Chapter 1026 Unannounced visit
Shen Hao had a wide robe that covered his body and a black gauze hat. The two-piece set was the standard for him to disguise his travel.
In the past, Shen Hao would have done a lot of preparations to avoid the eyes and ears around him. Now he doesn't need it anymore. With one escape technique, he can avoid most ears and ears and eyes, both openly and secretly, guarding or surveillance. With the blessing of a few talismans such as Qi-retaining talismans, it is extremely difficult to keep up with his escape technique without any signs.
Even the five Golden Sword Guards sent by Fenghong Villa to protect Shen Hao this time were caught off guard and could not keep up with Shen Hao's breath. When he realized it, Shen Hao was no longer in the commander's yamen.
Go and ask where Shen Hao, the guard of Xuanqing Guard, went? The Jin Jian Guard couldn't hold this face down, and the guards of Xuanqing Guard were also not good-looking. I'm afraid even if they asked, it would be a waste of time. It can be seen that Shen Hao deliberately avoided everyone's sight and "disappeared" again and again.
The three people who followed Shen Hao from the commanding yamen were the most calm. He even dared to assert that as Shen Hao's cultivation level grew higher and higher in the future, the number of times these guards were left aside would only increase.
Just get used to it.
As for where Shen Hao went? Who knows?
In fact, Shen Hao only stayed in Fengri City for two hours, and then returned to the Imperial City.
Two hours were enough for Shen Hao to briefly share the newly mastered power with Duan Jue and the other three. Shen Hao didn't need to worry about the specific attack. He only needed to give Duan Jue and the other three to know the 30,000 imperial guards that the emperor had given him. How to add the 30,000 people to the attack later was what Duan Jue and the other two needed to study.
For most of the two hours, Shen Hao sat next to him to rest as he listened to Duan Jue and the other two's discussions. From time to time, he could see them take out the Qianli notes and contact the people from Fenghong Villa in the Imperial City. Finally, he received Duan Jue's reply.
Some are like tool people, at least it seems to be the case at the moment.
Shen Hao did not need to formulate a surprise attack plan, and he was not needed to command the front. Even the main combat mission had nothing to do with him and the Black Flag Camp. At the beginning, Duan Ju and his men directly rejected Shen Hao's suggestion to mobilize the main force of the front army, saying that the casualties of the opponents of the front army were too great was not cost-effective. In the end, if it weren't for the imperial guard card, Duan Ju and the others had decided to rush in with Fenghong Villa.
So what Shen Hao needs to be at present is a rope connecting the Imperial Guard and Fenghong Villa, at least he is indispensable before the procedures are completed.
Of course, both Fenghong Villa and the Imperial Guard are big targets, and they are easily noticed by people. At least they cannot be related to Xuan Qingwei, who is now in a turbulent manner.
So after Duan Jue and his friends made a new plan, Shen Hao began to carry out his tasks as a tool man, avoided his own guards, and then used his escape skills to transmit the magic circle and arrived at the imperial city with his spy in the Black Flag Camp. His target was the base camp of the imperial guards.
There are three base camps of the Imperial Guards. One of them is on the edge of the palace, with 5,000 troops stationed. Their duty is to guard the palace. They will not be transferred easily and will follow the emperor on tour. Anyway, they will be wherever the emperor is. They are called "Shangduan Jun" internally.
The second place is the ban camp 60 miles east of the imperial city. There are more than 15,000 troops stationed in it. They are also responsible for guarding the imperial city, mainly to assist in the defense of the four walls, and in special circumstances, guarding the official roads on the east side and supporting the "Shangduan Army" to take away the emperor in the crisis. More than 15,000 imperial troops are called "Guzhong Army".
The last place is the base camp of the Imperial Guard in the true sense. More than 170 miles away from the Imperial City, there are three official roads that can reach this side from the Imperial City, with 90,000 troops garrisoning. It is the largest military force in the Imperial City area and the strongest military force directly controlled by the emperor. It is called the "Hou Tang Army".
It was already night when Shen Hao visited, and he went directly to the back hall of the Imperial City more than a hundred miles away.
Five miles away from the military camp gate, he was stopped by an open whistle. He handed over the sign and was released. Several cavalrymen were also accompanying him, leading Shen Hao to the military camp gate in a siege.
Along the way, Shen Hao was also secretly observing these imperial guards, including the checkpoints openly and secretly along the way, and the qi sensing that swept through him or locked him.
If you really want to say that these imperial guards are still a bit murderous. After all, they are the emperor's personal army formed by elite troops selected from the border army and all fronts. Moreover, the individual strength is indeed much stronger than the fronts. Just half of the few that Shen Hao saw were cultivators in the Qi Refining Realm. This shows that.
Of course, Xuanqingwei is also the emperor's personal army, but it has different functions from the imperial guards. One is like a bone-clearing knife, the other is like a machete. But they are all swords in the hands of the emperor, so although the imperial guards maintain basic vigilance for Xuanqingwei, Commander Shen, although Xuanqingwei, there is still a minimum respect, at least there is no slightest presumptuousness in his words.
This is not the first time Shen Hao has come into contact with the Imperial Army. When the Ye Lansheng case was first handled, the "Guzhong Army" of the Imperial Army helped to surround the mansions of Ye Lansheng and other high-ranking officials. At that time, Shen Hao had contacted these soldiers who rarely saw walking outside.
In fact, to understand the power of the imperial guards, we can intuitively see some clues from their armor.
The imperial guards' outfits are gray and black, divided into: cloth armor, leather armor, iron armor, and treasure armor.
Among them, cloth armor is a piece of paper that is worn as a lining inside. It can also be worn alone during training, breathable, light and comfortable.
Leather armor is the most common front-line armor among the imperial guards, and even the lowest-ranking chefs can each have one.
Further up is iron armor. On the one hand, it is troublesome to maintain. On the other hand, even if the iron armor is not covered with the whole body, it is just covered with iron rings on the front chest, back, lower abdomen and crotch. The rest are leather armor, but it weighs about fifteen pounds. It is even more consuming physical labor to wear it. It is definitely not something that ordinary people can wear for a long time, so ordinary soldiers cannot wear iron armor. This thing is prepared for military soldiers with cultivation and above the third level of Qi Refining Realm.
Simply put, it is the elite of the imperial guards.
Above the iron armor is the treasure armor. The treasure armor in various senses not only has a strong protection ability that is almost covered by the whole body, but also several magic arrays are engraved on it, with gains and defenses. It is aimed at ordinary swords and arrows, and also targets magic bombardment. Even soul-type means have considerable defense capabilities.
The armor requires at least the soldiers in the middle of the Shen Realm to be qualified for equipment. The number of soldiers in the armor of these equipment is said to account for 30% of the imperial guards!
Chapter completed!