C38

There was no suspense for the outcome of the competition. In terms of time, Lady Xiu’er had ridden all the way to Savage Valley and then "hunted" a Demonic Bear and came back. He had stayed in Savage Valley for no more than an incense stick's worth of time. And the most speechless thing was that the Lady Xiu’er was afraid that the Demonic Bear would tire his warhorse out and return on his Demonic Bear's back. It only fainted after reaching the entrance of the camp with a single punch.

strong man didn't even bother to speak anymore. The five soldiers that he had chosen could not be considered as first-rate experts in Wulian Border Army, but they had coordinated with each other for a very long time. Even if he led such an elite army, he only dared say that he would set off during the day. If he was lucky, he would be able to hunt a demon bear that night. However, this girl managed to get a demonic bear back in the time it takes to eat a meal. The gap was not that big. Furthermore, this was a Demonic Bear, not an ordinary Mountain Bear. Demonic Bears were called Demonic Beasts because they were more ferocious, more agile, and even more quick-witted. A troop of soldiers being able to kill an adult Demonic Bear was already considered as an elite in Wulian Border Army. A person like Lady Xiu’er who went over and caught a demon bear without stopping wasn't something that anyone in the Company would dare to think about.

The men of Five Lotus Mountain accepted their defeat, their faces showing no displeasure. They all stood up and toasted to Lady Xiu’er. However, there was something wrong with the way they looked at Chen Chu and Qu Feizhi. These two grandsons were too evil, very cunning, very old and very old. Previously, they didn't say anything, but later, they asked for wine and food. Bad seed! Bad foot discharge!

But if he lost, he lost. What Shi Donglai promised him, he would do for them. Therefore, the entire afternoon would be turned into a scene of revenge for the officers of Wulian Border Army who took turns drinking with Qu Feizhi and Qu Feizhi.

There were all sorts of ways to pour wine. The most common ones were as follows:

"Lord Qu, I don't really know about you Phoenix City Pass people, but we do know about Wulian Border Army people. After you drink this cup of wine, I, Lord Shi, will send you an additional hundred soldiers! "

"Everyone, Lord Chen doesn't like to talk. We won't force him, we won't force him!" We brothers will drink this wine ourselves! It would be a compliment if Sir Chen were to drink with him. "Sir Chen, if you don't drink, then I'm sorry, but we are very busy with our training and training, let's discuss the matter of sending troops!"

"Master Qu! You just heard me! Not a cup of battalion! battalion for a drink, two cups for the second battalion, and three cups for the third battalion! Come, I am the tenth battalion pipe belt, let's drink this eleven cups of wine! "

"Sir Chen, let's drink. We can't be wrong. But this wine of mine, it's called 'Good things turn into wine'. This wine was deepened by us brothers alone, it has nothing to do with that! I understand, you do whatever you want, you do whatever you want! "However, wine is like human nature. Old masters shouldn't be so casual …"

"..."

In that moment, Chen Chu only hated why his parents did not create a blind deaf child for him, to be able to avoid these words of advice that he had never heard before in his life. Qu Feizhi blamed his parents for not putting a lock on his stomach, so he quickly drained his stomach of Monkey Wine. It was questionable whether Wulian Mountain Range and these guys' fighting strength were the best in the empire, and their drinking ability was not good enough to be ranked in the competition, but the strength to persuade someone to drink was definitely several times stronger than Phoenix City Pass and their combined strength!

When Qu Feizhi regained his consciousness, he rubbed his head that was about to explode while asking Chen Chu who was sitting beside him, "I say, Old Chen, why do I feel light after drinking so much?"

Chen Chu replied expressionlessly: "I threw up."

Qu Feizhi stared blankly at him for a moment, then sighed towards the sky.

Sheep legs belong to sheep legs, business is business. It had to be said that the efficiency of Wulian Border Army was extremely high. Just as Chen Chu and Yue Shan were still drunk, Shi Donglai had already gathered all the officers and called a war council. While listening to Xiu'er's thoughts, they started to formulate a plan for the battle.

During the war council, Xiu'er found out a lot of things that she wasn't clear about before. For example, the Demonic Beast was definitely not a simple, strengthened version of a beast. Based on Shi Donglai's thirty odd years of observation and battle experience, he realized that the Demonic Beast's intelligence was not low at all. The more one walked towards the center of the Wulian Mountain Range, the more they would realize that the Demonic Beast had a higher level of intelligence.

As he spoke till here, Shi Donglai revealed a secret that no one knew: For several hundred years, the Wulian Border Army had guarded this place and never penetrated within a three hundred mile radius of the Wulian Mountain Range!

Xiu'er frowned. She looked at the map on the table, then raised her head and asked. "Old General Shi, even the closest route across the Wulian Mountain Range would need at least five hundred kilometers. "If it's like you said, then this feint method is useless?"

Shi Donglai was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "It can be used, we have a way." After saying this, he pointed to a place on the map. "There is a hill here, about three hundred and fifty kilometers away from our military tent. We once inadvertently tracked a group of Demonic Beast to this area, and in the end, we triggered a wave of attacks from other Demonic Beast. "In the end, not even half of the three thousand brothers of the two battalions returned.

Shi Donglai sunk for a moment, then raised his voice and said, "I believe, there must be something very important here to the Demonic Beast. "If you want to fake your attack, this is Bu Er's choice!"

There was a trace of worry on Xiu'er's face as she asked softly, "Could it be that the old general isn't afraid ~ ~ ~"

Shi Donglai laughed loudly. "Don't worry! After staying in Five Lotus Mountain for so many years, the thing he wanted to do the most was to kill all of these bastards! After thirty years, do you know how many Demonic Beast we have killed? And how many Border Army brothers had died at the hands of the Demonic Beast? I can't count it, I can't count it. " Shi Donglai's voice became deeper and deeper, then stopped. His tiger eyes stared at the map, as though he was about to burn a hole in it. The surrounding officers were also silent. No one interjected as they watched him quietly.

After a while, Shi Donglai raised his head again and looked around. He then said in a loud voice, "Since the Phoenix City Pass defense battle, and when the Demonic Beast arrayed themselves in a formation and went down the mountain, the Demonic Beast in the mountain are obviously harder to deal with than before. He said it was a feint this time, but every department had to work hard to advance, and did not seek to kill many Demonic Beast, nor ask for any victories. At the very least, they had to reassess the strength of the Demonic Beast, so as to let everyone know! If we can die while serving as soldiers and eating rations, we aren't afraid of dying! But not stupid! Stupid! Die for your foolishness! "

"As per the lord's order!" The twenty-odd men roared in unison, causing the roof of the tent to shake a few times!

Three days later, the Wulian Border Army departments set off one after another. They would follow the detailed plans they had drawn up before and begin to split up to attack together, their target being the hilly areas three hundred and fifty kilometers away. If the military map was placed before their eyes, it would not be hard to find that Wulian Border Army had sent out a total of eight great armies. They actually sent most of their troops out just for this feint.

and Qu Feizhi, on the other hand, would lead the Phoenix City Pass Apprentice Knight s to follow behind Shi Donglai's army, and they would follow him all the way until there was a distance of between two hundred and fifty kilometers between them. Then, they would leave the battlefield during the most intense time of the battle, dive into the deepest part of the Wulian Mountain Range, and head straight towards the Moqiu State. But the thing that was slightly different from before was that Xiu'er could no longer be called Lady Xiu’er, but Lord Xiu. Because she was appointed by Shi Donglai as the twentieth battalion of Wulian Border Army, although it was an external battalion, her military rank was indeed Red Feather Battalion Commander. Shi Donglai had the final say in this Five Lotus Mountain. If he did not accept this order, he would not be able to pass through here!

Regarding this appointment, Chen Chu did not care, nor did Qu Feizhi care about it. On the other hand, the Xiu'er was so awkward about it, going from Lady Xiu’er to Lord Xiu. Especially since she did not even know her surname, there was an indescribable feeling. Shi Donglai had a good talk with her these few days. He had intentionally or unintentionally wanted to acknowledge her as his daughter, but Xiu'er had rejected him.

She said that her word "beautiful" came from her adoptive parents, who had never read a single book for a living as fish, but that one word at least proved their gratitude to her for raising him. She also wanted to know the whereabouts of her biological parents. Hence, she could not agree to the matter of her foster father for the time being.

Although Shi Donglai was a little disappointed, he was a straightforward guy, so he revealed the matter with a laugh. However, after this matter, Xiu'er would no longer be able to reject the position given to him by the twentieth battalion. Furthermore, with this title, it was actually equivalent to them participating in this mission with Wulian Border Army. It would be of great benefit to their future generations.

After following Wulian Border Army for a few days as they marched on the mountain, Chen Chu and Qu Feizhi were extremely shocked by their way of marching. Eat on the mountain. Eat on the mountain. In the eyes of the mountain people, Five Lotus Mountain was not only a mountain, but also the source of all life. It was a mother, even a god. The most direct manifestation of this reverence was the march.

When Wulian Border Army marched through the mountains, other than cutting down the necessary plants, it basically would not casually chop down the trees. The route was winding and winding, following the terrain of the mountain. The mountain roads were rugged and the ground was rocky. There were shrubs half a meter tall and many branches high in the air. No matter which part of the upper, middle, and lower regions of the mountain path one could take care of, one would suffer somewhat. Almost every single Apprentice Knight in the Red Camp had experienced the pain of being pierced by a rock or slapped in the face by a tree branch before.

But Wulian Border Army would not.

Through the years of marching in the mountains, every single soldier of Wulian Border Army had developed a skill that could only be seen by others, but never learned. They seemed to have an instinct to avoid sharp stones, thorny shrubs, and flying branches. There was one time when Qu Feizhi saw a soldier riding a horse through the forest and flying past him unharmed. He had not ridden for a few days and felt extremely itchy in his heart, but now that he saw someone riding a horse in front of him, he could no longer control himself. He said that he wanted to learn how to ride in the forest, but the moment he got on the horse, his face changed and he whipped the horse on the butt. He wanted to learn how to run. As a result, not to mention galloping, Qu Feizhi almost died from the swatting of the tree branches just by running half a li away. A branch that was as thick as a wrist struck heavily on his nose. The dignified Lord Qu let out a blood-curdling screech, and fell down from his horse. After that, he covered his face with a white cloth for three whole days. Only after three days did he dare to see someone again. However, he had already stopped mentioning the matter of how the horses were being galloped in the forest.

Other than marching, the daily hunting could also see the reverence the Wulian Border Army's soldiers had for them. In the evening, when they set up camp, there would be soldiers hunting in the nearby forest. However, they would not kill wantonly. They would only hunt according to the standard of eating. And after they had hunted down their prey, the first thing they would do was to kill them with a single slash. They would not torture them or torture them to death. In addition, they also had an unwritten rule regarding hunting animals, which was, "Don't kill the pregnant ones, don't kill the young, don't kill all of them." Even if he picked fruits, he would only pick the fruit according to the principle of "if you pick the fruit, you will leave behind the seed; if you save the three fruits, you will leave only one third of the fruit in the book". After picking the fruit, the soldiers would leave marks on the tree trunk or nearby rocks, so that the comrades behind them wouldn't have to pick the fruit over and over again.

In Shi Donglai's words, it meant, "One grass and one tree isn't easy to grow. One insect and one bird are both living beings. Today, killing a wild boar and killing a pheasant was not for the sake of everyone having a meal. This was the same logic as eating fish. It was a cycle. No one could say a word. But you can't kill him, you can't be greedy. If you kill everything in the mountain, then there's nothing in the mountain. If there's nothing in the mountain, how can you support yourself? You kill recklessly, I kill recklessly, and we kill to the end. If we kill all the stuff, then we can only kill each other. If you kill me, you win, and then you eat me. And then? How do you live? "After all, isn't this playing yourself to death?"

His words caused Chen Chu and Qu Feizhi to nod their heads repeatedly in agreement. Who would have thought that an old soldier who had stayed in the mountains for half his life and did not know a bunch of big words would have such admirable opinions? However, Xiu'er said at the side that this was not something that could be learned in any school, nor was it something that any teacher could teach, because this was life. Her adoptive parents fished in the river for a living because of their reverence for the river and their gratitude for the fish. Without a net or a hook, this was a fisherman's greatest reverence for the river that gave him food.

But when Shi Donglai asked about Xiu'er's matters when he was young, Xiu'er did not know what to say. She said that she had contracted a strange illness when she was young, and had been unconscious for a long time. At this point, the little girl's eyes were filled with tears. She said that her own parents might have thrown her into the river because of this strange illness.

Seeing her like this, they didn't have any further questions and could only console her for a bit before changing the topic.

About ten days after the departure, the vanguard troops reported that they had "engaged the Demonic Beast in battle!"