Mountains and seas can be flat

Before Fang Zheng set off on the road, a meeting was held. The elders of the Chinese people, the heads of various departments and bureaus, and representatives of the armed forces all attended.Fang Zheng invited the mission to join him without any concealment, and raised the issue of security defense after he left.

"The snakes of Badian have come, and they will definitely come again." Fang Zhengdao also told Zu Jiang's mission, "If I leave, they are more likely to come."

Chang Ling quickly said: "If our ancestor Jiang's four-red flower flag is hung on the sentry tower, Badian will not dare to act rashly."

Fang Zhengdao: "Wouldn't that be your vassal state?"

Chang Ling frowned, looked at Zifeng, Zifeng knocked on the table, Chang Ling could only say, "Of course it's up to you to decide. But I have to say, many tribes have no chance to become our vassal state yet." .”

Fang Zheng didn't want to be Zu Jiang's vassal country at all. The mountains here are high and the roads are far away. Although it can shock the surroundings for a while, people will understand after a long time that it is too far away for Zu Jiang. It is difficult for them to send troops and their protection is limited.But if Fang Zheng agrees, he will have to make sacrifices after becoming a vassal state, and maybe some people will become slaves.So he didn't consider this method from the beginning.

The troops responsible for security were divided into two establishments by Fang Zheng, police and soldiers.The police maintain internal order, and the soldiers are responsible for external defense. Although there are only 500 pure soldiers who do not participate in labor, in fact, 4000 of them have force and weapons.The person in charge of the soldiers is the big bronze tooth of the Jiuli tribe. He said to the other party, "please rest assured, sir, if we can stop Badian once, we can stop it for the second time. Please go at ease, we will leave this time to us .”

Last time when some snakes in Badian came to tempt them, the whole people raised their weapons to repel them. Of course, Bingyi also stretched out his tentacles to help a lot.

Fang Zheng nodded and said: "You must be careful." He turned to the elder Ming Ye and said, "In the past, Badian was your suzerain country, and I gave you realgar powder. There are mining areas, and more mining is needed.”

The energy Fang Zheng and the others rely on for smelting comes from the magma geothermal heat of the nearby magnetic mine, where the mineral reserves are very rich.There is a detachment of soldiers dedicated to mining.There is also a lot of stone yellow in it, which can be ground into a lot of realgar powder.

"Also, Puniu is more familiar with the fighting methods of the Badian people, so he will direct the special defense." Puniu also attended the meeting, and he nodded.

"Although Yu Yi has not attacked so far, it is conservatively estimated that the other party must know that we are here." Fang Zheng looked around and said suddenly, "The other party wanted to blow up the Tianzhu Mountains many years ago for their beasts The army is passing." Fang Zheng took a deep look at Zifeng, and continued, "The opponent is good at using meat-eating beasts in battle, so..."

Meng Shisan said: "Our barbarians can eat tigers and leopards."

Fang Zheng shook his head, "Don't be careless, the beast is not omnipotent." The weakness of the beast, Fang Zheng will not mention it when the mission is present.

Zifeng suddenly patted the table five times, Changling looked very hesitant for a moment, squirmed her lips as if she wanted to compete with Zifeng, and finally sighed, "My lord said, please let your two companions go, in exchange, My lord will leave behind one of his beast companions to help you defend against Yu Yi."

Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows, "A beast companion?"

Zifeng's former animal companion was Ai Yebao, but two of them have died, and how much can one leopard be worth?Just as he was thinking, Zifeng blew, and exclamations came from outside the semi-open conference hall.

A wild beast ran to the door. It looked like a big fiery red leopard, but it had five tails and one horn. It had money-like leopard patterns on its body. The one horn turned to the right, and the five tails curled downward. His face was full of mighty and unruly expression.

Chang Ling said, "It's called Hide, it's very precious, very rare. It's a divine beast at the level of the leader of all beasts, as long as it—"

Hide suddenly raised his head and let out a roar, the sound was a bit like knocking on a stone, the sound of the wind whizzed by, and something changed in the surroundings in an instant, and a few barges were walking outside the courtyard, and they all lowered their waists and made a look. Defensive posture showing weakness and vigilance.

At the side of the Sun Moon Spring that Fang Zheng couldn't see, the old man suddenly got up uneasily, digging the pit, and nervously licked the little men one by one, as if to tell him: Don't go out.

"Hideous?" Fang Zheng looked at the red cloud-like animal standing at the door. It was so big that it could pass through the door frame and walked to Zifeng.Zifeng motioned for Fang Zheng to come over, then took Fang Zheng's hand and pressed it on the hideous horn together.Fang Zheng saw the animal's eyelids rolled up, and looked at Fang Zheng as if it was wise. After a long time, the horn finally shook slightly in Fang Zheng's hand.

Chang Ling had a jealous expression on her face. As the deputy commander of the Kunxiu Camp, she had done so many things for Zifeng, but she was not "recommended" by Zifeng to be recognized by the beast.Zifeng patted the table again, and she translated reluctantly, "That's it. You can order the hideous to do things now. As long as it is there, you don't have to worry about ordinary beasts, no matter how many they come." She endured again. Can't help complaining, "Unless Yu Yi sends Jin Luan, but it won't happen."

There are five-color luan species in Yuyi territory, and the Zhu Luan that Zifeng recruited is one, as well as Bai Luan, Qing Luan, Chu Luan, and Jin Luan.The golden luan is the most precious, and it rarely shows up at the Luan bird singing and dancing every year, so there is a saying in Yuyi, as long as you see the golden luan, you will have good luck, as long as there is a golden luan dancing this year, it must be auspicious harvest year.

And only soldiers will know how strong Jin Luan is.When the Yu Dynasty did not split into Yuyi and Xiazhu, Jinluan was one of the savior birds.He helped heroes defeat monsters, and formed a friendly beast alliance (or bird alliance?) with the king of the Yu Dynasty.Jin Luan is not fierce and irritable, nor does he strike easily.But as long as it is targeted, no living thing can survive from under its beak.

Zifeng glanced at Chang Ling like a warning, as if signaling her not to say too many irrelevant matters.Fang Zheng stroked the ferocious fur, and tried to say: "Do you understand? Then you go... to inspect the surroundings?"

He ran out ferociously, like a fiery whirlwind.Fang Zheng looked at Zifeng in a complicated mood, doubts flashed in his heart for a moment, Zifeng's animal companion wouldn't do anything here... This big leopard looks fierce, if it runs out to make trouble, How many people in Qinglongling must be scared.

As if he could read Fang Zheng's doubts, Zifeng pointed outside, and then pressed his and Fang Zheng's hearts respectively. Seeing that Fang Zheng was inexplicable, Chang Ling had no choice but to translate, "Don't worry...you are now, Mr. Zifeng , is the master of that ferocious head." Her expression became more and more gloomy, she was almost mad with jealousy, Zifeng subdued the ferocious with his own strength, but Fang Zheng didn't do anything, and he got it easily.Zifeng's so-called "resolve the hatred personally" is too costly.

Or to put it another way, Chang Ling's mind flashed the instructions given to her by the Second Kingdom Lord before departure, and the ruthless look in the depths of her eyes was fleeting.Anyway, when I came to the Chinese tribe, the invitation was still second, mainly to find out about Fang Zheng... Fortunately, she had already found out a lot of things last night, which seemed to have nothing to do with the suspicion of the king, and she went back to report before proceeding to the next step.

Fang Zheng then exchanged the hook and the fork, which is a cheap deal. Apart from increasing the manpower defense, they can only grow vegetables if they stay here, which is not good.

After solving the worries about defense, Fang Zheng packed everything up and went on the road. He decided not to bring anyone with him. First, he was the only one invited to the Yao Banquet. Second, the more people came, the greater the possibility of a conflict in Zujiang.If only he could retreat easily.Thirdly, he tried his best to keep all his vital forces for defense, so as to be more insured.

On the day Fang Zheng left, he finally saw how Zu Jiang's mission came.Zifeng took advantage of the fear, and now stays in the Chinese tribe.Chang Ling and the other two Anda were riding a big fox.

The high mountains and dense forests here are not suitable for wild birds to fly, nor for cattle and horses to walk.The big fox is nimble and light, and is covered in snow-white.Fang Zheng noticed that this fox was very strange, not only was it several times bigger than usual, it had the physique of a pony.And besides a big fluffy tail behind them, there is a round ball under the tail.

"This is the fox raised by the Tu Shan family." Chang Ling pointed to its round tail, "Among these foxes, very few of them can live to 50 years and can split three tails, and even less can live to 100 years and can split their tails." Split six tails. And after 200 years, you can split nine tails."

"Does Zu Jiang have a nine-tailed fox?"

Chang Ling said: "There is one, the Great Country Lord's. It split nine tails in the time of the former King Deng Bei, and it is now 250 years old."

Fang Zheng stuck out his tongue and thought, this must be a monster.

There were only three foxes left, the freed Cha'er and Gou'er rode one, the two Anda and Chang Ling rode one, and Zifeng and Fang Zheng rode one.Fang Zheng felt that the feeling of riding a fox was really not very good. Its back was soft, not as solid as a straddle, and it was still a little narrow for two people to ride.I heard from Chang Ling that it has been trained and has a strong load-bearing capacity.Fang Zheng was a little crowded sitting, but it climbed up and down extremely fast.

Zifeng sat behind Fang Zheng, with his hands on Fang Zheng's shoulders at first, and when the fox walked through the dense forest where the sun couldn't reach, he put his arms around Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng was still wearing his long black cape, carefully hugging the fur on the fox's neck, always worried about slipping off.Later Zifeng has nowhere to hold him and naturally hugs him, he doesn't care, as long as he doesn't—

Fang Zheng suddenly froze.He was so angry that he stretched out a hand to break him, but the fox just jumped over a swamp. Fang Zheng almost slipped down with only one hand to keep his balance. He was still in shock and grabbed the fox's neck with both hands.Zifeng was still unable to speak, and his movements seemed to be admonishing "you have to hold on tight".

Fang Zheng roared in a low voice: "Let go!"

Chang Ling in front turned around suspiciously and asked loudly, "What's wrong?"

These elite fighters of Zu Jiang had excellent eyes and ears, and could hear their voices, but Fang Zheng's cloak was very large, and the sunlight that leaked into the dense forest was limited, so the other party could not see his expression.

Fang Zheng froze again, and said with restraint: "No...it's okay."

No matter how bad things were between him and Zifeng, he didn't want to tell others about it.

Fang Zheng's face was flushed, and he opened his mouth to say something, but he was afraid of being overheard by those people.

Zifeng began to write strokes again, Fang Zheng complained in his heart how to teach you even if you can't speak, and teaching at this time is really crazy.

After Zifeng stroked the strokes, he pointed to the tree next to him, making Fang Zheng understand that the word he wrote just now was "tree"...

He couldn't scold, he couldn't hide, he couldn't hide, he couldn't scream, and he couldn't separate his hands to fight with him. Fang Zheng was so self-defeating that he almost pulled the fox's fur off.The big fox seemed to know that they didn't do anything good on its back, and retaliated by picking those steep and bumpy places to walk.Fang Zheng was turned upside down, Zifeng hugged him tightly with one hand, and the strength of the other hand was also very unstable with the ups and downs, and he kept writing two words repeatedly.

Since Zifeng didn't point to it, Fang Zheng didn't know what these two words were. He thought, could it be the name of this little beast, or some impure word, but Zifeng wrote it over and over again, and at a certain moment suddenly let Fang Zheng had a kind of heart-like tacit understanding, the feeling of being connected with each other several times in the past.

Those two words are... like.

--Really?But I think those two words are more like "once".We were indeed very close, Fang Zheng thought to himself, it's not that I didn't have long-term nostalgic expectations for you in certain moments.Even if it is fleeting, there is no friendship that a second person can have.

This is also one of Fang Zheng's few interpersonal relationships that can be called bondage after being exiled in the world of mountains and seas.Everything here is simple and primitive, and most of the people stay in the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation.Only Lian Zifeng was different.

Later, Fang Zheng went up to the high hill to overlook the scenery he had seen on Zhu Luan's back, and he felt more and more deeply that the past was only the past.

The fox jumped very fast, and the distance between them was not too short. The mountains were high and the forest was dense, and the sunlight shining into the canopy was very little. The movements covered under the large black robe could not be noticed, and only the fox and the two people on his back knew.Fang Zheng snorted, breathing heavily.

It wasn't until the big fox finally jumped out of the dense forest and ran into a relatively spacious and open river depression, exposed to the bright sunlight, that Zifeng withdrew his hand in a still insatiable way.The big fox beat Zifeng with its big fluffy tail in dissatisfaction, but Zifeng didn't take it seriously.Fang Zheng turned his head and gave him a hard look, but Zifeng even smiled at him.

What are you laughing laughing!Fang Zheng was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

Fang Zheng resisted not having a seizure, and only listened to Chang Ling in front of him saying, "We are about to enter the border between Yuyi and Badian, so be careful."

The route they came from Zu Jiang passed through several countries, and they walked all the borders, so they were careful not to be discovered.There are some places on the border that are uninhabited, but there are also mobile outposts, and it is a fierce battle to encounter them.The result of the war between Yu Yi and Badian a few years ago was inconclusive, so the border line has always been ambiguous and often turbulent.

Zifeng suddenly clapped his hands twice, jumped off the fox's back, and drew out the bow, arrow and long knife on his back, and the rest of the people followed suit.Fang Zheng only heard the sound of a large meadow being trampled suddenly in front of him, followed by a loud cry, and a gray-black proboscis sticking out from behind the dense and tall grass, followed by a huge body.

It was an elephant with a mouse in a small cage tied to its trunk.On its broad back sat a heavily armed slave.Around the elephant, there are several long snakes, which are led by long chains by the snake trainer, and dozens of slaves holding weapons are formed in formation on the outside.This is a mobile post on the border of Badian.

Zifeng didn't need to say much, Changling and the others immediately acted, if they didn't strangle the mobile whistle immediately, they would shoot a loud arrow to send a message, alarming the defense forces of the entire area.

All in all, this is the first time that Fang Zheng has seen the combat effectiveness of the cooperation of elite fighters.

In the past, he either fought alone, or his eyes had not recovered and he could not "see with his own eyes".

The moment Zifeng and the others made their move, Fang Zheng instantly understood that this was a unilateral victory.

Chang Ling blew out a short arrow and shot open the door of the mouse cage on the elephant's trunk. The mouse jumped on the elephant's trunk, and the elephant immediately swung its trunk and stomped on it in a panic. He trampled to death a snake trainer and two slaves around him.

The slave supervisor was sitting on the back of the elephant, just about to ignite the signal tool in his hand - a half-hollow torch tied to a water-soaked cowhide band, which can fly into the air and make a whistling sound after being lit - Zifeng has caught With the trunk of the elephant, he jumped up twice and chopped off the head of the slave prisoner with a single knife. When Gululu's head rolled down, his flint had not yet been lit.

The mouse got into the elephant's nose. At this time, the elephant went completely mad. It knelt down on the ground with its front feet and hit the ground with its head and nose hard. It rubbed against the tree and nearly rolled into the muddy water.It was also difficult for Zifeng to stand firmly on the elephant's back. He kicked the slave prison's body off, grabbed Ji Le tightly, and began to tame the elephant.It went crazy at this moment, and even Zifeng couldn't calm it down for a while. He struggled to climb towards the elephant's trunk like stepping on stilts, and was about to take out the mouse, but if he was not careful, he would be thrown off by the elephant. Stomp hard, the action is very thrilling.