Chapter 53 dujunzhai

The next two days went smoothly, but when crossing the Yellow River, I heard the sound of arrows commonly used by bandits in the rivers and lakes, but no bandits or assassins shot.It is estimated that seeing Zhao Kuangyin's large number of people, strong soldiers and strong horses, he did not dare to move lightly, so he could only watch them pass. After passing the Dead Yellow River, there is Pingyuan Avenue, and there are proper and safe stops every day.Zhao Kuangyin reckoned that it would be difficult to set up assassins during this long journey, but he had to beware of a single or a small number of assassins' raids when passing through the bustling market town.So during this journey, Zhao Kuangyin changed his clothes and put on the same armor as the guards around him.In this way, no accidents were encountered when passing through several market towns.

The first stop after the death of the Yellow River was a small county called Siyang, but Zhao Kuangyin did not stop at the county government office, but walked through the city and came to Liu Zongzhai, about 20 miles west of Siyang, to spend the night. Liu Zongzhai is a small military camp, leaning against a slope and backed by forests. The whole village is composed of several large houses and fences with pointed roofs.These big houses are very tall, and the layout is very particular, which shows the style of the original construction.It is said that this was the private residence built by General Liu Quan in Siyang during the Sui Dynasty.But later the Liu family fell, and the descendants left, and these houses were located in a remote place, far away from the later built Siyang County, so they were abandoned here.Now these houses are being used as a small military camp. In fact, there are only forty or fifty soldiers in the military camp, led by a team leader.There is no actual military use, but it can be dealt with when something happens in several nearby counties and towns.

But the military camp is a military camp after all, and all military facilities for external defense and internal defense are complete.This is not comparable to the high wall of the Siyang County Government, and the security is relatively much higher.Moreover, as soon as Zhao Kuangyin entered the camp, he immediately ordered his guards to set up triangular nails and thorny flower cables to further strengthen the defense. Liujiazhai was safe and sound overnight, which was still within Zhao Kuangyin's expectation.But when he got up early and wanted to start again, he found that the situation around him was not right.Someone took advantage of the darkness to set up pockets outside the camp, completely blocking the way out, which Zhao Kuangyin never expected.

Although Budou didn't notice at night, Zhao Kuangyin didn't panic.In his opinion, it is difficult to distinguish details in the dark night, and it is not possible to lay down any detailed pockets.In addition, no one in the entire barracks heard any abnormal noise outside that night, so it can be inferred that there are no fixed, heavy-duty claws in the pockets outside.It is very likely that some superficial faces (covers for the pocket) were added to the claws, otherwise it would not be so silent. But when Zhao Kuangyin saw the setting outside the camp, he couldn't help but gasped.

What he saw told him that he was only half right in his guess, that is, the outer pocket was indeed made of floating face.But the half that is right means nothing to him, and the half that is not right can make it difficult for him to move forward. Dozens of haystacks and handles, large and small, were placed within the semicircle facing the gate of the barracks.It's no wonder that in the dark night, the only way to move these haystacks and handles will not make any loud noises, and you don't need to be too meticulous in stacking these haystacks and handles. These haystacks and hay handles were half of what Zhao Kuangyin guessed right. Usually such useless things were indeed used to make the surface of the bag.What Zhao Kuangyin didn't guess right was that today's haystacks and hay handles formed a murderous pocket with infinite murderous aura and fierce appearance. It was dim and shadowy when viewed inside, and misty when viewed from a distance.

What really shocked Zhao Kuangyin's heart was that he couldn't tell the appearance of this killing bag at all, let alone know its reasoning.The whole pocket looks like there are nine stars and eight gates, but it seems to be mixed with twenty-eight constellations.Moreover, these positions are random and not arranged according to the rules.Zhao Kuangyin searched his mind several times, and finally he could only admit in frustration that this was a layout he had never seen or heard of before. The conditions for running into pockets.Even if the men and horses under him are very strong, they will only seek their own death under a strong charge.So Zhao Kuangyin immediately turned to thinking, and immediately led people to the back of the barracks.He wanted to dismantle the fence and escape from other directions.

But after walking around in the barracks, he found that the pockets outside the barracks had already blocked the east and south directions, while the north was close to the black pine forest, and the west was against the light stone slope.These two directions are extremely dangerous in themselves. If you set up a killing pocket, it will be even more dangerous than rushing out from the front camp gate. "The assassins who set up pockets have already blocked the smooth way out, how could they not set up facilities in these two dangerous directions. Although it is impossible to see anything now, under the current situation, the less visible the more There are ghostly tricks hidden. And the opponent made the pocket facing the gate extremely fierce, which is likely to be intentional. This is used to intimidate and force oneself to lead people to escape from the other two sides, so that they just fall into their more ingenious Kill the pocket." Zhao Kuangyin's thinking is meticulous and sophisticated, this is the experience that can only be accumulated through the rivers and lakes.

"It must be so!" Zhao Kuangyin was very sure of his deduction. "The opponent set up a pocket to assassinate me. If I don't enter the pocket, no matter how miraculous and wonderful the killing pocket they set up will be in vain. But I stayed quietly in the barracks, and let the soldiers and guards form guards everywhere. If they want to If you come in and kill me, you will only end up at your own dead end. So I don’t need to worry, I just hide in Zong Liu’s stronghold and compare patience with the assassins and killers outside. The general rules in assassination, if the assassin sees through the assassination, they will kill you. Thinking that the assassination failed, I retreated immediately. I stick to Liu Zongzhai and tell them that I have seen through the assassination. Within two days, the assassins outside will definitely withdraw on their own."

Zhao Kuangyin already knew the danger of killing people, so he would never risk his life. This approach is completely correct.Although there is no special means of sending letters and warnings in the small army camp like Liu Zongzhai, the letters and arrows are delivered by special letter soldiers, so it is impossible to send rescue letters from the siege.But this place is not extremely remote, passers-by and villagers often pass by.And once someone passes by and finds that Zongzhai Liu is besieged and spreads the news, or the nearby county government finds that there has been no news from Zongzhai Liu's barracks for a long time and sends people to investigate, that will only be detrimental to these assassins.So the stalemate seems to be evenly matched, but in fact the killers and assassins outside are more dangerous and psychologically burdened than Zhao Kuangyin.Zhao Kuangyin can sleep peacefully in the stockade and wait for work, but the assassin must always pay attention to changes in form and beware of foreign aid.

Zhao Kuangyin knew that he was trapped when the sky was just getting brighter, but he decided to stay firmly before the sun passed the roof.Staying is the only way to do it, and it is also the most effective and beneficial way. Right now, patient dealing has become the only tactic that can be used to fight. Two days have passed, and the pockets outside the camp have not been withdrawn.Instead of withdrawing, there was another pocket near the camp gate.The material used for this bag is a hundred bamboos, very fresh bamboo, neither tall nor thick.But it is the bamboo crown taken from bamboo, with branches and leaves, which can expand a large area.These bamboos are inserted in a messy manner on the ground, staggering here and there, looking irregular.

This time, Zhao Kuangyin realized without much effort that the newly added pockets did not contain any metaphysical formations, just like a very sparse fence.But this fence is not easy to break through, because its strength is not in the pocket-shaped texture, but in the attachments of the bamboo branches. Almost all bamboo branches have hard-shelled pupae, which are also turquoise in color.If you don't look carefully at these chrysalis, you really can't see them, and you will think they are bamboo knots or bamboo nodules.Zhao Kuangyin has seen many chrysalis, but he has never seen this kind of green chrysalis, only heard of it.Once, when chatting with the one-axe master Zhao Kuangyi worshiped about the strange things in the world, the one-axe master mentioned a kind of "bamboo pulp insect".After the insect becomes a pupa, it lays its eggs in the bamboo tube attached to the pupa, and guards the bamboo tube with the eggs until it dies.But before it dies, once a slight external force touches the bamboo branch, the bamboo pulp insect will burst out of the chrysalis.Immediately after coming out, his body exploded, turning into a ball of blood and pulp, splashing all over the place.This kind of pulp contains strong poisonous and rotten characteristics. When it touches the meat, it will rot, and after it rots, the poison will travel with the blood.Unless you cut off your limbs and flesh immediately, you will die without a doubt. Zhao Kuangyin estimated that even if he used all the soldiers in the barracks plus the guards he brought, if he wanted to get through these bamboo branches, more than half of them would have to be killed or injured. But no matter how powerful the bag is, it doesn't make much sense now, because Zhao Kuangyin is not in a hurry to get out.He resolutely proceeded according to the original plan, and was more patient with the opponent, so that the opponent retreated in the face of difficulties, or waited until the nearby state and county officials discovered the situation and came to the rescue. After the fourth day, the assassins outside still hadn't retreated.And on this day they blatantly made another kill, this time the kill was called "The kite lays eggs". The plate kite is the most common flat-shaped kite. Its special feature is that one or several whistles can be hung on it, so that the kite will make a loud whistle after flying into the air.However, the kites used by the assassins here do not have whistles on them. They hang some dark round bumps on the original positions of the whistles.The size of the black round pimple is similar to that of a whistle, but judging from the height at which the kite flies, it is obviously much heavier. The kite wobbled and took advantage of the wind and flew towards the barracks. Zhang Jindai stood upstairs and kept paying attention to the weird kite.When the kite had almost reached the top of the barracks, Zhang Jindai could clearly see the black round bumps hanging from the top of the kite.So without even thinking about it, he kept shouting: "Hide quickly! Hide in the room!" At the same time as he called, Zhang Jindai jumped over the wooden railing and jumped down the stairs. Jump straight to Zhao Kuangyin's room. Zhao Kuangyin heard the commotion outside and just wanted to go out of the room to see what was going on, but was pushed back by Zhang Jindai who rushed in.After entering, Zhang Jindai immediately closed the thick wooden door behind him and held it against it. Before he could leave the door, he heard a loud bang outside.After the explosion, there was another sound like a torrential rain hitting lotus leaves. The whole house shook again and again, and the door was almost thrown open by a strong force.The sound of heavy rain hitting lotus leaves that followed was even more terrifying, like many knives and chisels being hacked into the door, and it felt like the thick wooden door was about to be torn apart.Flying dust mixed with smoke came in through the crack of the door and the gap in the threshold, and the cloud of smoke and dust that surged up seemed like ghosts entering through the door. The lingering sound of the explosion has not disappeared, and there are screams and calls outside the house one after another.In addition, there was a continuous coughing sound, which should be due to the smell of fireworks and the dust that was raised too thickly, choking those who could still breathe until they almost couldn't breathe. After a while, Zhang Jindai opened the door carefully.At this time, the smoke and flying dust outside had almost dissipated, and a small pit that had just appeared on the flat ground in front of the house could be clearly seen, and there were traces of burning around the pit.Judging from this small pit, it seems that nothing serious happened.But looking around, seeing many soldiers and guards lying on the ground rolling around or moaning quietly, one can see how powerful this killer weapon is. "Are these nails the ones that hurt them?" Zhao Kuangyin asked.He looked around and finally landed on the thick wooden door of his room. The two doors are now like a hedgehog, filled with a kind of special-shaped double-ended steel nails.This double-headed steel nail has a water chestnut seat in the middle, and the nail body on both sides has a wide root, a pointed head, and double-edged blades. The shape is like a short triangular thorn with a straight blade.After the double-headed nails are launched, they rotate and fly, and can be scratched, stabbed, smashed, and drilled. "Yes, this is the 'Fire, Thunder, and Iron Rain' in Nanping Jiuliuhou's Mansion." Zhang Jindai replied.Zhao Kuangyin nodded slightly when he heard the answer, and his expression remained unchanged. In fact, he was really shocked at the moment, feeling a chill rushing from his feet to his chest, which lingered for a long time and was difficult to dispel.What a fierce and domineering attack this is!If Zhang Jindai hadn't stopped him in time, once he stepped out of the room, his life might really be lost here.