"The nomadic barbarians are attacking the north gate!"
Zheng Quchi suddenly screamed and hissed, shocking everyone.
They stopped fighting and looked at her in shock.
Officer Bai didn't believe it at first, but when he looked towards the mountain road to the north, he saw a group of brightly colored cavalry coming over the mountain. This was exactly the characteristic of the nomadic barbarians' military uniforms.
At this time, a barbarian general raised his head and looked in this direction.
When those green and cannibalistic eyes met Officer Bai, even though they were several kilometers apart, he might not be able to take a close look at the look on the other person's face...
But at that moment, the other party's ferocious aura, like a beast hunting its prey, frightened him so much that his limbs became weak and he almost fell to the ground.
"Yes, it's true!"
Zheng Quchi stepped forward and pushed him, calling him back to his stunned consciousness, and said loudly: "What are you doing standing there stupidly? You quickly contact other workers and take all the craftsmen near Guixuanling to hide. , I will first go to the pier and send out smoke to notify the nearby garrison and camp."
At this time, everyone else also saw a group of barbarian cavalry galloping up the mountain road, and they were suddenly frightened out of their wits, and their minds went blank.
Why...the nomadic barbarians broke through the border defense line again so quickly?
What about the frontier troops stationed in the southeast, northwest and northwest?
Why didn't anyone come to notify, let alone intercept this group of barbarian cavalry? !
"What are you still waiting for? Run away! Remember what I taught you before about how to deal with a crisis situation?" She called their attention back with a sharp shout.
Everyone was startled, and then some people woke up and hurriedly replied: "Alarm bell, spread out, hide in caves, wait for instructions."
"Okay! Now that you remember everything, execute it immediately! Don't be afraid, we have rehearsed everything in advance. As long as you proceed as we did before, nothing will happen."
When her sonorous and powerful voice reached everyone's ears, it was like a force pouring into their hearts, pushing away the fear and fear that had darkened their eyes.
"go!"
This order made everyone present startled, and they hurriedly said: "Okay, okay!"
As soon as the crowd dispersed, they all took the time to follow the procedures she arranged.
Together they ran to the top of the city wall, and several people pulled the huge warning bell together.
Three heavy knocks and two light knocks are a third-level alert. It also informs all craftsmen that there is an imminent enemy attack, and all craftsmen working nearby must evacuate as quickly as possible.
After Zheng Quchi experienced the massacre by the nomadic barbarians, he has always been worried about it.
She imagined that if emergency evacuation measures had been taken at that time, so many people might not have died.
Therefore, after she took charge of the fortifications, she made a special trip to the county to apply for a warning bell to be hung on the high-rise building.
Its purpose is, firstly, to summon craftsmen, and secondly, to promptly notify craftsmen working nearby about urgent matters.
When she heard the long and loud sound of the bell vibrating on the wall, she looked back and saw the birds chirping and flying in the quiet forest. There were also various chaotic noises and buzzes not far away.
At present, it seems that they are doing what she told them before.
After the people are evacuated, they will find their own way to the hiding place she presets.
It was a relatively hidden natural cave dwelling in the mountains and forests. She had estimated that it could accommodate more than a thousand people at the same time.
Instead of fleeing in a panic when being chased, it is better to find a hiding place and hide together. She also taught them how to hide the missing footprints behind them so that they would not be tracked by the enemy.
She was now very happy that she had made preparations "just in case". If not, the bloody tragedy would have happened again today.
But shelter alone is not enough. Foreign aid is also needed to rescue and drive them away. Otherwise, if the other party investigates and searches carefully, she doesn't know how long the cave dwelling can hide them.
She ran desperately all the way, trying to reach the beacon tower as soon as possible to burn smoke and ask for help.
The beacon piers were built at a dangerous point on the city wall and on a relatively flat part of the mountain. For her now, this road was so far away that she seemed unable to see the end.
She was helpless to accomplish this kind of thing alone. Everyone else was basically frightened when they heard about the invasion of nomadic barbarians. She had no way of entrusting anyone to handle this matter. Only she herself was calmer and just Just do it yourself.
But in fact, she seemed to have overestimated herself.
She really didn't have such a stable mentality to deal with it. She was like a frightened bird along the way, always worried that one or a few burly men would appear in a certain bush or a fork in the road. She even heard the clatter of horse hooves on the Beishan corridor. Coming closer and closer, echoing in the earth and crushing...
She didn't know how long it would take for the nomadic barbarians to reach the quarry and the shanty town. Her walking distance was definitely not as good as that of the four-legged ones chasing after her. If she was noticed by the nomadic barbarians halfway, then she would be It's dangerous.
Therefore, before arriving at the Fengsui Pier, she must first ensure her own safety, so that she could wait with the others for Yu Wensheng and the others.
Yu Wensheng......
Obviously on normal days, whenever she thought about this person, she would feel cold all over her body, but now when she thought of his name like this, she felt a sense of security under his protection.
Although he doesn't look like a good person, he will definitely come to save these people in the area under his jurisdiction.
She muttered silently: "I must persist until he comes..."
Her running footsteps stopped, and the next moment, she decisively turned in a different direction, bypassing a path and running into a camphor forest.
Through the mark she left deliberately, she recovered the crossbow she had buried. This crossbow was given to her by Qiu for the mission.
She put her quiver on her back, picked up her crossbow, and returned to the original path, continuing towards the beacon pier.
But this time, she had a weapon in her hand to fight the enemy, and she naturally had some confidence in her heart.
She cheered herself up.
This time, she wanted to do her best to protect these craftsmen.
Yu Wensheng handed over the fortifications and these people to her, and she was no longer just an ordinary craftsman. She had this responsibility and obligation.
Even if it wasn't for these reasons, most of them had spent time with her and would warmly call her "Sang Gong" when they met her. She didn't want to see someone she knew die tragically in front of her again.
Halfway up the mountain path, she was already sweating and panting. She raised her head and saw that the beacon pier was about to arrive. But before the joy in her eyes overflowed, she heard the sound of wind rushing towards her ears.
She turned her head and saw an afterimage approaching her from the corner of her eye. She rolled around and narrowly avoided it.
kick!
A short wooden gun passed her by and penetrated deeply into the ground.
Zheng Quchi's pupils tightened.
The "bone bending technique" she practiced diligently recently finally played a key role in the moment of crisis, and her body's agility improved a lot without even realizing it.
If not, when that shot was thrown, even if her eyes caught the trace, her body wouldn't be able to escape.
This short spear would never appear here for no reason, and it almost killed her. Zheng Quchi looked around and saw four nomadic barbarians guarding the beacon pier.
When they saw Zheng Quchi, they had an undisguised look of contempt and ridicule in their eyes, and they babbled a lot.
Although Zheng Quchi didn't understand these slang terms, he also understood what they meant.
She slowly took out an arrow and put it on the crossbow, mobilizing her muscles and getting ready to go: "How did you barbarians get in?"
The previous massacres gave the entire Fu County and the important towns of Jiubian a warning that they could not fail to take any measures.
But now these nomadic barbarians barged in again without any trace of a charge and battle, and their scale was far greater than the previous trial. It seemed that they were confident about this battle, so she had to doubt it.
"Ula gu gu da bu li."
A nomadic barbarian said something to her.
Zheng Quchi didn't know if he understood what she said, but she carefully studied his pronunciation and vocabulary, but they were completely unfamiliar to her.
Since we can't communicate with each other, don't bother talking.
Thinking of the shot just thrown, Zheng Quchi's light brown eyes were as hot as flames. He raised the crossbow and aimed at his forehead: "Shut up, you birdman."
Phew - I just heard a shadow passing through the sky. The four nomadic barbarians didn't even see her taking any aiming posture. She raised her stance, pulled the trigger, and shot out in one second. The arrow had already hit the center of her eyebrows.
Bang!
The person who fell down in response... was none other than one of the nomadic barbarians who spoke obscenely to Zheng Quchi.
His eyes were wide open before he died, and he still had the same expression after his death, with blood all over his face.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Seeing their companion dead and falling to the ground, the three remaining nomadic barbarians turned pale at first, but then became enraged by the bloody scene. They all pulled out the bent swords at their waists and charged towards her.
Zheng Quchi took several steps back.
These three people were too spread out and were moving. Perhaps they knew that her archery skills were not simple. They blocked their scimitars in front of them and quickly waved them together to protect their vital parts while approaching her.
Zheng Quchi analyzed that she could not shoot three people at the same time, but if she only shot one person, the other two would be able to seize the opportunity to capture her.
The only solution now is to retreat temporarily and then wait for an opportunity to shoot.
She put away her crossbow, turned around and ran back. Her feet were not slow, but the three nomadic barbarians were cautious because they were always on guard against her shooting arrows. Not to her.
"Gulu da Baga."
Behind him, another extremely angry roar of a nomadic barbarian came. At this time, Zheng Quchi suddenly stopped walking, turned around, and shot an arrow at the nomadic barbarian unprepared.
The three nomadic barbarians were frightened by what she had done, and their faces immediately turned pale. It was unknown which one of them was unlucky enough to be shot by her, but none of them felt any pain in any part of their body.
Then, when their confused heads finally calmed down, they realized that the arrow just passed by and did not hit any of them.
Suddenly, they all showed proud smiles.
I thought that the little man was just bluffing and trying to scare people.
But within a second, blood splashed into the eyes of the two people next to them like raindrops.
Everything in front of them was like a slowed down black and white scene. The nomadic barbarian in the middle had an arrow in his eyebrows, blood bursting out from the wound, and he fell heavily to the ground.
The appearance of his death was exactly the same as the previous one.
Ahead, Zheng Quchi's eyes were cold and calm, without any disturbance, and she set up another arrow...
It turned out that the blind arrow shot before was just to complete her preparation for the next kill with one arrow.
She had perfect timing.
Coupled with extraordinary archery skills.
Now, she finally waited for the best time to turn defeat into victory.
The two nomadic barbarians knew that the little dwarf in front of them had amazing archery skills, far better than the eagle warriors in their tribe. At this time, fear finally appeared on their faces.
Howling, they didn't care much and wanted to escape, but in the end they failed to escape the same fate as their accomplices.
After Zheng Quchi got rid of the four nomadic barbarians, there was no one left to hinder her, and she finally reached the Fengsui Pier successfully.
She took out the fire stick and lit the beacon pier. When the black smoke rose into the sky, she sat down on the ground with sore hands and feet.
Her forehead and hair were all wet with sweat, her lips turned white, and there was a lot of mud on her body, making her look like she had suffered a disaster.
She refused to let her mind recall the various scenes of the murder just now, and only let herself try to look forward.
"Soon, very soon Yu Wensheng and the others will be here..."
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resident camp
Yu Wensheng was dressed in a thick Huasen mysterious robe, lazily sitting on the high seat, his eyes as deep as a ghost in the world, staring at the person below.
At this time, Yao had already been tortured. One of his palms was stepped on the ground by Wei Yao with a smile, and he fell to the ground covered in blood.
You raised your head with difficulty and called out one person's name through gritted teeth.
"Yu, Wen, Sheng!"
When Wei Yao heard this, his eyes darkened: "It seems that you haven't learned enough lessons."
To dare to be so presumptuous and call the general by his first name is simply asking for death.
Click!
A wrist bone was crushed by Wei Yao with his toes. The indescribable severe pain made Wei Yao's face turn pale and he broke into a cold sweat.
Above, Yu Wensheng rested one elbow on the table and slowly stroked the tiger skin on the armrest with his other hand: "伢, a member of the Seventh Burial of the Mohist family, his skills are good at crossbows and archery. Ranked first among them?”
His whole body twitched slightly, and his eyelids, which he could not lift, drooped weakly, and then he sneered at the corner of his mouth.
It seems that Yu Wensheng is not really so powerful.
They obviously didn't know that he was not the best archer among the Seven Burials.
Just because Zheng Quchi didn't have the trust of the leader of the Mo family, even if she won in the end, she still found a ridiculous reason to relinquish her first place and let him take over.
Later, although some people saw her crossbow skills, they only thought that she and he were tied for first place. Only you knew that he... was not as good as her.
(End of chapter)
