Chapter 23: A Thief on a Horse (7)

'There are pros and cons to being fast and slow...... This is not a dialectic, nor is it a philosophical question...... But Feng is very simple, the horse thief charged down from the meadow, too fast so that he fell into the chaos of rocks, the wolf bรจi was desolate, and the big black horse was too fast, and Ning Que's arrow technique only had time to shoot three arrows, and then rushed to the edge of the horse thief group.

He put the boxwood hardwood bow on his shoulder, stretched out his hands in front of him to grasp the sword that was horizontal at the saddle, raised his arm and elbow, and the blade broke through the air, cutting off half of the shoulder of a horse thief, and then he straightened his waist, his arm was steep, and the sharp tip of the knife grabbed the eyeball of another horse thief before the scimitar struck.

When the three horses were staggered like lightning, the blood from the broken shoulder of the horse thief and the slurry bursting out of the eye sockets burst out, spraying him all over his face, and the smell of blood and other peculiar smells were mixed together, which was very strange.

It is said that blood is hot and the wind is cold, but Ning Que feels that the wind blowing on his face is hot, but the blood sprinkled on his face is cold. Because he was very calm, he still remembered clearly the principles of warfare that he had held for many years.

Killing a horse thief is never as good as injuring a horse thief, a horse thief dies when he dies, and if he is seriously injured for a while, he will drag down more horse thief companions, which is cruel but very useful with careful thinking.

Looking at the more than ten horse thieves rushing towards him, Ning Que took a deep breath, clamped the big black horse under him, raised the Pu knife horizontally, and turned into a blade to kill the past, behind him, the two hundred Yan cavalry finally rushed over, condensed into one, and fiercely attacked the side of the scattered horse thief group.

The winter wind in the wasteland rose again, but it couldn't blow the hair in front of his forehead, because the hair had been soaked with the blood of the horse thief, and the sticky and cold paste was tangled together at this time, just like Ning Que's tangled mood at this time.

The camp was full of wolves, and there were already a few gaps in the car formation. The horse thieves retreated temporarily, but the wave of abandoned horse attacks before retreating still brought great damage to the camp, and the camp was full of blood-soaked and dying soldiers with numb and dying eyes.

The situation of the horse thieves was not much better, and at the edge of the low-lying ground not far from the camp, many horses with broken hooves were lying on the cold ground and dying, swaying their heavy heads from time to time, and under or beside the horses, there were many corpses of horse thieves who had no temperature.

But all the wounded soldiers of the horse thieves were brought back by Xi Companion, and it can be seen from this that although the horse thieves suffered heavy losses, they still did not collapse, and they still had the ability and spirit to attack again.

Ning Que raised his arm to wipe away the blood that was slowly dripping between his eyebrows, and glanced back at the northwest direction of the camp, where Yan Qi was fighting with a horse thief and gradually moving away, he couldn't help but shake his head.

In the Central Plains, the impression is that the horse thief on the grassland is the most ferocious existence in the world, but he has dealt with the horse thief for many years, but he thinks that the horse thief is the most cowardly and useless existence in the world. Cruelty is just a cover for inner weakness.

At this time, the six hundred horse thieves around the meadow were ferocious, daring to directly slaughter the direct tribes of the royal court, and when they became timid, a team of Tang soldiers could chase their butts and run, the key was strength, and the horse thieves were the most sensitive to the difference in strength, so they were the easiest to disperse.

Ning Que thought that he was familiar with the temperament of the horse thief, he chose the camp last night, secretly hid the geographical advantage, and there was no problem in choosing the timing, he thought that with the two hundred Yan cavalry to launch a strong charge on the side of the horse thief, he could directly defeat the more than five hundred horse thieves, but he forgot that it was not those old guys in Weicheng who charged the horse thief with him, nor the Tang cavalry of the Western Route Army in the southern Bishui camp, but the Yan cavalry with extremely low combat effectiveness.

The combat effectiveness of the Yan army's cavalry was even worse than Ning Que's worst idea.

Two hundred Yan cavalry, occupying the geographical opportunity to charge the horse thief, did not disperse the horse thief group, and could not even complete a cavalry penetration, directly dragged into the entanglement by the horse thief who was in a hurry, after several times of killing, there were dozens of Yan cavalry cut down by the horse thief to the ground, if it were not for the horse thief itself at that time The formation was also extremely chaotic, maybe this long-brewing side attack, but would lead the whole army of Yan Cavalry to be annihilated.

Yan Qi and the horse thief fought for a while, both sides couldn't bear it, and separated for the time being, taking advantage of this opportunity, Ning Que rode the big black horse back to the camp, on the one hand, because he couldn't place more hope on the remaining hundred or so Yan Qi, and there was also a reason because he had a sense of alarm in his heart, inexplicable vigilance.

A scream suddenly sounded in the cold air, Ning Que reacted quickly to one side, and a feather arrow flew past his shirt, shooting fiercely into a grain wheel, and the tail of the arrow trembled violently.

Ignoring the fact that the black mask was soaked in the blood of horse thieves and smelled a little fishy, he rehung the mask, took off the boxwood hardwood bow behind him, accused the hard strings, and shot an arrow to kill a horse thief who rushed to the front of the camp.

Then he felt a faint sourness in the depths of his shoulder, and he knew that he had drawn the bow too many times today, and if he continued to hold on like this, his right arm might be pulled away.

The horse thief obviously refused to give the people in the grain team camp too much respite, and after a short rest, he attacked fiercely again, ignoring his own casualties, this kind of behavior regardless of the cost and regardless of the profit and risk has exceeded Ning Que's understanding of the horse thief, and the doubts in his heart became more and more intense.

More than 200 horse thieves poured in from all directions.

The Minda, who had become a little numb to life and death, at the last moment of life and death, aroused Bian's unprecedented courage, and they held crude wooden spears, through the cracks deliberately left in the car formation, and stabbed outward.

A wooden spear pierced a horse thief's chest and abdomen, and blood flowed downward.

Immediately afterwards, the three horse thieves climbed over the car formation, brandished their scimitars, and slashed the people holding wooden spears with blood.

A bright sword light flashed.

The slender Xiujian slashed at the three horse thieves with a sneering sword aura.

One horse thief was killed on the spot, the other two had broken legs and limbs, and the wolf fell backwards.

The bloodied men rushed like wild beasts, and took sticks and stones that they had picked up from nowhere, and smashed them around the two horse thieves, numbly repeating the action, not knowing how many times, until at last there was no sound inside, and then some of them stopped stiffly.

After the lynx girl slashed in the wind, she habitually let out a lovely scream, and then, she was shocked by the bloody scene in front of her, her red little face was full of dust, but she couldn't hide the panic and panic in her clear eyes, she was too young after all, where had she seen such a scene?

Ning Que reached out and grabbed the back of her neck, threw her behind like a cat, avoided a feather arrow, and single-handed the knife blocked and then sent it away, cutting off the right arm of a horse thief who was secretly attacking.

The horse thief covered his blood-spurting right shoulder, half-kneeling on the ground in pain, Ning Que didn't look at him again, holding the Pu knife and walking down dangerously, he knew that this horse thief with a broken arm and no knife would be overwhelmed by the people in the next moment, and he naturally wouldn't make any more effort.

The chariot formation was broken, and everyone in the camp would die, based on this simple understanding, both the soldiers of the Minda and the Yan Kingdom became extremely brave at this time, and they took any weapon they could get their hands on, desperately attacking the horse thieves who crawled from the carriage board.

But what really made the camp hold on to the present, and it was the disciples of the Ink Pond Yuan from the Great River Country who dragged on for so long, these girls and boys who didn't have much battlefield experience, with the pride, perseverance, and wonderful swordsmanship given by the sect, drew a sword qi between the wasteland meadows, and cut down those tricky horse thieves one after another.

However, there are too many horse thieves, there are too few disciples in Mochi Garden, and although the Minfu soldiers are desperate, they still can't change the overall situation, and the camp is full of dangers, which may be broken at any time, and it seems that they have entered a desperate situation.

At that moment, a clear whistle sounded from the carriage in the middle of the camp.

Listening to the sound of this flute, the disciples of Ink Pond Yuan such as Zhu Zhihua and Tmall Girl perked up, and without hesitating their mental strength, their sword qi stacked out, forcing the horse thief in front of them to retreat, and then walked to the grain bag.

Hearing the sound of the flute and observing these pictures, Ning Que's mood was a little solemn, exposed in black. There was even a faint hint of anger in the eyes outside the hood.

This is the black Wu who transported grain and grass to the court of the Left Tent King, escorted by swallow horses, and also needed mules and horses to transport grain, so in addition to a lot of carts of grain, he also carried a lot of hay for mules and horses to eat.

The unloading board of the grain truck forms a circular array, and the cloth bags containing grass are all concentrated under the van board, which is used to strengthen the fortifications on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also play a role in slowing down the damage of arrows.

Hearing the sound of the flute, the disciples of Duo Chi Yuan came to these straw bags and used their swords to pick them into the air outside the car formation, just as the most dense wave of horse thieves attacked again.

I don't know if it was the beauty of the sword qi contained in the disciples of Mochi Garden, or for some other reason, more than ten bags of hay flew into the air, and the cloth bag suddenly burst open, and it was torn apart with a hissing sound, and the hay in the bag was more like someone had punched it hard, and it spread out at a very fast speed, like a grass rain.

At the same time as the hay bags burst and scattered, an extremely dry smell enveloped the entire camp, and in the grass rain formed by each bag of hay, a faint spark was faintly lit up, and then it ...... in an instant Let the whole day burn in the sky.

The rain of grass turned into a rain of fire, and the white sky fell, obscuring the light of the eastern sun, turning the entire outskirts of the camp into a sea of fire, and the dejected horse thieves, who had been made by the strange scene, had no time to react, and were swallowed up by the sea of fire, and became poor people who were about to drown and burn to death.

The soldiers of the people in the camp were also stunned by this scene, they held all kinds of weapons, and looked at the sea of fire that was close at hand, but there was no one flying into the car array, as if they saw the miracle shown by Haotian.

Only Ning Que noticed the sudden change in the vitality between heaven and earth when the hay bags burst and burned, he felt the faint magic power in each hay bag, and even saw the subtle picture of the rune paper burning.

The fire rose from the grass, burned and spread rapidly, and fell on the horse thief, which was extremely difficult to extinguish, and the horse thief who rushed to the front of the car was on fire, howling miserably, running around, some rolling on the ground, but still rolling in the flames, and some looking for clear water, but it was not easy to find water in the winter wasteland. Several horse thieves on fire howled and rushed into the car, and before they could even raise their scimitars, they fell to the ground in agony.

The pack of horse thieves finally retreated again, leaving dozens of charred corpses outside the camp. Many of the corpses were hugged tightly together, probably because of the panic before death, so that the group of horse thieves could not tell who was the enemy and who was the companion.

There was a scorching smell wafting through the air.

Cheers of triumph echoed through the camp.

Ning Que stared at the white-clothed girl in the carriage and said, "I reminded you that you are our strongest person, and your telekinesis is our most precious weapon, which should be used at the most suitable time, not casually." โ€

Mo Shanshan raised his head and glanced at him, I don't know if it was because she had seen too many bloody pictures, or for some other reason, her face was very pale at this time, whiter than the white dress on her body.

"A lot of people have already died, and if I don't make a move, more people will die in the continent. โ€

Ning Que looked at her and said, "You are a woman's kindness." โ€

Mo Shanshan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he replied, "I am a woman. โ€

Ning Que suppressed his anger and said with a sneer: "You are not married yet. โ€

Mo Shanshan replied calmly: "If you marry, you won't be married." โ€

Ning Que was silent for a moment and then said, "If you still have telekinesis, then your last telekinesis must be left to me." โ€

He is a person who cultivates talismans, and he knows very well that the talisman is consumed by the talisman, and the girl's pale and haggard cheeks show that her mental power has been consumed too much these days, and he has to admit that in the entire team, this girl in white is the strongest person, so in the face of this situation, it is inevitable to be a little angry......

The horse thieves suffered heavy casualties under this earth-shattering fire talisman, but there were at least two hundred horse thieves above the meadow who still had to fight again, and his true realm was just not confused, and he couldn't resist it at all.

Of course, Ning Que still has some life-saving skills at the bottom of the box, but things like Yuan Thirteen Arrows and the tips given to him by the master, if they are used on these horse thieves, it is really a big waste of one and the sky, and before his life encounters real danger, he will definitely not use it if he is only a little worse than Sangsang.

The key is reinforcements, the food team camp has lasted for so long, but the imaginary reinforcements have never appeared, you must know that if it was determined that there were no reinforcements from the beginning, he would have run away on a big black horse.

"Are there any reinforcements?" he asked, staring into Mo Shanshan's eyes.

Mo Shanshan looked back at him indifferently and said, "Only the reinforcements know about it. โ€

Ning Que no longer tried to communicate with her, and said directly: "Prepare to break through, my horse can only take one person away, I want to take the lynx girl, and you are responsible for your people." โ€

Mo Shanshan asked, "Then what about these Yan Jun and Minda who have been fighting with you for so long?"

Ning Que replied: "I only met them by chance, and I have no comrade-in-arms. โ€

Mo Shanshan shook his head lightly and said, "I won't go."

Ning Que looked at her and suddenly said, "Haven't you noticed that the goal of these horse thieves on the meadow is to kill you?

Mo Shanshan looked at him and said calmly: "If the target of these horse thieves is me, then these people are all dead because of me, and I shouldn't leave them." โ€

Ning Que raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Idiot, if you go, you can attract horse thieves, how can these horse thieves attack these Yan soldiers and civilians who are not a threat?"

Mo Shanshan smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to lie to me, I now understand how ferocious the horse thief is." โ€

Ning Que suddenly found that the pair of eyes that often seemed a little careless and casual on his face had become extremely clear and affirmative at this time, as if he could easily see through all his thoughts, he looked at her for a long time, and then turned around and left.

The ear thieves on the meadow are gathering, and perhaps another attack will be followed in the next moment.

He wiped the monkey blood on his face with the palm of his hand, changed into a new mask, and walked in the camp full of corpses and broken soldiers, whether it was Yan Jun or Minda, when they saw him covered in blood, they would avoid it on both sides, even if it was a girl from the Great River Country such as Zhihua, in addition to admiration, there was also a little more fear in the eyes that looked at him.

Since the battle with the horse thieves, in addition to the fire talisman that burns the sky, the main credit for the fact that the grain team camp can still be kept is Ning Que, who does not know how many horse thieves have fallen under his simple knife.

Many people have seen how he killed the horse thief, it was really murderous, and the most chilling and awe-inspiring thing was the calm when he killed the horse thief, which seemed to contain a certain and indifferent taste of life.

Feeling the strange gazes cast around her, especially the timid appearance of the lynx girl, Ning Que didn't explain anything, and whispered to everyone to repair the car formation, and at the same time used the afterglow to observe the surroundings of the meadow slope valley, thinking about the escape route.

The horse thief is afraid of death, and he is afraid of death, but he knows one thing better than most horse thieves, the more courageous you are in the face of death, the less likely you are to die. This is a precious experience that has been experienced through countless years of life and death since childhood.

As for the indifference to life...... He has always been extremely indifferent to horse thieves.

The reason why the horse thieves on the shore of Subi Lake were killed by him was because he was just an ordinary soldier when he was in Weicheng, and once he left Weicheng and entered the wasteland, he was a thief on his horse.

Ning Que and his comrades in Weicheng are horse thieves, the most ferocious of horse thieves.

In those years, he had killed countless horse thieves. If it was then, there was a world-famous young talisman behind him, and he might have stayed behind to deal with these horse thieves for a while.

But not today.

Because he was a little wary, not because there were too many horse thieves, not because of the cruel and passive situation at the moment, but because he always felt that someone was watching him, and that person had been watching him for a long time.

Not one day, not two days, but many days.

At the top of the eastern meadow, more than a dozen horseback thieves stood quietly, looking down on the chaotic battlefield.

Most of the more than ten horse thieves had only arrived here last night, and it was the people who caught Ning Que's attention, unlike the ordinary horse thieves, they all covered their faces with cloth towels, as if they didn't want to be seen by others.

Obviously, these ten horsemen are the leaders of the six hundred horse thieves, but I don't know why, the horse thieves continue to die in the Qin Valley, whether they are killed by Yan Qi or crushed to death by falling horses, they always maintain peace.

When the Burning Sky Fire Talisman in the camp of the grain team was ignited, the eyes of most of the more than ten horsemen finally showed shock, but the leader of the cavalry at the front still maintained absolute calm.

The leader of the horse thieves had vicissitudes in his eyes, and he was obviously middle-aged.

"There is really a very powerful talisman in the grain team, maybe it is really that girl talisman, these disciples of Mochi Yuan are worthy of being under the Holy Sect of Books, and the sword flow is really powerful. โ€

The leader of the horse thieves said indifferently: "But after so many days, even the legendary bookworm must be about to drain his mental power, so that the people below are ready to continue to attack." โ€

For several days and nights, it was to make the young talisman who was hiding in the food team waste his mental power, and the leader's plan was 'extremely patient', and now he did not hesitate to let his subordinates use his life to squeeze out the last of the young talisman's mental power, showing his cold-blooded ruthlessness.

Feeling the hesitation of the subordinates beside him, the leader frowned slightly, and said in a cold voice: "The Central Plains Alliance Army and the Royal Court are discussing peace, except for the desolate people, the most unlucky thing is these horse thieves under you, killing the people we should kill, preventing this peace, for this purpose...... No matter how many people die, it is worth it. ......

A subordinate was puzzled and said, "Wang Tingshan Yuhe Divine Temple will definitely not be deceived by such an obvious method. โ€

The leader said indifferently: "What we want is the facts, the facts are more powerful than any other statement, as long as the following people are killed, this peace discussion naturally has no way to continue." โ€

The riders on the meadow remembered the big man, and immediately understood what he meant.

The leader looked at a certain part of the camp and said, "Continue the attack, if the man who was riding the black horse earlier tries to escape the camp, it is time for us to take action ourselves, remember, this operation must be guaranteed to kill that person." โ€

The knights only knew that the person the leader said was a male disciple of the Ink Pond Garden, who had shown great strength before, but they did not know the true identity of that person, so they were puzzled when they heard this, and thought that if they wanted to cause enough shock in the wasteland, the first goal should be to kill the young talisman in the carriage.

A horse thief behind the leader hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to say: "My lord, the casualties of his subordinates are too heavy, and he really can't fight anymore, and if he pushes again, I'm afraid that these guys will break up." โ€

It's a strange title, less like one between horse thieves, and more like some kind of official title.

The leader of the horse thieves glanced at him lightly and said, "If you have led this group of horse thieves in the wasteland for nearly ten years and still can't lead them, then what's the use of your life?"

The horse thief was so chilled by his gaze that he didn't dare say a word more.

The leader of the horse thieves looked at the camp below and said ruthlessly: "These horse thieves don't know the identity of Zisi, and they have always thought that Zisi is the real horse thief, but you can't forget the identity of Jizi Si. โ€

"Get on your horse as a thief, dismount as a soldier, and you are the general's soldiers. โ€

Hearing this, there was silence in the meadow, and it was a long time before someone opened his mouth to ask.

"My lord, how to deal with the girl talisman in the convoy?"

"No matter how strong the bookworm is, it is in vain if she doesn't know her fate, and if she has no mental power, what is the difference between her and ordinary people?

From the beginning of the battle to the present, the dozen or so horsemen who had been standing quietly at the top of the meadow dispersed, gathered their own subordinates, and began to prepare for the last and most powerful attack, leaving only the leader of the horse thieves to remain there.

The leader of the horse thieves raised his right hand, pressed the hat lower, and quietly looked at the young man in the camp below who was dressed in the disciple uniform of Mochi Yuan, and the sword and arrow on his back were covered in blood, and after a long silence, he smiled complicatedly.

From Chang'an City last year to this moment, he has been secretly looking at this person named Ning Que for a long time, although he has never found evidence that Ning Que is related to the death of Yushi Zhang Yuyi, and he has not found that this person has any hostility towards the general, but he doesn't know why, he always feels that this person will be a trouble.

Because Ning Que is suspicious, and because Ning Que is now on the second floor of the academy, and has become the only heir of the rune master Yan Se, and has the favor of His Majesty, then even if there is only one suspicion, nine points of vigilance are required.

Especially when Ning Que picked up the northern side of Yan, no one knew whether he had secretly received the emperor's order, and no one knew what the deep meaning of the academy's move was, so the trouble turned into pressure, and there was no point in suspecting it, and there was no longer any need to check whether this person was involved in the imperial history murder case, and there was no need to investigate whether this person was secretly targeting the general, and they could only and must do one thing, that is, to erase the possible threat for the general.

Thinking of this, the horse thief leader's complicated smile gradually faded.

At any other time and place, no one would dare to murder a disciple on the second floor of the academy in broad daylight, but now it was on the wasteland, and no one knew about the relationship between these horse thieves and the general.

The imperial court is already suspicious of the general, this group of horse thieves will have to be cleaned up sooner or later, and killing Ning Que today, destroying the peace agreement, and letting this group of horse thieves all be consumed is a wonderful thing to count in one fell swoop.

Therefore, when the news that Ning Que left the Bishui Camp in disguise and escorted the grain team into the wasteland with the disciples of Mochi Yuan reached the General's Mansion, he spared no effort and worked tirelessly for days and nights to rush here from Tuyang City to preside over the matter.

This is a good opportunity given by Haotian, and if you miss it, you will be punished by God.

However, just as the horse thief was about to launch another attack, Ning Que was about to gallop away, and the leader of the horse thieves was about to take advantage of the situation to kill him, a dense sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance of the wasteland meadow.

The disciples of Mochi Yuan and the Yanmin men who were vigilantly preparing for war in the camp under the meadow, and the horse thieves who were preparing to charge on the gentle slope of the meadow, all of them invariably suspended their movements and looked towards the sound of hooves.

On the west side of the grass came a troop of cavalry.

This group of cavalry is not very numerous, about a hundred blades, but both the cavalry itself and the horses under them are wearing gorgeous gold-edged black armor, solemn and majestic, and the momentum is amazing, as if a hundred horsemen are at the same time.

It is the Temple Apologetic Cavalry Regiment, known as the strongest cavalry in the world.

A loud cheer rang out from below the meadow.

The horse thieves quickly regained their formation and prepared to disperse.

However, what happened next, no one expected.

An old hand stretched out from a carriage in the center of the temple cavalry team, and the hundred cavalry temple cavalry slowly stopped their steps, looking indifferently at this side from a distance of hundreds of zhang, and did not immediately attack the horse thief.

The people in the camp of the food team looked at it in amazement, and the cheers gradually faded and became silent, and some people looked at the intention of this group of temple cavalry, and their faces showed disbelief and grief.