Chapter Seventy-Six: The Valley Meets the Cloud-Piercing Arrow Again
Xue Ding spoke with a standard Yandi accent, if it was someone else, hearing Yanmin's accent in Zhao State, he would suffer some humiliation no matter what. Fortunately, Schröding is burly, and he is holding a famous sword, just standing there, giving people the feeling that he is already a mighty and inviolable lion.
Those tea guests politely pointed out the direction of the Beishan mine to Schröding, and even kindly reminded him of some strange events in the mine recently.
Xue Ding just nodded coldly, and then went to the Beishan mine with his knife.
The previous Beishan Mine was also a forbidden area in Zhao State, because the prisoners were all prisoners captured on the battlefield, so there would be heavy soldiers there all year round. It's just that over the years, Zhao and Qi have been at war frequently, and the deployment of domestic troops has become more and more stretched, and now the garrison of the Beishan mine is not even a thousand people, which is far less than the number of prisoners of war held in the mine.
This rumor has revealed that more than 100 sergeants have disappeared in the Beishan Mine, which may have caused a lot of turmoil in the mine.
Xue Ding didn't think about it so much, he just wanted to confirm whether this incident had anything to do with Xue Ying.
The road to the Beishan mine is not easy to walk, this is a vein of iron and stone, and most of the raw materials for the smelting of weapons in Zhao State come from this vein. Zhao was able to become one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States step by step, and this Beishan mine can be said to be a great contribution.
It's just that no matter how rich the mineral resources are, there will eventually be a time when they will be exhausted, after several generations of Zhao and hundreds of years of mining, this iron and stone vein has rarely produced high-quality iron ore, and now the prisoners of war are imprisoned here, and they don't expect them to be able to mine much iron ore, but more just want to torture these prisoners of war.
Schröding walked for nearly two hours to come to the Beishan Mine, and by the time he arrived at the mine, it was already dark.
Although the garrison of the Beishan Mine is far less than before, Xue Ding's front foot has just entered the mining area, and someone immediately blocked his way behind, and the arrangement of light and dark sentry posts is still very rigorous.
"Stop!" a Zhao military lieutenant stopped Xue Ding: "What kind of person, dare to break into the Beishan mine! Quickly retreat, otherwise don't blame us for being unkind to you." ”
Schröding's ears moved slightly, and he didn't need to look at it with his eyes, he already knew that there were crossbowmen aiming at him in all four directions, and he was surrounded by at least ten people at the moment.
No wonder this captain dared to walk in front of him so openly, it turned out that the back hands had already been arranged.
Looking at the young Captain Zhao in front of him, Xue Ding said indifferently: "I'll come here to find someone." ”
As soon as Xue Ding opened his mouth, the captain had already put one hand on the war knife on his waist: "Yan people? Oh, no, I said it wrong, it should be Yandi people, Yan people have long been without a country." What he said was sarcasm, but what he made was a preoccupied defensive posture, most of the prisoners in the Beishan mine were prisoners of war from the Yan Kingdom, and now there were suddenly Yan people to break into the camp, it could definitely be said that the people who came were not good.
Not only the captain, but also the surrounding crossbowmen all stood up one by one, raised their crossbows, and locked their heads on Xue Ding's body, as long as he dared to act rashly, these well-trained sergeants would definitely shoot their targets into hedgehogs as soon as possible.
"I said, I'm here just to find someone. There was no sadness or joy on Xue Ding's face, and even the hand holding the knife did not make the slightest movement.
"There's no one you're looking for here, so get back quickly so as not to make a mistake!" the lieutenant unsheathed his sword in one hand, and raised his other hand weakly, and as soon as he clenched his fist, the crossbowmen lying in ambush around him would rain a volley of arrows.
At this dangerous moment when the two sides were tense, suddenly, a woman's poignant Yan Guo's melody came from the valley in the distance.
The woman's singing voice was ethereal and melodious, very good, but this scene was full of eerie and weird feelings, and the sergeants who were concentrating on dealing with Xue Ding were all distracted for a while.
"Be careful!" suddenly a sergeant reminded the lieutenant.
The war knife in the captain's hand was sonorously unsheathed, but the opposite side did not give him a chance to swing the knife at all, and a cold light flashed, and the war knife of excellent quality was directly cut into two parts.
Schröding had no intention of killing, but he had broken his knife, and the captain was unharmed.
Watching Xue Ding's ups and downs disappear from their field of vision, the crossbowmen came back to their senses, but at this time, if they wanted to lock on to the target, where was the time.
"General, what are we going to do, are we going to chase after us?" Immediately a sergeant came forward to ask the young lieutenant officer.
He seemed to be heading towards the valley. Someone added.
The young lieutenant still has some eyesight, and after seeing Schröding's short shot, he knows that with these people under his hands, he is not that person's opponent at all: "This person is not simple, order the outpost brothers on the periphery, when you see him appear again, you must not act rashly, as long as he is not here to rob the camp, we will not care about other things." ”
If he wanted to rob the camp, the other party should have killed himself just now, and the young lieutenant knew that if the other party had the slightest murderous intent, he was afraid that he would be completely dead by this time. He didn't have that confidence, he felt that his neck would be harder than the Hundred Refining Battle Sword in his hand.
Xue Ding used his technique, quickly moving and jumping in the jungle, it was the blink of an eye, he had come to the valley where the song came from, and he followed the song to find this direction.
Although he had heard many bizarre incidents about this valley before, Schröding still rushed into this valley without the slightest hesitation.
However, it was not long before he entered the valley when his speed slowed down.
It was not wrong that the woman's singing came from this valley, but it was not easy to enter the valley and try to hear the voice.
As long as any sound enters this valley, it will reverberate endlessly.
With a whoosh, a short arrow only half a foot long grazed in front of Xue Ding's body, and there was a phoenix whistle on the arrow. So the arrows flew by, with a long, high-pitched whistling sound.
Xue Ding's six senses were keen, and he let go of the short arrow in one step, and at the same time reached out into a claw, and instantly grasped it in his palm.
"Cloud-piercing arrows?" Schröding recognized the crossbow arrows at a glance.
How could he not recognize it, this was once the standard short crossbow arrow of the ironclad army, each of which has undergone special treatment, if it is hit by this kind of crossbow arrow, the phoenix whistle entrapped on the arrow will immediately pop out of the barb, and the person who is hit by the arrow wants to pull out the arrow, then he has to take off a piece of meat from his body alive.
At the beginning, on the battlefield, the prestige of the cloud-piercing arrow was enough to deter the three armies.
It's just that Xue Ding never thought that he would see this kind of crossbow arrow here.