Chapter 65: Ancient Legends (5)
Three thousand elites were selected from the Chinese army to probe the front in place of the disappeared former army.
At this time, rumors were already spreading among the Chinese army. Every day, deserters tried to break away from the large group and descend from the trees. Of course, once they were discovered by Yao and his cronies, they were all executed in the harshest way.
All kinds of rumors and rumors in the Chinese army have even spread to the rear army, causing many people in the rear army to become impetuous.
And the more the bullet pressure, the more dissatisfied the soldiers at the bottom are with Yao, and the more serious it becomes.
On the forty-fifth day, it rained heavily. The blood-red demon light descended again as promised, and all the soldiers clinged to the tree wall in the wind and rain, and they could do nothing but pray.
And when the blood light disappeared in the sky. Many people in the Chinese army raised their heads one after another, and they were surprised to find that at a height of 1,000 meters, the 3,000-former army disappeared again.
This time, they didn't even have time to raise the alarm.
In the face of all this, Yao not only did not make any explanation, but continued to order, and another thousand people were drawn out to serve as the front army, and the three armies continued to advance!
Finally, the soldiers, who had endured to the extreme, broke out. The soldiers smashed the hanging baskets used to pull military rations, threw away their armor and military flags, and launched an attack on all the believers of the Giant Tree God Cult on the giant tree.
At this time the expeditionary force was in the first civil strife.
And the end result was that under Yao's instructions, a thousand secret magicians in the army used secret techniques to easily suppress several times their number of soldiers. The main force of the rebels was brutally crushed, leaving the abyss, and the remaining remnants of the army had to obey Yao's orders again. On this day, Yao showed his iron wrist.
Two bloody flashes appeared, and a full 6,000 people were lost. And after the civil strife in the expeditionary force, the Chinese army lost nearly three thousand more people. In order to replenish their combat strength, the top management of the Giant Tree God Cult once again ordered that part of the rear army be removed from the sturdy forces and issued them weapons and armor to serve as soldiers.
The Chinese army was again replenished to 8,000 men, and another 1,000 laborers climbed to the heights to serve as a new front army.
And at this time, even the Lao Zhuang, who was responsible for carrying the food in the rear, knew that as long as the blood light appeared, the person who climbed on the top would disappear inexplicably. Because of Yao's brutal rule, no one dared to disobey his orders, but at this time, the entire expeditionary force was already terrified, and there was no combat effectiveness to speak of.
Santou's mother was mixed with the 1,000 secret magicians of the Chinese army at that time, and as Yao's cronies, she suppressed those who dared to resist. But even among the mysticists, there are many people who are dissatisfied with Yao and are ready to leave the group and go down the tree.
On the 47th, the army, which had in fact rebelled and left, continued to advance. At this time, they had reached a height of 6,000 miles, which was the height where Lu Lie was hundreds of years later.
On the forty-eighth day, the blood light reappeared. It not only devoured a thousand vanguards, as promised. When the soldiers of the Chinese army found that the aftershocks were over, when they opened their eyes, they found that half of their comrades were missing.
Of the 8,000 Chinese troops, more than 3,000 evaporated from the world again.
And Yao, who has gone through all this, the latest order given is still to move forward.
Advance.
Advance!
Advance......
Always forward, endlessly forward, constantly forward, advancing to death!
At this time, the soldiers have long lost the enthusiasm they had when they first climbed the tree, they are not interested in what is on the top of the tree, they just want to live at the moment! Why, it is so difficult to simply want to live!
Yao and those high-ranking members of the Giant Tree God Cult never explained to these lowest-level soldiers what the red light in the sky was, and why it disappeared as soon as it appeared.
They simply treat these low-level soldiers as cannon fodder, send them to explore the way, and constantly increase their senseless sacrifices.
Civil strife broke out in the Second Expeditionary Force.
And this civil unrest is far more turbulent than the first. The 20,000 expeditionary troops, armed with * and hand axes, fought like madness in mid-air, and countless people were cut down and fell into the abyss. Even the secret magicians around Yao, many of them turned their guns and attacked Yao and his staunch disciples.
When the expeditionary force set off, probably no one thought that they would be where they are today. The rebels once achieved an overwhelming advantage, after all, there were only a very small number of soldiers on Yao's side. This aerial battle lasted for three full days, and at the moment when the rebels were infinitely close to victory, Yao personally intervened, and he once again swept away the rebels' forces and suppressed the turmoil with a powerful secret method.
Don't forget, when he was young, he was also a once-in-a-century wizard of the arcane arts.
After this turmoil, the entire expeditionary force was reduced to less than 10,000 men. At this time, it was attacked by a group of strange creatures, which showed that the expeditionary force was even more tired. After repelling the wave of monsters, even Yao had to look at this problem directly - with the current state of the expeditionary force, it was impossible to continue to climb up.
Finally, the stubborn old man made a small compromise. He ordered the whole army to stop at this height, and then, digging the bark of the tree, and cutting a passage into the interior of the giant tree.
After the news was conveyed, the three armies cheered. At that time, everyone thought that the reason why they had to dig into the inside of the giant tree was to avoid the hunt of the demon light in the sky.
However, the end was already doomed when the expeditionary force went up to the tree. When Lao Zhuang chiseled open the shell of the giant tree, they were surprised to find that the inside of the giant tree was empty, and there was no other world.
The armies cheered again, and they must have thought that it was a gift from heaven. They have a place to hide, and they can hide from the terrible demon light in the sky.
Everyone entered the interior of the giant tree, including the three-headed mother. At that time, after experiencing two expeditionary civil strife, she was lucky not to die, but found that she was pregnant with a child.
And Mitou's mother didn't dare to tell anyone. Because in this dangerous altitude, a pregnant woman means a burden. Now that everyone's nerves around her are stretched to the limit, she is not sure what awaits her after saying the news.
After entering the inside of the giant tree, the expeditionary force was attacked by all kinds of mysterious creatures, including fish with thick legs, spiders larger than elephants, and suddenly cracked earth. However, as if Yao had known that this was going to happen, he remained indifferent and guided the expeditionary force through all the obstacles to the depths of the giant tree space.
What awaited them at the end was an empty, vast land. And Yao told them that he would establish a new kingdom here. Everyone here will be the first members of this kingdom. They will spend the rest of their lives here, never to fall down the tree again.
Before going up the tree, the warriors of the expeditionary force thought that they would die in battle, that they would stumble and fall off the cliff, that they would eat up all the supplies and finally starve to death, and that all kinds of things would happen.
They are ready to face death, and they are mentally prepared for any accident.
But no one thought that it would be such an ending.