Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

When he was about to approach the tribe, Lin Zhao turned to the rear and said, "Hush! Put out all the torches."

"Did they find us?" Li Xu squeezed to his side and asked.

"Probably not, no ambush was found."

"Look, there is a fire over there, it seems that the human voice is also coming from there." Lei Yang said, pointing to the light in the distance.

He Zun took the initiative to ask Ying, "Subordinates, go and have a look." Before Li Xu could stop him, he had already sprinted out like a night cat, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Lei Yang praised: "Guard Mu's qinggong is very good."

Thinking of that person, Lin Zhao nodded in his heart. The head of the guards next to the prince was selected after countless tests and competitions. In terms of martial arts alone, he was not as good as He Zun.

Li Xu's eyes flashed, and he asked him in a joking tone: "How does it compare to General Kou?"

"This..." Lei Yang's expression froze, and he faked a smile and said, "I really don't know about this, I haven't seen General Kou use force before."

Li Xu didn't believe what he said at all, but it was fine if he didn't say it. When he arrived in Minzhou, he would know when he saw someone.

Not long after, He Zun came back, suppressing his anger and said: "This subordinate can't understand what they are saying, seeing the twenty Habayashi soldiers tied to the pillars, surrounded by a pile of firewood, it seems that they are about to be set on fire. them."

Li Xu was startled, and when he was about to speak, Lei Yang said hastily, "Has Guard Mu seen their totem?"

"What is a totem?"

Lei Yang danced and gestured: "It's the pattern carved on the pillar, maybe it's an animal or a strange person."

He Zun thought for a while and said, "There are eagle-like birds depicted on the pillars, but they don't quite look like them."

"Oops!" Lei Yang told Li Xu anxiously: "I've heard about this tribe. Back then, a caravan from my Lei family was captured by them. I heard that they would roast people after they caught them. They eat half of the gods offered to them.”

Many people around them vomited while holding their stomachs. Li Xu also had an acid regurgitation when he heard this. He frowned and asked, "Is this news reliable? Did someone see it with their own eyes?" Just because people are indigenous doesn't mean they can eat people.

Many times, the conflicts between the two parties are caused by the language barrier, and part of the reason is that they are xenophobic and think that outsiders are enemies.

"That's not true. Lei has also heard it from others."

Li Xu didn't bother to find the answer, no matter whether these natives wanted to burn the Habayashi army to death or roasted and ate meat, he would stop it.

He asked He Zun, "How many are they?"

"The number should be around [-], half of them are young adults, the rest are women and children, and the elderly are rare."

Li Xu thought about it carefully, "Did you see their leader?"

"I don't know which one is." He Zun shook his head.

"The leader is usually the one who wears the most or has the most decorations on his head." There may be a skull cane in his hand, this is what Li Xu found out from his impressions.

"There is really a special man. He is the only one who wears a cloth shirt. He is wrapped in a black robe from head to toe, and a ghost mask is painted on his face."

"That's the priest of their tribe." Lei Yang said.

Li Xu glanced at the place where the fire was shining, "That's easy. He Zun, take advantage of the chaos to capture that priest alive later, and let's see if we can exchange hostages."

Lei Yang said excitedly: "It must be no problem. The priest is the most powerful and important person in the tribe. They must not dare to ignore his life and death."

Li Xu didn't dare to act rashly. He asked everyone to look for something that could be used as a shield. The opponent obviously had archers. Without shields to cover them, the casualties would be huge.

At first they cut thick tree bark to make shields, and later Li Xu discovered a kind of thick vine, which is also very resilient when weaved.

These things are not difficult to make, and soon there will be a crude shield in hand.

"The lord is waiting here, and there will be strict doctors to correct them." Lin Zhao asked those who had no combat effectiveness to stay, and sent another [-] Yulin troops to protect them.

Lei Yang himself also stayed, but let his guards participate in the rescue operation, which increased Li Xu's affection for him.

Lin Zhao didn't dare to underestimate this group of savages. He didn't react when he was touched at the door of his house. Either the other party was too vigilant, or he was too confident and had already made sufficient preparations.

Lin Zhao assigned a hundred forest troops to play the vanguard. Sure enough, there were many traps scattered outside the slope near their residence. At first, the first person stepped on the trap without realizing it. Fortunately, the people around him quickly helped him, otherwise He was about to be pierced by thousands of arrows.

After that, Lin Zhao asked everyone to search the ground inch by inch with spears, and found dozens of traps, and the people behind avoided the traps.

"Stop!" Lin Zhao suddenly roared: "Pay attention to cover." As soon as he finished speaking, a rain of arrows came through the air, and the Habayashi soldiers in the front row quickly raised their shields and shrunk their bodies. behind the shield.

Fortunately, the weapons of this group of aborigines are very primitive. They use wooden arrows and bamboo arrows, which cannot penetrate thick shields at all.

"Go!" After a wave of arrows rained, Lin Zhao gave an order, and the Yulin soldiers rushed forward with their shields on their backs.

The location of this tribe is halfway up the mountain. They collectively live in a natural karst cave. Outside the karst cave is an activity place and a row of walls made of thick tree trunks.

After rushing to the wall, there were no arrows shot out. Lin Zhao guessed that the opponent must have no arrows, so he boldly let the team charge forward.

The wooden fence was high but had no defensive power. Lin Zhao easily broke through it, and the Yulin army rushed in immediately, facing a group of wild men with spears.

Ye Changqing tentatively shouted: "Quickly release our people, or your entire clan will be destroyed!"

His voice was so loud and powerful that his side trembled three times when they heard it, but this group of savages rushed forward like deaf people, which showed that they really didn't understand.

The other party babbled a long string of birdsong, but Lin Zhao and others didn't understand a single word, but it was not difficult to guess from the other party's demeanor and actions that the other party didn't take them seriously at all.

There were about the same number of people on both sides, and both women and children among the savages took up weapons to confront them head-on. Seeing the opportunity, He Zun quietly approached the priest wrapped in black robes, and was about to knock him unconscious with a hand knife, but the other party suddenly turned around. Come.

The two stood facing each other, one with a golden mask on his face, and the other with a ghost mask painted on his face. Their auras were very similar, and both of them were stunned for a moment.

He Zun first waved the big knife over, and saw the other party hastily dodged, shouted a few words, and then saw all the savages around rushing towards this side.

He Zun killed a savage with a single knife, and was about to grab the priest's clothes when he saw a green snake emerge from the priest's sleeve, spitting out a letter and biting towards He Zun.

He Zun had no choice but to retreat, but it was difficult to get close to the priest.

Fortunately, because of the priest's call for help, most of the savages surrounded him and did not dare to run around, which reduced the number of enemies in other directions. Lin Zhao led a team to quickly rescue them, and a large force held the savages back. He also went well in rescuing people here.

After saving people, Lin Zhao didn't intend to go to war with this group of natives, and ordered everyone to retreat quickly.

He Zun felt unwilling, and glanced at the black-robed man surrounded by the crowd from a distance, and suddenly snatched the bow and arrow of a Habayashi soldier beside him, pulled the bow, wound it, loosened his finger, and the sharp arrow flew towards the black-robed man like a broken bamboo. shoot out.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the savages moved closer to the black-robed man. They didn't mind using their bodies to block the arrows. He Zun's arrows pierced five consecutive arrows before they stopped.

The Yulin soldiers were also stunned. They knew that the guard surnamed Mu had great martial arts skills, but they didn't expect his archery skills to be so superb.

Seeing that one arrow failed to hit the man, He Zun took out two more arrows and shot them at the same time. This time, fewer people dared to face the arrows directly. The wild people seemed to be frightened by his arrow just now, and their subconscious actions were avoid.

One arrow was blocked by a tall savage with an axe, and the other arrow hit the black-robed man smoothly, but the man dodged a bit, and the sharp arrow only hit the shoulder.

"Guard Mu, get out," Lin Zhao suggested.

He Zun nodded, returned the bow and arrow to the Habayashi Army, and left the tribe at the head.

Lin Zhao looked back at the wild man who quickly retreated into the cave, and led the Habayashi army to retreat quickly.

Meeting Li Xu and the others, everyone didn't dare to stay around here, and led the people to grope forward overnight.

After walking for a while, Lin Zhao asked someone to light a torch, looked around, saw nothing but trees, and didn't know which direction was right.

Li Xu roughly calculated that they should have walked for an hour. Although they didn't go far, they were not afraid of the other party catching up. He said to Lin Zhao, "Let's find a place to rest and leave after dawn."

Lin Zhao also knew that it was dangerous to drive at night. This place should still be a place where wild people often move about. There are relatively few wild animals, so it would be hard to say if you go farther.

Everyone hasn't eaten all day and night, and they are hungry and tired. If they encounter a large number of wolves, there will definitely be casualties.

They walked for another 10 minutes and found a relatively flat and loose grass field where they planned to spend the night.

The night in the mountains was extremely cold, Li Xu reckoned that it was almost midnight, he was shivering from the cold wrapped in a thick fur coat, the little princess fell asleep in his arms, maybe it was because of fright He fell asleep and frowned.

Li Xu pulled down her hat, covered her ears, patted her on the back lightly, and whispered, "Don't be afraid, we're safe."

The little princess gave a warning, rubbed her cheek against Li Xu's chest, found a comfortable position and continued to sleep, but her brows were already relaxed.

Li Xu went to look at the disadvantaged groups in the team. After all the tossing, the Yulin army was exhausted, not to mention Liu Shu and Yan Yizheng's grandparents.

"Is the old doctor okay?" He found Yan Chen and asked.

Yan Chen wrapped Doctor Yan tightly with a sleeping bag, and then ran all the way with his back on his back. Thanks to his strength, otherwise he would really not be able to keep up with the team.

"I fell asleep now." Yan Chen whispered.

Li Xu sighed, and said in a low voice, "I'll ask Mu Shiwei to make a bed for the old doctor to lie down for a while, and you should take the time to rest. I don't know what will happen tomorrow."

Yan Chen nodded seriously, "I understand."

Liu Shu came over with a quilt, and wanted to make a bed for Li Xu and the little princess on the ground, but it was covered with weeds and wet, making it impossible to sleep.

Seeing this, He Zun cleared out a flat ground with a knife, then cut down some branches of similar thickness and spread them on the ground, and then spread a layer of woolen quilt, so that he could lie down at least.

There was only one bed of wool quilt left, and a lot of luggage was lost in the chase just now, and this bed was kept because Liu Shu kept carrying it on his back.

Li Xu simply asked Yan Yizheng and the little princess to lie on the bed, while himself and Yan Chen leaned on the tree trunk to rest.

Li Xu saw that everyone was like this, so he made a suggestion: "Those who are not afraid of falling from the tree can climb to sleep on the tree. It is more comfortable to lie down than to sit."

The most indispensable thing in this mountain is the tree. If the schedule is not rushed, Li Xu will even build a tree house on the tree, so that the little princess can sleep well.

Li Xu fell asleep almost instantly, his body was very cold, but he couldn't bear the exhaustion, so he curled up and hugged himself, his embarrassing appearance didn't have the slightest aura of a prince or grandson.

He Zun was by his side, watching his sleeping position, his eyes turned red. In private, Li Xu told him many times that everything would be fine, and everything would be fine when he was in the fief, but He Zun was not stupid, so he naturally understood their situation How difficult the future is.

During this time, Li Xu gave He Zun a lot of psychological counseling.He is not a professional psychological counselor, so he doesn't know what method is good, so he can only talk to him when there is nothing to do, sometimes talk about their days in the East Palace, sometimes talk about the interesting things they encountered on the road, and even more. Most of the time, it is about future plans and expectations.

Li Xu drew a grand blueprint for He Zun. In his plan, South Vietnam will be prosperous and stable in the future, where the people live and work in peace and contentment. Can live very well.

Sometimes He Zun would smile just thinking about that scene. He knew that Li Xu was comforting him, but when people have hope, they have the motivation to forge ahead. It's getting weaker and weaker, and people have to live well in front of them before they can think more.