Chapter 6 The Spiritual Gate Begins to Open
Gao Zhanen looked back at Li Deming, saw him nodding slightly, knowing that the time had come, he reached out and took out five colored flags of red, yellow, blue, black and green from his arms. After a drum sounded, Gao Zhanen waved the yellow flag, and the sergeant beating the drum switched to beating it with a small hammer, and after a while, an infantry army drove hundreds of carriages to the front of the school field, each carriage had a huge leather bag, almost three people high, the skin bag was like a ball full of air, bulging high. At the front of each skin bag, there is a long hose, and next to it stands a soldier, holding a torch.
The celestial phenomena were abnormal, and everyone was on guard, thinking: Could this be the opening of the legendary spiritual gate? After a while, the whole sky gradually became gloomy, the wind and clouds moved, and the thunder rolled.
A shrill chirp pierced the sky, like an eagle, but it was even more majestic and long, and huge shadows crossed the stands, and a few circles set off a gust of wind and landed on the stands. It turned out to be a big fiery red bird that landed next to Li Deming, with two eyes on each side of this bird, and a wide beak that could be three feet long.
Then, a cry of "hiss" came, and a white beast jumped up to the high platform, the body of this beast was like a lion, the limbs were thick and powerful, there were two horns on the top of the head, and a big fluffy tail flicked around, and when he approached Li Deming, he rubbed against him, and looked very affectionate. It is the Chongming Bird and Bai Ze Beast that Qia Man gave to the King of Xiping, and the two Rui Beasts have always followed Li Deming's side over the years.
There was a loud clicking sound over Horseshoe Ridge, which was deafening, as if the sky had been split. Everyone vaguely saw a flash of white light, and a dot emitted a dazzling light, almost making it impossible to open their eyes. The light was slightly weaker, and a black mist faintly appeared in the distance, and a gust of wind blew, and the air was filled with a fishy smell.
At first, it seemed to be the chirping of a flock of birds, but if you listened closely, it didn't look like it, it was a strange sound, it sounded "rustling" from afar, then it was mixed with "chirping" and "squeaking" screaming closer.
As the black fog grew louder and louder, the sound became louder and louder, and someone pointed to the sky in the distance and shouted, "Bat, it's a bat......."
As soon as the words fell, dense bats appeared in people's field of vision, led by dozens of bats have flown to the periphery of the school field, people only then saw that the bat was huge, its wings were spread out more than two feet wide, red eyes and fangs, a pair of sharp claws were bigger than a human palm, and tens of thousands of bats let out a piercing scream, pressing down in the direction of the crowd. A sharp-eyed lost voice shouted: "It's not good, it's a tiger bat, copy the guy quickly......"
The tiger bat has disappeared for many years, and there were records of tiger bats eating people as early as the Han Dynasty, and an adult tiger bat was enough to bite and eat an adult. Why this evil beast appeared in groups at this time, no one can guess. Only Li Deming remembered the advice of appreciating the feather back then, and now, the prophecy has come true.
In the panic, everyone drew their weapons, held hidden weapons in their hands, and prepared to fight. The tiger bats came so fast that the first few had already swooped down. Gao Zhanen was about to wave the yellow flag, when suddenly a person jumped high in the crowd, and then a cold light flashed in mid-air, and a tiger bat was cut off its wings and fell to the ground. When everyone looked at it, the person who shot was Xing Youguo of Yanyun Xingmen, don't look at his short and fat body, he was very flexible in his shot.
The shaved tiger bat was still fierce, its two paws on the ground, squeaking and screaming towards the crowd. Several disciples of Yanyun Xingmen got closer, and drew their blades to chop the beast into meat puree, and the onlookers all applauded loudly.
Xing Youguo saw that everyone was cheering, and he had the heart to show a few more hands. Standing upright, he played a long knife like mercury on the ground, "sitting and watching the clouds", "going north out of Yingwu", "setting the army in the abyss", "cutting down Weishuo again"...... Yan Yun's sixteen hands were unfolded, only to see the shadow of the sword in the sky, and the tiger bats that swooped down first were cut down one after another.
Everyone cheered in unison, and some young Jianghu disciples were eager to try, and they also wanted to ask for a lottery, and they jumped up in the air and slashed with knives, but the tiger head bats kept coming, gathering more and more, and several descendants were not sure of the timing, and before the move of jumping in the air was launched, they were surrounded by hundreds of bats and bitten and scratched, and in a moment several people were divided into corpses in the air, and blood and water were splashed everywhere.
Seeing the bats hovering over the school field covering the sky and the sun, Xing Youguo and the others' faces changed color, how dare they jump up again. More than 1,000 Jianghu figures at the scene clenched their blades, and their palms were full of cold sweat.
After circling and dancing for a while, hundreds of tiger bats suddenly attacked, and the rest of the bats saw this, followed closely and rushed down towards the crowd. Gao Zhanen pointed the yellow flag forward, and the sergeant holding the torch grabbed the hose at the front end of the leather bag, pulled out the nozzles one by one and aimed them at the torches, and heard a "poof" sound, and the nozzle actually spewed fire. Seeing the fire, some sergeants came over and squeezed the skin bags with wooden hammers, and in an instant, the flames in the nozzles erupted dozens of feet away, and hundreds of skin bags spewed flames one after another, connecting into a whole wall of fire, burning towards the tiger bat.
It turned out that the Xixia Hetao area was full of swamps and was rich in biogas. Over the years, Gao Zhanen was commissioned to survey the terrain and mountains in various places, and accidentally found that there were a large amount of gases in these swamps, which were very flammable. So he sent people to make huge skins out of animal skins and collect biogas. Later, he invited skilled craftsmen from the carpentry institute to repeatedly develop and create the current fire-breathing device. I originally wanted to use it on the battlefield in the future, but I didn't expect to receive miraculous results today.
The budg-headed bat has fluffy hairs on its body and its wings are covered with oil, which catches fire when it encounters fire. The tiger bats in the sky instantly turned into a ball of fire, struggled a few times and fell to the ground, and were soon burned to charcoal, and the stench in the air was pungent and disgusting.
About half an hour later, the methane gas in the skin was burned out, and all the tiger bats were burned to death, and some of those who were lucky enough to escape could not escape the sergeant's bow and crossbow.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and was discussing a lot, and there was another loud bang in the direction of Helan Mountain, and most people chuckled in their hearts, thinking that there were still monsters appearing?
Just as he was thinking about it, a hurricane in the distance swept up the yellow sand and hit Lingzhou City.
"Look, it's a sandstorm ......"
"Such a big sandstorm, do you want to go into the city to avoid it?"
"What avoid? Didn't you see King Xiping sitting there or moving?"
People looked back at the high platform and saw Li Deming sitting upright, as if he was confident. Look at the yellow sand again, like a wall of wind, far away at the beginning, it seems to move slowly, and it is only a tea effort, and it has reached the wilderness on the periphery of the school field. Everyone only felt that the earth was trembling, and the wind was mixed with the roar of fierce beasts, and the roar shook the heavens and the earth. The horses pulling the carts on the school field were so frightened that they neighed and kicked their hooves, and if it weren't for the sergeants desperately pulling the reins, the horses would have been frightened and would have fled in all directions.
"Ah, there are big worms...... someone outside the crowd shouted: "Everyone be careful, it's a big worm, thousands of big worms!"
Some people also shouted: "No, it's not a big insect, the pattern is wrong......
Someone finally recognized: "Shanhuang, it's Shanhuang ......"
Everyone stared at it, only to see that under the wind wall, the beasts all over the mountains appeared in shape, all of them were more than twice the size of the tigers, the whole body was golden, the short tail and long teeth, especially the two fangs sticking out of the mouth, like two sharp blades. Thousands of mountain yellows roared in unison, and the drums on the high platform were drowned out.
Most of the high-rollers who came to the meeting were unrestrained by nature, had no military training, and fought separately at a critical juncture, and at this time they were even more chaotic, some wanted to escape from the school, some people wanted to pull out their blades to meet the battle, pushing back and forth, crowding and trampling, and shouting and scolding endlessly.
Someone shouted, "Which brother goes to set up a powerful example and kills the first few evil animals?"
Then the person chimed in: "Yes, don't let people flatten the Central Plains martial arts......"
There was a moment of arguing, but no one stepped forward.
Everyone looked at the smoke and dust billowing in the sky, and they all thought that there were hundreds or thousands of these mountain yellow animals, and they rushed forward at this time, wouldn't they be sent to death in vain? Just as they were shouting, suddenly a tall figure leaped out, jumped over the horse rejection array, and rushed towards the mountain yellow beast herd with a huge Zen staff.
"Ah, someone is really going?"
"Isn't that Mangyi Mage?"
"Master Mang Yi is worthy of being the first person of Mr. Ten Spirits!"
"Mage be careful......"
Everyone stood on tiptoe and looked over, only to see that the monk Mang Yi waved away the golden wind Zen staff, "bang" a few times, knocked the nearest few Shanhuang to the ground, and then pounced, shouting a single palm on the top of Shanhuang's head, this palm almost has the power to open the stele and crack the stone, and beat the evil beast to the point of bleeding, unable to move. was concocted in accordance with the law, and in the blink of an eye, three or four Shanhuang were killed.
Everyone applauded loudly, and even more humane: "Master Mangyi's Golden Wind Zen Staff and Jin Lingzhang are unparalleled in the world, and they are the leaders today, which is the example of our Central Plains martial artists." ”
"Yes, what are you waiting for? side by side......"
As he spoke, someone bypassed the horse rejection array and rushed forward, and dozens of strong men with strong blood and strength waved their blades and rushed into the herd. At this time, hundreds of Shanhuang had already arrived, and after a while, they surrounded Monk Mang Yi and others.
Although these people are all high-rollers, if they talk about fighting alone, they are all powerful, and one or two evil beasts are naturally not a problem. But in the face of hundreds of mountain yellows, after a long time, it is inevitable that the strength will not be enough. In a short time, someone was thrown to the ground, and after only a few blows, he was caught and disemboweled. Smelling the bloody gas, Shanhuang was even more crazy, and it kept pouring up, dozens of people were instantly knocked down and eaten clean, and it didn't take long for only five people such as Monk Mang Yi to support him.
"What can I do about this? Master Mangyi will come back soon......"
"Oh no, they're trapped, how can they get back?"
"Hurry up...... Who would want to go?"
"That's nice, why don't you go?"
"Ge Laozi, what am I going to do, it's not enough to stuff those beasts!"
Everyone on the school field was in a panic, seeing that Monk Mang Yi and others were about to die in the mouth of the evil beast. Gao Zhanen picked up the blue flag and shook it in the air, and then the two teams of crossbowmen rushed out of the horse rejection array and fired arrows one after another, the beasts dodged, making a gap, and the monk Mang Yi rose up with divine power to open the golden wind Zen staff, and led the other four to fight out of the encirclement.
When they returned to the school yard, when everyone looked again, they saw that the five people had wounds of different sizes, each wound was open to the flesh, and the bones were visible, which showed that the claws of the mountain yellow feet were sharp.
Seeing that Mang Yi and the others were out of danger, Gao Zhanen waved the blue flag again, and hundreds of wrestlers on both sides of the high platform shouted in unison, pushing a giant war drum to the stage, and nine strong men who were too tall were shirtless, picked up a wooden hammer the size of a watermelon and began to beat this big drum. The nine people dropped their hammers in unison, and the drums sounded deafeningly, and "dong dong" was transmitted. On the arrow towers around the school field, the crossbowmen set up huge bows and crossbows, and placed arrow boxes, each of which contained fifty black gold iron ridge arrows, and the arrows of each arrow were triangular, exuding a faint blue luster, obviously fed with poison.
This is a divine arm bow created by Gao Zhan's Grace Divine Arm Hall, which can fire fifty sharp arrows in a row, one arrow box is used up, and then another one, as long as the arrow box has arrows, it can be fired continuously.
The rumbling drums calmed people down a little, and everyone looked back at Gao Zhan'en on the stage to see how he gave orders.
At this time, a large number of mountain yellow giant beasts have pounced in front of the horse rejection array, Gao Zhanen pointed the blue flag forward, and the sergeants on dozens of arrow towers drew their hard bows, activated the mechanism, and as soon as they let go, the black gold iron spine arrows in the arrow box whistled out. I saw a rain of arrows flying away from the string and heading straight for Shanhuang. In an instant, 100 mountain yellow arrows were hit, and some were almost shot into hedgehogs and killed on the spot. Others were hit by a few arrows and staggered and struggled, but they couldn't withstand the poison attack on the arrows, and they fell to the ground for a long time.
After dozens of rounds of arrow box changes, thousands of Shanhuang were all shot to death, and a few who missed the net failed to cross the barrier of rejecting horses, and some of them hit steel nails and were nailed alive to the rejecting spurs, twitching with their four claws, and wailing constantly. When everyone remembered the scene just now, they only felt two trembling and were soaked in cold sweat. Everyone's eyes widened and their expressions were solemn, and their blades were in their hands, and they didn't say a word.