Just in front of the military camp gate, Yun Tiansheng ordered those people to take off their armor.
At the foot of the Ninth Mountain, above the military camp, an eagle cried loudly, and then a silver light fell and headed straight for the parade ground.
"puff"
"puff"
When it was about to land, a pair of large silver wings flapped, causing the snow to fly, and then two sharp claws like hooks landed steadily on the muddy sand.
"Ahhh!"
At the nearby training ground, many recruits watched the excitement outside the military camp and could not help but follow the majestic falcons. These exotic birds of prey, trained by the Ten Divisions, could travel thousands of miles a day and were usually used in emergency military reports. They could not help but feel curious.
However, soon, the flag officers of each flag shouted coldly, "What are you looking at? The training distracts me. If you were on the battlefield, you would have died long ago. Train me more."
The recruits quickly shrank their heads and groaned inwardly, but no one refused and they rushed forward roaring. Since entering the Ninth Mountain, the training here has been extremely harsh, and injuries are common. The flag officers above are cold-blooded and almost inhuman. However, in addition to the strict training, the Ninth Mountain is also very good to the soldiers. They are never stingy with all kinds of basic elixirs, medicinal baths, talismans, and even martial arts rewards. They are very fair and this is one of the reasons why many people insist on staying here, because most of the people who come to the Ninth Mountain are children from civilian families. There is another reason. At the beginning, many people heard about the legend of their General Lieutenant from their hometowns, and heard that the Ninth Mountain was recruiting soldiers, so they joined the army with great enthusiasm. The passionate men left their hometowns and vowed not to return until they became famous. They wanted to go to the battlefield as soon as possible and make achievements.
So, a few days ago, even though the rumor was spreading throughout Jinguan City, only a group of children from noble families and those with impure intentions left the Ninth Mountain. The vast majority of people were still concentrating on training and did not cause any commotion at all.
Soon, above the parade ground, the blood-boiling shouts and sounds of killing rose to the sky again, and no one paid attention to anything else.
A figure jumped down from the Aotian Falcon and headed straight for the reviewing platform in front of the parade ground.
"Zuo Zhi!"
"Weren't you sent with your captain to meet the general outside the city?"
"Is the General back?"
A familiar captain saw Zuo Zhi coming on the Ao Tian Falcon, walked up quickly, and asked with a bright look on his face.
"I have urgent military intelligence to report!"
"I want to see the three cavalrymen!"
Zuo Zhi did not exchange pleasantries with the captain, but went straight to explaining without stopping.
"Urgent report?"
The captain's eyes shone, and he quickly followed beside him, "Liu Huqi is in charge at Jiangjun Mountain, Lu Huqi led his troops to Taiping County last night, and now only Yun Huqi is in charge of the camp. I'll go call them."
"no need."
At this time, Yun Tiansheng's voice sounded, and his figure appeared on the high platform, blocking the two of them, with one hand behind his back and the other hand hanging in front of his waist, his brows solemn,
"Military emergency report?"
"Come with me!"
"Just wait outside!"
He asked Zuo Zhi to follow him into the reviewing platform and asked the captain to wait outside.
The reviewing platform is not just a high platform, it is also equipped with a nine-story tower. It is usually used by the Ninth Mountain to review the troops when going to the battlefield. It is responsible for sacrifices, reviewing the troops, and offering flags, etc. Now that the Ninth Mountain has expanded its army, new positions have been added. This place is given to the three cavalry generals Yun Tiansheng, Liu Qing, and Lu Ming for their daily work, as they have no time to set up a separate camp.
Zuo Zhi followed Yun Tiansheng in. Yun Tiansheng turned around, flicked his sleeves, and closed the door. Then, his eyes tightened and he looked at the general flag of the right-wing army.
"What happened?"
Zuo Zhi knelt on one knee, clasped his hands together, and said in a loud voice: "After hearing the news about the incident at Tianxiong Pass, I followed my captain and followed the orders of the three cavalrymen to be ready to welcome the general back to the city two hundred miles outside the city!"
"However, we just encountered a large group of people outside the city. There were about a thousand riders, led by a woman in red!"
"This woman claims to be the patrol captain of Qingshan County, but she has the cultivation of Tianguan. They are escorting a large number of convoys, which are covered by black cloth. There are restrictions on it, so we can't find anything!"
When Yun Tiansheng heard this, his eyelids jumped immediately, "Qingshan County?"
"But it's Qingshan County under the jurisdiction of Baidi City?"
That was the birthplace of their general, who had also served as a mountain patrol captain there.
"Replying to Yunqi, that's right. When my captain learned about it, he was very polite and wanted to ask the other party's reason and reported his identity, but the female captain was very cautious and refused to say anything, so the captain sent his men to report."
When Yun Tiansheng heard this, he remembered that when he followed the general who had just taken over as the General of the Central Army from Qingshan County to fight at Tianxiong Pass to quell the rebellion, he saw a heroic woman in red clothes beside the general. He thought of the woman and his eyes flashed, "Something must have happened in Qingshan County!"
"Pass the order down, take a team of people and leave the city!"
Soon, the gate of the military camp at the foot of the Ninth Mountain opened.
"drive"
"drive"
"drive"
The horses' hooves rumbled as they galloped, their hooves kicking up the snow. In the blink of an eye, they turned into afterimages that shone with cold metallic light, leaving only traces on the snow. Then, black flags flew out from behind the figures on the horses. The horses neighed, leaped up with their hooves, stepped on the flying flags, and headed straight north.
On the other side, in the backyard of the Jin family in North City, under a pavilion on the pond, a few wisps of hot air were rising.
The pond under the pavilion has frozen over. On the pavilion's covered bridge, an old man in a bamboo hat is fishing on a broken hole in the ice with a bamboo pole. A pine tree beside the pavilion is covered with snow-white rime.
At this time, in the pavilion, beside a stone table, the Prince of Beiliang, who was dressed in a python robe but as gentle as jade, was holding a white jade pot and pouring a cup of tea to the person opposite him.
How could a person who could get the dignified Prince of Beiliang to pour tea be an easy person to deal with? But sitting opposite him was a woman with a dignified figure, covered in white gauze and wearing a straw hat. There was also white gauze hanging under the hat, covering her face tightly. Her temperament was like that of a fairy who had hidden herself in the world.
"Whoa"
The emerald green and crystal clear tea flowed down and landed in the white jade cup. A few emerald green needles swirled in the tea, and the elegant fragrance of fresh rain in an empty mountain wafted into the air along with the rising hot steam.
"boom"
The Prince of Beiliang put down the flawless white jade pot, looked at the woman opposite him with his narrow eyebrows, and raised his head slightly.
"Every time this prince meets the Saint, she dresses differently. Sometimes she looks like the flying goddess in the Dunhuang murals, and sometimes she looks like the secluded fairy in the paradise. She has a thousand faces. I don't know whether the one sitting in front of this prince is real or fake. I don't know when I can see her beauty again."
The woman in white who was covering her face laughed softly. Her voice was as gentle as a girl from the south of the Yangtze River, but it sounded like someone was tickling your ear. "Your Highness should know that my cultivation method is not yet fully developed. Even I myself do not know what I will look like tomorrow. It is better not to scare Your Highness."
"It's amazing that there is such a magical technique in the world. I've heard for a long time that your Holy Fire Sect has found the legendary ruins of the gods in the Western Regions. Could it be that the Holy Maiden found this technique there? It's really curious." The Prince of Beiliang's eyes flashed with curiosity, but his tone was somewhat meaningful.
It turned out that the woman opposite was actually the Holy Maiden of the Western Region Holy Religion!
The Northern Liang Iron Cavalry terrorized the thirty-six states in the Western Regions. They were mortal enemies, but the Saint of the Holy Church seemed to have had many interactions with the Prince of Northern Liang. The Saint of the Holy Church covered her face, and no aura could be sensed from her body. She looked normal on the surface, but there was something weird in her bones.
"Your Highness, please don't test me. I came from Tianxiong Pass and want to ask you something."
"Oh?" When Prince Beiliang heard the three words "Tianxiong Pass", his eyes flickered slightly, "Please speak!"
"I heard that His Highness had his men tell the followers of our sect that the Ninth Mountain General had killed a guardian of our sect in that battle. Two incense masters, may I ask if Your Highness knows what the relationship is between the owner of Tianxiang Tower and this General?"
This Holy Maiden of the Holy Religion, after investigating what happened at Tianxiang Tower, completed the identities of the three "minions" who were killed by the Ninth Mountain General in the battle of Tianxiong Pass and who had been mentioned by no one else!
The Prince of Beiliang was a little surprised. He didn't know there were such twists and turns in this matter, but the fact that the Holy Lady of the Western Region Holy Church was asking about the Ninth Mountain General made the prince feel a little uncomfortable.
The gentle jade-like eyebrows twitched slightly, the eyelids drooped, and he picked up the cup on the table and turned it around, his voice was a little dark,
"Saint, you better not check it!"
"I'm afraid not. The owner of Tianxiang Tower is related to our Holy Church." The Saint of the Western Region Holy Church shook her head. Her gentle voice changed a little and sounded a little distorted. Then she added, "Is Your Highness afraid of the Ninth Mountain General? I heard that Your Highness seemed to have suffered a little loss at the hands of this man when he entered the city!"
As soon as Zishou said this, Beiliangshi's spinning teacup stopped, and the tea splashed out and spilled onto the table. Not far away, on the covered bridge, an old man who was fishing in the snow, motionless, trembled the bamboo pole in his hand, a wisp of energy escaped, and the ice in the pond cracked with a crisp sound.
Prince Beiliang's chest rose and fell, and he looked up at the faceless woman, his expression becoming calm.
"It seems that the Saint has inquired about it. There is no need to provoke this prince. Since you already know what happened in Tianxiong Pass, there is no need to take risks with this person."
"This person is unruly and reckless by nature. He even fought against the imperial court and the dragon and tiger. He also has the help of the local demon-suppressing general. Are you sure you want to investigate?"
"check!"
"Then I'd like to make it clear in advance that this prince and Beiliang will not interfere!"
Across from her, the saint girl under the white mask seemed to be pinned down, and finally a shrill laugh escaped from her throat.
"It seems that the prince is really scared!"
"No, it's just that I'm not as skilled as him!" Prince Beiliang said calmly, "If I can't kill him, someone else will."
"The Imperial Court, the Three Imperial Families, and Your Excellency!"
"Why should I take risks?"
As he finished speaking, the sound of wind and thunder could be heard faintly in the sky.
"Boom"
"Boom"
The thunder rumbled and became clearer and clearer.
Under the pavilion, the three people on the covered bridge all looked up at the sky at the same time, and saw a black line crossing the sky in the wind and snow, heading north.
That black line was a team of hundreds of people in black armor, riding horses and stepping on flags, galloping across the sky.
The leader among them was wearing a silver flying fish suit!
"They are soldiers from the Ninth Mountain. The one leading them is the General's confidant. They are heading north out of the city. It seems that the General has returned from Tianxiong Pass!"
Under the pavilion, Prince Beiliang stood up, his eyes slightly narrowed, with a sense of dignity in the wind and snow.
The Saint Girl from the Western Regions behind him also stood up, her mask blown down, revealing her fair chin and a sneer on the corner of her mouth.
The black line went out of the city from the north, speeding through the wind and snow for hundreds of miles, and finally in the northeast direction, a torrent of armored vehicles was seen among the vast forests and snowy plains.
In the vast snow and wind, a touch of red is particularly eye-catching!
The leader, Yun Tiansheng, raised his hand and gave an order, then he pulled the reins and galloped down, landing in front of the leader of the group in red!
On the big maroon horse, he was wearing a red robe, with a three-foot-long sword slung over his back, a red ribbon tied around his head, and black white boots on his feet. His eyebrows and eyes were like swords, and he looked heroic and cold!
Behind him, a convoy wrapped in black cloth stretched for several miles, with black-armored cavalry on both sides, more than a thousand in total!
These black armors were not of the Fashan Army standard, but of the Fuguan standard, and they seemed to be different from each other. What made Yun Tiansheng frown was that there were traces of battle on the armors of these soldiers and horses, and it seemed that it had not been long since the battle, and they had not been repaired yet.
On the left side of these soldiers, there were hundreds of soldiers wearing the standard armor of the Ninth Mountain, following them dozens of meters away. They were the team that was originally preparing to welcome the general.
Yun Tiansheng saw the heroic red-dressed woman leading the group and immediately recognized her. He stepped forward with the reins in hand and raised his hands to clasp his fists.
"The Ninth Mountain General's right-wing Divine Cavalry, Yun Tiansheng!"
On the other side, the marching team stopped, and the red-dressed woman at the head of the group relaxed her tense brows, clasped her fists and announced her name.
"Lian Nishang, the patrol captain of Qingshan County!"
Lian Nishang also recognized Yun Tiansheng. At that time, there were only three captains left from the Ninth Mountain Army that went to Qingshan County. The ones wearing green armor were the most conspicuous, and Yun Tiansheng was one of them.
Yun Tiansheng pulled the reins and came closer. He didn't know how Lian Nishang, who originally stayed in Qingshan County, came here all the way, where the soldiers behind her came from, and what were those things behind her that were obviously many times larger than ordinary carriages, wrapped in black cloth, and had forbidden spiritual light?
So he spoke directly:
"Captain Lian led his men to Jinguan City after traveling thousands of miles, but what happened that brought him to the general?"
"And what are you escorting behind you?"
He subconsciously thought that this captain came to Jinguan City to find the general.
But I saw Lian Nishang on the opposite side raising her hand towards the back.
Upon seeing the warrant, the cavalrymen on both sides of the convoy immediately drew their swords and slashed at the large carriage wrapped in black cloth on their sides!
The sword energy slashed through, and a flash of spiritual light appeared above, and then it was split apart. The black cloth below also made a tearing sound and split apart.
"laugh"
"laugh"
"laugh"
As the black cloth was lifted, the items being escorted inside were instantly exposed to the daylight.
A strong smell of blood and demonic energy suddenly surged out!
Among hundreds of vehicles simply built with thick wood, one "huge monster" after another appeared.
A head of Bing Xie that was about five or six feet in size, with red eyes, white hair, a torn neck, and blood all over it!
A dark silver Gu eagle body that was over ten feet long and had its head blown apart!
A python was coiled up, with a height of about 20 to 30 feet, and only half of its body was left!
These hundreds of carriages were actually transporting all kinds of incomplete corpses of demons!
And they are all demons at the heavenly level!
You know, the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Gate Demon is a treasure that ordinary people can hardly obtain. Many experts in the Body Profound Realm have not been able to break through the bottleneck of the Heavenly Gate for many years, but they can break through it with just one bottle of the Heavenly Gate Demon's blood. (End of this chapter)
