Chapter 491: Prepared for battle, arrogant soldiers and fierce generals

Does Da Xia outer city, outside the northwest city wall, Milk Tiger Forest.

The Milk Tiger Forest is 5 kilometers long and wide, which is not large. Because it is specially used for the trial of underage Frost-Resistant-level children, hunting is strictly prohibited. Usually, except for the Dragon Guards responsible for management and maintenance, and people invited to watch the ceremony during each genius trial, basically no one will come.

However, the situation tonight is obviously a bit special.

"You 30 people are responsible for observing the situation above the Milk Tiger Forest from the watchtower. Once there is any abnormality, blow the whistle to warn immediately. I have arranged people under the city wall. If they hear the warning, they will immediately notify the entire army. Do not have the slightest carelessness!"

At the intersection of the northwest city wall of Xia City, on the watchtower more than fifty meters high, the Long Jinwei Commander Tie Xinchuan patiently arranged the positions of the 30 Dragon Guards one by one, and then ordered them sternly.

The 30 Dragon Guards wearing Xuan scale silver armor were all extremely serious. After hearing the order, they bowed and shouted in unison: "Subordinates obey orders!"

"Commander, is it about enough? One post every fifty steps, one sentry every hundred steps, the west, north, and south sides of the entire Milk Tiger Forest are all surrounded. Let alone people, even a small insect cannot fly in; there are also fifty Dragon Guards scattered in the forest to alert, and we bring five hundred Dragon Guards to protect the Second Prince closely. What problems can the Second Prince have?"

The Long Jinwei Deputy Commander and Second Battalion Commander Yuan Bai was standing on the top of the watchtower looking into the distance. Seeing that the west, south, and north sides of the Milk Tiger Forest were already surrounded by connected firelights, his expression was a bit strange, feeling that Tie Xinchuan was really making a fuss.

It is night, and those connected firelights are the Dragon Guards alerting on the periphery of the three sides of the Milk Tiger Forest, holding torches in their hands.

In the past, for the Milk Tiger Forest trial once every ten days, at most one battalion of one hundred Dragon Guards would be sent to alert on the periphery. Tonight, everyone was dispatched. Although the safety of the Second Prince is indeed important, Yuan Bai still felt that this battle formation was a bit too much.

The key is that this Milk Tiger Forest is stuck to Xia City, and the cold beasts inside are all caught and put in by them from all over Does Da Xia. They are all medium and low-level cold beasts, and there is not even a high-level one. What can happen?

Let alone ghosts. With the continuous surge of population in Xia City over the years, the progress of exploration of the Red Wood Ridge on the west side has naturally risen with the tide. Especially at the end of last year, Does Da Xia found a cold beast lair in the core depth of the Red Wood Ridge, the Howling Moon Valley. Not only did they find more than a dozen cold beast groups, but they also extinguished thirteen ghosts. Since then, the Red Wood Ridge has no secrets in front of Does Da Xia.

The biggest danger of the Frozen Abyss comes from the unknown. With the completion of Does Da Xia's exploration of the Red Wood Ridge, the danger of this area has naturally been greatly reduced.

Now, the west city wall of Xia City has an area of ten kilometers cleared between it and the Red Wood Ridge. The Milk Tiger Forest in the northwest corner only has a small piece on the north side connected to the Arrow Bamboo Forest, so there is basically no need to worry about the threat of cold beasts.

No need to worry about cold beasts, so those small torches can be used at will. The torches held by the Dragon Guards tonight are those that can prevent ghosts;

Cold beasts and ghosts, since they are not threats, the only thing to be careful about is people.

But people, that is even more impossible!

Their one thousand Dragon Guards are all personal guards of the Lord, and Yuan Bai is the Deputy Commander of the Long Jinwei, so he knows far more than others.

The three towns of Chui Shan, Mu Yin, and Jiang Xia had long ago secretly merged into Does Da Xia. Now the entire southern foothills area is a situation where Does Da Xia is the only one. Let alone the three northern towns, even if Yang Qu and Long Gu are added, the five northern towns united together are just rabble in front of Does Da Xia.

Under such circumstances, let alone who has the guts to dare to hit the Second Prince's idea, even if they really have this guts, who has this strength?

So in Yuan Bai's view, the battle formation Tie Xinchuan set up tonight is really a bit too much.

Tie Xinchuan just turned twenty-eight this year. Looking at his deputy Yuan Bai, who is one year younger than himself, he shook his head slightly and said: "Our Does Da Xia is at its most popular time now. Don't be careless. Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years. The five northern towns are being pressed by sixty thousand troops. Now it is a pressure cooker. Who knows what stupid things they will do?"

After asking, he paused and added: "The Lady is not closing the two Princes for no reason."

Yuan Bai understood immediately. After his brows narrowed slightly, he said with some disbelief: "They are not that stupid, right? The number of spies from the five towns caught in Xia City in recent years is almost a thousand. Those five families are not stupid. They should have some feeling about the means of our Xia City, and they still dare to come?"

Since the opening of the Hong Sect port, Xia City has always maintained an attitude of opening to the outside world. Let alone the towns in the southern foothills, even people from outside camps can enter Xia City as long as they report in advance in Hong Sect City.

Trade, communication, collecting information from outside territories, enhancing the vision of the Xia people, and improving Does Da Xia's productivity... The benefits of opening to the outside world, if you really want to talk about it, you can't finish it in a few days.

But the problem is, the pros and cons of the world have always been companions.

While bringing many benefits to Xia City, opening to the outside world inevitably provided convenience for spies from outside towns. As Does Da Xia and the southern foothills area became more and more deeply integrated, there were more and more spies from outside towns lurking in Xia City.

In order to guard against these spies, Does Da Xia took many measures. For example, it stipulated that outsiders could only live in the three guest areas of North 5, North 18, and South 2 in the outer city; for example, it restricted the collection and hunting behavior of outsiders. Only when they accepted the employment of Xia people could they obtain temporary hunting permission; for example, it restricted their scope of activities, strictly forbidding them from entering the inner city, and even the department offices and military camps in various areas of the outer city...

It is a pity that no matter how many measures there are, there are loopholes in the end. Many spies still mixed into the city in the name of travelers and guests to inquire about Does Da Xia's intelligence.

Unfortunately, what they can do is limited to inquiring about intelligence.

Because of the existence of holy pattern bloodlines, Frost-Resistant-level people from outside who turn to Does Da Xia have a six-month review period. Once the six months are up, whether they are sincere or fake can be screened out immediately. Does Da Xia set the rules three years ago that anyone who turns to Does Da Xia from outside has a one-year review period.

So no matter how well the spies from outside towns disguise themselves, they will eventually be exposed. Let alone mixing into the internal part of Does Da Xia, first of all, obtaining Does Da Xia's official identity can completely kill them.

After a long time, the spies from outside towns also figured out the holy patterns, so they no longer pinned their hopes on infiltration, but focused on inquiring about intelligence.

The thousand spies from the five towns mentioned by Yuan Bai just now are not just any people. They are all Frost-Resistant-level experts with extraordinary strength and are extremely good at disguising and lurking.

"Every move of these spies from outside towns in Xia City is monitored by the Ancestral Spirit Tablet of the Prison Department. If there is any improper action, they will be taken down by the Prison Department immediately. They have been caught red-handed more than a thousand times. The five northern towns still don't learn their lessons. It is useless to send more people!"

Not only Yuan Bai, Tie Xinchuan is also an old man of Does Da Xia, so he naturally knows about the Ancestral Spirit Mother Tablet. After hearing his words, he shook his head and replied: "They naturally don't dare to come into the city, but it is hard to say outside the city. The people of the Prison Department said that the monitoring range of the Ancestral Spirit Tablet is limited to the city. The Second Prince is going out of the city tonight after all, so being cautious will not be wrong!"

Hearing this, Yuan Bai's expression became a bit more solemn, and he nodded.

"Commander, Deputy Commander, the Second Prince's vehicle has left the city!"

Suddenly, a Long Jinwei's voice came from the side. The two hurriedly turned their heads to look toward the north of the city, and their expressions were slightly shocked.

Three hundred Dragon Guards were escorting a fire-red carriage, sticking to the north city wall and driving slowly toward the Milk Tiger Forest.

"The last time I saw the Second Prince was when he entered the Martial Arts Pavilion at the beginning of the year. I remember that the Second Prince's basic strength was already 130,000 jin at that time. I don't know how much it is now. This time I can finally see it."

Hearing Yuan Bai's words, Tie Xinchuan also said with great interest: "I saw it in May this year. The Second Prince's basic strength was 170,000 jin at that time. Half a year has passed now, and I estimate it is at least 230,000."

The cultivation of the two Princes is one of the things that the Xia people are most interested in now. Firstly, there is the halo of the Lord, Xia Hong, and the Xia people want to know how high the talent of the two siblings is; secondly, because they rarely walk out of the Xia Gong, the siblings appear more and more mysterious, and the Xia people are naturally more curious.

And compared to the First Prince, Xia Yu Yao, who stays behind closed doors, the Second Prince, Xia Yu Sheng, will walk out of the Zhai Xing Hall from time to time and walk around the Xia Gong, so people who enter the Martial Arts Pavilion to practice can sometimes see him if they are lucky.

Hearing Tie Xinchuan say that the Second Prince's basic strength was already over 230,000 jin in May, Yuan Bai's expression shook violently.

"230,000 jin has not broken through yet. The Second Prince's combat body aptitude has already exceeded Director Yu Wen and the Director, right?"

With the continuous surge of Does Da Xia's population, there are more and more reference samples for breaking through to the Frost-Resistant level, and the content of "Xia Rites · Cultivation System Chapter" is becoming more and more perfect.

Yuan Bai remembered that the Cultivation System Chapter said that in the stage of reshaping the skin and membrane, as long as the basic strength exceeds 200,000 jin, and then breaking through to the Frost-Resistant level, the basic strength is not just a simple doubling, but will also obtain additional enhancement on the basis of doubling. The higher the basic strength, the higher the enhancement will be.

He himself is also a supreme-grade battle body, but unfortunately, during the skin-membrane remodeling stage, his limit base strength only reached 170,000 jin, so once he broke through to the Frigid-Resistant level, his base strength was a standard 3.4 zong.

Meanwhile, Xia Yu Sheng's base strength was already over 230,000 jin in July, and now he has likely already broken through to the Frigid-Resistant level, so his base strength is certainly over 6 zong, and possibly even more.