[576] Resisting the Decree
In the sea area north of the small boat where the female lu was, five warships of the Nine Shadows Kingdom were lined up in a herringbone shape, traveling from north to south, and were carrying out the task of patrolling the sea.
Although after a year of hard fighting, the warships of the Northern Yin Water Division have rarely been seen in the waters south of the Huangquan Sea, but the Nine Yin Water Division still did not take it lightly.
The daily patrol mission is never lazy.
Once the ship of the Northern Yin Water Division is discovered, it will not hesitate to sink it. In order to ensure that all the seas south of the Yellow Spring Sea are under the control of the Nine Shadows Kingdom and the Nine Shadows Water Division.
At this time, the flagship of this small fleet, headed by a powerful fortune ship, a fortune ship with a wide bottom tip and a high tail has three layers of turrets alone.
Sixteen flower flags on the other side of the Nine Secluded Countries are arranged in two rows, inserted on the two side guards of the outward arch, and they are constantly waving in the smell of the sea breeze.
On the left and right of this lucky ship, there are two large ships with iron plough and wood as the board and the dragon's spine as the main beam.
Since many years ago, after Xiao Shizhu took over the Gonggong Country, he accepted the suggestions of the Gonggong clan to build ships, and began to carry out the operation of raising dragons and mirages in the bays of various coastal cities in the Nine Shadows Kingdom.
Since then, the main beams and keels of the warships of the Nine Shadows Kingdom have mostly been made of dragon backbones. This makes the boat stronger, and at the same time has a deeper draft, and the ability to withstand wind and waves has been improved a lot.
Although these four ships are not as tall as the flagship, their ability to resist wind and waves is not necessarily low.
Standing at the front of the deck of the Fukubun is none other than the eldest son of Gongyuan, Juhiro. Since the last time this kid went to Guishan Island and Huaishui Port, he has been promoted because of his combat bravery. Now he is already a ghost general in the Nine Shadows Kingdom.
After Xiao Shizhu arrived in Dongyizhou, he was also transferred to Dongyizhou, just to ensure that he had combat experience with the Beiyin Water Division to ensure that the southern Huangquan Sea would not be controlled by the Beiyin Water Division again. At the same time, he assisted Lin Cong in Aoki County, and then expanded a water division for the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the mountain bay.
"General Juhong, we are already nearly six hundred away from the harbor, do we want to continue south?" His lieutenant strode forward on the shaking deck and stood beside him, and said with a smile: "Further south, it is almost to the northeast of Yunmengzhou." ”。
"Nonsense, do you think Huangquanhai is such a big ghost house with three courtyards. Six hundred miles to Yunmengzhou?" As he spoke, Ju Hong glanced at his lieutenant.
Of course, Ju Hong also knew that it was his lieutenant who was joking with him, but he didn't mean to be unhappy with his subordinates.
"Order, another three hundred miles south of the sea. After a pause, Ju Hong ordered the lieutenant general.
The lieutenant replied with a slight salute, and when he straightened his waist again, he and Ju Hong beside him were slightly stunned.
In the distance in front of their fleet, as far as the eye could see, there was a gray-black smoke rising from the sea level, gathering but not dispersing, rising higher and higher, and soon forming a column between the sea and the sky, extremely eye-catching.
Judging by the color of the smoke, it looks like it was produced by burning wood.
The two ghosts are both ghost generals with very rich combat experience, and the next second after seeing the smoke, the first thing that comes to mind is whether there are ships burning in the sea ahead?
If the ship is on fire, it is unlikely that the stove on board will catch fire, and it is likely that it has been shelled or rocketed.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered the deputy general: "The fleet is moving forward at full speed, and the Flying Army will also take off immediately, and go to the place where the smoke rises in advance to reconnoitre. ”。
"No. The lieutenant didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately turned around and rushed towards the tower.
After a while, a pair of auxiliary oars stretched out from the left and right sides of the five battleships and plunged into the sea.
The oars slided, and the water rippled one after another, and the water ripples spread out as they turned. The warship rode the wind and waves and sailed forward.
A moment later, the two small flags of the flying army had been assembled on the deck, fully armed with firearms, they rose into the sky in an orderly manner, and quickly formed a trapezoidal formation in the air, and the first step of the warship towards the place where the smoke rose, spread their wings and flew away.
The ship's gunners and musketeers, ready for battle, were already on deck. All the cannonballs were pushed behind the muzzles of the women's wall, and the musketeers also erected the thunderbolts behind the women's wall.
Even the air cavalry accompanying the ship was assembled on the deck and ready to go into battle at any time.
Juhong, who was still standing at the bow of the ship, stared at the smoke that was getting closer and closer, and his right hand couldn't help but clench the handle of the scimitar hanging from his waist.
His face was calm, but in fact, there was a trace of excitement in his heart. He desperately hoped that there would be traces of the battleships of the Northern Yin Water Division where the smoke rose.
As the smoke got closer and closer, his heart became more and more surging, and the excitement lingering in his chest was even more difficult to contain. So much so that the five fingers of his right hand, which held the handle of the scimitar, trembled slightly.
However, news soon came that he was slightly disappointed.
A flying force who went to reconnoiter returned home, and the smoke in the sea ahead was nothing more than a sloop. As for the smoke, it was also made by the ghost who put it on. The Flying Army also interrogated them, and learned that the ghosts of this ship were all dead people of the Bear Country.
There is news of the death of the bear country, which has spread to Dongyi Continent not long ago, and Ju Hong has also heard a little. However, he still had some suspicions, for fear that a ghost with ulterior motives would use this to break into the Nine Shadows Kingdom, so he decided to go and see it for himself before making a decision.
Then he ordered the ship to continue on without slowing down, and hurried towards the place where the smoke had risen.
Half an hour later, when the smoke had cleared, his ship had come to rest in front of the small boat made of unsinkable wood.
The flying army that arrived first was still hovering slowly over this small ship. Several other warships also immediately surrounded the boat. Ju Hong leaned over and looked down, looking down, and saw that on the deck of the boat, a thin female ghost in Tsing Yi was kneeling at the front of the deck, holding a silk book in her left hand and a seal ribbon in her right hand, and shouted loudly when she looked around: "I am the former princess of the bear country, and I was ordered to go to the Nine Shadows Kingdom when I was dying, and I need to meet the King of the Nine Shadows in person." ”。
She is full of silver hair, with a hibiscus face, and although her beautiful facial features are full of exhaustion, she still can't hide her nobility.
Behind her, the ship's boss, who knelt down, also held a broken Devil's Head Scepter in his hand and held it high above his head.
Ju Hong fixed his eyes and took a closer look, and saw that the system of the scepter was indeed the envoy's scepter dedicated to the ghost countries of the underworld, and his suspicion subsided a little for a while. After thinking for a while, Ju Hong said to the lieutenant general who stood beside him again: "Let them hand over all their weapons, follow me back to Aoki County, and hand them over to Lord Lin Cong for disposal." ”......
On the Plain of the Hidden Gods, the Dome of the Netherworld, suspended above the thousands of forests, still stood in the clouds.
It's just that time has passed, and since the Xudu army occupied this place, the people of the former Escape God Kingdom can be seen everywhere in the city, with iron shackles on their hands and feet, doing all kinds of coolies in the city.
The Xudu soldiers stood aside with long whips in their hands, and once they saw that some ghosts were a little sluggish, they couldn't help but say a beating.
For several years, the ghost people in the city have not lived a day of peace. For them, it has become a habit for them to be enslaved by the Xudu army.
In the face of the sharp arrows and long knives of the Xudu army, they have no courage to resist, and they are only left to be willingly enslaved day after day.
The white clouds are long, and the sky is blue. Several fox-shaped foxes with wings on their backs, making a sound like the chirping of geese, landed on the tall and majestic building in the city.
The attic where the King of Retreat used to live has been rebuilt, and it is even more splendid than before. Seventy-two majestic columns rise from the ground, supporting the five floors of the building. Sixty warped angles are volleyed into the air, stretching into the wind. The brass bells hanging from each corner make a crisp ringing sound in the wind.
The banners erected around the downstairs also shook in the wind.
And now things are wrong, and the building has become the command room of old ghosts.
In the lobby on the first floor of the building, the wind was blowing and the black fog was filling, and he frowned tightly, staring at the sand table of Dongyizhou in front of him in a daze.
After a long time, he raised his eyes and looked at the chisel standing at the other end of the sand table, and asked with a little suspicion: "Is Tubo really killed in battle?"
Chisel nodded, and a scorching heat erupted from his thick nostrils: "The spies under the last general reported that the battle south of Fengming Valley was extremely fierce, and the Xudu army stationed at the mouth of the valley was killed. ”。
He took a long breath, sat down on the chair behind him, slowly closed his eyes, and sighed leisurely: "The Nine Shadows Army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness, but Your Majesty actually let us fight to the death with them, and did not dispatch the Nether Ghost Cannon, do you want us to use the swords and guns in our hands to fight the enemy hand-to-hand?"
After finishing speaking, he suddenly glared at him, pulled out the holy decree he had just received from his sleeve, and slammed it on the sand table in front of him. Suddenly, a few small tables on the sand table were smashed by this holy decree, and turned into pieces of dirt under the rising dust.
"What's the matter, Dashuai?" Chiseled Tooth was stunned, glanced at the holy decree, and asked urgently: "Your Majesty's will is for us to fight to the death with the Nine Shadows Kingdom?"
When he finally became Emperor Xudu, he was always reluctant to believe that Emperor Xudu would make such a dizzying decision.
"Yes. Turning his head a little bit and closing his eyes slightly, a flash of anger flashed on his face. And in the eyes of the chiseled teeth, there is still an incredible color.
He didn't have to take the decree to open it and look at it carefully, and he knew that they had become the outcasts of Emperor Xudu. From five days ago, Di Tu Raccoon led the comprehensive retreat of the water division, but did not take away the Xudu army and the Xuandi army on the Retreat Plain, it is not difficult to see that the Emperor Xudu no longer intends to work hard in Dongyizhou.
However, Emperor Xudu was unwilling to give up Dongyizhou to Xiao Shizhu, so he left his abandoned son and the jade of the Nine Shadows Kingdom to be burned.
It's just that he has too many chiseled teeth and loyalty, even if the reality is right in front of him, he doesn't want to believe that this is the truth.
Looking at the disappointment that gradually appeared on his face, Chisel Tooth suddenly felt a little dazed, wondering who they were going to fight and fight for next?
After being silent for a long time, he suddenly asked, "Dashuai, what are you going to do?"
This question may also be asked to himself.
After being silent for a long time with his eyes closed, he slowly opened his eyes. Chisel Tooth immediately saw a faint blankness in his eyes.
But he didn't rush to answer him, but after a moment of silence, he finally said softly: "I want to resist the order!" The words came out of his mouth, and a look of determination immediately appeared on his face.
This soft answer sounded like five thunderbolts to the chisel teeth, resounding in his ears, and the aftermath lingered for a long time. At the same time, a pair of bronze bell-like eyes, a little frightened color slowly emerged, and instantly filled the entire eye socket.
The yin wind that suddenly appeared out of thin air around him whistled sharply.