Chapter 12: Scorched Earth
The charred black ashes were swept in the wind, the scorched trees, countless broken weapons were discarded everywhere, the stone fortress wall collapsed into more than a dozen huge gaps, hundreds of hideous corpses were piled up on the gaps, and the condensed blood stained large areas of the fortress walls purple and black.
Xu Ruyu jumped up to the gap with a solemn expression and stood on the high castle wall, but saw that the situation inside the castle was even more miserable.
Zheng Cangsheng's vision under the night moon was not as far as Xu Ruyu's, but he also understood what the situation in front of him meant, sitting on the purple-black mud ground under the castle wall, looking up at Xu Ruyu's back on the castle wall in horror, only to see Xu Ruyu standing on the castle wall, his body couldn't stop trembling slightly, his mind was blank in an instant, his body was planted forward, his head was knocked on the half-cut stone that collapsed, and blood gushed out. Awakened by the great pain in his forehead, Zheng Cangsheng got up, climbed the castle wall from the gap, and looked into the castle by the faint moonlight.
When Xu Ruyu landed on the ground, he jumped down in time to catch him, crossed the fort wall, placed him in the middle of the lodging corpse, and said: "There is always no avoidance in front of you. Saying this, he looked at the situation in front of him like the Shura field, but he couldn't control a wave of anger that went straight to his heart, and he cut his backhand on a piece of stone, stirring up a piece of stone chips.
Zheng Cangsheng grabbed a thrill in his heart, closed his eyes and sat down on the corpse, unintentionally touching the stiff corpse, and his body couldn't stop trembling violently.
Seeing him like this, Xu Ruyu sighed secretly, suppressed the violence in his heart, and walked inside. Walking to the inner fort, I saw countless corpses of women and children staggered and lodging, and could no longer control the long howl, the sound was like a deep valley dragon chanting, oscillating away, and the black finches pecking at the corpses in the fort fluttered their wings and flew up, and the black pressure was hovering in the sky.
Xu Ruyu was irritable in his heart, pulled out his waist knife, and struck at the sky, when Dan Li took off the blade, he did not form a sharp knife as usual and went straight to the black bird that could not be hovered, but when the air released an electric cocoon the size of an egg ball, the light in the electric cocoon flowed, and there seemed to be countless small lightning bolts, and the square inch of space was sharply expanded and contracted, the wind swirled, and the electric cocoon burst in an instant, and the dazzle flashed in the air, and the strong light reflected the dozens of miles under the heavy night as bright as the bright day, and thousands of fine flashes spit out from the brightest point in the sky, and suddenly grew, turning into branch-shaped thunder light, Scatter and go.
The wind blew and cut like a knife, and within a few feet of Xu Ruyu's body, the corpses lying on the ground, the charred trees, and the half-collapsed walls left countless fine marks, as if they had been cut by a sharp blade.
Zheng Cangsheng was grief-stricken, but he was shocked by the sudden release of strong light and thunder in the center of the fortress, and after a while, he remembered that Xu Ruyu was there, crawling up with both hands and feet, his eyes were dazzled by the strong light, his vision was weaker, and he stumbled to the place where the thunder flashed out, but saw a vague black shadow sitting there, and when he walked closer, he saw Xu Ruyu's face turn pale after losing his strength, and thought: Was it his martial arts move just now?
After a while, his vision returned to normal, and by the moonlight, he found that there were bird corpses all around, covering the corpses of the women and children in Jian'an Fort. In addition to the charred black bird corpses that were struck by lightning and the bloody bird corpses that were cut by the wind, there are still countless black birds that were blinded by the strong light but did not die, and kept flapping their wings and struggling in mid-air on the ground.
Xu Ruyu looked at Zheng Cangsheng's stunned appearance, and sighed secretly, he didn't expect that when he was angry, he would use the last trick that he couldn't perform.
Chen Ang looked at the starry sky with his hands in his hands, and he didn't know under what circumstances Xu Ruyu would kill the gods, and he was worried.
Chen Yu hurried over, his expression was solemn, and when he saw Chen Ang standing in the courtyard, he was slightly stunned, and said: "Ru Yu has finally become a peerless martial artist, and the people in the world who can sense this move are afraid that they will not be able to sit still anymore." ”
Chen Ang nodded, but didn't say anything, and walked straight to the quiet room.
After Chen Ang stepped down, he has been living in a villa in the north of Wanling City, where Xu Xing and Xu Ruyu left Wanling and went to Bayang.
Chen Yu looked at Chen Ang's tall back in a daze, and said to Xiao Yuru on the side: "When the eldest brother decided to let Ru Yu take charge of the Chen clan, I had no disagreement, but the many policies implemented by Ru Yu in Qingjiang and Yongyang made the Chen clan have no room to turn around with him unless they give up their current status and military strength. ”
Xiao Yuru sighed slightly, withdrew his gaze from Chen Ang Xiaosuo's back, looked at Chen Yu with a solemn expression, and said: "Ru Yu has a lot of old people in Wanling, but your eldest brother is not worried that the two sides will have a fierce confrontation, but the situation in the world is complicated, if the Chen clan cannot settle down in the East China Sea, the future is worrying." ”
Chen Yu didn't want to wipe the face of his brother and sister-in-law, and said yes in his mouth, but he didn't think so, if Xu Ruyu had an accident in Nanfu, the forces of Yongyang and Qingjiang, which were still in the process of restructuring, would inevitably be divided, and the opportunity for the Chen family was in front of him.
Thousands of miles away, if he hadn't learned the magic trick himself, he was afraid that he would only treat the vision in the south as a star to explode, only a peerless martial artist like Chen Ang could sense more details, but he seemed to anticipate his intentions, and avoided saying nothing, making it difficult to figure out, unwilling to listen to the chatter of his brother and sister-in-law, and left.
Chen Yu left, Chen Ang returned to the courtyard, took Xiao Yuru's hand, and said worriedly: "Ru Yu's style implies grief and indignation, and I want to come to Nanmin to have unpredictable changes. Although the Zongzheng family does not have a master of the same level, if it is close, it will also be sensed. If you are foolish and eaten by this trick, the situation will not be good. ”
Chen Ang didn't expect that when Xu Ruyu used this move, there would be enough black sparrows to attract the thunder light, but he just lost his strength.
Ji Siqian looked at Tianji Xueqiu's almost transparent hand, and said with a smile: "It's just one more fellow Taoist, why is the Grandmaster so panicked." ”
Tianji Xueqiu's eyes were dazzled, and then disappeared, threw the chess pieces into the box, got up and walked out of the house, looking at the faint thunder in the southeast direction, the heart lake that had been quiet for many years finally fainted, and there was no need to look back, he knew that Ji Siqian was standing behind him, and said: "If this fellow practitioner is Xu Ruyu, who has recently become famous in the southeast, I don't know how the great sect feels?" ”
Ji Siqian let out an "oh" and said in surprise: "Xu Ru is not yet twenty-two years old, and the Central Plains Martial Arts has finally produced a person who can be as short as that person in terms of talent. ”
Tianji Xueqiu didn't forget to look back when he mentioned the man, and said, "The karma hasn't disappeared at this time?" ”
Ji Siqian said dejectedly: "He is known as the Heavenly Master in the Peerless Domain, how can he give me a chance to fight again, but the karma cannot be eliminated, and there is no chance to defeat him." The old Taoist of Tanglin can't shrink back, hasn't the grandmaster ever moved? ”
Tianji Xueqiu smiled slightly and said, "Maybe there will be this opportunity." He turned his head to look at the attendant next to the Jingshe and instructed: "If Yanmen comes to look for me, say that I am talking to the Jinghu Sect, and I have no time to see him." ”
Zheng Cangsheng calmed down a little, and said to Xu Ruyu: "Jian'an Fort is a thousand brave and brave, and more than 3,000 women and children have lost their lives, but why did the Puji bandits launch such a fierce offensive at this time?" ”
Xu Ruyu shook his head and said: "It is not only the Puji family that can launch such a fierce offensive against Jian'an Fort, even my Qingjiang can quickly gather 20,000 troops and go straight to Jian'an Fort, and the outside world knows nothing." Speaking of this, a look of remorse appeared on his face, and he continued: "The enemy erased the traces in the fort, and the clues left behind are also tricky, the Puji bandits have always been the most naked slaughter, when is there such a hidden hidden? ”
Zheng Cangsheng was shocked in his heart, and said in surprise: "Zong Zheng Xunda's hand? ”
Xu Ruyu angrily waved his palm and cut the corner of the stone beside him, and said: "Zongzheng Xunda led the troops into Zhangtai to suppress the bandits, but he did this kind of self-destruction of the Great Wall, if I hadn't been delayed at sea for more than ten days, I would have made him pay the corresponding price." ”
Let Xu Ruyu say, Zheng Cangsheng suddenly came to his senses, whether it is the large-scale crossing of the Qingyan Army or the Puji bandits, the news will not be covered up so tightly, and only the army of Zongzheng who has been suppressing bandits near Longyan in Zhangtai will have the opportunity to launch such a fierce offensive. Although the construction of the fort is not dangerous, but the fortress is unusually strong, if there is no more than five times the strength of the force, it can not be attacked, to block the news so tightly, not to let the breakthrough in the fort go out to report, it is necessary to deploy more troops, and the gap in the fort wall can only be smashed open by large throwing crossbows.
"It's just that Zongzheng Xunda wants to do this hot thing?" Zheng Cangsheng asked confusedly.
A gleam flashed in Xu Ru's foolish eyes, and he asked sharply, "Before we come here, do you think the Zheng family is likely to cooperate with my Qingyan Army to exterminate the Puji bandits." Seeing that Zheng Cangsheng was speechless, he continued: "Since I came alone, I am eight points sure, Zongzheng Xunda is taboo that the Zhangzhou family is out of his grasp, so he destroyed the weak defense system of Zhangtai, creating the illusion of a large-scale invasion of Puji bandits. However, there is also the possibility of collusion with Gongliang Youqin, forcing the people of Minzhongshan and Wulingyi to move south. ”
Gongliang Youqin tabooed Xu Ruyu to establish a military base in Zhangtai, and clamped down on the Puji forces with Yongyang's Jinghai Theater in the south and north, while Zongzheng Xunda tabooed Xu Ruyu after entering Zhangzhou, so that Zhangzhou was out of his grasp. It is highly likely that the two are colluding with each other. It's just that the Jian'an Fort in front of him was destroyed by the army of the Zongzheng family.
It is almost conceivable that Zhangtai City and several dock forts in the north of Zhangbei will not escape such a fate, and the power of the Zhangzhou family and the civil defense force may be wiped out.
Xu Ruyu thought that Zongzheng Xunda actually treated each other with scorched earth, so that even if he entered Zhangtai, he would not gain anything, and his scheming was ruthless and decisive, which was very human, and he gave people the impression of being weak for more than ten years, maybe he did it deliberately. It's just that I regret that I can't decisively march into Zhangzhou, which makes Zhangzhou suffer this catastrophe. When he was about to say something to Zheng Cangsheng, his mind suddenly moved, and he noticed that someone on the west side was running towards Jian'an Fort.
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