Fang Jie is a knowledgeable person. Not only has he traveled to many places in the past fifteen years, but he has never been to the imperial capital in his previous life, so in his mind, Chang'an City is just an ancient city with green walls, red tiles and many wooden buildings. . So when Xiang Qingniu talked about how majestic the imperial capital was, he really wasn't interested.
On the contrary, Cui Lueshang listened with gusto, and soon became fascinated.
"Do you know how high the walls of the imperial capital are?"
Xiang Qingniu sat next to the big dog on the red carriage, proudly raised his jaw, stood up and gestured: "It's so tall!"
Fang Jie, who was riding on horseback, burst out laughing: "Dear Taoist priest, can you not use your height as evidence of the majesty of Chang'an City? Even if you stand up from the carriage and gesture... If the city wall of Chang'an City is If you can figure it out with your height and arm span, then I really doubt whether the title of the world's number one city is a bit false."
He stretched out his hand and gestured on the top of Xiang Qingniu's head and said, "Even Fan Gu's city wall is this high."
Xiang Qingniu was a little annoyingly afraid of this young man whose background he didn't know very well, and he didn't know if it was because of the four intersecting lines and the red mole on Fang Jie's palm, or because this guy had a thick face and a heart. It's because Hei Du is a little bit stronger than him.
So he just snorted coldly, after a while he felt that he had to save some face, and then put on a haughty look: "You are not a candidate for the Academy of Martial Arts, otherwise I guarantee you will not pass the exam."
Cui Lueshang was taken aback for a moment, then pointed at Fang Jie and said, "He is a candidate from the Academy of Martial Arts, and he is also a candidate from the military. It is easier to say than those of us who get the status of a candidate. You know my aunt is Because he was recently conferred the title of imperial concubine, he has this level of face and he has given countless gifts to get the quota. He only needs to accumulate enough military merits in the frontier army, and then he can take the exam with a recommendation."
"Aha!"
Xiang Qingniu immediately became interested, and his eyes were wide open: "You are really a candidate for the Academy of Martial Arts, then you will be miserable!"
Fang Jie ignored Xiang Qingniu, but looked at Cui Lueshang and said seriously: "It seems that in the eyes of those of you who come from aristocratic families, soldiers in the army are not qualified to be recruited by the Academy of Martial Arts? It seems that in your eyes In your eyes, it is easier for us ordinary soldiers without a prominent background to get a place than you noble children?"
Cui Lueshang paused for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Isn't that so?"
Fang Jie couldn't help laughing, the smile was so sinister: "I don't know how much money you spent, and I'm not interested in knowing how much face your family sold to help you get a quota. But you probably don't know me What did you get it for, maybe even if I tell you that you got it with 21 military exploits, you won’t think it’s a big deal.”
He said seriously: "I just want to ask you, do you know what 21 military achievements mean?"
Cui Lueshang asked, "What?"
Fang Jie said word by word: "It means that I have a big fate, and I deserve to die twenty-one times... You people will never understand how important a reference quota in the Martial Arts Academy is to an ordinary soldier, and what a luxurious dream it is." That is the chance to change their destiny that they have worked so hard for countless times, and they may not be able to get it in a lifetime. You rely on family fame and gold, silver and jewelry to exchange for that quota, and we... rely on our own lives to exchange."
He breathed a sigh of relief, laughed at himself and said, "Of course, in your eyes, the lives of us frontier soldiers may not be worth the money you sent."
"I… "
Cui Lueshang blushed, couldn't help shaking his head and explained: "I really don't think so."
Fang Jie sneered and asked: "Then let me ask you something, if you or your noble friends, whether intentional or not, kill an ordinary soldier. Once this happens, you How to solve?"
"compensation."
Cui Lueshang seriously said: "Compensation is a large sum of money, which is enough for the relatives of the deceased to live in peace. Of course... some scum from aristocratic families will use the power behind them to suppress this matter forcibly, and they will not mention it at all. There was a lawsuit in the yamen. Li Yuan beat and killed a gangster under the policeman in Xiangcheng, didn't pay a single coin, and drove the family out of Xiangcheng... I know it's wrong to do this, I persuaded him... "
Fang Jie interrupted Cui Lueshang, and asked again: "What if an ordinary soldier accidentally killed a noble boy like you?"
"I will... die..."
Cui Lueshang's expression changed, and he found that his voice was so low that it was almost inaudible. He had never thought of this question before, but now that he thinks about it carefully, his heart is really touched.
"Is it over if you die?"
Fang Jie snorted coldly: "If that gangster from Xiangcheng accidentally beats Li Yuan to death, he's afraid it's not just as simple as taking his life, but his family will be ruined... and even his relatives and friends will be harmed!"
"Do you know how many thieves the soldiers of the frontier army kill to accumulate military merit?"
he asks.
Cui Lueshang shook his head.
Fang Jie said in a calm voice: "Injury to one enemy is one turn, and killing more than three people is a turn nine. After the ninth turn, Ce Xun accumulates military merit once. If you want to take the exam at the Great Sui Academy of Martial Arts, you need to accumulate at least twenty times. Military merit... Have you counted how many thieves you killed? Then, do you know that every time you kill a person, you face a big risk of being killed?"
What Fang Jie didn't know was that Li Xiaozong lied to him. According to the rules of the Sui Dynasty, after accumulating five military merits, one can sign up for the Academy of Martial Arts. In order to keep Fang Jie, Li Xiaozong told this lie for at least two years.
And just as Fang explained the word "killed", a powerful crossbow came swiftly and went straight to his throat!
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Crossbows come from the earth!
Dozens of big men in black suddenly jumped up from the grass on both sides of the official road. They were hiding in the pits dug beforehand, just waiting for Fang Jie and others to pass by. Suddenly dozens of eagles appeared with wings flapping. They all hold the same single crossbow in their hands, which is astonishingly powerful.
The lethality of a single crossbow is naturally slightly lower than that of a continuous crossbow, but it also depends on where it is used. If the two armies confront each other, the power of the Liannu can definitely be called a killer weapon. It can be used for assassination, and the advantage of a single crossbow is extremely obvious. The single crossbow has a longer range and greater strength, and can shoot through even a door panel with one crossbow.
Dozens of single crossbows fired at the same time, just like dozens of lightning strikes a target at the same time!
Fang Jie was defenseless, because he was used to the perception ability of Mu Xiaoyao and Da Quan by his side. One can perceive the enemy's cultivation base, and the other can perceive the murderous aura. No matter what kind of crisis they encountered before, these two people could warn in advance.
But this time, there was no sign.
Mu Xiaoyao in the carriage didn't feel the presence of a master nearby, and Da Quan didn't even smell the murderous aura that he would never miss.
Such a sudden assassination was the first time Fang Jie encountered in his life!
He was not with Big Dog, nor in the compartment.
He was riding a tall horse, and his target was extremely obvious. Except for Cui Lueshang who was also riding a horse two steps away from him, he couldn't even find an obstacle that could resist the crossbow arrows. Those assassins jumped up from both sides of the official road, and the closest one to Fang Xie was only twenty steps away. For the crossbow bolts fired by a single crossbow, this distance is reached in an instant.
At the last second, Fang Jie was still complaining about the border soldiers, so he was unguarded.
But in the next second, the horizontal knife behind his back was already in his hand.
In the blink of an eye, Fang Jie chopped off the hard crossbow that was already in front of him, and then jumped off the horse without any hesitation, regardless of whether he would be accidentally injured by Cui Lueshang and his guarding horses, he continued on the official road. He rolled out, then adjusted his posture and rushed forward like a cheetah pounced on the enemy.
He didn't hide behind the carriage, but unexpectedly rushed into the assassins on one side. Behind him, those crossbow bolts pierced the official road.
If his movements were half a second slower, he would have been pierced by at least three crossbow arrows.
At the same time that he jumped out of the official road and rushed towards those assassins, a red silk flew out from the carriage like a giant python, and caught the assassin who was closest to Fang Jie. , With a click, the assassin didn't know how many ribs were broken and died immediately.
In the next second, Mu Xiaoyao rushed out of the carriage.
And the dog had crushed an assassin's neck.
It was in this short period of time that other people's reactions varied. A guard with the highest cultivation level beside Cui Lueshang kicked him off his horse, and then jumped down and landed on Cui Lueshang. After the rain of arrows, Cui Lueshang's four guards were all crucified to death. The guard protecting Cui Lueshang got three arrows in his back, and he seemed to be dead.
And Xiang Qingniu got into the carriage immediately.
Fang Jie leaned down, as if he was leaning against the ground and rushing forward. Before an assassin could discard the single crossbow in his hand, Fang Jie slashed out with his horizontal saber. The saber drew a streak in mid-air, and arrived in front of the assassin in an instant. After a pop, half of the assassin's head was removed by the sharp horizontal knife.
The assassin didn't have time to shout out, Fang Xie had rushed towards the second assassin before his body fell down. At this time, the second assassin dropped the single crossbow and drew out the ring-sword at his waist.
But he was still slow.
Fang Xie's horizontal knife pierced the lower side at an unimaginable angle, pierced through the assassin's jaw, and the blade came out from the top of his head. After he succeeded with the knife, Fang Xie twisted his wrist, and the blade spun around in the man's mind before being drawn out again.
At the same time as the corpse fell, white brains mixed with blood slowly gushed out from the wound. Because these two things are mixed together, it looks extra viscous.
In the third cut, Fang Jie directly cut open the lower abdomen of an assassin. The intestines and viscera were almost spurted out along the cracked opening, and a large sticky mass fell to the man's own feet with a thud. A piece of intestine was hanging from the wound, connected to the mud-like mass on the ground. The assassin was about to step forward and stab Fang Jie, but he stepped on his own internal organs, and his intestines caught his ankle, and his body fell forward uncontrollably.
When he killed three people in a row, Mu Xiaoyao had already killed seven people, and Da Quan had killed six.
For pure killing, the novice Fangjie seems to be not much slower than the two of them. You must know that Fang Jie is a person who cannot practice, so the speed of killing people like this can almost be described as abnormal. He didn't look at all like a cowardly person who had never killed anyone in the border town, but more like a veteran who crawled out of the sea of corpses!
"It's not right!"
The big dog jumped over fiercely and punched an assassin through the heart. When he withdrew his hand from the man's chest, he still held half of the bleeding heart.
"These assassins are too weak, they are ordinary fighters at best! They don't even have the strength of the first rank!"
Fang Jie took off half of an assassin's shoulder with a knife, dodged an incoming ring knife and replied, "Why don't you smell the murderous aura!"
With a click, the big dog directly pulled off the two arms of an assassin from his shoulders, and then kicked the man's naked body out: "I don't know, I don't want to understand either!"
When Fang Jie and the three of them were busy killing people, Cui Lueshang, who was terrified, looked at the guards who died protecting him and panicked, completely wasting his second-rank cultivation, while Xiang Qingniu, who was hiding in the carriage, endured it. I couldn't help crying out.
"Fang Jie you bastard! What is your origin, how did you get into trouble with this group of the most difficult guys in the world! Anyone who is targeted by them will surely die!"
But Fang Jie didn't die this time.
After the dozens of assassins killed and wounded more than 20 people, the leading man turned around and ran away after a whistle. Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao chased them out respectively, and after a while, each captured one alive. But it was meaningless, because the two assassins crushed the poison hidden in their teeth while being captured alive.
Thinking about chasing other people, more than a dozen war horses rushed out from the woods by the roadside, and escaped after the crippled assassins.
Fang Jie spat bloody spit, jumped over and pulled Xiang Qingniu out of the carriage.
"who are they!"
Xiang Qingniu trembled in fright, his body almost collapsed. Not because of this assassination, but because of Fang Xie's eyes that turned red at some point.