Chapter 12: The Battle of the Ancient City
"Herod~" The white horse hissed sadly, his two front legs knelt on the scorching sand, and the strong inertia threw Ding Yu far away. Ding Yu turned half a circle in the air, and when he looked back after his feet landed, he saw the white horse lying on the ground on his side, and his mouth kept spitting out white saliva.
The five cavalry pursuers in the rear were overjoyed and hurried over. Ding Yu had no choice but to run all the way along the earthen city wall. The sound of horses' hooves behind him was getting closer and closer, and he didn't even have time to look back, his eyes were only fixed on the fifty meters or so in front of him, where there was a gap in the earthen wallβas long as he could climb over it, he would have a temporary respite!
The pursuers behind him were obviously aware of his intentions, but their feathered arrows had already been shot empty, and for a moment there was no way to stop him except to control the horse and chase closely.
Twenty meters, fifteen meters, ten meters, seeing that their scimitars were about to reach Ding Yu's neck, but at this time, one of his hands had already hooked the gap in the city wall, and he was about to turn over and go in the next moment.
A knight did not hesitate to make a move, his scimitar swirled and flew towards Ding Yu's back, whether he dodged or blocked, it would interrupt the action of climbing over the wall, but Ding Yu did not dodge or dodge, his hands were supported at the opening, he turned half of his body, and forced his left arm to bear the flying scimitar, and then flipped into the wall.
The knight who threw the knife reined in his horse hatefully, and then he heard Ding Yu laughing on the other side of the wall, and after a moment he was silent. One of the five people said baldly: "Chang Feng, you and I chased in." Master Sun Zhai, please take your men to guard the other three city walls, and once you find Chang Hao, you will whistle and alarm. Saying that, he and Chang Feng jumped off their horses and climbed into the city from the gap, while the other three horsemen led the horses of the two and scattered to the center of the other three city walls.
After Ding Yu climbed over the wall, he casually pulled out the scimitar embedded in his arm and pinned it to his waist while running, and then tore off a middle sleeve and skillfully bandaged the new wound, and said in his heart: Chang Xin Changfeng, you chased me with three horse thieves for a whole day, shot through my water bladder, and shot my horse, even I was about to accept my fate, but I didn't expect that the sky would not kill me, and let me discover the ruins of this ancient city, and then it was my turn!
This ancient city is square in shape, with a side length of about 300 meters, and the city walls are made of adobe bricks and red willows, which have collapsed in many places under the erosion of time and wind and sand, forming large and small gaps. The city is divided into four areas according to east, west, north and south, there is a pagoda in the center of the north district, which is the tallest building in the city; the south district is densely populated and should be the former residence; the east and west districts are relatively empty, but there are also more than a dozen large villages neatly arranged in the corners, perhaps the former barracks. In the center of the ancient city there was a river that ran through the city, but now only a dry ditch covered with yellow sand remains. Most of the houses in the city are only in ruins, some of the earthen walls still have half-rotten doors and windows, and many bricks and tiles are scattered on the ground, some of which have become gravel.
In this complex terrain, the other party's horses are useless, and it also provides Ding Yu with a lot of hiding places, if he has the heart to hide, let alone five people, even fifty people may not be able to dig him out. But at this time, he was even more desperate to fight than the pursuers behind him, because since his water bladder was shot through, it had been three or four hours since he had not entered the water, and if he delayed any longer, he would not have to do anything with anyone, and the loss of water alone would be enough to kill him. Now his only hope of survival is to fight quickly before his body loses water too much, kill the pursuers behind him, and rob them of their water bladders and horses, so that he can get out of this lifeless desert.
After Chang Xin and Chang Feng climbed over the wall, they found that Ding Yu had disappeared. They were not in a hurry to catch up, Ding Yu was only ahead of them for a while and a half, and he couldn't run anywhere, he should have hid behind an earthen wall or in an inconspicuous corner, and they searched step by step, not letting go of any corner where they could hide people.
Turning a two-meter-high cliff, there is only yellow sand behind it. Chang Xin made a gesture, and Chang Feng quickly copied to the back of the next wall - there was no one either, but there was a two-story mansion in front, the four walls on the first floor were still intact, but the walls on the second floor had collapsed a few large pieces. The two looked at each other and thought it seemed like a good place to hide, and they decided to go inside and search.
The two of them are still the same old rules, Chang Feng, who has a higher martial arts skill, leaned into half of his body first, and saw that there was nothing unusual inside, just about to beckon Chang Xin to come in, he heard Chang Xin shouting behind him: "Senior brother be careful!" He jumped forward without hesitation, and the person twisted his waist and turned around in the air, and when he landed, he had already made a defensive posture.
However, the danger came from an earthen wall that had collapsed from above the doorway, and although the falling masonry did not hit the alert Chang Feng, it just blocked the entrance tightly, separating him from Chang Xin outside the house. It was not the hot wind in the desert that caused such a coincidence, but Ding Yu who was hiding on the second floor.
Ding Yu didn't stop after knocking down the earthen wall on the second floor, and then kicked with his legs repeatedly, kicking large pieces of broken bricks to Chang Xin outside the house. Chang Xin retreated while dodging, and unconsciously retreated to the wall, seeing another adobe brick falling, he gritted his teeth and raised his fist to smash it.
Chang Xin is the third order among the three generations of disciples of the Vajra Gate, and his Vajra Demon Subduing Divine Power has also been practiced to a small level, and the weathered adobe bricks that have been weathered for hundreds of years are simply vulnerable compared to his fists, and they turn into powder at the touch of a button. He threw several punches in succession, shattering a few more adobe bricks, and the earthy yellow stone powder enveloped the surrounding area of two or three meters. He secretly said that it was not good, and with one hand to protect his head, he rushed out along the wall under his feet, thinking that he would rather be hit by two adobe bricks than rush out of this dust and mist first. At this moment, a fierce wind rushed towards his face, which was completely different from the sound of the wind stirring in the masonry before. Frightened, he didn't have time to think about it, jumped up, kicked the wall with his feet in the air, and jumped four or five meters away with the help of the reaction force. People were in mid-air, Chang Xin looked back, it turned out that it was none other than Ding Yu who stirred up the evil wind, it was Ding Yu who jumped down from the second floor of the opposite house, and the scimitar in his hand slashed fiercely where he was just now, if he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been split in two now.
Ding Yu slashed the air with a knife, and threw the scimitar at Chang Xin with his backhand. Chang Xin's toes just touched the ground, there was no way to dodge, he could only cross his arms and hit the knife with his forearm, but Ding Yu's knife was full of strength, he was not stable and could not resist, so he had to take two steps back to unload the force. Ding Yu didn't wait for him to gain a foothold, he rushed forward two steps and jumped up sharply, and hit him in the face with a flying knee. Chang Xin's nose bone was shattered instantly, and his head was also pushed back, if he hadn't forged his body and the muscles and bones in his neck were strong, he would have broken his cervical vertebrae. But Rao is like this, Chang Xin also feels that the world is spinning, and he can't keep his balance when he stumbles. Ding Yu naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity, and was about to finish off Chang Xin with a ruthless hand, when he heard a loud shout: "Chang Hao, you dare!" It was Chang Feng, who was trapped in the house, who jumped down from the second floor, and grabbed Ding Yu's top door with five fingers into claws.
Ding Yu saw that he was coming fiercely, so he bumped into the seriously injured Chang Xin and knocked him towards Chang Feng, who flew over. Chang Feng was shocked, and hurriedly caught Chang Xin with his left hand, and threw out his right hand claw, grabbing five deep and long claw marks on the earthen wall next to him, and forcefully canceled out the momentum of his forward pounce.
However, this time Ding Yu did not take the opportunity to attack, he stood in place, clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Good finger power! Senior Brother Chang Feng, your vajra finger power is only close to Dacheng, right?"
Chang Feng didn't answer, he looked at Chang Xin, who was in a coma and vomiting blood in his arms, and said hatefully: "Chang Hao, you despicable and murderous thief!
"The love of the same family?" Ding Yu said with a smile: "When you two core disciples chased me with three horse thief leaders, I didn't feel any feelings of the same family!"
"If you hadn't killed Senior Brother Chang Wei, how could I have taken you by any means! Even so, I also told them not to hurt your life, and just wanted to capture you back in the door and be sent by Master Zu. Unexpectedly, you have made mistakes again and again, and you have killed your fellow disciples, how many Vajra disciples have you killed and injured in the past seven or eight days, I'm afraid you can't even count yourself!" Chang Feng stared at Ding Yu, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt into flames.
Ding Yu said lightly: "Killing Chang Wei is for self-preservation, and killing other disciples is also for self-preservation." I don't want to tell what is right and wrong. But since Senior Brother Chang Feng loves his fellow disciples, I can promise you not to do anything to Senior Brother Chang Xin again, provided that you can't call the three horse thieves outside the city to come in to help you, we have a fair fight, if you win, I will naturally let you slaughter it, if I win, you still have to promise me one thing, how about it?"
Chang Feng didn't even want to say yes.
Ding Yuqi said: "You don't want to ask what is the matter?"
Chang Feng said: "If you win, Chang Xin and I will have our lives hanging in your hands, how can there be room for bargaining." β
Ding Yu laughed and said, "That's right, Senior Brother Chang Feng is really a smart person!" He touched his fists and drank: "Then let's fight!" The two shot at the same time, like two red-eyed bison, touching the ground and fighting.
Chang Feng and Chang Wei started almost at the same time, both of them are three generations of disciples with seven or eight years of experience, and the two have similar martial arts, and they are bright in the King Kong Gate for a while. And since Ding Yu betrayed the door, he first improved his bones once, and then broke through the magic power of King Kong to Xiaocheng, and these seven or eight days of escape have greatly improved his martial arts and mentality. As soon as the two fought, Ding Yu judged the advantages and disadvantages of the enemy and the enemy: in terms of strength, although he will not be crushed by Chang Feng now, but after all, he is a step behind; in terms of tricks, the two are in the same house, although Ding Yu is talented, and the turn of the move is not out of the box, but Chang Feng has worked hard in the rivers and lakes for several years, and the tricks are more old and spicy, and the two are similar in this regard; Ding Yu's advantage is only one point - hard bones, resistance to fighting! This is based on the old king's forty pairs of unique decoction and iron chain forging body and two soul seeds to improve the bones, so Ding Yu's tactic is to fight hard and exchange injuries for injuries.
Seeing that Chang Feng took his chest and abdomen directly with his palm, Ding Yu did not dodge or dodge, and slammed Chang Feng's jaw with his right fist from the bottom up. Chang Feng instantly understood Ding Yu's style of play, but all the disciples of the Vajra Sect had a strong confidence in their physical strength, and the longer they started, the more so, and the hard-hitting style was exactly what he wanted. So his eyes flashed fiercely, and he slapped it with more force.
"Bang~" The fists of the two hit each other almost at the same time, Ding Yu was beaten back two steps in a row, and the corners of his mouth were bloody; Chang Feng took a step diagonally, spit out two bloody teeth, shook his head to drive away a trace of dizziness, and attacked again with a wave of his palm.
"Bang bang...... Syllable...... Poof" Dozens of flesh and bones collided one after another, and the blood splattered from the noses and faces of the two people stained the surroundings scarlet. Chang Feng was hit in the jaw one after another, and the heavy fist force was transmitted from the cervical spine to the brain, and the dizziness in his brain became stronger and stronger, and he couldn't hear any other sound in his ears except for the sound of "boom". Although Ding Yu in front of him was also covered in bruises, his eyes were still clear, and his movements were still accurate and powerful.
"Why! Why!" Chang Feng shouted in his heart: "I have been in the beginner for seven years and nine months, and I have practiced Vajra and subduing demons for an average of two hours a day, why can't I resist Chang Hao, who has been in the beginner for half a year!" He roared, slapped his palm halfway, and suddenly turned his palm into a claw, hooking three pieces of flesh from Ding Yu's arm.
"What a strong vajra finger!" Ding Yu praised loudly, he also bent his fingers into claws, and touched Chang Feng three or five moves very quickly with finger to finger, but he was shocked and retreated, and his ten fingers were so stiff that he could barely bend - Chang Feng's vajra finger had already reached the seventh pot, two levels ahead of him, but the gap was not enough to make up for the hardness of the bones. Seeing Chang Feng's claws attacking again, Ding Yu's elbows stretched out and crashed into Chang Feng's palm. Chang Feng's wrist forearm dragged back with the trend, removing most of the impact force, and at the same time, his five fingers used force to firmly pinch Ding Yu's elbow joint.
Ding Yu only felt that his elbows were in sharp pain, he screamed, and pressed down with his elbows, causing Chang Feng's middle door to open, his feet jumped up, and his knees drove straight in, hitting Chang Feng's jaw again and again. Chang Feng only felt that his brain exploded, as if hundreds of millions of stars in the sky fell into his eyes at the same time, and then he could no longer control his body, and fell to the sky.
When the starlight faded in his eyes and the roar in his ears gradually subsided, in addition to still being dizzy and nauseous, Chang Feng finally regained consciousness. He tried to use his right hand to support his body, but a sharp pain came from his right hand and caused him to lie down again. Ding Yu's voice came from the side: "I broke your right hand, you'd better be careful, otherwise you will leave trouble." β
Chang Hao let out a breath and said resignedly: "I'm defeated, what do you want?"
Ding Yu had already hastily dealt with the injuries on his body at this time, and the last bit of black jade intermittent ointment had also been used up. He said to Chang Feng: "It's very simple, say hello and let those three horse thieves come over, and then help me kill them." β
Chang Feng didn't ask why, he knew very well that Chang Hao had to grab horses, water and food, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get out of this desert. He glanced at Chang Xin, who was lying motionless on the side, and asked, "What happened to him?" Chang Xin was injured by Ding Yu before, but the injury was not as serious as himself, and now that he has woken up, Chang Xin should not still be in a coma.
Ding Yu said: "When he saw you injured by me, he was so excited that I had no choice but to knock him out." β
Chang Feng saw that Chang Xin's chest was still undulating, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What will happen to me and Chang Xin after killing the horse thief?"
Ding Yu asked rhetorically, "How many water bladders did you have before?"
Chang Feng recalled and said, "Six, one is fully full, and five is half full." β
"That's enough!" Ding Yu said: "To kill the horse thief, I want a horse, fill it with two water bladders, and leave the rest for the two of you." He remembered escaping through an oasis about an hour or so from where he had galloped, so two water bladders were enough.
Chang Feng gritted his teeth and sat up, and said, "Okay! Is this what it's called?" He didn't ask Chang Hao if he would keep his promise, because he understood that if he promised Chang Hao, he and Chang Xin might still survive, and if he didn't promise Chang Hao, all three of them would die here. He didn't want to die, so he had to gamble.
Ding Yu nodded, and Chang Feng whistled, which was the signal agreed with the horse thieves before. Everything next is like Ding Yu's plan: Ding Yu pretends to be caught by Chang Feng, and Chang Feng needs the help of horse thieves to carry Ding Yu and Chang Xin to the horse because of his injuries. When the horse thief came to carry people, the two of them attacked at the same time, Chang Feng crushed the throat bone of one person with his left hand, and Ding Yu used the short knife hidden in his sleeve to cut the throats of the remaining two.