Chapter 127 Hundreds of flying swords cut off the purple gas

North of Qingcang City in Liuzhou, the North Mang front has reached the antique beach, this place was originally one of a series of foreign passes built by the Dafeng Dynasty at the height of its military strength, to stock up on military supplies and foodstuffs and use them to go out of the passes to use their troops to suppress the Rongdidi, but at this point it has long since become a ruin site for travelers and writers to write poems about ancient times only, and the outlines of those low city walls that were made of quicksand, loose stones and red willow reeds in the early years are still faintly visible, and the ditch mouths of the two sides of the city walls that are higher are still visible. The beacon flints on both sides of the city wall have long been flattened by the wind and sand year after year, but the merchants traveling between Beiliang and the western region can still occasionally pick up some broken arrowheads, broken knives, copper coins and other antiques here, thus giving rise to the term “Antique Beach”.

General Liu Gui’s handsome tent is stationed on the north shore of a small lake in the Antique Beach, handsome tent around in addition to a number of outstanding military experts guards, but also hides more than a dozen long-famous North Mang jianghu people, in fact, not only is the border marshal Liu Gui has this honor, any one of the border generals will be around so a handful of grassroots heroes to prevent the unforeseen, the great war is approaching, if it is the North Ryun martial arts masters to come to a 10,000 troops to take the head of a general, let the fire from the other side of the river! If a great war is imminent, if a Northern Liang martial arts master comes to take the general’s head in the middle of the army, letting the Liyang court that is watching the fire from the other side of the river make fun of it, not to mention that it is even more damaging to the heart of the Northern Mang army. However, Liu Gui is obviously an extremely special one among those powerful generals of the Southern Dynasty, or else he would not have been hailed as half Xu Snapdragon by the female Emperor of Bei Mang. Therefore, in addition to a large number of personal guards and escorts targeting assassinations, there is also an even more hidden group of “hermits” in the handsome tent, who are all out-of-the-way and live in a simple place, and these withered and weird characters are qi lookouts, who mostly came from the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Periods. These eccentric people with withered faces are the qi-watchers, most of them are from the Spring and Autumn period, and they have always been higher than the first line of the powerful valves in Beimang, and the ex-judge of Baobao Prefecture, who was a member of the royal family, was convicted of killing two qi-watchers by mistake, and he was migrated to a very cold place thousands of kilometers away.

General Liu Gui led the army to arrive at the antique beach, Liu Gui himself is no different, should eat and sleep, all the military orders methodically passed out of the handsome tent, and will even personally ride to the front line to check the situation, which makes those qi lookouts and masters of the escort, one by one, tense, for fear that the young and naturally very exuberant king of the North Ryang in their opinion, in a fit of anger, raided the camp, the qi lookouts of the life of the value of the money again, that can’t be helped! They are not able to compare their lives to that of Great General Liu, who doesn’t know that Liu Gui is one of the best candidates for commander-in-chief for the southern expedition to the Central Plains in His Majesty’s mind, far ahead of Yang Yuanzan, who is also a Great General, and the several major southern court holders.

Liu Gui is squatting alone by the lake at this time today, about the Dragon Elephant Iron Cavalry’s movement has long been spread to the marshal tent, a few beloved generals and colonels are suggesting to take advantage of this opportunity to swing south in one fell swoop, stepping on the insufficiently armed Qing Cang City. Liu Gui did not agree, think of those young people then eyes flashing the kind of bloodthirsty luster that he is most familiar with, Liu Gui can not help but smile, young good ah, even life and death are not as a big deal, but he can lie in the military success of the book to enjoy the blessing of the old man, more and more life-threatening. However, not yet how late Liu Gui life-scaring, not so afraid of losing and fear of death, just a flow state is not in his eyes, not to mention a small Qingcang City has nothing to do with the big picture. Previously, Fatty Dong hid, on the border to make a series of even their own people have to be hoodwinked fancy action, now finally is to show some fangs, even if he is the same as being allocated to the flow of state is destined to do some icing on the cake hook, Liu Gui is not too annoyed, after all, Liu Gui eyes from the beginning to see than barren northern Liang more attractive piece of fat meat, the Central Plains.

Liu Gui muttered, “When I was young, I read an idle book and read a sentence, called the rich and powerful do not return to their hometowns as if they were dressed in brocade, now the older I get, the deeper the feeling ah.”

Liu Gui suddenly thought of one thing, smiled to himself, that year his majesty’s golden mouth, “half Xu Snapdragon”, really let a person mixed advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is naturally to make himself famous in the southern army, as for the disadvantages, is now beginning to show, I heard that the 30,000 Dragon Elephant Cavalry do not need the commander-in-chief to send a message, they are all eager to cut off their own head as a pot of urine. The bad side of it is starting to show. Liu Gui subconsciously touched his neck, his old friend even sent a letter a few days ago, which teased him that Yang Yuanzan was far less valuable than Great General Liu’s head.

Liu Gui heard a rush of shouts from behind him, stood up and turned to look, three people came trotting, there was the new commander of the Black Fox Fence, Lin Fu, and an expert from the Chess and Sword Music House, and there was even the head of that banner’s qi lookout, the last one looked panicked, and said in a low voice as he quickly approached, ”Great General, we saw a qi coming from the east, and the target is precisely the marshal’s tent! If there is no big surprise, it should be the King of Northern Liang himself! Three incense sticks at the latest!”

Liu Gui froze for a moment, but he was incredibly clear that Dong Zhuo was about to start a big move north of the two states of Youliang, and asked with a smile, “So the King of Northern Liang is crazy?”

Lin Fu said helplessly, “My Great General, what a time! What do you care if Xu Fengnian is out of his mind? Let’s hurry up and set up our defenses, this kind of top martial arts grandmaster’s single rider breaking formation, if he really wants to make a move against you, Great General, with an iron fist, it really shouldn’t be underestimated.”

Liu Gui’s expression remained unchanged, but in the end, he was not so arrogant and conceited that he was laughing and waiting for the world’s number one to kill him, and he blandly said, “Lin Fu, pass down the order, the center army will turn to the east, and then let Huyan Keqin and Yelu Zongtang each lead five hundred of their own army’s fast and light cavalry, and line up on the left and right flanks, and you’ll lead another one hundred and eighty of Black Fox Fence, and act as the opportunity arises. As for that private army of the royal court, let them arrange themselves, they are more experienced in dealing with jianghu experts.”

Lin Fu asked in a low voice, “There’s no need to put two hundred heavy cavalry at the forefront of the battle formation?”

Liu Gui glared, “Not to mention whether or not the two hundred heavy cavalry can slightly block the footsteps of the Northern Liang King, even if they can, how many of them will be left afterward? If you’re not heartbroken, I’m still heartbroken!”

Lin Fu hemmed and hawed, no longer daring to take matters into his own hands, he hurriedly turned around and ran away to dispatch his troops.

Liu Gui walked side by side with that white-clothed Qi Practitioner and the experts of the Chess Sword Music House, the Qi Practitioner seemed to be infected by the Great General’s calmness in the face of danger, and no longer in the same state of trepidation as before, and said softly, “Please rest assured, Great General, His Majesty previously bestowed that well-trained six hundred men, which is not very meaningful if used to trap and kill the enemy, but to say that they are specifically targeting this kind of single-handed martial artist, it can be said to be a targeted approach. Although that Beiliang King does have amazing force, I believe that it is not yet so powerful as to ……”

Liu Gui smiled and took over the conversation, “Killing someone is like picking up a bag, isn’t it?”

The Qi Practitioner looked a bit embarrassed, Liu Gui calmly said, “Although I don’t understand the depths of that Xu Fenian, but I think that if he really wants to burn the jade and stone, it’s not hard to kill me, Liu Gui, and it’s only hard to see how he can get out in one piece. The reason why I say he’s crazy is not that he, Xu Fengnian, knows that he can’t do it, but I think that he’s exchanging the life of the King of Beilang for my Liu Gui’s life, how can I calculate it is not good enough.”

Liu Gui laughed, “I’m very relieved, you guys should be even more relieved too, our Order of Taiping counts for nothing, we may not have not left a backhand in the dark.”

The swordsman from the Chess Sword Music House laughed heartily.

After roughly one and a half incense sticks were burned, in front of Liu Gui’s army’s formation, an eye-opening military unit appeared.

The number of people was only six hundred, but every armorer who was called a material officer in the Northern Mang Army was unusually sturdy and robust, with a tiger’s back and long arms like apes.

It was a fact known to the world that Northern Liang had many powerful crossbows and Northern Mang had many strong bows.

But at this moment, Liu Gui’s army had a clear crossbow formation in front of their formation.

What’s even more intimidating is that there isn’t a single light crossbow in this battle formation, and even the waist-led crossbows only account for a small number of them, but more of the kind of crossbows that can be used for attacking and defending the city and the cloud-piercing crossbow carriage!

That a wear cloud crossbow car will need twelve material officer control, storage crossbow arrows fifty, each crossbow arrow length of up to three feet, and the sword is no different.

And the arrow tip quenched with green poison!

Northern Mang Murong empress when “recruiting” jianghu forces, that is not just moving lips can be done, it is this thing made a miraculous achievement, a disobedience to the discipline of the sects and gangs of ferocious ruthless crushed over.

Within two hundred paces, when a crossbow arrow shoots out, it is claimed to be equivalent to the full force of a second grade sect master.

If this claim wasn’t enough to describe the fearsome nature of the Great Bed Crossbow and the Cloud Piercing Crossbow Carriage, then there was an even more sensational claim.

Within a hundred paces, a crossbow bolt was a flying sword!

These crossbows, which were simply heavily built and maintained at the cost of giving up their original purpose, were exchanged for a quote from Her Majesty the Empress, “Jianghu people refuse to obediently jump around in the jungle, then I will just string you up to make sugar gourds.”

On the battlefield, if you are really being formed into a scale of this crossbow to the death, all the way to accidentally injure their own pawns, a trap brave ten thousand enemies how to be able to fight a hundred battles, how to live a long life?

Liu Gui in the rear of the army heavy escort, did not intentionally put on the golden armor, also did not set up eye-catching banner, looking straight ahead, squinting eyes do not speak.

A full-fledged general beside this great general worriedly and hurriedly said, “Deciding the victory or defeat actually lies in those three sets of crossbows and arrows between two hundred paces and fifty paces, if even the last crossbow and arrows whose strength is like the flying swords of the Immortals are unable to see the light of day, and are broken into the army by that person, and the great crossbows turn around, it will more than likely be too late.”

Liu Gui pointed to the crossbow formation in front of him that was constantly and slightly changing its formation at the behest of the Qi Practitioner and shook his head and laughed, “Then you’re also underestimating these Qi Practitioners and the Material Officer’s giant crossbow, take a close look at the width and thickness of the crossbow formation and you’ll be able to tell that the direction of the crossbow’s attack isn’t horizontally in one line or a few lines but rather, it’s determined to shoot a whole huge fan of arrows in the longitudinal direction. Even if that person would not be bent on breaking the formation in a straight line, these large crossbows could still respond to the formation under the command of the Qi Practitioner. The power of the crossbow itself is indeed terrifying, but what’s even more terrifying is these Qi Practitioners and Material Officers who came prepared from the start.”

That general lamented, “It’s no wonder that our jianghu in Beimang is not as angry as the Liyang side.”

Liu Gui laughed coldly, “What does the Jianghu need so much anger for, a bunch of reckless people who only know how to use their weapons to violate prohibitions, with little righteousness in their eyes for the family and the country. I dare to assert that in the future, when our dynasty’s iron hooves step into the hinterland of the Central Plains, there will be more Jianghu experts from Liyang to help us kill people, and maybe they will kill more people than our Northern Mang army will do their best ……”

Liu Gui suddenly stopped speaking, and a bit of blinding purple color appeared in the farthest reaches of the old man’s vision.

The general at his side drew a breath of cold air and said in a trembling voice, “It’s really coming!”

Liu Gui subconsciously had to raise his arm to give orders, and after lowering his arm, he had a complicated look for a moment, muttering to himself, “It’s worthy of being Xu Snapdragon’s seed.”

The purple qi came from the east, and it was all non-stop.

A loud bang came from the crossbow formation.

Crossbows and arrows were saved and broke through the air.

Almost at the same time, a second set of sharp arrows showered high into the sky stabbing straight at that purple qi.

In an instant, with the location of the crossbow formation as the pivot point, the fan opened wide, shooting out hundreds of crossbow arrows as if they were forming a fan bone, half of which were no different from an immortal’s sword!

However, after the blink of an eye, the purple qi swept through the air without any pause, just slicing through the sky and continuing westward, passing away in a flash.

Surprisingly, it just disappeared above the head of Liu Gui’s army!

Liu Gui, whose back was facing the army, moved a small step at some point, his face grim as he reached out and casually pushed aside the corpse of the swordsman that was protecting his body and looked to the west.

A crossbow arrow pierced through the corpse’s chest and nailed into the ground beside Liu Gui’s feet before even the arrow’s tail could be seen.

Ignoring the shouts of those escorting the driver around him who were even more panicked in the after-knowledge situation, the impassive Liu Gui said with a leathery smile, “What a good one to come and not go is not a good thing to do.”