Chapter 225: Vulnerable

Unfortunately, in this world there are no ifs, only results and consequences. Although Gao Xin's statement was very reasonable, as long as the jade-faced dragon could order the black-faced army to rush towards the grass house at full speed as soon as the black-faced army rushed into their crowd, they might be able to throw off the black-faced army and reach the grass house smoothly.

But now they can only face the complete extermination of the black-faced army.

"Before, the idiot who came out of the cave Jiao chose to take a detour to sneak attack Mu Qingyun for safety, but he didn't die, and he happened to walk into the woods where those archers were ambushed, I originally thought that this jade-faced dragon was one of the few guys among the bandits who relied on his brain to eat, but he didn't get much better!" Gao Xin, who was standing in the middle of the willow leaf boat, shook his head in distress.

"After all, these guys are all water bandits, and they seem to have a lot of people and some fame in the green forest, but after all, they are all bandits who can't be on the stage." Seeing Gao Xin sighing, Xiao Geng immediately spoke out and said with relief.

"Yes, my lord, after all, these guys can't be compared to the regular army, and besides, don't we expect them to really kill Mu Qingyun! Actually, we shouldn't have looked for these idiots in the first place······" Feng Du also said.

It's just that as soon as he said this, Gao Xin's face became difficult to look at again, and Xiao Geng's face on the side showed a smile that could not be concealed.

Feng Du, who realized that he had said the wrong thing, immediately closed his mouth and smiled awkwardly at Gao Xin. Gao Xintie blushed and looked at Feng Du for a while before turning his gaze to the front.

In fact, he somewhat regretted asking these bandits to help, but he couldn't show remorse at this point.

Otherwise, Feng Du and Xiao Geng will feel that they are very incompetent as adults, and it will be difficult to make them obedient and obedient in the future.

Maintaining one's majesty at all times is the way of the superiors. While the three of them were still discussing what kind of attack plan should be the best one for the bandits, the jade-faced dragon was already in a bitter battle.

In fact, it was a bitter battle for them water bandits, but for the black-faced army, it was simply a one-sided massacre.

Since the black-faced army was fully armored and still wearing that kind of heavy armor, the weapons of the bandits were basically useless against their bodies.

However, the long sword in the hand of the black-faced army slashed at the water bandits, and the bones were basically broken. Even if they had the hat in their hands, the long sword and bamboo hat of the black-faced army could not withstand the chopping at all.

Basically, the black-faced army only needs two or three swords to cut the water bandit in half along with the hat. But this is not the most desperate thing for the bandits, what really scares the bandits is the madness and ferocity of these black-faced soldiers when they fight.

Since the black-faced soldiers are basically death row prisoners and felons, their attitude towards murder is completely different from that of ordinary people.

It can be said that most of them are crazy or perverted. Therefore, they naturally have a kind of madness and perverted ferocity on the battlefield.

If the other party is a veteran of the battlefield or an elite soldier in each army, he may not be affected by them, but as water bandits, after seeing the madness of the black-faced army, the only courage left in their hearts has completely dissipated.

Just like just now, Wang Wu saw with his own eyes that a black-faced soldier directly stabbed the long sword in his hand into his stomach after cutting down a water bandit, and then pulled the long sword horizontally, directly breaking the water bandit's stomach completely.

All of a sudden, the bandit's internal organs were sprinkled on the ground, and blood splattered everywhere like a fountain. If this wasn't too brutal, another black-faced soldier had just ripped out the opponent's heart in front of a bandit, and then directly pinched it with his hands.

Even Wang Wu had just seen a black-faced soldier cut off all the limbs of a water bandit who had accidentally tripped and fell, and then he didn't care about him anymore and let him howl desperately until he died of exhaustion.

One by one, they are ruthlessly destroying the confidence and courage of these bandits. Finally, when the black-faced army was released to more than 30 people, the bandits were completely frightened.

"They're all evil ghosts, run away!" After the screams of one of the bandits, the crowd of bandits began to run wildly towards the path from which they came.

His run was like an avalanche, and all the remaining bandits dropped their weapons and ran for their lives.

For a while, the battlefield, which was still chaotic, became extremely deserted in an instant. Only a few backbone of the water bandits, mainly the jade-faced dragon, were left in the same place, still struggling to resist the attack of the black-faced army.

When most of the bandits had fled, the jade-faced dragon found that there were only six or seven people left on his side.

The jade-faced dragon who reacted was about to flee as quickly as the other bandits, but found that at this time, he and the remaining henchmen had been surrounded by the black-faced army.

Looking at the smaller and smaller encirclement and the banter on the faces of those black-faced soldiers, the jade-faced dragon's heart was getting colder and colder at the moment as if it had been put into an ice cellar.

Seeing that it was impossible to do anything and there was no way to break through, the jade-faced dragon decisively dropped the weapon in his hand, and then squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, completely giving up resistance.

"Everyone lay down their arms and give up resistance!" Then he finally shouted out this sentence in humiliation.

This is simply a great shame for the jade-faced dragon who has always been above the top. But the man had to bow his head under the eaves, and now he didn't know if he would kill them if he surrendered to the black-faced army, but he knew that if these people didn't lay down their weapons now, he and a few henchmen would end up being mercilessly slaughtered.

He had heard rumors of the Black-Faced Army before, but at that time he just thought that the Black-Faced Army was not much different from his own bandits.

After all, if they are caught, most of them will be killed on death row or felons.

And these black-faced soldiers are just trained from death row prisoners or felons selected from all over the world.

Thinking that he is the leader of the Jade Dragon Gang, the boss of hundreds of water bandits will definitely be the best in the black-faced army if he joins the black-faced army, and may even become the top master in the black-faced army.

But today's battle made him clearly realize how ridiculous his original idea was, and how ignorant and arrogant he was.

In fact, what the Jade Mask Dragon didn't know was that although these Black Mask Army were death row prisoners and felons selected from all over the world, they did not become a member of the Black Mask Army as soon as they entered the Black Mask Army.

It is precisely because the soldiers of the Black Mask Army are all death row and felons that the strict criteria in the selection process are almost perverted.

And in the selection process, a considerable number of death row inmates and felons will die because of the excessively harsh selection.

And in this regard, whether it is the soldiers of the black-faced army themselves, the high-level officials of Huainan State, and even ordinary people, they are happy to see it.

Because in the eyes of the formal black-faced soldiers, only those who are good enough are worthy of being their comrades-in-arms, and only those who have gone through hellish cruel selection are worthy of entrusting their lives to each other.

In the eyes of the high-level of Huainan State, the death of a group of unqualified death row prisoners and felons can not only reduce their own burden, but also use this to gag the mouth of the imperial court.

After all, if the imperial court directly executed all these death row prisoners and felons, it was inevitable that some people would think that it would hurt the heavens and even some people would use this to attack the imperial court for being unkind.

And for the common people, whether Huainan trained these death row prisoners and felons into black-faced soldiers, or let them die directly in the selection, it was a good thing.

Because if they become the Mask-Bearers, then they will defend the Great Yu for the rest of their lives, and defend the people, which is a kind of redemption for the sins they have committed before.

If these death row inmates and felons die because of selection, they also deserve it.

"We surrendered! Please also be merciful, I have important information to tell the prince of Huainan. At this time, the jade-faced dragon had already scolded the three people on the willow leaf boat in his heart.

At the same time, he also secretly hated himself in his heart, why did he faint at that time, and promised them to come to this grass house to attack Mu Qingyun.

Compared to the other bandits, they didn't know that the target of their attack this time was Mu Qingyun, and the jade-faced dragon knew from the beginning that their target was Mu Qingyun.

As for why he happily agreed after knowing that the target was Mu Qingyun, it was all because the conditions that the other party agreed to were really difficult for him to refuse.

One of the most critical is that the imperial court has planned to completely clean up the water bandits on the Huaishui and its tributaries, and intends to use the power of the rivers and lakes to unify the entire water bandits and use them to fight against the Cao Gang.

Speaking of which, I have to introduce the Cao Gang. In fact, it is not accurate to say that the Cao Gang is a gang, and the Cao Gang is actually a relatively loose organization formed by three forces.

These three forces were the ship's bureau that organized the transport, the sailors who were hired by the ship's company to handle the ships, and the coolies who were in charge of loading and unloading the goods on the docks.

These three forces seem to be opposites, but under the long-term running-in, the three forces have gradually formed conventional rules.

Under the constraints of these rules, the tripartite forces began to slowly form a relatively unified organization, which was the prototype of the Cao Gang.

Later, due to the development of the Cao Yun of the Dayu Dynasty, the three forces changed the original organization to the Cao Gang in order to control their interests.

Because the members of this organization are very extensive, the Cao Gang is quickly favored by various magnates.

Among them, there are vassal kings of various places. And the reason why they are so interested in the Cao Gang is not because they covet the money earned by the Cao Gang, but because of the transportation capacity of the Cao Gang.

In the eyes of these people, through the Cao Gang, they can quietly transport in or out of what they want.

These things can be food, property, weapons and equipment, and even military spies. Whatever they wanted to transport, they could do it through the Cao Gang.

But as the old saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world. Although the Cao Gang is huge, and there are many feudal towns and feudal states behind it, it is precisely because the personnel within the Cao Gang are too complex that some people with ulterior motives will inevitably be mixed in.

Among them are the spies of the Southern Prosecutor's Office, and many of these capable people have already mixed into the middle and high-level of the Cao Gang.

After they learned some of the secrets of the Cao Gang, they reported all these secrets. Therefore, whether it is Nansi, the imperial court, or the emperor himself, they all know this.

But because the Cao Gang is too involved behind it, the court and the emperor know that if they do something to the Cao Gang, it is easy to affect the whole body.

A bad situation can easily lead to an irreparable situation. So after careful study, Nanji turned his attention to these bandits.

They planned to unify the water bandits of the whole Huaishui and its branches, and then send people under the unified command of the Nansi to completely suppress the Cao Gang, so as to cut off some people's ambition to wait.

This time, Gao Xin is the pavilion manager of the Prosecutor's Office, and he is one of the pavilion managers responsible for collecting the water bandits. And he chose to coerce some of these bandits by force, and the other part chose to lure them by profit.

Although the conditions they gave to the Jade Mask Dragon this time were quite good, compared to their own lives, the Jade Mask Dragon still decisively chose to save his life.

But when he said this, the black-faced soldiers did not stop, they still held their long swords and looked at the jade-faced dragon and his henchmen with evil smiles.

Among them, the two black-faced soldiers closest to them were even more sinister, laughing and raising their long swords to slash at the two henchmen of the jade-faced dragon.

"No!" Seeing that his henchmen were about to be killed, the jade-faced dragon couldn't help but shout loudly. Just as the long swords of the two black-faced soldiers were about to land on the necks of the two bandits, suddenly two sounds came from the air

"Whoosh" sound. In the next second, the long swords in the hands of the two black-faced soldiers suddenly came out of their hands, and the long swords flew out against the hair buns of the two water bandits.

The sharp sword even directly cut off the heads of the two bandits. And the two water bandits had already fainted directly because of excessive panic at this time.

The jade-faced dragon's originally hanging heart finally let go at this moment, but when he turned his head to look, he found that the hands of the two black-faced soldiers were stuck in the hands of two trembling feather arrows.

The other black-faced soldiers also stopped moving forward because of these two feathered arrows, and their eyes all converged on the direction where the two feathered arrows were fired.

When they saw Ye Qiutong slowly put down the longbow in his hand and his originally cloudy gaze became aggressive, they all restrained their momentum and put on a deferential attitude.

The two black-faced soldiers who were shot by feathered arrows originally wanted to scold loudly, but when they found that they were also slowly walking towards him, the anger that was originally full of anger was completely dissipated like a basin of cold water.

At the same time, they immediately knelt down on one knee in the direction of Ye Qiutong, and then lowered their heads to their chests.

"I've seen Sect Head Ye later!" The two black-faced soldiers were extremely deferential at this time, and he trembled slightly at this time.

"Do you know why I gave one of you an arrow?" Although Ye Qiutong's back was a little rickety, his tone was extremely imposing.

"I'll know it's wrong!" The two said in unison.

"Oh! Let's talk about it! Ye Qiutong stood in front of the two of them and asked condescendingly.

"We didn't control our emotions well, and tried to kill the prisoners when the other side surrendered!" Both of them were trembling a little at this time.

"It seems that you haven't forgotten the military discipline of the Black-Faced Army, in that case, each of you will go back and receive thirty military sticks!" When the two of them heard Ye Qiutong's words, they immediately beat their chests with their left hands and said.

"Xie Ye Sect Leader Punishment." The hearts of the two of them that were originally hanging were finally let go, and they both felt that they were lucky to be able to escape death in Ye Qiutong's hands today.