[Sword III] Seeking Wings

Sudden unexpected attack, although Chi Xiao quickly woke up from a semi-consciousness, he had no time to slow down, so he had to defend in a hurry.

After being wounded by another sword on his right shoulder, he finally manipulated the remaining twelve blades to form a net, capable of holding up all the incoming weapons.A sword blade accurately pierced the sleeve of the wicked guard, dragged him backwards, and nailed him directly to the outer wall of the stronghold.

"...Is it Daoist Chi Xiao?! Everyone, stop! Stop!"

Seeing the metal object nailed to his clothes at a close distance, as well as the warrant of a military lady strung on it, the wicked guard hurriedly shouted, and instead let his men support Chi Xiao, who was about to fall off the horse, "Sorry!" Chief, Jun Niang told me that you will arrive around Haishi, but I never thought that you were half an hour earlier! ——Are you okay? There is less than half the way ahead, hold on!"

Chi Xiao didn't respond, but slightly let go of the sword blade nailed to the sleeve of the wicked guard. The moment he left the city wall, he brushed the blade across his cheek again, cut off half of his temple, and inserted it in place. back into the wall.

The guard was usually quite irritable, but at this time he didn't care about the rudeness of the opposing camp at all.Seeing that Chi Xiao's hands were injured, it was quite inconvenient to steer the horse around the city wall of the stronghold. After thinking about it for a while, he mounted a fast horse and chased after Chi Xiao, dragging him onto his saddle.

"How about this, Daoist, I'll open the city gate and take a shortcut for you, and you close your eyes." The guard held Chi Xiao with one hand and sat firmly on his horse, and with the other he took a black cloth to cover his sight, so as not to let him pry To the layout of the facilities in the wicked stronghold.

The two of them rode straight through the interior of the stronghold, and when they reached the border of the defense zone, the guard sent a signal to the front, leaving the horses to Chi Xiao, and walked back on foot.

The next journey is the Fenghua Valley-Luoyang border, where the Shence Reserve Army stationed troops.

It was completely night at this time, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and Chi Xiao could no longer see the map clearly.

There was a torch lit in front of him, which just illuminated his line of sight.

——The one holding the torch is a Shence soldier.

Behind him neatly lined up, there is a whole team of Shence Army.

"Master Chi Xiao, just now we saw the signal from the Evilman's Valley stronghold, and we are here to help you pass through the defense zone." A general on horseback came towards Chi Xiao, he wiped the blood from the bandage on his head, and saluted while running .

After such a hasty glance, the grassroots officer with the military doctor's armband on his arm didn't stop, and directly helped Chi Xiao hold the reins of the horse, and according to his instructions, supported him to continue walking quickly along the route.

Through the torch in the hands of the military doctor, Chi Xiao saw that almost all the soldiers who were carrying earth and rocks here were pale and wrapped in bandages, obviously all of them were seriously injured.

When he was wondering about it, the military doctor beside him told him that two days ago, the Spike Army from Luoyang attacked the northeast border of Fenghua Valley by surprise. Enemy confrontation.Because of the shortage of manpower, all the soldiers capable of fighting went to the front line, and the wounded soldiers who were withdrawn to recuperate could only be allowed to complete the cleaning task in this gravel belt.

It seems that Kuvatsam was not completely misled by the "big victory" in the Maple Leaf Ze area five days ago. At this time, he is trying to increase troops to Fenghua Valley, preparing for a dangerous follow-up.

The situation in Luoyang is obviously worse than expected.

Chi Xiao suddenly felt his heart tremble.

However, he was quite surprised to see that although the camp was covered in gunpowder smoke and exhausted, he still endured the pain and kept silent, only struggling to clear the wounded soldiers of the gods who had a wide road for the horses to pass through.

——Why did these notorious, bullying and cowardly fighters become so heroic, selfless and orderly overnight?

Walking past the wounded barracks, he put down his sword blade at a corner downwind, and nodded in response to the minimalist gesture of "communication" made by the military doctor who hurried back to his post with his back behind his back, Chi Xiao continued to move forward into the depths of the night.

Ahead is the real battlefield.

And he also found the answer to the question just now.

The one who took over from the military doctor was another general in tattered Shence military uniform with a pistol in hand.

Even on a moonless night, the bluish-black traces of poisoning on his face were still clearly visible.

——He was once a living puppet brought into the forest by the evil spirit.

"Don't worry, Daoist, I'm awake." The general reached out to support Chi Xiao, and walked side by side with him, "A few days ago in the mass grave forest, your two teammates saw me and supported us Medicinal materials. Later, we repelled the violent wolf tooth soldiers all the way, protected the peasants and repaired the official road, and just walked out of the forest yesterday morning, just in time to join the battle here..."

Listening to his explanation, Chi Xiao soon realized that the deputy general of Shen Ce and his thousands of companions miraculously broke free from the control of the evil spirit because they wanted to protect their fellow comrades who were also trapped in the illusion.When they walked out of the illusion, they encountered a surprise attack by the Spike Army and the border collapsed, so they joined the battle

——As a volunteer who has long been confirmed as "missing" by the government, has no military orders, no supplies, and no name and no profit, he has assumed the first line of defense against the Spike after the border defense.

Of course, they did not suddenly possess lofty sentiments and awareness.

It's just that the hometown of more than half of them happened to be where the Spike Army's iron heels were heading.

And another part of the people in their hometown, because of their friendship in the desperate forest adventure, almost all stayed to help their friends who died.

Of course, this group of miscellaneous troops from command to arms are not the opponents of the established Spike Army. They retreated all the way and quickly retreated to the place where the Shence Reserve Army stationed troops.

At that time, although the Shence Army had no obstacles from the most bastard high-level generals, the cowardice and laziness developed over the years were not so easy to overcome in one day, so they did not support them at first.

Until a senior lieutenant general in the barracks found his own brother among the motley crew.

He immediately mobilized his own soldiers, mobilized heavy weapons to kill himself, and fought a beautiful victory with the miscellaneous army, which attracted the attention of the whole battalion.

Just as a bastard general is enough to raise a group of soldiers in a day, a heroic leader who takes the lead can only use one day to evoke the long-suppressed blood of the soldiers in this era of broken mountains and rivers.

——The 5-man magic strategy reserve army finally attacked as a whole.

——raised the lazy hands and feet, picked up the dusty weapon, and shed hot blood. At a tragic price of almost three to one, this group of former country moths finally firmly blocked the invasion of the Spike Army. Not an inch back.

There are no orders, no temptations, no involuntary control, and no so-called lofty ideas.

But they showed unprecedented courage and strength, and achieved a miracle that seemed impossible.

Because... now they are not pawns, not tools, but insisting on their own wishes.

Listening to the staggered and roaring artillery fire, the shouts that pierced the night sky from time to time, watching the dead soldiers who were frozen in the posture of attacking the enemy along the way, and the magic general beside him was exhausted, but he still struggled to raise his gun to fight for the enemy. Chi Xiao thought about the escort target blocking Ruya's bloody figure.

"And I... so... unforgivable..."

He put down a sword blade in the open space away from the corpse, and in the blink of an eye, he saw the rust marks left by the poisonous balloon that was thrown into the Shence military camp five days ago in the empty pocket beside him.

Sighing softly in a daze, he suddenly coughed repeatedly in pain, and the blood-stained clothes that had been frozen in several layers were once again splashed with bright red spots.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the two walked to the edge of the battlefield, and the Shence officer surnamed Zhang hurried back to the jurisdiction, leaving Chi Xiao to continue on his way.

Although the road in front of him was remote and far away from the flames of war, it was quite rugged. Given his current state of internal injury, he could no longer bear the bumps of the horse alone.

But at this moment, the two people in front rode together and galloped towards them.

"Hold on, Daoist, don't move! We are militiamen from the refugee village in front of us. We have just received a signal from General Zhang, and we are here to help you!" A loud voice with obvious martial arts roots broke through the wind.

After finishing speaking, the man jumped up, moved a few steps, and stood beside Chi Xiao before he finished speaking, and accurately tapped the acupuncture points for him to stop bleeding.

——It’s a civilian husband.

Chi Xiao saw that this unexpected helper was wearing a coarse cloth shirt with his name printed on it, as well as the cyan poisoning mark on his face that had not faded.

——After the official road was built out of the mass grave forest, the peasants naturally came out together, getting rid of the control of the poisonous gas.Escorted by Shence soldiers who had previously protected them in the forest, they joined the refugee village on the Fenghuagu-Luoyang border.

——Just when Chi Xiao thought that there was no more response, he came to help in time.

"The Shence army in the south blocked the main force of Spikes, but there are still sporadic Spikes infesting the plains ahead." The civilian husband lightly jumped onto Chi Xiao's horse, stretched out his arms to hug him firmly, and pointed at him On the horse not far away, the companion who is bowing his bow and putting an arrow on alert:

"—But our brothers have learned martial arts for several years, so we will protect you properly!"

The young man who was forced to be a coolie by Shen Ce, and was lured into the forest by Chi Xiao's poison to build roads, raised his eyebrows and smiled confidently. After all the bumps and shakes in the road, the young man stretched out the shoulders that had been forced to hunched over the heavy work for a long time, let out a clear whistle, and galloped with whip.

Escorted by this pair of brothers, the wolf tooth soldiers were wiped out smoothly all the way, and three sword blades were laid down one after another on the ground where no one was looking at the corpses. Chi Xiao once again saw the most familiar scene from the journey in the forest a few days ago.

——A group of peasants are right in front of his travel route, quickly building a brand new official road.

Just like in the mass graves, the folk husbands were sweating profusely, as if they were desperate, but strangely there was no supervisor.

But this time, they were quite sober.

——This section of the official road was damaged in the surprise attack of the Spike Army. In order to repair the passage for the officers and soldiers who fought to the death to enter the baggage and completely kill the enemy, the peasants who escaped from the forest volunteered to help when the place was in chaos. The station manager who participated in the command, robbed dozens of miles a day.

——It was several times faster than when they were under control, repeating the nightmare of being forced by Shen Ce.

And on the west side of the rapidly extending road, there are thousands of people carrying their luggage on their backs, helping the old and the young, and preparing to cross.

It is a villager in the refugee village here.

Because Chixiao Honglian will draw evil spirits from the mass graves, and the five hundred feet along the sword's edge are restricted areas, Jun Niang notified these villagers that they must evacuate within half a day.

Without a single complaint, the people who had just found this safe zone and set up their tents immediately started moving after repeated tossings—even finding time to clean up the debris on the ground, leaving room for battle arrangements, so as to cooperate with the camp's surprise attack plan.

——Because they all came here from Luoyang, which was in crisis, and what they longed for day and night was to regain their hometown one day.

Putting down his sword blade in the center of the already empty refugee village, Chi Xiao galloped up to catch up with the evacuating refugee team.

His direction of travel coincides with theirs quite a bit.

Therefore, after the refugees saw him, several people left the team, walked quickly to the front of his route, and lit a torch for him.

The light of the fire gradually illuminated the dark road in the middle of the night, and also reflected a pair of clear eyes full of worries and expectations.

Leaning on the firm and steady embrace of the civilian husband behind him, looking back at the eager gazes focused on him, Chi Xiao put down the last blade in Fenghua Valley.

—and also decide how to use them.

The blue sword light disappeared into the blood-stained ground behind him, like a lone star pointing to the dawn in the deepest night.

But the light of the torch ahead is still burning fiercely, extending like a ray of morning light.

***

With the support of the civilian husband and the opportunity to adjust his breath, Chi Xiao finally regained some strength.Arriving at the border, he bid farewell to the civilian brothers who had escorted him so far, and sneaked into Luoyang, which was almost occupied, alone.

Jumping directly onto the Luoyang city tower with light work, Chi Xiao put down two sword blades on the commanding heights close to the Spike Army's main formation, then turned around to find a remote location, and played the Tiance Army signal attached in the kit.

After finishing everything, he remounted his horse and returned to Fenghua Valley, and went straight to the back of the mass grave, the Fenghu Village stronghold of the Haoqi League.

"Oh my God...it's Daoist Chi Xiao! How did you get hurt like this..." Seeing him, the stronghold guard immediately jumped down the city wall and hurried over to help him.

"Did Zixia's letter arrive...?" Chi Xiao didn't get off his horse, but asked him with difficulty.

"Not here." The guard frowned, "Today at five o'clock, the sentry tower at the border of Mass Burial Mound saw Taoist Priest Zixia's mechanism bird flying into the forest. It is reasonable to arrive at the stronghold an hour ago, probably because of the headwind today?  … ..."

However, Chi Xiao suddenly remembered that the route of the mechanism bird crossing the mass grave to enter Fenghu Village would probably pass through the place where he had previously fought with Kuwatsam.

——That is, it will pass near Tang Xiaoyi and Kuwatsam, which are placed in the illusion.

Instinctively there was an ominous premonition in his heart, his breath suddenly stagnated, and he coughed almost out of breath while lying on the horse's back.

"Master Dao, I'll take you back to the stronghold to wait, you can't blow the wind here anymore—" Seeing this, the guard hurriedly tried to drag Chi Xiao into the stronghold.

But at this moment, he was receiving a letter from Feige sent from the direction of the Mass Burial Watchtower.

"Wait, there's some new news." The guard opened the letter, "At three o'clock in the morning, the mass grave was three feet northwest of the mass grave, and the scene within a hundred feet was turbulent. I went into the forest to investigate, and found a blood-stained Tangmen organ wing at the border. Half a piece—eh? What happened to you, Daoist?!"

Before the guard had finished reading the letter, Chi Xiao suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell headlong to the ground.

The author has something to say: 1. This chapter originally imagined a scene similar to a relay race, and the hero is the one who was picked up (what), but it doesn’t look like it after writing it ==

2. The heroine of the next chapter is finally online~