Zhai Le was not to be outdone.
He immediately refuted: "It is still unknown who will live and who will die."
Gong Xichou sneered.
"Of course it is - I live, you die!"
The long whip in his hand seemed to transform into a cunning and poisonous dark green snake, and the tip broke through the sound barrier and made a loud crackling sound that made the eardrums restless and itchy. The sharp barbs on the whip exploded, each of which was shining with a cold light, and if you got close, you could smell a rotten fragrance.
Zhai Le and Gong Xichou had a brief fight.
He had some understanding of the latter, but when the long whip appeared, Zhai Le couldn't help but frown.
Completely different!
Gong Xichou at this moment is completely different from that night!
It's not that Gong Xichou that night or the one today is fake, but the aura and oppression emanating from his body are simply not on the same level. Zhai Le only thought that the long whip was dangerous at the time, but this time he had a premonition that he would die!
Zhai Le had no choice but to grit his teeth and stand up.
He used all his strength to strike out a stream of inky martial energy.
Gong Xichou's calm expression finally showed a crack, and he controlled the long whip that was about to hit Wu Qi head-on to avoid it.
Without a target, the martial energy missed and hit the ground, as smooth as a knife cutting tofu, leaving a mark half a palm wide and half a foot deep!
"Unexpectedly, this is an improvement from last time."
He glanced at the footprints under his feet.
When martial energy is condensed and not dispersed, it has the power to cut gold and break jade. When ordinary warriors use martial energy, at most they use it to hit people or suppress them with force, which is rough and wasteful, consumes a lot of energy and has short-lasting power. As the level increases, the control of martial energy becomes more and more detailed.
If the Dan Mansion is likened to a container.
Then, when this container reaches a certain stage and cannot be expanded temporarily, we need to find a way to compress and purify the contents of the container, freeing up more space to accommodate more things. Compressed martial energy is naturally more condensed and pure than uncompressed martial energy.
When a certain critical point is reached, a qualitative change may even occur.
However, martial spirit is more violent than civil spirit and is not easy to tame.
It is like a group of extremely dangerous firecrackers. Once the compression and condensation fails, the first to bear the brunt is not the enemy but itself.
It is not easy for a Wudan warrior to improve in the middle and late stages, and the speed is getting slower and slower. Every bit of progress requires a long period of accumulation, which is related to the fact that it becomes more and more difficult to compress Wuqi as time goes by. And "compressing Wuqi" is also the key to the promotion of a ninth-rank fifth-rank official to a tenth-rank left minister!
But now Zhai Le is a seventh-rank official.
Gong Xichou said seriously: "I really can't keep you here!"
The whole person rushed towards Zhai Le like a cannonball, and the long whip in his hand attacked at an extremely tricky angle, attacking from both sides, cutting off Zhai Le's retreat! However, the expected blood did not gradually flow, and Captain Yang said angrily: "I am not dead yet-"
Although he was old, not very talented, and not as attractive as Zhai Le, he was still a tenth-rank Zuo Shuzhang after all. There was no reason for him to let a young man kill Zhai Le in front of him. His arm muscles bulged and he swung the hammer back.
Hit him in the face!
There was another loud bang!
Captain Yang is still as skilled as ever, and he confronts Gong Xichou head-on.
On the battlefield, few generals used whips as their weapons. First, they were not very powerful, and second, they were difficult to control. However, this perception was second only to that before he met Gong Xichou. Captain Yang felt the huge recoil from the collision of weapons, and his palms were slightly numb and red.
Such a great power—
Only the gangster who intercepted the tax silver that day could be compared with him. If it weren't for the fact that his figure, appearance and identity didn't match, Captain Yang would even suspect that Gong Xichou had used a vest to intercept the tax silver. Despite this, he still asked, "My son, have you ever intercepted the tax silver?"
The two were separated by an attack. Gong Xichou retreated a few steps calmly, taking a slight breath that was barely noticeable. He asked, "Did your tax money get intercepted?"
Captain Yang: “…”
It hit his sore spot directly!
Gong Xichou was also stunned. He didn't expect that he had guessed it right.
He laughed out loud, and Captain Yang went up to him and was about to slap him in the face.
"What are you laughing at, you little brat!"
Although Captain Yang is only 45 or 46 years old, he is still in peak physical condition for a brave warrior. Captain Yang is best at swordsmanship, followed by hammers. Although he is not born with supernatural powers, he can make up for his shortcomings with cleverness, and he can always catch his opponent by surprise when fighting.
After twenty or thirty moves, Gong Xichou became a little depressed.
Captain Yang's hammer technique is quite deceptive.
It seems to be a violent route of big swings and hitting a kid with one hammer, but in fact the force of the blow is far less than the surface momentum. However, it is as sticky as sugar and most of the force will be removed if you are not careful. It understands the essence of "a little force to move a great object".
To put it simply, it means hitting the cotton with all your strength!
It's okay once or twice, but it happens twenty or thirty times!
No matter how Gong Xichou adjusted his strength, Captain Yang could always change his strength in the next move, messing up his rhythm. Although it was not fatal, and did not even cause any substantial damage to Gong Xichou, the feeling of being frustrated was quite disgusting.
Not to mention that Captain Yang also had Zhai Le assisting and harassing him. Gong Xichou became more and more annoyed as he fought, and the more annoyed he became, the more angry he wanted to be. He shouted, "Enough! This is the end!"
The whip shadows, which were already as dense as a storm, became several times, dozens of times, or even dozens of times denser in an instant!!!
These whip shadows are real and imaginary, and it is difficult to distinguish.
Captain Yang was aware of it but was unable to react in time, and the heavy hammer in his hand was knocked out of his hand by the huge force that suddenly increased by nearly double. As the severe pain came, he also heard a slight sound of bone fracture at that moment!
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhai Le drew his black longbow!
Potential can be unleashed most in times of crisis.
Draw the bow and shoot the arrow!
Hundreds of streams of light collided with the whip shadow like chasing stars and catching the moon, followed by a bang in the air, and the martial energy condensed into the whip shadow collided with the arrows, and then exploded like firecrackers. Compared with the whip shadow, the occasional success of "hundred arrows" was obviously not good enough, but it offset a part of it and gave Captain Yang a chance to survive, taking the opportunity to retreat dozens of feet!
The more Gong Xichou looked at Zhai Le, the more he wanted to chop off his head.
He said, "You are a good archer kid."
If it weren't for the talent in this way, it would be very difficult for a seventh-class official to condense a hundred arrows at once, which was inseparable from the talent and hard work. However, the occasional success still took a lot of luck. Gong Xichou: "Only a hundred arrows—"
He then snorted again.
He also bent the bow and shot the arrow, with a cold look on his face, and said: "I will generously invite you to see what real 'archery' is, so that your life in this world will not be in vain!" As soon as the words fell, the energy of heaven and earth around him surged wildly, condensing towards his bowstring and fingertips!
Captain Yang and Zhai Le's expressions suddenly changed!
Gong Xichou saw their reaction, and a little bit of evil taste bubbled up in his heart. He took advantage of the cyclone wind generated by the surging energy of heaven and earth, and lightened his body with his black boots, stepping on the air waves, and jumped to a height of 70 to 80 meters in front of everyone.
He said, "Take this move from me!"
As he said this, Captain Yang and Zhai Le also believed his lies and gathered their martial energy around them. But when Gong Xichou's arrow was about to leave the string, the target of the arrow suddenly changed and moved to the soldier beating the drum at the gate of Xiaocheng!
At that moment, hundreds and thousands of dark green lights broke through the air.
On the walls of Xiaocheng—
From the generals to the soldiers, everyone was almost dumbfounded!
I never expected that a large army would be formed during the fight!
Besides, the battle site was right under the city wall, and Gong Xichou was shooting arrows quite close to them. At such a short distance, even if he lost his concentration for a moment, he might end up on the road to hell and report to the King of Hell. Gong Xichou's target was still the soldiers who were beating the drums and boosting their morale!
Once the drums stopped beating, the morale blow would be as great as if the flag of an army had been shot down! However, they wanted to stop it, but it was too late! As arrows penetrated their bodies, several soldiers who beat the drums were shot into real sieves!
But that's not the most annoying thing.
Captain Yang looked at the body falling from the city wall, his eyelids twitching wildly, veins popping out on his forehead, and the anger of being fooled made his blood pressure soar. Why do you say "fooling"? The momentum created by Gong Xichou was completely inconsistent with the final movement.
The arrows condensed from the martial energy compressed several times could not only kill a group of people, but even penetrate the walls of Xiaocheng! These were not just one or two arrows, but hundreds or even thousands of arrows fired at the same time, powerful enough to destroy half of the walls of Xiaocheng!
It's just a complete massacre!
What's the result
Despite such a huge momentum, only a few soldiers beating drums fell.
The others were not even hurt.
What else could it be except malicious deception
However, he was also sincerely glad that it was just a "trick".
This dramatic scene successfully silenced the two armies for a moment. Immediately afterwards, the rebels became more morale-boosted, drums beat into the sky, and twelve thousand soldiers raised their arms and shouted words of praise such as "The Major General is mighty" and "Invincible".
The sound of drums from Xiaocheng's side was completely suppressed to almost nothing.
Seeing this, the Wudan warrior who was temporarily acting as the commander-in-chief cursed loudly, strode forward and snatched the nearest drumstick.
Use all your strength and mobilize all your martial energy!
Boom, boom, boom—the drum beats were denser than a rainstorm, heavy, vigorous, and high-pitched, beating along the eardrums onto the listeners’ hearts, each one a burden. The drum beats seemed to have a powerful force that made one’s blood surge.
That effect—
It was like performing CPR.
As the blood beat like waves and rushed to every part of the body, the gradually cold hands and feet warmed up again, the soldiers' faces turned red, and some even couldn't help but bleed from the nose.
When the energy of heaven and earth calmed down, Gong Xichou fell to the ground from the sky with a thud. However, before he could stand firm, two attacks came at him.
Captain Yang’s sword and Zhai Le’s gun.
Attack from the left and right.
The flashes of swords and spears danced so well that water could not penetrate. Gong Xichou laughed heartily for a few times, and even raised his arms, using his armor to protect his arms to block the blade of Captain Yang and the tip of Zhai Le's spear.
His arms didn't move at all and he didn't look tired at all.
The muscles on Zhai Le's face twitched violently!
The friction between the blade tip and the metal of the arm guard created brilliant sparks, and the piercing sound penetrated the eardrums, making one's scalp numb and almost explode!
After a battle of strength, Gong Xichou was the only one who forced back the joint attack of Yang Duwei and Zhai Le!
Is this still a human being!
Is this really a human being
Even if he was really a 13th-rank middle guard, he couldn't use his armored arm guard to withstand it! Gong Xichou raised his eyelids, glanced at the crack on the arm guard that was spotted by Captain Yang, and groaned in dissatisfaction. With a flick of his hand, a dark green mist gushed out from the shoulder armor, and penetrated into the arm guard along his arm, instantly smoothing out the small crack.
Gong Xichou smiled and asked the two of them: "We are preparing to make a strong start now, but what about the next 'decline and decline, and the third 'exhaustion'?"
There is a time limit for using words to forcibly boost morale.
Once the time limit is over, the energy consumed and overdrawn needs time to slowly recover. Soldiers are ordinary people, and their bodies can only bear and burst out limited morale, so it is impossible to squeeze them indefinitely. If you start using this word spirit before the battle is over, you will definitely lose!
Captain Yang naturally knew this truth.
But we are more aware of the consequences of having our morale completely crushed.
Soldiers are not united, afraid of fighting, or even forced to commit suicide by the enemy's morale, and finally become like scattered sand, which is a sure defeat! Choose the lesser of two evils. If it is Captain Yang standing on the city wall, he is willing to exhaust his martial energy and fight to the death!
At this time, Captain Yang said, "You go down!"
Gong Xichou resisted several attacks in a row. When he heard this, he thought he had misheard, as if he had seen a ghost: "I go down?"
No one has died yet, and the fight has not yet been decided.
Let him go down
Is this old man's mind confused
Captain Yang ignored him and said, "Zhai Yishi, get off!"
Gong Xichou: "Let him go? Have you asked me?"
He also wants to kill Zhai Le.
I don’t believe I can’t kill him!
"Up to this point, Mr. Zhai has done enough, and I am extremely grateful. There is really no need for him to risk his life. I wish you good luck in the future! I am willing to live and die with Xiaocheng--" After saying this, Captain Yang's face became a little more gloomy and with a kind of terrifying determination.
Gong Xichou frowned.
He actually stopped and wanted to see what Captain Yang was going to do.
Zhai Lefu seemed to understand something in his heart.
He opened his mouth, trying to stop her, but—
Zhai Le said: "I wish you good luck in military affairs."
Captain Yang's straight spine bent slightly as if he was relaxed, and his muscles seemed to have unloaded strength. He looked relaxed and relaxed, with all his aura restrained. At first glance, he looked like an ordinary person wearing a majestic suit of armor, and there was no danger at all.
but-
That's just at first glance.
Captain Yang stepped forward.
He moved very slowly and with heavy steps, not like someone who practiced martial arts.
The strange thing is that the momentum suddenly increased by nearly twice!
The second step is to raise it higher!
Step 3!
Step 4!
Step 5!
Until the seventh step, his momentum was close to Gong Xichou, and finally he was almost ahead of him! Captain Yang did not move forward, but his cheeks flushed strangely, his eyes were bloodshot, his Adam's apple rolled unnaturally several times, his lips were tightly pursed, and he did not dare to open his mouth again.
It was as if as soon as he opened his mouth, violent and restless martial spirit would leak out. Seeing this, Gong Xichou finally faced it, because the intuition of a brave warrior told him that the Yang Duwei in front of him could kill him and threaten his life!
He said: "In this case, I will grant you—"
"I will die here with honor!"
Even if I don't die here, I'll be a useless person if I live.
For a brave warrior who once fought on the battlefield, this was more painful than lingchi (death by slicing), so Gong Xichou decided to respect his opponent.
Show your true abilities!
"Sure enough - Gong Xichou let it go last time."
I thought they were filling a pond, but it turned out to be a river!
Shen Tang felt very angry!
An unnoticed corner on the city wall.
She and Qi Shan and the other two rushed over and saw this scene. They were about to charge out, but Gong Shuwu held their shoulders. Banbu said solemnly and seriously: "Let this fight end."
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