Chapter 32: Bi Lie (Translation by Guanzhong Heroes)
Just as Xi Junmai returned home lonely, the two leaders of the Iron Cavalry suddenly stopped horses.
The leader looked at the big tree that Xi Jun had just bought a station, frowned, turned his head to the adjutant beside him and said, "Take three people to that village to investigate. If there are Turkic spies hidden in it, kill them."
The adjutant nodded and said, "The villain is just thinking about it. The village is not big, but there are more than a dozen healthy horses at the entrance of the village. Their hair and body are no worse than the Dayuan horses of our Xuanjia Army."
The leader waved his hand: "Go, now the Turks are raising troops to attack Gaoling, I must rush to Jingzhou as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army, and then wait for an opportunity to harass the Turkic army from behind."
The adjutant nodded and made a brief gesture behind him. Three people in the team left the line, and four of them said nothing, waved their whip and galloped towards Xiagou Village.
The head man kept his eyebrows tightening, and finally his eyes were firm, and he led the team to continue north.
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But in Xiagou Village, seeing the large army hurried away, Xi Yunfei guessed that the team was most likely to be reinforcements led by Yuchi Gong. At this time, he was getting news that the Turks had attacked Gaoling and was about to rush to Jingzhou to support him.
After saying goodbye to the villagers, Xi Yunfei looked at the sky and said to himself: "No matter what, anyway, there is a tall man holding on to him when the sky falls."
Walking slowly back home, my mother Liu in the yard was leisurely eating smoothies. On the bluestone slab next to her, the little girl was tired of crying and fell asleep. The tears on her face were still there, and her big eyes were swollen.
Xi Yunfei pityed the girl's hair on her face and thought about how to make her happy when the girl woke up.
Such a cute sister would be so regretful if she hated herself from now on.
The mother covered her mouth and smiled, and said softly: "This girl is not sure to eat or beat her. I will make her a fish fillet soup tonight, so I will definitely pester you again."
Xi Yunfei nodded, and he also liked the delicious food. After thinking for a while, he said, "I'll go to the paddy field next to Mulan Creek to find some snails, and cook her a [five-spiced snail] in the evening."
After saying that, without waiting for his mother to respond, he ran out happily with flip-flops, as if he had seen the cute scene of the little girl drooling all over the ground. Xi Yunfei said that for her sister, she was not tired at all.
As soon as Xi Yunfei left, his elder brother Xi Junmai walked back from the backyard. He curiously looked at the silly brother who left without saying anything. He just lost interest in practicing martial arts as usual. He went back to the house to get a bottle of Erguotou, sat on the bluestone slab and drank sips.
My mother Liu saw it, but said nothing. She knew that the famous Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty had just passed by, and also knew what Xi Jun bought it for. However, after a few people from ancient times, Liu was reluctant to leave and did not intend to speak.
On the north side of Xiagou Village, four black figures quietly approached the edge of the village through the dark forest.
Standing on the trunk of the tree, you can clearly see the busy scenes of Xiagou Village not far away.
The nearest family should be a carpenter, but the yard was full of wood inside and outside, and many people used carts to transport wood from here.
Looking along the crowd transporting wood, not far east, there is a large hillside with a flat top and five acres of radius. There are some buildings on it, and many people are busy with farming.
What puzzled the four of them the most was that there was a large stable in the direction of the village entrance not far from the hillside. The stables were surrounded by wood for the horses to play and run inside. A group of children next to them were feeding the green horse grass, laughing and laughing everywhere.
"Master Xue Du, I counted it. There were twenty horses in total, and they were undoubtedly the best war horses."
The four of them were all wearing the same full-body armor. They didn't know who was talking or who they were talking to. However, the person standing on the left nodded slightly. This person was the adjutant just now.
He waved his hand and said, "You three each quietly arrested one person for interrogation. After a stick of incense, you will come back here to gather."
"yes."
After the three left, the adjutant looked at the village in a daze, glanced around, and finally stopped at a family not far from the hillside at the east end of the village.
“What a messy knife technique…”
The adjutant looked closely and saw that the sword-dance man was pouring something into his mouth with a bottle from time to time: "Drunk?"
The adjutant was shocked and suspicious. The more he looked, the more shocked he felt, because the other party was moving too fast. He looked over so far that he almost saw the other party as a phantom.
"Good boy, this village is indeed not simple, so let me come and meet you in person."
The adjutant was aroused of his competitive spirit, jumped down from the tree, raised his foot and ran towards the family.
I was worried, and the village was not big, and only a dozen breaths were there, the adjutant rushed closer.
However, when he saw a woman and a child in the yard playing with a child in his arms, he stopped decisively. Although he stopped, his movements were quite loud, which had already alarmed Xi Junmai, who was dancing with swords.
The two looked at each other through the fence. Xi Junmai naturally recognized the identity of the person. When he was surprised, he saw the other party wave the weapon in his hand. It was a long-handled knife specially used for dealing with Turkic cavalry. The knife weighed fifteen kilograms, seven feet long, three feet long, and four feet long.
“???”
Xi Junmai looked at the other party's provocative actions and looked strange, but he was ambitious and wanted to see how far he was there with the Xuanjia Army, the number one in the Tang Dynasty.
Carrying a hilt, Xi Junmai raised the corner of her mouth, and jumped out of the yard with a bottle. The two of them said nothing, Xi Junmai directly took the adjutant to run towards the back mountain.
In the yard, his mother Liu held the third sister who had just woken up, looked at the two of her backs that were leaving and sighed quietly.
The back mountain is not far away, it is fleeting.
Xi Junmai put the wine bottle under a tree, looked back at the adjutant standing there. There was no need to say anything, the two of them were here to compete.
Out of courtesy, Xi Junmai gave the other party a standard military salute in the Tang army, and swung his sword to attack under the surprise gaze of the adjutant.
The adjutant is not weak, and compared to the cloak sword technique bought by Xi Jun, his movements have many more rules to retreat.
For a moment, the two of them fought back and forth, and although they had never spoken, they both saw a strange look in each other's eyes.
The adjutant was surprised by Xi Junmai's speed and strength, but Xi Junmai was upset because he couldn't defeat him for a long time.
After more than a dozen moves, the adjutant suddenly jumped two feet behind and reached out to interrupt Xi Junmai, who was still about to attack, and said with a heartache: "Bi Li, you are a good weapon, why did you slash my knife?"
Xi Junmai sobered up most of the time, and then he remembered to care about the weapons in his hand. He raised the knife and saw that it was OK, it was indeed a good knife. Except for a little scratch, the blade was as intact as before.
However, there were many broken holes on the man's sword opposite. Although it was not as deep as the axe of the Turkic man before, it was enough to show that the material of his mount knife was extraordinary.
The adjutant also saw that the knife Xi Jun bought was intact. After approaching, he threw the Mo knife in his hand to Xi Jun buy. Taking advantage of the stall where Xi Jun bought was stunned, he quickly snatched the knife Xi Jun bought and said in amazement: "Good knife, twist, twist, twist."
Chapter completed!