【537】Heavy rain

In the dark night, the night wind was blowing, and the flags in the barracks of the United Army of the Northern Yin Dynasty were blowing and hunting in the night. Even the tents of the army were cheering and making a loud noise in the fierce winds.

Not only was there no moon in the sky, but even the stars were dim, which brought convenience to the night attack of the Xudu army.

The empty cavalry of the Xudu army was silently ready, and the 30,000 beast spirits that looked similar to the sika deer, but had white tails, the hind hooves were horses' hooves, and the front hooves were like human hands.

These 30,000 horses are like beast souls, snorting again and again under the night wind, and their front hooves keep stepping on them, and they are eager to try.

After their riders raised their whips in unison, the 30,000 horses roared like beast spirits and raised their front hooves, and after stepping on the air a few times, they jumped into the air one after another, and after flying into the night sky by the clouds, they headed towards the brightly lit Manjiang City in the distance.

The night wind blew in their faces, surging in the ears of the air cavalry of the Xudu Army, making bursts of whirring sounds, shaking their eardrums and cheeks with a faint pain.

But they didn't care, they were all well-trained air cavalry, and they were used to the strong wind in the sky. What's more, it won't take long for Manjiang City to be shaken by the Earth Movement Talisman and all that is left with a pile of broken bricks, broken walls, rubble and broken pillars, lying on the ground full of cracks and deep trenches. Thinking about it, there was excitement churning in their chests.

The gates will sink into the ground, the walls will fall, and the rivers that run through the city will either dry up or rise high.

Xiao Shizhu and his Nine Shadows Army will all wail and scream in the ruins. On this silent night, under the starless night, the lament of death is played.

But as they got closer to Manjiang City, the excitement that had been lingering in their chests before gradually turned into suspicion.

As far as their eyes could see, tens of thousands of sky lanterns floated in the sky above Manjiang City. At the bottom of each sky lantern is a bamboo grate bracket, there is a vertical rope that rises from the ground, so that these sky lanterns can not fly to higher places, and can only stay in the sky above Manjiang City, dozens of feet above the ground.

But because of the existence of these tens of thousands of sky lanterns, the faint fire light emitted from each sky lantern accumulated into a lot, and it actually illuminated the sky over the entire Manjiang City as if it were day.

The night attack of the air cavalry of the Xudu Army was impossible to carry out quietly.

It's just that the Xudu army is a ghost army with strict military discipline, even if the unfavorable situation that will expose the whereabouts of the air cavalry is in front of them, they still have a hard head and fly towards Manjiang City after receiving the military order.

The northern wall of Manjiang City was immersed in darkness and quiet. There were no lights at all on the city walls, and it seemed that there were no fortifications. On the left and right of the city gate building in the dark, there are eight quadrangular turrets, all without the slightest light, towering in the darkness of the night. Like the silent tall King Kong, standing on the city wall to protect the city behind him.

The air cavalry of the Xudu Army completed the formation in front of the city wall, split into dozens of phalanxes, crossed over the city wall, and flew into the city.

Under the light of the sky lanterns, the air cavalry of the capital could see the streets and houses in the city clearly. At the same time, all the air cavalry also saw that in Manjiang City, on the top of each house, there was a gun with the muzzle facing upwards and raising the Nine Shadows Kingdom Thunderbolt at a seventy-five-degree angle.

And for every Thunderbolt, there is a Nine Shadows Army guarding it.

All of this shows that the Nine Shadows Army is fully prepared, but when the Xudu Army who is riding the wind and clouds in the air is shocked, the Nine Shadows Army on the ground has already raised the corners of their mouths and pulled the trigger of the Thunderbolt.

The naughty Nine Shadow Army actually proudly pulled the trigger with one hand, raised it with the other, and made a goodbye gesture into the air.

Under the sound of gunfire, the fast-shooting Zi Gong spewed out one after another from the mouth of the gun with firelight, and shot towards the air cavalry of the Xudu Army. In an instant, before the Xudu army could come to their senses, many air cavalry company riders and mounts were hit by the dense locust-like guns that flew from the ground.

The ghost's blood flew like rain, and it struck with those quilts, swaying and spinning in the air like a broken kite. Only then did they fall in the courtyard of the street in the city, and the army of the Nine Shadows rushed up, picking up the swords and guns in their hands and slashing them with thousands of knives.

Before the earth movement talisman was cast, thousands of air cavalry of the Xudu Army were killed under the thunderbolt. The rest of the people avoided Zi Gong in a panic as they took out the Earth Talisman from their arms and threw it downward.

Don't look at the Emperor Xudu equipped them with hundreds of thousands of such talismans. It looks like the number is a lot, but the 30,000 air cavalry are divided into one point, and one ghost only carries a dozen or so sheets, and it will be scattered in three or two.

After scattering the talismans, the Xudu army hurriedly turned around and fled in panic towards the way they came.

Their task is not to fight with the Nine Shadows Army, but to sprinkle the talisman seal to cause the earth to move, there is no need to entangle with the Nine Shadows Army, not to mention the speed and range of the Nine Shadows Country's thunderbolts, which also makes the Xudu Army frightened and have to stay away.

But the Thunderbolt of the Nine Shadows Country is not a vegetarian, and the gun tube can rotate 360 degrees freely on the triangular support, chasing the air cavalry of the Xudu Army in the sky above and fighting fiercely.

To use the Thunderbolt as an anti-aircraft machine gun is nothing more than to install a turntable on a triangular bracket. Such a method can only be thought of by Xiao Shizhu, a clever ghost.

The Nine Shadows Army controlled the Thunderbolt, and the corpses of the air cavalry of the Yudu Army that hit the air were like meteors falling to the ground, falling from the air one after another, smashing heavily on the ground, and raising bursts of dust.

The few talismans scattered by the soldiers of the capital were torn apart by the rapid shots in the air, and they were ineffective, but most of them still swayed from side to side with the wind, and then fell to the ground all over the city.

As soon as these talismans hit the ground, they gradually stuck to the ground, and even the night breeze could not blow them. Immediately after, on the yellow rune paper, those crimson runes emitted a crimson glow in the dark night.

A strange bloody aura came out of these crimson rays.

In the blink of an eye, the ground trembled in many places in Manjiang City, and the houses standing on the ground swayed left and right one after another.

The earth roared, and countless walls of houses and courtyards began to shake, and cracks appeared, spreading in all directions.

In just a moment, many of the ground in the city was torn apart, and the walls of the houses and courtyards were violently shaken, and foggy gray dust was raised.

When many houses collapsed, the Nine Shadows Army on the roof of the air defense had not yet reacted, and they fell to the ground with the broken beams and tiles in an unguarded situation.

Xiao Shizhu, who had not yet slept, naturally felt that the ground in the city was shaking, and this feeling was exactly the same as the earth movement of Yuque City launched by Emperor Xudu with the use of green beads and pothos a long time ago.

Astonished, he rushed out of the main hall where he was resting, and saw dust and smoke rising from all over the city, accompanied by constant cries of pain and the muffled sound of the house collapsing.

The first thought that flashed through Xiao Shizhu's mind was whether there would be a ghost around here who was proficient in using this magic technique?

Thinking of this, he didn't care much, and jumped up with a single move. The clanging Moon Destroying Sword surged with white light, flew out of the hall behind him, flew into his palm, and with him already flying in the air, towards the outside of the palace.

Flying to the city outside the palace, Xiao Shizhu swept his eyes with the light emitted by the sky lantern, and his keen insight made him soon see the ghostly talisman seals, pasted on the ground all over the city, emitting bursts of red light.

The ghosts in the city panicked, and under the command of the army, fled to a wide area. The only thing to be thankful for is that the air cavalry of the Xudu Army who threw the Fu Seal have already begun to retreat if they are not dead.

Xiao Shizhu's eyes saw through the ghost qi emanating from those talismans at a glance, and it was constantly burrowing into the leylines, constantly shaking the leylines, causing the earth in the city to shake violently.

Xiao Shizhu hurriedly looked at the talisman seal closest to him, and after seeing the rune clearly, he thought about it, and thought about it in a flash, and thought about whether this was the earth movement talisman invented by the ancient gods that the ghost mother had mentioned to him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shizhu fell towards the palace gate, and shouted to Zhu Hai and Ji Yan, who had rushed to the palace gate and wanted to report to him the strange situation in the city: "Gather our Gonggong clan ghost soldiers and immediately rain down." ”。

Xiao Shizhu also knew that this kind of rune would only be effective if it was attached to the ground, but in addition to being torn and ineffective, he was also afraid of water and fire. Once burned by fire or soaked in water, it will be instantly rendered ineffective.

A sudden rainstorm can definitely soak all the earth movement charms on the ground and make the earth movement disappear.

Ji Yan and Zhu Hai were stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly turned around and left. Although they didn't know what Xiao Shizhu's intentions were, they were all soldiers, and it was their basic principle to order and prohibit. The boss gave the order, and they immediately did it.

Just as they turned and staggered away on the shaking earth, many of the houses in the city, which had fallen from side to side, were overwhelmed by the shaking and collapsed one after another. In the dusty sky, it turned into a pile of broken bricks and tiles and lay on the shaking ground, trembling with the trembling of the earth.

In the already unrecognizable city of Manjiang, in the ruins where ruins and broken walls could be heard everywhere, the cries and wails of his army and the ghost people in the city became louder and louder.

Under the shaking of the earth, Xiao Shizhu stood steadily in front of the palace gate and gritted his teeth, clutching the Moon Destroying Sword in his hand.

However, his anger was only temporary, and he admired the tactics of Emperor Xudu. Although he is an opponent who hates him to the core, Xiao Shizhu has always regarded him as his teacher. Learn from his meanness, learn from his shamelessness, and plan to return all these things to the other party after they have been comprehended.

The night wind became stronger and stronger, blowing the robe on Xiao Shizhu's body to hunt. Sensing a little dampness in the air, Xiao Shizhu subconsciously raised his head and looked into the air.

But seeing that the sky was already covered with dark clouds, the electric light was like a silver snake intertwined, flickering behind the thick dark clouds in the air, and the thunder made a dull sound.

"Smack. A drop of rain the size of a bean fell with the wind and hit his cheeks, which were covered with stubble because he had been busy with war and had not been taken care of for a long time.

The coldness and wetness of the raindrops soon came on Xiao Shizhu's face. Xiao Shizhu felt the wetness on his face, and immediately laughed.

The howling wind in the air became stronger, and a succession of lightning bolts continued to pierce the dark night sky. Immediately afterward, thunder shook the earth and tumbled, roaring and galloping in the air.

"God help me, God help me!" After laughing wildly, Xiao Shizhu shouted loudly.

No sooner had he shouted than a torrential rain fell in the air like a curtain of water and raged through the city. The rain splashed and the strong wind flew all over the sky, forming a mist. The raindrops, which fell rapidly with the strong wind, were like thousands of swift arrows, with an unstoppable momentum, falling from the sky frantically, making a crackling sound on the ground.

In an instant, there was no more dry place on the ground in the city.