Chapter 8: Enemy Attack!!
I don't know how long it took to go, but the convoy began to stop, and camped on the spot to rest, or the soldiers were busy with their own work as they did yesterday, and they should be able to get out of this mountain road tomorrow morning, and they would be able to reach the capital at about noon the day after tomorrow.
This time, Su Jin still went to the woods to pick up firewood like he did yesterday evening, and after cultivating in the afternoon, his physical strength and spirit had almost recovered.
When he came out of the woods with the last pile of firewood, there was already a burst of aroma around him, and there was an extremely tempting smell of roasted meat, and I don't know which soldier caught a pheasant from the woods, and after handling it, he roasted it on the fire.
To be honest, Su Jin didn't like to eat these barbecued foods very much, he felt that it was unhygienic and had no benefit to the human body, so when everyone looked at the roast chicken and was eager to try it, he just drank a bowl of porridge sent by Shangguan Yanyun's maid and nibbled on a few meatloaf.
The red sunset overhead gradually dissipated, and the night slowly fell, and the woods were already dark, and the convoy lit the bonfires that had been piled up long ago, and the soldiers sat around and talked.
After Su Jin finished dinner, he also sat by the campfire with the group, the two carriages lined up on one side, and Shangguan Yanyun and the little maid named Yan'er stayed in the carriage in front to rest.
A gust of wind blew, mixed with the yellowed leaves of decaying trees, and with a smell of dry grass and trees, the bonfire suddenly shook violently, and it seemed very panicked.
Suddenly, a strange sound of a tight string being pulled came out, and this sound surprised all the people present, because this voice was so familiar to them, they had heard such a familiar and cruel sound countless times on the battlefield, it was the sound of plucking the strings of arrows!
"Enemy attack!" I don't know which soldier shouted, and then several sounds of breaking through the air were heard, and the soldier's voice stopped abruptly, and he fell to the ground in an instant, and a feathered arrow pierced through his chest from his back, and blood flowed from the pierced chest.
"Miss Protection!" the major general Wang shouted and kicked the bonfire away, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and jumped towards the carriage, and the other dozens of soldiers pulled out their long knives one after another and gathered around the carriage.
Feathered arrows kept coming out of the woods, mixed with the dull pull of the bowstring, and then several more soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
In the dark woods, the piercing sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, the dull sound of penetration, the muffled sound of pain, the snapping sound of falling to the ground, and the crisp cracking sound of long knives cutting off feather arrows, endlessly, dozens of soldiers in the field leaned closely around the carriage, and observed the unexpected situations that may occur around them at any time in the dark night.
Without the light of the bonfire, the surrounding darkness was incomparable, and the feather arrows that flew from the woods were also shooting aimlessly, Su Jin was extremely nervous lying on the grass motionless at this time, his face was pale, and the countless feather arrows that flew flew past his scalp countless times, and one shot steadily less than a few centimeters away from his thigh.
For Su Jin, who had never experienced such a scene, he had a surprisingly calm personality, even if he clearly felt the cold hurricane flying over his head many times, and the piercing howl like a hell demon came from his eardrums, he was not frightened and overwhelmed.
The curtain of the car window was suddenly opened, Shangguan Yanyun's face was pale, but he was still very calm, he asked Major General Wang and the soldiers around him, "Where is Su Jin?"
Everyone was stunned, and when they heard her say this, they thought of Su Jin, who was sitting not far from them just now, but now he was gone, and he didn't know where he was, let alone if he had been shot by random arrows and died.
"That young man, just now we weren't far away, and now... Now I don't know if I'm dead or alive....", one man said stubbornly.
Shangguan Yanyun's face sank after hearing this, and said: "You must find him, you must see people alive, and you must see corpses when you die." “
"Yes!" everyone whispered yes.
As soon as everyone finished speaking, the feather arrow suddenly stopped, but the hilt of the knife in everyone's hands tightened unconsciously, and then more than a dozen sharp and heavy footsteps came from the mountains and forests, and the sound was getting closer and closer.
Su Jin found that the feather arrow had disappeared, and suddenly stood up from the grass, and the position where he was standing was not far away, although the dozens of people around the carriage were very vague, they still recognized him.
"Not good!" I don't know who shouted, and then ran in the direction of Su Jin with a long knife, and then several soldiers also ran in the direction of Su Jin with solemn faces.
Su Jin didn't know that just behind him, a group of people were rushing towards him with the momentum of thunder, they were dressed in black, although they were almost completely hidden in the darkness, but the sharp broken blade in their hands revealed a dazzling cold white light.
As soon as a few soldiers surrounded Su Jin, the dozens of black-clothed people rushed to the side, only to see a few black-clothed men holding broken blades and stabbing straight out at the vital points of several soldiers with thunderous momentum, extremely fast, plus their bodies almost hidden in the dark, only to see a few white lights flashing, flawed, a few dull sounds that cut through flesh and blood came out, and several people around Su Jin fell to the ground in response.
At the moment when a few people fell to the ground, several soldiers rushed over in an instant, they were holding long knives, their eyes were blood-red and they slashed at a few black-clothed people who killed several companions with one move, and the sharp sound of breaking the air, mixed with the heavy sound of knife wind, was like a giant axe, and the black-clothed people rolled but avoided the key point of the long knife.
Then a soldier pulled Su Jin behind him violently, and then several people surrounded Su Jin in a semicircle and began to retreat step by step.
As they retreated, from time to time a dazzling white light shot out of the darkness, the light flickered extremely quickly, flickered and disappeared, and suddenly drowned in the darkness again.
Su Jin only heard the sound of the broken blade tearing through the air, as well as the extremely dull sound of cutting flesh and blood, and at some point, the encirclement that appeared in a semicircle was already half a semicircle.
By the time Su Jin and several soldiers retreated to the carriage, only one soldier survived, and at this time he was covered in blood, and the scratches of countless broken blades on his body made up for his entire body, and blood kept flowing out of the breaches in his body like a trickle, and in the end, he was also at the end of the crossbow and fell to the ground.
In the end, there were still twenty soldiers left in the convoy, and ten people died in an instant, Major General Wang looked at Su Jin angrily with blood-colored eyes, because almost all of these ten people died for the young man in front of him, and the remaining twenty soldiers were also filled with extremely angry eyes.
These dead people are all their comrades-in-arms who lived and died together, and they died like this not long ago, and it was this young man who caused their deaths, if it wasn't for saving him, maybe they wouldn't have died, thinking of this, everyone was full of anger.
"If it weren't for this waste, they wouldn't have died!"
I don't know who shouted, and the voice was full of resentment and anger.
Major General Wang threw the long knife of the soldier who fell to the ground into Su Jin's arms and said in a cold voice: "If you don't want to die, fight by yourself, don't drag us down." “
Shangguan Yanyun, who was sitting in the carriage, sighed and expressed her helplessness, and some regrets, the young man she found was honest, even she didn't dare to guarantee that she could heal her brother if she fell to the ground, and she didn't know if it was worth it for him to die so many people.