Chapter 148: Sisal Clothes Like Snow

On the desert outside the plug, there is a horse riding westward, with double swords on his waist, and the man is wearing a rough linen coat.

Liangzhou further west, the ancient Fengxiang Lin Ballad Qing Cang three military towns, control of the upper reaches of the Central Plains, at the same time with the iron iron gate gate each other as horns, together with the clamping of the vast western region of the zone. Just now the three towns have long been abandoned, reduced to hundreds of thousands of stragglers perfect hiding place, these outlaws to be the body of the crime, especially brave and warlike, not to mention the young and strong men, that is, women and seven or eight year old children, as long as they are given a wooden spear, will dare to fight with the Northern Liang soldiers, Liangzhou border army has always had the habit of taking the stragglers to exercise martial arts training, these sinful people’s blood, most of them are also forced by the Northern Liang iron horsemen, had to jump over the wall in a hurry. The most important thing is that most of these sinners are forced out by the Northern Liang iron horsemen, and they have to jump over the wall. Beiliang crossbowmen screening, the first thing is to throw into here, only give a horse a crossbow a cool knife, and then seek their own happiness, can live for a month, only counted across the first threshold, died, even collect the body is a luxury, early to the gang hated Beiliang into the bones of the sinful people flogging body whip to broken. Far from the border of Lingzhou people say that the children who grew up there, favorite kicking and playing with the skulls of the fallen soldiers of Beiliang, so the guys there, are not human ghosts, very creepy.

This ride west to two hundred miles, just met a group of future crossbowmen just put into this place, the two sides of a touch and go, there are no words, coarse hemp man lightly blocked down the short crossbow and two sets of charge, not hurt, these elite armor without success, no longer have the luxury of gnawing down this piece of bone, although the return of Liangzhou beheading the number of heads with the amount of bounty is linked to how much, just the original intention is still alive, since it is clear that the cut Since it is clear that he can not cut the head of that guy, after picking up a crossbow and arrows will silently detour away. This piece of stray people gathered place, hidden crouching dragon and dragon, there is no lack of in Li Yang side after the offense fled the foreign jianghu people, can stand firmly here, either high martial arts realm, or proficient in the side road, so that gang of armor encountered this cloak white linen wearing sword rider, do not feel how strange, but is strange that this does not look at the age of the guy is not even a knife is not sheathed, blocked all the attacks, let them heart They were afraid.

Hundreds of thousands of fish and dragons mixed stragglers are not scattered, mainly concentrated in the east to the west of the Qing Cang Lin ballad Fengxiang this three from the Liyang map of the abandoned city, because once dispersed, certainly fall into the North Liang armor under the ghost of the knife, stragglers have few weapons on their side, such a scattered soldiers, encountered in the hope of becoming the North Liang elite scouts into a team of armor, and then not afraid of death also have to die. As for why the North Liang did not attack the three cities in one fell swoop, can live is lucky the stragglers lazy to bother about this, can not wait for the old man of the King of the North Liang to treat them as a fart to let go, but I heard that this man butcher has died, they half believe, at first more or less relieved, and then the three cities are rumored to be the new king on the throne to take them to open up a sword to establish the authority of the troops will soon be pressed into battle, immediately let a person be scared up. These stragglers actually hate the poisonous Li Yishan, when the Xu family into the master of the Northern Liang, those who slightly exuded dissenting views of the local gentry, young and strong were driven to extinction, not one left, not taller than the horse’s back of the children were driven here, after the Northern Liang soldiers to hunt for military service, as well as not allowed to flow into the Liangzhou a catty of salt and a piece of iron here, are all from the Li Yishan’s authorization, there are still some people in the early years of the glory and riches, and I hope that the With the three cities secret military intelligence as a surrender, as a way to exchange with the northern Liang for a stable day, the results let Li Yishan ordered to slaughter all, directly thrown bodies outside the city of Qingcang, all the stragglers this is completely dead, surnamed Li that is determined to let them do a lifetime of lonely ghosts ah! As for the old Northern Liang King Xu Snapdragon, in the past, the displaced people hated in general, more fear, now people Tu died, they turned to hate, because some people have a nose and eyes said, people Tu died before the last words, want the new king to use 200,000 displaced people to his funeral, so that in the netherworld to make up a million soldiers, before they can go to wrestle with the king of hell. This kind of nonsense is quite unimaginable at first glance, in the land of the displaced people, no one actually does not believe it!

A ride near Qingcang city, twilight can vaguely see a few villages of smoke curls, this area will be fewer Northern Liang cavalry dare to wantonly loitering, the last time, or the Lord’s son of the Secretary General and a heavy pupil, to come here to far around the city to stroll around a circle. The man with the sword led his horse, and asked for a ladle of water from a mud house family at the entrance of the village, a family of four, a pair of dark-complexioned robust couple and a pair of shoeless children, their eyes were unusually cold, probably shocked by the visitor’s double knives on his waist, and only then did he suppress the impulse to kill people and take over the horses, and the man who was in charge of the family endured the pain in his flesh, and with difficulty spooned a ladle of cloudy water from the bottom of the tank and handed it out, and that man didn’t quench his own thirst with a drink of water, but he used it wastefully as a wash for himself. Wastefully used as a wash for the horse’s nose, this family’s two children are far away looking at a man and a horse, eyes blazing. Here, with an iron sword, it is easier to live, as for a good horse to ride, it is purely a luxury, it is good to have a backer, otherwise it is the same as writing “kneeling and begging for death” on the face of the four big words. The young face but gray hair of the rider handed for gourd ladle when, squinted at the next two children, the same is to look at the knife, inverted horse off there is a child, is for the heart of the clean dream of the jianghu, here the child, is thinking about how to kill when killed, there is a world of difference between the two, but there is no right and wrong points. Before leading the horse away, he pulled out a piece of silver from the bulging money bag with sufficient weight and threw it out, the man caught the silver, bit down hard, grinning at him, his eyes can’t talk about what gratitude.

Not long, the man shouted on the village of more than twenty young strong men, carrying a family can be less warm quilt ladies only can not be less of the wooden spear, but also some strong women and a little older children are not willing to lag behind, imposing, intercepted that accidentally exposed the yellow and white things of the foreign countryside travelers, said that is to intercept and not accurate, because that guy out of the village is not far, stopped the horse, as if it has been in the waiting for them. That hanging sword single rider, the money bag to the open space in front of him gently threw, with the ground of the Northern Liang accent said: “not afraid of death, capable, take away.”

In this way, no one dares to be the first to make a move, the bag of silver is certainly tempting, just this young ranger wearing a sword and riding a horse does not look like easy to be robbed and killed by the short-lived goods. Seeing that they did not move, the ranger clamped the horse’s belly, the horse’s hooves gently stepped on the ground, heading for the bag of silver money. At this moment, a wooden spear quickly swept out, was sharpened spear directly stabbing the ranger’s chest, out of the spear of the person is a tall and sturdy teenager, the spear art is a teenager to kill countless cunning gerbils fed out of, since it is the finger where to stab where, the accuracy is not to speak of. Only the wooden spear is harsh, unfortunately that ranger child does not know how to move, then turn the spear tip, lightly hold the wooden spear, except for the ruthless teenager who does not know what to do, the rest of the men and women are lifting the spear to retreat, as a way to clear the line of demarcation with the teenager. The sword-wielding ranger pierced the money pouch with the tip of his spear and steered his horse slowly towards the boy, the money pouch knitted tightly and slipped down the middle of the wooden spear before coming to a stop. Horse hooves are not heavy, but the sound knocked on the heart of the homeless people, that see the wealth of the teenagers did not wait for death, not to retreat into the face of a man and a horse scattered feet wildly running, not running straight line, such as the snake twisted sliding sand, flexible teenagers slightly swept over the horse’s head half a zhang, toes twisted, hard turn to the side of the horse’s belly. The ranger casually reached out and held the teenager’s head, threw up high, the tip of the spear pointed directly at the teenager’s abdomen.

At this time behind those men and women came a wail, a bone-thin girl staggered out of the wall of people, the ranger frowned, the spear inverted in the air in a half arc, the teenager crashed heavily on the ground, escaped the fate of being penetrated by their own wooden spear and died, he fell not light, but shook his head, tried his best to stand up after the yellow-faced little girl to protect the back of his body, staring at the horse back diagonally lifting the wooden spear of the ranger.

The ranger threw the wooden spear, tilted and nailed into the yellow sand a few steps in front of the teenager and the girl, his eyes jumped over the teenager’s head, glanced at the gang of stray men and women, and only then strangled the reins of the horse, turned and left.

Skin and bones to even have frostbite have no meat to rot the girl, whimpering and embracing the young people who depend on each other. The teenager who survived the disaster pulled out the spear with trembling hands, pulled the heavy money bag to his hand, opened the knot, only a small piece of broken silver, and then he had to hand over the money bag to the village elders “to share the spoils”, not the teenager is poor and generous, but don’t talk about what to eat alone, is a little more than you want, but also to get a beating. Just this time, let the teenager feel big surprise, the village that more than thirty men and women, no one to come forward to receive the money bag. The teenager is not stupid, remembered the ranger before leaving that glance, apparently the jianghu master so that these people do not dare to touch the silver. Teenagers have no elders at home early, even if they have not read a day to read a word, but also let the world taught some of the human condition, with silver and those who bought a catty less than two pathetic dried meat and coarse food.

After squandering a bag of silver, the teenager did not rush back to the village, but the only remaining small pieces of broken silver to his sister, squatting down, letting her ride on the neck, slowly stood up, carrying the wooden spear that almost killed him, the teenager was a little chagrined in his heart that the bag of money was also given to the people to take it, he looked towards the Qingcang City side, can not be seen that the ranger, the teenager smiled brightly and said: “small Grassroots, it’s silver yo.”

The little girl who clutched the broken silver tightly rested her chin on her brother’s head and gave a strong hmmm.

The ride rushed into the walled and crumbling Qingcang City before the gates were closed, there is no such thing as an ultimatum here, to be able to live is the biggest ultimatum, who cares about your family name and your household registration. In this city, you are the Zhang Julu Zhang chief minister is useless, is the emperor’s son is also the same. I’m afraid that only the Northern Liang that surnamed Xu, can talk for a long time. Ranger children into the city after, sitting high on the back of a horse, measuring the four directions, and the Northern Liang jurisdiction within the city is indeed unlike, and is rich or poor has nothing to do with, inverted Horse Pass is also poor, just inverted Horse Pass within the road pedestrians, live peacefully and freely, Qingcang city streets, in fact, there is no lack of brocade and silk of the broad man to show his face, but everyone is self-protective, each other to look at each other, all the wary of the heart of the depths of the, and there is less single travelers, more than Groups, some squatting in the street idle ruffians green skin, not like the Central Plains snake that attitude lazy, give people a half-dead feeling, at the moment looked up to see him a few groups, is a fierce light, seems to calculate his horse and two daggers in a flash a family can sell how much silver, but also weigh the in the end should not go to fight for this fortune. In this kind of dangerous place where everyone is a wolf, if you throw in a wind and moon reader, I’m afraid it is also the end of being chopped to death on the spot.

The ranger gently looked up, saw that the city’s most towering wolf smoke arrow tower, more than 100,000 displaced people, nearly twenty years, only four people killed a bloody road, self-appointed king, three of them respectively accounted for the phoenix xiang LinYuQingCang, cut off from the male, the last “feudal king” in the LinYuFengXiang between the two old military towns, set up a feed nearly 10,000 huge The last “feudal lord” set up a sect between the two old military towns of LinYang and FengXiang to support nearly 10,000 people, and the one who holds QingCang is the weakest because he has been cut by the blunt knives of the Northern Liang Rangers for many years, but his temperament is also the most violent, his real name is CaiJunChen, and he used to be a lowly swordsman on the rivers and lakes of LiYang, and then, after getting lucky on this side of the river and lake, he gave himself a nasty nickname, which is acidic and long and is called “Thousands of Frosts and Ten Thousands of Snow Pear Blossoms Sword”, and once a famous swordsman comes to visit him, he is “invited” to go to the master of QingCang. “Please” go to the sword, and then those swordsmen and then there is no more, those swords have become Cai Junchen’s collection of playthings, encountered trouble, like to plant all the famous swords on the woman, called “a tree of pear blossoms”, see this is honored by the local people called the Western Xia Dragon King of the city master “elegant” very much.

The ranger followed the wolf smoke arrow tower in the line of sight all the way to the west, Cai Junchen’s “Dragon King’s Mansion” is in the westernmost part of the city, there is no way, Qingcang is the closest to Beiliang in the east, Cai Junchen can be quicker to abandon the city and run away. The Dragon King of Western Xia claimed that he would lead his troops to Qingliang Mountain someday, but who would believe him? I’m afraid Cai Junchen himself was the first to disbelieve it.

Qing Cang city of the Dragon King House, encompassing the entire western city, in accordance with the shape of the capital, but also divided out of the inner palace city outside the Imperial City, the so-called Imperial City walls are only two feet high more than red paint battlements, but some of the city halls and pavilions are really spend a lot of blood to paste full of bright yellow glazed tiles, it is not easy to have so much of the imperial family’s temperament, but also to the varying heights of the archery towers to the destruction of the whole thing. Qing Cang every time someone rebels, the imperial wall is easily overturned, and then these hedgehog-like arrow tower to build success. However, this type of revolt, which lasted for two to three hundred people, was not even as good as some of the horse thieves’ melee in the land of the displaced people. This ride is still a hundred feet away from the gate of the Imperial City, to the road blocking a group of leather armor soldiers intercepted, holding a rare bright iron spear. The leader is a lieutenant look sword strong man, wearing an old South Tang style iron armor, he glimpsed the fat guy’s two swords, and then can not move the hot line of sight, laughed loudly: “There are thieves trespassing on the imperial city, sons and daughters, on the ground to kill!”

More than twenty spear-wielding pawns hula rushed to kill the past, without any formation to speak of, but the victory in the shape of robust, brave and incomparable.

The lieutenant suddenly shouted, “Wait!”

Pawns hard to stop the pace, Tang armor man drew his sword, pointed at the ranger, hehehe laughs: “boy, the sword is a good sword wow, before you die, give master to say the name of your sword. Rob famous knife is not than rob pussy, the latter can not care about the name of the master does not know how to pity pussy, but love and cherish the good knife of the man.”

Ranger’s son was dressed in hemp clothes like snow, laughed: “A handle of embroidered winter, a handle of crossing the river pawn.”