Volume 1丨Jiang is the hometown of the Qing Dynasty Chapter 23: Fish sinks into the mouth of the three rivers
After Liang Zongli listened, he quickly came to the Zhuyu military tent, Situ Jing was alarmed by his hurried sound, rubbed his eyes and sat up, looking at Liang Zongli's panicked look, he couldn't help but wonder, and Zhuyu was still asleep.
Liang Zongli didn't care about the superiority and humility of the subordinates and those messy etiquette, she grabbed Zhu Yu's shoulder and shook it up, seeing that she still didn't wake up, she took a sip of the wine jar and drank it indiscriminately, and then sprayed it on Zhu Yu's face, Zhu Yu woke up slowly, and looked at Liang Zongli with a confused face.
"Vermilion, hurry, they're coming, we have to be ready, otherwise it's too late." Liang Zongli said eagerly, pointing out the outside of the account by the way.
Zhu Yu looked along Liang Zongli's fingers, only to see that the original clear sky outside the tent slowly began to become gloomy, Zhu Yu couldn't help but say, jumped off the military couch and ran out quickly, only to see that the black clouds in the sky were accumulating more and more, from south to north as if the army was pressing the border, rushing quickly, there was a faint red flash in the dark clouds, and thunder continued to emerge in it.
Liang Zongli and Situ Jing also walked out, looking at the depressing, treacherous and terrifying atmosphere, with the continuous blowing wind, hitting the face, making people's hearts tremble and throb inexplicably.
"Quick, gather the Butterfly Army, be quick!" Zhu Yu immediately returned to the camp, thought about it, and ran out again to ride his horse in the direction of the dark clouds.
Liang Zongli and Situ Jing went to inform the others separately, and at this time, the barracks was already in chaos, the soldiers were blown around, things were swept around, and the horses were frightened and kept neighing.
Liang Zongli looked at the four children who were hugging each other and looking at the black sky not far away, hesitated for a long time, thinking about Situ Jing's words last night, and struggled in her heart.
"Take them with you, and even if you die, you will not regret it." At this time, Situ Jing ran past Liang Zongli and looked at Liang Zongli with firm eyes, as if encouraging him from the bottom of his heart, Liang Zongli nodded, and quickly asked the children to hide in the camp tent.
The wounded soldiers and the refugees of Gaoguo didn't have time to clean up, so Liang Zongli asked them to hurry along the post road and set off towards Pingyuan City, don't look back on the road, just run, and run until they can't run. As for Master An, Liang Zongli only confessed, take care, you must bring back the ashes of those fallen soldiers to be buried properly. Then he clenched his fists and quickly went to assemble his team.
Soon, it seemed to be late at night, and it was dark, and the storm mixed with raindrops, as if it was a roar that wanted to destroy everything, frantically smashed on the butterfly army that was waiting in formation.
The rumbling thunder fell from the sky, and the heavy sound of stamping on the ground was heard from the south in the distance, accompanied by red lightning in the air to illuminate the earth, and slowly, a long black line appeared in everyone's sight. This is an army of puppets with no end in sight, and even more so than countless!
The monsters flying in the sky and running on the ground are far more than a thousand, and more are similar to the kind of humanoid monsters seen in Linjiang City and Yangyi City, with red horns on the head, and hundreds of them are yellow horns. The rest was something they couldn't tell, and it kept roaring and running along the dirt vines.
"Even the hideous ones have come out......," muttered Zhu Yu, who was standing in front of the formation.
Where have the Butterfly Flyers seen this kind of battle, many people are blown by the wind and rain, they don't know whether they are frozen or frightened, they have begun to tremble, looking at the thirteen figures in front of them, and they are still holding on.
"Qiu, haven't you finished digesting the chisel dung worm you gave you last time?" Zhu Yu asked eagerly for the first time.
"Alright, alright, here it is!" As he spoke, the ground in front of the Butterfly Army suddenly thundered, and several places of land suddenly sank into it, and then one after another appeared from it giants that seemed to be made of rammed earth, more than a hundred feet high, but under the washing of the rain, they were melting at a speed visible to the naked eye. "Zhu Yu, it's raining now, and this is not in the mountains, so it can only be greatly discounted!"
"It doesn't matter. Sang, what are you waiting for for your dazzling light crutch? ”
"Right now, here's it!"
There was another surging of the earth, and from it came a number of vines that shimmered faintly with golden light, and began to entangle the huge natives, and then burrowed into the back of their heads, and built a skeleton along the limbs, and outside the skin, something like a rattan armor was born.
After all this was done quickly, the more than five hundred giants, as if they had given birth to a spiritual intelligence, let out a roar at the monster army to the south, and then hammered the ground, and declared in a bravaful manner that they should come over and kill on a large scale.
The Butterfly Army was originally still afraid, but after seeing this situation, it seemed that a fire had ignited in his heart, and his morale had climbed to the top.
Zhu Yu turned his head to look at the thirteen people behind him, as well as the two thousand butterfly army, his lips moved, but no one heard what she said, "Yes-no-up!" Then, she took the lead in raising her knife and rushed towards the black army opposite.
Thirteen people, followed by the Butterfly Army. From the sky, it seemed to be a drop of red blood, rushing into the black ocean opposite without hesitation.
The monster in the sky swooped down, grabbed a few cavalrymen, and threw them into the air with men and horses. Several hundred-foot-tall corpse puppets stepped on the ground with ruthless big feet, and when they lifted their feet, there were red blood marks. Those extremely fast monsters instantly overwhelmed the first few rows of cavalry, tearing them off their horses and biting wildly. There are also many butterfly troops, and even in the midst of the charge, they were inexplicably burned into black charcoal by the invisible enemy's tricks.
Thirteen people, working in harmony with each other, hid behind the rammed earth giants, constantly dodging attacks from the sky and the big feet of the trolls, slashing everything black that could be seen with their knives, at this time any formation was meaningless, and they could only try their best to survive.
Liang Zongli shouted: "Don't fight on your own, try to take care of each other." As he spoke, he ran towards a few people further away, dodging the attack and slashing a few times.
Maybe it was distraction, Liang Zongli soon fell into the encirclement, and the war horse was surrounded in the middle and couldn't help but be frightened to raise its front hooves and throw Liang Zongli down. Holding a double moon halberd in one hand and a horizontal horse knife in the other, the horses around him were quickly torn apart, leaving only a pair of black dry bones.
Countless monsters, staring at him with red eyes, as if they wanted to tease him, attacked him one by one, Liang Zongli's eyes kept changing their gaze, rushing up and slashing one by one, never wasting their strength.
A hideous man with yellow horns tore open the puppet in front of him and rushed straight towards Liang Zongli. Liang Zongli turned around, the speed was too fast and didn't have time to dodge, only felt the hot pain in his right arm, if there was no battle armor, he must have turned into ashes now, saying that it was too late and that was fast, the moment he turned around, Liang Zongli quickly pulled out the bow and arrow behind him, and shot out, but the monster easily caught it with his hand and threw it to the ground, the corners of his mouth rose and did not forget to laugh at this ignorant human race.
Liang Zongli's horizontal saber and the double moon halberd struck together, making a crisp sound, responding to the other party's taunt. The hideous roared angrily, and rushed towards Liang Zongli again, Liang Zongli lay directly on the ground, and a knife gently slashed through the hideous that quickly stepped over him. After running over, it remained motionless and slowly turned into ashes.
The monsters also had enough of playing, and they swarmed up, but fortunately, the battle robe was made of special materials, and Liang Zongli was pressed under him, and he smashed powerlessly on the monsters' heads.
At this time, a figure appeared in front of him, Situ Jing rode his horse and kept stepping on the monster, slashing with a knife, and then reached out to pull Liang Zongli out of the monster pile, turned over on the horse, and ran towards the nearest rammed earth giant.
Liang Zongli sat behind Situ Jing, looking around, the other people were no better, but fortunately, they had already fought together and took care of each other.
Suddenly, he saw Yi Houpeng and Wu Bo, who were overwhelmed by the monsters, he prompted Situ Jing to rush to the left, and then the two of them finally rushed in, and with the help of the giants, they quickly cleared the surroundings.
Yi Houpeng was half-kneeling on the ground, constantly coughing up blood, Wu Bo was painted in several places, fortunately, the two were not seriously injured and could stand up.
On the battlefield, the figures of the Butterfly Army became fewer and fewer, and in the sight, the red battle robes continued to disappear rapidly in front of them.
Zhu Yu jumped up from the horse, floated into the air, his whole body seemed to be burning with purple flames, his hair was also a bewitching dark purple for the first time, his left hand held his right palm, raised three fingers, only to hear the sound of Zheng, a burst of red ripples flew out of the air, and those monsters who were hundreds of feet tall were all cut in half.
Another phantom, like a ray, flew out of the vermilion fish and went straight to the trolls that were still flying in the air, and it was wiped out at the touch.
At that moment, a red bolt of lightning struck the illusory ray shadow, and then, as if transformed into a real thunder spear, nailed the shadow to the ground.
The vermilion fish floating in the air couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood and half-knelt. She looked at the sky, hum, is it a bully, and finally appeared.
"Draw attention to the short soldiers in your hands, and throw them in all directions!" Zhu Yu shouted loudly from the air.
Before, Zhu Yu's face was pale, precisely because he divided twelve of his natal aura into the horizontal horse knife, and then let them cast their own short soldiers, for today.
Without thinking about it, the twelve people quickly threw it in four directions, and then a semicircular red demon realm barrier covered the butterfly army of less than a thousand people left. As soon as the monsters hit it, they were wiped out in an instant.
Another red lightning bolt struck the barrier, but it didn't work, but Zhu Yu couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood, so dozens of lightning bolts fell down one after another, and Zhu Yu fell directly from mid-air.
Inside the barrier, after the thirteen people and the Butterfly Army quickly cleaned up the monsters left in the barrier, they couldn't help but be worried when they saw that Zhu Yu was injured. Outside the barrier, soon the last of the rammed earth giants also fell, drowning in the Kuroshio.
The monsters surrounded the vermilion fish, and no one stepped forward to move, as if waiting for their true owners to come to the end.
A black smoke quickly rushed to the ground from the air, and as the smoke dissipated, a humanoid monster that seemed to be composed of black smoke without flesh and blood, recalling a golden thunder halberd, with golden double horns and a height of two feet wearing a platinum robe, stood in front of Zhu Yu, and his red eyes exuded a strange light.
It provoked Vermilion Fish's face with the tip of its halberd, let out a sneer, and mocked, "Four Great Spirit Guards, but that's it. ”
"Don't look at the excitement, give me all the power." Zhu Yu smiled, looked at the bully and said.
The monster was about to retreat, but it was too late.
As soon as Zhu Yu's words were finished, his body was suddenly soaked in dark purple again, and the two figures flickered and jumped, flickering and jumping, and were merging into one, emitting a red-blue flame full of heat and cold, constantly spreading to all sides, and then swept away the entire black army and burned it all.
The barrier made by the twelve people was also shattered at this time, because the larger demon realm had covered a radius of ten miles, and everyone seemed to be in a bubble, floating in the air, and under the line of sight, was the battlefield of the vermilion fish.
Ba Chou suddenly used the thunder halberd to emit red lightning and smashed it on the vermilion fish that was slowly getting up, but it seemed to tickle.
"I'm motionless, how about you use all your tricks?" At first, there were two voices, a man and a woman, and finally they finally merged into a light and cool voice that did not know whether male or female, as if it came from ancient times, long and profound.
The face of the vermilion fish has also changed, if it was said to be heroic before, it has become extremely bewitching at this time, with naked body, long purple hair, purple eyes, and purple feathers that loom on the skin.
Two long whips of fish bones, one red and one blue, appeared in Zhu Yu's hands, and with a slight wave, Ba Chou's left arm was cut off, and it was another whip, and half of his body was divided into two halves diagonally.
The bully was indifferent, allowing it to ravage his body until Vermilion was about to shave off its two golden horns, and it gathered its body again and appeared on the farther side.
Zhu Yu stepped forward, and the double whip was combined into a red-blue long sword, which stabbed directly at the face of the bully, and the bully raised the halberd to block it, and the piercing sound of metal friction resounded through the space.
The fishbone sword suddenly ignited flames, burning half of Ba Chou's head in one fell swoop, Zhu Yu kicked out, Ba Chou was kicked the void wall, trapped inside, and saw the fishbone whip flung over again, turned into a cloud of black smoke, and recovered the prototype not far away.
In Liang Zongli's eyes, Zhu Yu seemed to be stretching out motionless in front of him with his hands, but because the movement was too fast, they couldn't see the subtlety of it, and the bully on the opposite side of Zhuyu seemed to keep appearing in all directions, in fact, he was constantly regathering his body.
In the space, with a crisp clicking sound, one horn was halved by the vermilion fish and fell to the ground, but it was not wiped out.
Ba Chou reappeared, half-kneeling on the ground, holding the halberd, the long horn that was cut off, flowing dark red liquid, it smiled and said: "Even if you win, you can't run away, the entire high country will become the gate, hahaha......" and then inserted the thunder halberd into his chest, and then the whole person seemed to turn into a black cloud outside, surging red lightning, floating on the halberd, and began to accumulate energy.
Zhu Yu thought about what it said, not good, and was about to put away the demon world, just listen, boom, the whole world was filled with red light, Liang Zongli and them, all of them were shocked to the ground.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that the demon world of Zhuyu had already broken a big hole, and a huge illusory five-fingered black hand was propped up in the gap, and the wind and rain in the real world immediately rushed in.
And the purple energy on Zhu Yu's body has begun to slowly fade, she knelt on her legs in place, coughing constantly, and then planted forward, fainted, and the demon world also fell apart.
Not far away, only a thunder halberd remains, and the bully has already sacrificed the real mastermind behind the scenes at his own expense.
When Zhu Yu woke up again, he found himself lying on a stretcher, surrounded by people who didn't know where to go, most of them were seriously injured, and Zhu Yu quickly stopped them.
"Where are we now?" Zhu Yu asked weakly.
"It should be the Sanjiangkou near the original Hanshui City." Liang Zongli said.
"Why don't you go back, how did you get here?" Zhu Yu asked in surprise.
"Before Qiu and Sang fell asleep, they said that the place we walked all the way, after we finished that battle, when those monsters took advantage of Qiu and Sang's weakness, they were covered with dirt and vines, and there was a black Pingyuan City, Linjiang City, and Yangyi City, a steady stream of puppets, pouring out of the city, we had to continue to walk south, preparing to go to the place where the three rivers converge, find a big ship and decide how to go next."
Zhu Yu wanted to get up, but he didn't have the strength at all, the side effects were too great, he was completely forced to merge his soul, and he didn't have much time left.
Zhu Yu asked Liang Zongli to put her down, and then called the other twelve people, some words, Zhu Yu decided to tell them when he was confused, but he still had to discuss a plan to ascend to heaven first.
Looking at the thirteen blood-stained, but so young faces, Zhu Yu couldn't help but start crying before he could speak, this was the first time that everyone had seen Zhu Yu so emotional.
"What are you going to do?"
A few people looked at it, and Wei Yi said: "What Wu Bo and I mean is that we will go together along the Feijiang River to the west to Zhuangguo, and then turn around and go all the way to the northeast along the Green River, and swim upstream to return to Dustpan Village." ”
"Shan Yuanming and I disagree, who knows if Zhuang Guo has also fallen, we suggest, go east, after seeing Baishaze, follow the road to the north, wade across the Green River, cross the Jiangxi Mountains to Rouzhou, or continue down the Green River southwest and return to Dustpan Village." Ji Jun said.
"We still think it's safer for everyone to walk together, it doesn't matter which direction it is, and the strength is more concentrated." Tan Qianru, Xing Baoyan and Qu Xintang nodded together.
"It's too late, you have to go your separate ways!" Zhu Yu said weakly, "Gao Guo, it has become a big formation, we are now, it can be said that we are in the core position of the formation, if we join forces together, it is easy to be eaten by them, cough cough ......" Before Zhu Yu finished speaking, he kept coughing up red blood.
Everyone couldn't help but be shocked when they heard this.
"You can withdraw in three routes, Wei Yi, Wu Bo, and a few others, go to Zhuangguo, Qiu and Sang can't help you anymore, presumably their hands haven't stretched out that far, they shouldn't have been corrupted over there, they should be in time, this is one of the safest routes." Zhu Yu hurried up and said: "In addition, especially Jun and Shan Yuanming, if you bring a few more people, according to what you said, go east and then north, those refugees should not be a big problem." In the end, it may be more dangerous, but on the side of the ghost dwarf country, it should have been cleared almost, don't ask me how I know, Liang Zongli stayed, and the same few people went south along the Han River, there is a boat over there, you just listen to that person's explanation and continue to walk, just a little farther, but it is also very safe, cough cough ......"
At this time, Zhu Yu gasped, grabbed Liang Zongli's hand tightly, hesitated, and decided to tell him only one person, "You all go and prepare, I have something to say to Liang Zongli." ”
Several people left one after another, Situ Jing glanced at it, didn't say anything, and went to prepare.
"Boy, we've only known each other for more than a year, but you remind me a lot of things from the past, those brothers", Zhu Yu's voice became weaker and weaker, "If I deliberately took you to death, would you blame me?" ”
Liang Zongli's expression was complicated, he couldn't have imagined that Zhu Yu would say such things to himself when he was dying.
"I'm sorry, actually, it's the end and the beginning. It's just that you're really too young, if you give me some more time, ahem, even if it's another year. Boy, after a while, you take this thing and give it to the person you met after going south, who is he, and he will naturally look for you at that time, and you will understand. As he spoke, Zhu Yu spit out a tarnished red gallstone from his mouth and pressed him into Liang Zongli's hand.
In the end, Zhu Yu said: "Just sink me in this Sanjiangkou, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, don't ......" Before he finished speaking, Zhu Yu closed his eyes, grabbed Liang Zongli's hand, and put it down.
Liang Zongli silently picked up the vermilion fish, and under the gaze of everyone, slowly walked to the mouth of the confluence of the three rivers, and then slowly put the vermilion fish down, and then watched her slowly sink to the bottom of the river, thirteen people, and all the remaining butterfly army, all smashed their chests with their right hands.
Some of the seriously injured Butterfly Army, who didn't want to drag down their comrades, chose to stay where they were, and as for what to do with staying, everyone understood. The soldiers smiled and said to their brothers, they must kill them again in the future, help them collect their bones, and on the day of the great victory, don't forget to write their names on the sky lanterns, if anyone forgets, they will become like those monsters to settle accounts with them.
Several girls turned around and wiped their eyes, not daring to look at the soldiers.
In the end, Wei Yi, Wu Bo, Yi Houpeng and Cong Tinghu chose the route to the west, especially Jun, Shan Yuanming, Xia Weifeng, Xing Baoyan, Tan Qianru and Qu Xintang decided to go east, Liang Zongli, Situ Jing and Liang Zongqing, with their four children, went south together to find the mysterious person Zhu Yu said, and then follow the arrangement to choose a stable retreat route.
Before parting, Liang Zongli looked at the thunder halberd in his hand and secretly swore that one day, he would use this thing to pierce the heads of those monsters.
Everyone hugged in turn, hammered each other's backs, several girls couldn't help hiding their faces and crying, blessing each other, they must see each other in the dustpan village, and finally did not forget to touch the heads of the four children, saying to be obedient, see you next time, you must have grown up.
Boarding a small boat on the river, each carrying a few hundred surviving butterfly troops, the three teams waved to each other, and embarked on their own escape paths.