Nirvana In Fire

The continuous snow and wind suddenly stopped on the day of Laba. The sky was clear, the sun was golden and crisp, and it seemed very warm.

However, after a night of clear skies, the capital of Beijing, which was covered with deep snow, became more dry and cold, breathing a breath of air, and spitting white mist. The cold feeling seemed to freeze all the internal organs and flow inwards along the nasal cavity.

The weather is so cold, and only two days is the New Year, so people who can't go out will naturally be at home, enjoying the warm fire and hot food.

At this time, those who had to travel outside also appeared to be more hard and lonely.

Early in the morning, the officers and men of the patrol battalion opened the Sifang City Gate on time at the prescribed time.

The four people in the first shift at each gate were standing on the downstairs of the gates on both sides, monitoring the flow of people entering the gate.

When the patrol battalion was under Xie Yuzhi, the military capacity was originally good. Jing Jing ’s army was stricter and no one dared to be neglected, so he became more and more polite. Although standing for a moment, his feet were a bit cold and painful, but the four on duty did not walk around and stomped. Use this to keep warm.

There are not many people in the winter morning, especially the Xicheng Gate, which leads to the smoldering land. No one except a few went out.

By the time of the three shots in the sun, there was gradually some popularity, and the hawkers who set up the stalls next to the city gates also came out one after another, lazily screaming at the sparsely passing customers before the stall.

After another half hour, a dark shadow appeared faintly outside the city skyline, heading in the direction of the city gate.

"Is that caravan?" A defender stretched his neck and looked at it for a long while. "It's rare to see such a long team."

"You don't know the newcomer," next to him was a local veteran who immediately answered, "That's the caravan carrying medicinal materials.

Except for two or three states, most of the west of our girders are alpine areas and smoldering areas, but the more such places are, the more precious medicinal materials are produced.

My uncle opened a pharmacy. He said that the best medicines are all shipped from the west, so there are often caravans passing by our west gate.

But the day after tomorrow is thirty, this caravan has just arrived, it is really hard ... "

Between the two talking, the team in the distance was getting closer and closer, and the costumes of the carriages and people were gradually seen.

"How do I think ... it doesn't look like a caravan ..." The recruits stared at it for a long time, and finally couldn't help expressing their opinions euphemistically, "The caravan will not be escorted by officers and soldiers?"

At this time the veteran also noticed the difference, hissing twice, some unexpectedly said: "It's really not a caravan ... there is only one car in the middle, it seems that it is not a medicinal shipment, the one that looks ... is ... Ah, it ’s a prison car! "

When he reached a conclusion with a certain tone, the other guards had also seen it clearly.

Coming towards the city gate is a convoy of prisoners.

But what is different from usual is that there are at least more than 300 people escorted before and after, and there is only one prison car escorted.

What kind of important prisoner is it? Is there anyone who dares to intercept the prisoner's car?

In the curious eyes of the guards at the west gate, the long line finally reached the tower.

Unlike the escorted officers and soldiers in the queue, the man who seemed to be the chief at the forefront only wore a plain soft casual dress.

The man was riding a gray equine horse, with a slender and flexible posture, very well-proportioned and straight. Although he had a bun on his head, his shoulders were radiating, and each side of the temple had a silver thread bundle into the top bun and a circle of jade rings.

Looking at the look on his face, it is very beautiful. Although it has some wrinkles, it is difficult to judge the age. There is also an inexplicable taste in the temperament. There are some evil cold breaths in the high eyes.

"Ah ..." The veterans had already judged who was coming, and all bowed their heads and bowed to salute.

The recruits did not know the situation, but wanted to be able to lead such a large **** team, the man must be a high-ranking official, and hurriedly followed the salute.

In the middle of the team is the prison car. Although the size and style are basically the same as the ordinary prison car, but a closer look, the prison cage of this car is actually made of wrought iron. The iron bars are half palm wide and the interface is all. Welding was extremely dead.

The prisoner in the car was curled up in the corner, heavily chained with heavy chains, and his black hair was covering his face. He couldn't see the appearance at all. From his sitting position and the blood immersion on the bandage, he could see that his left thigh He also suffered a lot of trauma. I wonder if he had fought with the officers and soldiers when he was arrested.

The wall of Jinling was very thick, and the gate was naturally very long. But the leading man slowly walked into the shadow of the gate, but strangled the rein and stopped.

The soldiers of the patrol battalion who defended the city did not dare to ask what was wrong, and only looked at him dumbly.

After a while, the man laughed coldly and suddenly said loudly, "We are about to enter the city, and when we enter Kyoto, we have no chance. Would you like to try again?"

This sentence came flying in the air, and people heard the fog.

However, there was not much time left for the guards to be confused, only a few moments of silence, the murderous moment was full, and about fifty strong men rushed out of the woods on the west side of the city gate. .

At the same time, the small street vendors on the main road of the city also swiftly pulled out the sword weapons from the dark and quickly formed a formation. Three or four of them attacked, and the others detoured, cutting between the leading man and the prisoner behind. It seems that he intends to drag him first.

Immediately, the man ’s pupil shrank, and the sword was lifted out of his hand to make it a sharply curved razor, and he simply waved it with his hand. The light and energy had already rushed to the eye of the person who came to him, no matter what angle it was. , I feel that the edge of the blade is on the face, and I have to stop to protect myself. Only one of the people in the red shirt seems to be unaware, the body shape remains unchanged, but it suddenly flickered before it, and the blink of an eye appeared in another. One position.

The leading man "huh" gave a cry, as if it was an accident, his face was solidified, he didn't dare to carelessly, the knife posture changed and he responded very quickly, and he had suddenly dealt with several tricks.

One of the others who attacked the leading man at the same time as the red shirt man seemed to be the commander of the attack. When he saw that the red shirt man had successfully dragged the leading man and did not fall down, the mouth immediately whistled and led All the people killed in the city rushed to the prison car and attacked the guards and soldiers with their companions outside the city.

Although the number of the three hundred officers and soldiers escorting the prisoner vehicles is large, they are just ordinary soldiers. The combat power of these apparently armed martial artists is unbalanced, and there is no rule in the chaos. Except for the dozens of elite around the prisoners who still insist on fighting, The others were separated by several rushes and sprints, which was completely unpopular. Not long ago, two of the prisoners rushed to the car. Unfortunately, the prison cage was too strong. They hacked hard, but they cut the blade. Can not split the cage, can only try to escape in a whole car.

I do n’t know whether it was because someone came to rescue or something else. The prisoner was very excited, trying to drag the heavy bars of his body to shake the bars of the cage, whining in his mouth, but he could n’t say anything clearly. It seemed to be blocked.

Because of his unusually excited look, the prisoner-in-charge commander suddenly felt something, and suddenly realized something, he immediately shouted, "Withdraw! All withdraw!"

His voice did not fall, and the face of the leading man sneered.

Simultaneously spreading with the cold air in his smile was the breath of death brought by the nearly 100 hard archers who suddenly appeared on the top of the city wall.

The prison car was parked a few feet outside the city gate. The surrounding prisoners, except for a few hidden under the gatehouse, were almost in the range of the archers of the city.

Although everyone immediately ended the attack and fled at the moment of receiving the evacuation order, how could the human foot speed be faster than the flying feather like a meteor? In an instant, the sound of breaking the sky and the sound of screaming echoed together, and the imperial city had become a slaughterhouse.

Even though they are martial arts and martial arts people, unless they are masters of peerlessness, they can only be used as living targets under chaos, the difference is only how long they can resist and how far they can escape.

After several rounds of arrow rain, only about half of the prisoners fled into the jungle outside the city under the cover of their companions, and the corpses were lying on the snow, some were shot like hedgehogs, and the blood flowed into the snow. Dipped into black.

Faced with such a tragic situation, the commander's eyes were red.

However, he was obviously a tough-hearted person, and he had controlled his maddening emotions, and ordered him to rush out from the city. After frustration, he retreated to the dozen people inside the city gate and fled.

But the adversary is not an ordinary person, there are ambushes on the tower, how could there not be in the city? Hundreds of officers and men rushing out of several laneways formed a thick encircling circle in the blink of an eye.

Judging from their uniform blade style and gray leather armor clothing, they are clearly the elite soldiers under the suspension of the mirror, one by one like a wolf, and they are eagerly waiting for the summit to order.

But at this critical moment, the leading man on the mansion had no sound, which was surprising.

From the beginning to the present, no matter how the battle situation is deflected, there is one person who has not been affected by the rapid changes in the surrounding situation. That is the man in the red shirt who is fighting with the leading man.

He just played with concentration and earnestness. The leading man ’s high martial arts skills seemed to satisfy him very much. The black eyes on the rigid face shone with the light of victory, and he showed no mercy in his shot. The leading man was forced to resist with all his strength. In order to keep his breath alive, he couldn't say a word at all.

If you can let the red shirts catch the leading man as the hostage, the situation will of course turn, but the prisoner-in-commander's eyesight is very accurate, and he immediately saw that he wanted to achieve this goal, I was afraid that he would have to fight for a while. And the soldiers of the Suspended Mirror Division are not stupid. Although the leading men can't speak, they won't be standing like this for so long, they will react and take the initiative to attack.

So after thinking quickly, he immediately shouted: "Good boy, we are going back, come and tear up!"

I heard that I was going back, and the expression in the eyes of the red shirt was a little unhappy, but he finally listened, turned back and jumped, and changed the target of the attack ghostly.

In fact, when he heard the commander ’s words, the leading man had made preparations and made a great effort to make 12%. Unexpectedly, he was easily left by the opponent to get out of the battle situation, almost turned around and left, without a sense of stasis. .

Since I did n’t expect such a high-level person to shoot, I wanted to catch a few more live. There is no archer in the ambush in the city. Although they are more powerful than ordinary soldiers, the martial arts of the red shirt people lead the men. I could n’t help it. When I rushed over, I was almost unstoppable. The dozens of people who were surrounded were also killed with red eyes. I was desperately trying my best to do my best. In a few days, I was really torn apart by the encirclement. A rift escaped many people.

However, the strength of the two sides is really quite different. Although they escaped a bit, the leading man also caught three or four people and handed them away.

He knew that the Chishan people had too much martial arts, and it was useless to catch up, so he simply asked people to ignore him and tried his best to track down the commander who had fled into the alleys of the city.

The roads and lanes in Jinling City are not particularly complicated. Except for the one near the river in the center of the city, most of the squares are like a mountainous path. The leading man pursues along the blood stains. On several occasions, the fugitives can almost be seen, but After turning over a broken wall, the blood stains suddenly disappeared, and the other party noticed that he was dripping blood and dealt with it.

At this time, there were two similar intersections in front of each other. They passed through two different neighborhoods. The leading man judged quietly for a moment, smiled coldly, and quickly chased to the left, passing through a path that was on both sides of the courtyard wall. Suddenly rushed to the road.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a carriage came flying from the right side, and the two sides were not slow. They almost collided together. The leading man responded very fast, twisted his waist, and jumped to the other side of the road, and the carriage driver was also fierce. Lema rein, stopped the car abruptly.

"What's the matter?" The person in the compartment was probably toppled by this sudden stop, complaining angrily while protruding his head, "Who's so rampant during the Chinese New Year?" Said his eyes. Has fallen on the lead man, suddenly dumbfounded, shouted: "Sister Xia Dong, when did you come back?"

The leading man shrugged and glanced at him.

"Uh ..." The man in the car scratched his head and tightened his eyebrows, thinking about it again and yelling, "Brother Xia Qiu?"

The glanced look turned into a stare, and the stared person took a long sigh of relief and complained, "Say that! Brother Qiu, you're so bad, why do you have to pretend to be like Xia Dong? Sister is exactly the same? Very scary, do you know? "

"I said Xiaojin, I'm not pretending, is it grown like this?" Xia Qiu came over and thumped on Yan Yujin's shoulder, "I haven't seen it for more than a year, and the growth is strong."

"Your face grows right, but what about your hair? Isn't it that you deliberately dyed these two white ties?" Yan Yujin's relationship with Xia Qiu is obviously more intimate, without any fear, and he speaks loudly, "How the **** did you white out? I tried a lot of dyes, but none of them worked."

"Don't talk about this first," Xia Qiu smiled evilly, and suddenly leaned in front of Yan Yujin, and fixed his eyes tightly, "You tell me first, did you see a person with a wound from just now? Nearby? "