Aoyama

Chapter 275 Exhaustion
Wang Gui lay on the ground, holding his waist, like a river shrimp that had just been pulled out of the water. He curled up and stretched, curled up and stretched, but still couldn't stop the piercing pain.

He cursed non-stop: "Little hoof, I will definitely kill you!"

At this time, Zhang Xia was lying on the edge of the eaves on the roof of the inn, looking down. He saw dozens of Tian Ce Army soldiers taking off their armor, holding knives in their mouths, and climbing up one by one in a line.

Among the soldiers, several took off their helmets with black pheasant tails, revealing less than an inch of hair, and their ordination marks could be seen under their hair.

They are the monk soldiers from Kujue Temple!
They were seen climbing the wall with their bare hands, and carving out leverage points on the bricks for other soldiers to climb.

Zhang Xia frowned and said, "Oh no, they're climbing up!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Gui no longer cared about the pain in his waist. He quickly stood up, refolded the tables and chairs, and climbed up. He finally managed to get into the crack in the roof before the Tian Ce Army climbed up.

Wang Gui lay on the roof and cursed: "That little bastard beside Chen Ji..."

Zhang Xia said angrily: "Shut up!"

Zhang Zheng glanced at Wang Gui and said, "Xiao Man is kindhearted by nature. If it were me, I would have broken your legs. If you curse at me again, I will push you down the stairs right now."

Zhang Xia leaned over the crack and looked inside, only to see that the table and chairs were still stacked together.

As long as someone enters this room, the first thing they will think of is someone hiding on the roof, and they may even climb up to the roof first to hunt them down.

Zhang Xia gritted her teeth, slowly moved her body downwards, and tried to push down the chairs stacked on the table, but she couldn't reach them no matter what.

Qi Chenzhuo squatted beside her and said, "I'll do it!"

Zhang Xia stood up and made way. Qi Chenxu lifted a tile and threw it at the chair, which fell to the ground.

Qi Zhuozhu was about to say something when Zhang Xia pulled him back by the collar: "Shut up!"

The next moment, a monk soldier leaned out of the window of Room A and looked around the room vigilantly. When he heard the sound of Chen Ji fighting with others in the room, he immediately jumped into the room and rushed into the corridor with a knife.

Behind him, one after another, the Tian Ce Army soldiers entered, as if endless.

Zhang Xia looked towards Guyuan City worriedly. Chen Ji was buying time for them, but how long would this delay last?
The city was engulfed in fire, and more than half of the houses in the city were burned down by the Tian Ce Army. It was like a square chessboard, with the black pieces occupying half of the city.

In the distance, the iron cavalry of Jing Chaotian Ce Army was like a black torrent. Under the guidance of flag orders, they moved back and forth unscrupulously, forcing the border troops to retreat again and again.

The border troops and the Yulin troops brought bricks, stones and earth to build a defense line in Xuwei Lane to prevent the Tian Ce Army's cavalry from charging recklessly.

The Tian Ce Army's cavalry did not force their way in. Instead, after rushing to a distance of several dozen steps, they bent their bows and drew their arrows, and with a single volley they shot down a large number of border troops like mowing the grass.

The rattan armor of the border soldiers could not stop the iron-rimmed arrows of the Tian Ce Army!
The border troops also drew their bows and shot back, but their range was more than ten steps away from that of the Tian Ce Army, and the Tian Ce Army happened to move their horses within these ten steps.

When archers meet, a range of more than ten steps is already a huge gap.

The sound of bowstrings vibrating was heard again in the distance. Li Xuan hid behind an earthen house and gasped for breath. The ordnance of the Guyuan border army was shocking, and was completely different from the three major camps in front of the emperor. Not to mention firearms, there was not even a decent bow!
He looked at the border soldier who was dodging arrows beside him, and couldn't help asking, "How did you win the battle at Quwu Mountain in the 25th year of Jianing? Do you have any trump card?"

The veteran soldier of the border army spat on the ground and glanced at him: "Master Jing, are you still asleep? There are not so many fancy things on the battlefield. Pay with your life!"

"Pay with your life..." Li Xuan took a deep breath, and suddenly felt a trembling heat in the depths of his heart. He quietly climbed onto the roof and silently moved towards the place where the Tian Ce Army's cavalry were shooting.

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In the Longmen Inn.

Chen Ji was breathing heavily as he walked through the corridor holding a whale knife.

The dark clouds above his head followed him as he jumped over one beam after another. The man and the cat, one up and one down, followed him like a shadow.

When Chen Ji passed by Room No. 1, a soldier from the Tian Ce Army rushed out of the room and slashed at his face with a knife.

But Chen Ji took a step back to avoid the blade, leaned down and stabbed with his backhand, and the blade pierced through the head of the Tian Ce army soldier through the jaw.

He put away his knife and continued walking forward. When he passed the door of Room No. 1, a soldier of the Tian Ce Army just rushed out of the room.

Before he could raise his hand to swing the knife, Chen Ji casually wiped the long whale knife across the neck, leaving a trail of blood splattered on the wall of the corridor.

Chen Ji was almost out of strength, so he wanted to kill the enemy with one strike and not get involved in a fight.

But more and more Tian Ce Army soldiers climbed up, and they rushed out of the guest rooms one after another like playing whack-a-mole, and they could never be killed all.

Chen Ji could only fight and retreat, but the inn was an octagonal building, and the corridor upstairs seemed like a huge ring. As he retreated, he returned to the starting point, with enemies in front and behind.

He stopped and bowed slightly.

A drop of blood condensed on the tip of the whale knife, and then fell on the wooden floor with a plop.

Drop after drop. Chen Ji slowly raised his whale knife, looked at the dark masses of Tiance Army soldiers in front of him, and then turned back coldly to look at the dark masses of Tiance Army soldiers behind him. Countless soldiers surrounded him in the corridor.

He took a step forward, and the soldiers followed him forward. He took a step back, and the soldiers followed him backward.

On the roof, Xiaoman hid in the shadow of the beam and watched this scene silently, looking at the young man among the soldiers.

In two years, my son has become unrecognizable.

Is this still the submissive bastard of the Chen family? It seems not.

Xiaoman pursed her lips, and was heroic when she sent Zhang Xia away and stayed alone. She thought of her aunt's instructions to keep the relics safe.

But when she saw so many Tian Ce Army soldiers rushing in, she panicked and could only hide on the beam and watch silently.

Do you want to go down and help the young master? If we go down, we will die together.

Xiaoman looked up silently, and suddenly, she saw the dark cloud squatting on the beam not far away, also looking down silently.

Wuyun looked up and saw her. She waved at him and signaled him to run away quickly. These Jingchao thieves were so wicked that they might even kill cats.

But Wuyun just glanced at her and his eyes fell back on the corridor, as if looking for something.

At this time, a voice like a huge bell came from behind the crowd, and the Tiance Army soldier holding a heavy sword also came to the third floor: "Your sword is slow, and your legs are heavy, will you surrender?"

Chen Ji looked around, holding the hilt of the Whale Knife tightly with both hands, sweat dripping down his forehead: "No surrender."

The other party sneered from behind the crowd: "Is it worth it to fight so hard?"

Chen Ji said calmly: "It's not worth it to protect the people you want to protect."

Xiaoman on the beam was stunned.

But I heard the armored soldiers of the Tian Ce Army sneer from behind the crowd: "I think everyone else has hidden on the roof. Those southern officials hid quickly, but no one came to take care of you."

Chen Ji said calmly: "Didn't you also hide behind the infantry and talk?"

The other party was silent for a moment, and then said coldly from behind the crowd: "Kill him."

In an instant, all the Tian Ce Army soldiers rushed towards Chen Ji. Chen Ji swung the whale knife. He no longer cared about killing people and could only fight back with all his might.

When Chen Ji was resisting the attack in front of him, a very fast knife light splashed and slashed fiercely on his back, leaving a long bloody mark so deep that the bone could be seen.

Blood flowed down my spine and the piercing pain pierced into my bones.

Chen Ji swung back and chopped, but the opponent hid among the soldiers again and waited for an opportunity to strike.

He could only endure the pain and charge forward, forcing the dark masses of Tian Ce Army soldiers to retreat again and again. However, in just a few breaths, he had another knife wound on his back.

Wu Yun watched this scene and wanted to take action several times, but he remembered what Chen Ji had told him and squatted back down.

While he was struggling, a monk from Jing Dynasty hiding in the crowd attacked him with another knife. Chen Ji had his back to the monk and had no time to dodge!
Just as the dark clouds were about to swoop down, it suddenly saw a shadow flash by. It was Xiaoman and Taotie walking silently past it on the beam.

Just when the blade was about to hit Chen Ji, Xiaoman and Taotie leaped into the corridor at the same time. Taotie opened his bloody mouth in the air and swallowed the monk whole from top to bottom!
Xiaoman stood behind Chen Ji, looking at the bloody wounds on his body: "Master, you..."

Someone interrupted, "Mandala Seal, Taotie? Where did you learn the secrets of our northerners' officialdom?"

Xiaoman turned around angrily and cursed: "It's none of your business! You are a northerner, everything belongs to you northerner, why don't you say that I am your northerner's mother!"

"Sharp-tongued! Get out of the way!"

The Tian Ce Army soldiers behind Chen Ji suddenly dispersed to both sides like a wave, but the iron tower-like soldier swung his heavy sword and chopped down with an overwhelming force!
For a moment, Xiaoman's hair was blown behind her ears by the whistling wind. She drove Taotie to use its sheep-head horns to block the oncoming sword, but Taotie was cut into two as soon as it met the heavy sword!
Unstoppable!

When Chen Ji looked back, he suddenly saw the sword covering Xiao Man. Xiao Man seemed to be frightened: "Ah, Master, save me..."

"Dark Cloud! Now!"

In an instant, a streak of sword light suddenly splashed down from the roof beam, like a scimitar or a crescent moon, and it slashed fiercely at the Tiance Army soldiers holding heavy swords!

"court death!"

The armored soldiers of the Tian Ce Army twisted the sword fiercely, and the originally clumsy heavy sword was lifted up lightly, breaking the blade light with one sword.

He snatched the machete from the soldier next to him and threw it towards the roof with all his might.

The broadsword smashed the beam with the force of thunder, and wood chips fell all over the roof. A black shadow flashed among the chips.

The Tian Ce Army soldiers narrowed their eyes and looked carefully at the flying wood chips, but saw a black cat falling from the wood chips, landing lightly on Chen Ji's shoulder, staring at everyone coldly.

(End of this chapter)