Chapter 0124: Seizure of Power
Under the light of the crackling bonfire, none of Zhou Qingfeng's opponents were happy.
Chu Ying grabbed half of the roasted horse leg in his hand and stuffed the meat with a dagger into his mouth. From time to time, one of his slaves would sprinkle some grains of salt on his horse's legs, and if he sprinkled more or less, he would be scolded and even kicked and beaten. Chu Ying was also surrounded by more than a dozen Jurchen nobles of Ehekulun, and the head of the department, Ucha, was among them. They are also eating and drinking, and they are venting their abuse.
During the day, Chu Ying attacked Mang Gurtai, and after a fight, he also led the latter into the encirclement of Ucha and others. If you talk about the personnel exchange ratio alone, Mang Gurtai even lost more. The huge earth dragon was too domineering, thick and powerful, brave and fierce, seemingly clumsy but actually fast, otherwise the besieged Mang Gurtai would have been even more unlucky.
It's just that the small victory in the first battle can't make Chu Ying happy, and Ucha and the others are not happy. They all knew that the Jianzhou Department was strong, and the personnel and materials were far more than that of Ehekulun. Today, we have defeated Mang Gurtai, and tomorrow there will be more generals from Jianzhou. The timing of this battle was a month earlier than Chu Ying had judged.
This is a month in advance, and the result is very fatal!
In ancient times, there were very few armies that were completely out of production, and even more so were nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples, who were also soldiers and herdsmen, and soldiers and hunters. Producing on weekdays and going out on expeditions in wartime, this is the norm of the ancient army. Even if it is an important border town of the Ming army, seventy percent of military households are theoretically farming, but in fact, only a small number of families can fully carry out military training, and there is no need to worry about livelihood.
In the Jurchen tribes, it was easy to recruit soldiers because of the large number of military activities in production and life. But because of this, if you want to fight, you have to stop production. Now October is the time to stock up on food, and the attack of the Kejian Prefecture will not only mobilize Ekhkulen's army, but also force the slaves in the city to not go out to fish and hunt.
That's a big problem!
Although the lives of slaves are not valuable, if slaves starve to death in large numbers, the slave owners will not be able to survive alone.
Utsa and the others seemed to be unconcerned about this, but they were eating horse meat while staring at a shaman by the campfire. The shaman is kneeling on the ground praying to the mountain god and performing a psychic ritual in an attempt to obtain guidance from the gods. The corpses of several slaves had fallen beside him, and several slaves were being pressed to the ground, waiting to be worshiped to the mountain god.
The shaman recited an ancient mantra that no one understood, but received no response. He grabbed a sharp knife in his hand and said to Utcha's own soldiers, and another slave was pulled up.
The slave struggled desperately, pleading, but powerless to stop the blade from slitting his throat. A large amount of blood flowed from his throat to the ground, soaking the earth, and in the thick of the blood, the shaman repeated the ritual he had done several times.
Truth be told, psychic shamans don't want to kill slaves anymore. Because of the delay in receiving feedback from the gods, it will appear that he is very incompetent, and it will make him lose the trust of Utsa. When he killed the ninth slave, there was a sudden sound of rustling in the otherwise silent forest.
The shaman was overjoyed and loudly announced that the messenger of the mountain god had arrived.
Ucha and other Jurchen nobles also hurriedly dropped the horse meat at hand, wiped their hands on the placket of their clothes, and prepared to meet the will of the mountain god. But the gang's kung fu, the sound of rustling disappeared again, and was replaced by a burst of shouts in the forest-Ucha, you are going to be finished, return the phoenix eggs to us. Utcha, you're going to be finished, give us back the phoenix eggs!
The voice sounded like a child shouting, and Utza was furious. He roared at the forest; "Who is making trouble for Lao Tzu, come out and die!"
The guards beside Utza had already drawn their swords and rushed into the forest, trying to kill the source of the screaming sound. But when they went east, the sound of the strange cry went west. And they went west, and the sound of strange cries went north. Finally the strange scream went away on its own, and the guards came back dejected, and found nothing.
The shaman looked at the corpses of slaves all over the ground and said to Utcha, "There is a ghost interference, and I can't communicate with the mountain god. ”
"Ghost fart." Uza slapped the psychic shaman out in a hurry, "It's just an annoying woodland servant who has been annoying us for decades." It's just that I haven't been able to catch this little thing. ”
Chu Ying had been sitting upright, and when he saw Wu Cha sitting beside him again in a huff, he sneered and asked in a low voice: "It is said that your upper generation master of Ehekulun has lost the favor of the god of Changbai Mountain, is there such a thing?" ”
Wu Cha immediately glared and said, "Chu Ying, what do you mean by saying this now?" Now you are in trouble with our Ehkulen. ”
The situation of the Jianzhou Department's early attack had a more far-reaching impact, and the broken incident of Zhou Qingfeng's escape was not worth mentioning at all.
Chu Ying didn't accept the spilled sewage, and said with a sneer: "I have long heard that your previous generation of subordinates was disgusted by this mountain forest because of robbing the treasure of a strange beast, it seems that this thing is true, but I didn't know that you actually robbed the phoenix egg." What's so good about this thing that makes you take such a big risk? ”
"It's not your turn to be a traitor to build a state." Ucha was angry about psychic things, and he was so upset that he didn't even want to mock Chu Ying. "Don't think that I can't live without you Chu Ying, you are just a slave who can fight in my eyes."
Ucha's angry voice was loud and full of momentum. Chu Ying laughed twice, and suddenly punched Wucha with a punch. His strength was so strong that there was even fire on his fist, and with one punch, he almost squeezed Ucha into the dirt, and pressed a conspicuous human mark on the ground in all directions.
But Ucha is not a good type, and after being punched, he fought back without hindrance, and kicked Chu Ying in the lower abdomen. The other Kulen nobles around the area also made a move together, and a sword light and sword shadow unambiguously blasted towards Chu Ying.
Chu Ying was on fire, and several flame shields appeared around him. He didn't care about the ruthless attack of the Cullen nobles next to him, he just stared at Uca and beat him fiercely.
Wu Cha did not show weakness, and immediately drew his knife and slashed after finding that he couldn't kick Chu Ying away, and from time to time there were flashes of ice-like cold air above the knife light, and the surrounding air was instantly colder than ten degrees. Every time he slashed Chu Ying's flame shield, the cold air could annihilate his firelight.
Chu Ying didn't need to use any weapons at all, he relied on his two fists and the flame shield transformed by spiritual power to fight Wu Cha. Both of them have had their own troubles recently, and they are really angry under the quarrels, and all kinds of tricks continue to appear.
The shield on Chu Ying's shoulder was broken, and the frozen cold blade on the opposite side slashed at his shoulder. The cold instantly froze half of his body, and layers of ice continued to condense from the air, making him slow down. And the opposite Wucha move used the old, chest, and head instantly connected Chu Ying with several punches.
After Wu Cha's punch, he was unable to remove Chu Ying's shoulder, but every punch he received was a flame infusion, invading his blood. He only felt that his whole body was like a fire, his blood was boiling, and he didn't take a breath, and suddenly he heard the sound of the frost exploding in front of him, and he knew that something was wrong and took a few steps back.
It's just that this retreat changed the situation greatly, and the situation that seemed to be an attack was reversed in an instant, and Chu Ying pinched Ucha's back as soon as he reached out and threw him to the ground alive.
As soon as he saw that Utcha was restrained, the stormy attacks around him stopped instantly. The Kulen nobles who attacked Chu Ying had to stop shouting and scolding, threatening Chu Ying to let go of his subordinate master quickly, otherwise he would be killed immediately.
Ucha fell to the ground, his crotch was stepped on by Chu Ying, and his legs were lifted upside down. He still scolded in his mouth: "Chu Ying, if you have a kind, kill me, see if you can live?" ”
Chu Ying laughed, his hands and feet were even harder, and he shouted fiercely: "This is the 'immortal power' you drew from the phoenix egg?" Looks like you're snatching the egg of an ice phoenix. But what can you do if you have this treasure, you will still die today. ”
The scolding of the Kulen nobles was even more high-pitched, and Ucha kept shouting: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? You covet my position as the head of the Hekuren tribe, right? If you have a kind, you will kill, see if my subordinates obey you, a traitor to Jianzhou! ”
"Hahaha...... do you think I don't dare?" Chu Ying laughed wildly, suddenly exerted force under his feet, and pulled hard with both hands. Ucha's whole person was first torn into a big character by him, and then his crotch was cracked, blood gushed out, and a thigh was torn off alive. In the severe pain, he knew that a catastrophe was coming, but he only had time to exclaim 'spare his life' before he fainted from the pain.
The Kulen nobles, who were originally tense, were all stunned, no one thought that Chu Ying would kill him if he said it, and he didn't care what situation he was in. But now that Ucha has lost a leg, blood is splattered all over the ground, and the miserable appearance is in front of them, which makes them lose the momentum to continue fighting-this lord is over, and they will not be loyal to a waste.
Ucha, who still had half a breath left, was thrown to the ground like garbage by Chu Ying, and he tried to raise his head in the hope that his subordinates could avenge him. But when he closed his eyes, he saw a pair of kneeling knees.
"Hahaha......!" Chu Ying straightened up, raised his head and laughed even more crazily, this time it was his turn to mock, "Why are you soft-boned guys fighting with the Jianzhou Ministry?" With such a useless soft egg, even I can't deal with it. ”
The Jurchen nobles of Kulen were very familiar with current affairs, and when they saw that Ucha had no hope, they immediately shouted Chu Ying's name and asked this more ruthless guy to be their boss. Chu Ying laughed wildly for a long time, and then laughed at the right to send it to the door. He immediately returned to Ekhkulun overnight with his new men, preparing for a fierce battle with the army of the Jianzhou Department.
A struggle for power came and went in an instant, and it was so fast that it was difficult for people to accept.
The wilderness soon became silent.
As for Utza, he was just as blind as several of the slaves he killed when the shaman was psychic, and he threw his body into the wilderness. After a long time, the forest again squirmed in the night, and the woodland servant emerged from the grass. It hopped up to Ucha and walked around it, sighing a few times before leaving again.
The woodland servant ran very fast in the mountains, and it seemed to have mastered some kind of evasion that moved quickly from tree to tree, constantly scurrying from tree to tree. It didn't take long to run to another river and stream dozens of hills away. Zhou Qingfeng is resting here with his remaining votes.
Hearing the movement of the woodland servant spirit approaching, Zhou Qingfeng and the others were all on guard. And when it was found that it was a rough head popping out, it was also a great relief. It's just that without waiting for Zhou Qingfeng to ask about the meaning of the woodland servant, the little monster took the initiative to ask, "What about your ghost cultivator?" Let him do me a favor? ”
Zhou Qingfeng thought that this woodland servant was coming to find him, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you helping?" ”
The woodland servant shouted excitedly, "I know you want to escape from this mountain, but now there are people everywhere who want to arrest you. Why don't you come and dig up a treasure for me, and I'll help you escape. Because none of you know this place better than I do. ”