[253] A dilemma
As soon as she saw that it was a secret letter coming, she expected that it must be some confidential information from Lai Yueqi, so she said goodbye to the ghost mother very familiarly, and went straight to the ordnance prison after leaving the attic.
She only knew that she would serve Xiao Shizhu well and take care of the ordnance supervisor. What shouldn't be known to her, Lai Yueqi will never interfere and will not be curious. This is also one of the reasons why Xiao Shizhu, a shameless ghost, is willing to share half of his love with her.
Only the ghost mother was left in the building, looking at Xiao Shizhu, who was already standing in place with a frown after reading the secret letter, his face had changed slightly, and he walked to him after a while, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Shizhu didn't speak, but handed her the secret letter in his hand.
The ghost mother took it and unfolded it, but saw that the letter was from Yingzhao, and the content was not much; it was very simple to tell the story of Emperor Xudu cutting off the throne of King Qin Guang and restoring the name Jiang Ziwen, and ordered Emperor Xuan's army to be escorted to the Nine Shadows Kingdom, saying that it was a ghost slave for Xiao Shizhu.
Due to the backwardness of communication in the underworld, Emperor Xuan's army did not know that Xiao Shizhu had moved the capital, so he escorted Jiang Ziwen to Xiaoyu Mountain City and handed it over to Yingzhao; now Yingzhao is not sure what is going on, so he has to take Jiang Ziwen in first, and then ask Xiao Shizhu to decide.
After reading it, the ghost mother was also silent, she turned her head slightly, looked at Xiao Shizhu's eyes who were contemplative with consternation, and also saw the consternation in the other party's eyes.
The Ten Palaces of Yama have always been close ministers of the Emperor Xudu, and they have been used for thousands of years, and they are ghosts who can decide the life and death of all living beings for the Emperor Xudu.
With such a powerful ghost, it is not surprising to say that he was dismissed, but it is a bit exaggerated at this time to cut off the throne and demoted to a ghost slave.
At this time, Xiao Shizhu, who was shrewd, just wanted to break his head, but he only vaguely felt that Emperor Xudu seemed to be brewing some conspiracy against him, but he didn't know what Emperor Xudu was going to do?
"Do you think he could be a bitter ploy?" After a long time, the Ghost Mother was the first to speak, breaking the silence, and asked thoughtfully, "By this, a ghost loyal to the Emperor of Xudu will be planted beside you." ”。
Hearing this, Xiao Shizhu bowed his head slightly, walked to the depths of the building by himself, pushed open the extremely thin jade window by the pool, and turned around and sat down on the desk in front of the pool.
The ghost mother followed, and just before she sat down beside him, she saw Xiao Shizhu's slightly chapped lips, and said, "Emperor Xudu must have noticed that the green beads and green pothos were useless, so he tried to insert secret agents next to me." ”。
Although he still frowned lightly as he spoke, his face was dark, but his expression only had a faint disgust, but he was not afraid.
It was not the Emperor Xudu himself who came, Xiao Shizhu was not afraid.
"Based on my understanding of Emperor Xudu, King Qin Guang may not know that he is a secret agent. The ghost mother picked up the fire refining, lit the small stove at the foot of the case, and then put a kettle filled with Yushu condensate on the stove: "Emperor Xudu likes to do this kind of unexpected thing, he may have deliberately cut off the throne of King Qin Guang, so that he can invisibly force the other party to be desperately loyal to him in order to get back the throne." ”。
The tea brewed with this dew not only leaves a fragrance in the throat, but also seems to flow from the mouth to the stomach, and it can be full of energy after drinking.
Therefore, after entering Yuque City, the ghost mother has been using it to make tea for Xiao Shizhu.
"Isn't he afraid that things will be opposed?" Xiao Shizhu heard the words and thought for a while, then turned the antler wrench on his thumb, snorted coldly, and said slowly: "It's me who will no longer be loyal to him." ”。
"But King Qin Guang is not you. The ghost mother smiled indifferently and began to set up tea: "So we'd better not embarrass Jiang Ziwen." ”。 The reason why she deliberately said this was not only because it could win over the other party, but also because Xiao Shizhu and King Qin Guang were estranged, and she was a little worried that Xiao Shizhu was angry and took this opportunity to clean up Jiang Ziwen.
"Hehe, I'm not going to be so careful. Xiao Shizhu just glanced at it, and guessed what the ghost mother thought, and the ghost mother's words also made him have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he had a way to deal with Jiang Ziwen's hot potato, and he raised his eyebrows and smiled lightly at the moment: "If you come, you will be safe, but I think that the Emperor Xudu sent me a ghost talent." ”。
Immediately, he put away his smile again, and said with a solemn face: "However, the heart of guarding against people is indispensable." ”。
"Hmm. The ghost mother turned her head a little, and when she saw that the water was just boiling, she lifted the teapot off the stove and smiled at Xiao Shizhu: "It seems that you have an idea." ”。
"I've checked it before, King Qin Guang is a Moling Lieutenant in the world, and he is good at arresting thieves. Xiao Shizhu's eyes rolled, took the Yuren Yunwu that the ghost mother had soaked for him, and sniffed the curling tea fragrance coming out of the cup: "Let him be a ghost slave in the inner palace first, and go to Tianlu Pavilion to copy some documents that are not important." After making sure that he has no selfish intentions, I can make him the governor of Yuque City. ”。
"Well, and you can't break and castrate him. The husband and wife hit it off, and after smiling at the moment, they each lifted their teacups and tasted them......
At the northwest border of Fengdui County, there is a hundred zhang city wall facing the mountain in the south and facing the sea in the north, which lies on the beach, forming a huge border city, which is called: Haoyan City.
It is not difficult to see from the scarred battlements of the city walls that this place has always been a place of contention for Zhurong and Gonggong. And now, this has become a battleground for the Nine Hidden Kingdom and the Zhurong Kingdom, and the invasion launched by the Wu Hui army under the slogan of arresting the rebel Changqin was also launched from this place.
Wu Hui first set up a maze array on the sea, trying to make Xiao Shizhu focus his defense on the sea, and then deployed heavy troops to the west of the Moth Valley, which was far away, in an attempt to make Xiao Shizhu dizzy.
In the end, after it was confirmed that Changqin had fled to the Nine Shadows Kingdom, the heavy troops of Moth Valley quickly moved north, and the sailors rode the wind to the east. Once the Great Smoke City was taken, the western gate of Wind Twilight County was opened.
This is a good idea, as long as the team team moves quickly, it can completely catch Xiao Shizhu off guard. But Wu Hui didn't expect that Xiao Shizhu could easily see through his plan.
Long before the relocation of the capital, Xiao Shizhu sent an engineering team to build dozens of more turrets for Haoyan City, not to mention, but also strengthened the city wall, and also allocated a lot of artillery and food for the city.
After only half a year, the city wall was solid, and the city was full of grain, grass and weapons. Even if Wu Hui's army had the ability to besiege the city for three months, it would not be able to trap the soldiers and civilians in the city.
Not only that, Wu Hui's sailors still lost again and again at sea. The war had just begun, and his sailors had just been dispatched, and the mermaids under Xiao Shizhu's command attacked with hundreds of dragons.
In addition, Xiao Shizhu also transferred a team of newly built sailors from Sanxing Island when he attacked the Gonggong Kingdom. There are 12 capital ships in the entire fleet alone, all of which are tall and blessed ships with a wide bottom, a wide nose and a wide tail, and two warped ends.
The pioneer ship is composed of 15 eagle ships with two sharp ends, no distinction between head and tail, advance and retreat like flying, and strong maneuverability. In addition, there are more than a dozen ships of Haicang, centipede ships and three-masted gunboats. It is all made of unsinkable wood, equipped with distant and near artillery, all of which are available.
In addition to the human souls who are good at water warfare, the sailors on the ship also have sergeants composed of demon spirits such as the Gonggong clan, the Yumin, the Toumin, and the water monkeys of the Wuzhiqi clan. With the cooperation of sea and air, it is unstoppable.
In the early days of the war, more than 500 warships that Wu Hui had managed to get together were burned in the sneak attack because they were attacked by this fleet and the mermaids. The whole sea was blazing, and the sea was red.
After that, this fleet continued to chase Wu Hui's sailor until his sailor fled outside the city of Haoyan, and there were only more than 100 ships left.
was supposed to come to cooperate with the infantry and attack the Wu Huishui Division in the north and south of Haoyan City, but the nightmare did not end because of this, but only kicked off.
The Nine Shadows Army in the city, and the Nine Shadows Water Division on the sea, tacitly started a siege battle. The fleet drove Wu's division into the bay north of the city.
With the cooperation of the city's artillery, the entire army was wiped out in just one day.
Wu Hui also led the infantry to seize the siege of the city, and came to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao to relieve the pressure of the water division, but the city was high and strong, and the firearms on it were huge, and there were a lot of them. And the defenders of the city and his people made his fire attack ineffective.
The 500,000 troops he mobilized fought for a day and a night, and he failed to break through the city until the navy was wiped out.
Instead, nearly 60,000 Zhurong boys were replaced, and the tragedy under the city wall was broken.
As a last resort, Wu Hui was full of doubts about life, and withdrew his troops to the southwest for ten miles to make another plan.
But the Nine Shadows Army in the city was unwilling to give him peace, and often sent flying troops to give him air raids from time to time. At this time, Wu Hui was even more anxious.
Although the Nine Shadows Army has the upper hand, life is not so easy. After several retaliatory assaults by Wu Hui's army, the defenders of the city were injured by enemy guns and flint artillery alone. And Xiao Shizhu can't draw more troops to rush to the aid of this place for the time being.
Wu Huijun avoided the coastal area and began to attack the city, so that the Nine Shadows Water Division could not rush to the aid of Haoyan City this time. If it weren't for the strong defense of the city, and the fact that Wu Hui's army was passive due to the previous massacre of Emperor Xudu, it wouldn't be long before Haoyan City would be in ruins.
After a few days of fierce fighting, both sides were at the end of their crossbows, so they had to tacitly stop fighting each other, facing each other ten miles apart, and began to recuperate.
On this day, Wu Hui stood alone in front of the map in his big tent, staring at the mountains and rivers above, his brows furrowed and his face was full of gloom.
He was already upset by his low morale, but just an hour earlier, he had received a military report that the pass west of Moth Valley had been lost. The Nine Shadows Army attacked the pass at night, and at this time it had occupied it, which was invisibly equivalent to inserting a sharp dagger in Zhu Rongguo's throat.
He knew that this was Xiao Shizhu's plan, intended to reduce the pressure on Haoyan City. But Wu Hui was even more irritable because of this, and he had fallen into a dilemma.