The boat rushed to a halt at the bottom of the steps leading to an imposing building facing the east gate of the palace compound.

Hundreds of guards and soldiers inside and outside the palace flocked to besiege the boats and wagons, and with a command, hundreds of powder guns fired at the boats, and the gunpowder guns fired "Bang Bang!" almost simultaneously. The sound and metal bullets hit the shell of the boat and the car issued a "Horn! "The sound was deafening.

After the first round of firing, the captain of the escort standing on the outermost side was horrified to find that the bullets fired not only did not penetrate the shell of the ship and vehicle, but also the bullets were all ejected, and more than a dozen guards were unable to dodge and were hit by bullets and injured in the face.

There was a panicked silence at the scene, and the target did not react after the first round of attacks, and the doors were closed as if all the people inside were dead.

"Gunpowder guns won't work, bring two cannons! Ben would not have believed that it could withstand two shots from our powder cannons. ”

As soon as the shouts of the leader of the guards fell, the surrounding soldiers scattered with a sudden piercing chirp from the ship's car, and then a dazzling red light shot out from the left side of the ship's shell, hitting the roof of the palace building not far away, and with a loud explosion, the roof that was hit was blown open in a large area, and the broken bricks and wooden blocks flew in the air.

The soldiers of the ancient city present were frightened by the unexpected and fierce shelling of the boat, and just as they were in shock, they saw the door of the ship and car suddenly open, and a man in civilian clothes and a helmet came out of it.

Hundreds of gunpowder guns were pointed at the man who came out of the boat, and the leader of the guard did not give the order to shoot, because he saw that the helmeted man had neither a sword nor a gunpowder gun on his back, and that he was wearing only an ordinary uniform without armor, and that he was holding a letter or something like that.

As soon as the helmet man stepped out of the car, he held up the letter in his hand and shouted, "Hey, you are the leader?" We are messengers from the savannah, and we have a letter for you to pass on immediately to your Majesty the King. ”

The leader of the guards was not ambiguous, he stepped forward and shouted, "I am the leader of the guards!"

The helmet man walked up to the leader in a hurry, handed over the letter in his hand, and said very politely: "General, we are the envoys sent by the five kings of the prairie to Xizhou. The reason why we have crashed directly into this place is because this letter is urgent, and must be delivered to your majesty the king immediately, so we dare not delay in the slightest. I beseech the General to deliver this letter to your Majesty at once, and order that your men must not attack us, or you will be wiped out!" ”

With that, the helmet man turned back to the car and closed the door.

The leader of the guards held the letter and was stunned for a moment, looking at the roof that had been blown away, he knew the power of the helmet man's warning. He waved his hand at the soldiers present and shouted: "You wait here, no one is allowed to act rashly without the order of the general!"

He shouted and turned and ran towards the inner courtyard of the palace.

The King of the Ancient Land was awakened in his sleep by the sound of shouts and gunfire.

He shouted angrily, "What's wrong? ”

An attendant rushed in in a panic and said, "Your Majesty, the east gate of the palace was knocked down by something of unknown origin, and then it drove to a stop at the foot of the steps of the council hall. Commander Ping and his soldiers fired hundreds of shots around the thing, but the thing couldn't penetrate at all, and then the thing bombed the palace..."

"Blow up the palace!" The King of the Ancient Land screamed and got up from the bed.

"yes, that thing emits a cannon of red light..."

As the attendant was talking, another attendant ran in from outside the door and shouted, "Your Majesty, General Ping of the Guard Corps urgently asks to see you!" ”

"Let him come here!" The King of the Ancient Land said angrily, and sat on the edge of the bed with his feet on the ground and waited.

His mood at this time was both annoyed and a little panicked, since he ascended the throne as king, there had never been a case of anyone daring to break into the palace compound without permission to make trouble, who was the comer? What exactly does he want to do?

The King of Gudi was thinking about it, when the leader of the guard walked in quickly, he didn't care about the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, waved the letter in his hand and said, "Your Majesty need not panic, it is a messenger sent by the prairie, and they want the last general to deliver this letter to Your Majesty immediately." ”

When the king of the ancient land heard this, his panicked heart calmed down, and it turned out that he had come to deliver a letter, and then he said sharply: "Read! ”

The envelope was not sealed, and the leader of the guard opened his faith and said: "Your Majesty, the King of the Ancient Land, we are the kings of the five kingdoms of the steppe on the east coast of the ocean, because the land people of this world are facing an unprecedented existential crisis, we have specially sent the prince of Jiuxian City Kapok Zi as a plenipotentiary envoy to visit Xizhou, and specially visit your country to convey this vital message to His Majesty the King.

According to reliable information, the 50,000 genetic people transformed by the undersea people will attack the Xizhou continent at any time, and these genetic people can survive in the sea or live on land, and they are likely to have captured Xitian Island, an offshore island in the western part of Xizhou, and the gene people will use the island as a springboard to launch a full-scale attack on the Xizhou continent at any time within half a year.

The goal of the gene people is to first fully occupy Xizhou, then occupy Qizhou, and finally use the resources of Xizhou and Qizhou to accumulate stronger strength to capture our prairie. After the Genetics occupy the land, they will burn and loot on a large scale, and the remaining Landlanders will become their slaves, so we Landlanders must unite to resist the Genemen's invasion of the Land.

According to the information we have received, the countries of the Western Continent are in the midst of a mutual civil war, and we advise Your Majesty and the three southern countries to stop the civil war immediately, and then unite to deal with the invasion of the genetic people. As long as you Xizhou people stop the civil war and unite against the genetic people, we in the prairie will provide support within our ability, please discuss the specific matters with our prince's envoy..."

After hearing this, the King of the Ancient Land was full of doubts, and asked with a calm face, "Are you sure that the person who came is a prairie celebrity?" How did they get here? ”

"Your Majesty, the man who came is a red man, they are tall and burly, and they have no armor but a helmet, and the last general has just seen his hands and face red, and they are riding in an iron-hulled chariot that looks like a ship, and it is at the east gate of the palace..."

The King of the Ancient Land stood up and interrupted the leader of the guards, "Take this king to see what it is, and dare to shell this king's palace!" ”

When the king of Gudi put on his coat, a group of personal guards surrounded him and came to the palace hall. The King of the Ancient Land condescended to look at the chariot parked at the bottom of the steps for a moment, and he quickly sensed that this thing was extraordinary. In addition to the red-eyed prairie people who don't know the details, there may be only the same bottomless people who don't know the details of the world who can build such a boat and car.

So he ordered the people around him: "Beat the drum!" Let the ministers come here urgently to discuss matters! ”

"Boom! Boom! The low, powerful drum beat was particularly far away on this gloomy morning.

The ministers of the ancient land king all lived in the old ancient city not far from the palace, and the abnormal movement on this side of the palace had already awakened them from their sleep, they were all smart people, and they had already predicted that something was wrong with the palace, so they had long been ready to be summoned by the king, and when they heard the call of the drums, they immediately set off.

In less than ten minutes, the ministers came to the palace in horse-drawn carriages, and everyone gasped when they saw the collapsed palace gate and the scene in the palace compound. But they did not dare to delay in the slightest, and hurried into the council hall with a nervous heart.

After saluting the gloomy face of the king, who sat on the throne, the officials sat silently in their seats.

The King of the Ancient Land sits on a high throne, separated from the inner chamber by a row of tall screens facing the throne, made of sapphire stone carved with flower and bird motifs, flanked by richly decorated cloth and glittering gold stands.

When everyone who should have arrived had reported, the King of the Ancient Land immediately spoke: "Everyone has heard the noise, and you should have seen the strange iron-hulled chariot, which crashed into the east gate of the palace and drove directly under the eyes of this king without asking the reason. Then the visitor fired a shot at the roof of the king's palace, and then sent someone out to deliver a letter to the king. ”

As he spoke, the king of the ancient land took the letter and said to one of the guards standing beside him, "Read it to the ministers."

The guard respectfully picked up the letter and read it aloud, then handed it back to the king.

In the council hall, more than 40 ministers of civil and military affairs were seated in two rows, left and right, according to the size of their official positions.

An old minister sitting at the front of the left row stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this morning's events and this letter are extraordinary. It is said that because of the chaos of the people under the sea, the red people on the east coast of the sea have not dared to sail to Qizhou for decades, let alone set foot in our West Continent.

Now, they can actually use this iron-hulled boat to come across the sea and inform us of what undersea gene people are going to invade Xizhou, and the old minister really doesn't understand the reason for this. It's understandable that the people of the sea want to occupy land territory, but why don't they start with the savannah first? Also, what is the true basis of the prairie red people to say that the seafarers are going to invade my Xizhou? ”

The king of Gudi looked at the old ministers who were about the same age as himself, and said dissatisfiedly: "Prime Minister Zuo, what you said is equivalent to not saying it, this king wants to conclude that it is not more doubts, the envoy of the red man is still waiting in the iron-hulled boat, whether this king sees it or not, what can he say when he meets?" This red envoy relied on the iron-hulled car to run rampant in my ancient city, this king must teach him a lesson, otherwise my ancient land will be discredited, and you can come up with a good way to say it! ”

The king's words made the old minister, who was the prime minister, redden, and as soon as he sat down, the other chief minister opposite him stood up to speak, he was also an old minister, he seemed to have a good idea, and he spoke with great confidence:

"Your Majesty, this red envoy dares to knock down the gate of the palace and smash the roof of the palace to see Your Majesty, Your Majesty can't help but see him, otherwise the consequences are unpredictable. At the meeting, His Majesty may ask the special envoy to first answer the question just raised by Prime Minister Zuo. If you are convinced that they are the messengers of the steppes, and that they have such powerful iron-hulled chariots, your Majesty should put up with their domineering behavior for the time being.

Didn't they want Your Majesty to resist some undersea gene people? Whether it's true or not, Your Majesty can agree with it. But His Majesty wants to propose to him that my Ancient Land Country is backward in weapons, and the Prairie Red People should give me a batch of such iron-hulled ships and vehicles for the Ancient Land Country Legion, even if they can't give it away for nothing, as long as the price is reasonable, my Ancient Land Country can buy it.

In this way, although His Majesty has been a little wronged, as long as he can get a few of these iron-hulled boats, the three southern countries can get them at his fingertips. When His Majesty becomes the supreme emperor of the land of Xizhou, the prairie reds will naturally bow down to each other when the time comes. ”

A smile appeared on the face of the King of the Ancient Land, and he praised: "Well, the right prime minister is reasonable. If this king can have dozens of such iron-hulled ships and cars, the unification of Xizhou is just around the corner. However, wouldn't it be an empty joy if the red envoy refused to give the king an iron-hulled car? How will the king deal with it? ”

There was silence in the hall, and a minister who appeared to be the youngest in the room at the end of the right row stood up, bowed to the king, and then exclaimed, "Your Majesty, you have a plan to take down the iron-hulled chariot outside the door!" ”