Under the sky

Chapter 167

After daybreak, people from the town came to get porridge again.They haven't seen thick porridge for a month. Although it contains a lot of beans and burnt rice, it is indeed thick, as well as mixed vegetables and dried meat.What the outsider said, that we should have enough control, has really come true.

Li Siliang told him about robbing the grain truck, and the faces of the townspeople changed drastically. They were frightened and confused. Li Siliang analyzed the pros and cons and asked everyone to be prepared. Every household went back to prepare sacks. If they have time, they sew some cloth bags as soon as possible. Others find bamboo poles and branches, tear strips of cloth, and pick up pebbles.

Li Jingfeng pulled nine horses into the courtyard, killed them all and gave them to the disciples who participated in the food robbery. Their offal was cooked into porridge, and the horses' blood was not wasted.Li Jingfeng even cooked a plate of twice-cooked horse meat himself.When all the disciples were full, Li Jingfeng taught the disciples how to throw floating rocks and let them practice. Unfortunately, the walls of Liao Mansion were mottled by the gravel. At this time, there was no accuracy, as long as they didn't go too far, Li Jingfeng later Si Liang explained the secret code and let Li Jingfeng catch up on his sleep.

After noon, Wang Meng and Li Siliang gathered the disciples. The disciples had a full meal and were all energetic.

Li Jingfeng gathered enough energy, came to the crowd, thought for a while, and said: "I know you are afraid, and I am afraid too. I dare not say that you will all come back safely. People will die on this trip, how many people will die, and who will die. I know, but I can guarantee that we will definitely win." He paused for a while and then said, "But I want you to think about it, think about your parents, wives and children, and think about your friends' parents, wives and children."

Li Jingfeng gave up his original intention, but now he had a different intention and shouted loudly: "You are earning food and saving lives for other people's parents, wives and children, and you must come back alive for your own parents, wives and children!"

Everyone was inspired by him, their blood was surging, they shouted in unison, and they were full of energy.

Everyone brought the remaining horse meat, pancakes, filled water bags, and tied bags of floating stones around their waists. They were ready. At noon, Wang Meng and Li Siliang gathered the people together. Li Jingfeng looked up at the sky. Just after noon, it was... It's not time.

It's a good time.

Li Siliang was injured, and Li Jingfeng wanted him to stay behind, but Li Siliang said that he was the captain and an acquaintance after all, and only with his presence could he suppress the situation and let Gao Yu stay behind.Li Jingfeng and Li Si took the lead. After Wang Meng pressed on, the group headed towards the woods they were exploring yesterday.Grain trucks usually have spies scouting the road. Li Jingfeng has good eyesight. After confirming that the spies have left, he leads a group of people into the woods to rest and refresh themselves.

At dusk, a grain transport convoy passed by, with about two to three hundred people. Li Siliang looked at Li Jingfeng, and Li Jingfeng shook his head.When we arrived at the second team, there were thousands of people, and no one dared to ask more questions.

The night was gloomy, and no one dared to light torches in the woods, making everyone a little anxious.When the third team passed by, Wang Meng asked Li Jingfeng in a low voice, but Li Jingfeng only said that it was not the time yet.

The number of the fourth team was only about [-]. Li Jingfeng was still unmoved. Wang Meng said anxiously: "Brother, I'm afraid there will be no more teams behind us."

Li Jingfeng looked up at the sky. The moon was still bright, so he said, "Wait a while."

After waiting for a long time, there was no convoy until Xu Shi. Wang Meng said anxiously: "I missed the opportunity just now. There is no convoy behind me. What should I do?"

Li Jingfeng said: "We can only wait. We have to stop the last convoy of the day. If the intercepted convoy doesn't ask for reinforcements from behind, we will chase them soon."

Wang Meng knew that he was careless and had no choice but to wait.

Finally, he saw the fire in the distance. "It should be the last team today." Li Jingfeng stood up, raised the torch and ran towards the motorcade.

The torch would reveal his whereabouts, but it was not to illuminate his own path, but to guide the subsequent ambush.

It was a convoy of about 300 people. When they saw someone running with a torch on the road ahead, the disciple Dian Cang yelled and cursed, but Li Jingfeng just grabbed him.Two disciples rushed forward and shouted: "What are you doing?"

Li Jingfeng took out the token given by Zhuge Ran and said: "The deputy commander was attacked in the front. Let me use the token to call for reinforcements!"

The other party was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly took the jade token and handed it to the leader.The team leader was also surprised. He quickly ordered the car to stop and asked, "What did you say?"

"The deputy commander is under attack and needs help. Go and save him!" Li Jingfeng pointed forward and said, "It's not far ahead. Go quickly!"

The team leader wondered: "This is a pass token. Why doesn't the deputy commander use the token as a token?"

Li Jingfeng was well prepared and replied: "The battle situation is critical and the sky is dark, so you can take whatever you have."

The team leader was still careful: "Brother, please lead the way." He pointed to the two disciples on horseback and said, "You guys go and have a look with this brother. If there is a fight, come back and notify me immediately!"

Li Jingfeng said hurriedly: "I'm afraid there will be a delay!"

The team leader said: "The team is following behind, don't miss anything, go quickly!"

Li Jingfeng originally planned to use the jade token to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but when he saw that the opponent failed to fall into the trap, he had no choice but to throw the torch in his hand to the ground, draw his sword and rush towards the leader.

Throwing torches to the ground was a signal, and at the same time, flying rocks rained down from the woods, hitting them with clattering sounds, causing the Cang disciples to scream in agony.Li Jingfeng swung his sword and stabbed at the leader. When the leader saw him coming, he knew he was in an ambush and shouted: "There is an ambush, bows and arrows!" At the same time, he drew his sword to resist.

The swords clashed, and the leader was condescending, but the sword seemed to be struck on a stone, and his wrist was numbed by the shock.Li Jingfeng pressed back and stabbed him in the thigh. The team leader turned the horse's head with a skilled equestrian skill and stabbed the horse's back with the sword. The horse was in pain and was thrown sideways, forcing Li Jingfeng to retreat.The team leader knew that this man was highly skilled in martial arts, so he hurriedly backed away and called for his disciples to come and save him.

On the other side, the archers were busy shooting arrows at where Li Jingfeng came from. The disciples of Pingyuan Town were hiding behind the trees and throwing stones. The bows and arrows could not be fired. The archers were only beaten to a bloody head. They hurriedly hid behind the grain truck and fired at the enemy. , but the grain truck blocked the line of sight, and it was impossible to get the accuracy. It was just a blind shot.

Several disciples on Li Jingfeng's side had already rushed to surround him. Swords and spears were making shadows around him. Li Jingfeng resisted without missing a beat. With a flick of his wrist, his original intention was like a dragon in the clouds, soaring and rolling. Those who couldn't dodge were injured one after another.

Just as Li Jingfeng was about to enter again, more disciples rushed up from both sides. This time there were more people than before, more than ten people.Li Jingfeng protected his original intention all over his body and used the Nine Orders of Dragon City to "sing and encircle and look into the desert". This move was one of the three familiar moves that he had practiced hard in the secret cave. The sword light protected his whole body. It seemed to be guarding, but in fact it was In order to replace the attack with defense, every defensive move has a hidden back-up move. If you make a slight offense, you will definitely suffer a backlash.How do those disciples know how powerful they are?When the broadsword struck, Li Jingfeng had the same intention. He followed the sword and stabbed a disciple in the chest. Even though he was covered by leather armor, he was still injured.Two more spears made shadows in front of his eyes. Li Jingfeng pressed down his sword and swept his sword across the sword. One person was hit in the chest by the sword and the other was injured in the arm.A big knife came from behind, and Li Jingfeng turned his sword back to protect himself, turning it around and stabbing the man in the arm.Other weapons came forward one after another, but Li Jingfeng dodged and counterattacked, injuring seven or eight people in an instant.

Seeing that the bows and arrows were being fired intensively, he was afraid that the disciples from Pingyuan Town would not be able to come up to respond, so he used his most familiar "Yi Qi Yue Chang Feng" and used his long sword to open a way out of the encirclement. He glanced at the gap and threw it away, and the two trip ropes followed. The stone flew out, without stumbling this time, and hit the head with a few slaps, which made the two archers' heads bruised and bloody. He took advantage of the situation and rushed into the archers. The archers all wore waist knives. When they saw him coming, they gave up. Bows, arrows and swords were drawn to fight.

How could Li Jingfeng love fighting?Relying on his Qinggong skills, which are better than ordinary disciples, he runs back and forth, disturbing the archers from shooting arrows. When he has the chance, he cuts off the bow strings, and snatches and extinguishes the torches when they encounter them. This disrupts the situation and causes the arrows to fall immediately.

There was a sudden shout, and in the darkness of the night, a shower of stones hit the uncovered disciple with a bloody head.Wang Meng led more than [-] people to rush in, shouting loudly, and fought with the disciples in front. This group of people had higher martial arts skills and aimed to disrupt the opponent's formation and cover Li Jingfeng.

The leader hurriedly shouted for command, asking the people behind him to come up and move his horse back.A group of disciples rushed forward with various weapons. Li Jingfeng saw that these people's weapons were not conventional, including sticks, spears, and hooks and sickles. He knew that they were a fighting team, and their martial arts skills were higher than those of ordinary disciples. They were the main force in close combat, so he rushed forward to engage in the battle.

Suddenly, there was another sound of killing from behind. It turned out that Li Siliang led the remaining disciples to go around the side of the grain truck and attack them with flying rocks.The sight was unclear at night, and the torches became targets. When Dian Cang disciples tried to counterattack, they could only shoot blindly. How could they know where their opponents were?
The leader heard the roar of killing behind him, and his disciples screamed in agony, but they didn't know what was going on or how many enemies there were.The leader did not panic, ordered his disciples to calm down, took out their shields and formed a square formation to deal with the enemies in the rear, and let the fighting team deal with the enemies in the front.

The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered, and besides, the martial arts of Dian Cang disciples are not bad, and the Xingtang disciples from Pingyuan Town are no match.Li Jingfeng jumped suddenly and pounced on the leader, capturing the thief first. This was the lesson he learned in the battle with Sand Ghost in Raodao Village. Only by killing the leader can the opponent be disintegrated.

When the leader saw him coming to kill him, he drove his horse to retreat to the rear. Unexpectedly, the horse was injured and did not obey the command. It just spun in circles. The leader hurriedly swung his knife to chop Li Jingfeng.Li Jingfeng drew his sword in mid-air to block, and then pierced the horse's waist with his sword. The horse whinnied and lost control. The leader quickly turned over and dismounted, swung his sword to protect himself, and called his disciples to protect him while retreating.

Li Jingfeng couldn't allow him to retreat and rushed forward. The man slashed at him with his sword. Li Jingfeng held his sword horizontally and channeled his inner strength. His original intention was as if it were made of iron. The backlash made the man's wrist go numb.Li Jingfeng swept him down, and several disciples on his left and right came to rescue him. Li Jingfeng kicked one person away, with the original intention of stabbing the other person's chest. He drew his sword and struck the attacker behind him in the waist.After only this delay, many more disciples rushed forward. Li Jingfeng turned his head, and the leader rolled around and hurriedly called for help.Seeing that the leader was about to escape, Li Jingfeng rushed forward quickly, dodged through the flash of swords, and thrust his long sword into the leader's vest.

The leader died, and the disciples of Dian Cang were shocked. Someone shouted: "Commander Qiu is dead! Commander Qiu is dead!" Someone else shouted: "Don't panic, listen to my command!" According to the rules of the battlefield, if the leader dies, it is the deputy leader who gives the order. , Li Jingfeng searched with all his eyes, and he saw a man on a horse, rushing back and forth to give instructions. Li Jingfeng snatched the long sword from a disciple, looked at the target and threw it with all his strength. The long sword pierced the deputy leader's heart like a meteor, and he went in and out. The deputy leader slumped and fell from his horse.

The two leaders died one after another, and no one was left to direct the overall situation. The disciples of Dian Cang were attacked in the dark night, and they did not know how many enemies there were. Li Jingfeng rushed left and right with his sword, injuring several people one after another. Some people turned around and fled, and the morale of the army was shattered. Once someone fled, The rest were not interested in fighting, so they abandoned their food and fled.

When everyone saw the enemy escaping, they were overjoyed and said, "We won! We won!" and cheered.Li Jingfeng hurriedly shouted: "Don't scream! Don't attract the Dian Cang troops!" Then everyone quickly fell silent.

Suddenly, someone shouted: "Brother Wang is injured!" Li Jingfeng was startled and rushed forward.Wang Meng's face was covered with dust and he was sitting on the ground with a pale face, staring blankly ahead. Li Jingfeng stepped forward to check, but there was no wound, so he hurriedly asked: "How is Brother Wang?"

Wang Meng was about to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he couldn't help coughing and vomited out a mouthful of blood. It turned out that he was hit in the chest by a meteor hammer wielder, and several of his ribs were broken.

Li Siliang led the rear team to arrive and hurriedly directed everyone to escort the grain truck back to Pingyuan Town.Li Jingfeng knew there was no need to delay, so he helped Wang Meng onto the grain truck and asked everyone to transport it back.

Wang Meng was lying on the grain truck, with Li Jingfeng following beside him. Wang Meng gasped and said, "Brother Li..."

Seeing that he was seriously injured, Li Jingfeng hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, don't talk."

"What happened tonight... was so damn exciting, ha!" Although he was seriously injured, he laughed. When he laughed, his chest hurt sharply and he couldn't help but cough.

Before counting the casualties, Li Jingfeng knew that although this seemed like a beautiful victory, the disciples suffered more injuries than expected. The injured ones supported the uninjured ones and walked silently all the way.They were happy and sad at the same time. They were happy that the food robbery was successful, but sad that a familiar brother died.

He counted in the dark night, and found that 110 people came, and only 79 people returned.36 people died.

The battle was not over yet, and Li Jingfeng understood that the fleeing disciples of Diancang would soon catch up with the front team and immediately turn back to kill them.The heavy car marks on the ground will reveal their whereabouts. With these dozens of people resisting, the entire army will definitely be annihilated.

Still have to escape.

The grain truck entered Pingyuan Town, and the town was full of torches. The townspeople cheered when they saw the grain truck arriving. Gao Yu was stunned and couldn't believe it when he saw that the grain truck had really returned from robbing grain.Li Siliang shouted: "Don't be happy, everyone, as I said before, hurry up! Don't delay, disciple Dian Cang will be here at any time!"

The townspeople were busy carrying sacks and loading rice, dried meat, dry food, etc. into the sacks. Others went to untie the horses and cows to reduce the load.The younger ones carry two bags, and the older ones carry one large bag.

Gao Yu shouted: "Come with me if you are full of food!" When he saw that the food was in hand, he and his family filled a bag first and hurriedly got out.

Li Siliang's wife was overjoyed to see her husband return safely. She came to see her husband with her child in her arms and almost shed tears.

Some people were happy, and some were crying. The family members of the injured disciples filled the sacks with tears, and Li Jingfeng felt sore when he saw it.

The townspeople who had received the food followed Gao Yu, holding torches and heading west in a mighty way.Li Jingfeng saw Amao in the crowd. He was so thin that he could only move a small bag, and he struggled to drag it by himself.

Li Jingfeng stepped forward and teased: "Would you like some help?"

Amao snorted: "If you mind your own business, I have my own way." As he said this, he carried the bag of rice and trudged towards the west of the town.

Li Jingfeng looked at Amao's back, thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)