Relying on the small invention of the sarcastic ghost, Liu Han personally led a hundred cat cavalry to infiltrate the Yin army's military camp from the height of the cave wall, and successfully set a fire to all the siege equipment. Although Marshal Night Tour was extremely unwilling to send most of the canine cavalry to pursue Liu Han, he was immediately ambushed by the Stygian Harbor coalition forces and suffered heavy losses.

On our side, Shichiro was content to also order a retreat, withdrawing all his troops behind the walls. The Yin army has lost all the large-scale siege equipment, and it is difficult to pose a huge threat to the walls of the Underworld, and at this time, there is no need to worry about being afraid of holding the city.

Shichiro's eyeliner then used round-headed arrows to transmit information many times, reporting the internal dynamics of the Yin Army every day or two, so that Shichiro knew the offensive tactics of Marshal Night Tour well, and he could always respond in advance every time. Therefore, in the next few offensive and defensive battles, neither side was able to take any advantage. The Yin army was never able to break through the gate of the Stygian Harbor, and suddenly consumed its troops, while the Stygian Harbor coalition army was cowering behind the city wall and could no longer inflict a major blow on the Yin army, and the battle situation was stalemate all of a sudden.

Strategically, however, a stalemate would be more beneficial to Hades. The supply line of the Yin army was too long, the warships were destroyed again, and the sea control was lost, so that the use of the army of the night tour marshal went into a dead end and could not get around.

I then added another problem to him, and sent Sandao to lead a part of the speedboats into the river secretly, and did his old job, like a water thief, who specialized in harassing and plundering the supply fleet of the Yin army in the river. Because the Yin army only had some small boats and merchant ships left, they didn't have a good way to take three knives, and the military rations and weapons transported from Giant Waterfall City could not be successfully delivered.

After three months like this, Shichiro's eyeliner once again came out with information: the grain and grass in Estuary Town are about to run out!

The waterway could not take advantage, and the land route was strangled by the army led by Shichiro, and it was impossible to break through the gate of the harbor for a while. After thinking about it and hesitating for several days, he had no choice but to decide to withdraw from the army and return to the underworld with his troops.

The Yin army sent a total of 7,000 troops on this expedition, but lost 3,000 soldiers in the harbor. And that's not counting the garrison of Estuary, otherwise the total number of casualties would have been even higher.

On the side of Hadesport, in fact, the casualty figure is even larger, and the losses of the regular army and militia together have reached 5,000, which can be called a tragic victory!

However, although the losses were large, the results were brilliant. When the Yin army retreated, Lin Miao was afraid of retribution from the Harbor, so he fled to Jupu City with Marshal Night Tour, leaving Hekou Town alone. Later, he thought about it, but it was not right, after all, as soon as the Yin army left, the Giant Waterfall City would inevitably resume normal exchanges with the Stygian Harbor out of its own considerations. With the style of the City Lord Wei, it is possible to present him to the Stygian Harbor at any time as a "gift of atonement". So, Lin Miao then fled from the Giant Waterfall City in a hurry, not knowing where to hide.

As soon as the mayor of the town, Lin Miao, ran away, the harbor confidently sent troops to occupy Hekou Town, bringing it under his rule, and the territory was more than doubled.

In fact, the residents of Estuary Town do not have a bad impression of Hasty Harbor, and the reason why the two major enemies are currently against Hasty Harbor is that they are not strong enough, and they can only rely on the side that looks stronger in the cards; The second is to blame Lin Miao's selfishness and stand on the wrong team.

Therefore, when the army of Hades Harbor took over the town of Hekou, the residents of the town did not show much resistance, but the few remaining defenders under the leadership of Xu Zhou took the initiative to surrender to me.

My impression of Xu Zhou is still good, capable and loyal enough, but it's a pity to follow the wrong person. Regardless of my previous suspicions, I incorporated the remaining sailors in Hekou Town into the Arsenal Naval Army, and made Xu Zhou a senior officer.

After the annexation of Estuary, the total population under the rule of Hades increased to 40,000, and the number of troops increased unabated, and it only took a year to expand to 10,000. Moreover, thanks to the large number of yin practices in the town of the estuary, the proportion of yin practices in the total population has increased. This is a very beneficial supplement to the Stygian Harbor, where ghost cultivators originally accounted for the vast majority.

With a population of 40,000 and 10,000 soldiers, although it is not as large as the super Yin City with a population of up to 100,000 like Zuoqiu City, it is enough to make Stygian Harbor enter the ranks of the Great Yin City!

Two months later, news came from the underworld: in addition to the defeat of the Night Tour Marshal in the Harbor Expedition, the Day Tour Marshal also suffered a fiasco in Tiankeng City!

It turned out that the Maoshan Daohui sent additional people to the underworld, and even brought down a batch of guns and ammunition. These weapons of unknown origin can only be used secretly in the yang world, but when they reach the underworld, they have no worries. In this way, the Yin army that went to crusade became an egg hitting a stone, and suffered heavy losses. Using primitive cold weapons to fight against Dao Xiu's hot weapons, the Yin Army is simply looking for death!

Marshal Gan Sheng failed to sneak attack Tiankeng City, so he had to retreat, and then was chased and beaten all the way by the Maoshan Daohui. It wasn't until he led the defeated army into a yin vein that he finally escaped the pursuit of Dao Xiu, and it is said that the scene was very embarrassing.

As soon as Gan Sheng finally recruited the defeated army, half of the 8,000 men and horses were reduced, and the other half were either killed or captured. Coupled with the return of the Marshal Night Tour in the Harbor, the underworld suffered defeats on both sides at the same time, so that the Yin army, which once reached 20,000 troops, fell again, and only 13,000 remained.

With such a toss, King Yama must have a headache, even if he is unwilling, but I am afraid that he will not dare to come to trouble the harbor for the time being. Because, obviously, the threat that Maoshan Road will pose to the underworld is greater and more urgent.

However, there is no good, no harm. Everything is related, and as the penetration of the Maoshan Dao into the underworld increases, the other Yin Cities soon begin to feel the pressure, and there are frequent reports of Dao cultivators trying to find a passage to enter through the natural cave. Among them, the first to bear the brunt is Zuoqiu City!

Zuoqiu City is the largest Yin City in the underworld, and its strength and status are second only to the underworld. Therefore, the fame of Zuoqiu City is not small in the yang world, and the Maoshan Daohui wants to invade Zuoqiu City in every possible way, and use it as a base to continue to compete with the underworld for control of the underworld. The Teng family mastered one of the Yin vein passages leading from Zuoqiu City to the Yang Realm, and used Youlanxuan as a cover. Under this situation, Youlan Xuan must have been closed long ago, but the other other natural yin vein exit was exposed and was seized by Dao Xiu.

Fortunately, although Dao Xiu had cultivated the Dao Law and possessed the mana of the Strongest to the Strongest, he was still a little powerless to resist the erosion of the strong and pure Yin Qi in the Yin Vein, and had to retreat halfway. Zuoqiu City then also took the initiative to dig down the cave above this yin vein, blocking this natural passage.

The Maoshan Dao would have no way to enter the ground, so they had to change back to the old path of Tiankeng City, relying on natural passages to enter the underworld, and then slowly expanding their sphere of influence.

The large-scale invasion of the Maoshan Taoist Society also made the contradiction between the Taoist and the Yin cultivated more and more intensified, and the Yin cultivators who were stranded in the yang world could not bear the exclusion of the Taoist cultivators, so they hid in the underworld to avoid disaster. For a time, the news of Dao Xiu's invasion of the underworld spread throughout the underworld, causing panic and ghosts, even the remote Hades Harbor was not spared. For a time, in the underworld, the wind and clouds were treacherous!

On this day, my master suddenly came to me and said to me: "Xiaosheng, your old Uncle Liu asked someone to bring a letter, saying that now even a marginal town like Baihualing has been interfered with by Taoist forces, and his ghost market is almost impossible to keep, so he wants to come to me." But now most of the passages from the underworld to the underworld in Quang Nam Province have been blocked by the Maoshan Dao Association, I'm afraid I have to go back to pick him up in person! ”

Uncle Liu, the old man of Baihualing, once healed my shoulder injury, and he was kind to me, and since he has nowhere to go now, I am naturally happy to take him over to live in Styx. So I said, "No problem, I'll send two people back with you." ”

The master shook his head and said, "No need. I was with you last time, and I know the way, so I'll just go back by myself. ”

"It costs money to return to the yang world, I ...... it"

"Heck, I'm not bad for money right now! I'll exchange it when I get to Mighty Waterfall City myself, I'm here to tell you, so that you don't worry. ”

"Okay......"

After saying a few words in a hurry, the master hurried away, and on the same day, he packed his luggage and took a boat to the Great Waterfall City. The location of the Harbor is too remote, and if you want to return to the Yang Realm, you must first go to the Great Waterfall City, and go up to the surface through the Yin veins over there.

Because the affairs of the harbor were so complicated, I couldn't get out of it for a while, so I had to let him go. But a month later, there was unexpected news from the Giant Waterfall City: the Maoshan Dao Association seemed to be looking for a route into the Giant Waterfall City, and had already sent people to explore the upstream of various underground rivers!

The situation in Giant Waterfall City is actually similar to that of Tiankeng City, in addition to the fact that there is a yin vein that leads directly to the ground, there are also countless underground rivers that are connected to the ground through a labyrinthine cave. The water of these underground rivers converges and finally forms a large waterfall. In other words, once the Dao Xiu of the Yang World flows down the river through the underground river, it is theoretically possible to reach the Giant Waterfall City.

I was very worried after receiving the news, especially since Master has been gone for two months, and it is supposed that he should come back at this time, but there has been no news so far, and I wonder if it has anything to do with it.

In a hurry, I found Liu Han, Wang Shou, and the Mocking Ghost, and told them that I was going to go to the Giant Waterfall City in person, on the one hand, to inquire about the news of Dao Xiu's invasion of the Giant Waterfall City, and on the other hand, I wanted to pick up my master back.

Liu Han, Wang Shou and the sarcastic ghost did not object, but after Shichiro learned of my plan, he said to me: "I received the news two days ago that there were signs of Taoist cultivation activities outside the Giant Waterfall City, so I immediately sent the One-Horned Ghost King and Lu Yu to investigate, but I couldn't receive a reply for a while. In that case, why don't I go with you? ”