As the sun sets, the sun shines from the southwest with a hint of blood red, turning the steep mountain walls into a dazzling gold.

Because of the obscuration of the stone wall, a large area under the moon-shaped stone arch was already hidden in the darkness.

Xu Dongjiang and Cao Chunfu sat cross-legged under the stone arch, each with a bronze hunting crossbow in front of them.

The young man of the Jiangnan Shi clan sat on the dividing line between light and darkness, half of his body was still warm, and the other half was already affected by the cold.

He glanced at the son of the North Metro craftsman, and there was always an inexplicable sense of pity in his heart.

This man, who was once called Ah Da by adults, is not outstanding in appearance, family background or even talent, and is extremely inconspicuous among the elders of the Fourth Banner, and rarely expresses his opinions.

However, even if his sense of existence is so weak and his personality is dull and boring, no one in the whole banner dares to despise Cao Chunfu.

Everyone knows that when the adults blocked the door to recruit soldiers, this Cao Shi suffered from a thousand cuts every day, even if he was not selected by the adults, he still did not change his original intention, and was willing to abandon his family and business to be a pawn.

After that, he was the first to stand up and try desperately, accept the adult's flower award, and finally succeeded in building the foundation and jumped into the fourth flag.

When it comes to the strength of the Taoist heart and the courage of the heart, even Yang and Dong have to respect Cao Chunfu.

"Brother Cao, if I am not chosen by adults, I will survive in a hard prison for the rest of my life, even if I am lucky enough to survive for a few years and not die, it will only be a miserable end for the armor-clad people to be enslaved. The Cao family is a well-known family of soldiers in Shuofang, and you have no worries about food and clothing, and you are the only son in the family, how can you be willing to follow the adults to be born and die?"

Cao Chunfu smiled innocently: "What kind of family of soldiers, the Dongjiang brothers are putting gold on my face." I was born in Shuofang, and since I was a child, I have heard countless heroic deeds of horse leather shrouds, how can I be willing to be a blacksmith for the rest of my life?"

He tilted his head and thought for a moment, then continued: "Speaking of which, I have seen countless murderous weapons since I was a child, and only two of them are the most impressive. ”

"Oh?" Xu Dongjiang was intrigued.

Cao Chunfu said with a smile: "The first one is an embroidered spring knife, which is placed in the Cao family's treasury, and it is made by the ancestors themselves. That's my father's baby, and he does the maintenance on weekdays, even I can't touch it, and it's a good meal to touch. ”

Xu Dongjiang grinned and asked, "What about the second one?"

"The second is an embroidered spring knife, hanging under the eaves of the newly opened nameless restaurant, the handle is a good knife that has been stained with blood, but it can only be tasted by the drinkers. Speaking of which, I would like to thank my lord for making these heroic swords useful. ”

Xu Dongjiang nodded, Xiuchunwei only occupied a few pens in the history books, and the embroidered spring knife and the set of river crossing knife methods were not mentioned at all, only in the notes of the soldiers, there were only a few records, as for the border soldiers and civilians from generation to generation, it has long become a grotesque legend beyond recognition.

And he, a Jiangnan scholar who should have studied and worked hard for the growth of the family, followed the adults to the north by mistake, so that the embroidered spring knife reappeared on the battlefield, just like the heroes of 200 years ago.

He looked at the Di cavalry team that was already faintly visible in the grass at the bottom of the mountain, and said with a smile: "Brother Cao, why don't we compete and see whose embroidered spring knife cuts off more heads?"

"Good!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, slowly got up, and each raised his hunting crossbow in his hand. This group of Di people is also a big man, and after the tail is broken, they don't send out scouts again, but they just hurried away.

Lao Dongran naturally saw the two black crows under the stone arch, and immediately opened his mouth to call the name of a centurion.

Attacking upwards, even if the mountain road is not very steep, the cavalry brigade will not be able to use it at all.

Eighty of the hundred-man team ordered by the centurion immediately dismounted, and another twenty of the most skilled equestrians drove up the mountain under the leadership of the centurion.

A rain of sparse arrows with limited strength flew up the mountainside, most of them clanging against the steep and hard stone walls, leaving a few insignificant traces before falling to the ground, and the few arrows fired at the arch were easily blocked by Cao and Xu with their crossbows.

The two chiefs pulled the crossbow machine almost leisurely, and the quick qi training was also qi training, and the stable and powerful hands were quickly wound, and then two deadly crossbow arrows flew down.

By the time twenty-one horsemen rushed up the mountainside, half of the horses had lost their riders.

The ownerless war horse immediately became an obstacle to the climb of his comrades, and only the five horsemen, including the centurion, rushed to the arch at the first time.

Cao and Xu glanced at each other again, turned around and ran in unison, and their figures quickly disappeared behind the stone arch.

The Diren centurion raised his scimitar and howled and led the men into the arch, and as soon as he rushed through this dangerous arch, it was the turn of the Diren warriors to condescend to hunt down these hateful crows.

Before he could find the two crows, who were supposed to be fleeing in a hurry, a tripwire suddenly crossed at the north exit of the stone arch, and it was made of countless silks mixed with leather and straw rope, and several shiny scimitars hung from them.

It is no wonder that there are not many real bitter backgrounds among the black crows, and no one is familiar with the craft of weaving straw ropes.

Such a fragile tripwire was naturally broken by a kick, but no matter how shoddy it was, this tripwire still succeeded in making the leading hundred horses stumble.

A majestic Di man screamed in surprise that he was thrown off his horse, and flew out of the plane before falling down, the huge drop of the slope made his bones break and break his tendons, and after a short muffled snort, he rolled straight down to the bottom of the slope silently.

Xu Dongjiang and Cao Chunfu each threw down the half-cut stumbling rope in their hands, and at their feet, two embroidered spring knives were stuck straight into the ground, shining with cold light in the shadows.

The two quickly drew their swords, leaned against the mountain walls on both sides of the stone arch, and slashed at the same time with a tacit understanding.

The two horsemen on either side of the unlucky centurion rushed out in an instant, and the front hooves of the mounts collided with two embroidered spring knives.

These two tripwires were the real thing, and the two Diren riders could not react, and they also flew off their horses, fell down the hill, and followed in the footsteps of the centurion.

The three horses with broken front legs became a new barrier, and the two riders collided with each other, as the riders finally had time to react, and only a slight collision occurred.

The two riders fell off their horses, and were about to get up, when they were stabbed through one by two black crows who rushed into the arch again.

The rest of the cavalry and foot soldiers finally approached, but before they could rush into the arch and kill the two black crows, twenty heads suddenly appeared from the top of the mountain wall, and the sound of a seeping bowstring sounded, and twenty crossbow arrows appeared on the mountainside almost instantly, burrowing into the flesh of the Di people.

Xu Dongjiang and Cao Chunfu had bright and dazzling knife marks on their foreheads, exuding a very tragic and treacherous momentum around them, and they rushed into the front row of the Di Ren array without hesitation.

The screams rang out one after another, and the color of blood instantly filled everyone's eyes.

(Thank you again for the reward of ~where is the teasing~, thank you to all the book friends who voted for the slaughter dog, every day I see your punctual and punctual recommendation votes, I feel that you are much more disciplined and persevering than me, there is really no reason not to persevere, thank you!)