There was silence in the lobby, and the valley breeze blowing from outside the hall stirred the draperies embroidered with requiem runes hanging from the pillars of the lobby. The ghosts bathed in the breeze made the hall feel very comfortable.

Xingtian, who was wearing a special armor with openings on his chest and abdomen, was stunned in place and thought to himself silently, and found that he did have the right to ask the Nine Shadows Kingdom to send troops, but Xiao Shizhu also had the right to refuse. What's more, Xiao Shizhu didn't say that he wouldn't help him, and he quickly offered to give Ma Shouguo weapon support first.

The weapons of the Nine Shadows Kingdom are refined and advanced, and he has seen it with his own eyes. And the powerful firearms are far ahead of the ghost countries in the underworld, and even the cold weapons are mostly made of soul-breaking iron or refined steel, and their lethality is far better than the iron weapons of other countries.

And most of the cold weapons that most soldiers carried with them were not knives, but were equipped with a spear with a six-foot handle called a fierce musket. Two replaceable cartridges were clamped under the one-foot-long tip and connected by a fuse. It contains a mixture of willow charcoal, iron and magnetic sulfur, as well as arsenic, etc., and has the effects of spraying flames and poisonous smoke.

There are hook sickle-shaped iron forks on both sides of the spear head, and the two long blades can be used for scythes upwards and the two short blades can be used for scythes downwards, so that this kind of spear has the functions of burning, stabbing, forking, and hooking in combat. Allows soldiers to be more lethal than the enemy when they are in close contact with the enemy.

After the cartridge is used, the soldier can replace it with a few cartridges and fire them again.

This thing is the masterpiece of Longgu Yun carried by Lai Yueqi, built from the ancient pear blossom* in the world, but the jet cartridge has been improved, combined with the second-stage rocket technology of the fire dragon out of the water, and it is farther than the pear flower gun spray in the world. In this way, the infantry of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can easily kill all kinds of road cavalry in the underworld.

If Xiao Shizhu can sell this kind of spear to Ma Shouguo, then Ma Shou Guo can make the cavalry of Youxiong completely lose their original advantage in the war with Youxiong Country.

Xingtian, who has never been greedy, is already grateful to Xiao Shizhu just thinking of this. He raised his eyes full of gratitude, glanced at Xiao Shizhu, and bowed his hand: "Xingtian is here to thank the King of Nine Shadows for many people in Mashou Kingdom." ”。

Xiao Shizhu said: "You're welcome." Then he stood up and said aloud to Qing Lan in front of him: "Quickly go and send an order to the ordnance superintendent, let them first send a batch of fine swords and shields to Ma Shouguo, and all kinds of weapons will be issued 10,000." And the first batch of weapons was provided free of charge, which can be regarded as the sincerity of our country's trade with Mashou country. In the future, the weapons can only be sold at cost. ”。

This was a strategy he had already thought of, so that Xingtian could see his righteousness and sincerity, and he could also let Ma Shouguo establish trade with him.

And in line with the principle of win-win, he sold sophisticated weapons at parity, and in the future, what Ma Shouguo sold to him would have to be more or less at parity. In the future, if he buys all kinds of war materials from the Mashou Kingdom, he naturally does not have to spend too many dark coins.

He can use the saved coins to do more things, and he doesn't have to worry about King Ma Shou only eating and not vomiting.

If King Ma Shou is a ghost who is not so righteous, then he can't be friends with a human soul like Xingtian. So Xiao Shizhu didn't worry about Ma Shouguo only taking advantage of him, and never gave him an advantage.

Sure enough, after Qinglan left, the gratitude in Xingtian's eyes became a little heavier. He bowed to Xiao Shizhu again and again, and bowed respectfully three times.

"As for helping you get back to the country, I'm afraid we'll have to wait a few days. Immediately afterwards, a look of embarrassment appeared on Xiao Shizhu's face again, a little more than before.

"The Nine Shadows King is already very hearted, and Xingtian is grateful again. Xingtian, who kept having a warm current in his heart, had a little more admiration for Xiao Shizhu's gratitude, and driven by his righteous character, he just paused and asked without hesitation: "Then may I ask the King of the Nine Shadows, what can I, the king of the defeated army, do for you?"

When Xiao Shizhu heard this, although his face did not change, he was still secretly happy in his heart, he had done so much foreshadowing in front of him, but it was all for such a sentence.

But he is good at a thousand arts, he knows that he can't speak immediately at this time, and for this kind of righteous soul, he has to use the strategy of wanting to catch and indulge, so that he feels that you are very good and kind, and at the same time always feels that he owes you, so he will be loyal to you.

So Xiao Shizhu smiled indifferently, waved his hand, and said in a calm tone: "You are also a prince and king, I don't dare to instruct you to do anything." You can stay in our country with peace of mind, eat and play whatever you want, and tell me what I can do to satisfy you. ”。

Xing Tian was stunned for a moment, and almost burst into tears with excitement. Seeing this, Xiao Shizhu still didn't rush to make a request, but said slowly: "Don't be polite to the headless ghost king, if you need anything, just mention it." ”。

"How can there be any headless ghost kings, how can there be such a down-and-out prince as me?" Xing Tian's eyes suddenly became a little more bitter, and he muttered to himself: "Down-to-earth under the fence." ”。

Xiao Shizhu didn't speak again, sat back on the chair and took a sip of his tea, and then said to Chunhan unhurriedly: "Go and serve tea to the headless ghost king." ”。

Then he turned his head to look at Xingtian, and said with a smile: "Don't you mean it, headless ghost king, it's slack." ”。

Seeing that he Xiao Shizhu was so enthusiastic, Xingtian couldn't help it, and immediately said without thinking: "There is no headless ghost king now, there is only one Xingtian, if you need anything, please ask the Nine Shadow King to command." The tone and attitude are very sincere.

This is the result that Xiao Shizhu wanted, he still maintained a look of embarrassment after hearing this, and after pretending to ponder for a while, he said quite embarrassedly: "It's better to do this, please ask the Headless Ghost King and your subordinates to teach our recruits some infantry tactics." ”。

Xingtian and the headless ghosts are both good at foot combat, which is something Xiao Shizhu has always wanted. After all, no matter how powerful weapons are, they are only auxiliary in war, and the essence of war in the world is the confrontation between people, and the essence of war in the underworld is the confrontation between ghosts and ghosts.

Advanced weapons and excellent ghost generals are indispensable conditions for ensuring victory in the war.

As soon as these words came out, Xing Tian immediately agreed, and felt a little better. Since then, there has been one less headless ghost king in the underworld, but one more infantry instructor in the Nine Shadows Kingdom......

Yunmengzhou Huguang County.

Located in the northeast of Yunmengzhou, Huguang County, one of the nine counties of Yunmeng, although there are only three million hectares of land and not too many hills, there are forty or fifty large and small rivers in the county, and there are about 600 lakes with an area of more than 100 acres, which has become a natural barrier for the cities in the county.

Xiao Shizhu always remembered that when he was still in the world, he read a sentence said by Peter the Great: "All rulers who only have an army can only be regarded as having one hand, and a ruler who has a navy at the same time can be regarded as having both hands." ”。 Xiao Shizhu has always kept this sentence in mind.

As early as five years ago, when Gonggong promised him to go out of the mountain, he opened a sailor yamen in his small court, in charge of sailor training and naval warfare, and then opened a naval warfare school in the school palace, employing human souls and demon souls who are good at naval warfare with high salaries, and specializing in cultivating ghost talents who are good at water warfare.

Most of them were the little beggars he had adopted from the various places he had conquered.

After Yunmengzhou was merged into the Nine Shadows Country, Huguang County, which was born by the river, naturally became one of the sailor bases of the Nine Shadows Country, and shipyards and docks from all over the sea rose one after another. It not only expanded the water division of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, but also solved the employment problem of many Sanmiao ghosts.

A large number of delicate sea falcons made of wood, fortune boats made of sea dragon backbones, and ten boats made of fine vermilion wood, which are hard wood, were made in this county.

And the sea sailors of the Nine Shadows Kingdom have also expanded from the previous three to five within a year. They are the Chenxing Sailors in the area of Sanxing Island, and the Zhenxing Sailors who guard the Guixu Trench. and the Taibai Water Division stationed west of Xuanyan Continent, the Yingfu Water Division patrolling the sea south of Nanban, and the Suixing Water Division who guarded Yunmengzhou and Daoshan Island.

After the restructuring, the naval division is also the same as the other armies of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, a naval division is enough to have hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, more than 300 large and small warships, all equipped with advanced firearms. And it is also equipped with flying troops and air horses, as well as shark and boat ghost escorts, as well as fungus people who can quickly contact.

It has been achieved not only by sea but also by sea and air. In the sea, the sailors of the Nine Shadows Kingdom quickly attacked any island or city near the sea.

The Nine Shadows Naval Division, which is strong and sharp, is also enough to compete with the Northern Yin Naval Division of the Emperor Xudu.

At this moment, in the northeast of Huguang County, in a harbor called Tianyi Bay, under the hovering seagulls, the soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom are in full swing to carry large boxes of materials onto the ship.

Water, food, guns and ammunition are all available. In the harbor, the masts are also high, and hundreds of warships are moored in the harbor one after another, quietly waiting for the supplies to be transported into the holds.

On the mast hung the flag of the flower on the other side, which was fluttering in the wind.

And Qiushuang was also standing on the dock, commanding the sergeants.

After the county was redivided, Qiu Shuang was transferred from Sanxing Island to this place and served as the county guard. And the Eastern Expedition to Dongyizhou and other things in the Nine Shadows Country were also carried out by her, Lin Cong and Gonggong.

Lin Cong was in charge of land warfare, while Gonggong was in charge of naval warfare and unimpeded sea routes, and Qiushuang was responsible for the preparation and transportation of materials.

In addition to the supplies, a number of sergeants began to prepare for boarding.

The Eastern Crusade of the Nine Shadows Kingdom is about to begin.

Hei Wuchang walked over, looked around at the soldiers who came and went in front of him, and after a while, he was a little surprised by the autumn frost beside him: "How can the young master gather an army and a water division in just one month?"

What surprised him even more was that most of these mobilized sergeants had no recruits who had been on the battlefield, but there was no fear on their faces, and some were only calm and calm.

The sea breeze blew and made his black robe hunt.

In this Eastern Crusade, he was also transferred by Xiao Shizhu from Fujixian County to serve as a temporary member of the army. Soon after, he would also embark on a crusade with his soldiers.

"This is what the lord is capable of. Qiu Shuang smiled softly, continued to look directly at the soldiers coming and going in the harbor in front of her, and said slowly.

Hei Wuchang didn't speak, but just took the armor handed by his subordinates and put it on himself. When everything was ready, he put on his helmet and hung the soul hook cord around his waist.

"Then Lord Autumn Frost, don't pass it again. Fan Wuxian, who has always been straight-faced, bowed to Qiushuang and squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and then strode towards the battleship in the harbor.

Soon after Fan Wuyu boarded the ship, the transportation of war preparations was also completed, and all the soldiers who were ready for the Eastern Expedition entered the port in an orderly manner and began to board the ship. The ships in the harbor began to set sail one after another, and when all the soldiers had boarded the ships, the ships lifted anchor one after another.

Watching the warships leave the harbor one by one, thinking about the northeast, Qiushuang's heart was surging. The crusade that was about to determine the future of the underworld began under her intently watchful gaze.

[Seeking wood - it is a big tree in mythology, and looking for wood is thousands of miles long. 】