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Chapter 43 Eyes
Fang Jie is a knowledgeable person. Not only has he traveled a lot in the past fifteen years, but he has also been to the imperial capital in his previous life. Therefore, in his mind, Chang'an City is just an ancient city with green walls, red tiles, and many wooden buildings. . So when Xiang Qingniu talked about how majestic the imperial capital was, he really wasn't interested.
Cui Lueshang listened with great interest, and soon became fascinated.
"Do you know how high the walls of the imperial capital are?"
Xiang Qingniu sat on the red carriage next to the big dog. He raised his chin proudly and stood up and gestured: "It's so tall!"
Fang Jie, who was riding a horse, chuckled: "Dear Taoist Priest, can you not use your height as a basis for the majesty of Chang'an City? Even if you stand up from the carriage and gesture If the walls of Chang'an City are You can figure it out based on your height and wingspan, so I really doubt that the title of the number one city in the world is a bit false.
He stretched out his hand and gestured on Xiang Qingniu's head and said, "Even Fan Gu's city wall is this high."
Xiang Qingniu has an annoying fear of this young man whose origins are unclear. He doesn't know if it's because of the four intersecting lines and the red mole on Fang Jie's palm, or because this guy has a thick face and a heart. It's because Heidu is a little bit stronger than him.
So he just snorted coldly. After a while, he felt that he had to regain some face and pretended to be arrogant: "You are not a candidate of the Yanwu Academy, otherwise I guarantee that you will fail the exam."
Cui Lueshang was stunned for a moment, then pointed at Fang Jie and said: "He is a candidate from the Yanwu Academy, and he is also a candidate with a military background. It is easier than us to get the identity of a candidate. You know my aunt is Because he was newly crowned a noble concubine, he has this kind of prestige and got a spot after giving countless gifts. He only needs to earn enough military merit in the frontier army and then have a recommendation to take the exam. "
"Aha!"
Xiang Qingniu immediately became interested and his eyes widened: "You are really a candidate of the Yanwu Academy, then you will be miserable!"
Fang Jie ignored Xiang Qingniu, but looked at Cui Lueshang and said seriously: "It seems that in the eyes of you people from wealthy families, soldiers in the army are not qualified to get the student quota of the Yanwu Academy? It seems that in the eyes of you, In your eyes, it¡¯s easier for us ordinary soldiers without prominent backgrounds to get quotas than you, noble sons?¡±
Cui Luoshang paused for a moment and asked in surprise: "Isn't that so?"
Fang Jie couldn't help laughing, and his smile was so sinister: "I don't know how much money you spent, and I'm not interested in knowing how much face your family sold to help you get a place. But you must not know that I What did I get it for? Maybe even if I tell you I got it for twenty-one military exploits, you won¡¯t think it¡¯s anything.¡±
He said seriously: "I just want to ask you, do you know what twenty-one military exploits mean?"
Cui Lueshang asked: "What?"
Fang Jie said word by word: "It means that I have a great destiny, and I can die twenty-one times without dying You people will never understand how important a reference quota in the martial arts academy is to an ordinary soldier, and what a luxury it is." Dream! That is an opportunity to change their destiny that they have worked so hard for countless times in their lifetime. You exchanged it for your family's reputation and gold and silver jewelry, but we exchanged it for our own lives."
He slowly breathed a sigh of relief, laughed at himself and said, "Of course, in your eyes, the lives of us border soldiers may not be worth the money you sent out."
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Cui Lueshang blushed and couldn't help but shook his head and explained: "I really didn't think that."
Fang Jie sneered and asked: "Then let me ask you something. If you or your noble friends kill an ordinary soldier intentionally or not. Once this happens, what will happen to you? How to solve?"
"compensation."
Cui Lueshang said seriously: "The compensation is a large sum of money, which is enough for the relatives of the deceased to live in peace for the rest of their lives. Of course there will also be some scum from aristocratic families who use the power behind them to suppress this matter and will not mention it at all. Li Yuan went to the Yamen to file a lawsuit. Li Yuan had killed a policeman in Xiangcheng, and he didn't pay a single copper coin. He also drove the family out of Xiangcheng I know this is wrong, and I have advised him. he¡¡"
Fang Jie interrupted Cui Lueshang and asked, "What would happen if an ordinary soldier accidentally killed a noble disciple like you?"
"It will be worth your life"
Cui Lueshang's face changed.?, I found that my voice was so low that it was almost inaudible. He had never thought about this problem before, but now that he thought about it carefully, it really touched his heart.
"Is that the end of your life?"
Fang Jie snorted coldly: "If that gangster in Xiangcheng accidentally beats Li Yuan to death, he is afraid that he will not only save his life, but his family will be destroyed and even his relatives and friends will be harmed!"
"Do you know how many thieves soldiers in the border army have to kill before they can accumulate military merit?"
he asks.
Cui Lueshang shook his head.
Fang Jie said calmly: "Injury to one enemy will lead to one rank of merit, and killing three or more people will bring one to rank nine. After rank nine, you will accumulate military merit once. If you want to take the examination of Sui Dynasty Martial Arts Academy, you need to accumulate at least twenty merits." Military merithave you counted how many thieves you have killed? Do you know that every time you kill someone, you face a big risk of being killed?"
What Fang Jie didn¡¯t know was that Li Xiaozong had lied to him. According to the rules of the Sui Dynasty, if you accumulate five military merits, you can sign up for the Yanwu Academy. In order to retain Fang Jie, Li Xiaozong told this lie for at least two years.
And just when Fang Jie said the word "killed", a powerful crossbow came quickly and went straight to his throat!
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The crossbow comes from the earth!
Dozens of big men in black suddenly jumped up from the grass on both sides of the official road. They might have been hiding in holes dug in advance, just waiting for Fang Jie and others to pass by. These people suddenly jumped up in the air as if they were in the grass. Suddenly dozens of eagles fluttered their wings. They all held identical single crossbows in their hands, which were incredibly powerful.
The single-shot crossbow is naturally less lethal than the repeating crossbow, but it also depends on the occasion in which it is used. If the two armies are facing each other, the power of the continuous crossbow can definitely be regarded as a killing weapon. It can be used for assassination, and the advantages of a single crossbow are extremely obvious. The single crossbow has a longer range and is more powerful. Even a door panel can be penetrated with one crossbow.
Dozens of single crossbows are firing at the same time, just like dozens of lightning bolts striking a target at the same time!
Fang Jie was unprepared because he had long been accustomed to the sensory abilities of Mu Xiaoyao and Da Quan by his side. One can sense the enemy's cultivation, and the other can sense murderous intent. No matter what kind of crisis they encountered in the past, these two people could warn them in advance.
But this time, there was no sign.
Mu Xiaoyao in the carriage did not feel the presence of any expert nearby, and Da Quan did not even smell the murderous aura that he would never miss.
¡°This was the first time in Fang Jie¡¯s life that he encountered such a sudden assassination!
He was not with the big dog, nor was he in the carriage.
He is riding a tall horse, and his goal is very obvious. Except for Cui Lueshang, who was also riding a horse two steps away from him, he couldn't even find an obstacle that could withstand the crossbow arrows. The assassins jumped into the air from both sides of the official road, and the one closest to Fang Jie was only about twenty steps away. For a crossbow fired from a single crossbow, this distance can be reached in an instant.
¡°A second ago, Fang Jie was still complaining about the injustice of the border soldiers, and he was unsuspecting.
But the next second, the horizontal knife behind his back was already in his hand.
In the midst of the lightning and flint, Fang Jie knocked down the hard crossbow that had arrived in front of him with his sword, and then jumped off the horse without hesitation. Regardless of whether he would be accidentally injured by Cui Lueshang and the horses he was guarding, he continued on the official road. He rolled out, then adjusted his posture and rushed forward like a cheetah attacking an enemy.
He did not hide behind the carriage, but unexpectedly rushed into the assassins on one side. Behind him, those crossbow arrows were inserted into the official road.
If he had moved half a second slower, he would have been penetrated by at least three crossbow arrows.
Just as he jumped out of the official road and pounced on the assassins, a red silk ribbon flew out from the carriage like a giant python, and caught the assassin closest to Fang Jie. The giant python wrapped around the prey and tightened it violently. , with a click, the assassin broke an unknown number of ribs and died immediately.
The next second, Mu Xiaoyao had already rushed out of the carriage.
And the big dog has already crushed an assassin's neck.
In this short period of time, other people¡¯s reactions varied. The guard with the highest cultivation level around Cui Lueshang kicked him off his horse, then jumped down and fell on Cui Lueshang. After the rain of arrows, all four of Cui Lueshang's guards were nailed to death. The guard who protected Cui Lueshang was hit by three arrows in the back and looked dead.
And Xiang Qingniu immediately got into the carriage.
Fang Jie lowered his body, almost as if he was rushing forward close to the ground. Before an assassin had time to discard the crossbow in his hand, Fang Jie slashed out with his horizontal sword. The knife drew a line in mid-air and was in front of the assassin in an instant. After a pop, the assassinHalf of the head was removed with a sharp horizontal knife.
The assassin didn¡¯t have time to shout, and before his body fell down, Fang Jie was already rushing towards the second assassin. At this time, the second assassin threw away his crossbow and drew the Huanshou knife from his waist.
But he was still slow.
Fang Jie¡¯s horizontal knife stabbed upward at an unimaginable angle at the lower side. After penetrating the assassin¡¯s jaw, the blade came out from the top of his head. After succeeding with the sword, Fang Jie twisted his wrist, and the blade whipped around in the man's mind before he pulled it out.
When the body fell, white brain matter mixed with blood slowly poured out from the wound. Because these two things are mixed together, it looks extremely sticky.
With the third knife, Fang Jie directly cut open the lower abdomen of an assassin. The intestines and internal organs almost spurted out along the cracked opening, and a large sticky mass landed at the man's feet with a splat. A piece of intestine hung from the wound, connected to the mud-like mass on the ground. The assassin was about to step forward and stab Fang Jieyi, but he stepped on his own internal organs, his intestines caught his ankle, and he fell forward uncontrollably.
Just when he killed three people in a row, Mu Xiaoyao had already killed seven people and Da Quan had killed six.
For pure killing, the novice Fang Jie seems to be not much slower than the two of them. You must know that Fang Jie is a person who cannot practice cultivation, so the speed of killing people can almost be described as abnormal. He doesn't look like a coward who has never killed anyone in the border town. He looks more like a veteran who has crawled out of a mountain of swords and a sea of ??corpses!
"Something's wrong!"
The big dog jumped over fiercely and punched an assassin through the heart. When his hand was withdrawn from the man's chest, it was still holding half of the bleeding heart.
"These assassins are too weak. They are just ordinary warriors at best! They don't even have the strength of a first-class warrior!"
Fang Jie removed half of an assassin's shoulder with one knife, and after dodging an incoming sword, he replied: "Why don't you smell murderous intent?"
The big dog clicked and pulled the two arms of an assassin from his shoulders, and then kicked the man's naked body out: "I don't know, I haven't figured it out either!"
When Fang Jie and the other three were busy killing people, the frightened Cui Lueshang looked at the guards who died to protect him and panicked, completely wasting his second-level cultivation, while Xiang Qingniu, who was hiding in the carriage, could not bear it. He kept crying out.
"Fang Jie, you bastard! Where did you come from, and how did you get into trouble with these most difficult guys in the world! Anyone who is targeted by them will definitely die!"
But Fang Jie didn¡¯t die this time.
After the dozens of assassins killed and injured more than twenty people, the leading man whistled and turned around and ran away. Big Dog and Mu Xiaoyao chased each other out, and soon they each captured one. But it was meaningless, because when they were captured alive, the two assassins chewed up the poison hidden in their teeth.
When he wanted to chase the others, more than a dozen war horses rushed out of the woods on the roadside and helped the remaining assassins escape.
Fang Jie spat out bloody spit, jumped over and pulled Xiang Qingniu out of the carriage.
"who are they!"
Xiang Qingniu shivered with fright and almost fell down. It wasn't because of the assassination, but because Fang Jie's eyes turned red at some point.