Chapter 16 Savage Mountain
The sun was already setting in the west, and Lang Wentian led his personal troops back again. They did not return to the city wall until dark.
The demon soldiers from the logistics department had already brought up pots of barbecue and placed them in a large stone house on the city wall. Except for Lang Buyan's group, all the personal soldiers went into the large stone house to have dinner.
Lang Buyan and his group followed Lang Wentian into another stone house, where there were two larger pots of barbecued meat. This time, all the barbecued meat had been torn apart, and it was impossible to tell what kind of monster's meat it was.
This time it was the same. After Lang Wentian finished eating, he went into the inner room. Lang Buyan and the others cleaned the table and began to share the remaining barbecue.
Xu Zhenfeng had been hungry for two days and was already very hungry. He no longer cared about what others had left over.
What's the difference between monsters and demons? Get out of here.
The wolf threw him a hind leg. He took it and started chewing it without saying a word.
The monsters that the big demon eats are indeed different. After eating a hind leg, Xu Zhenfeng felt that the monster power in his body was filled up.
At this time, the sound of a bell came from behind the tower. Xu Zhenfeng looked at the door and said, "It's time for the mess camp to serve dinner."
Xu Zhenfeng suddenly remembered the demon soldier who had eaten his breakfast in the morning.
"Sergeant Bu Yan, are we going to continue to guard here, or go back to the barracks to rest?"
"You have an hour of free time. You can rest for a while. Today it is our Wu and Jiawu's turn to be on night guard."
"Oh, okay, I'll be right back."
After eating, Xu Zhenfeng wiped his mouth, walked out of the stone house, quickly went down the city wall, and walked towards the dining camp.
After a while, he arrived at the place where he came to get breakfast in the morning. There were still several queues here, and the cooks in the front were distributing dinner.
Xu Zhenfeng glanced around until he saw the third queue, and then he saw the burly man from that morning standing at the front of his queue.
He walked over quickly and took a large bowl of porridge from the demon soldier who was distributing dinner.
This bowl was no different from the one in the morning, it was sticky and when he shook it, it trembled a few times like jelly, which made him frown.
Xu Zhenfeng held the bowl, nodded to the burly demon soldier, and walked to the stone platform on the side.
After a while, the burly demon soldier also came over with a bowl in his hand.
He thought Xu Zhenfeng was here to ask him to pay back the debt for his breakfast, so he handed the bowl in his hand to Xu Zhenfeng.
"Brother, I'll give it back to you."
Xu Zhenfeng glanced at him and handed the bowl in his hand to him.
"This is for you. I've already eaten it."
The demon soldier was stunned for a moment, drank the food in his bowl in one gulp, then took the bowl from Xu Zhenfeng's hand, tilted his head back again, and a big bowl of porridge seemed to be poured directly into his stomach.
After sending the two bowls aside, the demon soldier came back and looked Xu Zhenfeng up and down, "You are a personal soldier, why do you want to compete with the big-headed soldiers in my mud squad for food from the mess camp?"
Xu Zhenfeng shook his head, "I didn't snatch it from you, I just helped you get an extra bowl."
The demon soldier touched the back of his head and said, "Brother, what do you need help with?"
"No, I just came to take a look. I'm a new soldier, and I don't know what our military camp looks like, so I wanted to take a closer look."
After saying that, Xu Zhenfeng waved his hand and walked towards the city wall.
The demon soldier stared at him blankly from behind, and suddenly asked loudly: "Brother, what's your name?"
"Xu Zhenfeng."
"I am Manshan."
"take note of it."
Xu Zhenfeng answered without turning his head.
When he returned to the city wall, Lang Buyan and his men were already sitting in the stone house and had begun assigning guards to take turns with the Jiawu men.
The captain of Jiawu quickly left with his own soldiers. Lang Buyan stood up and said to the other demon soldiers in the room, "We will be on the city wall tonight. Xu Zhenfeng, Lang Buyen and I will be on this side. Lang Buxiu, you, Lang Qing and Langdu will guard that side. Jiawu will come to relieve us at midnight."
Lang Buyan pointed to the next door of the stone house, and then saw the three demon soldiers walked out. Lang Buyan peeked into the inner room and signaled Xu Zhenfeng and Lang Buyen to be quiet.
Several demon soldiers just sat in the stone house without saying a word.
Xu Zhenfeng thought that this was not bad. At least he was not like the soldiers on guard outside in his previous life who had to stand straight in military posture all night long.
To guard the general at night, one only needs to stay beside him. There is no need to stand or pay attention to any military posture.
At midnight, Squad A came up to take over the shift. Lang Buyan's squad was transferred to the bottom of the stone building and had to patrol around it.
After a night, Lang Wentian got up and had breakfast. After waiting for a while, Shi Tong arrived with his personal soldiers.
Shi Tong will set off back to the royal city today to report on his work. The round trip will take about a month. During this month, the guarding of Jianfengling Pass will depend entirely on Lang Wentian.
If it were any other time, Shi Tong would have nothing to worry about. He and Lang Wentian had been guarding Jianfeng Ridge for nearly ten years. Even if they were frequently redeployed, the total time they had spent guarding Jianfeng Ridge would be one or two hundred years.
The human race and the demon race have never launched a real large-scale attack on the Demon Mountain. What they are guarding against is not so much the human and demon races, but rather the monsters from the Demon Mountain sneaking out of the Demon Mountain, robbing the human race, and being caught by the human race, so that the human race can find an excuse to hold the Demon Mountain accountable.
However, this time, in order to support Xu Zhenfeng in attacking the human race, although Lang Wentian did not step out of the boundary marker, his magic was out of bounds.
Shi Tong was afraid that when he was not here, humans would come to punish him. Nothing good could come out of Lang Wentian's bird's mouth. If he could not agree with humans and a conflict broke out, leading to a war between humans and demons, he was afraid that the demon king would punish him.
He came here just to give Lang Wentian instructions before leaving.
The guards were all sent out of the stone house. Shi Tong and Lang Wentian talked for a long time in the house before coming out. He led his guards, rode on the swift monster beast, and went directly out of the city gate to the king's city.
Lang Wentian stood on the inner city tower, watching Shi Tong and his group moving farther and farther away, until their backs disappeared into the vast mountain road.
In the past, the two generals patrolled the north and south walls respectively, which was a total distance of more than a hundred miles. As soon as Shi Tong left, the northern city wall was handed over by Lang Wentian to a deputy general.
For several days, everything was peaceful and no one from Dai Viet came to demand punishment.
In the past few days, Xu Zhenfeng went to the canteen twice a day, morning and evening, to collect breakfast and dinner, and then gave them to the demon soldier named Manshan.
They talked a lot these days.
Manshan is a tribe of bull monsters. There have never been any big monsters from their tribe in the Monster Mountain. In fact, the tribe is very weak, with only a few hundred monsters in the entire bull tribe.
Manshan is considered the most outstanding among the bull monsters, which is why he was selected to join the monster army.
But now he is just an ordinary private, not even a sergeant, and his family has not gained any benefits from his joining the army.
Manshan has been in the army for decades but has never been promoted. This is not unrelated to his identity as a bull demon.
The bull demon clan has neither a big demon nor any support from their own clan in the army. Fortunately, when he is old and weak, he can become a sergeant and retire.
In that case, Yaoshan would give him a monthly ration that would not fill him up but not kill him, until he died of old age.
After knowing that Xu Zhenfeng was a personal soldier of General Lang Wentian, Manshan wondered if he could use Xu Zhenfeng's relationship to become a personal soldier of Lang Wentian.
But Xu Zhenfeng didn't have the face to do so.
First of all, he is still a new soldier.
Secondly, the wolf tribe in the Monster Mountain is a prominent and huge tribe with nearly ten big monsters. There are countless excellent wolf monsters in the tribe. They can’t even arrange for the wolf monsters in their own tribe, so how can they make room for a bull monster?
In any case, Manshan and Xu Zhenfeng became friends. This was also the first friend Xu Zhenfeng made after arriving at Yaoshan.