chewing dragon

Chapter 336 Tiger Talisman
"Sir, we have already lost the advantage of getting there first! If you look again... if you look again, nothing you eat will be as hot as it is!"

Seeing that nearly a thousand troops led by Wang Tong had entered the city, Li Shenxian felt helpless, but more importantly, he was still puzzled: "How can there be no death in this battle? Brothers are not afraid of death, only afraid that they will not be rich in this life!"

"Wealth? You have to have a life to enjoy wealth!" Qi Jingzhi snorted, still unmoved.

Li Shenxian wanted to persuade him again, but suddenly he saw the small bronze tiger around the captain's waist levitating on its own, and its whole body glowed with a glimmer of light.

Qi Jingzhi was the first to feel something. He raised his head suddenly and jumped off Bannu's back. He looked up into the sky, cupped his fists and saluted, and smiled: "General Zuo, are you okay? Do you still remember the guests from Linshan at the Dragon Mother's birthday banquet in Chaozhou? What?"

After saying that, he reached out and wiped his face, and his facial features immediately disappeared, leaving only an empty face.

"General Left?"

Li Shenxian looked up and his eyelids jumped because he didn't know when he saw a headless man wearing tattered leather armor standing on the tower above his head.

No...that's not to say headless.

The armored man's head was held upright in his left hand.

It was a head with messy hair and a large amount of blood stained on it. At this moment, he was looking at his captain with an angry look and gritted teeth. He didn't know what kind of hatred they had between them.

Seeing this, Li Shenxian subconsciously touched his hand to the quiver, and at the same time, there was a faint evil spirit rising in the quiver.

The three hundred Zuowu Qingqi nearby also made a commotion, and there were many people taking arrows and setting up their bows.

Although Qi Jingzhi's words just now were smiling and polite, Bao Buqi, the Colonel, was hiding his sword behind his smile.

Noticing the actions of Li Shenxian and his soldiers, Qi Jingzhi took off his soul mask, revealing his true face and said in a loud voice: "Army, don't be panic! This General Zuo is the spirit of Daqi Mountain. He is a guest of the Chaozhou Jiao family and the Yunxiang Hou Mansion, and he is not a harmful monster."

"General Zuo accidentally lost his sword. He will glare angrily when he sees someone else's sword. If he stares at a brother's sword, or reaches out to ask for it, as long as it is not a precious sword that is difficult to part with, just give it to him. This school Wei Zi will compensate you on your behalf!"

With a few words to appease the three hundred Zuowu Qingqi, Qi Jingzhi grabbed the bronze tiger and held it in front of him: "Does General Zuo still recognize this thing? This five-baht military treasure was a gift from Qian Xiaoren. , saying that it is contaminated by Your Excellency’s aura and can be used as a token of our meeting!”

Hearing these words, General Zuo finally reacted. He let out a sound like a giant tiger and a stone, and the sound echoed through the wilderness, and then he saw it leaping down from the city gate tower.

There was just a bang, and General Zuo hit the ground straight. Smoke and dust flew into the air, and blood, mud and iron filings flew everywhere.

It is obviously the spirit of a male soul in the mountain, but it is not as light and ethereal as Po Jing Lu Yunzi, but as heavy and hard as a mountain stone.

I saw General Zuo striding forward, lifting his head, and looked closely at the bronze tiger, and then turned to the young man with whom he had met once.

At this time, the ferocity in its eyes was obviously reduced, but it was not completely eliminated.

In Qi Jingzhi's perception, this weird-tempered mountain hero is still the same as he was at the mountain guest's banquet that day, but he looks evil in appearance, but in fact his heart is pure and clear, and he has absolutely no malice.

"But it's not enough to have no malice... What can we do to gain the true trust of General Zuo like Qian Xiaoren?"

Qi Jingzhi's thoughts whirled rapidly, and he suddenly had an idea, but he remembered that when he was at Baiyun Palace in Jiuzhen County, he had performed on the battlefield, imitating An Fenghou's golden robe, weaving pure gold energy on the haze feather coat. In addition to the decoration of the five-baht military coin, it also incorporates its own sword intention into it.

But not long after, Yanxia Yuyi was refined into Crane Lu, and this attempt was forgotten by him.

As soon as Qi Jingzhi had this thought, he immediately borrowed a ray of sword energy from the ox-ear-pointed knife on his right arm, guided it into the bronze tiger, and blended it into the inscriptions on its sides.

The two inscriptions "Prevent troops from taking advantage of" and "Eliminate evil and eliminate disasters" immediately lit up one on the left and the other on the right, blooming with brilliant golden light, and a faint sense of sharpness was revealed.

The angry crane soars into the sky, sincerity does not deceive!
This is Qi Jingzhi's sword intention, as well as his ambition, character and heart.

For the pure-hearted General Zuo, seeing this sword intent was enough.

It stretched out its right hand and took the small bronze tiger with green body and golden patterns and exuding sword intent. The fierce light in its eyes disappeared, leaving only curiosity and joy.

Sensing this change, the young man couldn't help but laugh: "Your Excellency Haojiao knows that my real name is Qi Jingzhi, and I am currently serving as the captain of the Yulin School in the Gouchen Academy of Daqi and the Governor's Mansion of Zuowu Army."

"I carry this five-baht military treasure with me. I actually want to invite General Zuo to join the Yulin Guards and become a captain of the Selected Front Battalion. I wonder if you are interested?"

Although Qi Jingzhi had never seen General Zuo speak before, this mountain spirit was obviously unwilling to speak, and was not as deficient in intelligence as the Xuanjian of Heaven and Earth. Otherwise, he would not have interacted with the other three mountain spirits or even Chaozhou Jiao. He was a good friend of Qian Xiaoren, and when passing by the royal capital, he remembered to give Qian Xiaoren a few ancient copper coins.

Sure enough, General Zuo was obviously surprised and a little excited when he heard the invitation.

After all, it was an alien species. Although it had been on good terms with the Jiao family in Chaozhou before, it was obvious that the Jiao family only wanted to have a good relationship with it and offer it as a tribute. The Yunxiang Marquis had never expressed any intention of bringing it under his command. thoughts.

At that moment, General Zuo raised his eyes to look at the young man, then looked down at the small bronze tiger that obviously had an appetite for it, with a look of thought in his eyes.

However, after a long time, this heroic soul who wandered around various ancient battlefields or ran around in the mountains finally shook his head, and soon his eyes fell on the handle of Jianren Shou's knife.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but be stunned: "General Zuo, do you want this sword from me?"

This was somewhat beyond his expectation. After all, the other party did not express this intention when they were in Chaozhou.

Sure enough, General Zuo immediately shook his head again.

The young man breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help but feel regretful because he already understood what General Zuo meant.

The other party only wanted to find his lost sword and did not want to be restrained by the military.

At that moment, General Zuo's face was full of reluctance, and he handed the bronze tiger back to the young man.

Qi Jingzhi did not answer: "In that case, I have something else to ask for."

Facing General Zuo's confused look again, the young man smiled and said, "I have a teacher named Meng who will act as the God of the City God of Jinshuiguan County and take charge of the underworld under Jiuzhaigou."

"Your Excellency has been running around in the ancient battlefields and mountains all year round. He has seen many strange corpses, ghosts, and earth energy demons. He must be very good at dealing with the wild nature of the earth and even things like corpse energy and blood evil. I hope you can help my senior commander one or two when you have free time. , to help him gain a foothold in the underworld, Qi Jingzhi is extremely grateful!"

"In return, I am willing to use the power of Gouchen Yuan to find the sword for you!"

After hearing this, General Zuo thought about it seriously, and suddenly handed the bronze tiger to his mouth sideways, pressed his sharp teeth against the tiger's head, and then lightly scratched along the tiger's body.

The next moment, the bronze tiger split in two from the middle and turned into two symmetrical halves.

General Zuo left the half with the four words "eliminate evil and eliminate disaster" engraved on it, stuffed it into the hole in the leather armor on the chest, and handed the other half to the young man with the words "prevent the enemy from defeating the enemy".

This thing is somewhat like a talisman for mobilizing troops.

Qi Jingzhi took it in surprise, and immediately clasped his fists in salute: "I will give this to the local city god, and please leave the pattern of the sword."

Unexpectedly, General Zuo stretched out his right hand again, grabbed the young man's left arm, turned around and walked towards the Forbidden Water Pass.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help but follow him, doubts arose in his heart. However, no matter how he asked, General Zuo just walked forward without any intention of explaining.

Li Shenxian and Ban Nu naturally followed closely and led the three hundred Zuowu Army Qingqi into the Forbidden Water Pass.

This rather strange-looking team walked along the desolate and dilapidated streets. All they saw along the way were broken walls, broken bricks and tiles.

Not long after, they passed the intersection that turned toward Houjun Dutong Yamen.Looking over from the intersection, the side street was bustling with people, packed to the brim by soldiers from the Yongchang Left Army.

Under the vigilant and doubtful gazes of these people, everyone in the Zuowu Army passed the intersection in silence and continued walking north along the still well-preserved courtyard wall of the Houjun Dutong Yamen.

After a long time, they arrived at the center of the city and saw a larger intersection, leading to a wider side street.

If nothing unexpected happens, the large government office on Hengjie Street is the headquarters of the Chinese Army's headquarters at Jinshui Pass. It once belonged to Hengye Hou Hong Xuangan more than ten years ago, and will be the headquarters of Shouguang Hou Yangshengqing's Chinese Army in the future.

The door of the carriage house is wide open, and there is no one on the street. Only two real headless corpses are standing quietly at the intersection, as if to prevent someone from breaking into the street and bumping into the carriage house.

Although they are headless, there are two hands growing out of their necks. One hand is holding a rusty steel knife, and the other is holding a tattered red lantern. There are two eyes on the exposed belly below, which should have been the navel. There is a mouth in place of the eyes.

When these two headless monster corpses saw Zuowu's army of hundreds of people approaching from a distance, they immediately took a few steps forward and opened their mouths as if to scold them. Then they saw the leader, General Zuo, and immediately He stopped and retreated silently.

General Zuo didn't even look at the two guys. He still held his head in one hand and the young man's arm in the other, passing by the intersection without stopping.

Qi Jingzhi turned his head to look at it, and his eyes were quickly attracted by the red lantern in the hand of the headless monster.

I don’t know whether it was because it was getting brighter or because there were no more candles, but the two red lanterns were not lit at this moment.

There is writing on the lantern. Although the writing is mostly damaged and the color is very dim, it can still be vaguely legible.

One reads "Jiedushi of Yongchang Town" and the other reads "General Manager of the March to the North".

Qi Jingzhi had seen it in the military register of Huaide County. These were the official positions held by Hong Xuangan, the Marquis of Hengye.

Looking at these two broken lanterns, the young man felt inexplicably.

A generation of prominent military lords died in this isolated city in a foreign land. The former official office has become a dark and strange place stolen by aliens.

Qi Jingzhi was still sighing secretly, but Li Shenxian and others who were following behind him were not as leisurely and relaxed as the captain.

They each held their bows and knives tightly, tightened their heartstrings, and widened their eyes. They looked at the two headless monster corpses guarding the street one by one, fearing that there were countless similar ghosts lurking in that side street. In an instant, they will come out in force, completely submerging them and eating them alive.

Fortunately, until the entire team passed by the intersection or even moved away, there was no movement on the side street and the Chinese army columns on the street.

After everyone heaved a sigh of relief, they felt absurd in their hearts. Then they looked at the guy named General Zuo who was walking away in front of them. They really didn't know where their captain was going to lead everyone after "meeting an old friend in a foreign country". .

Fortunately, the answer was soon revealed.

General Zuo walked to Beicheng and saw the intersection leading to the former military capital's Yamen. He finally turned straight in instead of passing through.

"That's fine. We'll be far away from each other in the south and north with King Guitou, so we don't have to worry about him!"

Seeing that they finally arrived at the end of the field, Li Shenxian's heart dropped a little: "But on this trip, are we going to follow General Zuo home, or are we going to fight in a bloody battle to capture this Yamen?"

"Hey! No matter what, you must be on guard against others. It's better to be prepared!"

The Bazhou tiger thought for a moment, then turned back and whispered to the three hundred Qingqi to prepare carefully for battle.

General Zuo, who was leading the way, didn't think as much as he did. He pulled Qi Jingzhi into the gate of the former military government office.

Different from the silence at the headquarters of the Chinese Army, Qi Jingzhi could already hear the laughter and noise inside even though he was separated by a screen wall. It was actually very lively.

He followed General Zuo around the screen wall and saw heads rolling all over the spacious courtyard.

Well, only the head, no body.

Looking around, there are hundreds of heads in the yard. Some are bumping, biting and fighting, some are talking, laughing and whispering, and some are sleeping in the sun with their eyes closed.

Different from the flying heads of the settlers, these heads in the courtyard have pale skin, cold breath, and very stiff expressions.

They all looked like young and strong men, and many of them had shocking scars, but there was no blood in the wounds, and only dead flesh remained.

These heads that were supposed to be dead soon discovered General Zuo and Qi Jingzhi. The chatting, laughing and playing stopped instantly, and the sleepy ones suddenly opened their eyes, and everyone looked straight at them.

This scene makes one's head tingle just looking at it.

A head wearing a rusty iron helmet suddenly flew up from the ground and asked: "General Zuo, what are you doing here? Why did you bring a stranger in?"

Hearing these words, General Zuo finally let go of Qi Jingzhi and spoke in front of the young man for the first time.

It stared at the head in mid-air, pointed at the government office in front of it, and said word by word: "This is...City God's Temple! You...get out!"

The dead heads were stunned when they heard this, and then they reacted and floated off the ground one after another. Curses broke out all over the place, and the crowd became furious.

"The land grab is on us! I really don't know how to write the word "death"!"

"I have long heard that this guy is close to living people, but now it turns out that he is unreliable!"

"Kill it! Cut it into pieces!"

"Its head has fallen off, and the best it can do is cut into four parts!"

"Then bite off its nose! Tear off its ears!"

"Pull out your eyeballs too!"

In the midst of the noise, General Zuo seemed not to hear him, his eyes flashed fiercely: "If you don't get out... you'll die!"

The curses suddenly disappeared.

It was not just General Zuo's verbal threats that silenced these dead heads, but also the soldiers who kept appearing on the walls of the surrounding courtyard.

Led by Li Shenxian, the skilled archers from Shesheng Camp climbed up the wall, their bows fully drawn and their crossbows strung.

At the same time, a large group of sword-carrying warriors bypassed the screen wall, poured into the courtyard, and divided into groups along the courtyard wall to encircle them.

Seeing this formation, the floating dead heads looked at each other for a while, and then howled in unison: "General, it's a disaster! The living people from the south are coming!"

Qi Jingzhi looked at these floating heads and couldn't help but shake his head secretly.

These guys seem to have been at ease for too long, and they don't understand the principle of lip death and teeth cold at all. They just divide their territories like wild beasts in the mountains, but turn a blind eye to the fierce fighting at the rear army's yamen. Now they are beaten to the door. panic.

"The rear army has iron hats, the middle army has headless corpses, and the front army has dead heads. They are obviously the result of the death of the soldiers who first expanded north. They fight independently and ignore each other. No wonder they can only Trapped in the city."

"I don't know what kind of nonsense they talk about as a general?"

　I have been busy writing the year-end summary for the past two days, and my brain is twitching. The Yongchang left army should have captured the south gate after crossing the river, but it was wrongly written as the north gate. It has been changed in the previous chapters.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)