Roddy and Camus discussed it all morning. Camus then returned to the military camp outside the city. Before leaving, Camus intentionally or unintentionally mentioned the handling of the mountain troops. Rody thought about it and said: "Just watch them first. As you said "There is no benefit in killing more people."
Camus said calmly: "Really, but the look in your eyes last night was quite murderous." After saying this, Camus walked away.
Rody sat for a moment, and was touched by Camus's last words. He couldn't help but think: This Camus looks powerful and rude, and the pit in his heart is much deeper than mine...
Then he couldn't help but smile. He was a famous general in the empire, and his prestige in the empire was second only to the old Duke Tulip. Of course he was very powerful.
After thinking for a while, he sent someone to find Governor Scheer. Governor Schier looked uneasy and fearful, and he avoided contact with Rody's eyes. Roddy sighed, knowing that he was afraid that he would pursue his nephew's matter. Although he was disgusted in his heart, he still managed to put on a gentle look and said a few words of comfort. He didn't say anything about negotiations, he just said that he wanted to send people to the mountains to meet with the leaders of the mountain tribes, to first pay homage and then to fight, to see if they could persuade them to submit.
As he spoke, Roddy's eyes glanced at the governor intentionally or unintentionally, only to frighten him so much that he was sweating profusely. With a sad face, he kept saying how weak his body was and that he might not be able to adapt to the climate in the mountains. He also said that he was busy with things and might not be able to spare time to go into the mountains.
Rody smiled coldly, and then said: "Of course, the Governor does not need to go to this matter. After all, I am His Majesty's special envoy. For such comfort matters, I must go to show my sincerity."
The governor breathed a huge sigh of relief, and pretended to dissuade him a few words, saying that the mountain people were barbaric and ferocious, how could the Duke, with his wealth of gold, risk his own life... In the end, Roddy got annoyed and said, "Why don't you go?" Otherwise, if I go, the governor will be too frightened to say anything. In the end, he congratulated him with words such as "The Duke's reputation is far and wide, I'm sure those mountain barbarians will surrender." and ran away.
After resting for more than ten days, everything was stable in the military camp outside the city, and the troops of the Mountain Clan did not cause trouble again. Camus had already contacted Wuya's people, and Wuya immediately sent a leader of the Fire Tribe from the mountains to Ziye City to meet Camus. Camus took the leader to meet with Rody.
The leader's name was Wu Yu. He was tall and burly, with a sallow face and a bit of toughness in his brown eyes. He can speak the imperial language, but his pronunciation is not very good. When Camus told him that Duke Tulip would go into the mountain to meet their leader Wu Ya, the leader showed a bit of surprise on his face. Presumably, he had also heard of the reputation of Duke Tulip. He never expected that the other party would have such a big shot to negotiate in person. But after seeing Rody, he saw that Rody was young, with a handsome face, and an expression on his face. Showing some doubts and disdain. It seems that he did not expect that the Tulip Duke would be so young.
The most important warrior of the mountain people, Roddy was young after all, and he had the handsome face of a playboy. Secondly, in terms of stature, he is considered taller among the imperial people, and his body is quite strong, but compared with the warriors among the mountain barbarians, he is much thinner. Dandan and this Wuya sent Comparing the leaders, although the two were about the same size, the leader's body was covered in muscles and his stout figure was like half a giant tree, so Roddy was outclassed.
In his eyes, when he saw the giant-like guard Lant beside Rody, the respect in his eyes became a little more...
Wu Yu brought a total of mountain warriors, each of them tall and thick, wearing wolf skin, and each of them carried a long curved bow behind his back. It's just that he likes to smear some weird paint on his face, which makes a good person look like a green face and fangs. Lant saw this and felt quite disgusted with these people. He just followed Rody closely, his eyes full of vigilance.
On the same day, Rody took Lant and followed Wu Yu and others into the mountains. Originally, Lant asked Roddy to bring more people, but Roddy refused. Rody smiled lightly and said: "After we go there, we will be on other people's territory. If they want to harm us, no matter how many people they bring, it will be useless. You can't bring an army into the mountains, right? Is it a war? What about negotiations?" Looking at Lant's puzzled expression, Rody added: "I think that Wu Ya can unify various mountain tribes and is also a hero. Naturally, he will not do anything with his status to embarrass the other party's envoy, right? ”
Heading south from Ziye City, you can gallop for one day to reach the southeastern camp of the Southern Army. Rody and others replenished some food and fresh water at the southeast camp and followed Wu Yu's men into the mountains.
The way into the mountain is in a Chifeng Canyon south of Southeast Daying. After walking for a day through a winding path in the canyon, you enter the mountainous area.
The terrain in the canyon is extremely dangerous, and only two people can walk abreast on the path in the canyon. The surface is rugged and full of rocks the size of water chestnuts, and the horses can only move slowly.
Those mountain people did not ride horses, but just walked ahead. They were barefoot and wore grass woven with unknown plants, but they walked as fast as flying on these rugged mountain roads.
At night, we walked out of the south exit of the canyon and followed a path up the mountain. Roddy and Lant finally gave up on the horses, and the horses would go back the way they came. Both of them followed the mountain people on foot into the mountains.
Along the way, the trees were thick with branches and leaves, and there were some unknown weeds on the roadside. The trees in the mountains were so dense that they almost blocked all the sunlight. After walking for a while, Roddy and others found that their trousers were already covered with dew and weeds. juice.
A mountain man pulled out a sharp long knife and walked in front to clear the way, cutting off the branches that blocked the road. Breathing the humid air in the woods, Roddy felt extremely uncomfortable.
The further you walked into the mountains, the thicker the surrounding trees became. Looking at those giant trees that usually required two or three people to carry them, Rody couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The mountain man Wu Yu said proudly: "What are these? Where we live, the biggest tree can't be hugged by more than a dozen people!"
At night, everyone stopped to rest. The way these mountain people camped was also very strange. They did not allow Lant to light a fire, saying that living in the mountains was too dangerous. Lant asked them loudly, if they don't light a fire, what if some wild beast comes? The mountain men smiled widely, and just hastily set up a few warning traps around them with ropes and sharpened branches, and then took out those weird oil paints and smeared them on the exposed skin on their bodies. They found a big tree at random. These strong and tall mountain people climbed up the tree as quickly as monkeys. They found a tree trunk to lean on and fell asleep.
Roddy and Lant looked at each other. They couldn't climb up a tree to sleep like this. Even if they could climb up, they wouldn't be able to sleep. They might fall down if they turned over in the middle of the night.
Wu Yu and others ignored the two of them at all. When these mountain people looked at Rody and the two, their eyes were somewhat hostile. At night, they were even more gloating about their misfortune, as if they were waiting to see them make a fool of themselves.
Roddy didn't say a word, but he and Lant randomly found a big tree and sat down under it, leaning against the trunk with their eyes closed to relax.
In the middle of the night, the cold wind was blowing in the woods, and the screams of unknown birds could be heard in the ears. The long howls of wild beasts could also be heard faintly in the distance. The chirping of wild insects in the grass made Roddy feel upset. When he slept until midnight, Lant couldn't help but jump up from the ground, scratching and swatting, trying to get rid of the mosquitoes that were biting him. This move woke up the mountain men who were sleeping in the trees. They all looked at Lant and laughed and pointed.
In anger, Lant couldn't help but draw his sword and glared at them.
Rody also stood up, suppressing the anger in his heart, stopped Lant, and said coldly to Wu Yu: "Wu Yu! I want you to come to our Ziye City from the mountains. We are all good to your warriors." Treat us with wine and meat, now we are on your territory, is this how you mountain people treat your guests?"
As soon as these words came out, the lingering laughter stopped. Although he couldn't see it in the darkness, a look of shame appeared on his face. He spoke a few words of mountain language to his companions on the tree, and those people gradually stopped. laughter. Wu Yu jumped down from the tree, strode up to Rody, and said in a low voice: "That's right! It's my fault, Wu Yu! Isn't this the way we mountain people treat guests?" He took out one from his arms. The little cloth bag is really the paint they put on their faces and bodies during the day. They whispered: "Put this on your body, and the insects in the mountains will not bite you."
The oil paint inside was really unpleasant and had a strange smell. Lantrodi had no choice but to pinch his nose and smear the oil paint on his body. Although the smell was unpleasant, fortunately after applying it, the surrounding mosquitoes were far away and no longer provoked the two of them.
At dawn, the mountain people jumped down from the trees. The first thing they did was to kneel on the ground and bow to the south, chanting as if they were chanting some incantation, with pious expressions on their faces. It seemed like he was worshiping some god.
Rody was curious and couldn't help but ask Wu Yu on the way. Wuyu's attitude towards Roddy was a little more friendly, and he told him that he was worshiping the patron saint of their Flame Tribe. As for the name of the patron saint, he could only say it in the language of the mountain tribe. The strange pronunciation made Roddy couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After walking like this for a few days, the woods in the mountains became more and more dense. In the rolling mountains, mountains and hills were connected one after another. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the mountains were green and dense, with flocks of birds. In the morning, you can still see some towering peaks surrounded by white mist.
There are gradually more and more wild animals in the woods, including wild boars, rabbits, foxes and deer. These animals don't seem to be very afraid of people. When they see a group of them walking, they just run away a few steps and watch them from a distance.
The food carried by Rody and others has long been eaten, but these mountain people seem to be natural jungle hunters. Everyone has good archery skills. The arrows they use are different from those used by the Imperial Army. Not made of metal. Most of them are inlaid with beast's teeth or something like that.
They are good at running and walking in the mountains. Strong and healthy, he is familiar with the environment in this mountain. Rody secretly calculated in his mind that if he wanted to go to war with such a nation in the mountains, he would probably suffer a lot. Camus's words were not exaggerated.
Originally, these mountain people did not think much of Rodilante and the two, until one day they walked to a mountain spring and stream, caught a few fish, and prepared to light a fire to grill the fish (although these people are well-known as " "Flame" tribe, but rarely seemed to use flames, which made Roddy very strange), Lant walked to the creek to chop wood for the fire.
I saw him pull out his broad sword and let out a low shout. After a loud noise, a large tree as thick as a human waist was cut in half with his sword, and fell down while the mountain people were stunned. .
The mountain people from Wu Yu to his subordinates were all stunned. They were stunned for a while, and then suddenly started shouting. They ran up and looked at Lant up and down, then hugged him enthusiastically and babbled a lot of words that Lant couldn't understand at all, with admiration and surprise on their faces. Some of them were more curious and grabbed Lant directly. The sword was turned over and over again.
Wu Yu told Luo Di that even the stronger people in his tribe would have to chop down such a thick tree with at least seven or eight blows with an axe.
Rody's heart moved and he couldn't help but ask: "So where is your leader Wuya? How powerful is he?"
Wu Yu's face immediately showed an expression of piety and incomparable respect, and he said with an extremely serious expression: "Chief Wu Ya is a warrior given to us by God! He is a god who has come down to earth! He is the protector of our mountain people! How can we compare with the god of heaven! "
Rody didn't believe it and smiled casually. Seeing that he didn't believe it, Wu Yu immediately showed an angry expression on his face and argued loudly about how great and terrifying their Wu Ya chief was.
Finally, Wu Yu became impatient and said loudly: "I tell you, our chief is the greatest! Last time we fought with the Silver Moon Tribe, the chief summoned the giant ax of the mountain god and destroyed the Silver Moon Tribe. That hilltop was flattened along with their village! This is true. Many of our Fire Tribe warriors have seen it with our own eyes, and I can see it clearly!"
Seeing the impetuous and simple expression on Wu Yu's face, Rody's heart was moved, and with a calm expression on his face, he continued: "The giant ax of the mountain god? What does it look like?"
"It's amazing! It's amazing!" Wu Yu's face was filled with surprise and envy, and then he said solemnly with a look of reverence: "The chief stood on a mountain top and shouted a few words. Then his body suddenly changed It was several times bigger, like a giant! Then he reached out and grabbed a huge battle ax from the sky! Before we could see clearly, the mountaintop of the Silver Moon Tribe had been flattened by the axe! Nothing is left! There is nothing left! The village, the men, the women, the children, the old people, the houses, the trees, the stones... nothing!"
Roddy and Lant both had differences in their hearts and couldn't help but exchange looks with each other.
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[Regarding the lifting of the ban on the public version, it is indeed very slow now. I am sorry to everyone. There is no way, the publisher asked me to slow down the release of the ban. We have to wait until the first few volumes are published before we can accelerate the release of the ban. Three volumes have already been released in November. It is estimated that the progress of the public version will be exceeded before this month, and then the release of the ban can be accelerated.
To be honest, putting these chapters in VIP without unblocking them will not benefit me personally. It has been so long, and the number of subscriptions will not increase. Unblocking them or not will not have any personal impact on me at all. It is a requirement of the publisher.
I have encountered this kind of thing several times. It was like this when I wrote "Hippie Smiling Face", and it was also like this when I wrote "City in **". But I can say with confidence that the publishing house will catch up with the publication schedule this month. After it is on the public version, I will definitely speed up the lifting of the ban! !
If you have any doubts about dancing, then please read my other two books "Hippie Smiley Face" and "City in the **". After the publishing issues are resolved, both of them have been posted to the public! !
So, I hope everyone can understand my difficulties. After all, after signing the contract, I am not the one who has the final say on what to do with this book in the future. I have to consider the publisher’s opinion. But I promise that after the publishing progress catches up, the lifting of the ban will be accelerated! ! !]