Chapter 22 Borrowing Armor

Chapter 22 Borrowing Armor

Chapter 22 Borrowing Armor
The fall of Yangzhou City, the fourth day.

Dawn.

Jiang He went upstream in the lake and came to the north bank of Shouhu Lake. He barely avoided the pursuit of the green soldiers with halberds. When he got ashore, his face was already pale. The wound shot by the great shaman's hidden arrow was bleeding continuously. No matter the usual means of stopping the bleeding or using fire to burn it, the wound would often burst open again in a moment.

"Fortunately, the wound is not serious."

Jiang He tore his clothes and wrapped his shoulders with cloth strips. The hidden arrow was an ordinary item. The wound of the person hit by the arrow would be difficult to heal within a day. It was more suitable for bleeding high-risk prey, which was full of the style of hunters outside the Great Wall.

The operation failed and the price paid was very heavy. The representative of the resistance, Liu Taibao, was killed, the famous spearman Mr. Wu was sacrificed, and the hundreds of people who gathered were wiped out. When the surrendered troops outside Yangzhou heard the news, even if they had originally intended to surrender, they would rationally choose to give up.

The surroundings were filled with shouts and screams. Jiang He walked forward all the way and came to the ancestral tomb of a wealthy family. The place had been dug up by the Qing soldiers. The gold and silver objects in the tomb had disappeared, leaving only a skeleton. He put the bones into a bag and destroyed it, then lay down in it himself, put on a simple disguise, and rested quietly, lying flat on his back to reduce the bleeding from the wound.

The wind was blowing sadly and the fields were filled with cries of weeping. Without any resistance, the alert orders of Tieduo's subordinates were lifted and the massacre in the city reached its peak. Among the citizens, more than 10,000 people hanged themselves, jumped into wells, set themselves on fire, had bloody faces and broken limbs, and some were stabbed but not dead but still had their limbs moving. Bones and flesh were scattered everywhere and the sound of knives could be heard throughout the city.

In the tomb, Jiang He was in deep thought.

"The main reason for this failure is that I lost the initiative. Although I seemed to be brave in killing the enemy, it was equivalent to letting go of the gun and blindly trusting Liu Taibao's arrangements. However, his status as an important official did not have a decisive influence on this operation."

"Similarly, in the real world, we must keep our distance from the Order Bureau and can only carry out limited local cooperation at best."

"The most obvious factor in this failure was the elite army and artillery under Tieduo's command. In the final analysis, the idea of ​​using organization against organization was wrong. The other party had an absolute advantage in this regard and had no chance of winning."

"When it comes to fighting, use the longer one to defeat the shorter one."

"My advantage is that I am extraordinary. I have strength beyond that of ordinary soldiers. If I want to hunt down Tieduo, I must expand my own advantages and magnify the weaknesses of my target. If I act with a large number of people, I will only drag myself into the quagmire. Times are changing. Extraordinary power makes personal weight gradually increase. People must adapt to the environment in time, that is, streamline the team or act alone."

……

until late at night.

Jiang He stood up from the grave. The wound caused by the hidden arrow stopped bleeding. His physical condition and the nutrition supplied by his heart allowed him to survive. His steps were a little weak, but it did not affect his combat.

In the main mission, killing 200 green soldiers has exceeded the target, but the panel is still recording it, which may affect the final evaluation.

Jiang He took advantage of the cover of night and headed straight for Yan's Tomb. If he had not met Liu Taibao and Chu Fuqiang on the way, he should have reached his destination long ago.

In ancient times, areas with the word "grave" in their names were relatively less wealthy. The location of Yanjiafen is not too far from the west district of the city.

The fires grew fiercer everywhere along the way, the trees were burning, and the light filled the sky like lightning.

Jiang He was slightly startled when he saw this. Thinking carefully about yesterday, the whole Yangzhou city seemed to be immersed in the watery night, and there was no trace of fire at all. In fact, there should be quite a few people who set themselves on fire. This phenomenon was not normal.

"So that's how it is. It was the fire in the granary that alerted Tieduo."

The old house of the Yan family, this is the home of He Laoer's father-in-law. At this moment, the outer wall has collapsed and all the property has been looted. Since the surrounding area is not wealthy, the number of green soldiers stationed in Yanjiafen is small.

Jiang He walked around the ancestral hall and was stopped by someone when he passed by it.

"Brother Mo Ke!"

On the beam of the ancestral hall, Chu Fuqiang greeted with a weak face. His left palm was cut off and could only be repaired with a large healing potion. The problem was that this thing was not available for sale at the moment. Jiang He said bluntly: "Where is the secret passage?"

Chu Fuqiang came down, raised his hand and pointed at the wooden platform where the Yan family enshrined their ancestors, and replied, "Just push it open. This platform is very heavy and is filled with stones. Many people from the Yan family tomb left through here. I plan to guard the entrance."

Jiang He was surprised and said: "With your personality, you should escort more citizens out."

Chu Fuqiang was silent, then forced a difficult smile, "When manpower was limited, I was too arrogant, which led to the death of Liu Taibao and others. You don't know that Tieduo discovered our attack in advance, probably because I set fire to the dungeon, and he was just being smart and went out to find other citizens, maybe killing those who had already escaped. Now I just want to defend this place and wait quietly for the next ten days to pass."

Jiang He examined himself upon hearing this. He had also set fire to the granary, but he did not feel anything. Perhaps it was because he was more inclined to take life and death into his own hands.

"Lend me your armor, I plan to kill Tieduo."

Chu Fuqiang: "..."

If you are not a brother, why are you still killing me? I am about to lose all my underwear.

Chu Fuqiang had a headache and said, "If you really want to continue killing Tieduo, it's just an external object. Of course I can lend it to you, but I'm afraid you will run away with the armor. After all, I'm not a resentful person."

Jiang He pondered for a moment and displayed the main task of hunting down Tie Duo. There was no need to conceal this now.

Chu Fuqiang was stunned when he saw this, and patted the other party on the shoulder, "Brother Mo Ke, let's judge by deeds rather than by heart. You have killed so many Qing soldiers, there is no need to feel guilty for selfish reasons."

As for why LV3 players would sneak into several LV6 and LV7 derivative missions, and why the missions were significantly more difficult, both parties had a tacit understanding and never mentioned it.

Jiang He had a strange look on his face, he felt extremely guilty.

"I'm telling you in advance that Tieduo may not die, but your armor will definitely break."

Chu Fuqiang waved his hand, "That's because it's not hard enough, it has nothing to do with you."

Jiang He nodded, took the armor and put it on, then pushed open the wooden platform and walked into the tunnel behind him.

[Name: Rhino Armor]
[Category: Armor]
[Quality: Rare]
[Effects: ① Recoil 15% of the slashing damage. ② Hardness +2. ③ Strength +1]
[Note: Indestructible humanoid rhino!]
……

In the secret passage, Jiang He stepped forward. He was hit by a solid bullet from the Red Cannon last night. After being cut by the Changhen Spear and the scale armor, he was still seriously injured. However, he found that his Pure Green Heart had some self-healing ability. To be more precise, it could heal itself through the special energy converted by eating.

"The foundation of martial arts is the body of the five grains."

This secret passage is now much longer than the granary secret passage.

Jiang He walked for two full hours before reaching the finish line. As soon as he came out, he was surrounded by a group of young men holding bamboo poles.

"He is an accomplice of the old man."

An old man who looked like a fisherman came out, waved his hand to dismiss the crowd, and turned around and said, "This place is more than ten miles outside the city. Now that you are out, you can't go back. There are mountains all around, and there are 50,000 troops stationed on the plain outside. Stay here with me and Miss Fuxue until the mission is over."

(End of this chapter)