Sun and Earth held their torches high, their expressions full of anger.
The thin man was tied tightly at the stake and kept begging for mercy.
Beside him, his wife and children were kneeling on the ground and were stopped by the tribesmen, wailing continuously.
"Daddy!"
"Daddy! Don't kill daddy!"
"Daddy! Ooooh! Let go of my daddy!"
There were four boys, girls and children, crying heartbrokenly.
The man who was burned at the stake was unknown to him.
But his wife has some intersection with Zheng Xiu.
The man's wife is named "Xin" and is good at weaving. Ten years ago, his wife also helped weave Xieluohe's wedding dress.
Zheng Xiu inquired for a while.
Understand the whole story.
The man settled here earlier than Zheng Xiu and his wife.
His original name was Xu Yun. He came from the south of the Central Plains, and his family was in trouble. At a young age, he was full of dreams. Hearing that the desert was full of gold to the west, he gathered a caravan to bring the specialties of the Central Plains to the east and west.
Xu Yun inquired about the lost legends and learned that there was a lost "trade route", and wanted to try his luck.
In the end, his caravan was buried by the wind and sand, and he was the only one to try his luck. He ran out of ammunition and food in the desert, and almost died when he was rescued by the passing Lie Sun tribe members.
Xu Yun wanted to return to the Central Plains many times, but he had neither the courage nor the ability to cross the desert alone. In the end, he had to marry a local girl, settle down, and become half of the Lie Sun tribe.
He learned the route of the "Green River" from his wife.
When Atulu lured him with gold and other benefits, Xu Yun struggled for several days and finally couldn't hold his conscience and handed over the Green River route.
"According to the clan rules," Sun and Earth said loudly: "Traitors must be punished by being burned and returned to the scorching sun to purify their souls!"
Ri and Di couldn't bear to hear the cries of Xu Yun's wife and children.
But the clan rules were like this, and he had just become the clan leader. If Xu Yun was allowed to violate the clan rules without being punished, it would be difficult for him to continue as the clan leader safely.
After Zheng Xiu asked about the cause and effect, he sighed softly, unwilling to intervene and closed his eyes.
As soon as Patriarch Ri Di finished speaking, he threw the torch in his hand towards the burning stake that was covered in oil.
"Ahhhh——"
Xu Yun screamed in horror: "It shouldn't be like this! It shouldn't be like this!"
stop!
A stone shot out from Zheng Xiu's side like a stream of light, flicking the torch away.
"enough."
Zheng Xiu turned around in surprise, and found that it was Xie Luohe who had been standing beside him silently who had rescued Xu Yun.
"Madam, you..."
Xie Luohe whispered: "I hurt him."
Zheng Xiu frowned: "What does it have to do with you?"
Xie Luohe shook his head: "If I could have been more decisive that day and killed Atulu, it would have been all over. How could there have been so many things?"
Zheng Xiu was helpless: "Behind him is the Shache Kingdom. If you kill an Aturu, there may be countless Avalu, Achelu, Amenlu, and Garuru. You can't kill them all the way and conquer the Western Regions." Kill them all."
Hearing this, Xie Luohe was speechless for a moment.
In fact, she wanted to say "kill all the way through", which was not impossible. But the tone of her husband's words at this moment clearly did not mean this.
"You're a little weird today."
Zheng Xiu glanced at Xie Luohe curiously.
Xie Luohe looked away and did not answer.
"That's it, just take action. Whoever makes my wife feel good." Zheng Xiu put his arms around Xie Luohe's shoulders and comforted him with a smile.
It was Xieluohe who took action, and the Lieri people looked at Xieluohe in shock.
In an instant, the couple became the focus of the entire clan.
Although Xie Luohe and Gongsun Mo are not from the Lieri tribe, Xie Luohe passed down the bow skills here. Boss Mo has been operating in Richan Town for many years. In Richan Town, the status of the couple in the hearts of the desert people is second only to the patriarch Richan. Just land.
Otherwise, before the death of the great elder, he would not have thought of letting Gongsun Mo and Xie Luohe be the clan leaders and lead the Lieri tribe.
"Xie Gong, what are you..."
Ri Di was dumbfounded, obviously he did not expect that Xie Luohe, as an outsider, would interfere in the affairs of Lie Sun Tribe.
Xie Luohe said calmly: "Since the Green River trade route map has been leaked, killing him will not help."
"But……"
Xie Luohe calmly looked at Xu Yun's wife and children who were still crying, and said: "The children are innocent. Now, Brother Di, you are the leader of the clan."
Ri Di's eyes flashed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and waved his hand: "Let him go! Lock him up first!"
Xu Yun, who betrayed the Lieri tribe, was put down from the stake, and several people escorted Xu Yun away.
Next.
Sun and Earth organized a secret meeting among the clan.
Although Gongsun and his wife are highly respected in the Lieri tribe, they are still outsiders and are not qualified to participate in the meeting.
It's broad daylight.
Zheng Xiu calmly closed the door of Mohexuan and walked home along the road.
On the way, Xie Luohe followed him like an aggrieved little daughter-in-law.
When he arrived at home, Xie Luohe said cautiously: "Husband, why not..."
"I have no idea."
Zheng Xiu sighed and interrupted Xie Luohe.
Xie Luohe was speechless.
Zheng Xiu said again, repeating the same sentence over and over again: "I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know."
Xie Luohe stood up, hugged her husband, and pressed his head into her soft arms.
She sensed that her husband was confused.
He is irritated.
Xie Luohe knew the reason for his irritability.
"I'm going out."
Zheng Xiu closed the store door and went out alone. When he came back, he had an ordinary long iron knife in his hand. It was getting dark. As soon as Zheng Xiu opened the door, he saw the dim light of the oil lamp in the house. Xie Luohe took off the long bow that had not been used for many years, lowered his head and carefully adjusted the tightness of the bow string. The ground was littered with repolished arrowheads.
The moment he opened the door, Xie Luohe raised his eyes. The couple looked at each other and smiled at each other.
Zheng Xiu scratched his head and said with a smile: "It seems we have thought of something."
"After all, it's just a couple."
"I figured it out." Zheng Xiu looked calm and relieved: "A real man does something and doesn't do something."
He carried the long knife behind his back, hung the Luohe pen on his left waist, and hung a heavy bag of "blood sand" on his right waist.
"And I," Xie Luohe put the long bow behind her back again, the woman's bun was untied, and her long ponytail was tied up, just like her heroic appearance back then. The woman smiled and said: "Do what Xie Luohe would do, that's all."
…
woo woo woo woo--
late at night!
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
Huhuhu——
Amidst the howling wind, a shrill horn sounded outside the town.
Tap tap tap tap——
The continuous sound of iron hooves was like a passionate war drum in the dark night. The war camels raised in the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions are not only good at traveling long distances, but also good at riding and fighting. They may seem bulky, but their movements are more agile than ordinary camels. The intensity of the cries can clearly distinguish the cries of war camels from those of horses. The difference in sound.
Xieluohe is like a nimble swallow in the dark night. It is proud of its dexterity and can easily climb up the mountain wall.
After looking far into the distance, there was a fire in the distance, reflecting the shining armor, like a sea of fine steel, densely packed and endless as far as the eye could see.
Back on the ground, the warriors of the Burning Sun tribe had already been awakened by the sound of the horn.
The sun and the earth are covered with war patterns, from the chest to the back, there are a total of forty-nine rounds of scorching sun, one is not too much, and the other is not too little.
"It's Aturu!"
Sun and Di gritted their teeth: "I have heard before that the Shache Kingdom has started wars among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions in recent years to win over the clans. Their king wants to unify the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions and become the second great leader! "
"If the Great Yueshi of Persia hadn't been powerful enough to compete with the Shache Kingdom, perhaps the king of the Shache Kingdom would have succeeded!"
"And Atulu is known as the best warrior in the Western Region!"
Ri Di hurriedly said a few words to Zheng Xiu who was standing on the street, and directed the women and children of the tribe to retreat into the valley.
"Quick! Go to the shooting range! It's safe there!"
Although they have lived in Richan Town for a long time, the terrain of Richan Valley is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Only by retreating to Richan Valley at critical times can they survive.
After a period of chaos, hundreds of people from the Richan Town clan retreated to Richan Valley.
Zheng Xiu asked people to place "Xiao Mo" and "Xiao He" who had been raising them for nearly ten years. He originally wanted Xiao Feng Miao to take refuge with him, but Xiao Feng Miao didn't know what happened today. His claws were clinging to Zheng Xiu's clothes and refused to leave. Zheng Xiu could only put Xiao Feng Miao into his arms. A furry cat head peeks out from the lapel.
The remaining hundreds of people were outsiders from other countries who had settled in Richan Town. They heard cries and horns, but they didn't know why. Walking out of the street in panic.
Aturu led a large army and marched straight in, killing everyone on sight.
"Hahaha! Kill! Leave no one behind!"
Rumble——
Aturu led an army of hundreds of people, and wherever the iron hooves stepped on, no one survived.
The sudden change completely destroyed the prosperity and tranquility of Richan Town. No one expected that when Atulu got the secret of Green River, he launched an attack overnight and led his army to attack Richan Town.
When passing by Mohexuan, Arturu sneered and looked at the boat he had withdrawn from that day. He raised his crossbow and shot an arrow, knocking down the ten-year-old sign to the ground.
The sign was broken in the middle and shattered into two pieces.
The words on it moved around, with "Dragon Gate" written on the left half and "Inn" written on the right half.
Atulu didn't seem to notice anything unusual about the sign. After shooting the sign, he drove his war camel to the inner entrance of Richan Valley.
There is a plank road built on the Richan Valley, and a group of good archers are ambushed on it.
Looking from a distance, Richan Valley has long been turned into a sea of fire, destroyed and burned.
Ridi angrily looked at the mess in Richan Town, smelled the smell of blood drifting down the wind, and listened to the wails of the tragically dead merchants. Ridi suppressed his anger and asked: "Atulu! Since you have obtained the secret of Green River, , why are you still attacking our clan’s territory!”
Atulu laughed and said: "In the near future, the Cicada Valley, the desert in the future, and the desert to the east will all be the territory of our Shache Kingdom. My king does not want to be separated by a river in our territory." Richan Valley! This fertile land will be owned jointly by our king and the king of the Northern Barbarians!"
"Fire the arrow!"
After a simple question and answer, the sun and the earth knew that Atulu had been planning for a long time tonight and was unable to do anything good. With a wave of his hand from a high place, arrows filled the sky and shot at Atulu's army of hundreds of people.
Rest, rest, rest!
The bow skills of the Lie Sun tribe were all inherited from the Xieluo River. Although they were unable to exert the power of the bow in Xie Luohe's hands, this wave of arrows was shot with incomparable accuracy, and the arrows were aimed at the war camel under them.
As the saying goes, if you shoot a man first, shoot a horse. If Atulu wants to cross the desert, the existence of the war camel is essential. As long as their war camels are killed, Atulu's army can be forced to retreat even if it cannot stop them here.
"Open the shield!"
Little did he know that Atulu knew the Liedi tribe more deeply than Rindi thought. At the same time that the sun and the earth shouted "shoot the arrow", Arturu gave instructions loudly, the sound was as strong as a drum. The foreign soldiers behind him simultaneously took out the strange weapon that looked like an iron fan.
Uh-huh!
The fan-shaped weapons opened simultaneously with the soldiers' movements. The fan blades rotated and turned into a shield in the blink of an eye.
That neat "swish" sound, hundreds of sounds mixed into one sound, sounded like a "lightning", resounding throughout the valley.
The soldiers held their shields in their hands and lay low. The shields were raised diagonally to the sky. While protecting them, they also protected the war camels under them.
The first wave of arrows was fired, but Aturu's army was unscathed.
"Fire the crossbow!"
A cold weapon war is all about numbers and equipment. After Atulu's army blocked the first rain of arrows, they issued the second order before the second rain of arrows came.
The soldiers who had received strict training moved neatly and quickly took out the crossbows from their hunchbacks. Only a neat "clang" sound was heard, and a wave of crossbow arrows from Atulu's army shot into the valley like a big bird with its wings spread in the dark night, accompanied by the fierce sound of wind.
At this moment they don't even need to aim, just pure suppressive fire.
The Lie Sun tribe was hit by this wave of crossbow arrows. In an instant, many tribesmen were hit by arrows and screamed in agony.
Sun and Earth panicked and said, "Back off! Hide behind the rocks!"
The Lie Sun tribe has never experienced such a battle. What they are good at is hunting rather than war. Compared with the well-trained training of Aturu's army, the experts of the Lie Sun tribe looked like a ragtag group. Although they were all good at archery, it was difficult to form a unified offensive.
The Sun tribe is retreating.
Aturu laughed: "Charge!"
They launched a charge and headed straight for Sunchan Valley.
Approaching the mouth of the valley, Atulu's eyes suddenly condensed. Two thin figures stood quietly at the mouth of the valley, like two door gods.
What made Atulu most angry was that a furry cat head was exposed on the man's chest.
Meow Tou's expression seemed to scorn him.
"Evil!"
Arturu's forehead had veins popping out, his eyes were as red as blood, he was instantly angry, and he cursed something unclearly in another language.
Xieluohe bent his bow and shot an arrow.
The moment the arrow left the string, Zheng Xiu frowned subconsciously and looked at his wife with some uncertainty.
There's something wrong with this arrow.
"Nothing more than that!"
Aturu's bloodshot eyes instantly turned pure black, and evil lines sprouted from his back and spread all over his body.
He punched forward, and waves of air blew away the vegetation in front of the valley, like a fierce hurricane blowing through.
Before Xieluohe's long arrow could reach Atulu, it was shattered by the air wave set off by Atulu's punch.
The couple were shocked at the same time.
The reason why they were surprised was not because Xie Luohe's archery skills were not successful, but because the other party's evil posture at the moment.
Aturu... is a stranger!
A natural stranger!
Xie Luohe pursed his lips tightly, gripped the long bow tightly, and there was a trace of struggle in his eyes.
"Ma'am, back off."
Zheng Xiu noticed that Xie Luohe's bow skills were not as good as before, and felt strange. But Atulu was already in front of him, and Zheng Xiu didn't bother to ask any more questions. He asked Xie Luohe to retreat while he took a step forward.
The long knife quickly cut his wrist, and blood gushed out.
Zheng Xiu moved his pen like the wind, and the bloody "ink lines" centered on him and spread out in all directions, instantly surrounding the entire valley like a closed cage.
"birdcage!"
projection!
Zheng Shan!
unbreakable!
Zheng Xiu took a step forward, and with every step he took, his figure grew an inch taller!
Aturu tilted his head, and on the war camel, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said:
"Huh? Are you actually a 'reincarnated Buddha' too?"
Zheng Xiu didn't answer and silently punched out.
The moment he punched, all the fur on his chest went behind his ears, and it even peed all over Zheng Xiu.
After being shocked, Atulu jumped off the war camel. He was faster than the charging war camel. He came to Zheng Xiu and punched him as well.
Two casserole-sized fists bumped together.
The earth shook.
