The fighting at the front stopped for a while, and it seemed that the two sides were negotiating on the hostage issue. However, after only a short pause, the fighting suddenly became fierce again. There were constant shouts of killing, arrows were flying outside the stronghold, and there was a panic inside the stronghold wall.
Maybe the king is personally directing the battle
He is really ruthless. There are his own people trapped in the village, as well as his daughter. If it were me, I would not dare to issue such an attack order.
I don’t know how my father and the paintings fell into the hands of these people. War is more cruel to women. These gangsters are so desperate to see whale meat. Seeing three women who are as beautiful as flowers
, I still don’t know what kind of wishful thinking I have made.
I tried my best to cut down the tree with my sword, but I was not worried about what was inside. From time to time I would jump on the stone platform where General Ji was sitting and look inside.
After a while, the leader became a little angry and ran back with a few of his cronies covered in blood.
I saw him coming directly to the wooden house here. On the way, the young woman also rushed out and followed closely behind him.
I just heard General Ji curse something, and another arrow was shot out. Another person died on the ground in front of the house, and blood flowed all over the ground.
They had already discovered someone here. It seemed that the leader was very eager to encourage people to rush into the house. However, with two corpses in front of them, people were tentative and did not dare to step forward.
General Ji's face remained calm, but he said to me, "Hurry up! I'm almost... out of arrows!" As he said this, he fired two more arrows in succession!
I knew the situation was urgent, so I cut down the tree desperately, causing sawdust to fly! Finally, more than half of the tree roots were cut down, like an open white mouth.
I put down my sword, leaned on the tree trunk, and pushed. General Ji jumped down from above to help me without moving.
We worked together, and the big tree "squeaked" and fell against the stone wall. As the people in the village screamed, the huge crown of this tree rested on the stone wall. In fact, the width of the abyss was only
Pour your foot once in the middle
We both fell onto the stone ridge at the same time, and jumped into the courtyard without stopping.
At this time, the people in the village were running wildly, and a row of crossbow arrows crossed the stone wall and accurately shot into the most crowded place. Many people screamed, fell to the ground and died, or crawled to find cover.
I shouted to General Ji, "Open the gate of the village and I will rescue them." General Ji responded and rushed forward with his sword. I saw that there was only a solitary arrow left in his pot of arrows.
feather arrow
The man was very surprised when he suddenly saw two people jumping in from outside the village. Seven or eight people who had been shot by arrows were already lying on the ground. I felt something was wrong, but I didn't have time to think too much. The leader was the same as the first person yesterday.
Compared with the arrogance he showed when he first appeared, he now looks very embarrassed.
He had an arrow stuck in his butt and was trying to limp away. When I blocked his way, he looked back at the front village. General Ji had already dispersed the guards and tore down the suspension bridge. More of our people were swarming into the village.
The thief leader held a short knife tightly in his hand. Except for the young woman, there was no one around him. He yelled, resisted the severe pain in his buttocks, jumped up without losing his agility, and struck me with a knife.
I cut off his knife with a sword. He looked at the handle of the knife in his hand and felt a little incredible. Many of our people gathered around him. The young woman also got up from the ground, holding his left arm tightly, her eyes
full of fear
He looked left and right, then at the woman next to him. He bared his teeth and waved his arms and rushed towards me for the last time. I kicked him to the ground. Several people immediately rushed up and held him tightly. I ordered my men to kill him.
The village owner and his wife (my guess) were imprisoned in the pine wood house
After they escorted these two people in, they immediately ran out and told us a shocking news.
There is no one in the house!
I quickly ran into the wooden house. The walls of the room were covered with dried fish strung with hemp ropes. The whole wall was covered with a door pole lying on the ground. There was a large wooden bed without legs on the ground.
The men and women who were imprisoned sat on it, looking at me inexplicably. Other than that, there was nothing else.
At this time, Tian Wang strode over with General Ji and General Meng and finally commanded a battle again. Although the scale was small, it was a completely new content. He seemed full of energy.
But my face was full of depression. My father and my wife were gone. No one in my situation would be in a good mood.
From the time they hid in this house until I rushed in, my eyes never left this place. Even when I bent down to cut down the tree, General Ji was still staring at me.
The only time when neither of us was staring was when he and I pushed down the tree together. After such a while, could someone kidnap them again?
General Ji bent down in front of the corpses with arrows, took one look at them, and said to us: "There is something fishy about this." He said, "Tian Zong, do you know how many arrows I fired just now?"
I said absently: "Four in total"
He said, "Yes, but look, there are eight people lying on the ground now, and here are four arrows, different from the ones I used." As he said that, he took one off a corpse and handed it over.
A closer look at the arrow-hit parts of the corpses on the ground reveals that this was definitely not the work of General Ji alone. Who else was helping in the dark to rescue Hua and the others?
King Tian picked it up and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Why does this arrow look so familiar?"
He looked at the arrow: "This kind of arrow is made using the method of Da Qin. The arrow shaft is long and slender, and the arrow head is also small. If I am correct, Jida's arrows are two feet and three feet long. Look at these, are they right?"
Fully three feet long?”
Seeing my depressed expression, King Tian was puzzled. When asked, he also said doubtfully, "Just now, I heard the report that Hua'er and the others had been rescued. That's why they were able to ignore it and attack boldly. Isn't it the fault of you and Jida?"
Rescued? Where do you start talking about this? Just as I was wondering, I saw General Su striding from outside the stronghold, followed by Tian Hua, Xiaoyue and the others!
I quickly stepped forward, took Hua's hand, and looked up and down and checked. Fortunately, she was not injured, which made her a little embarrassed. After all, in front of so many people, she whispered to me, "It's okay."
"Yes"
Xiaoyue ran up, held my hand, and shouted, "Brother Tian, there is me, I'm here, I'm fine."
King Tian ordered some rooms to be vacated in the stronghold, and all those who participated in the robbery on the ship were detained together, waiting to be punished.
This matter was easy to handle. No one could escape the whale meat hidden in each house. As a result, there were only five people in the entire village who were not robbed:
One is old and bedridden, two are breastfeeding, and one is looking after the suspension bridge.
All the people were mobilized, everyone was a thief, and there was another one, that young woman, but she should be regarded as an indirect robbery
Perhaps, in the eyes of these people, grabbing other people's things is just like going up the mountain to pick fruits, and there is no need to blush.
When discussing these habits of the people here, General Meng said, "How can a wolf feel ashamed when seeking food with rabbits?"
Xiaoyue answered, "General Meng said this, I am confused, as if we are no longer human beings." King Tian said, "Don't think too much about these tortuous questions, just remember one sentence."
We all asked in unison, "What words?"
“We will not treat anyone who doesn’t treat us as human beings”
The entire village was cleaned up by General Ji and General Meng, and the corpses were thrown directly into the abyss outside the wall to feed the fish. This was probably the first sign of not treating them as human beings.
It's not bad here. King Tian decided to use this place as a temporary land shelter. Each ship divided half of its troops and came to the stone village. They practiced morning and evening and sent me to immediately check the defenses everywhere.
Upon inspection, I discovered another thing that shocked me: the two thieves had run away, the wooden house was empty, but there was clearly a sentry outside the door!