Li Cheng violently pushed the demonized chief away and shouted at Xu Ke, "General, quickly cut off his head!"

Xu Kekun's sword swung forward diagonally, and a move "Break the water potential!" flashed like lightning. The blood-red Shi Chang, with a bloody mouth, was rushing towards Xu Ke, and was swept across by his fierce sword aura, and in an instant, his head and shoulders were all cut off from his body, and suddenly, dark red blood spurted out wildly, and the corpse fell to the ground. Xu Ke remembered Yao Zibei's advice, and hurriedly dodged away, so as not to be touched by the "demon blood" in Shi Chang's body.

"General, quick, cut off my head too!" Li Cheng widened his eyes, raised a bloody face, and shouted at Xu Ke.

Xu Ke held the long sword, and with a slight swing of the sword, Li Cheng's head would be split in half. However, the body of his sword trembled slightly, but the tip of the sword could not be handed out no matter what.

Just now, he was a comrade-in-arms who was talking and laughing with him, but now, he actually wants to cut off his head with a sword with his own hands!

"General, it's too late! give me a sword!" Li Cheng shouted hoarsely.

Li Cheng saw that Xu Ke hesitated and refused to move, so he casually picked up a long sword on the ground and wiped it on his left neck, and suddenly blood gushed out, Li Cheng's eyes closed, and he fell to the ground.

"Li Cheng!" Xu Ke exclaimed sadly.

At this moment, there was a burst of howls outside the cave, sometimes low in anger, sometimes terrible and high-pitched, like a horde of mad beasts, roaring in rage. When Xu Ke heard this roar, his face turned pale with fright and trembled......

"Quick! Move the rocks and block the hole!" Xu Ke commanded loudly.

However, in this empty stone chamber in the cave, in addition to the large number of dead human bones on the ground, there are some scattered rubble. The soldiers frantically brought in a lot of fist-sized rubble, but they couldn't build a fortress strong enough to resist the demons!

The demons' roars were getting closer and closer, "Hurry, move!" The chiefs were urging loudly, and two of them were already turning green with fright......

Finally, dozens of demons have appeared in the cave first. Xu Ke used the light of the torch to see that the so-called "demonized people" were the soldiers he had brought before. The clothes they were wearing, the snakeskin boots they were wearing, and the guard badge on their chests had not changed at all, but each of them had white skin, blood-red eyes, and a roar of "ho-ho" from their mouths......

In just a moment, the soldiers of the thousand-person team who were still under Xu Ke before have become "demonized people" who are not human or beasts!

"Archers, shoot arrows! force them back!" Xu Ke ordered loudly.

This hundred-man team is equipped with a ten-man team of archers. The ten archers did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly drew their bows and arrows, shooting at the demons who were getting closer and closer. Who would have thought that even if the two leading demons had been shot like hedgehogs, they would still scream "ho, ho!" and move forward step by step.

Those demons tilted their heads and slanted faces one by one, and although their steps were not fast, they kept approaching the soldiers step by step, and this formation was really terrifying. A chief beside Xu Ke shouted with a crying voice: "General, what should I do! I can't find a big stone in the cave, I can't stop them!"

Xu Ke looked at the four walls of the cave intently, and suddenly saw that the top of the cave was full of black stone walls. He remembered that in his own general's mansion that day, He Mao Tadayuki had said that this demonic world also had a benefit, that is, the mountains were full of black stones that could be burned. Xu Ke's mind was racing, and when he saw that the stone wall on the top of the cave was where the black stones were buried, he expected that the inner structure of these black stones must not be very tight.

At this moment, he saw that the demons at the entrance of the cave were already approaching step by step, getting closer and closer, and he knew that if he was a little too late, as soon as those demons entered the stone room, the hundred-person team under his command would end up in the same fate as those demons.

Xu Ke immediately jumped forward, the long sword slashed upward, and he shouted loudly: "Break the gold and cut off the water!" A stream of mixed yuan true qi was like a valley spring, gushing out from the sea of dantian qi, and the true qi condensed into his right arm, and burst out from the tip of the sword. The large mountain stone on the top of the cave was cut by the sword qi and collapsed suddenly, finally blocking the entrance to the stone chamber. And almost at the same moment, the two demons who had been shot like hedgehogs had also walked in front of Xu Ke's eyes, and they happened to be crushed into pieces by a large number of collapsed stones.

Xu Kewu was not at ease, the sword body turned, and the Kunwu sword went up again, and he made two moves in succession, "opening the wood and breaking the fire" and "tearing the earth and breaking the gold". The wall of the cave was cut by Xu Ke's fierce sword qi, and a large number of broken stones fell down, blocking the only entrance to this stone room.

The soldiers whose minds had become demonic tilted their heads and slanted their necks one by one, although they smelled the breath of the living people in the stone chamber, they were helpless against the large block of stones. On the other side of the cave, the demons screamed "ho, ho, ha", and although they waved their hands and feet, none of them knew to bend down and move the stones.

The demons screamed on the other side of the cave for a long time, but when they could not move forward half a step, they finally turned around and slowly retreated.

Xu Ke was in the stone room, and when he heard the howl of the demon gradually disappearing, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief. He checked his Kunwu sword again, and saw that although the sword body was cut from the stone wall, Xingxi was not damaged at all, except for the gap left after touching the "Four Elephants Cangxu" back then, the rest was intact. Xu Ke finally felt a little relieved in his heart.

The hundred-person team in the stone room was already desperate to the extreme, and when they saw that a large group of demons were all blocked by the mountain and rocks on the other side, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and they had a sense of "escaping from death". One of the chiefs pointed to the corpses of Li Cheng and the demonized chief, and pointed to Xu Ke

He said: "General, what should I do with these two corpses?"

Xu Ke looked at Li Chengfu's body that fell to the ground, and then thought of the demonized soldiers he had just seen, sighed dejectedly, and said, "It's all burned!"

The soldiers carefully pulled the two bodies together, found some fragments of bones to cover them, and set them on fire with torches. Suddenly, a fire raged, mixed with the smell of burning human flesh, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was fragrant or smelly. All the soldiers looked at this fire, and they were all worried......

Xu Ke saw that the torches in the hands of the soldiers had burned out, and it was already evening, once it was nightfall, the demon cave would stop erupting, and the mountain would become extremely cold. Xu Ke knew that if the open fire was lost, all the soldiers would stay in this cold and dark cave, even if they were not frozen to death, they would inevitably panic and make a mess.

He remembered what he had said in the past, and then he looked up at the four walls of the stone chamber again, and saw that in the cracks of the cave wall, he saw many black stones hidden in them from time to time. He immediately called some of the chiefs and told them to think of digging the black stones in the cave walls, and told them that the black stones were combustible.

When the commanders received the order of the commander, they did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the remaining soldiers, using the spears, broadswords, and axes in their hands, or climbing up, or building human ladders, and digging into the four walls of the stone chamber. In the entire empty stone room, there are sounds of "listening to the frame" everywhere.

The soldiers worked hard for more than two hours to finally chisel out a large area of rubble from the cracks in the cave wall, at least half of which was the black stone that Kamo Tadayuki said.

According to Xu Ke's instructions, the soldiers picked out the black stones, gathered them into a high stone pile, and took out dozens of black stones from the stone pile and put them in the corner of the stone room, and lit them with torches.

I saw that the torches were everywhere, and the small pile of black stones suddenly "banged", and they burned instantly. Everyone saw that this large ball of flames suddenly appeared in the stone room, and the entire stone room immediately became warm and bright, and they couldn't help but cheer in unison:

"The general is mighty, and the general is invincible!"

Xu Ke waved his hand at the sergeants, he wanted to say, "Don't say that, everyone, I, Xu Ke, am nothing like you, I'm not a big deal, in today's battle, I don't know if we can get out alive!" But after thinking about it, these soldiers trust themselves so much, why must they damage their morale?

"Don't worry, everyone, I, Xu Ke, will definitely try my best to take you back alive!" Xu Ke said loudly.

"The great general is mighty, the great general is invincible!" the soldiers continued to raise their arms and shout, and almost everyone had a look of excitement and trust on their faces.

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Next, Xu Ke temporarily promoted a chief named "Zheng Kai" to the captain of the 100-person team. He ordered Zheng Kai to send soldiers to send sentry posts to the exits of the four other caves, and at the same time, let everyone bury the pot to cook, and after eating, they each rested.

Zheng Kai is thirty years old, has been in the army for many years, and is also an experienced veteran. After he received the order of the commander, he immediately sent four chiefs to be responsible for patrolling and guarding the four intersections. The sentry posts are divided into groups of two and change every hour.

Zheng Kai ordered a team of ten people to set up an iron pot, pour the three big wolf meat that everyone had cut into the pot, and several soldiers opened the water bladder and put in clean water, and then cooked it with black stone fire.

At this time, a chief handed Zheng Kai a bag made of python skin, saying that it was something that Captain Li had given him for safekeeping. Zheng Kai opened it and couldn't help but feel overjoyed. It turned out that the palm-sized piece of meat preserved in the skin pouch was exactly the "red-haired gall" on the long-horned red-haired monster that Xu Ke killed during the day.

Zheng Kai immediately asked Shi Chang to put the red-haired gall into the big iron pot and cook it with the wolf meat. He has been in the army for many years, and he knows that the red-haired bile has a dry and hot taste, and has a strong ability to resist cold, so he uses it to boil broth and let the soldiers take it, but it is very useful for resisting the bone-piercing cold that comes from the middle of the night in the cave.

Xu Ke leaned against a stone wall, closed his eyes and rested for about half an hour. Zheng Kai walked up to him with a bowl of good wolf broth, and said respectfully: "General, the broth is ready, you can eat a little!"

Xu Ke smelled the smell of broth, only to feel that there was still a fishy smell faintly, he couldn't help frowning slightly and said, "I'm not hungry, you can eat!"

Zheng Xingxing hurriedly said: "General, you have been busy with us all day! Until now, we have not eaten a single bite of meat, this person is iron rice is rigid, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic!

Xu Ke knew that these people had regarded themselves as their hope of survival at this moment. If he didn't eat at this time, these subordinates couldn't help but panic in their hearts. He had no choice but to nod, took the soup bowl, and swallowed all the wolf meat and thick soup in it into his stomach.

Zheng Kai saw that Xu Ke had eaten and drunk a big bowl of broth, and said happily: "The general has a good appetite!

Xu Ke hurriedly grabbed Zheng Kai and said, "Enough is enough!

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When the hour came, the hundred-man team had eaten and drunk enough, and the soldiers each found an open space to lie down and rest. Zheng Kai also ordered people to set fire black stone piles in the four corners of the stone chamber to help everyone resist the severe cold outside the cave. There is a guard next to each fire, and every hour it rotates, and when the fire is about to burn out, black stones are thrown into it. Zheng Kai's assignment was completed, so he found a vacant space next to Xu Ke and lay down in his clothes. He was frightened and tired at the end of the day, and at this time a wave of sleepiness hit, and he fell asleep in a short time.

At this time, Xu Ke leaned back

On the stone wall, but I couldn't sleep. The team of 1,000 people he brought, except for the deputy general Shangguan Long who led a small group of people to escape, most of the remaining 900 people had died in the cave, and at this time they all became "demonized people". Now the hundred-man team in the stone chamber has also lost eight people. In just one day, there were only ninety-two people left in the entire thousand-person team led by himself, how could Xu Ke still sleep peacefully?!

Moreover, at this time they were trapped in the cave, and they did not know where the road was, and they had been cut off by themselves. Even if he leaned against the black stone of the stone wall and survived the severe cold tonight, when the morning of tomorrow morning, the sergeants followed him, where should they go?

"Cough! Forget it, tomorrow's business, let's talk about it tomorrow!" Xu Ke sighed secretly, then closed his eyes and leaned against the stone wall. After a while, in his mind, unconsciously, the shadows of the four beautiful women in his mansion appeared......

Three days ago, on the second day of the second month of February, he said goodbye to Shen Huan and returned to his Great General's Mansion. As soon as he stepped into the door, his new wife Yao Zibei eagerly greeted him:

"Brother Xu, you're back! Lunch has been prepared, let's go to Wenyu Pavilion to eat, right?"

"Okay! I just had a meal with Shen Huan in the Moon Tower today. However, what kind of 'two-headed python meat' there is really too unpalatable!Zibei, what kind of dishes did you cook for lunch today?" Xu Ke asked with interest.

"Hehe! Double-headed python meat, that's the food we used to eat when we were in Xuchang City!...... It's really a little fishy, no wonder you can't get used to it. Brother Xu, today I made a big pot of bear meat lichen soup with the lichen picked by my second sister, you have to taste it in a while!" Yao Zibei smiled mischievously and said softly.

"Great! Let's go, let's hurry up and eat!" Xu Ke clapped his hands and cheered.

Watching Yao Zibei jump forward with joy, Xu Ke couldn't help but shake his head slightly behind her, Yao Zibei seemed to have become an innocent girl who was only more than ten years old, and she didn't know that under this demonized world, human beings were on the verge of extinction!

On this day, Yiqing and Murong Yan had gone out and had not returned, and only Hu Yiyi and Yao Zibei were in the house. The second daughter accompanied Xu Ke to sit in the Wenyu Pavilion, Xu Ke drank a sip of the "bear meat lichen soup" cooked by Yao Zibei, and immediately praised it and shouted wonderful!

Hu Yiyi looked at Xu Ke's happy expression, and couldn't help but laugh and said: "You just have fun! Marrying such a good lady as Zibei, as long as she is there, you don't have to worry about not being able to eat well......

Xu Ke scratched his forehead and said, "Well, Zibei's cooking skills are really wonderful, and my sister's cooking skills are actually ...... It's just that my sister usually cooks less, and it's rare for us to taste it......" He couldn't help but think of that in the Xu Mansion ten years ago, Hu Yiyi was also a good cook. However, she usually spends most of her time hiding in the Hazelin Residence, cultivating secretly, and almost staying at home, so it is naturally rare for her to enter the kitchen of the Xu Mansion.

Hu Yiyi gently slapped Xu Ke on the shoulder, and pretended to be angry: "What do you mean by 'I usually cook less'? Why do you have to let our women specialize in the kitchen, you men know that you are happy outside all day long! Next time, it will be your turn to cook a few dishes for us!"

"Eldest sister, how can Brother Xu know how to cook!" Yao Zibei said with a smile.

"Zibei, you have just passed the door, and you only have your husband in your eyes, and you have forgotten my eldest sister! In the future, you are not allowed to get used to him!" Hu Yiyi also smiled.

"Okay, good!" Xu Ke took another big sip of soup, chewing the fresh and tender lichen in his mouth, and said with a smile:

"When I come back from this attack on Bashan, I will definitely cook a few specialty dishes for you to taste!"

"You're going to attack Bashan?!" both Hu Yiyi and Yao Zibei exclaimed.

Xu Ke had to tell both of them about the resolution of Emperor Li Ci in Zichen Hall this morning.

"Brother Xu, you ...... You can't go to Bashan! it's too dangerous there!" Yao Zibei resolutely dissuaded, and said that later, she was in a hurry, and tears had fallen from her eyes.

"Did you go to the Moon Tower with Shen Huan to drink today?, what did he tell you?" Hu Yiyi asked again with a sad face.

Xu Ke said that he had just been invited by Shen Huan to Wangyue Tower, and the two of them had a conversation in the restaurant.

"Since you know that there is a demon army hidden in the demon cave of Bashan Mountain, then you ...... Still going?" Hu Yiyi also said anxiously.

"No way!" Xu Ke said calmly: "Since I have received the emperor's edict and been named a 'demon suppression general', I should serve the imperial court!

"That'...... Then we'll resign! What kind of bullshit 'demon suppression general', we just don't do it! Brother Xu, you can't go to the Bashan Demon Cave! Zibei ...... Zibei, I beg you......" Yao Zibei said in a trembling voice, and later, she seemed to have a choked voice in her words.

Xu Ke stretched out his right index finger, scratched Yao Zibei's nose, and said with a smile: "Silly girl, even if there is no emperor's edict, I will go! The Bashan Demon Cave is spewing black smoke every day, and the black smoke is entrained with poisonous dust, and in the long run, the 30,000 people in Chang'an City are bound to die under the poisonous smoke! Since my generation is a person who practices martial arts, how can I sit idly by?!"

"Brother Xu......" Yao Zibei had already cried.

"Ahem......" Hu Yiyi sighed weakly, turned her head to look at the backyard, her beautiful eyes couldn't help but fill with tears.

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