Chapter 10 Capturing the Vampire

  There was a loud bang, the earth trembled, dust flew up, and fire and smoke rose from the center of the schoolyard. I was shocked by the loud bang, buzzing in my ears, almost unsteady.   In a few moments of shock and change, the school field dust flying in the sky, the situation is indistinguishable, the sound of people shouting and shouting and horse neighing mixed into a piece.   The place where Xu Shou stood on his horse was blown out into a deep pit!   Outside the armored soldiers have heavy shield protection, although there are injured people fell to the ground, it seems that casualties are not big.   Only Xu Shou a horse, together with his close guards around, just in the center of the pit, I'm afraid that has been shattered, no flesh and blood.   Just now was still alive people, just like this in front of my eyes disappeared. I only feel a blank, fear and shock together surging up to the chest, cold sweat through the clothes and out.   In the smoke, a black and gold banner was raised from the right wing of the army.   The flag was flying, the black warhorse hoofed out - Xiao Qi sat on the horse, drew his sword and sheathed it, such as a shocking lightning broke through the sky, the sword's light shone brightly in my eyes. My heart has never been stirred up before, and my blood suddenly turns over.   "Send an order to Chahan to launch a sniping attack!" He Lan Zhen issued the order.   "Young Lord, don't, Xiao Qi has already taken precautions, I'm afraid we've been tricked!" The gnarled bearded man said urgently.   "So what?" Helan Zhen's hand that clasped my shoulder tightened steeply, and I immediately felt a strange pain.   I bit my lip, refusing to cry out in pain.   The gnarled bearded man said in a hateful voice, "The moment is unfavorable, I implore the Young Lord to withdraw his men and retreat quickly!"   "He Lan Zhen never knew the word retreat in his life." He Lan Zhen laughed, "Today, the big deal is to burn the jade and stone together!"   The dead soldiers behind him said in unison, "My subordinates vow to advance and retreat together with Young Lord!"   The gnarled-bearded man stood rigidly, and finally let out a long sigh, "My subordinates vow to follow you to the death."   Suddenly, the horn sounded in the field, and the whimpering sound was low and solemn.   Xiao Qi's majestic and steady voice penetrated through the chaos and came from far away, "Thieves and bandits assassinate, death penalty!"   As his voice spread, the soldiers and generals on the field immediately stood at attention.   But saw Xiao Qi cross the sword and stand on the horse, shouted: "All the generals listen to the order, blockade the four fields, meet the bandits kill without amnesty!"   The whole field shouted, "Kill--"   A killing sound like thunder, sword sheathed.   At this very moment, another change occurred!   A bit of firelight with sharp sound attacked Xiao Qi in front of his horse, Xiao Qi steered his horse and retreated rapidly, the firelight landed on the ground and exploded like a thunderbolt, and the shattered stone slabs flew in all directions. Almost at the same instant, among the surrounding soldiers and generals, several silhouettes swept out like ghosts. A black shadow jumped up in the air, and sprinkled a white powder rain to Xiao Qi, the lime powder covered the sky, the left and right two people rolled on the ground in front of the horse, and the light of the sword cut the hoofs of the horse horizontally.   Lime in the sky, the knife light appeared, vertical and horizontal as practice, killing gas weaving a dragnet, cover to Xiao Qi a person and a horse.   Everything happened in a flash, incredibly fast.   Yet even faster than that, was a wall - a shield wall.   The heavy armor shield wall with a cold light, as if it were a divine soldier descending from the sky, clanging and appearing at first.   A line of heavy shield armor guards suddenly appeared from the chaotic formation, moving as fast as electricity, the heavy black iron shields in their hands clanging and merging into a wall, blocking in front of Xiao Qi's horse just in the nick of time, like an iron wall invulnerable to swords and spears, blocking the first round of kills.   The six assassins immediately changed their formation and broke through.   All the guards shouted in unison, shield shadow and shear, sword light soared, forming a siege situation, and the assassins fought together.   Suddenly, there was an angry horse neighing, the sound cracked the clouds, Xiao Qi steered his horse to kill out of the siege.   The two assassins whistled, flew after, the rest of the assassins are all give up their lives, close to kill, move jade and stone, hard to a group of guards entangled, for the two assassins to kill a bloody road.   The two men swooped to Xiao Qi's side, iron gun sweeping, long knife with the wind, want to stab Xiao Qi under the horse.   I didn't see how death came at that moment. I only saw a shocking lightning, a snowy light, a dazzling kill.   The assassin's sword is a blood splatter of three feet; the general's sword is a sword that chills fourteen states.   After the lightning strike, Xiao Qi jumped over with his horse, his cloak rolled like a cloud.   Behind a shower of blood sprinkled down, two assassins were head and body, ambushed corpse on the spot.   At this time, the lime has not yet all fallen, white gray powder, wrapped in scarlet blood, still in the wind flying, landing a red and white spots.   Ambush, exchange of blows, breakout, extermination, assassin ambushed - only in an instant.   "Princess Yuzhang is here, who dares to move!"   This bellowing cry, which shook the entire arena with its sound, actually came from under the beacon in the schoolyard.   I was shocked and looked towards the beacon, seeing a woman in red tied up, with a man at her side holding a sword on her neck.   My eyes swept over Xiao Ye, who was wearing a palace dress before the trip, a fake princess, a real trap, clearly a poisonous bait!   The man said sternly: "Xiao Qi dog thief, if you want the princess to live, you will ride up to the battlefield alone to fight with me!"   The soldiers and generals had already arrived like a tide, surrounding the beacon platform, leaving a passage in the center, directly in front of Xiao Qi's horse.   Xiao Qi stood on his horse, "Let the princess go, and I'll leave you a whole body." His voice was calm, but full of killing intent.   The man on the stage laughed furiously, "If you kill me, you will kill your wife first!"   I couldn't hold back any longer, and tried my best to cry out, "No, that's false--"   My words were abruptly cut off, no longer able to make a sound, I was violently pinched by Helan Zhen's jaw.   He leaned in close to my ear, "You want to save him? I'd like to see if he's willing to lay down his life to save him for 'you'?"   I twisted my head fiercely and bit on Helan Pro's hand.   He was in pain and slapped his hand backhandedly.   The taste of blood welled up in my mouth, and I stumbled unsteadily on my feet, being hoisted into his arms.   "Good, he really did save you." He Lan Zhen sneered.   I was slapped in the sky by that slap, my eyes blackened, when I heard those words, my heart shook, struggling to raise my head to look - only to see Xiao Qi, alone with one rider, really galloping towards the bottom of that beacon, the assassin's bows on the stage were all aimed at him.   No, that's not true, that's not me!   I was so frightened that I was dizzy, and struggled desperately in the hands of Helan Zhen.   However, in the army formation on both sides, there were sudden roars that shook the sky. Four boulders flew up from the formation at the same time and threw themselves at the four corners of the beacon platform, where they passed by, destroying stones and cracking pillars, with endless cries of misery. The military formation has already set up a stone throwing machine crossbow, shield soldiers, stacked into a shield wall in front of Xiao Qi. Ambush in the four corners of the crossbowmen have been hit by flying stone chips, fell off the platform, landed either dead or injured, but also by the gun and halberd down, chopped into mush.   Rubble splash, dangerous abnormal, that "Wangfei" deep in it, also do not know dead or alive ...... him, in the end or hands.   Xiao Qi pointed to the high platform, blatantly said: "Attack up, shoot to kill -"   This sound, shocked my heart trembled and shook, for his determination and vigor, but also for his cold-heartedness.   I would rather be broken than coerced, good Yuzhang King.   But that is his "princess", that is "me", he actually does not care about "me" dead or alive.   "He even you are also killed ......" Helan Zhen hate voice, but with a malicious smile, pulled up my face, forced me to look forward, "you really is just a chess piece he enlisted the power and nobility, to save down is a person is a corpse, he does not care! "   Every word was like a poisonous needle piercing straight to the bottom of my heart.   He was right, I am just a pawn, dead or alive is not that important.   My eyes were blurred, and the tears were held back by my clenched teeth.   But see this time in the formation of the line change, the team behind the bow and crossbow cover shot, the left and right elite soldiers with short swords attacked, swift and brave as a sharp knife, spare Helan dead soldiers to resist, still one by one was chopped in front of the formation.   The fake Wangfei was held hostage step by step retreat, hostage her people shouted: "Wangfei in my hands ......".   It was cut off by a wolf tooth white feather arrow, and the tip of the arrow pierced through his throat.   The person who shot that arrow, proudly stood on his horse and opened his bow, and the sound of an arrow breaking through the air tore through the clouds.   Three years ago to treat the army first saw, is also a distant glance, is also this kind of majestic hair ...... today and in the past, all in this moment overlap.   Hunting long wind blowing messy sideburns, I closed my eyes, miserable as a tide flooded the bottom of the heart.   Helan dead soldiers are all killed.   The soldier who attacked first carefully brought down the "princess".   Xiao Qi spurred his horse forward, without any guards, only a silver-armored general with a lance followed him.   He Lan Zhen held my throat tightly.   I couldn't make a sound, and in this moment, I sadly remembered that Xiao Qi didn't recognize me, and had never even looked at my face.   The soldiers who were supporting the "princess" had already brought her to the front of the horse, which was only about ten feet away from Xiao Qi.   When Xiao Qi stopped his horse, the princess tremblingly broke away from the others and walked towards him, her hair fluttering in the wind.   She looked up and raised her arms.   "She is not the king's consort!" The silver-armored general at Xiao Qi's side suddenly shouted, jumped his horse and snatched out, his red-tasseled iron spear swept horizontally, silver light intersected and sheared in mid-air, clanging and knocking away an object. Posing as a princess, Xiao Ye did not retreat, raised his hand and shot out two cold light. Seeing that the silver-armored general could not dodge, the sword light appeared, Xiao Qi a sword across the cut, knocked down the flying knife. The silver-armored general stabbed down Xiao Ye with a backhanded shot.   "Leave him alive!" Xiao Qi shouted.   The left and right swarmed up to capture Xiao Ye.   Xiao Ye let out a long mournful laugh, flipped his wrist and stabbed the last flying dagger into his chest, "Young Lord Precious--"   The last word suddenly broken, she fell down, blood splattered yellow sand. Before I could see what was happening in front of me, I only felt my body tighten, and then I was dragged onto the back of the horse by Helan Zhen.   He tightly held me in front of his body, urging the horse hooves, rushed to the schoolyard.   The wind was soughing.   The morning light shines on the iron armor, the guns and halberds are strict, a tide like black iron stretches across the front.   In the center of the tide, Xiao Qi's heroic figure, like a god, was facing the morning light and getting closer and closer to me. After crossing millions of people and the abyss of life and death, his burning gaze finally met mine.   I couldn't see his face under the mask of armor, but I was burned into my heart by that gaze.   In front of me, the military formation suddenly closed, the foot and horseback heavy shield in the back, spear and halberd in the front, all brushed together with a roar, will be surrounded by me.   Thousands of bows and crossbows were aimed at this place from different directions - arrows were on the string, swords were sheathed, and gold and iron prongs reflected a dazzling cold light.   Xiao Qi raised his hand, and the army fell silent.   Helan Zhen's body, which was close to mine, was stiff and tense, trembling slightly at this moment.   He only had me as his only bargaining chip left - if he lost his composure, he had already lost half of it.   "King Yuzhang, goodbye." Helan Pro's voice was like ice.   "Mr. Helan, long time no see." Xiao Qi's face was expressionless, his gaze coldly swept past Helan Pro and stopped on my face.   He didn't even raise the corner of his eyes to Helan Zhen, as if he didn't care about him at all, but only gazed at me.   He Lan Zhen pinched my chin, his palm sweating, fingertips trembling, but smiled gently, "This time look carefully, true or false, to kill or save in your mind."   Xiao Qi's gaze is sharper than his sword light.   I desperately wanted to look at him carefully, but water mist suddenly surged in front of my eyes.   After three years, the first time we really met, we were in such a situation. At this moment, how he looks at me with what kind of eyes, is the princess, is the wife, or is the pawn ...... These are no longer important, a thought, is his trade-offs, my life and death.   Four eyes relative to each other, a thousand words, only into silence.   He Lan Zhen will be that cold dagger, against my neck.   The bowmen behind Xiao Qi also pulled the bowstring to full strength long ago.   "Wangfei ......" The silver armored general wanted to speak, but was stopped by Xiao Qi raising his hand.   I recognized him as the man I had angrily rebuked in the wedding hall on the day of the wedding, and I remembered that his name was Song Huai En.   I gave him a slight smile.   Xiao Qi's gaze was dark and deep, looking at me, but it was actually like the midday summer sun shining on my face, and under the burning intensity that I couldn't open my eyes, there was a kind of pleasure of being burned by the pain.   "What do you want?" Xiao Qi faintly opened his mouth.   To ask this question is to accept Helan Zhen's blackmail and be willing to negotiate with him.   Helan Zhen said word by word: "One, open the south gate and do not pursue; two, if you want your woman back, fight me single-handedly."   Xiao Qi asked in a deep voice, "That's all?"   Helan Zhen snorted coldly, shaking the reins and steering the horse back a few steps, the dagger affixed to my neck flashed with cold light.   In front of the six armies, with thousands of eyes watching, Xiao Qi steered his horse out of the battlefield and slowly raised his right hand, "Open the south gate."   Outside the south gate is the steep mountain forest, once you escape, it will be difficult to pursue you.   He Lan Zhen held me in front of him with his sword, slowly steered his horse back, and retreated to the south gate together with the remaining remnants.   The sound of rolling passed, the camp gate rose.   The cold blade was close to the side of my neck, I looked back, and at the moment of life and death, I hurriedly glanced at Xiao Qi's appearance, but I still could not see him clearly.   Helan Zhen has already turned his horse, galloped out of the camp gate, riding ahead of the others, and ran straight to the mountain path.