Chapter 41

  "Robbery!"

  These two words were neither light nor heavy, drifting with the wind and spreading to every ear on the mountain slope. Gao Fei Hu's heart skipped a beat, wondering if he had misheard.

  "Hey, robbers are coming! Men stand on the left, women stand on the right, and those who are neither men nor women stand in the middle!" Cheng Dalai rode his horse, shouting out a nonsense mountain song.

  Gao Fei Hu suddenly realized that he hadn't misheard, and he finally understood. Cheng Da Lei had closed the gate tightly and refused to come out, not because of childish anger, but because he wanted to... rob!

  But why!

  Gao Fei Hu couldn't figure out this problem.

  Didn't he see the blood flowing like a river in Zhujiashan, where thirty or so people were brutally killed like pigs and dogs?

  Didn't he see Lu Fengxian's elite soldiers passing by, holding guns and beheading people as they went?

  Could it be that he didn't see the leaders of the Qingniu Mountain big and small strongholds all lowering their heads and tails, tied to the back of people's horses?

  He saw it at that time, but he still rode a thin horse and came out, facing the fine soldiers like a cloud, with people gathered to say two words.

  Robbery.

  Lu Hong slightly narrowed his eyes, then a smile spread across his face as he raised his palm.

  "Come within five paces and kneel under my horse, I can choose to forgive what you just said."

  Cheng Dalai dismounted his horse and leaned his axe against a tree. He rolled up the hem of his clothes and tied it around his waist.

  Gao Feihu nodded slightly at the scene: It's okay to be temporarily humiliated, now bowing his head to Lu Meng and begging for mercy is humiliating, but being able to survive, what do these humiliations matter.

  At this moment, Huang San Yuan and Xu Shen Ji pushed a heavy crossbow to the front of the gate, then quickly dodged away.

  Cheng Da Lei arrived in front of the heavy crossbow, turned the winch, pulled open the bowstring, and placed a specially made arrow on the crossbow body. It's called an arrow, or it would be more suitable to call it a spear, one zhang long, as thick as a wrist, with a black iron spearhead that shone brightly in the sunlight.

  Gao Fei Hu's eyes widened as he suddenly realized his mistake. This wasn't a gesture of surrender, but an intention to - attack!

  Is this a mistake? With one against a hundred, he's actually going to launch the first attack. Gao Fei Hu felt that his worldview was being turned upside down.

  Lu hummed and counted to three, raised three fingers, and awkwardly stuck them in the air, unable to count any further.

  Cheng Dali raised his axe with both hands and looked down at the mountain, seemingly expressing dissatisfaction that Lu Hong had not yet dismounted.

  "It's all been said!"

  The sound fell to the ground, the axe chopped heavily on the trigger, the sear was struck open, and the windlass spun rapidly, propelling the heavy crossbow bolts mounted on it forward in a furious charge towards the convoy.

  This heavy crossbow, or bed crossbow is more suitable, is a large-scale killing weapon. The heavy crossbow used by Cheng Dali has a range of 800 steps and a killing range of 500 steps.

  From the gate of Hé Zuò Zhài to the foot of the mountain is a distance of 400 paces.

  A cavalryman was knocked over and had multiple arrows stuck in his chariot.

  "The cavalry dispersed, and the infantry used carts for defense."

  Lu Hong gave orders at the first time, he knew that this heavy crossbow had great power, but its accuracy was not enough.

  Lu Hong didn't dodge, as long as his luck wasn't too bad, he wouldn't be hit by the heavy arrow. He put down the iron bow on horseback, the bow opened like a full moon, and shot towards Cheng Dairen on the mountain slope.

  Cheng Dalai did not dodge, he repeated the action just now, turning the winch, loading the arrow, using the axe to strike the trigger, and firing the heavy arrow towards the mountain.

  One man carrying a long spear on horseback walked out of Hamao Village, swinging his spear to deflect the arrows shot by Lu Hong.

  There were also cavalry shooting from the bottom of the mountain upwards, first of all too far away and out of range, and secondly from the slope below upwards, even if they reached Cheng Dalai's side, there was little lethal force.

  Under Qin Man's protection, Cheng Daire repeated his previous actions, opening the crossbow, loading the arrow, and pulling the trigger. His movements were clumsy but firm, treating the arrows flying from the mountain as nothing, only repeating his previous actions, cleanly killing the troops below.

  A scream rang out, a corpse fell to the ground, a fierce horse ran wildly out of control, kicking up clouds of dust.

  After shooting ten heavy arrows as a reward from the system, Cheng Dalai stood up and patted off the dust.

  The anger in Lu Hong's eyes was already visible to the naked eye. He clenched his fist tightly around the iron rod and suddenly shouted a word.

  "Kill!"

  At the sound of the order, the cavalry led the way and the infantry followed, rushing up the mountain like a swarm of bees.

  "Where is Qin Man?" Cheng Dairen thundered.

  "Fall in!" Qin Man raised his spear.

  Cheng Da Lei raised his arm and pointed at Lu Hong who was charging forward: "I want his head."

  "Bring it down for the master of the house!"

  Qin Man pulled the reins of his horse, holding a spear in one hand and controlling the horse with the other as he charged down the mountain. The flurry of arrows shooting towards him couldn't get close to Qin Man's body, and his target was only one person - Lu Hong on the horse, or more precisely, the head on Lu Hong's head.

  He who kills shall be killed by all.

  He who wields the knife to behead others should consider that one day he too will have his head chopped off.

  Cheng Dalai turned over on his horse and gazed at the troops charging down the mountain.

  The troops advancing upwards encountered problems as soon as they deeply entered the mountain slope, the cavalry fell to the ground with a loud noise, the beast clamps were triggered, and the hidden arrows in the soil were triggered...

  After the reconstruction of the mountain stronghold, Li Xingzhe saw the living facilities and shouted loudly, but he didn't know that the reconstruction of the mountain stronghold was just a byproduct, and Cheng Dalai's focus was on the defense of the mountain stronghold.

  Qin Man was originally an excellent hunter, now a top-notch mountain bandit. How many traps are buried on the slope of Yimapingchuan Mountain? Perhaps only a few people in Hamao Village know.

  So from the top of the mountain to the bottom, there is only one safe road, which is the one Qin Man walked on. All other roads are filled with traps.

  These four hundred steps became the longest road they had ever walked in their lives for these soldiers.

  Cheng Dalai turned over on his horse, but did not launch an attack. Instead, he calmly gazed down at the mountain below.

  There are three capable ones in the Hama Village, Qin Man is top-notch, Lin Shaoyu is excellent, and Cheng Dalai is just ordinary, so he's the worst. He can only rely on his heavy axe to cause a big mess and hurt people randomly.

  Lin Shaoyu also urged his horse to leave the mountain village and stood behind Cheng Darui.

  At a farther distance, there was also a moment when the enemy who had been attacking at great cost finally approached Cheng Darui. Everyone's eyes were filled with hatred, and if they could get close to Cheng Darui, they would not hesitate to devour him alive.

  The sound of drums rose, and Xu Ling'er exerted herself to beat the drum on the wall. This drum was a system reward, a battle drum with the skill of morale boost.

  The drumbeat was like pounding on everyone's heart, booming and resonating, while the enemy and Cheng Dairen's distance had become shorter and shorter.

  Cheng Dali and Lin Shaoyu almost simultaneously covered their faces with gauze, Cheng Dali loudly shouted: "Don't be in a hurry, I have a divine method, I can invite heavenly thunder!"

  Cheng Dairen's mastery of the Five Thunderclap Technique has spread far and wide, with some people believing it and others not. But today, in front of everyone, he actually did it, so does he really have a grasp on the Five Thunderclap Technique?

  Cheng Dairen stood up straight with his chest out, stretching out both arms as if urging on a magical technique.

  "Here it comes again! Here it comes again!" High-flying leopard shouted: "Quickly look at the heavenly thunder!"