Chapter 17: The Long Night (Part II)
A bright moon hung quietly over the purple plug, sprinkling the cold moonlight on the earth.
Outside the gate, the gray shadow of Qilian Mountain is picturesque, and the snow wind blows fiercely, and it is cold to the bone.
The loss of my mountain makes my women colorless. The loss of my Qilian Mountain will make my six animals restless.
——From the "Xiongnu Song" of the Two Han Dynasty
More than 300 years ago, the champion Hou Wan rode out of the fortress to fight the Huns, and crossed the Yanzhi Mountain for more than 1,000 miles. In the summer, he attacked Qilian Mountain again and captured a lot of captives. In the spring of the second year of Yuanzhen, he turned to attack King Zuoxian, won the victory, went through the journey and left the Hou, sealed the wolf and lived in Xu Mountain, Zen in Guyan, and landed in Hanhai. (present-day Lake Baikal region in southern Siberia)
In ancient times, there was a champion Hou Wolf who lived in Xu Mountain and climbed the Hanhai Sea.
Tonight, there is no night to go north to the Hunhe River, and the grassland is gone.
Under the cold moon, the wind blows and the snow falls one after another.
And at the moment when the snow was raised, the bright moonlight also shone on the hidden swords of the warriors of the 'Night Never Collected'.
The glow between heaven and earth seems to be shining again!
Hidden Blade.
English name, Hidden Blade
Originally, it was a blade that could be retracted from a bracer or hand armor; Lightweight, stealthy, and naturally suitable for stealth, it was originally designed for assassination.
It can be traced back to the Achaemenid dynasty, when the Assassin Ardaban (Darius) assassinated the king of Pars in the Western Regions, Xerxes I, with his Hidden Blade.
Since then, the Hidden Blade has continued to evolve and be passed down for millennia.
Initially, ejecting the Hidden Blade required the removal of its own ring finger.
Later, Altaïr ibn La'Ahad modified the Hidden Blade.
This act of cutting off the ring finger is no longer necessary.
In the centuries that followed, the Hidden Blade took on a variety of unique forms, usually due to the specific historical context in which it was located.
For example, Shao Yun's boot blade during the Ming Dynasty, Connor's rotating hidden blade during the North American Colonial War, Arbaaz Mir's three-edged hidden blade during the Sikh Empire, and so on.
In the Purple Stopper, the Hidden Blade represents more than just a cold blade. They are more like a symbol of the warrior who does not collect at night, the special sign of a qualified Great Wall watcher.
For example, a soldier can only become a qualified soldier if he has been on a real battlefield and experienced a real war.
Only the Hidden Blade that has truly drunk the blood of the enemy, and has passed the test of real blood and fire, can become a 'night without harvest'.
......
Fragrant.
It smells so good.
This was Yang Tingfeng's first reaction, at this time, he only felt: How can it be so fragrant?
Even the blood on the palm of his hand kept pouring out of the wound and forming blood clots, he didn't know it.
Time passed quietly, and the woman brushed her jet-black hair, gently covered her left eye, and let out a low 'cough'.
At this moment, Yang Tingfeng finally reacted, he was ashamed and ashamed, and hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "It's rude." ”
The woman opened her mouth, but she didn't make any sound, she took out something from her arms, her steps were as light as a kitten, she jumped in front of Yang Tingfeng lightly, and gently spit out three words: "Give ...... Yours. ”
Yang Tingfeng took it easily, only to see that what was handed in front of his eyes was a bloodstained combined hidden blade, strung with a cowhide holster, and on the other side of the blade, there was an inlaid two-baffle plate, which could be used to defend against arrows.
Kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles.
Kill 100 people in one step, and leave a name on the blood list.
The shadow is like a shock, and the generosity is in the Qin Palace.
"This—this is the legendary Hidden Blade?" Yang Tingfeng held the Hidden Blade and stroked it gently.
He pondered alone for a while, as if he was making some kind of great determination, and suddenly asked cautiously: "Seniors, is it considered to be officially joining the night?" ”
Hearing this, a cold light flashed in the woman's only remaining right eye, and her lips, which were as thin as cicada wings, moved a few times, but still did not make any sound.
She turned around, but her right eye kept staring at the snow on the corner tower, and in her blurred vision: as if she saw the foot of Qilian Mountain again, in the distance, the figure of a faint man, like a wind god, swept by, and then disappeared by itself......
"Hey, boy, what kind of? We're just accepting you temporarily, it's undecided, we have to say two things. Cao Wuming gave Yang Tingfeng this strange question, and couldn't help laughing: "In our eyes, 10,000 of you can't compare to ......." She was still speaking sharply and loudly, but at this time she suddenly closed her mouth.
Yang Tingfeng nodded and said, "I know that my ability is insufficient, and I have caused trouble to Cao Wuchang and your seniors." Thunder Wind hereby swears that in the future, he will obey the command, carry out the order and prohibit, and never drag the seniors back! ”
"Oh! The momentum is not bad. Cao Wuming's eldest sister also said with a sideways face: "At least you are not so unbearable for now." It's not like us old guys, who are silent and uninhibited. It's just that in time...... But it's hard to say. ”
"Whew! Are you still silent? Yang Tingfeng scolded secretly in his heart, but he smiled on his lips, "Yes, yes, yes, what Cao Wuchang taught me is that I remember it, boy." ”
"Alright, alright, Nameless!" Deputy Marshal Hu Yanhui is the best at finding the right time to gag, he walked up with a smile on his face, patted Yang Tingfeng on the shoulder, and said to everyone: "This kid, I'll give you a kiss." Remember, you'll have to bring it with you! After speaking, he raised a white eyebrow, shook it, and raised it.
Seeing this, Cao Wuming pretended not to understand, and asked loudly: "Old man Huyan, what do you mean to bring it to me?" Please explain to the old lady! ”
Hu Yanhui let out an "ah", and suddenly returned to being ignorant, pretending to be stupid: "Ah, little nameless, what are you talking about?" The old man didn't understand? ”
"No!" The one-eyed girl looked sideways at Yang Tingfeng and muttered, "You..... You can rest assured...... I...... We...... Try your best to ......"
Hu Yanhui looked at her with a smile.
Cao Wuming looked at her with a smile.
The eyes of the other seven 'Night Never Collected' soldiers also looked at her with admiration.
There is no doubt that these soldiers were carefully selected from the battalions of the Zisaibian Army.
Everyone has survived a lot of inhuman torture, everyone is strong, everyone is an elite.
And there is only one person that they all admire - the one-eyed girl in front of them.
Yang Tingfeng also secretly glanced at her: a beautiful cold, bright, cold, and glamorous. Although there is only one eye, on her long eyelashes, there is a sense of a distant dream, fluttering snow.
And, of course, the suffocating murderous aura!
From Hu Yanhui's mouth, Yang Tingfeng learned the name of the one-eyed girl - Jing Chuwei
Jing Ke's Jing, Chu of Chu State, and Rose's Wei are also the leaders of their 'Night Doesn't Collect' Kiss Team......
At this moment, I suddenly felt the ground shake.
Then, hearing the sound of hooves, everyone raised their eyes and watched from afar, only to see a man and a horse galloping towards the treasury.
In a moment, the people and horses were already approaching the treasury, and the black-haired, blue-eyed, deep-nosed and high-eyed man who was looking forward to the majesty of his god rode a fiery red horse and galloped wildly.
Yang Tingfeng raised his eyes and looked: Surprisingly, it was the female general of the Qiang Army who ambushed the Blue Wolf Army on the Zisai border line, and the female leader of the Yanshan Flying Cavalry.
But I saw that its people and horses swept like a swift wind, and the horseshoe prints like raindrops splashed countless snow chips flying!
Seeing the people getting closer and closer...... Several soldiers of the middle base battalion hurriedly ran to the deputy marshal Hu Yanhui, raised their spears, formed a gun formation, and one of the elders shouted: "Stop quickly, don't stop, kill on the spot!" ”
The woman raised her eyebrows and shouted in a deep voice in Qiang: "The slave family has an emergency military situation!" If you want to see Brother Shu, please get out of the way! ”
After listening to the woman's words, Yang Tingfeng seemed to be in ancient Qiang language. But after all, the language barrier, he didn't know what it meant for a while.
Before he could finish his thoughts, he heard the sound of horses' hooves on the road, and dozens of horsemen and horses roared towards him, and the knights were scattered in armor, all of them in Qiang costumes.
Cao Wuming looked at it clearly, and suddenly an arrow step, one step across, she bent her knees and took out the crossbow, and took the arrow with two fingers in the middle of the food to wind, the crossbow string sounded suddenly, and the sharp arrow shot out, directly attacking the fiery red horse.
Between her advance and retreat, she seems to be in line with the military law of the Zisaibian - the enemy situation is unknown, so she should shoot the horse first, and then shoot the man.
When the general saw this, she was also astonished, and her eyesight was excellent, and she hurriedly pulled the reins, and the red horse was frightened, and galloped to the right like a whirlwind, and narrowly avoided the arrows between retreating.
Seeing that the Qiang girl came to this hand, Cao Wuming couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration, she turned over, took the arrow again, and aimed the crossbow.
The female general also jumped off the fiery red horse, and suddenly picked up the five-foot-long Jiuxiao Dragon Yin big bow on her back, and stood with the bow, she used Qiang arrows, which were twice as thick as ordinary feather arrows, and the arrows were also wrapped with a layer of iron sheets, which were very heavy and extremely lethal!
There is a saying since ancient times.
Liangzhou Malaysia, rampant in the world!
The people are fierce and not afraid of death!
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an army, the Flying Bear Army, which single-handedly changed the pattern of the world.
And the Flying Bear Army, that is, the Western Liang Army, the Western Liang Army is from Liangzhou, also called the Liangzhou Army.
Liangzhou has not been a peaceful place since ancient times, the ethnic diversity here, Han, Hu and Qiang are mixed, mutual influence and mutual integration, disputes are continuous, and there are frictions from time to time.
The scorching heat and cold winter, and the violent living environment have created the custom of people to use knives and guns when they disagree, which is by no means as gentle as the gentle and rainy Jiangnan.
The northern nomads are good at shooting, don't you hear that the Western Liang army is even better at shooting!
That female general is not only the leader of the Qiang tribe, but she has grown up in the war-torn and turbulent environment of Liangzhou since she was a child, and she has already practiced a magic kung fu that despises the world!
Even compared with the old handsome brother Shu who is known as 'the arrow of the one', the female general may as well let it go.
With a "bang", the two of them plucked the bowstring almost at the same time, but Cao Wuming used it as a light crossbow and light arrow, how could he block the big bow and heavy arrow in Liangzhou?
Sure enough, as soon as there was a muffled sound of "poof" in the air, the arrows and shadows converged, and the light arrows were shattered in response? But the castration of the heavy arrow is still undiminished, and it still flies straight to Cao Wuming's chest.
Seeing that the arrow was coming, Cao Wuming suddenly threw away the light crossbow, pulled out the five-foot-three-inch-long sword behind him, took off the sheepskin wine bag from his waist, and drank the wine with a grunt.
Although she looked up to the sky and drank wine, she was full of flaws, but she was full of momentum and was not afraid at all; Yang Tingfeng could even see that the embroidery tattoo on Cao Wuming's body was faintly red light, like a blazing sun.
Suddenly, Cao Wuming took out the fire fold, put the knife across his chest, and spit it out in his mouth, and in an instant, sparks splashed everywhere, flames rose one after another, the air was scorched by the flames, and a wisp of residual fire quickly swept the blade of the sword......