even more deeply rooted in his heart.
Zhao Quan would not surrender, Feng Yun knew that although he and Zhao Quan did not spend as much time together as Liu Dapang or General Liu, he just knew. If Zhao Quan does not surrender, then his fate will only be the same as Huang Liming and Chen Bao. Tears gradually flooded Feng Yun's eyes.
Liu Dapang seemed to feel the wetness on his hands, and slowly let go of the big hand covering Feng Yun, and sighed helplessly, this demon path is too powerful, they have exhausted their means, but they can't help it.
Just as Liu Dapang was thinking about what to do in the future, Feng Yun wiped his tears as if he had made up his mind, and said to Liu Dapang: "Fat uncle, I'll go with the general." ”
Liu Dapang frowned, and before he could speak, Feng Yun continued to ask, "Fat uncle, will you escape?" ”
Liu Dapang shook his head without thinking about it: "Although I, Liu Dapang, am the firehead army, it is also the firehead army of the Yinyan army, but I can't afford to lose this person." ”
After hearing this, Feng Yun laughed, and there was a trace of stubbornness on his tear-stained face: "Since you don't run away, where can I go." Besides, I can't afford to lose this man. ”
Looking at Feng Yun's stubborn little face, Liu Dapang took a deep breath and exhaled again, and then laughed with Feng Yun: "Since you are not afraid, then let's follow the general to see if this demon is fat or thin, and can refine a few catties of oil." ”
After that, the two chased Zhao Quan together.
More and more soldiers gathered on the road, following behind Zhao Quan, and some people were still hiding on the sidelines, hesitating whether to fight this battle with their comrades in front of them.
When Zhao Quan walked under the city wall and faced that terrifying Daoist, there were already countless people behind him.
The Taoist stood on the city wall, with a terrifying insect cloud above his head, and he looked at the group of mortals in front of him, his face slightly mocking.
"Looks like you're the commander here? How, do you want to surrender? The Daoist naturally saw that Zhao Quan and the others did not intend to surrender, they just wanted to see how this group of mortals was ready to die and struggle, although most of the insects were burned to death, he had other means, and it was more than enough to kill this group of mortals.
Zhao Quan looked at the soldiers behind him and smiled with satisfaction: "Zhao is fortunate to be in charge of the Yinyan Army for 18 years, although he is not invincible, he has also beheaded countless enemies with his brothers. Do you ask me today to surrender? As he spoke, Zhao Quan's momentum changed, and he pulled out his long sword and shouted angrily at the Taoist: "Demon, I'll tell you!" Those who take away my Longyan territory, my Yinyan army will kill back! Whoever slaughters my Longyan people, my Yinyan army will kill it back! Whoever kills my Longyan soldiers, my Yinyan army will kill it back! ”
In the end, the soldiers of the entire Baishan Pass drank together, and the roar resounded in the sky.
"Hahaha..."The Taoist laughed, then shook his head and said: "How pitiful it is to use the mantis arm as a car, I will fulfill your Dan heart, but I don't know how long your courage can last." ”
After saying that, the Taoist man pointed at his sleeve, and the insect cloud on his head flew towards Zhao Quan and the others.
At this moment, a loud shout came: "Stop! ”
Everyone was so shocked that their ears were ringing and their heads were buzzing. The swarm was also shocked by this shout and fell to the ground one after another.
I saw that one person was like a dragon, and in the blink of an eye, he flew to Zhao Quan from a distance and fell, protecting everyone behind him.
Feng Yun, who came back to his senses, was so difficult to see from the gap in the crowd that the person who came was a man, dressed in blue and white robes, although he couldn't see his appearance, but he looked at the back with an extraordinary bearing, which couldn't help but make people admire. Feng Yun felt for no reason that this person was different from anyone he had seen before, or rather different from mortals like them, and then seeing this person shake the terrible insect swarm to death with just a loud shout, he couldn't help but have a thought in his heart: Immortal?