Chapter 9: The Ancestral Hall is Attacked
After a few pigeon calls, the soldiers couldn't help but look nervous, quickly took out their bows and arrows and stared around vigilantly, but after a while, they didn't notice anything, only the group stepped on the thick pine needles and made a "rustling" sound. Xiao Gao turned his head and whispered to He Jizhen: "My lord, are we too nervous, maybe it's just an ordinary pigeon?"
"Hmm... I hope so..."Although He Jizhen said this, he still looked nervous, and hurriedly took out a few darts from his waist, his eyes quickly scanning the trees.
Seeing that the expressionless soldiers of the Tiance Mansion around him were still standing straight around the ancestral hall without any movement, He Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "The other party's purpose is to kill their leader Tang Mu, but these battle-hardened soldiers are not very nervous, is it really me who is too nervous?" Thinking of this, He Ji really let out a long breath and put the dart into his waist.
An explosion came from the pine tree two feet away from He Jizhen, and the smell of gunpowder mixed with dust and sawdust rushed to his face, which immediately blew He Jizhen's face black, and his hair was sprinkled on his head like a weeping willow in spring.
"All the soldiers listen to the order!" A loud and resolute voice penetrated the crowd and reached everyone's ears, "The Flying Feather Battalion aims at any flying bird that flies around it, and it will be killed if it enters the ancestral hall within ten zhang!" The Iron Guard Battalion will always pay attention to whether there are any fish that have slipped through the net, and if any flying bird comes in with a thunderbolt, immediately defend everyone with an iron shield! Today's battle can only be won and not defeated!"
"Yes!" all the soldiers replied in unison, and then they were arranged in formation, and He Jizhen and several people also hurriedly entered the town to coordinate.
After that, a whistle struck, and I saw hundreds of pigeons, crows, and so on flying over the ancient pine forest, and from a distance, it seemed as if a large dark cloud had floated over, and the place where the birds passed covered the sky and the sun, and even the sunlight could not penetrate it! The flock of birds flew closer and closer, and the unbelievable picture came into the eyes of everyone, and there was a person standing among the flocks of birds! A man in white wearing a mask and holding shakuhachi stood lightly among the flocks of birds.
"My mother..."Although all the soldiers have been on the battlefield for a long time and have excellent courage, they still feel panicked when they see this strange scene, and even the formation is a little chaotic, at this time, a middle-aged man pulled out his sword and raised the top of his head, only to see that his body was straight, his bronze face had a few scars, and there was even a trace of excitement before there was any fear in his eyes, this person was the supreme leader of today's Cefu - Tang Mu.
"All the soldiers listen to my orders, fly feather battalion, aim at the thunderbolts under the feet of all the birds, shoot!"
After the password was issued, I saw hundreds of arrows black pressed by a piece mixed with the sound of "whoosh" breaking wind quickly shot towards the birds, the man in white on the flock of birds quickly picked up the shakuhachi and blew it gently, only to see the flock of birds scattered around like a well-trained troops, but the speed of the arrows was obviously faster than the flight speed of the birds, and the arrows quickly hit the thunderbolts tied to the legs of the birds, and the birds were not dispersed quickly, and more than half of them were killed in an instant.
"Okay! there's really a set!" He Jizhen couldn't help but applaud when he looked at this scene, and couldn't help but secretly praise Tiance Mansion in his heart. "My lord, no wonder when I persuaded them to change the date to worship their ancestors, they said that there was no need to worry about the rivers and lakes, it seems that it is true
What he said is true!" Xiao Gao looked at this scene and felt relieved in his heart, and then He Jizhen's words continued.
"The Flying Feather Battalion continues to shoot, and the Iron Guard Battalion's shield is ready!" Tang Mu looked at the smoke in the sky not far away and continued to order. Immediately, I saw that the soldiers of the Iron Guard Battalion quickly removed the tip of the spear, and the body of the spear was connected with the iron shield, and after the first batch of arrows from the Flying Feather Battalion was fired, the Iron Guard Battalion quickly used the iron shield to match, and it looked like a black half iron ball from a distance.
After the first wave of arrows, some more birds died in the air. Then the rest of the flock of birds quickly struck the crowd with the last shakuhachi sound.
"Brothers, give me a stand!"
The roaring explosion sounded above the heads of the soldiers, and everyone was stunned by the sound, but they still held their shields, their hands, arms, and shoulders were so painful that some of them were even shaken open, and some of the slightly thin soldiers were even cracked in their bones.
After a while, the explosion finally ended, Tang Mu signaled to put down his shield, the masked man was long gone, and all he saw was a mess around him, blood, dust, flying feathers, charred trees, and wounded soldiers, all of which showed how tragic what had just happened.
He Jizhen watched all this quietly, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly felt that something was not right.
"What's wrong?" He Jizhen muttered to himself, then closed his eyes and carefully recalled the situation just now, and after a while, a terrible thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Lord Tang, I thought about the situation just now, although the assassins did mix some thunderbolts in it, but according to what I saw and heard when I was young, it is impossible for the explosion of so many thunderbolts to affect such a small area... In addition, the thunderbolt is made of gunpowder and some other things, and the smell is a little different from the smell of ordinary gunpowder explosions, so you can smell the difference between the smell of smoke here and there. ”
After hearing this, Tang Mu nodded slightly and pondered for a while, then looked at He Jizhen and asked, "Although Lord He and I don't have a deep relationship, but I belong to the same Tang Dynasty as me, and I have also heard of Lord He's ability to handle cases, I will not doubt Lord He's words, but what is the purpose of their doing this?"
He Jizhen took Tang Mu's words and continued: "In my opinion, the reason why they are like this is probably delaying our time, now that most of Lord Tang's elites are here, then the guards of the General's Mansion can..."
"Not good! Their purpose is to steal the border force distribution map of my Tang Dynasty!" Tang Mu said angrily, "Go back to the General's Mansion quickly!"