Heaven rewards those who work hard: There is no bottleneck in my martial arts

Chapter 108 Daying County
The veteran apprentices were also very clever, seeing that the situation was not right, they turned around and drove away.

"Abandon the shield, pack lightly, and pursue!"

Wu Qi shouted loudly, his voice rolling like thunder.

At his order, all the chasing guards discarded their shields and other luggage on their horses, leaving only one man and one horse to chase after them.

On the open plain, the right cavalry was deployed.

Zhao Hongming sat on his horse, and saw Wu Qi and the others split into three groups, forming a siege.

They were all military horses carefully cared for by Wei Guo, with outstanding foot strength.

Most of the horses of Lao Dao and the others are wild horses, which are difficult to compare with the horses of Wu Qi and others, and they were quickly overtaken by Wu Qi and others.

"combine!"

"hunting!"

The imperial guards on both sides drew out their sabers, gradually changed their direction, and gathered towards the middle.

At the same time change the speed to charge.

The two parties quickly contacted each other.

When the final encirclement net was formed, there was no suspense.

There are a total of more than ten experienced apprentices, but they are all ordinary warriors, and their cultivation is almost at the pulse opening level.

Facing the siege of 70 to [-] people including Wu Qi and others, there was no way to fight back.

Not to mention that Wu Qi and the others were still fully armored and well-equipped.

Under Zhao Hongming's gaze, the apprentices of these old Taoists fell off their horses one by one, and those who fell on the ground did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Some were unfortunately trampled by horses and turned into a puddle of mud.

In the blink of an eye, a dozen seasoned apprentices were killed.

There were no casualties on our side.

Wu Qi cleaned up the battlefield, regrouped and returned to the team.

He walked up to Zhao Hongming, clasped his fists and said, "My lord, it's a good luck not to disgrace my life."

Zhao Hongming's eyes swept over the many guards.

Their armors were more or less stained with a lot of blood, which added a lot of solemnity to them.

Zhao Hongming looked away and looked at the woman not far away.

At this time, under the gaze of everyone, the woman from Qingtian Building walked towards Fang Mingda's cold body little by little.

Regardless of the blood stains on the ground, she held Fang Mingda's body in her arms.

His eyes gradually turned red, and then two lines of tears flowed down silently.

Zhao Hongming drove his horse over and said in a condescending tone with no expression on his face: "Tell me, what's going on?"

When the woman heard Zhao Hongming's question, she came back to her senses. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, and took two deep breaths to calm down the turbulent emotions in her heart.

After a few breaths, the woman seemed to have regained her composure. She carefully put down Fang Mingda's body, then turned around and bowed deeply to Zhao Hongming.

From the behavior of the people around her, she could see that the man in front of her was not only highly cultivated, but also had a noble status, so she didn't dare to neglect her, and said, "I am a disciple of Qingtianlou, and the one who died is my senior brother."

"Some time ago, senior brother got the news that the old Taoist of Shangxianmen used his life to refine the elixir from somewhere, so he took me all the way from Luling to chase here."

"It's just that my senior brother and I underestimated his strength, and we were no match for him at all. Fortunately, my senior brother resisted desperately, so I escaped with my life. As for the rest, this nobleman, you know all about it."

Alchemy with human life?
It was also the first time Zhao Hongming heard such a thing, and couldn't help frowning.

"Is this old way related to Shangxianmen?"

"Yes."

If he remembered correctly, what Gao Yanshi heard, the reason why those refugees were willing to go to Ying County was largely because of this Shangxianmen.

Now it seems that this Shangxianmen is probably not well-intentioned, and there are other reasons.

"I heard that there is a sheriff in Ying County, does he not care about this matter?"

Hearing this, Jing Qiaoyan shook her head and said, "The Lord Magistrate has his important affairs, and these refugees are not under his rule."

Jing Qiaoyan didn't say anything about the rest.

Zhao Hongming understood and didn't ask any more questions.

He walked to the old man's body and stopped.

Gao Yanshi next to him was like a roundworm in Zhao Hongming's stomach. He got off his horse, walked up to the old Taoist with small steps, and groped on him for a while.

He found a piece of parchment, as well as some wish stones and fragments of pills.

Gao Yanshi folded it carefully, presented it and said, "My lord."

Zhao Hongming spread out the parchment for a look, and found that it recorded a formation for refining human life.

It can capture the blood and vitality of a stranger, and then use it to strengthen itself and achieve the purpose of prolonging life.

Properly a class of evil skills.

From this, it can be roughly judged that Shangxianmen is also an extreme cult with a high probability.

If he wanted to learn this formation, he would have to keep filling it with other people's lives.

Zhao Hongming thought he was not a kind person, but he was not mad enough to take human life for such a thing.

He discarded the formation casually and said, "Burn it."

Gao Yanshi gladly accepted the order.

Zhao Hongming drove the horse: "It's been delayed for so long, let's go, let everyone arrive at Ying County before dark."

"Yes!"

Under Wu Qi's intention, all the horses brought by Lao Dao and the others were gathered together and carried behind them.

Although these horses are not good horses, they are still horses after all, and it is a pity to let them go like this.

Anyway, it turns out that they are all ownerless, and they can just be taken away as spoils of war.

With a determined face, Jing Qiaoyan put the body of her brother Fang Mingda on the horse's back, and slowly hung it behind Zhao Hongming and the others.

Chang Wubing, who was in the team, approached, lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, she..."

"As long as she doesn't come to bother me, I'll let her go." Zhao Hongming didn't care about this, and silently speeded up.

Jing Qiaoyan also hurriedly followed.

After walking for almost half a day, Zhao Hongming and his party entered Ying County smoothly.

There are ten cities in Ying County, and Zhao Hongming's palace is in Luling among the ten cities.

Luling is not far from the border of Ying County.

Zhao Hongming hurried on, and the group finally arrived at the foot of Luling City before dark.

The walls of Luling City are not tall, but they are very new.

At this time, there are many guards patrolling back and forth.

Jing Qiaoyan, who was following them, saw Luling, nodded to Zhao Hongming and others, bid farewell silently, and walked around elsewhere.

After Jing Qiaoyan left completely, Zhao Hongming's face twitched for a while before returning to its original appearance.

"Let's go, let's go into the city with Gu, and meet the sheriff for a while."

From what I heard along the way, Chen Shenghai, the prefect of Ying County, might not take him, the newly crowned King Wu of the Wei Kingdom, seriously.

Looking at the whole world, there are very few kings who are entrusted to be able to make a name for themselves.

Zhao Hongming glanced at the city gate, and walked over solemnly with a group of his men.

Starting today, this barren land officially ushered in Zhao Hongming, its nominal owner.

(End of this chapter)