Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 132: A Pommel Horse Like Floating Clouds (5)

The roaring explosions stopped. Near the pass guarded by the Hassan sect, fragments of thunderstorms were scattered everywhere. The ice on the mountain road was blasted, the sand was turned up by the explosion, and a black fire filled the air. Although the smell of the 'medicine' is not as pungent as the poisonous pyrotechnic 'medicine' just now, it makes people feel palpitations and fear in it.

At this time, even Ms. Xia, who was waiting at the bottom of the mountain road, was relieved, his ears were still buzzing, and Jin Changtai murmured: "I'm afraid that even the mountain road will be blown down." Zhao Dezheng bowed his head and calculated, laughing. He said: "The power of the earthquake thunder is not enough to crack mountains and rocks." Jin Changtai heard his tone relaxed, as if he had seen something that cracked mountains and rocks before, he couldn't help curling his lips, thinking, "This Zhao De is on the battlefield, how can he fight with him?" Normally, they are like two different people."

Suddenly, dozens of Hasan sect members armed with scimitars and short crossbows rushed down the mountain path.This group of people looked crazy, their faces were covered with smoke and blood, twisted and hideous, and they shouted loudly, like evil spirits in hell.

"Shoot the arrow!" Jian Cheng ordered in a deep voice, held up the tiger bow with his left hand like a full moon, loosened the string with his right hand, and a long arrow shot out, and stuck in the forehead of a Hassan believer superior.Following his arrows, more than 40 archers in Zhao Xingde's city swished out their arrow feathers, almost in a matter of breaths, each of them fired more than two arrows, and all the arrows were obtained. Crucially, the Hassan disciples who risked their lives to charge down could not avoid it, they were shot by arrows one after another, and fell on the mountain road in a disorderly manner. Mixed with sand and soil, it froze again.

Not far from where Jian Cheng and the others were guarding, Zhao Xingde measured the new firing position, sprinkled a large dot of white ash on the ground, stood up, heaved a sigh of relief, and stamped the white dot on the ground with his foot , Shouted: "Here." Several gunners secretly said: "Sure enough, they are in the three armies." They hurriedly carried them, and at this time they had completely convinced the capital of the Chengying Army, and the captain Duan Huaixian was watching Zhao Xingde's work not far away. , nodded slightly, without interfering with words.

Soon, the roar of thunder and explosions resounded through the valley again. This time, the interval between firing was longer or shorter, and the sergeants at the bottom of the mountain road clamored loudly from time to time, attracting the Hassan believers to come out to defend.Dozens of thunderbolts were thrown out. Except for the low wall made of pure stones, the pass that the Hassan faction relied on was blown to pieces. Even the soil on the cliffs on both sides was shaken off. There were even miserable screams and groans from behind.Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred soldiers raised their iron shields and attacked up, and crossed the pass. Except for two or three charred corpses, there were believers who were killed by the thunder fragments and gunpowder explosion everywhere. Many people were on the spot. Death, more often than not, suffered injuries of varying severity, lying on the ground unable to move, but like a poisonous snake, occasionally 'shooting' a crossbow arrow.

As Chunyushang learned from the past, Mrs. Xia was extra careful, hunched over and hid behind the iron shield, but there were those with intact heads, which were shot with an arrow before they passed.The position of the pass built by the Hassan Sect just happened to strangle the narrowest part of the mountain road, with towering mountain walls on both sides. More than 300 soldiers moved forward cautiously, and the mountain road gradually widened. Soon, a garden appeared in front of them.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this Hassan faction is very vicious, and they are really good at building gardens." Jin Changtai said to Zhao Xingde while looking around.

Jade statues stand quietly between the pools in the garden. The house is full of incense and is decorated with silk and satin covered with precious stones. You can see expensive and exquisite porcelain and colored glass everywhere. In the birdcage in front of the window, bird feathers 'Mao' was gorgeous, but was trembling with fright at the huge roar just now.However, in this magnificent garden, only corpses remained, and more than a dozen naked girls fell in a pool of blood.The Hassan sect who had been fighting desperately behind the mountain pass just now killed them in desperation.

Although the garden was completely silent, Duan Huaixian still ordered a thorough search of the place, and took an inventory of the treasures in the eagle's nest by the way.According to the rules of dispatching military affairs, the wealth in the eagle's nest does not need to be handed over, it is divided among the sergeants of the Seventh Battalion.The Hassan faction has occupied the trade routes of Persia and Dashi for many years. In order to make those "confuse" young people believe that they have really reached heaven, they have spent a lot of money in every eagle's nest.

"Whether these porcelains and silks were looted from our caravan is impossible to verify." Jin Changtai sighed. A certain amount of compensation will be given by the chamber of commerce, but human life will never be repaid.Therefore, the Chamber of Commerce is particularly resentful towards the bandits who want to kill them all when they rob.

"Huh, what's that?" Liu Zheng suddenly noticed that someone seemed to be moving among the flowers and grass, he lifted his iron shield and walked over, with Zhao Xingde, Jian Cheng and Jin Changtai behind him.

When it came close, it was a nearly naked girl curled up among the flowers. She was shivering, with her hands on her chest, and looked fearfully at the soldiers who surrounded her.

"Little lady, don't be afraid." Liu Zheng smiled, turned the iron shield behind his back, took two steps forward, untied the military robe he was wearing, and was about to throw it to the girl to cover her body.

The girl suddenly took out a short crossbow from behind and pointed it at him.Surprisingly, Liu Zheng was stunned.At this critical moment, Zhao Xingde shouted violently: "Be careful." Pushing Liu Zheng to the side, he himself had no time to back off, so he threw his body to the side to dodge.Just at this time, the girl moved the crossbow, and the powerful iron crossbow was accompanied by a strong wind. With a "ding", Zhao Xingde turned his head and saw a section of the arrow's tail 'exposed' on the armor, and then he felt his right arm A tingling pain.

This moment was like lightning, before the girl had time to change into the crossbow, the soldiers behind Zhao Xingde rushed forward one after another, Du Chuijiao snatched the short crossbow, Jian Cheng twisted her hands back, but the girl was unable to resist because of her weak strength , almost crazy eyes revealed in his eyes.

"The arrows are poisonous!" Jin Changtai reminded loudly.Only then did everyone gather around to look at Zhao Xingde's injuries, because the force was slightly off, the crossbow was blocked by the armor and did not go deep, but the tip of the arrow also pierced into the flesh.The wound on his right arm was bleeding, Zhao Xingde had torn off the right arm armor together with the crossbow.

Zhao Xingde felt itchy slightly, he didn't dare to delay, held the knife in his left hand, scraped off a piece of flesh from the wound, sucked several mouthfuls of poisonous blood from the wound and vomited it aside.He breathed a sigh of relief after finishing this, pointed to the large vein above the wound, and called to Du Chuijiao, "Come and help me tie it up here." Du Chuijiao hurried over and used the tendon to help Zhao Xingde tighten his upper arm.

The girl was still struggling desperately.Liu Zheng came to his senses at this moment, and cursed: "I'll kill this crazy woman." Zhao Xingde resisted the pain and said: "Keep alive and hand it over to the Military Intelligence Department for interrogation." After he finished these few words, Beads of sweat have appeared on the forehead.

Duan Huaixian's heart sank when he heard the news that Zhao De was injured by a poisonous arrow.Just now Wang Tongdeng found a raised flat-necked snake. The poison that the Hassan sect disciples quenched on the crossbow bolts probably came from the snake venom.

Duan Huaixian asked Huang Zongdao whether it could be cured. Huang Zongdao sighed: "There is no medicine to cure the poison of the flat-necked snake." De's eyes are red and his forehead is hot, which is obviously a symptom of snake venom.The matter has come to this point, it can only depend on the fate of each person, as long as they can survive for two days and two nights, they will be considered as escaped before the gate of hell.

Chunyushang, who had been poisoned by the arrow earlier, was at the last moment, muttering nonsense: "Guanzhong, have I returned to Guanzhong? Why did I suddenly become warm?" Looking into the distance, the breathing became weaker and weaker, and gradually there was no more sound.

Liu Zheng knelt beside Zhao Xingde, choked with sobs and said, "Zhao Dutou, you have a great future, why bother to give up your life to save me." After speaking, he slammed his fist on the ground, as if he couldn't vent his regret.

Zhao Xingde's face was pale, but he still tried to force his spirit and said: "At the critical moment, you can control a lot. Crossbow arrows don't have eyes." Seeing that Liu Zheng still couldn't let go, he scolded: "If I had known earlier, I would suffer Take this arrow, I don’t bother to care about you. Don’t cry in front of me, get out of here.” Zhao Xingde was also annoyed in his heart, if he had known that he would hit this arrow, and he would lie here and think carefully, he would definitely not give up his life saving lives.But if Baoze is in danger again, maybe he will still help him.This remorse is also useless.

After a while, Jian Cheng and Du Chuijiao also came to see him.Du Chuanjiao said: "Zhao Dutou, don't worry, we have counted the benefits of this military affairs, and left the biggest share for you." Zhao Xingde scolded with a smile: "I see the old ghost who sees money." He was worried about what happened behind him. , taking advantage of the fact that his sanity is still clear, he said to Jian Cheng: "Peace, life and death are fate, if something happens, please take out the letters and notes in my bag and return them to my wife." His voice was weak when he spoke, His expression was gloomy, as if he was solemnly explaining his funeral.