"Great, I'll get up, I'll get up right now!" Dou Sha jumped up and stood barefoot by the bed looking for clothes. However, just halfway through wearing the clothes, he hesitated and turned his head, "Brother-in-law,
Just the three of us?"
"Why, are you scared?" Han Qing asked deliberately, knowing that Dou Sha was concerned about face.
"Afraid? Ever since I came out of my mother's womb, I have never known the word fear!" Dou Sha immediately raised his chest and raised his head, flexing and stretching his undeveloped arms in front of Han Qing, "I am being cautious, after all, the three of us are
I’m not familiar with the place here!”
"Keep it down, if you shout a few more words, the guy will wake up. I can't guarantee that there are no people from the Red Lotus here!" Han Qing rolled his eyes at him and reminded him in a low voice.
Then, he thought about it again and explained in the same low voice, "The Red Lotus Sect is not an army. Even if it is a branch, there are only a few people who are usually stationed there. Most of the believers usually have to do their own things and go back to their homes.
Including their helmsman, he is usually not around. He only calls them together when there are important things to be announced in the church!"
"Yes, I understand. Mr. Zhou is the helmsman of Ding'an branch, but his family is not the branch of the branch!" Dou Sha revealed the point and excitedly pumped his fist again. "It's such a cold day, they definitely didn't expect that someone would fight.
Their idea of splitting the ship!"
However, Han Qing's next words poured cold water on him, "Your mission is to protect your sister, do you hear that?"
"Oh!" Dou Sha immediately began to wilt again. However, before he could droop his head, Han Qing's voice sounded in his ears again.
"You are practicing Iron Cloth Shirt. Although you haven't mastered it yet, ordinary gangsters can't even think of hurting you at all. But your sister can't do it. She is a prostitute and has little strength to begin with. She has just recovered from a serious illness."
After a pause, Han Qing continued to make arrangements in a low voice, "You are responsible for protecting her, and she is responsible for releasing flying knives and cold arrows to cover me. In this way, the three of us can work together as an army!"
"Yeah!" Dou Sha heard this, and his eyes began to sparkle again. Han Qing was still worried, so he found someone in Ding'an County to customize parts and quietly assembled the coarse cloth, inserted the bamboo folding shield and iron pipe into the musket, and turned it over
Come out and carry it on this person's shoulders, then you are ready.
Dou Rong, who lived next door, also sneaked over quietly. At Han Qing's reminder, the three of them each put on a cloak dyed with indigo and loess, and then quickly ran to the stable.
If a posthouse were placed in the 21st century, it would be equivalent to a government-run guest house. Naturally, the staff inside would not be very diligent.
Therefore, Han Qing, Dou Rong, and the Dou Sha siblings got their mounts smoothly and left the posthouse through the back door. From the beginning to the end, no one was disturbed.
The three of them rode fast, and half an hour later, they arrived at a desolate mountainous area.
It was pitch black all around, but the stars above were as bright as candles.
Under the stars in the sky, on the top of a mountain not far away, there were a few lights as big as the tails of fireflies, flickering.
No need to guess, Dou Sha also knew that the position of the tail of the firefly was the branch of the Red Lotus Sect in Gyeongju. Suddenly, his heart beat nervously and his breathing became thick and heavy.
"It's easy to see from a dark place to a bright place. But when people in a bright place look into a dark place, their eyes are completely dark!" Han Qing's words rang out in time, making Dou Sha's mood become much calmer in an instant.
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"At night in the mountains, rabbits, badgers, foxes and other wild animals will come out to look for food. The thieves in the Red Lotus Sect's helm can't tell which movements are coming from us." The hunting experience accumulated in Jinniu Village has come in handy again.
Useful. As Han Qing introduced it, he jumped off his mount and pulled the reins around to the top of the mountain in the distance.
Dou Rong reacted quickly and immediately jumped off the horse. Dou Sha was a little slower, but quickly and silently chose to follow suit.
"I'm not familiar with the terrain here. However, if you choose a cottage, it must be easy to defend and difficult to attack. I'm sure thieves will be watching the main road up the mountain. Let's find a way to get up from the side. If it doesn't work today, we'll come back tomorrow night.
Don't be in a hurry for success." Han Qing looked back, and then introduced in a low voice while looking for the way. Just like a teacher leading students out for training.
In fact, the best choice for doing this kind of thing is to go it alone. However, leaving Dou Rong and Dou Sha in Guanyi, he couldn't feel at ease.
With the training he received as a soldier and his strong body now, even if he was discovered by the Red Lotus cultists, it would not be difficult to escape. But if Dou Rong and Dou Sha were left in the post house, the two siblings would definitely end up in it.
In the hands of thieves.
Therefore, it is better to just take both siblings with him. Although it may not be able to help him much, at least he will not leave anyone behind when he escapes.
Dou Rong and Dou Sha were unaware of Han Qing's good intentions. They were both excited and nervous to be able to fight alongside him.
The two of them followed Han Qing step by step, and the water vapor they exhaled was blown into clouds of white mist by the night wind.
Because he was not familiar with the terrain, Han Qing led the two of them to a dead end several times. However, the night was very long, and they had enough time to turn around and start over from the last corner.
Unknowingly, midnight passed. The mountain wind became stronger in the second half of the night, passing over the naked rocks, making a sound like the howling of ghosts and wolves.
Occasionally, if they are not careful, the three of them will step on loose stones and roll down the hillside. The sound will fall on their ears like a series of muffled thunder. However, it is never louder than the sound of the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it is completely integrated with the latter.
One body.
"God is blessing us!" Dou Sha's nervous mood gradually calmed down. Looking at Han Qing who was exploring the road in front of him, his fighting spirit was high. "Bless us to be heroic and righteous, and to eliminate violence and be good!"
In Tang legends, heroes usually receive protection from God. He believes that at this moment, he, his sister and brother-in-law are the same.
The night provided them with the best cover, and the sound of the wind blocked all movement. However, the Red Lotus cultists on the top of the mountain were so careless that they did not even realize that someone dared to take advantage of the dark and windy night to touch their lair!
As for the cold, fatigue and danger, Dou Sha forced himself to forget them all together.
There must be a price for being a hero, otherwise, if everyone becomes a hero, heroes will no longer be valuable.
And the price he paid tonight was just a sore face from the cold wind and a sore back from the mountain road. It was really not worth mentioning.
Thinking like this, he became more energetic. Following Han Qing and Dou Rong, he circled from the front of the mountain to the back of the mountain, looking for roads in places where there were no roads, twists and turns, up and down, sometimes, he had to
Turn around and go back.
However, the firefly-butt-like light on the top of the mountain is getting closer and closer.
I don't know how far I walked, but Han Qing in front suddenly stopped and raised his right hand gently.
Dou Rong and Dou Sha immediately stopped moving forward. Then they hesitantly raised their heads and looked around. The next moment, surprise surged through their bodies.
They found that they had arrived at the foot of an isolated mountain village. There was only a steep rock wall between them and the wooden wall of the mountain village.
That section of the rock wall is about three feet high and sticks out diagonally. Five or six horses and seven or eight people can be hidden underneath. In the center of the rock wall, there are several vague gaps formed by weathering.
A cypress tree over three feet high grew stubbornly out of the rock crack, like a palm stretched out horizontally.
"I'll go first, you two siblings help me pull the rope!" Han Qing whispered, then took out a backpack full of spikes from the saddle, pulled out a spike from it, and stood on the horse.
, and inserted it hard into the rock crevice.
Immediately, he tied one end of the rope around his waist, looped the spike around the center, and handed the other end to Dou Sha. "Tighten the rope and look at my gestures. If I tell you to relax, just relax!"
"Yeah!" Dou Sha couldn't understand what Han Qing was going to do, so he just nodded vigorously.
Han Qing smiled and patted his shoulder, then smiled at the nervous Dou Rong, put a backpack containing seven or eight spikes on his shoulders, and jumped towards the rock wall.
As soon as his hands and feet came into contact with the rock wall, they immediately became extremely flexible. With a speed that Dou Sha and Dou Rong could not believe, they grabbed the convex part of the rock and kept moving upward.
In the blink of an eye, the two legs surpassed the spike that had just been inserted into the rock crevice. He gestured downward, indicating to Dou Sha to relax the rope a few feet. Then he stretched his body and pulled out the second spike from his backpack.
, inserted deeply into the gap in the stone above his head.
For Han Qing, climbing up is much easier with the help of ropes and spikes than climbing with bare hands. What he really needs to pay attention to is to avoid that the spikes are not inserted firmly enough to provide support for the safety rope at critical moments.
In that case, he would definitely be broken and fractured. Siblings Dou Rong and Dou Sha would definitely not be able to cope with the severe situation after his injury.
Therefore, Han Qing did not dare to be careless. Every time he moved the position of the safety rope, he had to pull it several times. After making sure that the combination of rope and spikes could provide him with sufficient protection, he continued to climb up.
In doing so, his climbing speed will inevitably slow down, and even the spikes will occasionally be pulled out and fall, making a scary sound. However, his careful and cautious attitude has paid off enough for him.
Until he stood on the broken wall, he did not encounter any real danger. And the sound of the spike falling to the ground did not attract any attention from the thieves in the village.
After all, the Red Lotus is just an "ancient" organization from the eleventh century, and its internal structure is far less sophisticated than the army of the twenty-first century. Its discipline and personnel training are even worse than the latter.
The cold weather, steep terrain and the sense of superiority brought about by collusion with the government made every believer who stayed in the Gyeongju branch believe that they were absolutely safe. The originally rough sentry post was in vain.
When Han Qing used a rope to pull Dou Rong and Dou Sha up the cliff, the believers in the village were still sleeping soundly, unaware that the danger was close at hand.
The three of them used the same method to quietly climb over the simple wall made of tree trunks nailed together. Then they bypassed several dark thatched huts and went straight to the only lighted lobby in the center of the village.
"Expand your shield, protect your sister, and then, protect me together!" At the entrance of the lobby, Han Qing whispered to Dou Sha, then pulled out the Tang Dao from his waist, held it in his mouth, and ran straight towards Tou Sha.
Lighted windows...
A simple foldable shield made of bamboo boards and coarse cloth was quickly opened behind him. Dou Sha grabbed the beam supporting the shield with both hands and blocked himself and Dou Rong firmly while staring at Han Qing's back.
Dou Rong took off the crossbow from her back, opened the bow arm with one foot, and quickly loaded the crossbow. Then she watched Han Qing's every move nervously.
The siblings saw Han Qing leaning under the window like a civet cat. Then he reached across the window sill with one hand and gently poked a small hole in the window paper.
There was no reaction inside the window, only thunderous snoring came out through the window.
The siblings saw Han Qing leaning over the window sill, using the Tang knife to slowly move along the window frame. Then, the window was gently opened by him, and his figure disappeared in the window.
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"Puff——" The sound of the weapon cutting into the body made Dou Rong and Dou Sha's hearts tremble at the same time.
The next moment, a stream of blood shot up into the sky, dyeing the window paper as red as flames.
