Under the noisy high platform, the stream murmured and flowed slowly.

The ghosts who come and go, stepping on the jade bridge on the stream, go back and forth between the high platforms.

This place is close to the place where the food supervisor in the palace is, and the distance back and forth is only about 100 zhang. The banquet was held on this high platform, and the people of the ghost palace of the catering supervisor served the food back and forth, and the dishes could not be cold, so they could all bring the hot air and send it to the high platform.

Of course, the officials of the Nine Shadows Kingdom were also very thoughtful. Most of the tableware used in today's banquet are warm and warm equipment.

Now there are palace people, and the officials who help the food supervisor move these things to the high platform.

There is also a high platform, and a table case was also set up today, which was placed near the water and surrounded by the high platform.

Today, Xiao Shizhu not only invited some of the officials in Yuque City, but also the families of these officials, and they were also invited.

In Xiao Shizhu's words, everyone is going to be lively today.

And today's ingredients are also luxurious. The seafood in Xuanyanzhou is as fresh as the river in Yunmengzhou. Miscellaneous vegetarian side dishes, variety.

Dragon tendon unicorn belly, red simmered lion tiger and raccoon meat, fat filling and slicing. Burning eight pieces, the pearl cluster has everything, and it is fresh and exquisite. Fruit and vegetable pastries, a wide variety.

Frying, stir-frying, stewing, and various cooking techniques are also indispensable.

This has not yet started, and the food around the high platform is already full of delicious food.

The long piano under the high platform, just smelling the fragrance of vegetables overflowing in the yin wind, moved his index finger.

The old money of the cash cabinet ghost standing on the side also moved his index finger when he smelled it, and his face was intoxicated and comfortable.

But soon shook his head again, hurriedly shook his head, swallowed the saliva at the corner of his mouth, and nodded to Changqin and said helplessly: "Isn't it just like this?"

It's still the same book, advising Xiao Shizhu not to be extravagant and wasteful.

"But old money, you have to keep a good account of this time. Otherwise, if you think about it, the lord doesn't care about procurement, how does he know how much silver he ate for this meal. Changqin, who also settled down, hurriedly followed the words and said: "When the time comes, show the account book to the lord, and add your notebook, which will be more convincing." ”。

Lao Qian didn't have anything to say, he just felt reasonable, so he nodded in response and complied.

As soon as the old money left, Changqin also went to the high platform.

He had to go and see how the feast was prepared.

The tables and chairs under the high platform have been set up and are neatly arranged. The utensils used for eating are also placed on the table one by one, and they are also neatly organized.

A lot of forbidden troops were also mobilized and arranged in various places around the high platform to serve as guards.

On both sides of the stone steps of the stone platform, those floor-to-ceiling palace lamps, which have a pair every five steps, have been lit. On the jade railings on the top edge of the high platform, red silk has been hung, which is very festive.

The stone lamps were lit, and the luminous beads and centipede beads were also installed one by one. As soon as the sky darkens, the beads will shine brightly.

Changqin climbed the high platform again, only to see that the stage was not only full of high-rise lights, but also the surrounding mythical beasts and ancient god sculptures, also dressed in red and hung colors.

The distinctive flower flags of the Nine Shadows Country were also planted on the edges of the top of the high platform, flying in the wind and hunting.

Changqin He has eaten the state banquet of the Qingqiu Fox Country, and compared with it, this meal in the Nine Shadows Country is more luxurious and extravagant than that of the Qingqiu Fox Country.

When this was done, the long qin was satisfied.

At present, only him, Xiao Shizhu, the ghost mother, and a few high-ranking officials of the Nine Shadows Kingdom know that this meal was not set by Xiao Shizhu himself for enjoyment, nor was it a harbinger that Xiao Shizhu was going to start extravagance.

This is nothing more than an illusion for the Qingqiu Fox King, which makes the Qingqiu Fox King feel that Xiao Shizhu has already escaped and is about to start living a luxurious and excessive life.

Changqin took a turn on the high platform, and after reading all these arrangements and everything, he also felt that there was nothing to advise, so he called his ghost official and said to the ghost official: "Help me watch the time, remind me when you are there, I will go out of the palace to pick up the Qingqiu Fox King." ”。

"That's right. The ghost official answered, and was about to leave, when Changqin stopped him again, and said, "Remember, officials and their families can enter the palace first, but the king will not be notified until a quarter of an hour later." You can let him and **, as well as the owner of Weng, slow down. ”。

After the ghost official answered, he suddenly felt confused, so he asked Changqin, "Master Zongbo, why is this?"

"The king is on the Tianquan Palace, coming here from the Tianquan Palace, even if the king is walking, the moderate speed of walking is a matter of a quarter of an hour. If he had come first, the Qingqiu Fox King, who lived outside the palace, had not yet arrived. Changqin pulled him aside and whispered, "Then it will be our king who is waiting for the Qingqiu Fox King; ”。

Having said that, the ghost official also suddenly realized, this is nothing more than a matter of face and dignity, when he had an epiphany, after dragging a long note, he nodded and remembered Changqin's explanation, and turned around to go about his own affairs......

On the side of the apse of the Tianquan Palace, Xiao Shizhu slept for more than an hour, and slept until the cloudy day had begun to sink towards the east, and the sky was flooded with red sunset, and then he woke up late.

Under the afterglow of the sunset, after some washing, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother entered some pastries to pad their stomachs, and went to the apse to review the notebook.

In the Netherworld, the Hades Kings of various countries are high in their own countries, but it does not mean that the Qingqiu Fox King is visiting, and Xiao Shizhu, the King of the Nine Shadows, can not do anything and do no work.

The mountains of notebooks are waiting for him and the ghost mother to review them.

If you don't do anything on this day, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother's recital will be drowned out by the recitals transmitted from all over the country.

In this way, there are still various ministries and departments to help Xiao Shizhu and them do things and make some decisions. If there were no ministries and departments, Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother would be so busy that they would not have time to sleep.

Therefore, as long as Xiao Shizhu is not fighting outside, even if he goes out to hunt in the city, or has a private visit to Weifu, he has to take the time to come out to do things, either to review the notebook, or to make decisions on state affairs.

Sometimes Xiao Shizhu couldn't help but sigh, what do you want to do as this Hades King? Why do you have to get such a job that makes you tired and tired? But after thinking about it, in the past, he was the king for the sake of his life, and then he was responsible for the ghost people of the whole country, so he worked hard again.

Xiao Shizhu, who had reviewed a few books, put down his long pen and picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, Qinglan walked in and said to him: "King, Lord Chunyun has arrived outside the palace, I want to see you and **." ”。

Xiao Shizhu didn't think much about it, so he asked Qinglan to invite Chunyun in.

Qinglan turned around and walked out of the main hall, and walked in with Chunyun after a while.

Chunyun sat down after saluting, and couldn't wait to say to Xiao Shizhu: "King, today's Dongyingzhou side will send troops." ”。

There were no outsiders in this hall at this time, and Chunyun naturally had no scruples, so he told such secrets.

"It's Dushuo Mountain. Xiao Shizhu, who was holding a teacup, glanced at Chunyun and asked, "The target is Tianshan?"

"Yes. Chunyun frowned slightly and nodded.

"Well, is there anything wrong with that?" Xiao Shizhu saw that Chunyun seemed to have something on his mind, and asked casually.

"The latest information, many enemy forces that have already gathered near Yitian Mountain have received the news that Liubo Island has been lost. These enemy forces formed an alliance and prepared to march south in five days, and in spite of the unfavorable road and mud at the end of the rainy season, they attacked the Dushuo Mountains with all their might, under the banner of avenging the flowing fire of Liubo Island, and propagandized our army as an aggressor who did all kinds of evil, and was bound to destroy our army, which was also called justice and peace. Chunyun took the teacup handed by Chen Ruo, and didn't bother to take a sip of tea, so he hurriedly said to Xiao Shizhu: "The total number of multi-way armies united has reached more than one million, and there are thousands of ghost cannons in total. ”。

When Xiao Shizhu heard this, Huo Ran got up and strode to the underworld map hanging on the side, staring at the area around Dushuo Mountain in Dongyingzhou on the map.

On the map outlined by the circles and lines, he looked at the northern land of Dushuo Mountain, which was the place where these enemy troops that Chunyun said must pass through to attack Dushuo Mountain.

This two-hundred-mile land is crisscrossed by mountains and streams. The whole is a complex terrain, and there are steep places to defend everywhere.

Once the enemy penetrates deep into this area and defends the danger, the ghost cannon is set up on the cliff again, condescending. If the Nine Shadows Army wants to go north from this path again, it must pay an extremely heavy price for casualties.

For a while, Xiao Shizhu felt a lot of pressure.

Presumably, in Dongying Continent, the king of Yama, who has already learned this information, is also the same.

There are only five days, not even five days, and the Nine Shadows Kingdom must pull out all the enemy strongholds in these places, focus on the anti-guest, and firmly hold the natural dangers in their own hands, so that the location here is conducive to the future battles of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the East Ying Continent.

This means that the strategy of attacking the Yitian Mountain region first and breaking through in the middle must be changed and abandoned.

The Nine Shadows Kingdom needs to first attack any of the natural hazards and strategic points within a radius of more than two hundred miles between its Yitian Mountain and Dushuo Mountain.

The army under the command of King Yama, who had already prepared to attack the Yitian Mountain, had to abandon the attack plan and subordinates that had been formulated, make new subordinates within one day, and then send troops to attack. Only then can they be one step ahead of the enemy, occupy any important places and natural dangers in the area of more than 200 miles, and build a solid defense line in the area north of Dushuo Mountain.

That's right, most of the pressure comes from that – time.

Now for the army of the Nine Shadows, what is most lacking is time.

Xiao Shizhu had no doubts about the mobilization ability of the ghost army in his country. He believed that once the war began, in less than an hour, the king of Yama would be able to gather all the armies that could be mobilized and rush to various battlefields in order to throw themselves into battle.

It's just that this combat mission still requires a battle plan, and this plan cannot be formulated in an hour. It can take one to three days at the earliest.

And you have to take into account most of the emergencies on the battlefield, how to deal with them and other important things, which is not hasty.

The sky outside the main hall is getting darker and darker, and the afterglow of the sunset in the sky is getting darker and darker.

The centipede beads used for lighting on the apse, the luminous beads burst out with a faint soft light, dispelling the darkness of the entire hall.

"Then in the face of this urgent military situation, what are the countermeasures in the summer palace where you are in charge of the military?" Xiao Shizhu, who was silent, staring at the map for a long time, suddenly asked Chunyun behind him.

Xiao Shizhu understands Chunyun, she is afraid that she already has a countermeasure, this is to report, and Xiao Shizhu needs to make a decision.

"The troops were divided into eight routes, and they attacked eight places in unison. Chunyun hurriedly put down the teacup, came to Xiao Shizhu's side, raised his hand and dotted eight points on the map: "It's best to launch an attack tonight, launch eight ways together, and make a quick surprise attack to capture these places." ”。

These eight points are all in the north of Dushuo Mountain on the map, all of which are dangerous places near the river and are located on the main traffic routes. Defending land and water docks can effectively cut off the enemy's southward or eastward paths.

One of them is located on the seashore, and dozens of miles to the west is Liubo Island, which lies across the sea.

"This place, do you want Ying Lingxing, who is stationed on Liubo Island, to cooperate and send the air cavalry stationed on Liubo Island to conduct an air attack?" Xiao Shizhu looked at this important seaside place, and asked: "Give the enemy a two-sided attack?"

"Yes, this will reduce casualties during the attack. Chunyun nodded and said, "But even if it comes according to this plan, the entire Dushuo Mountain will have to draw out an army of 400,000 troops." The king of Yama will only have about 80,000 soldiers and horses left, and of course this does not include the sailors in the sea near Dushuo Mountain. ”。

Xiao Shizhu suddenly felt that although this thing was feasible, the 400,000 soldiers were divided into eight routes, and there were only 50,000 soldiers and horses on the first road.

At that time, once the enemy's million-strong army moves south, even if it focuses on attacking which point first, the army of the Eight Roads and Nine Hidden Kingdoms will be unbearable for anyone.

Xiao Shizhu suddenly remembered the scene many years ago, when he was chased and intercepted by the Ghost King's army with a few soldiers, and finally trapped on the mountain.

In that battle, although Xiao Shizhu narrowly won, the feeling of being besieged by the army and possibly in danger at any time was very uncomfortable, and Xiao Shizhu still remembers it vividly.

But after thinking about it, Xiao Shizhu thought that these armies were much better now than Xiao Shizhu's conditions back then.

He looked at the dot map, the places that were dotted by the spring clouds, these places could be used as horns with several other points to support each other.

This has formed a huge defensive zone, and once the various armies are in place, they are not fighting alone, but can gallop to each other's aid and play tacit cooperation.

As long as the battlefield is well-informed, this eight-way army can play a very good match. But it is not a large army facing millions of enemy troops, but 400,000 Nine Ghost Army, fighting the enemy's million army.

"How many princes are there in the enemy army on the other side?" Xiao Shizhu thought of this, and no longer felt the same pressure as before, and immediately asked Chunyun: "How many generals are there on the other side?"

"The intelligence claims that there are a total of seven Hades kings on the other side, and twelve ghost generals who were abandoned by the Northern Yin Dynasty in the past, and these ghost generals are now nine out of ten self-proclaimed kings. Chunyun thought for a moment and replied, "Counting it, there are fifteen or sixteen kings." ”。

When Xiao Shizhu heard this, the haze in his heart was suddenly swept away, his body was relaxed, and the pressure in his heart was reduced a lot.

Fifteen or sixteen kings, none of them have cooperated before, nor have they worked together together, which is equivalent to giving this group of coalition troops fifteen or sixteen heads at once.

When Xiao Shizhu was in the world, he once saw a very interesting two-headed turtle, one head to the left and the other to the right.

What's more, the enemy coalition army facing the Nine Shadows Army now actually has fifteen or sixteen heads. This is not to say their own thing, this multi-way army suddenly united, the honeymoon period like glue, in Xiao Shizhu's opinion, is not long.

"The king of Yama also paid attention to the enemy's attack after attacking him, attacking them unprepared, attacking their rear road, cutting off their food, grass and supplies, and the enemy was in chaos. Chunyun also looked at the map and said to Xiao Shizhu: "In addition, the rainy season will not end in a few days." The rainy season is over, and the road is still muddy. The enemy has difficulty transporting supplies, and although it is possible to use air units to transport supplies by air like our army, the supplies of a million-strong army need at least one million air cavalry to transport. The transfer of materials is extremely difficult, and if we cannot fight quickly, the enemy's morale will slip very quickly, and it will naturally be self-defeating. ”。

Xiao Shizhu was overjoyed in his heart, not only because King Yama wanted to go with him, but also because he found that King Yama was really a ghost.

In terms of tactics, King Yama is also a capable ghost.

Xiao Shizhu is now like a treasure. He had a new understanding of this Yama king. It seems that letting King Yama lead his troops to Dongyingzhou is the best decision Xiao Shizhu has made on the issue of Dongyingzhou.

"Hasn't the sailor moved yet?" At this time, the ghost mother, who had been silently reviewing the book for a long time, suddenly opened her mouth and said to Xiao Shizhu: "If you go north along the coast, you can cut off its grain routes and transportation routes from the western route. ”。

"That's right, but even if this is the case, the Eighth Route Army on land and the defenders in the Dushuo Mountain area will definitely have to fight a protracted battle. Xiao Shizhu thought for a while, then took over and said: "And I can't predict how long this protracted battle will take." ”。

After saying this, Xiao Shizhu changed his face to a solemn face. And Chunyun also said: "This is the difficulty, so please make a decision." ”。

It is not an overnight affair for an army of millions to completely collapse and fall apart, nor is it a matter of cutting off its grain or grass once or twice. If the Eighth Route Army can't hold on all the way, and after being captured by the enemy, it is very likely that the Nine Shadows Kingdom will be completely defeated here.

Whether the Eighth Route Army can hold on to the bottom has become a very thorny problem.

Xiao Shizhu frowned, staring at the map for a long time, and he was not sure whether the Eighth Route Army would be able to hold on and fight the protracted war.

He was suddenly a little worried, wondering if he should agree to this battle plan?

For a while, Xiao Shizhu was also a little hesitant and undecided.

He thought for a long time, then turned his head to look at the ghost mother not far away.

And the ghost mother looked at him, and she also looked hesitantly.

Xiao Shizhu was even more confused, and he didn't know if this order for the army to defend the big protracted war should be given after the army captured the eight places that were defended in danger?