Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

Of course Ye Hai could hear the teasing in Ye Guichen's tone, so he could only say helplessly: "Guichen, don't do this..."

Ye Guichen finally raised his eyes and looked at him seriously: "You might as well just say it straight, are you tired of the ordinary life now, and want to enter the rivers and lakes again?"

"There is absolutely no such thing." Ye Hai immediately and resolutely denied, "We are not young anymore, we have been wandering for most of our lives, and it is hard for us to live a few years in peace. Letting them in today is also for the continuation of our peaceful life. Not to mention, in addition to the generals of the Iron Wolf Army, there are also experts from the Shangqing Palace among this group of people. You stormed in in a fit of rage, but how did it end?"

Ye Hai squatted down, put one hand on Ye Guichen's knee, looked straight into his eyes and said, "Your health is not good, don't be angry and hurt your body, I didn't take the initiative to bring this on, it's just bad luck When it happens, there is nothing I can do, I can only deal with it. I can protect myself, but you are inconvenient to move, so I am really worried."

But Ye Guichen sneered ungratefully: "Am I so useless in your opinion?"

"Just to make me feel at ease, okay?"

"It's really worrying, it's up to you."

Ye Hai breathed a sigh of relief, and then he dared to pick up Ye Guichen, put him on a wooden chair with wheels next to him, and pushed Ye Guichen to the secret room for temporary shelter.

***

The sky gradually darkened, the moon hung high in the sky, and there were no clouds. Where the moonlight could shine, the outlines of the mountains and rivers could still be discerned.

Zhang Chi wore the armor of a dead comrade, and sat in a corner without a torch on the top of the city, so that his eyes could better adapt to the darkness.Even though there were many people on duty on the city wall, he still didn't dare to relax for a while, even if a bird was startled in the distance, he would stare at that place for a long time.

It has been more than half an hour since Mu Liuyun retreated to heal Lu Zhiqian's injuries. The poisonous cold of Xuanbing God's Palm entered the body, and it was extremely difficult to get rid of it. Even with Mu Liuyun's profound skill, it might take a whole night .

The members of the Red Lotus Sect will never give up this great opportunity to eliminate two powerful enemies in one fell swoop. Everyone knows this very well, so all the officers and soldiers on the night watch have their eyes wide open, and no one dares to relax their vigilance.

Qin Chu swept away his previous calmness, walked up and down the narrow city wall a little irritably, and said to Zhang Chi without saying anything: "Little Chizi, when do you think the people from the Red Lotus Sect will come? "

"They've already arrived." Zhang Chi said, "I've seen at least three signs of their activities, and they're lurking in the nearby woods, waiting for the right time."

"... When?"

"I don't know." Zhang Chi shook his head.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the dog raised by Tingquan Villa pawing its front paws on the city wall and barking impatiently.

"They are coming!" A servant of Jinghong Villa shouted.

Zhang Chi and Qin Chu hurried to the city wall and looked down.

The outer wall of Tingquan Villa is a foundation laid directly on the cliff. The wall and the cliff are almost vertical. This is a terrain that is extremely easy to defend but almost impossible to attack. Now, some people wearing night clothes do not know when to cross The river that is several feet wide is climbing up the cliffs that are more than ten feet high.

The sound of the rushing water covered up the sound they made, and it was impossible to see how many people there were from the top of the city wall, but the people below were densely packed with black figures, clinging to the cliff like snails after the ebb tide.

Zhang Chi and Qin Chu looked at each other in surprise. They had previously discussed how these martial arts masters would attack and how they would respond, but no one expected that the people from the Red Lotus Sect would finally use it. There is no creative way to climb the wall and attack.

Tingquan Villa is clearly prepared for such a situation. Although it has been more than ten years without encountering a war, the fortifications built to prevent rioters from looting can still function well, and the two ends of the city wall are still stacked. With Qin Chu's order to throw stones for defense, the soldiers of the Iron Wolf Cavalry lifted up stones and threw them down at the shadowy crowd.

There were constant screams and the sound of falling into the water below, and even after one person was dropped, several people behind would be brought down. They couldn't float up again, but the members of the Red Lotus Sect didn't back down at all, and continued to climb up desperately.

Most of the sergeants of the Iron Wolf Cavalry were wounded, but as long as they could stand up, they defended the city with all their might. They gritted their teeth and threw stones down, even ignoring the newly bandaged soldiers. The wound burst and bled again.

Not long after, Ye Hai, the owner of Tingquan Villa, rushed over with a group of servants and joined the ranks of defense. I have to cry for my father and mother.

After the members of the Red Lotus Sect who climbed the wall were exposed, the members of the church on the opposite side of the forest no longer hid themselves. They lit torches one after another, waved their weapons, and rushed out howling.

But the suspension bridge had already been put away, and they could not fly, so they could only climb down the cliff, preparing to cross the river and join the team that climbed the wall to attack the city. Soon, the cliff across the river was also densely covered with people, and even more The remaining congregation could only shout slogans to cheer for others on the road across the river.

Not only that, but torches were lit everywhere in the distant mountains, and the shouts of slogans came and went one after another. Under the canopy of the trees, it seemed that thousands of troops were approaching this small villa in the mountains.

No matter how far or near under the night sky, the uniform shouts of the Red Lotus Sect members echoed everywhere: "The blazing holy fire, burn my body, what joy is there in life, and what pain is in death! Do good and eliminate evil, Red Lotus God Sect, joy and sorrow, All to dust!"

Amidst the amazing slogans, Zhang Chi shouted loudly to the people around: "Don't panic, they are just bluffing, there are not many people in the forest at all, those torches have not moved since they were lit, and the branches are just It was shaking from side to side, obviously someone deliberately shook it up for us to see."

Although the Iron Wolf Riders were already looking at death as home and fighting against the water, his words still calmed down the army a lot. Qin Chu raised his arms: "Get ready--"

The soldiers on the city wall drew their bows unanimously. The Red Lotus Sect members in front wanted to retreat when they saw the situation was not good, but the people behind crowded up and squeezed them so that they could not move. Chu waved his hand fiercely: "Let the arrow!"

A volley shot past, and the Red Lotus Cultists on the opposite road fell down immediately.

Riding and archery is a compulsory course for every iron wolf rider. They are cavalrymen when they are on horseback, and they are all good archers when they are off their horses. In this mountain forest and wild land, they were beaten to nothing by the masters of the Red Lotus Sect. The power to fight back, but now, the hidden weapons commonly used by people in the martial arts can't be thrown so far, but the strong bows and crossbows used by soldiers can easily be shot across the river bank.

Although the zealots of the Red Lotus Sect are not afraid of death, they are not willing to stand in a pile like this and act as human targets to die in vain. People on the road retreated and hid in the woods, while those who were climbing down the cliff Even though the dark night greatly reduced the hit rate of the iron wolf cavalry sergeants, there were still red lotus believers who fell into the water with arrows.

The iron wolf riders all went to shoot arrows, and the servants of Tingquan Villa continued to push stones down from the city wall, causing heavy casualties to the members of the Red Lotus Sect who finally crossed the river.

But even so, the congregants of the Red Lotus Sect did not have the slightest fear. They chanted the holy words of the Red Lotus Sect and continued to flock to Tingquan Villa desperately.His morale was so high that even the sergeants of the Iron Wolf Cavalry, who were used to siege battles like meat grinders, couldn't help feeling terrified.

Finally, some members of the congregation climbed up the steep cliff with bare hands, and stood on an open space at the foot of the city wall where they could barely stand.Further up, there is a city wall with no place to stay.

Since this is a torrent and the terrain is steep enough, the original builders probably did not consider that one day this small villa in the mountain would face such a fierce attack. The city wall was not built very high, and the Red Lotus Sect The congregation picked up the hook rope, hooked the city wall and began to climb up.

Ye Hai ordered several servants of Tingquan Villa to cut off the hooks. Some of the hooks were ordinary hemp ropes and iron hooks, and some were iron cables that could not be cut. Seeing that some people were about to climb the city wall, Qin Chu immediately ordered: "pour oil!"

Pots of oil poured down along the iron chain, and the chain became slippery. Some people couldn't grasp the chain, and just slid down like that, while some seemed to have some martial arts skills, so they grabbed hold of it tightly. Without letting go of the chain, Qin Chu immediately gave a more brutal order: "Light it on!"

The iron chains instantly turned into burning fire dragons, and the kerosene flowed down the city walls and cliffs, turning the entire cliff into a sea of ​​flames.The billowing heat wave mixed with the thick smoke made the eyes of the people on the city wall hard to open, but compared to the people outside the city wall, they really had nothing to complain about.

The congregants who were on fire screamed and fell into the river like dumplings. Some people were still burning after falling into the water. The turbulent water rushed downstream with each fireball without looking back.

Zhang Chi has been shooting arrows and defending against the enemy with his former comrades. He didn't take a break until the fire ignited, but before the fire was burnt out, he saw through the thick smoke that the people of the Red Lotus Sect came from the other side. Climbing down desperately, launched the next wave of offensive.

In a fierce siege battle, Zhang Chi has never seen such a way of relentlessly killing people, and he has even heard of a city defense battle that is more than ten times more tragic than this, but he always I feel that such a situation should not happen here-it should not happen to people from the Red Lotus Sect.

"This is not right!" Zhang Chi coughed and found Qin Chu and Ye Hai, "It is impossible for them to launch such a death attack, but they acted like they insisted on attacking Tingquan Villa by force. There must be a conspiracy in it .”

Qin Chu quickly reacted: "You mean... this is a trick to attack the west?"

Zhang Chi nodded, and asked Ye Hai: "Master Ye, I see that there are continuous and steep mountains to the north of the villa. Is there any other way to get here?"

Ye Hai shook his head: "There are cliffs and cliffs all over the north, and ordinary people can't pass at all."

"What if the other party is a master of martial arts?" Zhang Chi pointed to the Red Lotus Sect members who were constantly being shot down on the opposite side, "The people they sent to attack the city are just ordinary people who don't know martial arts, so the masters who besieged you before Where did you go?"

When he said this, Qin Chu and Ye Hai immediately realized that, except for the people who tried to attack in the beginning, the other people did not have a uniform attire. Judging from their attire, many of them were from nearby. Peasants, some with hatchets in their belts, even old men and women.

Obviously, the huge number of Red Lotus Sect followers were not rescuers they brought from the Sect, but probably just fanatical believers gathered from nearby temporarily, but the real Red Lotus Sect masters were nowhere to be found.

Qin Chu said decisively: "You stay here and guard, I'll go check on the situation of the general!"

Without waiting for Zhang Chi's answer, he ordered two more skilled sergeants, raised his guns and ran down the wall.