Chapter 973: Ginger Is Still Old and Spicy
While the imperial coalition forces were fighting bloody battles at Jialing Pass, the Heaven Dou Empire's rear began to catch fire.
The Barak Kingdom is located on the southern border of the Heaven Dou Empire, bordering on the province of Fasno. It is said to be a kingdom, but in fact its area is only three quarters of the province of Fasno. It belongs to the Heaven Dou Empire, within the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire One of the four kingdoms.
Since the south of the Balak Kingdom directly borders the Spirit Empire, among the four kingdoms of the Heaven Dou Empire, the military power of the Balak Kingdom is the strongest, and it can also be said to be the gateway of the Heaven Dou Empire.
There are two most important cities in the Kingdom of Barak. One is Barak City, the capital of the previous King Kundera of Barak who died together with the death of Emperor Xue Ye. This is the political and economic center of the entire Kingdom of Barak. The other city is Soto City, known as Barak's granary, located in the middle of the richest Lima Plain within the Barak Kingdom.
In today's war-torn era, Soto City also has the heavy burden of delivering food and supplies to the frontline imperial coalition forces. Its status can be said to be the top priority. There are only a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled left in the city, and among the top fighters, only Bone Douluo Gu Rong sits here.
Soto City, barracks.
An old man looked gloomy, staring at the map for a long time without saying a word.
A communications staff officer stood in front of him tremblingly, raised his head and kept silent, for fear of arousing the anger of the old man in front of him.
This is an old man with a haggard face, and his figure is extremely surprising. He is not the kind of muscular body with extremely swollen muscles, but his entire body skeleton is surprisingly large.
The clothes seemed to be fully supported by bones, the muscles and skin were shriveled, and the eye sockets were sunken. In this dark night, it looked like a huge skeleton.
His few white hairs, scattered across his scalp, were as ugly as they could be.
He is Bone Douluo Gu Rong!
Not long after Ning Rongrong married Yang Ming, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was merged into the Zhatian Clan. Bone Douluo Gu Rong was Ning Fengzhi's right-hand man, although he did not get the support of the helm master and the altar master in the Zhatian Clan. The position, however, also has a very high honor, and in the great battle to unify the Douluo Continent, Yang Ming entrusted him with the important task of being in charge of all military operations in the Barak Kingdom.
But at this moment, the old man who is very important in the kingdom of Barak has a strong murderous intent on his body, and it is obvious that he has accumulated a lot of anger.
A palm with the size of a small cattail fan and a somewhat skinny palm slapped heavily on a huge map hanging on the wall, making a muffled bang, a little dust trembled from the corner of the wall, and insignificant cracks cracked on the wall .
Bone Douluo Gu Rong fixed his eyes on the location of Suotuo City on the map, and said in a deep voice without looking back:
"How long has the convoy sent to the front line to deliver food lost contact?"
The staff officer was trembling, but he didn't dare to hide anything, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and said:
"14 hours 09 minutes 23 seconds."
The time accurate to the minute and second is enough to prove the staff's dedication and meticulousness.
Unfortunately, this still couldn't restore Bone Douluo Gu Rong's anger, but made him even more angry.
"Asshole!"
Bone Douluo Gu Rong turned around, with an angry expression on his face, foaming from his mouth, and said:
"This is how many times the convoy has lost contact this month? A total of 51 times! Each convoy carrying food is loaded with enough food and drink for 20,000 soldiers, but now all of them have disappeared! You tell me, How did they disappear, with so much food, even if the army of the Wuhun Empire sneaked in to make trouble, it is impossible not to leave a trace!"
From Bone Douluo Gu Rong's tone, one can clearly feel his helplessness after this anger.
One must know that even the Kingdom of Barak, which is known as a large food province, especially the city of Soto, which has the reputation of the world's granary, cannot afford such a large consumption!
Each convoy carries food for 20,000 people, and the loss of 51 convoys is a loss of enough food for millions of people!
Every time he thinks that those grains are sent to the front-line imperial coalition forces, but in the end they are lost in his own hands, Bone Douluo Gu Rong can't sleep at night, his heart feels like colic!
What made Bone Douluo Gu Rong even more uneasy was that each convoy kept a few small bats in captivity. If there was an enemy attack, there would be no news about it, right?
But it was such a coincidence that none of the little bats raised by these convoys were able to pass on the news!
This can only show one thing, the Wuhun Empire soldiers lurking in Barak Kingdom, this is a premeditated and planned action!
Regarding this, Bone Douluo Gu Rong naturally also used the little bat to pass on what happened in Barak's Kingdom, hoping that Prince Xue Xing, who was in charge of Tiandou City, could give him some advice, or simply dispatch some members of the Zhatian Gang to help.
But to his disappointment, the news from the direction of Tiandou City ordered him to continue to stand firm and find out the enemies lurking in Barak Kingdom!
Since Bone Douluo Gurong still has Ning Rongrong's relationship with him, he knows more about it, because the Heaven Zhatian Gang is severely understaffed, and other provinces in the Heaven Dou Empire are also in a situation similar to that of the Balak Kingdom. They are all overwhelmed and have no spare energy to support.
"Gulu!"
Seeing the appearance of Bone Douluo Gu Rong not getting angry, the staff officer slipped his throat up and down, secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and reported:
"Because of the previous experience of losing grain transport convoys many times, we sent people out to investigate in time this time, and found the place where the last lost grain transport convoy was lost, which was 24 kilometers west of Soto City."
Bone Douluo Gu Rong raised his eyebrows, and turned to look at the huge map hanging on the wall. On it was a topographical map of the Barak Kingdom. There were various official roads and small roads criss-crossing, towering mountains and rivers, flat plains, gurgling mountains and rivers. The rivers are clearly visible on it, and the place names of each place are marked, which can be described as extremely detailed.
A bright light suddenly flashed in his eyes, because on the map, the place where the last grain transport convoy disappeared was actually on the former site of Shrek Academy!
Now the Shrek Academy is in full swing in Tiandou City, attracting students from all over the world, but few people know that the Shrek Academy used to be in a small village, but now it is in disrepair and no one cares about it. It was already a deserted ruins.
If Bone Douluo Gu Rong hadn't dealt with the teachers and students of Shrek Academy before, he probably wouldn't know the secrets of this, and would just ignore this place.
"The most dangerous place is the safest place."
Bone Douluo Gu Rong clenched his fists silently, a stern look flashed in his eyes.
Obviously, the food convoy would not go to an abandoned ruins for no reason, it could only be the soldiers of the Wuhun Empire lurking in the Barak Kingdom to make trouble, and the robbed convoy was driven there, only because of Bone Douluo Gu Rong's investigation The speed was too fast, the opponent was caught off guard, and the Wuhun Empire couldn't deal with it in time, so they exposed some clues.
"It's really courageous to play this trick under my nose!"
Bone Douluo Gu Rong's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, he smiled angrily, and said:
"Since you want to play, then I will accompany you to the end!"
"Send an order to let the soldiers and horses stationed in Suotuo City disperse and investigate. The main location of the investigation is the place where the teachers and students of Shrek Academy used to walk. Once the location where the enemy personnel is hiding is detected, the troops will not move for the time being. When the information is sent back, I will personally lead the brigade to exterminate them!"
The staff officer held his head high, immediately stood in a military posture, and said in a deep voice:
"Obey!"
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Although it is already dark now, Suoto City seems to have just woken up, and it is even more lively than during the day. All the shops on both sides of the street are brightly lit, and some small vendors who only come out at night have also found their best place. The habitual place sells some snacks or small items.
In Suotuo city, there is a large group of tall buildings, the tallest building is more than 100 meters, it is extremely huge, in the night, it looks extremely deep, and there is a faint light flickering from the huge building.
The Suotuo Great Spirit Arena has an oval shape as a whole, with a height of 120 meters. The interior is divided into a main spirit arena and 24 sub-spirit arenas, which can accommodate 60,000 spectators at the same time, including 100,000 VIP box.
This place is not only a place for soul masters to discuss and communicate, but also a place for all forces to show their own strength. It is said that even the leader of the Zhatian Gang, who is now in full swing, once competed in Suotuo Great Soul Arena when he was young , thus adding a bit of legend here, and the popularity is even more vigorous.
Even though the front line of the Heaven Dou Empire is now at war with the Wuhun Empire, the two sides throw thousands of corpses under the city of Jialing Pass every day, they are stuck with each other, like a meat grinder, people lose their lives every moment, but this does not mean anything at all. It affected the business of the Soto City Great Spirit Arena, and it did not affect the willingness of the people who enjoyed the peace in the rear to go to the Soto City Great Spirit Arena for consumption.
At this moment, from all directions, there are many sneaky people, under the cover of night, mixed into the audience going to the big soul fighting field in Suotuo City, pretending to be spectators, and successfully evading the patrol soldiers in the city Interrogation and interrogation.
These scattered sneaky people are not many in number, only about two or three hundred people, and they are not conspicuous in the huge crowd of spectators. The secret code left at the last gathering, they all went to watch the same soul master competition together, and bought adjacent seat numbers to achieve the purpose of the gathering.
After successfully entering the soul master competition site, these people were all soaked in sweat and panting like cows.
Obviously, they traveled all the way, quite hard and tiring.
This is an elite team from the Holy Dragon Army of the Wuhun Empire.
Wuhun City was able to mobilize an entire 600,000 troops, but instead of choosing to support Jialing Pass, it chose to split the 600,000 troops into large and small teams and spread them across the vast territory of the Heaven Dou Empire to carry out destruction, assassination, and robbery. Food, destroying ships, burning houses, and doing all kinds of disgusting things made Prince Xue Xing, who was temporarily taking over Yang Ming's job, exhausted, and thus covered up the real movements of their main force.
Among these hundreds of people, one person stands out.
This person has a head of clean and neat hair, rebellious eyes folded and shining, a face full of flesh and beard, a pair of thick lips under a wine-grooved nose, and the whole person is casually bare-faced. Backless, with an exceptionally strong body and extremely lush hair, just sitting there makes people think of a big black bear, even if you try your best to restrain your aura, the aura that leaks out inadvertently is enough to prove the strength of this person Far surpasses all present here.
Wuhun Hall Five Enshrined, Demon Bear Douluo, Demon Bear!
Soto City has Bone Douluo Gu Rong sitting in the town, so the Spirit Empire is naturally worried, and ordered the Demon Bear to come here to personally supervise the battle. The recent hijacking incidents of food convoys in the Barak Kingdom were all manipulated by him. , the person in front of him should be a person with a roughness and a fineness.
When his subordinates were able to catch their breath, Demon Bear raised his eyebrows and asked with a serious tone:
"What's going on with all of you, you're panting like you've been hollowed out by a woman?"
The subordinates all showed bitterness, shook their heads again and again, and said:
"Boss, it's not that we want to do this, but outside Suotuo City, there are members of the Zhatian Gang who are searching for our address, and I don't know what happened to those people, they were obviously blind some time ago , couldn’t find us at all, but today he suddenly became smarter, and searched several times to find the places where we were scattered and hiding. In order to avoid the search, we rushed back desperately.”
It was fine if he didn't say anything, but when he spoke, the devil bear's sultry face suddenly changed slightly, and a fierce light flashed in its eyes.
"You said that the people from the Zhatian Gang have searched near your hiding place? So, they have accurately searched you!"
Hearing this, the faces of his subordinates changed wildly, shouting that it was impossible.
"nothing is impossible."
Demon Bear stood up slowly, his voice became colder, and said:
"They didn't act immediately, it should be to let you come to meet up, and then find out me, the mastermind behind the scenes, and prepare to catch us all."
Hearing the analysis from Demon Bear Xu Xu, his subordinates were sweating profusely, knowing that they had been tricked by others.
Demon Bear ignored the psychological changes of his subordinates, and glanced around. The spectators who were sitting nearby suddenly turned their heads and stared at him, even the two players who were competing in the arena. The other contestants also stopped their movements and looked over together.
Knowing that he was exposed, the devil bear was not angry, but said in a deep voice:
"Sure enough, Jiang is still old and hot. The old man's fame for decades is not in vain. Since you have put on such a battle to welcome me, why don't you come out and meet me?"