Chapter Nine: The Battle on Bayu Island is Tight
Anping wandered around the island for a few days, and then went to the Coral Palace. Go and give Xinhai an explanation, so that she doesn't worry.
The Coral Palace is located on a mountain peak in the center of the island, and there is only one way to reach it.
The road is heavily guarded, and the whole process has to go through three inspections. Fortunately, Anping is also familiar with his face, and Xinhai has explained to these guards, if Anping comes to look for her, then there is no need to stop her, so Anping is unimpeded all the way.
After coming to Haizhi Island for more than two months, Anping stepped into the place where the Coral Palace was located for the first time. Stepping on the big shell of Pink Jingjing, Anping couldn't help but squat down and knock and touch.
He had long been curious about these big pink shells, and he thought about going back to his house in the future.
The texture of this shell is like a natural one. I really don't know where Haiji Island got such a big shell.
After that, I will have a chance to ask Kokomi. When he came to the outside of the Coral Palace, Anping explained his intention, and soon other witches from the Coral Palace took him to see the heart of the sea.
Following behind the shrine maiden, looking at this authentic Inazuma shrine maiden costume, Anhei couldn't help but think of the image of the bellflower that made him uneasy in his previous life.
It's a pity that the skirt is not red. It's a little bit worse.
"Sangonomiya-sama is working inside, please come in." Took Anping to the outside of the house where Kokomi worked, and the witch lady gave her salute and then took her leave.
An Ping knocked on the door gently.
"Please come in." From inside came the voice of Kokomi. After getting Xinhai's permission, Anping pushed open the door and walked in, and saw Xinhai sitting in front of the table.
"It's you... Is there something going on today? Seeing that it was Anping who came, Xinhai, who was reviewing the documents, raised his head, and his expression showed a slight hint of joy.
"Actually, it's nothing, I'm just here to tell you, after investigating in the last few days, I haven't found any trace of the assassin who attacked you... I guess that guy has already escaped. Anping said, scratching his cheek.
He was a little embarrassed about this.
"Really?" Xinhai put down the brush in his hand for a while, raised his head and looked at An Ping with a smile. An Ping was suddenly a little creepy by Xinhai's eyes.
"But what do I think... That assassin should still be on the island? Xinhai was full of smiles on his face and eyes, and his voice was also gentle, but An Ping felt uncomfortable.
Could it be that Kokomi has discovered something? Or maybe the heart didn't find out that something was wrong! At the time, I may have been stunned by my own punch, but as long as I sorted out the information, I could find that there was a guy on Haiji Island who had recently fought with the magic dragon and had also stunned the rebel recruits... Thinking of this, An Ping suddenly felt that his cheeks were hot, and he couldn't wait to disappear in front of Xinhai immediately.
"If you think so, Sango-sama... Then I'll investigate it again..."An Ping, who realized that his lie had been exposed, lowered his head, so embarrassed that he wanted to get into the crack in the floor.
"It's a good thing, the assassin hiding in the island of Kaiji has not been found for a day, and as a god and witch of the current people of the island, I can't sit still all day, and now the battles between the rebels and the shogunate army on Yatsu Island are becoming more and more frequent, if the assassins destroy the island, they will be attacked on the back of the enemy, which will bring great trouble to the rebels. I remember Mr. Assassin... Oh no... Mr. Anping, you said that you would protect the people of Haiji Island, right? Before you find the Assassin, can you please leave this matter to Mr. Anping? Kokomi clasped his hands together against his face, threatening with a gentle smile on his face.
Yes, it sounds like a complete threat to Anping. Deliberately calling him Mr. Assassin isn't that just a point of arrest for him!
? But Anping really eats the threat of this soft knife. After all, it was he who was wrong in the first place. Although in fact, even if Xinhai doesn't ask him, if the rebels really enter Haizhi Island, Anping, who has lived on Haizhi Island for more than two months, will not be able to sit idly by.
"No problem... No problem... I'll leave this matter to me..."An Ping, who lowered his head, was resigned.
received Anping's answer, and his heart was full of joy. Indeed, as Anping thought, Xinhai was using the matter of him stuning himself as a bargaining chip in exchange for Anping's promise to help protect Haiji Island.
In fact, Xinhai didn't think that Anping would be the assassin who knocked her unconscious at first, but Anping's characteristics were too obvious, Xinhai simply flipped through the records of the people on the island recently, and confirmed that Anping was the one who knocked her unconscious that night.
When he found out that it was Anping, Xinhai was not angry at all. I just think it's a bit too coincidental.
went out quietly twice to recover energy, and they happened to run into Anping. The first time, he was followed by him as an enemy, and the second time he was simply knocked unconscious.
lamenting the impermanence of fate. However, she was punched, and in exchange for an Anping town guarding Haizhi Island, it can be regarded as a matter of her taking advantage.
If Anping doesn't come to her, Xinhai will only think that this incident has not happened. It's a pity that Anping came here today, and that's what he said.
Kokomi was a little worried that after Anping said that the Assassins had fled, he would not fulfill his words that he would protect the inhabitants of Haiji Island.
In desperation, Xinhai had no choice but to make this decision. With Anping on Haizhi Island, Xinhai can not worry about the defense of Haizhi Island, so that more people can go to Bayu Island to firmly occupy the stronghold.
Now that the resources of Haiji Island are stretched, if they don't occupy new territory to develop resources to supply the army, not to mention the rebels, even the inhabitants of the island will soon be dragged down.
As for why Anping was not allowed to go to the front, at this point, Xinhai and Anping's worries were the same.
The Raiden Shogun who sits in the castle tower. Ordinary soldiers fight, and Raiden Shogun, as a god, may not intervene.
But if a person like Yasupei, who can sweep through the army on his own, appears on the battlefield, I'm afraid that the Raiden Shogun who pursues eternity will not be able to sit still, and she will not allow such a big variable to appear in the territory of Inazuma.
Once the thunderbolt general makes a move, under the thunder, whether it is Anping, the rebels, or even Haizhi Island, they will be wiped out in an instant.
As the current god and shrine maiden of Haiji Island, Kokomi responds to the wishes of the people and forms a rebel army to resist the Eye Hunt Order and the Lockdown Order.
But she didn't think of directly becoming an enemy of Thor. According to Kokomi's plan, as long as the rebels rise to the occasion and can compete with the shogunate army, all those who do not want to be robbed of their visions by the Eye Hunting Order, and all those who are affected by the lockdown order and cannot make a living, will join the rebels.
Kokomi will unite these people and form a general trend, so that Raiden Shogun will have to face up to the wishes of the people and withdraw the Lockdown Decree and the Eye Hunting Order.
Directly confronting Raiden Shogun? Kokomi isn't crazy again. Even the Great Migami of the Sea was cracked in half along with the Eight Brewing Islands, how could Kokomi take the inhabitants of the Sea Island to their deaths?
"Then I'll go first..."Seeing that Xinhai didn't speak, An Ping, who was self-conscious, was about to leave.
"Wait... Since you're here, go out for a walk with me, I have something I want to talk to you about and hear your opinion. Xinhai stopped Anping.
“... What's up? The embarrassed Anping really didn't want to stay in front of Xinhai, he was afraid that Xinhai would use the events of that night to point him again.
"You're from Liyue and serving as an Honorary Knight in Mondstadt, and I've heard that Liyue's Millelith Army is invincible and the Mondstadt Knights are so knowledgeable that I'd like to discuss with you about how to use your troops." Kokomi slowly stood up, his hands crossed in front of his abdomen.
She noticed that Anping seemed to be concerned about her little belly button. This made Xinhai, who was already used to it, a little shy, and couldn't help but want to cover his navel in front of An Ping.
"Huh? Discuss the way to use troops? "Anping knows how to use a hammer. The Millelith Army is indeed famous in the Seven Kingdoms, but Anping has never been in contact with the Millelith Army, so there is no way to talk about it.
As for the Knights of Mondstadt... It's true that there are many capable people, but because of the many capable people, they have raised a bunch of lazy dogs who will even ask Noelle for help on duty.
"That's right, I just want to hear your advice, the so-called bystander." Xinhai smiled and walked to Anping's side and stood side by side with him.
"It's okay..."Although Anping doesn't know how to use soldiers. But he's a keyboard warrior! There is nothing wrong with memorizing two sentences of Sun Tzu's Art of War or the 3.6 plan on paper.
"The law of the husband and the soldier, the whole country is the first, and the country is second; The whole army is the first, and the broken army is second; The whole brigade is the first, and the broken brigade is second; The whole pawn is the first, and the broken pawn is second; The whole army is the first, and the army is second. Therefore, a hundred battles are won, and the good ones who are not good are also; The soldiers who surrender without a fight, and the good ones who are good... The meaning of this sentence is probably that..."As Kokomi walked in the bright sunlight outside the Coral Palace, Anping began to recite a few sentences of Sun Tzu's Art of War that he still remembered, and explained it to Kokomi.
At first, Xinhai was just chatting with Anping with a constant +6 energy value, so he wanted him to spend more time with him to relieve the fatigue caused by various trivial things these days.
But I didn't expect An Ping's few words to make my heart open suddenly, and the mountains looked up.
"Did you think of all of this yourself?" Xinhai looked at An Ping dumbfounded.
"I used to read it in an ancient Liyue book, and I remember so much..."Anping didn't have that face to say that it was his own philosophy, and he didn't want to slap a swollen face and become fat.
He had no talent for leading troops into battle. It is easy to talk about troops on paper, but it is difficult to march and send troops.
"There are such strange books in the world, if there were no current war, I would really like to go to Liyue to borrow them and take a look..."It was just a few words, but Xinhai was completely impressed by Sun Tzu's Art of War.
"Ahem... The whereabouts of that ancient book are unknown... I guess you won't be able to find it even if you go to Liyue..."Anping touched his nose a little embarrassed.
"Well... What a shame... But that's what it should be..."Kokomi clearly misunderstood Anping's meaning.
What she thought was the kind of books that interpreted the art of war to the extreme, and it was impossible to borrow and watch them at will.
"But if you're in Liyue, I can introduce you to a friend, and if you ask him to tell you about the use of soldiers, it's probably not much worse than flipping through that ancient book..."
After all, he personally led the Millelith Army to fight the Demon God War and won the final victory.
"Then let's look forward to the early end of this war..."Introducing a friend to Anping, Xinhai seemed to be lacking in interest.
Rather than having someone teach her, Kokomi still prefers to read a book once.
"But what you just said has been a great inspiration to me, and I can't wait to go back and rethink the battle plan against the shogunate army, so I won't send you, next time I have time, come to the Sango Palace to chat with me." Recalling what Anping said just now, Xinhai was full of inspiration in his mind, and he was anxious to go back and revise the previous plan.
"You're so busy, why send me, I'll go back first, and I'll come back to you next time I'm free..."
Since Anping chatted with Kokomi, more and more rebels on Haiji Island have been transferred, and it is said that the front-line war is tight and more soldiers are urgently needed.
Of course, more and more wounded people were also sent back to Haiji Island, and Nishino Lingling was so busy that even Anping had to use elemental power to start treating these wounded.
The more wounded on the front line returned, the more true the rumors that Anping had fought against the Demon Dragon. This rumor seems to have spread from the front.
The soldiers on the front line believed that Anping was the hero who drove out the dragon more than these villagers who lived with him day and night.
One by one, they all asked Anhei to go to Yayu Island to help the rebels fight against the shogunate army. In the face of the requests of these wounded soldiers, An Ping's expression was very embarrassed.
"What are you going to do?! He's half-dead now! How can I help you fight against the Shogunate?! "Fortunately, at such times, Nishino Lingling will always stand up and scold these soldiers who let Anping go to war.
Do you call a person with a red face jumping around half-dead?! Those wounded soldiers always looked at Reling Nishino, who they thought was talking nonsense with their eyes open.
After practicing for a few days, Zheping didn't even cut the bark of the tree, and finally gave up the idea of learning swords from Anping.
"It would be great if I could also get the attention of the gods, in that case, I believe that I can soon improve my strength and go to the front line to help, instead of not even cutting the bark here..."
"I don't have a Vision either..."Anping didn't know how to comfort him.
"But you don't have a Vision to use elemental power..."
"But the skill of using a sword has nothing to do with elemental power..."
"I've been practicing for so many days, I've swung tens of thousands of swords, but I haven't even broken the bark... I really don't see any possibility of growth in this way... You're different from me, I can't learn this kind of skill at all..."Zheping lowered his head and left in frustration, and Anping didn't persuade him again.
A few days later, even Jinye Lingling had to go to Bayu Island, there were not enough doctors on the front line, and many wounded died on the way before they could be sent back to Haiji Island.
"You have to take your medicine on time, rest on time, and don't play with your kids for too long and too tired every day, you know? If I come back and find you seriously injured, I'll put you in chains!" Before leaving, Reiki Nishino warned An Ping.
"Don't worry, I'm not a child anymore, I know my body. It's you, this time you're going to the battlefield, you're really going to be careful... I also give you a tip, you can take it with you at any time, open it when you encounter danger, and it can help you turn evil into good fortune. Knowing that Reling Nishikino was also going to the front line, Anhei made a bag overnight and handed it to her.
Anping stored some rock elements inside. When it is opened, it can hold up a shield, and at the same time, Anping can feel the resonance, which is enough to save Jinye Lingling's life and wait for Anhei to arrive.
"You think you're Lord Sangonomiya..."Reiki Nishikino glanced at An Ping, but still took the bag into her arms seriously.
"Zheping, you have to supervise him, otherwise I will come back and scold you together... Then I'll go..."Jinye Lingling reluctantly left, and after walking a long way, she turned around and saw An Ping and Tetsuhei still watching her in the same place, and raised her hand and waved at them.