Chapter 31 Changping Ancient Town
"Puff...... Jiang Chen pulled out a black iron throwing gun weighing at least seven or eight catties from the body of the man in black who had died, and a stream of black blood gushed out with it. www.biquge.info In fact, if these people want to run, Jiang Chen has no way to stop them all one by one if he wants to run, Jiang Chen has no way to intercept them one by one, and the reason why Jiang Chen said that is to strengthen the idea of escaping in the hearts of these people, after all, more than a dozen people are divided into multiple directions to escape, and Jiang Chen himself does not know how to doppelgänger, no matter how high Jiang Chen's martial arts are, it is beyond the reach of the whip.
Later, Jiang Chen's side always followed Jiang Wuling's secret guards sent out to protect Jiang Chen, although these secret guards are far inferior to Jiang Chen in terms of martial arts, but in terms of the ability to conceal and track people, Jiang Chen can't catch up with the horse, let these secret guards follow these fleeing black-clothed people, and then follow the vine to touch the melon is obviously a very good attention.
Retracting the nine-handled Xuantie throwing spear, Jiang Chen didn't even look at the headless corpses around him that had been fulfilled by Jiang Chen himself, and let these corpses stay here to feed the wolves. Jiang Chen could faintly hear the sound of wolves howling in this wasteland.
Following the path, Jiang Chen returned to the camp in the dark, at this time the camp was densely covered with cowhide tents, next to the cowhide tents were tethered horses, five or six large bonfires were still burning, and dozens of shadow guard sergeants were patrolling back and forth around. Seeing Jiang Chen appear, a sergeant closest to Jiang Chen hurriedly saluted: "My lord." ”
Jiang Chen didn't speak, just hummed lightly, nodded, and then walked in front of a relatively large tent. It was Jiang Chen's tent, made of very thick cooked cowhide, which was very cold-resistant. Jiang Chen lay on the marching couch and slept in his clothes, but it was also out of a half-dream, half-awake, and he slept quite hard.
Finally, in the early morning, the morning sun dawned.
When the shadow guard sergeants outside got up one after another to do the routine drill in the morning, Jiang Chen also got out of the tent, and the poor quality of sleep last night made Jiang Chen have a little dark circles under his eyes. However, this does not affect Jiang Chen's mental state, with Jiang Chen's physical fitness and strength, tearing the tiger and leopard alive is just a matter of hand-to-hand.
Eating a few freshly grilled pork chops from the sergeants, Jiang Chen licked his fingers and asked Li Mu, who was also nibbling on pork chops in front of him, "According to our speed, where can we go today?"
Li Mu put the pork chop in his hand into the plate, and said: "Lord Hui, we should be able to reach the land of Changping by the Wei River at ten o'clock in twilight today, and after Changping, we will also arrive at the territory of His Royal Highness King Taiding, not far from the land of the Hundred Sects." ”
"Changping?" Jiang Chen chewed on the newly harvested wild boar meat from the sergeants, but he was thinking about Changping in his heart. Changping is not a big place, to be honest, it is just a very ordinary town, on both sides of the town are hurried mountains, a galloping road runs through the entire town, Jiang Chen and others want to quickly enter the thirteen states of the Southern Regions of King Taiding, the best route is to take Changping, but the word Changping makes Jiang Chen have a feeling of going to the guillotine.
Although the ancient town of Changping is ordinary, the word Changping is not ordinary, because the word Changping represents the largest execution in the history of the Han and Tang Empires, even counting the previous dynasties and the Great Zhou. Two hundred and seventy years ago, one of the eight princes of the royal family, Jiang Wuxu, the king of Lijiang, ordered the whole country to search for the cult members of the cult and give a severe blow, the king of Lijiang has outstanding ability, and in a few years, he arrested nearly one million cult members of the cult throughout the country, giving the cult a very heavy blow, and he will not want to turn over within hundreds of years, and none of these millions of people have been wronged, and according to the laws of the Han and Tang dynasties, all those who believe in the cult of the cult should be beheaded, and those who are members of the cult of the cult should be exterminated, and the father, mother, wife, women, children, old and weak will not be spared.
Although only one-tenth of these cultists were members of the cult, if the three clans were counted, the number would reach three million, and killing them all was obviously a very cruel and brutal thing. Even the three dukes who tried their best to exterminate the cult of evil gods at that time did not agree, but the first emperor had made up his mind to make an example of him, and the king of Lijiang led the six army guards to escort all the three million people to Changping. The blood from the mountain even turned into a stream of Juanjuan and flowed down the mountain, and then the bones of the three million people were thrown into a large pit, and they were not even buried, leaving them to rot and be eaten by wild beasts.
As for those heads, the king blamed the Li River and ordered the people to build a human head arch bridge in the middle of a large river in the mountains, which is still standing.
And the king of Lijiang is now one of the eight princes of the royal family, although he is not as famous as the king of Taiding, but he is also a well-known existence, although he has not opened up territory for the Han and Tang dynasties, but he is also facing many attacks by the barbarians, leading millions of soldiers to fight bravely, and repeatedly inflicting heavy losses on the barbarian tribes. The northern frontier of the Han and Tang dynasties was impregnable, and it was also deeply trusted by Emperor Jiang Wuling.
And the character of the King of Lijiang himself is not murderous, he is approachable, and he treats the soldiers like siblings, and he is very popular. The reason why it was all like that back then was because the ferocity of the Cult of Evil Gods had reached the point where it had to be punished with stubborn and bloody wrists.
It is said that the king of Lijiang once looked at his hands in his residence alone.
"After eating, let's go. Jiang Chen swallowed the last bite of greasy pork into his stomach and said to Li Mu, who had not finished eating.
"Yes!" Li Mu also gnawed the pork chops on the handle of three times and five by two, and followed behind Jiang Chen.
Soon when the sun raised its head slightly, Jiang Chen and the others finished preparing again, and everyone brought dry food and newly roasted barbecue meat as soon as possible, which could be eaten on the road again, and this day was a non-stop march. Thousands of horsemen crisscrossed the official road in all directions, and the smoke and dust raised could be seen from a long distance.
In the distant town of Changping, because it is a small place, the people still live a life of sunrise and sunset, and the folk customs are simple. Now it's just the morning, every family has raised the smoke of cooking, the old city wall is also in disrepair, two old foot soldiers who are a little old are on duty at the city gate, yawning, complaining about the order of the county in the city to let them guard the city gate, the people in the entire Changping ancient town are only more than 1,000 households, the defenders are only more than 100 people, living deep in the interior for thousands of years have never experienced war, and the city defense is naturally not rigorous.
And in an inn in the city, a group of white-clothed men also walked out of it. Most of these people in white are young boys and girls, most of them are around twenty years old, and a few of them look like they are twenty-four or five years old. Especially one of the lively girls who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, sunny, lively and beautiful, was chattering with a few women of about the same age, this girl was the most beautiful of these young boys and girls, and even her appearance could be described as a national color and heavenly fragrance.
Leading these people are three elderly Taoists, a Taoist aunt and two Taoist priests, although the Taoist aunt looks like an old aunt in her forties, but she always has a straight face, and her body is also cold. And the two Taoist priests have a bit of a Taoist bone fairy style, with a long beard and a black Taoist robe, both of them look smiling, the difference is only a fat and a thin difference.
This is the morning scene of Changping Ancient Town in the morning, but at this moment, countless pairs of eyes are staring at this small town in the mountains on both sides of Changping, and a killing is about to begin.