(There are easter eggs at the end of the chapter, please check them out!)
There was a loud sound of horse hoofbeats as Zhao Yanxun and his party left the city in a show of force.
A group of people followed quietly behind him. They were spies sent by various forces in Longyou.
The magistrates had the power to supervise the prince, so these men could have followed openly, but they did not do so.
Logically speaking, Zhao Yanxun should first greet the governor's Yamen before leaving the city. This has been the rule over the years.
The two chief ministers of the family were opposed to his trip, and Tian Jingtong's attitude was understandable, so Zhao Yanxun did not ask for trouble.
There are now nearly 200 horses in Prince Yong's Mansion, some of which were given by the emperor, and the rest were bought by Zhao Yanxun after he arrived in Longyou.
In this era of inconvenient transportation, horses are a very important means of transportation and have unparalleled mobility.
Zhao Yanxun was very fortunate that the original person learned to ride a horse by himself, and he started riding directly after receiving the memory.
After leaving the east gate of Yuanyang, they galloped toward the northeast, and the leader was clearly Wang Zong.
Zhao Yanxun was in the middle. In addition to the armor protection on his body, the guards around him formed a protective net.
Silently all the way, they ran for more than 40 miles before stopping at an intersection.
Wang Zong turned the horse's head and came to Zhao Yanxun and said: "Your Majesty... there is a small road ahead, and there may be monsters everywhere!"
Zhao Yanxun nodded, he understood what Wang Zong meant.
Some of the people in the team are responsible for the response. They are not wearing armor, so they should not move forward.
"How far is that Zhuangzi?" Zhao Yanxun asked.
"It's only about three or five miles away. You can see it by climbing over the mountain pass in front!" Wang Zong replied.
After Zhao Yanxun nodded, he slowly said: "The person responsible for the response will stop at the mountain pass in front, and the rest will follow me to Zhuangzi!"
"As you command!"
Everyone answered in unison, and the birds in the nearby trees started to flutter in surprise, chirped a few times and then flew away.
So their team continued forward, and when they reached the mountain pass, they separated.
The two sides use horns to communicate. If either side blows the horn, the other side will immediately support them.
The guards who responded to Zhao Yanxun were stationed at the mountain pass under the leadership of a general bannerman.
After this period of training, even if they are in a state of rest, their position is still a combat formation.
And because of their existence, the people following behind could only be divided into two teams.
Some people stayed in place to monitor, while others could only take a detour through the mountain pass and continue to monitor Zhao Yanxun and his party.
Let's talk about Zhao Yanxun and his party. After passing the mountain pass, they entered an open area.
I saw crisscrossing streets ahead, and the new seedlings in the ground were already a foot deep and swaying in the wind.
I glanced at the system and saw that it was about three o'clock in the afternoon.
Now is the busy farming season, but standing on the hillside, you can see that there is not a single person working in the more than 100 acres of land in front of you.
This scene looked very strange. A cold wind blew from the hillside, which made Zhao Yanxun shiver in his armor.
"Is it the building in front?" Zhao Yanxun asked in a deep voice.
Wang Zong replied: "It's right there. There's a whole room of monsters locked up inside, and there are quite a few outside the house too!"
"How many are out there?"
"According to what I saw, there are at least a dozen!"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Yanxun said to everyone: "The owner and tenants of this village have turned into monsters. If you encounter a monster later, don't panic... Just kill it with the method taught on weekdays!"
The fifteen guards brought by Zhao Yanxun today are all the best among the best, and Zhao Zhao Yanxun will reuse them in the future.
"Alert, let's go!"
Following Zhao Yanxun's order, the guards all took out their sabers from their scabbards and rode their horses slowly forward.
Kick...tap...kick...tap...
The rhythm of the horse's hooves was steady, which showed that Zhao Yanxun and his party were moving slowly and were not in a hurry.
Xu Hong kept looking around and said at the same time: "Your Majesty, this place is remote and surrounded by mountains. Only the mountain pass in front communicates with the outside world. Even if there are no people in this place... the outside world will not know!"
Zhao Yanxun nodded. This is the common situation in today's era. Many people are trapped in the countryside and have very little contact with the outside world.
Zhao Yanxun looked solemn and said slowly: "Looking at the current situation, I'm afraid this place is really dead!"
Just when Zhao Yanxun said this, he heard a guard say: "There is a situation on the roadside!"
Everyone glanced around and saw a pile of firewood as high as one person on the roadside to the left of the guard. At this moment, there was movement behind the firewood pile.
Suddenly there was a roar, and a woman in clothes walked out from the side of the firewood pile, dragging a severed arm in her bloody hand.
Seeing the living creature, the woman roared with excitement and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Kill her!" Zhao Yanxun ordered the guard with a cold tone.
He has always killed the zombies he encountered, and this time he hopes to train his men.
After a while, there will be more zombies to kill, and Zhao Yanxun is not short of one or two.
At this moment, the woman threw away her broken arm and rushed towards the guard at the front, completely without thinking.
The guard raised the knife with both hands, looking slightly nervous. When the woman rushed a few steps away, he slashed with the knife with all his strength.
The ideal situation did not happen. The knife struck the woman on the shoulder, knocking her down directly with huge force.
But Zhao Yanxun's order was to kill the monster, so the guard rode forward, and when the woman was about to get up, he cut off his neck with a knife.
Zhao Yanxun nodded with satisfaction, and then asked: "Zhang He, you did a good job!"
Hearing Zhao Yanxun praise himself and call out his name in public, Zhang He was more excited than having killed a monster.
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty!"
Zhao Yanxun nodded, then looked at the crowd and said, "See, killing monsters is no different from chopping melons and vegetables!"
It has to be said that after the scene just now, the confidence of the remaining guards has been greatly enhanced.
Of course, they still keep the danger of monsters in mind and will never take it lightly.
The group of them continued to move forward. According to Zhao Yanxun's arrangement, they had to clear out the zombies that could move freely. These were the real dangers.
After killing them all, kill some of the remaining monsters in Zhuangzi and capture some alive and take them back to Yuanyang.
When they were sweeping around the perimeter, a few people came to follow them and came to the woman who was killed.
Several spies jumped off their horses and slowly came to the woman on the ground. The strong smell made them cover their mouths and noses.
"It's a stab wound. Look at the blood... the head was cut off not long ago!" the leading man said solemnly.
Cutting off the neck with one knife. Ordinary people don't have such skills, so it can only be done by the Yongwang Palace and his party.
"Brother, didn't King Yong come here to hunt? How could he kill people for no reason?" asked a young spy.
"I heard that King Yong was cruel and bloodthirsty. Now it seems that it was true... Could it be that the hunting he mentioned was using living people as prey?"
Everyone who heard this was horrified in their hearts.
"Brother, shall we follow?"
"Leave the horses behind, reduce your whereabouts, and continue to follow!" the leading man said solemnly.
