Early morning.

Purple Country, the imperial capital of Baya City.

The bright red rosewood is carved with a dragon and a wind attached to both sides of the purple gold gate.

"Crunch!"

The Purple Gold Gate opened from the inside out, and a group of forbidden soldiers who were supposed to be wearing armor ran out with a white cloth on their armor today, and ran out with a white towel on their heads, and their momentum was slightly dead and sunk on the inner wall of the imperial city, looking at the Purple Gold Gate solemnly.

"Knock, knock, knock. ”

"Knock, knock, knock. ”

"Knock, knock, knock. ”

Nine golden drums resounded loudly throughout the imperial capital Baya City.

Since the founding of the Purple Kingdom 200 years ago, the nine-sound golden drum has only appeared four times, which is the highest specification of the Purple Kingdom, and generally appears only when the emperor dies or the life and death of the empire.

The empire went through three changes of imperial power, and the founding emperor Bayadong swept through the surrounding seven kingdoms and sixteen princes, laying the foundation of the Purple Kingdom.

Baya Xinqing tried to develop and build the Purple Country into the pinnacle of military power, blindly seeking to expand the territory and ignoring the people's livelihood, resulting in complaints and internal chaos.

After Baya Xinqing passed on the position of Baya Xintuo, Baya Xintuo faced the resentment of the Purple People, internal disputes continued, and after the strong suppression with military power, he tried his best to develop the people's livelihood, pacify the civil strife, and drive the ghost to the outside of the Yumen Pass, thus pushing the Purple Country to the highest peak.

But now it has been less than 20 years since it was inherited to the new emperor Baya Xintu, and nine golden drums have appeared again.

"Nine beats of the golden drum, something is wrong!"

"Could it be that the Half-Orcs have broken through the Blue City and come to Baya?"

"Impossible, yesterday Marshal Lu Qi commanded the "Guangzi" banner and was still stationed outside Baya City, and the Demon Clan only broke through the Nu River a few days ago, how could Blue City be lost?"

"I heard that the troops led by Marshal Lu Qi were stopped outside the imperial capital yesterday and were not allowed to enter without being summoned, and I heard that Marshal Lu Qi had committed treason and surrendered to the half-beast clan to persuade the Purple Kingdom to surrender. ”

The people in Baya City couldn't help but talk about it, and they didn't know the truth.

"Could it be that the emperor died? If so, something really going to happen to Baya City!"

"Nine golden drums have sounded, why don't you hurry out of the city to gather, aren't you too long?"

Suddenly, someone stopped these imaginary pedestrians and hurriedly ran outside the imperial capital.

It stands to reason that the sun hasn't shown its light at this moment, but the June sky is not so cool, not to mention that there are more than 100,000 people of the Purple Kingdom gathered outside the city, and they can't even feel a trace of heat.

"Tick, tick, tick. ”

After the golden drum, the long sound of suona resounded throughout the imperial city, enveloping the entire Baya City in sorrow.

Hearing the sound of suona complaints, thousands of people couldn't help but tremble, could it be that the Purple Emperor died, there were half-beasts outside the imperial capital in the Blue City, and I am afraid that disasters in Baya City will be indispensable.

At this time, at the inner gate of the imperial city, ninety-nine eighty-one people walked out steadily with a pair of red sandalwood coffins draped in white linen on their heads, without any sound, only the sound of suona continued to enter the ears, and it felt very desolate.

From time to time, the sun gradually showed its head to illuminate the earth, and the sun shrouded the cool imperial capital, and saw the crowd of people kneeling on the ground, and then hid back in the clouds and disappeared, ushering in dark clouds and pouring rain.

Suddenly, the sound of wind and rain increased, and the raindrops the size of beans fell on the ninety-nine eighty-one people carrying the coffin, but the latter still walked out of the inner city steadily.

To the high wall of the outer city, the coffin of the red sandalwood was put down, the coffin was opened, the coffin was erected, and the people of the purple country in the distance saw the scene in the coffin slightly, a corpse without a head, eerie and terrifying, the child saw this scene, and the cry suddenly sounded from under the city.

At the height of the city wall, Baya Xintu, the current emperor of the Purple Kingdom, looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and the heavy rain instantly regained its momentum and turned into a drizzle and fell to the ground.

"In the 162nd year of the Purple National Calendar, the empire lost Generalissimo Lu Yi, who was a great hero who followed the first emperor to stabilize the Quartet. For the Duke of Dingguo. ”

"Now, in the 198th year of the imperial calendar, the empire has once again lost Marshal Lu Qi, who is an outstanding general who saved the empire from dire straits. Now the prince of Pingguo. ”

"Since 178, Lu Qi has been the leader of the seventeenth year, and he has made great achievements. ”

In 177, a plan was made to stabilize the Xiliang family rebellion, in 178 the war in the northeast blocked the enemy's Nu River, and in 183 it smashed Yang Hua's wolf ambition and pacified the Zi civil strife, until 184 when he went south to clear out overseas bandits and stabilize the coastal line of the empire, and since then there has been no threat to the west and south of the empire. In the 188th year of the Purple National Calendar, the Half-Beast Clan invaded the Holy Temple, and Lu Qi led a large army to support and recover the lost territories in the northeast, Liaoyang, Linta and Wuyang. ”

"Today, there is a half-beast clan besieging the blue city, in order to solve the danger of the big purple, in order to retreat the turbidity of the demon clan, and return the fortune of my purple country, I killed myself in the palace last night, and I am willing to turn the wind and rain to purify the witch spirit. ”

The wind blew, rolling the low and firm momentum of Emperor Baya Xintu into the sky, flying passionately and long.

The wind is calm, and the rain stops.

Suddenly, a figure under the city burst out, pointing at Baya Xintu on the city wall and shouting angrily.

"You mediocre monarch, the first emperor has worked hard to establish the Purple Country for 200 years, since you took over, the Purple Country has been in turmoil everywhere, and the flames of war have been going on for many years, I have come to Baya City from the Northeast for more than ten years, more than ten years, what has become of the Northeast now? There are wars, and the people are homeless. ”

Someone tried to pull him on the side of his pants not to talk nonsense, who wanted him to continue yelling,

"What mistake did Lord Lu Qi make, he didn't even get the whole corpse when he died, every time the demon army came over, he had to negotiate peace with him, my Purple Country has been founded for more than 200 years, why are you afraid of foreign enemies invading my territory? But since you took office, Princess Xinyu was forced to marry the demon tribe, causing the three northeastern provinces to fall into the claws of the half-beast tribe. ”

The guards on the city wall wanted to draw their swords and move forward, Baya Xintu waved his hand to stop him, and he stopped talking, even if he could explain it clearly to his people, but who could understand the pain in his heart?

"The people of the Purple Country, the Northeast is like a piece of meat on my body, and the loss of the three northeastern provinces is to cut a piece of meat on my body, how can it stop the pain?"

"Although the past is vivid, but now the demon army has set off from the blue city, less than 100 miles away from the imperial capital, please believe in me one last time, this time the empire will retreat from the demon army!!"

After speaking, the people looked up at the city wall, which was the foundation of the empire and a symbol of honor, and if the city of Baya was broken, it would mean the end of the empire.

If the country is not protected, the family is all about it?

The neighing of war horses could occasionally be heard in the distance, and the demon army was riding on the mighty Imperial Capital Baya City, and everyone couldn't help but panic.

"Ouyang, I'll leave it to you next. ”

Baya Xintu retreated from the city wall, and a middle-aged man with a sad face, holding an old mahogany fan, and a pinch of beard on his chin appeared on the city wall, looking at the sky in the distance with deep eyes, the drizzle gradually disappeared, and the sun reappeared, and shouted in a deep voice,

"Sacrifice corpses, burn fires, and purify witches. ”

A team of guards in the city presented a black silk brocade box, placed it on the coffin and opened it, and a face full of vicissitudes of life came into the eyes of everyone, especially the dazzling white hair, and everyone in the city finally couldn't help crying again.

"My lord, it's really Lord Lu Qi. ”

But no matter how much they called the so-called Lord Lu Qi, there was no response.

Ouyang Junshi looked to the northeast, where the sky was dense and black, and he knew that it was the Half-Beast Army's Feathered Clan that was about to launch an attack on the imperial capital.

"Fire. ”

The body lying on the coffin had already begun to catch fire, and the burning filth flew into the sky and drifted northeast with the wind.

"Lord Lu Qi deliberately explained on his deathbed that this is the only way to get rid of the demon's anger, he said before his death, 'If you can talk about the success or failure of the hero, then my fate will only follow my will, if spring goes to autumn, and the begonia flowers bloom, I will turn into wind and rain, and return to the purple country through hell and heaven, guarding all this. ”

"I have followed Lord Lu Qi for more than 20 years, and I have followed all the way from the ghost desert outside the Yumen Pass, fighting against half-beasts, collecting foreign races, clearing the streams, and protecting the ........temple."

Ouyang Xiu seemed to have returned to the golden age of the Purple Kingdom, and in the troubled times, Lu Qi began the legend of his life in the 178th year of the Great Purple Empire.

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At the beginning of the 178th year of the imperial calendar, the ice and snow in the Northeast have not completely melted, the Northeast border defense broke into a large group of fierce beasts, directly tore open a hole, followed by a black winged bird in the sky and pressed by the sky, each winged bird is bigger than a human shape, the Northeast Dragon Guard fixed its eyes, the winged bird seemed to carry a person under the belly, the sky was densely packed with winged birds, and the Northeast Dragon Guard Army that had just formed into a shape was immediately attacked by the sky arrow to disrupt the formation.

Arrows rained down, and the Northeast Dragon Guard was caught off guard, and every time the fierce beasts that had just formed a formation and wanted to break through the border defense line were scattered and defeated by the highly dense sharp arrows of the Sky Winged Birds.

This was repeated several times, and the mouth of the northeast border defense line was torn wider and wider by the beast, and then completely collapsed and lost.

Chen Ming, the commander of the northeast border guards, looked at the beasts of unknown origin, but did not see any of the enemy troops coming forward, only the winged birds continued to shoot arrows down, strange and unusual, if this situation is not retreated, I am afraid that the entire northeast border army will be annihilated without seeing a single enemy army.

"The herald ordered all battalions, flags, departments, and teams to freely organize a retreat route and withdraw to Wuyang to assemble and defend. ”

Chen Ming, the commander of the Northeast Frontier, is also a veteran of the Great Purple Empire, who followed the army to fight everywhere at a young age, and has been on the battlefield for more than 30 years, but he has never seen such a strange battlefield.

Until the northeast frontier defense line was lost, he still didn't see clearly who the enemy general was, and he didn't even see the enemy clearly, but his 60,000 Northeast Border Dragon Guards were beaten and scattered, with heavy casualties.

Ten people in each team retreated to Wuyang, ten teams into one hundred people, ten teams into one banner with 1,000 people, and ten flags into a battalion of 10,000 people.

Counting the casualties, the 60,000-strong army lost 8,000 combatable troops.

If you don't see a single enemy and don't kill a single enemy general, you will suffer huge losses, and Chen Ming, the commander of the Northeast who has never been defeated in such a battle, feels bad in his heart.

"Grandma's, who is the commander of the other party? can command a hundred beasts to fight, such a tactic is simply unheard of, if it is not for the timely retreat, I am afraid that the losses will increase. ”

Elephants, tigers, wolves, these are all fierce beasts, not to mention their combat capabilities, their destructive ability alone, the equipment of the Great Purple Empire is not comparable, if it is not for the pits and depressions in the border defense line, they can't even support their attack for two hours.

If they go straight to Wuyang, Wuyang Pass, which has no time to defend at all, is afraid that it will be broken in less than a day.

Chen Ming felt scared when he thought of this, marching and fighting, the terrible thing was not how strong the opponent was, but that he didn't even know who the opponent was.

"Pass on our military order, all the soldiers immediately go out of the city to set up a defensive line, especially dig a big pit, preferably a pit that can fit elephants, not too dense, but not too evacuated. ”

The Great Purple Empire's Zhenguan Taishou and Commander positions are equal, but in the state of emergency military wartime, the Zhenguan Taishou must obey the commander's orders, and it can also be said that the Zhenguan Taishou and the deputy commander generally have the same status.

"Commander Chen, how do you need our help?"

The Taishou guarding Wuyang Pass is also the Imperial Minister of Culture and Administration Mo Wei, with a national character face, when he saw the Northeast Commander retreating from Wuyang Pass, he knew that something was wrong, and his face was frowning and rolled several layers.

"Mo Taishou, you immediately command the people in Wuyang City to retreat, and then gather all kinds of hunters and talents, and let them come to see me immediately. Chen Ming looked at the military map on the long table, it would take two days to reach Wuyang from the army of the northeast defense line, but if it was a fierce beast, I am afraid it would only take one day.

"Remember, give priority to retreating the people in the city and retreat to the rear, I have already sent a message to the Blue City Express Horse, but it is estimated that the support will not be able to wait. ”

"Commander Chen, where is the enemy army? There is no movement in Dongtu, could it be that Marshal Lu Yi expelled the ghost tribe outside the Yumen Pass many years ago?"

"You ask me, who do I ask? Sleep on your mother's northeast defense line is lost, and I haven't seen a single enemy soldier, and I've fought for most of my life, and I've never seen such a strange tactic. ”

Chen Ming didn't know where to spread the anger in his heart, not to mention that the northeast border defense line was lost in his hands!

Who could believe that the defense line was lost in less than half a day and retreated to Wuyang in embarrassment, but the facts were in front of him, the northeast defense line was lost in his Chen Ming's hands, and it was extremely embarrassing.

"It's really weird, could it be that the ghost tribe has come back?"

Mo Wei thought to himself, and hurriedly left the Taishou Mansion to command the retreat, but he couldn't summon the Orions for a while, and only more than 20 Orions arrived at the Taishou Mansion a day.

Chen Ming asked if there was any way to deal with the beasts, especially the flocks of large winged birds in human shape.

Orion hunts for a living, but he has never hunted elephants, mammoths, panthers, and wolves that go to provoke hordes, and lone wild boars dare to kill, and herds of them will run when they see them.

With no clue how to deal with the herd of beasts, Chen Ming could only ask how to quickly attack a single beast and make it incapacitated.

The hunters each said their own hunting methods, the most important of which was the anesthetic, although I don't know if this anesthetic is effective against elephants, wild boars and tigers, etc., but after all, they have to try.

"Come on, connect Wuyang to Linta, and set off fireworks in Fengyantai, Liaoyang Province, so that they can prepare for battle. After Chen Ming sent the Orion away, he gave an urgent order again.