On the desert outside the fortress, there was a westward rider with a double sword at his waist, and a man wearing a coarse linen robe.
Further west of Liangzhou, there were three military towns of Fengxiang and Qingcang in ancient times, controlling the upper reaches of the Central Plains, and at the same time acting as horns with the Iron Gate Pass, clamping the vast western region together.
It's just that now the three towns have long been abandoned, and have become an excellent harbor for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, these outlaws who are waiting for the guilty body, especially brave and good at fighting, not to mention young men, that is, women and seven or eight-year-old children, as long as they are given a wooden spear, they dare to fight with the Northern Liang armor, the Liangzhou border army has always had the habit of taking the homeless people to practice martial arts, and most of the blood of these criminals is also forced out by the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, and they have to jump over the wall in a hurry.
The screening of the Beiliang crossbowmen, the first thing is to throw it here, only give a horse a crossbow and a cool knife, and then ask for more blessings, if you can live for a month, you can be considered to have crossed the first threshold, if you die, even collecting the corpse is a luxury, and you will give the sinners who hate Beiliang to the bones to whip the corpse to pieces.
The people of Lingzhou, who are far away from the border, say that the children who grew up there like to kick and play with the skulls of the fallen soldiers of Beiliang, so the guys there are not ghosts or ghosts, and they are very terrible.
When this ride west to two hundred miles, he met a group of future crossbowmen who had just been put into this place, the two sides were on the verge of breaking out, there was no word at all, the rough hemp man lightly blocked the short crossbow and two charges, did not hurt anyone, these elite armor soldiers returned in vain, they no longer had the luxury of gnawing this hard bone, although after returning to Liangzhou, the number of beheadings is linked to the amount of silver, but the original intention is still to survive, since it is clear that he can't cut off the head of the guy, after picking up a crossbow arrow, he silently detoured away.
In this place where the homeless people gather, the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger, there is no shortage of people in the rivers and lakes who fled outside the city after committing crimes on the Liyang side, and those who can gain a firm foothold here are either high in the martial arts realm or proficient in the side door, so those armor soldiers did not feel strange when they met this saber knight in white linen, but it was strange that this guy who looked at his age did not even have a knife out of the sheath, so he blocked all the attacks, making them jealous.
Hundreds of thousands of wanderers are not scattered, mainly concentrated in the three abandoned cities that were removed from the map of Liyang from east to west, because once they are scattered, they will definitely become the ghosts of the Beiliang armor, and the homeless people rarely have weapons to be around.
As for why Beiliang didn't take the three cities in one go, the lucky exiles who could live were too lazy to care about this, and wished that the old man of Beiliang would let them go as a fart, but when they heard that this person Tu was dead, they were suspicious, and they were more or less relieved at first, and then the three cities were rumored that the new king was on the throne, and they wanted to use them to open their swords.
These homeless people actually hate the most is the poisoner Li Yishan, when the Xu family entered Beiliang, those local wealthy families who showed a little dissent, young and strong were all killed, and there was no left, and the children who were not taller than horseback were driven here, and then the Beiliang Jiashi came here to hunt for military merits, and Liangzhou was not allowed to flow into this place A catty of salt and a piece of iron, all from Li Yishan's instructions, in the early years, there were still people who were greedy for glory and wealth, hoping to use the secret military intelligence of the three cities as a vote, so as to exchange a stable life with Beiliang, As a result, Li Yishan ordered to be slaughtered and thrown directly outside Qingcang City, all the homeless people were completely dead, and the surname Li was determined to let them be lonely souls and wild ghosts for a lifetime As for Xu Xiao, the king of the old Beiliang, in the past, the homeless people hated it in general, and they were more afraid, but now that people are slaughtered, they turn to hate, because someone has a nose and eyes and said, people have a last word before they are slaughtered, and they want the new king to bury him with 200,000 homeless people, so that he can gather enough male soldiers in the underworld to have a million soldiers, so that he can go to wrestle with the Lord of Yama.
This kind of nonsense, which sounds quite unbelievable at first glance, is unbelievable in the precarious land of displaced people A ride close to Qingcang City, in the twilight can still be seen in the smoke curling from several villages, there are few Beiliang cavalry soldiers in this area who dare to wander unscrupulously, the last time, or the son of the adult and a heavy pupil, came here to wander around the city from afar.
The man with the saber led the horse, and asked for a scoop of water from a mud house at the entrance of the village, a family of four, a pair of sturdy couples with dark complexion and a pair of children without shoes to wear, the eyes were unusually cold, probably by the visitor's waist double knife to be deterred, only to suppress the urge to kill people and seize the horses, the man in charge endured the pain, from the bottom of the water tank with difficulty scooped up a scoop of turbid water and handed it out, the man did not drink water to quench his thirst, but used to wash the horse's nose, the two children of this family looked at a man and a horse from a distance, their eyes were hot.
Here, if you have an iron knife, it will be easier to live, and as for having a good horse to ride, it is purely a very luxurious thing, and it is better to have a backer, otherwise it is equivalent to writing the four big words "kneeling and begging for death" on your face.
When the young and gray-haired knight handed over the gourd scoop, he squinted at the two children, also looking at the knife, there was a child in the horse pass, for the clean dream of the rivers and lakes in his mind, the children here are thinking about how to kill people when they are killed, there is a world of difference between the two, but there is no right or wrong.
Before leading the horse away, he took out a large piece of silver from his bulging bag and threw it out, and the man took it, took a bite of it, and grinned at him, with no gratitude in his eyes.
It didn't take long for the man to call out to the village's twenty young men, carrying wooden spears that every household could not do without warmth, and some sturdy women and slightly older children were not far behind, and they were violent, intercepting the foreigner who accidentally exposed the yellow and white things, saying that it was not accurate to intercept, because the guy had not gone far from the village, so he stopped his horse, as if he had been waiting for them.
The hanging knife rode alone, threw the money bag lightly on the open space in front of him, and said in an authentic Beiliang tone: "Don't be afraid of death, if you have the ability, take it." ” In this way, no one dared to take the lead in making a rash move, and the bag of silver was certainly tempting, but the young ranger riding with a sword did not look like a short-lived commodity who could easily be robbed and killed.
Seeing that they were not moving, the ranger grabbed the horse's belly, and the horse's hooves gently stepped on the ground, and went to the bag of silver.
At this moment, a wooden spear swept out quickly, and the sharpened spear pierced the ranger's chest, and the person who came out of the spear was a tall and sturdy young man, and the spear technique was fed by the young man by assassinating countless treacherous gerbils.
It's just that the wooden spear is sharp, but unfortunately the ranger doesn't know how to move, so he turns the tip of the spear and holds the wooden spear lightly.
The Sabre Ranger pierced the money pouch with the tip of his spear, and rode slowly towards the boy, the money bag knitted tightly, and the middle of the wooden spear slid to a halt.
The horse's hooves were not heavy, but the sound knocked on the hearts of the homeless, and the young man who saw the wealth did not restrain his hands, did not retreat but advanced, and ran wildly towards a person and a horse, not running in a straight line, like a snake twisting and sliding sand, and the nimble young man swept slightly over the horse's head half a zhang, twisted his toes, and turned and killed the side of the horse's belly.
The ranger casually reached out and grabbed the boy's head, throwing it high, the tip of the spear pointed straight at the boy's abdomen.
At this time, there was a wail behind the men and women, a scrawny girl staggered out of the human wall, the ranger frowned, the spear drew a half arc in the air, the boy fell to the ground, escaped the fate of being pierced by his own wooden spear and died, he fell not lightly, but shook his head, tried his best to stand up, protected the little girl with yellow muscles behind him, and stared at the ranger who was carrying the wooden spear on horseback.
The ranger threw his wooden spear and drove it obliquely into the yellow sand a few steps in front of the boy and girl, and his gaze leaped over the boy's head, and glanced at the group of outless men and women, before he reined in the reins of his horse, turned and walked away.
The girl, who is so skinny and bony that she doesn't even have chilblains to rot, whimpers and hugs the teenager who is dependent on each other.
The immortal young man pulled out his spear with trembling hands, pulled the heavy money bag into his hand, opened the knot, and poured out only a small piece of broken silver, and then handed over the money bag to the village elders to "share the spoils".
Only this time, to the boy's surprise, none of the thirty or so men and women in the village came forward to take the money bag.
The young man was not stupid, and remembered the glance of the ranger before leaving, obviously it was the master of the rivers and lakes that made these people dare not touch the silver.
There were no elders in the young man's family early, even if he hadn't read a book for a day and read a word, it had also taught this world some sophistication, so he used silver to buy a pitiful amount of dried meat and coarse grains with those people.
After squandering a bag of silver, the young man did not rush back to the village, but handed over the only small piece of broken silver to his sister, squatted down, let her ride on his neck, slowly stood up, and carried the wooden spear that almost killed him, the young man was a little annoyed in his heart that the money bag was also taken away, he looked at the side of Qingcang City, and he could no longer see the ranger, the young man smiled brightly and said: "Little grassroots, it's silver." ” The little girl, who was clutching the broken silver, rested her chin on her brother's head and hummed vigorously.
That horse rushed into the dilapidated Qingcang City before the curfew, there is no Guan Mu here, to live is the biggest Guan Mu, who cares about your surname and your household registration.
In this city, it is useless for you to be Zhang Julu and Zhang Shoufu, and it is the same if you are the emperor's son.
I'm afraid that only Bei Liang's surname Xu can speak and count.
After the ranger enters the city, he sits on horseback and looks at the four directions, it is indeed not like the city in the territory of Beiliang, it has nothing to do with whether it is rich or poor, and the horse pass is also poor, but the pedestrians on the road in the horse pass live a stable and comfortable life, on the streets of Qingcang City, in fact, there is no lack of rich men with brocade clothes and satin to show their heads, but everyone is in danger, looking at each other, they are all wary, and there are few lonely tourists, mostly in groups, some squatting on the side of the street and idle ruffians, not as lazy as the head snake in the Central Plains, gives people the feeling of being half-dead, and the group of people who look up at him at this moment are all fierce, and they seem to have calculated how many silver taels he can sell for one horse and two knives and his belongings, and he also weighed out whether he should work hard for this windfall.
In this kind of treacherous place where everyone is a jackal, if you throw in a scholar who recites the wind and the moon, I am afraid that he will be hacked to death on the spot.
The ranger raised his head slightly, and saw the most towering wolf smoke arrow tower in the city, hundreds of thousands of homeless people, nearly 20 years, only four people killed a bloody road, self-proclaimed king, three of them respectively occupied Fengxiang Linyu Qingcang, divided from Zixiong, the last "vassal king" between the two old military towns of Linyu Fengxiang, established a huge sect to feed nearly 10,000 people, the one who holds Qingcang, because he has been cut by the blunt knife of the Beiliang Ranger all the year round, the power is the weakest, but the temperament is also the most violent, his real name is Cai Junchen, He used to be a swordsman who was not in the flow of the Yangjiang Lake, and then he got lucky to get ahead here, so he gave himself a nondescript nickname, sour and long, what is called the Thousand Frost Pear Flower Sword, as soon as a famous swordsman comes, he will be "invited" by the lord of the green sky to learn swordsmanship, and then those swordsmen are gone, those swords have become Cai Junchen's treasured playthings, when encountering troubles, he likes to plant famous swords on the woman, and the beautiful name is "a pear flower", which shows that the city lord who is respected by the local homeless people as the Dragon King of Western Xia is "Fengya" very.
The ranger followed the wolf smoke arrow tower in his sight all the way to the west, Cai Junchen's "Dragon King's Mansion" is in the westernmost part of the city, there is no way, Qingcang is closest to Beiliang in the east, Cai Junchen can be faster when he abandons the city and runs away.
The Dragon King of Western Xia kept saying that one day he would lead his troops to fight to that Qingliang Mountain, who would believe it, I am afraid that Cai Junchen himself would not believe it.
The Dragon King's Mansion in Qingcang City, including the entire West City, according to the shape of the capital, also divided into the inner palace outside the Imperial City, the so-called Imperial City Wall is just a red lacquer battlement more than two zhang high, but some palaces in the city are really covered with bright yellow glazed tiles, and finally have a little bit of the emperor's spirit, and all of them are completely destroyed by the arrow towers of different heights.
Every time Qingcang rebelled, the imperial city wall was easily overturned, and then these hedgehog-like arrow towers made contributions.
However, this kind of unmasking is two or three hundred people, and it is not even as good as some horse thieves in the land of the homeless.
This horse was still a hundred zhang away from the gate of the imperial city, and it was intercepted by a team of leather armor foot soldiers at the blocking level, holding a rare bright iron spear.
Led by a strong man with a saber who looked like a captain, wearing an iron armor in the style of the old Southern Tang Dynasty, after he caught a glimpse of the two swords of the fat guy, he couldn't take his eyes off the hot eyes, and laughed loudly: "There are thieves who have trespassed into the imperial city, sons, kill them on the spot."
More than 20 spear-wielding foot soldiers rushed over with a hula, without any formation to speak of, but the victory was in the body and brave.
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The lieutenant suddenly shouted, "Wait" The foot soldiers stopped their pace, Tang Jia drew his knife, pointed at the ranger, and said with a smile: "Boy, the knife is a good knife, wow, tell the master the name of your saber before you die."
Robbing a famous knife is not as good as robbing a girl, the latter can ignore the name, the master doesn't know how to pity the girl, but he is a man who cherishes a good knife. ” The ranger was dressed in sackcloth like snow, and said with a smile: "One is embroidered in winter, and the other is a pawn crossing the river."
To be continued: