1. The young master of the dog

In the first year of King Nigong of Zhou, on the northern slope of the Qinling Mountains, the dog Rong tribe of Xirong State.

Surrounded by mountains, a huge city is being built intensely, the city is eight miles long from east to west, five miles wide from north to south, the city wall is more than four zhang high, the base is made of hard soil, the outside is inlaid with the hard black stone in the Qinling Mountains, the main gate is to the south, and there is a side gate in the east, west and north. Within the city wall are dense government offices, private houses and other buildings, indicating that the dog Rong people are prosperous and there are many people. Every stone used to build the walls has been spelled by the Dog Warrior Cold Moon, which can withstand the attacks of the human tribes, as well as the demon and soul races, and prevent the demon and soul power from penetrating the walls. Nearly a hundred tall towers on all four walls towered into the clouds, and the warehouses of each tower were stacked with weapons capable of inflicting massive damage on incoming aliens.

This is the royal city of the Dog Rong tribe of the Xirong tribe, called the city of Qi, because the Dog Rong tribe is also called the Qi Rong, and the castle is named after it.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, in order to facilitate the separation, the Zhou royal family and the vassal states of the Central Plains called themselves the Chinese nation, and the human tribes living in the east, west, south and north were called Dongyi, Xirong, Nanban and Beidi. In fact, Yi, Rong, Man, and Di are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and there is no essential difference between them and the Chinese nation, but they have lived in a corner for a long time, and gradually formed a different culture and customs from the Chinese nation, and there are some differences in language, dress, and living habits.

There are seven tribes in Xirong, namely Mianzhu, Inurong, Zhai, Yiqu, Dali, Wushi and Shuyan. Among them, the dog Rong is the strongest, with more than 60,000 people in the entire tribe, and the army alone exceeds 10,000.

The name of the chief of the dog Rong clan is Rong Kun, who was born majestic and majestic, rough and arrogant, likes to drink, and is said to be not drunk in a thousand bowls. The martial arts are strong, and the demon soul is worried when he sees it. He didn't look like a tribal leader, but like a swordsman.

Rong Kun is very ambitious, for decades has been unwilling to live in this wild place, always coveting the Central Plains, the biggest dream of his life is to destroy the current Zhou room, take the pickaxe Beijing, seize the fertile land of the Central Plains, and be the king of the world.

And if you want to take Hojing, you must first destroy the country of Ji, and if you want to destroy the country of Ji, you must take the city of Ji. Ji Cheng is the royal city of Ji Kingdom, and it is on the only way for the dog to use troops to Ho Jing. At the same time, Jicheng is the birthplace of the Ji family of the Zhou royal family, and several kings of the Zhou royal family were buried in Jicheng after their deaths, with fertile land and rich resources. Rong Kun really wants to use Jicheng as his place to raise his troops, and use it as a base to attack Hojing. In the past twenty years, Rong Kun has attacked Jicheng three times, all of which have ended in failure. But Rong Kun is by no means a person who easily admits defeat, but the more defeated he becomes, the more he fights, the more frustrated he becomes, the more courageous he becomes.

This gave Ji Cheng a lot of headaches. Ji Hong, the lord of Ji City, sent an army to attack the inujun's habitat three months ago, and the inujune suffered huge losses in the first battle. It is not too late to eat a trench and grow a wisdom, and it is not too late to die in the first prison. Rong Kun then ordered the construction of a fortress as strong as Ji Castle, surrounded by high walls, on which battlements for shooting were built, and the people lived within the walls to prevent foreign raids.

The construction of the city wall was a huge project, in order to obtain a large number of craftsmen, Rong Kun went on expeditions, defeated some of the surrounding tribes, captured their people, became slaves of the Dog Rong people, and built a city for them. In addition, some craftsmen were recruited from the surrounding vassal clans and the Inurong clan, with a total of about 11,000 people.

Among them is a Yao tribe.

The Yao tribe was not defeated by the Dog Rong clan, but by Ji Cheng. The Yao tribe was originally in the northeast of the Dog Rong tribe, and the place where they lived did not belong to the territory of Xirong, but the land of China. After the Ji tribe moved from the land of 豳 (bin), there was a war with the Yao tribe due to territorial issues, and as a result, the Yao tribe was defeated and lost its territory, so it had to move westward and commit itself to the land of the dog Rong to accept the protection and management of the dog Rong tribe.

This time the city wall was built, and the Yao clan was recruited a thousand people. Although the people of the Yao clan are not slaves of the Inurong clan, their treatment on the construction site is not better than that of those slaves.

On the construction site of the Yao clan on the south side of the city, hundreds of craftsmen were naked, with thick ropes on their shoulders, shouting to pull a polished boulder to the city wall. The boulder weighed at least ten tons, and it was not easy to pull it along the piled dirt ramp to the high city wall, and despite all the strength of the people, the boulder still moved slowly. The soldier in charge of the overseer was full of rage, and he mercilessly swung the whip in his hand to whip those who seemed to want to be lazy, and with each whip fell, a deep whip mark appeared on his bare back, oozing bright red blood. Some of the craftsmen's feet were worn out, leaving shocking blood marks on the ground. The rough rope had already cut through their shoulders, and the blood stained the rope blood-red, giving off a disgusting smell of blood, attracting swarms of flies to suck.

People die every day on the construction site, like a dog or a cat, and when they die, they die, and the corpses are thrown into the mountains and forests, and they become the food in the bellies of the beasts.

In the troubled times, the poor people, the slaves, the lives are like ants.

The craftsmen did not dare to shout or resist, so they could only swallow their anger and let the whip fall on their naked backs, shoulders, and legs. Let the soldiers carry the corpse of a Gu tribesman and throw it into the mountains and forests. But in their eyes, when they lowered their heads and looked at the ground, they began to burn with anger, as if the slightest spark could ignite a raging fire and completely burn all the oppression and shame that had been imposed on them.

An old man suddenly fell, his long hair was scattered, his bones were skinny, covered in mud and sweat, and he looked extremely tired.

The old man's name is Yao Bu, and he is a descendant of the Yao tribe and the spiritual pillar of the Yao clan. He has all the hopes of the Yao clan to regain their family.

Seeing this, a soldier who was an overseer soldier embroidered with a cheetah totem on his military uniform scolded angrily, rushed up and swung his whip towards the old man's upper body, and the old man's back was torn open with a deep hole, and the whip was very powerful, and the old man who wanted to get up with his knees fell to the ground at once, and his face fell to the ground, and he couldn't get up again.

All the Yao clansmen stopped, glaring angrily at the overseer soldiers, and the anger in their eyes began to burn.

Not far away, a girl who boiled water and cooked for the craftsmen saw this scene and screamed sadly: "Grandpa." She ran over quickly, crouched on her grandfather's body, and tried to use her body to block the whip that the soldier had drawn again, but how could her delicate body withstand the knife-like whip?

But the whip was not drawn again, and the overseer's whip was taken away by one man.

This is a young man, sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a light yellow straight-placket and brown leather boots, and the cuffs and collar of the long coat are embroidered with white wolf totems. There is a piece of black jade hanging from his right waist, the shape seems rough but simple and gloomy. There is a scimitar hanging from his left waist, and the scabbard is also embroidered with the totem of a white wolf. The hair was tied up haphazardly with a white scarf, scattered and scattered on the sides and behind the head, and although it was a little unkempt, it looked flowing and free. The young man has a good appearance and temperament, showing the flamboyant attitude of a noble child everywhere. No one paid attention to when or how he got here, as he played with the leather boots he had snatched from the Overseer with both hands, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he stared at the dumbfounded soldier with a smile.

Behind the young man stood three middle-aged men with swords hanging from their waists, all of whom were shrewd and strong. One of them shouted loudly: "The young master of the Dog Rong clan has arrived, so don't you hurry up and bow down." ”

Suddenly there was a large group of people around him, and the soldier who had been stripped of his whip finally recovered from his astonishment, and fell to his knees in a panic.

The young master of the Dog Rong tribe is in the Central Plains, and no one knows about the Dog Rong people. Rong Zhongyuan is the eldest son of Rong Kun, handsome, suave, since childhood with the world masters to learn martial arts, a scimitar out of the gods, just sixteen years old, became the first master of the dog Rong clan, the leader of the famous killer group.

Standing behind him at this time were the first-level killers of the three killer groups.

"Excuse me. Rong Zhongyuan waved the leather whip in his hand and said a little lazily: "Get up!"

And all the people stood and stood with their heads bowed.

Rong Zhongyuan stretched the leather whip to the lower palate of the girl who bowed her head deeply, the girl looked up, and a shocking face was displayed in front of Rong Zhongyuan, and the tears on the girl's face were not dry, like pear blossoms with rain, which was pitiful. And her pitiful eyes touched the weakest place in Rong Zhongyuan's heart at once.

Rong Zhongyuan couldn't help but be shocked, and said secretly: "What a natural beauty." "As the young master of the Dog Rong clan, there are countless women in Rongzhong, but like such a beautiful beauty in front of him, it is really the first time he has seen it, and he suddenly has some love in his heart.

It's just that he can't be too obvious in front of everyone.

Rong Zhongyuan turned his head to look at the overseer soldier in front of him, and said lightly, "Tell me who you are?"

Hearing Rong Zhongyuan's indifferent words, the soldier was frightened, clenched his right hand into a fist, pressed it on his left chest, and gave courtesy, and said resignedly: "Report to the young master, his subordinate is named Rong Fa, and he is a team leader of the leopard battalion, and he is ordered to supervise the work here." ”

"Team leader?" Rong Zhongyuan repeated in a low voice.

A killer beside him said: "Young master, our army has a total of twenty battalions, named after beasts, ten battalions of infantry and ten battalions of cavalry. In the army, those who lead ten people are the team leaders, those who lead 100 people are the captains, those who lead 1,000 people are the battalion commanders, and those who lead 10,000 people are generals. ”

Rong Zhongyuan nodded, looked at Rong Fa again, and said, "What about the nine people under you?"

Rong Fa was about to answer, and the nine soldiers scattered in the crowd had already come out, standing in front of Rong Zhongyuan, bowing and saluting.

"Look up. Rong Zhongyuan said coldly, "Are you all Rong Fa's subordinates?"

Everyone replied in unison, "Yes." ”

Rong Zhongyuan handed the whip in his hand to the soldier closest to him and asked, "Each of the nine of you will whip the Rong Fa, and the strength will be the same as the strength of the old man he just whipped." ”

The soldier was so stunned that he didn't dare to take the whip, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Rong Zhongyuan threw the leather whip into the soldier's arms and said, "Do you need me to repeat it?"

The soldier held a leather whip in his hand, his hands trembled constantly, and he looked at Rong Zhongyuan in embarrassment, and then at Rong Fa. These two people, one is his direct boss, and the other is the young master of the dog Rong clan, neither of whom can afford to offend.

Rong Fa naturally knew his predicament, so he scolded loudly: "The young master will fight if he wants to fight, why delay." "There is a reason why Rong Fa said this, firstly, he didn't want to pretend to be cowardly in front of the young master, and he wanted to retain the dignity of a soldier. The second is that he heard that the young master looks down on the soldiers who pretend to be cowards the most, if he pretends to be cowardly at the moment and annoys the young master, he is afraid that he will be killed by a sword, and it is better to be beaten with a few whips than to lose his life.

Rong Fa's performance made Rong Zhongyuan a little surprised, and said: "I didn't expect you to be a tough guy." ”

Rong Fa raised his head high and said: "Who in the world doesn't know that the soldiers of the Dog Rong clan have no breed, and they are just a leather whip, how can they make Rong Fa pretend to be cowardly." With that, he turned and left his back to the soldier.

"Good. Rong Zhongyuan clapped his hands and said, "Then let me see if you really gave birth to a set of steel and iron bones." He said to the soldier with the whip in his hand: "I will see the blood of the whip, and whoever does not have blood when the whip goes down, I will cut off his head." ”

When the soldier heard Rong Zhongyuan say this, he didn't dare to delay or stay strong, he raised his whip high, hesitated for a moment, and whipped his right arm towards Rong Fa's back.

The weather was hot, Rong Fa only wore a thin military uniform, this whip went down, the clothes were torn along with the skin and flesh, Rong Fa was so painful that the whole person trembled, but he gritted his teeth and did not say a word.

The remaining eight soldiers took the whip in turn and whipped it down fiercely on Rong Fa's back, and with each whip, Rong Fa trembled, and each whip was drawn down, bringing up a blood line splash, until the ninth whip went down, Rong Fa finally couldn't help but moan.

After the nine whips, Rong Fa's entire back was already blurred with flesh and blood, and his strong body fell down with a bang, his face was facing the ground, buried in the floating soil, and the person had fainted.

Rong Zhongyuan kept watching expressionlessly from the side, until Rong Fa pounced on the ground, and then said softly: "Sure enough, he is a tough guy, worthy of the title of a dog soldier." Then he said to the nine soldiers, "All right, help your team leader, and when he wakes up, let him think about why he was being smoked, and if he has figured it out, he can come to the killer group to find me." If you can't figure it out, you don't need it. ”

"The subordinates obey the orders of the young master. The nine soldiers all clenched their right hands into fists and pressed them to their left chests, said loudly, and then quickly lifted the Rong Fa and went into the distance.