The trumpets sounded throughout the woodland.
The barracks, which was still smoked just now, suddenly became solemn and tense. The soldiers took up their knives and spears and marched out in neat rows. Ji Yanran got on her horse and went to the front line to supervise the battle in person. Yun Yifeng boarded the high hill again, and when he looked into the distance, the lush forest that was usually quiet except for the gentle breeze was now violently shaking as if it had encountered a violent hurricane.
A giant elephant rushed out first!
That should be the king of the elephant herd, with snow-white body and bright red eyes, the elephant's trunk flicked angrily, and the thick trees beside him collapsed in half, and the huge canopy fell down, shaking the dead leaves of plants and trees all over the place.
"ignition!"
The soldiers opened the wooden barrels, and the kerosene flowed out, like a rushing and suffocating muddy spring, filling the trenches dug in advance. A burst of fire shot up into the sky. Like ordinary animals, seeing this raging sea of flames, they might have turned around and fled hastily. However, the bewitched elephants seemed to be unable to feel the strong light and heat, and they were still running forward. The elephant at the front fell into the fire pit and smelled of scorched flesh. The elephants who followed stepped over the corpses of the same kind and continued to rush towards the Daliang army. It was a scream.
Although preparations had been made in advance, the army was still struggling to stop the elephants so ferociously. Fiery fire, poisonous spears, traps, traps, and nets, all the methods used to deal with wild animals in the past, have all lost their effectiveness at this time. On the contrary, the elephant herd was stimulated and became more manic. A fifteen-year-old soldier was forced to go under a tree, raised his knife and slashed twice. Seeing that the bloody forefoot had been stepped on, he instinctively hugged his head, and with a "bang", he received a heavy blow to his chest. , The smelly blood spurted indiscriminately. Xiaobing thought pessimistically, this time he might really die, but why doesn't it hurt
After a while, he opened his eyes tremblingly, and found that what he was holding in his arms was actually a bloody white elephant's fore paw.
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The elephant whose feet had been cut off by the Feiluan sword was still stumbling around, smashing the iron net into pieces. Seeing that the beast was about to escape from the siege, Yun Yifeng simply flew forward, grabbed the protruding tusk with one hand and snapped it hard, dragging it into the pit of flames.
Huang Wuding wiped the blood from his face, and exclaimed from a distance: "My lord, the master of Yunmen is amazing, Mr. Zhang is reincarnated!"
awesome.
Ji Yanran bent her bow to the full moon, and the five arrow feathers cut through the twilight with firelight, and penetrated straight through the eye sockets and brain of the giant elephant. This war didn't start for long, but Daliang's army was in a state of embarrassment, like a remnant soldier who had fought for seven days and seven nights. All formations and strategies were useless at this time, and they could only use the most primitive slashing to force them back. When one wave of soldiers got tired, another wave would take their place. Although Yuli City had been emptied, there were still hundreds of towns and cities behind it. Everyone was thinking in their hearts that they must not let these beasts pass by. In Yuli City, even if you die in battle, you still have to use your own corpse to build a wall.
The ancient divine dragon roared, strangled a huge gray elephant in the air, and swept across the giant tail with the fury of thunder, shaking the leaves in the surrounding fields, and the world was silent for a moment. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yun Yifeng leaped onto the back of an elephant, clenched the hilt of the Feiluan sword with both hands, raised it high and thrust it down fiercely, the sharp cold blade cut through the skull, causing bright red and pure white juice to burst out there.
The gray elephant staggered two steps and fell to the ground. Ji Yanran held Yun Yifeng's hand: "How are you?"
"I'm fine." Yun Yifeng said in a hurry, "My lord, go and supervise the battle, leave it to me here."
There was a new commotion from the other end, the snow-white leading elephant. It is extremely powerful, its skin is like iron armor, it is invulnerable to swords and guns, its two big ears are flapping once and for all, its tusks have already been stained with blood, surrounded by dozens of soldiers holding steel knives, but He didn't dare to step forward hastily. The giant elephant raised its head and let out a "moo" sound, as if to attract its companions. As expected, not long after, more white elephants rushed out from the depths of the forest, shaking the ground and making people frightened.
"Get out!" Yun Yifeng ordered loudly.
Before the surrounding soldiers had time to react, they felt a white shadow passing by, and when they looked closely, they saw that Yun Yifeng had jumped on the back of the elephant, closing the flying phoenix with one hand, and raising a short dagger with the other, "Pfft With a sound, it was inserted into the most delicate eye sockets of the Elephant King, and with a twist of his wrist, he forced the beast under his crotch to change direction and ran towards the herd of rolling elephants that had just been summoned.
Huang Wuding yelled: "Master Yunmen, be careful!" After saying that, he kicked the horse's belly and led others to come forward to support him. Yun Yifeng lay half on the back of the elephant, holding the handle of the knife tightly with his left hand, and controlled the elephant king to run in circles. The rest of the elephant herd followed closely behind, all wanting to knock this ignorant human being to the ground, but Yun Yifeng deftly dodged it. On the contrary, the king of elephants was staggered by his companions, and there were many bloody spots on his body. The wound comes. It seemed to be completely irritated, its long trunk was raised high, and a smelly mucus was sprayed out from it. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yun Yifeng resolutely climbed to a big tree beside him, avoiding this disgusting three-day beast Shocking crit. Xiang Wang wanted to rush forward again, but he touched the mechanism instead, and fell into the trap together with his companions.
Yun Yifeng motioned to Huang Wuding, kill!
Countless arrows are fired together, like thunder and fire rain in summer. Because the elephants were all lured to one place, when the fire oil was ignited, the burning was extremely enjoyable, no matter how much the disgusting mucus was splashed, it would be difficult to extinguish the fire, Yun Yifeng finally breathed a sigh of relief, Jumping to the ground: "Hard work."
Huang Wuding was out of breath, and glanced behind him again.
This was a genuine "fierce battle", and it was all blocked by the flesh and blood of the soldiers. The entire night, Yuli City was barely damaged.
After the fire was extinguished, the sun rose the next day, revealing half of an orange-yellow face. The elephant herd has been repelled, and the wilderness has returned to its usual calm. The tired soldiers sat on the ground, silently watching the morning breeze pass through the forest, blowing the fragrance of grass, leaves and flowers, as well as blood, corpses and smell. The military doctor and the logistics were busy, Yun Yifeng climbed to the high post and said: "Changyou's medicine is only enough to support more than a hundred giant elephants, and there will be no more in the future, so don't worry too much."
"When I went to Dianhua City to buy jade materials, I saw many docile white elephants, dressed up beautifully by merchants." Ji Yanran frowned, her voice hoarse, "This battle, my soldiers are also good, they have to die It doesn't matter if it's a herd of innocent elephants... it's not a good fight."
"Don't think about it, let's eat something first." Yun Yifeng held his hand and said softly, "My lord has worked hard all night, at least don't stand up."
Huang Wuding stood watching not far away, and for some reason, an old saying came to mind, which is to make a hero sad and beautiful - otherwise, seeing His Highness's expression, who else would dare to talk to him? There is only Cloud Gate Master.
Naturally, this is not an ordinary "beauty", but a beauty who can bring down a mammoth with one hand.
In Yuli City, the centipede put seven dishes and eight bowls on the table—because Aunt Yu was sent out of the city, he took over the job of cooking for the time being, and asked cautiously, "Brother Mu, won't you help? You can kill them all outside the city." It's been a night."
Mu Chengxue put a plate of shredded radish in front of Fat Diao, took some fried bamboo shoots with steamed buns, turned and went back to the room.
Earth Centipede: "..."
Mink: "..."
The snitch originally wanted to get close, asking the killer how his cooking skills were compared to Aunt Yu's, but in the end, the mink didn't even eat it.
Life is so hard.
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On the official road, a team of chariots and horses were marching against the scorching sun. In this season, people who travel mostly sleep during the day and hurry in the morning and evening when it is cool, and rarely rush around at noon, which shows that there are really urgent things. Even the boss in the tea shed looked at the group of people sweating profusely, and took extra care of them, sent a few extra plates of rice flower candy snacks, and persuaded: "In this weather, if you go again, you will suffer from heat stroke, so you should rest more." .”
The young master in brocade who took the lead didn't even bother to talk, he ate half a plate of rice flower candy in one go, and poured three or four pots of herbal tea before he said out of breath, "It's really hot here in the south."
"Yes, it's not hot in this season." The boss brought out a few more benches, and went to the back kitchen to continue working.
A follower said: "Second young master, after walking for two more days, we will be able to reach Danfeng City."
The "Second Young Master" here is none other than Pingle King Li Jun. He sighed deeply and said, alas.
When I was in the Northwest, I always wanted to come to the home of "friends from the rivers and lakes" to sit and enjoy the unrestrained style, but I never imagined that it would be like this now.
"Looking at Seventh Brother's letter, Senior Mei should still be living in Jiang's house." Li Jun said, "Anyway, I have to pass by, so why not go to the door to have a look, if that old senior Jiang is almost recovered, we will pick up Mr. Mei together Go south." When it comes to war, how can there be no miracle doctor? Besides, there is still a ghost thorn in the opponent's camp, so I have to guard against it.
The entourage quickly gave a thumbs up and praised: "The young master really has a sense of the overall situation."
"Go, what time is it, are you still flattering?" Li Jun reprimanded her, patted her fat belly that was getting thinner, and wanted to sigh again. Because the emperor was still unwilling to give an answer to the old dowager's request to go to Yuli City, Li Jun volunteered and went south with the dowager's message to act as a mouthpiece. He actually wanted to wait, but seeing that the emperor was already uncertain, and the seventh brother was still dispatching troops in the southwest, the situation became more and more precarious. The old concubine probably had no hope of leaving the royal city, so she had to take a step first.
King Pingle ate the rice cracker candy, thinking, it's not easy for the royal family and relatives, everyone is working hard. I passed by Chunlin City a while ago, and I didn't have time to visit the famous Fengyumen, so I didn't know what Miss Xing'er's sweetheart looked like.
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Qingyue looked at the map: "This is it."
Ling Xing'er praised: "It turns out that this is a quiet water town. It's really a good place. Yangliu Yiyi has beautiful scenery. No wonder Jiangnan Shu and his wife came here to recuperate."
"Quiet is quiet, but it's not convenient to get in and out. There are no fertile fields to grow around, and there are not many fish and shrimps in the river. Ordinary people can't survive. Only the young masters of rich families have the capital to come here to enjoy the mountains and rivers. .”
"So the people here are all passers-by who come to live in seclusion and leave after staying for a while? Then it's hard to ask."
"At least there should be a village guard, right?" Qingyue got off her horse, "Let's go, let's go in and ask."
This season is the least quiet time in Qingjing Water Town, because it is hot outside, so the sons and young masters of those rich families drove their carriages early to escape the summer heat, there are groups of servants, friends, and wives group. These rich and idle people have nothing to do on weekdays, so they developed various boring activities. There are women who distribute wooden clogs and imitate the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, and recite poems against the flowing water; When you see a stranger, you will ask angrily, "Hey, who is here?"
Ling Xing'er thought silently, this group of rice worms are still too full.
Qingyue didn't want to cause trouble, so she clasped her fists together: "My surname is Qin. I came to Qingjing Water Village this time to find an old friend, and I didn't intend to disturb my brother. If there is any offense, please forgive me."
After listening to the other party, tears welled up in his eyes instantly. Isn't this chic and unrestrained conversation full of quack spirit just the kindness and enmity that he was thinking like crazy
So he couldn't help but pull Qingyue and the two to forcefully invite them to his home as guests.
Ling Xing'er: "..."
Before the chairs were warmed up, the neighbors, or the "villagers" of the entire water town, all rushed to see the "real heroes of the rivers and lakes".
There is no way, everyone is rich, well-fed, and bored.
"I don't know who is the old friend that Brother Qin is looking for?" The fake knight-errant - the rich young master named Hu Dingding offered fragrant tea with his own hands. It might be of some help."
Qingyue said: "The person I'm looking for lived in the water village more than 20 years ago. His name is Jiangnan Shu. He is the late third master of the Jiang Family Villa."
When Hu Dingding heard this, his face was half embarrassed and half excited. The embarrassment was because he had just turned 20 this year, and he really couldn't make up anything about what happened "more than 20 years ago". The excitement was because of the Jiangjia Villa, which was the Jiangjia Villa! Then he slapped the table vigorously: "Brother Qin, don't worry, although I don't know, but my father knows! Just wait, I'll call right away!"
After finishing speaking, Sa Yazi ran out, but Qingyue tried to stop her but did not stop her.
After half a cup of tea, Hu Dingding dragged back a middle-aged man with a beautiful beard, who was holding a Qinglong Yanyue sword, and asked, hey, who is looking for the old man
Ling Xing'er thought to herself, this is still an ancestral hobby.