Long Wei Pavilion fell into silence as Xiao Shizhu's words landed, and they all showed a faint confusion on their faces.

The reason why Xiao Shizhu deliberately did not prepare the patrol route in advance was to make the ghost mother feel at ease and to make the ghost mother safe. After all, once the route of the patrol is decided in advance, it is equivalent to revealing the whereabouts of the ghost who is going to assassinate him.

He is not afraid of these assassinations, and he still has some expectations for assassination or something, but he has taken the ghost mother with him this time! He can't let the ghost mother be frightened, or make a mistake, otherwise he Xiao Shizhu will definitely regret it for the rest of his life.

So he decided that he would go as he pleased.

But the true thoughts in his heart couldn't be explained to the courtiers, lest everyone think that he didn't trust them and became estranged, so Xiao Shizhu, a master of lying, just thought about it for a while, and immediately thought of a reasonable excuse: "If my route is determined, the officials in the places where I go will inevitably make preparations in advance to meet them, and then there will be a burst of extravagance and waste, and the government treasury will not have enough money, and the officials will inevitably exploit the people." And isn't it a nuisance for local officials to prepare for it with such fanfare?"

As soon as these words came out, the confusion on the faces of the ministers immediately turned to admiration.

Not only did the ministers present not be suspicious, but they didn't expect that Xiao Shizhu had become the honor of all ghosts in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and he was still so humble about the people's feelings and thought about many ghost people;

Even Xiao Fuling, who was still young, cast a worshipful eye on her father.

"So this line, when the time comes, where I go, the escort will follow. After Xiao Shizhu smiled, he said: "You guys take care of the government, don't make any trouble for me, otherwise I will have to clean you up one by one when I come back, trouble." ”。

"In addition, I no longer use secret language during the court, and all correspondence with me, such as letters and notes, must be written in secret language. After a moment of thought, Xiao Shizhu added: "If there is a first-class event that needs to be played, use the fungus consciousness to transmit the message." ”。

"No. All the ministers bowed in unison.

"Let's get busy. Xiao Shizhu smiled and waved his hand to signal them to stand down. The ghosts saluted again and retreated backwards and exited the Longwei Pavilion.

"Poria, during the period when your mother and I are not in the court, all diplomatic activities will be handed over to Changqin and Hu to do, you should not interfere for the time being; diplomatic activities also include some trade contacts, you have no talent for business, so don't meddle in affairs that you are not familiar with." After they left, Xiao Shizhu pulled his daughter over, looked at the other party's pink little face and said slowly: "And to take care of the government and politics, you have to watch more, listen and learn more, and think more, but don't say more." ”。

"Remember?" asked Xiao Shizhu after a pause.

"Remembered. Xiao Fuling nodded sensibly, keeping her father's words in mind.

"Okay, don't say anything more, talk a lot of non-sweet glue and non-sticky, you go play. Xiao Shizhu smiled and said no more.

Xiao Fuling nodded heavily, and ran out of Longwei Pavilion in one jump.

Seeing his daughter leave with a fluttering dress, Xiao Shizhu sighed in his heart. If it weren't for the chaos in the underworld? If it weren't for the fact that there were so many ghosts in the underworld who wanted his life? He would rather not fight or fight, just like this, he would have been comfortable all his life, watching Xiao Fuling grow up little by little, sensible, in love, married, and have children.

"What do you want?" Seeing him staring in the direction of the gate in a daze, and after not relieving himself for a moment, the ghost mother stretched out her hand in front of his eyes and shook it left and right.

"What do you say Poria will grow into in the future?" Xiao Shizhu still didn't look away, but asked with a little expectation in his eyes.

"I don't know?" the ghost mother shook her head a little stunned, and then her face and eyes were a little kind, and she whispered softly, "But it must be interesting for us to watch behind her back like this." ”......

On the blood-colored sea of Huangquan, there have always been fifty huge unsinkable wood ships and one hundred Cangshan ships made of hard jade trees, escorted by 70,000 water ghosts, sailing from west to east in the direction of Dongyizhou.

Each warship was equipped with dozens of flint cannons, and on the top of the sails, a yellow rectangular flag fluttered, all decorated with dragon hair, and nine dragons were embroidered with nine-colored silk thread on the flag.

It is the water division of the Emperor Xudu, the Beiyin water division of the Beiyin Dynasty.

In the command room of the flagship Erjia (the second floor of the cabin), which is surrounded by many warships, a sand table is placed in the middle, which vividly and vividly presents the mountains and rivers of Dongyizhou in front of the ghosts in the ship.

King Taishan, dressed in official uniform and covered with soft armor, stood at the front of the sand table, holding the hilt of the long sword hanging from his waist, staring at the mountains and rivers on the sand table without saying a word. Standing on the right in front of him was a male ghost with golden skin and red pupils, the shape of which was no different from that of a human soul, and a small snake in his left ear, whose mouth was biting his earlobe. And on his muscular right arm, there is a tattoo of a toothy dragon, stepping on the clouds and controlling the wind.

This ghost's name is Harvest, and it turns out that he is also a divine servant who assists the gods. However, after Emperor Xudu ascended the throne, he took the initiative to take refuge in the other party and was reused, and was responsible for training the Emperor Xudu at the foot of the Si Mountain in the west of Liutianzhou. After thousands of years, this ghost's cavalry tactics are quite skilled and experienced.

And this time he fought in Dongyizhou, although there are mountains in the continent, there are also many plains, and on the plains, the offensive power and advantage of the cavalry is greater than that of the infantry, so the king of Taishan gave the Emperor Xudu to collect the bean and asked him to be his deputy general.

At this time, there were only two ghosts in the command room, King Taishan and Beishu, and Beishu was holding a long bamboo pole, pointing the front end of the bamboo pole to the corpse country on the sand table, and said loudly: "Judging from the current intelligence, the army of the corpse country is moving south, and the ghost soldiers of the Xiazhou country are scattering and fleeing. And in the Black Tooth Country to the north of the Zombie Country, there was no decent attack, so that the army of the Corpse Country could go south unscrupulously. ”。

King Taishan listened to him without saying a word, his eyes still fixed on the corpse country on the sand table in front of him. The west of the Yellow Spring Sea is long and narrow from east to west, and there are mountains on both sides of the north and south, and the towering mountain wind stretches for thousands of miles on both sides of the border. In the middle and on the east and west sides, there is a plain with a flat river, not to mention a mountain range, and there are no hills. It makes the whole country look like a valley, and the terrain on the east and west sides and in the middle of the country is indeed very conducive to cavalry warfare.

After a pause, he moved the bamboo pole in his hand upwards and pointed to the northern border area of the Corpse Country on the sand table; from the sand table, it was a mountain range one after another, from east to west, with dozens of large and small mountains.

"The army of the Corpse Country is composed of corpse souls, this kind of human soul is more special, they are all composed of the souls of people who have changed corpses in the human world. They are painless and do not bleed, and they are very self-healing, and they can heal themselves without medication. Unless their heads are cut off, such ghosts will not die. You are a bucket corpse soul with dozens of knives, as long as his hands and feet are still there, and his head is still there, he can continue to fight. Bei Shu continued to use the bamboo pole in his hand to point to the northern border of the Corpse Country: "So for the Black Tooth Country and the Xiazhou Kingdom, these two armies are all vassal states composed of ordinary souls, it is not easy to fight against the Corpse Soul Army of the Corpse Country. ”。

"What about the specific subordinates to the west and north of the Corpse Country?" King Taishan asked quietly after listening to these words, and bowed his head slightly.

After saying this, King Taishan turned around and walked to the depths of the command room.

This command room is located at the stern of the warship, and there is a window in the bulkhead in the depths that can be opened, and when you push it open, you can see the blue sea and blue sky.

King Tarzan stood in front of the window and did not push it open. The sea breeze blew in through the carved flowers on the window, caressing his calm face.

"According to the report of our army's spies, the Corpse Soul King has placed thirty guards in the north, which is about 1670,000 ghost soldiers. They are mainly scattered in the mountains on the border, relying on the terrain to defend themselves. Speaking of this, the bamboo pole in his hand pointed to the place facing the sea to the west of the corpse country, and said: "In the coastal area, the corpse arranged for all the sailors and ghost ships in the country to block the coastline. On land, fifteen guards were arranged, with an army of about seventy or eighty thousand. ”。

"With such a tight guard, it seems that the corpse thinks that we will definitely attack from the north or due west. After a pause, he added.

After pondering for a long time, King Taishan turned around again and slowly walked to the sand table and stood still.

"Is there any movement in the Nine Shadows Kingdom?" King Taishan's gaze swept around the sweeping plate and landed on a small island in the southwest of Xiazhou Kingdom.

That was Daoshan Island, now the Daoshan City of the Nine Shadows Country.

As far as King Taishan knows, on this small island that is only a hundred miles away from the Xiazhou Kingdom, there are thousands of sailors and tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Nine Shadows Kingdom at this time.

And the Nine Shadows Kingdom is a vassal state that is against the Northern Yin Dynasty, and the soldiers are strong and strong, and King Taishan is even more worried that the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom on this island will come in.

Although he also wanted to meet the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, with the current strength of the Northern Yin Dynasty, he still had to implement a temporary strategy to avoid the edge of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

"The Nine Shadows Kingdom has not crossed the line at all, and the Extravagant Corpse is also a strong ghost, and his army is heading south, and the situation is very good, and he has not asked for help from the Nine Shadows Country. After thinking about it for a while, he said slowly: "So the Nine Shadows Kingdom should not be nosy. ”。

"Not necessarily. Just as he finished speaking, King Taishan immediately squinted and said: "The King of the Nine Shadows is a good person, and his army will definitely appear wherever there is war." ”。

He didn't know much about Xiao Shizhu, only knew that the other party seemed to be the legendary son of the god, and he repelled the army of the Northern Yin Dynasty twice.

But Bei Shu doesn't care about that, he just wants to do his own thing. When the old god was alive, he did his job as a servant. The ancient god is gone, and in order to survive, he has done a good job as the general of the Northern Yin Dynasty.

Everything else is nothing to him about.

What's more, the purpose of their expedition this time was to quell the rebellion of the Corpse Country, and they were not going to the Nine Shadows Country, so he didn't care about it.

"Let's do it first, let's go east first. King Taishan looked at the sand table and pondered for a moment, and then slowly said his plan and subordinates: "Our sailors will first attack the sailors of the Bishu country, and the infantry and cavalry will go south by boat, and after landing from the Xiazhou country, they will join forces with the Xiazhou national army and jointly attack the southbound army of the Bishu country. ”。

"Did you mean to divide our soldiers into two ways?" asked Bei Shu with a puzzled frown.

Originally, it was more difficult to deal with than the corpse soul army of the corpse country, and the army given to them by the Emperor Xudu was 300,000, once the division of troops did not divide the combat effectiveness of the Xudu army into two, it was equivalent to weakening the combat power.

In this way, it is a death, and it is impossible to say whether it can win the war than the corpse country.

"That's right, it's two ways. After glancing at the incomprehension in his eyes, King Taishan still nodded with an affirmative look on his face.