Cuizhu City, also known as Cuizhu Town, is a city with an area similar to Sanyang Town, however, its city wall is several times more solid than Sanyang Town, and the obvious Xuanwen prohibition can be seen on the city wall, but Sanyang Town has no such treatment, and the city gate is not the kind of iron gate of the ordinary city, but the heavy gate of Xuantie, if the city car wants to break through such a city gate, it will take a lot of time.

Eight months have passed since the Battle of Dingfeng City, and Ling Huazong has successfully solved the problem of the Yeyue Empire, and I don't know what Li Tianyou thinks, he actually agreed to Ling Huazong's role in replacing the original Shang State, but the condition is that Ling Huazong, the territory of the Shang State, has to take it himself, and the Yeyue Empire will not give a penny of help, if he takes the Shang Kingdom within a year, then it will prove that Ling Huazong is worthy.

"Jiji, I said Fang Lin boy, it's enough for the old man here, you have to run here at all, you see that you just got married not long ago, and the three wives are not enough, your kid still has the energy to run around, be careful that the ladies won't let you go to bed after you go back." In the tent of the commander of the Fengming Pass, as soon as Zoro saw Fang Lin and the others who came in, he smiled strangely.

When the three concubines heard this, a flush suddenly flew on their faces, and they lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at everyone, in the past two months, the three of them have been teased by these people around them, and the three girls have a feeling of being ashamed to see people.

Fang Lin laughed and said, "Haha, with a beautiful wife by his side, he will get twice the result with half the effort when he gets things done, and lingering compassion is a must, but the major affairs of the sect cannot be delayed." ”

"Fang Lin, this guy, has been revealed since he got married, and now we can see clearly that he is not a good person at all." Li Haoran said with a smile.

"Hmph, he's a wanderer at all, our concubine sister, Yue'er and Xiang'er are all fooled." Qu Shan'er snorted.

Bai Lian then grinned and said, "That's it, that's it, Fang Lin, you married three delicate beauties at once, it's cheap, but it's too big, no matter what, you have to show it to the big guys." ”

Seeing that Ayinata was about to speak, Fang Lin immediately interrupted her words, otherwise, he would not be able to live this day, and said: "I said that you still have no humanity, on the second day of the wedding, you knocked me hard, and I am still distressed until now, why are you still here now, you must be happy to make me, the sect master, the pants." ”

At this time, Shuang raised his head and said coldly the word "should", which immediately caused everyone to laugh in the public hall, and after the joke, Fang Lin walked directly to the back of the handsome case, looked at Gao Xuan, the temporary marshal on the side, and asked, "Senior Brother Xuan, how is the situation in Shangguo recently." ”

Gao Xuan immediately ordered someone to carry the freshly made sand table in, and then led everyone to the giant sand table and pointed to a mountain peak above and said: "This is where Fengming Pass is located, at present, our army has 1.5 million troops stationed in the pass, and there are 1 million garrisons in Dingfeng City that can be reinforced at any time." ”

Then, his finger slid out and pointed to a city and continued: "This is Cuizhu City, three hundred miles away, according to the information we have detected, Cuizhu City currently has 300,000 garrisons, equipped with all kinds of Shang State's most advanced city defense equipment and city defense equipment, grain and grass are abundant, since our army entered Fengming Pass, Cuizhu City has been closed by the city gate, and the wind is loud. ”

Immediately afterwards, his finger pointed to several cities around Cuizhu City and said: "You have all seen, in addition to facing this direction of Fengming Pass, there are a total of six cities around Cuizhu City, they are all one hundred and fifty miles away from Cuizhu City, if you want reinforcements, it will only take an hour at most to arrive." ”

Everyone looked at the sand table silently when they heard this, but at this time, Ayinata said suspiciously: "Didn't you say that the Shang Kingdom only has an army of five million, and most of it has been wiped out by us before, how can it be counted now that it seems that their army is even more?" ”

Gao Xuan smiled and explained: "Five million refers to the army that Shang Guorong City has that can wage war against the outside world, not the army of these acropolis, and in every acropolis here, there are now 300,000 troops!" ”

Li Haoran frowned and said: "I remember that the army of each acropolis was 100,000 in the past, but now in order to deal with us, it has increased to 300,000, can the Shang State afford such a large number of troops?" ”

"Hehe, now that the Yeyue Empire has given us a year, it's not a secret, Shang Guo must have made up his mind and will carry it with us, as long as this deadline is over, I'm afraid we won't have so much energy to deal with them." Fang Lin sneered.

Li Qing nodded and said: "That's true, raising these troops for a year, Shang Guo should still be able to do it, no wonder they don't even want their five ancestors, is it just holding the mentality that they are not happy and will make us unhappy." ”

Qu Shan'er snorted coldly and said: "Hmph, are we still afraid that he won't succeed, even if reinforcements from their other six cities come, we are not afraid, with Fang Lin commanding, at most we can kill all their nearly one million troops at the cost of tens of thousands of people, which will be more beneficial to us." ”

Fang Lin smiled and said: "Shan'er, it's not like that, you see, these forty-nine acropolis all have a common feature, that is, no matter which city is surrounded by six cities with exactly the same distance, and as long as one is attacked, then the reinforcements are definitely not only six cities, but waves of reinforcements are coming, and the time between the arrival of each wave of reinforcements is an hour, what does this mean?" ”

When Li Haoran heard this, his eyes instantly turned cold, and he blurted out: "That means that we will be hit by echelons, assuming that the reinforcements dispatched by each city are 200,000, then we will be attacked by seven consecutive waves of 1.2 million troops each, in this way, even if our army is not completely destroyed, I am afraid it will be hit hard, even if it is a strong person in the life and death realm!" ”

Everyone's faces were a little heavy when they heard this, and after a while, General Mi spoke: "According to the strength of this Cuizhu City, if we attack the city with all our might, we should be able to break the city in an hour, in that case, won't their reinforcements become a joke." ”

Zoro smiled and said: "Boy, you are too tender, these forty-nine acropolises and their capital city form a linkage defense array, that is to say, each city can call on a part of the defense of all other cities, with our current attack power, it is impossible to break the formation in a short period of time." ”

The generals' eyes widened when they heard this, and General Mi stammered: "There is actually this••••There is such a ~~ big array!" Wouldn't it be delusional for us to want to break the city! ”

Fang Lin smiled slightly, and said, "That's not necessarily, I'll tell you slowly." ”

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In the Huanhua Wetland, a captain crossed the willow trees of different shapes like the wind, and from time to time turned his head to look behind him, a pale cyan light and shadow rushed to chase after him, and the distance of ten zhang passed in the blink of an eye, and soon appeared not far behind the captain, and he saw that he would be caught up in two or three breaths.

The first captain is already dead, all the things he can use to block the demon wolf even for a moment have been used, it can be said that he is now a poor and white poor bastard, and then even this life will be lost.

The demon wolf's hideous head can already be seen clearly, a captain's eyes are wide open, and when he is about to hit desperately, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashes in his mind, he turned around and shouted, and made a throwing action, the demon wolf subconsciously flashed, however, the next moment nothing happened, the demon wolf was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became angry, and a forward pounce chased after the captain, this way it can be regarded as being angry by the endless means of this hateful human being.

After running for more than a mile, a small flat ground appeared in his sight, and the captain of the first team suddenly felt happy in his heart, which was the place where they agreed to meet the commander, so he immediately raised his breath and shouted: "Lord Commander, help!! ”

His voice could be said to have used all his true yuan power, and even the demon wolf who was close at hand was startled, and the big mouth that was about to bite the back of his neck couldn't help but pause, but then bit down fiercely.

The first captain had already felt that the sharp wolf fangs had pierced into his skin, and death would come in the next moment, but at this moment, a black light flashed, and the first captain heard a muffled sound behind him, and then there was a scream of the demon wolf, and the flesh of the back of his neck was also painful, but at this time, he was extremely happy, because he knew that his life was finally saved.

When the demon wolf was about to bite off the head of the hateful human being, he was hit on the head by a sudden attack, the power was so great that it was enough to have a fatal threat to it, and it was slapped away with a palm, but the demon wolf was not injured, one turned over and stood up, vigilantly looking at the man in black who suddenly appeared in front of him, his upper body slowly lowered, and a low threatening sound came out of his mouth.

The man in black didn't speak, his figure flashed and rushed towards the demon wolf, a captain was surprised to find that with his eyesight, he couldn't see the movements of this man and a beast clearly, there were only two afterimages in his eyes that kept flickering, at a certain moment, a bang came out, the demon wolf screamed, flew out upside down more than ten zhang distance, and there were repeated blood spills between the mouth and nose.

The man in black stood in place, not pursuing, but the only eyes that showed were full of sarcasm and disdain, the demon wolf quickly stood up, glanced at the two hateful humans with resentment, turned into a green shadow and ran into the distance, only to disappear at the end of sight with a single breath.

The first captain stepped forward and said with a sneer: "The commander is mighty, why don't you chase it?" ”

The commander said angrily: "Chase a fart, it's a second-level peak spirit beast, this seat can defeat it, but if you want to kill it, I'm afraid you will have to pay a considerable price, and if its speed blindly escapes, this seat has no choice." ”

Immediately after, the commander's tone turned cold, and he asked lightly, "What's the matter with you, and what about your people?" ”

The commander had such a question in the imagination of the first captain, of course he couldn't tell the truth, otherwise, even if he was cut with a thousand knives, it would be difficult to atone for his sins, and he immediately spoke: "Lord Qiqi, we found traces of a small group of anti-thieves in a forest about four or five hundred miles ahead, they looked like fifteen or sixteen people, at first, we were going to go up and take them down and torture them, but seeing that they were sneaky and suspicious, we pressed down and followed behind them. ”

Speaking of this, the first captain paused and continued: "Originally, we thought they were going to join the others, but who knows, it was a trap specially aimed at us, they led us to a demon wolf settlement, and then I don't know what method was used to lure all the demon wolves out, but, what is even more strange is that those demon wolves actually turned a blind eye to them, and just desperately attacked us. And the rest of us were also attacked by the demon wolf's madness, and the subordinates were targeted by the previous demon wolf after killing a few eighth-level demon wolves, and the subordinates knew that they were not opponents, and they finally escaped by all means, and the subordinates were incompetent, please punish the commander! With that, the captain knelt down on one knee.

When the commander heard this, he couldn't help but feel a suffocation in his chest, and let out a long breath before asking lightly, "What about the others?" ”

"They're all dead." The captain replied tremblingly.

Hearing this, the commander couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood, blood splattered on his face towel, dyeing the black face towel dark red, a commander of the Shadow Guard was in charge of five squads, the first captain came back almost completely annihilated, and none of the people in the second team could not come back, what does that mean, they must have been ambushed by the enemy, and the whole army must have been wiped out, so he lost nearly half of his strength at once, he is already unworthy of the name, and the task has not been completed, If Lord Totong blames him, I'm afraid he won't be able to eat and walk around.

Under the appeasement of the first captain, it took a long time for the commander to come to his senses, and he glanced at the captain, if it weren't for the fact that his subordinates were really short of people now, and he was the only one who knew the inside story, the commander really wanted to slap this waste to death, suppressed the anger in his heart, and the commander slowly spoke: "Let's retreat to Bu Yueyi first, and wait for the other three teams to come." ”

However, they waited for a full eight months.

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Under Cuizhu City, Ling Huazong's million-strong army has surrounded this city, looking at it from a distance, a large area of enemy army formation under black pressure, that kind of slaughtering momentum, if a person with a slightly less determined mind sees it, I am afraid that he will immediately feel weak in his hands and feet, his brain is blank, and he only thinks about surrendering.

At the head of the city, the army of the Shang State was also well-groomed, and it was not at all obvious that there were most of the recruits, and an earthy yellow light shield detained the city in it, but it did not block the sight of the enemy, and there was a feeling of demonstrating to the enemy.

"Hehe, these guys from the Shang Kingdom are very confident, so that we can clearly see their city defense layout, aren't they afraid that we will formulate corresponding siege tactics." Li Haoran laughed.

"They want to strengthen our confidence in attacking the city, because only when we attack the city will we produce losses and create better opportunities for their follow-up reinforcements." Fang Lin said lightly.

"So, we're going to attack the city?" Gao Xuan asked.

Fang Lin nodded, Gao Xuan unfurled the flag, and shouted: "The formation is scattered, ready to attack the city!" ”

When the order was issued, the formation of the whole army spread out to both sides, revealing five rows of two hundred and fifty catapults side by side behind, of which the volume of the last two rows was obviously much larger than the first three rows.

Gao Xuan wouldn't give them any time to study, so Ling Qi shouted, "Attack! ”

Boom boom boom ~~~ A roar sounded, and a large piece of rune stones smashed towards the Cuizhu City in front of it, and the defending general of the merchant army noticed that the volume of about a hundred rune stones was obviously two circles larger than the others, and the light flickering on them was also different from the others, and their flight altitude was also higher than that of other rune stones.

The merchant army did not move, they believed in the power of their city protection array, even if it was such a strong attack, it would not be broken in a short time, the next moment, the rumbling sound continued to sound, and a large group of sparks burst on the earthy yellow light mask, completely isolating the sight of both sides, the light mask kept flickering, making a circle of ripples, but the speed was very slow, showing that the large array was quite easy to resist such an attack.

After a while, the eyes of everyone in the merchant army were clear, this wave of rune stone attacks seemed to have passed, the corners of the mouth of the defending general couldn't help but flash a mocking smile, however, in the next moment, a more huge explosion came, just on the light mask above their heads, those even more huge rune stones bombarded down, these rune stones were not explosive runes, but wild thunder runes, thick thunder and lightning raged on the light mask, hitting a large ripple, compared to the previous attacks, It was obviously much more violent, but such an attack was still not enough for this large array of city protectors.

However, none of the merchants noticed that just as the first round of rune stones exploded, a figure like blue smoke had already followed these rune stones to the city wall, clinging to the light shield of the large array, and a stealth talisman made his figure completely disappear into thin air.

Looking at the protective array that had withstood a round of attacks but had not reacted at all, Fang Lin's face did not change at all, and he motioned to continue attacking, and just after five breaths, the second round of rune stone attacks began.

"The latest Thunder Rune Stone we bought from Tianxuanzong is much more powerful than the Burst Flame Rune, but the price is indeed a bit distressing, this is a hundred, it is equivalent to a thousand Burst Flame Rune Stones, I really don't know if it's worth it." Li Haoran stood beside Fang Lin and spoke.

"Hehe, this is definitely worth the price, although its attack power is only three to four times that of the Burst Flame Rune Stone, but the time it can save us on the battlefield is priceless, after all, it is likely to be hundreds or even thousands of lives." Fang Lin said with a smile.

"Hmph, I'm angry when I say that Tianxuanzong, and I say that everyone is a partner, sell us rune stones and this kind of matching catapult, and don't even give a little discount, and say that it's already the lowest price, and they will lose money if it's low, and so on, it's really angry when we don't know how to do it." Qu Shan'er said angrily.

"That's it, these days the guys of Xuanzong are just stingy, and they are arrogant and stinky guys, and they brazenly ask us to sell high-grade pills and equipment to them at a low price, I think, we should treat others in the way of others, and let them taste this kind of taste, hum!" Bai Lian, who has always been gentle, is also a little angry.

"Hehe, the problem can't be seen like this, in fact, we have taken a big advantage in this, we bought not only these equipment, but also the technology in it, with these large catapults, we can copy it, and all kinds of the latest rune stones, it must not be long before we can also make them, originally these things Tianxuanzong will not sell, at least not in the near future, but they are sold to us, which can also show the sincerity of others." Fang Lin Road.

When Qu Shan'er heard this, she grimaced at Fang Lin with dissatisfaction and said, "Yes, you are a true gentleman, husband, I am a villain who cares about everything, it's okay, hum." ”

As everyone spoke, five rounds of slightly relaxed attacks had been issued, but the large protective array remained unmoved, as if those attacks were tickling it.

The corners of Li Haoran's mouth couldn't help twitching: "This temptation should be almost tempted, you know, in just such a short period of effort, we have already defeated a third-rate sect." ”

"The fake show has to be done in real time, besides, Master Zoro hasn't come back yet, do you think a ninth-level peak spirit array master in the realm of life and death is not worth the price?" Fang Lin said with some amusement.

Li Haoran opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, just muttered: "If it's just for cover, it's not long before you use ordinary Flame Burst Rune Stones, what a waste." ”

Another three rounds of attacks passed, and the protective array of Cuizhu City was still so strong, as if it had not been attacked at all, just when Li Haoran scratched his ears and cheeks, Sauron's figure finally appeared in front of everyone, his face was full of shock and surprise.

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Huanhua Wetland, Bu Yueyi, the commander stood in the middle of the courtyard and looked at the three teams neatly arranged in front of him, plus the four captains, a total of forty-nine people, and said lightly: "You guys are finally here, now we are in big trouble, Huanhua Wetland is much more dangerous than we imagined, our second squad has been completely folded inside, and we don't know the specific reason, and the first squad, hum." ”

Speaking of this, the commander glanced coldly at the captain and said, "Because someone's stupidity fell for someone else's tricks, ten members of the team died innocently, it's like a rice bucket!" ”

When everyone heard this, they all cast strange and disdainful eyes on the captain, seeing that he had an urge to get into the soil, at this time, the commander continued to speak: "Now, this seat will transfer all of you here to concentrate all the strength of our leader, find out where Tianxuanling is, and at the same time, we must also formulate the best roadmap for attacking Tianxuanling, only in this way, can we straighten our backs in the future, understand no!" ”

Everyone agreed in unison, and then under the command of the commander, they divided into three teams and went in three directions, and the first captain was led by the commander to go with the three teams to find the place where he had found the thief.

A group of sixteen people ran in a not dense willow forest, where there were traces of artificially explored by famous schools, but due to the particularity of the Huanhua Wetland, these traces were already very faint, but for the Shadow Guard, who was good at exploration, such traces were already quite conspicuous.

"Hehe, captain, what did you say that those guys in the first and second teams were eating, and they didn't even find such obvious traces!?" One of the Shadow Guards laughed.

The fourth captain frowned and said, "No. three, be careful and confirm what the two squads left from time to time." ”

"Captain, this is absolutely impossible, judging from the recovery speed of the Huanhua Wetland, more than eight months is enough to hide any traces, and there is no mark left by our Shadow Guard, even if those boys are bold, they don't dare to come nonsense on this." Three replied.

Hearing this, the captain also nodded, turned around and asked, "Seven, are there any other discoveries around here?" ”

"Nope." Seven replied simply.

The captain shook his head and said in his heart: "This guy, in the afterlife, as always, cherishes words like gold." ”

After thinking for a while, the captain decisively said: "Follow the traces, but be careful, don't fall into someone's trap like the first captain." ”

"Hehe, boss, we're not a pair of idiots, even if we follow closely behind others, we can still be calculated by others, the commander is right, it's a bunch of rice buckets." Another member of the team laughed.

The rest of the team members chuckled when they heard this, and the captain shouted: "Okay, the first team has set an example for us, let's not follow in the footsteps because of pride." ”

Soon, the four teams followed the vague traces to the side of a small stream, there was a small area of open space, and there was a very clear fire on the ground, judging from the scale of this fire, there were about a dozen people on the other side, about the same number as them, and there were some leftover fish bones on the ground, judging by the degree of decay, it should have been three days ago.

The creek was about four feet wide and three feet deep, and the water was so clear that you could see a lot of fish in it, and the fish were bright and natural in color, fat and round, and all the Shadow Guards swallowed their saliva a little, after all, the taste of dry food was too bad.

No. 3 came to the fourth captain and rubbed his hands and said, "Captain, you see that we have been tracking for several hours, and everyone has already passed by here three days ago, so we are not short of this time, isn't it •••••• hehe." ”

The captain raised his hand and knocked on his head, and scolded with a smile: "You kid, you are already a person from the Yin and Yang Realm, why are you still so greedy, sooner or later you have to die on eating, but well, we do have to fill our stomachs, let's have a grilled fish this time, but we still have to investigate carefully, this fish and water are poisonous from time to time." ”

The team immediately cheered, and the previous man said, "Okay boss, just look at it, haha, brothers, get moving." ”

"Eight, you go catch fish." Seven said lightly, turned around and went to the woods, however, everyone didn't care about his behavior, everyone knew his character, and they also knew that he was going to collect firewood and investigate the surrounding situation by the way.

No. 8 rolled up his sleeves and went directly to catch fish with his hands, it seemed that he was really a veteran, and if he went down, he would be able to catch a big fish of more than three feet, and after a while, there were more than 20 big fish on the shore, however, No. 8 seemed to be not having fun, and he poked into the water, however, the next moment, he let out a scream that was not like a human voice.

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