Nanming Mansion:

Unlike Liuzhou, which has a sparse population but gradually stabilizes people's hearts, today's capital of Jiangnan, with a population of about one million, is shrouded in a dark cloud.

At this time, in the hall of the government office, several generals under the admiral were studying the strategy of defending the city behind, and there were also Xuezheng Mu Hongqing and his apprentices on the side, of course, there was also the Jiangnan political envoy who played soy sauce.

In just five days of defensive battle, the most elite sailors in Jiangnan lost more than half of the city defense battle in Nanming Mansion, which is not a heavy one.

At this time, the faces of everyone in the meeting were gloomy, and the atmosphere could be described as extremely stiff.

It's no wonder that everyone's morale is low, it's really too bleak!

A few days ago, because of the too strong contagiousness of those living corpses, in order to preserve their strength, they once shrank their defense line and retreated to the city, not daring to go out of the city to fight again, but they unexpectedly found that as their efficiency in killing living corpses slowed down, the number of new living corpses on the river became fewer, and on the fourth day, according to Mu Hongqing's observation at high altitude, there were no new living corpses ashore!

This made them think that the living corpses in the river had bottomed out, and things had taken a turn for the better!

So the night before yesterday, after many discussions with everyone, Zhou Hanyang and everyone decided to take the initiative to attack at the cost, arranged many strategies, and even directly cleared hundreds of thousands of living corpses outside the city under the strategy of losing one-third of the soldiers.

But just when they excitedly thought that they had made it to a turning point, that night, they suffered another wave of despair!

That night, there was a steady stream of turbulent living corpses, the number of which exceeded at least 500,000, which caught the tired soldiers off guard.

Although Nanming has now defended it, there are less than 10,000 soldiers under his command!

"How's it going out there?" Zhou Hanyang asked Mu Hongqing, who had just come back, with a somewhat hoarse voice.

"It's very strange, although we repelled the group of living corpses this time, the number of remaining corpses is unprecedented, but I don't know why, there are no new living corpses in the river." Mu Hongqing frowned and said, "I observed it all night, and I was very sure that there was no new one!" ”

"You say. Those things, will there be human control? Zhou Hanyang asked with red eyes.

Mu Hongqing sighed: "It's possible, but if that's the case, then I'm afraid it's even worse." ”

Zhou Hanyang took a deep breath and looked at the other general: "How about the soldiers who are locked up?" ”

"The same" the lieutenant shook his head: "As long as you are injured, even if you scratch a little skin, you will be infected, and the soldiers who are locked up are no longer saved!" ”

Bang!!

Angry, Tie Qing smashed the conference table to pieces, instantly causing the political envoy to fall to the ground in fright.

Mu Hongqing frowned: "General, now that the safety of millions of people in Nanming Mansion is all related to you, you can't hold your breath!" ”

"What do you take to calm down?" Zhou Hanyang gasped: "Now that the Nanming Mansion is in chaos, I still have to divide my troops to suppress those ignorant people, the city gate can be defended by no more than six thousand, if there is another scale like yesterday, what will I use to defend it?" ”

Mu Hongqing sighed, he actually wanted to refute, the people are naturally in chaos now, the admiral was too simple and rude in order to quickly stop the spread of infection in the city, but all those who were injured, whether men, women, old or young, were all hacked to death and burned, so how could those people stand it?

If the methods could be more gentle and rational, there would not be such chaos in the city now.

But now is not the time to discuss gains and losses, and if the morale of this situation is gone, it will really be hopeless!

"Xia Guan thinks that the attack on the city of that scale yesterday should not happen."

"Oh?" Zhou Hanyang and the others raised their heads violently when they heard this: "Why? ”

"From the pattern of the past few days, it can be found that the faster we clear the speed, the more new living corpses will emerge in the river, once we slow down, the number of living corpses will decrease, and the living corpses who have attacked the city once will basically not attack the second time, they will choose to scatter in the countryside."

Mu Hongqing took a breath: "Actually, according to the general's strategy at the beginning, the strong wall clears the wilderness, but it can hold on for more time." ”

Zhou Hanyang frowned when he heard this, and thought for a while as if this was indeed the case, but then said: "Even so, you can't keep stiff like this, who can tell what weirdness is hidden in the fog in the river?" Now contacting the imperial court and asking for reinforcements is the right way, Lord Mu, you have been observing for a few days, and you can find out how to get out of the fog? ”

Mu Hongqing shook his head when he heard this; "The fog is extremely weird, the illusion in the fog is extremely realistic, if this is a magic array, it will really be created like a heaven-shattering creation"

"Okay, okay, I don't listen to that!" Zhou Hanyang waved his hand: "You just say, is there a way?" ”

"Yes!"

"Oh?" Zhou Hanyang's face suddenly changed, and he grinned: "I'll just say, Mr. Mu is a great talent, there must be a way!" ”

The speed of this face change was so fast that the surrounding lieutenants couldn't help but cover their faces, but they were obviously used to the face of their boss and didn't say anything.

Mu Hongqing was too lazy to care, and directly took out a wooden bird and said: "I found that this fog restricts living creatures from leaving the country, but dead things are not, I used this wooden bird to try to contact the nearest Qizhou, and in less than half a day, the officials there actually gave a reply!" ”

"Oh? Don't talk about this sooner! Zhou Hanyang suddenly became excited: "How is the situation over there?" ”

"It's relatively good, there are living corpses flowing in the past, which has also caused a lot of chaos, but the scale is far less than ours, plus the prefect of Qizhou is a seasoned and hard-working official, so he quickly reacted, united with the local general army, and cleared the wilderness, which can be regarded as temporarily stabilizing the situation."

"Good, good!" Zhou Hanyang rubbed his hands: "This is good, this is good!" ”

He is most afraid that the whole Jiangnan is the situation of Nanming Mansion, after all, other state capitals do not have such a tall city and elite defenders as Nanming, if he really thinks like that, I am afraid that by then hundreds of millions of people in Jiangnan will have to turn into living corpses, no matter how he has to do it, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape the blame!

"Then since the wooden bird can be released, Mr. hurry up and ask the court for help!"

When others heard this, they also opened their mouths to urge.

Mu Hongqing sighed and said: "First of all, I am not from the Ministry of Industry, and I am honest. I'm not good at it, and the woodbird I make can fly at a limited distance, so I can only see if I can deliver a message to the outside from the nearest distance, and then there is another problem."

"What's the problem?" Zhou Hanyang frowned: "Today's situation, of course, is that a live horse is a dead horse doctor, how can you take care of so much?" Jiangnan is blocked for such a big thing, the imperial court must have a move, as long as your wooden bird can fly out of the fog range, I believe the imperial court will definitely be able to respond. ”

"What I'm worried about is that it may not be the imperial court who will reply to our letter when the time comes."

"Huh?" Zhou Hanyang was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

"If this fog is just a formation, it's fine, but if there's something else." Mu Hong said quietly: "Lord Admiral may be able to tell whether it is the imperial court or something else that is replying to us?" ”

Everyone: "."

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"Report!!"

Outside the fog, the imperial army that has blocked Jiangnan for six days has been in a stalemate, several great warcists have been calculating day and night, and they still can't analyze the laws in this fog, Qin Guogong and others are still stable, but many generals under their hands are extremely impatient, and they have asked for support in Jiangnan.

For his subordinates' requests, Qin Guogong did not allow it, but it was not a way to keep it like this, and when he was thinking of using some radical means, there was suddenly good news.

In the blockade area around Huaishui in the south of the Yangtze River, a wooden bird appeared, and the general in charge of the letter immediately sent soldiers to send it over urgently after reading the contents of the letter.

"It's Mu Hongqing's letter!"

The one who received the letter was Shen Yinian, the secretary of the military department who was temporarily supported, looking at the familiar handwriting and the unique technique lock of the Yin and Yang Academy, Shen Yinian suddenly frowned: "Your Majesty's eyes are like torches, Mu Hongqing is indeed worthy of a great responsibility, such a mist array, I and several others are anxious, but he first discovered the conjecture that this magic array can't help living creatures, it really happened!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the great karcists nodded one after another, but the generals on Qin Guogong's side had strange expressions, after all, everyone knew that Mu Hongqing was the concubine of Qin Guogong who was expelled from the house!

"That kid has been clever since he was a child." Qin Guogong didn't care, and nodded with a smile: "Your Majesty does have a good vision." ”

"Immediately ask the Ministry of Industry for help, and build a batch of temporary messenger wooden birds to obtain information!" Shen Yinian hurriedly commanded.

"Yes!"

"Slow" Suddenly, Qin Guogong suddenly opened his mouth to stop it.

"Does Lord Guogong have a saying?" Shen Yinian asked curiously.

finally had a communication channel, but he was very anxious to know what the situation of the Shen family was now.

"Are you sure. This letter came from Mu Hongqing? ”

"Huh?" The others were stunned, but Shen Yinian was the first to react: "Lord Guogong thinks it's fake? ”

"Not sure" Qin Guogong shook his head: "But there is this possibility, the handwriting and techniques can be imitated, there must be something else in the fog, no one can say for sure whether he will intercept our letters, if the information is wrong, then this is not a call for help, but a trap!" ”

"It's better to be cautious!" Shen Yinian nodded, this is indeed possible.

"But this. You can't stop doing it because of this, right? "The other generals are also in a hurry, and they finally found a way to keep them from working so hard, but now they can't?

"Not really, there's a guy who can help right now." Qin Guogong said with a smile: "If this mist is only for living creatures, that person is the most suitable for the current situation, of course, the premise is that His Majesty is willing to let him out of Beijing!" ”

"Oh?" Everyone was stunned, but Shen Yinian was the first to react: "What does Lord Guogong mean. Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Lord Wang Ye? ”

(End of chapter)