Chapter 929: Man is not as good as heaven
The location of Qingtian Village is the center of a dense forest, and the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest are lush forests, of which only two roads, one large and one small, can enter and exit, so the terrain is naturally easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the entire Qingtian Village is like a fortress, and it will be very difficult to attack it.
Kang Yihu's red eyes stared coldly at Qingtian Village in front of him, he held a big knife in his hand, and the speed of running faster and faster, throwing all the troops behind him away from a considerable distance.
When Song Ke saw this scene, he was immediately anxious, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry, keep up, don't let Master Kang have an accident." β
After saying that, Song Ke raised his breath, and his speed suddenly accelerated by three points, and gradually caught up with Kang Yihu.
Finally, Kang Yihu was the first to approach the castle of Qingtian Village, and just as Kang Yihu wanted to perform light skills and jump to the other side of the city wall, many holes appeared on the wall in front of him, and then from the holes, many deadly arrows flew out.
Kang Yihu's face sank, although he was surprised, but he was not flustered, calmly brandished the big knife, and swept away the flying deadly arrows one by one, and Song Ke not far away was the same, he had long been secretly guarded, so after the hidden weapon appeared, Song Ke responded in time and was not injured.
Kang Yihu and Song Ke were fine, but the other ordinary officers and soldiers fell into blood mold, and the range of the deadly arrow was more than 100 meters.
"Damn it!"
Kang Yihu, who noticed this scene, opened his mouth and scolded angrily, fortunately, the fatal arrow stopped quickly, otherwise the casualties of the officers and soldiers would be more, and Kang Yihu took advantage of the moment the fatal arrow stopped, his body flew off the ground, and his feet stepped the wall a few steps, with the help of this gap, he flew up to the top of the fortress, and then wanted to fall into the city wall.
Kang Yihu's plan was quite beautiful, but what greeted Kang Yihu was dozens of spears, and the bandits in Qingtian Village seemed to have been prepared, taking advantage of Kang Yihu's body in mid-air and difficult to move, dozens of spearmen roared in unison, and then threw it with all their strength, shooting the spear in his hand at Kang Yihu in mid-air.
"Not good!"
Kang Yihu's face changed greatly, the speed at which the spear flew was very fast, with Kang Yihu's current situation, he was powerless to dodge at all, once he was hit, then Kang Yihu would be seriously injured at the lightest, if it was more serious, it would not be impossible to drink hatred on the spot.
In the face of death, Kang Yihu knew that he regretted it, and blamed himself for not being so reckless, but now under a carelessness, he ended up with such a tragic end, Kang Yihu was really unwilling.
Dozens of spears are getting closer and closer to Kang Yihu, and seeing that they are about to hit him, Kang Yihu has a ruthless face, and he wants to fight with all his might, whether he is dead or alive depends on luck.
At such a critical juncture, an iron chain flew up from below, tightly wrapped around Kang Yihu's waist, and then Kang Yihu felt a strong pulling force coming from his waist, and his body fell down uncomfortably.
Kang Yihu turned over and landed steadily, but his face looked like he had palpitations, the situation just now was very dangerous, Kang Yihu walked around directly from the front of the ghost gate, if someone hadn't helped, Kang Yihu knew that he was likely to have turned into a corpse at this time.
Thinking of this, Kang Yihu hurriedly turned around and looked, and saw that the owner of the chain was Song Ke, and he was the one who rescued him just now.
Song Ke strode forward and asked with concern, "My lord, are you okay, do you want to be okay?" β
Kang Yihu said very gratefully: "General Song, thank you for saving my life, if it wasn't for you just now, I might have died." β
Although Song Ke was also dissatisfied with Kang Yihu's reckless actions, he naturally wouldn't say it on his face, and said insincerely: "My lord is serious, it's a matter of duty for your subordinates to save you, you don't need to be grateful, the most important thing now is to retreat quickly, so as not to cause more casualties." β
Hearing this, Kang Yihu was naturally not very reconciled, he had suffered a loss just now, at this time, what Kang Yihu wanted to do most was to fight back, but although he thought so in his heart, it backfired, and the gang in Qingtian Village were obviously prepared, and once they continued to attack, the casualties caused would be great.
In the end, Kang Yihu sighed helplessly, and then nodded very unwillingly: "Okay, let's retreat immediately." β
Hearing this, Song Ke couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Kang Yihu would continue to go his own way, and in that case, things would be very bad.
Without further ado, Song Ke immediately went down to give the order, and after a while, all the officers and soldiers slowly retreated, gradually moving away from the fortress on this side of Qingtian Village.
Ji Ancai, who was in the fortress, witnessed this scene, but the corners of his mouth showed a cold color, and he mocked in a low voice: What kind of place are you and I Qingtian Village, in fact, the kind of place where you can come and go if you want, it's okay to go if you want to, but you have to pay a huge price to do it.
When a bandit leader heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "Great Master, do you want to open all the mechanisms in the dense forest first?" β
Ji Ancai said with a smile: "Exactly, you immediately go down and give an order, so that the people on the other side of the dense forest are ready to open the mechanism and kill me fiercely." β
"Okay, I'll go!"
The bandit leader replied, then quickly turned away.
At the same time, Kang Yihu, Song Ke and the others had already led their men and horses away from the fortress of Qingtian Village and stepped into the dense forests that could be seen everywhere.
I have to say that the geographical location of Qingtian Village is really good, the surrounding dense forests are very huge, I didn't think it when I came, at this time Kang Yihu and Song Ke realized that this area is really a treasure of feng shui, no wonder Ji Ancai will build a thief's nest here.
After retreating into the dense forest, Kang Yihu and Song Ke saw that the bandits in Qingtian Village did not chase after them, so they stayed for the time being and began to count the number of dead and wounded, but the results made Kang Yihu and the others face black, because in the short offensive battle just now, they did not kill any of the bandits in Qingtian Village, but they killed and injured thousands of people and horses, so the result was really too bad, Kang Yihu was shocked and angry, he knew that he was in big trouble this time, if Yang Lin learned of this result, then he would definitely not have good fruits to eat, more seriously, he might be pulled off the horse and lose his existing high positionγ
Thinking of the consequences he was about to face, Kang Yihu's face turned pale, he felt that his legs and feet were starting to weaken, he almost couldn't stand steadily, and he fell to the ground.
Song Ke and several other generals couldn't help but look at each other when they saw this scene, and at the same time they were also a little gloating in their hearts, who called Kang Yihu to be so reckless just now, and insisted on attacking Qingtian Village, if he was willing to listen to their opinions, there would be no such result.
Everyone had their own thoughts, the scene suddenly quieted down, and after a moment of silence, Kang Yihu suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "You must not give up, Lao Tzu must take revenge." β
Song Ke and the others knew that Kang Yihu wanted to fight a big victory to make up for his mistakes, but they had no opinion on this, after all, Kang Yihu was the chief official this time, and he insisted on revenge, and as a subordinate, he was helpless at all.
Fortunately, there are still 4,000 men and horses on the side of the officers and soldiers, and the number of troops is still twice as large as that of the bandits in Qingtian Village.
Everyone thought carefully for a while, and then Song Ke clasped his fists and said: "My lord, we do still have the strength to fight, but we have just lost a new game, and our morale is much weaker, so it is not appropriate to fight again at this time. β
Kang Yihu nodded again and again when he heard this, and after a defeat in Shicai, Kang Yihu lost his temper, and directly listened to Song Ke's opinion, preparing to withdraw from the dense forest first, and then find a place to camp and repair.
Kang Yihu was about to give an order, but at this moment, several painful screams rang out, and this sudden scene immediately made Kang Yihu and the others feel like they were facing a great enemy, and hurriedly looked in the direction where the screams came from.
Kang Yihu, Song Ke and others walked over to take a look, and saw that the faces of the three officers and soldiers were black, and they kept spitting out black blood from their mouths, which was clearly poisonous.
This situation surprised everyone, and Kang Yihu said in a deep voice: Hurry up and come with the army to see what is going on with them?
Immediately there were officers and soldiers ordered to leave, and not long after, Lang Zhong was brought with the army, and then Lang Zhong carefully checked the three poisoned people, but before Lang Zhong finished checking the pulse, the poisoned people who had been wailing all the time suddenly lost their voice.
Lang Zhong sighed, and then reported: "Several adults, these three sergeants have been poisoned by centipedes, and the old man doesn't know what the name of this centipede poison is, but it is extremely powerful, and the poisoned person will definitely not live for half an hour, please be careful." β
Kang Yihu said coldly: This must be the ghost of the bandits in Qingtian Village, it seems that we still underestimate them, the base camp of Qingtian Village, not only there are many traps in the fortress, but also the surrounding dense forest, which is also full of dangers, depending on the situation, there should be a lot of highly toxic things in the dense forest.
Song Ke hurriedly said: "Since this is the case, then we can't stay and leave the dense forest immediately." β
Kang Yihu also thought so, nodded without hesitation and said: Yes, the order will go down, and we will leave immediately.
So, more than 4,000 officers and men set off again, cautiously walking towards the front of the forest road, at first it was fine, nothing happened, but after a quarter of an hour of departure, one after another officers and soldiers were bitten by some poisonous insects, those poisonous insects seemed to be everywhere, people could not prevent it, in a short period of time, hundreds of officers and soldiers were poisoned to death.
Gradually, there were officers and soldiers fleeing in panic, but the officers and soldiers who left the team and fled died faster, thanks to this, the large army did not collapse.
Kang Yihu and Song Ke and other generals were extremely anxious, and in the end, in desperation, they simply stopped grinding, moved forward at full speed, and ran out of the dense forest as fast as possible.
At this time, there were only more than 3,000 officers and soldiers left, and all the way down, people kept being poisoned, screaming and falling, and when the officers and soldiers finally ran out of the dense forest, half of them were directly killed and wounded, and there were less than 2,000 survivors.
After escaping from the dense forest, the officers and men who survived the catastrophe collapsed to the ground without any image, and many of them could not help but cry with joy, and there were even many people who were crying loudly, and the scene was noisy and undisciplined.
Kang Yihu was not happy at this time, when he set off, he took a full 5,000 men and horses, but from beginning to end, he didn't even kill a bandit from Qingtian Village, and lost more than 3,000 people and horses, such a cruel result made Kang Yihu extremely angry, and he had no face to go back to see Yang Lin.
Under the shame and anger, Kang Yihu couldn't help but have the idea of self-destruction, he clenched the big knife and wiped it hard at his neck, wanting to apologize with death.
Song Ke beside him saw this scene, and was immediately frightened, now Kang Yihu must not die, because Kang Yihu is the chief official, and he is completely responsible for this defeat, Song Ke and others are actually not very responsible, after all, they have persuaded Kang Yihu before, they have done their duty, even if they go back, they will not be punished much, anyway, there is Kang Yihu on his back.
However, if Kang Yihu dies, the responsibility will be immediately transferred to them, and with Yang Lin's ruthless methods, there is a high chance that they will be used as scapegoats, so no matter what, Kang Yihu's life must be saved, so that he can go back alive to carry the black cauldron.
Song Kefei, who had made up his mind, pounced, and with a wave of his left hand, he knocked the machete in Kang Yihu's hand away, saving Kang Yihu dangerously.
Kang Yihu glared at Song Ke angrily and shouted, "Don't meddle in your business, let me die." β
Song Ke hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, please think twice, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, there is no need to commit suicide and apologize, let's go back and plead with Gongzi, maybe there will be a turnaround." β
Other generals also ran over to persuade him, and gradually, after getting through the initial shame and anger, Kang Yihu's courage to commit suicide was exhausted, so he also dispelled the idea of suicide, and sat on the ground baldly, speechless for a long time.
Seeing this, Song Ke and the others knew that Kang Yihu had changed his mind, and at that moment everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at each other, and turned away silently, intending to give Kang Yihu some time to calm down.
However, the sky did not follow people's wishes, and at this time, a large group of men and horses suddenly arrived, and the shouts of killing were almost all over the mountains, which only frightened the officers and soldiers enough.
The next moment, Ji Ancai's riding a tall horse slowly appeared, and behind him, followed by a large number of bandits, they were looking at the officers and soldiers opposite with bad intentions.
As soon as they saw the bandits, all the officers and men were frightened, and without waiting for the officers to react, they scattered and fled, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.
Seeing this, Ji Ancai on the opposite side couldn't help laughing proudly, and then shouted: Brothers, kill me, whoever can kill a high-ranking general, the master must be rewarded, and the opportunity to make a fortune is right in front of you, so don't miss it.
As soon as Ji Ancai's words came out, a group of thieves suddenly became as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed out with a scream, wielding sharp weapons, and constantly slashing and killing the officers and soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit.
And Ji Ancai himself stared at Kang Yihu, and then rushed straight towards Kang Yihu with a few of his most skilled henchmen.
Seeing this, Kang Yihu knew that he was definitely not an opponent, he could feel that the breath on Ji Ancai's body was not weak, if the two sides fought alone, then the outcome was not yet known, and looking at Ji Ancai's appearance, he would not fight with him one-on-one at all, and he was clearly preparing to besiege, so after Kang Yihu hesitated for a moment, he turned around and ran away very simply.
In fact, it is not the right time for Ji Ancai to come, if he comes when Kang Yihu has just had the will to die, then Kang Yihu will definitely not run away, and will fight with him to the end, but unfortunately now Kang Yihu has no courage to die, and in the face of danger, he can't help but plan to escape.
Seeing this, Ji Ancai immediately chased after him at full speed, and was beaten to the door by Kang Yihu with his troops, Ji Ancai was also holding his breath in his heart, fortunately, there were countless traps in his base camp, and the enemy was defeated without danger, but Ji Ancai was not satisfied, he planned to annihilate Kang Yihu's five thousand soldiers and horses, so that Yang Lin knew that they were not easy to mess with.
Noticing the situation behind, Kang Yihu's heart sank, the soles of his feet were greased, and he ran faster, but unexpectedly, on the road ahead of Kang Yihu, a team of knife and axe hands suddenly appeared, directly blocking Kang Yihu's way.
"Get out of here!"
Kang Yihu roared angrily, and the true qi surged into the big knife, and in the next moment, there was a dazzling sword light shining on the big knife, and as Kang Yihu slashed out, a one-meter-long knife qi flew out, directly splitting the first few knife and axe hands in half.
Such a powerful blow made the other sword and axe hands feel cold in their hearts, and their faces showed a look of fear, and Ji Ancai, who was catching up quickly, saw this, opened his mouth and shouted: "Block him for me, no one can retreat, retreat, and there is no mercy." β
Hearing this, the surviving dozen or so knife and axe men gritted their teeth and rushed forward, and more than a dozen bright knives and axes beckoned straight to the vital parts of Kang Yihu's body.
"Die!"
Kang Yihu roared angrily in his mouth, and a big knife was flashed by the light of the knife he wielded, almost one by one, slashing the enemies who stood in the way to the ground, and in just a few moments, more than a dozen knife and axe men who blocked the way were all cut down by Kang Yihu.
After solving the roadblock, Kang Yihu didn't stop for a moment, and wanted to continue to escape, but Ji Ancai had successfully chased after him with a few henchmen at this time, Ji Ancai jumped down from the horse, and the Qimen weapon in his hand shook off the yin and yang fan, turning into a cold man, and directly took Kang Yihu's head.
Kang Yihu only felt a chill in the back of his head, and an extremely dangerous feeling came from behind him, which made Kang Yihu's face change, and he rolled to the side without thinking about it, and after Kang Yihu rolled away, the yin and yang fan flew past where he was just now, and the speed was so fast that it was impossible to prevent it.
Cold sweat broke out on Kang Yihu's forehead, glad that he dodged in time, but before Kang Yihu got up, he saw Ji Ancai smiling and gesticulating, only to see that the yin and yang fan flying in mid-air turned around and attacked Kang Yihu who was crawling on the ground again.
"What the hell is this?"
Kang Yihu screamed, turned over and jumped up, and then slashed out with a knife, slashing at the flying Yin and Yang Fan, although the result was successfully split the Yin and Yang Fan, but Kang Yihu and a pair of tigers were numb, and his body stepped back several steps, which shows that the power of the Yin and Yang Fan is really good.
Kang Yihu was shocked by the extraordinary skills of Ji Ancai, and at the same time felt even more bad, because at the moment when he was entangled, several of Ji Ancai's henchmen had already been killed, and these bandits swarmed up and kept besieging Kang Yihu.
Kang Yihu's situation is getting worse and worse, with his strength, he can't last long at all, is he really going to die here?
At the thought of dying, Kang Yihu felt very frightened, and at the same time very unwilling, this time leading the army to destroy the thief was originally a good opportunity to make great contributions, such a large area of Fengzhou fell into the hands of Yang Lin, it was an excellent opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but who would have thought that in the end, the credit was not obtained, but he had to lose his life, so as a result, Kang Yihu was too unwilling, he was not convinced.
"Oops!"
Suddenly, Kang Yihu was stabbed in the back, and suddenly there was a hideous knife mark, which made Kang Yihu inhale the cold air violently, and his face turned a little pale.
Seeing this, Ji Ancai smiled very happily, and said with great satisfaction: Do a good job, work harder, and kill him.
Saying that, Ji Ancai himself was not idle, he kept controlling the yin and yang fan, and kept sneaking up on Kang Yihu, in this case, Kang Yihu had more and more scars on his body, and slowly became half a bloody man, and his actions began to slow down, and it was not too late to see that he was killed.
It is also Kang Yihu's life that should not be extinguished, at the moment of crisis, several generals wearing armor appeared, it was Song Ke and others, the timing of their attack was very favorable, and they directly killed several of Ji Ancai's henchmen by surprise, and then set up the seriously injured Kang Yihu and fled quickly.
"Where to go. β
Ji Ancai snorted coldly, the yin and yang fan spun and flew out, directly took off the head of a general, and let him move his head, after a successful move, Ji Ancai did not stop for a moment, continued to shoot, and after a miserable scream, another general was killed.
This situation made Song Ke and the others shocked, this time with a face-to-face effort, they lost two people, if they continued, no one would be able to escape.
Song Ke shouted in a low voice: "Quickly use the net." β
Got it!
A general agreed, then took out an object from his arms and threw it at the yin and yang fan in mid-air.
I saw a piece of gold wire mesh appear in mid-air, and it instantly became huge, and it directly caught the flying yin and yang fan, this scene surprised Ji Ancai, but also felt very surprised, I don't know what the other party used, and actually got his yin and yang fan down.
Song Ke and the others didn't think about it so much, after successfully solving the hypnotic charm of the Yin Yang Fan, they used the fastest speed to run lifelessly, and soon escaped.
Ji Ancai hesitated for a moment, and finally dispelled the idea of pursuing, most of his abilities are on the yin and yang fan, without the yin and yang fan, Ji Ancai is really likely to capsize in the gutter, so for the sake of safety, it is better not to chase.
Immediately afterwards, Ji Ancai walked over, picked up the heaven and earth net, looked at it carefully for a while, and found that the so-called heaven and earth net material is special, and the workmanship is not famous.
Several henchmen came to Ji Ancai, somewhat uneasy, after all, they were a little ineffective just now, if Ji Ancai really wanted to investigate, they would inevitably be punished.
Fortunately, Ji Ancai did not mean to punish them, did not mention what happened just now, but focused on the battle circle around him, and found that the officers and soldiers had been defeated by his own men, and corpses could be seen everywhere.
Seeing this, Ji Ancai suddenly smiled, and then ordered: "You go down to help chase and kill the deserters, if you can kill one by one, the loss of so many people and horses at once must be enough for Yang Lin's flesh to hurt, and we have calculated a bad breath." β
"Yes, I'll be there shortly. β
Several henchmen hurriedly agreed, and then separated to help chase and kill the surviving officers and soldiers.