Chapter 38: Shock
Wei Wuxian first greeted his mother Wei early in the morning, and then went to the Donghua Palace.
Donghua Hall is the place where King Yan deliberates, and if it is not summoned, even Wang Shizi cannot enter it at will.
Wei Wuxian came for the first time, and when he entered, he found that in addition to the ministers of the palace, the prince Wei Wuchang and his three elder brothers were there.
Wei Wuchang and Wei Wuyi were born to the side concubine Ma, Wei Wujian and Wei Wuxian were born to the concubine Liu, Wei Wuxian was the youngest, so he had to go up in turn to give the four of them a salute.
Wei Wuchang wore a purple gold crown on his head and a reckless dragon robe, and said proudly: "Seventh brother, how is it, are you still used to coming back?"
"Thank you for your concern, my younger brother hasn't slept so peacefully for a long time. Wei Wuxian bowed.
"That's good, as the saying goes, 'it's hard to go out at home', the seventh brother must have suffered a lot outside, right?"
"I have suffered a little, but I have also gained some knowledge. By the way, the younger brother is here to congratulate the second brother on inheriting the throne of the son. Wei Wuxian said and bowed again.
"Hahaha, the seventh brother doesn't need to be polite, there will be more places to rely on the seventh brother in the future, so don't be so polite to your own brothers. ”
Wei Wuchang laughed, Wei Wuxian's attitude made him very satisfied.
However, a discordant voice came from the other side: "The seventh brother has really gained knowledge, and now he also knows how to hug his thighs, will the outer sect of the Qingyang Sect teach this!"
Wei Wuchang's face sank, and Wei on the side said unintentionally: "Fourth, what strange things are you talking about, the seventh has just returned, why did you provoke you." ”
Wei Wujian snorted coldly: "I was talking to Lao Qi, did you ask the third brother?"
When the ministers on the other side saw the situation here, they seemed to be commonplace, and they looked at their noses and noses one by one, like clay sculpture bodhisattvas.
Wei Wuxian saw this situation for the first time, and just as he didn't know how to deal with it, there was a sound of footsteps in front of the main hall.
Then King Yan's burly body appeared in front of everyone, and everyone closed their mouths and bowed forward.
King Yan sat on the throne, his cold eyes scanned around everyone below, and then he began to speak.
"What do you have to discuss today?"
Bing Cao joined the army Gao Baihe stepped forward and said: "The commander of the Yubei Pass Liu Tiegun was killed in the battle of the Northern Barbarians when he was patrolling the Sunrise Pass before the sunrise, and now there is no one in charge of military affairs in the Yubei Pass, General Longchen has reported three candidates, please make a decision on the King of Yan." ”
The six kings of the Great Xia Dynasty each controlled one state or several states, the Yan king of the six kings was powerful, and controlled the three states of Yan, slip and Ling, and the jade bottle was closed in the territory of Lingzhou, which was a pass located on the border. The number of people is one hundred and six, and there is one chief and one deputy commander.
The little eunuch took the fold of the high white crane and walked quickly to the throne to present it.
King Yan picked it up, opened it, scanned the name on it, and re-stamped it: "Tell Long Chen, I already have a candidate, and I will take up the post within three days." As he spoke, his eyes glanced at Wei Wuxian, who was last in line, intentionally or unintentionally.
Wei Wuxian couldn't help but shudder, although King Yan was just an ordinary person, he was very powerful, and his casual eyes carried great coercion.
Yan Wang said: "What else do you want to report?"
Changshi Fei Changqing came out and said: "The Northern Barbarian monks under the supervision of the guards seem to be going out of the city, and Commander Mu asks if it is possible to start the round-up?"
"No, kill on the spot. Yan Wang's voice was cold, and after speaking, he turned to the right, and his eyes swept over the faces of Wei Wuchang, Wei Wuyi and the other four: "You can go and go without harm." ”
Wei Wuxian didn't expect that the first time he participated in the meeting, his father arranged an errand and hurriedly followed Wei Wujian forward to receive the order.
Out of the Donghua Palace, Fei Changqing took the two of them to see Mu Bai, the commander of the Praetorian Guard.
"Mu Bai, the two sons will be handed over to you, I will ask you if you have one hair less!"
Although Mu Bai didn't know why he wanted to arrange for the two sons to go together, he still bowed down and said, "Changshi, rest assured, the last general will never let the two sons have any mistakes." ”
Wei Wujian watched Fei Changqing walk away and said, "Commander Mu, don't worry too much about Fei Changshi's words, we are ordered to come over to assist you in capturing the Northern Barbarian Monks, and here we are your soldiers!"
Wei Wuxian said: "What the third brother said is right, what arrangements Commander Mu has to order." ”
Mu Bai slandered in his heart, how could he not care, and arched his hand at the two of them: "Don't worry, the two sons will know what to do." Inevitably have a lot of dreams at night, let's go to the hiding place of the Northern Barbarian monk!"
Wei Wuxian and the others followed him to order a hundred Praetorian Guards first, and then left the Yan Wang's Mansion and headed towards the north of the city.
Wei Wuxian was curious how they were going to deal with the Northern Barbarian Demon Dao, and he observed that a hundred Praetorian Guards were armed with bows and crossbows in addition to spears. In the eyes of the monks, these weapons are like dead branches and leaves, and they have to be broken in two with a sword, so can they be used to fight against the monks?
The group soon arrived at a mountain field in the north of the city, and there was a courtyard about an acre of land under the mountain, and the guards who were waiting here came to report that the Northern Barbarian monk was still inside.
Suddenly, there was movement in the courtyard below, and a middle-aged monk wearing a gossip robe walked out of the courtyard.
This person glanced to both sides, obviously not finding Wei Wuxian and the others who were lying in ambush fifty zhang away.
Mu Bai said, "He is the Northern Barbarian monk. ”
After confirming that it was safe, the Northern Barbarian monk began to walk briskly in their direction, and there was only one way out of the city.
Mu Bai began to order: "Everyone is ready to do it!"
The fifty men with bows and crossbows wound their arrows almost simultaneously, and in their hands they were one-handed O-crossbows, which were wound extremely quickly.
Fifty others waited with spears in their arms.
Just as the Northern Barbarian monk was about to approach ten zhang away, Mu Bai waved one hand, and fifty Praetorian Guards armed with spears rushed out directly.
The Northern Barbarian Monk did not panic when he saw it, he stopped, drew the sword behind his back and faced it proudly.
Wei Wuxian sensed that this Northern Barbarian cultivator had at least seven levels of cultivation in the Qi Refining Period, which meant that if the other party was a sword cultivator, he would not be able to get close to the fifty guards even if he used the sword technique.
Wei Wujian pulled out the sword he was carrying with him and said, "Commander Mu, do you need my help?"
Mu Bai said: "It's good that the two sons are here, they are enough to subdue that Northern Barbarian monk!"
As the two spoke, a battle had begun beneath them.
I saw that the fifty spearmen were divided into ten groups, each group of five people, and the group surrounded the Northern Barbarian monks in the middle, and they cooperated with each other very tacitly, and there was almost no loophole in the spear formation formed.
Wei Wuxian could see that the fifty Praetorian guards were of course carefully selected from the tens of millions of troops, and each of them had good kung fu, but it was just good, and any one of them would not be able to make three moves in the hands of the Northern Barbarian monk.
But the spear formation of five people solved the personal shortcomings, one person was in distress, and the people next to him immediately made up for it. Of course, if there is only one set of spear formations, it is not the opponent of the Northern Barbarian Monk, but he has to face ten groups of spear formations.
It's pretty scary!
The spear array of a group of five people is equivalent to one person when enlarged, so that ten groups of spear arrays are equal to two large spear arrays.
The Praetorian Guards are well-trained, a large group of spear formations against the enemy, and another large group of spear formations are interspersed outside, it can be said that you sing and I appear, the Northern Barbarian monks were forced to only parry, and wanted to use the power of the sword weapon in their hands to cut off the spear on the opposite side, but they couldn't do it at all, the spears of those Praetorian Guards were very flexible, and every time they stabbed out, they were like a spirit snake spitting out letters, and they were extremely fast.
And the spears in their hands are also very hard, as long as they don't collide with the opponent's sword weapon, they don't have to worry about being cut off.
After a few rounds, the Northern Barbarian monks were cut off with seven or eight spears, which had little impact on the overall situation.
Fifty Praetorian Guards attacked in turns, so it didn't take much effort, but the Northern Barbarian monks who were surrounded inside were overwhelmed and had no chance to rest.
Several of the spearmen were slightly wounded by the Northern Barbarian monks, and were quickly replaced by those behind them, and the offensive continued.
After a long time, the Northern Barbarian monk's swordsmanship began to show loopholes, and he was stabbed in the right leg by the spear of a Praetorian Guard.
The spears of the Praetorian Guards were eight inches long.
One zhang is the spear body, and eight inches is the spear head.
With such a long weapon, the Praetorian Guard didn't need to get too close to the Northern Barbarian monk, as long as they kept stabbing up.
The Northern Barbarian Monk's right foot was injured, and his footwork was even more chaotic, and he never dreamed that he would be bullied like this by a group of ordinary people.
But now that the situation was urgent, he couldn't think too much, and forced back the people around him with all his might, and then his body jumped upward, soaring three feet into the air in an instant.
This height spear can't reach, as long as he sacrifices the flying sword, he can escape with the sword.
But at this moment, the sound of whizzing arrows breaking through the air was heard.
The Northern Barbarian monk was so shocked that he didn't have time to sacrifice his flying sword, and swept it in the direction where the arrow came from.
More than a dozen crossbow arrows were swung away by him.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, there was another swishing sound in the air from the other side.
He had to parry with his sword again.
But the crossbow arrows behind were wave after wave, and there was no sign of stopping at all.
Fifty crossbowmen took turns firing in three groups on the hillside, and as long as there were enough crossbow arrows, they fired a steady stream of arrows.
The Northern Barbarian Monk was unable to borrow his strength in the air, and under the attack of rounds of crossbow arrows, he kept falling.
He was greeted below by fifty spears.
The ending speaks for itself.
Wei Wuxian watched as the Northern Barbarian cultivator who was at the seventh level of the Qi Refining Stage was picked up in the air by a dozen spears like this, and his limbs shook weakly a few times before he died on his back.
Wei Wujian put his sword into the sheath and said, "Seventh brother, how is the cultivation of this Northern Barbarian monk, can it compare to you?"
"The little brother is just a gangster in Qingyang Sect, where can he compare with such a fierce man. ”
Wei Wuxian ignored Wei Wujian's mockery, the scene was very bloody and shocking, this was the one on the throne who was vaguely warning himself: don't think that you are great if you have stayed in the Immortal Gate, when you return to the palace, you have to follow his rules, otherwise, this scene will not be staged again.
This is a shock from King Yan.