A knife in love

Chapter 407

The Beggars' Gang was founded in the late Tang Dynasty, and it has been nearly a thousand years.Among the lords of the beggar gang in the past, there are quite a few people with unique skills who joined the beggar gang and became the leader of the beggar gang.It's just that after arriving, they often become famous in the world by relying on the unique martial arts passed down from generation to generation by the beggar gang's lord.The martial arts handed down from generation to generation by the leader of the Beggar Gang follows a masculine path, and the stronger the better.When Deng Yao took over as the head of the gang, the Beggars' Gang was suppressed by the imperial court, and their power had long since faded away.At the end of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, the leader of the beggar gang at that time was regarded as a thorn in the eyes of the Mongolian Yuan court and Zhu Yuanzhang, who intended to seize the world, because of his alliance with Chen Youliang, and finally died in an assassination.

In that assassination, in addition to the head of the beggar gang, the three elders of the Eight Bags who accompanied him and more than a dozen masters of the beggar gang were also killed.The two most powerful martial arts of the Beggar Gang were lost.Therefore, from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the martial arts of the beggar sect masters plummeted, and they could no longer keep pace with the leaders of Shaolin, Wudang, Huashan and other sects.As for which faction was responsible for intercepting and killing the leader of the beggar gang, it has not been clarified for a long time.It's just that when the leader of the beggar gang was attacked, it was just before Chen Youliang's army and Zhu Yuanzhang's forces were preparing for a decisive battle at Poyang Lake.Therefore, there are rumors in the world that it was Zhu Yuanzhang's order to kill the leader of the beggar gang.And since this battle, the three masters "Kang, Liang, and Feng" who were originally famous and powerful in Zhu Yuanzhang's army disappeared and disappeared from the world.Therefore, there are legends in the martial arts that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered these three masters to lead others to attack and kill the leader of the Beggar Clan that day.It's just that the leader of the Beggar Clan was very skilled in martial arts, even though he died in an assassination, he still killed all the three masters.

After Deng Yao succeeded as the leader of the gang, he focused on revitalizing the prestige of the beggar gang.It's just that the beggar gang has lost its unique skills and is being suppressed by the court, so every step is extremely difficult.Even so, Deng Yao was still indomitable, even at the expense of compromise, and cooperated with the big bosses of the court.His painstaking efforts were not in vain. The imperial court relaxed the suppression of the Beggars' Gang, which made the Beggars' Gang gradually extend to the north from the southeast corner.

It's just that although the power of the beggar gang has recovered, the martial arts passed down by the gang leaders of the past generations can never be found again.Deng Yao put in a lot of effort on this matter, thinking that if he wanted to be the No. 1 beggar gang for more than a hundred years, it would not be enough to expand the power of the beggar gang to the north. As for martial arts, he must have unique ideas.He also retreated for two years and wanted to create a powerful martial art.It's just that the talent is limited, and even though he has worked hard, he still achieves nothing in the end.

However, these efforts are not useless. Deng Yao's martial arts has made great progress, and he is walking on a path of brute force. There is a bit of resemblance.As a result, Deng Yao's reputation in the Jianghu became more and more prominent, and the beggar gang respected him very much.

Seeing the astonishing momentum of the silver light at this time, Deng Yao tried his best to smash the silver light down with the stick in his hand.

There was only a "bang", and the stick hit the silver light.Deng Yao only felt that the tiger's mouth shook violently, and the wooden stick could no longer be held, and flew out with a "hoo".The silver light was hit by Deng Yao's wooden stick, and originally flew towards his face, but now it was slightly lowered by half a point, and shot straight towards his chest.

Deng Yao didn't expect the silver light that hit him to be so powerful. After letting go of the wooden stick in his hand, he was startled, and it was too late to dodge the silver light that hit his chest.His heart felt sour, and he thought to himself: "I've worked so hard, but I didn't expect it to end like this."

It was too late to say it, just as he was closing his eyes and waiting to die.A flash of sword light flashed across, cutting at the top of the silver light.There was only a sharp sound, and the sword light suddenly disappeared, and the silver light was blocked by the sword light, its momentum faded, and it fell to the ground with a "pop".

Deng Yao narrowly escaped from death, he was surprised and happy, but he saw Murong Danyan standing beside him, holding a sword in his right hand.It's just that her right hand holding the sword trembled slightly, and her face was full of horror.

It turned out that when Deng Yao was in danger and the wooden stick in his hand was blown away, Murong Danyan happened to be standing beside him.Seeing the silver light attacking Deng Yao's chest, he hastily used his long sword to block it for Deng Yao.

In terms of martial arts, Murong Danyan is far inferior to Deng Yao.But after all, she was born in Murong Villa, and she has extraordinary knowledge.If it was someone else, he would have no time to think about the lightning and flint, and would naturally smash the incoming silver light with the weapon in his hand.It's just that before Murong Danyan made a move, he had thought that this silver light was coming fiercely. With Deng Yao's martial arts, the wooden stick in his hand was even blown away by this silver light.If I used my long sword to chop and smash Yinguang, I couldn't guarantee to shoot it down. If it was a little lower, it would still hit Deng Yao.The second is that even if I cut off the silver light with the sharpness of the long sword, the front end will still shoot into Deng Yao's body.So when she used her sword to shield Deng Yao, she had already calculated very clearly in her heart.She used the blade of the sword to block the incoming silver light, instead of cutting off this extremely powerful hidden weapon with the edge of the sword.

Even so, when the long sword in her hand collided with the silver light, she felt a strong force rushing towards the silver light, her right arm shook violently, and the long sword could hardly be held.Waiting until the silver light fell to the ground, Murong Danyan only felt his right arm numb and startled, and he couldn't help but hang down.She didn't expect this hidden weapon to be so powerful, she was terrified and her face changed drastically.

Deng Yao quickly walked a few steps, picked up the wooden stick thrown aside, turned around and said to Murong Danyan, "Girl, thank you for saving the old beggar's life..."

He hadn't finished speaking when he heard a "woo" sound, and another ray of silver light shot from the stone wall behind everyone.

Just now when everyone saw that Deng Yao was forced into a panic by the silver light, he almost died on the spot.And the long sword in Murong Danyan's hand is like a pool of autumn water, everyone is a big expert in the rivers and lakes, they can tell at a glance that it is a rare sword.With the sharpness of the sword, it is so reluctant to fight against the silver light.Shocked, everyone knew that this silver light was extremely powerful, and if one was accidentally shot by it, there was absolutely no reason to escape.So seeing another silver light coming towards him, Liu Yong shouted loudly: "Everyone, get out of the way, don't block it!"

Before he finished speaking, the group of heroes showed their magical powers and avoided the silver light one after another.The silver light passed through the crowd and flew to nowhere in an instant.

Everyone was shocked for a while, but after a while, two silver lights flew over from the left and right sides at the same time, making a sharp "woo woo" sound, and directly attacked the crowd.Everyone dodged around and avoided the two silver lights.

Afterwards, silver light continued to shoot from all directions, front, back, left, and right.It's just that everyone was on guard, they just dodged blindly, and didn't use their weapons to forcefully block, so although the silver light was powerful, it couldn't hurt everyone anymore.

After shooting seven rounds, no more silver light was shot at Qunhao.Everyone still didn't dare to hold their breath, and stood on the ground intently, looking around vigilantly.

Deng Yao was shocked for a while, and cursed in his mouth: "What the hell is this, why is it so powerful?"

Li Qiufeng leaned over to watch carefully the silver light shot down by Murong Danyan, and found that the silver light turned out to be a long arrow.It's just that this arrow is different from the feather arrows shot before, it is nearly four feet long, sharp and shining with cold light.The nocks are slightly thicker, but not feathered.The arrow body is several times thicker than the feather arrow, and engraved with blood grooves.This thing is no longer like a feathered arrow, but a short spear.If you shoot someone, you will die without a doubt.

Everyone looked at this long arrow with a strange shape, and everyone was terrified.Deng Yao was even more terrified, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead, he murmured: "Damn it, if this arrow hits the old beggar, I'm afraid he has already met the King of Hades."

Situ Qiao said: "Old beggar, your life is indeed hard enough. If any one of us gets hit by this arrow, I'm afraid we won't survive."

Deng Yao didn't sneer back this time, and said in a deep voice: "The old beggar's life is cheap, and Lord Yan doesn't want to take it." After he finished speaking, he glanced at Murong Danyan, his eyes full of gratitude.

Murong Danyan didn't pay attention to Deng Yao's gaze, but kept looking at Li Qiufeng who was carefully sizing up the arrow.Seeing Li Qiufeng frowning, she looked puzzled, so she asked, "Brother Li, do you also think this arrow is very powerful?"

"It's not an arrow."

Li Qiufeng said in a deep voice.Everyone was stunned, although there was no decorative feather at the end of this thing, and it was much thicker than a feathered arrow, but it was indeed shot from all around, so why couldn't it be an arrow?

Knowing that everyone was puzzled, Li Qiufeng continued: "This thing is called a crossbow. Although the world has always referred to it and arrows as a bow and crossbow, the two are completely different. Arrows are fired with a bow, but crossbows are fired with a crossbow. Launching is far more sophisticated than bows and arrows. In terms of accuracy, crossbows are also stronger than bows and arrows. However, there are two types of crossbows. One is a small crossbow, which is suitable for close combat. The crossbow machine is much smaller than the bow. It is easy to carry. The other is a large crossbow, used on battle formations, with a range of two thousand steps. The crossbow we see today is a large crossbow, which is why it is so powerful."

Liu Yong said: "There are also people in Jianghu who use nuns as hidden weapons, but they are completely different from this crossbow."

Li Qiufeng nodded, and said: "Many masters in Jinyiwei carry crossbows and use them to kill people. They are indeed extremely powerful. The structure of the crossbow that fires this large crossbow is precise, and it takes a lot of time to build. It is said that the crossbow is a weapon It was created by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. At that time, the cavalry of Cao Wei was unstoppable. The Han army was mainly infantry. It is tantamount to resisting the charge of cavalry of Cao Wei. The cavalry thought of many ways. One is to use spears to block the attack, but once the first line of defense is broken by the Cao Wei cavalry, the formation will be scattered. This method is not good. The second is to intercept with bows and arrows. But before the Cao Wei cavalry attacked, The infantry of the Wei army would also use bows and arrows to assist the cavalry in battle. With bows and arrows against bows and arrows, the Han army could not take advantage of too much. However, the cavalry of Cao Wei took advantage of the situation to attack, and the Han army must be defeated. Zhuge Liang thought hard about the technique of cracking, and was subjected to the Warring States Period Inspired by the crossbow machine, he created a strong crossbow for battle formation. This kind of strong crossbow can be filled with ten crossbow bolts at a time, and they are fired in turn. Those who hit within a hundred steps will die immediately. After the Han army equipped it, when the cavalry of Cao Wei charged , Countless people died under the strong crossbow. Therefore, although Cao Wei's army was strong, it was always difficult to fight against the Han army. Later, when I saw Zhuge Liang's army, even if they defended more and attacked less, they still couldn't crack the crossbow. Therefore, the most famous person killed by this powerful crossbow was Cao Wei general Zhang He. In the battle of Mumendao, Zhang He was ambushed by Zhuge Liang and fell into a heavy siege. , Le Jin, Yu Jin, Xu Huang and other famous generals have all passed away. Zhang He is the only remaining famous general in the two countries. But he was unable to capture and kill him. In the end, he shot Zhang Yun with this powerful crossbow, and a generation of famous generals fell."

(End of this chapter)