Tian Liang led the way, and Long Chen walked into the palace.
Along the way, the most visible people on the street were wounded soldiers and many natives around.
After sitting down, Tian Liang poured a bowl of herbal tea. .??.
"King Wu, try the herbal tea from this place. This place has hot flashes, and the natives drink a lot of herbal tea to eliminate toxins."
Long Chen took a sip, and it was bitter with a slight sweetness.
"How many people are there in Rhinoceros City? How many soldiers and horses? And the current situation of Ji Xianxian, how many soldiers and horses are under his command? What's the situation of Zhaoren?"
Long Chen asked many questions in succession.
Tian Liang glanced at Xiaoqin and was curious. After so many days on the road, Xiaoqin didn't tell her?
Xiaoqin sat down and drank herbal tea, playing with a jade pendant in her hand, looking very happy.
This is the ice jade pendant given by Long Chen.
On the way here, Long Chen asked some questions, but mainly spent time playing with the violin.
Moreover, Xiaoqin is unclear about many things, and Tian Liang, as the logistics manager, knows these things better.
"Let me answer King Wu's question."
Tian Liang sat down and answered questions one by one:
"Rhino City has a population of 100,000, a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, and 10,000 wounded, of which more than 1,000 are poisoned."
"The queen originally had 150,000 warriors, but now there are more than 73,000 warriors left. Too many have died in battle over the years."
"The Queen is now in the Savage Valley. Our army and the Zhao people have been facing each other in the Savage Valley for more than a year. They are always in a state of tug of war. No one can deal with the other."
"The situation on Zhaoren's side is quite complicated. I only know a little bit about it. I'm afraid I won't know the details until I go to the front line."
"The Zhao people are not a country, it should be said that they are more like an alliance. They are composed of more than a dozen tribes, each occupying several mountain passes or several mountains. The number of each tribe varies, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.
Come together to form the Kingdom of Zhao."
"The largest tribe is called Zhubu, which worships the Bamboo God. Their leader is King Zhao."
These are all Tian Liang knows.
Xiaoqin listened curiously and asked: "I remember when your Long family army and them The Nanmanzi fought a war, weren't they with the Zhao people at that time? Don't you remember?"
The memory of the past is incomplete, and the battles of the Long Family Army that year are not clear.
Moreover, in the past few years, the Zhaoren tribe has undergone great changes, and it is completely different from before.
"It's been too long. During the Battle of Bailang Mountain, there was something wrong with my memory."
Long Chen didn't want to say that he was a time traveler, because the host's original memory was biased.
"That's right. Madam also said that the Zhaoren tribe is different from before."
Xiaoqin didn't have any doubts and didn't ask any more questions, and just got by.
"For soldiers who have been poisoned, you stay in the city for treatment. Aren't you afraid that the poison will break out?"
Long Chen was very curious. The poison was so powerful, why did they dare to bring back the poisoned soldiers?
Xiaoqin said: "There are a hundred thousand kinds of poisons in the place where Zhaoren is, and each poison is different. Some poisons are so powerful that you will die immediately if you are hit. Some poisons are not so powerful, but you can still be saved after you come back."
"Those who can survive from the front line to Rhinoceros City are not particularly poisonous. As long as you take good precautions, you won't be infected."
Long Chen frowned and said, "So the poison they used in Zhennan City is the most powerful one?"
Xiaoqin nodded and said: "Yes, in less than a day, hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out. This is the most cruel thing I have ever seen."
Speaking of this, both Xiaoqin and Tian Liang were a little scared.
"To shock me."
Long Chen was holding back a fire in his heart. When he caught King Zhao, he would cut him into pieces.
"When will Ji Xianxian come back?"
Xiaoqin shook her head and said: "I don't know. We sent someone to deliver the message, but there is a fierce battle on the front line. Zhaoren wants to take advantage of the hot weather to drive us out of the Savage Valley. I don't know if the lady can get back."
There are still things to do at Yanmen Pass in Yuncheng, and Long Chen doesn't want to delay.
"No need to wait, I don't have time to come back, I'm going to the front line
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Long Chen stood up and Tian Liang asked: "Won't King Wu take a rest?"
Long Chen said: "No, I'm in a hurry."
Xiaoqin said: "But the front line is very dangerous. Zhaoren's poison is hard to guard against. It is very dangerous for you to go to the front line."
"By the way, I forgot to ask, do you have any way to deal with the poison?"
Long Chen shook his head and said: "There is no way, we can only prevent it, not cure it."
Poison is a virus. Under the current conditions, there is nothing we can do.
Unless the technology is developed into industry to produce vaccines and medicines.
"We are all counting on you."
Xiaoqin's disappointment was palpable.
"I can't leave Rhinoceros City, so I can only choose someone to accompany King Wu to Rhinoceros City."
Tian Liang cannot leave, and neither can Xiaoqin. She must stay in Xicheng to treat the wounded soldiers.
"It's okay, just find a reliable guide."
"Then, I'll make arrangements, King Wu will wait a moment."
Tian Liang immediately selected two reliable veterans from among the soldiers as guides.
Before setting off, Tian Liangqian warned them and told them to be careful.
It was already afternoon, and the scorching sun in the sky was still so intense that it made people sweat.
Fortunately, I have an ice jade pendant, otherwise I would have died from the sun.
"King Wu, be careful all the way."
Tian Liang and Xiaoqin saw Long Chen off from the west gate.
"gone."
Long Chen didn't talk nonsense, and was led by two guides, slowly heading west.
There are too many mountain roads here, making it inconvenient to ride a horse, so Long Chen and his party of eight walked.
When Long Chen left, a dark-skinned man quietly entered a shop in Xi City.
"Is the shopkeeper here?"
"what are you looking for?"
"I'm buying bamboo rats."
"The bamboo rat is behind, follow me."
The man followed the waiter to the back and found a similarly short man. The black man is the shopkeeper.
"Long Chen set out with only five followers and two soldiers."
The man whispered.
The shopkeeper asked: "Long Chen came from the north and only brought five followers?"
The man said: "Yes, there are only five followers."
The shopkeeper felt strange that King Wu of Zhou was so noble, why did he only bring five followers? Wasn't he afraid of death?
"Will you admit your mistake?"
"It's impossible. I think it was Xiaoqin who took him into the city, and then Xiaoqin and Tianliang took him out of the city."
The man had been monitoring Long Chen. Even if the six of them were wearing bamboo hats to protect themselves from the sun, he could still see clearly and clearly.
"There are only five followers, and they can be killed halfway!"
The man made a killing gesture.
The shopkeeper hesitated and said: "I heard that Long Chen's cultivation level is very high. If we conduct a sneak attack, will there be insufficient manpower?"
The man said: "There are only five followers, and there are only eight people in the group. Can't we kill them?"
"We are the people from the mountains. We laid an ambush in advance and killed him on the way to scare the great dynasty in the north."
"As long as the great dynasty in the north does not support Princess Qielan, we will win."
The shopkeeper thought about it carefully and said: "Mobilize all our people, we can't take it lightly."
The man said happily: "Okay, kill him halfway!"
After the plan was made, the shopkeeper immediately contacted his subordinates and started chasing Long Chen.
Dozens of people left Rhinoceros City one after another, and there were still their people lurking outside.
Almost a hundred people quickly followed Long Chen on a small road, and the speed was very fast.
Long Chen and Li Heiniu had high levels of cultivation, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to walk. For them, it was like walking on flat ground. However, the two veterans were ordinary people. They couldn't walk fast, and Long Chen couldn't be urged.
It gets dark very quickly in the mountains. The sun is blocked by the mountains and it gets dark quickly.
Li Heiniu raised his head and glanced at the darkening sky, and sighed: "There is day and night, this is a normal place."
