Chapter 0439: Loyalty to the Empire
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Emperor Yunxiao's face was extremely gloomy, although he learned from the mouths of the poor mountain tribesmen that the Great Qianshen Dynasty had been invaded by the demon clan, but when he saw it with his own eyes, his emotions were still almost out of control.
Qingtan County is the origin of his fortune, and the Shaolin Temple stands on this land.
Tie Qing's face was blue, and Emperor Yunxiao kicked open the gate that was scorched and diagonally across the city gate, and in the sound of collapse, smoke and dust rose everywhere, and there was a dead silence around.
The vast city was littered with charred corpses, in tatters, and occasionally jackals came in and out, devouring the carrion of some of the corpses.
Emperor Yunxiao's fingers soared, strangling dozens of jackals, and his eyes wandered around the huge city with red eyes, hoping to find some living people.
For a whole hour, he stepped in through the south gate, walked out of the north gate, and after leaving, his face was cold and almost asked for water.
There are more than 100,000 corpses in the main city of Lotus Leaf Town, most of them are armor soldiers guarding the city and some patrolling soldiers, although ordinary people also have them, but there are not many of them.
Most of the people must have been evacuated by the empire in advance, otherwise, he would not have seen hundreds of thousands of corpses, but millions.
After identifying the direction, he rushed towards the direction where the Shaolin Temple was located, with the background of Shaolin and the light of the overseas Vientiane Xingchen Pavilion, how could it not be easily captured. : Hey Words
Galloping all the way, finally in the evening, Emperor Yunxiao appeared in the Empty Underworld Town, a small town that has been enriched by the strong rise of the Shaolin Temple.
Although the same smell of gunpowder is full, there is still some popularity, and you can vaguely see a figure shaking on the two-zhang high city gate.
Di Yunxiao appeared alone under the city gate, and when he landed, he attracted the attention of the city head, and a man with his head wrapped in gauze was lying at the battlement and shouted loudly.
"Brother below, just came back from the southern line, how is the fight now, have those demon cubs already broken through the county seat of Qingtan County?" This man regarded him as a good man from the front line who came to the rescue.
Hearing this, Di Yunxiao's face was suspicious, and his tense heart soothed, just like he was still fighting, at least he hadn't exhausted the mountains and rivers and destroyed the huge Qingtan County.
"No, open the door first, where are the demons in the underground demon realm now, and what about the monks in the Shaolin Temple, they are still on the mountain?"
Seeing that Di Yunxiao was not a person from the front line, this man was a little disappointed, but he still shouted and asked the people below to open the city gate and let Di Yunxiao in.
After entering the city, Emperor Yunxiao's face was stagnant, and there were hundreds of soldiers standing or sitting behind the city gate, and some old and weak women and children were boiling water to bandage these soldiers.
Without exception, these armor soldiers are all wearing a lot of light colors on their bodies, and some of them are even missing arms and legs, which can be regarded as complete cripples, and the price required to reconnect the severed limbs is not something they can afford.
The man who had just been talking to him across the city gate building quickly came down, and Di Yunxiao looked at his empty left sleeve, his eyes shrunk.
"Imperial Wansheng! Surname, place of origin, and affiliation, report it. ”
Di Yunxiao's left hand tapped the heart of his chest, his body was straight, and he made the standard etiquette of an imperial general, and the man's face was stunned, and then his scalp was numb, and he subconsciously returned the salute.
"General Qiyu, the last general Ge Dashan, a native of Tan County, Qingtan County, belongs to the Third Cavalry Brigade of the 13th Army of Qingtan County, and has the rank of Captain of the Thousand Cavalry of Pingyu Colonel. ”
Emperor Yunxiao bowed slightly, and put down his left fist: "This king, Huangfu Yunxiao, the regent of the empire! Now that the Divine Dynasty and the Demon Clan are at war, how is the battle going, and where is the fight?"
At this opening, the captain was dumbfounded, this young man in his twenties actually claimed to be the prince of the empire, or the regent of the empire with the highest official rank?
Just when he was in doubt, Emperor Yunxiao directly took out the purple gold token specially made by the imperial court four years ago, which was engraved with the word regent in red red copper, representing the majesty of the imperial court.
Seeing this token, Ge Dashan and hundreds of disabled soldiers around him knelt on the ground in a hurry, and called the regent Wan'an.
The Purple Gold Regent Order is exquisite, and the production process is incomparably complex, difficult to imitate, and it is easy to fake.
What's more, even if it is imitated, whoever dares to use it will be found out by Jinyiwei and the local government, which is a big crime of the Nine Clans.
"All these rites are forbidden, and they are all given to the king. Ge Dashan, tell me the current situation of the empire quickly, this king has returned from the ancient forest, and he still doesn't know how far those demon cubs have attacked the empire. ”
Ge Dashan gritted his teeth and got up from the ground, and the doubts in his heart were solved.
It has always been rumored in the army that the regent of the empire, the marshal of the empire, and His Royal Highness Fu Yunxiao, the second prince of the current saint, have been missing for more than three years.
"Lord Qiqi. The demons of the underground demon realm broke the demon eye of the barbarian tribe, and in order to vent their anger, they attacked dozens of small countries in a row, and there were no chickens and dogs left wherever they passed.
Two months ago, nearly six million demons broke into the border of the empire, and the 300,000 tooth army formed by the four counties fought the border.
The empire was too inferior in numbers, and in the end it was defeated, and only more than 40,000 of the 300,000 armor soldiers escaped, but they also strangled more than 100,000 demon cubs.
Thanks to the Shaolin Temple sending senior monks to assassinate several great demon kings of the demon clan, this barely stopped the footsteps of the demon army. ”
Ge Dashan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and saw that although Di Yunxiao's eyes were sharp, he still maintained extreme calmness.
Not long after that, the demon lord of the demon clan came, and the army was divided, and nearly four million demons bypassed the main cities of many large counties and went directly to the imperial capital.
Most of the grandmasters and great grandmasters and monks of the Shaolin Temple were sent to secretly follow the high-ranking demons who sniped the demon army, hoping to consume the power of those demon cubs as much as possible halfway.
As for the remaining demons, most of the towns in Qingtan County have fallen, and only the county town is still struggling to support it. If there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that the city will be destroyed in half a month at most.
More than half of our elite light armored cavalry, which is marked by thousands of people, were killed in the battle, and basically all of them were disabled, and more than 300 people retreated here to recuperate. ”
Ge Dashan is only a lieutenant, a middle- and low-level officer, and he knows limited information, and he can say this because he has fought everywhere and witnessed many major events with his own eyes.
Di Yunxiao was silent, war is the killing of death, these light cavalry missing arms and legs are quite bleak, but more are horse leather shrouds, and even the whole corpse can't be left.
"Which general is guarding the county seat of Qingtan County, and how many troops are there?"
Ge Dashan's brain turned fast, Emperor Yunxiao's great achievements have been rumored in the army for a long time, and even the throne of the current saint seems to have been won by the prince riding away from the imperial city alone.
"Lord Qiqi, the general of the county city guard is Lord Hao Yan Wanliang, and now there should be 160,000 tooth troops and 12,000 people in the three heavy armored brigades of the Iron Blood Eagle Banner Legion. ”
After Ge Dashan finished speaking, Di Yunxiao's handsome face was almost distorted.
With a standing army of 170,000, if used to defend the city, it can resist and block about twice as many enemies under the same conditions.
But the number of those demons is too much, and the huge military strength of 17.8 million can exhaust the momentum of the defenders of the county city in a short period of time.
"In the big county, are there still regular army men?"
Ge Dashan was stunned by the question, and only after a while did he come back to his senses:
"Lord Wang, there is. The newly formed Blazing Tiger Legion has about 30,000 light armored cavalry searching for the remaining civilians, but it will take four or five hours to contact them. ”
Slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and Emperor Yunxiao's eyes flashed:
"Let the scouts with sound hands and feet requisition those wandering light cavalry with the order of the regent of this king, and in addition, gather the people of the surrounding counties to prevent the demon cubs from jumping off the wall in a hurry, and this king will bloody the demon clan tomorrow. ”
Emperor Yunxiao's body burst out with infinite killing intent, and the dark red evil qi rolled around his body like viscous magma, instantly causing the blood of these veterans to surge.
Retiring from the front-line battlefield because of disability is the disease in the hearts of these veterans, and they prefer to be shrouded in horse leather rather than such a half-dead and lingering life.
"Do as the king commands. However, the prince, the last general has another request, and the prince is also asked to agree. The last general hopes to be able to follow the prince to fight the demon clan again, and he will not hesitate to return the horse leather shroud. ”
Ge Dashan knelt up with a puff and knocked his forehead on the ground.
The 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the 13th Army, where he belonged, had 4,100 men, and more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded in the battle half a month ago.
Paoze, who had been with him for more than ten years, died in battle in front of him, and he became crippled, and this sense of grievance almost made Ge Dashan and these veterans collapse.
Therefore, every time he saw a fleeing civilian, or a soldier who had come down from the front, he would ask on the battlements how the battle in the county was going.
Although he knew that the county town was in danger without a super strong person in charge, as a veteran of a hundred battles in the empire, he naturally expected a miracle.
His Royal Highness Emperor Yunxiao, the regent, has disappeared for three years, but it has long been mythologized by the royal family, and it is rumored that he disappeared in order to break through the land immortals.
Now that he has returned, he must have achieved an otherworldly realm, able to kill the Quartet, this opportunity to fight back against the demon clan Ge Dashan did not want to let go.
Emperor Yunxiao's eyes narrowed, he groaned for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "Thirty thousand belly and back attack the demon clan, you may die ten times." ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, not only Ge Dashan, but as long as his feet were still tough, a large number of armor soldiers who could hold knives in their hands all knelt on the ground when they heard the words.
"I beg the prince's permission, we wish the horse leather shroud, and be loyal to the empire!"
Many men who had not yet had time to bandage their wounds, seeing that there was still a chance to return to the county town, did not care about the bleeding wounds, and kept kowtowing. Take a look at the "Eight Desolation Holy Ancestors" for the first time to read for free.