"Every ten miles there should be a small group of border troops, ranging from a few people to twenty or thirty people. Each group should set up beacons to keep watch on each other. Once a situation is discovered, the beacon will be lit as a signal, and the entire border will be warned."
The scout thought deeply: "We came all the way and didn't see a patrol team.
What do you mean, sir, is there something going on here?"
Xia Xin said: "This is an important border defense area. There is no sign of border troops along the way. There must be something abnormal. Is there a residential area near here?"
"There is a village more than ten miles to the east. There should be a small group of frontier troops stationed 40 miles further east. The city where the main force of the frontier troops is located is a hundred miles away," the scout said.
Xia Xin: "Go to the nearest village to check first."
"promise!"
The team remounted their horses and drove away quickly.
A quarter of an hour later, outside a village on the border, Xia Xinlema stopped.
The scouts in the team have entered the village to investigate the situation.
At this time, the morning light was beginning to shine, and one could clearly see that there were more than ten households in the village with thatched cottages built according to the terrain, scattered at different heights.
It was bright and bright, but the village was silent and there was no smoke.
The scouts who entered the village soon came out of the village and reported: "There are corpses in the village. They were newly deceased and they were all old people."
When Xia Xin walked into a courtyard in person, he saw the huddled corpse of an old man in the house.
He walked closer to inspect it for a moment, then went to the next farmhouse.
There are also the remains of the old man in the house, and there are dead animals in the animal pen.
There were a total of sixteen corpses in the whole village, all of them were old people and livestock, and no one was young.
"It's like when an enemy invades the border, the old and weak are killed, while the young men and women are kidnapped." The scout analyzed.
Xia Xin shook his head: "This is not a normal border plundering of the population. The Koreans do not have the guts to actively provoke us, Great Qin, nor do they have the means to break in, so that the border troops have no time to light the beacon fire.
There were no traces left in either direction of the village.
Each corpse is made of skin and bones, with withered flesh and blood that breaks into pieces when touched, indicating that the essence and blood in the body have been completely extracted. The chest cavities of two corpses were hollow, and the organs were also taken out."
Xia Xin raised his head and looked in the air: "The murderer's power is evil and powerful. Did it come from the air?"
He added: "Coming from Korea, he likes to eat human organs and ingest blood and essence. With these characteristics combined, the murderer is probably the Shixiangjiao."
"How could it be such a coincidence that as soon as we arrived at the border, the Eclipse Cult invaded the border one step ahead of us?" the scout frowned.
Xia Xin pursed her lips: "It's not a coincidence.
When the Crown Prince and the two deputy historians, Fan and Bai, were discussing the plan, they mentioned that it would be difficult for us to completely hide our traces if we set off from Xianyang and travel a long distance."
"What's more, other channels may also leak information."
The scout said: "So the Eclipse Sect received the news and took the lead to come to our Great Qin to plunder and harass."
Xia Xin said in a deep voice: "If it is true that the Eclipse Cult is greedy for blood, since they have broken in, a village will never let them stop. Where is the nearest village, we will rush there immediately."
The team set off again and moved laterally along the Daqin border.
On the chariot, Xia Xin suddenly looked up to the sky and roared, the sound waves rolling like thunder in the clear sky.
A lieutenant general following the chariot was surprised: "The general is calling for battle with his roar, does he want to fight the Shixiang Cult's people to take action immediately? Baiyao's deputy history officer has repeatedly warned us to wait until he arrives before taking action."
"Everyone from the Eclipse Sect has come to kill us, why don't we just hide aside and let him come in and then withdraw?"
If Deputy Shi Bai is held accountable, I will take full responsibility."
The whistling sound of Xia Xin's words became louder and louder, and could be heard far and near.
In mid-air more than ten miles away, everyone in the Eclipse Sect was hovering over another village.
The black wind divided into strips of black aura, and spawned evil spirits that were somewhere between reality and reality, hunting and killing villagers in the village.
Anyone who is old or frail will shrink quickly and die miserably once they are exposed to black energy.
Young men, women or children will be bound by the black energy and lose their minds. They will let the black energy lead them and fall into the black wind, becoming captives.
On the wheal, the eclipse ghost king opened his mouth, and wisps of black air were taken into his mouth.
All the living creatures in the village, their essence and blood were swept away by the black energy, and were absorbed and devoured by it.
The envoys from Zhao and Han stood aside and watched the evil deeds in the village with pale faces.
The two of them had known about the evil reputation of the Eclipse Cult, but knowing it and seeing it with their own eyes were completely different feelings.
The two envoys' mentality exploded: "These demons are really good at eating, devouring flesh and blood..."
At this moment, a thunderous roar sounded in the distance.
"The Qin people have discovered our traces!"
Ambassador Han shivered and looked in the direction where the roar came from.
"If we are besieged by the Qin army, I'm afraid it will be difficult to leave." The Zhao envoy also said in a panic.
The Eclipse Ghost King looked at the two of them and mocked: "You two heard the Qin people's message inviting a fight, and you were so frightened that you became like this."
The Han envoy said urgently: "You have never seen a large-scale military confrontation, and you don't know the Qin people's front. It is definitely not something you can resist alone. It is completely different from the small frontier army you broke in and swept in. We
Go quickly."
Everyone in the Eclipse Sect laughed in unison: "Have you ever seen the terrifying power of the sect leader who can swallow thousands of souls and change the world?"
The eclipse ghost king stood with his hands behind his hands, his eyes stern, looking towards the direction where the whistling sound came from.
In the distance, a group of Qin troops wearing black armor had appeared at the end of the horizon, coming at lightning speed.
The leading general stood like a mountain on the speeding chariot.
"This is a team of less than two hundred people." The members of the Eclipse Sect looked down.
The envoys of Zhao and Han also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It would be nice if it were not a large force of the Qin army...
call!
The roar of Xia Xin on the chariot suddenly stopped, and the ghost-headed hammer was thrown out by him, hitting the black wind, rubbing against the air, and making a low roar.
"I'll take the blow."
An eclipse cultist stepped forward proudly, standing on the edge of the black wind, with a bulging abdomen, and blew out a wisp of blood-colored air from the opening, which was rolled towards the ghost-headed hammer that broke through the air.
boom!
The blood-colored air flow was instantly penetrated, exploding and splashing.
The eclipse sect members were also affected, and amidst screams, they turned over and fainted.
The ghost-headed hammer spun around in the air and fell back into Xia Xin's hand.
"Generals, listen!
The chariot that someone got off was given to him by the prince himself before setting off. It is like the prince personally coming to supervise the battle. All the soldiers should fight bravely and fight bloody battles first."
All the generals agreed in unison.
And Xia Xin jumped up and rushed upward like a cannonball to teach everyone the eclipse.
"Seeking death!" The eclipse ghost king formed a seal with his hands, and behind him were the villagers whose minds were invaded by the black air and who were captured. Their bodies shrank rapidly, and their blood essence was eroded and absorbed by the black wind.
The black wind surged and condensed into a ghostly face, covering the sky and opening its mouth.
There were countless resentful ghosts and evil spirits in his mouth, and they all reached out to grab Xia Xin.
At the same time, the forces of Ye Yufu's tribe below were intertwined, and a black bird totem floated into the sky.
And Xia Xin received the support of the black bird, and his aura was released, becoming one with it, as if he had received the power of more than a hundred soldiers.
He raised the ghost-headed hammer again, and streaks of lightning burst out from the sky, attaching to the hammer and hitting Heifeng's ghost face head-on.
This blow gathered the power of nearly two hundred Night Imperial Army generals to form a critical strike that even the Eclipse Ghost King could not withstand.
The black wind shattered with a hammer, and the resentful spirits scattered.
The eclipse ghost king's chest heaved and he choked out a mouthful of blood.
The followers under his command jumped down from the air one after another and fought hand to hand with the soldiers of Ye Yu Mansion.
In the sky, Xia Xin rushed towards the eclipse ghost king.
At this time, suddenly there was another whistling sound from a distance, and a ray of magic light flew through the air.