Chapter 229: Expedition
Before setting off at noon, Zhang Han finally saw the team of weapons holders mixed in the Royal Forest Demon Heroes in Biyun Pavilion, but there didn't seem to be Chu Danchen inside. The disappointment in Zhang Han's heart fell to the freezing point.
The five thousand Royal Forest Demon Heroes were organized into fifty teams, one team for each hundred demons (people), and each team was divided into twenty squads, one team for every five demons (people). The captains are all the protector demon generals of the Ten Directions Demon Alliance or the famous disciples of the Qimen, and the team leaders do not care.
In order to ensure the balance of combat power, the proportions of each team and each level of the Royal Forest Demon are the same. Incredibly, Zhang Han actually mixed up with Shi Dazhu and Yun Ziyang.
Fortunately, the team is a free combination, and Zhang Han and Shi Dazhu have a reason not to follow Yun Ziyang's team.
The Ten Directions Demon Alliance has equipped each demon hero with a wild shrinkage equipment - a leaf tent that can be expanded and reduced at will, and can not be invaded by cold and heat, the size of a palm, but it can be the size of a house.
There is also a bag of dry food that is said to be eaten for a year, a packet of healing gold and a dozen elixirs that are said to replenish demonic power when necessary, and a "Thousand Miles of Fire" that can transmit all kinds of enemy situations thousands of miles away.
In Gollum's opinion, these are all stalls, which can be bought on the streets of Chiba City at will, which shows the miserliness of the Ten Directions Demon Alliance.
Other than that, everything is on your own, even the mount has to be your own.
Zhang Han had a feeling of being deceived, and he couldn't see Chu Danchen as he wished, from the moment he set off, he closed his eyes on the six-legged beast's back with his arms crossed, and he kept scolding and complaining in his heart.
Along the way, it was crowded with people of all ages, young and old, men and women to see off the lively crowd and demon groups, chanting various slogans to see off the army, and some even distributed pills and drinks for free, of course, there were many traders who took the opportunity to make a fortune.
The large army left Chiba Castle and hurried north, leaving behind the caves and villages, and the population gradually thinned out, and the vast mountains and fields began to unfold endlessly in front of all the demons and people.
The order urging the rapid march in front became more and more urgent, and Zhang Han could even hear Sima Heng's roar coming from several mountains.
The demon leader of the brigade was a tiger demon with an ugly face, who was quite polite to them, but he rode a tall eight-legged sphinx to urge Zhang Han and them to run quickly.
The Qilian Mountain Range is more than a thousand miles away from Chiba City, and for the vast Ten Directions Demon Land, a thousand miles is not too far, if Zhang Han can fly without tirelessness, it will probably take a day and a night to arrive, and according to the speed of the march in front of them, it will take about three days to arrive.
Two hours later, the sunset has set in the west, and the mighty demon hero team began to enter the demon land in the full sense of the ten directions, the demon barbaric area, looking into the distance, all of them are endless vast open ravines and peaks, ups and downs of the mountain line like jumping beast ridges, gray-green gray-green mountains are reflected in patches of dark green to pale black evil forests.
If you look closely, you will see that all around you are towering peaks and rocky valleys, and the wind in the mountains and fields is faintly flowing, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and under the slanting sun, there is occasionally an inexplicable wail that makes people's hearts palpitate, like a night owl.
It was almost nightfall, and they came to the bottom of an open valley that extended in all directions, and the horses were sleepy and tired, and everyone was already tired, and finally the order was given to camp on the spot.
Each squad's five leaflet tents are grouped back to back, grouped according to the terrain. After the camp was stabilized, each team began to count the number of people, nominally to check whether there were any stragglers, but some demon heroes who were familiar with the internal affairs of the Ten Directions Demon Alliance secretly discussed behind their backs, they were actually checking whether there were any deserters, and then "settle accounts after the autumn" after returning - cancel the status of the Royal Forest Demon Hero, and don't think about coming out to mix again in the future.
After camping, it is a meal, and everyone nibbles on the dry and hard dry food distributed by the Demon League (according to the marching regulations, all the demon camp participating in the encirclement and suppression of the myelin eater must not have a smell of alcohol, so as not to expose their whereabouts), and then each team draws out the Royal Forest Demon Hero and arranges a night camp patrol mission.
The deep mountains at night are boring and lonely, and it's okay to be idle anyway, so Zhang Han and Shi Dazhu signed up to be the first batch of night patrols. It is better to blow the wind outside the camp than to stay alone in a tent.
The patrol is composed of ten demons (people), each of whom is divided into a small detachment, and the task is to patrol the valley around the camp.
Zhang Han and Shi Dapestle walked around the camp first, and they didn't see anything unusual, but they found that the smell of wine and meat wafted out of many tents, and they could vaguely hear the sound of whispering fists and palms in the tent.
Zhang Han's stomach gurgled for no reason, and he couldn't help but secretly say in his heart, damn, these guys must have secretly brought their own wine and meat, why didn't Lao Tzu think of it?
Shi Dazhu licked his drooling lips, and his eyes lit up: "Brother Zhang, these guys have violated military discipline, do you want to report them?"
Zhang Han shook his head: "Who doesn't want to get something delicious in this hellish place? Don't be jealous that others have wine and meat, blame us for being too stupid and forgetting to bring some private goods." ”
Shi Dazhu lowered his voice and smiled: "Brother, why don't we get some ready-made ones ourselves?"
"Ready-made?" Zhang Han wondered, "How can there be ready-made now?"
Shi Dapestle pointed to the mountains and forests in the distance with a black hole, scratched the unkempt hair on the top of his head, and laughed in a low voice: "Isn't there ready-made game over there? ”
As soon as he said this, Zhang Han was immediately moved, looking at the endless patrol team in front of him and behind him, he said in his heart, there are so many monster patrols, there are not many more of us, and there are many of us in one team, and there is nothing wrong with getting some game, the so-called "military regulations" of the Ten Directions Demon Alliance, Lao Tzu has long been unpleasant.
So, while others were not paying attention, he bowed with Shi Dapestle, quietly swept out of the camp like a ghost, and first dived to a col not far away.
The figure rises and falls a few times, has climbed halfway up the mountain, look down, the camp tent of the valley mouth camp is lit continuously, it is distributed on a chessboard, it seems to be a little random, but the defense inside is tight, the lights are bright, under the background of the towering mountains around, coupled with the night wind of hunting, as if a sea of light floats in the valley, the scene is magnificent.
After turning half a pillar of incense in the nearby dense forest, even Shi Dapestle, who was experienced in hunting, did not find any birds or beasts in the forest, as if all the creatures in the forest were hiding.
I was feeling a little disappointed, and suddenly heard the sound of water, like a water monster jumping out of the water, Shi Dapestle pointed to the back of the col and shouted: "Brother Zhang, it's a saber-toothed carp, there is a lake over there!"
Before he could finish speaking, his burly figure leaped to his feet, and flew like an arrow down the mountain col.
Zhang Han looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that in a low-lying place dozens of zhang on the back of the mountain col, there was indeed a wide deep-water lake, and the moonlight shone obliquely on the surface of the lake, under the cover of the surrounding dense forests, like a huge silver mirror lying quietly in the deep mountains.
The splash in the center of the lake has just splashed with silver waves, and the traces of a huge strange fish that has just jumped out of the water and fallen into the lake are still there, and on the curved arc of the bucket, the sword-sharp fin scales are still clearly visible.
At this time, the figure of the stone pestle had swept across the lake like a night owl, and with a "choking" knife sound, the red light from the water cutting blade slashed the center of the lake.
Seeing that it was about to succeed, the backbone of the strange fish suddenly bounced up with a bow, bringing out a huge splash of water to counterattack the stone pestle from above, and the bloody giant snout opened its sharp saber teeth like a sword, and ate it in one bite.
Shi Dapestle seemed to have expected the saber-toothed carp to have this move, hehe smiled, and shouted: "Brother Zhang, go on!", with a palm up, "boom", the whole saber-toothed carp ball flew towards Zhang Han diagonally.
Zhang Han's figure just swept to the shore, the phantom dragon's claw index finger hooked and swept sideways, and with a "swish", blood splashed, and the huge saber-toothed carp had been cut in two in the air and fell to the shore of the lake.
The body of this saber-toothed carp was a foot long, and its back and flanks were covered with pinpoint-like feathers and sword-sharp giant fins, and even the silver-white scales on its body were sharp and tough.
There will be feathers on the fish, and Zhang Han has seen it for the first time.