Sun and Earth held torches high, their expressions full of anger.
The thin man was tied tightly at the stake and kept begging for mercy.
Beside him, his wife and children were kneeling on the ground and were stopped by the tribesmen, who kept wailing.
"Daddy!"
"Daddy! Don't kill daddy!"
"Daddy! Wuwuwu! Let go of my daddy!"
There were four boys, girls, and children, crying heartily.
He was not familiar with the man who was burned at the stake.
But his wife has some connections with Zheng Xiu.
The man's wife is named "Xin" and is good at weaving. Ten years ago, his wife also helped weave Xieluohe's wedding dress.
Zheng Xiu inquired for a while.
Understand the whole story.
The man settled here earlier than Zheng Xiu and his wife.
His original name was Xu Yun. He came from the south of the Central Plains, and his family was in decline. At a young age, he was full of dreams. Hearing that the desert was full of gold to the west, he gathered a caravan to bring the specialties of the Central Plains to the east and west.
Xu Yun inquired about the lost legends of the past and learned that there was a lost "trade route", and wanted to try his luck.
In the end, his caravan was buried by the wind and sand, and he was the only one who got lucky and ran out of ammunition and food in the desert. When he almost died, he was saved by the passing Lie Sun tribe members.
Xu Yun wanted to return to the Central Plains many times, but he had neither the courage nor the ability to cross the desert alone. In the end, he had to marry a local girl, settle down, and become half a member of the Lie Sun tribe.
He learned the route of the "Green River" from his wife.
When Atulu lured him with gold and other benefits, Xu Yun struggled for several days and finally couldn't hold his conscience back and handed over the Green River route.
"According to the clan rules," Sun and Earth shouted loudly: "Traitors must be punished by being burned and returned to the scorching sun to purify their souls!"
Ri and Di couldn't bear to hear the cries of Xu Yun's wife and children on the side.
But the clan rules are like this, and he has just become the clan leader. If Xu Yun is allowed to violate the clan rules without being punished, it will be difficult for him to continue as the clan leader safely.
After Zheng Xiu asked about the cause and effect, he sighed softly, unwilling to intervene and closed his eyes.
As soon as Patriarch Ri Di finished speaking, he threw the torch in his hand towards the burning stake that was covered in oil.
"Ahhhh——"
Xu Yun screamed in horror: "It shouldn't be like this! It shouldn't be like this!"
call out!
A stone shot out from Zheng Xiu's side like a stream of light, flicking the torch away.
"enough."
Zheng Xiu turned around in surprise, and found that it was Xie Luohe who had been standing beside him silently, who had rescued Xu Yun.
"Madam, you..."
Xie Luohe whispered: "I hurt him."
Zheng Xiu frowned: "What does it have to do with you?"
Xie Luohe shook his head: "If I could have been more decisive that day and killed Atulu, it would have been all over. How could there have been so many things?"
Zheng Xiu was helpless: "Behind him is the Shache Kingdom. If you kill one Atulu, there may be countless Avalu, Achelu, Amenlu, and Garuru. You can't kill them all the way and conquer the Western Regions."
Kill them all."
Hearing this, Xie Luohe was speechless for a moment.
In fact, she wanted to say "kill all the way", which was not impossible. But the tone of her husband's words at the moment clearly did not mean this.
"You're a little weird today."
Zheng Xiu glanced at Xie Luohe curiously.
Xie Luohe looked away and did not answer.
"That's it, just take action. Who makes my wife feel good?" Zheng Xiu put his arms around Xie Luohe's shoulders and comforted him with a smile.
It was Xieluohe who took action, and the Lieri people looked at Xieluohe in shock.
In an instant, the couple became the focus of the entire clan.
Although Xie Luohe and Gongsun Mo are not from the Lieri tribe, Xie Luohe passed down the bow skills here. Boss Mo has been operating in Richan Town for many years. In Richan Town, the status of the couple in the hearts of the desert people is second only to the patriarch Ri.
Just land.
Otherwise, before the great elder died, he would not have thought of letting Gongsun Mo and Xie Luohe be the clan leaders and lead the Lieri tribe.
"Xie Gong, what are you..."
Ri Di was dumbfounded, obviously he did not expect that Xie Luohe, as an outsider, would interfere in the Lie Sun Tribe's affairs.
Xie Luohe said calmly: "Since the Green River trade route map has been leaked, killing him will not help."
"But……"
Xie Luohe calmly looked at Xu Yun's wife and children who were still crying, and said: "The children are innocent. Now, Brother Di, you are the leader of the clan."
Ri Di's eyes flashed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and waved his hand: "Let him go! Lock him up first!"
Xu Yun, who betrayed the Lieri tribe, was put down from the stake, and several people escorted Xu Yun away.
Next.
Sun and Earth organized a secret meeting among the clan.
Although Gongsun and his wife are highly respected among the Lieri tribe, they are still outsiders and are not qualified to participate in the meeting.
It's broad daylight.
Zheng Xiu calmly closed the door of Mohexuan and walked home along the road.
On the way, Xie Luohe followed him like an aggrieved little daughter-in-law.
When he arrived at home, Xie Luohe said cautiously: "Husband, why not..."
"I have no idea."
Zheng Xiu sighed and interrupted Xie Luohe.
Xieluohe was speechless.
Zheng Xiu said again, repeating the same sentence over and over again: "I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know."
Xie Luohe stood up, hugged her husband, and pressed his head into her soft arms.
She sensed that her husband was confused.
He is irritable.
Xie Luohe knew the reason for his irritability.
"I'm going out for a while."
After Zheng Xiu closed the door of the shop, he went out alone. When he came back, he had an ordinary long iron knife in his hand. It was already dark, and Zheng Xiu just opened the door and saw that the oil lamp in the house was dim.
A long bow, head lowered, carefully adjusting the tightness of the bowstring. The ground was covered with repolished arrowheads.
The moment he opened the door, Xie Luohe raised his eyes. The couple looked at each other and smiled at each other.
Zheng Xiu scratched his head and said with a smile: "It seems we have thought of something."
"After all, we are just a couple."
"I figured it out." Zheng Xiu looked calm and relieved: "A real man does something and doesn't do something."
He carried the long knife behind his back, the Luohe pen hanging on his left waist, and a heavy bag of "blood sand" hanging on his right waist.
"And I," Xie Luohe put the long bow on his back again, the woman untied her bun and tied up her long ponytail, as heroic as before. The woman smiled and said, "I do what Xie Luohe would do, that's all.
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woo woo woo woo--
late at night!
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
Huhuhu——
Amid the howling wind, a shrill horn sounded outside the town.
Tap tap tap tap——
The sound of iron hooves in a row is like a passionate war drum in the dark night. The war camels raised by the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions are not only good at traveling long distances, but also good at riding and fighting. They may seem bulky, but their movements are faster than ordinary camels.
To be agile, the difference between the cries of war camels and the sound of horse hooves can be clearly distinguished from the intensity of the cries.
Xieluo River is like a nimble swallow in the dark night. It is proud of its dexterity and can easily climb up the mountain wall.
After looking far into the distance, there was a fire in the distance, reflecting the shining armor, like a sea of fine steel, densely packed and endless as far as the eye could see.
Back on the ground, the warriors of the Lie Sun tribe had already been awakened by the sound of the horn.
The sun and the earth are covered with war patterns, from the chest to the back, there are a total of forty-nine rounds of scorching sun, one is not too much, and the other is not too little.
"It's Aturu!"
Sun and Di gritted their teeth: "I have heard before that the Shache Kingdom has started wars among the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions in recent years to win over the clans. Their king wants to unify the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions and become the second great leader! "
"If the Great Yueshi of Persia were not powerful enough to compete with the Shache Kingdom, perhaps the king of the Shache Kingdom would have succeeded!"
"And Atulu is known as the best warrior in the Western Region!"
Ri Di hurriedly said a few words to Zheng Xiu who was standing on the street, and directed the women and children of the tribe to retreat into the valley.
"Quick! Go to the shooting range! It's safe there!"
Although they have lived in Richan Town for a long time, the terrain of Richan Valley is difficult and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Only by retreating to Richan Valley at critical times can they survive.
After a period of chaos, hundreds of people from the Richan clan retreated to the Richan Valley.
Zheng Xiu had people place Xiao Mo and Xiao He, who had been raised for nearly ten years, in place. He originally wanted Xiao Feng Miao to take refuge with him, but Xiao Feng Miao didn’t know what happened today, and his claws were pulling on Zheng Xiu’s clothes. Reluctant to leave, Zheng Xiu could only put Xiao Feng Miao into his arms, with a furry cat head exposed from his clothes.
The remaining hundreds of people were outsiders from other countries who had settled in Richan Town. They heard the cries and horns, but didn't know why. They walked out of the street in panic.
Aturu led a large army and marched straight in, killing everyone on sight.
"Hahaha! Kill! Leave no one behind!"
Rumble——
Aturu led an army of hundreds of people, and wherever the iron hooves stepped on, no one survived.
The sudden change completely destroyed the prosperity and tranquility of Richan Town. No one expected that when Atulu got the secret of Green River, he launched an attack overnight and led his army to attack Richan Town.
When passing by Mohexuan, Atulu sneered and looked at the boat he had withdrawn from that day. He raised his crossbow and shot an arrow, knocking down the ten-year-old sign to the ground.
The sign was cut in the middle and shattered into two halves.
The words above moved around, with "Dragon Gate" written on the left half and "Inn" written on the right half.
Atulu, however, seemed not to notice the abnormality of the plaque. After shooting the sign, he rode his war camel to the inner entrance of Richan Valley.
There is a plank road built on the Richan Valley, and a group of good archers are ambushed on it.
Looking from a distance, Sunchan Valley has long been transformed into a sea of fire, destroyed and burned.
Ridi angrily looked at the mess in Richan Town, smelled the smell of blood drifting down the wind, and listened to the wails of the tragically dead merchants. Ridi suppressed his anger and asked: "Atulu! Since you have obtained the secret of Green River, ,Why are you still attacking our clan’s territory!”
Atulu laughed and said: "In the near future, today's Cicada Valley, the desert in the future, and the desert to the east will all be the territory of our Shache Kingdom. My king does not want to be in our territory, separated by a Richan Valley! This fertile land will be jointly owned by our king and the king of the Northern Barbarians!"
"Fire the arrow!"
After a simple question and answer, the sun and the earth knew that Atulu had planned for a long time tonight and was unable to do anything good. With a wave of his hand from a high place, arrows filled the sky and shot towards Atulu's army of hundreds of people.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Lie Sun tribe's bow skills were all inherited from Xie Luo He. Although they were unable to exert the power of Xie Luo He's bow skills, this wave of arrows was shot with incomparable accuracy, and the arrows were aimed at the war camels beneath them.
As the saying goes, if you shoot a man first, shoot a horse. If Aturu wants to cross the desert, the presence of war camels is indispensable. As long as they kill their war camels, even if Atulu's army cannot be folded here, they can still
Retreat when faced with difficulties.
"Open the shield!"
Little did he know that Arturu's understanding of the Rieyi tribe was deeper than what Sundi thought. At the same time that Sundi shouted "shoot the arrow", Arturu gave instructions loudly, the sound was as strong as a drum. The foreign soldiers behind him simultaneously took out arrows.
That strange weapon shaped like an iron fan.
Whoosh!
The fan-shaped weapon opened simultaneously with the soldier's movements. The fan blades rotated and turned into a shield in the blink of an eye.
That neat "swish" sound, hundreds of sounds mixed into one sound, sounded like a "lightning", resounding throughout the valley.
The soldiers held their shields in their hands and lay low. The shields were raised diagonally to the sky. While protecting them, they also protected the war camels under them.
The first wave of arrows was fired, and Aturu's army was unscathed.
"Fire the crossbow!"
A cold-weapon war is all about numbers and equipment. After Aturu's army blocked the first rain of arrows, they issued the second order before the second rain of arrows came.
The soldiers who had been strictly trained moved neatly and quickly took out the crossbows from the backs of their hunchbacks. Only a neat "clang" sound of the machine springs was heard, and a wave of crossbows from Atulu's army looked like an arrow in the dark night.
The big bird spread its wings, carrying the fierce wind, and shot into the valley.
They don't even need to aim at this moment, they just need pure fire suppression.
The Lie Sun tribe was hit by this wave of crossbow arrows. In an instant, many tribesmen were hit by arrows and screamed in agony.
Ri Di panicked and said: "Back off! Hide behind the rocks!"
Where did the Lie Sun Tribe go through such a battle? What they were good at was hunting rather than war. Compared with the well-trained training of Aturu's army, the Lie Sun Tribe's masters looked like a ragtag group. Although they were all good at archery, they
It is difficult to form a unified offensive.
The Sun Tribe is retreating.
Aturu laughed: "Charge!"
They launched a charge and headed straight for Sunchan Valley.
Approaching the mouth of the valley, Arturu's eyes suddenly condensed. Two thin figures stood quietly at the mouth of the valley, like two door gods.
What made Atulu most angry was that the man had a furry cat head exposed on his chest.
Meow Tou's expression seemed to be contemptuous of him.
"Evil!"
Veins popped up on Atulu's forehead, his eyes were as red as blood. He was instantly angry and cursed something vaguely in another Chinese language.
Xieluohe bent his bow and shot an arrow.
The moment the arrow left the string, Zheng Xiu frowned subconsciously and looked at his wife with some uncertainty.
There's something wrong with this arrow.
"Nothing more than that!"
Aturu's bloodshot eyes instantly turned pure black, and evil lines sprouted from his back and spread all over his body.
He punched forward, and waves of air blew away the vegetation in front of the valley, like a violent hurricane blowing through.
Before Xieluohe's long arrow could reach Atulu, it was shattered by the air wave set off by Atulu's punch.
The couple were shocked at the same time.
The reason why they were surprised was not because Xie Luohe's archery skills were not successful, but because the other party's evil posture at the moment.
Aturu...is a stranger!
A natural stranger!
Xie Luohe pursed his lips tightly, grasped the long bow tightly, and there was a trace of struggle in his eyes.
"Madam, step back."
Zheng Xiu noticed that Xie Luohe's bow skills were not as good as before, and felt strange. But Atulu was already in front of him, and Zheng Xiu didn't bother to ask any more questions. He asked Xie Luohe to retreat and took a step forward.
The long knife quickly cut his wrist, and blood poured out.
Zheng Xiu moved his pen like the wind, and the bloody "ink lines" centered on him and spread out in all directions, instantly surrounding the entire valley, like a closed cage.
"birdcage!"
projection!
Zheng Shan!
unbreakable!
Zheng Xiu took a step forward, and with every step he took, his figure grew an inch taller!
Aturu tilted his head, stood on the war camel, raised a strange smile at the corner of his mouth, and said:
"Huh? You are also a 'reincarnated Buddha'?"
Zheng Xiu didn't answer and silently punched out.
The moment he punched, all the fur on his chest went behind his ears, and it even calmly peed all over Zheng Xiu.
After Aturu was shocked, he jumped off the camel and was faster than the charging camel. He came to Zheng Xiu and punched him as well.