Chapter II. 28. The cold of the winter solstice

The leader, with a feathered arrow in his throat, opened his mouth weakly, waved his hand vigorously at the place where everyone had come, and then fell to the ground. He lay on the ground and struggled desperately, scratching blood marks from his neck with his hands, and kicked his legs aimlessly for a while, and then he died. After taking his last breath, his eyes were still fixed on the direction in which everyone came.

"Ambushed, scattered!"

At the same time, a hoarse voice immediately came from the "bandits" group, and when the minions who were still in some turmoil heard this familiar voice, they hid in groups to think they were safe, and the hoarse voice then shouted to the stunned Mazi Liu and the little dog:

"You two don't move, Lao Tzu doesn't care how many ambushes there are around, if anyone makes a move for me to see, I can kill him first."

After hearing this, Ma Ziliu calmed down, and ignored the other party's threat, but sneered:

"The two of us will definitely not move, and I will trouble you to also order the archers, and we will control the strings for me. But I'd like to ask, what exactly do you want? I'm a businessman, except for this old life, there's nothing that can't be discussed? ”

This hoarse voice is the "second master" of this group of bandits, who is hiding behind a big tree alone at this time, and he didn't take it to heart when he heard Ma Ziliu's words.

In fact, not only the dead big boss thought wrong, but the living second boss thought wrong. Even Ma Ziliu, the victim, thought wrong.

The moment the big boss was shot in the throat, he already knew that he had no chance to live. On the occasion of his death, in addition to the stress reaction caused by suffocation, he was still trying to leave some useful information for his 100th brothers. As far as his eyes could see, it was the direction in which everyone was tying their horses next to the official road before they entered the forest to chase and kill.

In fact, the meaning of the big boss is very simple: either quickly kill the target, the two masters and apprentices of the six masters and apprentices of Mazi, and then withdraw from the deep forest and go back to hand over the order; Or just exit the woods and set fire to the mountain, now that there are a large number of people on your side and they are all cavalry, are you afraid that you will not be able to outrun the half-dead people who are smoked out?

It's a pity that the second boss who took over the command would be wrong. He was too superstitious about his own strength, so that the gaze before death became a signal to expand the encirclement under his understanding. So, he shouted and ordered everyone to scatter and dodge, intending to come up with a series of tricks: first one move "wait for the rabbit", and then follow the previous move "close the door and beat the dog".

It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that although this door was closed, it was impossible to say which side was the dog.

Ma Ziliu, the "plant" of the rabbit, is undoubtedly the luckiest one among the "want to have more trio". Of course, he knew his other identity, and he only thought that the reinforcements had arrived, and he was already victorious. Therefore, I have always been afraid of death, so I will try to negotiate with the other party without fear, and I want to educate the puppy what it means to be a real "senior".

Of course, if he was facing an ordinary bandit, even if it was a civilized school like "military advisor", then the good heads of his master and apprentice would have been cut off and taken away.

The situation of being afraid of the two ends of the wolf with a hemp pole naturally made the scene cold in an instant. And the biggest beneficiary of the impasse is the "culprit" of the big boss with an arrow - the silent winter solstice.

Fourteen's secret arrow was fired, and he casually threw away the unfamiliar longbow. He held the dagger in his mouth and crawled on all fours. The gently swaying grass in the dark night and the night clothes of the winter solstice make it look like a stout python at a cursory glance.

This team of cavalry disguised as bandits was the same group of scouts that Shen Gui and the other leaders saw at the altar in the south of Fengjing City, the scouts of the Flying Tiger Army under Zhang Huangling. Originally, they were all scouts and light horses, but in order to enter the forest to chase and kill the six masters and apprentices of Mazi, they had to tie all the war horses to the side of the official road. As a result, hundreds of cavalrymen ran out of horses, and broke into the deep forest at night, and divided their troops with the intention of encircling and annihilating the enemy. Because, all kinds of signs indicate that the time for the winter solstice Dafa Li City has arrived.

Fourteen crawled on the ground at a high speed, first easily wiping the necks of the two scouts, and then swaggering out of the circle. A person came to the official road where the Flying Tiger Army tied his horse, he stepped forward and touched the horse's legs, broke the teeth of a few war horses, looked at them, and nodded. Then, he walked in the direction of the deep forest.

The Flying Tiger Army scouts who were still in the forest, at this time, were in groups and were searching together. One person was in front, exploring the way with a sheathed saber, and the other two were on guard, and when they looked at it, they were a little at a loss.

But Fourteen is a middle and high master after all, and he flew up to a big tree in front of the team in three or two clicks, threw out a small stone in his hand, first drew a high parabola from the air, and hit a big tree behind the three of them, making a crisp sound of "pop", and rebounded to the ground.

And Fourteen, who was hidden in the tree, didn't wait for the stone to hit the ground, then swung down and fell back into the grass.

On the other hand, the three Flying Tiger scouts heard the sound of stones hitting the trunk of the tree, and immediately turned around. In this short moment, from the grass behind them, an emaciated figure flew out. Fourteen, a short arc-shaped dagger with a cold light in his right hand went straight to the right side of the neck of the person in front of him, and his left hand tightly covered the opponent's mouth and nose. Immediately after that, with a twist of his right hand, the dagger blade pressed against the opponent's throat, and the upper arm was pulled outward. The action is smooth, and a textbook beautiful throat cut is completed in an instant.

"Shhh

The scout felt a chill on his neck, and just as he wanted to turn his head to look at it, he found that he could no longer lift the slightest strength, and his body leaned forward weakly, so he slapped it straight on the grass in front of him.

The two who were still observing their surroundings heard the sound of falling behind them, and turned back at the same time. The face that caught my eye was not a familiar comrade, but a slender young man in black. The young man grinned, his right arm slightly bent and his fist clenched, and a fist swing was instantly crossed by the necks of the two. It's a punch!

The two of them thought it was funny, and they were about to make a sarcasm, but they turned their heads and looked at each other, but neither of them could make a sound.

The fourteenth empty punch is not inaccurate. Instead, he was holding the dagger upside down, the sharp blade of which was pressed against the outside of his forearm, and his wrist was slightly turned inward while swinging his fist.

With an inconspicuous slight turn, the tip of the dagger that was clinging to the fourteen forearms naturally lifted slightly. The distance that was still a finger's width short was actually made up for with a flick of the wrist.

"Shhh

From behind Fourteen, two streaks of blood sprayed out, followed by the sound of two corpses falling to the ground. After a few weak struggles, the dark forest was silent again.

Fourteen shook off the very clean dagger, and in a hurry, he picked a few big trees near the corpse, and laid down some trinkets such as rope iron thistles, and then patted the dust on his hands, and sank into the deep forest again.

The same drama keeps playing out in this deep forest where you can't see your fingers. The reason why the scouts had extinguished all the torches was to avoid becoming a living target for those who were secretly shooting arrows; But he never thought that once he lost the guidance of the torch, he would also become a blind man with his eyes open.

Of course, the winter solstice, which killed more than 100 scouts of the Flying Tiger Army, and the dozen or so people in the group were not all unharmed. Two of the younger children were slightly injured: one broke his foot while going down a tree; The other was a little nervous about killing people for the first time, and the speed of cutting his throat was a little slower, and he was bitten by the other party.

The sky was slightly bright, and more than a dozen people in black quietly came to the six masters and apprentices of Mazi. Fourteen stared at Ma Zi Liu's face, and Ma Zi Liu quickly rummaged through his body, and then his face turned pale: he found that he couldn't even find a piece of silver scum at this time.

Seeing that the middle-aged man with a pockmarked face turned pale, Fourteen picked up a saber that fell on the side of the road, walked forward slowly, raised the knife and chopped it, and the pockmarked six sighed, so he had to close his eyes and wait for death.

"Wait!"

The little dog on the side suddenly unfolded a piece of paper with both hands with an extremely exaggerated posture: this piece of paper is the road guide that everyone who travels to, and it is also covered with the big seals of Beiyan and Youbei respectively.