(5,800 words big chapter, lazy score chapters, let's read it...... ）

In the cold winter, the northern border of Jinyan and Yanzhou is full of beacon fires and wolf smoke everywhere. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The demon barbarians not only invaded Hexi, Tianshui, Yongliang and other counties, even in Montenegro, which is located in the depths of the vast desert, there are constantly demon barbarian soldiers after winter, and by the end of the year, tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers have gathered in the depths of the sand sea in the north of Montenegro, making the Jingzhuo Capital Protectorate also rumored and the situation grim.

On the last day of the year, Black Mountain City welcomed a group of guests with unusual identities, a group of Ye elites personally led by Ye Qinglin, the lord of Xiqiang State, who rushed over to reinforce Montenegro.

In the lonely desert of Montenegro, it is actually the barrier of the northern part of the Xiqiang Kingdom, if the demon barbarian soldiers can be blocked in the north of the Black Mountain, the Demon Moon Lake, and the Falling Demon Cliff, the Western Qiang Kingdom can enjoy peace in peace.

In the banquet hall of the Elite Capital Protectorate, the banquet atmosphere for Ye Qinglin was warm.

"Madam, this time the Longxiang army broke the demon barbarians in Hengshan, killed 20,000 enemies in front of the battle, and pursued more than a thousand miles at the tail, the news should have spread to Montenegro, right?" Ye Qinglin sat on the top, and after some greetings, he asked Dong Ning with a smile.

Xiqiang is tens of thousands of miles away from Hexi, but there are usually Linghu transmissions, and the flow of news is also very smooth.

Hearing someone praise Chen Hai, Dong Ning was naturally happy in his heart, but he was still silent on the surface, just followed Ye Qinglin's tone and said: "Chen Hou has always had amazing deeds, and the monarch has been in contact with him for a long time, so he is naturally not surprised!"

Although he knew that the nominal nephew in front of him had a close relationship with Chen Hai and secretly communicated with him, but when he saw Chen Hai's name mentioned with his own eyes, Dong Ning's eyebrows had an irrepressible joy, and Ye Qinglin still secretly hated it.

It was because of this that Chen Hai made an obstacle from it, making it impossible for him to completely recover the entire territory of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and even had to accept that the power of the Taiwei Sect and the Demon God Temple had penetrated into every corner of the Xiqiang Kingdom at a deeper level, making the Ye clan hollowed out to a considerable extent, and it was only the nominal royal family of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and many national policies had to be subject to the outside.

Ye Qinglin wanted to be the hero, but in the past two or three years in power, many constraints from all sides have caused him too much dissatisfaction in his heart, and he has even forgotten the reason why the Ye family was able to restore the country at the beginning, and Chen Hai's greatest efforts, but no matter how much dissatisfaction he had in his heart, he also suppressed it, and he knew that at this time, the Ye family could not reverse the general trend of the three co-governance formed by the Pinglu Oasis at this time.

And Ye Qinglin personally led the elite to come to the aid this time, but he still asked Dong Ning, and he didn't dare to show the dissatisfaction in his heart, but he just laughed a few times, and then asked: "I heard that the newly made heavy crossbow of the Tianji Academy Palace, in this battle, the scenery is great, and it is better than the previous Tianji battle crossbow. Madame has a close relationship with Tianji Academy, and I don't know if I can ask for a connection to prepare for Xiqiang's recovery of Changle in the future. ”

After the battle of Yuchicheng, Chen Hai handed over part of the Tianji Repeater and several light Tianji chariots to the Ye clan (this was also one of the trading conditions arranged at that time), as a sharp weapon of the Zhenguo, Ye Qinglin cherished it very much, but at this time, judging from the information transmitted back from Tianshui, the improved heavy crossbow on the basis of the Tianji repeater was more powerful.

And in the battle of Yuchicheng, he also really saw the power of the Heavenly Machine Weapon, all of which was also eager to get the supply of heavy crossbows, of course, he also wanted to test the Heavenly Machine Palace, what is the attitude towards Changle City and the Demon God Temple behind Changle City.

The crowd of people accompanying the banquet in the main hall looked at their noses, noses, mouths, mouths, and hearts, without saying a word.

At this time, Dong Ning knew that Ye Qinglin was the respect of a country and personally led the troops to help, and said with a slight frown: "The Tianji Academy Palace treats all the lords equally, and if the monarch has any requirements, he can directly send someone to the Tianji Academy Palace to mention it." The exquisite capital protects the mansion, and everything benefits from the Tianji Academy, and I am soft-spoken, if I spread the word in the middle, I am afraid that it will disappoint the monarch. ”

Chen Hai's layout in the Xiqiang Kingdom is to maintain the balance of the three families of the Elite Protectorate, the Xiqiang Ye Clan and the Changle City in the Pinglu Oasis, and the Ye Clan has no ambition to take back Changle City.

Dong Ning naturally rejected Ye Qinglin straightforwardly, saving his ambition from being difficult to control, and persuaded: "I think Chen Hou's side may not want to see the monarch provoke Changle City." ”

"Hmph! It's not that you left your good friend, and you didn't even dare to fight. Besides, if you build Changle City, you will naturally have the benefit of protecting the mansion of the Elite Capital!" Ye Qinglin, a young man in his twenties, said dissatisfiedly and arrogantly.

"Presumptuous!" Fan Dachun originally thought that Dong Ning would deal with Ye Qinglin and pull him down, but when he heard that this young man was speaking lightly at this time, and insulted Chen Hai, he couldn't hold it back for a while, drew his sword out of the sheath, and slashed at him.

The young man didn't make a move, and with a turn of thought, the talisman spirit sword was automatically unsheathed, barely holding up this powerful sword, but his soul was shocked and his seven orifices were bleeding, but Fan Dachun didn't want to let go of this arrogant and presumptuous Ye clansman, destroyed the giant sword, and continued to slash at the top of this person's head.

At this time, a maid was carrying a tea tray to the front of the hall, waiting to climb the steps to enter, but heard the bell in the hall, when she looked up, she saw the tension in the hall, and in a panic, the tea tray fell to the ground with a bang, and the amber tea splashed all over the ground.

"Presumptuous!" Ye Qinglin was very annoyed in his heart, and blasted the young man of the Ye clan who couldn't understand the situation around him out of the hall with one palm, saving him nowhere to redress his grievances by being killed by Fan Dachun's sword for nothing, and apologized to Dong Ning, "Ye's arrogance, I really don't know how to lift, I don't know how to hold my mouth away, and I hope that Mrs. will forgive me if you offend!"

"That's it, my Dong family will help you restore the country, and Chen Hai also has a lot of help, but I don't want to get to today's end. I am not guilty of today's events, but if there is such rudeness, the Elite Protectorate will never endure it silently, so please go back to the post house to rest. Dong Ning has always been gentle, but she didn't expect that the Ye clan people around Ye Qinglin had no respect for her.

Speaking of which, this kid is arrogant and ignorant, but it can be imagined, Ye Qinglin himself is behind his back, what is his attitude towards her and the Absolute Protectorate. Dong Ning was also so angry that his face was distorted, his silver teeth were biting, and he didn't have the heart to talk to Ye Qinglin anymore at the moment, so he directly asked him to leave the hall.

Ye Qinglin was also embarrassed, so he had to leave the main hall with Hu Cong first, but he did not go back to the post house to rest, but directly returned to the Ye royal army's camp outside Black Mountain City.

Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others sighed slightly.

When Chen Hai left, although he left behind the layout of the three families to rule Pinglu, some hidden dangers have not been eliminated, Ye Qinglin and the Ye clan still have a lot of unwillingness in their hearts, at this time they all began to worry that Ye Qinglin personally led the elite of the Ye clan to come over, whether they came to reinforce them, maybe they had to go through Lucheng and take more precautions.

Seeing that Dong Ning was in a bad mood, Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others also said goodbye and left.

Dong Ning was the only one left in the empty hall, with the plaque of the diligent government and the sage, looking extremely thin, and after a while, she sighed, and a light from the exquisite mansion went to the mountain behind the black mountain.

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Wu Cheng, who pressed Guanghua and returned directly to Huayang Ridge from Guanhe City, landed in front of Guanghua Cave Mansion at the foot of the main peak of Huayang Ridge.

There were disciples waiting around, and when they saw Wu Cheng coming, they gave salutes one after another, but Wu Cheng didn't answer, so he went directly into the hall to meet Wu En, who was also the head of the Wu family.

"Chen Hai's 30,000 people have defended Hengshan City, and he has pursued more than 1,000 miles, and has built a village in Tongkou Town, Yucheng Ling?" Wu En, who is the lord of the Wu clan, is wearing a plain robe at this moment, sitting cross-legged on a futon.

When he heard the news from Wu Cheng's mouth, he was also shocked.

Wu En, as the lord of the Wu family, has been in the late Dao Dan for more than forty years, but in order to seek the Dao Birth Realm, he has not asked about the world for many years, and he has neither served as a county pastor or a lieutenant in Tianshui County, nor has he been in charge of the teaching power in Huayang Sect, because he also knows that if he does not step into the Heavenly List, when the situation in Yanzhou is becoming more and more complicated, Huayang Sect will never have the right to speak.

"The latest news came that Chen Hai only led 6,000 soldiers in the fourth battalion of the Longxiang Army to set up an ambush in Yandang Lake, and he didn't even use heavy crossbows and other sharp weapons, and killed thousands of elites of the demon barbarians in the field battle," Wu Cheng said worriedly: "Right now, the Longxiang Army has no reputation in Tianshui County for a while. There are also signs in various places that have accused me of the cowardice of the clan lords such as Wu and Zhou, and if this goes on for a long time, I am afraid that it will shake the foundation of my Huayang Sect. ”

Wu En gasped and couldn't make a sound for a long time, he didn't expect that the combat power of the Longxiang camp would be so terrifying, and Liao Yunkui ignored the dissuasion of Wu Cheng and Zhou Tong, and directly led his descendants to the Tonghe estuary to fight with the Longxiang battalion, and the impact of this matter was afraid to be even worse.

Wu Cheng saw that there was no way, and he was silent, and for a while, there was silence in the house. Only the breeze blew through the wind chimes by the window, tinkling.

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Dong Shou had just finished dealing with his daily affairs at this time and rubbed his brows.

At present, although he controls the combat power of several units in Hexi on the eastern front of Hechuan County, the relationship between the clan and the lord is complicated, and although the Helan Sword Sect has been forced into a desperate situation, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and the occupied area has never been peaceful, which makes Dong Shou feel restless, especially in the past few days, the news on the front line of Hengshan is frequent, which makes him even more uncomfortable, and in just a few days, there are several low-thief slaves and maids who were directly executed by him due to various mistakes.

After holding the blue and white porcelain tea bowl, he found that the tea soup had already been cold, and he was about to get angry when he frowned, but he forgot that a few days ago, a servant girl was kicked to death by him because he changed the tea too often.

At this moment, footsteps hurriedly sounded outside the tent, and the guard presented a secret letter again.

After a cursory sweep, Dong Shou was so angry that he threw out the teacup in his hand, and passed Chen Lie, Xie Quanting and others to come to discuss the matter.

Chen Lie was in Wangxi Peak, the farthest distance from Dong Shou, and when he pressed the Blue Scale Thunder Eagle and landed in front of the White Tiger Hall where Dong Shou was discussing, several people had already arrived in the meeting hall.

"Chen Lie, you can take a look at this secret letter first. Dong Shou was a few feet away and handed him a secret letter.

Chen Lie looked at Xie Quanting and the others in puzzlement, seeing that several people were expressionless, and he didn't know why Dong Shou had to summon him; you know, although he was controlled by Dong Shou on the Eastern Front, Dong Shou didn't even bother to see him in the past two years.

Chen Lie then lowered his head and read the secret letter, and his heart became clear.

It was getting late, and some soldiers had already lit the lights.

The lights were on and off, and the faces of several people in the tent were also on and off, and no one took the initiative to discuss the great feats that Chen Li had just made as mentioned in the secret letter.

"What do you think of this heavy crossbow?" Dong Shou asked with a gloomy face.

Xie Quanting looked left and right, and when he saw that no one was making a sound, he coughed lightly and said: "The birth of the Tianji Repeater has changed the traditional battlefield situation, and the heavy crossbow is really better than the Tianji Repeater. The barbarian elephants of the wilderness in the north, the demons and barbarians often drive them to attack the walled city, everyone is no stranger, their skin is thick and the flesh is strong, and the vitality is extremely strong, and the strong people in the ordinary Ming period may not be able to kill them with one blow, but in front of the eighteen heavy crossbows, more than two hundred barbarian elephants have not rushed through the distance of two thousand steps, which is really unimaginable. Purely based on the power of shooting, I am afraid that it will take forty to fifty Heavenly Machine Repeaters to achieve this step. What's more important is this heavy ballista ......"

Xie Quanting showed a heavy ballista brought back by the secret agent with a sharp tip that had been seriously deformed after firing to everyone, and there was no need for Xie Quanting to say it carefully, everyone could understand the advantages of the heavy ballista.

The quenched iron consumed for each heavy ballista was only one-fifth of that of a heavy crossbow arrow.

In the first battle of Hechuan Ridge, Hexi secretly prepared for several years, concentrated all the material resources of the three counties of Hexi, and only secretly reserved one million heavy crossbow arrows to start a war against the Hexiang army.

If you can get the secret map of the heavy crossbow early, it will not only mean that Hexi can directly build a heavy crossbow with stronger penetration, but also reserve five to six million heavy crossbow shells before the war.

What is the concept at this time, this actually means that they have the ability to capture Qinshan County and Tianshui County in one fell swoop at that time, and establish a real and veritable overlord of the Northwest, instead of delaying until now, they can't completely digest Hechuan County.

In particular, the Musashi Army and the Tianshui County soldiers began to be equipped with Tianji repeaters, and the future battles were difficult to fight.

The tent includes Dong Shou and Xie Quanting, but no one thinks that Chen Hai has improved it step by step from the Tianji crossbow to the heavy crossbow, and they only believe that Chen Hai has always had reservations about Hexi, and what was given to Hexi before was only a second-level and inferior thing, and the real good things were always in Chen Hai's own hands.

"Chen Lie, your nephew's wings are also stiff, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have displayed such a sharp weapon, and he wouldn't be used by Hexi and Taiwei Sect anymore, but I would like to ask you to write a letter to him and ask if this heavy crossbow can be used by me in Hexi?"

Chen Lie's heart trembled, and he said: "Dong Hou, Chen Hai has always been stubborn, and he has been thrown into the Yanran Palace before, but he has the slightest concern for my nephew? ”

After Chen Lie finished answering, he didn't say anything more.

Dong Shou knew that Chen Lie was the person his father valued, and he couldn't force him to do anything, so he was depressed, and at this moment, a maid came up to serve tea, and he reprimanded angrily: "I have already let the tea soup be served, why is it so late?"

Chen Lie looked at the soldiers who hurriedly cleaned up the corpses outside the tent, and his heart was cold.

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In a side hall of Yanran Palace, there are gold carvings and jade bricks, sandalwood curling, and a royal atmosphere.

Wen Boyuan, Zhao Zhong and others sat side by side in this side hall, and the tea cup in front of them was already cold.

Sitting opposite them, there was a young man in gorgeous clothes with a delicate complexion, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and the pupils of his eyes revealed a bewitching aura, which made Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong dare not look outside.

"Lord Zhao, Lord Wen, the emperor asked you, if you bombard you with a heavy crossbow, how long can the two of you last?" asked the young man in Chinese costumes.

"Although the heavy crossbow has the power to pierce through the stone, it is still a little less powerful for those of us who have achieved Dao Dan. Zhao Zhong said disappreciably.

"From the Heavenly Machine Repeater to the Heavy Rifled Crossbow, how much more power has been increased, how much weight has been reduced, and a few years have passed in between?" the young man in Chinese costume asked, "If three or five years later, the Tianji Academy Palace will come up with a new type of war crossbow, and thousands of sharp soldiers will hold it, will you two still have the confidence to avoid it?"

Zhao Zhong and Wen Boyuan were all stunned, thinking that this heavy crossbow would continue to increase its power and rate of fire, and when the time came, thousands of bodies would be launched together, and the crossbow shells would be overwhelmingly covered.

"Tianji Academy, if it gets out of control, it will definitely be a disaster and a disaster for our Xuan Xiu in the future, Lord Zhao and Lord Wen, think about it early!"

Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong fell silent, Chen Hai can be said to be the two of them pulled up one hand, and also gave them the rank of general and military power, of course, Chen Hai has also made great contributions to them, without Chen Hai's help, it is impossible for the Su Guards to control the situation in Yanjing.

Even the secret plans such as the heavy crossbow and the wind flame airship were all presented by Chen Hai as soon as possible, what excuse could they have to fight for the control of the Heavenly Machine Academy?

Is it really time to make the last move?

Wen Boyuan thought of the Gu Soul Pill, although the Gu Soul Pill could control the souls of others, but it was extremely harmful to the souls of the controlled, Wen Boyuan was already a little unbearable to take the last step in his heart at this time.

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Although it was getting late, Dong Ning didn't want to go back at all, lingering in the cave where Chen Hai lived before, looking at the lifelike murals in front of him, thinking about the hideous and terrifying blood-cloud wasteland, and then thinking of Chen Hai, he gritted his teeth and muttered to himself: "I don't know who he is happy with at this time, I just knew that he was castrated!"

The beauty is independent, frowning slightly, even if I don't go, Zining won't come?

In a familiar trance, Dong Ning was pulled into the Blood Cloud Wasteland again, and the next moment he saw Chen Hai's puppet clone, which was still so hideous and terrifying, but Dong Ning was indescribably happy in his heart.

In order to defend without dead ends, even the scales on the face of the Rakshasa Blood Demon are extremely thick, and even the existence of almost no expression. Dong Ning wanted to reach out and touch Chen Hai's face, but Yao Laogen strode over, and the wind almost washed her away.

Only then did Dong Ning realize that he was not a beautiful woman at the moment, but a virtual form condensed by his soul.

Chen Hai waved his hand for Yao Laogen and the other blood guards to retreat, and walked out with Dong Ning's hand.

Although he held the rough and bloody hand, he didn't feel much warmth.

After all, there is no physical body, there is no touch of the six senses, Dong Ning sighed lightly in his heart!

Walking out of the cave, although the Heaven and Earth Essence Yuan came from Yanzhou, making the surrounding wilderness also vibrant, the blood-colored sky was still cloudy, and I didn't know when the real sun and moon would be condensed and generated. Beneath the blood-colored clouds, deep in the wilderness, a small, hidden city is slowly taking shape from a deep chasm.

During this time, Chen Hai needed to concentrate on organizing defenses and other things in Hengshan, and he hadn't invited Dong Ning into the Blood Cloud Wasteland for several months, Dong Ning didn't expect that after Yao Laogen and other blood guards gained a foothold in this rift, their Rakshasa Demon Clan had expanded to thousands of heads, and they had all started to build cities in the past few months.

The two walked away, and Chen Hai told Dong Ning about the battle between Hengshan City and Yandang Lake, and the biggest change in the Blood Cloud Wasteland was that the Rakshasa tribe had begun to build a city near the Temple Valley - it was also for this reason that Chen Hai asked Yao Laogen and other blood guards to start building a stronger city in this rift valley, otherwise it would be too conspicuous if traces were found - this means that the time for the connection between the Blood Cloud Wasteland and Yanzhou is getting closer and closer.

And with the leakage of the Yanzhou Heaven and Earth Essence Yuan, the food sources in the Blood Cloud Wasteland became more and more abundant, and the battles and fights between the Rakshasa Demon Clans gradually subsided, and the performance was more tightly organized, which made Chen Hai even more worried.

Thinking of these things, Ye Qinglin's ambition and greed and calculation seemed insignificant again, and Dong Ning was unwilling to bother Chen Hai with the trivial things that happened in Montenegro.

"You say, will this city be called this in the future?"

Unconsciously, the two walked to the small city made of molten iron, and Chen Hai asked Dong Ning with a smile in his words.

Dong Ning looked up and exclaimed, his heart was instantly filled with huge sweetness.

There were huge and quaint three words on the city gate: "Ninghai City!"

Seeing these three words, Dong Ning thought to himself that even if he died for the demon, this life would be worth it.