Chapter 8: The Battle of Civil Engineering

After taking the oath in the city tower, Emperor Xuanwu roared: "Soldiers, go back to the camp to rest all night, cook tomorrow morning on the fifth watch, set off on the sixth watch, and take the wood country!"

"Obey!" the 8,000 toad army withdrew to the marching camp in turn.

"Master, you also go back and have a good rest, and go together tomorrow morning to give me advice!Haha, this time you need the master's wisdom to help!" Xuanwu said while smiling and patting me on the shoulder, and walked down the city tower.

"Thank you for the emperor's kindness! The students are willing to follow the work of dogs and horses, and they will definitely live up to their expectations!" I bowed with my fists clenched.

At night, I tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, "Yoyo, did you say that the frog haha has arrived in the wood country? I wonder how the situation is on its side?"

"Master, the frog clan is a water system, and they will also escape from the soil, and a one-night march should be enough to reach the wood country. Don't worry too much. Rest well, there are a bunch of things waiting for you tomorrow. ”

"Hmm. "I looked out the window at the silent night, and felt that this was the silence before the outbreak of the Great War, and that a pale memorial to the thousands of dead had begun.

The south is snoring like thunder, and the north is rushed. After a night of rapid marching, Frog Haha led three thousand frog clan soldiers to the downstairs of Muguo City, Frog Haha walked to the front of the formation, a fly frog flew left and right, a bat frog, I looked at the bat frog and said, "Xiao Shunzi, go and call the door." ”

The bats flew into the air, fluttered their wings, and reported to the soldiers guarding the city tower of Muguo: We are the soldiers of the frog clan, and we have received an urgent report that Xuanwu is about to attack Muguo; Now Xuanwu's eight thousand toad army is ready to go, and it will be killed in eight hours, Wangmu Country's Vermilion Bird Fairy is aware of it, and prepare early, just in case!

"Okay, I'll report it, please wait!" After speaking, a Dapeng bird with a human body and a red helmet on the city tower looked at a woman in green clothes beside him and said, "Blue Bird, you quickly fly to the Flame Palace to report this matter, and report immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw the woman in Tsing Yi spread two huge wings on her back, soaring into the sky, and one flew sideways and disappeared into the starry sky before dawn.

About ten minutes passed, and the woman in Tsing Yi flew back to the city tower and whispered a few words in the ear of the Dapeng bird.

"Little Shunzi, you are a clairvoyant, what are they muttering?" the frog looked at the bat, and the batat frog put one of its paws to his ear and said, "Report to the king, they are going to open the door accordingly, haha." As soon as the batfrog finished speaking, the Dapeng bird spread its wings, waved its hands and shouted, "Open the city gate, welcome allies!"

As soon as the words fell, hundreds of Dapeng birds flew to the city gate in the air, instantly covering the clouds and the moon, rotating their bodies, turning faster and faster, and soon each Dapeng bird gave birth to a whirlwind under their feet, they brushed and chanted "Wind shield! Push!", while opening their wings together and fanning the hurricane, the city gate was slowly pushed open under the push of a powerful hurricane.

Seeing the city gate open, the Dapeng bird wearing a red helmet spread its wings and flew down the city tower, followed by hundreds of Dapeng birds that pushed open the door, and walked towards the frog under the city tower. He spread his wings, hugged the frog haha, and said enthusiastically, "Brother frog, hello, thank you for coming to solve the crisis of the Mu Kingdom." The white pigeon, the scout of the Feather Clan, has just sent a flying pigeon from thousands of miles away, and Xuanwu, a traitor, is indeed coming to attack the Wood Country. My lord, the Vermilion Bird Fairy, specially asked me to come and wait to welcome Brother Frog to the main hall of the Flame Palace to rest for a while and discuss countermeasures together. Without further ado, I invited Brother Frog to sit on the Dapeng and fly to the Flame Palace with me. As he spoke, a roc bird pounced on the ground and let the frog ride on it.

"Good. "The two Dapeng birds flew towards the Flame Palace like two hurricanes, and the three thousand frog clan soldiers entered the city in turn under the guidance of the blue birds, and the Dapeng Bird Corps once again used the wind shield to close the city gate.

Soon, Frog Haha followed the Dapeng bird to fly to the Flame Palace, as soon as Frog Haha landed, he looked up and looked up to see a Flame Palace full of red light, and there was a gold-edged plaque hanging at the door, with a column of red characters on it - The Flame Palace was particularly dazzling. There are two huge stone lions at the gate of the palace, majestic, both sides of the palace gate and the corridor in the palace are covered with huge plane trees, these plane trees fluctuate with red and yellow goose paw like plane leaves, each plane tree is perched with several phoenixes, they either close their eyes to rest their minds, or fly and dance, or nurse young birds...... Approaching the main hall, outside the hall, two rows of vultures with bows and crossbows and backpacks stood in unison, and when they saw us passing by, they bowed and saluted together, "Welcome to the honored guests!"

Walking into the hall, a woman wearing a crimson trench coat, a ruddy complexion, a full forehead, a crown on her head, and a bunch of peacock feathers sat on a deer antler chair, and on the left and right sides of the chair stood the peacock fairy, the white dove fairy, and the thrush fairy.

"I've heard of Brother Frog's name for a long time, and when I saw it today, I really saw the fairy in the lotus. Hurry up, please take a seat. Suzaku whispered slowly. "I think that the well water of my Mu Country and the Ci Country will not violate the river water, but Xuanwu is going to attack my territory this time, and I am bothered by the prince of Shi. Fortunately, when his father was alive, he carefully trained the 6,000 Divine Wing Hall, and also spent money to build this impregnable wooden city wall, thinking that Xuanwu would not easily attack the city. Don't worry too much and enjoy a song and dance first. As he spoke, the Vermilion Bird Fairy raised his hand to introduce the three generals of the Wood Country Divine Wing Hall opposite me, Dapeng, Vulture, and Phoenix, and motioned for the Thrush Fairy to serve tea.

Frog Haha nodded and smiled, raised his hand and hugged his fist, and said, "Mu Guo is really talented, and there are many talents." "When he was about to drink tea, a column of peacock fairies walked to the front of the hall and danced, their clothes fluttering, their dancing posture gracefully, very beautiful;

"Fairy, this is the long-lost peacock dance on the rivers and lakes, right?

"Brother Frog, this is a special product of the Wood Country-Agarwood Tea, can it suit your appetite? I heard that the prince of the poet woke up, didn't you come here this time?"

"Good tea, good tea!" A refreshing aroma filled his body, and the frog praised, "The prince is circling in the Xuanwu army, and he will come over when the time comes." ”

"Hehe, Prince Lao is bothered. Thinking about the 8,000 toads, I won't take them seriously. I love to read the prince's ancient poetry collection "Tanka Xing", and I have admired the prince for a long time, and I wanted to choose an auspicious day to visit the prince, but I didn't expect the opportunity to come. Suzaku touched a book in his hand and said slowly.

Frog Haha drank agarwood tea and praised "Good tea, good tea, the prince should also like this agarwood tea." ”

"Hehe, if you like it, you can drink more. While smiling, he commanded, "Dapeng, vulture, phoenix, raise troops for a thousand days, and use them for a while." You quickly go to the gate of Muguo City to set up fortifications, and ask the Logistics Support Department to prepare some more winged arrows and sycamore balls. It's up to you this time, so let's go!"

"Obey!" With that, the three generals of Dapeng, Vulture, and Phoenix bowed and retreated.

The Vermilion Bird Fairy and the frog laughed and continued to drink tea.

The warmth of the northern country is like the sunshine under the plane trees. In the south, there are cars and horses, and smoke and dust are billowing out.

I accompanied Xuanwu and a few maids to sit in the main camp, a commander's tent lifted by a hundred toads, and the accompanying wind, fire, thunder, lightning, and Professor Pengamu sat in the big tent of the auxiliary camp raised by fifty toads, and after a while a toad lifted the curtain and reported:

"King, urgent report: The Wind Demon received a secret order from the Absolute Lord of Liancheng, and asked the Wind Demon and Lei Li to rush back to Zhuxian Mountain to save the car. It is reported that two stinky Taoist priests used the technique of Qimen Dunjia to attack Zhuxian Mountain, he tried to pull out the Sun and Moon Divine Sword to kill the lord, the flower demon and the tree spirit have been fighting with them for several days, regardless of victory or defeat, lest they be outnumbered and difficult to resist, so they specially ordered the wind demon and Lei Li to go back to the rescue. ”

"How can you kill a trip to bite the gold halfway? At this critical juncture, the two of them said that they would leave. Xuanwu paced, waved his hand and said, "That's it, that's it! Let them go back to rescue the driver first!"

I thought to myself that these two stinky Taoist priests were a little interesting, and they helped me a lot in the dark, and I was secretly glad in my heart.

As soon as a toad left, a toad stumbled into the camp again, "Oh no, it's not good! Many soldiers have abdominal pain, diarrhea and diarrhea, and their physical strength is exhausted, and the army is paralyzed!"

"Niang Xipi, it's really unlucky! Hurry up and rest the army, count the soldiers with abdominal pain and diarrhea, form a team, let them rest temporarily, and catch up with the army in a few days!" Xuanwu whipped his leather whip in the big tent, extremely indignant.

I thought to myself that this must have been done by Professor Peng Jiamu, who turned out to be a senior chemistry professor and a master of using poison, so he must have added some fierce ingredients to the marching food, and I felt a burst of joy in my heart.

"Emperor, don't worry, it must be the army that is not adaptable, they will be fine in a few days. No problem. I comforted.

"No hindrance! No hindrance! Commander, there are only two generals left in our army, Fire Tribulation and Electric Soul! Now that the combat effectiveness of the troops has dropped sharply, there is also pressure to attack the Birdmen in the Wood Country! Alas, alas, ......" Xuanwu sighed as he paced.

After a while, the toad came to report, "Report to the king, the count is complete!" A total of 3,000 soldiers have diarrhea, and General Zuo has asked them to rest in place and wait for their bodies to recover before setting off. ”

"Good. Go down. Xuanwu waved his sleeves weakly.

"Master, it is said that Mucheng is impregnable, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is the military map of the wooden city, you can take a look, there is a way to deal with it. Xuanwu looked at me as he spread out the sheepskin map on the table.

"Emperor, the city wall of this wooden country is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is a moat in front of it, the city wall is towering into the clouds, and it is difficult for birds to cross. Now that the summer is scorching, we are tired of marching, and we are riddled with dysentery and diarrhea, so it is recommended to find a forest 500 meters outside the city and set up camp. I looked at the map and thought with my chin propped up.

"What the master says is very true, listen to you. It's really hard for birds to fly, so there are birdmen living in it, which gives me a headache!"

In this way, they marched all the way, and in a hurry, it was already dusk under the city wall of Muguo, and Xuanwu ordered the vanguard to find a forest five hundred meters outside the city, set up camp, and rest well for the night to prepare for an attack tomorrow morning. I looked at the gray fiery clouds in the sky, as if I saw a bloody battle brewing, and I had built a fire purgatory for Xuanwu.

In the evening, when I returned to the tent to rest, I whispered to Youyou:

"Yoyo, you flew into the country of wood by night, found the frog haha, and told it that it is now high and crisp in autumn, and there is a lack of water outside the city, which is suitable for fire attack, and I have successfully suggested that Xuanwu set up camp in the woods, and that the dry air and dry branches and leaves of the trees in autumn are natural*. Now the southeast wind is still blowing, you let them take advantage of the toad army to sleep on the north and south sides of the marching camp to use fire attack, the wind speed will accelerate the fire, and then arrange arrow arrays on the east and west sides to wait for the fleeing toad army. When it's all burning, you fly to the gate of the city to pick me up. ”

"Master, you are really Zhuge Liang alive and smart. Master, then I'm leaving, you have to be more careful. Yoyo looked at me with his tail in adoration, and said goodbye.

"Well, I will. Without further ado, you hurry over. I touched Yoyo's head, and Yoyo flew into the sky and disappeared in a flash.

Yoyo flew into the wood country, and through some inquiries from the guards, he found Frog Haha and Vermilion Bird Fairy.

Seeing that it was a Kunpeng Daoyou, Suzaku greeted him and said happily, "Yoyo, how are you doing lately?"

"It's fine. I am now the patron saint of the prince of poetry. Sister Suzaku is getting younger and more beautiful. Yoyo praised.

"Where. The Vermilion Bird Fairy smiled.

After some pleasantries, Yoyo told the Vermilion Bird Fairy and Frog about my fire attack plan haha.

After hearing this, the Vermilion Bird Fairy praised again and again, "Our poet prince is really full of wealth, and the battle of Yiling in "Three Kingdoms" was used by him vividly and superbly. I'm really wanting to see him more and more. ”

"It's coming, it's coming. Without further ado, Yoyo and I went to the Divine Wing Hall first to dock with the three generals and prepare for a fire attack. Frog Haha hurriedly said to Suzaku while patting Yoyo, and rode Yoyo towards the Divine Wing Hall on the castle tower.

When the three generals, Dapeng, Condor, and Phoenix, saw this legendary Kunpeng, they were surprised and delighted, and after some greetings, they got to the point. Yoyo said my fire attack plan, and the three generals opened the map and carefully studied and deployed the battle plan.

At the third watch, General Dapeng led a thousand Dapeng birds to fly to the top of the city tower, spinning, and a powerful hurricane was born under the feet of each Dapeng bird, "Wind shield! Push!" General Dapeng gave an order, and all hurricanes blew towards the toad barracks. The sleeping toad army suddenly felt cold, and they all wrapped themselves tightly in the quilt or burrowed into the quilt to sleep soundly.

The Phoenix General led the three thousand phoenixes to fly to the north and south ends of the toad barracks, "Phoenix Nirvana Flame Ball!" Under the order of the Phoenix General, the three thousand phoenixes rotated extremely fast, the speed was like light and electricity, and the sycamore balls caught on each phoenix's feet were burning, and countless bright flames were formed in the air. "Release!" General Phoenix gave an order, and three thousand fireballs flew towards the toad camp and the woods. The dry air, the squeaky sound of the dry branches, the burning woods are like a fire dragon in the sky, the wind makes the fire spread, the flames spread whirringly, and soon the whole forest becomes a sea of fire, and the toad barracks under the woods are like a thin crater in the sea of fire, blazing. The sleeping toad army fled in all directions wrapped in quilts, making heart-rending painful sounds, wails, and * sounds. The eyes were full of fire, and the endless sea of fire made them dizzy, blindly colliding and trampling on each other, killing and injuring more than half of them.

At this time, Xuanwu, who rushed out of the camp, drew his sword, pointed to the west and shouted, "Retreat west! Retreat west!" The panicked and hurried group of toad troops had just run to the west of the city gate, and thousands of arrows came at the same time, and the remnants of the defeated army were killed and wounded, and Xuanwu was also wounded and embarrassed. "Retreat east!" Xuanwu dragged his tired body and began to run east.

"Shoot the arrows!" The vulture general led the archers of the Thousand Divine Wing Hall to fly to the east quickly, and gave Xuanwu a happy ambush, and the unkempt Xuanwu looked at the endless sea of fire and the toad brothers who were strewn all over the field, and were overwhelmed with grief, kneeling on the ground and hammering the ground with both hands, wailing and crying.

I took advantage of the fire to run to the gate of the city, flew down slowly, and flew me up to the city tower.

All of this was seen by the fire and electric souls that flew into the air, and they found out that I was a spy.

"Xuanwu, you idiot! You actually have a spy by your side!" Huo Zheng scolded Xuanwu, and the small flame above his head burned more and more, and he was furious.

"Don't be verbose!" the electric soul quickly punched left and right, and a series of lightning balls struck me, and you flew quickly on my back to dodge it.

Huo Zheng rushed towards me with two maces, the mace was full of fire, carrying me into the air leisurely, I chanted loudly, "The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, a lonely city and ten thousand mountains! a lonely city and ten thousand mountains!!" In an instant, thousands of swords were behind me, and the cold light was shining, and the swords were thumping, as if a bloodthirsty beast was roaring.

When Huo Zheng saw it, he was stunned and at a loss.

"Fire Tribulation, remember me, you almost sent me to the ground last time in Lop Nur, and today we will make a break!" I yelled indignantly.

"Out of the sword!" I said, opening my arms and clasping my hands together, pointing at the Fire Tribulation. In an instant, ten thousand swords fired in unison, piercing the heart of the fire tribulation, and the fire tribulation vomited blood and died, and the powerful sword qi flew straight with the fire tribulation, directly nailing him to a burning tree. With a pop, the fire turned to ashes.

Seeing the death of the fire tribulation, the electric soul rushed over, hugged the tree and howled, "Fire tribulation, fire tribulation!" The silent sea of fire was instantly awakened, and the endless sea of fire continued to burn.

After a while, the electric spirit stood up, and he ran to the city gate to look at me, his death-like eyes staring at me and Yoyo.

"100,000 volts lightning slash!" the electric soul shouted, and a hurricane raged behind him, flying sand and rocks, and suddenly dark clouds overhead, lightning and thunder. His hair was loose and messy in the wind, and he raised a hammer and stretched it out into the dark sky, and the lightning lingered on the hammer with a sizzling sound, and the lightning flashed as if he were wrapped in a powerful electric current. He threw a hammer at me and Yoyo, and a hurricane of lightning hit us, and Yoyo and I sped away.

"The horse-made Lu is fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt, the bow is like a thunderbolt!!" I shouted a bold spell as I put my hand together and pointed at the electric soul. Behind me, thousands of horses galloped, thousands of bows and crossbows bent to the full moon, the arrows were cold, and the cold front was bloodthirsty. "Out of the sword!" In an instant, wild horses and lightning hurricanes collided in the air, lighting up the night sky. When he looked down at the electric soul again, he was gray-haired.

"Master, his hair is gray, his power should be exhausted! Yours is mana! Master, give him another blow!"

"Okay!" the horse-made Lu is fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt, the bow is like a thunderbolt, the bow is like a thunderbolt, the bow is like a thunderbolt, the bow is like a thunderbolt!

"Come with me!" At this moment, Xuanwu grabbed the electric soul and drilled into the soil and disappeared. The arrows fell to the ground.

"Alas, let him run. ”

"Master, Xuanwu rescued him with the Earth Escape Technique. To chase or not to chase?"

"Forget it, let them run for their lives. "I looked at the endless sea of fire and the ground strewn with corpses below, and I felt infinite sadness, thinking to myself how long will such a terrible war end?