one's door

So it's not against Shunji Car Horse Company, but only blame Shun Ji Car Horse Company for being unlucky and just met.

During the conversation, the rest of the bandits also arrived. They are not warriors, and their footsteps in the mountains are much slower than those of the twenty or so leaders. It was about the same as what Zhang Yan had guessed before, more than two hundred.

"Everyone who is in charge, this, this is not enough! If you have something to say, you can keep it! We can keep the goods and money as congratulations. The superiors are very happy. The lives of us who are suffering are worthless. Let us go!" He bowed his head, and his face finally couldn't hold back, not only the bitterness, but also the cold sweat all over his head.

But as the leader said, their lives are worthless, and it doesn't make sense to keep them or not, it depends on which one can bring benefits to these bandits.But now, in the eyes of bandits, it is more useful to kill people to establish their prestige than to let these people go back alive to spread the word.After these people are dead, someone will come to investigate later, and it will be the same when they send the message back.

So the leaders of the bandits didn't talk anymore, but waved their hands, ready to end the massacre quickly so that they could go back and celebrate.

"kill!"

The mob is just the mob, there is no battle formation, no queue, let alone ranks, they just come in such a disorderly manner, Zhang Yan, who was standing in the car formation, curled his lips.He felt that if there were thirty soldiers with Yubeishan here, they would be able to kill the two hundred or so bandits in front of them, and their own battle losses would not exceed [-]%!

Unfortunately, this place is not Yubei Mountain, and the people around are not soldiers from the fortress on the mountain.

Looking around, Zhang Yan saw that eight out of ten people were trembling in their legs at this moment, and those guards were also pale and had no will to fight.This kind of person has already collapsed psychologically. How can there be any possibility of resistance in a fight later?Only the few people around the leader of the guards gritted their teeth and still had some blood on their bodies, but they couldn't change the atmosphere of despair.

The cries had risen.Even the coachman surnamed Xiong who was familiar with Zhang Yan was shocked at this time, but he was better than others, knowing that he couldn't hide, so he took a machete from under the car and held it in his hand, although his hands were shaking violently. But the knife never fell.

Originally, Zhang Yan was going to watch the battle on the convoy's side first, and then find an opportunity to intervene, but now the desperate posture around him can't stop him for a moment, and he can't help him to continue to wait and see.

So with a thought, the twelve bean soldiers that had been placed more than ten feet away in advance began to tremble slightly, and then one by one sprouted roots like sprouts and plunged into the soil, and then passed through the ground one by one from the surgeon Zhang Yan. Absorbing spiritual energy in his body, he grew rapidly, and within a short while, twelve burly men stood up in unison.

These twelve men were covered in pitch-black leather armor, with tasseled helmets on their heads, and long knives in their hands. As soon as they appeared, they were full of fighting spirit and had an indomitable momentum!

When the Dou Bing appeared, the people in the convoy were the most surprised. They didn't know when they had these powerful warrior assistants on their side.A ray of hope suddenly ignited in my heart.

The smile on the face of the bandit leader on the opposite side froze.They also didn't feel how those twelve eye-catching warriors appeared, as if they had been there before but escaped their eyes and senses.

"What kind of cultivation are those people?"

"Huh, the posture is quite good, but the cultivation base is just like that, in the tempered body state, both in the early and middle stages."

"I'm wearing leather armor, which looks like a standard one. And it seems to be able to attack together, and the aura is not like ordinary warriors. I'm afraid the origin is not simple."

"Let's take a look first. Who of you will try them? I'm afraid the brothers below will not be able to take them down."

"It's enough to go to a few in the quenching state, we won't make a move yet."

"That's fine."

The bandit leader quickly reached a consensus, and whistles and screams rang out urgently, and then ten bandits who were also in the Body Tempering Realm came out in greater numbers, and fiercely went straight to the twelve bean soldiers who had just settled into the formation. go.

"Kill kill kill!"

But the first to come into contact with the bean soldiers were the ordinary bandits who rushed to the front.Although almost every one of them has a murder case on their backs, they are regarded as murderers, but they are better than ordinary people who live an honest life.A single combat skill can pull them far away.

However, the huge advantage in numbers made the bandits fearless for a while, not to mention that their leader had already caught up with them, and when everyone rushed up, wouldn't these warriors be cut into pieces?

If ordinary warriors in the early and middle stages of Body Tempering Realm encountered this kind of black and white battle, there were really not many ways to do it. Even if they could kill people, they wouldn't be able to resist for long.Because even combat skills are difficult to cover such a large area to cause damage, and the Tempering Body Realm can't use a few large-scale combat skills.

But Dou Bing is not an ordinary warrior, or they are not comparable to ordinary body-hardening realm warriors under Zhang Yan's control.Because Zhang Yan was able to fight, his stay in Yubei Mountain for more than two years was not in vain.

"Pfft!"

The light of the knife flashed, and the sound of cutting was inaudible, but the sound of blood gushing from the neck was particularly shocking.

The significance of the battle formation is that the most rigorous offensive and defensive fronts can be formed with the least number of people.And can combine the power of everyone and bring it to the extreme.There are even many tricks in the changes of the battle formation, Zhang Yan doesn't know many, and he has learned them by ear, which is completely enough to deal with these mobs.

The screams sounded and disappeared, but the sound of splitting and gushing continued.In just ten or so breaths of time, there were nine more corpses with their heads separated from each other, and the ground was stained scarlet in patches.

"Go away!"

The arrival of the ten Body Tempering Realm bandit leaders chasing after them also relieved the ordinary bandits who had been killed for a while and were a little timid.Even the bandits on the side stopped outside the car formation and did not enter.Everyone could see that these twelve black-armored warriors were the backbone of the team, and if they were broken, they could easily wipe out all the team members present as usual.If they rush to attack the chariot formation, it is hard to say how many people inside will die if they fight back. Bandits are not stupid, just wait.

"Where is the man, report your name! If you die, I will find a good place for you to bury!"

"...Let people go...we'll go...or else...death!"

Facing the bandit leader's question, a bean soldier suddenly opened his mouth, and replied with a bumpy voice, as if his throat had been scratched by a knife.

Chapter 55 Confused

No one noticed Zhang Yan standing in the crowd of motorcades.No one noticed that there was already a thin layer of sweat on Zhang Yan's forehead at this time.

On the one hand, it is due to the consumption of his spiritual energy to maintain the bean soldiers to withstand the power of the Shinto, and on the other hand, it is the mental energy consumed when manipulating the bean soldiers to use the battle formation to face the enemy.In the end, controlling Dou Bing to speak was much more difficult than Zhang Yan expected.Under the superimposition of several aspects, Zhang Yan felt very hard at this time.

"Manipulating twelve bean soldiers at a time is still a little bit reluctant." Zhang Yan thought to himself.But there is no turning back when the bow is opened, and now I can only bite the bullet and continue acting.

That's right, it's just acting, Zhang Yan wants to use twelve bean soldiers to act out a play, let these bandits use their weapons, so as to help the team members find a chance of survival in the desperate situation.

Outside the chariot formation, the bandits and the people in the chariot formation were all focused on the twelve bean soldiers.In addition to the nine corpses still alive on the ground, the fighting strength displayed by the bean soldiers also shocked many people.Naturally, the convoy was ecstatic, while the bandits on the other side temporarily stopped their attack.

The content of Dou Bing's speech was okay, but the voice and tone were very strange, as if someone who hadn't spoken for a long time suddenly spoke, ugly and jerky.

"These people are weird!"

"That's right. That voice should have been intentionally damaged. I'm afraid these people have a lot of background."

"Scared! Try it before you talk!"

The following Kaiyuanjing bandits exchanged opinions again. They all had major cases in various places and then fell into the grass.It can be said that he is well-informed and understands that this kind of standard leather armor and tasseled helmet is definitely not equipped by ordinary forces.So look again, if the strength of those warriors is not simple, maybe the scale of the killing tonight has to be carefully considered.

In the words, the battle formation ahead has already come into contact with the ten body tempering bandits.

If you say let him go, let him go?Who wouldn't say harsh words?Only after passing it by hand can you know whether it is blowing air.

Originally, these ten Body Tempering Realm bandits were very confident, because three of them were late Body Tempering Realm, and there was no late Body Tempering Realm on the opposite side.So they felt that even if they had two fewer people than the opponent, they should be able to quickly find a breakthrough in the fight, and then hack these pretending guys to death.

But the actual action was completely different from what the bandits had expected in advance.

From the very beginning of contact, they found that the twelve black-armored warriors were like a whole, although they didn't say a word to each other, they cooperated closely without any flaws.And after blocking the late-stage assault of the three Body Tempering Realm members in the bandits, they began to organize an effective counterattack.He even caught the bandit's cooperation mistakes and omissions and directly cut off half of one person's arm.

Of course, although Dou Bing had the overall advantage in the situation, it was not completely harmless.Although they avoided the bandits' swords, they could only resist with some combat skills, and the sound of bone cracking would be heard from time to time, but this did not affect the movements of the bean soldiers.But this scene is quite different in the eyes of others.

"That kick broke at least three ribs. If you're unlucky, it's not surprising that it pierced into an organ. Hey, that guy didn't say a word, and didn't even shake his hands. Don't these people know it hurts?"

"The tacit cooperation is outrageous! I'm afraid these people have been training together for five or six years? Maybe longer? It's rare to see such a tacit cooperation in the army!"

"Five or six years? Have you ever thought that they might have known each other since birth."

"Huh?! What do you mean?"

"Dead warriors. Have you heard of them? People who have been cultivated by big families or powerful forces to fight for themselves. Don't you think those black-armored warriors are very similar?"

"Dead man?!"

"If it's really a dead soldier, why would it appear here? Who are they desperately protecting?"

"I don't know. But it must be in this convoy."

Speaking of this, these bandits in the Yuan Kaijing couldn't hold back anymore, and moved forward to distinguish the people in the convoy.But just by looking at their appearance, they couldn't tell who was the one that these black-armored warriors, who were most likely dead soldiers, were desperately guarding.

"Why didn't they take that person away? Why did they choose to show up and fight with us?"

"Perhaps, the person they secretly protect doesn't even know his identity. Don't those big families like to hide their real sons in inconspicuous places?"

"I don't understand. But it can be seen that they are keeping their hands. Otherwise, those injured would not lose their arms but their heads."

"Then shall we go or not?"

"What a fart! To cause such a big trouble for a little money, the boss didn't take your skin off me? It's not worth it."

"Try their tone again. If it is what we think, then this deal will only take money and not take life. It can be regarded as giving face to the forces behind them."

"Well, just do it."

Several people agreed.It's not a big deal at all, just let go of a group of people who were thought to be "kill it" before, and Liwei can just find another group of people, it's just a bit of effort.

A few people came forward, and three of the besieging bean soldiers had their arms cut off, and some of the Body Tempering Realm bandits, who were unable to get off the tiger, all heaved a sigh of relief.The bean soldiers put too much pressure on them. The perfect cooperation that can be called one has no loopholes at all, and the ability to seize opportunities is outrageous.If the fight continued like this, even the three bandits in the late Body Tempering Realm would not dare to say that they would be able to retreat in the end.

As for avenging your companions?If they were so close, they wouldn't have been so unbearable when they fought with Dou Bing just now.The three forces were originally reorganized, and the relationship is slightly stronger than that of strangers. Who cares about your life?

"Everyone, can you tell me your identities? This time, let's treat it as if we don't know each other, and let you take me away."

Zhang Yan stood in the crowd, with a smile on his face like the people around him, and seemed to be surprised that the situation had turned around.In fact, his inner monologue is: finally caught!

The spiritual energy needed to maintain the twelve bean soldiers is really a heavy load for Zhang Yan. Although it has been less than half a stick of incense from the beginning to now, nearly [-]% of his spiritual energy has been drained.If these bandits are dragging on, he can only give up the original plan and choose to take a few people with him to kill them out forcibly.

After stopping his hands, although Zhang Yan's spiritual energy was still being consumed by the bean soldiers, at least he could relax a little bit.So he threw out the bean soldier who had spoken the formula he had prepared a long time ago.

"Master...it is inconvenient to disclose...if you can do it today...conveniently...you will be rewarded in the future."

"Hehe, it's easy to talk about." The leaders of the Kaiyuan Realm said their names while laughing, counting themselves as self-reported, waiting for Dou Bing to say "there will be good rewards in the future".

Chapter 56 A Brief History

Arrive at Huaiqing County, then pass through Chengping County, Changhu County, and finally head east all the way to Beijiang County in the northeast of Nanyuan Country.

It has been four and a half months since the last time Zhang Yan relied on the bean soldiers to fool around and saved dozens of people from bandits.

In retrospect, Zhang Yan also introspected a lot about his previous actions.Especially since he hadn't formally used the Dou Bing and didn't know how it would actually be used, he used it directly in a dangerous situation. There were too many uncertainties that made him almost play it off several times.

In the end, luck was on his side, otherwise he could barely save a few people and run away in the end, and it was impossible to take everyone away from that mountain road.

Even those bandits left a few empty cars for the convoy as a journey, and also left some fodder and rations along the way, which can be regarded as "the best of benevolence".It should be determined that there are "children of great people" in the team, and they will stay in the front line to wait for "big rewards" in the future.

However, the bandits might not allow the convoy to retreat, but let them continue forward. Counting the food and grass left behind, they could barely get out of this mountain road and reach the vicinity of Yongde City.

It seems that bandits are preparing to specifically pit the convoy from Xuanhua City. After all, Yongde City is located in the middle of Nanyuan Kingdom, and the traffic is more convenient. The convoy inside is bigger and has a deeper background. This kind of business near the remote city is easy to bully.

In fact, there is no need to go to Yongde City at all. As soon as the mountain road is out, the news spreads from the people of the Shunji Chariot and Horse Company. Yongde didn't suffer at all.

As for the twelve beans, Zhang Yan only recovered nine in the end, and three of them became waste products because the internal structure had been smashed.

However, Zhang Yan also learned the previous lesson. Twelve bean soldiers were indeed too many for him. He hadn't considered it properly before, and now the remaining nine are all for him to make a choice.Concentrate on continuing to "raise soldiers", and this bean soldier has given him a taste of the sweetness.

I still remember that on the way back, except for Zhang Yan, the rest of the passers-by who followed the car were confessed as "ancestors", because compared with the companions in the car who knew everything, these passers-by were obviously more likely to be "mysterious" identity".Even saved everyone's life.

As for why it wasn't Zhang Yan, it's also easy to understand.Because everyone knew Zhang Yan's identity before, and knew that he was a soldier who had just left Yubeishan Fortress and was about to return home.But would anyone who "has a mysterious identity" go to such a dangerous place as Yubei Mountain?So Zhang Yan was directly excluded.In the end, he didn't even have a share in the car, so he had to follow the coachman on foot until the car was full.

But the coachman surnamed Xiong has always kept close to Zhang Yan, and often said that Zhang Yan was his brother, because Zhang Yan clearly wanted to help him at the most dangerous time. Although this favor was not really useful, the surname But the bear's coachman remembered.Later, when he arrived in Yongde City, he dragged Zhang Yan to the tavern to treat him to a good meal, and he also saw Zhang Yan's scumbag drinking capacity.

After that, Zhang Yan didn't stay in Yongde City for long, and after two days of recuperation, he found another car dealership and continued eastward.

Walking and stopping along the way, although it can't be called "playing", it can also be called leisurely and leisurely, and I have also experienced many customs of Nanyuan Kingdom.

Another harvest is the extra books in Zhang Yan's luggage.

It is said that traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books, Zhang Yan is now practicing the motto of his ancestors.

Nanyuan Kingdom is not a big country, but it has a lot of history. Many things can only be seen on the surface, and the depth can only be reached through the combination of written descriptions.So along the way, apart from being interested in books on medicinal materials, Zhang Yan read most of the history books of Nanyuan Kingdom.And because there are very few people who can read and books are not popular, Zhang Yan can easily sell a book at a discount in the next city after he buys it and read it. All the books he left behind are books worth pondering over and over again.

Although Nanyuan Kingdom is small now, it has not always been so small.Even the name Nanyuan Kingdom actually only existed for more than 300 years.

Going forward, the current land of Nanyuan Kingdom actually belongs to the "Qiande Dynasty".And the Qiande Dynasty belongs to the "Shang Kingdom" in the Huangtian Territory, and its territory is more than twice as large as the current Nanyuan Kingdom.And now the Nanyuan Kingdom, which was separated from the Qiande Dynasty, belongs to the "Xia Kingdom".

To the north of Nanyuan Kingdom is the "Beiwu Kingdom", which once belonged to the Qiande Dynasty and is now independent, just like Nanyuan Kingdom.

Therefore, the Beiwu Kingdom and the Nanyuan Dynasty actually have the same historical context and inheritance roots.

Regarding the disintegration of the Qiande Dynasty, Zhang Yan has not found detailed historical books to understand it, but it can be generally judged to be the result of "the collapse of internal power and the squeeze of external crises".

The complexity of internal power Zhang Yan can only see some results from the books, but can't get a peek at the inside story. It is estimated that such things cannot be recorded in history books that can be bought from the outside world.But the external squeeze book is written very clearly.On the one hand, it is the offensive of the monster clan in the west, and on the other hand, it is the oppression from the Huayue Kingdom on the east bank of Yueshui, which is further east.

In the end, although the Qiande Dynasty fell apart and became the Beiwu Kingdom and the Nanyuan Kingdom, the two countries did not become friendly to each other because they both came from the same origin. On the contrary, they both regarded each other as thieves who stole half of the Qiande Dynasty's foundation.There was constant friction and the relationship was tense.

The reason why the Beiwu Kingdom and the Nanyuan Kingdom have not had a real war for hundreds of years is not because there is any bottom line on both sides, but because the Yaozu and the Huayue Kingdom in the east put too much pressure on them , Even if they don't like each other or even regard each other as a thorn in the flesh, there is no spare energy to fight.

Even after a long time, under the double pressure from the outside world, Beiwu Kingdom and Nanyuan Kingdom were forced to carry out some exchanges, whether it was state affairs or economics, even the exchanges between the Martial Arts Academy.

This is very interesting.It's like two brothers who have conflicts after the separation. They don't like each other behind closed doors, but they have to keep each other warm when facing the bullying outside.

Along the way, Zhang Yan saw goods related to Beiwu Kingdom in the markets of major cities. Among them, a special product similar to tea bricks from Beiwu Kingdom was very popular in Nanyuan Kingdom, and many markets were Hang a sign out, not in stock but can be pre-ordered.Zhang Yan asked about it, and the most outrageous thing is that you have to wait half a year for the goods to be delivered to you at the earliest after ordering. If you are unlucky, it is possible to wait for more than a year.

On the last way back to Beijiang County, Zhang Yan took the tea brick returning air convoy from Changhu County to Beijiang County to Xiangkou City.

Xiangkou is the seat of the Sheriff's Mansion of Beijiang County, and it is also the largest and most prosperous city in Beijiang County.Most of the convoys heading to Beijiang County will go to Xiangkou first, and then disperse.And Zhang Yan's final destination, Langyuan, is not far from Xiangkou.

Chapter 57

When I got off the convoy at Xiangkou, I went to a restaurant and prepared to go shopping after a casual meal, and then I had a two-day rest before going back to the corridor.

I don't know why, but Zhang Yan always feels a little nervous about being close to his hometown.I don't know if it's because he hasn't experienced anything related to "relatives" in his two lives.

In his last life, um, he was already dead on earth, so it should be called his last life, right?

Zhang Yan was an orphan in his previous life, and was adopted by his master from the orphanage.Later, he once regarded the master as his father.And the death of his master also made him a loner again.

Now that he is reincarnated as a human, regardless of the process, this body has become one with Zhang Yan's soul, and he should inherit everything from this body, good or bad.

Although the soul of the original owner has dissipated, some memories left in the physical body make it difficult for Zhang Yan to calm down every time he thinks of the word "home".