At this time, the outer courtyard was filled with people, shouting and shouting one after another. A man in the army is the best to drink from this cup. In the past, even the poorest quality wine could make these people who have been living on a knife edge smile for a long time. At this time, what Xin Hui sent was the world-famous wine produced in Jiangyang.
Meng Fan sat at the table, holding up a shallow bowl and sipping the wine in the bowl, while his eyes scanned the people in the courtyard from time to time. Their spears were divided into four piles and stood upright at the four corners of the yard. Next to the spears were high shields. Next to the shields were bows and arrows against the wall. Next to them were some helmets and even some There is a waist knife. This made Meng Fan frown.
His initial order was for everyone to put away their spears, bows, arrows, and shields, but their swords and armor should not be left behind. But these soldiers were so excited that everyone in the venue had already taken off their helmets. Many people thought their armor and waist knives were in the way, so they even took off their helmets and put them aside.
Meng Fan knew that he could not say anything.
Everyone came here from the distant Chang'an and finally had a drink. This was a rare opportunity to maintain morale. The place where he sat was less than five feet away from the nearest gun rack, and he could get it in one step, which made him feel at ease. As long as they have swords and guns in hand, he believes that the more than one hundred of them are not afraid of anything.
At this moment, there was a sound of an ox cart running over the bluestone road outside the courtyard wall. Although Meng Fan's cultivation level is not high, his hearing ability is not weak. Hearing the sound, he already judged in his mind that at least three or four bullock carts were approaching, and the bullock carts must be full of things.
"The people of Shu are really rich. In Yongzhou, no big family can afford to eat and drink like this." Meng Fan thought to himself, "I drank a lot today. If these Qiu Ba guys drink like this, many people will probably be drunk.”
With this thought in mind, he raised his neck, drank the wine in the bowl, and stood up. , walked towards the door.
"Meng Quzhang, what are you going to do?" Xin Hui, who was in charge of greeting everyone in the outer courtyard, saw Meng Fan getting up and walking towards him, and quickly walked up, feeling nervous. Except for the good wine and meat in the first cart of the bullock carts that had just arrived from outside, the rest were filled with heavily armed Qiao Feng and the others.
Meng Fan walked up to Xin Hui and hugged Xin Hui's shoulders. This made Xin Hui feel extremely uncomfortable, but he still had a warm smile on his face. "Mr. Xin entertained me, and I, Lao Meng, feel very warm." Meng Fan whispered to Xin Hui: "It's just that my master has an order, we can't drink this wine today. I'll treat you another day, Lao Meng, and we can How about just getting drunk?"
Xin Hui suppressed the contempt in his heart, but showed a look of extreme surprise on his face, and said loudly: "What? I just stopped drinking? Several more carts of wine and meat were brought in from outside. I, Xin Hui, have always admired the heroes in the army, especially the Western Army, who are extremely brave."
When all the soldiers in the courtyard heard Xin Hui's words, they were immediately shocked. Make a noise.
"Mengtou, you just started drinking.Why don't you let everyone drink it? ”
“Yes. Today the governor of our family takes a concubine. This is a happy day. He went to sleep with the eldest girl in his arms. How about we have some wedding wine? "
"Lao Meng, do you want to move the remaining wine to your place? ”
“Mr. "
Meng Fan frowned even more when he heard the noise of these people. On this happy day, he could not establish his authority. Besides, usually these unruly soldiers would fight each other if they disagreed. Xiang Xiang, if he was pushed too hard, these people would really dare to beat him up at night. What's more, these people are having fun right now, so I really don't dare to think about what they could do.
He's like this. Thinking like this, he first glared at Xin Hui fiercely, then turned around with a smile, and said loudly: "Today is such a happy day, so of course I want all the brothers to eat and drink well. Mr. Xin just listened to what I, Lao Meng, said. I will go out with Mr. Xin now to bring some more wine and meat to the brothers. "
"Go quickly, go quickly. "When the group of soldiers heard this, they became happy again and continued to shout loudly.
Seeing that Meng Fan had appeased everyone, he hugged Xin Hui's arm tightly, turned around and took him with him. Go out. "When you go out, you can only carry wine and meat on an oxcart." Otherwise, don’t blame me, Lao Meng, for turning against others. "
"Everything depends on Meng Quchang's instructions. " The car stopped in front of them, and the three strong men on the cart and the ox cart jumped out of the car and shouted to the two sergeants standing guard at the door: "Brothers, come here and help us.
The two sergeants standing guard at the door glanced at Meng Fan. Meng Fan was unaware of his presence and nodded. The two sergeants immediately ran over and shouted with a smile: "You have to give it to our brother." Leave more for both of us."
"That's natural." The big man driving the car said with a hearty smile: "The first one who gets closer to the water is the moon. I will definitely give you the best bottle of wine later."
The big man said, and while no one was paying attention, he gave Xin Hui, who was standing with Meng Fan, a look. Xin Hui nodded secretly, and then turned to the two people who jumped out of the car together. The strong man winked.
The two sergeants were leaning over to move the wine and meat from the cattle cart. Suddenly, a big hand covered their mouths, and then a sharp blade slashed across their necks.
"Bang!" The wine jars held by the two people fell back into the car. Their hands subconsciously wanted to cover the blood that was constantly spurting out from their necks, and they let out a helpless "Woo-Woo" in their mouths. The sound was heard, and the body was still twitching.
Meng Fan was shocked when he saw two of his sergeants' mouths being covered from behind. Just as he subconsciously pressed his hand on the handle of his waist knife, Xin Hui's right hand had already moved like lightning. He grabbed his neck and with a strong force, there was a "bang" sound, Meng Fan'sXin Hui pinched his Adam's apple to pieces.
Looking at Meng Fan's eyes slowly losing their expression, Xin Hui quickly turned his head and looked around the courtyard, but no one noticed his movements. He breathed a long sigh of relief, held Meng Fan's left hand and supported the limp body of Meng Fan as he left the door and walked aside.
At the same time, seeing that these three people had been killed quietly, dozens of soldiers wearing uniform vine armor jumped out of the cars behind them. The soldiers quickly positioned themselves against the wall. At the same time, the big man driving the car took out a small pennant from the car and waved it in the distance. Just look at the crossroads not far away and a crowd of black people suddenly appeared. Each one was holding a spear and wearing vine armor, rushing towards this direction quickly.
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The strong man driving the cart is Qiao Feng.
He made a gesture to the dozens of people standing under the courtyard wall. Immediately, some people squatted down on the side of the courtyard wall, and then someone stepped on the shoulders of the squatting person. The courtyard wall. These people moved very neatly. Almost at the same time, the walls on both sides were filled with fifty or sixty soldiers with bows and arrows.
"Let go!" Qiao Feng ordered loudly.
In the horrified eyes of the sergeants in the courtyard, dozens of iron arrows whizzed out carrying the breath of death and shot into the unsuspecting crowd of sergeants.
As soon as one wave ends, another wave comes again.
Qiao Feng's company's current bows and arrows were all provided by the Jiangyang County prefect, and they were much better than the tattered bows and arrows that Zhou Xing found from the Bodao County government office. At such a close range, even if he was wearing armor, the heavy arrows made of iron arrows would only penetrate his flesh by a few inches. All of a sudden, everyone in the courtyard was running around and wailing. What was just a lively and festive atmosphere just now turned into the Shura Hell in the blink of an eye.
Some people tried hard to get a shield that could cover them, some people drew out their waist knives and tried to kill towards the wall, some people directly raised benches and tables, and some people held their hands He ran away in panic with his head towards the door.
The bows and arrows coming down from both sides made the sergeants who were trying to cover themselves unable to stop the enemy. Several fierce sergeants who tried to rush towards the wall fell on the charging road with several feather arrows on their bodies. Some were shot directly through their faces by feather arrows, and some were shot through their thighs and calves. They lay wailing on the ground and screamed helplessly.
The soldiers who fled towards the door were greeted by neat rows of long guns.
"Stab!" Qiao Feng continued to order loudly without any expression on his stern face.
The battle went very fast. When Xin Ran came out with Xi Wei's head, almost none of the hundred or so sergeants brought by Xi Wei from the outer courtyard could stand on the ground.
When Qiao Feng shouted "Shoot" outside, Xi Wei, who was highly skilled in cultivation, changed his face greatly after hearing it, but before his hand could touch the saber beside him, he kept sitting with him. The maid next to him had suddenly thrown a fireballTalisman. At such a close range, no matter how quick Xi Wei's reaction was, he still couldn't avoid it. The maid was obviously prepared, fearing that his exquisite inner armor had a protective talisman to protect against fireballs, so she directly controlled the fireball to burn on Xi Wei's right arm. The fireball ignited immediately upon seeing anything, and even Xi Wei, who had been practicing for many years, let out a shocking scream in an instant. The skin and muscles on his arms were like plastic exposed to flames, quickly softening and burning. The maid succeeded with one move, and with lightning speed, she grabbed the saber beside him before he was slow due to pain, and then floated away.
Xi Wei was in so much pain that he was burned by the spiritual fire. He wanted to cut off his arm with gritted teeth, but even the saber was snatched away by the maid. He could only watch helplessly as the weapon on his right arm The muscles were burned quickly, and even the bones inside began to burn. Experiencing such pain, even a tough guy like Xi Wei couldn't bear this kind of pain. He looked at Xin Ran who was sitting there leisurely and looking at him, and wanted to curse, but the pain was so intense that he could not resist the pain that even his bones were burning and melting by clenching his teeth. He was in so much pain that every opening of his mouth was filled with screams, so how could he curse loudly?
"Pa!" He used all his strength and slapped his Tianling Cap with the backhand of his left hand, ending his pain.
Xin Ran drank all the wine in his hand in one gulp with a satisfied smile on his face. Seeing that the spiritual fire was finally extinguished due to exhaustion of spiritual energy, he slowly stood up and came to the distorted corpse of Xi Wei, well, half of the corpse.
"Bah!" He spat on Xi Wei's half-burned face, and sneered contemptuously: "A poor man actually wants to accept my Wan'er as his wife. Concubine? You are really a toad who wants to eat swan meat, so why don’t you urinate to see what you look like?”
“Father,” Xin Hui came holding a long sword that was still dripping with blood. In front of Xin Ran, looking at the corpses and wounded on the ground in the courtyard, he asked, "What should we do now?" Qiao Feng, who stabbed the wounded soldiers to death one by one, sneered at the corner of his mouth: "Next, we have to find the heroic Captain Qiao, please come here..."
"Captain Qiao," Xin Hui Passing a bowl of wine to Qiao Feng, the two of them sat on the stone steps in front of the hall, quietly watching the corpses being carried to the oxcart outside, "What will you do to Gao Junhou about this?" Speaking of?"
When Qiao Feng heard this, his body shook slightly, he raised his neck and drank the wine in the bowl, but said nothing.
"No matter how you say it, this Xi Wei is a man holding the imperial scepter and a general under the king of Hejian. We not only killed Xi Wei, but also killed more than one hundred and ten of the Western Army. Sergeant. The imperial court will definitely not sit idly by and do nothing about this. The King of Hejian will definitely not sit idly by and neither will Yizhou Luo Shijun and Liangzhou Shijun."
"I didn't think so much." A flash of thought flashed in Qiao Feng's eyes.There was a trace of regret, but in the blink of an eye, he was replaced by a look of determination, "A man can only do things for himself, so I, Qiao Feng, will die."
"Captain Qiao, this matter can be solved by more than just taking my life." Where are your family members? Where are the soldiers working with you?" Seeing Qiao Feng's expression change, Xin Hui sneered in his heart, "According to the court's law, this matter is involved. Everyone will be put to death. Not only you, Captain Qiao, and these soldiers, but also your family members will be put to death. Even Gao Junhou will not be able to escape punishment."
" Xin, why the hell didn't you tell me this earlier?" Qiao Feng realized the seriousness of the matter and stared at Xin Hui with a fierce look.
"Who can blame you if you are as stupid as a donkey?" "Captain Qiao, we can't escape our culpability, and we will also be punished by the three clans."
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Qiao Feng finally turned his head, raised his fist and punched fiercely. He smashed it against the stone steps, only to smash his fist into a bloody mess.
"Captain Qiao, as the saying goes, there is no perfect path." , so that you and I can be saved."
"What?" Qiao Feng was shocked and looked at Xin Hui with a look of shock on his face, even the pain in his hands seemed not to be noticed.
"Keep your voice down." Xin Hui glanced around and pulled Qiao Feng to stand up, "There are many people here, let's go to the inner hall to talk."