Demon Emperor

Chapter 85 Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road

Ruan Hu's reaction was quick enough to be called decisive.

However, the situation changed even faster.

Ya Jun.

In the city, Prefect Gu Anguo was summoning his generals to discuss military matters, while Garrison Commander Yan Su was nearby, and Gu Anguo was discussing matters with him.

At that moment, bad news arrived: someone had entered the hall.

"Report!"

"People from Baoguan have arrived."

In an instant, everyone's expression turned serious, and Gu Anguo immediately had someone come in.

Gu Anguo ordered, "Let him in quickly."

Messenger: "I've seen you..."

Gu Anguo was very impatient: "No need for formalities, speak."

Messenger: "The combined forces of Nanzhao and the Qiang have breached Baoguan City."

Gu Anguo stood up abruptly: "What?"

With the loss of Baoguan City, the Nanzhao people and the cavalry of those barbarian tribes could advance unimpeded, and the situation could be said to have deteriorated to the extreme.

The garrison commander Yan Su also came down and asked the visitor for details.

"The Nanzhao and Qiang armies have now split into two routes. One route went east, down the Qingyi River, and its number was about 30,000."

"The route winds around the southern foothills of Mengcha Mountain, with a population of approximately 20,000."

Yan Su didn't need to look at the map before she spoke immediately.

"We need to send troops to Lu County and Ming County. We need to send people to inform them to prepare. They are probably headed for them."

At this point, the messenger mentioned something else, something he had seen on the road.

"On the way here, we discovered that a vanguard cavalry had set off ahead of us, but they only cared about speeding along the way and ignored everything else, and they were marching all night long."

Yan Su: "How many people are there?"

Messenger: "About three or four thousand light cavalry!"

So many cavalry?
What are you trying to do?
Yan Su pondered for a moment what the other side's purpose was in gathering so many light cavalry together.

A topographical map of the area surrounding Lu County, Ming County, and Gongcheng instantly appeared in his mind as he considered one possibility after another. Then, he suddenly thought of something.

The moment Yan Su thought of it, her scalp tingled.

He quickly looked up at the prefect, his eyes instantly becoming incredibly sharp.

"Their target is not Gongcheng; they are heading straight for Xijing City."

For an instant.

Everyone felt a chill run through their bodies.

"What is this doing?"

"You don't even want a way out?"

"Have these Qiang and barbarian dogs gone mad?"

The hall erupted in chaos, with everyone chiming in.

Even if these three thousand cavalrymen reach the walls of Xijing, what can they do? Can cavalry alone conquer Xijing? That's wishful thinking.

but.

No one can guarantee what will happen when these three thousand Qiang and Ba cavalrymen arrive at the gates of Xijing.
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Under Baoguan City.

All the troops gathered here, enjoying this unprecedented victory.

Slaughter, plunder, and rape.

Everyone is unleashing the evil and desires of human nature.

In the chaotic camp.

The horse-faced god was enshrined on a large cart drawn by three horses, with the shrine placed high up, accompanied by prayer flags and colorful banners.

On the shrine.

The shadow of the horse-faced god, along with the twisting of the bone statue, floated high above, looking down at the treasure pass.

Then he looked down along the undulating terrain.

My gaze passed through city walls and river passes, and I could vaguely see the former capital city of Xijing.

He sensed that his opportunity had come again.

"It's just strange, where did all my flying mounts go?"

Recently, Rima-men-shin tried to contact Chitian, the general of the Flying Cavalry Capital, but not only Chitian could not be reached, but everyone else had also disappeared.

It was early morning.

Yi Qiang led his people to kneel before the shrine and began their daily prayers, asking the Horse God to help them achieve victory in every battle.

This time, Ma Shen not only responded, but also said something to him.

"This deity can make you invincible, as if you were born with a destiny."

The Qiang general was overjoyed and kept kowtowing.

Subsequently.

He immediately stood up and went to the front of a large tent in a camp.

This area is inhabited by both ethnic minorities and Qiang people, but now they all obey one person.

Foreign general Longda.

Currently, the general Longda commands over seven thousand Qiang soldiers, making him a temporary leader.

They were arguably among the most influential figures in the allied forces, second only to the Great Ghost Lord of Erhai in Nanzhao.

Inside the camp, the generals were making a ruckus, each wanting to go somewhere, and Ronda, the temporary leader, could mostly only mediate.

He was also very troubled by this situation.

at this time.

The Qiang general suddenly stepped forward, knelt down, and said.

Give me three thousand light cavalry, and I can take Xijing City!

The tent fell silent. Ronda, who was at the head of the table, immediately looked over and spoke.

"No joking in the army!"

The Qiang general said, "As long as our people reach the walls of Xijing, Xijing will surely fall into chaos, and then the entire Xicheng will collapse without a fight."

Everyone got excited, thinking the proposal seemed feasible.

On the day.

After consulting with the Great Ghost Lord of Erhai Lake.

The Qiang general then led three thousand light cavalrymen on a journey, carrying only ten days' worth of provisions, and hurried along the ancient road.

Regardless of whether they were from the barbarian tribes or the Qiang people, they were all anxiously yelling.

In their eyes, could there be a more prosperous place in the world than Xijing City, where mountains of gold and silver and countless beautiful women awaited them?

And even more excited and eager than them.

But it wasn't a person.

Leading the charge in the army was the "chariot" enshrining the horse-faced god, which was actually just a stand for the shrine. He was the fastest runner, the most eager to return home, and the one who wished he could turn the entire Xicheng into a sea of ​​fire and a hellish inferno.

"Hahahaha!"

"Ruan Hu!"

"You didn't expect me to be back so soon, did you?"

No one understood better than him what it meant for such a cavalry force to charge to the gates of Xijing at this moment.

Once his troops reach the walls of Xijing, there's no need to even attack the city; the entire Xicheng region will immediately descend into chaos.

At this moment, Horse-Faced God wished he could rush to Ruan Hu's side and see what kind of expression he had.
“I’m going to tell that brat Ruan Hu that I, Lord Ma, have returned.”

As long as we can overthrow Ruan Hu.

Even at his worst, he could still establish a new rule over a region of the underworld, sitting high in his temple and wielding power and influence.

Moreover, in such a chaotic world, who knows what will happen next?

"came back!"

"They're all back!"

He can go back to being that Horse King.

No, it's Emperor Ma.

Everything seemed to be real, no longer a dream.

With each step his steed took forward, the Western Capital of his dream drew closer, and the Horse-Faced God felt he was getting closer to reclaiming everything.

The horse-faced god was extremely anxious, his eyes almost popping out of their pupils, bobbing up and down with the swaying horse.

"I will take back everything I lost here with my own hands."

just.

Unbeknownst to him, while he was leading the Qiang and Fan vanguard towards Xijing City, Ruan Hu from Xijing City was also heading this way.

A vanguard cavalry unit also broke away from the main force, wanting to get to the battlefield first.
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Thick fog blanketed the canyon.

After a day-and-night raid, the Horse-Faced God, controlling the Qiang general, had led his men to the front of the Thousand-Foot Pass.

He was so eager that he couldn't wait until dawn.

Before dawn, he ordered the Qiang generals to urge everyone to set off.

Upon arriving at the pass, the thick morning fog enveloped the canyon, reducing visibility to less than thirty paces.

Beyond this point lies a vast plain, where they can roam freely.

At this moment, the Qiang general asked his men, "Where are the scouts?"

With no one responding, he finally said, "He's not coming back."

And at the very front.

Beneath the towering and majestic Qianzhang Pass.

Riding a horse, the horse-faced god, clinging to the shrine, gazes up at the high mountain.

Even ghosts and gods feel awe and pressure from the power of heaven and earth.

At the same time, he also sensed something approaching from the perspective of ghosts and gods, and even heard the roars and hisses of beasts.

This is abnormal; this is not something ordinary animals could do.

"what sound?"

Horse-faced God had already sensed something, but without his warning, the Qiang general had already ordered everyone to stop.

"stop!"

"stop!"

But by then it was too late.

One figure after another appeared on the high ground to the east, all of them riding on "horses".

Whether human or "horse," they all looked down at them with an eerie gaze, which chilled them to the bone.

As the horse-faced god looked at those figures, he not only felt that these people were extremely familiar, but also smelled a familiar scent.

Soon, he looked at one of the figures and shouted.

"Red Sky?"

"Why are you here?"

He finally saw his flying cavalry.

The horse-faced god was somewhat surprised, but immediately sensed that something was wrong.

The sun rose behind those people.

To dispel the thick fog.

The endless golden light covered the earth, making not only the figures clearer, but also revealing the "horses" they rode.

It turned out that not only his flying cavalry had come.

Even his demonic white-haired companion came along.

But such a scene appeared like a nightmare to the eyes of the horse-faced god.

The horse-faced god let out a roar, but apart from the Qiang general, no one else could hear it.

"No, it's him!"

Accompanied by a roar from the horse-faced god.

The cavalry general, who was surrounded by everyone on the high ground, lowered his head and looked down sideways.

Then, he spurred his horse and charged down the slope.

As it charged down, the figure simultaneously drew its bow and pulled its arrow from its horse, the movements fluid and full of powerful beauty.

"call out!"

With a single arrow, the Qiang general, who had been assured by Lord Ma of being invincible and blessed by destiny, fell from his horse.

He was dead, with only one eye still staring wide-eyed in disbelief.

He was an existence bestowed with a divine mandate by the gods.

The show ended before we even entered?

Immediately afterwards, one after another divine riders followed the figure and charged down.

The golden light of the sun shone from behind them onto their armor, turning them entirely gold and creating a flowing golden wave on the hillside.

Extremely beautiful.

The Qiang people below, witnessing this scene, panicked terribly, and even their horses became chaotic.

On top of the shrine.

The horse-faced god's face became extremely ferocious, twisting, deforming, elongating, and deteriorating.

The malevolent ghost emitted a soaring black aura, and its body swelled up irregularly.

Its appearance became even uglier and more ferocious than those evil spirits that had emerged from the deepest part of the White Horse Heaven that I had seen before.

"Ruan Hu!"

"You murderous bastard!"

(End of this chapter)