I am an immortal, if I increase my lifespan, I will become an Immortal Emperor.

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The news that the Black Mountain robbers were going to attack the county town of Anyang spread quickly in the city for some reason.

The people of the city were terrified.

Although most of the people who can live in Anyang County are not kind ordinary people.

The worst has also practiced martial arts and has the ability to protect himself.

But that group of Montenegrin thieves is even more vicious!

It is said that the cities, villages and towns that were plundered by Montenegrin robbers did not have a single living mouth, only ruins and women.

The three major martial arts sects in the city also joined forces to close the four gates of Anyang County on the same day.

And it is forbidden for anyone to enter and leave Anyang County.

And Xu Xiu, since he promised Master Zhang Luyang.

It is definitely necessary to take up the responsibility of guarding Anyang County.

After the three major martial arts sects closed the four gates of Anyang County, they assigned each sect a gate to guard it.

The sword-casting gate was arranged, guarding the city gate.

It is the East City Gate.

Because the Sword Casting Gate is in the east of the city of Anyang County.

It is the closest to the East City Gate.

Xu Xiu arranged for the ordinary disciples of the Sword Forging Gate to defend the east gate of Anyang County.

He patrolled the city walls.

Although Xu Xiu wanted to continue lying flat.

However, this matter is related to the safety of Anyang County.

Therefore, Xu Xiu, who has always been lazy, rarely paid attention to it.

If it was the county town of Anyang, it was really attacked and plundered by that group of Montenegrin thieves.

With the murderous name of that group of Black Mountain thieves, Anyang County is very likely to become a ruin.

Where did he go to find a place like the Sword Casting Gate?

Since that group of Montenegrin thieves wants to disturb him lying flat, then this group of Montenegrin thieves should be eliminated.

It just made Xu Xiu feel strange.

After these two or three days of inspection, he was on the city wall, but he did not even see the shadow of a Montenegrin thief.

Even Xu Xiu had some doubts about the news that the Black Mountain thieves were going to attack Anyang County.

Whether it's true or not.

Even if the time to attack is not enough.

The Black Mountain thieves always have to send someone to inquire about the truth of Anyang County, right?

"But this kind of thing that concerns the safety of Anyang County, Master Zhang Luyang, it should be impossible to be mistaken."

"The only possibility is that the Montenegrin thieves have a plan that we don't know about."

Xu Xiu stood on the city wall, analyzing and speculating in his heart.

"However, what is the plan of those Black Mountain thieves to break through Anyang City?"

Xu Xiu looked at the empty outside of the city, and he looked very puzzled.

The calm outside the city did not reassure him, but a faint sense of unease emerged in his heart.

It was as if there was a huge crisis coming.

"Here, Senior Brother Xu Xiu, the Black Mountain has stolen."

At this moment, next to Xu Xiu, a disciple of the Sword Forging Sect pointed not far away, shouting with a terrified expression.

When Xu Xiu heard this, his eyes looked at the disciples of the Sword Forging Sect, and the direction his finger was pointing.

At a glance, I saw that on the road outside the city of Anyang County, a group of horse thieves riding tall horses with a fierce face appeared at the end of the line of sight, and then rushed towards the city gate like the wind.

Where they swept by, there was a cloud of smoke.

It gives the illusion of a thousand troops.

"What a Montenegrin thief."

"The Montenegrin thieves are coming soon."

"It is said that the Montenegrin robbers are extremely vicious, burning, killing and looting, and doing all the evil, and the cities and villages and towns that were attacked by the Montenegrin bandits are only ruins, and there are no living people in them."

"If the Montenegrin thieves break through the city, will we still have a way to live?"

With the appearance of the Black Mountain thieves, the hundreds of Sword Forging Gate disciples guarding the city gate on the city wall all looked terrified.

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree.

For the group of Montenegrin thieves, the famous horse thieves around, even the disciples of the Sword Forging Gate, thinking of the rumors about the Montenegrin thief in the past, they were also afraid in their hearts.

"Then block them and don't let them in."

At this moment, a calm voice sounded in everyone's ears.

The hundreds of disciples of the Sword Forging Gate looked towards the source of the sound.

It was found that it was Xu Xiu, the only head of the Sword Casting Gate who had spoken since the departure of the master brother Zheng Lei, except for the head of the Sect's own daughter, at this time.

Xu Xiu's eyes were calm, and he looked at

the Black Mountain thieves outside the city:

"The Black Mountain thieves are vicious, even for the sake of our families, we must keep it."

Then Xu Xiu continued:

"This battle can only be won and cannot be defeated, brothers and sisters, you don't want your family to be slaughtered by the Black Mountain thieves, right?"

Xu Xiu's words immediately made more than a hundred disciples of the Sword Forging Sect dispel the fear in their hearts.

Looking at the eyes of those Black Mountain thieves outside the city, they also became fierce.

Oh, yes!

Even for the sake of their families and friends, they must hold the county town of Anyang and keep the hungry wolves of Montenegro out of the city.

Not to mention.

Compared to ordinary people.

As ordinary disciples of the Sword Casting Gate, they all learned the martial arts of the Sword Casting Gate.

I dare not say that it must be better than the vicious Montenegrin thieves outside the city.

But relying on the fortification of the city wall, it is still possible to keep this gang of Montenegrin thieves out of the city wall.

And as Xu Xiu spoke, the group of Black Mountain thieves riding big horses outside the city were already like a bolt of lightning, about to rush to the city gate.

"Get on the crossbow and shoot the Montenegrin thief."

Xu Xiu immediately ordered.

Although the crossbow was the official palace of the Great Zhou, it was expressly forbidden to use weapons owned by the people.

But in the chaotic land of Qingzhou, the government's control over the people is extremely weak.

This from the horse thief dared to attack the county seat.

The official government was unable to resist at all, and it could be seen that it had to rely on the martial arts sect to defend the city.

As a martial arts sect in Anyang County, which is the best at forging weapons, the Sword Casting Gate has privately cast a lot of crossbows.

This time the Black Mountain bandits attacked, Zhang Luyang took out a hundred crossbows and five thousand arrows to equip the disciples of the Sword Forging Gate.

So that the disciples of the Sword Forging Sect can guard the county town of Anyang.

Xu Xiu gave an order.

Suddenly, the disciples of the Sword Casting Sect who were standing on the city wall took out the crossbows they had brought with them and had been loaded with arrows in advance.

Aim for Montenegrin thieves outside the city!

Pull the trigger!

Launch!

The next moment....

Hundreds of sharp crossbow arrows, like a dark cloud, shot towards the Montenegrin horse thieves who rushed less than ten feet away from the city gate...

Condescendingly, the disciples of the Casting Sword Sect were ordered to shoot an arrow power that increased by a few points.

The horse thieves fell to the ground.

In this wave alone, at least seventy horse thieves were killed and wounded under the crossbow arrows.

But that's not the end....

It's just the beginning.

Because these crossbows are not single-shot, but burst.

And also a five-shot crossbow.

Although it is not comparable to the ten-shot crossbow equipped by the imperial army, it is unimaginably powerful to deal with the horse thieves outside the city at this time, who are preparing to storm the city gate.

The disciple of the Sword Forging Gate, after shooting once, did not need Xu Xiu to order again.

Consciously continuing to pull the trigger, another round of arrows was fired, and nearly fifty horse thieves were killed and injured by arrows and fell to the ground.

"They have crossbows in their hands!"

"Everyone, speed up."

"Just rush under the walls."

Someone in the rear of the horse thief ordered.

In the second wave of crossbow arrows, the horse thieves have begun to take precautions.

On the way to the city gate, the horse thief, who wielded his weapon and carried a bow and arrow, also began to shoot arrows at the city wall in return.

But the horse thieves with bows and arrows were too few in number, only fifty or sixty.

In addition, the horse thieves are all riding horses and shooting arrows, and the ups and downs under them, whether the bow and arrow can shoot on the city wall, all depends on luck, let alone the accurate head.

Therefore, the horse thieves, the threat to the counterattack of the disciples of the Sword Forging Gate on the city wall is very limited.

This round, nearly fifty horse thieves still fell off their horses, with heavy casualties.

Yikes!

Arrows are like shooting stars.

The disciples of the Sword Casting Gate on the city wall kept pulling the trigger of the crossbow in their hands.

Soon the five arrows in the crossbow were fired.

And the horse thieves outside the city, in just a dozen breaths, have already suffered more than half of the casualties.

"The so-called Montenegrin thief, that's it?"

Looking at the famous Black Mountain thief, Xu Xiu was a little surprised.

But I don't know why, this good situation not only did not make Xu Xiu feel at ease.

Instead, it made Xu Xiu's heart even more uneasy.

He always felt that outside the city, this group of horse thieves revealed something wrong.

The number is not right!

Something is wrong!

The level of ferocity is also not right!

Not at all like the legendary Montenegrin thief.

At this time, those horse thieves outside the city gate had already rushed outside the city gate.

"It's not good, Senior Brother Xu Xiu, the Black Mountain thief rushed to the city gate, and the Black Mountain thief brought gunpowder, it seems that they are going to use gunpowder to blow open the city gate."

At this moment, among the disciples of the Sword Forging Sect who were always paying attention to the outside of the city, someone shouted in panic.

Xu Xiu suddenly came to his senses.

In fact, this world also has such a thing as gunpowder.

However, because of this world, there are reasons for the existence of immortal cultivators.

The advent of gunpowder is not something revolutionary.

Perhaps because of purity, the power to blow up the city wall is not enough.

In other words, people usually celebrate the festival every year and use it to set off fireworks.

It is rarely used on the battlefield.

"I didn't expect that this Montenegrin thief's brain was flexible enough, and he actually thought of using gunpowder to blow open the city gates."

Xu Xiu was a little surprised in his heart.

The county seat of Anyang was not a big city in the first place, and the city gate was not strong.

Previously, the Black Mountain thieves wanted to attack the county seat of Anyang several times, although the sword casting gate was therefore reinforced with iron bars and rivets.

But the city gate is just an ordinary wooden gate after all.

Unlike many state cities, it is said that iron and wood gates wrapped in iron sheets are used as city gates.

If the amount of gunpowder is large enough, it may really be able to blow open the city gates.

"I actually thought of using gunpowder, this Montenegrin thief still has something."

Xu Xiu said in his heart.

He finally felt that this Montenegrin thief was a bit of a legend.

"Leave a large half of the people, continue to guard the city wall, led by Yang Yu, load arrows, continue to shoot horse thieves with crossbows, and select ten junior brothers with good martial arts skills to go down with me and kill the horse thieves who entered the city."

Xu Xiu immediately made a decision.

Yang Yu was the strongest among the ordinary disciples of the Sword Forging Sect.

He usually assists Zhang Luyang, the head of the sect, and manages the ordinary disciples and apprentices of the Sword Forging Sect.

It is very fancy to Zhang Luyang, who is in charge.

Since Zhang Luyang handed over the matter of leading the disciples of the Sword Forging Sect to guard the county town of Anyang to Xu Xiu, he ordered Yang Yu to obey Xu Xiu's orders.

"Yes, Senior Brother Xu Xiu."

Yang Yu is a swarthy and sturdy middle-aged man, usually does not talk much, silent, but has a strong ability to do things, heard Xu Xiu's order, and immediately agreed.

Then he came forward and personally selected ten ordinary Sword Casting Sect disciples who he thought had good martial arts.

The disciple of the Sword Forging Sect who was selected by Yang Yu heard that he was going to face the Black Mountain Thief, his expression was a little fearful, and there was a trace of reluctance in his eyes.

But because of Xu Xiu, the head of the family passed on the identity of a disciple.

Still followed Xu Xiu and walked down the city wall.

Rumble!

Xu Xiu just walked down the city wall.

I heard a loud sound like thunder at the city gate, mixed with a pungent smell of gunpowder.

But this voice is a little dull.

The sound is not as loud as expected.

Xu Xiu looked at it and found that it was not far away at the city gate.

One of the two gates had been blown open with a crack more than two meters high and one meter wide.

The broken thick wooden strips, because of the fixing of iron bars and rivets, were still hanging more or less on the city gates, and did not fall completely.

"The gates were blown open, but not completely."

When Xu Xiu saw this scene, his heart suddenly relaxed.

Such a small crack, even if the horse thief can come in, he can't enter a few people at a time.

With the crossbow in the hands of the disciples of the Sword Casting Gate standing on the city wall, it was easy to kill this group of horse thieves.