Volume 2: The Gentleman's Sword Tries His Skills, and the Three Puritans Begin to Reveal Mystery Volume 2, Chapter 1: Ten Thousand Arrows
Jiang Xiaoshu, Li Mujiang, and the two rode on the horses they had taken from them, and they were galloping together in the direction of Chang'an City.
At this time, the group of wild wolves who were caught off guard had already rushed up, and the sound of horses' hooves behind him was gradually approaching, Jiang Xiaoshu said helplessly:
"Miss Li, what kind of hatred do these people have with you? As for such a desperate pursuit of us? Or do they also take a fancy to your beauty and want to tie you up to their wolves to herd sheep? ”
Li Mujiang heard Jiang Xiaoshu ask about her grievances with the group of wild wolves, but she didn't answer. It's just that the sword eyebrows frowned, as if thoughtful, she turned her head slightly, and looked at the northwest direction behind her in a daze, looking in this direction, her expression changed drastically, and she seemed to remember a lot of past events.
Sensing her gaffe, Li Mujiang's thoughts were interrupted, she quickly turned her head, wiped her face without a trace, then closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened her eyes again, her eyes were already firmly looking ahead.
Jiang Xiaoshu saw that Li Mujiang didn't answer him, and he didn't ask anymore, but when he saw Li Mujiang looking at the northwest in a daze, he said in his heart:
Why is she looking northwest? Well, this is Yongzhou, and the northwest is Liangzhou, and the group of wild wolves who entered Qin from the Yumen Pass in Liangzhou naturally bumped into her in Liangzhou. In that case, there is a good chance that she is from Liangzhou, hmm...... The old lady Yu of the Northwest Zhenliang Palace has a bad temper to death, and she has never liked me, so she asked her for fear of being scolded for being bloody, hey, it's a pity, it's a pity that she is in the same Qinlin Four Gates, why didn't I make a few friends in the Zhenliang Palace? If he makes friends in Zhenliang Palace one day, he will definitely have to ask him for advice......"
Suddenly, "Whew! A sound of breaking the sky came from behind Jiang Xiaoshu, interrupting his whimsical and cranky thoughts, Jiang Xiaoshu turned around and slashed the feather arrow, but the words in the book he had read appeared in his heart:
"Northwest and outside, there are Hu people, short clothes and Hu clothes, and there is no match for riding and shooting."
After he cut off the feather arrow, he turned his head and scolded:
"Damn, what kind of thing is this? Grievances in the rivers and lakes, why are you still playing the game of marching and fighting? The bow and arrow are all used, look at your virtue, do you have to take a crossbow out and shoot Lao Tzu later? ”
Li Mujiang, who was riding a horse, suddenly spoke:
"They have already outflanked us, and we should have five horsemen on the left and right flanks, and the remaining ten horsemen are in the rear to shoot arrows and drive away, forcing us to turn and dodge, and once we do so, we will be surrounded in less than a cup of tea. And ......"
Li Mujiang paused for a moment before he said in a low voice:
"You're right, they do have crossbow arrows."
After listening to Jiang Xiaoshu, he couldn't help frowning, when he first started against the first three people, he felt that this group of people seemed to be faintly cooperative against the enemy, and listening to Li Mujiang's story, he had been exposed to it since he was a child, and he naturally immediately noticed that something was wrong - this group of people were orderly in the pursuit, each performing its own duties, obviously after long-term systematic training, as Li Mujiang said well, they have crossbows that are strictly controlled by both Daqin and wild wolves, where is this an ordinary cut-off bandit, It is clearly a team of elite soldiers from the army.
And what is Li Mujiang's identity? Or what did she do? Actually attracted these people to make a move?
The sound of "Xiuxiu" feather arrows continued to come from behind him, and while Jiang Xiaoshu cut off the feather arrows, he also found that it was indeed as Li Mujiang said, the other party's arrows were all shot at his left side, which was clearly forcing himself to the right.
But even if they knew the other party's plan, Jiang Xiaoshu and Li Mujiang were still involuntarily, the other party's feather arrows were coming very quickly, and they were not all towards people, and occasionally they would shoot coldly at the horse's legs and buttocks, Jiang Xiaoshu had no time to resist, and Li Mujiang could only drive the horse to dodge.
At this time, they had already ridden out of the sea of peony flowers and came to the Fatong forest, and Li Mujiang also saw a sack full of dirt and stones that had been thrown into the ground in a blink of an eye, and the back of an ownerless horse that had fled in fright.
Where do the horses come from in the wilderness? The doubts in Li Mujiang's heart were fleeting - there were still enemies in the rear, so did he have time to think about anything else at this moment?
The enemy in the rear seemed to want to seize this opportunity, so the arrows were no longer as sparse as before, but they used a series of arrows, and the feather arrows were shot like locusts, forcing Jiang Xiaoshu and Li Mujiang to drive their horses into the dense forest next to the official road, and into the dense forest, even if Li Mujiang kept waving a soft whip to urge the horses under his crotch, but the thorns were dense and there was no way to follow, and the speed was still slowed down a lot.
After a while, Jiang Xiaoshu heard the sound of horses' hooves on the official road in front of him, and approached his side, and sure enough, he was outflanking him, and he had already surrounded him. There was also the sound of horses' hooves approaching on the right, and it seemed that the encirclement was about to be formed, but the enemies on the left and right did not attack, and the enemy feathered arrows directly behind also stopped.
When the fierce attack came to an abrupt end, perhaps the attacker could not attack for a long time and chose to retreat.
It is also possible that it is to do the final thunder blow after resting!
Finally, the enemies on three sides were extremely close to him, and the nearest one was no more than ten zhang, even in such a late night, Jiang Xiaoshu could clearly see the man's face, as well as the cold light reflected from the cavalry crossbow in his hand.
It is rumored that the former wolf king Tuoba Zhi's personal guard cavalry iron wolf cavalry, they are the most elite cavalry in the world, when the iron wolf cavalry showed the most mysterious battle formation of the wild wolf "blue wolf hunting", fifteen people took care of each other, and no one in the world could break this formation alone. It is true that the cavalry chasing and killing the two of them at this time is naturally not the same as the iron wolf horseman, but how can Li Mujiang and Jiang Xiaoshu be comparable to the "four murders and four saints" who are the first in the world of martial arts? In the face of the army, there is a limit to the strength of an individual.
The night is dark and the wind is high to kill the night, tonight, someone will die!
Li Mujiang turned his head and saw that the sharp arrows of the feather arrows were already glowing with cold light in the night, but for some reason, Jiang Xiaoshu slowly returned the Langshu sword to the sheath, could it be that he had predicted the ending and had already given up resisting?
After Jiang Xiaoshu put away the sword, he suddenly opened his mouth to the sky and scolded loudly:
"Zhang Qianjun, if you continue to pretend to be dead, my mother will tell the fifth senior sister about the two of us visiting the Qinglou together last month! Think it out for yourself! ”
Then, Jiang Xiaoshu hugged Li Mujiang's slender waist and shouted in a deep voice, "Jump!" Then they flipped off their horses.
As if agreed, the sound of "click" sounded from all directions almost simultaneously, and the characteristic firing sound of the crossbow machine was very harsh in the silence of the night.
Li Mujiang naturally heard this voice, but she knew that surrounded by more than 20 people, even if they just held their bows and shot arrows, they and Jiang Xiaoshu might not be able to block them all, let alone the crossbow arrows that were far better than the bow and arrow, this round of salvo was really exquisite, most of them were shot at the two of them, some of them were shot at the horse's belly, and some of them were shot underground, sealing all the movable space of the two of them, not to mention, the upside-down bastard Jiang Xiaoshu, in such a situation, was still thinking about what to visit the Qinglou, After shouting inexplicably, he took himself and fell off the horse, at this time the person was still in the air, and there was no way to dodge.
At this time, it was already in danger, and Li Mujiang happened to look up through a gap in the trees and looked at the northwest sky again.
Nearly eight months, Ah Yong and Xiaolin died in Baisha City, Lao Rong died in Tianchi City, and when they arrived in Dianhe City, Chen was also cut off his arm and fell into the barren valley, life and death are unknown, and then Tianhu, Baiyuzhou, Jinguancheng, Dunhuang, Fengxiang...... Along the way, people kept dying, and their deaths were just to keep me alive, but unfortunately, in this place less than 100 miles away from Chang'an, I couldn't escape......
The two fell to the ground, and Li Mujiang's afterglow saw that the crossbow arrow at the front was no more than five feet away from the back of Jiang Xiaoshu's neck beside him, but Jiang Xiaoshu was still laughing at the moment. However, it is no longer the usual profligate smile that doesn't care about anything.
It's a smile of faith that can't be beaten.
The next moment he was going to die in Huangquan, he could still laugh?
Li Mujiang closed his eyes and waited for death to come, and the last scene before closing his eyes was an arrow glowing with cold light in the night, and a pair of fox eyes, which also flashed with light.