The Emperor is Above

Chapter 329: The cry of this dragon vulture is so sour and refreshing!

"Which bastard shot the arrow?"

City Captain Yu Hua's eyes were filled with anger that almost spit fire, and also filled with despair.

As the city commander of Lishui City, he certainly knew about Qing Yi's glorious military achievements, and he knew even more about the process of the Battle of Shangcheng.

Such a young man who had beheaded tens of thousands of people and defeated powerful enemies, was promoted three times from a senior sergeant in one day, and became a senior official and a vassal at the age of fifteen or sixteen, must have been full of pride and conceit.

If the giant retainer of the Wangmang clan under the enemy's command was innocently shot and killed by crossbows on the city wall when passing by Lishui City, he would definitely be furious. How could he let a city captain like me go easily?

The culprit who caused the disaster was immediately controlled by the city guard soldiers nearby. He was a 17 or 18-year-old boy who had just filled a vacancy in the city guard.

He was pinned down in the snow by two strong city guards. He was trembling with fear and kept begging loudly, "Captain, spare me, spare me. I didn't mean to do that. I was just too nervous and my hand shook, so I hit the hammer on the trigger."

Yu Hua believed this was true. Lishui City was located in the central area of ​​Xing State and had rarely experienced wars in the past hundred years. Because it was difficult to gain military merit, the position of city lieutenant here had never been liked by the nobles.

Even during the series of wars last autumn, when the entire Xing State was in flames, only Lishui City did not experience much unrest. Most of the city guards lacked combat experience, so this situation was inevitable.

"That's it, that's all!"

He looked at the soldier's young face, pale complexion, and eyes full of fear, and shook his head helplessly.

"Even if I hand you over, what will happen? The senior doctor of Longcheng will definitely think that I am using a scapegoat to fool him. Let's just leave it to fate!"

The city guards of local cities are different from those of the capital city. The capital city guards have as many as 5,000 people. Captain Qiu Yuan is a fourth-grade martial artist appointed by the monarch.

The local city guards only have a total of 1,500 people, and the strength of the city lieutenant is usually between the sixth-rank upper-armor soldier and the fifth-rank warrior, and his title is not as prominent as that of a senior official.

Just when Yu Hua was filled with despair, the military commander who first issued the warning said in great joy: "City Captain, there is no need to panic. The crossbow arrow was caught! The giant caught it with his bare hands!"

"What? The crossbow arrow was caught with bare hands?"

Yu Hua felt a mixture of doubt and confusion, then ecstasy, and quickly turned around to look outside the city.

On the main road two hundred feet away from Lishui City, eleven giant warriors of the Wangmang clan were staring at the top of the city wall with unfriendly expressions. Those twelve pairs of angry eyes were enough to make people tremble in their hearts.

The leader was a giant who was three feet and seven feet tall. In one hand he held a nearly six feet long golden spear and in the other hand he held a nearly one foot long crossbow arrow, which he turned over and over.

It was Wang Mang Fish King who caught the crossbow arrow with his bare hands. He tightly grasped the crossbow arrow in his hand and whispered in relief: "If it weren't for the cultivation method bestowed by the master, our brothers' strength has improved significantly recently, I'm afraid we would have been in danger just now.

However, the Lord will be based in Longcheng in the future, and he needs to make many good friends. Since none of us brothers are injured, let's not make trouble and make enemies for the Lord. Let's hurry up and get on with our journey."

The giant warrior of Wangmang clan who was almost injured just now glanced at the top of the city wall in annoyance, but still nodded in agreement and said: "Fortunately, Brother Yu Wang, you discovered the abnormality early and caught the crossbow arrow with your bare hands, otherwise I would have been shot just now, and even if I didn't die, I would still suffer.

But what you said, Brother Yu Wang, makes sense. Although we don't want to make enemies for our Lord, we must at least teach those people on the city a lesson, so that they don't think that our Lord's private army is weak and easy to bully, thus ruining our Lord's reputation!"

"Of course!"

Wang Mang Fish King threw the crossbow arrow in his hand towards Lishui City with all his strength, and shouted, "People on the top of the city, keep an eye on your children. I will return this crossbow arrow to you!"

"Bam—"

With a loud bang, the crossbow arrow, nearly ten feet long, flew back with a whistling sound. The sharp arrowhead was completely inserted into the battlement of the city wall, even penetrating one foot into the battlement.

"Wow--" The city guards near the battlements were collectively startled and retreated and scattered.

They had never seen a crossbow arrow thrown back by someone with bare hands have such strong penetrating power. This was a four-foot thick rammed earth wall.

The city lieutenant Yu Hua had an expression of embarrassment, relief and helplessness. As the city lieutenant of Lishui, he had the strength of a fifth-rank warrior. He guessed that he did not have the strength to throw back the crossbow arrows. Although it was quite embarrassing to have the crossbow arrows thrown back at him, he did not dare to say anything.

"call--"

Looking at the twelve Wangmang clan giant warriors leaving without any intention of pursuing his own responsibility, he first breathed a sigh of relief, then his expression changed, and he looked solemnly at the huge team that followed closely behind them.

"Yo ho——"

Following closely behind the Wangmang giant was a group of militiamen on skis.

This group of militiamen numbered as many as three hundred people. They used to be good at hunting in the mountains and wilderness, so they were picked out by Gongsun Wu to be trained as scouts and hunters. Now they are as happy as fish in water.

Following closely were various exotic beast cavalry and rangers led by Dongmen Hu and Dongmen Bao, who passed by lightly. Many of them performed various thrilling moves on the backs of their mounts to show off their riding skills.

"What a mob—"

A military commander behind Yu Hua looked at the many exotic beast mounts with envy and jealousy. Apart from helping the city captain to save some face, he also felt a bit jealous.

However, before he could finish his words, he saw four huge dragon-clawed locust tree spirits, guarding on both sides of a convoy with heavy steps, heading quickly north along Tongdu Avenue.

"I heard that these four tree spirits are all at the second level!"

Someone whispered something softly nearby, breaking the silence on the city wall and instantly making the jealous thoughts of many city guards disappear completely.

More than a thousand city guards stood in the wind and snow, watching the entire huge migrating team disappear. Only then did the nervous soldiers of Lishui City breathe a sigh of relief.

The thin city guard who was on guard duty couldn't help but muttered softly, "Fortunately, we didn't shoot the giant. Otherwise, if we offended this migrating team, our entire Lishui City would not be a match for them."

"Humph, how can you boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige?" A lieutenant glared at him and scolded him unceremoniously.
"Dragon City Yi Shang Doctor is also a vassal of the monarch. Even if someone accidentally shot one of his retainers from the city wall, would he massacre the entire city to vent his anger?"

"Wow—"

"cry--"

A series of cries of dragon vultures in the sky above his head interrupted the captain's voice of reprimand.

With the sound of whistling and flapping their wings, four huge and ferocious birds with a wingspan of more than 15 meters flew over the city of Lishui at a low altitude of more than ten meters.

The cold wind blown by the huge wings made everyone shiver uncontrollably, and the sharp cry of the dragon vulture made their scalps numb.

The four dragon eagle elders were not flying so low intentionally to demonstrate to the Lishui City Guards, but they were flying too high in the windy and snowy weather and could not see the convoy below at all, so they had to keep flying low.

But the city guards of Lishui City didn’t think so. They thought that what they had just said had been heard by someone, and that Qing Yi had specially sent four dragon vultures to teach them a lesson.

As a result, Yu Hua became even more depressed and kept silent. The captain, who had been scolding his soldiers madly in order to flatter him, also shut his mouth in embarrassment and dared not say a word.

On the other hand, the skinny city guard soldier's eyes were rolling around, and he laughed softly to his comrades beside him: "The call of this dragon vulture is really sour and refreshing!"

(End of this chapter)