Chapter 104 Marching
With a few carts of crossbows, Nangong Jianyu slowly walked into the Qinglong Camp martial arts field. Gongsun Qi and three thousand elite soldiers were waiting at the martial arts field. Not far away, the emperor's carriage also slowly drove into the martial arts field.
"Meet Your Majesty! Long live my emperor!" A deafening worship sounded in the martial arts field, and three thousand elite soldiers knelt on one knee in one knee, and Gongsun Qi knelt in the front.
Eunuch Wei lifted the curtain and the emperor got off the carriage, "Get up." The emperor looked at the three thousand elite soldiers, raised his hand, and the three thousand people stood up immediately. They could feel the strong morale. These elite soldiers were all good men of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
Nangong Jianyu came to the emperor and bowed with a smile, "See Your Majesty." The emperor first glanced at Nangong Jianyu, then turned his eyes to several carriages, pointed at the carriage and asked, "Is this the weapon you gave them?"
Nangong Jianyu's forehead immediately walked to the carriage and lifted the thick hemp covered on the carriage, revealing exquisite wooden boxes. When Gongsun Qi and the three thousand elite soldiers saw these exquisite wooden boxes, they all looked at Nangong Jianyu with suspicion. They even thought that Nangong Jianyu was here to make funny. How could such exquisite wooden boxes be used in the world to hold weapons? Besides, the wooden boxes are less than one foot in size.
The emperor personally picked up a wooden box, opened it, and placed a crossbow arrow and a quiver inside. Twenty-one arrows were placed in these quivers. The emperor took out the crossbow arrow and felt that the crossbow arrow was light and more advantageous.
The emperor handed the crossbow arrow in his hand to Nangong Jianyu, and then asked Gongsun Qi to bring a crossbow arrow used by Qinglong Camp now, "Let me see how powerful your crossbow arrow is."
Nangong Jianyu smiled without saying a word, putting three arrows into the crossbow arrow. A such a small crossbow and a short arrow, such a thing was like a child toy in front of the three thousand elite soldiers and Gongsun Qi. They didn't believe it could be so powerful.
He raised the crossbow arrow in his hand and pointed it at the target. Nangong Jianyu put down the crossbow arrow, "General Gongsun, can you move the target back a hundred meters?" The target was a hundred meters away from Nangong Jianyu. If it moved a hundred meters back, it would basically exceed the range.
Gongsun Qi waved his hand and immediately came up with two elite soldiers carrying the target and retreating a hundred meters. Then Nangong Jianyu asked Gongsun Qi to start shooting arrows with ordinary crossbow arrows. Gongsun Qi raised the crossbow arrow, and a sharp arrow broke out from the string. Everyone's eyes flashed, but the arrow failed to hit the target, which was more than three feet away from the target.
Gongsun Qi looked at the empty target, and he didn't believe that the toy-like crossbow arrow in Nangong Jianyu's hand could hit the target. Nangong Jianyu raised the crossbow arrow, and his fingers moved three times in a row, and three whizzing sounds. The speed of the arrow shooting out from the crossbow arrow was impossible to catch the naked eye.
The only ones present were probably the moment when the emperor and Gongsun Qi saw the arrows shooting out. Not to mention the speed and power, just shooting three arrows in a row at a time would be enough to shock the emperor and Gongsun Qi, let alone the three thousand elite soldiers in front of him.
"Come, come and get the target." Gongsun Qi shouted, and immediately a soldier ran over with the target. There were no arrows on the target that was carried over, but the people present couldn't help but take a breath when they saw the target.
There were indeed no arrows on the target, only three penetrating arrow holes were left. The emperor looked at the three arrow holes, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but tremble. As the king of a country, he naturally understood what Nangong Jianyu's hand represented.
Three thousand elite soldiers were shocked...
The emperor was shocked...
Gongsun Qi and Eunuch Wei were shocked...
The emperor looked at the exquisite wooden boxes placed on several carriages. If he had not seen them with his own eyes, he would not have believed that the wooden box was placed with a huge lethal weapon of war.
The entire martial arts performance was silent. Nangong Jianyu smiled calmly, picked up the exquisite wooden box, put the crossbow arrows into the box, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, is there anything else to tell me to do?"
The emperor waved his hand, he needed to slow down. After a while, the emperor recovered from the shock. He inspired the morale of the three thousand elite soldiers, and also appointed Nangong Jianyu as the commander Sima, who could command the entire Baihu Camp to fight against Nanyi.
Looking at the three thousand elite soldiers of the blue armor, the blue armor represents their identity. The armors in the four main businesses of the Great Zhou Kingdom are different in colors, and the blue armor represents the Qinglong Camp. Although these armors look majestic, Nangong Jianyu does not need them.
"Listen to my orders and remove your armor!"
With the order from Nangong Jianyu, the three thousand elite soldiers immediately took off their armor. Then Nangong Jianyu asked them to put on black clothes and finally divided the crossbow arrows to each of them. The remaining two thousand crossbow arrows were left, and each of the two thousand elite soldiers carried a wooden box, so that there was no need for a carriage to follow.
Outside the Qiyang capital, the people knelt on both sides of the road, and the emperor stood in front of Nangong Jianyu and saw him off in person. It can be said that he gave Nangong Jianyu enough honors, and there were civil and military officials behind the emperor.
Nangong Jianyu brought scholar Fan Lin, Qin Huan and Poison Grandma next to him. As for the others, Nangong Jianyu asked them to continue to secretly investigate Prime Minister Luo Lun. The old man who wanted to kill Tu Ling made Nangong Jianyu feel that the person behind him was not simple.
While the emperor was watching, Nangong Jianyu led three thousand elite soldiers to attack Xiangcheng, southern Xinjiang. Three thousand iron cavalry rushed and disappeared quickly in the emperor's eyes. After Nangong Jianyu and the three thousand iron cavalry left, the emperor sat in the carriage, holding an arrow in his hand. This arrow was one of the seven branches that Nangong Jianyu shot at the old man.
"Dean, we need to travel day and night at our current speed." Qin Huan knew that Xiangcheng in the southern border was still the case when everyone was on the road with light.
"No, you must reach the southern border in five days." The war may be about to break out, and Nangong Jianyu cannot delay it. With a command, three thousand elite soldiers accelerated their trip.
In the palace, the emperor sat in front of the desk with seven arrows on it, "Does he still have seven crossbows on him? The three crossbows have shocked me and even scared me. How many secrets does this kid have?" the emperor said to himself.
He has been the emperor for many years and has experienced many battles. The emperor did not expect that one day he would feel scared, not the fear on the battlefield, but the fear brought to him by a young man.
The emperor picked up an arrow and observed it repeatedly. This arrow was completely different from the three-line crossbow. "Where did he find this rare material? And the crossbow on him." The emperor fell into deep thought about this.
In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Luo Lun held a piece of paper in his hand and placed it on an oil lamp to light it. There were several lines of fonts on the paper, which slowly disappeared during the burning. Luo Lun's face was also very serious.
Knowing that his son was rescued, then according to what the masked man said, his life would be used for his son's life. The paper burning on Luolun's hand was related to this.
Nangong Jianyu was a little tired on the march, especially the war horses, and he seemed even more exhausted. "Qin Huan, camp for an hour." Nangong Jianyu looked at the sky and should be able to arrive in Xiangcheng in the middle of the night.
"Sima Youling, rest for an hour." Qin Huan shouted to the three thousand elite soldiers. The three thousand people turned over and dismounted, sat cross-legged on the spot. The whole movement was neat and uniform, and you could tell at a glance that they were well-trained.
"Director, look at the sky is gloomy and the climate is stuffy, and I'm afraid there will be rainfall." Qin Huan looked up at the sky and wiped away the sweat from his forehead with his hands.
"It's going to change the sky." Nangong Jianyu pointed to the sky in the distance, where a large cloud was covering it. The earth became dark under the black clouds, and the black clouds slowly moved towards the location where Nangong Jianyu was.
In a vague manner, thunder could be heard rolling in the black clouds. The black cloud was a thunder cloud. Nangong Jianyu frowned, "Qin Huan, let everyone get on the horse and move forward at full speed towards Xiangcheng."
If the thunder clouds pressed on the top, it was very likely that lightning would be reduced to injure them. Nangong Jianyu immediately stopped the soldiers from resting. The black clouds seemed to move slowly in the sky, but their actual speed was not slow.
More than three thousand people turned over and moved quickly towards Xiangcheng under the leadership of Nangong Jianyu. In the sky, dark clouds were shrouded in the clouds, and lightning flashed from time to time.
When the lightning broke through the dark clouds, a roaring thunder sounded, and the sky became darker and darker. "This is the weather in southern Xinjiang. The sun is still shining brightly in front, and there may be heavy rain behind it." Qin Huan couldn't help but smile at Nangong Jianyu.
"The thunder clouds are a little wrong this time. Unlike in the past, when the hot wind swept under the thunder clouds, the weather is abnormal." Nangong Jianyu asked everyone to speed up. Although this section of the road is in the mountain stream, the road is flat, which is conducive to the horse running.
The raindrops as big as beans began to drip in the sky. From the beginning to the end, the waterfall fell. Nangong Jianyu and his group were wet with the rain, but they were still speeding up toward Xiangcheng.
After running for two hours, the rain suddenly stopped, and the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated. It was already evening, and the sun setting in the sky was still exposed. The fiery red sun shone on the dark clouds that had not yet completely disappeared. The whole sky looked very gorgeous and spectacular.
Nangong Jianyu asked the soldiers to rest again, and then he took the scholar, Qin Huan and Grandma Du to a peak. When the three of them stood on the peak and looked at the road they had walked before, besides Nangong Jianyu, the scholar, Qin Huan and Grandma Du to watch the road they were running wildly before in shock.
The mountain road collapsed and the trees broke. It turned out that the road I had walked had been covered by mud and water, and was blocked by broken wood. At this moment, the three of them finally knew why Nangong Jianyu asked everyone to rush their way.
"Dean, are you a god in the sky?" When scholar Fan Lin stared at Nangong Jianyu, his eyes were full of admiration. Qin Huan and Poison Grandma also felt incredible. Qin Huan wanted to know how Nangong Jianyu knew that the mountain road would collapse.
"There are no gods in this world. I just know more than you. These are caused by celestial phenomena. There is thunder in the dark clouds and lightning breaks through the dark clouds. These are abnormal as we usually see. All abnormal celestial phenomena must not appear for no reason." Nangong Jianyu looked at the mountain road like a ruin. If he hesitated for a moment, he might have suffered a fatal disaster.
Chapter completed!