[381] Shelling the calf pass
After nightfall, the sea is devoid of the sparkling waves and heavy scales of the day, only under the vast smoke rising from the sea, the monstrous white waves rush towards the outside of the calf pass one after another, crashing on the reef by the sea, bursting out a few feet high and falling again, white and crystal like broken jade.
On the coast, a group of heavily armored Xudu troops were patrolling back and forth. Recently, the ten continents have become more and more unpeaceful, and this first level of the underworld is also full of tension.
On an arrow tower near the sea, a young soldier was stretching out his eyes to look at the sea, but after only seeing the vast sea fog, he couldn't help muttering: "What a sea fog." ”。
The older soldier standing beside him also held his breath and looked forward, but saw that the fog on the sea was getting thicker and thicker, and it was so white that it was so blurry that it was impossible to see anything clearly, as if there was only white left in the world. The veteran couldn't help frowning, and the look of suspicion in his eyes flashed away.
He has been guarding the calf pass for a hundred years, and he has never seen such a big fog. This anomaly made him a little wary.
Just when he was suspicious, there was a sudden whistling in the white mist, and then he saw a little light flying up from the fog, breaking through the heavy white fog and rushing towards the coast.
The old soldier's eyes widened in horror when he saw a flame hit the top of the wooden tower above his head, followed by a loud explosion that swept through the flames and the hot wind scattered in all directions.
He, the creeps, and the upper layer of the arrow tower, were crushed to pieces together.
A succession of vertical and horizontal fire bombs whistled down in the wind, and then in the rumbling sound, the whirlpool-like churning waves of air scattered and exploded, bringing up the stumps and flesh of the patrols who were still stunned.
"Enemy attack!" shouted one of the military guards, as another cannonball caller fell over his head.
In the flames, the soldier suddenly turned into pulp with a loud bang.
It didn't take long for the calf to be full of panic.
The rapid sound of trumpets sounded in the white mist that gradually dispersed, echoing with the sound of trumpets and drums. More than 20 nine-zhang blessing boats made of unsinkable wood are lined up one mile off the coast, like a long dragon in the sea.
Behind the Fu ship are twenty or thirty sea falcons made of hundreds of zhang high, three zhang six feet around the bamboo fence, and seven or eight inches thick. Carrying the flotilla's food, grass, fresh water and ammunition.
In addition to the guns on the deck, each ship has eight gun holes in the cabins on the second and third floors, and sixteen guns stick out of it, and the pitch-black muzzles are pointed directly at the side of the calf pass.
And the dense fog of Fang Cai was created by the ghosts of the Gonggong clan using the water vapor in the sea, which made the warships of the Nine Shadows Kingdom quietly approach the calf pass.
By the starry light of the ship, a flag with a white background fluttered at the top of each mast, and a delicate flower was embroidered with red silk thread in the center.
This is Xiao Shizhu's other cavalry, the Black Dragon County and the Sanxing Island Sailor and the Flying Army led by Xia Xing, who came to attack the first level of the underworld of the Six Heavens Continent at night.
Countless cannonballs shot into the sky from the various large and small iron cannons on these warships, snorted and sneered under the flying wind, and then crashed into the shore with a thunderous force like meteors.
Under the fierce dust, sand and rubble, even if the enemy troops on the harbor scattered and rushed in all directions, they could not escape the bloody fate of the air waves under the explosion.
The soldiers of the capital were thinking of rushing to the artillery tower on the shore and starting to fire back, but they found that half of the guns in the ships at sea had already aimed at these defensive structures. Before they could even get to the fortifications, the turrets and turrets had been shattered in the violent explosion.
Then they tried to rush the warship moored in the harbor, but before they could rush to the deck, they found that the warship was gradually sinking.
The accompanying mermaids cruied into the harbor long before the shelling began, and began to scuttle the ship without saying a word.
In addition, on the deck of the Nine Shadows Kingdom warship, there are thousands of bare-skinned human souls, tall, short, fat and thin, who are the ghosts of the Zhurong clan.
But when they saw their arms crossed over their chests and their hands crossed and changing their handprints, a path rose up from the deck of the warship in the harbor, roaring into the sky like a fiery dragon with teeth and claws, leaving behind a trail of flames.
The Xudu army, who boarded the warship, was trapped on the deck and burned alive, and those who survived jumped into the sea in a panic, but they could not escape the tragedy of being besieged by the shark crowd in the sea.
In the panic, the horn of retreat sounded in the pass. A seven-foot-long wolf-waisted ape arm, with a round face and large ears, a tall scarf with tassels on his head, and a pair of iron leaves gathered into armor, ascended to the city gate tower south of the pass, holding the hilt of the long sword hanging from his waist, looking out of the fire-filled harbor.
He had a round purple-black face with thin eyes and thin eyebrows, and a black mole the size of a bean was embedded in the right cheek near the corner of his mouth. Although his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, his eyes were full of calmness.
This ghost is the calf guard Zhou Qi.
Don't look at his bad looks, but the talent of the unified army is not under the Yin commanders of the Northern Yin Dynasty, and he is loyal to the Emperor Xudu; it is for this reason that for thousands of years, his position as a calf guard has been as stable as Mount Tai.
"Nine Secluded Country?" After seeing the fluttering flower banner on the other side, Zhou Qi's five fingers of his right hand exerted his strength and tightened the hilt of the sword a few more points.
There was also a hint of excitement rising in my heart.
I have long heard that the fierce generals of the Nine Shadows Kingdom are like clouds, and the soldiers are also brave and good at fighting, and they have defeated the million-strong army of the Northern Yin Dynasty;
"What's the panic!" Then he scolded loudly, so that the frightened soldiers who fled back to the pass calmed down one after another.
"The night attack on the thieves is just a few dozen warships, what is there to be afraid of?" When the shelling of the warships of the Nine Shadows Kingdom stopped, Zhou Qi shouted angrily again: "Quickly light the beacon and notify the warships from the nearest military port to attack." Gather all the supernatural ghosts and bewitch the enemy army to kill each other with fascination and worship. ”。
As soon as the words fell, the guards went to give orders.
On the blessed ship of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, Xia Xing, who was old and strong, stood on the deck with a cane, and her official robe was inspired by the wind; after seeing that all the enemy troops had withdrawn to the pass behind the coast, and the arrow tower batteries on the beach behind the harbor had been destroyed, she did not hesitate to order the sergeant: "Prepare to shell the pass." ”。
At the sound of the order, the sailors and sergeants on the ship hurriedly performed their duties, and were busy carrying the shells and calibrating the muzzles. In less than a moment, all the artillery was aimed at the walls and towers of the pass.
Zhou Qi on the pass sneered when he saw this, the place where he was at the edge of the pass at any time, but it was also a mile away from the coast, and the warships of the Nine Shadows Country were also a mile away from the coast. Zhou Qi who killed him would not believe that the artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom could hit two or three miles.
But at this distance, as long as the supernatural ghosts under his command cast ghost magic, the Nine Ghost Army will inevitably be recruited and kill each other.
Just as he was triumphant, three hundred ghosts with bronze masks and blood-red mist around them stood in a row on the walls around Zhou Qi.
They are the souls of people with supernatural powers, commonly known as supernatural ghosts, and when they are alive, they are all gods who dance great gods in the world, and after death, they can use a kind of ghost magic called "Worship to Worship", so that the ghosts in the middle of the magic fall into insanity, and do what they want after being overtaken by them.
There were many thieves who dared to violate the calf pass, but they did not escape the control of the supernatural ghosts, and killed each other until the whole army was exhausted.
But today, this trump card of victory will be eclipsed in the night.
Immediately after that, there was a roaring sound on the battleship of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and hundreds of firebombs roared forward, and they crashed into the pass through the air densely, and the city wall under the explosion burst into flames.
The dust rose and the smoke billowed out, and before Zhou Qi could be shocked, he saw that the three hundred supernatural ghosts under his command were killed and injured in the explosion, and the rest hurriedly pinched the magic seal, and the mist around them immediately swirled rapidly around their bodies, but they could only barely resist the heat wave and flames brought by the artillery, and if they were hit by the cannonballs, they would not escape the tragic end of being torn to pieces by the explosion.
The advanced weapons of the Nine Shadows Kingdom once again proved that the era of Emperor Xudu's reliance on divine art to dominate the underworld was over.
In less than a moment, the city wall south of the Baoqian Pass was riddled with holes, and the towers on the wall collapsed, and the defenders had no power to resist in the slightest, only to become a ready-made target in a panic.
In the firelight, the fishy wind was everywhere, and the screams of ghosts and shadows came and went. Countless guards were shattered in the explosion and flames, and their flesh and blood were blurred.
The artillery roared incessantly, and the mountains shook in the pass. A red fireball fell from the top of the stunned Zhou Qi's head, and before he could open his mouth in shock, the shell had already landed.
Under the surging flames, Zhou Qi, who was good at tactics and had a great command talent, immediately turned into pieces of minced meat, only the charred black and tattered hood was ejected from the flames with the wild dance heatwave, and rolled a few times after landing.
Most of the panicked troops did not notice that their generals had been killed by the shelling, and they only cared about fleeing in the midst of the flames and smoke.
When the city wall on the south side of the pass collapsed in many places, the artillery of the Nine Shadows Army was getting farther and farther away, and countless red cannonballs swirled and rolled, lighting up the night sky and smashing into the pass like a meteor, bringing a "boom" that seemed to be thundering and exploding. The walls of the barracks, towers and other buildings in Guanzhong crumbled and cracked, the rubble and earth mist were misty, and lightning and thunder were flying and the fire was fired at the gray-faced and dusty troops who survived the artillery bombardment.
Most of the artillery brought by Xia Xing was long-range large artillery, such as the Poison Fire God Cannon and the Heavenly Thunder Cannon, etc., even if the Jiuyou Kingdom Army did not land and attack, it could still make the Xudu army in the pass scream again and again.
Moreover, Xia Xing also has the city defense map of the calf pass in his hand, which comes from the accurate description of black and white impermanence, so that the artillery of the Nine Shadows Army can also hit every shot in the dark night.
After a hot cup of tea, the defense buildings were almost completely destroyed in the smoky pass, and everywhere you could see a stream of fires rushing into the sky, burning the night sky red.
Just when the sergeant guarding the pass was crying bitterly, the melodious horn sound came again, and a scream sounded on the warship of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and one by one the heavily armed people and feather people struggled to spread their wings and leap into the air.
The flying soldiers who shelled the Nine Shadows Kingdom were armed with firearms and crossbows, as well as sky-shaking thunder and cluster rockets, flying over the pass, taking a bird's-eye view of the raging flames in the ruins below them, and aimed their firearms at the enemy on the ground without hesitation.
Under the sound of gunfire, arrows roared and flew like rain in the sky, for the Xudu army on the ground, this was simply a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the children had enough food when they were in the desert. The Xudu Army, which had already suffered most of the casualties under the shelling, was instantly killed by the Nine Shadows Flying Heavenly Army.
In particular, the cluster rocket in the hands of the feather people is the product of being improved by Lai Yueqi two or three times, compared to ordinary cluster rockets, now the cluster rocket of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can shoot two hundred arrows in a row.
Almost all of the Xudu troops were wearing heavy armor, and their movements were inconvenient, and under such a dense rain of arrows, they were inevitably pierced by the galloping arrows.