Volume 1: The Millennia of the Stream Volume 1, Chapter 5, The Way of Slaughter
For every ten deaths, on the dangerous peak, a mud bodhisattva is built with mud and stones.
The dog's body was left outside, this was the helplessness of the gatekeeper, and his mother-in-law also packed up her clothes, returned to the city, and lived with the child, the dog's mother-in-law did not blame Sun Zikai, the women were actually ready at all times, they understood that none of the guards could die well, and she would have such a day sooner or later.
Sun Zikai and Lao Zhang built the mud bodhisattva together, and the mud bodhisattva was engraved with the names of the ten gatekeepers.
Lao Zhang patted Sun Zikai's shoulder and comforted: "I don't blame you, you are still young, but you have to carry this hatred, you owe him." ”
Sun Zikai's face was very calm, and he spoke: "Lao Zhang, don't the people in the city care about here?" ”
"Manage, eat and drink, all at the same time, let's go to the city to eat as much as we want, all without money, and if you die, you will report to the city, and soon, there will be new people to make up for it."
Hundreds of barbarians gathered outside the "Ansheng Pass", they were all angry because they were killed, and shouted at the gate, but they had no siege equipment, and the bows were only three or two, so they were just strong, and there was no threat to the "Ansheng Pass" for the time being, but the guards did not dare to be careless, and everyone was always on the wall.
Sun Zikai said: "Sooner or later, the gate will be breached, there are many of them, they will burn it with fire and stone, and sooner or later they will break the gate open." ”
Lao Zhang replied: "The situation has been reported back, and someone will come to the city." ”
Sun Zikai walked to the edge of the cliff, indifferently looking down at the situation outside the pass, he squatted down, picked up a stone, and gently threw it out, the stone flew farther and farther in the air, falling faster and faster, and finally smashed on the top of a barbarian's head, the barbarian's head was directly pierced out of the hole, this time they were even more angry, they crashed into the gate, the keepers could only shoot arrows desperately, and the barbarians put the straw mat on the top of their heads, not only blocked the arrows, but also obtained the arrows, and in turn shot towards the wall.
Lao Zhang looked at the child sitting on the edge of the cliff worriedly, and was more worried about the danger on the wall, Lao Yang personally went back to the city to call people, at this time, he had to stand with his subordinates, and turned back to tell a few words, Lao Zhang ran down the dangerous peak.
Sun Zikai sat with his legs swinging in the air, the wind blew, as if he was about to fall off the dangerous peak, he stared at the cliff and was distracted, after a long time, suddenly his eyes were cold, and he jumped down.
But instead of jumping off the cliff to commit suicide, he firmly grasped the cliff, and then climbed down the crack step by step, everyone's attention was focused on the gate, no one saw it, and no one could have thought that on the cliff on both sides of the wall that was more than fifty zhang high, there would be a child climbing, the child was full of muscles, and two years of training seemed to be for today.
After an hour he really climbed to the bottom, glanced indifferently at the gate, and then ran on foot in the direction of the low woods, and no one found him all the way, and in the middle of the way, that is, on the small high slope, he hid in the grass, and he did not rush at all, but was very calm, he had just exhausted most of his strength, and needed to rest, so he lay in the grass until the evening.
When night fell, the wall was closed, Lao Zhang ordered to set fire, which was also a helpless move, because the arrows were not enough, and to deal with the barbarians' layers of straw mats, fire was the key, but why not use it before, because this is a double-edged sword, the barbarians really held the burning straw mat, crashed into the gate, the gate will be broken sooner or later, no one sleeps tonight, after the pass, the women have packed up their things, all fled to the city, and Lao Yang has not come back, decades ago to break the pass, I am afraid that it will be staged again today.
In the dark, Sun Zikai got up and slowly walked to the low forest, the old and weak women and children of the barbarians had just buried the dead, and they were all resting from exhaustion, and on the outside of the low woods, there was a wooden frame, on which was a dismembered bloody corpse, which was a dog.
Sun Zikai's face was calm, he took out a dagger from his lap and quietly climbed a tree, at this time, a female barbarian took the child to the tree to relieve himself, Sun Zikai took the opportunity to fall, just smashed on the top of the woman's head, the dagger was deeply inserted into her neck, the woman did not make a sound, fell to the ground, and the child behind the woman opened his mouth in surprise, and the cold dagger penetrated his throat.
After doing this, he was very calm, and quietly moved to the crowd, and the barbarians had gone through a day's events, and they all closed their eyes tiredly, but they did not expect that this closure would not be able to open them again.
He studied medicine and knew where to stab, had a small voice, a small reaction, and died quickly. One by one, no one reacted to the slaughter of the people around them, and soon after, there were only some corpses left by the burning fire.
However, he didn't find his goal, he killed all the way, searched all the way, and sealed everything he could see and gasped for breath. Finally, a hundred paces away, he saw the little donkey. The girl was not an ordinary person, she was supposed to be the daughter of the leader of the barbarian tribe, alone with a fire and a cotton blanket, and she was accompanied by two men and a woman, who were supposed to protect her.
Sun Zikai came out of the darkness, and after the barbarians saw it, they didn't react for a while.
Inserting the dagger back, he pulled out the sharp and slender cold knife from behind his waist, his eyes were half-open, he looked listless, but it was like a killing god, and before the barbarians could figure out what was going on, he suddenly rushed out, and a man didn't have time to draw his weapon, and in an instant the kid opened his throat, and blood spurted out a foot away.
The girl's cry resounded through the woods, but unfortunately, no one could answer him.
The remaining man no longer dared to underestimate the child who was not as tall as the horse's belly, pulled out the knife, and rushed over, Sun Zikai immediately retreated, and ran into the darkness in a few steps, the man followed closely, but he couldn't see his figure, after a few breaths, only to hear a scream behind him, the man turned around, next to the firelight, the girl sat on the blanket in a daze, and the woman next to her was wiped off her neck, and the girl urinated.
The man rushed back angrily, Sun Zikai disappeared into the darkness again, and the man shouted for his clansmen, but no one responded.
And there was a sound of rustling around, as if there were many people there, the man had a bad idea in his heart, the people in the gate rushed over, his people may have been killed, once he panicked, he was poisoned by the darkness, and since then there was only despair left in his eyes, he rushed into the darkness like fate, and after a few breaths, he fell to the ground.
The girl trembled and could not move, and she saw the boy of her own age, coming out of the darkness with a long knife in his hand, and she tried to grab the bow from the blanket, but her arms were too weak to move.
"You... You... Beg... Please....." The girl's brain was already blank with fright, she was begging for mercy, but the knife had no emotion, it rested on the girl's throat, the cold light flashed, the fire lost its sound, and the blood stained a tree red, and it turned dark black in the night. Sun Zikai picked up the girl's head, tied it with a rope, put it on his back, and was just about to leave, when he suddenly noticed that something was moving behind the box, he walked over, it was a child of a few years old, just like when he first saw the girl.
This kid doesn't understand anything, but, when he grows up, when he starts to eat meat, he will eat the flesh of the people in the pass, pick up the skin of the people in the pass, the cold knife has no feelings, a knife flashes, the head falls, and it is tied with a rope, and he carries it on his back, and then he walks to the outside of the low woods, wraps the dog's head in a cloth, and hangs it on his waist, and after doing this, he walks quietly back to the edge of the dangerous peak, but has no strength to climb anymore, so he simply lies in the grass and sleeps for more than an hour, and when the sound of the barbarian knocking on the door is quiet, he immediately wakes up, I looked up at the dangerous peak that seemed to plunge straight into the night sky, and without any emotion, I climbed up with my hands and feet.
Three and a half hours later, when it was dawn, he had climbed to the top. The barbarians retreated one after another, and the guards were exhausted, but Lao Zhang told everyone not to relax, when the barbarians pounced again, it would be a more violent confrontation, the women all withdrew, no one cooked for them, everyone could only go hungry and rest against the wall.
At this moment, a figure walked up from the stone steps, a bloody figure.
"Xiao Kai? You are...."
Sun Zikai walked in front of everyone, dropped two heads, both of which were children's heads, and at the same time took off a blood-colored package, opened it and saw that it was the head of a dog, Sun Zikai said calmly: "I went out at night and killed everyone in the woods, the dog's body was dismembered, my strength was too small, I could only bring back his head." ”
Everyone was stunned, and the sixth son asked, "The gate was blocked tightly last night, you.... How did you get out of here? ”
Sun Zikai pointed to the dangerous peak more than fifty zhang high on the side and said, "Those who climbed down from there were also the same road when they came back." ”
The men guarding the pass have never been so shocked, who dares to climb that dangerous peak? For thousands of years, no barbarian dared to think of that road, and the key was that the child not only climbed back and forth, but also killed all the barbarians in the dwarf forest alone.
After seeing the bewildered expressions of the group, Sun Zikai explained: "The barbarians in the dwarf woods are old and weak women and children, and they are exhausted after the slaughter during the day, plus they buried the corpses of the barbarians, and the men are blocking the gate, so they fell asleep defenselessly, I took advantage of them to sleep, and the opportunity was only once last night, otherwise, I am so weak, it is impossible to kill them all." If the gate is broken, they will slaughter a lot of people, and I will slaughter all their families first, so that they will also lose something, and they will not lose anything. ”
Everyone looked at this child as if they were looking at Hades, and Lao Zhang understood what Lao Yang said at the beginning, this child will not die, he will become a nightmare for all the barbarians outside the gate.
Sun Zikai continued: "Lao Zhang, the barbarians will rush back later, they will lose their minds to attack, just leave only four or five people on the wall, and the rest will all climb to the peaks on both sides, use the flag as a sign, and throw stones downward. ”
"No," Lao Zhang said, "there are no big rocks on the peak, and it is easy to hit close or far." Let's wait for reinforcements. ”
"It's too late, they made bows in the low woods, and the arrows were saved a lot last night, we don't need big stones, small stones are on the line, this dangerous peak is high enough, I tried it on the top yesterday, it can smash people, and it doesn't take too much effort, when you throw it, imagine yourself as me, throw it out with the strength of a child, throw it gently, it's okay, look at my flag, the second way to throw, just a little more than the first one."
Lao Zhang gave an order, and seven or eight people on each side climbed to the peak, and there were only six people left on the wall, which was all the guards. After a while, the crazy barbarians rushed back, smashed indiscriminately before closing the door, pointed at the gatekeepers and cursed, and sure enough, they had new bows, more than a dozen, and they shot with open bows.
The guards sat close to the wall, Sun Zikai stretched out his hand to play the flag, and dozens of stones were suddenly smashed on the top of the mountain on both sides.
The kind of stone that fell from a height, it is impossible to prevent it with straw mats, and the barbarians leaned on the gate, but once they got close, Sun Zikai ordered to set fire to it, and burned it together with the gate, and the barbarians couldn't bear it, and ran out again, and then they were smashed, and these two fell, dozens of people died, and the barbarians had to run farther away.
The barbarians looked back, the two heads were hung on the wall, and Sun Zikai was sitting on the wall, his legs were swinging in the air, looking at them indifferently, the barbarians saw the head, they were furious again, and rushed back, even if they smashed it with their heads, they had to smash the broken door open, and when they came to the gate again, Sun Zikai ordered to set fire again, the wine jar was smashed down, the torch was thrown down, the fire was skyrocketing, many barbarians were squeezed inside, couldn't get out, burned alive, and the barbarians finally couldn't bear the strength and ran out again.
A dozen flags, just picked up the new stone on the peak of the guard, once again with the strength of a child to throw out the stone, only care about the escape of the barbarian, forget the danger above the head, the brain case was directly penetrated, this back and forth, dozens of people died, and the momentum of the barbarian is much weaker, at this time, the left peak does not throw, the right peak continues to throw, the barbarian is forced to run to the left, at this time, the six people on the wall, quickly draw arrows and shoot, the barbarians get together, there is almost no possibility of dodging. Dozens of people died, many of them holding their bows and shooting back hastily, but because of the chaos of the crowd, they couldn't even shoot the gate.
The keeper collected the arrows, the barbarians just took a breath, the large pieces of stones just collected on the left peak, were thrown down in three rounds, and the barbarians ran out after being hit, and happened to be hit by the next round of stones, three rounds down, Mo said that those who were stoned to death, only the barbarians who were trampled to death had a number, and so the barbarians swarmed to the bottom of the right peak, and the gatekeepers came again with a wave of salvo.
After this time, the soldiers were bloodless, and more than 120 people on the opposite side were destroyed, and the barbarians lost their morale and fled back in a hurry, at this time, Sun Zikai shouted: "Open and close the door!" Kill them! ”
The guards shouted together, and one of them ran to the door and kept knocking on the door panel, the barbarians were really fooled, the family was slaughtered, there was no thought, it was better to go back and kill all the people in the gate, and then shouted to kill, more than 80 people turned around and rushed to the gate, the gate seemed to be ajar, but it was not opened at all, and so the barbarians gathered in front of the door, looked up, and the keeper set the fire again.
The fire burned them dizzy, and Sun Zikai asked the six sons to pretend to be barbarians and shout in chaos; "Move to the right!"
The barbarians didn't bother to hear who was speaking, and they swarmed to the right, and all the large stones on the right peak fell down together.
More than thirty barbarians stood in the pile of corpses in despair, they didn't know where the target was, the leaders were all dead, and there were only thirty of them left in a big family tribe.
Sun Zikai asked the gatekeepers to take advantage of the barbarian's loss of soul, shoot at a single point, kill one person with one arrow, and shoot only a dozen arrows left, and there are fifteen or six barbarians left.
The guards pulled out their swords one by one and asked to go out of the pass to kill the enemy, but Sun Zikai rejected them and said: "There is no need to increase the risk of casualties in the opponent's inevitable defeat, let the brothers on the peak continue to look for stones to smash, and if they can be stoned, we will not go out." ”
Lao Zhang said: "These guys are also weird, they can't die in front of this door, and they won't retreat." ”
Sun Zikai said indifferently: "I slaughtered their family, it is for this reason, their back road and thoughts are desperate, their minds are full of hatred, this is the best opportunity for us to kill them, they can actually wait to make hundreds of bows, or build ladders to come up, but unfortunately, they lost their minds and only thought about rushing over first." ”
The guards still didn't go out, according to Sun Zikai, they wanted to minimize the risk of their own death, so the top stones were almost all detained, and when all the barbarians died, they waited for another hour.
Then, the six sons and the two went down with ropes, first collecting arrows, sending them back to the wall one by one, and then mending their swords one by one, until they were sure that all the barbarians were dead, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was just a pillar of incense time, Lao Yang desperately rushed back with a group of people, everyone who came regarded death as home, but outside the wall, the people who saw the bloody corpse pile were shocked, and the guards did not have a single casualty, Lao Zhang sat on the wall, smiled at Lao Yang, pointed at Sun Zikai, and did not speak.
At this time, a voice came from below, and the sixth son shouted, "There are two alive!" ”
Everyone looked out, there were indeed two men, hidden in the pile of dead people, although they were also injured, but they could still move, they were caught under the wall, all of them bowed their heads in despair, Lao Zhang stood up and said: "You two, one of you can live, go back and tell all the barbarians that this road will never be passed, and your Hades is here!" ”
The gatekeepers raised their arms and shouted, they had never won such a big victory in many years, and this was their most proud of it.
Suddenly, a barbarian made a move and broke the neck of his compatriots with a punch, Lao Zhang was silent for a moment, then nodded, and the sixth son let the man leave, but at this time, Sun Zikai said coldly; "Sixth brother, kill him!"
The sixth son raised his knife and cut off the man's head directly, Sun Zikai said: "You don't need to leave someone to go back to pass it, no one goes back, it's the best demonstration." ”