Chapter 29: Iron Armor
Qi Xuansu grabbed the throat of the cavalry captain with one hand, dragged him out from under the horse, and then shrank his body to use him to block himself.
"Let them all stop." Qi Xuansu whispered in the ear of the captain.
The captain showed hesitation.
Qi Xuansu did not waste words, and directly added a little strength in his hand. The captain immediately felt the taste of suffocation and hurriedly said: "Stop, stop!"
All the black-clothed men stopped moving after a brief look at each other, but did not put down their weapons.
To be fair, even if Qi Xuansu was at the Yuxu stage, it would be difficult to get a good result against the charging cavalry on the flat ground with no danger to defend. It is not that there is no chance of winning, but it is very tricky.
Because whether it is a warrior or a casual person, there is no effective means to defeat the enemy, and they can only fight in close combat, but a cavalryman weighs more than two thousand pounds. After running at full speed, the momentum is definitely greater than the full force of a Yuxu warrior. Qi Xuansu can knock down a cavalryman on the ground, but he cannot knock down a charging cavalryman.
On the contrary, the Qi-refining and alchemists in the Return to Truth stage have a great advantage in this regard. The flying sword and the magic spells in the Return to Truth stage can cause very effective killing.
However, the cavalrymen do not fight alone, but in groups. The power of the large cavalry charge is even greater. Moreover, these cavalrymen themselves have cultivation. There are many innate people among the middle-level military officers, and there are many heavenly people among the high-level military officers. For example, Zhao Fuan, who once injured Qi Xuansu, is a heavenly person.
More importantly, after a small group of black-clothed men appeared, it means that a large number of black-clothed men are also nearby. If Qi Xuansu cannot make a quick decision, he is likely to fall into a situation where he is surrounded by a large number of black-clothed men. In this case, unless he is a heavenly person, there is no chance of survival.
So Qi Xuansu had to take shortcuts. First, he showed the enemy weakness to make them relax their vigilance, and then suddenly attacked, catching the thief first. In fact, Qi Xuansu did not want to do anything too extreme. If the sentry officer named Chen Meng was willing to let Qi Xuansu go, then Qi Xuansu would not have killed people suddenly, so Qi Xuansu repeated the sentence "making things convenient for others is making things convenient for yourself".
"I don't want to provoke the men in black, but you are bullying too much." Qi Xuansu said softly, "Don't scare me with the court and the men in black anymore. Killing one is killing, killing two is also killing. I only have one life, and killing more won't make me die more times."
The captain's expression changed, and he tried to be calm: "Brother, let's talk it out. I have seen everything that happened. It was Chen Meng who broke the rules first, and I can't blame you."
"Really?" Qi Xuansu smiled, "But he is already dead, it won't be in vain, right? Do you dare to say that?"
The captain was speechless.
Qi Xuansu held the captain hostage and slowly retreated, and the men in black slowly moved forward, always maintaining a distance of about ten feet. Such a distance certainly made it impossible for Qi Xuansu to turn around and flee, and it was also difficult for the cavalry to charge.
After a moment of confrontation, something strange happened. Qi Xuansu suddenly jumped up. No one expected that Qi Xuansu could be so fast while holding an adult man hostage. He directly knocked a cavalryman off the horse's back, and then Qi Xuansu rode on the horse's back, still using the handlebars to block himself, making the black-clothed man afraid to act rashly.
Then, Qi Xuansu clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and the horse weighing more than two thousand pounds did not feel any effort to carry two adult men, and immediately began to run wildly.
In the Wanxiang Taoist Palace, firearms and horsemanship are compulsory courses. No matter what, Qi Xuansu graduated with excellent grades, no worse than these cavalrymen. Thanks to his strong physique, even without using his hands, he can sit firmly on the horse's back and even control the mount under his crotch with only the strength of his waist, abdomen and legs.
The rest of the cavalry subconsciously wanted to catch up with them, but they heard a few whooshing sounds, and several flying knives broke through the air. At such a close distance, the flying knives were very powerful. Although they would not directly cut off the horse's legs, it was not difficult to scare the horse - even the warhorse of the man in black.
Some of the horses in the front raised their front hooves high, and some knelt down on their front legs, causing chaos immediately.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qi Xuansu pulled away and fled.
After running for more than ten miles, he had already shaken off the pursuers behind him.
At this time, the captain who was held hostage by Qi Xuansu was shocked. This defeat was no longer a problem of realm cultivation, but a purely tactical problem. This person's meticulous mind and strong adaptability were far superior to ordinary people. He was definitely not an ordinary person in the world. He was in trouble this time. Letting this person go was secondary. The key was that he was held hostage. Even if he was lucky enough to save his life, he would have no future in the future. He was lucky to keep his position as the captain.
Just as the captain lamented about his future, he suddenly found that the horse was slowing down. Because he was sitting backwards on the horse, he could not see what was happening. But as a veteran, he keenly sensed an unusual depressing atmosphere.
After a moment, the horse stopped and snorted.
Then the captain was thrown off the horse, and he finally saw what was happening.
In front of him was a team of more than 500 black-armored cavalrymen, with iron armor as dense as a forest, and the leader was a garrison.
The camp system originated from the Jingying of the Great Wei. After the Great Xuan court abolished the guard system, it became the only military system for the black-clothed people.
In the border army of Xizhou, the governor of Xizhou was slightly higher than the general commander of military affairs, and the deputy governor was slightly higher than the general commander of the garrison. Below them were still the deputy general commander of the garrison, the lieutenant general, and the guerrilla. The garrison was at the sixth level, lower than the guerrilla and higher than the thousand commander, and the fifth rank.
In terms of rank, the garrison is on par with the thousand households of the Qingluan Guard, and the deterrent power of five hundred elite cavalry is not inferior to that of a thousand households. If Qi Xuansu still had the identity of a Taoist sect, he would now be a sixth-rank Taoist priest enjoying the treatment of a fifth-rank Taoist priest. If he met this garrison, the two would probably be able to "meet" once or twice and make friends, which would be considered equal. Unfortunately, Qi Xuansu no longer has the identity of a Taoist sect. Let alone making friends, it is already a blessing not to be regarded as a demon.
Qi Xuansu got off the horse and did not try to attack the five hundred cavalrymen by himself.
If these five hundred cavalrymen were all ordinary people, then Qi Xuansu might not be unable to fight his way out.
But how could the black-clothed men all be ordinary people? From the lower-level military officers to the middle-level military officers, and then to the high-level military officers, their strength clearly showed a trend of progressive level by level. The high-level military officers were not inferior to the high-ranking Taoist priests of the Taoist sect, so the armored soldiers of the black-clothed men would definitely not be ordinary people, but like the Taoist priests of the Taoist sect, they also had cultivation. In the elite border army system, this standard will be further improved.
For example, the sentry officer killed by Qi Xuansu has already touched the threshold of the innate. This cavalry captain is also in the bottleneck of half a foot into the threshold of the innate, which is not much different from Zhou Feilong, the Qingluan Guard Trial Hundred Household who died in Qi Xuansu's hands. By analogy, the thousand commanders and garrisons are about the Kunlun stage of cultivation, the lieutenant generals and guerrillas are about the Yuxu stage of cultivation, the assistant generals are the Guizhen stage of cultivation, and the garrison generals are the real heavenly people.
This is just the individual combat power. The black-clothed man has never been able to fight alone.
In this case, Qi Xuansu would go crazy to charge the formation alone.
Qi Xuansu was silent, his mind turned quickly, thinking about how to get out of trouble.
The leading garrison looked at Qi Xuansu and asked in a deep voice: "Are you the chivalrous man who saved the county lady?"
Qi Xuansu was startled and asked back: "The county lady... Qin Xiang?"
"Yes." The garrison held the reins and paused, "You can't call the county lady by her name."
Qi Xuansu had no rebellious intentions, he just wanted to live, so he nodded in agreement.
After confirming Qi Xuansu's identity, the garrison said: "The general knows that you saved the county lady and wants to see you. Please come with us."
Qi Xuansu didn't know where another general came from, but thinking of the Taoist flying boat he had seen before, he had already guessed and asked: "May I ask who this general is?"
"Our general is the deputy governor of Loulan in the Western Province Protectorate. He is following the cabinet's order and the military order of the Protectorate to lead the army to eliminate the monsters in Yongzhou." The garrison's tone was flat.
Qi Xuansu weighed in his mind that it would be difficult for him to break through the current situation. If he went to see this deputy governor, it would be unpredictable. But he killed a sentry officer and saved a county lady, which one is more important?
Qi Xuansu thought again and again, and still felt that the county lady was more important, and nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you."
The garrison signaled his followers to give Qi Xuansu a new horse, and let the captain who was held hostage by Qi Xuansu ride back on his own, and said in a deep voice, "Please."