Chapter 8: The Magpie (Sixth)

The so-called people are just numbers in the household registration booklet. It’s no big deal to have a few hundred or less. Especially for the country people in remote places, they can’t pay much taxes to the officials all year round, and they have to beware of the collusion between the Dangxiang and the harps opposite them and betray them. Therefore, instead of keeping them for trouble for themselves, it’s better to kill them all!

Triangle Eye considers himself a master who does big things, and everyone who does big things must be decisive. So he ordered Li Hongru not to leave any living besides the second lady of the Chang family, and to have no guilt in his heart.

If it weren't for the master on his head who repeatedly emphasized, he wouldn't even be prepared to keep Chang's Wanying. How beautiful a woman looks, she doesn't look like she looks like after blowing the light? Besides, if a man wants to achieve great things, he must stay away from women. If he doesn't believe it, look at Bao Si, Xi Shi, Yang Yuhuan, and Queen Feng of the previous dynasty, who is not the one who causes trouble? (Note 1)

Just as he was thinking about whether he would be more decisive and decided to send someone to secretly get rid of Chang Wanying, so as not to be burdened by the woman in the future, Li Hongru had already launched the first round of attacks against the Taoist temple. From the main gate, two 100-man teams were sent out. There were regular square arrays with swords and shields in front and spears behind. There were sixty archers in the last three rows of the entire team.

It was really in a hurry, and they needed to hide their identity, so they did not carry the war drum. They just used the sound of the shields to boost morale and adjust their marching pace.

Despite this, more than 60 shields were ringing at the same time, and the sound was still so depressing that it was almost impossible to breathe when it was heard in the ears of Min Zhuang, who had never experienced the battle formation.

"Big, Big, Big, Big!" With the monotonous and repeated knocks, they slowly moved towards the main entrance of the Taoist temple like a huge brick.

"Big, Big, Big, Big!" Every time you hit it, the "brick" pushes forward several feet. It is black and heavy, and may hit the defender's forehead at any time. The latter will burst and die without a complete body.

A hunter who took the initiative to stand on the wall was the first to unable to withstand the pressure. His thighs were trembling and he slowly squatted down. Cold sweat gushed down from his forehead, temples, arms, etc.

The archers among the other villagers were both light and heavy, but their faces were pale and their legs were weak. If the ladder behind them had not been pulled away, someone would have turned around and fled immediately.

This situation will definitely not intimidate the enemy. Chang Wanshu keenly discovered the abnormality of the archers and decisively adjusted the deployment. "Chang Qing, take our people with you and replace them!"

The courtyard walls of the Taoist temple are not as good as the city walls, and there are only limited places to be placed. Therefore, she cannot waste her limited locations on hunters who have been scared. Even if their archery skills are accurate, they can even pass through the poplars in hundreds of steps.

"No!" Chang Qing, the head of the family general who was named, intervened to show his salute, turned around and called his brothers, carrying a ladder to replace the people.

The replaced hunters squatted on the ground as if exhausted, ashamed of being unable to look up. Just before breathing a dozen breaths, they thought that with their own abilities, they could be a hero in front of their neighbors. They even fantasized about how they killed dozens of enemies, but they were covered in blood but never rushed. However, at this moment, they suddenly realized that they were not the material for being a hero. Before they could blood flow, they peed their pants first.

"Dangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdang..." At this moment, a messy and strange bell suddenly rang from the front of the Sanqing Palace, making everyone turn their heads and look around in surprise. In an instant, the shame and fear in their hearts were relieved by most of them!

"It's a temple, it's a temple. How can someone ring the gong, but no one rings the bell?" Under a surprised gaze, Ning Yanzhang's smile flashed from behind the ancient bell, throwing away the bell hammer. He picked up a pair of cymbals from his feet and jumped around, "Bang--bang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--clang--c

His plump body, coupled with his face full of sarcasm, made him look like a clown on the stage.

"Puchi!" Chang Wanying was amused and burst into laughter, and her nervous expression was swept away. Other civilians who were fighting against each other couldn't help but smile and shake their heads.

Yunfeng Temple was originally an abandoned temple with square layout and stable buildings, more like a yard of rich people, rather than a place to cultivate one's own energy and nourish one's energy. The copper bells, incense burners, cymbals, wooden fish and other objects inside are numerous and complete in a variety of styles. They are usually thrown in place or in the corner of the yard, and now they are just in handy at critical moments.

The villagers trapped in the Taoist temple did not recite any real scriptures, but they had to beat and beat them when they were held during weddings and weddings. Soon, five or six brave old men were inspired by Ning Yanzhang and walked out of the Sanqing Hall, hugged the bell hammer hanging in the air, took out gongs and wooden fish from both sides of the wing rooms, snatched the cymbals from the young man, and worked together to play a song "The Resentment of Xiang Concubine". (Note 1)

Now, the sound of the sword and shield collision outside the door completely lost its deterrent effect. Not only did the civilians and soldiers who were on standby in the yard burst into laughter, but even Li Jin, the general of the attacking army, felt that his behavior was like jumping in front of Laojun. He was so angry that he roared repeatedly, urging the team to speed up and rushed towards the Taoist temple gate.

"Swoosh, swosh, swosh, swosh--" After more than a hundred steps, the archers in the back row shot out dozens of eagle feathers. The cold light flashed at the tip of the arrow, like a beast lit up its fangs in the air.

However, in front of the beast's fangs were two slowly closed door panels. As if they were deliberately stimulating each other, the two groups of civilians shouted horns behind the door panel, their voices slamming, "Hi, ah, hi, ah, hi, ah, close the door. Big ghosts can't get in-!"

A crackling sound became the accompaniment of the trumpet sound. Most of the feather arrows shot on the door panel and trembled unwillingly. There were only a few scattered walls that crossed by the Taoist priests such as Wu Zi jumped up and used a sword to thrust them, and they were directly wielded invisible where they were.

At the only few footholds on the wall, the generals of Changfu bent their bows and arrows and fought back. Their numbers were less than one-tenth of their opponents, but the feather arrows they shot were steady and fierce. In the first round of volleys, they put a gang leader and two sword and shield soldiers on the ground.

The thief army thought that there were a group of cattle and sheep in the Taoist temple, and they could be slaughtered as soon as they rushed in. However, they were beaten to death and were dizzy. They stood next to the body of a fellow shot to death, raised their shields to protect their heads, and were reluctant to move forward for a long time.

"Bah! I think it's something, it turns out to be a group of paper-filled tigers!" Seeing the gangsters who were previously fierce and evil through the crack of the door, they were so unbearable. The villagers in the Taoist temple were immediately bold and jumped inside and mocked loudly.

"I have the aura to keep rushing forward. Grandpa's knife has just been sharpened, so I promise to cut one by one!"

"Where did the eggless thing go just now?"

The opponent's cowardly image quickly spread like wildfire. Whether you saw it with your own eyes or listen to it casually, the villagers couldn't wait to open their voices and shouted out the remaining fear and anxiety in their hearts with anger.

"Roar in, enter the audience first, remember the first merit, double the reward, and keep it all yourself without having to hand it over to anyone!" Li Jin, a hundred general of the infantry army, was so angry that his eyes were ignorant. He first waved his sword and slashed at the air several times, then jumped to boost morale.

Before he finished speaking, several cold lights suddenly flew into the air. His voice turned into a ghost crying and howling. He shrank his neck and drilled behind his personal soldiers. The poor personal soldiers were unprepared and wanted to move their feet to dodge. He tied his armored belts in his lower back but grabbed Li Jin again. He had no time to lean back and was shot by four feather arrows in one go. He screamed and died with his eyes closed.

"Storm up, rush up and kill them all!" The next moment, a hundred people rushed out from under the body of the personal soldiers, spreading their teeth and claws.

The soldiers looked at him with contempt and continued to approach the Taoist gate with a slow pace. The sword and shield soldiers each used the shield in their hands to protect their throats and upper bodies, while the spear soldiers tried their best to shake the spear left and right. As long as possible, they tried to distance themselves from their superiors, for fear that they would be caught by this person again and become a meat shield.

"Arrowman, archers, aren't you all full?" Li Jin, a hundred general of the infantry army, also knew that his actions just now were too lacking in human nature. He did not dare to return to the middle of the team to sit in the front, but held a shield that he had stolen from some unlucky ghost, and ran forward and back in anger.

The archers in the back row of the team had no choice but to change the volley to scattering and launched a long-range attack on several places where people stood on the front wall of the Taoist temple. At this distance, the difficulty of hitting a single target was really a bit great for them. The flying feather arrows basically all deviated from the target. Even if one or two were occasionally exceptional, they were still flew with their bow arms at the last moment, and they were so happy.

However, the generals of the Changfu family did not have the hobby of being beaten but not fighting back. After discovering that the other party's feather arrows were not very threatening to them, they immediately calmly pulled out the horn bow and began to focus on "care" the leaders of the big and small teams in the "bandit army". Soon, two more archers and a spear fell to the ground with serious injuries on their heads, screaming and rolling back and forth in the pool of blood.

"Divide the division of labor, archers, don't shoot randomly. Each group concentrates their strength against one! Hurry, where are you guys, the bragging skills?!" Li Jin, a hundred generals of the infantry army, jumped back and forth like a monkey, and gave advice to the archers under his command in a hoarse voice.
Chapter completed!