Chapter 123: Artillery Fire
The demon horse cavalry led by the Fence Ghost once again set out on the road to the Tsuchijo Green Soil, and since he was still weak, the Fence Ghost ordered his lieutenant to ride with him on the same horse. In order to facilitate the riding dog god, he had to transform into a human form, his human form is a young man wearing white long hair and shoulders, although his hair is messy, and his appearance is not handsome, but his body exudes an awe-inspiring righteousness.
The deputy general of the hedge ghost who rode with him was called Mane Li, and the second elder of the demon world, Lion Wang Cheng, belonged to the same lion demon clan, and there was some kinship. He is still young, and there is still a bit of childishness between his eyebrows, but the strength of not admitting defeat on his body is very appreciated by the hedgeh, and no matter how small the task is given to him, he will do his best to complete it, plus he has a cheerful personality, and he is very popular in the cavalry regiment, and the hedgehhead is like both master and apprentice and father and son, so he was selected as the deputy general.
Along the way, he was choked by the dog god sitting behind him, and the old man would ask him from time to time how long he would have to reach Qingyang, or complain that his horse couldn't run any faster.
By the time the huge cavalry regiment approached the green soil of the city, it was already the night of the second day, and the hedgehs had no choice but to ask everyone to find a place to camp and rest outside the city for the time being, and then enter the city the next morning. As soon as the inu-god heard this, he planned to break away from them and go back to Qingyang alone to find his companions.
The hedgekeeper had just decided on a temporary camping location, and before he could dismount, he was stopped by three black shadows that suddenly appeared next to him, almost frightening his horse.
"Who's coming?! You know that we are the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment from Dongyao! Don't you want to live? The hedgekeeper was furious, cursing and slashing with his sword.
But he was stopped by the dog god, and he saw at a glance that it was his boss Changfeng who stopped them, and the red lotus and the blue scorpion were also beside him, so he quickly explained to the hedgeh: "Slow and slow, Lord Hedgeh, this person is Changfeng of the intelligence group, and he is also my boss!" ”
Chang Feng didn't expect the dog god to turn back so quickly, seeing him made his facial expression extremely stiff, and he didn't have enough time to think about how to explain to him the fact that Xiao Qi was dead.
The dog god also read something from his eyes, and then looked at the red lotus and the scorpion standing next to him with a sad face, and didn't mention anything about Xiao Qi, so he asked tentatively: "Xiao Qi, ...... she?"
"Alas, although we saved her from the hands of the convoy group, it is a pity that she was poisoned by the scorpion, and in the end she still did not survive." After Changfeng finished speaking, he lowered his head.
"And she...... Where is she now? Inugami asked incoherently.
"Near the exit of the secret passage outside the city, the fifth child is still guarding her."
Before Chang Feng finished speaking, the dog god transformed into the big white dog again, and galloped towards the place Chang Feng said without looking back.
Chang Feng looked at his back and paused slightly, then turned to the head of the cavalry regiment, the Hedge Ghost, and said, "Lord Hedgeh, the Red-Eared Demon Spirit predicted your arrival in advance and laid hundreds of artillery pieces in Qingyang City, and we are here to remind you. ”
"Artillery ......" the hedgehman repeated.
He remembered that the young master had instructed him before he came, that the main purpose of coming to Qingyang this time was not to have a large-scale conflict with the Demon Spirit Clan, but to rely on the deterrent power of the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment to make them lose the ability to continue to resist the royal city.
He remembered what he would do if it were his master, the Amber Dragon King, in such a situation, and then remembered that he would first ask to negotiate with the people of the city and see if it could be resolved by any means other than force after figuring out the intentions between the two sides, so he decided to follow the same tactic early tomorrow morning and negotiate with the people of Qingyang first.
After Changfeng conveyed the words that Mochizuki had given him, he said goodbye to the hedge ghost and returned to the vicinity of the secret passage outside Qingyang Castle first, and he was worried about the situation of the dog god from the bottom of his heart. He, Red Lotus, and Blue Scorpion all had to apologize to him for failing to fulfill their promise to save Xiao Qi.
In the early morning, the earth city is green, and the golden demon horse cavalry regiment has come to the city.
The fragrance of herbs and flowers in the air and the smell of burnt earth that had not yet completely dissipated were mixed together, revealing a hint of weirdness just like the atmosphere that was now hanging over Qingyang City. The more than 100 cannons on each layer of the Tucheng Green Soil Ladder were all facing the city, which seemed to show the determination of the Demon Spirit Clan. Outside the city gate, the hedgekeeper first asked the lieutenant mane to come forward to negotiate with the demon spirits, and he himself led the team to wait a little farther away.
Seeing that only one person in the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment was approaching the city gate, the warriors of the Demon Spirit Clan were a little confused. I saw that the cavalry in golden armor restrained the horse outside the city gate, and did not show his weapon, but shouted loudly to the people above the city; "I'm Mane Li, the deputy general of the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment from Dongyao, and I'm here to negotiate on the orders of the regiment commander!"
"We have nothing to say to Wang Cheng and Wang Cheng, if Dong Yao insists on helping Wang Cheng to suppress our Demon Spirit Clan, then even if you come, all you will have to do is cannonballs!" The captain of the Red Brigade, who was guarding the lower city, responded to him.
"Wang Cheng must be able to think of other ways to save your young master, please believe what I say! Qingyun is scheming and full of lies, there have been many cities that have suffered misfortune because of their gullibility in him, I advise you not to fall for him and become the enemy of the entire demon world! Mane continued to persuade.
The captain of the red team was still hesitating, thinking that it seemed that there was still room for negotiation with Wang Cheng, the two elders of Wang Cheng and Dong Yao's Amber Dragon King were all people with great powers, if they had other ways to save the Kui, they could avoid a vicious battle, and he had just wondered if he should discuss it with the Red Ear Demon Spirit and several other captains.
Rumble......
The sound of artillery tore through the air, and before the captain of the Red Team and most of the Demon Spirit Clan warriors could react to what was happening, they saw that the young man who claimed to be the deputy general of the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment had been blown to the ground, and the armor he was wearing before was scattered all around, and his demon horse was also hidden into the darkness due to fright.
"Who fired the cannon?!" The Red Captain shouted as he looked behind him.
In front of a still smoking cannon in the upper city, the red-eared demon spirit wearing lizard scale armor slapped the gunpowder stuck to his hand with an expressionless face, and the shot he had fired just now was exactly what he fired. It was a fight for him, and the sooner it started, the better, because Qui didn't have time to go on anymore. According to his understanding of the hedgeh, he thought that he would attack the city directly, but he didn't expect that he would learn the trick of negotiation after following the Amber Dragon King for a long time. But such a big thing as the killing of the lieutenant general would definitely anger him, and he didn't believe that he could still hold his breath.
The hedgehore watched from afar as the mane he had sent to negotiate was blown away, and behind him was the sighs of his own soldiers. According to the conventions of the two armies in the demon world when they were fighting, the soldiers sent out to negotiate or negotiate peace were not allowed to be killed, but he didn't expect that he would send the deputy general to a dead end, and the mane hat was not just his deputy general.
He had joined the army of the Amber Dragon King since he was young, and since then he had been bent on becoming the greatest warrior of all, and for this reason he would not have children without marriage, and Mane was like his son in his heart, and great hopes were pinned on him. Seeing Mane die tragically under the artillery, a raging anger burned in his chest, and a pair of bull's eyes glared at the boss, and he could no longer control himself to summon his broadsword.
"The Demon Spirit Clan looks down on us Dongyao so much, we must not spare them! For the royal city! For Dongyao! For the mane! Rush up and kill them without leaving a piece of armor behind! Whoever dares to be a deserter, I will kill whom! He raised the big knife in his hand, and rushed out with that.
A large number of cavalrymen in golden armor were like a cloud of fire, following the hedged ghosts towards the gate of Qingyang. The red-eared demon spirit shouted and fired, and the artillery arranged on each floor was fired continuously. The constant sound of cannons temporarily deafed the ears of the cavalrymen, and all that remained in their eyes was the gray of the cannonballs blowing up the dust on the ground, the bright red of the fallen comrades blooming like flowers, and the yellow of the flames that gradually burned.
Trying to walk through the guns of their companions through the rain of bullets, the hedgekeeper watched as his cavalry dwindled, but there was no way back, so he kept moving forward. When they finally rushed into Qingyang City, there were few cavalry left that could still fight, and the 5,000-strong Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment had been sharply reduced to more than 1,000 people, which was on par with the Demon Spirit Clan warriors.
A cyan cyclone of demonic power burst out from all around the hedge ghost, frightening the demon warriors who stood in front of him to be stunned. He took the lead, knocking those who stood in his way with a single move of the Iron Horse, and then slashed down a piece with a continuous swing of the sword. For a time, the two sides were engaged in short-handed combat, with countless casualties, and the sound of screams and weapons clashing in the air was mixed with the screams of ghosts and wolves. The Red team, which was guarding the lowest level, was soon unable to withstand the sharp attack from the cavalry regiment, and the orange and yellow teams hurried down to support, vowing to prevent the hedgeh's team from continuing to rise.
At this moment, a demon warrior wearing armor unexpectedly appeared in the middle of the two armies, only to see that he did not attack the side of the cavalry regiment, but held the two scimitars in his hand and kept flying between the two sides, and knocked them to the ground one by one with the back of the knife, obviously trying to make them stop fighting.
This mysterious figure is Mochizuki, after he asked Changfeng to bring a message to the Demon Horse Cavalry Regiment, he thought that the hedge ghost would not attack the earth city because he was afraid of the power of artillery, but he didn't expect him to ignore the variable of the red-eared demon spirit. He heard the sound of a cannon near the secret passage outside the city, and knew that something was wrong, but by the time he arrived, the flames of war between the two armies had already been ignited, and it was getting more and more vigorous.
The hedge ghost who lost his lieutenant general has no reason, and he is bent on fighting the demon spirit clan to the end, but he is in the arms of the red-eared demon spirit. In his eyes, the last son of the demon spirit is just a front, he doesn't mind whether the demon spirit clan survives or not, the other clans are just his pawns, he needs chips to make this deal with Qingyun, and everything he does is just for his son Kui to live, for which the sacrifice of anyone and even himself is necessary.
Mochizuki had already come to the hedge ghost and persuaded him: "Hedge ghost, calm down and listen to me, don't fall for the tricks of the red-eared demon spirit, the king sent you here to quell the war!"
Without saying a word, the ghost almost injured Mochizuki with a wave of the big sword, Mane and so many of his soldiers were killed by the Demon Spirit Clan one after another, how could such hatred be quelled because a person who came out of nowhere casually said a few words, as the commander of the cavalry regiment, he had to avenge his warriors by bloodbathing.
Judging from the skills of the mysterious man who appeared just now, although he tried his best to cover it up and seemed to be just trying to prevent the two parties from continuing to exchange fire, the hedgekeeper still felt that his demonic power and combat power were strong, and it was even very likely that he was above himself. But it didn't matter, anyone who stood in his way would fall today, and he decided to deal with this mysterious person with a bizarre identity first, so he jumped off the demon horse.
Mochizuki sighed, he didn't expect this hedge ghost to really have the same temper as a cow, and he couldn't reason with him at all, he thought that he had to try not to hurt this cow and just knock him down, so he still held the scimitar behind his back and prepared to meet his challenge.
"Fighting with the back of a knife? Are you underestimating me?! I won't thank you for that. After speaking, the hedge ghost raised his sword and attacked Mochizuki in a few steps, and the two started a duel in the smoke that had not yet subsided.