Chapter 11 - Bamboo Breaks the East Wind
In the early morning, the dew of the morning sun drips on the earth, shining through the clear sunlight over the Demon Spirit Continent, and at the same time imprinted on the endless grassland, the green grass of the wilderness and the white morning glow and clouds hanging in the air, reflecting the singing and dancing celebrations everywhere on the earth, even the cattle and sheep on the grassland are wandering and playing freely, the herdsmen are very absent-minded, and from time to time their eyes look through the herds of cattle and sheep, and see the city not far away that can only see a general outline, that is their home。 Today is the first day of the new year after Chinese New Year's Eve. The people around the Spirit City have already walked out of their homes, and tonight they have to visit each other on an important day. Therefore, the people left their homes early, and the people of Lingcheng basically needed to take care of their cattle, sheep and even horses, so they left Lingcheng and walked quickly to the vast grassland land.
Today is the first day of the new year, and all the people on the Demon Spirit Continent have returned to calm again today after yesterday's crazy Chinese New Year's Eve singing and dancing. For the people on the Demon Spirit Continent, today's first day of the Lunar New Year is the first day to visit the neighbors with their fellow villagers and families. The people on the Demon Spirit Continent are still so busy, and they still can't stop running around.
Lingcheng, the northernmost part of the feudal country, the people of Lingcheng have relied on animal husbandry and grazing for a living since the establishment of the feudal country, and most of the nearly 100,000 people in Lingcheng and the county towns attached to Lingcheng are making a living by grazing and raising cattle and sheep in captivity, and some of the people have raised some war horses for sale. However, although the feudal kingdom was defeated in the Battle of the Evil Stars, the cavalry troops did not suffer much losses. As a result, these people, who did not want to earn enough of their benefits, wanted to sell their war horses to Qi at a high price. Because the terrain in the north of Qi is relatively cold and rugged, there is no such mild and humid place to raise such majestic war horses, so the chief general of Que City in the north of Qi State has informed Li Dan, the prime minister who is now in power in Qi State, and Li Dan also said that they can buy some war horses with a lot of money, which is what they are extremely scarce now.
Since there are not many cavalry troops in the entire country of Qi now, the cavalry troops at their disposal are only a few thousand people. Among them, there is also a cavalry unit that is the Royal Janissary Army of Qi State, and the other cavalry is an important combat strength of the southern part of Qi State. This cavalry was also one of the most elite armies led by Chen Jie back then.
A fierce star battle made the Qi State suffer from the lack of cavalry troops, for them, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry troops was much stronger than that of the infantry. However, cavalry needs to be more focused on training, not only to train a good rider, but also to cultivate the relationship between soldiers and war horses. This requires more effort, Chen Jie also spent a lot of effort to cultivate such an elite cavalry of 5,000 people, but now, this cavalry has become one of the most important combat forces of the Qi State. After the end of the Battle of the Fierce Stars, the Qi Dynasty began to pay attention to the cavalry, and Li Dan had already learned some about the strategy of the cavalry from his son, so he was also very supportive of this.
The court of Qi understands this, and as the monarch of the feudal country, the Holy Emperor also understands the seriousness of this matter, and the existence of cavalry is a crucial point related to whether there are "strange soldiers" in an army. Therefore, in order to prevent the people of Lingcheng from selling horses to the Qi State, the Holy Emperor even did not hesitate to send Gongsun Yu, one of his most trusted generals, to sit in Lingcheng, to stop this momentum.
Gongsun Yu did a good job at this point, and he successfully defused this possible huge crisis with his own means. However, today's Gongsun Yu was not so happy, he stood at the window of his room with his hands behind his back, quietly listening to the report of a herald behind him. Yesterday, Chinese New Year's Eve was originally a relatively comfortable night, and on that day, Gongsun Yu himself left the official mansion to participate in the Chinese New Year's Eve party held by the people in Lingcheng, and for him, this was the best opportunity to get close to the people of Lingcheng. However, I never expected that another crucial event would happen on Chinese New Year's Eve. Originally, the eight guards he sent to guard Guangwujun Buling were all attacked and killed, and their bodies were lying on the side. Thinking of this, Gongsun Yu couldn't help but be so angry that his hands and feet were cold.
These eight guards of his own know very well, and they are strong in martial arts, and they are all people who can defeat a hundred with one enemy. The eight guards have been following themselves and following the Holy Emperor all the way to this point, and they have followed them for eight or nine years, and their vision and courage have also been honed. However, they were attacked and killed so easily, and there was no trace of a fight around them. The reason for the disappointment of the eight guards was exactly the same, a clear blood mark on the back and neck, as if it was a foreshadowing attack that took their lives in an instant.
Gongsun Yu learned the news the next morning, and the people who had passed by the house where Guangwujun was located had seen three young men quietly leaving the house. From this news reached Gongsun Yu's ears in the early morning of the second day, he learned the reason, so he immediately sent his guards to block the four gates of Lingcheng, ordering them to close the city gates immediately, and be sure to find out the whereabouts of these three young men. Because, Gongsun Yu takes this very seriously, and these forces loyal to Guangwu Jun must kill him all in order to relieve all future troubles.
In this regard, Gongsun Yu was very surprised. He really didn't believe it. Could it be that there really was anyone who could easily kill them? Gongsun Yu, who had always believed in himself, suddenly lost his confidence, and he secretly suspected that the unknown strength of several young men who came to visit Guang Wujun had killed several of his closest guards, which made Gongsun Yu secretly shocked in his heart, and he couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Have you learned the true inside story of them?" Is it the power that Guang Wujun controls?"
Gongsun Yu was very worried, this was a struggle by forces loyal to Guangwujun, who originally wanted to rescue Guangwujun. Although he didn't know why he didn't save Guangwujun, at least now, Gongsun Yu had learned that there might be these forces. Whether it exists or not, he has to understand it clearly. Even, for this reason, Gongsun Yu did not hesitate to temporarily order the temporary closure of the four city gates, prohibiting the people from leaving the city.
The guard in front of him hurriedly bowed down and replied, "General Advisor, we are now urgently looking for these three young men who have come to visit Guangwujun in the city, but we have not yet gained any humble duties," the guard continued. This morning, the soldiers guarding the north gate of the city came to report the news, it is said that two young men who looked very young jumped down from the city tower and left the spirit city, they still carried a big bag and were lowly in their duties, but I wonder if these two young men who look less than twenty years old are the people we are looking for?"
When the guard said this, he was actually very unconfident in his own heart. Because Gongsun Yu gave him this task, but did not tell him what the three young people he heard looked like, it was really difficult for him to find these three young people in one day, and he could only tell Gongsun Yu an unusual thing he had heard.
Gongsun Yu secretly thought to himself that the location where they were now was the northernmost spiritual city of the Qi Kingdom, and if these two young people really continued to advance northward, their goal eight achievements would only be one place in the Qingming Mountain Range. As for the Qingming Mountains, Gongsun Yu also has some understanding. The direction of the Qingming Mountain Range has been basically an area where no one has survived since ancient times, and the Qingming Mountain Range is also a place where Gongsun Yu dared to be very afraid of this.
Since the three young men were heading north, Gongsun Yu was almost certain that the direction they were heading towards was the north of Lingcheng, and the direction of the Qingming Mountain Range, which no one had ever been able to get close to, was the path that the three young men were looking for. In this case, Gongsun Yu is not too worried, this Qingming Mountain Range, since ancient times, only a very few people have been able to survive from it, including the previous monarch Guangwujun, even the Holy Emperor himself has not personally been to this Qingming Mountain Range. Gongsun Yu believed in his master, the Holy Emperor, and he firmly believed that if the Holy Emperor did not dare to approach this mountain range, it would be tantamount to killing himself if others went.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Yu's mood suddenly became relaxed, he slowly turned around again, and said with a smile as if talking to himself: "Maybe that mountain range can help us do this favor and get rid of our three henchmen" After speaking, he didn't care about the guard behind him, and stared at the north through the window by himself. His face was full of expressions as if he could see the Qingming Mountain Range in the distance, and the guard behind him was puzzled, and quickly found an excuse to retreat.
An indifferent smile appeared on Gongsun Yu's face, the rumored three young men should not be simple, at least they were able to kill the eight closest guards to him without much effort, presumably they had some abilities. But even if he was capable, since they chose to go to the Qingming Mountain Range, it was no wonder that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight like this.
In Gongsun Yu's opinion, no matter how strong these three young people were, they would not be able to resist the mysterious aura inside the Qingming Mountain Range after all. Rather than sending his subordinates to die with him, it is better to sit and wait in Lingcheng like this.
Thinking of this, Gongsun Yu Cangyue's face bloomed with a cool and comforting smile, and he couldn't help but paced back to the front of his desk, on which were placed two fine brushes and a book that he had already spread out. Gongsun Yu sat down slowly, picked up the brush and wrote quickly on the fold, he wanted to play everything that happened in the Spirit City in the past two days to the Holy Emperor as it was, hoping that the Holy Emperor could guide him to a correct way to deal with it