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Chapter 167?? A hand crossbow

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu dodged in time, and the arrow hit his right arm muscle, but got stuck in the arm armor. Zhang Xiaowu fell off his horse and immediately pulled out the arrow. Suddenly he saw another arrow coming quickly, but

Seeing Wang Yijin jump up and block him in front of him, the arrow

The arrow shot Wang Yijin in the chest with a pop. Wang Yijin screamed and fell to the ground. Zhang Xiaowu's liver and gallbladder were split, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Bring me my knife!" He always regarded Wang Yijin as his younger brother, and never expected that Wang Yijin was there.

He was assassinated before his eyes.

The soldiers raised their shields to protect Zhang Xiaowu and Wang Yijin. The disheveled Bai Hao eight-petal golden melon hammer pointed not far away and shouted: "The assassin is on the small building. The assassin is on the small building. Fight with me."

"Catch them alive." Zhang Xiaowu ordered, covering his bleeding arm. When he saw Wang Yijin's chest was hit by an arrow, he said sadly: "One pound, one pound. Open your eyes." Then Wang Yijin opened his eyes and gasped.

He took a breath and touched his chest

His mouth screamed in pain. Zhang Xiaowu was stunned for a moment and said, "Aren't you dead?" Wang Yijin took out a thick "Nine Classics" from his chest. There was a crossbow arrow inserted in the "Nine Classics", and the arrow cluster penetrated a little.

, Wang Yijin also had some blood on his chest.

The two of them looked at the "Nine Classics" with their mouths wide open. They were speechless for a long time, and then they looked at each other and laughed. Zhang Xiaowu even felt that his arms no longer hurt, and said happily: "No wonder the ancients said that reading is useful, and there is gold in the book."

Wuyan Ruyu, look at you, it’s just because you like to read and carry books with you that you are saved from death.”

Wang Yijin also covered her chest with fear: "Sir, I bought this book yesterday. In order to avoid wrinkles on the front and back, I asked the craftsman to use two pages of hard cowhide to make the cover. It cost me a full tael of silver."

Zhang Xiaowu said: "One tael of silver can buy a life, and your business will make a lot of money."

Bai Hao led a group of soldiers to kill Shang Xiaolou, but he only saw an exquisitely crafted crossbow and no trace of the assassin. He searched everywhere, but naturally no one could be found. When Bai Hao returned, Zhang Xiaowu was already there.

After the bandage was finished, he moved his right arm. Although it still hurt, it didn't have much impact.

Bai Hao lowered his head and said with great shame: "If you fail to protect the Lord of the City, you will deserve to die for your humble position."

Zhang Xiaowu comforted him in turn: "It's okay. It's a small injury, some broken skin, but no bones. Did the assassin escape?"

"He ran away." Bai Hao was so angry that his face turned red with shame. "We searched everything around. It was an abandoned house. The second floor was the lady's boudoir. Except for this crossbow, all the rooms belonged to women.

Thing, the assassin should have been familiar with this place for a long time. If the assassination fails, he will escape immediately." He winked at his men, who immediately loaded up the crossbow.

Looking at the crossbow, Zhang Xiaowu suddenly frowned. This crossbow is an ordinary military crossbow. To be precise, it is a hand crossbow that can be operated with one hand. What is amazing is that this

The hand crossbow has two bowstrings

, that is to say, it can fire two arrows. The first arrow hit Zhang Xiaowu's arm, and the second arrow hit Wang Yijin's chest. If Wang Yijin hadn't blocked it, the crossbow arrow would have hit his head directly.

The requirements for making crossbows are very high. Looking at the world, no country's army has adopted crossbows. The money required to make a crossbow is five times that of making a hard bow. Even the Holy Han Forbidden Army would not choose to spend money to make crossbows.

.The Holy Han Empire has two troops equipped with crossbows, one is the Royal Forest Army and the other is the Golden Guards.

The hand crossbow in Zhang Xiaowu's hand is extraordinary because of its fine workmanship and mortise and tenon joints. Military crossbows are often made crudely and large in order to pursue range and penetration. If it were a military crossbow that assassinated him today, I'm afraid he and Wang Yijin would have been killed earlier.

He died here. He took a closer look at the hand crossbow and found the word "xiao" on the handle of the crossbow. Zhang Xiaowu guessed that this should be the name of the craftsman.

"Put it away and talk about it later." Zhang Xiaowu ordered. Although the crossbow arrow injured Zhang Xiaowu's right arm, there was no poison on the arrow cluster, and it would heal after a while.

The assassination of Zhang Xiaowu once again caused much panic in Mucheng. Shen Lindong and Li Chuncheng insisted that the person who assassinated the city lord must be a dissident in the defeated army. They were dissatisfied with the killing of more than 30 other dissidents in the past few days. But Xiao Kai

He didn't think so, because this crossbow was expensive, and how could the defeated army carry such a valuable thing with them? He thought it was a dog barbarian.

Chen Guanxi suddenly said: "I have a captain under me named Li Yuan. When he was investigating the four fields, he got a piece of information from the herdsmen, which may be the reason for assassinating you." Everyone looked over and Chen Guanxi said: "Li Yuan said

, the general Wuhuan who was beheaded by you was the adopted son of Wuhuan Khan. After that man died, the Wuhuan people were willing to pay ten thousand taels of silver for your head."

"Ten thousand taels!" Everyone was shocked, and Zhang Xiaowu also took a breath and said, "My head is so valuable?" Everyone laughed, and Zhang Xiaowu said again: "Let it out, and say that I, Zhang Xiaowu, killed that Wuhuan.

Khan's adopted son, I think the price of my head can be increased, ten thousand taels, who am I looking down on?"

Everyone was speechless. How could anyone provoke Wu Huan like this? He was really a fierce ghost.

Zhang Xiaowu himself was not too worried about this injury. On the contrary, Mang Zhong cried like a tearful man and cared about whether his arm had poisonous sores all day long. After Zhang Xiaowu emphasized cleaning the wound with wine, Mang Zhong started crying again and cursed the assassin.

Death made Zhang Xiaowu laugh repeatedly and said that you, a little girl, are no longer kind.

Mang Zhong suddenly said: "They can hurt me, but they can't hurt you."

Li Chuncheng had been working conscientiously since he became the captain of the security battalion and was responsible for the order in Mucheng City. He never expected that an assassination case of the city lord would actually occur under his nose.

The assassin was challenging the famous killer in the past and provoking the entire city's soldiers and civilians.

Li Chuncheng led five hundred soldiers from the security battalion to search the whole city all night long. The soldiers complained incessantly but did not dare not to comply. The people's homes were searched over and over again, but there were still no clues. Just when everyone had no clue, a man

The temporary director volunteered and said that he had found clues in the home of a local farmer.

Li Chuncheng summoned this man, whose name was Zhang Tongming, who was originally the captain of the bow formation of the third regiment. After the defeat in Yashan, Zhang Tongming and other defeated troops fled southward, and were later rescued by Mucheng scout cavalry and returned to the city.

Zhang Tongming felt that he was shameless when he returned home to see his elders, so he hid his identity. Later, a veteran of the third regiment finally recognized him.

A few days ago, in order to control the entire army, Zhang Xiaowu allowed officers above Duzuo to leave Mucheng, and Zhang Tongming was also among them. However, Zhang Tongming chose to stay after repeated consideration, and voluntarily demoted to Shechang. He felt that he would return to the army in defeat.

My career will stop here after I return to my hometown, but I may have an opportunity if I stay in Mucheng.

It is said that opportunities are reserved for those who are willing, and Zhang Tongming also seized this opportunity.


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