Chapter 279 The Arrow of the Soldier
The fires in Guyuan City were surging and were still spreading northward.
The wind in the dark night blew away the burning smell of the city into the distance, and the streets were filled with smoke, which was spicy and pungent.
On Kule Street, more than ten iron cavalry of the Tiance Army held spears and surrounded Li Xuan and six people.
Li Xuan could only hold the sword in his right hand and hold the little girl under his armpit with his left hand, constantly changing directions to protect the people behind him.
A Tiance army cavalry raised his spear and stabbed the old man behind Li Xuan. He quickly pointed his sword at the tip of the spear, making a harsh sound of gold and iron clashing.
The spear was trembling with this sword. The iron cavalry of the Tiance Army suddenly felt numb and immediately withdrew the spear and warned in a voice: "Be careful, it's very difficult."
A cavalry of the Tiance Army held the reins and looked down at Li Xuan from a high place, sneering: "Is it difficult for me to protect myself, and I still want to be a hero?"
Li Xuan breathed heavily and said, "Guyuan City is already yours, why do you still kill them? These people will be yours in the future. Why can't they leave a way out for them?"
The Tiance Army sneered: "How do I know if there are any spy detectives from the southerners hidden among them? Guyuan is one of the nine borders, and it is crucial. How can we leave hidden dangers like border troops? We will clear the whole city and replace me with northerners!"
Li Xuan was mixed with all his feelings. Why did Ning Chao’s border army not know about the truth that even the people of Jing Chao knew? How could the border army be so short-sighted that in order to collect taxes, he let so many northerners enter the Great Wall!
But he still retorted: "General Hu is also making a living for the border army..."
The cavalry of the Tiance Army looked at each other and suddenly burst into laughter, as if they heard a huge joke: "The Wentao Dog Thief who let the northerners go to the city to do business. What does it have to do with Hu Junxian? General Hu, who you mentioned, had letters with my commander a few years ago. Even this time he walked around the mountain road in your Ningchao hinterland, was his confidant's way!"
Another man said arrogantly on the horse's back: "It turns out that you are a real idiot, and you don't know if you are sold! The so-called "to protect the people of Guyuan, they opened the door and offered the city" are all pretexts. It was just a remark to fool the soldiers of the border under him. Hu Junxian had long wanted to present Guyuan to me!"
Li Xuan was stunned on the spot: "How could this be? How could this be!"
When the Iron Cavalry of the Tiance Army saw that he was in a loss, the four of them raising their spears and stabbed them in an instant!
Dingding Dingding Ding Ding!
Li Xuan shook out the gorgeous sword flowers in his long sword in his hand, and even stopped the four spears that had been stabbed one by one.
A spear was cut off by a sword. When the spear tip fell, Li Xuan kicked it out with one kick.
But the tip of the spear was wrapped in wind and thunder and stabbed into a man's buttocks. The war horse was startled and almost lifted the iron cavalry of the Tiance army on its back.
No one expected that Li Xuan was so difficult, even when his mind was lost, he could not do anything.
Just as Li Xuan was about to take the opportunity to kill the Tiance Army's cavalry under the horse, a sharp whistle came from a distance, and a sharp arrow arrived in an instant.
This arrow came extremely tricky, forcing Li Xuan to withdraw his sword and return to defense, and set the whistle arrow.
Someone in the Tiance Army said in a deep voice: "He is not a border army, but may be a great official in the Dao Realm! Wait for the whistle arrow to call people to come and surround and kill them together!"
At the same time, Li Xuan was also shocked: this was just an ordinary Jingchao cavalry team, but some people attacked the hearts and some people supported them from afar. The offensive and defensive were so dense that it was shocking that there was no flaw at all.
Seeing the whistle and arrows, more Tiance troops would come to siege and kill.
Li Xuan looked around silently and asked in a deep voice: "You and others just talked about Hu Junxian's affairs just to disrupt my mind, right? You are just ordinary troops, how can you know the secrets in the army?"
The Tiance Army rode a horse around Li Xuan and circled the refugees, and said slowly: "This matter is not a secret in my Tiance Army... You are not a border army, is it the Yulin Army? I am a little curious, why are you the only one here? What about your colleagues? Could it be that Chengdu left you and ran away? It is better to surrender to my Tiance Army and have its own glory and wealth."
Li Xuan suddenly recalled Chen Ji's indifferent and distant eyes, but hurriedly retracted his mind. He knew that the soldiers of the Tiance Army were delaying time and waiting for reinforcements, but there was nothing he could do.
No, can't delay any more!
He stepped forward step by step, trying to forcefully break the formation.
But as soon as he moved, the soldiers of the Tiance army immediately stabbed the spear at the refugees, which was so shocked that he had to return to defense. Another whistle arrow shot from the darkness in the distance, almost flying over his scalp.
A soldier from the Tiance Army sneered loudly and said, "It's indeed a playboy army, who is kind and ruthless! The dignified official in the Dao Realm was trapped here by us for a few people who were like grass, and he was useless!"
These people took Li Xuan's weakness, and as long as he made any moves, they immediately attacked the refugees and dealt with him. These people were extremely cautious and would never attack until reinforcements arrived!
Li Xuan wanted to leave the refugee behind, but when he turned around, he saw the refugee in tears, and he couldn't bear to be cruel.
But I heard a cavalry of the Tiance Army sneer: "Since you have a bodhisattva's heart, why bother to come to the battlefield? Remember to be reincarnated as a rich man in the next life, and don't seek death."
Li Xuan shook the long sword in his hand, and the long sword made a loud sound: "If we cannot protect the people behind us, what is the matter with our practice?"
Tiancejun laughed: "The young men of the playboy army can only say these beautiful words... Huh!"
Before he finished speaking, a handful of blood suddenly splattered on Li Xuan's face.
Li Xuan suddenly looked up, but saw the Tiance Army soldier who had just spoken widened his eyes, an iron-tied arrow pierced through his mouth, and blood flowed down from his open mouth.
Everyone turned their heads in surprise and looked in the direction when the iron-tied arrow came!
Did the sharpshooter miss it?
Impossible! Everyone in the Tiance Army’s sharpshooter has the ability to penetrate the Yang hundred steps. Even if the arrow is blown away by the wind, it will not be biased to his colleagues!
In the Tiance army, someone roared angrily: "Do not, the sharpshooter was taken away by someone..."
With a bang, an iron-tired arrow penetrated through the person's chest and abdomen. The iron-tired arrow was so powerful that it was even better than the Tiance Army's Sharpshooter!
Li Xuan was surprised and confused: What happened? Who is lending a helping hand?
Before he could think too much, he immediately waved his sword to break through the formation when he saw that the flaws of the Tiance Army had appeared.
A Tiance Army soldier hung sideways on his horse, using a war horse to block the direction of the iron-tied arrows when they came. However, Li Xuan raised his sword and fell, and the blade fell down against the gap between the helmet and the shoulder armor, cutting off the other party's head!
For a moment, Li Xuan and the arrow-guiding man hidden in the darkness attacked each other from north to south. Li Xuan King Kong was angry and flew up and down in the crowd. He killed the Tiance Army in just a few breaths and caused chaos in the formation of the formation.
"Let's go! Come and find the centurion!" A cavalry of the Tiance army hung sideways and fled, hoping to meet with the reinforcements coming. But an iron-tied arrow shot from the night sky, and lightly shot into the reins.
The reins broke, and Tiance Army lost the power to leverage, and his upper body could not stop falling down. As his head poked out from under the horse's belly, an iron-tied arrow came and pierced his head.
The Tiance Army's left foot was hung in the stirrup, and his body was dragged by the war horse and ran farther and farther away.
Li Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
Today he has fought with many Titce Army sharpshooters, but he has never seen such fierce archery techniques, which are unpredictable.
After Li Xuan killed the last Tiance Army, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at the iron-tied arrows, but there was only the dark night there, and it was impossible to see who was pulling the bow.
Is it a secret spy placed by Ning Chao in Jing Chao? Or a good official among the border troops?
In a vague way, Li Xuan saw a black shadow crossing from the roof and getting closer.
Li Xuan didn't know whether it was an enemy or a friend, so he had to stop the refugees behind him and wait with his sword in his breath.
The next moment, he suddenly exclaimed: "Chen Ji?!"
Under the dark night, on the eaves, Chen Ji was wearing a black armor of the Tiance Army's Swordsman, wearing a pheasant tail helmet, and a black pheasant tail raised high, pointing directly to the crescent moon on his head.
But Chen Ji held a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other, and there were two arrow pouches hanging around his waist. It seemed that two sharpshooters had been killed by him in the dark!
"Why are you?!"
Li Xuan was surprised. He was afraid that the Tiance Swordsman might not be able to do it even if he shot through the reins of the galloping horse.
The key is that he never thought that it would be Chen Ji to save him... When he passed by the entrance of the alley, Chen Ji obviously warned him with his eyes, why did he return now?
Li Xuan murmured: "You..."
Chen Ji's eyes slowly swept over Li Xuan and the refugees, and said calmly: "Why don't you leave quickly?"
Li Xuan hurriedly carried the little girl back and turned around and ran north. But just a few steps away, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming in front of him. It must have been the Iron Cavalry of the Tiance Army who was guided by the whistle arrow!
He ran west with the little girl on his back, and the sound of horse hooves came from the west.
Li Xuan stood still and listened, and suddenly found that the iron cavalry of the Tiance army was galloping from all directions, and there was no way to escape.
He looked back at Chen Ji bitterly: "Sorry to drag you down, otherwise you should run away by yourself. With your skills, they should not stop you. But can you take this girl away? She is still young..."
Chen Ji looked at him strangely, then pointed his hand to the northwest: "From there, walk through an alley, and go north."
Li Xuan shook his head: "There are people coming over there, and they can't leave. These Tiance Army are difficult to deal with. If they are stuck, no one can survive."
Chen Ji did not answer, so he took out three whistle arrows from the arrow bag, put them on the bowstring, and shot them to the east.
The shrill whistle and ran into the darkness.
Li Xuan was stunned. He heard the sound of iron hooves that were originally rushing toward him suddenly chaotic, and he changed direction to where the arrow was whistling.
The whistle arrow is the flag order in this dark night, guiding all the Tiance army to fight!
Li Xuan widened his eyes and then realized the intention of Chen Ji assassinating two sharpshooters. With the arrow in his hand, he didn't even have to deliberately avoid the Tiance Army, so he could make the Tiance Army make a way out!
This kid is too brave, but this risky thing is really useful!
Li Xuan hurriedly said to the refugees: "Hurry up, come with me!"
Chapter completed!