More than 200 miles from north to south and 70 miles from east to west, like shoes.

Longting City is at the northwest end of the island, this side of the lake is Longting Gorge, legend has it that two thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Xu family took refuge here, and at a glance fell in love with this piece of Feng Shui treasure land that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

These days, Yingzhou State has held several court discussions, and the ministers have concluded that the Qi State Navy will definitely land from the south of Yingzhou Island, because the Navy is a taboo for soldiers to storm the lake port, and the southern section of Yingzhou Island has the most complex terrain and is inconvenient to fortify - Yingzhou Island has changed hands several times in history, and the south is the first to lose, without exception.

Tu Yao, Song Manqiu and the people of the Seven Divisions had no experience in water warfare, they only knew that the water army was unpredictable and could not be prevented, and the water army of Yingzhou Kingdom had been lost in the battle of Liangzhou, so they listened to the opinions of the indigenous ministers, and led most of the righteous army by Zhang Blind, Luo Qingting, Hui Yuan and Cheng Quan, and held the north-south main road to block the Qi army going north.

Tu Yao sat in Longting, and in the past few days, he has not received any news that the rebels have received the enemy, and none of the remnants of the Yingzhou country's naval army, which is responsible for patrolling the garrison and investigating the enemy's situation, have come back to report.

She faintly felt that something was wrong, so together with Song Manqiu, she led the forbidden army of the new dynasty to fortify Longting Gorge, strengthen the port, and count the arsenal.

Even so, when the endless white sails appeared on the lake with water and sky, she did not have the slightest certainty in her heart.

There were only more than 4,000 people in the forbidden army, and if they were all indigenous sailors, with the cultivation of Tu Yao and Song Manqiu, they would have full confidence and send them to the lake to feed the fish.

But now in this fleet, in addition to Situ Yan, I don't know how many cultivators have entered this Water Heaven Ze Country...... In the face of thousands of cultivators, even if everyone in the Seven Divisions was there, it would probably be useless.

Tu Yao can also be said to be in danger, and immediately made a decision, so he ordered the requisition of the righteous army to rush to the aid of Longting, and ordered the forbidden army to open a defensive line and prepare rockets.

On the walls of the canyon, there were many people, the sound of chaotic footsteps mixed with the rough roar, everywhere there was the fishy smell of animal fat, someone kicked over the oil drum in a panic, and the stench that dispersed was even more disgusting.

Song Manqiu carried a longbow on his back, passed through the sweaty forbidden soldiers, checked the arrangement of each arrow post, and occasionally turned his head to look at Longting City south of the city wall.

The city is still calm, but it won't be long before the people see the scene in Longting Gorge. Song Manqiu didn't know what the thousand-year-old city would be like when it came.

After a moment's fugue, she immediately turned her gaze to the water and sky outside the canyon, and the fleet in the distance came slowly, without shouting or drumming - Song Manqiu was very uncomfortable with the water battle scene, in her experience, the two armies should be galloping horses, not so lifeless.

"Watch the oil drums under your feet!" she shouted. The same order, repeated by the native officers in an even more nervous tone, spread from near and far.

At the feet of every archer, who stood guard at the whistle of the arrow, was a bucket filled with grease and a large basin of coal.

There are young soldiers who can't hold their breath, and they have already set the charcoal basin on fire.

Song Manqiu wanted to stop drinking, but then felt that when the soldiers were really coming to the city, this group of recruits would probably be so nervous that they couldn't even light the charcoal fire, so they simply let them light the fire.

The city wall is built along the cliff of the canyon, and at the bottom is a huge water gate formed by nature, from which large ships loaded with goods from all over the world can sail directly into Longting City, and at present, this water gate is the target of the Qi navy.

Song Manqiu inspected from one end of the city wall to the other end, and in just three or four miles, there were more than a thousand arrow sentinels, all of which were facing the lake outside the wall, with a drop of about four or five zhang high, and if the wind was favorable, the arrows could be shot far away - but for experienced archers, the panicked recruits of the forbidden army at the moment were obviously not.

She checked the arrangement of the arrow whistles in order, and there were still many things that were not pleasing to the eye, but now, there was no room for exquisiteness.

"Beware of the charcoal fire! Don't panic! The city walls are made of stone, but the ships are made of wood, and it is not you who should be afraid, but the Qi army!" she tried her best to boost her morale, knowing that it would have little effect, and she subconsciously did so.

When he was about to return to the tower in the middle of the Longting Water Gate, Tu Yao walked over, and when he saw her, he pulled her aside and said in a deep voice: "Do you really want to fight?"

Song Manqiu knew what she was talking about.

"Situ Yan opened such a big posture, I'm afraid that he intends to stand up for power......" Song Manqiu's face was as cold as frost: "At least we can try it now, if we let his navy enter the city, then he will turn his face again, and we will have no way to retreat." ”

Tu Yao nodded slowly, rows of charcoal braziers were reflected in her eyes, and the constantly beating flames seemed to be the essence of her eyes: "Fight!"

The two women looked at each other and smiled, and at this moment, they actually felt a little sympathetic to each other. Immediately afterward, the two climbed the tower together and stood against the wind.

The sun rises in the east, the morning glow is like fire, the lake light and water are dyed, and even the little white sails are reflected in red, like a burning cloud that covers the sky and the sun, and slowly presses towards Longting City.

"Give the order to release the arrows...... Tu Yao was dressed in white and stood calmly on top of the tower.

Song Manqiu was slightly stunned when she heard this, and she was a little puzzled. In the distance, the fleet was still five or six miles away from the city wall, and it was not in vain to release arrows now? She glanced at Tu Yao, and finally nodded.

She put the longbow on her back and didn't use it, but took a bow from the hands of the young forbidden soldier on the side, put on the elongated arrow with a thick strip of cloth wrapped in the arrowhead, lowered the longbow, soaked the strip of cloth in oil, and at the same time, with spiritual power, she urged her voice to shout in a short and calm voice:

"Prepare arrows!"

The sound of the command spread far away, and thousands of archers simultaneously soaked the heads of their arrows with grease.

Song Manqiu waited for three breaths before shouting: "Ignition!"

The strip of cloth soaked in grease at the head of the arrow slashed across the charcoal brazier, and it burned violently.

This time, Song Manqiu didn't stop, and then ordered: "Release the arrow!"

As soon as the words fell, nearly 1,000 rockets shot out and fell towards the lake in the gorge. As Song Manqiu expected, at this distance, even if she herself, it was impossible to shoot a rocket several miles away.

However, at this moment, the rockets suddenly stopped their downward momentum and fired flat at a height of just over a foot above the surface of the lake, heading towards the distant fleet.

Song Manqiu looked up in amazement, only to see Tu Yao facing the lake outside the canyon, saluting solemnly.

"This ......" She could naturally see that the rocket did not fall into the lake, it was Tu Yao who drove the aura on the lake to support it, but she had never heard of someone who could perform the ritual art to such a subtle situation.

Song Manqiu's emotion only lasted for a very short moment, and then she shouted again: "Prepare arrows!"

When the forbidden army on the city wall saw such a miracle, their morale was immediately high, and the rockets were almost connected.

After a few breaths, the Longting Gorge was already full of firelight, like a meteor falling from the sky.

There were "veterans" in the forbidden army who had followed the people of the Seven Divisions to Liangzhou Island, and when they saw this situation, they suddenly couldn't help but sing the war song of the righteous army.

"The wind and smoke are rolling and singing heroes, and the green mountains on all sides are listening...... The feet are blazing in the fire, and the whole body is covered with shooting stars...... The sword qi swallows the tiger and the leopard, and the country enters the formation for thousands of miles......"

The intermittent singing, sung in the hoarse voice of a man in the army, is straightforward and high-spirited.

In the midst of this song, on the surface of the lake, someone actually came to meet the firelight sword!