Chapter Twenty-Three: Cruel as Fire

After Su Hanshan and the others came to the west of the city, they dispersed behind the roofs and corners of the streets according to Wu Ning's command, and hid.

The horses they brought with them were deliberately arranged in multiple empty courtyards or places where the streets were crisscrossed.

Those places tend to be flat and not easily sheltered, and once someone approaches the horses and hides on the roof, they can be seen in full view.

In fact, people are in a high place, and they can see farther, and when the people from Dongchang approach the west of the city, they can see Su Hanshan from a distance, but at this distance, they can't launch an attack.

"Originally, the sound of horses' hooves was so urgent, we could faintly hear it from so far away, but now it is so quiet, they have slowed down a lot."

Wu Ning was also on the roof, holding a small crossbow in his hand, lying behind the ridge, only showing his two eyes, looking over there, and whispering in his mouth.

"His speed is like the wind, his Xu is like a forest, he expects the enemy to be the first, he is bold and careful, Cao Wubo's means of leading the troops really impresses me many times, if he throws himself into the battlefield, most of them can become a generation of famous generals."

Xiao Shaoyun was also on this roof, observed for a moment, and said: "It seems that the number of them is less than 100, is it because they have assigned people to check at the city gate." ”

"It's getting better and better for us."

Wu Ning's face was not relaxed: "You take a closer look at their group of people, what is the difference between them and the most common Dongchang fans when we attacked their camps?" ”

The afternoon sun was a little sunny, Xiao Shaorong raised his hand to block his eyes, looked at it from afar, and said: "They all wear the same hats, but it seems that the style of clothes is not the same?" ”

"Wearing a round hat, a brown shirt, and soap boots, the people who enter the city now should basically be dressed like this."

Wu Ning muttered, "Those are the leaders of the factory guards at all levels, hundreds of households, heads, foremen, general flags, small flags, and wrestlers, all of whom are much more powerful than ordinary Dongchang fans." ”

"Although Cao Wubo failed to bring the team, he transferred all the leaders and backbones!"

Su Hanshan didn't participate in their topic, only silently estimated the distance in his heart, and suddenly spoke.

"I have a trick to spit out the beads, as fast as thunder, within a hundred paces of distance, it is not a problem to penetrate the human body."

When Su Hanshan came, in addition to the two crutches, he also deliberately carried a large number of wooden sticks, and then he pulled out one of them.

"If I can just blow Cao Wubo's head off, things will be much easier after that, right?"

Xiao Shaoyun was surprised: "Could it be that Zhu Hui mentioned that the move you used to kill the leader of the horse bandits, that move didn't happen to break out, but could be used repeatedly?" ”

Su Hanshan was surprised: "How could it be a coincidental outbreak, I hit so steadily, so accurately, it is obviously a move that has been established for a long time." ”

Xiao Shaoyu and Wu Ning are both stagnant.

Wu Ning is not even a person in the rivers and lakes, but he also knows common sense in martial arts.

The so-called internal force, the fundamental purpose is the health of the human body, how can someone think about a certain move, to their own internal force, the effect of gunpowder explosion?

That's not realistic.

If it is said that it is a matter of life and death, it is more normal to happen to have an explosion of potential, and God will come to a stroke.

"If so......"

Wu Ning was a little surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he still said, "Wait, wait until they enter the range where others can also attack, and then you can do it." ”

After a quarter of an hour or two, the men and horses of Dongchang went deep into the empty houses in the west of the city, and began to find those ownerless horses, and divided some of their men to approach those places.

They tend to work in groups of five, three with swords and shields on the outside, and two with bows and crossbows on the inside, cautiously exploring areas where there is a suspected enemy.

Cao Wubo and the others still stayed in the streets, sitting on horses, watching the four directions, and taking charge of the overall situation.

Zhu Hui and the others, who were hiding nearby, were about to send out crossbow arrows.

Su Hanshan also adjusted the direction of the wooden stick over there, aiming at Cao Wubo, instilling power into the wooden stick with his left hand, and carrying the opposite internal force with his right hand.

However, he had just locked on to the target, and his right palm had not yet been shot.

Cao Wubo seemed to be an unpredictable prophet, and his face suddenly changed, and his sheathed long sword swept across the air.

Boom!!!!

The sound of the wooden stick shattering and the wood at the tip bursting out seemed to overlap completely with the sound of the sheathed sword hitting something.

The volume became louder and more abrupt, like a thunderclap, which suddenly exploded in the ears of the people in the East Factory.

The piece of wood that flew out shattered like dust, and exploded a large cloud of sawdust sparks in the air diagonally above Cao Wubo's head.

The scabbard of the Wheel King's sword with gold and jade inlaid with gold and jade was also shattered, if it was placed in the capital, this scabbard alone would not know how many dignitaries and nobles could win the pursuit, and it was heartbroken for this smashing.

But the real target of this blow, Cao Wubo, was unscathed!

"Ahh!!h Wu Ning smashed a tile.

Su Hanshan didn't have too much disappointment in his heart.

The trick of spitting the pearl of the evil dragon, in the fish dragon marksmanship, has always been used to bombard people at short distances.

This is enough to show that using this move to lock on to the target from a long distance and carry out a sneak attack is of little use to a truly perceptive martial artist.

Otherwise, the ichthyosaurus marksmanship should have been developed into a full set of assassination marksmanship a long time ago.

When Cao Wubo stood on his horse, the horizontal sword locked this direction.

Su Hanshan's gaze just collided with his, but he did not hesitate to change another wooden stick in his hand.

Since this style of play has been determined, it is useless to Cao Wubo, and Su Hanshan did not completely use the pure yang skill when he made a move this time.

He was a rama who had changed his fortune, first protecting his palm, and then bursting out with an explosive blow.

This kind of explosive power is slightly inferior to the pure yang internal force.

But what he was aiming at this time was no longer a master like Cao Wubo, but after sweeping the position of everyone in the East Factory, he chose a straight line to meet as many people as possible.

Boom!!!

There was another explosion, and the four fell from their horses almost simultaneously.

The first two were punched through the chest and shoulder, the third was blown off half of his arm, and the fourth was splattered with a blood flower on his waist and screamed.

"Spread out!"

Cao Wubo let out a loud shout, and his figure rose into the air, jumping and running on several rooftops, and easily slashed down two crossbow arrows aimed at him.

Suddenly, he turned around on one of the eaves, held his sword in both hands, and swung it into the courtyard.

In the courtyard, there was a righteous man who had just fired a crossbow arrow at him, and he was suddenly cut in half vertically by the colorless sword qi, and the blood mist burst out, and his body exploded to both sides.

The sound of the body cracking seemed to be mixed with a scream that stopped abruptly, which made people tremble.

Originally, when Cao Wubo was empty-handed, the internal force was released, and he could only maintain lethality at a distance of more than two zhang.

But his swordsmanship is superb, he has a sword in his hand, and the internal force is compressed into a line with the help of the blade, and when he splits out, the power is more condensed, and he can actually cut through the human body four zhang away.

At this time, Xiao Shaoyun had already taken the initiative to attack, with a black umbrella in his left hand and a thin sword in his right hand, and killed him.

Su Hanshan was not arrogant or impatient, his eyes swept calmly, and another wooden stick was copied in his hand, and there was an explosion sound, killing two people.

At this time, Zhu Hui and others had also launched an offensive against the people in Dongchang, but with little success.

Those people are really not comparable to ordinary Dongchang fans, and none of them died under the crossbow arrows, and they all blocked them with the shields in their hands.

The shield they wore was not the usual wooden shield covered with iron or cowhide, but a rattan shield.

To make this kind of rattan card, it is necessary to collect the old coarse rattan on the mountain, soak it in oil, and weave it into a disc shape, the center is convex, the eaves are high, the diameter of the circle is about three feet, and the weight is not more than nine catties.

There are two rings on the inside of the rattan for the arm to pull into it, which is very stable, and it is not easy to cut with swords and spears, and small crossbow arrows can also be defended.

Even if they encounter someone whose internal strength and physical strength are slightly higher than their own, they can also rely on the toughness of the shield to cushion and steadily resist the opponent's attack without easily retreating, which is an advantage that wooden shields do not have.

After the crossbow arrows were used, when Yu Qian's old department held the sword to kill, he would often be blocked by these sword and shield hands, and then shot by the cold arrows behind the shield, even if he did not die, he would be mended by the knife hand.

The two sides had only just made contact, and Yu Qian's old department had already killed or injured as many as six or seven people.

Wu Ning suddenly got up and shouted hoarsely: "Get on the horse!" ”

When Yu Qian's old troops set up ambushes everywhere, they were not far from their own horses, and the horses were placed in a flat place, and when they heard Wu Ning's voice, they looked for an opportunity to get on the horse.

This time, their hearts suddenly opened up.

In order to form a formation and find out where the enemy is, these people in Dongchang have left their horses.

Yu Qian's old troops faced their formation on foot, almost to death, but after getting on the horse, the knife pulled the horse's buttocks and the horse charged, but it was enough to break up the opponent's formation.

Although it is inevitable to hit one or two crossbow arrows, it greatly reduces the possibility of being shot at the vital point.

The family must first dismount and use the terrain to lure the enemy, so that there can be a follow-up step of grabbing the horse and charging, Wu Ning calculated this scene in advance.

But then, there was a surprise, a fright, that made the situation spiral out of control.

The surprise is that after Su Hanshan blew up the wooden sticks and killed many people in a row, the people left on the street in Dongchang also left their horses because they were afraid that they would not be able to dodge flexibly on the horse.

Yu Qian's old troops scattered the Dongchang formation closest to them, just rode their horses, and then went to the street to charge and slash.

The frightening part was that Cao Wubo, who was supposed to try to kill towards Su Hanshan, suddenly gave up his goal.

Xiao Shaorong was originally guarding his forward position and stopped him head-on, but he turned this way, greatly widening the distance between each other, and then jumped towards the farther roof, running away, and swords one after another, so that Xiao Shaoyun, who had not recovered from internal injuries, could not catch up for a while.

And every time Cao Wubo swung his sword, there must be an old part of Yu Qian, who was still riding a horse on the street, and was killed by the sword qi.

Either the head and half of the arm flew into the air, or the body was broken diagonally, or half of the skull was cut off, and the death was horrific.

Tiezhu was alert, heard the screams coming from everywhere, and just caught a glimpse of Cao Wubo's cloak out of the corner of his eye, he fell his body to the other side of the horse at full speed.

However, Cao Wubo's sword qi hooked his right arm around the horse's neck, and cut off the entire horse's head.

"Ah!!h

The man and the horse fell together and slipped far away, and the bucket-like large stream of blood was smeared on the loess, which was extremely eye-catching, and the screams were terrifying.

Su Hanshan should have locked the wooden sticks of the other people in the East Factory, and turned his head to look.

Cao Wubo just turned his head and smiled at Su Hanshan.

Although he was running around, he was always on the roof, as if he was afraid that he would not be conspicuous enough, and deliberately waited for Su Hanshan to change the target to him again.