The wind and rain fell straight down, the smoke and clouds were swirling, and the mountains on both sides of the Shengyi Valley were blurred and faint in the rain curtain.

Chunhan's lieutenant was stunned for a moment, and reminded in a low voice: "That's right, but I'm afraid that we will have to fight before dawn." At that time, there will not be so much time and flakes to waste. ”。

Saying this, the lieutenant general led Chun Han to the big tree not far from the stone house.

This towering tree stands proudly on the top of the mountain, with a broad canopy and lush foliage. Even though it was drizzling outside, there were only occasional drops of water under the canopy, and no curtain of water fell from the sky.

The ground under the trees is still dry, and there is no water accumulation due to this light rain.

The curved and swirling roots of the tree have completely wrapped the stone tablet with the name of the place. The stele is still strong, but the inscriptions on it have been washed down by thousands of years of wind and rain, and have become blurred.

Chun Han and the deputy general stood still in front of this old stone tablet, and the deputy general looked around to the left and right, and after seeing that there were no outsiders about ten paces, he continued to whisper to Chun Han: "Just after the scout returned, a large army in the enemy army was already ready to go, and the vanguard was already coming towards the Shengyi Valley. Along the way, we will clear the danger and repair the road, so that the army behind can go all the way unhindered and go straight to us. ”。

"The enemy's vanguard army alone is about 50,000 people, and the momentum is huge. The serious adjutant general paused, and then said to Chunhan: "The enemy is no longer planning to make a surprise attack, this is a clear attack to be forced, and the main army must be a lot." ”。

Chunhan knew that he was going to have a tough battle to fight.

She had already been prepared, and now she was not frightened by the enemy's intelligence, she was still calm, and her heart was already excited.

A long time ago, she was tired of what others often said to her—your mother is Chunyun, one of the high-ranking military commanders of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and you are definitely not bad.

It is precisely because of having a mother who can fight well, Chunhan and Ying Lingxing are the same, she has always lived in the shadow of her mother's prestige, and Chunhan has always wanted to prove that she is not an embroidered pillow for Jiangmen.

She also wants to be like the young generals such as Wu Xiaoshen and Bai Qi in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, get rid of her parents' fame, and create a feats that are enough to show off.

This expedition to Dongyingzhou was her opportunity.

It's just that King Yama has always been in charge in person before, and Chunhan rarely has the opportunity to show his skills.

Today, she finally waited for a chance.

As long as the enemy army is defeated here, Haruhan's daimyo will also spread far and wide, and it will be powerful.

In the future, she will no longer have to live in the shadow of her parents' exploits and fame.

Thinking about it, Chunhan's fighting spirit was high.

"No matter how many troops come, don't think about going any further. Immediately, Chun Han clenched the hilt of the long sword at his waist and said to the lieutenant general: "Tell the scouts to monitor and report the enemy's movements at any time." The whole army was ordered to pay close attention to the construction of fortifications, and the artillery and cold gunners should enter their respective positions in advance, and the whole army should enter emergency combat readiness, so that as long as war breaks out again, every soldier, no matter how big or small, can enter the battlefield anytime and anywhere. Inform the soldiers guarding the captives to place thunderbolts in the dungeon to guard the entrances and exits, and if the captives riot, they will be shot on the spot!"

Although Chunhan is not very old, he is still very thoughtful. We have planned what might happen after the battle breaks out, and we have taken countermeasures accordingly.

"No. Her lieutenant took all the orders to heart, and after saluting, she admonished: "General, the marshal can give an explanation, we are the Lord who is defending this place." Even if you rely on natural hazards and the first battle goes well, don't be overjoyed and take the initiative to abandon your position and attack other places. ”。

"I know. Chunhan, who was a little impatient, said in a deep voice: "Of course I will carry out the orders of the commander, but we can't blindly defend them, you have to let the air cavalry be ready to attack at any time." ”。

"No. The lieutenant replied again.

Chunhan turned around and faced the northeast.

In the dark night, the rain and fog were all over the sky, and in the thick dark clouds on the edge of the sky in the darkness, there was a faint sound of muffled thunder, which sounded from time to time.

In the direction that Chunhan was looking, a group of well-equipped enemy troops were leaving the coalition camp in a row, and they were coming towards Shengyi.

The enemy's army was only thirty miles away from the valley in the Shengyi region, and it was close at hand.

Originally, it would have taken about two hours to walk, and the army could reach the valley.

But the rain, muddy ground, slowed down the advance of the army, and the enemy was slow.

In addition, these enemy troops were all fully armed, not only did each soldier carry a bow and thirty arrows, but also the baggage team used beast spirits and strong mountain ghosts to pull and pull heavy ballistae and large catapults, as well as many nest carts.

Those heavy ballistae are the characteristics of the Dongyingzhou region, because the Dongyingzhou area is lush with vegetation, there are many good trees, and they grow quickly, and the ghost kingdoms like to build such bulky and large weapons in large quantities.

The ballista has a bed crossbow on it, which is strung by a winch, and can fire seven or eight long iron arrows, although the rate of fire is slow, but it is easy to open bricks and stones within five or six hundred steps.

Looking at the catapults that were surrounded by the army, the height alone was fifty feet, and the weight of the cardinal was hundreds of catties.

As for those nest cars, they are heavier, each weighing more than a thousand catties, and it takes four beast souls to pull it, and two or three strong mountain ghosts have to push the car forward behind the car.

It is with these heavy weapons that the enemy army will march slowly.

I'm afraid that it won't be until after dawn that the enemy army will reach the valley.

This also gave Chunhan a chance to breathe and prepare for the war.

But without these siege equipment, it would be difficult for the enemy army to capture the mountains on both sides of the Shengyi Valley, so they had to bring it.

The mighty enemy army held torches in this way, and in the rain and mist, they drove towards the valley of Shengyi.

A series of torches lit up the night sky for miles, like a fire dragon lying on the ground, winding along the mountain road.

The enemy's whereabouts, too, were exposed to the attention of the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

However, after a meal, the information that all the enemy troops attacking the Shengyi Valley had left the camp, as well as the number of soldiers calculated at the beginning, were transmitted by the fungus people and reported to the Shengyi Valley......

The cloudy day rose again in the early morning of the second day, dispelling the darkness left between heaven and earth by the night.

After dawn, Yuque City, bathed in the bright cloudy light, is still lively and noisy.

After checking the goods and identity documents outside the city gates one by one, the caravans of caravans who had gathered in the morning entered the city one after another to do business.

Outside the city, far away from Yuque City, it is located in the endless Yuque hunting ground between the hills and mountains, and it is as lively as the city today.

The rivers and streams on the hunting ground, the deep and shallow pools, the waterfalls in the surrounding hills and mountains, are intricately mixed. Now it is autumn, the ancient pine trees in the hunting ground, and the wild grass all over the ground have also begun to turn yellow, and the Yuque hunting ground under the red leaves of the autumn trees also has a unique flavor.

All kinds of beast souls living in the hunting grounds, mountains, forests and grasslands are now pasted with autumn fat, and they are all fat and strong. Either running on the flat and wide grassland, or scurrying under the yellow leaves of the mountain forest.

It's a great hunting season.

The neat and tidy Tiger Cavalry of the Nine Shadows Country had already arrived on the hunting ground, lined up on the grassland by the lake in the middle of the hunting ground. Both the soldier and the mount were fierce and strong, and his mane fluttered in the wind.

The army is mighty, and the honor guard is neat.

A large flower banner on the other side of the Nine Secluded Countries was also erected on this open land. In the wind, the banner is waving in the wind, and the hunting sounds.

Under the escort of the Tiger Army, there is a large field camp in the open field with white cloth curtains and square accounts woven of cloud silkworms, and a wide pergola is built in the center of the camp, and under the pergola, a brightly colored carpet is spread.

Whether it was the Nine Shadows Country or the Qingqiu Fox Country, most of the accompanying officials were temporarily resting in these pergolas. The ghost officials were busy unloading the baggage from the car.

Tonight, the ghosts who have come to hunt will camp here near the water.

In the large pergola in the middle, the ghost mother sits in it, sipping tea with a teacup.

This morning, they left the palace early in the morning and went here to hunt, also to entertain the distinguished guests of Qingqiu Fox King and his party from a foreign country.

However, Fox Shidou and several accompanying Qingqiu Fox Kingdom guards, ghost officials, were left in Yuque City, responsible for negotiating peace agreements and cooperation between the two countries with Xiao Shizhu's agent, Tianguan Lu Wu.

At this moment, following the ghost mother was another fox ghost, all covered in fiery red hair, as bright as a flame. Only the cheeks are white and red, like peach blossom petals, and there are three fluffy long tails behind the thighs, and he wears a brocade dress embroidered with blue threads and auspicious cloud patterns.

This female fox ghost is the most favored female ghost of the Qingqiu Fox King today - Yun Dusk. He originally planned to bring the biological mother of the prince fox Qingping, but before leaving, the Qingqiu Fox King temporarily decided to leave the princess behind and assist the prince, so as not to make the prince too impulsive when he was young.

So, what I brought with me was just this little-known female pet.

Now with the ghost mother, a long-famous and famous female politician of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, Yun Du is a little at a loss, she doesn't dare to take a sip of the teacup, and she doesn't dare to look sideways around, just hanging slightly, looking at the various exquisite and vivid patterns embroidered on the carpet under her feet.

And the powerful momentum emanating from the ghost mother's body also made Yun Dusk dare not come out, let alone chat with the ghost mother, so he had to be silent, but he was even more like sitting on pins and needles.

"Princess Fox. The ghost mother took a few more sips of tea, put down the teacup, turned her head to look at Yun Du beside her, and after seeing that the other party was restless, she smiled and asked with concern: "Did you not rest well last night? Or did our country not entertain well?

Before the ghost mother asked, Yundui was already restless, and when she suddenly heard her ask, her hands shook, and she was so frightened that she almost dropped the teacup in her hand.

Yun Dui, who was relieved, hurriedly put down the teacup, bent down, hung her head, and replied with a mosquito voice: "If you return to your mother, it's not true, it's just that I got up a little early this morning." ”。

The voices were trembling.

When the ghost mother saw it, she didn't believe that the other party was the real fox princess, at least not famous. It's just a low-level female pet in the palace of the Qingqiu Fox King.

Such ghosts are rare outside of the Nine Shadows Kingdom. When they are not blessed by the Hades King, they are just palace maids who do rough work.

The status is low, no one pays attention to them, and even the Hades of those ghost kingdoms will not treat them as human beings. They are just tools for the other ghost kingdoms and princes and nobles to vent their physical needs at will.

The ghost mother sighed in her heart, feeling sorry for Yundui.

I also feel pitiful for the anxious and timid woman in front of me.

"I guess I ate this breakfast in the car, so I didn't eat it. Thinking of this, the ghost mother didn't say anything about the other party's identity, but just called Chen Ruo and advised: "Isn't there still a lot of jade plate osmanthus cakes that Yunmengzhou pays tribute to? There are also those wines that are paid tribute from the west, and a few jugs are also taken to quench the thirst of the princess. ”。

The ghost mother's affinity not only made Yundui's anxiety and nervousness subside a lot, but also suddenly felt a warm current in her heart like a fountain.

For a while, he remembered the bad encounters in the Qingqiu Fox Country in the past, and Yun Dui had mixed feelings in his heart.

Chen Ruocai took the order and left, Xiao Shizhu had already ridden Jianxi, yawned and came to the pergola where the ghost mother was, and said to the ghost mother: "I went hunting, you play with the fox princess." ”。

And the Qingqiu Fox King and several other ghosts from the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom also rode their respective mounts, followed closely behind Xiao Shizhu, and stopped in front of the pergola.

The Qingqiu Fox King glanced at Yun Dui, who had already thanked the ghost mother and straightened up, and gave the other party a look without saying a word.

It was at this time that Wu Xiaoshen took a large group of cavalry to Xiao Shizhu and stood still, lined up around the pergola, Wu Xiaogray stepped forward, handed Xiao Shizhu a golden bow and golden arrowhead feather arrows, and said loudly: "Please ask the lord to start the golden arrow and announce the start of the hunt." ”。

Xiao Shizhu took the golden arrow, and the tiger soldiers around him drew their knives in unison, held them high above their heads, and watched his every move. The guard of honor blew the horn, the melodious and heavy trumpets sounded, and the war drums were rhythmically beaten by the drummers.

The thunderous drum sound echoed in the sky above the camp, and the momentum shook the sky and the earth.

But he drew his bow with an arrow, and when the bow was like a full moon, he let go of his hand and shot the golden arrow at the sky in front of him, and the tiger soldiers raised their long knives and cheered loudly.

In the midst of the cheers, the golden arrow turned into a golden light, and with a sound of breaking through the air, it swept away into the distance, and disappeared into the distant woods in a blink of an eye.

"The world is peaceful, and the grains are abundant!" Xiao Shizhu shouted, threw the golden bow to Wu Xiaoshen, and took the lead in driving the beast forward and rushing out.

The other tiger warriors also rode the beasts to follow, and rushed away in the direction where the golden arrows went, and bursts of dust rose up.

Today's hunting, although it is entertainment, if anyone finds the golden arrow shot by Xiao Shizhu first, there is a heavy reward. The tiger athletes, as well as some officials accompanying them, were all happy to do this, and rushed to the forest to find the golden arrow.

Yun Dusk raised his eyes, and looked around, only to see outside the camp full of pergolas, the grass withered eagles flying, and the hooves of animals galloping.

Those ghost generals and ghost soldiers with brand new armor and majestic style, as well as the officials of the Nine Shadows Kingdom who were richly dressed and magnificent, all held the reins in one hand and the whip in the other, and the beasts swarmed up, cheering and rushing into the forest where the red leaves were already hanging on the branches.

There are also many ghosts who participate in the search for golden arrows, and the momentum is huge, no less than a small war.

All of a sudden, the beasts in the forest panicked, and they scattered in a panic and ran out of the forest. The birds also fluttered their wings and flew away.

Outside the forest, there were already some ghost officials of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, waiting at the edge of the forest.

As soon as he saw the beasts rushing out wildly, he immediately took arrows and opened his bows, and the beasts stepped forward to hunt down the beasts.

Accompanied by Changqin, the Qingqiu Fox King took his ghost officials and guards out of the camp, strolled forward, and joined the hunting team without hurry.

Yun Twilight couldn't take her eyes off it, and now the momentum was huge, the scene was magnificent, and it was the first time in her life that she had seen it, and everything was so new that her eyes couldn't help but focus, and she couldn't stop watching.

The ghost mother didn't care about this, and continued to drink tea and tea, very leisurely.

She had seen too many such scenes in the past and was accustomed to them.