Under the city of Xunyang, old warships sailed out of the Nanhu Water Village in the city, and all gathered in front of the Linjiang Gate. These boats were converted from various small boats that had been improvised and could carry no more than twenty sergeants on board, and it would be more appropriate to say that they were fishing boats.

On a rather tall boat in the center of the battle array, Captain Shi Jian looked at these warships and sighed imperceptibly. In just a few months, however, the ships had become increasingly old, and the recruits on board had become younger and younger.

The Purple Lotus rebels outside the city have been wrapped in countless creatures along the way, with inexhaustible cannon fodder, but the soldiers in the city are getting fewer and fewer, and the "Xunzi Battalion" that General Chuanshi has finally rebuilt will never be used until the critical moment. Today's situation can only make these recruits who are still a little ignorant get on it.

That's how he himself got through it step by step. At the beginning of the siege, he was just an ordinary gang member of the Fishing Dragon Gang who begged for a living on the dock in the north of the city, relying on a little spiritual cultivation to transfer goods on behalf of people on this river. With the arrival of the Purple Lotus rebels, he fled to the city with the refugees, and also fell into deep despair.

In the end, General Kawaishi stepped forward, dressed in armor and white beard floating on the river, almost single-handedly blocking the rebels' frantic attack. It was his god-like aura that brought them a trace of courage.

He responded to the call and joined the Xunzi battalion, and quickly formed a combat strength under the training of General Kawaishi. And the addition of Shuofeng Lingzun was even more powerful, he led the spirit trainers on Lufeng Mountain to join the battle group, and soon transformed the warship, trained new soldiers, and restarted the city protection array, which finally brought him a glimmer of hope to persevere.

But Rao is like this, in this continuous bloody battle, there are still too many dead people around him. Yesterday, I just met and was still laughing with myself, but today I became a corpse in the city. Now that this group of people is out of the city, how many of them will come back alive? Thirty percent, four percent? Only God knows!

But as the captain, Shi Jian knew that he could not be discouraged, and what this group of children needed most was courage and hope. He cleared his throat, looked at this group of childish subordinates, and said loudly: "A new round of offensive by the Purple Lotus rebels is about to start again!"

As his voice sounded, the atmosphere in this battle array immediately became solemn. The flotilla, which was not neat, was also put in order, almost reflexively, and no one spoke in the entire boot camp. Everyone stood upright, quietly navigating the warship, listening to his instructions.

Shi Jian was satisfied with his training over the past few months, these children were carefully selected by him, all of them were sailors and coolies who were accustomed to wandering on the riverside docks in the north of the city, and they were all good at boating and familiar with the nature of the water. With this kind of obedience and discipline, there will be more people who come back alive for a while.

"None of you have ever been to the battlefield, yes, you are a bunch of recruits, and no one can afford to be recruited. Or that you are not worthy to be called soldiers now, you are just a bunch of coolies, poor creatures who depend on handouts to survive!"

"Who are the soldiers? Look at the top of your heads, look at the banner with the word 'Xun', and think about the courage of General Chuanshi when he pursued the legendary Spirit King to fight in the north and south, chased fierce beasts, punished fierce and stubborn, and fought in the field of the Apocalypse in alliance with the Hunting Spirit, and raised the name of my Zixuan Weiyang Legion. That's the soldiers, that's the army! That's the existence that makes your friends and relatives proud of you!"

"You are also training on weekdays, you know, how long does it take for a recruit to train from the 'Xunzi Battalion'? a month? a year? No! I tell you, it only takes one day! Just like your captain, it only takes one day for an ordinary person to join the Xunzi Battalion and become a qualified soldier!"

"This day is today, as long as you rush out and kill your enemies, you will be a true soldier!

"Outside the city is the Purple Lotus Demon Disciple, the Purple Lotus Demon Disciple who has besieged us for nearly a year. Some of you are from Xunyang, and some of you are refugees who have fled from this Moon Shadow River. Your homeland has been destroyed by them, your relatives have been slaughtered by them, and your friends have been enslaved by them. I believe that each and every one of you has a blood feud with these Purple Lotus Demon Disciples outside the city!"

"Rush out and kill them! Don't let Xunyang City be destroyed by them like other cities! Your relatives are behind you, and the enemy is in front of you! If you can't stop them, your parents will be killed by them, your sisters will be humiliated by them, and your home will be destroyed by them!"

"Stop them! Kill them! Remember, our mission is to rush out and kill them! You are protecting your relatives and protecting Xunyang City!"

"You train every day, you don't need to say any more, I just remind you of one more thing: look up at your general, he is watching you. You remember, General Chuanshi was once just like you, just a scholar with no family background! How did he become a general and become the ninth son of Weiyang who everyone admires?"

"Remember: those who bravely move forward will have a time to pay homage, and those who take a step back will die!"

"Now listen to the order, enter—"

The heavy riverside water gate was slowly opened, and the seven iron grates slowly opened with a sour sound, like a desolate monster showing a full mouth of fangs, waiting to taste those young and fresh lives.

The half-grown children of the 10,000 new barracks, operating five hundred old warships, straightened up with a little courage aroused by Fang Cai's generous reprimands, listened to the increasingly dense war drums, and began to cross the Linjiang Gate, past the already dilapidated Linjiang wharf, and rushed towards the Moon Shadow River.

The sound of the war drums at the head of the city became more and more noisy and dense, and the enemy's warships were seen approaching in the distance, and in the silent shouting, the wooden oars rowed across the water, arousing a cool feeling, and rowing through the hearts of everyone.

Cold Night Xing was stunned as he looked at the army of the Purple Lotus Sect that had swarmed in, and the tall warship that was surrounded by many small boats. After besieging the city for a year, it is not that I have never seen the enemy's warship at night, but the warship used by the general enemy is only two stories high and five zhang long, even if it stands on its bow, it can only look at the ocean and sigh in the face of the Xunyang city wall as high as ten zhang.

But this time, the warship launched by the Purple Lotus Army—no, it can't be called a warship anymore, it's simply a moving Void Behemoth—the giant ship transformed from an ancient Behemoth is eight zhang tall and dozens of zhang long.

Originally, the skeleton of the whole body was installed with a wall panel made of spirit wood, and the drive was not by manpower, but by the remaining soul will of the giant beast to swim forward, although it was bulky, but as fierce as a beast.

Looking at its surging momentum, it was not much shorter than the towering Xunyang City Wall, and it was hard to imagine what method those Purple Lotus Sect disciples used to tame the will of this Void Giant Beast and transform it into the giant ship it is today.

But now is not the time to think about this, the cold night walk is only a little distracted, and I feel a burst of heat in my ears, and then I hear a loud bang, two fireballs have fallen into the array of your own warships, and the splintering wood chips are flying everywhere, and the miserable screams have begun to sound.

"Disperse!" this is Captain Shi Jian's hoarse shout, and the flag on the command ship also began to fly: "Plum Blossom Armor Breaking Formation!

I only felt as if my body was no longer my own. The huge fireball that suddenly flew from the enemy's huge ship came again, and although the boat had been nimly dodged by the sailors' oars, they were still stained with a little splash of fire. Once the fire was touched, it lingered, and in an instant it consumed the sailor's life.

In the captain's roar, Han Yexing's body preceded his consciousness, tucked the remnant knife in his hand, took the wooden oar of the sailor who fell into the water and died, stabilized the boat, rocked the oar with all his might, and rushed out.

As his spiritual eyes opened, the spiritual world returned to him. He saw countless spiritual threads intersecting in the air, flying towards his eyes. He knew that the end of each spiritual thread meant devouring a living being.

His soul was running at high speed, trying his best to calculate the landing point of each spiritual thread, and the wooden paddle in his hand was constantly flying. Until all the warships were scattered, plum blossoms formed on the surface of the river, and flags were heard from the flagship of the command.

Cold Nightwalk almost jumped to the center of the ship and photographed the button. As a fluctuation of spiritual power spread, the plum blossoms were all connected to each other, forming a large array that was both scattered and connected with each other.

This plum blossom armor-breaking array is the handiwork of Shuofeng Lingzun, except for the huge spirit crossbow in the center of the ship that has been put on the winch, this knot button is already the largest transformation of these warships transformed from fishing boats.

However, although this large array that emitted a thin aura could block the fireballs thrown by the enemy army, it did not have much effect on this close-range fight. But in a moment, the warships of both sides collided together, and the bloody melee began.

During nearly half a year of training, each of these ships had twenty warriors, five of whom were rotating hand water, five shield men, five spearmen, five archers, and five short knife men.

Everyone cooperates with each other to form a small array, which can attack from afar and defend closely, and advance and retreat freely.

But in the face of the influx of enemy ships, the countless rain of arrows like flying locusts, and the broken spears and the enemy troops who jumped into the ships, this array that had matured day by day was like a drifting bird in the ocean, and it soon crumbled.

The cold night traveled and found that the enemy's warships were higher than the ones on the side, and countless enemy ships squeezed the plum blossom armor-piercing array on the side together, and the enemy jumped down from the ship, as if it were flat ground. If it weren't for the blessing of this plum blossom armor-breaking array, I am afraid that I would be crushed by this enemy ship at this moment and become a rout deserter.

Standing on top of the warship, his body felt like it wasn't his own. His oar was taken by another sailor, and he drew his sword and fought the surging enemy. Don't be afraid of the enemy, as long as you stand and stay in formation, your comrades will help you block the enemy. But when you retreat, you will die!

Don't be afraid of the enemy, and if you're afraid of death, don't be afraid of the enemy...... It's not a man, it's the devil, it's the devil who burned down your house and killed your relatives......

What else is there? The lessons that the captain kept repeating in his ears with all his might on weekdays have lost their meaning at this moment. Cold Night Walking felt that his body was no longer controlled by reason, as if a spirit suddenly appeared to control his body. And his soul seems to have wandered away from this warship, and only silently watched from the side.

Knife flash!

At this moment when the sword light flickered, beyond the blood-stained blade, Lu Shi saw a face, a wooden, youthful face, distorted by fear.

He'd seen a face like this countless times. Xiao Chen, a coolie who carried work on the dock together, the little guy who made friends with him in the Fishing Dragon Gang, and Xiao Li who trained and fought together around him...... Or...... Myself......

The enemy's sword had broken through the outer shield and slashed in front of his eyes!

His mind was still in chaos, but his body seemed to have a life of his own, and the rusty remnant knife in his hand went straight to him. Although the start was slow for a moment, the cold night knife came first, just in time to meet the slashing knife accurately, with a crisp sound, the two knives intersected, and the enemy knife was unexpectedly broken into two.

However, he ignored the length of the enemy's sword, and although it was broken, the blade of the knife was still cut straight without hindrance. The blade stopped in front of him, and blood dripped down the blade and dripped in front of his eyes.

The knife did not hit him, and a comrade with a short knife next to him was kicked by the enemy, turned over, and fell off the ship, making a splash. It turned out that it was his comrades-in-arms who blocked this knife with their own bodies and saved his life!

He roared, and the remnant knife swung out again, and the man drew his knife to block back, but the knife in his hand plunged into the enemy's body without any hindrance.

Blood. That's not their own blood. I'm alive!

It was only then that he felt a strange sensation in his hand, a thick and warm liquid, the blood of the enemy. He looked at the broken knife in his hand in amazement, and forgot where he was for a moment. He found that his teammates around him fell one by one, and the enemies that kept coming in were killed by his teammates, and then they all rolled down and fell into the river, and the blood gushed like a spring......

At the head of the city, Xunchuan Shi's white beard fluttered, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the melee in front of him. As long as the giant ship took a step forward, the huge fireball shot from the ship was enough to hit this section of the city wall, but whether it was Xunchuan Shi, Shuofeng Lingzun behind him, or even the guards and soldiers standing straight around him, none of them had the slightest look of panic, let alone leave to avoid it.

"It's really hard to find an ancient giant for the sake of the Purple Lotus Sect's gang of traitors. It's a pity, although they don't know how they tamed the remnants of the will of the giant taki, but they can't exert one-tenth of their power, how can they be able to defeat the legendary spirit king who left behind the city protection array. Shuo Feng sneered, but his face did not move: "After all, they still don't dare to step into the range of the negative spirit beast, and our soldiers are about to attack his ship." ”

"Hold on to this point and still be able to vaguely maintain the formation, this batch of recruits is of good quality. Xun Chuanshi was slightly silent, and after a while, he muttered: "Shuofeng, this plum blossom armor-breaking array you designed is also very good, it seems that I am going to lose this bet." ”

"Shi Jian, who trained them this time, is a talent personally selected by you, General, so naturally he can't be wrong. Shuo Feng said expressionlessly: "Looking at the rabble of the Purple Lotus Sect, it has already become a mess, it seems that it will not take a moment for our army to win a big victory." ”

"Don't jump to conclusions, it's just a test on their part, and even if we win, it doesn't matter the big picture. Xunchuan Shi shook his head slightly: "But this Shi Jian is good, after coming back, he was transferred back to the Xunzi battalion and promoted to guerrilla leader." This time, this batch of recruits can come back, and they will be reviewed together and put into the Xunzi battalion. ”

Shuo Feng nodded yes, but suddenly his tone changed: "It's not good, the crazy woman of Red Lotus has come to charge the battle again!"