Soul and Xianfeng were together, staring at the flying book from Jiang Su Huai'an, their faces were as gloomy as the weather outside, dark clouds were rolling, and it was raining.

This is an urgent document sent by Governor Lu Jianying, reporting the situation of the entire eastern battlefield, especially the news that Huai'an is about to be lost.

Huai'an is already Jiang Su's last strategic place, if it is lost, the entire rich land of Jiang Su, the land of fish and rice, will fall into the hands of the enemy.

More importantly, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the main economic artery, will be lost, and half of the northern part of the country will lose the support of life.

This will never be tolerated!

However, this absolutely intolerable thing is now inevitable!

According to Lu Jianying's intelligence, the three cities of Huai'an have been occupied by the Heavenly Army, and one city has also been surrounded by the Heavenly Legion!

Now the remnants of Lu Jianying, the prefect of Huai'an, the governor of Caoyun, and the descendants of the local gentry Huaiyin Marquis have all been pushed into Liancheng, that is, the only remaining city in the middle of the new city and the old city.

Because of the rain, the attack of the Heavenly Army was temporarily stopped, which also gave these Manchu forces a breather.

However, at this time, such weather cannot last long, and if the weather is clear and rainy, it must be the time for the Celestial Army to launch a new attack.

In fact, even if it rains all the time and the sky is always cloudy, it is difficult to stop the attack of the heavenly army, because the heavenly army is full of tricks and emerges one after another.

For example, their big fish, the gates of Huai'an City are basically smashed open by them!

There is also their fire attack and sharp weapons, which are impossible to fight the enemy.

This is already Lu Jianying's twentieth urgent letter, the first ten are about the retreat, and the latter are all the plots of Huai'an City being broken into by the Heavenly Army.

In the end, Lu Jianying said that Liancheng was their last stronghold. All of them have made up their minds to succeed if they don't succeed, and they have vowed to live and die with Liancheng!

Xianfeng stared at the letter, and a powerless despair arose in his heart!

Since the battle began this morning, there has been no news of a victory!

The best news is that the southern front is just a draw. He knew it in his heart, and that was because there was his absolute confidant and the most capable minister, Zeng Guofan, who was in charge there.

If you only rely on Cheng Zhicai, the governor of Huguang, let alone win, there is no chance of a draw.

While everyone was talking, the county lord of the knife had already searched the battlefield just now.

With the special function of the gas element, it can catch the enemy's whereabouts in places that others can't even detect.

No matter how tightly set up the opponent's secret passage mechanism, there are always some tiny pores, and these voids are wide avenues for the gas element.

The gas element followed. Not far away, traces of people were found, not only regimental training soldiers, but also soldiers of the Heavenly Army.

Knowing the exact location of the enemy, of course, you must take action, saving people is like fighting fire, the sooner the better!

So, the county lord of Xiaodao interrupted everyone's speeches and put forward his own proposal in a clear manner.

Three feet into the ground. Dig up the hidden enemy! Get rid of your brothers!

Others don't know what's going on, but Mai Ke knows it clearly.

Because of his adaptation to aerogens. It's a few degrees higher than the county lord of the knife.

Therefore, he also perceives the detection function and detection results of the gas element.

"Okay! Just do it according to the little knife county lord's suggestion! Now I'll assign the task!"

Mai Ke's arrangement is basically divided into two ways.

Defend all the way on the perimeter, all the way straight into the ground.

This way of defense is mainly ordinary soldiers of the Heavenly Army, led by Ding Guangye himself.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Mai Ke asked Da Niu to lead all the guards to join the defensive camp.

Those who enter the ground to find people are the elite of the Heavenly Army. There is a loophole in the protection, and the possibility of stealing chickens without eating rice is very great!

The other way is those who go into the ground to find people, and Mai Ke personally leads the team.

The members are the special forces of the six elements.

Going deep into the ground, they don't know what danger awaits them, so Mai Ke has to go all out this time!

Saving lives is a goal that must be achieved. Secondly, it was also a good training exercise.

Once arranged, the army is immediately dispatched!

Mai Ke took the lead, and the first one flew towards the west gate, followed closely by Da Niu and other guards.

The regimental trainers defending the city stood on the city wall, everyone holding bows and arrows, just waiting for the heavenly army to approach, and ten thousand arrows were fired!

These bows and arrows have an effective range of seventy meters, and as long as the Celestial Army enters this range, they will be subjected to continuous fire, and before they can reach the city, most of them will be killed and wounded.

Mai Ke would not allow this kind of thing to happen!

He originally wanted to use the hidden weapon to give them a dismount, but he was worried that the enemy would be hiding behind the city wall, and the hidden weapon would not be able to turn around to find them. At this time, Mai Ke couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw these archers standing on the wall, posing on the bright side as targets!

When he was a hundred meters away from the city wall, Mai Ke suddenly burst out, and the spiritual beads like heavy machine gun bullets poured down towards those archers!

Caught off guard, these archers were knocked down without firing a single arrow!

Some fell to the ground wounded, others rolled off the city walls, and could no longer pose a threat to the Celestial Army.

Da Niu is now very skilled with Mai Ke, and the archers on the city wall have just been suppressed by Mai Ke, so he led the guards to rush to the wall!

Then, it was stuck there, providing a passage for the Celestial Army to enter the city!

When the people of the earth opened the way in front of them, when they went up to the city wall, they easily built a staircase formed by a mound of earth, and those outside the city could climb the steps.

Leaving a thousand soldiers to defend the gap, the army continued to set out for the central site of the Urn City, where the soldiers of the two battalions of the Celestial Army had disappeared.

The Knife Lord found the most suspicious place, saying that there were still remnants of the enemy and the two battalions of Heavenly Army soldiers.

"Tuyuan Yao! It's all earthwork, I'll leave it to you!" Mai Ke assigned the task of entering the ground to the head of the Tuyuan Su Battalion.

"Resolutely complete the task!" Although he didn't know it, Tu Yao accepted the task without hesitation.

He knew in his heart, although he couldn't do it now, but if he did, since Mai Ke sent him, he must have been confident.

All the personnel of the Tsuchihara Su Battalion, a total of five hundred people, set off and came to the area designated by the Knife County Lord together.

The five hundred men stood in a circle and immediately pulled out a handful of dirt from the cloth bag they were carrying around their waists!

The soil is preserved after the first application of the soil element, and it is the original soil that is born from the soil element!

This soil is not polluted by the soil of the world and retains its pure character!

Although this kind of soil has much more soil elements than the original soil element, they retain more of the quality of the soil element, so they also have the energy of the earth element!

It's too late, it's too soon, and these five hundred people have already sprinkled the soil in their hands and scattered it in the empty space in the middle!

All the people were staring at this field, not only the five hundred, but all the soldiers of the Heavenly Army, all of them were staring at this place.

They had just occupied the walls around the city in order to strengthen the protection of the ground.

Because all the significance of clearing the periphery is to succeed in entering the ground, special attention is paid to this place as well.

Not only are all the heavenly armies now unanimously focused on this center, but even the enemy side is also concentrating their eyes!

Especially Zhang Tianci!

Of course he knew the sheer importance of this place!

This whole system was designed and built by him, and he personally operated it just now, successfully imprisoning two battalions of soldiers of the Heavenly Army!

As long as he pays special attention to this place, Zhang Tianci knows that there is trouble.

If these Celestial Army go any further and try to go deeper, the trouble will be even greater.

However, he is not afraid!

His set of Five Elements Formation is very stakes!

He believed that the person who could break this formation had not yet been born.

Now, though, his face has changed!

A large hole with a radius of four or five feet appeared in the center of the field out of thin air!

This big hole is no small thing!

Not only did it appear in the center of his set of information organs, but it was also several times bigger!

Zhang Tianci suddenly couldn't sit still and hurried over.

He has a secret passage here that leads to the center of the Great Array.

Mai Ke sighed in his heart, it was really the original soil, and everywhere he went, the land gave way!

Mai Ke felt it, and the space squeezed out by the big hole, the original soil, stones, etc., all hid in the surrounding area, squeezing the soil and other things that were originally there farther away.

But most of them were digested on the spot, only to tighten the relationship between them, and as a result the dirt became harder than stone!

As soon as the big hole came out, there was a way into the ground, and Mai Ke was the first to jump down!

The 500 brothers who had made the hole followed suit.

After descending about fifteen zhang, everyone reached the bottom of the cave, which was already pitch black, and the sky light could be seen through the big cave, but the light could not shine here.

Mai Ke's night vision device played a great role at this time, and he immediately determined a horizontal passage and went all the way to the east.

It seems that this vertical cave only reaches the ground from the ground, and the article is in the horizontal hole.

Mai Ke continued to lead the way to the east, and if he encountered a narrow place, he asked Tuyuan Yao to open the way and continue to walk deeper.

Everyone is moving forward, and the road ahead does not know where it leads, and it is not known if there is an end.

But Mai Ke suddenly slowed down, and he felt some movement, coming from inside.

There is a narrow road ahead, if you don't open up, everyone has to bow your head and go in.

With a wave of his hand, Tu Yuan Yao sent twenty men to clear the way.

The others waited in the back and took the opportunity to take a break.

After a long time in the cave, not only does walking in the cave make people tired, but also the dark and closed environment makes people feel dull and depressing.

Only Mai Ke could see the surrounding Qiē clearly, and he had always been suspicious of the movement he had just heard.

Suddenly, there was a loud "boom", and a black thing emerged, and in an instant, the passage in front of it was sealed!!

The crowd hurriedly retreated, until they were more than two feet away, and then stopped there.

(To be continued......)