Chapter 213 The Tao is 1 foot high, the devil is 1 foot high
Chapter 213 The Tao is 1 foot high, the devil is 1 foot high
Seeing the red light bullet rising in the sky, the eldest prince finally felt relieved.
At present, the enemy army is still surrounding the eldest prince, but half of its forces have been divided to defend the periphery to prevent a surprise attack from the eldest prince's reinforcements in the dense forest.
There were only 300 cavalrymen in the dense forest, and they relied on the rapid and chaotic sound of horse hooves to confuse the enemy, thus creating the current situation.
Everything has been arranged. The only thing I can do here is to fight with all my strength. As long as I kill one more team, I can reduce the pressure on the guards of the imperial city.
"Reinforcements have arrived, everyone listen up! Break out of the encirclement!" The eldest prince took advantage of the situation and shouted loudly. The morale of the company of a hundred men under his command was high. Only a hundred people could compete with a formation of a thousand men. Everyone was like a god of war on the battlefield, killing anyone they saw.
Even if their skin and flesh were scratched and blood splattered, even if their feet and hands were broken, it could not stop their determination to break through. The army attacking the eldest prince in the inner circle gradually retreated, and their morale was gradually suppressed by the company of a hundred men. They switched from attack to defense, and with 10,000 heavy soldiers in hand, they were forced to defend against the company of a hundred men.
However, just when the eldest prince thought that everything was going according to his plan, bad news came from the dense forest in the distance.
"what--"
Screams were heard one after another in the dense forest.
"Why does it take so much trouble to capture a prince?" An alluring male voice suddenly rang out from the surrounding dense forests, and it was impossible to tell from which direction it came.
When the eldest prince heard this, he immediately realized that the enemy seemed to have reinforcements.
As a emerald green light slowly rose from the dense forest and came to the sky where the eldest prince was, the light was fixed in the air. Emerald green light continued to shoot out, wrapping long arrows. A torrential rain of arrows attacked, pointing directly at the inner circle where the eldest prince was.
"It's over, it's the adventurer! Come back and reorganize the formation first!" The eldest prince just shouted, and the company of a hundred people suddenly responded and ran towards the eldest prince in unison.
"Protect His Highness!" The hundred-man company shouted immediately and rushed to the eldest prince. More than ten people threw themselves on the eldest prince, pressing him down and escaping the disaster safely.
The eldest prince hurriedly climbed out of the crowd, but just as he pulled his upper body out of the crowd, he saw that the soldiers who had been on top of him had been pierced through the hearts by thousands of arrows. More than a dozen people stayed here forever because of protecting the eldest prince.
The eldest prince had never expected such a high-density rain of arrows, shot towards the center of the encirclement. If he was not careful, friendly forces might be injured.
But when the eldest prince looked away, he found that within a radius of 100 meters around him, there was deathly silence. There was blood flowing like a river, corpses were everywhere, and swords, arrows and broken arrows were everywhere like weeds.
The 100-man team he had just formed had all become heroic souls and remained here forever. The inner circle surrounded by the enemy also suffered heavy casualties, with nearly half of the inner circle enemies dying. Most of them stared at the eldest prince with their eyes wide open, as if one could read their confusion and unwillingness before death.
"See? This is what happens when you fail to do your job well!"
There was a man in a pitch-black cloak floating in the sky, with his back to the eldest prince. The sides of his head were surprisingly wide, and under the cover of the cloak, his head looked more like a square with four equal sides.
After the cloaked man rebuked them, the remaining troops immediately knelt on one knee together. Instead of resisting or arguing, they respectfully shouted in unison: "Welcome, His Majesty the Heavenly King."
"King of Heaven?" The eldest prince looked up at the cloaked man in the sky with suspicion.
At this moment, the cloaked man also slowly turned around and fell down slowly, but the strange thing was that the hood covering his face did not float up because of the fall, as if it was stuck to his hair, and it only shook slightly but did not fall off. After a while, the cloaked man came to the inner circle where the eldest prince was, and the two were more than ten meters apart.
After the cloaked man landed, he first reached out to brush off the dust on his shoulders, then bowed respectfully and said, "Your Highness, my subordinates seem to have misunderstood our master's intentions and fought against you, so I came here to apologize to you. I have already punished them slightly, and I hope Your Highness will show mercy and forgive them."
The eldest prince looked at the cloaked man, pointed at the corpses strewn around him, and sneered, "Humph, misunderstanding? This misunderstanding is indeed quite big."
The cloaked man also sneered and said, "Your Highness is too kind. This arrow formation is just my specialty. If I can provoke the Highness to change it, it would be great."
The corners of the eldest prince's mouth twitched slightly. He had thought that the other party would put pressure on him, but he did not expect that the other party would use force first and then courtesy. He first pointed his sword at him and then ran out to smooth things over. Isn't this a threat to him?
"Your Excellency the King has great skills. In the blink of an eye, he has turned this whole world into a pool of red blood. Your skills are incredible." The eldest prince also sneered at the cloaked man.
After hearing this, the cloaked man stepped aside and said, "My master has requested you, please, my Lord, please don't embarrass me."
When the cloaked man uttered the last five words, murderous intent increased sharply, and an emerald green eye gradually lit up under the cloak. Along with the emerald green light, half of his fair skin was faintly visible under the cloak. His slender cheeks were particularly cut off by the huge cloak, as if the hood was not wide because of the size of his head.
The eldest prince immediately discovered the clue to this problem. As the emerald green light came out of his eyes, the ears under the cloak gradually emerged. It was not an ordinary human ear, but a pointed ear extending outward. However, due to the distance, the details could not be seen clearly, and only the base of the long ears could be seen.
But perhaps it is the pair of pointed ears that hold up the hood, so the cloaked man's head looks particularly wide.
The murderous intent emanating from the cloaked man was extremely strong. Even the eldest prince, who had not undergone any spiritual practice, could feel the murderous intent emanating from the cloaked man.
This murderous intent was surprisingly comparable to the demon that was fused together from the desperate brother and sister when they caused chaos in the imperial city. Before the eldest prince knew it, his back was instantly soaked.
The eldest prince quickly calmed himself down and sneered, "Haha, Your Excellency, are you going to threaten me to go back with you?"
The cloaked man bowed respectfully again, but he did not bow in the direction of the eldest prince. Instead, he bowed in the direction in front of him: "I dare not. Your Highness, please do not embarrass me. If anything happens, I will not be able to bear the responsibility."
The eldest prince slowly pulled out his lower body, stood up, shook off the dust on his body, and said calmly: "Okay, let's go and meet your master."
"Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness." This time the cloaked man bowed to the eldest prince again, but walked side by side with the eldest prince and slowly walked out. The enemy encirclement in front of them also understood the situation and retreated to the left and right without any prior agreement, making way for the two men.
"There was a cry of surprise from the dense forest just now. May I ask if it was the work of His Majesty the King?" The eldest prince could not help but ask before leaving.
The cloaked man smiled contemptuously, "I'm sorry to have frightened Your Highness. Last night, my camp was suddenly attacked by several spies. Although I noticed it, those spies acted so fast that even I couldn't track them down. It wasn't until the red light hung high in the sky that I confirmed the direction of their escape and then hurriedly caught up with them. Did I frighten Your Highness?"
The eldest prince's face turned pale after hearing this. He didn't expect that the signal he arranged would actually let the enemy know his position. Facing the cloaked man's sudden "concern", he could only sneer and nod: "It's true that they were scared. Did His Majesty, the Heavenly King eliminate all those spies without leaving a single one alive?"
"Of course. How could I miss anything when I take action? Otherwise, how can I live up to the title of "King of Heaven"? " The cloaked man patted his chest confidently, signaling to the eldest prince "Don't worry".
The eldest prince's face was ashen at this time. He looked towards the dense forest with worry, but he had no choice but to follow the cloaked man forward, silently repeating in his heart: I hope someone survives by chance, I hope someone survives by chance...
……
Outside the dense forest, a young soldier pushed away the horse that was pressing on him, panting heavily, "Ahem, I'm being crushed to death. Captain..."
When the young soldier was about to sit up and call for the captain, he found that almost all of his teammates around him were bloody. Both humans and horses were badly mutilated. The emerald green and shiny forest was dyed bright red at this moment. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and even the dew on his forehead was bright red.
The young soldier was so frightened that he almost screamed out loud, but at this moment, noisy voices suddenly came from not far away, like the sound of two people complaining.
"Tell me, why did His Majesty assign this job to us? This is too... that's it."
"What do you know? His Majesty is afraid of leaving someone alive. Those spies have searched the camp inside and out. You have seen the intelligence they found on them. If they leave someone alive and let him go back, the consequences will be very serious. Don't you understand?"
"That's true, but stabbing a dead man is too..."
"If you can't do it, I'll do it. You just stand aside and watch. It's okay."
After that, there was the sound of swords piercing flesh.
"It's over, we have to hide quickly..." The young soldier wanted to crawl into the bushes beside him, but no matter how he moved, he had no strength in his feet.
When he looked down, he realized that his right foot was gone, leaving only half of his calf. The pale calf bone was still exposed, with blood and flesh shaking out from time to time.
There was also a huge hole in the left thigh, with a diameter of 3 cm. He almost lost his entire left leg. Fortunately, the wound was not in the middle of the thigh, but at the edge of the thigh. The pale white bone had already been exposed and was slightly scratched. If he was less lucky, the wound would be closer to the center and the bone would be lost.
But the young soldier who had just joined the battlefield had never experienced such pain and he screamed out in fear.
But the moment he shouted, the young soldier immediately covered his mouth with both hands to prevent himself from shouting and alerting the two enemies.
The pain in his legs was indeed extremely severe, but not to the point where he could not move. If he cried out out of fear at this moment, he would surely die here. His teammates and the captain had already left, so the only way out was for him to stay alive and return with the information.
While the two patrolling enemies were still far away, the young soldier hurriedly climbed to the side of the horse that had just pressed on him, took out a knife, and used all his strength to cut open the horse's belly, pulling out the horse's internal organs one by one. Then he curled up inside the horse's belly and stuffed the internal organs into his arms one by one, silently praying that the two men would not attack the horse...
"This is the last one, right? Are there any more?"
"Nothing, except for a horse with an unusually large belly."
"Big belly?"
"Um……"
"...The food in the imperial city is really good. The military horses can actually be raised so fat."
"That's right. If there wasn't a body lying next to it, I would have thought someone was hiding in it, hahahaha."
"What are you talking about? How can a human enter a horse's stomach? You've been thinking about all sorts of nonsense all day long. Why don't you think about your future wife?"
"Oh, this, how can I say this, it's still far away, still far away..."
As the sounds of the two men's fighting gradually faded away, the belly of the fat horse began to twitch slowly, and a scarlet human hand slowly emerged from the wound in the horse's belly.
……
The eldest prince followed the cloaked man into the enemy camp. The enemy camp was made of wood and was rather simple. The tents were supported by rags. However, the number of people was huge, and a camp to accommodate 100,000 people was naturally ridiculously large. In the center of the camp, there was a huge tent that was invisible to everyone.
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