Chapter 18 third quarter

On the ninth day of September, Wang Yu and Yulin Tianjun Fufeng Camp. The young general was neatly armed and sat on his horse. Behind him were two thousand Habayashi Heavenly Army, waiting for orders.The dispatch order was handed down last night. It has been many years since there was such an urgent expedition, and there was no time to prepare.The sergeants were terrified, the centurion commanders were uncertain, and only the general remained calm.He was buttoning a long red tasseled war gun, and touched the flagon at his waist. The flagon was empty, and he was not allowed to drink when he went out to battle, but he still carried it habitually.I have carried it with me for too many years, without it, I feel that something is missing.

"Thank you, General?" A leader of the Jinwu Guard led his horses into the camp, followed by a cart of ten and four horses, which came in a hurry. something. "This subordinate is waiting for orders." Xie Cheng bowed on the saddle. "The eldest princess ordered that all members change their weapons." "Change weapons?" Xie Cheng was a little surprised.The Habayashi Heavenly Army cost a lot of money, and the standard equipment cannot be said to be unique to the Eastern Land, but they are all top-grade weapons.He really couldn't think of any need to change weapons and equipment a moment before going out.

"You don't need to ask, let them get the thousand machine crossbows, there are two thousand in total." The commander of the Jinwu guard gestured to the driver on the cart. "Thousand machine crossbow?" Xie Cheng had never heard of this name.The royal army, weapons, armors and ceremonies all have conventions. Every weapon that can be equipped is formulated by the Gongzaifu. staff assembly. The tarpaulin on the cart was lifted, and the heavy crossbows were neatly stacked underneath, all of which were jet-black and well maintained with tung oil. The commander of the Jinwu Guard pulled out one from his back and handed it to Xie Cheng.Xie Cheng felt that the hand was heavy, it was made of high-quality wood, the craftsmanship was extremely fine, and the tough beef tendon strings were quite powerful, and pulling the strings was a bit strangled.But it is slightly different from ordinary crossbows, whether it is the opening of the bow arm or the angle of the string, most especially the slot where the arrow should be placed is not visible on this crossbow, and the strings are stuck in a wooden box.

The commander of the Jinwu Guard took out three black iron arrows from his belt, which were less than half the length of ordinary arrows. He stuffed them into the wooden box in front of Xie Cheng, and handed the crossbow to Xie Cheng again.He gestured: "General, please test fire." Xie Cheng raised his arm, pointed at the earth wall on the east side of the camp, and pulled the trigger. The body of the crossbow trembled slightly, and the balance was excellent.All three iron arrows were shot out at once, with a straight trajectory, nailed into the earth wall, not even the tail, and only a faint cloud of fly ash was splashed.The sergeants who lined up to receive their crossbows were also attracted. Some people shouted, and those who had already got them were eager to try.

"Not bad!" Xie Cheng praised, "Convenient and powerful, it's a good weapon." "Fortunately, it is practical. If it is said to be powerful, it is still too far behind the Bauhinia long shot. However," the commander of the Jinwu Guard smiled, "Anyone who gets it can go into battle without any training." "Any other orders?" "General Xie, please lead your troops to set off with the other nine battalions. There are 10,000 Jinwu Guards and 10,000 Habayashi Heavenly Army. The goal is the entrance of Dangyang Valley." "Dangyang Valley Gukou?" Xie Cheng nodded, "The remnants of the Li army are still there to fight Chun Guo Hua Ye."

"The rest, as long as you obey the general when the time comes." The commander of the Jinwu Guard smiled inscrutably, "The thing to do this time is very simple, because General Xie became famous when he was young, and he has been promoted so quickly in the Habayashi Heavenly Army these years. , It’s a piece of cake to do such a small thing.” "It's another chance to be promoted!" He patted Xie Cheng on the shoulder, "I still have something to do, so I'll leave now." The leader of the Jinwu Guard led a group of subordinates and left like a gust of wind.These days, the Jinwu Guard, the imperial capital, suddenly revived. Military officers at all levels went in and out of the Fufeng camp and various guards, bringing the imperial family's military orders.The army, which was originally just a guard of honor for the royal family, now swaggered and seemed to have mastered all the military power of the imperial capital.

Xie Cheng looked at the backs of the Jinwu guards going away, and silently pulled out a strip of white cloth two fingers wide from his sleeve. He has read this letter countless times these days, wanting to see whether it is credible from every word, and at this moment he re-read it silently in his heart: 〖My brother like meeting: I heard that the incident happened suddenly, and the coalition forces were trapped in Shangyang Pass with corpses.This technique is the method of corpse voodoo, it was passed down from Yunzhou, few people know about it in the Eastern Continent, only Taibu is knowledgeable, or has heard of it.Corpse Gu devours the soul of a person. It can be used on corpses or on living people. If a seriously injured person is devoured by Corpse Gu, he will lose his nature, and it is no different from the resurrection of the dead. They are all zombies.Corpse Gu is extremely difficult to remove, but there are flaws.It is a large array of secret techniques to raise more than ten thousand dead with corpse Gu, which is called the array of corpse hiding.Where there is an array, there is an array master, and the array master is still in Shangyang Pass.The array master dies, and the secret method is broken.I will tell my brother about this, or it may be an opportunity for me to become an official.By brother self-determination.

Brother Mushou sincerely respects〗 He counted the time when he received this letter, thinking of the young man in white who once sang on the walls of the imperial capital on a bright moon night.Wherever this letter came from, it was astonishing.Even before the emperor knew that there was a strange phenomenon in Shangyang Pass, this carrier pigeon landed on Xie Cheng's table.Xie Cheng had a strong feeling that at the moment when the tragedy at Shangyang Pass took place, his friend in white was watching from a distance with his hands behind his back. He didn't know if such a person could be trusted, but he had no choice. He could feel that the huge conspiracy was advancing steadily, and those people in Shangyang Pass were about to die.He decided to take a risk.

"Pigeon," he whispered. His subordinates sent a carrier pigeon with blue-gray tail feathers. Xie Cheng took out the letter he had already written and stuffed it into the bamboo tube at the foot of the carrier pigeon.He raised his hand and released the pigeon into the blue sky.