Chapter 145: Hunting in the West Mountain
Nishiyama is not a mountain, but a flat forest.
The sun had just climbed the wings of the Burning Sky Fire Phoenix, and the outside of the palace was full of people, and the vassals who came from all over the world wore brand new armor and rode tall war horses, surrounding the road outside the palace city, like a grand festival.
For the Chu people, today is indeed a well-deserved festival.
Today, the Marquis of Chu will go to the West Mountain to hunt, and release 800 elk in the dense forest, among which there is a deer king, which just symbolizes the 800 princes and the king of the center. If everything goes well, the Marquis of Chu will personally hunt the deer king, cut off the head of the deer king, ascend the high platform, and present it to the god of Haotian, and then summon the world, from now on, the state of Chu will no longer be a minister in the north, and the Marquis of Chu will be the second real king in the world.
This is a major event that has never been seen in thousands of years, except for the gods and kings of the gods in the ancient god king period, there has never been a situation where two kings are in power in the land of Zhongzhou, except for the Rongdi barbarians. And this glorious day is destined to be marked in the annals of history, witnessing the strength of the Chu State.
Three thousand years, a full three thousand years, since the seven ancestors crossed the river, the Chu people have always been regarded as barbarians, they are clothed and bloody, barefoot, with rudimentary weapons and fierce beasts, and the real Southern barbarians bloody battles. After a long 3,000 years, they drove away the king of the southern barbarians, planted the thundercloud blood phoenix flag all over the south of the river, and established the brilliant state of Chu, however, they were still regarded as barbarians, and the king of the center and the princes of the northern land looked down on them from the bones, thinking that their bloodline was not pure enough, and that their etiquette and culture were incompatible with the ancient tradition, so the Chu people could only bite this great humiliation, and threw the king of Xiaocheng, who came to crusade against the Chu State, into the river to feed the fish, and defeated the princes' coalition army, Tell the people of the world again and again that the state of Chu is the state of Chu, no matter whether its bloodline is pure enough or not, no matter whether its culture is authentic enough or not, it is the first power in the world that deserves to be.
Now, the state of Chu no longer has to sleep with that humiliation, it is like a king of the forest who has been cornered but desperately survived, it rushed out of the forest, came to the bank of the Canglan River, and roared angrily towards the north bank with its claws.
"Spring Spring ......"
The majestic horn sounded, and the palace gate slowly separated, and the vassals who blocked the road to the burning sky naturally divided into two parts, leaving a straight road leading to the outside of Fengge City.
Rows of sword and shield men, halberders, and archers walked out with uniform steps, and then, five hundred blood phoenix guards in blood armor rode blood-red war horses, with foot-high helmets, rolled out like the wind, and behind the blood phoenix guards were eighty chariots, Chu Hou was at the front, Chu Xuanhuai was behind him, and Chu Wu was also among them.
"Behold, behold, that is our King."
"Look, look, that's the King of Chu."
"The strength of the Chu State is the best in the world, and the State of Chu is vast and boundless."
When the huge team drove out of the palace gate, chaotic exclamations sounded in all directions, and the Chu people who surrounded the road of burning the sky stretched their necks, pulled their fists, and shouted loudly.
Listening to these voices full of enthusiasm and expectation, Chu Xuanhuai's brows were tightly wrinkled, he looked at Chu Hou in front of him, only to see Chu Hou pressing the sword on his waist, his back was extremely majestic, and he looked at Chu Wu who was on a par with him, Chu Wu nodded at him, and smiled slightly, that smile was very bright and weird.
Chu Xuanhuai was very uneasy, not because of Chu Wu's weird smile, but because of the future of Chu State, Chu State is not so strong, and its strength is not enough to confront the princes of the world, at least for now. However, Chu Hou, who insisted on going his own way, could not listen to his admonition.
'My lord, my starling, is a crown so important to you?' For this reason, you do not hesitate to put the state of Chu in the position of either life or death! ’
Chu Xuanhuai felt a sense of powerlessness, which was even stronger than when he faced the alliance of 500,000 princes, but he couldn't stop it, the snow-capped mountain above his head had collapsed, except for the omnipotent Haotian Great God, who could make it stop?
All the qualified people came, they were all vassals of Great Chu, with noble blood flowing on their bodies, and the last was also the last baron, they wore all kinds of armor, and those armors were also embroidered with all kinds of intricate patterns, which was the symbol of their family, and the state of Chu was the only vassal state in the land of Zhongzhou that allowed vassals to make family crests.
A dazzling array of badges filled the hunting army, accompanied by the sound of majestic horns, the army walked towards the West Mountain step by step, the people were embellished behind like a vast river, they sang praises loudly, and there were even many slender and graceful Chu women dancing cheerfully and lightly on the way through the procession. If it was in the past, Chu Xuanhuai would definitely stop the war horses, admire their beauty, and praise their singing, but today he was not in the mood.
Majestic kings, proud vassals, jubilant people.
They're all crazy.
They only saw the strength of the Chu State, but they could not see the life and death that the Chu State would face after becoming the king.
It's a crazy feast.
Chu Xuanhuai's brows tightened more and more, and the boulder in his heart slowly sank, kept sinking, kept sinking, and couldn't sink to the end. He really hopes that the West Mountain is far away in the sky, and this road to the West Mountain will never end, but the reality is sad, it does not depend on the will of man, and the West Mountain will soon arrive.
The hunting army stopped at the edge of the forest, and the Marquis of Chu stepped out of the chariot and climbed into a majestic war horse, which was unusually tall and covered with gorgeous vests. The witch officer brought the helmet of the Marquis of Chu, which was a priceless helmet, inlaid with precious gems, and a burning sky fire phoenix squatted on the top, with its outstretched wings stilted upward, symbolizing that the state of Chu was about to soar into the sky, which was a military crown.
The sun was stacked on the crown, and the gems and fire phoenixes were shining with incomparably brilliant light, forcing people to not open their eyes, but when Chu Hou pulled down the mask on the crown, Chu Xuanhuai suddenly felt that his brother was very strange, close at hand but far away in the sky.
"Tom tom!"
Sixteen bare-armed drummers beat the drums of war, and sword and shield men, halberders, and archers walked in rows towards the hunting grounds, who were the protectors of the perimeter and the repellents of their prey.
The sound of the drums became more and more intense, startling the birds in the forest fluttering and flying, and all kinds of bird calls resounded throughout the world. Chu Hou rode on a horse, drew a bow and arrows, and hit a flying bird. The witch official held the flying bird and danced a strange dance, patiently waiting for him to finish dancing, Chu Hou rushed towards the forest without saying a word, all the vassals rushed away, and the five hundred blood phoenix guards also followed Chu Hou closely, and soon, there were not many people left outside the forest.
"Twelfth uncle, twelfth uncle."
An earnest call sounded in his ears, Chu Xuanhuai turned his head to look, and Chu Wu was looking at him with a worried expression.
"Uncle Twelve is unwell?"
The sun fell on the treetops, Chu Wu reined in the horse under the forest, wearing gorgeous armor, wearing a big coat embroidered with thunderclouds and blood phoenixes, and the war horse under the seat was very godly, and was restlessly digging its hooves.
He really looks like a starling, but he is not a starling at all, at his age, the starling is already the king of ten thousand times. ’
Looking at Chu Wu's thin and dark yellow face, Chu Xuanhuai sighed in his heart, he jumped off the chariot and turned on the back of the horse.
Chu Wu walked side by side with him.
The birds and beasts of the forest fled in all directions, and occasionally they could see elk fleeing in a panic, and the vassals saw the elk, like a bee meeting sugar, and like a hungry wolf seeing a docile lamb, they scrambled to shoot the arrows in their hands, fearing that they would be a step too slow. Every time an elk fell to the ground, the cheers were overshadowed by waves.
"It would be nice if the princes of the Northlands were as docile as these elks." Turning over a small dirt slope, Chu Wu said with a smile, the bow and arrows were on his body, and the quiver on his back was full, there were a total of eighteen arrows, and so far, not a single one has been issued.
"Your Highness should go and tell your lord this."
Chu Xuanhuai pierced a hare to the ground with a backhand arrow, and a knight rode away.
"That's what Uncle Twelve said, but now Father Jun must be looking for the deer king. According to the Twelfth Uncle, where will the deer king hide? ”
Chu Wu slowly took the bow and aimed the tip of the arrow at a mountain boar, which was the size of a calf, with two feet of fangs, and was extremely fierce, a group of sword and shield men surrounded it, and from time to time pierced it with a sword, but it only pierced its skin, but it angered it, and saw the beast rushing towards a sword and shield hand with its head down, the sharp fangs picked up the iron shield, and then violently pushed the sword and shield hand to the ground. At this moment, the arrow in Chu Wu's hand flew off the string and pierced into the boar's left eye, and with a muffled sound, the boar's left eye became violent.
"Whoa!"
Who knows, the mountain boar is not dead, it shook its head and wailed for a while, shook off the left and right sword and shield hands with its cold fangs, and then opened one eye and crashed towards Chu Wu.
"Bang!"
Chu Wu sent another arrow, right under the mountain boar, he wanted to slow down the crazy boar, but the boar's skin was extremely thick, and it rolled in the feces, urine and mud pit all day long, as if it was covered with a layer of armor, Chu Wu's second arrow had little effect, just let it shake for a while, and rushed towards the small dirt slope with all its strength.
Getting closer.
Only fifty steps away.
The two knights drew their swords and prepared to ride their horses to besiege and kill the mountain boar, but Chu Wu and Chu Xuanhuai waved their hands at the same time to restrain them.
It's only thirty steps.
Chu Xuanhuai squinted his eyes and looked at Chu Wu, Chu Wu didn't look at him, fine sweat rolled on his forehead, but the hand holding the bow was very stable, and the green tendons protruded outward.
Fifteen steps!
The boar went berserk, howling as it ran, blood dripping from its long fangs!
Chu Xuanhuai pulled out his bow.
"Bang!!"
Right now, Chu Wu glared suddenly, let go of the hand that pulled the arrow, and the arrow, which was as fast as a meteor, tore the wind, stabbed a fallen leaf in half along the way, and pierced it into the right eye of the boar, and fell deeply.