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A monotonous knock came from the newly built blacksmith's shop, and a stout cullen blacksmith was forging a spearhead. Around the exuberant fire were several slave apprentices, some pushing bellows, others watching. Zhou Qingfeng stood outside the blacksmith shop, forced by the heat inside and didn't want to go in. He looked outside for a moment and then left, silent.

The blacksmith was sent by the head of the tribe, Utsa, and was one of the few skilled craftsmen in Ekhkulunri. If it weren't for Zhou Qingfeng's smelting of iron here, this craftsman would still stay in the city like a treasure, and he would never come out easily.

After Zhou Qingfeng's request, Ucha managed to get some iron ore from other tribes around Ekhkulun and barely kept the iron-making furnace running. Zhou Qingfeng was also able to send several slave apprentices to learn how to strike iron.

After a long period of training and adjustment, Zhou Qingfeng was given about sixty slaves who were relatively intelligent and could speak Chinese. A small part of these slaves became managers, and most of them became technical apprentices. Most of them are Han Chinese, but there are also Jurchens or other races. Because there are too few people who can use it, as long as he can be loyal to Zhou Qingfeng, he doesn't care about the other party's background.

And after Chu Ying began to teach the way of military formation, Zhou Qingfeng officially formed his own armed forces. The spears made by the blacksmith were all used to equip the troops. He wanted to build a larger scale, but he was trapped by not having enough junior officers. There are too many people to manage, and more than 100 people are the limit of his current commander.

It was an army made up entirely of illiterates, overwhelmingly Jurchen. A small number of core officers can read some simple words and give superficial instructions. When they were able to march in line for 100 meters without falling apart under Zhou Qingfeng's training, Chu Ying felt that this was already an elite soldier, but Zhou Qingfeng was very dissatisfied.

To be precise, Zhou Qingfeng was holding back a breath of anger in his heart. There have been a couple of things that have been nerve-wracking to him lately.

The first is the problem of leather armor, Zhou Qingfeng originally wanted to get some fur to make leather armor for his soldiers. He remembered the first time he had fought Guna, the razor-sharp saber of light had failed to split through the leather armor he was wearing. Later, I learned that the leather armor was not an ordinary product, it was a treasure that Ucha gave to his son, and it was a magic weapon.

Zhou Qingfeng got a lot of fur from Ucha, but found that it was very difficult to make ordinary fur into leather armor. He could only make winter leather coats, boots, and hats for his slaves. Nothing else can be counted on.

The second is the carpenter's problem. Mao Adaa is the only carpenter in Zhou Qingfeng's hands, but this guy disobeys Zhou Qingfeng's orders. Criticism has no effect on him at all, and in the end, he has to be beaten with a whip dipped in water. Zhou Qingfeng hated to kill him, but no one could replace him at the moment, so he had to tolerate this guy's slackness and forced him to build some tools.

The third is the issue of possible assassination, Chu Ying's reminder made Zhou Qingfeng realize that he was actually very vulnerable. At the first moment, he ordered that Darkhan, who was beside Abahai, be expelled from Abahai's side under the pretext of being expelled from Ekhkulun immediately.

Just expelling Darkhan didn't reassure Zhou Qingfeng, he lacked enough strong guards to even dare to continue living at the construction site outside the city, so he could only return to the city. But even so, there was a disturbance in the night that made him always vigilant, and the 'Mending Heaven Stone' brought him a keen sense of hearing, but also brought countless false alarms.

These things are reminding Zhou Qingfeng that he is just a lonely traveler and has no friends to trust.

In the boundary void of the isolated island of time and space, there are people from the future, such as Xu Li, who is closest to the island. He really wanted to pull the other party into the space-time island to be a companion, but all attempts were ineffective, which seemed to be related to his weak cultivation.

Speaking of cultivation, Zhou Qingfeng resolutely chose to follow the main line of the soul. He was now at most at the 'Divine Soul' level, but he had no idea how to improve his cultivation. Chu Ying said that he kept fighting and killing people, and his cultivation was naturally high. made Zhou Qingfeng also want to find an opponent to fight - but after practicing under Chu Ying for almost two months, he became less and less courageous.

After not having the ignorance and fearlessness of 'newborn calves are not afraid of tigers', Zhou Qingfeng always felt that he seemed to be unable to win against anyone. Especially after coming into contact with the way of the military formation, he felt that if he was too reckless, he could be killed if he bumped into a group of slaves.

Under multiple pressures, Zhou Qingfeng soaked in the training ground every day. He ate, drank, and trained with more than 100 soldiers he had selected, and also selected 10 guards to train the easiest military formation. But the whole training progress is really slow.

Chu Yingjiao's manipulation methods were incompatible with Zhou Qingfeng's - he always couldn't use his consciousness to forcibly invade the brains of his subordinates. And without that, the formation cannot be built.

Zhou Qingfeng practiced repeatedly on the training ground, trying to find a control method that suited him. And just as he was sweating on the training ground, a team of more than a dozen people was walking through the dense forest outside Ekhkulun City, slowly approaching the training ground where Zhou Qingfeng was located.

It was a team of Orions, Monks, Archers and Elite Soldiers. Led by Zhou Qingfeng's old acquaintance Yang Jian, this guy who had no idea in case of trouble was forced to lead the team to act, because otherwise he would not be able to change his current predicament at all.

It was getting dark, and there were more blood-sucking mosquitoes in the woods.

Yang Jian looked at the mountains in front of him, and waved his hand impatiently in front of him to drive away, but if he was not careful, a big red and itchy bag would still appear on his body. He couldn't deal with the swarms of mosquitoes as a single monk, and it wasn't until the hunters in the team got grass juice to smear them that things got a little better.

"How long will it be before we get to Ekhkulen?" Yang Jian asked Orion very unhappily.

In field operations, battlefield fog is always present. Knowing the enemy's location is a problem, and knowing one's own location is not easy. Orion, as a guide, can only rely on obvious landmarks such as rivers and mountains to make rough judgments. For Yang Jian's question, he gave an ambiguous answer - soon.

"You minion said it was fast yesterday, and today you said it was fast. How many days will it take? Yang Jian was very annoyed.

Before Zhou Qingfeng escaped, he asked Yang Jianpan to attach a wild boar skin and became the other party's grandson-in-law, and he really became Nurhachi's family directly after hugging Jin's thigh. Zhou Qingfeng fled, Darkhan informed, and Gu Yuanwei was implicated in these things, but Yang Jian was not implicated.

But a few days ago, Gu Yuanwei ran to Ehekulun and wanted to take advantage of the general trend of the Jianzhou Department to arrest Zhou Qingfeng back, but not only did he find nothing, but he was seriously injured and fled. When Gu Yuanwei returned to Hetuala, he forced Yang Jian to set off immediately, and he must execute Zhou Qingfeng, and he couldn't let this 'variable' wander out of his control. Yang Jian stubbornly pulled a team and killed Ehekulun.

Hearing Yang Jian complaining, a cloud of black smoke suddenly came out of the forest. The black smoke dispersed and revealed an old acquaintance of Zhou Qingfeng-Ghost Xiu Jia Gang. This guy is not afraid of mosquitoes, and it is very convenient to walk through the woods. After he appeared, he said in a deep voice, "It's really not far away, my pathfinder reported that there is a big city outside the two hills ahead, and it should be the Ekhkuren we are looking for." ”

"Two hills away?" Yang Jian looked in the direction of Jia Gang's finger, and took out a stack of divine talismans in his hand and distributed them to everyone in the team: "Then let's work harder and rush over before dark." He also took special care of Jia Gang and said: "Brother Jia, when you get to Ehekulun, you have to find out Zhou Qingfeng's bastard boy, we have to pay you a lot of money this time, you have to do more." ”

"Hmph, Zhou Qingfeng destroyed the ghost servants I had accumulated over the years, and also destroyed the ghost boy that I had spent all my savings to refine. If I catch him, I can't turn him into a ghost. "Jia just grinded his teeth when he talked about Zhou Qingfeng, he really hated to sleep on his skin and eat his flesh.

"It's good that Brother Jia has this ambition, but don't be too ambitious. There are still many masters in Ekhkuren City, and just one Chu Ying is not something we can deal with. We just need to find the traces of Zhou Qingfeng's bastard boy and secretly kill him. ”

Speaking of which, Yang Jian was actually a little afraid in his heart, even his master Gu Yuanwei couldn't get the benefits of Ehekulun, and he felt that he must not fight in vain. However, thinking about the talisman seal bag hanging from his waist and the few magic weapons hidden in his cuffs, he felt that he didn't need to scare himself - after all, Zhou Qingfeng had only been away from Hetuara for two months, and even if he could cultivate, it wouldn't be too powerful.

The assassination team used the magic talisman to quickly walk through the mountains and forests under the leadership of Jia Gang. Yang Jian even sacrificed a paper crane, and walked forward on the ground under the support of the paper crane, which was not very happy.

Outside the city of Ekhkulen, a group of people quietly emerged from a hill. Taking advantage of the last rays of light before nightfall, the city surrounded by the confluence of three rivers came into their eyes. According to Yang Jian's plan, he naturally found a way to catch a slave who went out of the city to ask, and then sent a pathfinder into the city to find it. However, when they looked down from the hill, they noticed a sudden movement in the grass not far away.

Yang Jian was happy, thinking that if he wanted to capture a prisoner, someone would immediately send him to the door. But a rough head peeked out of the swaying grass, and a small monster with a wreath around its neck jumped out of it. This monster is not afraid of life, and when he saw Yang Jian and his group standing in place, they stared at each other in a daze.

The Orion in the team exclaimed, "It's the woodland servant. ”

"What woodland servant? Is this thing useful? "Yang Jian doesn't know this little monster.

Jia Gang, who floated over, saw more knowledge, and when he saw this little monster, his eyes immediately lit up, and he casually flipped out a book of naturalists and repeatedly confirmed: "It's a woodland servant, a good thing." This thing is the most vigilant, and it's best to catch the gate and guard the hospital. It is also good at stealth, likes to steal things, can talk and is very smart, so quickly catch it and take it as a servant. ”

As soon as Jia Gang, the ghost cultivator, appeared, the little monster opposite showed a frightened expression. Before Jia Gang could finish speaking, it turned around and ran, swishing into the woods. When Yang Jian heard that this was a good thing, he immediately threw out a talisman seal and burned it out. A hound-like monster jumped out of the firelight of the rune, and chased after the fleeing little monster.

"Chase." Yang Jian only thought that catching a little monster was a matter of catching it, and he didn't think much about it and hoped to catch it. The effect of the assassination team's magic had not yet subsided, and he immediately ordered a dozen people in the team to chase them out.

The fleeing woodland servant was not good at fighting, and it didn't have any special ability to protect itself, but it ran extremely fast. Although the hound transformed by Fu Seal drove it with nowhere to escape, it could still run all the way towards the construction site where Zhou Qingfeng was. And what is Uncle Zhou doing? He was panting from exhaustion on the training ground with more than 100 of his men.