The general who rushed to the gate when he heard the words was like a heroic move. But he is indeed not a heroic move, but a demon soul named Xiaohu; since Du Ziren took over Nanban, he has always been Du Ziren's confidant and favorite general because of his ability to fight well and loyalty, and he has always been the guard of this pass.

With his pair of demon eyes that can see at night, through the rolling dust, and through the light of the fire in the basin like stars, he can vaguely see that there are indeed six armies on the ground, each wearing Cheng Liang's stainless steel armor and carrying all kinds of firearms on their shoulders. At this time, they were walking in orderly steps, towards their pass.

The army that emerged from the north was opened by cavalry war elephants with curly noses, each with a cannon with multiple hoops and a bamboo cannon on its forehead.

It was followed by an infantry composed of human souls and demon souls, among which there were many blue-skinned and red-skinned ghosts, who could be recognized at a glance as the human souls of the Zhurong clan and the Gonggong clan. They each carried two bags and ammunition pouches on their backs, as well as firecrackers of different lengths, and many bamboo pipes were wrapped around the waist of the steel knives, but unlike ordinary bamboo pipes, there was also a cotton thread sticking out of the top.

There was also a jar slightly larger than a fist hanging on the left and right, and a strip of cloth was stuffed into the wooden stopper that blocked the mouth of the jar.

At the back of the line were artillery guarded by a number of wolf cavalry. However, their artillery is not huge, most of them are nearly a foot long, and the barrel-shaped cannons are beautifully decorated, and they are equipped with four wheels under their bodies, which can be pushed by two ghosts.

The few remaining guns were no more than four feet long, and their muzzles were made into the shape of ghosts, so that a soldier could carry them on his shoulders and move forward with ease.

This is not the flint cannon of the Nanban.

The two armies from the northwest are even more diverse. In addition to the mandrill cavalry and green cavalry that opened the way, there were also many empty cavalry. But all of them are riding tiger eagles as big as oxen, with wings spread more than two feet.

The human souls riding tiger eagles, most of them are muscular and bearded arms over the knees, and they are the ghosts of the people who are good at archery.

This is the Tiger Eagle Air Cavalry trained by Qin Yuan on the southwest border of the Jiuyou Kingdom over the years, and he once participated in the war between the annexation of the Republic of China and the Jiao Rao Kingdom, and made great achievements. Later, he recruited a lot of ghostlings who were good at archery to join them, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of this air horseman.

Today, they followed Qinyuan to the south, and after breaking dozens of cities, they escorted the Qinyuan army to the outside of Muli Pass.

He turned his head and looked to the northeast of the pass. But seeing that the three armies from the northeast are even more diverse, there are not only sturdy green cavalry, but also three seedling warriors riding a hundred fantasy butterflies in the air. Among the infantry walking briskly on the ground, there were countless three-body ghosts and three-headed ghosts, and there were also many tall ghosts whose bodies were covered in hard bluestone.

As an old demon soul in the underworld, Xiao Hu could see at a glance that it was the stone ghost mentioned in the Tang newspaper a few days ago, and his heart tightened at the moment, and a trace of dense fine sweat immediately oozed from his forehead.

Regardless of the army, there are banners of the same style. The white flag fluttering on the top of the flagpole is embroidered with a blooming flower in the middle of the flag.

Xiao Hu recognized at a glance that it was the flag of the Nine Shadows Country that had terrified the Southern Barbarian Army in the past month.

The army of the Nine Shadows continued to gather into the basin, and the torches in their hands were connected, tearing apart the darkness in the basin, reflecting it as if it were day.

"Wake up all the soldiers and prepare for defense. At that moment, Yu Hu no longer hesitated, and hurriedly said to the herald: "Blow the horn and inform the garrisons of Wubao on the east and west sides of the pass to prepare for battle!"

He clearly knew that the six armies in front of him that were gradually filling the basin were at least a million people, and the hundreds of thousands of defenders in the pass alone could not deal with the artillery in the hands of the Jiuyou National Army.

But he was in a hurry, ignoring that it was the night before dawn at this time, and the Nine Shadows Army could sneak in the darkness without lighting torches, and take them by surprise again.

But the Jiuyou National Army uncharacteristically lit torches to light the way, swaggering, as if entering and exiting their own doors, and there was also the suspicion that the defenders in the pass would come to watch their spectacular lineup.

Looking at this posture, it seems that if the Nine Shadows Army is charged some more visit fees, they will be even more elated.

At this time, it was the second half of the night, and the ghosts were asleep, and when they were suddenly woken up, they would inevitably be emaciated and depressed, and their combat effectiveness would naturally decrease. He ordered the whole army to light torches and march through the market, so that the defenders would notice and panic, and then this panic forced them to not get up all of them to prepare for battle.

This is also similar to Xiao Shizhu's plan to take the Ghost Crying Beach.

The sound of urgent trumpets sounded one after another in the passes on the hillside, piercing the night sky and resounding through the sky, startling the birds and beasts in the mountains.

Immediately afterward, the lights in the pass were everywhere, and the next noise came, followed by the rumbling of war drums. You can still faintly hear it swearing with resentment and anger.

While the commotion in the pass continued, the six armies had calmly gathered into a large army, filling almost the entire basin, and then, under the watchful eyes of the defenders of the pass, quickly formed a huge square formation, and stopped a mile away from the hillside.

In front of the large array, there were all infantry armed with steel long cards and spears made of star marrow steel, most of them were one-horned mountain ghosts who had defected to the Nine Shadows Kingdom after the slave collar around their necks had been opened not long ago. They have four hands, and they can hold a long card on the left and right, and then the remaining two big hands each hold a sharp spear made of star marrow steel, which is specialized in the rattan armor of the Southern Barbarian Army.

Facing the direction of the pass, this infantry calmly lined up, placing the long cards in front of them and forming a line to protect themselves and the army behind them.

Behind them were a neatly arranged group of musketeers, divided into three columns. The first column of Yin soldiers each held a total of eighteen barrels in a circle, and installed this thunderbolt that looked like a round shield at the front of the barrel.

The group of Yin soldiers knelt down on one knee one after another, stretching out the fire guns in their hands along the gap between each long card, and the pitch-black guns pointed straight ahead.

In the second row, everyone is standing, carrying a bead in their hands. As for the soldiers in the third row, there were two ghosts and a team, and they set up a belly about four feet long on the ground, and the muzzles were all made into small cannons with open mouths and ghosts. They raised their guns and pointed them straight to the sky ahead.

It was followed by artillery, also lined up in three columns. But the guns used by each column of artillery did not have small cannons, but all four-wheeled cannons mounted under them. Further back, there is the boundless infantry, guarding the large array of the Chinese army.

The large number of road cavalry has been divided into two armies, Xuanshui, who rides the triangular beast, and Longcliff, who rides the mandrill, each leads an army, and they are arrayed on the left and right of the main formation, guarding the infantry and artillery in the middle. The artillery on the forehead of the war elephant cavalry was aimed at the enemy tower on the city wall.

The air cavalry, composed of beast spirits such as Bai Ze, Fire Qilin, and Tiger Eagle, circled over the large array on the ground along with the flying feathered people, reggae people, and skull people. All kinds of firearms in their hands were also aimed at the hillside.

It's just that they are not aiming at the pass, but at the east and west sides of the pass, the dock forts and forts hidden in the forest and built on the edge of the cliffs.

Most of the defenders of Guanzhong were gathered on the northern city wall, overlooking the formation at the bottom of the hillside, and they were all shocked and palpitated.

The army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom under the mountain is mighty, not to mention the millions of people, and it is also assumed that many artillery pieces have never been seen by the Southern Barbarian Army.

Although they had never produced so many artillery, they had also heard that the firearms of the Nine Shadows Kingdom were advanced and could crack mountains and rocks, so those pitch-black cannon muzzles made them tremble just by looking at them.

"It's not going to hit us. The sergeant who was the first to discover the Nine Shadows Kingdom observed for a long time, scratched his head and shouted ignorantly: "The front army is a mile away at the foot of the mountain, and the artillery is farther away. Our passes are not at the foot of the mountain, they are all on the slopes, and the distance is five or six miles away, so what are they going to fight?"

As soon as these words came out, Xiaohu, who was contemplating the distance, was stunned for a moment, and after a closer look, it was really as his subordinates said, and he was a little relieved at the moment.

When the surrounding defenders heard this, they also reacted, some were suspicious and guessing, and some were laughing at the Jiuyou National Army for not understanding the war.

At the same time, the ghost captives who were riding in the same car with Hu Hui in the Chinese army had already gotten up and raised the order flag in his hand diagonally forward. Immediately afterwards, a melodious and powerful sound of dragon horns sounded from the army and spread in all directions, and in less than a moment, it had spread throughout the whole army.

The first three rows of infantry in the front of the army did not move, and the three columns of artillery behind lit the artillery in unison.

In an instant, under the sound of a rumbling sound, the red light of the cannon mouth was swallowed, and the waves of fire and fire were shot out, roaring towards the north of the pass.

The defenders looked up, their eyes moving upwards as the flame-enveloped cannonballs rose into the air in front of them.

The flames on the shells lit up the sky, turning the night sky a fiery red.

In less than a breath or two, the cannonballs in the sky had already crossed the arc of flames in the air, dragging the flying waves of fire like falling meteors, rushing towards the top of the southern barbarian army.

In the eyes of the Southern Barbarian Army, who was just watching the excitement, infinite panic suddenly appeared. They didn't know that as early as when the Nine Shadows Country was still the Ghost Mother Country, Lai Yueqi used the Zhonghuo Lake in Black Dragon County to quench steel, and then used this batch of steel to develop large artillery with a range of ten miles. After obtaining all kinds of rare metals on the Howling Wind Plains, as well as a room of strange books on the heritage of the ancient gods, the artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom not only suddenly increased in variety, but also had a longer range.

Although it is not as good as the * cannon in the world, cannons and other artillery can generally shoot dozens of miles, but the large artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can easily hit the range of seventeen or eighteen miles, and there is no problem at all.

The ghost captives also asked Hu Hui to calculate the distance in advance this time before opening the formation.

Before the Southern Barbarians could recover from their fear, the artillery had already landed. The poisonous fire cannon and the heavenly thunder cannon exploded one after another on the northern wall of the pass, and the electric light shot out incessantly in the stirring dust and flying rubble, and the scorching waves of air and rolling fire rose endlessly.

The ground shook and the mountains shook, and the northern wall of Muli Pass, which was originally impregnable, was full of holes, and most of the towers collapsed after being shattered in the violent explosion. Under the flames, the terrible screams of the seriously injured Southern Barbarians could be heard everywhere.

But this did not make the Nine Shadows Army under the hillside merciful. Just when the Southern Barbarian Army panicked, with thousands of casualties and many tattered and collapsed passes, they once again reloaded calmly and calmly.

The second purpose of the demon captives was achieved: if they had not awakened all the defenders in advance and led them to gather around to watch their own army, how could they have gathered them together to be bombarded by artillery?

has been with Xiao Shizhu for a long time, in addition to becoming loyal, Xiao Shizhu often changes the way to eat, drink and have fun, he has not learned much at all, but the other party said: "There is a cheap and not an absolute poor sour." He still understands this sentence very thoroughly, and has integrated it into the war.