Chapter 16 Entering the Village (I)
Thirty miles north of Shuofang, there is another small fortress, which is also located on a towering mound.
The fortress was originally nameless, but because a fierce and famous guard was stationed in the wall, it was called the first village over time.
The gate of the village was closed, the drawbridge was pulled up, and Liu Tugou and Yang Xiongji stood outside the wall on their mounts, looking up at the guards guarding the gate on the corner tower.
This soldier has a round face, a square nose, big ears and thick lips, but the eyes are narrow and long, which destroys what should be a simple appearance, but gives people a sense of coolness.
He was not wearing the fiery red armor robe of the Great Zhou army, but a black silk gown, with his chest open in the cold spring season, squatting on the wooden eaves of the corner tower, condescending, and smiling coldly.
"Xinding, one is a hairy boy who has just been weaned, and the other is a stupid bird who is obviously a bandit but wants to pretend to be a scholar, and he just rushed to die when the master was on duty, which is really unlucky. ”
Although he spoke disdainfully to the two people below, his eyes only wandered back and forth on their weapons and mounts, and there was no contempt on his face.
Liu Erye, who looked like a harmless teenager, grinned and said: "This master, our two brothers have offended people, and we have no choice but to take this road, please be accommodating." ”
He pulled out a letter from his bosom, threw it with a shake of his hand, and shot the fluttering envelope at the black-clad soldier.
The soldier was slightly moved, this hand-lifting kung fu is at least the cultivation of the Qi Middle Realm.
He didn't pick it up with his hands, but kept a squatting posture and kicked out, cut off the letter with his toes, and swept his eyes, which were clearly covered with the fire paint of General Shuofang's mansion.
He nodded, with a little more prudence and kindness on his face, and said with a smile: "The door to the village is only open for two kinds of people, one is the living people in the village, and the other is the dead outsiders in the village, you are not either of them now, either find a way to come up by yourself, or go home and eat milk!"
Liu Tugou looked at the towering wall, although it was not all built of hard bluestone like Shuofang City, but it was only rammed earth for the city, but because the mound as the foundation was not low, it created a steep height of more than ten zhang from the ground. The only way to get in and out of the mount is to lower the huge drawbridge.
"Not negotiable?"
The black-clothed sentry guard whistled, and more than a dozen men in black suits immediately appeared on the originally empty wall, raising the extremely huge bronze crossbow in their hands.
Different from the light hunting crossbows used by the Cloud Cavalry Guard, these men all have large divine arm crossbows in their hands that can only be used by two or three people in the ordinary army, and the crossbows are the length of a human body, and the crossbow arrows used are also the length of an adult's arm and the thickness of a thumb. At such a close distance, there is no need for special arrows such as armor-piercing arrows, as long as they are shot, the three or five arrows will be hated by the qi training masters.
"What do you say?"
The second master grinned and said: "Good guys, all of them are good men who have built a foundation, and when they are carried to the local county army, the centurion can also be the centurion, and the first guard is really extraordinary." ”
He suddenly slapped Ah Wei on the top of the head, and the demon horse's eyes immediately turned blood-red, and with a long neigh, it flew upwards and crashed headlong into the heavy wooden suspension bridge.
Boom!
The drawbridge was too high, and the momentum of the white horse inevitably slowed down, and the ten divine arm crossbows that were still not triggered at the first time when one person and one horse moved finally shot deadly crossbow arrows, and shot at the white horse that had nowhere to borrow from different angles, because the timing was extremely accurate, as if someone had gently plucked a string, and the ten strings were connected into a trill with a long aftertaste.
A cruel smile appeared on the black-clothed sentry's face, and only one thought flashed through his mind: "It's a pity for this good horse." ”
Not surprisingly, a man and a horse will be like those guys who don't know whether to live or die in the past, and they will be blown into a stall of red and bright minced meat under the wall.
Liu Tugou slaughtered in his hand, waved the sleeves of his robe, and drew several extremely fast and clear arcs in the air.
The black-clothed sentry's pupils contracted, and he watched as the young man in sackcloth not only lightly knocked away all the crossbow arrows that shot at him, but also stepped heavily on the horse's back, and while pressing down the white horse to dodge the crossbow arrows, the man had already taken advantage of his strength to leap diagonally and fly towards the corner tower.
Although the black-clothed sentry guard was not shocked, he waved his arms forward with a cruel smile, threw out two strange-shaped flying knives like silver threads, and then picked up a snow-bright long knife from his feet, jumped out of the wall without hesitation, and rushed down against the momentum of the Mai boy.
Ah Wei was safe and sound, and after falling back to the ground, he bared his teeth at Liu Tugou, if it weren't for the second master who brutally slapped a wisp of knife qi into his own meridians, how could the white horse demon, who had already been psychic, suddenly go crazy?
Half of the ten black-clothed crossbowmen began to rewind, half threw down the crossbow, drew out their weapons in their hands, and watched the battle while not forgetting to cast a vigilant gaze at Yang Xiong's halberd, this guy not only carried a big iron halberd that looked like a murder weapon, but also looked like a great iron halberd, and the appearance of the mount under the crotch was even more extraordinary, with the white horse that looked more majestic but could climb the mountain as a comparison, even if this green bull with fangs flew up the next moment.
Yang Xiongji didn't move, he was just a cultivator who built a foundation, and he couldn't go up to find death.
Liu Tugou raised his head slightly, the second master who had always been a tiger descending from the mountain was overshadowed by someone from above, and he was very unhappy in his heart.
He spun in the air like an earthworm digging in the mud, and instantly changed his upward pounce to a forward rush, so that after passing two flying knives, he suddenly turned over and turned face up, and his probe clamped the ankle of the black-clothed sentry, and the aura lightly restrained the opponent's meridians.
The black-clothed sentry guard was shocked, and before he could raise his knife to stab, he felt an extremely sharp knife qi enter his body, and his whole body was in severe pain, and his aura immediately dispersed like numbness.
Liu Tugou chuckled: "Go!"
He flicked his arm down and back like a windmill, and drove his body to volley a somersault, throwing the black-clad sentry at the drawbridge, but he used the unlucky bastard as a battering ram.
This was a big surprise to everyone, and with a bang, the heavy plank was almost immediately knocked out of a large hole.
Liu Tugou did not pass through the big hole, but took advantage of the force to rise into the sky and jump to the top of the suspension bridge.
Entering the eye was a thick iron cable made of several twisted chains.
He raised his knife and cut one of the chains.
The broken chains crumbled back like whips, slamming against the wall, knocking off a layer of loess.
The iron cable shook, but the suspension bridge remained unmoving.
Five crossbow arrows flew in, blocking Liu Tugou's body, but the second master skillfully avoided four, and the one that missed the net shot directly into the second master's eyebrows, almost penetrating his brain, but was blocked by a short blade that came first.
The huge force knocked Liu Tugou's whole person away, and the second master was really a little annoyed after landing on the ground, and looked up at the figure who shot this tricky arrow on the wall.
It was a young man who was also dressed in black, except for his thick eyebrows and big eyes, his appearance was not outstanding, but there was a faint green aura on his face, which looked a little weird.
After this person appeared on the wall, he grabbed a big crossbow and pulled the trigger between the lightning and flint, although he did not cause any damage, but he also successfully repelled the second master.
Then, the black-clad sentry, who had just made a battering ram, climbed up the wall along the rope hanging from the head of the city, apparently almost unscathed.
He looked at Liu Tugou's eyes full of fear, not only because of the piercing knife qi that made him unable to move in pain, but also because of the thin layer of qi attached to his back at that moment, if it weren't for that, I was afraid that he would not be seriously injured at this moment. Rao is like this, and he has already suffered a lot of internal injuries.
The young man held the letter of General Shuofang's Mansion in his hand, read it carefully, and raised his hand to say, "Put down the drawbridge and welcome the two brothers into the village." ”