Chapter 20 Turn the tide
There were only ten bandits, two fewer than Li Jing and the others. However, in the first round of attacks, several people on Li Jing were already caught in the arrows. Amid Wang Liang's screams like slaughtering, the young people who had been following Wang Liang were even more panicked at this time. Some ran to pull Wang Liang, and some turned around and ran away directly, but none of them followed the orders of Captain Wang.
The whizzing arrows shot over, and the running people were shot one after another. More screams came, and there was horror everywhere, as if they suddenly fell into the Infinite Hell.
The bandit's first round of arrows had been shot. When the arrogant bandit saw that the fat sheep were indeed as scared as a lamb, they stopped shooting the arrows. They put away their bows and arrows, rushed straight with swords, guns and sticks.
Captain Wang lifted his sword and jumped up from the ground. While lifting the sword, he rushed straight to the monkey cheeks wearing women's clothes, and shouted: "Fuck you guys side by side! Fuck them to death." Although he had no expectations for the newly recruited united recruits in his heart, he could only do it at this time.
Li Jing pulled out the horizontal knife by his waist and handed it to Xiao Shitou's hand, and then gave the scabbard to the little carpenter Qiu Sheng.
"You two are guarding me and protecting me!"
After saying that, Li Jing quickly took off the horn bow on his body. The bow in Li Jing's hand was a horn bow. The bows in the Tang Dynasty were divided into four types: long bows, horn bows, slightly bows and lattice bows. The long bows were used for infantry battles, and horn bows were used for cavalry battles. The horn bows and lattice bows were hunting bows and dynasty guards. The horn bows were originally a bow for cavalry shooting, which was passed down from the ancestors of the Li family. The ancestors of the Li family had served in the army for generations and originally had a complete set of armor and weapons, including horizontal swords, horse lances, long bows, horn bows, spears, copper maces, etc. However, later, with Li Jing's grandfather's death on the battlefield, most of these were left on the battlefield, leaving a spare horn bow.
Although this bow is for spare, it is very precious. The horns are made of a pair of rhino horns, with horns of two feet and five inches long. It is said that these two horns alone can be worth the price of four cows. The bow tube of the horn is tightly wrapped with good water-colored silk threads as above. The bow arm is also coated with varnish to prevent the erosion of frost and moisture. The bow was made for three years. In addition, the dry horn ribs, rubber silk paint and other items were only the preparation bows used by the ancestors, but they were also extremely precious. They were the heirlooms of the Li family. The Li family did not sell them several times when they were difficult.
Li Jing used to practice archery and arrows when he was practicing martial arts with his brother. Although he used the practice archery practice, he had used this bow many times and was very familiar with it.
With the horn bow in my hand, the entire set of standard movements that I had practiced in my bow shooting countless times before poured into my mind.
Stretch the front leg and bow the hind leg.
Li Jing silently recited the arch of the family's masterpiece, "The front foot is like sticking, the back foot is like lame, the eight characters of both feet are not enough, and the cross is not enough. The bent elbow and wrist is important, the bow string is close to the right cheek. The right eye gathers with the big corner of the eye, and the left eye gathers with the small corner of the eye. The shoulder is high and the elbow is high and the tiger's mouth is three points in a line, the elbow is high and the hand is straight, and the force is in the tiger's mouth. The index finger of the right hand is hanging down, the big finger of the left hand presses the middle finger and stands flat. The tiger's mouth is important, and the arrow is at the end of the middle finger."
While reciting the archery mantra, Li Jing had already put on a bone-made slug. The slug is a ring, but it was not the barrel-shaped ring of the Qing Dynasty in later generations, but the Han-style slope-shaped ring. The thumb pressed the string, and the index finger pressed the thumb. The whole person was calm. At this moment, Li Jing was extremely calm, as if he was outside the battlefield.
Wang Xiaoshitou and Li Xiao Carpenter were holding horizontal swords and the other holding scabbards, their faces were full of fear. If Li Jing hadn't been so calm, their legs that were already shaking would have been shaking, and they might have run away.
"Brother Xiucai, the thief is coming up, shoot quickly." A bandit carrying a long spear was running straight towards him. The little carpenter shouted in panic, his voice trembling.
Li Jing was unmoved, the string was pulled open, and the bow was like a full moon, but he did not shoot out immediately. The bandit's hideous face was getting closer and closer, but Li Jing's breath became more and more stable. Finally, he completely adjusted his breath, and it was the best time.
With a bang, the strings sounded like thunder, and the arrow with white bird feathers at the tail shot out like lightning.
Li Jing still maintained his posture when he shot the arrow, and was nervously waiting for the result. Li Jing used to hunt with a bow and had a very good head. Not only could he shoot rabbits and deer, but he could even shoot geese from all over the world. But this was the first time after all, and Li Jing was a little nervous.
The thief was less than twenty steps away from Li Jing, and this distance was too close.
The bowstring sounded, and the feather arrow roared through the open mouth of the bandit who was roaring with a gun, and penetrated into the back of his head.
"I shot, I shot, Brother Xiucai shot." The little carpenter shouted excitedly, with a crying voice in his voice, telling what he was feeling at this time.
Seeing the arrow passing through the bandit's mouth and penetrated the back of his head, Li Jing felt a little nauseous. But he held it over and told himself that it was still a battlefield at this time. He could not tolerate any carelessness. Although he shot it down, Captain Wang on the other side was already trapped in siege.
Li Jing quickly took out another arrow from the quiver, and this time the speed increased a lot.
Arrow, draw your bow, draw your bow!
A dozen steps away, another person fell down, but this time he was in the chest. Although the bandits were strong, they did not have armor, and even the boss had no armor. Under Li Jing's sharp arrow, the man was killed directly.
He said, another arrow was shot out. Li Jing sent a bandit who was raising his sword high and slashing behind Captain Wang into hell.
At this time, Monkey King also noticed the archer Li Jing, and couldn't help but shouted angrily: "Second, take two brothers to be the archer first."
This was better than everything that was done at the beginning of the deal. A few arrows scared the pack of pack husbands who had not grown all their hair. The only one who rushed up with a knife was surrounded by them. Although the man's martial arts was a bit unexpected, he could not beat four hands after all, and the big insect could not resist the wolves. However, he did not expect that the guy who first discovered that they had been lying on the ground was actually an archer and killed his three brothers in one go.
"Pick up the spears of the thieves on the ground and surrounded me." Li Jing shouted loudly. He had already seen clearly that although the same villages were lying all over the ground, the ghosts and howls, the ones who were really fatally injured were not. Most of them were just an arrow in the wrong place. Although the blood was so scary, they could not die for a moment. These were all partners in the same village. Li Jing could not ignore them. Moreover, although he shot three of them to death, there were still seven of them. Li Jing had to organize his own people to expand his chances of victory.
Scarface brought two subordinates and rushed over. Facing Li Jing's sharp shot, the experienced outlaw was also prepared. The three bandits rushed over with Li Jing's horse, mule and donkey, and then took a piece of silk to block it in front of him as a shield, and then rushed over with swords and guns.
Li Jing even shot two arrows at the scarred face, but the guy was extremely agile and actually avoided both arrows, which only caused a little scratch. When Li Jing wanted to deal with the other two bandits first, the other party had already rushed forward.
At this time, five or six people gathered together on Li Jing's side, but the weapons were only two long spears, a horizontal knife and a scabbard, and the other was the bow on Li Jing's hand.
"Everyone listen to my shouts one, two, three, and stab together." Li Jing had no choice but to shout.
"One, two, three, thorn!" Seeing the scarred face jumping up and slashing, Li Jing hurriedly shouted.
Although Xiao Shitou and the others were afraid, they saw Li Jing shooting three people in a row before, and they also regarded Li Jing as their backbone. As soon as Li Jing shouted, the two gunmen immediately stabbed forward. Xiao Shitou and the little carpenter also slashed forward with their knives and scabbards.
Li Jing and five or six people roared in unison, their momentum was very loud, and the scar face was startled. Seeing that the spear was handed to him, they could not change their moves in the air for a while, so they immediately threw a piece of silk used to block the arrow at everyone, and then roared, and stabbed the gun to the ground, stopping the momentum of pounce.
Xiao Shitou and others all fell into nothing, but Li Jing was waiting for this opportunity, and the arrow he had just made suddenly left the string. Scarface, who had just escaped the piercing of the spear, was shot to the ground with a scream. Seeing that the fierce second leader was shot, the other two bandits were shocked and turned around and retreated timidly.
Chapter completed!