The gray mist swept the blood mist, permeating the city wall in the north of Manjiang City.

The general Yudu shrank behind the battlements of the city wall, lying on the ground with his head in his hands, listening to the clattering sound of the gravel and dust falling on his tiger head, and trembling with fright.

Fortunately, this general, who can only pat on the back, except for some dust and a few times smashed by some half-fist-sized stones, where he is wearing iron armor, has not suffered any fatal injuries, and the good luck is not a star.

And the corpse soul army outside the city was not complacent because of the heavy casualties of the enemy army, and still continued to storm the city. Stones of different sizes were thrown high with the rotation of the trebuchet, and after cutting through the arc of the road in the air, they smashed into the city like a landed comet.

The iron arrows fired from the ballista fell on the city wall one after another, either leaving the defenders with holes or piercing into the solid city wall, leaving holes of different sizes and shades.

In less than a cup of hot tea, the city wall in front of the Corpse Soul Army was already devastated. The shattered battlements and crumbling towers turned into a mixture of stone and wood at the top of the walls, burying the souls of many dying defenders.

As the arrows left countless holes in the walls, they also left countless twisted cracks that stretched out like spider webs on the walls.

The Corpse Soul Army continued to give arrows to the ballista, only this time instead of ordinary iron arrows, they placed spears made of stainless steel.

This spear also comes from the weapons supervisor of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and the head and spear handle are all engraved with the words "Made by the Weapons Supervision of the Nine Shadows Country". And because the spearhead is made of stainless steel, with a ballista, the penetration of this spear has been greatly improved.

Half of the corpse army's ballista carts were aimed at the wall, intending to make up for the half-dead defenders above. The rest were aimed at the cracks in the walls.

The spears that were shot into the cracks in the walls not only left holes in the walls bigger and deeper than the iron arrows, but also opened the cracks in those walls, making the cracks bigger and deeper.

The walls that looked hard were now riddled with holes and crumbling.

The trebuchet, which had already been reloaded, slammed the reloaded stones into the walls after the ballistae had hit their targets in unison.

Dust and rubble shot down with a bang, and the force of the boulders made the cracked city wall finally overwhelmed, and there were many collapses.

From the very beginning, the Corpse Soul Army fought with this idea.

Manjiang City is the capital of the vassal states, even if Youdu, who is in charge of city defense, does nothing, but there must be a lot of materials hoarded in the city.

And the soldiers defending the city must also be the well-trained elite of Xiazhou State; if you blindly use traditional methods, plus siege vehicles, let the soldiers take turns to climb the city wall to attack hard, it will inevitably lose a lot.

So the Corpse Soul Army used another method, destroying the city wall first.

Seeing that the city wall began to collapse, but only partially collapsed, the corpse soul army was not happy or discouraged, but continued to happily reload the ballista and trebuchet, aiming at the city wall in front.

At the same time, dozens of Mengchong warships suddenly appeared on the river to the west. These dozens of warships without flags went upstream, heading towards the Corpse Soul Army.

The edge of the deck was surrounded by a tall female wall, blocking the view of the corpse soldiers standing on the riverbank, so that they could not see anything on the deck.

Although the Corpse Soul Army, which was busy besieging the city, noticed the dozen or so warships, they did not pay attention to them. Although the warships that appeared in the war zone at this time must have come to support Manjiang City, their corpses and souls can continue to fight as long as the ghost head is still there, and there are only a few dozen warships to be afraid of. If the sergeants above don't get off the boat to attack them, they can only use bows and crossbows, which will not kill the corpses and souls with extremely strong self-healing ability.

In the Corpse Soul Army, only the right wing army was facing west and was ready for defense. Several other armies continued to besiege the city.

When it was less than half a mile away from the right flank of the Corpse Soul Army, between the female walls of those warships, countless pitch-black cannon barrels suddenly stretched out, aiming at the side of the Corpse Soul Army. Immediately after that, the flames were endless, and the roar of huge artillery fire accompanied by the green smoke rising from the muzzle of the cannon resounded in the heavens and the earth, deafening, and one after another red flint shells shot out from the ship, shooting fiercely towards the right flank of the Corpse Soul Army.

In the sound of the explosion, brilliant flames suddenly bloomed in the corpse soul army. Many of the unprepared corpse soul armies were instantly blown to pieces, blood and flesh splattered and scattered, and jumping fires and blood mist could be seen everywhere among the stirring dust.

Even some flint bullets directly pierced the chest of the Corpse Soul Army soldier, and then cut a blood-red dark mark behind the soldier, and then crashed into the soldiers behind.

Even though the corpse souls have a strong ability to heal themselves, they have all been blown into shredded limbs, and they can't survive.

The cannon roared with a dense rain of gunfire, and a series of electric guns protruded from the shooting holes in the women's wall. This is what King Taishan bought from the major black markets in the Six Heavens Continent for this battle, the gun is about six feet long and adopts the form of a rear-loading sub-gun, which can be fired six times in a row.

Extremely fast, it was one of the killer weapons of the Xudu army of the Eastern Crusade.

For a time, the wails of the entire right-wing army resounded, and the fragments of flesh and blood ejected together with the fire and dust brought by the explosion, which was shocking.

The male ghost standing on the bow of the boat, with golden skin and red pupils, slowly drew out a bronze long sword that was curved like a sword, and the sword body shimmered with a cold cold light in the setting sun.

"Behead them all!" The male ghost just pointed the long sword in his hand in the direction of the Corpse Soul Army, and the cavalry on the warship who were already eager to try it rushed one after another with weapons made of Broken Soul Iron to control the beasts, jumped directly from the warship onto the river bank, and killed the Corpse Soul Army......

The shadow ghost sent by Emperor Xudu turned into a shadow and hid on the mountain wall of the Yuque Palace, in a corner outside a house where few ghosts came, looking at the towering halls and exquisite attics under the mountain, and his heart was shocked.

This was not the first time he had been shocked since he came to the Nine Shadows, since he turned into a shadow and followed some of the little ghost countries that had trade with the Nine Shadows Kingdom to this land, the shadow ghosts had seen an unprecedented new century.

Although there are poor ghosts in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, they will not be so poor that they can only beg for a living. As they walked through the city, the poor ghosts that the shadow ghosts saw had their own fields, but compared to some rich ghosts, their food and clothing were a little lower.

Moreover, the entire Nine Shadows Country not only emphasizes agriculture and animal husbandry, but also emphasizes commerce, industry and manufacturing, and all cities have all kinds of craft workshops and manufacturers in addition to agricultural merchants, so that any city can be self-sufficient.

Although the Nine Shadows King also reuses the cool officials to use the heavy code, the cool officials under him will not arrogantly bully all the ghosts who are not illegal. On the contrary, because of the existence of cool officials, the ghost officials and ghost people in various cities consciously abide by the law of the Nine Shadows. Enwei and Shi made the towns and cities so that the roads were not left behind, and the doors were not closed at night.

And the Nine Shadows King implemented the strategy of recruiting ghost talents in various places, so that the talented ghost people of the poor family were also reused. When the political situation in the entire ghost country is stable, and the monarch and the minister are united, all walks of life have been developed steadily.

Moreover, the canals that extend from the rivers, lakes and seas are all over the country, which not only solves the problem of flood discharge, but also makes the rice flow fat and corn white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant. At the same time, the eight-car gallop road and the six-car official road extend between the cities. Not only has the transportation of all parts of the Nine Shadows Country developed, but the speed of troop transfer is at the top of the underworld. In the event of war, the required troops and supplies can be transferred quickly and unimpeded.

Everywhere you can see thriving and prosperous. This is something that the Shadow Ghost does not see in the Six Heavens Continent.

If it weren't for the fact that he still had the slightest loyalty to Emperor Xudu, the shadow ghost really wanted to settle down in this stable and peaceful place and live a peaceful life for a few years.

After nightfall, the lights in the Yuque Palace were brightly lit. The palace maids held lamps and candles, or carried lamp oil to light all kinds of exquisite jade lampposts on the roadside in the palace one by one.

The shadow ghost that had turned into a shadow finally moved, shuttling through the shadows under those lights, according to the topographical map of the Jade Que Palace drawn by the green beads and pothos over the years, towards the Absolute Fragrance Garden in the Jade Que Palace.

Because he was turned into shadows, the secret sentinels and patrols in the palace did not find his whereabouts. In this way, the shadow ghost came all the way to the gate of the Absolute Fragrance Garden.

He quietly followed the shadows under the palace gate into the garden, slowly walked in the shadows among the trees and flowers, and quietly approached the main building, blended into the shadows on the window, and looked into the building along the crack.

At a glance, I saw a little female ghost who was only about ten years old, sitting behind the bookcase in the building, carefully looking at the notebook and the notebook spread out on the table in front of her.

The shadow ghost looked around, and saw that there was only this little female ghost in the huge main building, and there was no figure of Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother. He carved the carving along the window again, and slowly climbed to the windowsill in the window.

According to the information that Luzhu Luluo sent back to Yudu before his death, this is the dormitory of Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother, and the one sitting in it should be Xiao Fuling. But now it's night, and it's normal for Xiao Fuling not to go back to her main palace, but she hasn't seen Xiao Shizhu and the ghost mother, which is a bit abnormal.

Just as the shadow ghost was muttering to himself, a black shadow suddenly flashed out of the grass and trees in the building, and swooped towards him, startling the shadow ghost.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a tiger with a head but a pair of canine ears and a lion's tail, and the tengu that looked like a tiger but not a tiger but a lion and not a lion, and looked like a dog but not a dog, pounced in front of the window, and the man stood and put his two front paws on the edge of the window, sniffed the windowsill, and let out a few dull growls.

"Silly dog. The shadow ghost cursed in his heart, and now he was a shadow, even if the dog smelled the smell, but he couldn't attack him, so he had to keep barking at the shadow, and the shadow ghost was naturally at ease.

"Don't scream big flowers, come over to me. Xiao Fuling, who was concentrating after the bookcase, couldn't stand Dahua's barking again and again, and scolded impatiently. Hearing this, the big flower looked back at Xiao Fuling, who was angry and frowned, snorted aggrievedly in her eyes, and then got down from the window edge, and turned back to Xiao Fuling's side step by step.

Before the big flower left, the shadow ghost turned into a shadow crawling down the shadow of the wall under the window. As soon as the servant landed, he followed the shadows under the flowers and birds in the building, and slowly crawled towards Xiao Fuling.

Since I haven't seen the ghost mother for the time being, it's not bad to catch Xiao Poria.

Dahua suddenly became vigilant again, her eyes moved with the trajectory of the shadow ghost, and when the shadow got closer and closer, Dahua couldn't help but bark wildly.

Xiao Fuling, who had just calmed down for a moment, was immediately interrupted in her train of thought, and when she was angry, she threw the brush in her hand on the bookcase, and suddenly got up and scolded: "Dahua, are you looking for a fight?" As soon as he finished speaking, he was stunned and stunned in place.