Shooting two leopards in a row made Xu Xingxia very excited. In such a short period of time, I actually found two leopards in a row, and it seems that there are a lot of leopards in Helan Mountain. It's a treasure trove of movement. A leopard skin is 50,000 taels of silver, if you can kill him a dozen leopards and strip him of a dozen leopard skins...... Xu Xingxia said a little eagerly: "Brother Ma Shi, let's look for it again?" ”

Ma Shilong hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "Xu Baihu, I'm afraid there is no chance." ”

Xu Xingxia didn't give up, and pulled him to continue looking in the mountains. Ma Shilong couldn't help it, so he had to follow him. As a result, his words were indeed not wrong, and after that, the group never encountered the Golden Leopard again. After walking in the mountains for another two days, Xu Xingxia still didn't give up. The money leopard's way to get money is so simple and fast, how can he let it go so easily? They went all the way to the west, and before they knew it, they had reached the west side of Helan Mountain.

On the west side of Helan Mountain, it is connected to the Alxa Desert. This is a very vast desert, and there are constant winds and sand blowing directly to the west side of Helan Mountain. The vegetation here is quite boring, the branches are dry and bare, and there are no leaves. If there is a sandstorm blowing, it will be overwhelming with dust. It can be said that the east and west sides of Helan Mountain are two completely different worlds.

Obviously, in such a dry and desolate world, there can be no money leopard. Even if Xu Xingxia doesn't give up, he has to admit this cruel reality. This inevitably made his mood a little depressed and a little regretful. If there is still a leopard, how much! Fifty thousand taels of silver, you can do a lot of things.

"Da Da Da!"

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance.

Xu Xingxia turned his head to look over, only to see twenty or thirty horsemen coming in the dust.

On the west side of Helan Mountain, a piece of desolation, between the mountains and the desert, is the Gobi Desert. The sound of the horse's hooves trampling on the Gobi Desert is particularly stiff, mainly because there is no echo. The Gobi Desert is open in space, and no matter how loud the sound is, there is no echo. The sound of horses' hooves and stones striking is like the friction of a steel file, and it is very sharp and hard.

In the hazy dust, it can be vaguely seen that those sudden cavalry are all fully armed, and each of them holds different weapons. However, looking at their attire, they do not look like Tatar cavalry. Some cavalrymen wore red or white turbans on their heads, but not all of them wore them, making them quite messy.

"The sand thieves are coming!"

"It's those damn sand thieves!"

An old servant beside Ma Shilong screamed a little nervously.

With his shout, Ma Shilong and the two old servants quickly held the bow and arrow in their hands.

Xu Xingxia also frowned quietly, took off the iron tire bow behind his back, and held it in his hand. He didn't expect to encounter a group of sand thieves here. The so-called sand pirates are actually thieves who are active in the desert. They may be Han Chinese, they may be Tatars, they may be Yarkands, or they may even be Kazakhs. They gather together and make a living from robbery. They are best at raiding caravans passing through the desert.

The area where the sand pirates are active is very extensive, and it is claimed that as long as there is a desert in the Gobi, they are active. In Gansu Town, from time to time, sand thieves will break in, burn, kill and loot. The situation in Ningxia Town is slightly better. Helan Mountain separates the desert from the plains, blocking the progress of the sand pirates. I don't know what this gang of sand thieves is going to do when they suddenly ran to Helan Mountain today. Such a situation should be relatively rare.

However, no matter what the sand pirates are trying to do, one thing is certain, and that is that it is absolutely not good for the two sides to meet. The Sand Pirates will not miss any opportunity to loot. They are also very murderous, as long as they see a living person, they can't help but come forward to kill. What's more, on Xu Xingxia's body, there were two intact leopard skins, which were treasures worth 100,000 taels of silver. It's no wonder that these sand thieves don't blush.

Sure enough, those sand thieves rushed over, and when they saw that there were only five people here, their eyes immediately lit up. When I saw the two leopard skins, my eyes lit up even more. There was almost no need for any movement, they were like fan-shaped, outflanking Xu Xingxia and them. It can be seen from their encirclement that they are indeed too good at looting and killing. If ordinary people meet them, they will definitely be unlucky. Sadly, they met people who were more skilled and cruel than they were.

"Kill!"

Ma Shilong snorted coldly and rushed forward on horseback.

He is not angry, unhurried, but definitely not slow.

He definitely understands the principle of striking first and suffering later.

"Yes, I like it!"

Xu Xingxia said to himself.

With a hard grip on the horse's belly, he also rushed up.

"Whoosh!"

A series of bowstrings sounded, but it was Ma Shilong who made a move.

As soon as he struck, it was a series of arrows, three arrows in a row, and three arrows in unison.

Three slender arrowheads, drawing slender traces, whistled towards the sand bandits.

"Puff puff!"

The three oncoming sand thieves were immediately hit by arrows and fell down.

They galloped at high speed, and after landing, they kept tumbling and kicking up a lot of dust.

The blood spilled on the dry Gobi desert and soon disappeared. Some sand thieves, after landing on the ground, their wounds were wrapped in dust, and there was no blood gushing out for the time being. It wasn't until there was more and more blood and the dust could no longer be covered that it was like a flood without a levee, gushing out at once, staining all the surrounding soil red.

The thin and long silver winged arrows could not kill the fierce money leopard with a single blow, and it was no problem to kill a few sand thieves. Ma Shilong's arm strength was enough for the slender silver winged arrows to pierce through their backs. If the sand thief who was shot through the heart can still work, it will definitely be the sun coming out of the west.

"Whoosh!"

Ma Shilong's movements were fast, followed by three more silver wing arrows.

Purely in terms of archery skills, Ma Shilong is obviously better than Xu Xingxia. His archery talent is quite good, and he has been guided by a famous teacher since he was a child, and the starting point at the beginning is very high. He himself has indeed practiced hard, and his basic skills are very solid. He was even able to shoot nine arrows in a row and kill nine people in a row.

In front of Xu Xingxia, Ma Shilong obviously felt the invisible pressure. He is not a person who easily admits defeat, he has lost the game before, and now he wants to find a chance to make it back. In the blink of an eye, he had already killed nine sand thieves. The speed of his arrows was so fast that many of the sand thieves' bows and arrows were killed by him before they could shoot.

However, purely in terms of the lethality of bows and arrows, Ma Shilong is much worse than Xu Xingxia. After all, whether it is a two-stone hard bow or a three-stone hard bow, it is much more powerful than a one-stone three-bucket Ugin bow. The difference in arm strength between the two is something that Ma Shilong can never make up. This kind of basic caste, acquired hard practice, does not have too good results.

Ma Shilong aimed at the sand thieves who were close to him, but Xu Xingxia specifically picked the sand thieves behind. He was also a series of arrows, and he also fired nine arrows in a row, directly sweeping the nine sand thieves off his horse. The black feather arrows he shot were so powerful that as long as they were shot by the sand thieves, they all fell directly from the horse, not from the horse. The leader of the sand thieves was also killed by Xu Xingxia with one arrow. The black feather arrow shot directly into the head, and the sand thief leader couldn't even scream, he had already knocked off his horse, rolled on the ground a few times, and there was no movement.

As for the other sand thieves, they were killed by Ma Shilong's two servants. The archery skills of these two servants are also quite good. When Liu Chuang pulled out his waist knife and rushed up to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the sand thieves, all the sand thieves had already been killed. He had no choice but to put the scimitar back into its scabbard. When he met two guys with perverted archery, he had to sigh to himself that he was unlucky. He made up his mind that the next time he encountered such a situation, he would obediently stay behind and watch the excitement.

In fact, this group of sand thieves was unlucky when they met a few of them. They never dreamed that the other party's archery skills would be so strong. The cooperation between Xu Xingxia and Ma Shilong was also said to be perfect, one was responsible for the front, the other was responsible for the back, and even eliminated the fighting, so that the sand thieves had no chance to fight back, and they were all killed. After killing all the sand thieves, Ma Shilong and Xu Xingxia glanced at each other and nodded secretly.

"Son, there's still a living one." Suddenly, an old servant cried out.

"Ask about the situation." Ma Shilong hurriedly said. With that, he rode over, turned over and dismounted, seized the sand thief, and interrogated him himself. It turned out that the sand thief's heart may have been crooked, and after receiving a silver wing arrow, he didn't immediately lose his breath. Ma Shilong seized the time to interrogate and learned a lot of news from his mouth.

Here, Xu Xingxia and Liu Chuang also have good gains from other sand thieves. They unceremoniously looted the corpses of the sand thieves and took away all the valuable things. and pulled all the war horses of the sand thieves together. Ma Shilong and the old servants beside him were not very interested in these scattered wealth, and they probably didn't take a fancy to it. This happened to be a big bargain for Xu Xingxia. Since you don't want it, I'll take it all.

The gold, silver, and jewels that these sand thieves carried together amounted to almost five thousand taels of silver. Some of the gold and silver jewelry has no coagulated blood on it, and at a glance you can tell that it was robbed. Obviously, the Sand Pirates were much richer than the Tartars. However, Xu Xingxia still didn't understand what the sand thieves were doing when they came to Helan Mountain with gold, silver and jewelry.

After a while, Ma Shilong returned to Xu Xingxia's side, and said with a somewhat solemn expression: "Xu Baihu, there is a windfall, I don't know if you dare to ask for it?" ”

(To be continued)