Sui and Tang Dynasty Generals

Chapter 101 Mysterious Old Man, Unknown Sword Skills

Fu Zihou raised his hand to wipe the blood off his face, then holding his sword, he watched the bandit army retreating once again under the dim setting sun.

This is already the eighth day!
Walking on the city road, looking at the exhausted soldiers defending the city, all slumped against the city wall and sitting next to corpses, Fu Zihou kept walking and finally came to Cao Yong who was sitting against the wall.

"Colonel Captain!"

Cao Yong was covering his wound, his face a little pale. When he saw Fu Zihou, he tried to struggle to sit down, but was stopped by Fu Zihou.

"Have a good rest for a few days!"

Fu Zihou squatted down, put down his sword while talking to Cao Yong, and reached out to untie Cao Yong's armor.

"Colonel Captain..."

Cao Yong was about to say that he would just take a night's rest and could still kill the enemy tomorrow, but he saw Xiong Ruixiang and Xia Jia approaching him.

"Listen to the captain! We are by his side! We are guarding the city walls!"

Xiong Ruixiang smiled at Cao Yong and told him not to worry. If the bandits wanted to take over the city in the next few days, they would first have to step over their dead bodies.

At this time, Yin Tianzong also called a woman over, holding a cloth strip to bandage Cao Yong's wound.

As the commander of the Yingyang Mansion, Yin Tianzong was full of admiration and recognition for Cao Yong.

In the past few days, Cao Yong saw ferocious bandits climbing up to the top of the city wall while in the city. Whenever the soldiers were defeated, Cao Yong was the first to rush up and fight with the bandits.

So desperate!

Not to mention Yin Tianzong, even the other soldiers looked at Cao Yong with admiration.

The army always respects brave men!

"Take him down to rest!"

Fu Zihou held Cao Yong's blood-stained armor and gave instructions to the woman.

In this defense of the city, Cao Yong was undoubtedly a great force in the defenders. Cao Yong was seriously injured, which was not a good thing for Fu Zihou, and it also meant that defending the city in the future would only be more difficult than today.

However, no matter how difficult it was, for Fu Zihou, it was impossible for him to let Cao Yong continue to defend the city while being seriously injured.

In Fu Zihou's heart, Cao Yong's life is far more important than defending the city in the past few days.

"Captain, I will guard the city wall. Captain, go back and rest first!"

Watching Cao Yong being helped away by the woman, Fu Zihou just stood up when he heard Yin Tianzong's voice.

Hearing this, Fu Zihou shook his head. The bandit army had just retreated and the people in the city began to repair the city walls. At this time, Fu Zihou, as the main general defending the city and the backbone of the people in East City, knew that he could not leave yet and had to prevent the bandits from coming again at any time.

"Let me see!"

Fu Zihou saw two civilians passing by carrying the body of a bandit. He didn't pay much attention to them at first, but suddenly he noticed that the face of the body looked a little different, so he quickly raised his hand to stop them and motioned them to put the body down first.

The people and other soldiers around were all puzzled when they saw this, but they still put it down.

Just when everyone was wondering if Fu Zihou knew the bandit, only Yin Tianzong saw Fu Zihou squatting beside the corpse. He raised his hand to look at the mouth, tongue, neck and other parts of the bandit's body, and soon thought of the sheep and livestock corpses buried at the water source.

Thinking of the army of bandits outside the city, Yin Tianzong seemed to see some hope at this moment. He looked a little excited and a little uneasy. He didn't dare to breathe and looked at Fu Zihou with a nervous face.

"This corpse seems to be carrying a disease! It's not a plague!"

Fu Zihou saw Yin Tianzong's curious eyes, so he said to Yin Tianzong.

Seeing Yin Tianzong's lost expression, Fu Zihou asked the people to carry the body away and wrap it in a sack. Then he ordered Yin Tianzong, Xiong Ruixiang and Xia Jia to immediately take people to collect the bodies with symptoms of infected diseases. About ten bodies were needed!
"Here!"

"Here!!"

Upon hearing Fu Zihou's order, Yin Tianzong and the other two quickly took the order and left.

"Colonel Captain!"

Just as Fu Zihou was about to leave to inspect the city roads, a soldier who was supposed to be recuperating in the city suddenly ran to Fu Zihou with injuries.

As night falls.

In East City.

In an open space, more than 700 children of different ages were holding swords and spears, waving them vigorously in the night.

"One! Two..."

Several wounded soldiers defending the city shouted hoarsely for these Taiyuan boys. The parents of these children had gone to defend the city walls, and some of them had died in the hands of the bandits. In the eyes of these wounded soldiers, these children in training represented the East City of Jinyang.

If they go up to the top of the city wall and fight with the bandits in the future, it means that Jinyang East City is at the final stage.

If one day, all these children died in battle on the city walls, it would mean that the East City of Jinyang would completely fall into the hands of the bandits.

"Colonel Captain!"

"Colonel Captain!"

Seeing Fu Zihou coming, the wounded soldiers stopped shouting and looked at Fu Zihou.

"It's getting dark, let them go to rest!"

Fu Zihou nodded, looked at these children who got up to practice before dawn and could not leave until dark, and then began to give orders.

"Here!"

After receiving Fu Zihou's order, the soldiers let the children who were training go back to rest.

And on a small stone next to the open space.

Led by the wounded soldier who had just reported, Fu Zihou came to a white-haired old man. The old man was disheveled, wearing tattered clothes, and holding a knife full of large and small nicks under his one arm.

From the soldiers, Fu Zihou learned that the old man was blind and was probably over eighty years old.

Looking at the knife in the old man's hand, Fu Zihou felt that the knife was very old, but what caught his eye was the bright blade and the blade was not rusty at all.

The old man seemed to have heard what had just been said. He raised his thin and wrinkled face slightly, listened to the voice, and then looked in the direction of Fu Zihou.

"Old man! I am Fu Zihou, the captain of the East City! I heard from the soldiers that you want to see Fu Zihou?"

Fu Zihou looked at the old man, frowned slightly, and asked curiously.

"I heard from the soldiers today that in the past, when you were in Qinghe County, you led troops to fight against the bandit Zhang Jincheng, and were ambushed by his general Xu Jinpeng, who stabbed you in the chest!"

Although the old man could not see Fu Zihou with his own eyes, he could still confirm from the tone of other people's voices that the young man in front of him who was speaking was the one who killed Xu Jinpeng.

"It's true!"

Fu Zihou said, without denying it.

When he first came to Jinyang, the origin of Fu Zihou's title of Fenwu Wei was only known among his clan, officials and generals.

As the bandit army arrived and attacked East City, the casualties had been increasing in the past few days. In order to boost morale, the aristocratic families in East City spread the story of Fu Zihou's past and let the people and soldiers in the city regain confidence. Naturally, Fu Zihou would not object to this.

"I will teach you swordsmanship!"

The old man didn't say anything else, but used his skinny hands to take out a book from his arms. The book was so torn that even pieces of debris were faintly visible.

"Sword skills?"

Fu Zihou looked at the old man's actions, feeling a little caught off guard and surprised. Then he looked at the old books the old man handed over, feeling a little amused.

"Old man, Fu Zihou still has to lead the troops to defend the city for a while. How about learning swordsmanship after that?"

Fu Zihou said softly and did not accept the book.

In Fu Zihou's mind, he had never met this old man before. He didn't even know his name or origin, let alone his sword skills. Now he wanted to teach him sword skills right away, but Fu Zihou didn't have the time to try to learn it.

What's more, in Fu Zihou's heart, he always remembered what Mr. Liu said.

Any martial art is nothing more than those few moves, and as long as you react fast enough and move quickly enough, you can kill someone.

Since he started learning martial arts, whether he was seeing Cui Wenjin and Li Qiong's swordsmanship, or personally leading troops to kill enemies on the battlefield, Fu Zihou had clearly understood the essence of Mr. Liu's teachings.

"If you learn this, it might save your life!"

The old man did not take the books back, but kept holding them up.

Seeing this, Fu Zihou looked at the lonely old man, thought about it, and reluctantly took the books. He was wondering if the old man was helpless, blind, and had no one to take care of him, so he found him.

"At the beginning, Xu Jinpeng only listened to a few words from my brother-in-law and gained some insights, and his ability was enough to injure you! In order to obtain this sword technique, he even killed his sister and brother-in-law! If you hadn't killed him in the past, I wouldn't be here today to teach you the sword technique!"

The old man was obviously blind, and even before Fu Zihou said anything, he seemed to have guessed what Fu Zihou was thinking.

After hearing what the old man said, Fu Zihou looked at him in surprise.

(End of this chapter)