A dozen riders immediately stabbed into the darkness.
By the time they rushed to Li Bochen's side, he had already killed two of them on horseback. His body was covered in blood, leaving only a pair of eyes and a mouth full of shining white teeth. Some smaller monsters jumped past him and were killed by the oncoming soldiers. Some of them were missed and rushed to the rear. However, after a period of confusion, they were not allowed to pass alive.
At this time, there were dozens of corpses lying in the valley, and two armored beasts were about to charge from behind. However, seeing Li Bochen's crazy look, and the lightning flashing in front of him, making the valley look like day, he actually stopped his steps.
Li Bochen then gathered the reins, raised his finger, and shouted: "Beast! Do you still dare to move forward!?"
Monster beasts such as Hunjia and Huitu are somewhat sane after all. Seeing that this god of death led his army to block the way forward, and the path in the valley only allowed two armored heads to walk side by side, they roared and roared on the spot for a while. After a while, many wolf-like hyenas suddenly jumped onto the ridges on both sides. They didn't know if they wanted to scatter or escape or outflank them.
Li Bochen turned and looked behind him, and saw there was still a little light outside the entrance to the secret realm, knowing that not all the villagers had entered yet. Then he lifted up his head, rode his horse five or six steps forward, and shouted: "Beast! Come on!"
What he was referring to was the Hunjia in front.
That thing can also somewhat understand human speech. If it were a human, it would have been frightened out of its wits at such a moment, but it was a monster after all. Although it had reason, its animal nature was more dominant. As soon as he saw Li Bochen moving forward, he immediately roared and rushed over. After it had taken fifteen or sixteen steps, those behind it were also summoned and rolled on it again. At this time, the hyenas on the ridge also roared towards the moon for a while, with their legs jumping up and down, as if dumplings were rushing down from mid-air.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Fang Bao quickly ordered his soldiers to rush their horses to protect Li Bochen. They used swords and guns to drive away the hyenas that were jumping down. But their horses were ordinary horses, and Li Bochen's white horse got angry after fighting with him, and they couldn't catch up with him.
After they killed more than a dozen monster beasts, they saw Li Bochen riding his horse and passing by the armored beast in front of him again. The lightning flashed, and the armored beast ran forward six or seven steps. A pillar of blood more than ten feet high appeared on its left neck, and the blood splashed out like a heavy rain.
Li Bochen galloped back and jumped down. At this time, Fang Yu and others arrived. But Li Bochen shouted: "Disperse!"
After saying that, he stretched out his hand to grab the hard armor on the cheek of the Hunjia beast, shouted loudly, turned his waist, and exerted force - he actually lifted the monster, who was countless times bigger than him, into the air!
The hill-like black shadow was thrown into the air by him, blood was still gushing out, and his mouth was still screaming. Li Bochen jumped up again and kicked on it with his legs: "Go!!"
The Hunjia crashed into the following beasts with a roar, knocking the other end to the ground, and also swept down the smaller ones. The beasts roared loudly, but this time they were not roaring out of unwillingness to be angry, but out of fear.
Li Boxen landed firmly and stood in the middle of the valley. He didn't speak again this time, but when he glanced forward, the monsters immediately retreated, like a human retreating army.
Monsters will retreat in fear, he has seen this before. But as soon as those beasts retreated for a while, they became restless again for some reason, stopped and roared.
Li Bochen's face turned stern, he closed his eyes for a moment and then opened them suddenly. Then he hit the ground with a stroke, and a fist-sized stone was picked up and shot towards the ridge on one side with a buzzing sound.
The next moment, a cry of pain was heard, and a figure rolled down the ridge, but when he fell halfway, he was stopped by the trees on the mountainside. After a while, there was no movement again.
Everyone saw him, and Fang Yu shouted: "Who!?"
Li Bochen had already raised his hand, and a bolt of thunder struck the mountainside, illuminating the man's figure for a moment.
He is indeed a human being, wearing the armor of the Sui army, with a thin white tassel on the helmet, which is the standard for hundreds of generals.
Li Bochen shouted: "Qiu Fang, is that you!?"
No one answered him. He shouted again: "I am Li Bochen!"
After waiting for a moment, the man said: "Li...you...commander!?"
Fang Yu was stunned: "Junhou, do you recognize him?"
Li Bochen sneered and said loudly: "Of course I recognize him."
Then he said: "Qiu Fang, are you using Renshu grass?"
After a while, the beasts in the distance gradually stopped moving, and Qiu Fang said: "...Yes."
Li Bochen snorted: "Good job. We used to use the bearded grass to lure monsters into ambushes, but now you want to lure monsters to harm people? Did I save you by mistake in Sifang Castle back then!?"
After a while, Qiu Fangcai said: "Commander... I am following the military order, and I... am also for the brothers who are rushing to the camp. We are in the mountains, we... we have to find a place to go..."
"Are you worthy of running into the plundering camp now!?" Li Bochen shouted angrily, "If you want to still be considered a human being, then you must march on your own!"
But Qiu Fang said no more. Fang Tao said: "I'll catch him!"
Li Boxen raised his hand and looked ahead into the valley. The monster beasts no longer roared restlessly, and after more than ten breaths, first the smaller hyenas scattered in all directions, and then a dozen or so armored beasts also slowly disappeared into the darkness.
He said softly: "No need. He has already left."
The dozen or so cavalrymen stayed vigilant in the valley for a while. When they were sure that the beast had really returned to the mountains, Li Bochen relaxed his horse's head and retreated. When they arrived in front of the formation, they saw that the ten generals had restrained the formation well, but there were more than a dozen corpses lying in front of the formation. Li Boxen asked: "How are the casualties?"
One of the ten generals reported: "To your Majesty, only five people were injured!"
He spoke with great pride and without the slightest hint of fear. Looking at the soldiers, they all held their heads high and looked deep into the valley.
After this battle, they should no longer be afraid. Li Bochen laughed twice and shouted: "Are the monsters as scary as you thought before?"
The soldier immediately said: "No!"
Li Bochen smiled and said: "Okay! Just don't be afraid!"
After saying this, he glanced at Fang Yu. Fang Chu knew his intentions best, so he said: "Junhou, if you hadn't been able to defeat the monster in front of you, I'm afraid we wouldn't be so relaxed."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Bo on the side also suddenly said: "It's also because of the favorable location. If it weren't for the monarch and his husband to guard the gate, but instead the monsters would surround us on the ground, I'm afraid we would also be in serious trouble."
Zhao Bo is usually not a talkative person, but he rarely spoke at this time. Li Bochen smiled in his heart, thinking that he was really convinced by him. What these two people said was what he wanted the troops to know. As a coach, he shouldn't have gone deep into the enemy camp alone like he did just now, but the situation was urgent and he had to use thunderous power to establish his authority and strengthen the morale of the army.
Even though he has repelled the demonic beast, he still feels weak all over, and the hand holding the spear is trembling slightly. Monsters are born with great strength, and even in the dragon-tiger realm, I am almost at my limit.
In fact, those are still considered "stragglers." If there are second-level or even third-level monsters to control, the situation will be different.
Li Bochen took a deep breath and looked into the distance again - finally some villagers also retreated into the secret realm, and there were still some people shouting on the meadow in the distance, who should have arrived later.
In the direction of the camp...the wall was slowly lit up with fire. It was Sui Wujiu's men who had opened the south gate and were entering the camp. Li Bochen said: "It's best if you understand this. Although today is not a fierce battle, after tonight, you will already be the first batch of strong soldiers in Li to fight against the monsters."
"Your wives, children, and children are safe tonight because you are here. Now, as I said, retreat and reunite with your family!"
There was a burst of cheers.
Li Bochen rode behind and turned to look at the mountains. With the enemy retreating on his side, the Linxi Army should also gradually gain an advantage.
The Linxi Army failed to capture Mengjiatun, and Sui Wujiu failed to capture Hou City. He himself was forced to retreat into the secret realm, and all three parties' wishful thinking came to nothing.
But at this moment, Li Boxen smelled the bloody smell on his body, and felt very peaceful in his heart. He remembered when he was at Wujing Mountain Pass and hesitating whether to save Ye Yinghong. The hesitation and temptation beforehand always bothered him the most. But when things reached a point of no return like now, he was able to put all the hesitations behind him and make a decisive decision.
It was these decisions that reassured him - after all, it was just a choice between fighting or surrendering, life or death. Isn't this the right way for a man to live his life in this world?
