Volume 1: Born to be a Hero Chapter 38: Moody
After leaving the martial arts arena, He Yi came to a quiet room alone and thought alone.
"According to the newly promulgated laws of the imperial court, those who cultivate the truth cannot be officials...... Then how did this General Zhao get into the position of general?"
Pei Dong's words made He Yi remember it vividly, and when he recalled it again, he still had a feeling of horror in his heart.
How General Zhao sat in this position is not something that He Yi, a small lieutenant, has the right to know, no matter how dark the transaction is, it has nothing to do with He Yi.
All he needs to do is follow orders to suppress bandits.
There are too many things in it that he can't figure out, and it can be said that there are many doubts, but when he sorts it out, he has no clue.
The strength of the monks, naturally, is not in doubt.
But the three thousand thieves in Li Rong Village, even if they stand in place and let him kill, they will have to kill for an hour or two!
Besides, why bring a hundred recruits with you?
There is always a reason for everything, and what is the reason?
The name of Chengmei in Pingyuan County is to let the recruits go out with General Zhao for some trainingββββ "I know very well what I am doing behind my back!"
He Yi suddenly remembered that when he talked with Gongliangju yesterday, the other party had said such a sentence.
Gongliangju obviously knows some inside information.
Moreover, when Gongliangju was leaving, he also said: "Reinforcements? Hmph! I hope that after tomorrow, you will still have this idea!"
It seems that Gongliangju had long expected what was happening today. In other words, he knew that the reinforcements that came this time were only General Zhao.
But how did he know about it?
Thinking about it further, Su Qian, who burned the armory of the plains, also said such an inexplicable sentence: "Hehe, a dying person, there are some things that you don't know, maybe on the Huangquan Road, the general can still be my companion!"
Thinking of this, He Yi felt more and more that this matter was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
Su Qian and Gongliang Ju, in addition to knowing many inside stories of Pingyuan County, also know some ulterior or unspeakable secrets.
"If I knew, I would have asked Yunyi more. He Yi rubbed his head with a headache.
In addition, judging from the performance of that county Cheng before, it seemed that he was very afraid that Pei Dong and others would follow General Zhao to go on the expedition, but he didn't care about the hundred recruits he had just recruited.
Why?
"Could it be that there is really something ulterior in this? Or perhaps, there are also powerful cultivators in Lirong Village?" He Yi's expression gradually became solemn, and this large number of speculations confused him.
If something goes wrong, there will be demons, this is an eternal truth, no matter what is wrong with it, we must prepare in advance.
He had a faint hunch that this expedition, even if a cultivator like General Zhao led the team, it would be a bitter battle.
Thinking of this, He Yi hurriedly went to Pei Dong to ask for two bundles of newly-made feather arrows, and then buried them in the house for a whole day, and engraved broken characters on the arrows, until nightfall, the two bundles of feather arrows were carved.
Subsequently, he called Jia Shao, Fan Wu and other recruits together, and each of them distributed two feather arrows engraved with broken characters, telling them to hide this arrow, not to make a noise, and carefully advised: This arrow is called the Demon Breaking Arrow, which is not comparable to ordinary arrows, and cannot be used at a non-crisis moment.
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The next day, as the commander of the recruits, He Yi naturally had to accompany General Zhao and the recruits out of the city at the same time to suppress the bandits.
The wilderness was long, and there was no end in sight, and the group walked all the way without much communication, and spent most of the time in silence, looking a little listless.
Obviously, for this operation, except for General Zhao, everyone has no bottom in their hearts.
Yes, you, General Zhao, are a cultivator, an immortal, and have powerful immortal skills, but what about us?
3,000 enemy troops besieged it, and you, General Zhao, said that you can kill it, and you can go away, but what about us?
Who cares if we live or die?
At this moment, all the recruits have such thoughts in their minds.
General Zhao rode his horse, walking casually at the front of the line, taking out a map from his bosom from time to time, carefully identifying it, and when he came to a fork in the road, he suddenly turned his horse's head and walked towards a path on the left.
"Here, keep up!" General Zhao turned his head and glanced at the team behind him lightly, the flickering look in his eyes was all cold and indifferent, without a trace of emotion.
Not long after leaving Pingyuan County, everyone stepped into the barren mountains and mountains, and as they went deeper and deeper, the surrounding environment became more and more desolate.
After General Zhao chose a fork in the road again according to the map, He Yi found out that something was wrong.
"General Zhao! To go to Lirong Village, you should take the mountain road on the right. He Yi stepped forward and stopped General Zhao's mount.
The route chosen by General Zhao seems to be wrong.
At first, He Yi didn't feel anything, but the further they went, the farther the road deviated from the destination, and if they continued like this, they would never be able to find Li Rongzhai.
"Oh, how do you know the way to Na Li Rong Village?" General Zhao glanced down at He Yi, his eyebrows raised slightly, and there seemed to be displeasure on his face.
"I went to Lirong Village once on the eve of my humble post, so I naturally know the way. He Yi said.
"I see...... General Zhao nodded contemptuously, then took out the map from his arms again, looked at it carefully for a while, but still raised his horsewhip and pointed to the path on the left, and said lightly: "It seems that you are mistaken, you should go this way." β
General Zhao didn't pay attention to He Yi, waved his hand at the recruits behind him, and continued to hurry.
Seeing that the other party insisted on taking the path, He Yi was in a hurry, and quickly stopped in front of General Zhao's horse, and said: "General, you can be sure that this path is by no means leading to Lirong Village, but the mountain road is!"
"I said that you remembered wrong! You should have gone this way! Can't you hear me?!" Seeing that He Yi dared to stop his mount, General Zhao's eyes suddenly cooled, and he shouted sharply, raised the horsewhip in his hand, and whipped away towards He Yi without saying a word.
Syllable!!!
This whip is not heavy, He Yi didn't expect this General Zhao to say that he would fight, and when he was caught off guard, he was whipped in the chest by this whip, and when the skin was open, there was an extra bloody whip mark.
Under the clothes on He Yi's chest, there was a broken body that had been eaten by wild beasts and lost all his skin and flesh, without the protection of skin and flesh, which was equivalent to this whip, which was directly whipped on He Yi's viscera.
"Poof!"
With a muffled snort, He Yi spit out a mouthful of blood on the spot, clutched his chest and fell to the ground.
"See if you dare to talk nonsense!" After a whip, General Zhao raised his arm high again and lashed towards He Yi.
Syllable!
This time, the whip was emptied.
He Yi clutched the whip rope in his hand, forcibly suppressed the anger rising in his heart, and sharply questioned General Zhao, "I'm not at fault, why are you beating someone?"
He is also a bloody man, so he naturally does not want to be beaten for no reason.
This is also what He Yi learned after being imprisoned, what is called forbearance, if it was before, it would definitely not be as simple as just taking the whip and questioning.
"You guy, why did you beat us General He! Is there any reason for heaven?"
"General He just gave you advice, if you don't listen, forget it, why do you beat people for no reason?"
"That's right, even if you are the general of Huyang City, you can't be so brutal!"
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When everyone behind him heard the sound, their faces also changed greatly, and they gathered around General Zhao's horses, looking at each other angrily, and their eyes were almost spewing fire.
In their eyes, He Yi relied on his own strength to save the great hero of Pingyuan County, regardless of the danger, he sneaked into Lirong Village alone, burned the opponent's ordnance, grain and grass, and cut off the opponent's back road.
Even if he General Zhao doesn't come today, just relying on Pingyuan County's own troops, it is enough to defend the city.
"General He, are you okay?" Jia Shao and Fan Wu saw that He Yi was injured and vomited blood, so they hurriedly helped him aside and asked with concern.
The two of them didn't quite understand.
The conversation between He Yi and General Zhao, they didn't listen to a word, it was just a normal conversation and discussion, and He Yi also put his posture very low, from beginning to end, there was no collision.
The most important thing is that He Yi personally went to Lirong Village last night, how could he recognize the wrong way?
"Why? Just sit on the horse and look down at you!" General Zhao snorted coldly and shouted: "This is the end of disobedience!"
After that, he ignored the anger of the crowd, waved the horsewhip again, and whipped at He Yi.
"What are you doing!" Jia Shao, Fan Wu and the others saw the horse whip attacking again, their expressions changed greatly, and they flew over one by one, blocking the whip for He Yi.
Syllable!
This whip directly hit Jia Shao's body, leaving a bright red blood mark.
General Zhao seemed to have the intention of establishing authority, and no matter who the person in front of him was, he just kept waving his whip.
After pulling out dozens of whips like this, General Zhao relieved his hatred, pointed at Jia Shao and Fan Wu, who were injured and crumbling, and shouted at the recruits: "Do whatever you are told to do! If anyone questions the general, the end will be the same as him!
"You guy......" Jia Shao gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
"Jia Shao, come back!" Just when Jia Shao was about to talk back, He Yi hurriedly stopped him.
Through his actions just now, He Yi can be regarded as understanding that this General Zhao is moody and does not take ordinary people in his eyes at all.
Although he is a general on the surface, he is still the mind of a cultivator in his mind, and as long as he can achieve his goal, he will not reason with you.
Moreover, the county Cheng said that this General Zhao was originally a monk of the Qi Sect.
This couldn't help but remind He Yi of the small village on the edge of the Northern Wilderness.
The three words of Qi Sect did not leave a good impression on He Yi.
At that time, the disciple of the Qi Cultivation Sect named Zhou Cheng said that within their sect, they often let the people of the Northern Land enter the Northern Wilderness Snow Field to find treasures for them, and in the past few months, I don't know how many innocent people have given their lives in vain in the Snow Field......
"Ben will go to the front to inspect it, you are on standby! Whoever dares to escape, the whole team will be punished! Do you hear?" Seeing that no one dared to disobey him again, General Zhao was satisfied, put away his horsewhip, pulled out his horse and turned left, and headed towards the path.