Chapter 65: Fighting in the Black Alley
Zhang Mingzhi and the appearance of the people, the overall situation immediately showed one side, not to mention Lu Dachi, who had already made up his mind to fight against Cao You, just the thirty or forty people brought by Zhang Mingzhi were enough to make Cao You, who had a comparable number of people, fearful.
Those thirty or forty people, the outfit on the surface looks ordinary, but they are the privately raised armed organization of the Zhang Chamber of Commerce Branch in Fuxu Town, although they are not as good as the dead soldiers in the Zhang Mansion, but their combat effectiveness is also quite strong. Moreover, the equipment of this group of people is also extremely sophisticated, under the coat is a layer of soft armor with moderate weight and defense, each person is equipped with weapons and even the standard horizontal knives used in the army, there are no help but short crossbows that are forbidden by the people, and even several of them also carry horn bows on their shoulders, and the cowhide quiver on their backs is full of fine iron armor-piercing arrows.
Although the equipment on Cao You's side is not bad, the overall momentum is too different, and at the moment, the distance between the two sides is completely within the range of fire, and the slightest mistake will cause a life-and-death fight, but Zhang Mingzhi's side still has equipment that Cao You can't reach, a pig iron round shield wrapped in cowhide.
"Zhang Mingzhi! Even if you escape today, you won't end well in the future! Cao You glared at the scarlet eyes viciously, as if he wanted to swallow Zhang Mingzhi, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence from his mouth, coldly threatening the other party: "Cao Hai's death!" Our young owners will definitely remember! Sooner or later, I'll settle accounts with you! ”
"You're wrong!" Zhang Mingzhi smiled slightly, not taking the other party's threat as a pestle at all, and corrected the other party with disdain: "You young owner Cao Xiangming, not only will remember the death of Cao Hai's dog, but also remember you, as well as the death of those behind you!" I don't need him to come to me, I will remember it for him, not only you, but also him! ”
"What? Do you dare to do it here? When Cao You heard this, he chuckled violently in his heart, looking at Zhang Mingzhi's expression, Cao You didn't think that the other party was joking at all, but he couldn't help frowning and asking.
"Why don't you dare?" Zhang Mingzhi smiled indifferently, as if he was saying something completely insignificant, and then turned his head slightly, looked at Lu Dachi on the side, smiled slightly, and asked softly: "Lu Dachi, right?" I didn't expect the first meeting to be here, do you think, do I dare to do it here? ”
"This..." Hearing this, especially being stared at by Zhang Mingzhi's squinted eyes, although Lu Dachi had been in Fuxu Town for more than ten years, he knew that Zhang Mingzhi in front of him was not something he could provoke at all, but when he thought of the revenge of the Cao Chamber of Commerce, he couldn't help frowning fiercely, and was stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer.
"Are you worried about the Cao family?" A murderous intent flashed in Zhang Mingzhi's eyes, and his tone suddenly became much colder: "Just now, a few of us, their Cao clan's assassination was unsuccessful, right now, are you still worried about the Cao clan?" ”
"No, no, Second Master Zhang misunderstood!" Although he couldn't see Zhang Mingzhi's flashing murderous intent, Lu Dachi clearly felt the murderous aura surging towards him at this moment, and hurriedly shook his head, but he also agreed with Zhang Mingzhi's words just now, and immediately turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth, and asked in a low voice: "Dare to ask Second Master Zhang, this incident happened here, with me Lu Dachi. ”
"Don't worry, nothing happened tonight!" The corners of Zhang Mingzhi's mouth immediately hooked up a satisfied smile, and he also made a promise to the other party in a low voice, and then turned around abruptly and said in a deep voice: "No one will be left!" ”
As soon as he gave the order, the people beside Zhang Mingzhi immediately stepped forward, drew their bows and arrows, and the flat-ended short crossbows, and several guys with round shields squeezed forward to make a defensive posture, Zhang Wu was protected by Zhang Mingzhi's side with a shield in one hand, followed by Aguda who learned the same move and stood over.
"Brother Wu! Second brother! Zhang Mingzhi threw a special look at Ding Li while turning around, Ding Li, who reacted very quickly, immediately understood, and Zhang Yurou, who was next to him with both hands, threw it to the two of them, reminded them loudly, and then rushed to the blue brick wall next to him with the slaughtering knife in his hand, and in just a few steps, Ding Li jumped up with one hand, clasped the wall with one hand, and exerted his arm strength, and his whole body was as strong as a monkey in the jungle, and he squatted on the wall easily.
"Boom, boom!"
The sound of crossbow strings was already heard in the alley, and even several horned bows were already full, and the armor-piercing arrows glowing with blue light pointed straight at the bright moon in the night sky, as if they wanted to shoot them down.
There was almost no way to avoid it in the narrow alley, and four of Cao You's men immediately fell to the ground, in this fixed space, there was no need to aim at all, and at short distances, as long as the luck was a little bad, they would become the first victims.
There were also three people with crossbow arrows in their bodies, but they did not hurt their lives, but they also staggered to the sides, as if in their consciousness, only by leaning against the wall could they fight for a glimmer of life, but one of them's body was suddenly pulled back by a strong force, followed by Cao You's roar sounded in his ears: "Counterattack!" Counterattack! Fight! Fight with them! ”
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Between the shouts, the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air sounded again, as if splitting the entire alley into several sections, and one of them went straight to Cao You. It's just that it was not Cao You himself who faced the crossbow arrows, but the subordinates he was holding in his hands, his face was full of horror, waving his arms and trying his best to struggle, but he was injured and could not escape Cao You's confinement.
"Poof!"
Cao You's ears clearly heard the sound of crossbow arrows tearing through the armor of his subordinates, cutting through the flesh, and even the crisp cracking sound of breaking bones, and then there was a sinking in his hand, and the subordinates of the shield had already lost their breath, but the ruthless and cold-blooded Cao You refused to let go of the other party, and directly grabbed the opponent's neck and lifted it in front of him to continue to be a shield.
In the second round of shooting, Cao You's subordinates fell five people again, but the counterattack here was also ready, and without waiting for Cao You's order, he pulled the trigger anxiously, and a series of crossbow arrows shot out one after another.
In addition to the sound of the rebound of the crossbow strings and the roar of the crossbow arrows breaking through the air, in the face of the few people holding round shields for defense, the crossbow arrows shot also brought out an intermittent jingle and crisp sound, and then fell to the ground weakly.
Although there was no unified command, the messy attack on Cao You's side also made it impossible for Zhang Mingzhi's side to effectively defend, and in less than ten seconds of shooting, Zhang Mingzhi's side also fell six or seven people one after another, but relatively speaking, the overall loss was much smaller than that of the other party, because the attack on this side was only half launched.
"Shoot!"
Taking advantage of the time when Cao You's side was changing the loading of crossbow arrows, Zhang Mingzhi's cold voice sounded again, and the two rows of subordinates who had already prepared quickly stepped forward, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row, it seemed that everyone was silently counting down in their hearts, and they even pulled the trigger at the same time.
The number of crossbow arrows is only more than a dozen, but it seems to have the momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas, and it is suddenly pressed against the Cao people on the opposite side, and in the blink of an eye, several people on the other side fell to the ground again, and this round of fierce offensive completely disrupted the counterattack that the other party was preparing.
"Armor-piercing arrow!"
Zhang Mingzhi snorted coldly again, there were only seven people at the back of the team who had drawn the horn bow, but what was shocking was that the bowstrings of the seven people were all tied to three armor-piercing arrows, and they were even closer to each other.
Focusing on the crossbow bolts in front of them, they suddenly saw a series of cold lights rising from the ground and rushing into the night sky, and suddenly everyone realized the danger, and in the blink of an eye, this danger had quickly descended on their heads.
"Ahh
Suddenly, the advent of twenty-one armor-piercing arrows completely defeated the stubborn resistance of the Cao family, and a group of people could no longer care about the short crossbow in their hands, only knowing to turn around and flee, even so, the armor-piercing arrows still showed no mercy, and at the same time fell into the crowd, they did not hesitate to take away their lives one by one.
At this point, more than half of Cao You's men have been killed or wounded, and the rest of the people can't reorganize an effective counterattack in a short time, and it is even very difficult to reorganize resistance, but at this time, Zhang Mingzhi dodged to avoid the protection of Zhang Wu and Aguda beside him, grabbed the long lance prepared by his subordinates next to him with one hand, and rushed out quickly, shouting in a deep voice: "Up!" ”
This order didn't seem to be shouted to everyone, because on the wall on the side, Ding Li, who seemed to have been ignored and forgotten by everyone, suddenly stood up, jumped down without thinking, and rushed straight towards Cao You.
"Huh?!" Ding Li's sudden appearance really startled Cao You, especially looking at the bloody butcher knife raised in Ding Li's hand, Cao You seemed to feel that there were still traces of his good brother Cao Hai's blood on it, and the wound left by Ding Li under his ribs in the morning was also a sharp pain, and he exclaimed, and pushed the shield in his hand to Ding Li without hesitation.
"Poof!"
With a swing of the knife, the sharp butcher knife slashed obliquely at the lifeless corpse, slashing through the shoulder, and under the huge force, it directly cut off half of its upper body. And Ding Li glanced at it, and found that Cao You, who was behind the corpse, also waved his war knife and wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack, but Ding Li kicked the shield in front of him and smashed it heavily on Cao You.
The plan failed to succeed but was rebounded, and the corpse that was cut off by Ding Li sprayed a burst of blood on Cao You's body, which made Cao You frown again and again, and his vision was temporarily blocked, so he had to wave the war knife in his hand a few times, and at the same time dodge back to prevent Ding Li from taking the opportunity to counterattack.
Ding Li, who had the opportunity, was willing to let it go, ignoring Cao You's several counterattacks, and jumped to the side, swinging the slaughtering knife in his hand a few times, after cutting over the two and forcing one back, he swung a knife from the side, and immediately turned Cao You sideways, and at the same time suddenly bullied forward, twisted his waist, and smashed his backarm elbow on Cao You's side face, and staggered back a few steps when he smashed the opponent.
The unforgiving Ding Li did not stop at all, although there were all Cao people around him, but few people dared to take the initiative to step forward to stop them, those guys who blocked Ding Li's way were also cut down by Ding Li in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, Cao You, who was injured and fell against the corner, was completely exposed to the butcher knife raised by Ding Li.
"Ali! Wait! Seeing that Ding Li was about to stab Cao You, Zhang Mingzhi behind him suddenly shouted, and the long lance in his hand stabbed out at the same time, giving the person in front of him a heart-chill, and after kicking the other party away, Zhang Mingzhi strode forward, looking coldly at Cao You, who was embarrassed on the ground, and the murderous intent in his eyes suddenly appeared, but he snorted coldly: "Waste one!" What's the harm in sparing your life? Get out of Fuxu and tell Cao Xiangming, second master, I will take other people's heads sooner or later! ”
As he spoke, Zhang Mingzhi took a step back violently, and the long lance in his hand flew up and down, even Ding Li on the side only felt that there was a flower in front of him, and as the bright lance flickered, countless blood flowers splashed up, accompanied by a few Cao You's miserable howls, and the long lance in Zhang Mingzhi's hand came to an abrupt end.
Looking at Cao You, who collapsed in the corner of the wall, was already dying, his limbs were limpable, and his wrists were bleeding nonstop, without thinking too much, Ding Li also knew that Zhang Mingzhi had just broken all the tendons and veins of the other party's limbs, and even if Cao You saved his life now, he would completely become what Zhang Mingzhi said just now, a waste person.