Amid the roaring hooves, Li Qing and his entourage rode at a gallop and quickly rushed to the scene of the incident.

The official road is flanked by rolling hills. The mountains are not too high, but the forests are dense. The official road winds through the mountains, and on both sides of the avenue are dense mountains and forests.

Walking on the official road, the field of vision is very narrow, at a glance, you can only see one or two hundred meters, and you will be blocked by the mountains and forests.

Therefore, although the mountain where the wolf smoke was lit was not too far from Li Qing and the others, Li Qing and the others also turned several corners, and only after they really arrived at the scene of the incident did they see the truth of the matter.

It was a small river separating the north and the south. It is not too wide, and the distance between the two sides of the strait is only less than 20 meters. However, the water is very turbulent, and the sound of roaring water can be heard more than 100 meters away.

A five-zhang wide stone arch bridge flies on both sides of the river, connecting the official roads on both sides. But by this time the stone arch bridge had collapsed from it, and only the piers on both sides of the bridge barely remained intact. The checkpoints at the bridgeheads on both sides were in ruins, and the ground was littered with corpses.

Dozens of large vehicles overturned in a messy manner at the bridgehead on both sides of the strait, blocking the official road tightly. All the horses pulling the cart were killed, and the blood of men and horses flowed everywhere, and the blood was in a puddle. Hundreds of sacks of hemp lay on the ground, soaked in blood, many of which were scratched, dripping white rice and flour.

There were also many objects scattered on the surface of the river, wheels, sacks, wood, horses, and even floating corpses, which were rushing downstream with the current at great speed.

"It's a baggage team escorting grain and grass!" The little dragon girl quickly swept her eyes and said loudly, "Are there any living people?" ”

No one answered.

In fact, with the sensing ability of Li Qing and others, whether there is a living person or not, you can tell if you concentrate a little.

And neither Li Qing nor Xiaolongnu sensed the breath of a living person here, obviously whether it was the baggage team or the cross-strait checkpoints, they had all been wiped out.

"Lingfeng, Xiao Si, follow me to the beacon tower to check the situation." Li Qingdao: "Long'er, you stay and inspect the scene." ”

On the hill next to the bridge, there is a beacon tower. It was from the beacon that the wolf smoke was lit. But now that Li Qing and others have arrived at the scene, the beacon tower is only quietly emitting wolf smoke, and no one is seen, and it is likely that something has happened.

Li Qing, Chu Lingfeng, and Scarlett jumped off the unicorn and rushed towards the beacon tower along a path leading to the top of the mountain on the side of the road. Soon the three of them ran up the hill and came to the beacon tower.

"The smell of blood is strong." Li Qing sniffed and said in a deep voice, "Pay attention to vigilance." ”

As he spoke, his mind moved, and he summoned the power of the King of Metal, the Spiral, from the Power Seed, and instantly equipped it on his hands. He drew his saber from his waist and walked into the beacon tower first.

Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett also drew their respective sabers, followed behind Li Qing, and walked into the beacon tower.

The trio examined it carefully and found only five bodies.

"It seems that they were killed by the enemy as soon as they lit the wolf smoke." Li Qing squatted in front of a corpse, looked at the huge wound on the corpse's chest where the flesh rolled up, the sternum was broken, and the internal organs were broken, and said: "Judging from the tear marks of the wound and the fracture of the bones, this person should have been killed by a blow from the unbladed heavy sword." ”

"The wounds on the other four bodies were similar." Chu Lingfeng said: "They were all killed by a blow from an unbladed heavy sword. Two of them showed obvious signs of resistance, but were beheaded with their weapons along with their men. ”

She took a war knife that was broken from it and handed it to Li Qing, "You see, there are no traces of collision in the rest of the blade of this knife, only one impact mark in the fracture part." Apparently cut off by a single blow from the enemy. ”

Li Qing took the battle knife, looked at it carefully, and said, "The quality of this knife is not bad, it is already enough to be of the grade of a low-level spiritual weapon." ”

Chu Lingfeng said: "Not bad. Cut off a low-level spirit weapon with a single blow, and slash people to death...... The murderer is very strong, and the equipment is not bad. ”

"The five beacon tower soldiers were all killed with one blow without any resistance...... Li Qing muttered: "The murderer is so strong, why did he let the wolf smoke ignite?" ”

Scarlett said, "Maybe you're busy attacking the baggage team at the bottom of the mountain and destroying the stone bridge?" ”

"That's not right." Li Qing shook his head, "The murderer can kill the five soldiers guarding the beacon tower first, and then attack the baggage team." Even if you are negligent for a while, you can extinguish the wolf smoke afterwards and buy more time to escape......"

"Unless the murderer deliberately set the wolf smoke on fire." Chu Lingfeng said: "The purpose is to ......"

As soon as he said this, he suddenly heard a huge clashing of gold and iron from the bottom of the mountain.

"The enemy has moved, let's go down the mountain!" Li Qing's face changed slightly, and he jumped directly from the beacon tower, followed by Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett without thinking.

But before the three of them landed on the ground, in the dense forest next to the beacon tower, three dark crossbow arrows flew out, shooting Li Qing's throat, heart, and lower abdomen. There were two crescent-shaped qi blades, roaring and slashing towards Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett behind Li Qing.

Li Qing swung three swords in a row, and the sword light was as fast as lightning flashing on a rainy night, and the three crossbow arrows flew in an instant. But the war knife in Li Qing's hand also snapped when Ge Fei's third crossbow bolt was flying.

His knife is not the dragon tooth sword of the little dragon girl, but an ordinary officer's saber. Although it is also a high-quality spiritual weapon, it is much more fragile than the Dragon's Tooth Treasure Knife. And those three dark crossbow arrows are obviously not ordinary. The strength of the crossbow is extremely strong, and it is normal for three arrows to break the knife.

At the same time that Li Qingge flew three crossbow arrows, Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett also faced a crescent-shaped qi blade.

They both swung their knives at the same time, slashing horizontally. Under the exchange of swords and air blades, there was a loud bang. Then the blades collapsed, and their swords snapped with them.

After that, Li Qing and the three of them landed safely, but the weapons in the hands of the three were only half-cut knives.

"Haha, this time it's good luck, I just wanted to use the wolf smoke to lure a team of cavalry over and destroy it casually, but I didn't expect to attract an imperial general."

A strange imperial Chinese came from the forest where the crossbow bolts were fired. Then a sound sounded, and four dark figures came out through the forest and swaggered to Li Qing and the others.

All four of them were dressed in heavy armor, and they were obviously wrapped like tin cans, but they all moved freely in the forest, and they landed silently, as flexible as a lynx.

Their armor is dark and does not reflect in the sun. If you hide in the shade of a tree, it is difficult for the naked eye to detect its existence.

Their heavily armored helmets, breastplates, leg armor, and shoulder armor are all engraved with abstract thorn patterns, exuding a fresh and shady atmosphere like a dense forest. When Li Qing's perception fell on them, he only felt that he sensed the four silent thorns, and he couldn't feel a trace of popularity.

"No wonder they can evade my perception and lurk in the forest to launch a sneak attack." Li Qing stared at the leader of the four and said, "It seems that the armor on your body is not simple. ”

"Thorn Armor." The leader did not wear a face armor, showing a handsome face that was young and flying.

His facial features are deep and three-dimensional, with brown hair and gray eyes, and he looks like a Western classical hero sculpture.

He carried a broad-bladed heavy sword, smiled and showed a mouthful of neat white teeth, and said in absurd imperial Chinese: "I am Squadron Leader Kemal of the First Squadron of the First Brigade of the Knights of the Ring of Thorns. All three are knights under my command. ”

"It turned out to be the Knights of the Ring of Thorns."

Li Qing nodded, understanding the origin of the four heavily armed knights and the armor on their bodies.

The Knights of the Ring of Thorns, one of the ten major Guardian Knights of the Radiant Holy Sect, with five hundred posts. Like the Silver Shield Knights, every ordinary knight has at least thirteen or more strength.

Knights of the Ring of Thorns are called knights, but generally do not charge on horseback.

They specialize in jungle warfare, wearing thorn armors that give them great benefits in the jungle, and in the jungle, almost every one of them has the ability to take on five enemies of their level at once.

These four heavily armed knights, all wearing thorn armor, are obviously all official knights of the Knights of the Ring of Thorns.

They dared to deliberately let the wolf smoke ignite after attacking the baggage team and demolishing the stone bridge, in order to rely on their powerful jungle combat capabilities to continue to destroy the imperial army that came to support after seeing the wolf smoke signal.

"The people who attacked our companions down the mountain were also from your Knights of the Ring of Thorns?"

"Heh, honorable Imperial General, I don't seem obligated to answer all your questions, do I?" Kemal smiled: "Besides, I have already reported my name, and out of politeness, should you also inform me of your honorific name?" And these two beautiful young ladies, can you tell me your names? ”

"Dead people don't need to know our names." Li Qing said lightly.

"Ha, young general, are you confident or arrogant?" Kemal laughed and said, "We have four knights of thorns, but there are only three of you. We were dressed in thorny armor and well-armoured. You are wearing military uniforms, you are armourless, and even your weapons are broken...... In the face of such an extremely unfavorable situation, you still do not consider surrendering? ”

He showed a sunny and handsome smile at Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett: "Personally, I can't bear to kill two such beautiful young ladies." My companions and I are more than happy to accept your surrender. ”

Clang! Another long clash of gold and iron came from the bottom of the mountain. Li Qing's eyebrows moved slightly, and he said, "It seems that your companions under the mountain still have some ability, and they haven't died until now." ”

"Hahaha...... Young general, you don't have to lie to me. Kemal smiled and said, "Since you want to know so much who our companions under the mountain are, then I will tell you generously." Anyway, if you know it, you'll only get more desperate. ”

Speaking of this, he deliberately paused, and after satisfying his appetite, he said slowly: "Down the mountain, but the two...... Holy War Blood Angel! ”

After speaking, he looked at Li Qing and the three intently, trying to catch the panic and despair on their faces.

He is very confident. He believed that after revealing the name of "Holy War Blood Angel", these three imperial officers would be completely desperate, lose their fighting spirit, and surrender to him.

The Knights of the Blood Angels of the Holy War, the head of the Ten Guardian Knights of the Radiant Holy Cult.

The head of the regiment is the earthly elect of the Lord of Light, the "immortal bird" Tanovi.

In the other nine knights, the official knight selection standard is level thirteen, and the Holy War Blood Angel Knights are all strong people above level fourteen.

Every Holy War Blood Angel is a well-qualified orphan adopted by the Holy See since childhood, and has undergone cruel training for more than ten years in the "Blood Angel Training Camp", and only after getting out of the training camp alive can he be qualified to become a reserve knight. Then go through a series of tests to become an official holy war blood angel.

The death rate of the Blood Angel training camp training is seventy percent. The mortality rate of the reserve knight test is as high as 90 percent. In other words, for every 1,000 orphans with good qualifications, only 300 of them will get out of the training camp alive after ten years of brutal training. And in the end, there were only thirty people who were qualified to become official knights of the Blood Angel Knights.

This is still the ideal situation.

In fact, each phase of the Blood Angel Training Camp has never been full of a thousand people. The largest session only recruited more than 800 people. At the least, only about 400 people were recruited. After all, qualified orphans can't be all over the streets.

Under the brutal elimination, the Holy War Blood Angel Knights with a staff of five hundred have never been full. Today, there are only more than 300 official knights, who are from 17 training camps.

However, although the number of Holy War Blood Angels is small, their combat effectiveness is the strongest. Every Holy War Blood Angel is a standard killing machine. If the other nine official members of the Knights of the Cathar have the ability to fight five against each other at the same level, then each of the Holy War Blood Angels of the Holy War Blood Angel Knights has the ability to deal with the five remaining official knights of the Knights of the Cathar at the same time!

Two Holy War Blood Angels are equivalent to ten Thorn Knights of the same level!

The Knights of the Holy War Blood Angels are the sharpest sword of the Radiant Holy Sect. Under the leadership of the Lord's chosen "immortal bird" Novita, uphold the will of the Lord, judge a heretic and eliminate a qiē unsubordinate.

Since the day the Holy War Blood Angel Knights were founded, I don't know how many nobles, kings, and strong people who resisted the glory of the Lord were beheaded by the Holy War Blood Angels. In the collection room of the Holy War Blood Angel Knights, there are even many gold lacquer wine cups made of the skulls of legendary powerhouses.

The prestige of the Holy War Blood Angel has spread throughout the Western world. In the Eastern Empire, it was also widely spread. Kemal believed that the young general in front of him must have heard of the name of the Holy War Blood Angel, and it was impossible for him not to be afraid of the fierce and majestic Holy War Blood Angel.

Kemal, of course, didn't quite tell the truth.

The two Holy War Blood Angels under the mountain are not official members of the Holy War Blood Angel Knights. Those two are still reserve knights who have just come out of the Blood Angel training camp this year, and they still have to pass a series of tests before they can officially become a glorious Holy War Blood Angel.

And infiltrating the territory of the empire and carrying out a series of attacks and harassment on the empire's baggage line is one part of the test.

However, even if it was a reserve, the two reserve blood angels who graduated from the Blood Angel Training Camp were already very powerful. His personal strength has reached the standard of level fourteen, and what he lacks is only actual combat experience.

And with the talents that those two have shown in the recent series of sneaking, infiltrating, harassment, and raiding activities, it is only natural that they will be tested to become full-fledged knights.

Therefore, Kemal did not think that his words were all untrue, he just made reasonable use of the art of language, in an attempt to completely dispel the will of Li Qing and others to resist, so that they could be captured alive.

Kemal was extremely interested in capturing an Imperial Major General and two beautiful Imperial female officers.

If it was possible, he really didn't want to kill these three young Imperial officers.

Especially Li Qing, who looks so young, has the rank of major general. In Kemal's view, Li Qing must have been born in a wealthy imperial family and had a huge captive value. If he can be captured alive, the credit will definitely be greater than the killing of him.

However, to Kemal's disappointment, when he revealed his name as the Holy War Blood Angel, none of the three of Li Qing reacted in line with his expectations.

Li Qing still looked indifferent. The same is true for Chu Lingfeng. Scarlett even whispered to Chu Lingfeng, "What is the Holy War Blood Angel?" Is it famous? ”

Although she is now a member of the Imperial Army and wears a captain's uniform, she has not bothered to understand the Imperial military system. She just wanted to follow Li Qing, and whatever Li Qing did, she followed him. When she had nothing to do, she was also busy cultivating, lest she be thrown away by Li Qingyue.

She didn't even know about the imperial military system, let alone the military system of the Holy Light Alliance?

"I don't know what the hell the Holy War Blood Angel is." Chu Lingfeng shrugged: "Actually, I don't even know about the Thorn Aura Knights. ”

That's right, Chu Lingfeng doesn't know any of this. She is a cultivation maniac, and her biggest hobby after cultivation is to have a bang with Li Qing. Other than that, she can be said to be completely indifferent to other things.

In fact, among Li Qing and the others, except for the little dragon girl who directly inherited the knowledge of Long Linghan, Li Qing was the only one who really made the effort to understand the imperial military system and the military system of the Holy Light Alliance.

The others, Chu Lingfeng, Scarlett, Ni Yuanyuan, and Song Qiqi never took the initiative to care. Even Susu is the same.

They only occasionally listened to Li Qing and Xiaolongnu chatting, and passively accepted some such information. And most of them have heard it and forgotten it, and the left ear goes in and the right ear goes out, and they don't pay attention to it.

Therefore, Kemal's mention of the name of the Holy War Blood Angel, at least for Chu Lingfeng and Scarlett, completely belongs to playing the piano to the cow. And Li Qing doesn't care. His record is too brilliant, and he can't kill a dozen strong people above the sixteenth level, and he is afraid of a hairy holy war blood angel.

Seeing Li Qing's indifferent appearance, Kemal secretly felt strange.

After hearing the conversation between Scarlett and Chu Lingfeng, he thought he had grasped the truth, and said with a smile: "Won't it?" You haven't even heard of the name of the Holy War Blood Angel? No wonder you're not scared at all. ”

He shook his head and sneered, "You guys...... It's really lonely and unsmelling! You're actually hillbillies, aren't you? Your uniforms were actually stolen, right? ”

"Almost everything you need to know is already understood." Li Qing threw away the broken knife, clenched his fists, and smiled, "It's not interesting to talk about it anymore." Lingfeng, Xiao Si, leave this Kemal to interrogate, and kill the other three. Move faster, don't wait until the dragons and the others are done, we are not finished yet. That would be a bit of a shame. ”

"With Su Su at the bottom of the mountain, it's normal for them to finish the fight first!" Chu Lingfeng said: "If Su Su makes a move, he will be able to put down those two Holy War Blood Angels who don't know what the hell they are in about a second, right?" No matter how hard we try, we won't be able to catch up with them. ”

As she spoke, she took out the so-called "beggar armor" that Su Su had created for them, and silently read her dress. At the same time, Scarlett also took her armor and began to dress.

"You will pay for your hubris and ignorance!" Seeing that Li Qing and the three of them were indifferent, as if there was no one around, Kemal, who had always been polite, was immediately furious, waved his heavy sword, and shouted: "Such fools have no value as prisoners, kill them!" ”

The three Thorn Knights pounced, and their seemingly heavy all-metal heavily armored bodies, as agile as bobcats, silently surrounded Li Qinghe.

"Just in time!" Li Qing clenched his hands into fists, and his fists wearing black metal gloves struck each other, making a loud noise, "My nightmare gloves are freshly baked, and I am about to kill a few strong people to sacrifice the flag!" ”

As he spoke, he faced the heavy sword that fell from the head of a thorn knight, and struck out with a fierce punch.