244, meet the lord
"The demonic chaos last year, more than 300,000 people in Baiye County were killed by demons, and none of them survived. They were basically a dead city.
Later, after Tongling was restored, several people went to the city to find a lot of gold, silver and treasures, probably left by those who had not had time to escape. After this spread, many casual cultivators and even the forces of nearby counties were moved. In addition, my Hou family did not send anyone to take care of it, so many people went to the city to pick up bargains.
At first, there was nothing wrong with it. Many people got the benefits and spread everywhere that there was a lot of things in the city that no one took, which attracted more people to go in. Then something happened at the end of the year before yesterday."
"What's wrong?"
"Haunted!"
"It should be a demon?"
"How did the elder brother guessed it?"
"It's normal for 400,000 resentful spirits to breed demons. At first, I didn't do anything. I first threw out the bait to attract more warriors. This is obviously the method of demons, specifically seducing those warriors who are obsessed with greed. How did the Tongling Rebellion come? Isn't it just Miss Red..."
"Big Brother."
At the gate of Baiye County, Hou Yuxiao was talking to Hou Yuling. The incident in Baiye County was almost the same as the Tongling Rebellion. Naturally, he immediately guessed that it was a demon who was causing trouble. He was about to compare the Tongling incident, but was suddenly interrupted by Hou Yuling. When he looked back, he found that she was signaling herself to look at Hou Yuduan with a strange look.
Seeing Hou Yuduan in a daze on the side, he immediately realized that he shouldn't have brought up the girl Hong in front of Lao Wu. After sighing slightly in his heart, he deliberately changed the subject and asked, "What happened later?"
"We didn't know about this, but it was later that the matter was a big deal. We found that there were also warriors in the clan, so we took it seriously. It was not important to investigate this. After investigation, we found that there were thousands of people who died before and after this incident.
Later, Lao Wu and Lao Si took the Houmen to solve all the demons in the city. In order not to cause any major troubles, we simply blocked all the places and did not allow anyone to come."
In this case, this place should be a dead city. Hou Yuxiao felt the surging blood and energy coming from it. Thinking that when he just talked about Zhaoyang Army, Hou Yuduan asked him to come here, he had an answer in his heart. Hou Yuduan's next answer was indeed not as expected.
"Baiye County is an empty city. After the incident of demons, we blocked it again, and no one came. This place is hidden enough, and the infrastructure in the city is quite complete. After I returned from Hedong in April, I changed this place to my Hou family's Baiye Army camp. The 50,000 Zhaoyang Army and 5,000 Red Flame Army of the clan are stationed here, which not only facilitates their daily practice, but also effectively avoids others' spying."
Hou Yuxiao nodded slightly. It was fine for Zhaoyang Army. The five thousand Red Flame Army, which had practiced the Holy Military Classic, was the family's biggest reliance and trump card at present. Naturally, it could not be announced to the public with great fanfare. Then this Baiye Camp is indeed a good place for soldiers.
"Brother, go in and have a look?"
"good!"
Hou Yuxiao was already a little impatient. When Hou Yuduan reached out to invite him, he immediately rode his horse towards the city gate, and all four people behind him hurriedly followed behind.
The city gates of Baiye County are very dilapidated. Although the cast iron gates are still there, they are covered with weeds and no one has cleared the mottled blood. You can vaguely see how cruel and bloody the catastrophe brought by the demon two years ago was.
Not only no one takes care of this city gate, but it has obviously been a long time since no one has passed by here. If someone occasionally passes here, the weeds will not grow so tall. After Hou Yuxiao saw it, he immediately showed a puzzled look at Hou Yuduan and wanted to ask what was going on.
"Gao Changlong, please pay homage to the head of the family!"
A burly figure in red armor suddenly jumped out from the side of the city gate and bowed to Hou Yuxiao. It was Gao Changlong, the eldest brother of the three brothers of the Hou family, the Gao family, who joined the Dragon, Tiger and Leopard two years ago.
"Get up, Yu Duan told you the news I'm coming?"
There was a sense of curiosity in Hou Yuxiao's eyes. Gao Changlong's cultivation level was only in the third level of Gangqi and the Dan-Hanging Stage. He knew it when the breath moved before he appeared, but the other party had obviously been waiting here for a long time. He couldn't help but ask more questions, thinking that Hou Yuduan told him in advance.
"It's not the fifth master. In fact, when the head of the family and his five members were left with five people, we already knew in advance, so we waited here!"
I knew it after fifty miles away? Hou Yuxiao's expression suddenly looked a little curious. Gao Changlong led the five people into the city from the path on the other side, while explaining the reason to him.
"The fifth young master specifically instructed that the Red Flame Army is the most important secret of our Hou family. Therefore, in addition to blocking the Baiye Camp and not allowing anyone to come in, we should also beware of other people who are interested in spying. Therefore, we have set up scout checkpoints on the official roads along the way. Although the scouts have low cultivation levels, they are good at hiding, and their mission is only to peek at the visitors on the official roads. Without revealing their breath, it is difficult for people to discover them.
After they find the visitor, they will pass the message layer by layer in the form of arrows. If we know in advance, we will make arrangements to avoid being spying on by outsiders!”
When Hou Yuxiao heard this, his eyes lit up slightly. The scout sent a message. It was not a very advanced thing, but it was a sign that the Hou army was on the right track. However, when he thought about it, he immediately realized that the measures of the Red Flame Army were learned from the army of the Dajin and the Demon Sect in the past two years.
The abandoned city gate was already overgrown with weeds, but after pushing a thick weed, a passage about three meters wide appeared like dark willows and flowers. Although Hou Yuxiao and the other two rode their horses and followed Gao Changlong into the passage, there were only those who showed curiosity and excitement on their faces, and only those who had just returned from Hedong and Hou Yucheng.
The third and fourth brothers and fifth brothers have been staying in Hexi. They are planning to establish Baiye Camp. In terms of familiarity, I am afraid that Gao Changlong who has been staying here may not be as good as them. However, the three of them have smiles on the corners of their mouths, and their eyes are always focused on Hou Yuxiao and Hou Yucheng, which obviously makes people want to see their jokes.
"Fifth Master's plan is to use this place as the entrenchment of all the troops of our Hou family in the future. After a demonic rebellion, Baiye County was already in name only. Therefore, the fifth Master named this place Baiye Camp, and we all call it that!"
As soon as he stepped into the city, the first thing that caught his eye was a ruin. Gao Changlong continued to walk in with the five people for about three miles before finally seeing a wooden shed that could not be seen. When Hou Yuxiao saw these wooden sheds, a trace of guess appeared in his eyes and asked, "Is this, the stable?"
"The head of the family can tell at a glance, it's really amazing!"
Gao Changlong smiled and pointed to the spacious and somewhat undecent stable, and said softly: "The Baiye Camp is divided into two parts. The first part is the stable. We have built a total of 100,000 independent wooden sheds, including supporting manger canals, facilities in the horse sheds, warehouses for placing blood-lotting and evil weeds, door numbers, roads in the middle, etc., specifically for soldiers to use them to placate war horses."
No wonder there is no horses, and there are 100,000 wooden sheds. Before the beginning of the war in Hedong, the family bought a total of 600 war horses when they went to Xingnan Prefecture. Over the past year, they must have bought a lot of them one after another. However, as far as Hou Yuxiao knows, there are currently less than 10,000 war horses in the clan, and most of them are ordinary war horses. In other words, the Hou family has only used less than one-tenth of this large stable, so it is normal to have so many empty.
"This is a precaution. With the current situation in the clan, so many war horses are enough for us. However, as our Hou army gradually expands and grows, this stable will come in handy by then!"
Hearing Hou Yuxiao's words, Gao Changlong nodded and respectfully extended his hand to invite him to continue walking in. After walking in for more than ten miles, Hou Yuxiao indeed saw the stable that had been opened.
The roads in the stable were smooth, and many soldiers wearing armor were walking around with trucks of blood-red fodder, putting feed on each stable. Seeing the scattered war horses, Hou Yuxiao's face suddenly showed a hint of excitement.
This war horse is considered a strategic material. Even ordinary war horses are equivalent to warriors with a second or third level of body opening. They need at least seventh level of body opening to ride. While the top-grade war horses are almost equivalent to warriors with a fifth level of body opening to ride. They are full of energy and are wild and difficult to tame. At least they need to be warriors with a tenth level of body opening to ride.
Not to mention the warriors of the Hou family, the tens of thousands of war horses in the stable can be used to show the strength of the Hou family by pulling them out alone.
"Last January, I bought 3,000 war horses from Xiongyun. In June this year, the fourth brother went to Jianye Mansion and bought 7,000 horses. Of course, these are ordinary war horses, but even ordinary war horses, the price per horse is as high as 6,500 taels. Just the more than 1,000 war horses, plus the supporting feed and special horse masters, I spent a total of one million taels of gold!"
One million taels of gold, even though Hou Yuxiao is quite knowledgeable now, he couldn't help but sigh when he heard this amount. If it weren't for the size of four counties and fifteen counties, the rest would not be forgotten. Even the war horses alone would be the only one, the family would probably not be able to afford it.
However, we have to get used to it slowly. When the war in Hedong, all the elite troops of the major holy places were riding war horses, Hou Yuxiao calmed down a little. This thing in front of him was indeed amazing to the Hou family, but in the eyes of the holy land, it was nothing at all. You must know that the battle in Hedong was absolutely not serious. This means that the 100,000 Pure World Army of the Brahma Sect, 200,000 Golden Armor Army, or 100,000 Monks, was only considered a drizzle for those holy lands.
Even if you don’t look at these three families, you can tell that the two marquises have 200,000 elite troops under the command of the two marquises. You should know that there are twenty-eight marquises like Tuoba Tao and Wanyan Lie, the Great Jin Dynasty has twenty-eight marquises, let alone the Seven Kings and Three Emperors. What kind of situation should the army under their command be?
As he was thinking a lot in his mind, Hou Yuxiao unconsciously followed Gao Changlong through the stable and came to a large iron gate built by man, about three meters high. On both sides of the gate, a city wall of more than three miles was extended. Obviously, behind the iron gate in front of him was a city in the city built in Baiye Camp.
Seeing Gao Changlong in front of him suddenly stop, Hou Yuxiao was a little confused.
"Brother, you have to open your eyes and see clearly!"
Hou Yuduan's tone was pretending to be mysterious, as if he was afraid of scaring Hou Yuxiao, so he asked him to prepare mentally in advance. Hou Yuxiao shook his head slightly. He had just come from Hedong, and the scale of the battle there was almost two million. The Golden Armor Army under Gu Tianyun, the Fanmen Jingshi Army under Zhan Taiqing, the Great Jin elites led by Tuoba Tao and Wanyan Lie, and even the 100,000 monk soldiers in Leiyin Temple, were much stronger than the only five thousand Red Flame Army of the Hou family. It might not be that easy to scare him.
However, Hou Yucheng was different from him. His face was obviously a little excited at this moment. He looked at the ten-meter-high iron gate with great anticipation. He also had the cultivation level of the master level and could clearly sense that there were thousands of soldiers inside, but after all, he had not seen it with his own eyes, so he was inevitably looking forward to it.
"Open the door."
"Abide by the order!"
After Gao Changlong finished speaking, a promise suddenly came from the iron gate. Then the ten-meter-high gate was slowly pushed open from inside, making a slightly harsh sound. Hou Yuxiao and Hou Yucheng stared at the gate tightly.
What caught the eyes of the two was a large number of soldiers wearing black armor. On the right chest of their black armor, a two-color lotus pattern representing Hou's family was engraved;
Their cultivation level is above the fifth level of the body, and there are five square arrays. Each square array is the same size, with one hundred people in a row, which is a total of one hundred people, that is, ten thousand people. The five square arrays combined will be fifty thousand people;
It is far from enough to describe 50,000 black-armored soldiers standing together, using the word "无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无无�
Of course, this picture alone cannot cause much turmoil in Hou Yuxiao's heart. After all, the scale of the holy army in Hedong is far more majestic than what he sees.
When Hou Yucheng's eyes were still on the 50,000 army, Hou Yuxiao had already seen the last square with sharp eyes. There was a square formation that was much smaller than before. They were also one hundred people in a row, but only fifty lines, which was five thousand people.
Unlike the soldiers in front of them who were wearing black armor, the five thousand people were wearing black armor, and the right chest also had a two-color lotus pattern, but the shoulders were red. When you look closely, it was not red, but two patterns like flames.
The five thousand soldiers had all had their cultivation levels above ten levels, and in fifty queues, the first person or two in each queue, they had the cultivation level of the Gangqi realm. This means that there are at least fifty masters of the Gangqi realm among these five thousand people. At the same time, Hou Yuxiao also saw Gaochanghu and Gaochangbao among the three brothers of the Gao family. Their cultivation level was the same as Gaochanglong, and they were also in the stage of the Gangqi realm's third level.
"This is my Hou's Red Flame Army!"
Seeing the Hou's Red Flame Army that could be comparable to the elites of the Holy Land, Hou Yuxiao said that he was not excited. Although there were only 5,000 people, this was the beginning after all. As long as the Hou family could continue to develop, ten thousand... fifty thousand... ten thousand... ten thousand, and even more, one day, it would be more than comparable to the Holy Land.
But he was so excited that he was so excited that these scenes wanted him to be so excited that he was still far from it. His expression remained calm, and he just nodded slightly and showed a hint of praise, which affirmed the actions of Hou Yuling and the other two years.
However, just after he nodded...
Suddenly, led by the five thousand Red Flame Army, the 50,000 Zhaoyang Army behind the gate, including Hou Yuling and Gao Changlong, who were standing beside Hou Yuxiao, suddenly bowed and knelt towards Hou Yuxiao:
"Let me wait, pay homage to the lord!"
Whether it is the Kaiyi Realm, the Gangqi Realm, or the Grandmaster Realm, everyone mobilized all their qi and blood power in an instant, and their voices suddenly resounded for dozens of miles in the Baiye Camp, and the momentum filled the sky.
A trace of blood was instantly dyed above the entire Baiye Camp.
Hou Yuxiao was stunned, his face suddenly filled with horror.
The name everyone called him was not the head of the family, but the lord.
What is the lord? That is the name of the minister to the monarch!
Only Lao Wu can think of this title, and only Lao Wu will give this idea and make everyone call him like this...
After understanding this, he immediately turned his attention to Hou Yuduan, who was closest to him, and a hint of inquiries appeared in his eyes.
Chapter completed!