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Boss Yan also jumped in after Yun Er. As for Jing Muyan, Winged Fire Snake, Bi Yuewu, and Shenshui Yuan, they were already standing guard on all sides of the room, ready to deal with any eventuality.
A rustling sound came over, and several people pricked up their ears to listen to the source of the sound. Yun Er suddenly kicked the cobbler's bed, and the heavy wooden bed spun around with Yun Er's kick.
The gleaming spikes suddenly popped out from the floor and pierced the bed.
Jing Muyan roared, grabbed the spear and pushed it to the side. He heard a click, the barrel of the gun broke, and the ginsui ape's sword slashed hard on the floor. The floor was torn apart, and the Winged Fire Snake and Yan Lao had their hands
The crossbow arrows inside had already flown down from the breach.
A low muffled sound came from downstairs.
"He's injured!" Mr. Yan yelled, and his body flew backwards, smashing the cowhide window into pieces, and he fell downstairs along with the broken window.
Jing Muyan threw away half of the gun barrel in his hand and jumped downstairs with Boss Yan.
Shen Shuiyuan quickly cut a big hole in the floor with his sword, and threw a gunpowder bomb down after it was ignited. He needed to drive the people in the room below out of the room and hand them over to Boss Yan and Jing Muyan outside the inn.
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After Yun Er and Winged Fire Snake left the big hole, they heard the bang of gunpowder bombs downstairs, and then thick smoke came out of the big hole.
The Winged Fire Snake jumped down the big hole. Before he could stand still, a long knife whizzed towards him. The Winged Fire Snake was shocked. He couldn't understand why the gunpowder bombs did not cause any harm to these people. He kicked him in the middle.
His body flew away from a broken pillar, narrowly avoiding the shining long knife.
The dust and smoke gradually dissipated, and the environment in the room became clearer. Three scarred men in white looked at the Winged Fire Snake fiercely.
"You can't leave!"
Wing Fire Snake saw Boss Yan and Jing Muyan appearing in front of the door and window and said coldly.
A man in white chuckled and said: "I am originally a ghost. Life and death are the same. Since you are the minions of the dog official, then you must die!"
Before this guy could finish his words, he rushed forward with his knife drawn, and the other two followed behind. It seemed that they wanted to kill the Winged Fire Snake first and then deal with Boss Yan and Jing Muyan who were guarding the door and window.
Boss Yan sneered, and two crossbow arrows flew out one after another. The man in white had no time to block it, and his knees were shot through by the crossbow arrows. He fell to the ground as soon as his body went limp. The other two people went to help their companions, but were shot by Jing Muyan and Yi Yi again.
The fire snake's crossbow arrow shot through both legs, and the three of them fell to the ground in excruciating pain.
Boss Yan walked into the house stepping on the broken sawdust on the floor and said coldly: "Who are you? I told you that grandpa will give you a good time."
The man in white at the head laughed loudly: "Grandpas are just ghosts!"
Although these words were said with a smile, the viciousness on the lips and teeth could not be concealed at all costs.
Just when Boss Yan was about to step forward to torture him, he found that there was something wrong with the three men in white hugging each other tightly.
He used a spear to pick apart their limp hands and feet, only to find that these three people had died. Each of them held a sharp knife in their hand and stabbed deeply into the chest of their companion.
"Hiss" Boss Yan took a breath of cold air. He had seen many people who committed suicide. He had never seen anyone as determined as them. It seemed that after discovering that they had failed, their first thought was to commit suicide without any hesitation.
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Such dead soldiers are the most terrifying.
When Yun Er heard the safety signal from Boss Yan, he jumped down from the big hole and immediately saw three white corpses on the ground.
There were two gray corpses on the wall. After a closer look, I found that they were the corpses of the innkeeper and the waiter. A steel awl was nailed to each person's throat, pierced from the throat to the back of the head and then nailed to the wooden wall.
He was already dead.
"What did you find?" Yun Er asked Boss Yan.
"The assassination was clean and neat, and the death was even neater. Second Young Master, we are in trouble. There should be more than just these three people in this group. I found six pairs of footprints in the yard, three of which were heading outside. If
There are all these dead soldiers, so it should be very troublesome."
Yun Er looked at the corpse, and suddenly used a short spear to lift off the white mask of the dead soldier. His pupils shrank suddenly, and there was a large burnt mark on the forehead of the corpse. He then opened up the mask of the other two corpses.
Bu, also saw a brand on his forehead.
The marks were completely scorched black and nothing could be seen clearly, but Yun Er, Boss Yan and others all knew what these marks were.
Tattooing the forehead with ink was originally a punishment in ancient times, called ink punishment or whale punishment. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty abolished it. However, it was still used in subsequent generations. In the Tang Dynasty, escaped slaves were captured and often tattooed on their faces.
Tattooing words like "escaped slave" was called "private whale". It was not banned until Emperor Taizong.
The ethnic minorities in the south have the habit of tattooing. In many areas during the Tang and Five Dynasties, especially in some big cities, the custom of tattooing was very popular among the lower-class residents. This custom was called "diaoqing" at that time.
Soldier tattooing evolved from the customs of whale torture and "carving green", and gradually formed a system through the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.
In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, wars were frequent, and warlords in various parts of the country forced people to serve as soldiers. In order to strengthen control and prevent escape, warlords began to tattoo soldiers' faces. From then on, soldiers' tattoos were no longer for decoration or to show off their merits.
Being brave has become a sign of humiliating status.
Probably from Zhu Wen, Taizu of the Later Liang Dynasty, to Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and then to the Song Dynasty, tattooing on soldiers' faces gradually formed a system and became a necessary procedure for recruiting soldiers. Since then, being a soldier has become a special profession. Once you become a soldier,
Once you get a tattoo, you must be affiliated with the military for life and cannot engage in other professions. In this way, soldiers become a special class in society.
Due to the influence of soldiers' tattoos, the punishment of whales was officially restored in the criminal law. Starting from the Tianfu period of the Jin Dynasty after the Five Dynasties, all prisoners who were exiled had to have tattoos on their faces, which was called "stabbing". Most of these prisoners were sent to serve in the military.
, which is called "allocation of troops". In this way, the status of soldiers is almost the same as that of prisoners.
"There are no tattoos on the faces of the Western Army of Beijing. This is one of the main reasons why the commander was criticized by civilian officials. Since these people are so brave and familiar with gunpowder bombs and know how to avoid the shrapnel of gunpowder bombs, only the Western Army should
Already."
Winged Fire Snake had served as a low-level military attaché and was naturally very familiar with this routine in the military.
Jing Muyan pulled the corpse with a long knife and said: "It is impossible for the Western Army. The more brave the sergeant, the more he respects the commander. Besides, the Western Army of Beijing and the Western Army have always been on good terms. There is no need for them to come to trouble us."
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Even if there is a conflict, the friendship between Marshal and Marshal Di should be easily resolved. Besides, the Western Army's trade route is on the ancient Tang-Tibet Road, and they do not do maritime business."
Yun Er said in a deep voice: "This is a new phenomenon. We should pay attention to it. This matter should have nothing to do with Commander Di. The Western Army is large in number and there are many factions in the army. The relationships among them are intricate and complicated. They are far less than those of our Western Army in Beijing."
This matter must be investigated clearly."
The Winged Fire Snake stepped forward and searched the three corpses carefully, but found nothing in the end. These people wore white coats to hide themselves in the wind and snow. They killed the shopkeeper and the waiter downstairs, but none of the people upstairs were there.
If you don't notice it at all, you should be a master of latent combat.
The four of them jumped from the big hole to the second floor, preparing to take the cobbler, who was suffering from fever, to leave the inn and return to the shop. After all, there was a war there, and Yun Er was very worried.
Facts have proved that Yun Er's judgment was correct. The target of those people was Yun Er. They were just pretending to be soldiers at the shop. Just when they were packing their things and preparing to leave, the big man was driving a carriage with one arm hanging.
He hurried over with a dozen caravan guards.
The cobbler was hurriedly carrying the cobbler onto the carriage. The big man strongly demanded that Yun Er also get on the carriage. He also said that this carriage was a carriage specially made by Eagle's Nest. Iron plates were added to the carriage board to block the crossbow fire.
The special carriage belonging to the head of the Yun family.
Unable to resist this big guy who always likes to shed tears, Yun Er got on the carriage and drove to the Yun family's shop on Heishan Island under the protection of everyone.
The people on Heishan Island can't talk about watching and helping each other. They are hunters on the one hand, and prey on the other. They are fighting in the inn, and gunpowder bombs explode, but there is not a soul on the street. It is snowing heavily.
They worked hard to cover up the ruts, and if it weren't for the smoke coming out of the dilapidated inn windows, it would seem like nothing happened here.
The Yun family had already walked far away. On a piece of snow not far from the inn, a snow bag suddenly bulged up. Then a figure as nimble as a civet cat got into the inn, and a shrill howl sounded in the inn.
, then there were a few whimpering words, and finally it fell silent.
The white figure jumped out of the back window, rolled into a ball and rolled down the slope. After a few bounces, it got into the dense woods.
Boss Yan walked out from the second floor of the inn, squinting at the place where the man in white disappeared. He wanted to follow him to see the man in white, but remembering Yun Er's explanation, he sighed and went down to the second floor. He could hear
The words of the man in white crying to death were already enough.
The Yun family's shop is located next to this simple market, covering an area of three acres. The guards of the Yun family's caravan are all veterans who have retired from the army. They always choose the place where they are stationed in Yi.
A place that is difficult to defend.
Just now, we relied on the dangerous terrain here to repulse the attack of six men in white. The big man was injured by an arrow at the door of the shop because he was preparing to go out to meet the second young master. Fortunately, they were just feinting, otherwise there would be many casualties here.
It must be very heavy.
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