Chapter 15: Time
"Don't panic." Xin finally spoke again: "Remember, what we have to keep is our food for the winter!" ”
Grain!
Every Xinyi person is nervous, that's a terrible thing!
Without food, without the help of the Rong people, they themselves starved to death in the cold winter.
Waiting for the royal family to send food to the rescue? It would be nice not to increase the tribute.
The team of the Rong people set off.
It was only after a short walk that they noticed that the mountain road was full of mud puddles.
There was no rain yesterday, and the muddy water was obviously caused by the people of Xinyi overnight.
The muddy road slowed down the march of the Rong troops by a few points, and they all slowly moved forward with Changge on the ground.
The speed of travel is twice as slow as before.
The army of Irozhirong finally came to the center of the mountain road.
Xin You and Mu Luotian can already see each other.
"That person, is Dr. Xinyi?" Mu Luotian asked.
Mu Xingri nodded: "Yes, it was he who killed our brother stationed in the beacon tower together with that Kong Yan. ”
"Very good...... I will take his head and sacrifice his dead brother. ”
Mu Luotian raised the short knife in his hand: "Rush for me!" ”
"Woo!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
"Aoki God! Aoki God! ”
The Rong people shouted loudly, boosting each other's morale, and then rushed towards Xinyi.
Xin was also looking at the Rong people in the middle of the mountain, especially the man who led the way.
The man was majestic and majestic, completely different from his younger brother Mu Xingri.
The hair was chopped straight back and tied up haphazardly.
He wears a spiral-shaped gold wire earring on the left and right ears, which is very conspicuous.
He also seems to have something like a jade pendant hanging around his waist, which can show his identity.
Judging from the clothing, the gap between Yiluo Zhirong and the Zhou people is not large, they are both deep clothes, but the sleeves are relatively narrow.
"When the ancestor Xin had Yichuan, he saw that the people who were sacrificed in the wild hair were this group of Yiluo Rong, so he said, 'Less than a hundred years, this is it! His rites died first. 'The blades in the hands of this group of Rong people are very similar to the customs and etiquette of the Central Plains countries, but they are already very different......"
This is actually a kind of civilization degraded race.
Xin said casually.
Xin Duan next to him replied: "The gentleman is really knowledgeable, if our Xin clan doesn't take it as a warning, maybe we will also return to Rongren." ”
Xin glanced at Xin Duan again, the old man seemed to be persuading himself, but there seemed to be another meaning in his words.
Back then, the Xin family was demoted to Xinyi, and it was Xin Youzu who made a big mistake.
Although the branch is a small sect, it has also been implicated.
It seems that this old man has never forgotten this hatred, and always reminds Xin You that it was the mistake of that team that affected the Xin family to such a point.
"One day, I will lead the Xin clan back to the temple."
Xin said lightly.
The Rong people shouted and rushed up the hillside.
But in Xin You's sneer, Mu Luotian fell halfway through.
"What is this ......?"
Mu Luotian stood up and looked at the hay under his feet, and his sticky hands.
"Oil ......"
Mu Luotian wiped the sludge mixture on his hands: "It's all a child's trick." ”
The dry grass in autumn is already very silky, and with the oil on it, it is difficult for ordinary people to walk at all.
Even if he is on a long rope, he can only move forward at a turtle speed, and if he goes up like this, he is a live target.
Mu Luotian is not that stupid.
He sent his men to spear the oil-stained hay with tools, exposing the ground, and then the army continued to walk upward.
And so, and so on, the speed was a little slower.
"Ready."
Xin saw a group of Rong troops approaching again, and raised his right hand.
When the Rong army was still three hundred paces away from the intersection, Xin waved his hand violently.
Bows and arrows fell from the sky, like meteors, and landed in front of the Rong people.
"It's fire!"
The Rong people were shocked.
The arrows did not hit them, but were made into rockets and landed on the ground.
In addition to the dry grass soaked in grease, there was also a lot of flammable dry firewood, and suddenly the road less than two hundred paces was all ablaze and turned into a fire road.
"Xinyi people! Do you think that's going to stop me?! Mu Luotian shouted: "Just a flame, how long can you stop me?" Your wolf smoke at dusk yesterday, reinforcements will arrive as soon as this afternoon, do you think we won't be able to break through your city for such a long time? ”
The only thing that answered him was the sound of dry wood burning.
The dry firewood on the road surface is not very thick, so the flame is not very large.
The Rong people cut down some branches to put out the fires.
At this moment, another wave of arrows struck.
This time, it was aimed at the bodies of the Rong people.
Ahh
A scream echoed in the air.
"Haha, what a gentleman! Those Rong people were killed by us before they even fired an arrow! ”
Yin Rong said excitedly.
Xin shook his head again: "It's still early." ”
These bows and arrows only wounded some of the front rows of the Rong troops, and did not inflict devastating damage on them at all.
"Sima, you take the Yin clan to patrol the cliffs to prevent the Yourong people from jumping out of the woods."
The woods on both sides of the road are steep, but you can walk on them.
Xin calculated the time again, and it stands to reason that Puyi's army should have arrived at this time.
But there was still no movement at the foot of the mountain.
Didn't Puyi send troops? Or is that driftwood not enough to convince the people of Puyi?
Xin You's palms also pinched a handful of sweat.
If possible, Xin didn't want Geng Rong to be short-handed.
Behind the fire, Mu Luotian paused his march.
Although those flames were easy to extinguish, moving forward while extinguishing the fire was tantamount to becoming a live target for Xinyi.
Rushing up like that didn't make any sense to Mu Luotian.
Mu Luotian was also calculating the time.
He believes that the time when Xin asked for help again began at dusk yesterday.
Therefore, Mu Luotian thinks that the arrival time of Puyi's army will be dusk today at the earliest.
Then he still has a whole day to besiege Xinyi.
A fire couldn't delay him for long.
"Shall we march from the mountains and forests?"
Fox Moroku asked.
Mu Luotian looked at the surrounding woods, although the road there was difficult to walk, but once he went up, he could bypass the beacon tower in Xinyi.
It's just that in this way, the time to move forward will be shortened again.
“…… Wait for the fire to go out, it won't burn for long. ”
Mu Luotian finally made a decision.
At this moment, a light rain began to fall from the sky.
"Rain?"
"Rain?!"
The Rong people and the people of Xinyi raised their heads at the same time and looked at the sky.
Cursing and praise rang out at the same time.
The light rain quickly turned into a heavy rain, and the flames, which were not too big or small, were extinguished.
"Haha...... Haotian help me!! ”
The copper knife in Mu Luotian's hand waved, and he was the first to rush up the hillside.
"Reinforcements...... It's not there yet......"
At this time, it was already mid-morning, and there was still no shadow of Puyi's army.
Xin had to say to Fan Mi again: "Prepare, we are going to fight the Rong people." Be sure to hold out until reinforcements arrive! ”