Volume 2 The Flame of Chang'an Chapter 74: The Source of the Plague (4)
"Whoa!"
A group of poisonous people were crushed into meatloaf by ink boats.
Yan Yunting was wrapped in thick robes, and three crossbowmen were prostrate on the bow of the ship, quietly hunting and killing the poisonous people scattered on the sand sea.
As the desert deepened and got closer to the Tari Basin, the number of poisoners increased, and even if the ink ship was well concealed, the roar of the gears still attracted the attention of the poisoners.
But luckily, there were no birds to be seen tonight.
Yan Yunting opened the sheepskin map, checked the route against Sinan and Polaris, and with the current sailing speed, he could reach Loulan Country in less than half an hour at most.
The poisoners are multipliing, and they are following behind the ink boat, gradually converging into a horde of corpses.
"Brother Yan, if you continue to walk like this, I'm afraid that the corpse group will become a corpse tide." The sailor on the side reminded him.
Yan Yunting thought for a moment and said, "In this way, if you speed up, even if you can't shake off the corpses, you can still open the distance...... Now the situation in Loulan is still uncertain, and we can't change other routes. ”
"Good!"
The ink ships were quickly raised, and the corpses were left behind, but the number was still increasing dramatically.
After driving at high speed for a quarter of an hour, a bright fire suddenly appeared on the edge of the desert, Yan Yunting picked up the binoculars and looked at it - the outline of a small city came into view, the city wall was lit with beacon fires, the corpses under the city wall were surging, and the wind and sand carried the sound of confrontation, it was the roar of the corpses, and it was the order of the living.
"Speed it up a little faster!"
The ink ships are getting closer and closer to the small city, and the situation of the battle is also clearly visible - tens of thousands of poisonous people are surging under the city wall, and they come one after another, leaning against each other, and continue to climb up the city wall in the way of "human body".
The city wall is not high, not even three zhang, it is not built of stone like the Han city, but made of loess, and the poisonous claws have detained the wall into a thousand holes, and it may collapse at any time.
But the people who stood on the wall were not deterred by the onslaught of corpses, and they wielded swords and guns and sticks to strike at every poisonous person who climbed the wall!
"It looks like they're twins!" Ding Jiujiu pointed to the city wall and exclaimed, "I said why can't I wait for the mirage to come, it turns out that they are trapped in the city," she turned her head and urged Yan Yunting: "Hurry up, speed up, we have to go over and support them."
"Nope." Yan Yunting flatly refused, and instead of letting the helmsman speed up, he ordered to slow down and change the course.
"What are you doing here?" The three women in the Peacock Tower all looked at Yan Yunting suspiciously.
"Don't worry, there are too many poisonous people in the city, killing alone will not work, since we are outside the city, we should take advantage of being outside the city, first divert some of the poisonous people, relieve the pressure of the people defending the city, and then find a way to enter the city to rescue."
Yan Yunting said, and then turned around and ordered the sailors, "Everyone load the firecrackers and make a noise with me to attract poisonous people!" ”
With that, he took the lead in raising the firecracker, and a shot shot into the sky - "Smack!" "The sound of gunfire resounded in the desert, and the poisonous people who had been planning to merge into the city turned around and began to chase after the ink boats.
"Papapapa......" Guns rang out one after another, and the sound of gunfire spread in all directions.
All the lights on the ink ship were also lit up to guide the poisoner to the target of the pursuit, and the others shouted loudly and struggled to make noise.
At least half of the corpses that were originally surrounded under the city wall shifted their targets, and for a while, the ink boat became the target of everyone, and the dense poisonous people pounced on the ink boat, and the closest one had begun to climb the hull!
"Accelerate! At least lure this group of poisonous people out thirty miles away! Yan Yunting greeted and shouted at everyone: "Listen, everyone, three people in a group, check around in front and back, left and right, once you find a poisonous person climbing, clear it immediately!"
The ink ship picked up speed again, and tens of thousands of poisonous people surged back to the ship, black pressure, covering the last trace of night light between heaven and earth, and the howl of losing reason endured in the sea of sand......
In the face of such a shocking scene, everyone on the ship clenched their fists, but Yan Yunting was calm and calm at the bow of the boat, his eyes were sharp, and he had insight into everything unusual in the sand sea.
Half an hour later, the ink ship had sailed more than thirty miles, and Yan Yunting ordered the helmsman to turn the bow of the ship and start to sail back from the right side.
The poison man had been left behind, and as the ink ship drifted away, the sound gradually faded away, and the night fell silent again, and the poison man lost his target and began to slow down and wander endlessly in the sea of sand.
After another half an hour, the ink boat returned to less than three miles outside the small city, and Yan Yunting made a stop gesture to the helmsman:
"Stop the boat, turn off the lights."
The ship came to an abrupt halt, and the sailors extinguished all the lights on board, and the silence around them could even hear each other's breathing clearly.
Although the ink ship lured most of the poisonous people away, there were still no less than 10,000 hovering under the small city.
"Yan Yunting, what should we do now? There are still a lot of poisonous people outside the city, and we can't just drive in. Qing Yan took a cup of tea, walked up to the bow of the boat and handed it to Yan Yunting.
Yan Yunting glanced at the steaming tea, took it hesitantly, took it with a sip and said with a smile: "Qingyan, do you think the current scene seems to be familiar?" ”
More than a month ago, Yan Yunting was tied to the bow of the boat, and Qing Yan also brought tea, but now looking back, the same scene is completely different treatment.
Qing Yan lowered her head and couldn't help blushing, "Who told you to peek at me taking a bath...... Also, you are not allowed to call me by my first name, I am not familiar with you to that extent. ”
"You mean, maybe you'll be familiar with 'that' in the future?" Yan Yunting said with a smile.
"You're a man...... It's a weirdo, on such a serious occasion, you still have the heart to joke," Qing Yan sighed lightly, "I know you have a point, say it quickly." ”
Yan Yunting drank the tea with a smile, pointed to the direction of the small town and said, "You forgot, our ink boat can fly." ”
"Can fly...... "Qing Yan suddenly said, "I can indeed fly!" ”
Yan Yunting waved his hand at the helmsman, "Raise your wings, take off!" ”
"Giggle ......" a gear agitation, the ink boat changed the shape of the flying wings, the two cicada wings quickly incited, "whirring ......" wind stirred the yellow sand, the ink boat swayed, straight to the small town.
Soon, the ink ship flew over the city walls, and found an open area in the city and slowly descended.
The soldiers and civilians of the whole city rushed up, all staring at the big shocked eyes to welcome the arrival of the ink ship.
"It's the Queen! It's the Queen who is back! There were people shouting loudly.
"Uh...... Queen, who is it? Yan Yunting looked left and right.
Qing Yan raised her hand slightly and pointed at Ouyang Bingyan: "It's her." ”
The queen of Loulan Kingdom, Ouyang Bingyan.