The Mystery of Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 3 The Dead Man
Five miles away from the gazebo, there was the sound of iron hooves, and a black mass of cavalrymen.

Except for the armor, all of them wore Shura masks.

The deadly Shura.

The leader held a iron gun in his hand, and while leading the team galloped, he listened to the reports of his subordinates.

"General, we have killed all the secret sentries here, but the other party has already received the desperate message from the secret sentries."

Hearing this, the general raised his spear to the sky, and the 1000 cavalry raised their reins and reined in their horses in unison, and the whole team stopped in a moment.

Just by looking at them, you can tell that they are veterans who have experienced many battles.

It is extremely difficult to control a horse, let alone thousands of people together.

The general turned his head to look at his subordinates, the Shura mask on his face shone with the gloomy light of death: "Have you checked around?"

"There is no difference, there is no large group of people within a hundred miles here"

The other subordinate said: "General, it seems that the two of them met privately and only brought two hundred guards. Let's take this opportunity to catch them all. If the prince..."

"Shut up," the general interrupted his subordinate's nonsense, and said in a deep voice, "Chang Guangsheng is a famous general of the Xia army, and he is brave to ordinary people. The master of Yuan Pavilion is also the most mysterious person in my Xia country. How could it be possible for the two of them to meet?" With only this few troops, a gentleman will not stand under a dangerous wall. I don’t know if the two of them are gentlemen, but they are definitely two old foxes. I need to be careful. Let’s explore.”

"Nuo" his men beat their horses and left.

The general waved his spear: "Shu Ma."

More than a thousand people began to wait quietly.

gazebo.

Chang Guangsheng looked at Mu Qing who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This guy is worthy of being the master of the Yuan Pavilion. I haven't seen him for a few years. This has deepened his self-cultivation."

Mu Qing seemed to see through Chang Guangsheng's mind: "It's not that I'm not in a hurry, it's useless to be in a hurry."

Chang Guangsheng couldn't help laughing: "Aren't you worried?"

Mu Qing said: "What are you worried about? It's just a thousand cavalrymen, what can I do? Are you afraid, you lunatic?"

Chang Guangsheng said: "What am I afraid of? I have seen less swords and swords in these years? I am only afraid that you and I will die here, and no one will report to His Majesty, which will make the villain's heart shine."

Mu Qing: "I've known you for more than [-] years, and nothing has changed. Don't worry, I have my own countermeasures."

Chang Guangsheng showed an expression that should have been like this a long time ago: "I knew you had ambushes, where are they? How many people?"

Mu Qing looked to the north: "500 people."

Chang Guangsheng: "Just 500 people?"

"Tiger shooter."

"what?"

Shura cavalry garrison.

"Report," Yiqi rode his horse up, "report to the general, a group of infantry is blocking the way ahead."

The general's eyes froze and he said, "Infantry?"

"The opponent does not have a banner, and the number of people is about 500."

The subordinates on both sides said one after another: "There are only 500 people, general, give the order."

"500 people, just want to stop my iron cavalry, the Pavilion Master of the Yuan Pavilion is too big." The Shura mask on the general's face, who was thinking secretly, looked particularly ferocious.

In one fell swoop, "in"

The iron hooves burst out, killing the infantry in front of them.

The two armies were separated by two miles, and they arrived in an instant.

As the cavalry and infantry got closer, the Shura cavalry raised their horses and drew their sabers one after another, their killing intent became stronger and stronger, and the leader was the general with the gun.

As he got closer to the opponent, the general gradually saw this group of infantry clearly.

The military capacity is extremely strict. Although there are only 500 people, they do not panic and hold their ground firmly.

"This is definitely not an ordinary infantry, is it?" While hesitating, the prince's instructions sounded in his ears: "This adventure called you here because it was a last resort. Kill, leave no one behind."

No time to think about it, looking at the infantry [-] paces away, the general yelled "Break the formation" and the cavalry behind them changed their charging formation and started rolling towards the infantry.

The silver-armored infantry on the opposite side did not panic at all, but were indifferent.

Indifference to the enemy, indifference to death, and even indifference to oneself.

Two hundred steps.

150 steps.

One hundred steps.

Although there were only a thousand cavalrymen, the roar of horseshoes still made the ground tremble.

The infantry on the opposite side did not tremble, but held up their weapons steadily.

Crossbow, continuous crossbow.

The reflection of the crossbow bolt instantly stung the general's heart.

The world's number one crossbow army, Yuan Pavilion's exclusive armament - the tiger shooter.

Different from the military crossbows equipped by the frontier army, the tiger shooters, as the only regular military force in the Yuan Pavilion, are directly under the pavilion owner, Mu Qing.It is equipped with the continuous crossbow that Yuange Tiangong Division has just successfully researched. It can be loaded with ten arrows at a time and can be fired continuously, unlike ordinary military crossbows that have to be reloaded after each shot.Because the production skills are extremely difficult, it is impossible to equip them on a large scale in the Great Xia Army. The number of tiger shooters has been kept below a thousand, but it does not affect the fact that the tiger shooters are called the number one crossbow army in the world.

500 tiger shooters can shoot 5000 poisoned crossbow bolts in a few breaths.

As a general of Great Xia, the general certainly knew what would happen to the cavalry facing such infantry in the open, but the situation on the battlefield no longer allowed him to think too much. The Tigers made the final charge.

At 90 steps, no one ordered, and the tiger shooters tacitly started firing continuously.

Arrows rained all over the sky, shooting fiercely at the unprepared Shura cavalry.

With just one volley, hundreds of cavalry fell off their horses.

9 rounds left.

A sound of wailing came to the general's ears. The brothers who had been born and died for many years were either shot to death on the spot by the crossbow arrows, or died from the overbearing poison on the crossbow arrows. The worst cavalry was still hanging on the stirrup with one foot, but his head was ground by the ground. rotten.

The general didn't care about other things, he jumped into the camp of the tiger shooters with a gun, and with a spear, he disemboweled a tiger shooter.

The tiger shooters didn't panic, and sent more than 10 people to besiege the general, while the others continued to concentrate on shooting the remaining cavalry.

"Swish" a crossbow arrow shot into the general's calf, "swish, swish" three more crossbow arrows shot into the horse's crotch, the horse let out a mournful cry and fell sideways.

The general reacted quickly. With his left hand supporting the ground, he rose into the air and landed firmly on the ground.

There was no sound of fighting behind him, and the general felt a burst of sadness. The 1000 soldiers were wiped out within a few breaths.

The tiger shooters surrounded him, but they didn't shoot the general again.

The general knew they were waiting for someone.

Waiting for the most terrifying person in Xia Kingdom.

Mu Qing and his group did not keep the Shura cavalry general waiting for too long.

Even though he had already experienced quite a few fights, Chang Yun was still taken aback by the brutality of the battlefield.

There was dead silence, dead people, dead horses.

None of the horses survived the battle just now. The fighting strength of this group of tiger shooters is indeed astonishing.

Moreover, an ominous black color appeared on every dead body, obviously they were tortured by overbearing poison before they died.

The tiger shooters formed a circle, and in the middle stood a black-robed general wearing a Shura mask.

The tiger shooter gave way, and Chang Yun and others walked into the circle, looking at the black-robed general coldly.

The wound on his right leg kept oozing black blood, obviously poisoned deeply, but the strong vitality still made him straighten his back, facing the king in the dark night of Xia Kingdom, the most terrifying person.

Mu Qing nodded: "The poisonous black clothes are extremely poisonous, and even a horse can't last half an hour after being poisoned. You can survive until now. You are definitely not an ordinary person, at least you are also a master of the third rank of the Profound Realm."

The general didn't speak, but just looked at Mu Qing blankly.

Mu Qing said again: "You are a good man in my Great Xia army, why did you go to the point of conspiracy?"

The general's pupils shrunk into the shape of a wheat light. How could this man recognize his identity at a glance?

Mu Qing said to himself: "How did I guess it? Naturally, I don't need to tell you any more. I see that you already have the will to die, so naturally you have given up the idea of ​​persuading you to surrender. You can end it yourself." He walked out without looking back.

The general seemed to have been greatly insulted, and shouted loudly: "Even if you are the master of the Yuan Pavilion, you still underestimate my Daxia soldiers. The Daxia soldiers can only charge forward and die, and will never commit suicide, ah, "Holding up the spear with both hands, he stabbed towards Mu Qing's back with a terrifying momentum.

"whoosh"

There was a sound of breaking wind, and a person beside Mu Qing jumped forward, a white light flashed, the head of the black-robed general left his body without warning, and chased towards the ground behind him.

With just one strike, he instantly took the head of a third-rank master of the Profound Realm.The man in white put his sword back into its sheath, and then hid behind Mu Qing's guards.

Freed.

"I was originally the son of a prostitute outside the city of Anding. I have been blinded and bullied since I was a child. It is the prince who gave me life and let me grow up. This life belongs to the prince. It's just that if I die today, I can no longer help the prince to achieve hegemony. The prince , Chu Meng bid farewell."

The head has landed, but the body maintains this charging posture, standing between the sky and the earth with the iron gun propped up.

When Mu Qing turned around, Chang Guangsheng came forward and complained, "You're saving your life. Following the clues, we might be able to find the person behind the scenes."

Mu Qing said coldly: "No need, I have seen the will to die in his eyes just now, he will not be captured alive."

Chang Guangsheng said to Ji Hai and the other soldiers: "Go and take off their masks, I want to see who these thieves really are."

Ji Hai and the others took orders to go.

"My lord, the mask cannot be removed."

"What?" Chang Guangsheng was furious, and walked towards Ji Hai and the others, "Why can't the mask be taken off?"

"My lord, the masks of this group of thieves are all abnormally strong, and they cannot be removed at all."

Chang Guangsheng pulled up a corpse, and reached out to take off the mask on the head. The mask was not tied with a rope at all, but it was firmly stuck to the face door. No matter how hard Ren Chang Guangsheng tried, he couldn't move it.

Chang Guangsheng didn't believe in evil, so he pulled another corpse and took off the mask on his head with all his strength.

Mu Qing stepped forward: "Don't waste your efforts, their masks can't be removed."

Chang Guangsheng said unconvinced: "Why can't it be taken down, there must be some mechanism."

Mu Qing shook his head and said, "It's not an agency, their masks are directly melted on their faces."

Chang Guangsheng was taken aback: "It melted on your face?"

Mu Qing said: "After the mask is made, put it directly on the face before it cools down, and blend with the skin."

Chang Guangsheng was speechless now: "Then? That?"

Mu Qing went on to say: "So their faces are all ruined, even if they take off their masks, they're already beyond recognition."

Chang Yun and the others shuddered when they heard this.

How much perseverance does it take to endure the disfiguring pain of red-hot metal?
And everyone has the will to die, and does not give the tiger shooter a chance to catch a living.

Is this group of thieves?
"Dead man!" Mu Qing said.

(End of this chapter)