Chapter 776: Black Wind Island
Although Heifeng Island (Gulang Island) was occupied by the Xiao clan for a short time, only a month and a half in total, in order to facilitate the support of the war in Luoxia Port, when Liu Yafu was stationed on the island, he still requisitioned the people and used his magical powers to build a new dry dock and several workshops in the inland port where the sea gate entered, so as to be able to repair the war-damaged warships.
Chen Hai led the Black Feng Shui Division to retake Black Wind Island, and while reorganizing the prisoners of war and expanding the three major battalions of the Black Feng Shui Division to 3,000 soldiers, he also reorganized the 2,000 craftsmen requisitioned from Luoxia Port into a baggage battalion, and forged the Xuanyang Heavy Arrow day and night at the first time.
Zhou Wanqing also has the heart to cast a heavy-barreled crossbow, but the core component of the heavy-barreled crossbow, the arrow array box, is equivalent to a yellow-level high-grade magic weapon, even if it is a master-level craftsman refining an arrow array box, it will take a month, this matter is to be done, but it is not the most urgent at the moment, so it will be temporarily stopped.
Of course, although Chen Hai said that he only recruited 2,000 ordinary craftsmen from Luoxia Port, at this time, the clansmen who the Zhou clan withdrew from all over Jiujun Island and the disciples of the Jade Palace who followed Zhou Wanqing were the grassroots elites of the Mingqi Realm and the Soul Clearing Realm, and finally transferred a team of six intermediate refiners of the Mingqi Realm and sixty junior refiners of the Soul Refining Realm, and handed them over to Chen Hai to be assigned to the baggage camp.
When Liu Yafu abandoned the island and fled, not to mention taking other supplies away, even his ship, the Blood Jiao, was abandoned on Black Wind Island, Chen Hai used the four small refining furnaces abandoned by Liu Yafu and the Zhou clan to smelt 100,000 catties of Xuanyang iron every day, which can be cast into nearly 40,000 Xuanyang Heavy Blade Arrows.
Chen Hai expected that Xiao Jiang would only be able to support troops after Xiao Ruohai led the main force of the rebels to dig up the passage of Zixiao Mountain, then he could raise at least 400,000 more Xuanyang Heavy Arrows on Black Wind Island, which was really not much compared to the millions of Heavy Arrows that were consumed at every turn in a big battle in Yanzhou, but it also added a lot of combat power to defend the island.
On the fifth day of the fall of Beijin City, Chen Hai was holding a piece of paper in the castle guard of Black Wind Island and was looking at it in a daze, Zhu Mingwei and Wei Han walked over together, and said to Chen Hai: "Dudu, the refining of Xuanyang Heavy Blade Arrow is on the right track right now, but I see that Xiao Jiang's fleet has not moved, don't you have any other plans?"
Chen Hai put down his pen and said: "Xiao Ruohai is like a bamboo, Xiao Jiang, who was forced to withdraw from Luoxia Port after abandoning Black Wind Island, has such a good life, but he really dares to come rashly, and he may not be able to get any benefits at this time, I think, Xiao Jiang may be hesitating at this time - however, it is really not a way to let them drag on like this, you have to find a way to stimulate him, in order to achieve a split attack......"
Zhu Mingwei didn't know what chance the Zhou family had to turn the tables at this time, but Chen Hai was not flustered, so he didn't think about anything, the thieves were powerful, if they really couldn't beat it, they didn't need to fight to the death for the Jiujun Kingdom and the Zhou family!
Chen Hai asked Zhu Mingwei and Wei Han to go out to deal with things first, frowning and thinking about the battle situation in front of him.
The Zhou clan has spread the news of the Xiao clan's destruction of the spiritual veins and the massacre of civilians in the past few days, but as Zhou Bin and Feng Yichen had predicted in advance, it is impossible for the counties to take substantive action.
The envoy sent by the Zhou clan to Kukai City had good news at this time.
Kukai City was still a little hesitant at this time, and several core elders didn't want to directly participate in the tragic battle, but agreed to secretly provide some supplies for the Zhou clan-
Chen Hai opened the map of the Fusang Sea area, and he marked the naval forces of the main forces in the Fusang Sea on the map:
The Ping Navy under the jurisdiction of the Leiyang Sect has 200 warships above the Dragon Bird level and 300,000 elite naval forces, which can be said to be the strongest combat power in the Fusang Sea area; the Dangtao Army of Konghai City has 180 Longque-class warships and 260,000 naval troops.
Xiao Jiang was originally one of the Naval Governors of the Nine Counties, integrating his own forces, Liuyun Sect and large and small pirates, and at this time, the Xiao rebels had more than 90 warships above the Dragon Bird level in various places, and had 120,000 naval troops.
At this time, the naval division under the command of Xiao Jiang accounted for almost three-quarters of the total strength of the rebel naval division, if it could inflict heavy damage or even annihilate Xiao Jiang's division, before the combat power of the Lei Yang Sect naval division directly participated in the war, the situation in the Nine Counties Kingdom would not be impossible to change.
It's just that Xiao Jiang is such a cautious person, how can he make him pounce out like a vicious wolf?
Chen Hai also pondered this question.
After the collapse of the Nine Counties Kingdom, the combat power of the sailors that the remnants of the Zhou clan could control was actually the Fu Jiao Army, which was stationed in Luoxia Harbor and strictly controlled by the Zhou Clan, and it was once the strongest naval division of the Nine Counties Country.
Although the main force of the soldiers and horses controlled by the remnants of the Zhou clan retreated south, and the Fujiao Army Sailor Division could replenish a large number of elite soldiers and horses, the warships above the Dragon Bird level and those that could withstand larger storms and waves needed to have a load capacity of no less than two million catties, and a water resistance array above the intermediate level could be fully loaded and high-speed, and a protective array above the four-pillar Demon Punishment Array was needed to receive the enemy, but it was not so easy to build.
At present, the Zhou clan has less than 40 regular warships of the Longque class in Luoxia Port, and even if some large maritime merchant ships are urgently requisitioned for transformation, the number of warships is still not as large as that of Xiaojiang.
And the Black Feng Shui Division only has two Dragon Sparrow-class battleships Black Shark and Blood Butcher and a Qingluan-class battleship (with a load of six million catties) regular battleships on the Blood Jiao, to be honest, only three thousand elite sailors are enough, but for the sake of apprehension Yang Yin and Huang Zhan, he didn't want Yang Yin and Huang Zhan to pat their subordinates and leave, Chen Hai still expanded the battalions directly commanded by the three to three thousand according to the proportion, but under the three battalions, they were divided into marine and land teams.
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Beijin City has become a dead place, but the gorge road that enters Beijin City from the north is blocked by broken peaks, a large number of horse infantry troops and materials cannot pass, and the main force of Xiao's soldiers and horses is naturally unable to go south for the time being.
Xiao Jiang led his troops to dock on an unnamed desert island 1,200 miles away from Luoxia Island and 1,500 miles away from Black Wind Island.
The depth of the desert island is too small, only a dozen miles in circumference, there are no mountains and peaks, once swept by a thunderstorm, it will be flattened, so the island is also deserted, except for the occasional foothold for pirates or maritime merchants, no force will occupy the island to operate.
Xiao Jiang doesn't have to settle here, but there is no more suitable place to settle down on this island all the way south to Black Wind Island, except for a direct attack on Black Wind Island or Luoxia Island, such a large fleet, Xiao Jiang will not dare to drift in the open sea for a long time.
Not to mention that the huge waves of hundreds of meters at every turn will greatly consume the spiritual power of the formation mage, if you unfortunately encounter a black wind and thunderstorm, it is possible that the entire fleet will be destroyed, what else is there to talk about annihilating the remnants of the enemy?
Xiao Jiang was on top of his flagship as always, monitoring the movements of Black Wind Island and Luoxia Harbor, Liu Yafu and his nephew Xiao Feiyu had to fight all day long, urging the attack on Black Wind Island, Xiao Jiang was annoyed.
Xiao Jiang can understand that Xiao Feiyu is young and vigorous, unwilling to make no achievements, and eager to make meritorious contributions, but Liu Yafu's mind is not so simple.
The loss of Beijin City and the Xiao clan becoming the lord of the Nine Counties Country are already ironclad, but as far as the Lei Yang Sect is concerned, they may not be willing to see the Xiao Clan, who successfully annihilated the Zhou clan and usurped the entire Nine Counties Kingdom, sit on the throne, and perhaps hope that the Xiao clan and the Zhou clan will both lose and be unconditionally attached to the Lei Yang Sect forever in the future.
Xiao Jiang could guess that Liu Yafu represented Lei Yangzong's scheming, and he would not break it, at this time, a servant hurriedly ran in and said, "Governor of the capital, the chief sentry is back!"
"Okay, invite him in!" Xiao Jiang said in a heartfelt manner, asking Liao Yunkai, the chief sentinel and the Supreme Elder of the Liuyun Sect, to come in.
Although the magic weapon Liuyun Zhaoyun Mirror can sense the movement of a large breath within a range of thousands of miles, if you want to clearly know every move of Luoxia Harbor and Black Wind Island, you still need to send someone to sneak nearby to reconnoitre.
Liao Yunkai, the chief sentinel officer, walked in, arched his hand towards Xiao Jiang, Liu Yafu, and Xiao Feiyu, who was inferior to him in the army, but was Xiao Ruohai's third son, took out an ancient mirror from the storage ring, shot out a light, and slowly unfolded a light curtain in the center of the cabin, and the light curtain showed the situation in Luoxia Port.
Through the light curtain, Xiao Jiang and Liu Yafu could see dozens of huge ships docked in the port, and a large number of young men and women were dragging their families on board the ship with a look of panic.
From the clothes and ornaments of these young men and women, as well as the appearance of fine skin and tender meat, we can know that they are all the children of the Zhou clan who moved south from Izumo City to Luoxia Port two days ago, did not experience any wind and waves, and grew up in fine clothes and jade food - at this time, the dock was in chaos, if it were not for the brave generals, a large number of civilians who flocked to the dock and the children of the Zhou clan or other affiliated clans would probably have to rush through the cordon and grab the boat.
Of course, there are those who disobey, but these disobedient people have been reduced to hundreds of corpses with their heads cut off and hung in the air above the docks.
"There is chaos in the city of Luoxiagang, and it is rumored everywhere that the Zhou clan will abandon the civilians and the children of the side branches, and flee with the children of the branch and the elite combat force - the night before Zhou Bin personally came forward and led the soldiers and horses to kill thousands of people, only to quell the harassment in the city, but today I saw the children of the Zhou clan and a large number of supplies on board, and there was chaos inside and outside the city. Many people are afraid that the general will seize Luoxia Port and then slaughter the city, so they will not be able to board the ship, and they will flee to the deep mountains and old forests on both wings," Liao Yunkai, the chief sentinel officer, said, "Second General, should you take advantage of the chaos to attack Luoxia Port now, or simply wait for the Zhou clan to escape before taking over Luoxia Port, or make a decision as soon as possible!"
"What's the situation on Black Wind Island?" Xiao Jiang saw that Liu Yafu and Xiao Feiyu were eager to try and run up to ask for battle, his eyes were cold, and he continued to ask Liao Yunkai.
"The demon girl of Zhou is considerate to the Cangyazi of unknown origin, and it is not enough to canonize him as the governor of the Black Feng Shui Division, and two days ago, he transferred 10,000 elite soldiers to Black Wind Island under his command. Liao Yunkai to the bronze mirror in mid-air, into a dark light, just see the light curtain picture change, Black Wind Island is presented without any difference, although the mountains around the island are not high, but the thunder bursts, not conducive to the passage of a large number of soldiers and horses, and the direction of the sea gate, on the low ridges on both sides of the main port connecting the inland river, followed by the new construction of a simple earthen wall, it can be seen that Chen Hai, the new governor of the Zhou clan, is a general who knows the soldiers and is good at fighting, looking at his arrangement, it should be to guard this side from the sea gate to cut in, and recapture Black Wind Island!
"Second General, if you don't make a move at this time, let those eighty or ninety ships full of three or four hundred thousand Zhou clan's disciples and elite combat power be thrown into Kuhai City, I'm afraid there will be no way to explain to the general, right?" Liu Yafu said in a deep voice.
Xiao Jiang glanced at Liu Yafu, thinking to himself that I am afraid that at this time in the Lei Yang Sect, I don't want the Zhou clan to go to the empty sea city......
Once Zhou Wanqing leads the three or four hundred thousand elites of the Zhou clan to surrender to Konghai City, Konghai City will have two Heavenly Realm powerhouses, and the number of Dao Fetal Realm and Dao Dan Realm powerhouses and the scale of the elite combat power under his command will surpass that of Leiyang Sect, which is what Leiyang Sect is willing to see.
It is true that the Xiao clan does not want the remnants of the Zhou clan to escape smoothly, but compared to the complete annihilation of the remnants of the Zhou clan, it is more important to preserve the vitality of the Xiao clan, so as to ensure that they have a certain status in the future chaos of the three islands, and will not completely become a vassal of the Lei Yang Sect.
If that's the case, what is the Xiao family trying to do with the Zhou family for so long?
"I have my own decision," Xiao Jiang glanced at Liu Yafu with displeasure and said, "Even if we set sail to attack Black Wind Island!"
"At this time, go to attack Black Wind Island?" Liu Yafu's heart was half cold, but he had previously suggested that Xiao Jiang lead his troops to seize Black Wind Island first, but at this time and that time, the Zhou clan was not chaotic in Luoxia Port at that time, and there was no sign of urgently abandoning the port and separating, so he suggested taking Black Wind Island first and monitoring every move in Luoxia Port nearby, but now the Zhou clan is about to flee, they are going to attack Black Wind Island at this time, not to let the Zhou clan escape faster?
Xiao Jiang froze his footsteps and said without question: "Before, I was afraid that rashly attacking Black Wind Island would cause the Fu Jiao Army to attack us. Now that Luoxia Harbor is in chaos, the Zhou family is bent on escaping, and they can't take care of Black Wind Island, so it is the best time for us to take Black Wind Island. And the Zhou clan is in a mess, seeing that they have loaded a large number of supplies, men and horses into the ship, which is seriously overloaded, even if they escape, they can't escape quickly, and they may capsize in the storm without even us making a move-after we take Black Wind Island, we will have time to catch up with the Zhou clan's fugitive fleet!"
Liu Yafu sighed in his heart, he knew that Xiao Jiang still didn't dare to confront the Fujiao Army Sailor who had been further strengthened by the Zhou clan's fugitive elite at this time, and at this time he chose the soft persimmon of Black Wind Island to pinch it, just because he didn't want to be reprimanded by Xiao Ruohai and Lei Yangzong for being afraid of war afterwards.
What a greedy old fox who is afraid of death!
Liu Yafu's elite troops were all lost, and there were only more than 100 people available, seeing that Xiao Jiang was determined to do so, he couldn't reverse Xiao Jiang's will!