Legend of the Knight

On the third day, Huang Xiaoshi and others finally caught up with the last team.

I saw that the slaves captured by the Tianlong Cult were all tied with long ropes on the business road where people came and went. Every ten people made a string, and ten strings made a team.

A long rope tied a slipknot around a person's neck, and the slipknot would become tighter and tighter as he struggled. If the person couldn't keep up with the pace of the team, it would become tighter and tighter, and he would even be strangled to death.

Everyone is carrying a pannier or rack, with heavy cargo on their backs.

The last person in each string has the end of the string behind him tied around his waist. Only the captain who walks at the front of the line can "enjoy" the treatment of not carrying cargo or tying the rope.

The captain held the rope in his hand, leading the hundred or so people behind him like an animal.

Huang Xiaoshi took the lead. He blew a long and loud whistle, and then galloped over the tail of the team and galloped forward.

Following Huang Xiaoshi to the north to kill the Japanese, after several months of training in encounters, the people who can still follow him now are all excellent equestrian masters.

But anyone who fell off a horse, lost a horse, or never learned to ride a horse, was either persuaded to go home a long time ago, or was besieged to death by the Japanese people long ago.

As soon as Huang Xiaoshi blew his whistle, the cavalry split into two and surrounded them along the left and right sides of the official road.

None of the cavalry recovered their senses. A white-flowered horse had already rushed over. They were about to chase after the horse when the man on the horse turned around. He raised his hand, and they fell to the ground one after another.

This is the stone that Huang Xiaoshi carried in his cloth bag, and its scientific name is Migratory Locust Stone.

During the hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, Huang Xiaoshi discovered that although the internal force can be released in the air, the distance is really limited. If you want to increase the range, you need to consume a lot of internal force.

Huang Xiaoshi picked up his hidden weapon skill of flying stones to hit flies again.

As I said before, for those who have not deliberately practiced hidden weapons, throwing hidden weapons is a thankless act. One is that the power is limited, and the other is that it is difficult to hit warriors who move at high speed.

However, after turning on the crit state, Huang Xiaoshi just used stones to hit ordinary people, so there is no problem at all. Even people with poor martial arts, without enough prediction, it is difficult to avoid his flying stone.

As the cavalry fell to the ground one after another, the cavalry in front of the team reacted quickly. After they turned their horses' heads, they hid their bodies on the side of the horse.

This is an extremely superb riding technique, called horseback concealment technique, which can be used to avoid the enemy's flying arrows, but it is completely useless to Huang Xiaoshi.

The pebbles infused with the internal force of Jiuyang are like armor-piercing bullets, which can penetrate even the iron armor of heavy cavalry, and horses can't resist such a blow at all.

The mount was killed by a flying stone while it was running. Originally, a person hanging on the side of the horse made it unstable. The running horse suddenly fell down, and the rider was all crushed under the horse's belly.

Huang Xiaoshi rushed to the front of the team in one breath, but he didn't meet Mahuraka or Garuda, nor did he meet any other elites of Tianlong Cult.

Two groups of people were fighting on the side of the road, but the team in the middle of the road didn't stop and was still advancing slowly.

This is the advantage of the rope. Without a password, no one dares to stop, otherwise he will be strangled to death.

After Huang Xiaoshi rushed to the front of the team, he turned around and rode his horse. All the cavalry who rushed towards him were killed by a stone. He was stuck in this position to prevent anyone from escaping and reporting.

The number of guards escorting the slave team was unexpectedly small, with only thirty cavalry and no infantry.

After finishing off all the cavalrymen of the Heavenly Dragon Cult, the slave team was still slowly moving forward along the road.

Huang Xiaoshi blew another loud whistle, and then he shouted loudly: "Everyone obey orders!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"stop!"

The slave procession finally stopped.

The martial arts people who followed Huang Xiaoshi drove the captains of each team together, and Huang Xiaoshi rode his horse and walked slowly.

The people who were standing like sifting chaff, saw that the person riding the horse was Huang Xiaoshi, their feet went limp, and they knelt down and cried.

"God! Finally saved!"

"Master Shi! I am Wang Laosan! My three sons and daughter-in-law are all dead, so you have to decide for me!!"

……

It took a long time, Huang Xiaoshi finally calmed down everyone, and asked about the situation by the way.

There were 400 teams in this team. After half a month of traveling, about [-] people were downsizing. Among them, the downsizing was the most severe in the first five days, with dozens of people every day.

All those who could not keep up with the pace were abandoned on the side of the road, but in order to prevent some people from pretending to be unable to walk, and to deter others, they would be killed by stabbing, cutting, and stepping on horses.

After questioning and checking, Huang Xiaoshi found that these people carried almost all food, which was the last ration that Luoyang City could find.

Someone secretly calculated that the food would only be enough for 500 people to feed for three months at most, that is to say, when they finally arrived in the Western Regions, the team would not be able to survive 500 people.

Huang Xiaoshi stood on the horse's back, straight as a flag, his red cloak fluttered when the strong wind blew.

Huang Xiaoshi shouted loudly to the resting crowd: "Folks, don't be afraid, I am Huang Xiaoshi!
Luoyang City is temporarily safe. After you rest for a while, turn around on the spot, the people at the end of the team go to the front, and the people at the head of the team go behind.

In order to maintain order, the rope should not be untied yet. If you feel out of breath, you can ask the team leader to help you loosen it.

but!

This is no place to relax!

This is not the time to relax!
Back to Luoyang City, only by returning to Luoyang can everyone be truly safe! "

There is food.

People, too.

As long as this team returns to Luoyang, the rations in their hands can help Luoyang tide over the difficulties temporarily.

After cheering everyone up, Huang Xiaoshi singled out five people with the worst martial arts, and asked them to gather the horses that were leisurely nibbling tender grass on the side of the road after losing their owners, and use these horses to transport a batch of grain back to Luoyang , one is emergency, and the other is to stabilize people's hearts.

As for the order in Luoyang City, there is no need to worry. The few people left by Huang Xiaoshi and those sent back here have enough force and manpower to re-establish order.

The fastest way to break order is force, and the fastest way to break chaos and restore order is also force.

Both Guan Wei and Ximen Feng are natives of Luoyang, and they know how to deal with these matters.

After chasing the first slave team, the rest is easy.

Huang Xiaoshi stood on the horse and shouted: "Brothers, let's go, let's chase all the villagers back."

"it is good!"

Amidst the loud echoes of the crowd, a group of riders rushed westward.

……

"Your Excellency, next time はどうすればいいでしょうか? (Your Excellency, you see what to do next)" Ashikaga Yoshiaki asked humbly to the iron-masked samurai.

The iron-faced samurai replied in a muffled voice: "General あなたこそ, private ああなたの従者にすぎません. You decide)"

To be honest, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was a little afraid of this iron warrior.

That day, Lu Shaolin said that in order to protect Ashikaga Yoshiaki's safety, and to help him consolidate his authority faster and better, Lu Shaolin would send a bodyguard for Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

The next day, Ashikaga Yoshiaki saw this nameless samurai wearing a long sword, wearing armor, and wearing a mask.

So far, Ashikaga Yoshiaki has never seen him take off his mask, and he doesn't even know whether this samurai is a Japanese or a Chinese.

The Iron Masked Warrior is tall, he looks like a person from the Celestial Dynasty, but his Japanese language is clearly Kyushu dialect.Ashikaga Yoshiaki's hometown is in Kyushu, he can't get it wrong.

The only thing that is certain is that this Iron Masked Warrior is very strong, so strong that I don't know how to describe it.

Last night, a group of samurai raided General Xingyuan. Obviously, the famous Xia Keshang on Wa Island is here again.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was sleeping, was awakened by a scream. He quickly grabbed the long knife beside him, opened the curtain and jumped out of the sleeping car with the knife.

No matter what happened, staying in the car at this time was tantamount to courting death.

It turned out that in such a short while, the battle was over. The Iron Masked Warrior stood in the night wind, as if he hadn't even pulled out his knife, and around the sleeping car, dead bodies with stumped limbs and arms fell to the ground.

A long-planned attack was easily resolved by the iron warrior alone.

After dawn the next day, all the corpses were identified one by one. The highest position was a general attendant, and the rest were general ashigaru and group leaders ashigaru.

How to deal with the aftermath of this matter, Ashikaga Yoshiaki needs to make an idea immediately, and the iron-faced samurai said that he will not interfere in his affairs, Ashikaga Yoshiaki probably knows.

This is really the sent bodyguard, not the sent manipulator.

"よし、ではおみくじにしよう. (Okay, let's draw lots)"

Ashikaga Yoshiaki then ordered that the team with personnel involved in the mutiny be slaughtered.

For a one-person team, one out of ten will be drawn.

For a two-person team, two out of ten will be drawn.

Teams with more than three participants will have a big giveaway, three out of ten draws will be fine.

Regardless of whether you know it or not, regardless of your position, once you are drawn, it will be decided.

This is the most effective method of dealing with rebellion that Ashikaga Yoshiaki learned from Nakahara.

This method of lottery is heavy enough to punish, but it will not involve too much and lead to new rebellions.

While everyone is lucky, everyone is in danger. More importantly, this can be effective in preventing rebellion in the future.

Finally, after a period of military discipline rectification, the Yoshiaki Army continued to head south.

The military order said that the city of Nanjing had been besieged for a long time, and was waiting for its own army to fight in the past.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki knew very well that the Japanese team in his hand was cannon fodder pulled out by the imperial court, and what he needed to do now was how to sell these people for a good price.

There are only 0 times and countless times to betray the people around you.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki's kung fu is smooth and flowing.

……

"You know me?" Huang Xiaoshi looked at the person in front of him and asked.

"Master Shi, the younger one is a clerk from the shop opposite, I used to see you often." The man kneeling on the ground begging for mercy replied pitifully.

As soon as he heard that he was really an acquaintance, Huang Xiaoshi couldn't do it anymore.

For people he doesn't know, Huang Xiaoshi can treat them as unknown soldiers of the Tianlong Cult, and never leave any survivors, but when he meets acquaintances, Huang Xiaoshi is still a little soft.

One day, when Huang Xiaoshi rode a white-flowered horse and rushed forward from the tail of a group of captives, seeing his ferocious appearance, someone suddenly shouted: "Master Shi, please forgive me!"

With just this shout, all the people around him were killed by flying stones, leaving only this person behind.

Huang Xiaoshi seldom showed his martial arts in front of ordinary people before, and not many people knew his martial arts skills, and most of them just regarded him as a strange legend.

There are not many people who can recognize Huang Xiaoshi as soon as they see him, know how good his kung fu is, and know how to beg for mercy in advance.

"Are you really the clerk of that barbarian shop?" Huang Xiaoshi looked down for a while, and after a long time of identification, he realized that he couldn't recognize who this person was.

It's normal not to recognize him. There are many guys in that store. It's normal for others to know him, but he doesn't know others.

Thinking of this, Huang Xiaoshi's heart skipped a beat, and he suppressed his emotions and asked the man, "Where is your lady boss, do you know?"

"The little one saw the proprietress before the Luoyang city was broken, but after the city was broken, I never saw her again." The man replied carefully: "When the city was broken, it's okay for the little one to stay in the store with everyone. Dare to go out, and in the end, the shop was also taken over by the leader."

Bishop?

"The leader you are talking about is Li Cangtian?" Huang Xiaoshi asked again.

"It's the king of heaven."

Huang Xiaoshi felt anxious for a while.

The barbarian store opposite Shennong Baicaomen is the family property of the Yasha tribe, no matter what the situation is, it is not the turn of others to take over.

unless.

Either, the Yesha tribe was pacified by Li Cangtian's troops, or something really happened to Ji Wushuang.

Calm, calm, calm.

After taking three deep breaths, Huang Xiaoshi said to the person kneeling on the ground: "You met me once, so I will spare your life today.

Now, you go on horseback and tell Li Cangtian that I, Huang Xiaoshi, are waiting for him here. "

Seeing the person kneeling on the ground stand up, he hurriedly got on his horse and galloped away. This is the first member of Tianlong Sect that Huang Xiaoshi let go in the past ten days.

On the one hand, Huang Xiaoshi's speed was too fast, the pebbles in his hand were accurate and fast within twenty steps, many people were kicked off their horses before they recovered their senses.

On the other hand, it's not that Huang Xiaoshi suddenly softened his heart today, but that he needs someone to send a message to Li Cangtian: There will be a battle between you and me, so don't hide, come on.

Huang Xiaoshi discovered the Achilles' heel of Tianlongjiao: it has no soldiers.

……

There is a saying that soldiers are expensive and fast.

This time Tianlong taught the Western Regions, apart from Li Cangtian directly setting the target as Luoyang, and there are business road supply points set up by Shennong Baicaomen along the way, the third important decisive factor is that all the soldiers and horses going out of the Western Regions this time are cavalry.

That's why Tianlongjiao was able to rush all the way from the Western Regions in just over a month, and finally defeated Luoyang.

But that's where the problem lies.There are many horses in the Western Regions, but not everyone is a cavalry.

In this era, no matter what standard, no matter which region or which faction it is in, the cavalry is the most elite unit, and it is impossible for it to rot.

After the capture of Luoyang, the Tianlong Sect launched a raid on the occupied area. In order to reduce resistance, Li Cang adopted the slaughter system and batch escort system.

These two methods are very effective. The former greatly reduces the resistance psychology in the occupied area. After all, many people are still lucky. The latter slowly weakens the manpower and material resources of the occupied area. When everyone feels that they must fight , no longer able to resist.

Tianlongjiao's harvest this time can be called the richest in a century. Perhaps the population and materials it looted this time have indeed exceeded the total accumulation in the past century.

However, in the case that the Tianlong Cult originally had not many troops, not to mention other cities, just to evacuate the two big cities of Luoyang and Xi'an, all the troops of the Tianlong Cult were exhausted.

At the very least, each team of slaves must be guarded and escorted.

Such little by little, little by little allocations reduced the strength of the Tianlong Cult to zero.

Now, the Heavenly Dragon Sect entrenched thousands of miles of commercial roads, like a long snake, not only moved slowly, but also lost the ability to defend itself after struggling to swallow a huge prey.

The only thing it needs to do now is to return to its lair as soon as possible, nest comfortably, and quietly digest the prey in its stomach, transforming it into physical strength.

Because the troops were too thin, in order to deal with possible threats along the way, the Heavenly Dragon Sect organized several powerful mobile teams to run back and forth along the thousands of miles of commercial roads.

This is the most important information that Huang Xiaoshi obtained from the people he saved when he passed Xi'an, which was plundered by the Tianlong Sect.

You have no soldiers, I am still afraid of your eggs.

So today, Huang Xiaoshi simply showed his card.

Li Cangtian, if you are a man, let's have a stud and see who has the best idea.

If you shrink your head back, I will attack you with your tail in your mouth and eat you bit by bit from behind.

……

In fact, Huang Xiaoshi is not as confident as he seems, he is in a mess right now.

After walking on this road for so long, Huang Xiaoshi didn't hear any news about Ji Wushuang, but when he passed Xi'an, he heard someone mention that there was a young woman named Yasha beside Tianwang, the leader of Tianlong Sect.

In the past, Ji Wushuang and the word "young" would not have been hooked, but after practicing "Changchun Immortality", I saw Ji Wushuang growing up backwards.

Therefore, Huang Xiaoshi couldn't judge whether this Yasha was Ji Wushuang or not.

There are only two explanations, either Ji Wushuang has taken refuge in Li Cangtian, or Ji Wushuang is dead and Yasha has someone else.

In the past, what Huang Xiaoshi was most afraid of was Ji Wushuang's betrayal of himself. He couldn't stand any betrayal from the heart to the body.

Perhaps, this is the sequelae of a scumbag. After playing with beautiful women too much, any woman he sees looks like Pan Jinlian.

However, now Huang Xiaoshi would rather Ji Wushuang take refuge in Li Cangtian.

Even if you betrayed me, even if you lied to me from the beginning, even if I'm just a pawn in your hand, but I hope you live.

As long as you're alive, that's better than anything.

Finally, Huang Xiaoshi found out that he loves Ai Ji Wushuang so much, why didn't he notice it earlier.

But now, it's not the time for children to love each other. The anger and killing intent cannot be weakened, and the momentum cannot be weakened. There are still many people, many, many people waiting for me to save.

Fuck!
I never thought of being this hero! (end of this chapter)