Chapter 46: At the foot of the foothills
It's a very inconspicuous hill. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is no more than a few hundred meters high, and the lush trees completely obscure the mountain, leaving no gaps at all.
At the foot of the mountain, it is a small village, but dozens of families look, although the world is already in chaos at this time, but this place is not far from Handan after all, it is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the public security is still peaceful, occasionally a few turtle thieves, but also the militia organized by the village spontaneously driven away, in today's Kyushu, it is also a pure land.
However, at this time, the Pure Land is in trouble, the paradise is gone, and the original rows of houses are only a piece of charred wreckage, although a few days have passed, there are still a few wisps of fire unwillingly burning on the collapsed houses, although there is no corpse, but from time to time on the ground can see a large area of blood that has coagulated and blackened has shown the fate of the village owner!
King Huai didn't go in, he was dressed in pure black unicorn armor, riding a high-headed horse with a black body and only four snow-white hooves, and looked at all this in front of him with a flat face.
Behind him, there were thousands of black-armored soldiers closely followed, they surrounded King Huai, looking at everything in front of them with an indifferent face, except for the sound of the cold wind blowing the banner rolling, there was silence.
After a while, a sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a black-armored knight rushed out of the village, he rode his horse to the front of King Huai, and hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and reported: "Your Highness, in the village ahead, all the houses have been burned down, and there is no living thing, among which the corpses of the villagers have not been found, according to Lord Jia's speculation, this village was destroyed about three days ago, suspected to be committed by wandering bandits."
"If it's the bandits, then don't bother with it, how about it? Did you find the way up the mountain? King Huai obviously didn't care much about the answer, in his heart, the death of a village, hundreds of civilians, is insignificant at all, if it is usual, he is still interested in making a show, chasing down the so-called bandits, but now, how can there be that interest.
He came to this village just to find a path up the mountain, so that it would be easier to go up the mountain.
As for whether there will be, King Huai is still somewhat sure, after all, relying on the mountain to eat the mountain, relying on the water to draft, since this village is backed by the foothills, it is obvious that when you go up the mountain, you will naturally open up a path up the mountain!
The black-armored knight was obviously prepared, and after hearing King Huai's inquiry, he replied without thinking: "Your Highness, there is indeed a forest path behind the village, although it is winding and you can't see its end, but it leads to the top of the mountain, but this mountain road is rugged and extremely narrow, if you ride a horse, I am afraid it will not be passable!"
King Huai was obviously extremely satisfied with this answer, he waved his hand, and said indifferently: "If you can't ride a horse, then go up, lead the way in front, and go and see!"
"Honorable Order!" The knight answered, turned over and got on his horse, turned around and walked towards the village, and immediately, dozens of knights followed, after they walked out of a distance, half of the hundreds of black feather guards around King Huai followed, followed by King Huai, and the thousands of black-armored knights behind left about a thousand people as a follow-up, and the others followed.
It was all done in silence, but it seemed methodical, as if it had been rehearsed countless times.
Zhao Li on the side was a little amazed in his heart, this cavalry army was what he had seen before, composed of martial artists above the day after tomorrow, and the Black Feather Army, one of the top ten armies that terrified the grassland Yi clan, although he had heard others say how powerful the army was, but he had never had the opportunity to see it, and when he saw it today, although he didn't know how strong the combat power was, but the military discipline that his orders and prohibitions still impressed him!
But now is not the time to sigh about this, Zhao Li quickly retracted his thoughts, he shook the reins, caught up with King Huai, and said,
"Your Highness, do you want to go up the mountain immediately?"
King Huai glanced at him and asked, "What's wrong?" Could it be that Mr. Zhao still has something to do? ”
His tone was obviously a little impatient, and there was a deep anger, if it weren't for King Huai's scruples and the need for Zhao Li, I'm afraid he would have been angry a long time ago, but it was almost at a critical point!
Zhao Li naturally heard the anger in it, and he also secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, he understood the anger of King Huai, anyone who raced against time and rushed to a certain place in a hurry, but was constantly pulled back by his companions, he would feel angry, not to mention a prince like King Huai who never needed to take care of others, even more so, to be honest, King Huai was able to endure until now, he was also a little lucky!
But there is no way, who told King Huai to set off too fast, he wants to cooperate with Yan Bin's side for a good time? If it weren't for that, why would he risk provoking King Huai's nerves and just follow him without saying a word?
A bitter smile is a bitter smile, but things still have to be done, Zhao Li stiffened, pretended not to see King Huai's gloomy face, and said,
"Your Highness, go up the mountain now, I'm afraid you won't find anything, you still need to wait for a quarter of an hour, at that time, it will be the time when the pill is born!"
King Huai grabbed the reins and stopped, he looked at Zhao Li with a gloomy face, without saying a word, the black-armored soldiers in front and behind also stopped, the front was okay, they didn't squint at all, and the more than 2,000 soldiers in the back were not so friendly, they stared at Zhao Li with indifferent eyes, the killing intent was hidden, and there was an urge to cut Zhao Li into pieces as soon as King Huai gave an order!
Although he had reached the realm of the ninth order of the day after tomorrow and the realm of Ning Yuan Dacheng, Zhao Li still felt a feeling of depression, which was completely different from the oppression of Yan Bin by the grandmaster, which was purely caused by too many eyes with murderous intent, and the sense of martial arts was too sensitive!
Zhao Li's face remained unchanged, and when he saw that King Huai didn't answer, he continued,
"Your Highness, what I said is true, there is absolutely no deception, you can rest assured, after a quarter of an hour, if there is no Dancheng vision, I am willing to apologize with death!"
What he said was categorical, without a little hesitation, King Huai was also a little uncertain, he already suspected that Zhao Li had a ghost and was deliberately delaying time, but now seeing that he said it so resolutely, he doubted his judgment a little!
After a while, King Huai nodded with a nonchalant face, and said with a warning, "Remember your words!"
He shook the reins and continued to move forward, but he didn't want to pay attention to Zhao Li at all, the team continued to move forward, Zhao Li drove his horse to follow, with his sensing ability, he naturally found that there were four or five knights who surrounded him in the middle quietly, obviously at the behest of King Huai, but he didn't know how he passed the word!
Although these knights are just martial artists of the fifth layer of the day after tomorrow, for Zhao Li at this time, it is not worth mentioning, with his current skills, coupled with the secret method of the Yanhuang world, there are a hundred ways to make these people die unclear, but he doesn't want to fight against King Huai at this time, and there is no point in killing a few small soldiers, so he pretended not to know, and followed King Huai as usual!