Volume Seven: Ma Mingfeng Xiaoxiao, The Young Man Raises His Sword Chapter 527 Xiao Cangshu's Edge
Before the door could be raised enough to pass through, five hundred archers from the Arrow Feather Camp followed. These archers waited for Shen Zhengnan to give the order and rained arrows all over the sky. No matter how good Su Ling and the others were,
It will also be shot into a sieve in an instant.
For the current plan, there is only one tactic of "drag". The only way is to drag it until the gate of Bohai West City is raised enough to pass through, and then rush out at one go.
This is also the only way Su Ling can think of at this point.
Thinking of this, Su Ling calmed down and said with a faint smile: "Shen Zhengnan, at this point, you are probably sure of victory. Anyway, you will die sooner or later. How about letting Su become a sensible person so that you can get on the road?"
With Shen Zhengnan's cleverness, he couldn't see through that Su Ling was just stalling for time to wait for the west city gate to be raised, but he didn't seem worried at all, nodded and sneered: "Su Ling, you are the same after all.
old
You are the most powerful person in the Zhang battlefield, and because of your strategy, you have ruined my two handsome generals. If they are not their masters, I also love talents. Come on, whatever you want to ask, just ask, I know everything.
Word!"
Su Ling put her hands on her hands and smiled: "Shen Zhengnan is much more generous than idiots like Chun Yong. In that case, please answer my first question..."
Su Ling took a deep breath, and the joking expression on his face became even more serious. It was just to delay time anyway, so I didn't act according to common sense.
But I saw him saying seriously: "May I ask Chief Judge Shi, what is your dream?..."
"I...he...I..." Shen Zhengnan thought that Su Ling was going to ask some key question and made sufficient preparations. He did not think about Su Ling's question.
Come over, he almost missed it.
After muttering for a while, Shen Zhengnan flicked the silver gun in his hand and sneered: "Su Ling, don't you think I'm a three-year-old? You'd better ask something useful. After all, I don't have much time left for you..."
"Sigh... I never thought that the famous saying of the sea cucumber team would fall on me, Su Ling... Why is my question useless... People don't have dreams, and Xian
What's the difference between fish..." Su Ling shook her head, talking nonsense.
"I..." Shen Zhengnan's face flushed from holding back, and he suddenly became anxious. He flashed the silver gun in his hand and said angrily: "If you pull something useless, only the spear in my hand will serve you!"
Su Ling waved her hands repeatedly and said: "It's just to enliven the atmosphere!"
He then said seriously: "Shen Zhengnan, as far as I know, my departure from Jiuzhang to Bohai City was a secret operation. What I can be sure of is that when I left, your lord Shen Jizhou's
No one in the camp knows why you appeared here at such a critical moment? Don’t tell me that you traveled thousands of miles and flew back from Jiuzhang!"
Shen Zhengnan laughed and said, "What do I mean? Since you asked, I'll let you meet an acquaintance!"
"Acquaintance? Who?" Su Ling was surprised for a while.
But when Shen Zhengnan waved his hand back on his horse, the archer moved to the left and right, and two soldiers escorted a man slowly to the front of the formation.
But I saw that this man was as fat as a pig, but his hair was disheveled. He lowered his head and couldn't see his face clearly. It was obvious that he had heavy iron shackles on his hands and feet, so he must be a serious criminal.
"This is..." Su Ling didn't recognize it for a moment.
Shen Zhengnan said to the man in a deep voice: "Raise your head! Let Su Changshi take a look!"
When the man heard this, he trembled all over. After a while, he slowly raised his head in a dull and dazed manner, and looked at Su Ling face to face.
Su Ling glanced at it and couldn't help blurting out: "Wucao! Why is it you...Xu Guangdou, Mr. Xu, we haven't seen each other for two days at most. Why are you in such a miserable state? Tell Su Ling , whoever bullied you, Su will make the decision for you!"
This serious criminal is none other than Xu Guangdou!
Chief Officer of the Recruitment Department.
Xu Guangdou was originally in a trance, but when he suddenly heard Su Ling's very familiar voice, he suddenly raised his head, looked at Su Ling with an unprecedented hatred in his eyes, and shouted: "Boy Su Ling! What happened to me?" Today's fate is all thanks to you! Even if I am a ghost, I will not let you go!"
As he said that, he rushed towards Su Ling desperately.
How could the two soldiers beside him tolerate him? They pulled his iron shackles left and right, and Xu Guangdou immediately fell to the ground. He threw the dog and ate its shit. The dirty rain and sludge on the ground was gulped several times.
Su Ling chuckled and said: "Xu Guangdou, you can't blame me for what you are today...Who asked you to collect wealth wantonly, sell your official position, and turn Shen Jizhou's official position into a means for you to make money and the private property of your Xu family? Officer, Shen Jizhou is as petty as a needle nose, how can he tolerate you..."
Shen Zhengnan waved his hand again, and the two soldiers pulled Xu Guangdou backwards and headed towards the back.
Shen Zhengnan then said calmly: "I would like to thank Su Changshi for removing this huge rat from the Bohai Sea. I won't hide it from you. I came back this time on the order of my lord, Jun, to collect it." Xu Guangdou, who is greedy for money and perverts the law, held him in front of the battle to question him. As for you, we really bumped into each other along the way, so we just eliminated him together!"
Su Ling doubted what Shen Zhengnan said. He concluded that Shen Zhengnan was indeed ordered by Shen Jizhou to capture Xu Guangdou when he returned this time. In fact, this was one of the goals Su Ling wanted to achieve during his trip to Bohai. one.
As for what Shen Zhengnan said that he just met people like himself and got rid of them all, he didn't believe a word of it.
Otherwise, we met along the way - is there such a coincidence in this world? Moreover, the distance between the old Zhangzhou front line and Bohai City is quite far, so even if Su Ling and Xiao Cangshu traveled by car, it would take them five or six days.
And this Shen Zhengnan is not only coming by himself, but also bringing five hundred archers from the Arrow Feather Camp. They all need to eat, so why not come with the baggage and food?
The only explanation is that when Su Ling left or was about to leave, Shen Zhengnan had already gathered all 500 people from the Jianyu Camp and set off on the road ahead of time.
Shen Zhengnan's words made Su Ling even more certain that there must be a spy in Xiao Yuanche's camp.
However, Shen Zhengnan deliberately concealed it, so Su Ling couldn't ask any more questions.
Su Ling secretly glanced at the west city gate, couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and cursed secretly, what kind of broken door is this? Why is it rising slower than a snail? He has delayed it for a long time. If you don't take a closer look at this door, it is no different from the one just now. It's generally stagnant.
But if we say it is stagnant, then the gate and the rope hanging on the door are still working smoothly.
Su Ling had no choice but to continue asking: "Second question, that idiot Chun Yong will definitely not come up with all these strategies. He is just waiting for me, Su Ling, to show up. There must be some expert guidance here. If Su wants to come, Let Duan Xing, a drunkard, sit here to confuse the young master, and then the halberd guards will surround the city wall, and then they will appear together to ambush us. Such a strategy must have come from the hands of Chief Judge Shi!"
Shen Zhengnan did not deny it, nodded, and said with a bit of disdain in his voice: "That guy Chunyong flatters the superiors and bullies the inferiors, speculates, and has no ideas. If you rely on him to come up with this plan, I'm afraid he will go back to build another capital."
It can’t be done, yes, these strategies are indeed the work of Mr. Shen!”
"Well! Chief Judge Shi is a role model for us because he dares to take responsibility! However, there is one thing that Su doesn't understand. Seeing the defeat of the Halberd Guards and the death of Chun Yong in the hands of my senior brother Zhao, why didn't you advance in advance?
Come out, but you came out just when we were about to open the west city gate. Do you really want to surprise us?" Su Ling's expression was still a little joking, and his voice was unhurried.
Shen Zhengnan sneered and said: "Chun Yong is a man with a grave reputation. My lord has long been determined to punish him, but now there is a war ahead, and his position is also critical. If he is reckless, the backyard will be on fire, so
Another purpose of my visit this time
His purpose is to secretly get rid of this Chun Yong... to solve the problem on the Lord's mind. Having said that, Su Ling, I would also like to thank your senior brother Zhao Fengyu, the Commander-in-Chief of the White Falcon Guards. It's really amazing that he picked that one with one shot.
Sis, it also saved me a lot of things..."
Su Ling put his hand on his forehead, and then he realized: "So it turns out that Chief Judge Shi is really good at calculating. This trick of killing someone with a borrowed knife was used well. One of them has eliminated your lord's major problem, and the other is that Chun Yong died."
In our hands, your lord's reputation can be preserved! Su really admires him! I admire him so much!"
Just as Su Ling finished speaking, a huge clicking sound suddenly came from the gate and the chain. Everyone in Su Ling turned to look, only to see that the gate that was originally rising at a slow speed had sped up a lot for some reason.
With such speed, it seemed that he had already lifted up to half a person's height.
Just wait, it won't take long before you can go out!
Su Ling suddenly felt nervous. The sound was so loud that everyone could hear it. Could it be that he was just off guard? His delaying plan must have been discovered by Shen Zhengnan!
Despite this, Su Ling still put on a calm expression and calmly turned her head to look at Shen Zhengnan.
However, what puzzled Su Ling was that Shen Zhengnan didn't seem to pay attention to these at all, with an indifferent expression.
Su Ling suddenly became suspicious. With such a loud noise, it would not take long for the city gate to pass, but why was Shen Zhengnan still indifferent?
Could it be that he still has some backup plans?
However, the matter was urgent and did not allow Su Ling to think deeply. Su Ling had no choice but to remain unchanged and cope with the changes, and said again: "There is another question... I was waiting on the way to the West City Gate when I suddenly saw the poor people in the West City.
The sky above the low house area was dyed fiery red. I guess Chief Judge Shi had been there and set a fire along the way!"
Shen Zhengnan nodded and said without any concealment: "Yes, I did get there first. I didn't expect that you guys left very fast. I missed it, so I just burned the place. Anyway, it was just a shabby place."
Even if the thatched house is burned, it will be clean!”
When Su Ling heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? There are more than just thatched houses there, there are dozens of civilian households there, but I don't know..."
Shen Zhengnan raised his eyebrows and said nonchalantly: "It is a crime for those untouchables to live in those filthy places. If no one is left alive, they are all burned. What's wrong with that?"
"You..." Su Ling's eyes burned, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Shen Zhengnan! You are a bastard who kills innocent people indiscriminately. How are you any different from an animal? I thought you had some strategy, but you were rumored again. He is upright and courageous, but he is also a murderous and cruel bastard who has no regard for life!"
Su Ling had a good impression of Shen Zhengnan at first. After all, there were not many people in Shen Jizhou's camp who were as intelligent and talented as him.
But Shen Zhengnan's words made all Su Ling's good impression of him disappear, and now Su Ling was filled with hatred for him.
Shen Zhengnan sat high on the red and black Dawan war horse and sneered: "Su Ling, you are just a pariah, why are you doing this! If you care about them, why not save some energy? Think about it, how can you survive here today?" "
Su Ling said bitterly: "Su swore in the heavy rain in the Bohai Sea that if I don't kill you, Ling will never give up!"
"Hahaha! Very good! Shen is waiting for you to take my head!" Shen Zhengnan laughed wildly.
At this moment, the continuous clicking sounds came continuously, and the voices of Li Qitan and Wu Ledjiao came at the same time: "Look, everyone, the west city gate is already wide open, we can break out!"
Su Ling, Zhao Fengyu, Mu Yanqing and others all turned around at the same time, only to see the west city gate finally swinging open with a violent trembling and roar!
Su Ling roared: "Everyone! Fight out of Bohai now! Get ready and charge!"
Looking at the ten men and nine horses, the horses neighed, reined in, and wanted to rush towards the city gate.
At this moment, Shen Zhengnan's cold voice said: "Don't even think about moving anyone. If you do it again, a thousand arrows will pierce your heart! You will become a ghost immediately!"
The words fell, but a burst of high-spirited shouts were heard, "Zhang Gong——!"
The five hundred archers a few feet away all drew their bows and arrows, aiming at Su Ling and others.
The heavy rain is pouring, the arrows are shining dimly, and the cold light is biting.
Su Ling and Zhao Fengyu raised their horses and stood in front of everyone, shouting: "Everyone, leave quickly! Su (Zhao) cuts off the rear!"
How could those eight people be willing to leave, leaving the two of them alone to face the sky full of arrows?
But when they saw Mu Yanqing, Wen Fanghua, Li Qitan and others had firm expressions in their eyes and remained motionless, they had no intention of leaving Su and Zhao behind and escaping alone.
Su Ling stood on the horse and became anxious, saying repeatedly: "Confused! Confused! You should just walk! Every one of you can run!"
But Shen Zhengnan sneered and said: "Well, there is actually a question you didn't ask, but I will give it to you for free! Do you think the city gate is really rising so slowly?"
Su Ling frowned and said in a deep voice: "What do you want to say!"
Shen Zhengnan laughed and said: "To tell you the truth, before you arrived, I had ordered someone to do something about the gate and the chain, so it was so slow!"
So that’s it! Only then did Su Ling fully understand—no wonder Shen Zhengnan didn’t care about the elevation of the west gate at all. It turned out...
This person is so terrifying, every step counts before Su Ling!
Su Ling's heart was filled with murderous intent, and Shen Zhengnan definitely couldn't live!
Su Ling snorted coldly: "It's just that your methods are too clumsy. If you use your hands and feet, won't the door be opened wide?"
"If I don't give you some sweetness, how can you believe it? Su Ling..."
Shen Zhengnan let out a long sigh and said: "You have exhausted all your mechanisms. If it weren't for me, Shen Zhengnan, I'm afraid you would have escaped today! But, do you believe it? Just one word from me, the west gate will be closed no matter how it is opened. I I guarantee that the closure will be more perfect this time, can you believe it?"
Before Su Ling could answer, Shen Zhengnan suddenly raised his right hand, waved behind him, and shouted: "Come on - get ready!"
Su Ling and everyone else were shocked, and nervous expressions suddenly appeared on their faces.
They all thought that Shen Zhengnan was definitely going to give an order, and the sky would be filled with arrows in an instant.
"Qiang Qiang Qiang——" Led by Su Ling, everyone held weapons in hand and stood ready.
"Zhizhizhi - Gululu -" It seemed that behind the camp of five hundred archers, a heavy sound suddenly sounded, as if there was the sound of something moving on the ground like a heavy vehicle.
Su Ling and others were puzzled when they saw the soldiers in the middle of the Jianyu camp slowly moving to both sides, and a road emerged in the middle.
Su Ling pressed the knife and raised her head, taking a closer look.
He couldn't help but take a breath of air.
"Sis——!"
What the hell is that!
But on the road that automatically flashed out, amid the heavy rain, a huge creature cut through the darkness and slowly walked towards Su Ling.
The creaking sound became more suppressed and intense as the giant creature slowly approached.
The squeaking sound affected every nerve of Su Ling and the others.
After a while, in the heavy rain, Su Ling and others saw clearly what was coming towards them.
It is more than ten feet tall, with joints welded with iron and silver, and the entire body is made of thick, solid wood.
There is a bracket in the middle of this thing, and the bracket is surrounded by a semi-circular arc, just like a huge bowstring.
And there was a huge arrow sitting on the bracket. The arrowhead was sharp and the cold light caught people's eyes.
This giant thing was pulled by four soldiers from left to right, moving forward slowly, and stopped steadily in front of the formation for a moment.
Then all four soldiers on horseback moved to the rear of this huge beast, pulling something hard.
"This is..." Su Ling was horrified and couldn't pronounce the name of this behemoth.
Zhao Fengyu's voice sounded, solemn and solemn: "This is a city-breaking crossbow machine!"
"What!" Su Ling was shocked.
It was only at this moment that Su Ling suddenly realized that the tip of the giant arrow mounted on the city-breaking crossbow was facing the gate of the West City Gate.
The next moment, Su Ling understood.
What exactly does Shen Zhengnan want to do?
He is such a madman!
Zhao Fengyu roared: "Su Ling, you must not let those soldiers pull the city-breaking crossbow mechanism. Those giant arrows are enough to destroy the gate. The city gate will fall down by then. We will open the city gate again."
It’s bound to reach the sky!”
"They must be stopped!"
"Su Ling understands!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Ling and Zhao Fengyu were seen transforming into two streams of white light, rising straight from their horses, an arc cutting through the sky and rain curtain, and shooting straight towards the city-shattering crossbow machine.
"How about the city-breaking crossbow? Labor and capital will destroy it!"