Chapter 875
This night.
Chen Dong did not sleep for long.
On the one hand, he had to report to Elder Long and the others, but on the other hand, he was also stirred by the sound of the wind and snow in this cold weather, making it difficult to sleep.
Even with the fire pit burning in the house, there was warmth to keep the house not too cold.
But the wind and snow howling in the middle of the night really disturbed people’s dreams.
Even the sound of trumpets and drums, and the sound of patrolling soldiers in armour, were heard from time to time in the “Zhenjiang City”.
The entire army of 300,000 Great Snow Dragons is a strict and ancient military.
This made Chen Dong, who was new to Zhenjiang City, a little uncomfortable.
The night went on without a word.
The next morning, Chen Dong woke up to the roar of the army’s drills.
When he looked at the time, it was only five o’clock in the morning.
The sky hadn’t even dawned yet and was still in thick darkness.
“Is this one of the reasons why the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army was able to sweep across the northern frontier?”
Chen Dong rubbed his nose and laughed lightly, but he was somewhat longingly excited about the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army’s experience in the next three months.
He had never been afraid of harshness.
Even his step by step approach was to treat himself with harshness, because he knew clearly that only the harsher he treated himself, the better sunshine he could see.
This is something that fits perfectly with the Great Snow Dragon Riders.
If he were to spend three months just taking refuge within the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army, it would be too much of a waste of time for Chen Dong.
Three months was a short time and a long time, long enough to change many things.
Using these three months as some training to sharpen his skills would be the best option for Chen Dong.
As he had not yet a*sumed his duties, Chen Dong was not in a hurry to enter the army and train together.
Thinking of the surprise Huo Zhenxiao said yesterday, Chen Dong took out his mobile phone and flipped through the internet.
There was only one news message, densely packed, but Chen Dong did not find the slightest news that he found surprising.
But since Huo Zhenxiao had said so, he must have had his reasons.
Time and again, he refreshed.
Suddenly.
With a refresh, a newly released news item hit Chen Dong’s eyes like a heavy hammer.
Each word was extremely visually striking.
And when combined together, it became Chen Dong’s …… surprise.
The news was just released, about a foreign country, and it was the top headline!
It read: St. Del’s Cathedral, bombed by warplanes late at night!
The simple headline, however, caused the essence in Chen Dong’s eyes to gradually burst into a frenzy of joy.
When he first came into contact with the Blood Angels, Chen Dong had heard Kunlun mention vaguely that the headquarters of the Blood Angels seemed to be St. Del’s Cathedral when he first asked them about the Blood Angels.
If he remembered correctly, then this news was enough of a surprise!
For a moment, Chen Dong’s thoughts were racing.
He rubbed his nose and murmured, “The surprise was alerted to me by Huo Zhenxiao, and Saint-Del was bombed by warplanes, could it be the warplanes of the Great Snow Dragon Riders sent by …… Huo Zhenxiao? Cloak and dagger over the bombing?”
There was a pause.
Chen Dong smiled, “If that’s the case, the warplanes that attacked me yesterday at a height of ten thousand meters should have been sent by the ‘Blood Angels’ organization.”
In the blink of an eye, Chen Dong had smoothed out the cause and effect of the matter.
Only such an inference could most perfectly explain this one incident.
Looking at the news headlines, Chen Dong was indeed pleasantly surprised.
He couldn’t wait to click in.
However, he was slightly disappointed that the news report had very little space, only reporting the fact that Sundel had been bombed and not mentioning anything else.
“As expected of Huo Zhenxiao.”
Chen Dong smiled recklessly, even if the news report did not give him any more information, this one fact was enough.
“The specific damage caused by the bombing of the Blood Angels was just a minor matter, but the real loss was prestige and face!
The real loss was prestige and face. An existence that could dominate a world, a power that was comparable to the Hong Society in its territory.
The prestige of face is extremely important!
But now, in one night, Huo Zhenxiao had blown up Sundel into a hornet’s nest, so much so that he had slapped the Blood Angels’ face in the face and then stamped it into the mud, calling out to all the spectators in all directions to come and watch!
Such a gesture would never have been possible for any other power to do so cleanly and crisply!
Only Huo Zhenxiao, with his supreme merit and power, could have done such a masterstroke!
The “Blood Angels” organization, even if they knew who was behind it, would only gnash their teeth and swallow them, and would never dare to call Huo Zhenxiao’s bluff.
Otherwise,……, it might not just be St. Del’s that gets blown up.
Knock knock knock.
There was a knock at the door.
“Come in.”
Chen Dong turned back to his senses.
The door to the room was pushed open and Huo Zhenxiao walked in, his shoulders draped in snow and wind.
“Waking up so early, I thought you weren’t used to the routine in the Great Snow Dragon Riders’ army.”
Chen Dong held up his phone and shook it, laughing, “Isn’t this the surprise of getting up early in the morning to see what you said?”
“It’s out already?”
Huo Zhenxiao smiled calmly, “It’s a bit of a pity that only three planes were sent over since they didn’t blow up completely.”
Chen Dong was speechless for a while.
This stroke of Huo Zhenxiao’s hand had all but done what many forces had dreamed of doing but did not dare to.
This tone …… is not right!
“There is always a price to pay for touching the people of our Great Snow Dragon Riding Army.” Huo Zhenxiao explained, then sat down in front of the fire pit and reached out to roast the fire.
Only then did he raise his eyes to look at Chen Dong, “Wait a little longer, when the army drill is almost over, you will go out with me, there happens to be a small group of new recruits enlisting today, you will just be able to blend in and be a*signed to your respective teams.”
Chen Dong nodded his head.
Glancing again at the striking news on his phone, he said from the bottom of his heart, “Thank you, senior brother.”
This was considered his first real counterattack since he had suffered the Bureau of Heavenly Killing.
When faced with the Bureau of Heavenly Killing, even his father had chosen to stay put for the time being.
His forces, too, had been confined to defending against the Heaven-Slaughter Bureau time and again, and the so-called counter-attack had never been achieved.
And this time, Huo Zhenxiao helped him do it!
This time, Huo Zhenxiao did it for him! And it was a thunderbolt that directly bombarded the headquarters of the Blood Angels.
The pent-up anger in his chest had also been lifted a little.
“You’ve already called me senior brother, so why say thank you?”
Huo Zhenxiao replied, then stared profoundly at the dancing fire in the fire pit and said in a deep voice, “But Chen Dong, since you have chosen to dive for the dragon in the abyss, then you must be mentally prepared that you may pay with your life at any time during these three months!”
“I was already prepared when I chose to submerge the dragon in the abyss.” Chen Dong also looked solemn.
“No, you shouldn’t be ready yet.”
Huo Zhenxiao shook his head, “Because you do not understand the Northern Frontier yet, what you have learned is only that I, Huo Zhenxiao, lead the 300,000 Great Snow Dragon Riding Army to crush the Northern Frontier and majestically reject the hundred tribes, but underneath this peace and tranquility, battles and blood will break out every day, and this is the meaning of Zhenjiang City’s existence …… ”
Chapter 876
Huo Zhenxiao’s heavy words made the air in the room seem to freeze.
The atmosphere could not help but be solemn and heavy.
Chen Dong searingly looked at Huo Zhenxiao.
He had seen Huo Zhenxiao only a few times, but every time he had been bold and domineering, displaying the War God’s majesty to the fullest.
But now, when he faced Huo Zhenxiao, he had a feeling of “a change in the world”.
There was no more bravado, no more dominance.
There was only gravity.
“The so-called peace is maintained by people who die in the darkness at the cost of their lives.”
Huo Zhenxiao’s voice was low and his expression cold: “I won’t go into details with you about these things, but you will soon feel it after you join the army, I am just reminding you that since you have chosen this path, you should be prepared for it, instead of being careless and just jumping out hard, if that is really the case, I, as a senior brother, will be sorry for you.”
Chen Dong shook his head, “It’s alright, the lion fights the rabbit with all his might, thanks for the reminder, senior brother.”
The earth-shattering sounds of the drill outside gradually faded away.
Huo Zhenxiao slapped his hands on his knees and got up, “Let’s go, follow me to the new recruits’ reception.”
Chen Dong nodded, and as he followed Huo Zhenxiao out the door, Huo Zhenxiao but his footsteps, turned to face the incense case dedicated to the silver spear of the Transformed Dragon, picked up three pillars of incense, lit them, and after three bows, respectfully and solemnly inserted them into the incense burner.
“Senior brother, is this the spear that you used to destroy a city with one person and one spear?”
Chen Dong asked curiously.
“Well, this is my old buddy, but in recent years, I have rarely invited this old buddy anymore, probably …… for two years now.”
Huo Zhenxiao said with emotion, and then smiled spontaneously, “You also pay your respects, back then in that first city, I relied on this old fellow to bless me.”
Chen Dong smiled and did not say much.
He picked up three pillars of incense and followed Huo Zhenxiao’s example, lighting and bowing, and inserting the incense into the incense burner.
Chen Dong then followed Huo Zhenxiao to the reception of the new recruits.
With the arrangements made by Huo Zhenxiao, and with the arrangement of the Golden Guards and a few middle-ranking generals, Chen Dong easily blended in with the new recruits.
Together with Chen Dong, there were a total of one hundred new recruits this time.
This number was a drop in the bucket for the 300,000 Great Snow Dragon Riders, and could even be said to be close to nothing.
However, from the conversations among the recruits, Chen Dong also learnt.
The so-called recruits who entered the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry were selected from various armies and then came to report to the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry as recruits.
The situation faced by the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry as it pressed across the northern frontier was more dangerous than any other frontier.
And the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army’s battle record had become a sacred place for the soldiers in the troops of the major frontiers.
As Chen Dong stood among the new recruits, he could already hear that there was no shortage of people who had held some positions in the original army and were willing to come to the Great Snow Dragon Riders as new recruits.
The number of new recruits was not fixed, but rather the Great Snow Dragon Riders would count the number of Great Snow Dragon Riders within a short period of time at regular intervals, and make up the number of recruits if there was a shortage, so that the number of Great Snow Dragon Riders would always be maintained at 300,000.
As for the recruitment this time, it was only three days since the last time.
In Chen Dong’s opinion, this was already a very smacking and shocking situation.
One hundred new recruits meant that in the past three days, there were one hundred veteran soldiers who had been horse-legged.
“Perhaps, it was by relying on this ma*sive bloodletting of the elites of other troops that the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army was able to remain at its peak heyday?”
This was the thought in Chen Dong’s mind.
The Great Snow Dragon Riding Army did not feel the slightest bit uncomfortable with such a practice.
All the major frontier regions had dangers to rely on and dangers to defend, but only the Great Snow Dragon Riding Army had forged a “Frontier City” and held on to the frontier regions like a beast in the wilderness.
Moreover, even a child who has been to school in this frontier knows very well.
The northern frontier is the most dangerous frontier of all!
The intensity and brutality of warfare here is perhaps even less than that of the other frontiers combined!
If we didn’t rely on this blood-sucking method of recruiting new troops, not to mention Huo Zhenxiao, even if a true Da Luo Golden Immortal came down to earth, it would definitely be difficult to guard the Northern Frontier as solid as gold!
“Buddy, which Border Lion are you affiliated with?”
Beside his ears, a laughing voice rang out, breaking Chen Dong’s thoughts.
Chen Dong twisted his head to look, and in front of him was a stoutly built man, half a head taller than him.
His short hair stood up as if steel needles were standing upside down.
With a tiger’s back and thick eyebrows, he exuded an air of fortitude.
But while smiling, he slightly revealed a bit of simplicity.
“My name is Meng Dabiao, I’m from the 302 Lions Special Operations Unit in the southern border, 25 years old this year!”
The man in front of him smiled nervously and extended his hand to Chen Dong.
Chen Dong reached out to shake his hand and said with a smile, “My name is Chen Dong, sorry for the rest, as it involves secrets, I cannot say.”
Since he was already a junior soldier, submerged in the 300,000 Great Snow Dragon Riding Army, there was no need for Chen Dong to remain anonymous, not to mention his name, which was already very common.
But as for the rest, Meng Dabiao could tell the information, how could he?
It’s not that he didn’t want to say it, it’s that he didn’t have it at all, he couldn’t just make it up now, could he?
However.
It was such a statement that instantly made Meng Dabiao look at Chen Dong differently, with respect.
“Brother Chen Dong, I understand, I understand!”
Meng Dabiao moved closer to Chen Dong, deliberately lowered his voice and said mysteriously, “Brother Dong turns out to be a crouching tiger, hidden dragon, after joining the army, if I am lucky enough to be with Brother Dong, I would like to ask Brother Dong to take care of me.”
Chen Dong: “? 0?”
This D*mned …… suddenly added drama to himself?
How could he have not expected that a near perfunctory remark would set off a brainstorm in Meng Dabiao’s mind?
But it had come to this point, Chen Dong did not want to explain.
Nodding his head, he smiled and said, “Look after each other, we are all new recruits.”
However.
“Brother Dong is really a Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, calm and collected, exactly the same as the fierce generals I have seen.” The look Meng Dabiao gave Chen Dong completely turned into awe.
Chen Dong: “???”
What the hell did I say?
“My name is Sun Kong, we’re all new recruits, let’s get to know each other.”
Another new recruit next to him smiled and extended his right hand to Chen Dong and Meng Dabiao.
Meng Dabiao took the lead and introduced himself, then smiled nervously and pulled Chen Dong and Sun Kong’s hands together and shook them, introducing Chen Dong for him, “This is Brother Chen Dong.”
No details were given, nor were many words spoken.
This caused both Chen Dong and Sun Kong to freeze for a moment.
“Alright, alright, stand still for now, the roll call for enlistment is coming up.”
Meng Dabiao smiled nervously and told Sun Kong to stand to the side.
After waiting a distance away.
Only then did he turn back and look at Chen Dong mysteriously, lifting his right hand to clench his fist and gently smash it at his heart position, whispering.
“Don’t worry, Brother Dong, I understand all the rules of you Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon pointees, don’t worry, I will keep your secret.”
Saying that, he even winked at Chen Dong in a fierce manner, his expression then becoming solemn.
The corners of Chen Dong’s eyes crinkled and his veins twitched.
Facing Meng Dabiao, he suddenly had a clear perception of the word “Biao”.
With an awkward smile, Chen Dong turned his head to look in another direction.
He couldn’t say much more about this, otherwise Brother Biao would have to continue to deepen the misunderstanding ……
“Golden Guard has arrived!”
Also at that moment, a majestic roar rang out.
The crowd of recruits who had been whispering, simultaneously quieted down, and without exception, a hundred of them simultaneously looked solemn, snapped to attention and waited.
