The demon in human skin listened to the shouts of these men, and his heart was full of disdain, even if he was a vicious demon, he knew that if he offended everyone, then they would not be able to rule such a large empire.

This time he robbed the rich family, and it was only a last resort, after all, they escaped in a hurry, without any supplies, and his war horse was also dead, so he had to find a nearby rich family to 'borrow' something.

After he returned, if he wanted to continue to recruit troops and build various weapons and armor, he still had to rely on the cooperation of the gentry and wealthy families in various places, after all, now that the northern part of the Central Plains has been repeatedly ravaged by them, most of the civilians have fled into the mountains to hide because they can't bear it, or even simply rebel. The only place where enough people can be found is in the estates of the rich families, and if they offend the fellows completely, the rich families may simply flee into the mountains with their slaves and servants like other commoners.

At that time, even if their Dajin Kingdom occupies a large territory and does not have enough population, then they will not be able to receive food and various materials every year, and they will not be able to recruit troops or land if they want to, and in the end, the whole country will quickly perish.

At this time, after Ye Tianlong had his troops repaired for a few days and recovered from the fatigue of the previous rapid march, he summoned Shi Wengong, Song Jiang and others, and told them that this time he was not only preparing to repel those Jin troops, but was ready to continue the Northern Expedition, at least to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, so that they would be easier to defend in the face of the attack of the Jin State in the future.

As soon as Song Jiang heard that His Majesty was going to go on a Northern Expedition, he was the first to jump out and say that he wanted to be a pioneer.

And Guo Yaoshi, who had just joined the Blue Dragon Empire, also jumped out at this time, saying that he also wanted to be a pioneer and open the way for the army.

Ye Tianlong glanced at the two of them, and understood in his heart that Song Jiang wanted to be a pioneer, he should want to avenge his brothers who died in battle, as for the guy Guo Yaoshi, he should want to show loyalty to him, after all, this Guo Yaoshi had just joined the Qinglong Empire, if he didn't seize the opportunity to show himself more, a general like him might soon be refrigerated, and there would be no chance to come out.

After thinking about it for a while, Ye Tianlong felt that the Liangshan Group under the command of Song Jiang was eager for revenge and had a military heart, and that Guo Yaoshi originally lived in the north and would be more familiar with the terrain, so it seemed quite appropriate to let him be a pioneer.

So Ye Tianlong finally decided to let Song Jiang be the main pioneer officer, and Guo Yaoshi should be the deputy pioneer officer.

Song Jiang and Guo Yaoshi were very satisfied with this decision, and immediately went back to start their own preparations.

And just when Ye Tianlong's side began to prepare for the Northern Expedition, in the woods near a small county in the southern interior, an abnormal spatial fluctuation began to appear, and finally accompanied by lightning and thunder, a spatial crack suddenly appeared, when this spatial crack opened into a spherical shape, a figure suddenly fell out of it in embarrassment, and fell heavily on the ground full of fallen leaves.

Then, ignoring the hurt hands and feet that had been fallen, the figure quickly got up from the ground and ran wildly.

And not long after this figure left here, a claw covered with long black hair suddenly stretched out from the spatial crack that was about to completely close, and with strong brute force, it actually pulled the spatial crack even bigger.

Then, more than a dozen figures also walked out of the cracks in the space that were torn even bigger.

These dozen people are tall and short, the tall ones are more than three meters, and the short ones are only about one meter two, and there are two guys who don't look like humans and even ride two giant wolves as mounts. And the one who used brute force to tear and expand the spatial crack before was a guy covered in black hair and a leopard brain on his head.

"Panther, where is this? I feel a little weird! A middle-aged man in a blue magic robe and holding a silver staff came to this world, and after taking a closer look, he said to the leopard-headed man who was obviously the leader.

The leopard-headed man, known as the Black Panther, shook his head in the face of the inquiry and replied, "I don't know where this is?" But I know that if we don't get this stinky back, then Lord Cabellus will definitely tear us all alive! ”

And the young woman who the black panther called the arrow queen was the first to emerge from the spatial rift, and she ran quickly through the trees, trying to find the right direction.

Suddenly, Arrow saw a faint glimmer of fire in the distance, and she looked intently to see that it was indeed not her hallucination, and with the faint light of the fire, she even faintly saw the outline of a town.

So she immediately turned and ran towards the town, and after running a short distance, a small river appeared in front of her, and as soon as Jian Ji wanted to jump across this small river with all her strength, she felt that her body had become much weaker than before, and even the small river in front of her, which was only seven or eight meters wide, could not jump directly. She understands that this should be the result of the rules that are unique to this world.

So she could only pull out an arrow from the quiver at her waist, open her bow and arrow, aim at the other side of the river, and shoot it with all her might.

After the arrow departed, it quickly swept across the water, causing a thin layer of white ice to form on the surface.

When the thin ice was formed, the arrow girl jumped to the river after a few steps, and then counted on the thin ice with her toes, and quickly ran towards the opposite bank, the thin ice was too fragile, and there were many cracks after being stepped on by the arrow, and then with the current wash, it soon disappeared completely on the surface of the river.

And the arrow, who had already crossed the river, had already begun to run wildly again, getting closer and closer to the town.

But at this moment, a sudden flash of silver light flashed in front of him, and then the blue-robed mage held his staff in his hand and blocked in front of the arrow queen.

"Ahem! Damn, the laws of space in this world are really weird! A teleportation in such a short distance almost cost me half my life! As soon as the blue-robed mage appeared, he coughed in pain, and blood with fragments of internal organs kept spitting out of his mouth.

Seeing this, Arrow Ji immediately raised her hand and shot an arrow at the other party, but unfortunately this arrow was blocked by a silver magic shield that suddenly appeared in front of her.

"Why do all this futile resistance! The Xuangu Continent has been completely occupied by demons, and we have long since become a group of homeless wanderers, if we want to continue to live, is there any better choice than to surrender to those demons? ”

The blue-robed mage seemed to know the arrow queen, so after blocking the other party's attack, he didn't fight back at the first time, but instead opened his mouth to persuade the arrow queen.

"Shut up! Even if I die, I won't surrender to those demons! Arrow Ji roared angrily, and the bow and arrow in her hand fired three arrows in succession, each arrow was wrapped in cyan wind magic energy, which not only greatly accelerated its flight speed, but also greatly increased its penetrating power.

Seeing this, the blue-robed mage sighed helplessly, and then the staff slammed lightly on the ground, and suddenly a wall of earth more than a meter thick rose from the ground and blocked in front of him.

The three arrows shot at the earthen wall, and after penetrating more than half a meter deep, they finally ran out of strength, and they were not able to hurt the blue-robed mage in the slightest.

"Arrow Ji, you're not my opponent, surrender!" The blue-robed mage continued to persuade and disintegrate the opponent's will to resist, and at the same time gently waved the staff in his hand, and suddenly the surrounding trees seemed to come to life, and one by one stretched out their branches and smashed them towards the arrow.

Arrows struggled to dodge the attacks of the branches, and this time the arrows she shot were all filled with fire-based magical energy, and after hitting the trees, they immediately set them on fire.

At this time, Kong Erhu was patrolling the city wall of Senmu County with a team of soldiers, this Senmu County is a small county newly established by the Qinglong Empire, with a population of less than 10,000, and it is located in a remote area, so the officials in the county usually do not have much government affairs to deal with, and they are very idle.

At the beginning, Kong Erhu protected his own adult Kong Xianfu and finally escaped to Ye Tianlong, because Kong Xianfu was tired of the officialdom and wanted to retire, but because the Qinglong Empire was established, there was still a lack of officials, so Ye Tianlong forced a county order to Kong Xianfu, so he came to Senmu County to take office and live a leisurely life of semi-retirement.

However, because Kong Xianfu is old and tired of the officialdom, he has lost his enterprising spirit, but Kong Erhu is still young, so he actually has to improve.

However, in order to avoid being said that he was not loyal enough, he did not dare to directly abandon his former master to join the army for a while.

So in the end, Kong Erhu followed Kong Xianfu and became a county lieutenant in this small county, responsible for taking charge of the five hundred county soldiers in the county.

After taking over these county soldiers, Kong Erhu trained them extremely strictly every day, making these county soldiers all complain, after all, most of the county soldiers actually just wanted to mess around, but they didn't expect that they were such a local garrison force at the level of an urban militia, but they were unlucky to meet Kong Erhu, a commander who still wanted to improve, causing their daily training to be harder than the training of those elite soldiers.

However, this arduous training has also been fruitful, in just a few months, these county soldiers have at least stepped into the realm of Ming Jin, and Kong Erhu, the county lieutenant, has relied on more abundant cultivation resources and excellent martial arts talents, and has already cultivated to the innate realm, even if it is placed in those elite field armies, at least he can be a commander.

With strong strength, Kong Erhu naturally wanted to think about making meritorious contributions, so he would take his soldiers to patrol the city several times a day, just to catch some thieves and robbers.

Under Kong Erhu's continuous blows, the thieves and robbers in this Senmu County have long been completely extinct, after all, such a small county does not have much oil and water, and there is a great master of the innate realm who is always watching, and committing crimes here is purely looking for death.

Today, Kong Erhu originally thought that his last training trip would be fruitless, but suddenly, he found that a forest not far from the county seat seemed to be a little wrong, those trees seemed to be alive, constantly moving, and there was no strong wind at this time, which ruled out the possibility that those trees were shaken after being blown by the strong wind.

After a while, many of those big trees actually started to ignite, which immediately made Kong Erhu conclude that something had happened in the woods.

So he immediately asked his subordinates to ring the alarm bell on the city tower, and asked the county soldiers in the county town to start gathering.

These county soldiers, who had been rigorously trained by Kong Erhu every day, were assembled in less than five minutes after the alarm bell was sounded, and then Kong Erhu left two hundred county soldiers to guard the city, and another three hundred county soldiers followed him out of the city to the burning woods to see what was going on there.

In the process of those county soldiers following Kong Erhu towards the outside of the county seat, some soldiers who had just been called out of bed asked those comrades who had been patrolling with Kong Erhu what was going on, and they needed the county lieutenant to gather so many people to check.

And those soldiers who had followed Kong Erhu's patrol before immediately gloated and told these companions that someone had set fire to the woods in the middle of the night, and they had been hit by their own county lieutenant.

After the other county soldiers learned the reason, they couldn't help but admire those guys who dared to set fire to the woods near their Senmu County, after all, who didn't know that their county lieutenants were going crazy if they wanted to make meritorious contributions! Even if there is a rat from other places in the county and is hit by him, he may be caught and interrogated for a long time! Now there is a group of fanatics who dare to set fire in the middle of the night, and the county lieutenant must be dealing with it with a heavy fist! They could only mourn in their hearts for a few seconds.

At this time, in the woods, Jian Ji was already completely surrounded by more than a dozen fellows who arrived later, and several wounds were added to her body, and even the bow and arrow in her hand were cut into two pieces, and now there was only a short knife left in her hand.

"Arrow Ji, you cheap woman is really uninteresting! In that case, then we don't have to keep our hands on, anyway, Lord Cabellus just told us to arrest you back, but he didn't say that he had to take you back alive and bring your body back, that's the same! The black panther at the head was full of murderous intent in his eyes, and the blood-stained battle axe in his hand was slowly raised, obviously preparing to completely end the life of the arrow girl.

At that moment, its ears suddenly moved, and then it looked in the direction of the east, and through the trees, the panther could faintly see a large line of fire, which could only be caused by the movement of the horses marching with torches.

"Is it the local army? Big wolf, little wolf, you go and check the situation, if you can solve it, you can completely solve them, if you can't solve it, delay the time, and buy us time to take away the corpse of this cheap woman! ”

After giving orders to the two men riding the giant wolf, the panther pounced with his axe on the already mortally wounded arrow.

However, when it was less than two meters away from the arrow, a heavy javelin suddenly let out a scream that tore through the air, and shot at the black panther from the side at a terrifying speed several times the speed of sound.

In desperation, the panther could only stop pounced on the arrow, and then quickly twisted his body in mid-air, and slashed at the heavy javelin with an axe, sending it flying.

"Who is it? How dare you obstruct us! ”

After landing again, the panther clenched the battle axe in his hand, stared at the direction where the javelin was fired, and asked in a low voice full of murderous energy.