The mountain breeze blows, blowing the grass under the hillside. The blades of grass swayed like bursts of cyan waves, bringing a faint fragrance.

Xiao Shizhu showed a little leisurely face, and then casually picked a blade of grass from his feet and held it in his mouth. Eyes slightly raised, looking out at the misty hillside, the busy sergeants smiled silently.

"If you don't go to Shuoyue Island, you won't need to gather sailors and warships, and you won't need to mobilize so many supplies and fresh water. Xiao Fuling grinned, glanced at the package in Xiao Si's hand again, and continued to whisper in his ear: "Isn't the thing in the senior sister's hand meaningless?"

"Hey, smart. Xiao Shizhu was very relieved when he heard this, turned his head to look at his daughter with a smug face, and reached out to scrape the small and delicate little nose on the other party's face: "Worthy of my daughter, she is absolutely biological." ”。

"That is, I am still your senior disciple of my father. As soon as she was proud, Xiao Fuling, who was a little forgetful, shouted: "I can't see this little thing, don't you waste your words and deeds in vain?"

"Don't be too complacent, it's not a good thing to be too proud. Xiao Shizhu rolled up the map in his hand, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "Don't say your speculations to the outside world, otherwise I will lock you up." ”。

As he spoke, he got up, walked slowly to Xiao Si's side, and whispered in her ear: "The burden must not leave your sight." ”......

Under the rising sun, Shuoyue Island is draped in a layer of bright red light, and even the surrounding sea water has become a piece of red.

Ten thousand warships of the Beiyin Water Division stopped on the sea outside the island, surrounding the Shuoyue Island.

The waves gently lapped against Xuanshui Bay, and the ebb and flow of the tide washed a lot of tattered armor and battle flag sawdust onto the shore; the heavy bloody mixed with the pungent smell of * spread among the grass and stones outside Xuanshui City behind the bay. It was blown by the sea breeze and scattered in all directions.

At the beginning of the war, the gate of the northern city that was destroyed by the moon had been simply repaired. The gaps were mostly blocked with wooden horses and antlers, and the places where the walls on both sides had collapsed were filled with simple walls made of adobe or ramparts.

Ying Zhao also ordered his men to dig a ring trench in the street behind these horses and antlers, and the musketeers and crossbowmen were stationed in the trenches. And the Poison Fire God cannon was mounted behind the trench, which barely resisted the enemy's attacks again and again.

Covered in blood, Ying Zhao stood in the trench, holding a half-eaten flatbread in his hand, shining brightly, and his murderous eyes stared straight ahead.

Through the rejection of horses not far away, you can see more than a dozen sea falcons fully loaded with heavy armor, phoenix-winged helmets, long black cloaks, and a green tung demon mask on their faces, sailing into Xuanshui Bay outside the city.

At the top of the puffed sails of the sea falcons fluttered a yellow rectangular flag, all decorated with dragon hair, and nine dragons were embroidered with nine-colored silk threads.

This is the first time the enemy has attacked since the beginning of the war. He only knew that in the past month, the enemy had been attacking Xuanshui City endlessly day and night, and the other three cities on the edge of Shuoyue Island were just making a feint.

The most effective tactic is to use a terrain like Shuoyue Island, which is surrounded by unattainable smooth cliffs and has only four entrances and exits, east, west, north and south. Just take one of the notches to drive straight in.

But even so, Ying Zhao did not dare to easily send the defenders of the other three cities to support, for fear that he would give the order, the enemy would change his subordinates and storm the other three cities, which would catch him off guard.

Fortunately, there are countless rock pillars around the island, making it impossible for large enemy warships to enter, and the east and west sides of Xuanshui Bay are full of tall cliffs near the sea, forming a terrain that can only be entered and exited by one road. Otherwise, with the 50,000 defenders stationed here under the command of heroic moves, they would not be able to withstand the enemy's tireless attacks one after another.

And in a situation like this, when the enemy army is only halfway through the meal, the enemy army has come back again, and Yingzhao has long been accustomed to it.

He stuffed the last small half of the pancake into his mouth, chewed it more than a dozen times, untied the kettle around his waist and pulled out the stopper, raised his head and drank a few sips, and after swallowing all the pancakes with this water, he untied the double axe he was carrying and clenched it tightly in his hand, looked around at the gray-faced soldiers in the trenches around him, and said in a deep voice: "Prepare for battle!"

As he spoke, the enemy warship had already docked, and the soldiers on the deck jumped down one after another. As soon as the servant landed, he raised the sword, gun, sword and halberd in his hand and rushed towards Xuanshui City.

The shouts of killing shook the earth, and the trebuchets that had been quickly erected on the deck of the enemy ship were also quickly lined up, and they were all aimed at Yingzhao's side.

While the trumpets and drums were contending, the enemy sergeants quickly changed their formation, from the initial swarm of swarms to trapezoidal formations. In groups of five ghosts, the shield-bearer with a sword is in the front, followed by two pikemen and a crossbowman.

This is the most commonly used formation in the army under Emperor Xudu, and the advantage is that while the coordination is orderly, the shield bearers can effectively protect the crossbowmen behind. The disadvantage is that the two flanks of this formation are too weak and can easily be outflanked.

However, in a place like Xuanshui City, where the road enters and exits, it is much more practical when attacking.

It is precisely because of this that in the past few days, in dozens of battles, although the British recruit has a geographical advantage and has not suffered much damage, the same is true of the Xudu army.

As a result, a stalemate has been created between the two sides.

The Nine Shadows Army that had been ambushed on the ruined wall-ridden city wall had already opened fire angrily, and the sergeants in the trenches behind the rejection of the horses were not to be outdone, and they raised their strings of guns one after another, aiming at the enemy troops who were surging in not far away, and they all pulled the trigger.

In the midst of the sparks, the guns roared loudly! One after another, the poisonous fire cannons were fired out in an orderly manner, bringing bursts of air waves and flames outside the city, causing the enemy to scream endlessly.

But let the companions around him fall under the guns one after another, or be burned alive by the poisonous fire cannon, but the living enemy soldiers are still unfazed, dodging the gun attacks, quickly reforming into a trapezoidal team, and rushing towards the city.

Ying Zhao's heart froze slightly, and he secretly speculated: "So calm and calm, could it be that all the people who came this time were the Xuan Emperor Army or the Xudu Army?"

Just as he was thinking, countless boulders that had been ignited after being wrapped in fierce fire oil had already roared and flew up, slashing through dazzling arcs in the air, and slamming heavily on the antlers of the city wall or the breach.

In an instant, the smoke of gunpowder was slow, and in front of the trench was already sawdust shooting, and the flint was flying and the dust was rising. The city wall, which had been barely repaired, had a few more gaps. The enemy immediately rushed into the city along these gaps.

"His grandmother's legs!" Ying Zhao, whose eyes burst out with angry sparks, spat at fiercely, brandished his axe and yelled, "Follow me!" Then he led the soldiers behind him who were ready for battle, and killed the enemy troops who were pouring into the city in an endless stream.

The ground was in full swing, and the sea outside the city was not quiet.

As soon as these sea falcons who had brought troops approached Xuanshui Bay, the mermaids had already set out. But before they could get close to the enemy ships, they saw water ghosts covered in emerald green, bald and protruding, and webbed hands and feet with webbed fingers spitting green juice from behind the ships.

The mermaids did not panic, in the past month, they and these human souls who can spit poisonous juice in their mouths have also fought hundreds of battles, and they have long been experienced, and they are not afraid of those sharks who are already covered in poisonous blood. So when they saw the water ghosts rushing out, they immediately stopped, took off the double pestles on their backs, held one handle in each hand, and aimed the sharp pestle at the water ghosts who swam over quickly.

Balls of blue light the size of eggs bloomed one after another in the water, and in an instant, they turned into sharp and slender blue lights, which shot out from the tips of the double pestles in the hands of the mermaids.

With a slight flick of the swift forward while breaking through the water waves, it turned into iron arrows that exuded a ghostly aura and shot towards the water ghosts in front of him.

There was no way to avoid it, and the water ghosts at the front were hit by arrows one after another, and there were a few more holes in their bodies that were bubbling with green juice.

After shooting through their iron arrows and drawing a few more inches forward, they all changed into a blue light, and then collapsed and dispersed with the washing of the current, and disappeared into the sea without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The mermaids continued to use the four spirit pestles in their hands to kill the dense water ghosts in front of them, and at this distance, the enemies were as dense as locusts, and they could accurately shoot the enemy without aiming at all.

In less than a moment, the sea outside the Xuanshui Bay had turned green. Many aquatic creatures have just swam through this place, and as soon as they take a breath of turquoise water, they will immediately roll over their eyes and float to the surface of the water with their white bellies facing up.

Under the sea outside the entire Xuanshui Bay, only those sharks and water ghosts remained. After the soul energy stored in the four spirit pestles was exhausted, the water ghosts saw the opportunity and rushed over with fishbone weapons in their hands, and the fierce shark people were not to be outdone, and they all stepped forward directly with the pestle, and the three ghosts stood back to back, stabbing and stabbing into the water ghosts, killing the water ghosts to lose their armor.

The water ghosts had only resisted half a cup of hot tea, and even though they had the advantage in numbers, they only ended up with more than a thousand corpses with green juice left behind in the face of the well-trained fierce sharks, and gradually turned into dust and fell to the bottom of the sea with the waves.

More and more mermaids swam out of the island, joining the battle one after another with two pestles, and the water reckless ghosts were invincible, so they could only fight and retreat, fleeing farther away from Shuoyue Island, leaving a long green mark in the sea.

But the mermaids did not give up, and pursued away with the victory.

Just when the sharks had the upper hand and the water ghosts were running away, the heroic moves on the ground were not good.

Many of the seagulls took the opportunity to quietly approach the harbor and quickly withdrew after the enemy forces were laid down. In less than a moment, Xuanshui Bay was already crowded with ghostly enemy troops.

The Nine Shadows Army was sour, but it couldn't change the situation of the ghost mountains and ghost seas outside the city.

The Flying Troops and Air Cavalry had already flown up from the city and hovered over Xuanshui Bay, and carried out an air attack on the enemy troops who were pouring into the city wall like a sea on the ground, which was also a drop in the bucket.

The enemy troops immediately changed into a square formation, placing the Xuantie shield that Xiao Shizhu attacked in the front and back, left and right and on top of their heads, barely resisting the air attack of the Nine Shadows Flying Heavenly Army, and at the same time, a lot of air horses also flew on the warship.

The guns were loud and arrows rained down in the sky, and Ying Zhao saw that the situation was not good, and gathered the soldiers who had gone out of the city with him, and fought and retreated towards the city wall.

When he was halfway back, Ying Zhao looked up in the air and saw that his flying army had already fought with the enemy's air cavalry, and Yu Min and Zhu Tou people rushed towards the enemy in pairs, and after firing their guns, they picked up their three-eyed guns and marched forward, and then gave the enemy riders a head shot.

This look at the heroic move was distracted, and an enemy soldier deceived him into the advance, and he did not know until the sergeant next to him exclaimed that the long sword in the enemy's hand was only about an inch away from his abdomen, and he came to his senses.

At the last moment, a cold light shot from Ying Zhao's side, and rushed straight to the long sword in the hand of the enemy soldier.

The sword body was split into two with a crisp sound, and after a ghost and a shadow shook forward, a man in a wide-sleeved black robe with a fist-sized hole in his left shoulder blocked in front of him: "Why are you stunned?"