On this day, several high-ranking members of the Stygian Coalition arrived at the docks to welcome the return of the Triumph.

The purpose of the Triumph's trip was to bring back a batch of newly built armor and weapons from the town of Hekou, which were specially used to equip the newly trained coalition soldiers. These weapons were all made in the weapons workshop in Kawague, so we had high hopes for them. Several other giant bed crossbows are being built and will be placed on the headlands on either side of the harbor when completed, which will greatly enhance the perimeter of the harbor.

As soon as the Triumph landed, a ghost jumped out of the ship. When I looked closely, it turned out to be big eyes. It quickly ran in front of me, and after saluting, it handed a small bamboo tube with both hands, and said, "Harbor Lord, there is a secret report from Giant Waterfall City!" ”

I took the bamboo tube and opened it, took out a small roll of paper from it, and unfolded it to look at it. Unexpectedly, I was stunned as if I had been petrified!

Liu Han on the side saw that I was out of shape, so he asked me, "What did it say?" ”

I handed the secret report to Liu Han in a daze, but looked at Qilang on the other side with a strange expression and said, "The Yin Army is still here after all, and it has already arrived in Giant Waterfall City!" ”

"What?" Everyone present couldn't help but be taken aback when they heard this.

"They're coming too fast!" Shichiro frowned, "How did you do that?" ”

Two months ago, Shichiro received news from the eyeliner he had planted in the Yin army, saying that the underworld had sent 8,000 Yin troops to Tiankeng City to expel the Dao cultivators who had invaded the underworld. At that time, Shichiro and I agreed that since the Difu was willing to send 8,000 troops to deal with the Maoshan Daohui, there should be no more plans for an expedition to the Stygian Harbor in the near future.

But the truth is so bizarre, not only did the underworld send a large army to recover Tiankeng City, but also sent another Yin army to expedition to the Underworld!

Judging from the intelligence, the strength of the Yin army sent by the underworld to crusade against the harbor this time is called 10,000, and it is personally led by Marshal Yeyou. I was very surprised that the underworld was able to send so many troops to attack the Underworld, but what surprised me even more was that this news was not transmitted by the eyeliner planted by Shichiro in the Yin Army, but by the ears and eyes sent by the Underworld Harbor to the Giant Waterfall City.

Since the last time the Victory was attacked when it was on its way to Giant Waterfall, I have learned a lesson, strengthened the collection of intelligence information from the outside world, set up a special intelligence department, and appointed a rather intelligent big eye as the head of the special intelligence department.

After Bigeye was promoted, his enthusiasm was particularly high, and he personally selected dozens of soldiers from the Stygian Harbor Army and scattered them to the nearby Hekou Town, Giant Waterfall City, Thousand Island City and Snake Bay, acting as the eyes and ears of the Stygian Harbor. These eyes and ears require a high degree of loyalty to Styx and myself, as well as a good sense of concealment, in order to deliver valuable information at critical moments.

Due to the fact that slavery is very common in Giant Waterfall City, the status of ghost cultivation is not high, so the ten eyes and ears sent to Giant Waterfall City by Big Eye are all Yin cultivators. They usually engage in various occupations in their personal capacity, collecting information from all walks of life in Giant Waterfall City, and even the big eyes in the city guard have two eyes and ears, one of whom has also been mixed with the position of squad leader, and the effect is obvious.

This time the information came out from the guards of the Giant Waterfall City, it is said that the large army of the Yin Army of the Difu is about to arrive in the Giant Waterfall City, and the city lord of the Giant Waterfall City is required to arrange enough food and grass and camping for 10,000 people in advance, and the Yin Army plans to rest in the Giant Waterfall City for a while. In addition, Marshal Night Tour also asked the Mighty Waterfall City to provide enough warships and troop carriers, obviously to prepare for the next attack on the Harbor.

Although the intelligence said that the Yin army was about to arrive in Giant Waterfall City, it would take time for Big Eye's men to pass this information back to Stygian Harbor from Giant Waterfall City, so in other words, when I received this news, the Yin army was likely to have arrived in Giant Waterfall City. According to this, the Yin army that went on an expedition to Hades and the Yin army that went out to Tiankeng City almost set off from the underworld on the front and back.

I was annoyed, so I questioned Shichiro: "It will take at least a month and a half to take a boat from the underworld to the Mighty Waterfall City, and it will take another half a month for the eyes and ears of the Stygian Harbor to deliver the news back from the Mighty Waterfall City. In other words, the secret report you sent back from the eyeliner you planted in the Yin Army two months ago is wrong! Otherwise, why did he only write about the Yin army's expedition to Tiankeng City in the secret report, but did not write about the Yin army's expedition to Hades Harbor at the same time? ”

"Not necessarily!" As soon as Shichiro heard me say this, he finally noticed the strangeness in my eyes. But instead of immediately refuting me or getting angry at my questioning, he calmly analyzed: "Admittedly, my eyeliner may indeed be exposed, or even reversed. But if that's the case, he could have given me a more tempting disinformation. ”

"For example, he can lie to me that the main force of the Yin army has been dispatched to deal with the Maoshan Daohui, and suggest that I go and attack the lair of the king of Yama: the underworld. Or tell me that the underworld plans to purchase a large number of military supplies from a certain Yin City in the near future, lure me to rob the road, and then ambush me in turn! This kind of false intelligence is more deceptive and targeted, rather than simply concealing the direction of action of the Yin Army's large forces. ”

Shichiro's words are not unreasonable, but they still can't dispel my doubts. I continued to ask, "Then the Yin army sent 10,000 troops to the expedition to the Stygian Harbor, why didn't he pass on such important information to you?" Concealing the Yin Army's operational goals has reduced the preparation time for us by two months at once! ”

Shichiro still patiently explained, "I think there is another possibility, and that is that my eyes are in the Yin army at the moment. He was limited by strict military discipline during the march and could not contact the outside world, so he could not find a channel to transmit information about the actions of the Yin army in time. Perhaps, when he gets outside the Stygian Harbor, I should be able to reach him. ”

"Humph! By the time he arrives outside the Harbor, I'm afraid the Harbor will already be in great trouble! Liu Han couldn't help but express his dissatisfaction indignantly.

"What do you say?" The one-horned ghost king on the opposite side immediately jumped up when he heard this, and shouted, "Are you questioning the ghost handsome who wants to deliberately frame the Styx?" What's in it for us? ”

"That's right! We are now grasshoppers tethered to a line, and no one can escape! "The Mighty Ghost King has also come to help.

Not to be outdone, the sarcastic ghost on my side was even more outdone, its small mouth was big, and it shouted in a tone that was not inferior to the two ghost kings opposite: "Who is the grasshopper? You're grasshoppers! Grasshoppers fleeing for their lives! No matter what enemy we faced, we have always been here, and we have never escaped! ”

There is something in the ridicule of the ghost story, which is obviously a satire on the fact that the ghost army was beaten by the Yin army to hide everywhere and had to be reduced to the harbor. This immediately angered the generals of the original ghost army.

"Fuck it!" The Ghost King of Bishan roared angrily, and his posture was about to erupt, "You old ghost, you don't have any skills, but your mouth is still very cheap!" I've long seen that you're not pleasing to the eye, and I don't tear you apart and eat you today! ”

"You dare!" Liu Han, Sandao, and Iron Head all stood up together, protecting the sarcastic ghost behind them.

Seeing that the two sides were in a tense situation, Wang Shou, Lu Zhidao, Wu Fang and other neutral factions hurriedly came forward to persuade each other and separated the two groups of people and ghosts who stared at each other and swore words.

The Yin army has arrived in the Giant Waterfall City, the great enemy is present, and the big battle is imminent, but the Stygian Harbor coalition forces are in mutual suspicion at this time. If you lose peace and morale before you fight, how will you fight this next vicious battle?

"Smack!" I pinched it hard, pinched the bamboo tube in my hand, and shouted, "Don't make trouble!" It's come to this, and complaining about each other won't help! We still have to calm down and discuss, how can we repel the attack of the Yin army? ”

When Qilang saw that I had expressed his position, he also stopped and said, "What Lord Zhai said is extremely true! Everyone is now a comrade-in-arms on the same front, and if you have a temper, you will keep it and vent it to the enemy, what's the use of arguing with your own people? ”

Shichiro and I spoke out together to stop it, and finally calmed down the noise of our respective subordinates. Even though I still have grievances in my heart, it is imperative to concentrate on solving the problems at hand.

Qilang said: "Lord Zhai Gang, although this secret report says that the Yin army sent 10,000 troops this time, but according to my guess, the Yin army will not only divide its troops to drive away the Dao Xiu who captured Tiankeng City, but also send troops to expedition to the Underworld, and at the same time, it must also retain enough troops to garrison the underworld, and the King of Yama will definitely not really send 10,000 troops to the expedition to the Underworld." ”

I also nodded and said, "I have also been in the Yin Army for a few years, so I naturally know their routines. Although the Yin army had carried out a major expansion two years ago, such a two-headed attack was quite tight even with its existing 20,000 troops. Coupled with the problems of military expenditure and supply supply, it is estimated that the real force that the prefecture can send this time is only 5,000 to 7,000. ”

"Even if it's five thousand, seven thousand, that's a lot of strength!" Liu Han interjected, "We still have to hurry up and notify the merchant fleet outside to return to the port quickly, and at the same time start hoarding grain and grass to prepare materials for defending the city!" ”

I turned to Sandao and said, "You are in charge of this work, and you must call back all the merchant fleets that are out there within half a month!" ”

"Yes, Lord!" Sandao replied.

Wu Fang also stood up, hugged his fists and said, "There are still the last batch of customized weapons in the weapon workshop in Hekou Town that have not yet been completed, especially those giant bed crossbows are very important. I would like to invite myself to the town of Hekou to supervise! ”

"Well, there you go." Shichiro agreed, "You bring all the First Army over, and if you need labor in the workshop, you can also draw it from the army." The workshop must be driven day and night, and it must be necessary to try to fill this gap before the arrival of the Yin army. ”

"Yes!"

"All the others, please follow the step-by-step, take responsibility, pay close attention to training, check and fill in the gaps, and make every effort to prepare for the battle!"

"Yes, Lord!"

"At the moment of the great enemy, all of you should do your best. If anyone dares to be lazy and slack, tricky and slippery, and delay the fighter, don't blame me for turning his face and not recognizing people! ”

"Yes, Ghost Handsome!"

An infighting that seemed to be about to break out was eliminated in the blink of an eye in a tense atmosphere of preparation for war. But I can't really predict how long peace will remain with the various disputes that have been put on hold by the two sides through temporary compromise. Alas, perhaps my decision to agree to an alliance with the Ghost Army was a mistake!