The palace of the Martial King on the eastern border of the Qilin Kingdom was already the middle of the night, however, the study was still brightly lit, and the Martial King stood in front of a huge sand table, frowning and pondering, and from time to time fiddling with some flags on it, he was so focused that when two men in black came to his side, he didn't notice it.

A light cough interrupted King Wu's thoughts, as if he realized something, he shivered excitedly, turned his head cautiously, looked at the two black-clothed people behind him with horror and vigilance in his eyes, and was silent for a while before he spoke: "Who are you and what is the purpose of coming here?" ”

"Hehe, worthy of being a martial king, in such an unfavorable situation, he can still maintain his composure, it's amazing." A man in black spoke.

King Wu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said, "Your Excellency didn't come here in the middle of the night just to praise this king. ”

"Hehe, of course not." The man in black said, took off his face towel, this person was Chen Ping, however, to his surprise, King Wu saw that it was him, but he was more relaxed, as if he had expected him to come, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's you, hehe, then presumably this should be General Su." ”

The man in black didn't react, Chen Ping smiled and said, "His Royal Highness King Wu is wrong, General Su is still in the army, after all, we can't both be absent at the same time, can we?" ”

King Wu nodded, came to a table and sat down, poured three cups of tea, and then made a "please" gesture to the two, Chen Ping was not polite, and came directly to sit down opposite King Wu, but the man in black was standing behind him, like a guard.

King Wu just glanced at the man in black and stopped paying attention, took a sip of the teacup and said, "General Chen has a question for this king." ”

Chen Ping also took a sip of the teacup, nodded and said: "That's true, I want to ask about the clumsy performance on the grassland, Your Highness don't say that you don't know, in that case, I will be very disappointed." ”

When King Wu heard this, he smiled bitterly, and asked instead of answering: "General, you should not be a mercenary group, but a regular army." ”

For this question, Chen Ping didn't feel strange at all, as a king in charge of the entire army of a country, if he couldn't even see the regular army, it would really be a fantasy, nodded and said: "We are indeed not a mercenary group, but Your Highness can rest assured, we have no ill will towards your country, just a way, as for participating in your country's mission, that pure crush is to earn some entanglement, hehe, I am not afraid of His Highness's jokes, our army has been marching for a long time, due to insufficient prior estimates, the materials brought have been basically exhausted, If you don't want to find some resources, I'm afraid you'll have to be a bandit. ”

Hearing this, the Martial King chuckled lightly and said, "If you are the top ace troops in the whole continent and go to be bandits, I think those real thieves will have to ask for food, haha." ”

Chen Ping also laughed for a while before saying, "Let's get back to business, Your Highness, can you explain?" ”

King Wu nodded, his expression became serious, and said: "Presumably the general has also investigated, yes, our three kingdoms have fallen into a huge conspiracy, the general should know that our three kingdoms border the western regions of the Yeyue Empire, so we have always been a subject of the empire, but, just a while ago, our spies inadvertently found out that the Ximen family was about to rebel!" ”

Hearing this news, Chen Ping's body couldn't help but be shocked, his brain was blank for a moment, and it took a while to react, but King Wu was not in a hurry, and saw that Chen Ping came back to his senses before continuing: "Just about a month ago, the Ximen family asked our Three Kingdoms to break away from the empire and claim to them, where would we be willing, so we simply refused, but what is strange to us is that the revenge of the imaginary storm did not come, and everything seemed to be so calm. ”

"However, just when we were secretly speculating, we received a shocking news, the mercenary groups in our area have a tendency to unite together, and several super mercenary groups have even begun to swallow up those small mercenary groups, and the speed is quite fast, in less than three days, a small and half of the small and medium-sized mercenary groups have been integrated, which makes us smell the smell of conspiracy, because it is too abnormal, so we focused on investigating and found that there is the shadow of the Simon family, Maybe some of these super mercenary groups were established by the Simon family themselves, so we came up with this way to make these mercenary groups kill each other, but we didn't expect that the effect seemed to be very poor. King Wu said bitterly.

When Chen Ping heard this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said: "It seems that the Ximen family has extended all its tentacles to you, but I have a problem, with the strength of the Ximen family, it only needs to dispatch an army of about 200,000 people to govern your three kingdoms well, and there is no need to make it so complicated." ”

"At first, we also thought so, and once thought that this was just something that these mercenary groups wanted to do, but later we learned that it was because the empire had withdrawn all the troops and masters of the imperial court in the Western Regions, and the Ximen family wanted to negotiate peace with the three major countries but failed, and in desperation, they could only concentrate all their forces in Xiyuan Pass, and they couldn't draw troops to deal with us for a while, so they bought these mercenary groups to deal with us." Martial King Road.

When Chen Ping heard this, he felt very happy in his heart, and said with a joking smile: "Oh, I thought that his Ximen family was omnipotent, but he still suffered a loss in front of the three major countries, hehe, now that his strength is insufficient, he has come to think of these crooked and evil methods." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ping paused for a moment and continued: "If it is these mercenary groups, I'm afraid they are not your opponents, as far as I know, no matter how powerful the mercenary group is, it is impossible to have a few powerhouses in the life and death realm in it, and your three kingdoms will definitely not be less than six powerhouses in the life and death realm, if you want to destroy the people of these mercenary groups, it is not difficult at all, but you still have to use these means, what is going on?" ”

King Wu smiled and said: "Can't the general guess, since the Ximen family has made a move, it is impossible not to give support, they have already sent two life and death realm powerhouses to sit in the town, and the strength of these two people is definitely above any life and death realm powerhouse in our three kingdoms, we analyze, I am afraid that even if six people are together, it will be difficult to resist these two, in addition, the Ximen family also sent 50,000 troops to Kunning Pass, and we have to send 200,000 troops to confront each other, so, We don't have enough troops to deal with these mercenary groups right now. ”

Chen Ping was silent for a long time before he said: "But you should also know that you are just surviving now, and when those mercenary groups are ready, that is, when they launch a fatal blow to you, the Ximen family's life and death realm powerhouse is also the most powerful weapon against you, and it is also the source of confidence for those people, so if you want to keep your inheritance, then, you must kill the Ximen family's life and death realm powerhouse!" ”

When King Wu heard this, he smiled mysteriously and said, "If there are no analysis errors, General Chen and General Su should be the famous generals of Long Wuwei and Feng Yiwei." ”

Chen Ping was stunned by his sudden change in topic, but after thinking about it, he didn't feel strange, as a country's intelligence, if he couldn't even collect such a little information, then he would simply go farming, so he readily admitted it, and then asked: "His Royal Highness King Wu seems to have something to say to me." ”

King Wu was silent for a while before he spoke: "There is something that the general has to hold on to when he hears it." Speaking of this, he glanced at Chen Ping and continued: "Just ten days ago, Ximen Chang left Emperor Shangshu, saying that you and General Su defected, and put all the responsibility for the failure of the army's operation on you, and asked the emperor to destroy your nine clans as punishment. ”

When Chen Ping heard this, his face turned pale for a moment, and he hurriedly asked: "Then what is the emperor's reaction, he shouldn't believe Ximen Changli's nonsense!" ”

King Wu sighed and said, "I don't know if the emperor believes it, but I know the result of the treatment, that is, the two generals were declared traitors and wiped out your clan, and the rest of the clansmen were also driven out of the capital and sent to the frontier." ”

When Chen Ping heard this, he immediately had a feeling of five thunderbolts, and the whole person was petrified on the spot, and after a while, his body began to shake uncontrollably, and asked in a trembling voice: "What His Highness said is true?" ”

King Wu said: "Such a big event, how can I play tricks on you, this is not a confidential matter in the Yeyue Empire, and the emperor list has been released, how can it be faked?" ”

Chen Ping opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but didn't say it, he closed his eyes, a crystal teardrop slipped from the corner of his eyes, and the trembling of his body became more and more intense, but it could be seen that he was trying his best to suppress it, and after a long time, his body stopped trembling, slowly opened his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Ximen Changli, you are so vicious, I, Chen Ping, swear, I will never die with your Ximen family, and Li Tianyou, you are a faint monarch who does not distinguish between right and wrong, and the two of us have always been loyal to you, but you destroyed my family, Lao Tzu will definitely not make you feel better, you wait! ”

King Wu didn't make a sound, just watched quietly, and after a while, Chen Ping turned to him and asked, "Do you still want to pay tribute to the Yeyue Empire now?" ”

King Wu smiled slightly and said, "Claim to be a minister, but don't pay tribute." ”

Chen Ping nodded and said: "Okay, I can help you deal with the Ximen family and those wastes on the grassland, but all the resource information must be provided by you, and you must also send a certain army to cooperate with us, after all, we only have 10,000 people." ”

King Wu smiled when he heard this, and said: "There is no problem, all the resources needed for your army's actions are provided by us, you can rest assured, it is definitely the best we can take, although we are small and weak, but 50,000 troops can still be taken out, and they can also be handed over to you to command, and at the same time, there are masters to help, there is only one requirement, that is, to eliminate these mercenary groups and the masters of the Ximen family!" ”

For three days in a row, the battlefield of the grassland was such a child's play, during which the officials of the three countries have increased the rewards for killing, it can be said that these rewards would be crazy if they were in normal times, but now they seem to have no attraction at all, just like the stones on the side of the road.

On the fourth day, the two guard sergeants finally made a move, and the mercenaries were still fighting in chaos as yesterday, but there was no damage, just like a group of loaches jumping around there, however, they did not find that at this time, on the border of the three countries, a large number of archers quietly appeared, and under the concealment of various means, they aimed their bows and arrows at the mercenaries who were "fighting".

Just when the group of loaches didn't know whether to laugh during the play or howl during the performance, a burst of bowstrings sounded, hearing the sound of these bowstrings bouncing, a rugged mercenary laughed and said: "Haha, these guys, they are still the same as the real thing, they even use bows and arrows, and they are so serious, and others won't add a piece of Yuan Crystal to you." ”

However, the next moment, a miserable howl sounded, and at this time, they realized that these bows and arrows were coming towards them at all, and then, an explosion sounded in their ears, and a mercenary leader shouted in panic: "It's not good, this is a burst arrow, the Three Kingdoms are doing it to us, fuck, who said that the Three Kingdoms Imperial Court didn't dare to do it to us!" ”

Another mercenary leader shouted, "Don't care what the fuck are doing now, it's only true to get out of here, or we'll all die!" ”

"Run, the Three Kingdoms Imperial Court is doing something to us!" Someone shouted immediately, and the hundreds of thousands of mercenaries gathered together instantly spread in all directions like explosive bombs.

However, with the sound of another bowstring flicking, a rain of arrows came towards them, and the force attached to them was enough to make these mercenaries, whose cultivation was not very high, frightened, and hurriedly gathered together, and resisted indiscriminately.

Flowers of blood sprouted in cries, bloomed in curses, withered in howls, these unorganized mercenaries were as vulnerable as ants in the face of the attacks of the regular army, and they fell in waves, and the blood stained the grassland a dark red.

The two guards led by Chen Ping and the others did not rush forward, but stood in the distance and watched quietly, looking at this slaughtering feast, their expressions did not make any waves, as if they were a group of puppets without feelings.

Soon, more than 100,000 mercenaries died, and at this time, a voice full of energy shouted: "All brothers, if we are still messing around like before, all of us will die here, if you want to live, listen to me, arrange our usual triangular formation, pay attention to those who are good at defense, withstand the attack of arrows, and those who are good at long-range will concentrate on my troops to attack the Qilin Kingdom, and leave the rest alone!" ”

The mercenaries had no idea, and now they heard that someone was organizing, so they instinctively followed the man's order, and quickly moved, and after two rounds of attacks, they finally lined up a triangular formation, but this time it had an effect, most of the arrows were resisted, and all the archers also poured arrows towards the army of the Qilin Kingdom, for a while, the pressure on the direction of the Qilin Kingdom increased, and some soldiers were killed.

Seeing such a situation, the corners of Chen Ping's mouth couldn't help but curl, and said: "I didn't expect that there are masters among those mercenaries, who made the most correct choice at the most correct time and in the most correct way, as long as these mercenaries don't die this time, they will definitely be able to unite and become a powerful whole, which is definitely enough for the Three Kingdoms to drink a pot." ”

Su Xiaoxiao said: "There are so many of them, can't they escape some of them, even if they only escape a fifth, it will definitely give the Three Kingdoms a headache in the future." ”

"Hehe, you can't escape, such a threat, the Three Kingdoms will definitely not stay, not to mention us, look at it, in the end, the mercenaries will run to our side, there is a safe way out here." Chen Ping said with a smile.

At this moment, the voice of Galala suddenly sounded in the military formation of the Three Kingdoms, and the mercenaries did not react at first, but then someone shouted in panic: "It's not good, disperse quickly, it's a catapult!" ”

All of a sudden, it was like pouring a scoop of water into a boiling oil pot, and it was completely boiling, and the formation formed by the mercenaries collapsed instantly, and everyone wanted to run away, even if the voice was useless to shout.

However, their action was too late, the next second, dozens of rune stones smashed into the crowd, these mercenaries did not have the tsunami of the army to defend against the attack of rune stones, when the rumbling explosion sounded, a large number of lives were taken away, the scene can no longer be described as a massacre, and those who were not affected by the rune stones were not lucky, because they had to face the dense rain of arrows!

This nameless grassland became a mournful Shura field in an instant, and the original wilderness became a wilderness full of ghosts, at this time, someone suddenly saw Chen Ping in the distance, so he immediately shouted: "Over there, there is a way out over there, brothers, all rush with me, there are only 10,000 people there, there are many more of us than them, rush, if you want to live, rush with me!" ”

Hula, the remaining mercenaries were like drowning people grasping a life-saving straw, and rushed towards the place where the two garrisons were guarding in the rain of arrows, looking at the posture, they were going to trample these 10,000 people into pulp!

In the face of this torrent-like impact, the two guards were indifferent, with Chen Ping's order, a row of shields stood up, just to block the way out, and the archers in the back row were a round of volleys, when the arrows made a piercing sound of breaking the air, the mercenaries were surprised to find that the accuracy, speed and strength of those arrows were not comparable to the armies of the three countries, just a round of volleys, thousands of people who rushed to the front were all dead, and what made them even more frightened was, The archers also attacked at least three times faster than the armies of the three kingdoms, and without even a breath of pause, the second salvo came.

With the shooting of the archers on all sides, when those mercenaries rushed to a distance of two guards and ten feet, they only had less than 100,000 left, to their delight, the archers stopped shooting, and just as they were about to storm the shield array, those people on the opposite side rushed towards them first.

This order all the mercenaries were a little stunned, however, the next moment, the other party's 10,000 people instantly turned into two black dragons, tearing this mercenary group that was originally not in formation into two halves from the middle to both sides, and then it was a ruthless strangulation, the gap between the combat power of the two sides was too big, and the battle did not last long, 100,000 stragglers were all wiped out, and two regiment commanders of the reincarnation realm planned to fly away in the air, but they were killed by the opponent's life and death realm powerhouse in one move.

Since then, this nameless grassland is called the Ghost Plain, in the north of the Ghost Plain there is a mountain of more than 100 zhang, the mountain here is not steep and steep, on the contrary, it is very gentle, not conducive to defense at all, however, the headquarters of the newly established mercenary alliance is here, although the three kingdoms know its location, but they dare not send troops to attack, just because there are two strong men from the Ximen family's life and death realm and a local life and death realm of the first glimpse of the strong man sitting.

At this time, the headquarters of the Mercenary Alliance was quiet, and due to the joint blockade of the three countries, they did not get any news about the Ghost Plain at all, including the spies they had arranged in advance on the periphery were also eliminated.

The armies of the three kingdoms were divided into three sides and quietly surrounded the mountain, Chen Ping stared at the imposing building on the top of the mountain and asked a scout beside him, "Is that where the headquarters of the Mercenary Alliance is?" ”

The scout nodded and said, "Yes, my lord, these guys are quite arrogant, and they don't hide it at all. ”

"So, how many of them are in them now, what is the average level, and are there any traps or anything like that?" Chen Ping continued to ask.

The scout hesitated for a moment and said: "Lord Huiyu, now it can be determined that there are less than three thousand people inside, but their strength is not weak, and their average cultivation should be in the Yanyan Realm, as for whether there are any traps among them, it is unknown, and we can't find out its internal structure, they still control this very strictly!" ”

Chen Ping nodded, didn't feel surprised, was silent for a moment, and then asked: "The mountain road here is extremely gentle, and there is no vegetation on both sides, which is quite unfavorable for defense, is there anything wrong with this mountain road?" ”

The scout said: "You can rest assured that we have tried many times, and there is nothing greasy on the mountain road!" ”

Chen Ping was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he didn't doubt the scout's words, and after thinking about it again, he found that there was nothing to ask, so he waved away the scout, looked at the martial king next to him and said, "Your Highness, has the master you provided arrived?" ”

King Wu nodded, and clasped his fists at the three gray-clothed old men behind him: "Three seniors, everything will get rid of you!" ”

The three of them nodded, but they didn't speak, Chen Ping and Su Xiaoxiao glanced at each other, and without saying much, they led their own 10,000 people and rushed towards the headquarters of the mercenary alliance.

This mercenary alliance really didn't put the Three Kingdoms in its eyes, as the scout said, there was no obstacle along the way, and the army easily came to the magnificent building, and the two listless guards in front of the door were startled when they saw someone, but they said arrogantly: "Yo, when did the people of the Three Kingdoms be so bold and dare to attack the headquarters of our alliance, are they really not afraid of death?" ”

Before he finished his banter, he saw a bright sword light flash, and the two heads flew up, and then, instead of being reckless, everyone threw a large number of thunderbolts into it, only to hear a rumbling explosion, which was accompanied by a large number of screams and angry scolding, followed by a creaking sound, and the magnificent building collapsed into a ruin in the stunned eyes of everyone!

Just when everyone was surprised, the ruins suddenly burst open, a large number of stones and sawdust flew in all directions, and the two guards immediately set up a shield array, and immediately heard the sound of the shield knocking, as if this fell on the shield was not stone sawdust, but a sledgehammer with a handle!

After a while, there were no more sawdust flying, but an old man's angry voice came: "People of the Three Kingdoms, you are so bold that you dare to come and attack my Simon family's territory, don't you want to live?" ”

"Hmph, the people of the Ximen family are really arrogant, they don't even bother to engrave the basic support array and Xuan Wen when they build a house, what, do you really think that no one can cure you, no matter how much you say, you are just two martial artists who have forgotten about the realm of life and death, but they seem to be more arrogant than the strong people in the realm of life, hum, the people of the Ximen family are so unaware of the heavens and the earth." Chen Ping sneered without hesitation.

At this time, everyone saw that in the sky, there were more than 100 people on both sides standing in the air and confronting each other, and on the ruins, there were about 2,000 people lined up in two thousand-person phalanxes, they didn't look like ordinary mercenaries at all, but like the escort of a big family or a private army, they had the same quality as the regular army!

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes were already full of anger, and he shouted: "What else do you have to say to them, today's battle, the fish is dead, the net is broken, a few adults, the three old guys will be handed over to you!" ”

The words fell, and suddenly the two guards rushed out of the seven figures, three of them were naturally masters of the Three Kingdoms, they didn't say a word, and rushed towards the enemy who had just glimpsed the realm of life and death, but the other four were two to one, and surrounded the two of the Ximen family.

Seeing this, an old woman from the Ximen family looked at Su Xiaoxiao and asked, "Little girl, you are definitely not from the Three Kingdoms, tell me, what kind of people are you, if you ••••••"

"If there is no if, everyone in the Simon family should die!" Su Xiaoxiao interrupted her words with a loud shout, and then with a wave of her hand, the army surrounded the two phalanxes on the ruins.

Seeing this situation, the people on both sides stopped talking nonsense, and the powerhouse of the Life and Death Realm immediately flew into the air, and after a while, he heard the sound of the rumbling True Yuan colliding, and suddenly, Chen Ping's voice broke out: "Kill!" ”

"Kill~~~!" The five phalanxes rushed towards the two thousand people in the posture of a five-pointed star, although they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, but the two thousand people were not afraid at all, and even had a trace of contempt in their eyes, they leaned together and formed a joint defensive formation, confidently waiting for the enemy's attack.

However, the next moment, when the opponent's spear stabbed into their shields and knocked those heavy shield soldiers into the air, they suddenly discovered that the combat effectiveness of this army was by no means comparable to those armies of the Three Kingdoms, and even the guards of their Ximen family could not compare.

However, it was too late to wake up now, and the defense was breached in an instant, and even their commanders were beheaded by the opponent's generals before they could react, and the rest of them were also wiped out with a wave of their hands, and the whole process looked extremely easy!

High in the air, a miserable scream pulled everyone's eyes over, only to see the body of the strong man who had just glimpsed the life and death realm of the mercenary alliance smashed down to the ground, and blood continued to gush out of his mouth, and on the other side, a hysterical voice came: "Three Kingdoms, you just wait for the iron-blooded revenge of my Ximen family!" ”

However, as soon as his words fell, he heard two muffled bangs, followed by a scream, the figure of the old man of the Ximen family fell straight to the ground, and the other figure wanted to escape, but was intercepted by the two people who had their hands free, four to one, it was only the time of two breaths, and the old woman also followed in the footsteps.

Seeing this, the Martial King in the distance couldn't help but exhale lightly, and said with a meaningful smile: "It is worthy of being a top-notch army, and the combat effectiveness is not what we can imagine." ”

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