Lord of the People: My Talent is 100 Million Points Strong

Chapter 641: Shocking Shiraoi

Chapter 641: Shocking Shiraoi

Chapter 642 Shocking Bai Lao

"On the way to the mountain fortress, I happened to be able to pass by the sphere of influence of the eldest prince in this area. Why don't I go and check it out myself."

Having made up his mind, Lei Xiao immediately informed the subordinates of the main force around him of this decision through a word of speech.

At present, Lei Xiao is surrounded by ten people including Hu Zhang, Hong Ye, Lian, Burt, Ju Bai, Ye Cang, Ariel, Nan Xing, Nan Yue, and Bai Wei. After receiving Lei Xiao's order, They all respectfully accepted the order.

While chasing the wind and electricity, a group of people wearing an invisibility cloak finally stopped in a secluded place on the outskirts of a strange city.

Under the bright sunlight, Lei Xiao, who was standing on a dirt slope, looked around and noticed.

The several affiliated villages on the outskirts of this city are no different from the Tiege Fort and Gray Rock City that I have been to before. They are dilapidated and smelly, but the criss-crossing farmland around them is lush and fertile. .

Compared with the tall and majestic city not far away, such a dilapidated village scene is like a sky and an underground, like two worlds.

"My lord, it seems that the poor conditions of the free peasants under the rule of these traditional nobles are already comparable to those of the new nobles. It is undoubtedly a complete violation of the kingdom's laws."

Ariel frowned, folded her arms and said: "The ancestors of these guys were all the kingdom's meritorious service who once fought side by side with the great King of Heroes, so they were finally able to lead the party for me, Leng Yan, on behalf of Shi The king's favor, I'm afraid they didn't expect that their descendants would completely violate the ancestor's precepts?"

With a helpless sigh, Ariel added: "You know, most of their ancestors were just a group of serfs squeezed by the old nobles."

"In my hometown, a sage once said that a gentleman will be killed in the fifth generation, and these guys have been entrenched here for so many years, and it is time to pay for what they have done. "

Lei Xiao's face was indifferent, and he said calmly: "Let's lower the hammer of purification and smash everything of these self-proclaimed nobles."

"Obey! Your lord!"

Hearing Lei Xiao's words, the surrounding subordinates couldn't help but cheer up.

Having said that, Lei Xiao had already heard about this strange city.

The name of this city is Velen City, and it is one of the larger cities of the eldest prince's faction in this area, except for Songluo City. It is located to the west of Chijian Town and southwest of the ancient battlefield ruins.

At the same time, it is also the frontier city closest to Kongqing Town of the eldest prince's faction, mainly engaged in textile industry and agriculture.

The specific strength is between Shuiyue City and Fanyin City, and the size of the garrison is 7,000 people.

"My lord, the gates of Velen City are closed. There are many sentries on the city walls. The surrounding villages are all deserted. It is obvious that they are on the highest alert."

Burt, who had a short beard and gray hair, took a step forward, bowed and said, "What should we do next?"

Hearing Bert's request, Lei Xiao frowned slightly, and then asked, "Old General Burt, if you were the lord of this Velen city, what would you do now?"

"Returning to Lord Lord, the first thing your subordinates need to do is to protect themselves and their families from being caught or assassinated by strong opponents who may appear."

Burt stroked his short gray beard lightly, and said without hesitation: "At present, when the opponent is still unclear about our specific operational deployment, intelligence is undoubtedly the top priority."

"Only by knowing our attack target can the opponent be able to prepare and respond in a timely manner. As the supreme commander of a city, the city lord must be the one with the most information, or the only one who has key information."

"As for the family members, they will become targets for opponents to threaten themselves."

Nodding respectfully to Lei Xiao, Bert concluded: "Thus, only by protecting yourself and your family first, will you not be coveted by the enemy, and your success will be defeated."

"Is that so?"

After receiving this expected answer, Lei Xiao frowned, and asked again: "Old General Burt, specifically, how will you protect yourself and your family?"

"My lord, the best way to protect yourself is to prevent your opponents from finding you. The family members can say, as long as you hide in a certain corner of the city secretly."

Bert still maintained his bowed posture, and responded: "And the subordinates themselves will change clothes, hide in any position in the army, give orders secretly, or simply pretend to be inconspicuous guards and servants, so as to To disturb the opponent's line of sight, and then wait for the opportunity."

"From this point of view, it is really unrealistic to forcibly capture the important commander of the other party to obtain information."

Lei Xiao shrugged, looking at the heavily guarded city in the distance, he said helplessly.

"Lord Master, that's exactly the case."

An old voice sounded, and Burt said solemnly: "Besides, these nobles who are fanatically loyal to the first prince or the second prince must be eager to make meritorious deeds, and it is even more impossible for them to make mistakes in such basic things."

"So the subordinates can conclude that these city lords will definitely keep the key information firmly in their hands, and even the cronies around them may not know it."

After a pause, Burt stroked his white beard and added: "Lord, then again, to some extent, this is not a bad thing for us."

"Old General Burt, are you referring to the point of being greedy for merit?"

Lei Xiao withdrew his gaze from a distance, and said knowingly: "The huge power under the first prince and the second prince, although the owner is the same, but every noble among them wants to be the one who makes the first contribution. This is indeed true. For sure."

"That's right, Lord Lord, compared with us who work together, this will undoubtedly be a huge disadvantage for the other party."

Burt responded with a smile on his wrinkled old face.

"Indeed."

Lei Xiao also smiled faintly, and immediately refocused his gaze on the surrounding dilapidated villages, and said, "Since this is the case, then there is only one thing left for us to do."

After finishing speaking, Lei Xiao nodded to his subordinates, and the whole group immediately started to act in a blink of an eye.

It didn't take long for several large granaries that were heavily guarded in Velen City to billow thick smoke one after another, leaving several unburned rockets at the scene.

"It's on fire, it's on fire! Put out the fire!"

"This black iron and red-feathered arrow... is the standard equipment of Tiegebao! Those hateful bastards! Go and report to the captain!"

"Look, the No. 5 granary in the south of the city is also on fire! Send more water magicians!"

All of a sudden, the city of Velen was in chaos.

In the outer suburbs on the other side of Velen City, Lei Xiao and his party, the instigator, continued to gallop towards the direction of the mountain fortress.

Just now, Lei Xiao, while fulfilling Chao Yan's little wish, also stopped by to check around the city.

As Dean and Fran said, the city has already been completely under martial law, and the streets are empty. Correspondingly, every military camp is extremely tense.

On the city wall, in addition to the heavily armed garrison soldiers, you can also see a large number of reserve army soldiers with obviously inferior equipment, and there are even a lot of skinny farmers with bewildered eyes.

It is not difficult to see from this that the opponent has obviously mobilized all the forces that can be mobilized, and it also shows from the side how much the opponent attaches to this war.

After that, Lei Xiao and his group passed through several cities in the prince's sphere of influence one after another. After some inspection, Lei Xiao found out.

The degree of tension and attention in these cities is not lower than that of Velen City at the beginning. Several remote cities have begun to have mighty garrison troops leaving the city, and most of the people left behind are reserve troops with poorly equipped equipment. .

"Lord, it will take a day or two for these latter cities to reach the forefront of Velen City. It seems that the other party is obviously extremely organized and is gathering troops."

As the wind flew like lightning, Bert's old voice came to Lei Xiao's ears again.

"Indeed."

Lei Xiao lowered his body on the fluffy white long hair, and responded: "Just now I have received information from various places one after another. The faction of the Second Prince's faction is almost exactly the same. As for the Wangxing City on the Wangxing Corridor, It is also completely in a state of martial law, and has sent a lot of soldiers."

Just when Lei Xiao said this.

Between the two mountains in the distance, the outline of a huge fortress is already clearly visible.

"Is it finally here?"

Lei Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the majestic building that looked like a giant beast, lying between the two mountains, he murmured in his heart.

In the current situation of the war, in order to hide the eyes and ears, Lei Xiao and Ariel naturally couldn't walk in the mountain fortress this time.

Instead, he just informed Randall and asked him to tell Bai Lao a secret.

As the mountain fortress became clearer, Lei Xiao noticed.

Under his own arrangements in advance, Randall, who had long been standing in front of the fortress, was directing his subordinate mercenaries to transport some ordinary supplies into the fortress. In addition, the defense behind the fortress was relatively weak, so, It happened to be able to enter the inside of the fortress without hindrance.

After successfully entering the mountain fortress, under Lei Xiao's secret signal, Randall led a group of people all the way forward, and finally came to the familiar meeting hall before.

At this time, I saw that Bai Lao, who was still wearing a white heavy armor, was already waiting here alone.

"I have seen Your Excellency Ke Qing, and I have seen Your Highness the Princess!"

Seeing Lei Xiao, Ariel and the others who had just taken off the invisibility cloak, a smile appeared on their pale and old faces, and they hurriedly greeted them.

"Old General Bai, please stay safe."

Looking at the old face covered with white beard, Lei Xiao nodded and smiled.

At this moment, Lei Xiao could clearly feel it.

The aura of this old kingdom general is much stronger than before. It seems that under the effect of the fourth-order healing potion Holy Light Angel Pill, most of his injuries have recovered.

Noticing this, Lei Xiao said again: "Seeing old General Bai recover so quickly is undoubtedly the happiest thing for me and Your Highness the Princess today."

"Hehe, thanks to Your Excellency Ke Qing's great help, I will never forget Your Excellency Ke Qing's kindness."

Bai Lao greeted Lei Xiao and the others to the seats in the conference hall, stroked his beard and smiled and said, "If the old man is not mistaken, Your Excellency, Ke Qing, seems to have improved a bit."

"Old General Bai really has a discerning eye."

Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows and said noncommittally.

When I was in the offensive and defensive battle of the mountain fortress, my magic strength was still at the third-order seven-star.

But now, I have been lingering in the peak powerhouse of the third-order double material for a while, and I have indeed made some progress.

When Lei Xiao and Ariel sat down, Bai Lao, who had just exchanged a few words with Burt and Ju Bai, cut to the chase again and said, "Your Excellency Ke Qing and His Highness the Princess are here for the upcoming battle, right? "

Speaking of this, Bai Lao couldn't help showing a deep helplessness on his wrinkled and resolute face, and sighed: "If my king, who is unconscious, knows that several princes have sacrificed the whole cold for power. If Homura is dragged into the quagmire of war, I'm afraid he will be so heartbroken that tears will flow down his face."

"Old General Bai is right. My father has spent his entire life fighting north and south for Leng Yan's safety. In the past few decades, he has quelled many powerful foreign enemies that were about to move, and recovered a lot of lost ground, but in the end he got such a result."

Ariel drooped her eyebrows, and then sighed softly.

"Old General Bai, it seems that the changes in the factions that the eldest prince and the second prince belong to have already reached you."

Lei Xiao first patted Ariel on the shoulder lightly, signaling her to regain her spirits, and then said, "I wonder what Old General Bai thinks about this dispute that is about to start?"

"Your Majesty, to be honest, although the old man expected such a day to come, he did not expect it to come so soon."

The wrinkles on the white and old face were a little deeper, and he said helplessly: "Judging from the momentum of this all-round mobilization, I am afraid that the power of the two princes in this area will not be divided between life and death, and they will not let it go. of."

"According to the reckless temperament of the two princes, by then, this eastern region will definitely suffer from the flames of war, and people will be devastated everywhere."

"After all, the influence of the two princes in this area is too huge. Unless several major legions of the royal family come at the same time, no one can stop it at all."

Sighing heavily, Elder Bai shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Thinking about it carefully, the Holy Night Army has just been defeated, and there is no need to worry about the border battlefield for the time being. I'm afraid this is one of the reasons why the two princes chose to fight directly."

"Exactly as I expected."

Lei Xiao raised his eyebrows, and said bluntly: "As for the dispute between the two, I wonder if Old General Bai has any exclusive information?"

"Your Excellency Ke Qing thinks highly of this old man. From the situation before the attack and defense of the fortress, it can be clearly seen that in the eyes of the two princes, the old man is already a dispensable child. Exclusive information?"

Bai Lao shook his head in a self-deprecating manner, and then there was a steadfastness in his ~ and he said: "But if Your Excellency Ke Qing and Your Highness the Princess intend to take refuge in the Fortress of the Mountain Fortress, then the old man will naturally fight the old man." life, but also to protect Your Excellency Keqing and His Royal Highness the Princess."

"Thank you, Old General Bai, for your kindness."

A smile appeared on Lei Xiao's face, and he said immediately, "However, this time, Her Royal Highness and I came here not to seek the protection of Old General Bai."

"oh?"

After listening to Lei Xiao's words, Bai Lao's old face suddenly showed unexpected surprise, and he blurted out: "Then why are Your Excellency Ke Qing and His Royal Highness the Princess coming here at this time?"

After a pause, Bai Lao seemed to have thought of something, and an uncontrollable shock surged on his old face, his old eyes were wide open, and he couldn't believe it: "Could it be that Your Excellency Ke Qing and His Highness the Princess are planning to have a relationship with the two princes?" His Highness confronting each other head-on?! Also participating in this all-out war of power?!"

"exactly."

Lei Xiao still maintained a faint smile, and responded calmly.