How can you mess around with a powerful crossbow but no arrows?
Although the snow horse is a splendid horse, after doubling the load, its speed will naturally slow down. No one knows how long it can last.
If it weren't for those people chasing after her, Ji Jie would be extremely happy now. He hugged Ji Xueling's waist tightly with both arms and smelled the body fragrance exuding from her body. It was so comfortable!
It's a pity that he can't bear this now. God knows when an arrow will fly out and kill him.
"Ling'er, I'll dismount and deal with them, you keep running forward!" Ji Jie made up his mind. Instead of being a target for those people, it would be better to jump down and fight with them. At least he could take some initiative.
"No!" Ji Xueling freed up a hand and hugged Ji Jie, saying without thinking: "I will never throw you down again. You have no mount, how can you fight with those desperadoes?"
Ji Jie felt moved in his heart. The snow horse panted and continued to run forward. Their eyes widened at the same time. There was a cliff in front of them!
Only then did Ji Jie think that he had come here with his guards before the New Year. Why hadn't he remembered that this was a dead end?
"Hush..." Ji Xueling gave an order, and the snow horse stopped moving forward.
"what to do?"
Ji Jie looked back at the assassins who were slowing down, and said with a wry smile: "Now there are only two choices. First, fight with them. Kill one to earn enough money to kill two and earn one! Second, jump down from here.
, to avoid being humiliated!”
Ji Xueling said with regret: "It seems that I really shouldn't have come to see you today and involved you in it!"
"Haha, do you need to be so polite to me?" Ji Jie jumped off the horse, shook the spear in his hand, and said: "You pay attention to avoid the hidden arrows, I will block them, if I die, you can choose the two choices just now.
Pick, as long as I still have breath, I won’t let you get hurt!”
Ji Xueling's beautiful eyes stayed on Ji Jie's face for a long time, and she gritted her teeth and nodded.
For Ji Xueling's safety, Ji Jie spread his legs and rushed forward. One against six, and there were six knights. He was not 100% sure.
The leader of the assassin pointed his weapon at Ji Jie and asked, "Boy, who are you?"
Ji Jie said loudly: "Master Zhou Zhaowen, who are you?"
"You don't need to know who we are!" The leader said blankly: "I have always asked Zhaowen Jun of Zhou Dynasty for his virtuous name. Today I saw you are really extraordinary. I admire you! Although you killed several of my men, as long as you
How about you stop caring about this matter and I can let you live?"
"Stop talking nonsense!" Ji Jie shook the spear in his hand and said, "You have your mission and I have mine. Let's see who can have the last laugh!"
"Since you don't want to live, I have nothing to say!" The man waved his hand and rushed over with five of his men.
Ji Xueling was sweating for Ji Jie. She wanted to help, but was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble to him. Although she had practiced weapons and riding since she was a child, she had never fought against anyone.
Facing the siege of six people, Ji Jie could only respond calmly. The assassins had suffered such heavy losses before, but now they became more cautious. In this way, he could not find any loopholes.
This is very detrimental to Ji Jie, because over time his strength will be completely exhausted, and then the assassins can easily deal with him.
Reluctant to let go of his child and unable to trap the wolf, Ji Jie pretended to be weak. After several attempts, the assassins exchanged glances with each other. Two of them rushed over from his left and right sides, and the other four were responsible for supporting him, tightly controlling the four directions.
Reality.
Ji Jie didn't expect that two people would come up together, but the opportunity was rare. He had to hand over the less important part of his back to the person on the left. While stabbing the person on the right to death with one shot, he was also wounded on his back.
One knife.
Fortunately, with the protection of the back armor, the blow was not very serious. When Ji Jie was hit, he pulled out the short sword from his waist and stabbed the man in the chest with his backhand, exchanging two lives with one knife. This business was still worthwhile.
But before he could adjust, the other four people attacked together. Ji Jie fought and retreated, but still received several blows in succession, and his body was immediately stained red with blood. Ji Xueling couldn't help it anymore, and shouted towards this person.
Rushing over.
Ji Xueling's arrival relieved some of Ji Jie's pressure, but she had no actual combat experience at all. Facing the two assassins, she quickly became increasingly dangerous. She barely dodged a knife, but before she could stand still, another one struck her. She panicked and followed.
He was also confused, his center of gravity was unsteady and he fell to the ground.
The horse on the snow neighed, raised its hooves and ran over to protect its master. The two assassins had no choice but to retreat temporarily, and Ji Xueling escaped.
The hand holding the spear became heavier and heavier. Ji Jie's strength was severely overdrawn, and several stab wounds had fundamentally reduced his sensitivity, so that he now seemed to be unable to deal with the two assassins.
After all, the snow horse was just a horse. After a while, she was stabbed several times, which made Ji Xueling heartbroken. After the life and death moment just now, she became calmer. Although she could not gain the upper hand, she was finally able to protect herself.
The two men who were fighting Ji Jie saw that he was at the end of his crossbow. One of them pulled out, took off a delicate small hand crossbow from his back, aimed at Ji Xueling, who was becoming more and more courageous as he fought, and was about to pull the crossbow.
Ji Jie gritted his teeth and subconsciously rushed over there, standing between the attacker and Ji Xueling. He threw the spear as a javelin with all his strength, and the man's crossbow arrows were also shot out!
"Pfft...pfft..."
The crossbow arrow hit Ji Jie's chest, and the spear was also nailed to the sneak attacker's chest.
"Brother Jie..." Ji Xueling shouted. Before Ji Jie fell to the ground, he tried hard to show a relaxed expression, but unfortunately he failed.
"Your Majesty, Ji Jian is here!"
Ji Jian's roar was like thunder, and he was seen riding a horse and waving two long swords in his hands to kill angrily.
When the help arrived, Ji Jie breathed a sigh of relief, but he fainted.
…
When Ji Jie opened his eyes, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
He struggled to open his eyes, and the first thing he saw was Ji Xueling, who was sleeping on the bed. He didn't know that he had been lying in bed all day and night.
"You're awake!" Ji Xueling raised her head immediately, with a concerned expression on her face.
Ji Jie didn't make any big move. The first time he saw Ji Xueling, he was ready to let her sleep for a while. Who knew this girl would wake up so quickly.
"You finally woke up, you worried me to death!" Ji Xueling looked at Ji Jie, who still looked a little pale, and said, "You have a total of eleven stab wounds on your body, four of which are very serious. You lost too much blood. The medical officer said
It will be difficult for you to wake up without three to five days. If you still can’t wake up after five days, then..."
"Then what day is today?"
"The next day!" Ji Xueling replied without thinking.
Ji Jie made a "hoo" sound, and his voice couldn't help but raise an octave: "The next day, I slept all day and night? Then why didn't you go back to the royal city? It's very dangerous here! Also, the princess can stay up all night.
Returning home?"
Ji Xueling said in a stubborn tone: "You almost lost your life because of me. It's my duty to take care of you here! My father doesn't care if I stay up all night!"
Through the conversation, Ji Jie understood why Ji Jian was able to arrive in time. He wanted to seduce the princess's maids a little, but when he was talking, he found that the five maids missed you so much that they were afraid of him approaching the location where the two of them were going, so he
He kept an eye out, and after returning to the main formation, he sneaked over to find out what was going on, but he accidentally saved the two of them from danger.
It is said that Ji Jian was extremely brave after he arrived, and killed the last three of them one by one. It was really thrilling at the time. If he hadn't arrived in time, Ji Xueling would have been no match for those assassins.
Ji Jian was also injured, but it was just a skin injury and not serious.
"So that's it!" Ji Jie let out a long breath and said, "After going through hell for a while, it's better to be alive! By the way, there is one less day before you get married. Have you thought of any good ideas?"
Ji Xueling suddenly threw herself into Ji Jie's arms and said softly: "I have thought about it, the person I want to marry in this life is you, Brother Jie. I have already sworn an oath, I will not marry anyone but you!"
Ji Jie smiled bitterly and thought to himself that this girl still kicked the ball to me. Poor me, I just woke up and continued to worry about this matter, woo hoo!