Kunlun one millet

Chapter 121

There was a series of piercing sounds, before the body had time to react, dozens of boulders fell like raindrops, and the village warriors had no armor to protect them, and they were smashed head to blood, tendon broken and fractured in just one encounter.

Although Zhang Yanshou was not knocked down, but the round stone lightly scratched his ear, half of his face became hot.

His heart was beating violently under his chest, Zhang Yanshou was holding a spear, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't move at all.

"Be careful! It's coming again!"

The lieutenant shouted hoarsely in the back, and Zhang Yanshou looked along the shoulders of the players in front of him. A few dozen feet away, a group of pig-headed men with wild boar heads were waving slings in their hands, and they all threw fist-sized slings. boulder.

Zhang Yanshou was apprehensive, seeing that the boulder was like a black spot, gradually getting bigger, and it directly shattered a corner of the shield, hitting the head of the player in front of him.Blood foam mixed with broken bones and hair splashed on Zhang Yanshou's face, making him dizzy and his ears tingling.

The poker player who died on the spot fell on Zhang Yanshou. He looked at this fellow villager and friend, his bloody head drooping on his chest, and he could hardly stand on his feet.

"Stand up straight! Don't back off!" Li Wei dragged the dead player away, then stuffed the broken shield into Zhang Yanshou's hands, and shouted angrily, "Hold the shield! The pig's head is about to charge over!"

Before Zhang Yanshou could react, he was pushed to the front.At this time, the archers in the rear shot in a round, and the sparse arrows interrupted the pig's head and continued to throw boulders.

A few irritable pig-headed man roared a few times, chirping and quacking some incomprehensible local language, and all the pig-headed man responded with sharp roars, and then rushed towards the villagers.

"Wife and children are right behind you, everyone hold on! Hold on——!"

The lieutenant shouted loudly in the back, the left and right Xiangyong raised their spears, and the pig's head ran wildly in front of them, and the ground under their feet trembled slightly.Zhang Yanshou's mind went blank, he put the spear on the shield, and when the pig's head rushed towards him desperately, he thrust the spear out with all his strength.

The heads of these pigs don't wear armor, but they are still rough and thick, just like the wild boars running around in the mountains, and they haven't been killed by three or five spears.

Zhang Yanshou didn't care too much, his ears were filled with the cries and fights of his fellow countrymen and friends, and the pig's head in front of him rushed like a tide.Although they didn't have many iron weapons in their hands, just hitting the shield with a rough stone hammer with all their strength made Zhang Yanshou's arm numb.

The village braves blocked an intersection in the village, wrestling with Zhu Tou Man, and after a while, a shallow puddle of blood pooled on the ground under their feet, which became muddy and slippery.

Some pigs leaned over and grabbed Xiangyong's ankle, pulled it out violently, and then tore Xiangyong into several pieces in front of everyone.

The screams before dying made Yu Xiangyong feel terrified, the pig's head pulled out the dead man's intestines, stuffed them into his mouth and devoured them, his body was covered in blood, it was extremely frightening.

Some Xiangyong couldn't stand such a scene, crying for their father and mother, crawling and rolling, trying to escape.

"Don't run! Stop for me!" Lieutenant Li, who commanded the battle, was also bloodstained. He kept yelling and grabbed a few deserters: "There are only one hundred and ten barbarians on the opposite side, push them all back!"

However, in the face of these one hundred and ten pig-headed men, the front composed of more than two hundred Xiangyong faintly couldn't bear it.Zhang Yanshou was at the forefront, the shield had been hammered countless times, sawdust and blood were flying everywhere, his arms were almost numb, he just gritted his teeth and stabbed straight with the spear.

With a whoosh, the shield was finally smashed by the stone hammer. Zhang Yanshou fell to the ground, but felt stiff all over when he tried to stand up.

Seeing that the stone hammer raised high by Zhu Tou Man was about to fall, Zhang Yanshou closed his eyes, waiting for death in despair.

"Thunder Arrows Shatter the Nine Heavens!"

At this time, a shout came from afar in mid-air, accompanied by several thunder and lightning, piercing the sky and hitting the ground directly, like the wrath of a god.

Zhu Touman, who was hit by Thunder Arrow, froze on the spot, with a large centipede-like scorched mark on his body, and a few wisps of green smoke, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Zhang Yanshou was pinned down by Zhu Tou Man who had fallen dead to the ground, and he was panicked and didn't know why.I heard someone yelling from behind: "A fairy elder is here to save us!"

Looking up at the sky, he saw several figures flying from mid-air. The leader was a man in a blue shirt with wide sleeves and a yellow ribbon hanging from his waist. He raised his hand and threw it, and it turned out to be a black tiger, which flew towards the pig-headed man on the ground.

The black tiger was very heavy, as if its whole body was made of iron, it directly smashed three or five pig-headed man to death.Seeing it open its mouth and roar, the white light swept past like an arrow, and the pig-headed man in the back row seemed to be hacked into pieces, with broken limbs and blood flying all over the place.

Faced with such supernatural power, Zhu Tou lost all courage and fled with his life.The black tiger chased after him closely, and another wind knife and fire arrow fell in mid-air, killing the remaining pig-headed man one by one.

After a while, none of the pig heads who invaded the village survived, and the village braves burst into loud cheers. Many people knelt directly in the muddy pool of blood, saluting to the immortal elders in midair.

"Fellow Daoist, please search around the village to see if there are any remaining Hogbeakers." Zhao Mi said to Yi Jiangzi who was beside him.

"Of course." Yi Jiangzi cupped his hands, raised his sleeves and walked away against the wind.

Zhao Shu restrained his wind control technique and landed slowly.Since leaving Dongshengdu, he has exchanged with Yi Jiangzi the method of controlling the wind along the way, and combined with the technique of lifting the feather step that he has learned in the past, now he can also fly in the air.

Half a month ago, the Lord of the Kingdom issued a decree to send monks to Jianjia Pass to assist the imperial army in fighting against the Jiuli Kingdom that Chen Bing wanted to enter.

Unlike when Xingluo County suppressed the bandits back then, none of the disciples of the six houses and schools was clearly the leader. This time, the Lord of the Kingdom made it clear that Zhao Mi, the Marquis of Zhenming, was in charge of the monks of each house and served as the commander of the Wukui army. Shi, assisting in the crusade against foreign enemies and counseling military affairs, his status is slightly inferior to General Wei.

Before General Wei arrived at Jianjia Pass, he had already received the military information that the hogbeak people had crossed the mountains and looted and invaded the counties and counties in Huaxu Kingdom.The situation was urgent, and General Wei hoped that Zhao Mi would get rid of the luggage and bring a group of Guanxi monks to help out first.

Zhao Mi would not refuse.Moreover, compared with towns that can be defended by walls, some remote villages are hard to resist the raids and looting of the hogbeak people.Zhao Shu's trip is to eliminate these hog-beaked people who are harassed by guerrillas everywhere, and to solve the urgent needs of villages and villages everywhere.

"The kindness of the immortal, I will never forget it!" As soon as Zhao Mi landed, Li Wei, who led Xiangyong, hurried forward to salute.

"Don't be too polite." Zhao Mi waved his hand. He looked around and found that there was also a fence outside the stockade, but it was not very strong. A gap was opened by the hogbeak people and they entered the inside.

"We discovered the traces of this group of hog-beaked people two days ago. They looted and committed atrocities all the way." Zhao Mi said to Li Wei: "Thanks to you holding on to them and keeping them here, we can go back in time." Kill him all."

"Don't dare to do it, we are also protecting our wives and children." Li Wei pointed to the granary not far away. At this time, many women, children and old people came out in a file, and the old people in the village also stepped forward to salute.

"Is the immortal head sent by the court?" Li Wei asked.

Zhao Mi nodded and said, "That's right, Jiuli Kingdom is going to attack aggressively now, and I'm afraid that in the future, there will be more than just hog-beaked people looting and invading...that is, these pig-headed barbarians."

The old man in the village frowned in embarrassment, and sighed repeatedly: "The Nanmanzi is coming again? It's getting more and more sad these days."

"What? Are there any difficulties in your village?" Zhao Mi asked.

"I don't dare to bother the elder with trivial matters, but in the past few years there have been occasional monsters haunting the village and stealing stored food." Li Wei replied.

"Monster?" Zhao Mi asked, "What kind of monster is it?"

"It's rats." The old men didn't dare to answer, but Li Wei said bluntly: "But those rats are big, and they wear clothes and hats like people. They have been disturbing the village for several years. In addition to stealing grain, oil, cloth, and sometimes Looting of lonely pedestrians."

"Don't talk nonsense, don't talk nonsense!" The old man in the village hurriedly persuaded: "Zhenjun Xuri is an immortal family who has blessed me for many years. Those grains, rice, cloth and silk were originally used as offerings. If you juniors don't learn well, you have to tear them down." The shrine annoyed the real monarch and drove him down to protect the law, and now it is inevitable that he will suffer."

Zhao Mi frowned and said nothing, the title of True Monarch is very important to those who cultivate immortals and learn Taoism, and no one can be called a True Monarch.

And according to the lieutenant, those rat demons are far from being transformed into human beings. What kind of immortal family has such a guardian?
Even if Zhao Mi didn't witness it with his own eyes, he could guess that Zhenjun Xuri should be a monster occupying one side. In the past, he blackmailed the people and begged for incense and offerings. Theft and looting.

This kind of prostitution and evil spirits, which harmed the people, would attract the imperial court to punish the evil and attack the temple in all likelihood in the Tianxia Dynasty.Master Zhanhou calculated the position, cursed and banned life, sealed the veins and cut off the water, praised the officials and summoned the generals to welcome the spirits. A group of people joined forces, and all the big monsters and monsters were blown into flying ash.

If there are prostitutes and temple priests who gather to protect the altar, then the local government will send Ding Suona, a government servant, to jail.As for whether the follow-up is soaked in cesspools, imprisoned in wells, or beaten by the head of the owl, it depends on how the crimes are listed.

But after a hundred years of troubled times, even if the Huaxu Kingdom established a system of museums, the control over local evil spirits is not as good as Tianxia Dynasty.Even if there is an imperial government office like the arrest department, all it can do is defend the surrounding area of ​​Dongsheng Capital.

This village is close to the border, and the county government servants probably don't pay much attention to it other than urging taxes and food. It is inevitable that some evil spirits will come here.

But listening to the words of the old man and the Lieutenant, the younger generation of the village had the guts to smash the shrine, which is not unusual.

For prostitutes and evil spirits, smashing temples and breaking altars is a great enmity. If monks and magicians do such things, they must consider what consequences they will provoke, let alone ordinary people who cannot bear it.

Zhao Mi can only attribute this matter to the border villages, the folk customs are tough, and the common people live together in groups, and they need to form village braves to protect themselves.In the face of hundreds of people, the village was destroyed and still persisted in the bloody battle, which shows its courage.

Originally, when Zhao Mi came to rescue the village, he didn't think of helping them deal with any evil spirits, but Zhao Mi thought that there are many monsters and ghosts in the mountains and forests at the junction of the two countries. The war situation is causing trouble.

While Zhao Mi was thinking about it, Yi Jiangzi turned back against the wind and said bluntly, "There are no traces of the pig-beak people near the village. These pig-headed people have always been stupid, and they don't have any tents."

"Have fellow daoists noticed a rat demon nearby?" Zhao Mi asked.

"Rat demon? It never happened." Yi Jiangzi shook his head.

Li Wei hurriedly said: "Those rat monsters usually don't come out during the day, and they show up at dusk at the earliest. I suspect that they usually live in burrows in the ground, and the fairy elders fly in the sky. It may be difficult to find them for a while."

When Yi Jiangzi heard this, his expression was slightly contemptuous, but he didn't say much.

On the contrary, Zhao Mi sized up the lieutenant and asked curiously: "My dear friend, you seem to know a lot. Have you fought against monsters before?"

"We can't talk about fighting." Li Wei smiled honestly: "We are all ordinary farmers, who would like their food to be stolen by mice?"

Zhao Mi didn't ask too much, but said: "However, our main purpose of this trip is to eliminate the pig-headed man who is looting everywhere, and there is no time to deal with the rat demon."

Li Wei still wanted to talk, but the old man in the village hurriedly said: "The Immortal Chief has something to do, so don't get in the way."

Zhao Shu cupped his hands and said: "Jiuli country invaded the border, and this place is not safe. If the pig's head can come here once, there is no guarantee that other barbarians will not kill it. You must repair the fence as soon as possible, and take precautions before the autumn harvest. sentry post to prevent accidents. If it is difficult to resist, you can go to the big city in the neighboring county for help."

"I'll find out later." Everyone in the village saluted one after another.

"In addition, if there are difficulties in the war, the imperial court will inevitably have to conscript soldiers." Zhao Shu said: "I hope you can understand that the situation is difficult, and we must work together to get through it."

"The imperial court has orders, and we must obey them."

After bidding farewell to the people in the village, Zhao Shu and others flew away against the wind again.After flying for a while, Yi Jiangzi complained, "Sure enough, it's a remote place. We rushed all the way to rescue them, but they didn't even have a little gift to keep them."

Zhao Mi comforted and said: "Fellow Daoist, please be more tolerant. This place is a remote place, and it has been plundered by the hogbeak people, and they can't offer a generous gift. I'm afraid this kind of rural village doesn't even have much cash. Entertaining guests is nothing more than serving some meat dishes."

"Marquis Zhenming is so kind. I'm afraid you haven't seen the cunning behavior of these unruly people." Yi Jiangzi said: "If there is a little demand, they can always come up with all kinds of excuses. The court's collection is scarce. , it is precisely because these rebellious people are stubborn. Especially in some counties near Jiuli Kingdom, there are many such rebellious people."

Zhao Mi secretly sighed, after all, who drove the common people to be so cunning?Farming and working all year round is hard work, not to mention that in the border area near Jiuli Kingdom, they have to face evil extortion and guard against barbarian raids. The people here have to do their best to survive.Rather, without such cunning, they would have died long ago.

In the past, Zhao Mi probably would have had a good argument with the other party.But after experiencing all kinds of sophistication in Dongshengdu, Zhao Mi understands that it is difficult to reach a consensus on some things, and there is no need to embarrass the friendship because of it before he is really determined to do something.

As for whether Zhao Mi has become mature and stable, or has become pretentious and deceitful, he himself can't tell.

(End of this chapter)