Empress True Colors

On August 28th, 372 in the Great Wilderness Calendar, Jing Hengbo used alpaca cavalry for the first time on the battlefield against Zhanyu. In the first battle against Keyilan City, Zhan Xin was so angry that he vomited blood on the city's head. Her new cavalry roared past, heading straight for the Ministry of Gold.

Jing Hengbo didn't love to fight, so Zhan Xin breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhan Yu's department immediately closed the city gate and gathered the army. Zhan Xin and his army were frightened by the ferocious alpaca cavalry, and even sent scouts to go Cha Tan didn't dare to know the follow-up situation, for fear that Jing Hengbo would kill his carbine and let those alpacas' watermelon-sized hooves break through his fragile city wall.

So Zhan Xin didn't see it. After Jing Hengbo rushed through Yilan City in one go, he cursed at the mess—

"Fuck me, why are you so disobedient!"

There were alpaca cavalry rolling all over the ground, all of which were knocked off by his own mounts. In fact, Jing Hengbo's alpacas were not organized or trained at all. Not too far away, the person was thrown down.

Her Majesty the Queen was still leading the three armies to pick up things while scolding—all kinds of iron knee pads, iron wrists, and iron parts rolled all over the ground. The alpacas were not used to wearing battlefield armor equipment. The tool fell to the ground with a clang. These protective gears are all specially made and very valuable, so Her Majesty the Queen had no choice but to run around with a basket herself, like a little girl picking mushrooms.

Her Majesty rejoiced while cursing, fortunately, Zhan Xin was timid and did not dare to chase after him, otherwise he would be exposed. The alpaca cavalry didn't go through a day of training at all, so they went directly into the battlefield, relying entirely on the deterrent and impact of the alpaca's first battle, and they would stop after playing.

After knowing the truth, all the experienced and prudent titled lieutenants broke out in a cold sweat, but Yeluqi smiled slightly at the side—it was his suggestion that the alpacas should equip the cavalry directly and go directly to the battle, but Jing Hengbo agreed without hesitation. .

Courage and boldness are essential ingredients for success.

Before the implementation, she said it was her idea, but after it was successful, she said it was Yeluqi's plan. She took the risk of failure herself, but gave the glory of success to others.

Yeluqi smiled and tapped his whip.

It is the demeanor of a king to be brave in taking responsibility and not taking credit.

He was looking forward to Dige's face when he faced her again.

However, because of the cheating of the alpaca cavalry, Jing Hengbo had to stop and rest first. At least he had to tidy up the alpaca cavalry who had already gained such a great reputation, so that he could move on. Allow for a little imperfection.

Also because of this stop, she received the news that another secret army marching from the swamp was intercepted by the mysterious team.

…

On the twenty-fifth night of August in the year 372 of the Great Wilderness calendar.

There is a vast land in front of me. At first glance, it is not much different from ordinary soil. Only when the moonlight occasionally turns around, there is a dark glimmer, and there is a little white light between the shiny black mud. The bones of people and animals make people understand that this is a swamp that can kill people.

Long evergreen grass grows on both sides of the swamp with thick leaves, rustling softly.

After the sound, an object suddenly slipped out of the lifeless swamp.

Long and narrow like a leaf shuttle, the bottom is smooth, and many long flat plates protrude from the bottom, lying flat on the surface like paddles.

On this ship-like thing, some soldiers in light armor carried some silk masks covering their mouths and noses, so as not to be injured by the sudden miasma in the swamp.

Such eccentric ships slid out one after another, and joined end to end on the swamp, with no end in sight.

On the frontmost ship, Yingbai stared at the front. Although there were still mountains and thick fog ahead, he seemed to have seen the towering city wall of Dige through these barriers.

Along the way, he has crossed seven or eight swamps. This is the closest swamp to Dige. If he walks through here tonight, he will be able to pounce on the nine gates of Dige at the fastest speed. The most remote Xuanning Gate.

It could have been faster, but in order to cooperate with Jing Hengbo's attack, the speed of the Tianxing Treasure Boat was slowed down.

The surroundings are very quiet, and there is a faint fragrance in the wind. This swamp is close to the fragrant lake of Xiangguo, and the smell is acceptable.

But Yingbai suddenly felt a strange feeling in the wind blowing behind him.

cold.

As cold as ice and snow.

The temperature on all sides seemed to drop suddenly.

This kind of coolness is actually not obvious, another person might not be able to notice it, but Yingbai is very familiar with this kind of coolness.

His heart trembled, he looked back at the chaotic darkness, and suddenly raised his hand.

Stop going.

The helmsman drew in the oars, the treasure boat stopped quickly, and the well-trained boats behind stopped one by one.

Yingbai made a posture of raising the oars again, how much the treasure boat puts the oars determines the speed of travel.

The oarsman raised the oar, and suddenly heard a rattling sound. Looking down, the mud had turned white at some point, and the oars were frozen in the mud, so they couldn't lift it up for a while.

Yingbai's face changed, and he immediately shouted: "Forcibly accept!"

There was a spare roulette on the ship to prevent the oars from being retracted. Immediately, a soldier turned the roulette to retract the oars, and those oars were violently pulled out of the mud, splashing countless black, white and white pieces of ice.

The soldiers exclaimed.

Just in such an instant, the entire swamp suddenly turned into black and white. The black was mud, and the white was ice and snow. Those ice and snow did not form a whole piece of ice. I couldn't see where it came from, but I saw white traces like lightning, like tree branches, covering the entire swamp.

The Tianxing Treasure Boat can still glide on the whole piece of ice, but it will get stuck if it is half ice and half mud.

The chill in the wind intensified. In order to reduce the weight, the soldiers who only wore thin armor shivered.

Yingbai made a decisive decision, "Abandon the boat!"

This place is in the narrow part of the swamp, not far from the two banks, where the trees are densely covered, so abandoning the boat and going ashore can at least preserve strength.

The soldiers moved very quickly, dismantling the most important mechanism on the boat in twos and twos, making it unusable for those who came, and opening the bridging mechanism. A pontoon to one side of the shore.

The Tianxing Treasure Boat has been improved by the world's first-class craftsmen found by Jing Hengbo, and now its functions have become more complete.

The soldiers lined up in a row, rushing forward to the treasure boat, and stepped on the pontoon bridge to the shore. The people rushing in the dark suddenly heard a strange "swish" and "swish" sound.

Sounds like a lot of brooms, sweeping over dirt.

Then they saw a lot of "people" sweeping over.

It's human, but it's not sure if it's human. It looks long and soft, and it slides suddenly from the ice and mud in the depths of the darkness with various postures and speeds beyond what the human body can achieve.

They seemed to be unaffected by the swamp at all, their bodies swayed like snakes, and they approached with twists and turns. Under the moonlight, black mud and white ice stuck to their pale faces, and they looked more like huge black and white pythons.

The soldiers had seen a real boa constrictor, but they never thought that a human boa constrictor would be so terrifying.

Some young soldiers have already started to vomit.

Yingbai's face became more and more cold, and he continued to issue orders loudly, "Form the columns! Build a pontoon bridge! Soldiers first, generals first! Hurry up!"

The "person" in the front suddenly bounced up, and actually flung it like a python in mid-air, screamed "Ah", and the first few soldiers who were about to reach the shore were swept down by him in a row. .

With a flash of white light, Yingbai drew his sword.

"Boom." With a sound, the Tianxing Treasure Boat under his feet suddenly turned upside down. Ying Bai was caught off guard and staggered, almost accidentally hurting the lieutenant beside him. , I saw a figure twisting and twisting out of the narrow space under the treasure boat, and I still couldn't forget to turn my head and smile at him. The white phosphorous face was half mud and half snow, but the teeth were bright and long, like a human. Jiufen is a ghost.

At this moment, Yingbai also seemed to have the desire to vomit.

This kind of ghost-like thing suddenly appeared out of nowhere!

The blue shadow flashed, the sword was like a rainbow, Yingbai did not try to chase and kill those slippery cartilaginous people, he was like a shooting star, flying over all the star boats, the long sword picked up countless star edges, and wherever he passed , the Tianxing Treasure Boats all overturned, like ingots, pointing up in the mud. The fallen treasure boat immediately stuck to the surface of the swamp, ejecting countless hidden weapons—this is the design of the treasure boat to prevent it from being overturned by the giant beasts in the swamp.

There was a buzzing sound, the moonlight was bleak, and under the overturned treasure boat under the moonlight, those cartilaginous people had nowhere to hide, they twisted and slid out, and the swamp creaked under them. Some soldiers who hadn't had time to step on the pontoon bridge surrounded them. After a horrifying sound, the cartilage figure swam away with a smile. On the mud, there was only a group of flesh and blood that could no longer distinguish its original shape.

Fortunately, more cartilage men were busy avoiding those who fell and shot hidden weapons indiscriminately, which bought some time for the soldiers. Some soldiers had already landed, and immediately took off the long ropes around their waists, and pulled the comrades who rushed ashore in time in the future.

Yingbai wandered in the swamp, picking out those cartilaginous people who wanted to sneak attack, not seeking to kill, but to save themselves. Seeing that the soldiers were finally about to go ashore, Yingbai was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard a miserable cry from the shore.

He looked back abruptly, and saw that in the dense green forest on the shore, the leaves were rattling, and a claw suddenly stretched out, stuck in the throat of a soldier who was resting against the tree!

The soldier screamed and struggled, and even grabbed the tip of the claw desperately. The claw suddenly retracted, and the next moment a hand popped out like lightning, and a dagger in his hand slapped the throat fiercely!

The blood shot violently and hit the green leaves with a crackling sound, as if someone was bouncing in it, and the faint figure was colorful, but it was not seen at all.

But in the blink of an eye, the soldiers on the shore stared at the corpse of their comrade in astonishment, unable to even realize what happened.

Only Yingbai, who can see everything clearly, is icy cold on the swamp.

There is only one "person" behind that tree! The "man" hooked the soldier's chest with the tip of his left claw first, and after being freed, he wiped the soldier's neck with the dagger in his right hand!

He believed that he was absolutely right.

Left paw, right hand!

Are you a human?

Cartilaginous people, half-beasts, what kind of team is this?

…

Zou Zheng slept very restlessly tonight.

He tossed and turned in his resplendent dormitory, constantly having nightmares.

He doesn't live in Jingting anymore. He thinks it is too pure and simple, without the majesty and dignity of the royal family, and living there, he will always think of that person, his simple and strange death, and the memory of his death after his death. In those days, white shadows often floated on the beams.

He chose the best palace in Yuzhao Palace, and after renovation, he lived in it as his bedroom.

Tonight's dreams were complicated and chaotic. For a while, flags fluttered, the emperor sang the city wall, and the woman in red laughed wildly under the city, pointing forward with a whip. After a while, Mingcheng came slowly, holding his hand and whispering softly, but he couldn't hear what she was saying, only felt the palm of his hand was wet and greasy, as cold as a snake. All of a sudden, I saw a vast swamp, the black mud gleamed under the moonlight, and the bones were vaguely bleak in the black light. It seemed that there were countless objects approaching quietly, black, light, with the cold light of a blade...

He woke up suddenly, opened his eyes suddenly, and touched the cold blanket with his chin, only then realized that he was already covered in cold sweat.

No, not just cold sweat, but also cold.

The palace room became icy cold at some point, and the chill penetrated his bones, he sat up shivering, and was about to call the palace servants to come in and add a brazier, when suddenly his whole body trembled.

In front of his dragon bed is a screen, and behind the screen, facing him in the distance is his throne in the hall.

He likes to sleep and wake up, and he can see his throne at any time. He likes to open his eyes and see the majestic high seat, shining the most noble golden light under the gauze-like sunlight.

At that moment, he would feel great satisfaction—a son of a poor family, but in the end he became the master of ten thousand vehicles. This is a gift from heaven to him, and he will never lose it in this life.

However, at this moment, through the dim screen, one could vaguely see that on the Golden Dragon Throne, at some point, a person had already sat upright.

…

A goshawk screamed mournfully, spread its iron blue wings, soared into the sky, and smashed into the sky a few wisps of cloud on the side of the mountain.

On the snow-capped mountains, new snow and old snow fall more quickly.

Murong Zhen had already warned the Snow Mountain, but he was stunned as he walked all the way.

Xu Pingran has set up dense defenses on the snow mountain. It is said that as long as someone steps into the foot of the snow mountain, they will be intercepted immediately, but the foot of the mountain is deserted.

He went straight to the middle of the mountain, the middle of the mountain is the training place for the disciples of the outer sect, and these disciples who need to perform well will do their best to kill those who dare to challenge the authority of the snow mountain.

But on the ice rink in the middle of the mountain, the constant shouts of battle disappeared, the ice rink was empty, and under the ice spring of the waterfall, those boulders were lonely under the impact of the ice waterfall, becoming more and more rounded, and the boys sitting on it forever, No more.

Murong Zhen couldn't react - where did everyone go?

He suddenly saw the fire cave on the mountain road ahead, and there were some fresh footprints on the fiery red dust in front of the cave.

Overjoyed in his heart, he led his subordinates towards the fire cave, there seemed to be someone in the fire cave, he was about to let out his voice when he suddenly saw a figure flashing and jumped into a nearby cave.

His subordinates rushed over immediately, chased into the hole without hesitation, and then heard a "chi".

The voice was too familiar, so familiar that it made his heart feel cold, and when he glanced over it, his scalp exploded.

At the entrance of the cave, a few clusters of fresh ashes.

Of course he knew it was ashes, the ashes of his subordinates.

The hole just now was a molten hole!

Murong Zhen felt chills all over his body, of course he knew that this cave was a place to test the luck and wisdom of those disciples, some caves were real fire caves, entering would lead to death, leaving no bones left, while some caves could bring great rewards . It's just that he hasn't been here for many years. Who remembers which hole is safe and which hole is dangerous?

Seeing someone going to this cave, I naturally think it is a safe cave, but who knows that someone would lure him to die even if he did not hesitate to die himself!

This is a dead man!

Gong Yin dispatched dead men from the very beginning, and his goal was not just to add some chaos to the snow mountain.

Murong Zhen's heart went cold for a while.

Gong Yin didn't chase after him, it was his subordinates who lured the enemy here.

Gong Yin knew that there was no one in the front mountain, so Gong Yin's target wasn't him at all? His fundamental purpose is to...

He suddenly turned around and ran towards the bottom of the valley.

At this time, Gong Yin was on the back mountain, heading for the important place of the inner gate.

He was alone, with a sword, and dressed in white, walking calmly on the mountain road.

There was no such thing as Murong Zhen imagined, following behind him, sneaking into the snow-capped mountains, waiting for an opportunity to destroy or strike.

He has a calm posture and a calm expression, like a disciple who has returned from Xueshan to perform a mission, or more like an elder who has successfully completed the mission and is waiting to receive the reward.

Such a person was walking on the road, and the disciple guarding the mountain gate looked at each other. Although he felt unfamiliar, he didn't dare to neglect, so he hurried up to meet him, and after a careful look, he added a bit of respect.

The person in front of him has a crystal clear complexion, and his eyes seem to be filled with ice and snow. Although he is casually holding an ordinary long sword, the ice fog on the sword is self-generated, and his skill is clearly extremely high, at least at the level of an elder.

It's just that everyone knows the elders, but this person is unknown. The two disciples were still young disciples, thinking that maybe some elders in the sect who had gone out in the early years had returned.

The two hesitated for a moment, and respectfully asked the name of the gentleman.

Gong Yin didn't look at them, and closed his eyes lightly, "Tell the suzerain that Sang Tianxi has returned and brought news of his missing son. If you want to know, abdicate in exchange."