[759] Westward expansion

The cloudy day is bright, and there is no war in Xuanshui City for the time being, but it is still quiet. The high tension and depression of the war, although it was still scattered in various parts of the city where the old, weak, sick and disabled had long since been evacuated, only the young and middle-aged ghost people and ghost soldiers were stationed, but the Jiuyou National Army, which was not standing guard, was still a little comfortable in the sea breeze blowing from the side of the broken city wall, immersed in the cloudy light of this afternoon.

This is also a luxury for ghost soldiers who don't know whether tomorrow or the next moment will be alive or dead.

Only Ji Kang tightened his eyebrows, staring at the undiminished smile, and the confusion on his face and eyes increased instead of decreasing.

"Don't look at me like that, listen to my plan first. Ying Zhao smiled, raised his hand and patted Ji Kang on the shoulder, led him to the door of the medical hall, and stood in the shadow of the corner before he said slowly: "He Gong Mingyi gave up 100,000 silver to buy my ghost head, and I can also use Ying Zhao, as the supreme general here, I still have some privileges; If he can tie the bounty to the feather arrow and shoot it at our position and the soldiers, then we can also tie the bounty to the feather arrow and launch it at his Gong Mingyi's position and the soldiers when attacking. ”。

Ying Zhao, who said this, also knew that Gong Mingyi's bounty of 100,000 silver was just a blank check. Whether it is the human world or the underworld, whoever marches and fights still carries so much money with him. But the Yamen of the Nine Shadows on Shuoyue Island is different, there is a treasury and silver deposited here. Moreover, during the period when there was no war, this island has been engaged in trade for a long time, and there are tariffs, which makes Yingzhao really able to come up with so much money.

Obviously, if he issued a reward order, he would be much more credible than Gong Mingyi's.

Ji Kang was stunned when he heard the sea breeze, but he also put away his previous confusion, and after thinking about it carefully, the moment he opened his eyebrows, he suddenly clapped his hands and shouted loudly: "Yes, come and don't be rude." However, he Gong Mingyi was too picky, and he only offered a reward of 100,000 silver. Then let's be bold and give him a bounty of one million. ”。

Ji Kang figured this out, not only did the confusion on his face and eyes disappear, but even the worry in his heart was a little less, and he admired Ying Zhao a little more.

At the same time, he secretly thought to himself: He Gong Mingyi is going to suffer again this time. Thinking in my heart, I became proud.

The thing he is most willing to see in his life is to look at Gong Mingyi and Emperor Xudu, who almost hurt him, and suffer.

It was also the sentence he said, "The heart of the heart is the same apart from the belly and the ghost heart is the same", which reminded Yingzhao. Gong Mingyi can incite the ghosts of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and Yingzhao can also instigate the ghost soldiers of the capital to be bold and seek wealth and danger.

"Well, that's why it's okay to give it to others. Ying Zhao's laughter was even more hearty, and when the laughter landed, he said to Ji Kang: "You have a good handwriting, I think you can write some notices and post them all over the city." Let's just say that I am willing to pay one million taels of silver to buy Gong Mingyi's ghost head. One million and one hundred thousand, compared to the two amounts, whether it is our ghost people and ghost soldiers, or the ghost soldiers in the Xudu army, they will feel that this is still our bounty order to make a lot of money. ”。

In this way, Gong Mingyi's reward order is self-defeating. After a pause, the expression on Na Yingzhao's face also became proud, and he said: "But don't write about Gong Mingyi's ghost head, he is a human soul, and his body will dissipate as soon as he dies." You can write and capture Gong Mingyi alive, tie up the city and hand it over to us, and you can get a bounty of one million. ”。

The two ghosts hit it off, as Ying Zhao said, this can not only break Gong Mingyi's tricks, but also guide the danger to Gong Mingyi's side. It can also boost morale and allow the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

As long as this reward order comes out, it will be time for Gong Mingyi to sleep unsteadily, and he will be worried all day long. What's more, Xiao Shizhu also explained before leaving, try to capture Gong Mingyi alive, it will be useful in the future, so Ying Zhao doesn't really want Gong Mingyi to be beheaded, the best way is to capture him alive.

"That's it. Ji Kang nodded, his excitement increased, and he said: "I'm going to prepare, and I promise to write this bounty order posted in the ghost town on the island so that the ghost soldiers of Xudu can read it, and I will definitely take risks." ”。

After that, just as Ying Zhao waved his hand, he turned around and left, but he didn't take any of the guards with him, leaving those guards still by Ying Zhao's side, guarding Ying Zhao.

But after Ying Zhao watched him leave, he calmed down and turned his head to look at the east under the cloudy sunset.

His son Ying Lingxing was fighting in the east at this time, but because of the long distance, and Shuoyue Island was resisting the invasion of the ghost soldiers of Xudu, it had not received a message from his son for a long time, which made Ying Zhao a little worried.

After a long time, he withdrew his gaze, looked at the accompanying fungus man at his feet, and said, "Spread the letter to the Yuque Palace, I want the right to use one million taels of silver." At the same time, give back to the past. ”......

The cloudy day has set in the east, and the sky is full of sunshine.

The former Rakshasa Country in Dongyingzhou, and now the Rakshasa County of the Nine Shadows Country, are also covered with glow. The remnant sun casts a touch of gold on the ground, revealing a little mystery in the golden brilliance*.

To the west of the county, there is a bare mountain range that stretches across the border, surrounded by woody vines and dense forests, and the verdant mountains are very eye-catching. Thousands of cliffs and mountains are barren of grass, and the surface is bright Dan and reddish-brown, and the colors are even more brilliant under the residual sun, reflecting each other.

The main army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, under the leadership of the King of Yama, is stationed here. Hundreds of miles of tents stretched across these bare mountains. The temporarily erected tower stands on the edge of the trench dug out by the sappers in a line, overlooking the land of green bamboo and smoke that stretches for thousands of miles under the mountain to the west.

Over there, it is the empty mulberry country ruled by human souls in the Eastern Ying Continent. As far as the eye can see, a piece of tender bamboo is green, and the bamboo forest is shaded by thousands of miles, which is the eastern border of this ghost country.

Today's Kongsang Kingdom, in line with the principle of always being loyal to the Northern Yin Dynasty, is still arguing with the fierce Jiuyou National Army and refusing to surrender. But King Yama, the commander of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in Dongying Continent, was not in a hurry to clean up their thoughts.

Although the surrender of the Rakshasa Kingdom allowed the Nine Shadows Kingdom to firmly occupy millions of hectares of land south of the Qingqiu Country and directly to the seaside in the southeast of Dongyi Continent in Dongyingzhou, and had a stronghold for marching troops. However, there are always many things that need to be dealt with urgently. The issue of law and order alone was enough for the king of Yama to have no time to take care of the empty mulberry kingdom for the time being.

Therefore, in the past half a year, the king of Yama has only mobilized the main army on the western border of Rakshasa County, putting on a posture of overwhelming the territory, and at the same time preventing the eastward advance of the Kongsang Kingdom, so that he can rest assured.

At the same time, the reorganized Rakshasa ghost soldiers were transferred to the north and joined forces with the ghost soldiers of the Qingqiu Fox Country to resist the fierce offensive of the Giant Kingdom. Then integrate the subdued Jingren ghost soldiers and Xudu ghost soldiers into a large army, hand them over to Chunhan to lead, and arrange them on the battlefield on the western front of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom to resist the Xudu army from Dushuo Mountain.

King Yama's move was steady and steady, giving the enemies of the Nine Shadows Kingdom a headache. Not only was he able to defend the border to the fullest, but he also allowed the rear areas far from the front line to recuperate.

Whenever the army on the front line was short of food, the sergeants under the command of the Nine Shadows Kingdom would cross the border to rob the enemy's military rations and materials like bandits and horse thieves, and then after returning with a full load, they would close the door without a fight.

Then, relying on the favorable terrain, he fought back against the enemy who dared to pursue him. Coupled with the advanced firearms of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, as long as the enemy dares to chase after him, there will always be no return.

For a time, in the entire Dongying Continent, all the ghost soldiers and ghost troops who were still loyal to the Northern Yin Dynasty changed their minds about the Nine Ghost Army.

At this time, the king of Yama was in the military tent, sitting behind the handsome case and playing with the arrow in his hand, when he saw the door of the tent opened, and a demon soul with a horse body and a human face, tiger and bird wings, strode in, stood in front of his handsome case, and bowed to the king of Yama with a faint smile: "Young general Yinglingxing, I have seen the marshal king of Yama." ”。

"Hahaha, Jiangmen Huzi is finally here. King Yama immediately put down the arrow in his hand and stood up to greet him, and at the same time, with a pair of big eyes as round as copper bells, he looked up and down at the sturdy and radiant Ying Lingxing, and said: "Ben Shuai has repeatedly communicated with Lord Hu Hui and seconded you, a young general who is good at air combat, to him, but he just won't agree. I'm finally looking forward to you today. ”。

"It's not that Hu Shuai is unwilling to let me come, it's just that the Yuque Palace has not approved the dispatch order before, and Hu Shuai can't make his own decisions, and I ask the marshal of the king of Yama not to mind. As he spoke, Ying Lingxing took out the dispatch document from his armor and presented it with both hands: "From today onwards, the junior general and the 10,000 air cavalry accompanying him will all be dispatched by the commander. This is a transfer order signed by *, and I also ask the commander to take a look. ”。

After waving his hand to indicate that it was just a joke before, King Yama took the official document and unfolded it to make sure that the content was correct, and after having the golden seal of the ghost mother and his autograph, he closed the official document and said, "Since you are here, I can start planning the westward expansion." ”。

With that, he strode to the edge of the table, stood in front of the hanging map, and beckoned behind him. Ying Lingxing also walked over and stood beside him.

"Kongsang Country, a big ghost country just south of Dongyingzhou, with a land area of seven counties, and many elite soldiers and strong generals, most of the ghost soldiers in Xudu are now stationed in this ghost country, and the supporters of Kongsang ghost soldiers have frequent frictions with our army. King Yama's eyes stared at the map of Dongying Continent in front of him, and the sharp gaze in his eyes fell on the area of the Empty Sang Kingdom on the map, and he turned around: "Take it first, as long as you capture this Empty Sang Kingdom, you can not only get a large number of land and ghost people, but also set an example for those ghost countries that are attached to the Northern Yin Dynasty and call us off." ”。

Ying Lingxing on the side thought for a moment and nodded silently.

For more than a year, he has also been a ghost general who has been fighting on the battlefield and has accumulated a lot of battlefield experience. is no longer the boy who followed his father Yingzhao when he graduated from the school palace and only knew how to talk on paper.

From a strategic point of view, Ying Lingxing also felt that King Yama's westward expansion plan was indeed feasible to empty the Sang Kingdom first.

Now that the Nine Shadows Kingdom is stable in the places occupied by Dongyingzhou, order has gradually been restored, and the rest and recuperation in many places have achieved good results. And the previous regent of the Rakshasa Kingdom actively cooperated with the policy of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, releasing ghost slaves to ban the ghost slave market, and at the same time, taking out the money and food in front of the Rakshasa Kingdom to support the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

This allowed the fortifications of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in Dongying Continent to be quickly rebuilt, and several weapons prisons were established. So much so that in today's Dongying Continent, the armaments and materials of each Jiuyou State can be self-sufficient.

At this time, it is a good time to go west, take the empty Sang Kingdom to Dongyingzhou, and the other ghost kingdoms that are still loyal to the Northern Yin Dynasty are deterred. And for the Nine Shadows Army to march into Dushuo Mountain, clear the obstacles!