The territory and power of the Luochuan thieves came from countless fierce battles, and they were not by chance; Its subordinates numbered in the hundreds, all of whom were fierce and warlike men. When they decided to rely on the complex terrain of Daiwang City to defend it, it was like a solid pebble that spread across every river beach in Daijun, which could not be broken, chewed, or swallowed. Everyone is convinced that they have used the same methods over the past few decades to push back one menacing enemy after another, and this time will be the same.

However, several core figures, including Ma Fu, did not dare to ignore this enemy with a mysterious origin. They knew that the comer was not good, so they mobilized all the forces they could mobilize and prepared for a bitter battle.

On the southwest corner of Luochuan Thief Dock Fort. Hu Xiu climbed down from the towering watchtower, not minding the crunchy ladder creaking and seeming to be crushed at any moment. He was tall and thin, and his movements looked like a rickety clothes rack. But on the exposed arms, you can see the stiff and dense muscles, which undoubtedly contain great strength.

There are several men with fierce appearances gathered under the watchtower. Seeing that Hu Xiu had come down, they hula and surrounded him. Hu Xiu wiped his hands on the placket of his clothes, and said expressionlessly: "I don't have the right wood at hand, so I can only make do with an extra tenon." It's a little stronger, but it can fit up to five people, otherwise it will collapse. ”

"You can't fucking use dim sum anymore...... one man opened his mouth to drink half a sentence, and was jerked back by another man. The man nodded to Hu Xiu again and again: "Damn, these wooden towers or something, they should have been cleaned up a long time ago." If you suddenly collapse in the middle of a war, will you die? Fortunately, there is your master Hu, haha! The craftsmanship is very good! He approached Hu Xiu with a shy face: "When the enemy is defeated, the big leader will definitely reward you!" Maybe I'll give you a beautiful woman like a flower! ”

Hu Xiu showed a disgusted expression and took a step back.

The man before couldn't help but be angry when he saw Hu Xiu so uninteresting. But when he was about to scold again, he suddenly hesitated again. He could see it clearly, and Hu Xiu struck the tenon in a stand made of logs, not with a hammer, but with his own palm! Such a strange force is terrifying and terrifying, if it provokes him, not to mention anything else, the loss in front of him is assured...... Dahan was secretly stunned in his heart, hesitated for a moment, and finally threw something into Hu Xiu's arms and walked away stupidly.

Hu Xiu watched him walk away indifferently, turned around and went in another direction.

The area of the dock fort is not very large, but the thieves will not build it, and it is messy and dirty. Hu Xiu slowly walked past a few houses and came to a semi-underground building. A few guards in front of the door saw Hu Xiu, so they pushed open the heavy door and let him in, and when he stepped into the door, he re-entered the door from the outside.

The light inside the door was dim, the air was fiercely turbid, and a small window was opened on each side of the wall on the east and west sides for ventilation. This is the place where the Luochuan thieves used to hold and take hostages. Obviously, kidnapping and extortion is an important business method for the Luochuan thieves, otherwise there would not be such a tight prison.

But there are too many people in this prison at the moment. Nearly 30 old and infirm women and children were held here, and a thick rope tied each of their arms together. In the cell, there were people complaining, people crying, people talking to each other about the situation, and the noisy sound made people's eardrums buzz.

Hu Xiu walked through the chaotic crowd and walked quickly to the right side of the prison without hesitation. The prisoners greeted him and made way for him. On the right side of the cell, directly under the air window, there is a slightly clean floor with bales of hay on the floor, which is considered to be the best place in the cell. On the hay was huddled an old woman in ragged clothes and with her hair disheveled. The dim light reflected her closed eyes and dull sallow face, which looked old and tired.

Hu Xiu knelt down and kowtowed, choked and called, "Mother......"

When the old woman heard Hu Xiu's voice, she opened her eyes slightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She seemed to want to raise her hand to touch Hu Xiu's face, but there was a crisp sound of metal colliding on her wrist. It turned out that the old woman's hands and feet were locked with extremely heavy shackles, and the shackles were the thickness of ordinary people's thumbs, and I am afraid that they would not weigh dozens of pounds!

Hu Xiu hurriedly lowered his head, rubbed his face against the old woman's palm, and tears flowed down his eyes.

After a while, Hu Xiu suddenly got up, and took out the thing thrown to him by the vicious bandit from his arms: it turned out to be a steamed cake with fine noodles still warm. He carefully broke the steamed cake into very fine pieces and fed them gently into the old woman's mouth. Seeing this, an old man sitting cross-legged at the base of the wall next to him hurriedly handed over a leather bag.

Hu Xiu thanked him, opened the leather bag, and slowly moistened the drinking water inside on the old woman's lips. It took a long time to feed the steamed cake little by little.

The old woman looked at Hu Xiu, her lips trembled, as if she wanted to say something, Hu Xiu hurriedly leaned over and put her ear to her mouth.

Before I could hear my mother's words, the door of the prison was violently pushed open. Ma Cuo rushed in: "Hu Xiu, what are you delaying?" The enemy is coming, come with me! ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the scene inside the prison and said, "The clan master said that as long as you can repel the enemy army this time, you will let your mother go!" In addition, I also asked you to be the chief teacher of our Mars Wood Castle......"

These words were originally a gesture of goodwill, but because the bridge of Shicai's nose was slammed by Ma Ruyi, Ma took out a silk handkerchief and covered his nose when he spoke wrongly. In this way, he inadvertently exudes an extremely contemptuous demeanor. Hu Xiu was furious, raised his eyes sharply, and even in the dim prison, he felt that his eyes were as sharp as lightning.

Halfway through the wrong words, Ma was forced by Hu Xiu's ferocity, and couldn't help but be shocked and took half a step back. Coincidentally, his heel hit a rock somewhere, and he suddenly lost his balance. His hands fluttered in the air, but in the end he didn't grasp anything that could keep his balance, and he fell to the sky with a "thud".

This guy is menacing, but he ate the boss's deflated in front of Hu Xiu, showing an excellent and powerful inward-looking attitude. Immediately, there were several uncontrollable laughs in the prison.

The horse got up in embarrassment, and when he heard the ridicule of the prisoners, he was immediately extremely angry, and even the anger of being humiliated by his father burst out violently. He shouted and scolded: "What are you laughing at! Are you going to die? As he shouted, two samurai rushed in from outside the door, and drew their swords in half as a deterrent.

But in the gloomy prison room, I don't know which hoarse voice replied abruptly: "You keep my cheap life, all for the purpose of holding children hostage." But...... If my child had three long and two short...... What use do I want this life! ”

Some of the people imprisoned here are meat tickets taken by Luochuan thieves, and some are hostages. For example, Hu Xiu came from a famous craftsman family in Dangcheng County, and his mother was detained here, so he had to work for them. And when the enemy attacked, the Luochuan thieves took these family members and relatives as hostages, and drove craftsmen, servants and others to fight.

The Hu tribes in northern Xinjiang often took the subordinate tribes as the forerunner, and even if they suffered heavy casualties, they did not care. Luochuan thief's move is just to imitate Hu'er's customs. But when a group of hostages are in the middle of it, how can they not be sad when they think of watching their husbands and sons go to the battlefield to fight for their lives? As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the entire prison was suddenly suffocating.

In the deathly silence, Hu Xiu gently patted the old woman's skinny hand, slowly turned around, and bowed to the people in the prison: "My mother is old and has been unwell recently, and I hope that all fathers and sisters will take care of her." Hu Xiu thanked me in advance here. ”

The prisoners all returned the courtesy, and many of them shouted noisily: "Don't worry, Dalang, we should do our best...... Please also take care of our family members and save their lives! ”

Hu Xiu nodded and walked out of the cell. Ma Cuo followed Hu Xiu out, and the two guards immediately locked the gate again.

Ma Cuo shouted: "Don't be stunned, quickly put on his armor!" ”

Several of Hou's servants outside the prison immediately took up helmets, armor, and a broadsword to chop horses. Northern Xinjiang is short of materials, iron tools are especially scarce, and it is already very remarkable that ordinary small forces can have more than ten armor soldiers. A full set of armor weapons such as this is often kept as a strategic reserve. This time, the Luochuan thief really attached great importance to the enemy, so he sent out all the good objects at the bottom of the box.

Hu Xiu stretched out his arms expressionlessly, and asked those people to put on armor for him. When it was over, he lightly lifted the knife in his hand, and with a slight flip of his wrist, he danced the heavy knife like a lamp grass, causing a sharp sound of breaking wind.

"Good! It's mighty! Ma Coo stroked his hands and admired.

Hu Xiu slammed the big knife to the ground and turned to face Ma Suo. He was huge, and he was a head taller than Ma Cuo. Looking down like this, the wide iron helmet eaves blocked the sunlight, and it was impossible to see his eyes.

Ma Cuo laughed dryly, and his side face twitched a few times.

"Watch my mother carefully." Hu Xiu said coldly, and strode away.

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Thank you Sandai, Jing Nanbo and other friends for their support, and thank you ononon, Tu Tu and other friends for their uninterrupted red ticket incentives. Since the manuscript has been sold out, there are a lot of typos and bugs in the content that is written and sent every day, and many friends have reminded Crab to revise, and I would like to thank you here.

I bought a train ticket the day after tomorrow to go to Taishan's house, and then returned after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Whether it can be updated normally during the period and whether it can be connected to the Internet normally depends on the achievements of the construction of the new socialist countryside.

Crabs will do their best. I remember when I went there the year before last, there was an Internet café in the town......