Chapter 539 Night Chaos

Chapter 539 Night Chaos

Chapter 539 Night Chaos
In the palace hall of Jingjue Kingdom, cups and plates were in a mess. Many ministers and guards of Jingjue Kingdom were lying on the ground, talking nonsense because of drunkenness.

Compared with these Jingjue people who have poor drinking capacity, the Han soldiers and Huo Qubing are undoubtedly much stronger.

So seeing that the time was ripe, Huo Qubing tested it out, then stood up and gave the order.

Several of the soldiers took the opportunity to run out of the palace and secretly released carrier pigeons to notify the Han soldiers still stationed outside Jingjue City.

As for the rest of the people, they found weapons and followed Huo Qubing to the bedroom of the Queen of Jingjue.

But when they arrived at the Queen of Jingjue's bedroom, they found that the queen and the prince were not there.

The soldiers were very confused, but fortunately Huo Qubing had a quick mind and immediately led the soldiers to the high tower behind the imperial palace.

There are still many elite guards from the Jingjue Kingdom guarding this place, but the so-called elite depends on who you are comparing with. Facing these soldiers who are picked from thousands of Han troops, they are almost vulnerable and are quickly killed by Huo Qubing and his men.

"General!" After killing the guards, the Han soldiers half-knelt in front of Huo Qubing.

Huo Qubing waved his hand, and immediately someone came forward and pushed open the arched stone door of the black tower.

When you get closer, you can see that this black tower is built with black rocks from Mount Zagrama. It has six floors, is larger at the bottom and smaller at the top, and is very stable.

In addition to the extremely rare building materials, there is also a black olive-shaped stone ball at the highest point of the tower.

Huo Qubing and his companions entered this strange tower. The first thing they saw was that the walls of the tower were densely engraved with many strange characters, which were twisted and turned like snakes.

The same is true for each subsequent floor, and there are all kinds of weird statues. If it weren't for the majestic appearance of Huo Qubing and the iron-blooded murderous aura of the Han soldiers, I'm afraid that people would believe that "The Great Wall" is a horror supernatural movie.

Huo Qubing and others climbed all the way up and soon reached the top of the tower. Then they found Prince Gumo, who was tied up with his hands behind his back, struggling on the ground.

"General, be careful!"

A sharp-eyed soldier saw the dark shadow on the side and quickly stood in front of Huo Qubing.

Only then did everyone notice that there was a black throne standing on the side of this floor, and on the throne sat a woman in black veil.

Is that the Queen of Jingjue?!

Thinking of the opponent's strange evil eyes, the soldiers were all shocked. Fortunately, as the torches were lit, everyone realized that it was just a stone statue.

However, the statue is dressed in gorgeous clothes, has a graceful figure, and its face is carved to look like it is wearing a veil. If you don't look carefully in the dim firelight, you might think it is a real person.

“Out the window!”

Prince Gumo, whose mouth was bandaged, shouted. Huo Qubing quickly ran to the window and looked out. Then he saw a dark shadow spread its wings in the night and glided away into the distance like a strange bird.

At this time, standing on the top floor of the black tower and overlooking the entire city, with the bright moonlight, you can see that the outline of the entire Jingjue Ancient City is like a huge eye opened in the desert.

The location of the city gate is that corner of the eye, the high tower where they are now is the pupil of the eye, and the direction in which the Queen of Jingjue escaped is the other corner of the eye.

As for the Zagrama Mountains on both sides, they are like the eyelashes of the eyes.

"Should we give chase, General?"

An elite cavalry soldier asked from the side. At this time, the figure of the Queen of Jingjue had turned into a shadowy black dot in the night.

“It’s too late to catch up.”

Prince Gumo, who was freed from his restraints, suggested:
"She has already eaten the lamb. I think we should wait for the army to arrive and capture the entire Jingjue City before searching for the Queen of Jingjue."

As if to echo his statement, a riot also broke out at another "corner of the eye", that is, at the city gate of Jingjue Kingdom.

I saw a long dragon formed by torches, crossing the fracture of Zaglama Mountain and rushing straight into Jingjue City, where it engaged in a battle with the defending Jingjue soldiers.

This meant that the soldiers ambushed outside the city by Huo Qubing had received the news and began to attack the Jingjue Kingdom.

Just as Prince Gumo said, with such a good opportunity, Huo Qubing only needs to lead these soldiers to destroy the Jingjue Kingdom in the Western Regions just like he had wiped out the Xiongnu tribe before.

Huo Qubing stood on the high tower, looking at the outline of the entire city with his tiger eyes, and then looked up at the stars in the sky. He said with a thought in his mind, "Not good, let's go after the Queen of Jingjue first."

Prince Gumo didn't know why he made such a decision and was about to persuade him again, but the other soldiers had already obeyed his orders and immediately ran towards the tower.

While going down the tower, Huo Qubing also took the opportunity to explain something to Prince Gumo.

It turns out that as a general of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing naturally had a family background in military science and inherited the military tradition.

This military tradition originated from the pre-Qin period. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, many generals gathered and naturally it was summarized and developed. Therefore, it was summarized in the "Book of Han·Yiwenzhi·Brief Introduction of Military Books" and divided this military tradition into four types.

A military strategist is one who defends the country with righteousness and deploys strange tactics in war. He makes plans before fighting and takes the various situations into consideration, and uses yin and yang to employ various techniques.

The military situation is like thunder and wind, it starts later but arrives first, it separates and combines, it changes constantly, and it defeats the enemy with speed and ease.

The yin and yang of the army follow the time, promote virtue, fight and attack, and win by taking advantage of the five elements, and rely on ghosts and gods for help.

Military skills are about training the hands and feet, becoming familiar with weapons, and accumulating mechanisms to facilitate victory in attack and defense.

Although Huo Qubing learned the art of military strategy from Wei Qing, Wei Qing was the master of military strategy in the Han Dynasty. As his disciple, Huo Qubing also had some knowledge of strategy and the Yin-Yang school.

Among them, the military Yin and Yang includes part of the content of Yin and Yang Bagua and Feng Shui formations.

According to the contents of Military Yin and Yang, Huo Qubing observed the sky at night and looked down at the earth's veins, and found that the Feng Shui of the entire Jingjue City had its own pattern.

Two of the Zaglama Mountains are in the shape of black snakes, and there is a water snake looming under the city, echoing with the Zaglama Mountains in the distance, forming a static and dynamic situation, which is the situation of "three snakes competing for the pearl, and the trapped dragon ascending to the sky".

"The Queen of Jingjue wants you to marry her, and it's definitely not for the purpose of bearing children!"

Huo Qubing brought Prince Gumo down to the bottom of the tower and said so to him while looking at him.

"Go back to your residence first and join the main force."

Prince Gumo had already been frightened, and he nodded as if he had been pardoned when he heard this, and immediately ran out of the palace. As for Huo Qubing, he took a dozen elite soldiers with him, snatched the horses of the palace guards, and ran towards the Feng Shui convergence point they had just seen on the top of the tower.

Since it is "Three snakes fight for the pearl, and the trapped dragon ascends to heaven", then the dragon pearl is the core. A dozen horses galloped along the main road in the center of the city. In the distance, more than 700 elite cavalrymen and soldiers of Jingjue were fighting fiercely, and the guards in the city were all involved. They did not encounter any enemies along the way and soon arrived at their destination.

It was a circular temple, also built of Zagrama black stone.

When Huo Qubing and others broke in, they found it was empty. Except for a few strange statues, there was no one there.

He stamped his feet and, based on the underground water veins in the city, he immediately concluded that there must be an underground palace here. After a little more thought, he used his knowledge of military skills to discover the entrance to the mechanism.

However, before Huo Qubing could open the entrance, a soldier holding a torch looked upward and immediately screamed.

Swish!
The soldier holding a bow in the team almost subconsciously shot an arrow in the direction pointed by his companion.

It was only then that everyone reacted. They looked up and saw, in the dim light, a basin-sized eye covered with red veins on the roof flashing a strange light and staring at everyone at the scene.

Everyone felt their hair stand on end, and the giant eye was hit by an arrow on the roof and fell directly to the ground and bounced a few times. Only then could they see clearly that this thing was actually a translucent flesh ball with a large black mass in the middle. At first glance, it really looked like an eye.

Some brave soldiers wanted to raise their swords and chop him, but Huo Qubing, with his years of experience in fighting on the edge of a knife, realized something was wrong and quickly held down his shoulders.

"Don't act rashly..."

Before they could figure out what it was, the giant eye-like ball of flesh suddenly burst open, and hundreds of entangled black monster snakes flowed out.

These strange snakes have black scales all over their bodies, are only a few dozen centimeters long, and have a black tumor on their heads that looks like an eye.

Piles of strange snakes were wriggling together, their bodies covered with sticky transparent liquid, as if they had just hatched from eggs. It was extremely disgusting and made everyone's scalp tingle.

"Come on!"

Huo Qubing triggered the mechanism first, and a snake statue on the wall opened its mouth.

At this time, the black snakes had begun to wriggle and crawl towards Huo Qubing and his group. Fortunately, everyone had already gotten into the open mouth of the black snake statue and closed the secret door.

However, they managed to escape these black snakes. The cavalry soldiers who attacked the Jingjue City outside the temple were not so lucky.

The elite cavalry who were fighting with the Jingjue soldiers were horrified to find that a huge meat ball suddenly rolled out from a hidden corner of the city, and then a large number of black snakes hatched from it and rushed towards them.

These black snakes were extremely poisonous. The war horses would die almost instantly after being bitten by one.

If the elite cavalrymen had not carried kerosene with them and used fire attacks to deal with these strange snakes, I'm afraid they would have been wiped out here.

But even if they could deal with these strange snakes, the situation in which the elite cavalry had originally suppressed the Jingjue soldiers was reversed, and the two sides became evenly matched again.

Just as the elite cavalry were fighting hard in the city, in the secret passage on the other side, a dozen people led by Huo Qubing were cautious at first, keeping a distance and moving forward slowly. When they reached the end of the stone steps, their view suddenly opened up and a spacious underground corridor appeared.

The corridor is no longer surrounded by black stones, but walls covered with brightly colored murals.

Huo Qubing knew that the murals in such places must contain secrets about the Kingdom of Jingjue and the mysterious queen, so he examined them carefully and saw that the most common thing in the paintings was eyes.

These eyes are big, small, open, and closed. Some have only the eyeballs, while others have eyelids and eyelashes. Each one is lifelike, making people feel creepy when looking at them, as if there are really countless pairs of eyes staring at them.

Of course, in addition to this, there are also some special contents in the murals involving mysterious rituals.

The first one was a painting of a black mountain, which was covered with the same black snakes they had just seen. A little man with long hair stood in the middle of the black snakes, and the surrounding beasts and little men knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the strange snakes and little men on the mountain.

The second one was an eyeball emitting light, and then a black hole appeared in the sky, and a flesh egg like a giant eye fell out of the hole. Then countless black strange snakes crawled out of the flesh egg and bit several tied up slaves, who struggled in pain.

The third one is a huge cave with a long and narrow staircase spiraling downward around the cave wall. On the stairs you can see little figures holding torches, and it’s unclear whether they are preparing to enter the cave or come out.

The fourth one is a group of little people leading camels into the desert, dancing in the open space in the middle of the black mountains.

The last mural is the most unique. It shows a huge, flaming meteorite breaking through the clouds and falling from the sky.

There were many black snake-like monsters surrounding the meteorite, and there were also some golden bird-like monsters attacking the snake-like monsters. Both sides fell into the desert together with the meteorite.

Seeing this, Huo Qubing basically figured out some of the situations. It was obvious that these murals should be painted in chronological order, and the further back one goes, the older they are.

The story on the mural is the history of the Jingjue Kingdom.

At the beginning, in ancient times, a black snake monster and a golden bird fell from the sky with a meteorite and landed in this desert. The meteorite turned into Mount Zagrama, but the black snake monster and the golden bird disappeared, and no one knew whether they were sleeping or dead.

Later, the ancestors of the Jingjue Kingdom discovered this place in the desert, built a settlement here, and found a bottomless "ghost cave" in the belly of Mount Zagrama.

The ancestors of the Jingjue Kingdom were very curious about this mysterious "ghost cave" and began to study it in depth. Finally, they found some ways to use the "ghost cave".

They used a giant eyeball treasure to awaken the black snake monsters sleeping in the "ghost cave", and used living sacrifices to control these strange snakes for their own use.

“It seems that the Queen of Jingjue is the final product of this ritual. Her eyes not only have the ability to banish people to ghost caves, but can also summon strange snakes from them, and even use these strange snakes and humans.

Therefore, those snake puppet monsters were also cultivated by the Queen of Jingjue using the black snakes she summoned and human sacrifices."

Huo Qubing was thinking so in his heart. He had already guessed these things. Comparing them with the situations depicted on the murals, his judgment was further confirmed, and his murderous intention towards the Queen of Jingjue became even stronger.

This dangerous guy must be eradicated completely, otherwise he will become a great threat to the Han Dynasty.

After viewing the murals, they came to the end of this short corridor.

There were no steps or doors here, only a wall and a stone pillar, and it seemed to be a dead end.

But after Huo Qubing looked around, he quickly determined through his knowledge of military yin and yang and military skills that this was the same type of mechanism as the one above, and it was the location of the dragon's tail of the earth's feng shui dragon energy.

That’s easy. Huo Qubing asked the soldiers to help him and stand in fixed positions.

"When the dragon energy enters the cave, the Yang energy is restrained by only one meridian, and the Yin energy cannot be expanded unless it reaches 50%..."

As Huo Qubing chanted and turned the mechanism, the brick wall in front of them opened.

(End of this chapter)