127, Jiang Xuanche of the Tenth Mirror (26)
The man seemed to have eyes behind his back, or maybe he subconsciously sensed the danger, so he didn't even look back and crawled forward, and he opened his mouth to shout as he ran.
Lin Ning's feet landed on the ground and rolled forward quickly, seeing that the person's warning voice was about to burst out of his throat, when Lin Ning's right hand stepped forward, the dagger in his hand flew out with a swish, and slashed into the man's neck from behind.
The man's shouts finally couldn't get out.
Lin Ning felt the evening breeze blowing, drying the cold sweat she had just risen. She quietly stepped forward and pulled the dagger from the back of the man's neck and wiped it on the man's body.
"Fourteen. ”
Lin Ning counted silently in his heart.
She swept forward again, without stopping.
There are rows of neatly arranged stone formations on the edge of the cliff, some of which are also wrapped in flammable grass and trees, almost a bow and arrow in each person's hand, and the enemy troops on the top of the cliff are really well prepared. If all these attacks fall on your own side, the consequences will be truly unimaginable.
With only a thousand people in his hands, he dared to calculate her. This Guangping County Taishou has a bit of courage.
Lin Ning had a few ups and downs and came to a leeward place, where five enemy troops were crowded, because the leeward place was relatively warm and slept very dead, and was easily harvested by Lin Ning.
Perhaps they were too confident that this ambush site would not be discovered, and these enemy troops did not even arrange for anyone to keep vigil. When the soldiers were resting, they didn't even have anyone to look out for, which shows the lack of combat experience of these soldiers.
Lin Ning raised her eyes and saw the other three black shadows floating on the top of the cliff with her eyesight, it seemed that she had not been discovered, and the situation in the place close to the upwind direction had been controlled.
Lin Ning's gaze immediately turned and landed on the place closest to the center of the ambush point.
It was the only guarded place, and nearly twenty people sat around, all face outward, as if guarding something in the middle.
Lin Ning lowered his body and gradually got closer, and saw a black figure lying in the middle of the group, which seemed to be a person.
The person who can make the enemy so carefully protect the enemy army in the case of "no danger" should be the leader of their operation, right?
Lin Ning calculated in his heart that this cliff was very high, in the middle of the canyon, and it was almost far from the entrances on both sides of the canyon. It is impossible for this ambush to be without contact with their main army. After all, ambushes can only maximize the benefits by combining surprise attacks, which is a truth that children know.
In ancient times, it was impossible to communicate over long distances, and the target of flying pigeons was too large and uncontrollable, and the simpler the command in the battle situation, the more effective it would be to transmit information, so this communication tool might be fireworks, or something that could make a special sound.
Whatever it is, if you capture that man, you will know everything.
Lin Ning didn't move lightly, she narrowed the distance, went around to the upwind direction, and saw how her subordinates had completed their tasks.
The enemy forces in the upwind direction were seriously affected by the smoke, and they had already explained almost under the close harvest of Lin Ning's men. Lin Ning picked two corpses to look at, and few of them were killed with one hit. He shook his head secretly in his heart. The kung fu of his subordinates is still too poor, but fortunately, he knows how to measure and does not make any big moves.
After going around, Lin Ning gathered all the people and touched his head. The subordinates made eye contact to tell Lin Ning that the scattered enemy troops had all been killed, and they searched every corner, but they found no one hiding.
So now the only thing that needs to be dealt with is the dozen or so people in the middle.
Lin Ning asked them all to check the bows and crossbows in their hands, and on average, there were five arrows left per person. She told everyone to get the arrows on board, and the four of them split up and outflanked the men in the middle.
The effective range of the crossbow is no more than fifty paces, and this portable hand crossbow must be at least twenty paces away in order to accurately hit the target.
Lin Ning and the other three were prostrate on the ground, moving their bodies carefully, approaching the crowd in the middle little by little.
Fifty steps.
Thirty steps.
Twenty steps.
"Tuk Tuk"
Three unheard of the springs in no particular order, and three people in the crowd immediately fell backwards.
No matter how sleepy it is, it's time to wake up.
More than a dozen people jumped up in an instant, picked up their swords, and looked around, screaming and shouting.
Fortunately, the sound here cannot be heard below the canyon.
The allies they could have summoned had all been killed by Lin Ning's side.
"Tuk Tuk"
Three more people fell to the ground, and the enemy chased them with knives in the direction from which the arrows came, and Lin Ning's men retreated, using the terrain and range to entangle with the pursuers.
Lin Ning had a very clear goal and went straight to the person in the middle.
Six of them lost their ability to fight, and six or seven more chased them out, and the guards around this man were much looser.
Lin Ning rushed into a distance of ten steps like a ghost, and the pocket crossbow fired five times in a row, and then five more people fell to the ground, she swept high like a big peng spreading its wings, and landed behind that person, pinching his neck with one hand, slashing around, and kicking all the guards around him with people as weapons.
In the next second, Lin Ning's dagger was already on this person's neck, and the fireworks signal in his palm was also slapped down by Lin Ning with one hand, and it failed to be launched.
The last two enemies ran in the direction of the dirt path, presumably trying to run back to report the news. Lin Ning glanced at it lightly and ignored it, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the subordinates who were originally guarding the trail crossing to come over, obviously the two who escaped had already reported to Lord Yama.
Several of his subordinates gathered together, all excited.
"Lord, your crossbow is so useful!" This is the first time that he has experienced the power of a new weapon up close.
"My lord, how do you know that they will ambush here?" This is the general who can finally speak and can't hold back the doubts in his heart.
Lin Ning didn't pay attention to it, she gently circled the dagger around the neck of the person she was holding, and circled it from behind to the front of her, looking at the leader of the enemy army who was in danger.
The head looked to be in his early twenties, and under Lin Ning's scrutiny, he also looked at Lin Ning with lacquered eyes. His face looked a little defeated, thinking that the fact that the ambushed person was ambushed made him hit hard. But his spine was still straight, and his rough clothes couldn't hide the sharpness between his eyebrows.
"Guangping Taishou?" Lin Ning leaned closer to the young man's eyebrows and carefully examined them, causing the other party to turn his head to the side uncomfortably. "No, not the right age. ”
Lin Ning shook his head and asked again, "Are you the son of Guangping Taishou?"
The young man didn't speak, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and four words spit out between his lips: "Rebel and thief." ”
Lin Ning smiled, she took the dagger from the young man's neck and took two steps back, picked up the cylinder with the thickness of an arm's arm from the ground, pointed at the young man, and motioned for her subordinates to come forward and search his body.
"My lord, there's a whistle. After searching up and down, his subordinates held a black iron flat whistle in both hands and presented it to Lin Ning.