Chapter 400: The Dragon in the Clouds
The night clouds covered the stars and moon, and the Fuyang officials with knives and sticks, and the catchers and swift torches, marched slowly in groups among the mountains and forests.
In the light of the torches, the knives and sticks in their hands slapped against the grass, and their eyes swept under the trees and among the shadows of the grass, not letting go of any corner.
It was late at night the next day.
The team of envoys who sent to Yue was lost on the border of Huizhou, and the top was so big that it was too guarded, and it was impossible to eat even if it was down to the government officials and the arresters, and if there was no whereabouts, the heads of the people above could not be saved, and they would definitely not be able to keep their jobs.
In the past, they were stealing and playing tricks, but now they are all reined in, and no matter how tired they are, they have to find a little clue and turn to the top.
The three-person team had just searched the front and turned to the mountainside to continue the investigation, when the branches shook in the dark, and a black shadow swooped down from the tree.
The moment he rushed into the moonlight, the blade entered the flesh with a soft 'poof'.
Rushing down the black shadow and two of the catchers together, parrying a knife, grazing the opponent's blade, turning around and slashing, hacking the second catcher to death.
The black shadow kicked again, and hit the catch that he had just raised his knife to block, kicked it out two feet, and flew out backwards, and his body hit the tree, shaking the body of the tree, and the leaves fell like rain.
At this time, what happened in just a breath, the third was the officer, the reaction was a little slower, he swung the water and fire stick in his hand, was pinched by the black shadow, and snatched the stick over, and the steel knife in his hand was 'poof' again, inserted into the abdominal cavity of the officer, twisted, and pulled out the organs.
In the darkness of the night, the same thing happened in many parts of the forest.
The combination of the captured fast and the official who was sent out soon found the body of the colleague and sent out a warning sound towards the sky.
The team that was still deep in the mountains and forests heard the vigilant arrows, and they were on guard, and the moment a figure suddenly pounced, the two catchers joined their knives to block, and cooperated to stop the opponent's attack.
The figure of the attacker kept swinging his knife to block and counterattack, and then retreated, walking into the mottled moonlight, and the two catchers saw each other's face, which was actually a woman.
The attacker did not stop, in the dappled moonlight, the wide sleeves were unfolded, and the hidden weapon was thrown, knocking over a quick catch, and jumping into the shadows of the forest.
The rest of the catchers hurried to check the injuries of their colleagues, and while bandaging them, they shouted loudly, and soon more catchers rushed to this side, following the route of the woman's retreat, and re-deduced the pursuit route, and the experienced catcher looked at the map in his hand, and even worked out the location of the people who could be hidden in the mountains.
"Immediately report this news to General Meng, and say that the group of people may be in this mountain, hurry!"
Not long after the time turned, the crowd gathered at the bottom of the mountain and launched a carpet search of the mountain forest, the female attacker just now, bounced between the branches of the tree, and then landed on the mountainside.
The wind on the mountain was very strong, and the woman's hair was blowing wildly, and the pale moonlight shone on the rocks and barren grass, and she walked quickly through the moonlight, and her body flashed into a nearby cave with agility and speed.
The wind whined at the entrance of the cave, and there was a palpable warmth coming inside, and the long path of the cave was lit up in the deepest part with firelight.
After the woman entered, two short knives silently poked out from the nearby shadows, and the moment they made contact with the woman, the latter whispered something in Liang Guohua.
The knives silently retracted into the shadows, and a man's voice inside whispered, "Go in." ”
Inside the cave, the glow of the bonfire was even more obvious, and a small pot was set up on the burning fire, in which simple food was stewed, and a few rabbit skins and bones fell to the ground.
More than 20 men in leather jackets or Central Plains robes gathered around the fire, staring at the shaking flames with silent eyes, and some people broke off dead branches and threw them into the fire, burning with a 'crackling' sound, and the weapons at their feet were still stained with blood, apparently just assassinated from outside, and then retreated.
The woman who walked in over there, they just looked up, and then continued to stare at the fire, and some people said hello to the woman.
"How many did you kill?"
"With only one injury, they are already wary of us, and they have sent a lot of manpower, and our position may have been exposed."
"The government's arrest is a bit troublesome, tell the boss, let's hurry up and transfer."
“…… I don't understand, what to do with those people, just kill them. ”
As these people spoke, they were all women who sat down to bake the fire with their voices lowered, and looked to the other side of the side cave, and saw several bound figures.
It was a few days earlier that they attacked the team and captured one of the emperor's concubines and two courtiers.
It's just that I don't understand, just kill these three people, and it can be regarded as completing the will of the first emperor, and finally everyone dispersed and asked for their own ways of living.
didn't expect the boss to arrest people, and now they were searched by people from the Xia State Mansion, so they could only live in the mountains and didn't dare to go out easily.
After a while, there were footsteps coming out of a cave in the cave, on the right is the highest martial arts in the team Lang Nu, there is also a certain strategy, he is a master in the Fengpin Hall, when Emperor Liang is not dead, he is in danger of being ordered, looking for an opportunity to get rid of the generals of the Xia Army, but unfortunately before the action, the flood came, and then the Liang State was destroyed, the emperor died, and they could not find a chance to start.
At present, they followed the Xia army all the way to the Central Plains, first mixed into Luyang to observe for a while, saw that there was still no chance, and when they were about to give up, the envoys of the Xia State sent an envoy to the Yue Kingdom, and there were two generals in the army and two Wenchen to escort the imperial concubine back to the Yue Kingdom.
Compared to assassinating in Luyang, setting up an ambush in the middle of the road, it is much easier to deal with a team of only 2,000 people.
It's a pity that the wolf smoke was used, and the generals of the Xia State were not left, so they had to take away the women of the Xia Emperor and two Wenchen first, one can be used as a protective body, and the other can also ask for a batch of gold and silver.
The person who walked on the left side of the proverbial slave had a rickety body, occasionally spoke, and his voice was so sharp that he could not distinguish between a man and a woman.
"This emperor's concubine must not move, she is the princess of the Yue Kingdom and the Zhaoyi of the Xia Kingdom, and she is more valuable than those two old men."
"Well, I also understand this truth, you can ask for money from Emperor Xia and Emperor Yue."
The two walked to the side of the bonfire, and the people around them got up one after another and saluted them, and the woman who had just come back said softly in Liang Guohua:
"Boss, there are more and more people searching under the mountain, it's time to change places."
Langnu nodded, glanced at the three captives over there, sat down by the fire, and took a stewed rabbit leg without fear of the boiling heat in the pot, and devoured it into his stomach.
Immediately, he also had to greet his subordinates: "Take a bite and change places later." ”
The words came out of the mouth, but they stopped and stopped, and the group of people in the cave were silent, nodded fiercely, looked back at the three captives, and quickly took the food from the pot with their hands, stuffed the meat and bones into their mouths and chewed it, and got up and went over to pick up the two men and a woman.
They are all masters of the Fengpintang of the Liang State, and now that the family and country are gone, the loyal emperor is gone, and they still follow the Langnu to do these things, most of them are still to get a batch of property that is enough for them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
The three people who were caught up in their hands were the captives this time.
Qin Hui and Wang Lang had their hair in a loose bun, their robes were torn, and they were stuffed with cloth towels in their mouths. The woman next to her was Meng Yuyin, and the golden hairpin and jade beads on her head had already been taken away by this group of people as trophies, and she also looked quite embarrassed.
"It's beautiful."
Meng Yuyin was pulled out, and the figure on the side of the prodigal slave gently touched the woman's face, and exclaimed in a sharp voice, "Emperor Xia Guo, you are really blessed." ”
"Woo!" There was only a little fire in the hole, and Meng Yuyin was also fierce, staring at the other party and shaking his head with a whimper, trying to get rid of the other party's fingers.
After a short time, the figure withdrew his hand and asked them to take the three captives away, and he walked behind with the proton slave to discuss something.
"You want property, I want the "General's Night Banquet" in the emperor's hand, after the matter is done, you and I will no longer see each other, and no one knows anyone."
Langnu said, "Good! The two of them had already come out of the cave and outside.
The next moment, the two of them stopped in unison, "What's going on?" Lang Nu asked in a low voice, and in front of his vision, on the rugged and narrow mountain road, a group of subordinates in front of him stood still with the envoys and imperial concubines of the Xia Kingdom, looking at the darkness in front of them.
"Boss, there's someone up ahead."
The prodigal slave and the man beside him stepped forward quickly, the mountain wind blowing in the woods, and the sound of heavy footsteps, stepping on dead leaves and gravel towards this side.
"Who?!"
"Be careful!"
"I was still found by the Xia people!"
A group of masters in Fengpintang casually threw the captives aside, and raised their weapons one after another, and the proton turned out a pair of iron rods from his waist and stepped forward heroically.
In the dim forest, a tall figure slowly walked out, the figure was slightly oblique, carrying something on his shoulder, and his footsteps kept coming.
When he walked out of the shadows, the figure that was revealed was carrying a coffin and the pestle was in front of them, Wang Lang, who was stuffed with a cloth towel, opened his eyes wide, struggled excitedly, and was kicked by the Liang woman next to him before he was quiet.
Bang!
The coffin was put down vertically, Pang De held the knife in one hand and the coffin in the other, his eyes swept over the people of the Northwest Liang on the mountain, and his voice was low and hoarse: "This coffin, prepared for you, if my skills are not as good as others, it is where I am buried." ”
His words are understood by some people on the other side, and some people hear them like heavenly books.
"Dead? Let you die without a place to be buried! ”
Someone pounced, Pang De held the coffin and raised his hand to block the opponent's weapon, followed by a kick in the opponent's abdomen, kicking the person out. Pound's long knife spread horizontally, "You think there's still a chance to leave?" ”
The moment his words fell, a figure on the hillside rushed out of the darkness, a mace in his hand, swept through the night, the sound of gold and iron clashing, and broken bones sounded one after another, among the crowd, the two Fengpin closest to the outside of the foothills, one of them was beaten back with a knife, and the other had his head smashed like a watermelon.
"Hahaha! General Pang, Meng Camel is here to help you! The figure of the horizontal wave of the momentum, raised his hand, and shouted: "All the sons! ”
In the woods and under the hillside, a fire suddenly lit up, and fifty soldiers, plus more than a hundred hunters, got up or came out from the ground, weeds, and crevices in the rocks.
There was a fast-reacting Fengpintang master nearby, waved the weapon in his hand, and rushed to Pang De in front of him: "Kill him first!" ”
Pound held the erected coffin, and the long knife in his hand rolled up in the mountain wind, bringing the sound of the whistling wind, and slashed open.
Half of the Fengpintang master who rushed flew up, his lower body was still running on the ground with his remaining strength, and his upper body flew back upside down in everyone's field of vision with a blood line, and the blood poured and pounced on everyone's faces.
Many people were so startled by this knife that they retreated a few steps, and Meng Huo, who was holding a mace on the side of the mountain, had already rolled the ground hit by a person who rushed up into a blood gourd, and a group of pro-soldiers and hunters spread up from below.
Pang De stood there with the long knife in his hand, but no one dared to go over again, "Barbarian, let me be derelict in my duty, if I don't cut you with a thousand knives, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart!" ”
"Entangle him, and the rest of me will follow!" Lang Nu knew that he must not be entangled by the people brought by Meng Tuo, so he could only give up a small part to block the other party at the moment, and took the opportunity to leave with the imperial concubine of Xia Kingdom.
"Hehe, hahaha! Escape? Where can you escape? Pang De let go of the coffin, kicked the stone under his feet, hit the front, and was knocked off the stone by Langnu with a punch, he glanced at the general of the Xia Kingdom fiercely, reached out and grabbed Meng Yuyin, pinched the back of the girl's neck, and rushed down the hill from the other side first.
The woman in Fengpintang also arrested Wang Lang, and another man grabbed Qin Hui and followed closely behind the boss with a dozen companions.
"Hugh let them run!"
Meng Camel rushed up with a mace, was stopped by several masters, when the pro-soldier and the catcher rushed up, Pang De dragged the long knife and killed the four masters in Fengpintang together, and the footsteps continued to move forward, the long knife opened and closed in his hand, and the different weapons of the other party 'Woo Yao' bumped, and the knife fan that was opened turned into a cold mang.
Pound's voice rang out: "Break! ”
The light of the sword was clear, and the four weapons were cut off and shot out, and Pound twisted his feet, holding the knife with both hands, and the blade slashed across the chests of the four people, splashing a semi-circular arc.
The blade brushed the air, and the moment it fell diagonally, the four of them fell backwards in unison.
"Meng Huo, I'll leave it to you here!"
Pang De didn't look back, dragged his long knife and ran out quickly, chasing in the direction where a group of Liang Guo Fengpintang masters had withdrawn just now.
At the same time, Langnu led the remaining dozen people, who had already gone down the hillside, through a low forest, and looked back at the mountainside just now, and there was a faint sound of fighting.
"Just take a break here."
He was afraid that he would be too anxious and exhaust the three captives who were just ordinary people, so he opened his mouth to let everyone be on guard here, and stop by to catch his breath.
Just as he opened his mouth to say this, the woman next to him was untying the water bag, suddenly turned around and whispered, "The sound of horses' hooves!" ”
Langnu held back the voice that had just come to his mouth, his ears moved, and then he looked in the direction of the woman, his face gradually became a little pale, and in the fields outside the low forest, the weeds were curling, and there was a soft sound of horses' hooves, and the sound of bells on the horse's neck, 'jingling' echoing in the night.
A man and a horse came slowly, and in the darkness, the other party was riding on horseback, holding a gun in one hand, and his cloak was flying in hunting.
However, what made people hold their breath was that the other party's body was surrounded by a layer of white gas, rising like cold air, and the dragon was churning in the clouds.
"Wait ......"
Under the silver helmet, the heroic face opened its lips slightly, "...... Prepare for the Zombie Wilderness. ”
The cold voice fell, and the white horse neighed in a high-pitched voice, carrying the figure above, and suddenly stood up.
The moment the horse's hooves fell, it was like a white dragon in a cloud across the field, killing the panicked crowd on the opposite side under the cold moonlight.
The arms, the furs, the blood, the scraps of flesh, rose to the sky—
(End of chapter)