In the noisy camp below, people's shadows were swaying with the swaying of the campfire. Sewn felt tents stretched out one after another. The innermost one was wrapped in colorful silk and had a sheep flag in it.
The mutton oil lamp lit up large fireworks, forming a large circle around the skinny figure.
The priest named Sangfu, with his eyes closed and his hands on his knees, was mumbling something. He was wearing a gray sheepskin on his back and a complete sheep's head on top of his head.
The priests in Yuejie are not as particular as the monks in the Central Plains. They only use simple words and images to describe the differences between the priests, from the youngest priest wearing a rabbit bone to the priest wearing gray sheepskin and the deer head priest.
, and the last golden eagle, Canglang.
He has reached middle age, and his journey to the Gray Sheep has come to an end. Now he is marching south with the army. As the chief priest of one of this circuitous armies, Sang Fu hopes to obtain the Wolf God in the land and water of the south during the long journey.
New guidelines.
Today, he received news from the army chief, Alian Gu, that a group of more than a hundred light cavalry had been destroyed. Through the revelation of the sheep spirit, he vaguely saw a bloody and cruel shadow.
'Yuejie's footsteps will not stop.'
Sang Fu spread his palms and recited a prayer silently. The tent outside him was swaying in the wind. The patrolling Yuejie soldiers walked past the tent. When the figures passed through the tent, a shadow suddenly appeared.
It stopped and slowly stretched along the ground.
Sang Fu, who was chanting the prayer, felt a little uneasy in his heart. He opened his eyes slightly, and the oil lamps surrounding him suddenly swayed and went out.
'not good!'
He clearly felt a coldness spreading into the tent. He stood up suddenly and looked at the entrance of the tent. In his field of vision, the curtains were gently swaying in the passing wind. The laughter of the soldiers and the misery of the Jin women were still heard outside.
There was nothing unusual about the crying.
'Wrong guidance?'
Listening to the noise outside, Sang Fu frowned, but behind him, behind him, on the undulating tent, a black shadow stretched out silently towards the shadow of the sheep-headed priest reflected on the ground.
Suddenly, his hair stood on end. Sang Fu looked back, his pupils dilated in an instant, and the shock on his face solidified.
The head of the person's shadow reflected on the ground suddenly detached, and with a 'dong' sound, Sang Fu who was standing in the tent fell heavily, knocking over the oil lamp.
The head fell from his shoulders and neck and rolled to the ground without any hindrance.
Almost at the same time.
In the camp where there was singing and dancing, the Yuejie soldiers drank wine and laughed and pointed at their fellow tribesmen who were queuing up to enter the tent. The people who came out had red faces and sat down with their belts on and talked about how miserable the women in the tent were.
The amused companion laughs louder.
"Central Plains women have smooth skin... I even took a bite and it was as tender as lamb meat."
"Wait a minute, how about baking a few..."
A Yuejie soldier wearing a felt hat laughed loudly. Before he could finish speaking, he vaguely saw something moving in his eyes. He rubbed his eyes. When he looked again, the fellow soldier who was joking with him remained silent.
Smiling, his head dropped to his chest, and fell to the ground before his eyes, and blood arrows spurted out from the broken neck.
"ah--"
The Hu man was so frightened that he fell to the ground and at the same time, as if he were hallucinating, he seemed to hear a tearing sound coming from his neck.
The heads of several Yuejie Qingqi who were chatting and joking around the fire nearby all fell off; a group of Yuejie barbarians who queued up to enter the tent where a woman was screaming screamed, as if they had been neatly chopped by a blade, and stood there.
Among them, heads fell to the ground one after another.
Even the figure who was sprinting fiercely in the tent dropped his head in an instant, and blood spattered all over the naked woman.
The Yuejie people who had reacted and those who had not reacted were now in a mess. Many people were running around in panic, and their heads fell to the ground inexplicably.
Hearing the noise, Alian Gu raised his weapon and opened the curtain. What he saw was a chaotic huddle of running soldiers. Some people's heads fell off while walking, which frightened Alian Gu so much that he even dropped his weapon.
I don't know when I hit the ground.
'The Taoism of the Han people is not like this...'
He hurriedly called his guards and rushed to the priest's tent, shouting: "Sangfu priest!" However, when he opened the tent, his words suddenly stopped, and the priest he was talking about had already fallen headless.
In the pool of blood, the fallen oil lamp ignited the blanket and started to burst into flames.
"Blow the horn and let those who are still alive rush out of the camp immediately!"
Woo——
The desolate horn sounded through the dark night above the camp. In the chaos, on the hillside in the distance, Chen Yuan suppressed the irritability in his heart. When he heard the horn blowing, he grinned and took back the "Remove Shadow" technique.
He stroked the stunned little girl's head and whispered:
"They are about to run away. But can they run away? You have seen the orthodox Taoism of Tianshi Mansion and Chengyun Sect. It is time for you to see what evil is... Who do you think you are?!"
The words fell.
Chen Yuan used the spell and opened his mouth suddenly, and a large amount of black smoke spurted out. The moment it touched the air, it turned into a mass of black flying insects, as if a black cloud floated downwards.
Woo——
The desolate horn echoed in the night. For a moment, the rumble of horse hooves spread across the earth, and war horses rushed out. The knight above held the reins and shouted in panic: "Drive!"
There were more than 3,000 horsemen who escaped, with almost no formation at all. They followed the chief in front and galloped across the wilderness desperately.
Buzz buzz~~
Like the sound of flies reverberating in the ears, the originally thunderous sound of hoofbeats was gradually covered up. On the back of the galloping horse, a foreigner looked back. Under the hazy moonlight, a black cloud was drifting towards this direction in the sky.
Come down.
"what is that?!"
When A Lian Gu heard the cry, he turned back and looked up into the night sky. A large black fog-like cloud shrouded his head. A flying insect landed on the tip of his pen, and he felt the pain of being bitten on his skin.
insect!?
The moment he hurriedly stretched out his hand and the small black insect on the tip of his nose flew away, the swarm of insects passed by, covering the sky and covering the sun, and black mist filled the surrounding areas.
Suddenly there were countless dense and subtle gnawing sounds.
A Lian Gu's body was covered with tiny black bugs. He screamed and rushed out of the black mist. After a few steps, there was no sound anymore. He stumbled and fell to the ground. In a moment, the black bugs faded away, leaving only white bones and clothing.
Armor outside.
Black mist rose into the sky and flew towards the hillside under the moonlight.
Chen Yuan raised his hand, and the swarm of insects suddenly turned into countless red threads and sank into his palm. His whole body trembled slightly in an instant, and he gritted his teeth to feel the unscrupulousness.
Only in this way can he have enough mana to do the rest.
"Little girl, there are still twenty-five thousand to count!"
He patted the little girl who pursed her lips, picked her up and put her on the cart. The old cow, trembling slightly, pulled the cart and followed its owner, slowly going down the foot of the mountain.
'It's so scary... luckily I was smart at the time...' it thought.
…
The sky gradually turned green, turning fish belly white.
'Tap tap tap tap...'
"hurry up!"
Dozens of hoofbeats spread across the field, and knights on war horses galloped over. They were all wearing leather armor, carrying knives at their waists, and most of them had crossbows on their backs. They were the scouts of the Jin army.
Thirty thousand Yuejie cavalry crossed the Rui River from the east of Qizhou and detoured to Luozhou. The news has already spread. Now the imperial court has deployed heavy troops on the north bank of the Rui River, leaving an empty back. If this Yuejie cavalry is allowed to reach the capital, the front line will definitely be defeated.
.
At this time, they were sent by the army to spy on the military situation. They heard that a group of 5,000 Hu cavalry appeared in the north of Hezhou, burning, killing and looting along the way. Naturally, they came to check. After confirming the information, they wanted to take it back to the army.
, let the generals learn how to face the enemy.
However, when we got here, there was a strong smell of blood in the wilderness.
The surroundings were even more eerily quiet. There were bloodstains along the way, but no corpses of the murdered people could be seen. After a while, a camp was vaguely visible standing in the sun.
According to common sense, the Yuejie people would not stay long when they detoured to Luozhou. The camp would naturally be dismantled before dawn, but why is it still there now?
Is it an empty camp?
Confused, a team of three scouts sneaked over first. They didn't see the Yuejie Hu people until they were almost close to the camp. Those who were bolder simply showed up and walked over there, looking through the fence.
What they saw were countless corpses of Hu people with missing heads, as well as bound Han people.
A scout swallowed his saliva and hurriedly blew the whistle. Then he and his companions went over to untie the captured people or bring out the ravaged women from the tent one by one and ask what was going on.
These people had obviously suffered inhuman abuse. They looked extremely frightened and could not speak normally at all.
"...the heads of the barbarians fell off by themselves...many heads..."
"There are shadows...from the ground...on the tent...everywhere..."
Another team of scouts came to support and inspected the entire camp. Their faces were filled with indescribable surprise. The priest among the barbarians was also dead. You must know that these people are very cunning. If they are defeated, they will sacrifice some part of their body to escape.
leave.
"There's something discovered here!"
A scout inspected the camp gate and the knocked down fence, and found a large number of messy hoof prints on the ground. A group of people left a group to look after the people, and the rest got on their horses and followed these prints.
Less than half a mile later, the scene ahead made the galloping war horses stop uneasily, timidly stepping on the spot and not daring to step forward.
A group of scouts sat on horseback, their mouths opened in shock at the scene in front of them, unable to make a sound. It was not that they had never seen dead people before, but they had never seen such a thing before.
It took a long while before someone stammered: "It was definitely done by an expert who knows magic... I'm afraid this expert is a little evil..."
The green field is covered with horse and human skeletons, and there is not even a trace of meat residue left on the dense white bones.
"This news must be brought back as soon as possible. Five thousand barbarians will be gone if they don't..."
Although they were happy to say that the dead were Hu people who had entered the country, once they were put into a certain scene, it would be shuddering. If they suddenly faced such a person, they could not help but take a breath of cold air.
Without enough time to clean up the battlefield, more than a dozen scouts took the people in the camp back to nearby towns and rushed non-stop towards the military camp stationed at the eastern border of Luozhou.