Chapter 23: The Alliance of Rivals
The next day, the Dong family camp, Dong Yanzhou's tent.
"Dad, in order to take away the forbidden curse, the fifth brother has even put his life into it, our Dong family is already right enough to start the whole world, worthy of King Weiyuan, are you still unwilling to give up now?" Dong Renzhao burst into tears, and asked his old father with a sad and angry face.
Dong Yanzhou seemed to have aged dozens of years overnight, his hair that was originally just gray turned completely white overnight, the wrinkles on his face had worsened a lot, and his bright eyes had become cloudy, and the loss of his son in his later years was not a big blow to him, but after listening to the eldest son's bloody questioning, he still shook his head unmoved.
"If you give up now, won't your fifth brother die in vain?"
"But if we continue, how many more lives will our Dong family have to take to get in?!" Dong Renzhao looked at his own Lao Tzu in disbelief, if it weren't for his own Lao Tzu's expression and demeanor being quite normal, he would have thought that his Lao Tzu had gone crazy.
"I've made up my mind, you don't need to say more!" Unexpectedly, Dong Yanzhou is still stubborn.
"If you don't want to stay, you can go back now." He added.
Hearing this, Dong Renzhao was so angry that he almost turned his back on it. As a son of man, how could he throw his father to death and then run for his life alone? If he really did this, the people in the four towns of Wushan would poke him in the backbone, let alone inherit the position of the head of the family and continue to be in charge of the Yiyun Society, and he would not even have to live the rest of his life.
But seeing his own Lao Tzu's unsuccessful and benevolent behavior, he had no choice but to stomp his foot hard, and turned around and walked out of the tent angrily.
Seeing him come out, Dong Zhizhao, the fourth elder of the Dong family, hurriedly greeted him.
"Big brother, did Dad say it? When will you take us to avenge the fifth brother? He asked with red eyes, in the "Five Tigers of the Dong Family", he is the same age as the fifth Dong Xinzhao, the two of them grew up together, and the relationship is the most cordial. Dong Xinzhao was killed by Buchen yesterday, although he ran away with his eldest brother Dong Renzhao because of a moment of shock, but after the fear faded, there was only hatred left in his heart.
Dong Renzhao was angry at this time, and when he heard that he didn't open which pot, he broke out: "Revenge?!" Fourth, you don't weigh how capable you are, the Blood Demon Daddy can't resist it, let alone you? Stay honest, don't think about how to find death! ”
After that, he didn't wait for Dong Zhizhao to react and knocked the other party to the side and walked away, leaving Dong Zhizhao trembling in place.
However, just when Dong Renzhao left the camp and just wanted to go to fight some wild things to extinguish the fire, a man with five big and three thick suddenly drove his war horse and rushed to the gate of the camp with a sweaty head.
"Wow!"
When the man arrived at the gate of the camp, he immediately pulled the reins hard, and when he stepped down his crotch, he hissed, and the man stood up.
"Zhao Da, what's so important, and you want to come back and say it yourself?"
Seeing that Zhao Da, the little leader who led the team on the periphery, rushed back in person, Dong Renzhao couldn't help but be curious and asked.
"Uncle, the Templars are back!" Seeing Dong Renzhao asking, Zhao Da didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly answered.
"The remnants of the defeated army are back?" Dong Renzhao smiled contemptuously when he heard this, "It's really a madman who doesn't know whether to live or die!" But that's fine, when they are killed by the blood demon, Dad should also come to his senses. ”
"No, uncle, it's not that simple!"
Dong Renzhao raised his eyebrows, "What kind of complicated method is that?" ”
"They have a squad leader named Cedric who wants to see the old helmsman, and says he wants to form an alliance with us!"
"What?!" Hearing this, Dong Renzhao was so shocked that he almost jumped up.
"What you say is true? He wants to see my dad? Still want to form an alliance with us? In order to confirm that it was not his ears that were hairy, Dong Renzhao asked again.
"It's true!" Zhao Da said solemnly.
"What about the guy named Cedric?"
"Right ahead!"
"Bring him!" Dong Renzhao gave the order.
Zhao Da answered, turned the horse's head and galloped away in the direction he came from again.
"An alliance with us 'unbelievers'?" Looking at the back of Zhao Da, who was gone, a sneer appeared on Dong Renzhao's face.
"Don't say it, these crazy people really can think of it, it seems that they are desperate for the sake of that pair of city forbidden spells!"
Half an hour later, Dong Yanzhou was in the tent.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Lord Dong Helm, and I'm Cedric Hubert, the Templar captain of the Creation God Church." Cedric touched his chest with his hand and bowed to Dong Yanzhou, who was sitting on the throne.
He had an encounter with the Dong family's scouts this morning, and the two sides fought without saying a word after discovering each other. However, in this scout battle, Cedric found that the morale of these Seris Green Forest Thieves was generally not high, and they all looked depressed.
For Cedric, who had just suffered a heavy defeat, this virtue was all too familiar.
Obviously, these Seris Green Wood Bandits have also failed. But the fact that both sides had suffered a crushing defeat and a devastation had led him to see an opportunity – a chance to join forces.
So it was logical that the vengeful man did not ask Daglas for instructions and took it upon himself to connect with Chen Da, the leader of the Dong family's scouts.
As for whether Douglas will say yes? Cedric, who knew that his commander was a man, was not worried at all.
Carl Douglas was the kind of guy who never gave up until he got his goal. A temporary alliance with the unbelievers or something, if necessary, without his Cedric's intervention, he will do it himself.
However, this is not that Douglas is not religious enough to the goddess, but in this competition for national fortunes, the slightest bit of discretion is unacceptable!
"You want to form an alliance?" Dong Yanzhou looked at the Templar in front of him who was missing a hand, and asked straight to the point.
"Yes. After yesterday's battle, Dong Helm should also be aware, right? The strength of either of us alone is not enough to defeat the elves. ”
Dong Yanzhou didn't take a stubble, but just moved his hand and instructed Cedric to continue.
Before Cedric arrived, he had given a silent order not to allow anyone to tell the reason for his defeat, so Cedric still thought they had been defeated by the elves.
In fact, since yesterday's defeat, he hadn't told them what happened before his son and his men arrived, so at this time they were also kept in the dark, only vaguely knowing that they were defeated by a blood demon.
Of course, this is not that Dong Yanzhou deliberately hides anything from them, but the pain of losing his son yesterday hit him too hard......
Seeing this, Cedric continued: "We have an old saying in the Western Continent: 'The enemy of the enemy is the friend', and I think it is necessary for us to unite when neither of us can defeat the elves on our own. ”
"Hmm." Dong Yanzhou nodded, agreeing with his statement.
Dong Yanzhou didn't know how Buchen used the bloody flame murderous aura, and he didn't know if he could cast it again, so in his opinion, his own strength was indeed not enough to seize the forbidden spell alone.
Of course, if Old Helmsman Dong knew that Buchen had only stimulated the bloody flame murderous aura by indiscriminately taking medicine, and he didn't have a second bottle of medicine, he would be depressed and spit blood again.
"Is this an offensive and defensive alliance?"
"Yes." Cedric confirmed, "If the Brownmen come from the sea to fight for the forbidden spell, we will stand with you and fight side by side!" ”
A sneer appeared on Dong Yanzhou's face, indeed, in the case that both of them were already seriously injured, not only the elves were a threat to them, but even the brown man who had not yet shown up was also a threat, in this case, they might as well collude closer.
"Good." Dong Yanzhou nodded again.
"So you agree?" Cedric asked in surprise.
"No, no, no!" Dong Yanzhou hurriedly shook his head, "I have one more question to ask." ”
"Speak, please." Cedric said politely.
"After opening that tomb, who will the forbidden spell on the city belong to?" Dong Yanzhou stared at Cedric with burning eyes, and said the most important issue for their alliance.
You must know that there is no division of spoils between them at all, and the forbidden spell can only belong to one family, which is not negotiable.
Because their Cyris Empire is different from the Western Continent, there are no magicians in the territory. The only two magical forces were the surrendered troops that were taken in during the destruction of the Osan Empire. One of them was transferred back to the imperial capital and incorporated into the forbidden army of Emperor Yun, but after a hundred years of wealth and nobility in the imperial capital, this originally powerful army of war mages has degenerated into a circus, and only during the New Year's holidays will they show their "talents" and perform "tricks" or something in front of the emperor and hundreds of officials. As for the combat effectiveness or something, it has long been returned to the ancestors.
The other group of magicians who were incorporated by the Qu family was too small in number to even chant the more powerful spell against the army, let alone the spell against the city. That is to say, those civil officials in the court who don't know anything except moral articles and officialdom will regard the Qu family's fight for forbidden spells as a misfortune and use it as a reason to cut the feudal domain.
However, in fact, Old Helmsman Dong thought that even if this generation understood what the forbidden spell was, he would not raise his hand to the Qu family.
Because after all, the Qu family is a military minister, a military minister who has fought against them for thousands of years, and a military minister who their civilian official group can't wait to step on forever once they have power in their hands......
Therefore there can be no illusions about them!
As for those Yin Yang Sect Heavenly Masters in the empire who have profound Taoism and strong spells? They are too lazy to care about the things of the world! For these people, cultivating immortals and attaining the Tao is the top priority, what country rises and falls, and the lives of the people are floating clouds, which is the will of heaven in the underworld, rather than going against the sky, it is better to conform to nature!
Therefore, even if their Seris Empire and the Creation God Cult Alliance obtained the city ban spell at the same time, they would only be threatened by the other party, and they would not be able to build a strategic nuclear deterrent to each other like the five hooligans of the United Nations who did not submit to each other in their previous lives. For them, the Seris would be safest and safest to either seal the forbidden spell or destroy it altogether.
Cedric smiled when he heard this, and he knew that Dong Yanzhou was going to ask this.
"When the time comes, let's use our own means!" He replied with a smile.
"Dog thief dares?!"
"This guy is so arrogant, old helmsman, let me chop him with a knife!"
"These crazy wolf ambitions cannot be trusted!"
"Watch Grandpa cut off your head and send it to your madman's head!"
Hearing this, the leaders of the Dong family who were listening in the tent immediately made a noise.
"I've got it all for me!" Dong Yanzhou shouted.
"But......" Dong Zhizhao wanted to say something.
"Shut up!" Dong Yanzhou stared at his fourth son undoubtedly.
Seeing his own Lao Tzu's appearance as if he was about to eat people, Dong Zhizhao immediately wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost.
When the others saw that the fourth prince was instigated, they also hurriedly became honest.
After subduing everyone, Dong Yanzhou turned his head to look at Cedric, who was still fearless in the face of the clamor of his subordinates, and nodded, with a hint of appreciation on his face.
"Cedric Hubert, huh? The old man remembers you, go back and tell you the knight chief, the old man has agreed to join forces! ”