With the assassinations of the Grand Administrator and General Lu, the atmosphere in Taiming Army and Taiming City became obviously tense, so tense that even ordinary people could easily detect it.
It is said that not only the scout teams of the Taiming Army have been frequently traveling between Taiming City and Heiqiao City in recent times, but also the legendary ANBU affiliated to the prefect have entered Taiming City in large numbers. Occasionally, I heard about people there overnight.
It disappeared completely in a short time, which was probably the work of ANBU.
Compared with the perception of Taiming people, the feelings of Taiming soldiers were much stronger.
As the ANBU characters wearing black cloaks and tights entered Black Bridge City for the first time, everyone had a terrifying feeling of being targeted by poisonous snakes.
But as time went by, there were no rumors of any soldiers or even officers being taken away by ANBU. This made the dark clouds above Black Bridge City become darker and more depressing, making people uneasy.
Fortunately, there is going to be a war.
When the war started, none of the soldiers had the energy to care about those men in black robes.
Life and death are the biggest issues.
Since that day when the Grand Administrator patrolled the army and the Taiming Army held its largest martial arts drill in more than ten years, teams of thousands or even two to three thousand people would receive orders from the general to leave the city every day and go deep into the mountains and forests via different routes.
When performing a reconnaissance mission, no matter whether the target is discovered or not, the target must be returned to Blackbridge City at the designated time the next day.
But the strange thing is that among all the teams that went out, except for a few who had encounters with a small number of beasts, none of them had a real battle.
The person who personally led the troops into battle that day was Zhang Zifeng, who had already been in Heiqiao City and was almost depressed. The second he received the military order, he had already ordered 3,000 troops out of the camp. The army did not hesitate.
Go southeast and plunge directly into the mountainous area closest to Black Bridge City.
But he didn't know that shortly after his team left Black Bridge City, three more teams of 2,000 people received military orders to leave the city and followed him in a semi-package.
Zhang Zifeng didn't have the intention to pay too much attention behind him, because when he followed the military order and went deep into the mountains, he immediately discovered something unusual.
Because according to the Taiming military report, there have been signs of a large number of beasts and even monsters appearing in the mountainous area near Taiming recently. The scale of the beast tide that occasionally fell into the eyes of the scouts was even several times greater than in previous years!
But when he went deep into the forest with the attitude of fighting back in a bloody battle, he found that the forest was silent, as if all the birds, beasts, insects, and snakes in the forest had died in a few days!
Extremely weird.
He could only slow down his originally fast and in-depth plan, use elite cultivators as scouts, and expand the scope of investigation to the mountains and forests within a ten-mile radius. Instead of taking relatively remote paths, he selected those who had been familiar to the Taiming Army for many years.
Canyon Road, but they did not encounter any decent herd of beasts until they reached the place reached by the military order. This familiar and unfamiliar jungle suddenly became inexplicably scary.
This feeling made him a little uneasy.
So he ordered the captain of the army to return the same way as he had ordered, but he hid in the forest and went in the opposite direction. Along the way, he went several miles deeper, and immediately discovered a super-large army in a huge mountain canyon with a river.
A huge herd of beasts is gathering here!!
He lurked aside cautiously, and after carefully observing the herd, he retreated little by little, setting traps along the way. He soon caught up with the army, and then the army speeded up and returned to Black Bridge City smoothly.
After returning to the city, Zhang Zifeng was summoned by the messenger from the general's residence in the city before he could take a break.
He didn't say much and just followed the herald to the general's residence in Black Bridge City.
All the way through the military camp and into the officer's residential area, Zhang Zifeng was very familiar with this place. As he followed the messenger forward, he lowered his head and thought about his encounters in the southern mountains and forests in the past two days, especially the herds of beasts in the canyon.
, always made him feel weird and unpredictable, and for a while he couldn't figure out what Nanyi's intention was in going north.
Just as he was deep in thought, he suddenly felt an extremely compelling and piercing murderous intent rushing toward his side!
It stung his skin so much!!
He didn't have time to react. He could only rely on the instinctive reaction honed in many bloody battles of life and death to raise his body back and move his right hand to his waist. However, he realized that he was coming to the general's mansion without a knife at all!
Suddenly, the murderous offensive was already at his side!!
He quickly mobilized his inner energy to use his right arm to push it down. At the critical moment, he was still able to use the force of his shoulder to create a complex earth-yellow formation within a short distance!!
"Boom..."
After a dull sound like a boulder falling into a pit from a high place, the khaki-yellow pattern that Zhang Zifeng hit with his shoulder cracked and shattered into dust fragments all over the sky. However, he himself was only knocked back three or four steps by a gentle force.
On the wall on one side, a pair of leopard eyes stared at the three men in Taoist robes and shouted, "Wait...Wangchuan Jianxiu?!"
The leader of the three visitors is a burly middle-aged man. At this moment, he is also looking at Zhang Zifeng with a pair of bull's eyes. He is full of energy and does not know what he is thinking. The one on his left has a similar face, but has a long beard and white hair.
He was much older, smiling, and actually looked kind of amiable, but the person on the other side was a ferocious-looking Taoist priest.
The ferocious-looking Taoist among the three people smiled apologetically at Zhang Zifeng and then slapped his head, "General Zhang Pi, don't blame me. The three of us are here to wait for General Zhang Pi under the orders of the Grand Administrator and General Lu and take action. It's true."
It's because the Nanyi spies were too cunning and had no choice but to do it, so don't be surprised."
Zhang Zifeng glanced at Lu Dongfeng's orderly soldier who was nodding at him on the other side, and then he took a long breath, rubbed his shoulders, and cupped his hands to the three Taoist priests, "Since he was acting under orders, Zhang naturally did not dare to blame the three Taoist priests.
"Chief," he looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest in the middle and bowed solemnly before saying, "May I ask if Mr. Zhang has passed the test?"
"Of course," the leading middle-aged Taoist priest waved his hand, "but I am a little interested in your last shoulder-to-shoulder formation technique, and I see that you are practicing earth-based Taoism, and your essence is condensed and thick. It just so happens that
Old Taoist, I am also good at defense. If I have any shortcomings in the future, you and I can learn from each other."
"I don't dare. How can Zhang, a real person, compare with the real person if he is so profound in Taoism? The real person doesn't despise Zhang for being stupid and is willing to teach me. Zhang is very grateful. It's just that I have some inconvenience due to official duties at the moment. I will go to the real person's house for advice when I have free time."
," Zhang Zifeng bowed, nodded to the other two Taoist priests, and then followed the messenger to the mansion.
Only three Taoist priests were left in place, naturally they were Niu Deyi, Niu Dexin and Qin Wansong.
The long-bearded old Taoist Niu Dexin was tired of pretending to be an outsider. While rubbing his stiff face, he asked the middle-aged Taoist priest next to him, "Brother, the transformation technique I encountered this time is really worthy of the little eunuch."
So troublesome?"
Qin Wansong could only smile silently and bitterly when he heard the long-bearded old man addressing Luo Chuan.
Niu Deyi lost his usual casual look and nodded solemnly, then looked into the depths of the city lord's palace and murmured, "Unless those two senior brothers are here, even if senior sister Qingyun really arrives, I'm afraid there will be nothing better."
The method, for this kind of thing, depends on which of the two parties playing chess loses their temper first..."