The cute pet of the empire

Bingshuan City is located at the border between Royce and Shah. 34 years ago, a large piece of land east of Bingshuan still belonged to Royce.

But since Luo Huan's grandfather suffered a defeat 34 years ago, neither he nor his successor King Philip has been able to retake the land in the east from the Shah.

Bingshuang City, 34 years ago, became a small border town between the two sides.

Mao Xiaohua had already visited this border town once. In two or more years, he was stolen by Shah's envoy, locked in a cage and transported to Shah as a tribute. own leopard.

That is, two years ago, Mao Xiaohua's identity was exposed to Luo Huan for the first time. What happened in the room of the tower that night was still fresh in Mao Xiaohua's memory.

Two years have passed, and the dilapidated and lonely small city that stood on the border at the beginning has now been built into a continuous fortress with quite tall walls.With Bing Shun as the center, Luo Huan built more than a dozen auxiliary cities on this land, making it able to accommodate a large army.

When the army was advancing towards Bingshuan City, it was the time when Royce was at its coldest, and the desert was covered by heavy snow, and it was all white at a glance.

The snow fell rustlingly, and the wind was bitterly cold, but in Luo Huan's army, even the lowest slaves pulling carts had a pair of warm gloves and were not afraid of this severe cold at all.

As for the leopards who followed the army, they liked this kind of weather even more.

The leopard from El is very adaptable. It has already changed its thick fur in autumn, and now it is flying with the army in the snow.

Mao Xiaohua is also in the team of these leopards. He sometimes turns into a human and sometimes into a leopard. He is very careful every time he changes. So far, the secret of his ability to change, apart from the leopards, is Only Luo Huan and Ma Munro knew.

As for the other person who knew about this matter—Ma Tuo, his father left him in El, responsible for collecting and training new leopards, so as to ensure the supply of leopards for the Leopard Army.

Mao Xiaohua's fur is a natural protective color in this kind of heavy snow. Perhaps because of this reason, he especially likes to walk, run and even hunt with the body of a leopard in heavy snow.The life of the expedition is too boring, so Mao Xiaohua recently discovered another thing that is more entertaining.

Every morning, when the team was preparing to leave, he would take rhubarb and walk towards a red-haired youth.

The red-haired young man's already pale face turned even paler when he saw the leopard and yellow cat walking towards him.

The white leopard turned its ears, and swept its tail at the arm of the red-haired young man in the team. It was no surprise that the guy began to tremble.

"Hey! Su Lide, His Majesty's leopard seems to like you very much! It comes back to play with you every day." A poet said to the red-haired Su Lide, "This white leopard is so interesting, every time he comes I also brought a big yellow cat with me, I want to write a poem to record this matter!"

"It's too much! Why do they always bully me!" Su Lide's pale face turned red when he saw the big yellow cat on the leopard's back, and he tremblingly took out a piece from his purse. Pick up the dried meat with the tips of your fingers and throw it into the air, muttering, "Go, go, don't come looking for me."

The yellow tabby cat jumped up, caught the jerky accurately, but did not leave. Instead, it jumped further to Su Lide's shoulder, swallowed the piece of jerky the size of a finger belly, and then licked it with its own tongue. Su Lide's face, and he used his claws to pull Su Lide's red hair.

Su Lide immediately screamed: "Ah! Cat! Scary cat!"

Da Huang waved his tail helplessly on Su Lide's shoulder, and said to Mao Xiaohua, "Hey, I like this red-haired young man so much, but why is he afraid of cats? I'm so harmless, I can only kill mice , will not kill..."

The white leopard gave Rhubarb a helpless look. Although he also felt that it was not moral to tease this scientist who was afraid of felines, but... since Rhubarb liked it, he reluctantly helped Rhubarb get closer to the male god in his heart. alright.

After the army marched for 20 days, this time the army finally arrived at Bingshun City on a snowy afternoon.

The defenders of the border town opened the city gates to welcome the king, and sent Luo Huan the latest battle report.

In the evening, Luo Huan studied the latest situation in his room as usual, while Mao Xiaohua lay beside him, resting her furry head on Luo Huan's thigh, her sleeping belly rising and falling slightly.

"Get up!" Luo Huan stood up in the middle of the night, moved his body, and patted Mao Xiaohua's head with his hand.

So the leopard stretched on the ground, then shook its fur, and turned into a young man in white fur, and followed Luo Huan to the meeting hall.

Luo Huan's generals have long liked the habit of their commanders discussing affairs in the middle of the night. They quickly gathered in the meeting hall and began to discuss this big battle.

According to relevant information, the army of the Shah Empire is also frequently mobilizing to the border. This time, Shah sent millions of troops, with a large number of chariots, horse-drawn carts, elephant soldiers, camel soldiers, heavy cavalry and other arms, led by Shah Led by the famous general Russ, the attack is menacing. If the intelligence is good, three days later, they will face the first contact battle.

The soldiers quickly got busy. This time, Luo Huan's army was only 10 strong, which was only a fraction of the opponent's. The first battle between the two sides had to be taken seriously.

Mao Xiaohua was also very busy during these three days. His position in the leopard army was very important. He was not only in charge of communicating with the leopards, but also with the leopard god Mamonro who actually commanded the army.

When fighting, he will use the form of a leopard to convey various orders to the leopards more accurately, and when necessary, he will take the lead in fighting.

In this battle, because Luo Huan's intelligence work was very sufficient, this leopard army composed of 120 leopards was arranged on the left flank of the entire battlefield, supplemented with light cavalry, mainly to deter the enemy.

After all, 120 leopards act together. Although they are not as good as cavalry and carriages in chasing the enemy, their deterrent power and psychological pressure on the enemy are enough to defeat the opponent.

The first battle took place on the morning of the fourth day after Luo Huan arrived in Bingshun. When Luo Huan's soldiers got up, they got the news of the enemy's attack. The team was spread out in the wilderness. At the front, he looked at the enemy that was as black as ants, and felt a kind of coercion for the first time.

Whether it was attacking Qian Dilun or taking El, he had never encountered such a team.

That kind of advantage, which is absolutely regular and far superior to her own in number, made Mao Xiaohua's heart pound.

His tail moved a little uneasily, and without turning his head, he could feel the same unease felt by the other leopards.

The light cavalry led by Luo Huan was right beside the leopards. He raised his eyes and saw the man standing on the carriage far away.

"Is that the opponent's commander, Ruth?" Luo Huan asked the guards beside him in a low voice.

"It's too far away, I can't see clearly. It should be..."

This word reached Mao Xiaohua's ears, he narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

The eyesight of leopards is much better than that of humans, which allows Mao Xiaohua to see each other clearly even though they are thousands of meters away.

It was a well-dressed man with black hair and black eyes. He was wearing a black robe and cloak, with intricate patterns embroidered with gold silk on the skirt. His eyes were cold and seemed devoid of any emotion.

In the face of such a big battle, the man did not appear nervous, but was manicuring his nails with a small golden spatula.

Mao Xiaohua instinctively felt that there was a dangerous aura about that man, and he felt even more uneasy, and even glanced at Mamonro at the side.

The messenger bird on Mamonro's shoulder flew up and flew towards the enemy.

At the same moment, the horn of Luo Huan's attack sounded, the infantry phalanx began to march forward in order, and roared loudly, and the archers began to shoot arrows.

"Oh! Is that all Luo Huan knows?" Ruth stood on the station car with a sarcasm smile on his lips. Pointing to those leopards: "Let's have our chariot, teach those guys a lesson!"

boom!A huge sound resounded in Shah's army, and the infantry phalanx of the opponent quickly separated, and a huge formation of carriages, braving arrows, rushed towards the left flank unexpectedly.

The fronts of those carriages were painted with terrifying patterns. Two people were driving, an archer and a spearman. The wheels on both sides of the carriage also carried huge rotating sickles, rolling up bursts of crushed snow, like giants. Like a menacing black dragon in the waves, it went straight towards the leopards.

"Well……"

"Ow..."

The leopards roared loudly, not to mention ordinary leopards, even Mao Xiaohua felt a wave of fear at the scene in front of her.

Going to the battlefield to fight has already violated the instinct of cats, but now they have to face such danger and not avoid it, which will test the minds of these leopards even more.

In just a split second, Mao Xiaohua instinctively wanted to run away, but Ma Munro glanced at him in time, and said in a calm voice, "Let the leopards get out of the way, don't fight recklessly!"

Mao Xiaohua growled behind her, the leopards hurriedly separated, and the carriage roared over. The slower moving leopard was either shot or wounded by the huge spinning scythes on the carriage. The screams sounded.

The screams of a few leopards made the other leopards feel panic and instinctively want to flee, but Mamonro's messenger bird stopped this behavior in time, and Luo Huan's cavalry had already arrived.

The change of the battlefield made Luo Huan fall into a passive state. The leopards quickly dispersed and retreated under Mamonro's call. The infantry phalanx changed direction. Arrows flew like flying. The battle started again, and the legs of those frightened leopards were a little weak.

Mao Xiao spent a lot of effort to work with Mamonro so that the leopards would not be confused in the face of this scene. They stayed together, and the atmosphere of tension and fear was right above the leopards, and it was difficult to dissipate for a while. .

The battle lasted from morning until evening.

Almost all the chariots sent by Shah were wiped out, but Luo Huan also suffered heavy losses. He looked at the soldiers who had to withdraw from the battlefield due to injuries, and had to give the order to defend Bing Shun.

In the dark night, Luo Huan's eyebrows were tightened. He and the generals looked at the sand table in front of them, discussing the next move and how to improve the tactics in the battle against Shah.

On the other side, Ruth, who was wearing a black robe and had black hair, had a sneer on the corner of his mouth: "It surprised me! I couldn't win the battle, but... I already know Luo Huan's weakness. Those leopards They are really vulnerable!"

"General, what are you going to do next?" An eunuch beside Ruth asked.

Ruth's eyes narrowed slightly: "Of course we should start from the weakest place, the king should be captured first! Luo Huan's leopard army first, then his heavy cavalry, light cavalry, and finally his infantry phalanx... "The black-haired man's hand was grasping in the air, then squeezed tightly, and a five-color glazed bead in his hand was crushed with a soft cracking sound. "In the end, just like this bead, I crushed it one by one. !"

"Don't be too depressed!" After the military meeting, Luo Huan put his arms around Mao Xiaohua lying in his arms, looked into the distance, and said in a calm voice, "The Shahe Empire has been around for hundreds of years. How could the army be like Qian Dilun and his ilk? The leopards performed very well today, at least they didn’t panic when faced with such a situation.”

Mao Xiaohua didn't know if this was Luo Huan's comforting words or if it was true.When facing today's situation, especially when he saw that Ruth's cruel and calm eyes, he always felt uneasy.

At night, the leopards were on guard. In the middle of the night, Mao Xiaohua got up from Luo Huan's bed, opened the door, and walked out quietly.

There have been many times like this, Luo Huan just opened his eyes slightly to look at it, and then continued to sleep.

Today's fighting during the day also made him feel sleepy and he must rest.

Mao Xiaohua walked barefoot on the ground, and when she passed a low wall with no one there, she transformed into a white leopard, walking quietly on the street.

In the first half of the night, Galen was responsible for guarding the Dongcheng District of Bingshu City, and it was his turn in the second half of the night.

Mao Xiaohua walked very slowly. Thinking back on what happened during the day, he always felt that the strength of the leopards was not only in guarding and patrolling, but also in intimidating the enemy psychologically. They should have greater energy.

sniff!

There was a strange smell in the air, Mao Xiaohua suddenly lowered her body, and took a fighting posture, her ears were turned back, but she couldn't hear any abnormal sounds.

But... it's just different, it's an indescribable feeling.

Almost instinctively, Mao Xiaohua rolled on the ground, avoiding that dangerous feeling, and when he stood still again, a black shadow appeared at the place where he was standing.

It's a black panther.

The black panther is quite big, with well-proportioned muscles, and its black eyes are provocative and playful, and its aura makes Mao Xiaohua feel a little familiar.

"Roar!" Mao Xiaohua yelled threateningly at the black panther. This guy is obviously not a leopard from the Leopard Army. Where did it come from?How did you get into the heavily guarded Bingshun City?

"White leopard, we... meet again!" There was a hint of sarcasm in the eyes of the black panther, it raised its front paw and licked its paw, "Do you remember me? In El, your The taste, but I have never forgotten it!"

Mao Xiaohua immediately remembered the encounter in El.

I transformed myself on a moonlit night, and was almost taken advantage of by this wild leopard.

"It's you!" Mao Xiaohua looked at the leopard vigilantly, but didn't take any action immediately.

If he was fighting alone, he had already experienced the power of this leopard, and he was definitely not an opponent.

And the guards closest to here just passed by a few minutes ago, and it will take at least 5 minutes to come back from patrol again.

"What are you doing here?! You came from El?" Mao Xiaohua asked, trying to delay the time, waiting for the helper to arrive.

The black panther slightly lowered its body and flicked the tip of its tail: "I came to find you, how about following me? I will give you more things than your master."

Mao Xiaohua flicked her own tail, but did not answer the question.

Obviously, the black panther in front of him had some malicious intentions, especially the way he looked at her and the way he sniffed in the air made Mao Xiaohua feel a sense of danger.

Mao Xiaohua moved her steps slowly, wanting to avoid this danger, she concentrated her strength on her legs, and jumped up into the distance.

Almost at the same moment, the black panther also jumped up, his strength was stronger than Mao Xiaohua's, he jumped higher and farther.

Snapped!

The two leopards fell to the ground almost at the same time. The black panther's paws pressed the white leopard tightly, turning its belly over.

"Leave Luo Huan's army, and I will spare your life! Otherwise, I can tear your intestines apart right now!" The panther lowered his head and showed his sharp teeth at Mao Xiaohua.

The teeth are sharp and strong, shining coldly.

Mao Xiaohua's eyes blinked, as if showing a look of compromise, and then her muscles tightened suddenly, and her front paws broke free from the opponent's grip when the black panther was in a daze, and moved towards its nose paw.

Pa, the next second, a pair of powerful legs kicked towards the softest part of the black panther's belly. Mao Xiaohua resolutely changed into a human form, making it easier to fight.

The black panther jumped up in mid-air, dodged, avoided Mao Xiaohua's blow, and fell again, its sharp front paws firmly pressed Mao Xiaohua's arm, then opened its mouth, and moved towards Mao Xiaohua without hesitation. Bite off the hairy little flower's neck.

Mao Xiaohua thought that she was an adult and would make this wild leopard from El stunned for a moment, but unexpectedly, the other party didn't seem to be surprised at all. faster.

Seeing that the blood vessels in her neck were about to fall into the leopard's mouth, Mao Xiaohua clenched her palm into a fist, taking advantage of the ineffectiveness of the leopard's thumb, broke away from the panther's palm again, and attempted to hit the panther's nose in a circle.

Snapped!

A soft sound.

The moment Mao Xiaohua made her move, a pair of more powerful fore paws firmly pressed Mao Xiaohua's wrist, pressing it to the ground.

Mao Xiaohua looked at everything that happened in front of her in disbelief.

The black leopard had a playful look in its eyes, and its tail swayed slightly, obviously once easily subdued the humans who tried to attack it.

There was a haughty expression in the black panther's eyes, with a hint of condescending mockery.

Then, it stuck out its tongue and licked Mao Xiaohua's neck lightly.

The neck is slender, the skin is smooth, and the smell is clean and fragrant, which is exactly what I like.

"Get out!" Facing the action of the black panther, combined with what happened on the night of the full moon last time, Mao Xiaohua burst into anger in an instant.

Leaning forward slightly, he opened his mouth and bit the black panther's nose fiercely until the bite bled.

"Roar!" At the same moment, a leopard's roar came from the street.

A yellow leopard rushed towards Ruth, with the sound of whistling wind, and its sharp claws opened in mid-air.

The black panther jumped up and stood at the corner of the street, looking coldly at the panther that had arrived.

Mao Xiaohua also quickly jumped up from the ground, transformed into a leopard again, and stood with Galen in a fighting pose.

The black panther stood on the street, stuck out his tongue and licked his bitten nose, instead of getting angry, there was a strange color in his eyes: "The temper is still very strong, but I like it. One day, you will I took it away!"

Mao Xiaohua and Galen looked at each other without any words at all. The two leopards jumped up at the same time and rushed towards the black panther, roaring at the same time.

At this moment, the patrolling soldiers on the street also heard the movement here, and rushed over quickly.

The black leopard licked its own lips, flicked its tail towards Mao Xiaohua, and then jumped up. After a few ups and downs, it threw off the pursuers behind it, jumped onto the city wall, and disappeared into the moonlight.

Mao Xiaohua looked at the back of the black panther leaving bitterly, and slapped the ground with her palm.

"Damn it! To be followed by an El's black leopard, and even molested!" Mao Xiaohua's expression was very bad, and she felt very upset in her heart, and the most uncomfortable thing was that she couldn't tell anyone about this feeling of anger. Including Luo Huan.

Until the next morning, Mao Xiaohua, who had turned into a human, was still extremely annoyed when she thought about what happened last night.

So it was rare for him to participate in Luo Huan's military meeting in the form of a human being, and put forward his own ideas.

"I think that vigilance must be strengthened. I suggest that all leopards patrol in the dark." Mao Xiaohua put forward her opinion for the first time in a military meeting that rarely spoke. "Not only people, but also some strange animals, Don't let it in either!"

"Strange animal?" Luo Huan raised his eyebrows and looked at Mao Xiaohua.He has become a little abnormal since returning from patrol, and this strange proposal appeared today.

Mao Xiaohua stared back at Luo Huan with some annoyance. He really couldn't say that kind of thing. Could it be that he was so annoyed because he was molested by a wild leopard from nowhere?

"Yes! Beware of strange animals!" Mao Xiaohua's expression was distorted, "I heard that when fighting with Qian Dilun who betrayed Royce a few years ago, three leopards entered the city. This turns the tide of battle."

Everyone knew about this matter. Sid and Filger who attended the meeting even showed proud expressions on their faces. Among the three leopards, two were their leopards.

"So! In this war, we must also be careful! Anyone who doesn't know cats, southern leopards, black panthers, etc., wants to sneak in, shoot and kill them all, so as not to repeat the same mistakes!"