Chapter 104: A Loose Envelope
Looking toward the scene of the narrow road, the brocade-clothed old man asked, “Is the county princess really not afraid of death?”
The sable-fronted woman’s mind was clear, and she said, “Let’s go.” The Northern Mang Spider Web Elder grabbed her by the shoulders and swept down the slope, stopping only twenty feet away from the collision point. On the way down, Sheriff Hongyan was still in the mood to turn her head to admire the charging and killing posture of those Northern Mang riders, her athletic body undulating along with the horse’s back, just like a person’s breathing, full of a dynamic beauty that was pleasing to the eye. North Mang warriors in the hands of the curved sword to be larger than the arc of the Liang knife, such an arc, so that the North Mang sword has a more enormous chopping force, with their height, as well as innate beyond the Central Plains men of a cut of the majestic brawn, a knife chop, like a cracker. The rough shouts of those Northern Mang men were heard in the ears of County Head Hongyan, and she firmly believed that this kind of sound would also resonate through the Central Plains. It was not something that could be stopped by a single Martial Ranking expert, nor was it something that could be stopped by the three hundred thousand armored soldiers of Northern Liang.
She touched the smudged forehead-covering sable skin and squinted her eyes to look far away.
Only to see that person who blocked the way of millions of iron hooves of the entire Northern Mang Dynasty, back lifting that Liang sword and crossing it in front of his chest.
The foremost row side by side of the three horse black fox fence, in front of the horse chest height position as if a crack appeared, and then instantly widened, the warhorse and rider continued to run forward, but was cut into two, the lower half of the warhorse along with the legs of the rider fell in the yellow sand, the upper half of the warhorse and the rider whose legs had been amputated in an instant fell on the ground a little more in front of him. Not only the first row, but the dozen or so rows behind were also in such a treacherous light. A large swath of blood blossomed on the road a hundred paces in front of the swordsman. Half of a warhorse’s body, revealing its scarlet intestines, slid forward on the sand, and behind the warhorse’s corpse was the shocking bloody road.
The three dozen or so knights with their legs broken off crashed to the ground and let out heartbreaking wails.
The invisible line was not at the end of its strength, in fact, it had been advancing swiftly, but the North Mang elite riders at the back, especially the Black Fox Fence, after sensing that it was not good, they directly jumped up high, abandoning their horses and drawing their swords. There were even riders who violently pulled up the reins and jumped over the line that cut across them. The knights further back began to quickly deviate from the straight line and try to circle around in a large arc for an evasive charge.
Sheriff Hongyan asked with excitement, “Big Dipper?”
The old Dragon King nodded.
She asked again, “How long and wide is the limit?”
The brocade-clothed old man shifted his sight slightly to look at the rear of the cavalcade and replied, “This blade is probably more than a hundred feet long and two feet wide. But only this blade of his.”
She tsked, “Wouldn’t this be majestic on the battlefield?”
The old man said flatly, “On a large battlefield, there are spider webs and these lurking dead who only target Jianghu experts, not to mention divine archers and foot crossbows, and even stone throwers. Ordinary experts, who dares to play like this, who is the first living target to die. Of course, this person in front of him, except. If he really wants to die like the Xishu Sword Emperor, I’m afraid I need a few top masters to hold back, to take a step back, this kind of masters in the body of the qi depletion to the end of the oil lamp will be withered at the time, still want to go, no one can stay, after all, just a breath of change things. So a breath, not the same as the martial arts evaluation master, how can not catch that fleeting opportunity. But the world is never one thing to another, this person dared to personally trap, our military god naturally will not mind personally remove his head. The vast majority of 10,000 enemies in the military are short-lived, proving that they have the strength, and then they die.”
County Lord Hongyan thought deeply and nodded, “This is also the reason why Jianghu masters don’t want to get involved in the sand fighting, right? A cultivation is hard to come by, and it’s too depressing to just say you’re going to die. The next life reincarnation, it is difficult to guarantee that you can still cast a good tire with good bones.”
The man seemed to raise his arm to slightly slide and wipe the blade a few times, and the six or seven Black Fox rails on the road that jumped off their horses exploded in the air and split into pieces.
As his backhanded blade shifted with minimal movement time and time again.
An invisible line from the left side of a high leaping horse whose hooves hadn’t yet stepped on the ground, an invisible line from the left side of the horse’s belly below, upward slanting to the right shoulder of the horseback rider, sliced into two halves, and another large splash of blood spilled on the ground.
A rider who was drawing his bow and shooting arrows was split in the middle with his horse’s head.
Between the swordsman and the three hundred riders, a large pool of blood had appeared from point to point.
Then this pool of blood continued to rapidly move forward as the swordsman continued to raise his hand.
These armor-clad knights were like tofu being easily cut by the blade.
Sheriff Hongyan was filled with regret as she said, “It’s just mole crickets.”
The old Dragon King who did not have half a bit of compassion for that tragedy calmly said, “It’s not true that it’s just mole crickets, but the reason why it’s so miserable is that the number is still too small, as long as the mole crickets converge into a huge colony of uncountable ants, then it’s not just the Xishu Sword Emperor who will be bitten alive.”
The old man continued, “The top experts who can decide the battle of 10,000 people with their own strength, Northern Liang is there, but there are only a few, this one in front of me, plus Yuan Zuozong and Xu Yanbing. Yuan Zuozong is the commander of the cavalry, when the battle situation is so critical that he needs to save the day, then it means that the entire Beiliang border army is almost finished. That Gun Immortal Wang Xiu’s senior brother, on the contrary, is most likely to appear on the battlefield in the early stage. Such a sharp gun, no one would want to put it in the arsenal for nothing without drinking blood.”
County Head Hongyan nodded, “That’s right, if it’s his turn for the Northern Liang King to have to go into battle to kill the enemy, not to mention the Northern Liang Border Army, I’m afraid that the four Northern Liang states are already in our pocket.”
She suddenly laughed happily, “Old Dragon King, you said that he is at least the one who is temporarily holding the title of the number one in the world, as a result, no matter how high his force is, he can only watch the Xu family’s 300,000 armored soldiers go to their deaths one after another, isn’t he deeply helpless?”
The old man thought for a moment and laughed, “If I were him, I would have run away long ago. The sky is huge, where can’t I go and where can’t I get away with it?”
She asked curiously, “Anyway, killing on the border is just that, so why doesn’t this person just sneak into our royal court and go on a killing spree? Isn’t it quite capable of disturbing the military?”
The old Dragon King was made to laugh and cry by her naive thoughts as a layman, and sighed, “After reaching the Heavenly Symbol Realm, it’s easy for experts to sense each other, even if he can kill one city or two, even if the whole of the Treasure Bottle Prefecture bleeds for thousands of miles for him to kill, and then? Being surrounded and blocked by these great masters like Tuoba Bodhisattva, Hong Jingyan and Sword Qi Near?”
Hong Yan County Lord skimmed her mouth and said, “How to become an invincible master is also so tied up, how uninteresting. In the past, I only heard that the half-saints of the Ru Shi Dao and the three religions who are in the realm of the heavenly image don’t dare to kill people easily for fear of staining the karma and qi. It turns out that these pure martial artists are no better.”
With a bitter face, the old man spoke from his conscience, “Isn’t it even more boring for the old slave to have to accompany the county princess here and wait for her death?”
The old man looked toward the sky for no reason, and lamented, “Life between heaven and earth, there is heaven and earth, who of my generation is not a puppet with hands and feet tied to a string? This cage, some people are lucky enough to jump out, but surely no one can break it.”
Sheriff Hongyan eeped, “It’s over? The thunder is quite loud, but the rain is too small, I haven’t had a good time watching it yet.”
As they spoke, the Northern Mang Knights really didn’t disappoint this golden branch surnamed Yelu.
When the knights, who already numbered less than three hundred, all stopped their horses, the man also stopped his sword.
A divine archer who had a longstanding reputation in the Liu Zi Army seized this perfect opportunity to draw his bow like a full moon, the bowstring collapsed with a loud thud, and shot an arrow towards the young swordsman.
The other two sturdy knights carrying big bows also followed suit, without deliberately brewing the accuracy, they all flicked arrows out of their pouches, drew their bows, and shot an arrow in a single breath.
Three powerful arrows broke through the air, and the arrows were accurately stabbed at the face of the swordsman.
The ensuing scene made these elite warriors who had been in the battlefield for a long time all stare in disbelief.
The three feathered arrows just quietly hovered in the air, maintaining an oblique stabbing posture.
The swordsman put the cool sword that was most abhorred by the Northern Mang Border Army back into its sheath.
One carved plume arrow, two unusual feather arrows.
He reached out to hold the arrow, which was called “faster than an eagle and harrier, but cannot be shaken by the wind” in the Central Plains, and threw it out with his backhand.
The divine archer on horseback who subconsciously grasped the reins with both hands after shooting the arrow was pierced through the head by the arrow, his whole body was brought backward by the huge intrusion force, and his hands then pulled the horse’s reins, the front hooves of the warhorse were lifted up, and the knight’s body fell off the horse.
The horse that had spent time with the fallen knight seemed to be very confused, lightly stepping on the broken hooves and turning around, touching the fallen owner with its nose.
A chieftain-like black fox fence looked back at the northern sky with immense fondness.
After turning his head once again, facing that young expert with terrifying strength, this fence violently clipped his horse’s belly and took the lead to start a crazy charge that was tantamount to suicide.
The second war horse began to follow, the third, the fourth ……
In the end, the entire cavalry team did not have a single horse to turn its head and retreat, all of them started charging!
After seeing this tragic scene, County Mistress Hongyan bit her lips and softly said, “Let’s go.”
“Hmm?” The old man was puzzled but didn’t half hesitate, grabbing her shoulders and swept backwards to retreat, she closed her eyes, feeling the brisk wind whipping by her ears, and said, “If the military news of them dying here ‘for no reason’ is allowed to spread back to the grasslands, then they died in vain.”
The Old Dragon King did not make a sound.
Nearly four hundred riders chased after fourteen riders, and as a result, they had not yet succeeded, and if they allowed the enemy traveling crossbowmen to pass back the intelligence, even if all of these Northern Mang Kinmen had already died in battle, their parents, wives, and children on the prairie behind them, and even their entire tribe, would all be implicated.
And those people, originally waiting for their loved ones to return home with the war effort and food.
Even if they returned empty-handed, it was good to be alive.
After letting the two big fishes leave, Xu Fengnian, who was helping the 14-horseman crossbowmen to “break the back”, hung his cool sword at his waist and faced the raging North Mang cavalry.
He started to run.
The standard bearer of the Black Fox Fence was the first to charge.
Xu Fengnian leapt up, and that standard bearer still maintained the appearance of raising his arm high to slash his sword.
He slapped his palm on the man’s head and smashed the man and his horse into the yellow sandy ground, the belly of the horse with all its limbs shattered sticking together with the sand pit.
Only Xu Fengnian had an extra head in his hand that he pulled out and smashed into the second Black Fox fence.
That fence’s chest exploded.
Xu Fengyen quickly crashed to the ground, a sway, his shoulders slammed into the flanks of the warhorses on his left and right, their hooves left the ground, and the two riders fell out horizontally sideways.
One horse ferociously crashed straight into the scene, only when it was a zhang away from Xu Fengyen, the horses and men were both churned by the majestic qi, blooming into a cloud of blood mist.
The Spider Web Spy, who was hiding amongst the Black Fox Fence and Liu Zi Army’s elite cavalry, broke through the mist of blood and water without any warning, his sword pointing straight at Xu Fenian’s brow.
Xu Fengyen completely ignored the sword tip and reached out his hand to press down on this Spiderfly Catching Lang’s head, pressing it downward and dropping it on the ground.
The sword tip crumbled and the sword body broke.
The spy’s body bounced on the yellow sandy ground, first bleeding from his seven orifices, followed by blood oozing from his entire body as his meridians were broken.
This body was picked up by Xu Fengnian’s foot and slammed into a warhorse in front of him.
After the dozen or so riders at the front died so unopposed, those living riders finally lost the courage to charge to their deaths.
Some people began to retreat.
Under the sky, there are indeed people who are not afraid to die, and there are also things that even though they are afraid to die, they can openly die for them.
However, these Northern Mang elites who had always been brave and warlike did not wish to die at the hands of an enemy whose name and identity were not even known.
Xu Fengnian slightly stomped his foot and extended a hand forward.
On the ground in front of him, a long yellow sand sword rose up from the ground.
About half an incense stick later, the brocade-clothed old man who had dashed out for more than twenty miles with County Mistress Hongyan, his entire back instantly tensed up!
A cool voice rang out from behind him, “Two old acquaintances who met at the Inverted Horse Pass, you two are so not taking your lives for granted?”
Then County Lord Hongyan realized that his buttocks were gently tapped, and the person behind him smiled, “The old debt is settled. So you can go to hell.”