Chapter 016: Adapting to Reality
When Qiu Siyuan and the others were suddenly attacked by Tang soldiers, there was nothing abnormal and they were not mentally prepared. That is to say, after the three of them left the inn that day, they quietly walked behind a hill on the outskirts of the city, then stepped on the repulsion board and flew into the sky, thinking
Find an old farmer in the nearby countryside, buy land and build a house to live there for a long time.
Unexpectedly, when they were flying over a field, they were accidentally seen by an old man plowing the fields.
The old man looked at the three flying men flying above him in surprise, thinking that the county captain had recently summoned all the bad people in the county to explain that gods had recently appeared in Jiangnan East Road, and he asked everyone to pay close attention to the whereabouts of these gods.
"Isn't this a god?" The old man suppressed his fear. After the three flying figures disappeared, he immediately abandoned the ox plow, found a horse in despair and ran to the county to report the case to the county government.
This news went through the 800-mile express channel and was delivered to Sima Cong in less than six hours.
"Finally the whereabouts of the God of Heaven have been found!" Sima Cong finished reading the county magistrate's letter and excitedly took pictures of the case. He immediately sent a secret letter of 100,000 yuan to the Wuzhou governor who had led the team to the south of Wucheng, ordering him to immediately lead the team to the area where the crime was found.
Search for the criminal.
Previously, the Wucheng county lieutenant accidentally discovered a large number of counterfeit Tang Dynasty copper coins after secretly investigating the residence of these three people. Sima Cong immediately ordered the governor of the state to issue an order to recruit a group of soldiers from various counties, and immediately rushed to the place where the sky thieves were discovered, and captured the three heavenly thieves.
The thief was caught and brought to justice.
As mentioned before, the recruitment of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that strong men of suitable age from all over the country should prepare their own swords, guns, and horses. Once they receive the summons, they will fly to the assembly area as conscripts to form an army and immediately transfer to the battlefield.
Due to regular drills, these recruits also have strong combat capabilities. Of course, due to different family backgrounds, the recruits are also different. For example, the cavalry is looking for strong men with horses.
As soon as the governor of Wuzhou heard that the Taoist censor said that there was a banditry, he did not bother to go home. He immediately issued an order to summon a group of more than 600 cavalry. Xin led the team and flew to the south of Wucheng to assemble and stand by.
At that time, the county magistrate, Chen Yuntian, and Zhu Guangcai had already led the county government personnel to the place where the criminal was found. Under the leadership of the farmer, they started a rout of the manhunt at the place where the three-life god was found.
Qiu Siyuan, who had just finished talking with a farmer about purchasing land and building a house, took his two followers to bid farewell to the farmer, walked to a depression, and was about to step on the repulsion board and fly into the sky, but found a large number of people on horseback rushing towards the south side.
He stopped and pointed at the three of them, shouting non-stop.
Qiu Siyuan couldn't understand what they were saying, so he quickly asked his two followers to step on the repulsion board and fly into the sky, flying over the heads of the group.
When the governor of Wuzhou saw the sky thieves flying over his head, he hurriedly ordered his riders to mount their crossbows and fire a volley. However, the black arrows shot into the sky seemed to have no effect on the three sky thieves. After reaching a certain height, the arrows turned black again.
drop down.
"Hurry up!" The governor of Wuzhou, seeing that the crossbows had no effect on the sky thieves, ordered the cavalry to give chase.
"These earthlings are so stupid," the entourage flying on Qiu Siyuan's right looked at the Tang soldiers and cavalry chasing him from the air and laughed.
This follower is called Liang Haiming, and he is also an Earth-based astronaut who flew with Qiu Siyuan from the Asian continent at the southern end of Laurasia 700 million years ago to build a city and settle in the Kuiper Belt.
"That's weird." Qiu Siyuan didn't laugh, he just looked at Tang Bing's Pegasus chasing him below and said.
"What's wrong?" Liang Haiming asked puzzledly.
"How do they know we're here?"
"Maybe it was because someone saw us flying over his head a few days ago and reported it to the government?" A younger attaché flying on the other side of Qiu Siyuan said thoughtfully.
This young attaché is called Sun Xiaogang, who was also the Earth-source astronaut who flew with Qiu Siyuan to the Kuiper Belt that year. He is a member of the Kuiper space expedition team who came to the Chunlai Inn for Susan half a month ago to assist Qiu Siyuan in his operations.
Because Susan was an official in the Kuiper Space Exploration Bureau responsible for the Kuiper Old Human Return Project, she followed Qiu Siyuan to the Chunlai Inn that day just for a field trip. So she went back soon after arriving. After returning to the Exploration Bureau, she sent Sun Xiaogang to take over.
Its position assists Qiu Siyuan in the work related to Kuiper's return of old humans to their homeland of the last round of earth civilization and their integration into the new round of earth civilization activities.
"But how did they come here so quickly to surround us?" Qiu Siyuan was puzzled as to why.
"Yes." Liang Haiming was also a little surprised: "We have never been to this place before. We only come out in the morning to talk to farmers in that village about buying land. How do these people know about it?"
"It was probably when we were flying over the ground in the morning that we were discovered by farmers plowing the ground and reported the incident, causing the officers and soldiers who were ready to come and surround us."
"But with so many officers and soldiers, even if they get the information, it's impossible for them to come and surround us in such a short period of time."
Of course, Qiu Siyuan didn't know that the Tang Dynasty had an express delivery channel called Eight Hundred Miles, and that Jiangnan East Road Prefecture and the state capital were not far from Wucheng. It was not surprising that it took most of the day to urgently mobilize troops nearby.
This is also the basis for the efficient operation of the mysterious grassroots investigation and arrest agency of the bad guy in the Tang Dynasty.
"Fly at low speed." Qiu Siyuan ordered both sides.
"Why?" Sun Xiaogang was puzzled.
"These Tang slaves are so hateful." Qiu Siyuan said harshly: "We will slowly drag them down and see how far they can chase us."
"Wonderful." Liang Haiming smiled knowingly.
The governor of Wuzhou and his cavalry all raised their heads to chase the three sky thieves flying in front of them. Because they had looked up at the sky for too long, the governor felt a burning pain in his neck.
The knights of the cavalry were similar to the governor. Since the snitch they were chasing was in the air, they could only look at the sky and the ground while chasing.
As a result, they teased the Tang Dynasty officers and soldiers in circles for a long time. Finally, the Tang Dynasty officers and soldiers finally stopped because their horses could not stand the long run and had to go back.
In this way, the scene at the beginning of this novel appears.
Because Qiu Siyuan wanted to continue to anger the Tang Dynasty officers and soldiers, he turned back to provoke them. Unexpectedly, the Tang soldiers suddenly used crossbows against him again.
The Tang soldiers had used crossbows when they first encountered Qiu Siyuan and the others, but by then they had flown over the Tang soldiers and fired from behind them, but it had no effect.
But this time it was different, because Qiu Siyuan rushed down to tease these officers and soldiers. Unexpectedly, these officers and soldiers suddenly shot arrows, causing Sun Xiaogang who was flying next to Qiu Siyuan to be hit by an arrow in the leg, and he immediately started bleeding profusely.
The body tilted, and the repulsion plate turned forward and fell down.
"Xiaogang," Chen Yuntian screamed, and immediately moved forward to grab the collar of Sun Xiaogang, who was falling. He wanted to drag him to continue flying forward. But a repulsion plate could not bear the weight of two people, and the repulsion force
The board continued to sink slowly, and finally landed slowly towards the ground.
The listless Tang soldiers became excited again, and under the leadership of the governor, they began to rush forward again, hoping to capture the two fallen thieves who had been injured.
Previously, after hearing the news, Cui Jianfeng came and ordered the governor of the state to stop pursuing him.
The governor did not order to stop the pursuit, but ran out from the front of the cavalry and knelt down to Cui Jianfeng.
The governor had already learned from the censor that a master detective named Cui Jianfeng, who belonged to the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Di Renjie, was in Wucheng. Now he saw a man in Zhuyi coming with the county magistrate. He must be the Cui Jianfeng the censor mentioned.
Not daring to neglect, he hurriedly ran down from the front of the team and knelt down at the fourth-rank official of the Tang Dynasty who was blocking the way.
"Why don't you order the cavalry to stop advancing?" Cui Jianfeng ignored the bow of the governor who reined in his horse and jumped off.
"Reporting to Mr. Cui, the Taoist government ordered me to arrest the criminals of these three murders. I dare not disobey the order." The governor replied without raising his head.
"Then can you catch up with them?"
"You have to chase me even if you can't. If you stop chasing me, someone will report to the school that you want to let the criminal go. I might not be able to save my head."
"What a stupid official." Cui Jianfeng didn't say anything more, jumped on his horse, led the county government horse team, and chased the horse team in front that was still galloping.
After a while, Cui Jianfeng finally caught up with the previous row of cavalry. He wanted to immediately order the previous row of cavalry to stop chasing. But when he looked behind him, he was stunned.
It turns out that the second row of cavalry behind them is also following closely. If the order is given at this time and the front row of cavalry suddenly reins in, the latter row of cavalry will not be able to rein in their horses in time and will knock off the knights in the front row.
It seems that although the newly recruited cavalry are not lacking in ferocity, they still lack actual combat experience. If one of them makes a mistake when they are following so closely, the entire cavalry may be turned upside down, or even the "horse" may be destroyed.
"What a bunch of wimps!" Cui Jianfeng, as a general who has been fighting for many years, was both angry and amused at the newly recruited cavalry in front of him.
He had no choice but to follow the first row of cavalry and continue to run forward until the three men emitted magic lights and tripped the first row of cavalry down.
Chapter completed!