When it was daylight, the roaring in his ears made the soldiers who were squatting on the Biaoshan Fort suddenly wake up from their naps, and they all hurriedly cheered up.
"How long has it been and you still dare to be lazy?" Ding Juntou cursed angrily.
"Sir, we don't want to be lazy, we really can't stand it any longer," a soldier said boldly.
"Yes, sir, when will the reinforcements arrive?" Another soldier also asked hurriedly.
Ding Dashan, the commander of Biaoshan Fort, had a dark face. It was obvious that he didn't want to answer these two questions. He had used up all the excuses and excuses he could find in the past half month.
Suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Look over there," he said.
What's over there? The soldiers looked over and were startled.
A burst of dust and smoke billowed, and under the sunlight the armor of a group of men and horses were clearly visible, but they were obviously different from them.
Who else could it be if he wasn't Jin Jun?
The soldiers were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweat, and the whole castle became tense.
After being on guard here for half a month, they are already familiar with this group of golden soldiers.
These are the golden soldiers who occupied Qilitai. Backed by the three thousand golden soldiers in Kaide Mansion, they showed off their power and plundered everywhere.
It's not that no one has fought against them, but these Jin soldiers who came all the way from the north are extremely fierce and well-equipped. They didn't take advantage of them at all in the battle. Instead, they attracted Kaide Mansion.
The counterattack of the Jin soldiers.
Because the situation was unclear and the Anli Army had withdrawn, the remaining garrison troops did not know what to do for a while and were only ordered to wait for reinforcements.
Reinforcements did not come, and they did not dare to risk fighting again. They could only watch the Jin soldiers show off their power in front of them and bully the people.
"Where are these bandits going to cause harm?" Several soldiers spat fiercely.
The golden soldiers came closer and closer to the castle, but instead of provoking and yelling like before, they moved forward along the road.
I don’t know which other village will be unlucky.
The soldiers on the top of the city looked angry, but Army Leader Ding whispered not to cause trouble and could only suppress them, looking at these golden soldiers with vigilance and hatred.
But one soldier suddenly saw one of the golden soldiers, his eyes turned red, and he clenched his bow and arrow in his hand.
"Bitch thief!" He jumped up suddenly, "Give my parents their lives."
Accompanied by the shout, the bow in his hand was lifted from the string, and someone in the advancing Jin soldiers screamed and dismounted from his horse.
This sudden incident shocked everyone inside and outside.
Ding Dashan broke into a cold sweat.
"Ma Du, what are you doing?" he shouted in a low voice.
The soldier who was called Madu was trembling all over, as if he didn't expect that he could be shot, and his expression was mixed with joy and sadness.
"He killed my parents." He shouted tremblingly.
Just a while ago, this group of Jin soldiers killed a group of people who were fleeing to Tunbao on the road, including the parents of Xiaobingmadu.
This is a mortal feud, and Ding Dashan can't say anything.
"Get ready for war." He said solemnly after a moment of thought.
The soldiers on the castle immediately took action, aiming their crossbows at the golden soldiers below the city.
The golden soldiers were still in confusion. They helped up the man who had been shot and fell off his horse. The golden soldier was not hit in the vital part. He stood up from the ground and covered his wound, yelling and cursing. The other golden soldiers turned around in shame.
He pointed his crossbow at the castle.
But the leading Jin soldiers general shouted something, and these Jin soldiers put away their crossbows with some reluctance, cursed a few words at the people on the castle, mounted their horses and left.
The smoke and dust billowed and quickly disappeared from sight. The Zhou soldiers on the castle were still a little stunned.
Actually left?
A man was shot and injured and he left without fighting back?
The horses that had shot the arrow slumped to the ground as if their strength had been drained, buried their heads in their knees and began to cry.
There was joy, sadness and self-blame in this cry.
Of course he knew that the arrow he just shot would bring disaster to Tunbao.
Although he didn't know why, Ding Dashan breathed a sigh of relief when these golden soldiers left like this.
"Looking at the direction they are going to Kaide Mansion, they must have called for help." A soldier said in a low voice.
These words made everyone nervous again.
Madu's sobs became louder.
Ding Dashan kicked him with a black face.
"Why are you crying? There is no hope!" He shouted, "Get up, I didn't kill you with a single arrow. Don't embarrass me when we fight again."
Ma Du raised his head, looking a little dazed, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
Ding Dashan stopped looking at him and drew out his sword.
"Send the order and prepare for war." he shouted.
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But after waiting until the next day, no golden soldiers came to kill again. Instead, the golden soldiers left without returning.
What's going on?
Ding Dashan sent people out to investigate and soon got the news.
It turned out that these Jin soldiers were not moving to rescue soldiers, but were moving back to Kaide Mansion, and they did not come out again in the past few days.
What made these arrogant Jin soldiers suddenly behave like this?
The news brought back by the sentry was even more shocking.
"Twelve golden soldiers from Qilitai were killed in one night?" Ding Dashan shouted in surprise.
These words made the soldiers from the entire camp gather around him, with expressions of surprise and admiration.
They knew very well how powerful these golden soldiers were after fighting against each other, and it usually took three of them to hold down one of them.
If you can kill twelve golden soldiers, there must be a lot of people coming.
"Brothers from which place did this?" Everyone asked one after another, "I didn't hear any movement of troops."
The sentry shook his head.
"It was not our people who did it," he said, "and not many people. Some witnesses said it was done by one person."
one person!
The originally noisy crowd suddenly fell silent.
One person killed twelve, and they didn't know how to evaluate this person at all.
This is simply not human.
"Who is this?" Ding Dashan asked, his expression full of longing.
Such good men must be recruited into the army.
"Witnesses said he claimed to be a woodcutter in the countryside," the detective said.
Everyone was quiet again.
Those who chop wood in the countryside….
Could it be that he is a countryman whose family has been ruined, and he is a lone hero who wants to kill Jin Bing for revenge?
Everyone's minds automatically filled in the origins of this person's wealth, and even sketched out his appearance.
He is thin, honest and simple, and is the kind of wooden person that everyone knows who hardly speaks in daily life, but will suddenly explode when forced to have no way out, and is not afraid of anything.
Such people are not uncommon, but it is truly unheard of for one person to kill twelve people.
Are all the woodcutters in the countryside so good now?
"What kind of firewood are you cutting every day?" Ding Dashan murmured.
The sentry didn't hear his murmur and thought of something and quickly took out a scroll from his sleeve.
"My lord, this is a wanted order," he said.
Ding Dashan frowned and took it.
"How long has it been? Don't you care about who is wanted?" He said angrily, unfolding it and looking at the portrait and text on it, his expression was surprised, and then complicated.
"Young Master Chengguo..."
He looked at it silently for a moment and handed the scroll to the person next to him.
"Give me the order," he said.
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The mountain, which was half burned by fire, is steep and lined with rocks, which looks even more ferocious in winter.
This was because some people were hiding in the mountains, so the Jin soldiers set a fire.
At this time, there were no common people in the mountains. After all, hiding here without food or water would be a dead end.
The sound of soft footsteps could be heard in the desolate and gloomy area.
This is a young man walking through the mountains.
He was wearing a somewhat disheveled cloth, with an ax tied around his waist with a straw rope. He lowered his head as if looking for something, and from time to time turned over the stones under his feet.
Because he lowered his head, he couldn't clearly see his expression, but he could only see that he was walking faster and faster.
Soon he was halfway up the mountain. When he turned a mountain bend, he stopped, sniffed hard, raised his head and looked at the empty forest with a smile on his face.
If anyone who saw the wanted order was present at this time, they would recognize him as Zhu Zan, the eldest son of Duke Cheng.
Zhu Zan did not have the anxiety of being wanted without mercy, and his expression was relaxed and casual.
He looked even more lonely standing in the mountains.
But a moment later, footsteps were heard from all directions, and then a dozen men sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
These people were dressed in ordinary clothes and looked different in age. The same thing was that they all had an ax in their waist.
They surrounded Zhu Zan without saying a word, and Zhu Zan walked toward them without saying a word and stood in front of one of the men.
The man was carrying a bundle in his hand, and when he saw Zhu Zan standing over, he opened it.
Zhu Zan turned his back to everyone and turned around, turning into a bearded man with gray hair all over. Except for his eyes that were still smart, he looked twenty years older.
It wasn't until this moment that all the men gathered around took a step back, and then all bowed down.