At the head of Ruijin City, all the soldiers of the merchant army suddenly quieted down when they heard General Meng's roar, but looking at the black pressure outside and the endless Ling Hua army, their eyes revealed endless despair and fear.

At this moment, General Meng suddenly shouted: "Catapult, give me a hard bang, blast all those Linghua Sect's miscellaneous pieces to a mess, and after the battle, General Ben will immediately go to the table to ask for credit for you!" ”

Although his words sounded very impassioned, there was something wrong with the occasion of his speech, and there was no echo of the tsunami in the imagination, only some sparse voices of coping with things.

General Meng was suddenly furious in his heart, and was about to open his mouth to scold, but the roar of the catapult rang out, blocking the words he was about to say, and at this time, General Meng didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly turned his head to look out of the city.

Seeing that the dense rune stone flashed with a palpitating light, smashing down towards the Ling Hua army outside the city, General Meng immediately became excited, as if he had seen the scene of Ling Hua being smashed to heavy casualties and embarrassed, and couldn't help but grin and laugh.

However, at this time, an adjutant general beside him glanced at him with disdain, his lips slightly opened, and he made a "idiot" mouth shape, and at the same time, there was a flash of murderous intent in his eyes.

Just when the rune stones flew half the distance, suddenly a blue water curtain rose in the Ling Hua army, and then turned into a monstrous wave, slapping towards those rune stones, boom, a shocking explosion sounded in mid-air, and clusters of fire flashed, but they were extinguished in an instant, and the sound of the waves echoed in people's ears, lasting for a long time.

General Meng's smile froze instantly, and the huge psychological gap that the hope that was about to be seized was ruthlessly extinguished in an instant made him, the lord of a city, unable to react for a while.

"Truly, the lord of a dignified city, you are so uncontrollable, but it's no wonder that you weren't the city lord in the first place, just a temporary replacement." At this moment, a strange laughter sounded from under the city, followed by the laughter of millions of troops in unison, but the sound was like a magic sound pouring into the brain, and it instantly stirred General Meng's brain into a blur.

He pointed to the Linghua army outside the city, and shouted regardless of his image: "Open the city gate, everyone quickly follow me out of the city to face the battle, this general will kill none of these Linghua dogs!" ”

When the merchant army heard this, their faces changed greatly, even if they relied on the advantages of this large array and the city, they might not be able to defeat the Ling Hua army, and now they have to give up these advantages and go outside to fight hard with others, what is the difference between this and looking for death, immediately a partial general stepped forward and arched his hand: "General, please calm down, this is obviously the enemy's method of agitation, the general must not fall for the trick." ”

Poof, the sound of a sharp weapon cutting flesh sounded, a pillar of blood rose to the sky, the head of the partial general flew high, and all the merchant troops were inexplicably cold, and at this time, General Meng's angry roar sounded: "What is the general going to do, do you still use a small partial future to teach, Ling Huajun is not a god, what are the soldiers of our big businessmen afraid of, everyone must not say much, quickly follow me to fight, there are disobedient people, behead!" ”

Wow~~~ All the merchant troops suddenly made an uproar, General Meng thought that he could deter everyone, but it had the opposite effect, and all the merchant troops were staring at this acting city lord who was usually high and disgusting with anger, and he wanted to tear him apart when he saw that posture.

Seeing this situation, General Meng felt a little chilled in his heart, raised his sword and pointed at the people in front of him, although his voice was a little trembling, but he said arrogantly: "You lowly people, is this a rebellion, you have to think clearly, in that case, your family will die!" ”

Everyone hesitated a little when they heard this, General Meng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said even more arrogantly: "You all have only this life, hmph, a lowly person is a lowly person, all of you can only be the general's pawns, act according to the general's orders, and contribute everything to the general's fame through the ages, so you have to do what the general wants you to do, even if you are asked to die, you must die without hesitation, understand!" ”

The anger of everyone was almost accumulated to the extreme, and their eyes were about to burst into flames, but for all this, General Meng seemed to have not seen it at all, or he didn't care at all, looking up to the sky and laughing.

Poof, an almost inaudible sound of cutting flesh reached everyone's ears, and General Meng's laughter came to an abrupt end, and then his head slipped off his neck and rolled on the ground several times.

This sudden scene was completely beyond the imagination of the merchants, they originally forced this General Meng to take back his fate, and suddenly, the whole audience was silent, and the Ling Hua army below did not make any noise.

At this time, the deputy general raised the bloody sword in his hand and said righteously: "Brothers, we have been fighting for many years, as soldiers, it is our duty to die on the battlefield, there is nothing to say, but we can't send death in vain, let alone follow a fool to die, such an ending, are you willing?" ”

When everyone heard this, although they didn't speak, their eyes were clearly telling the deputy general that they were unwilling, and the deputy general was very satisfied in his heart, and continued: "No one is a fool, everyone can see clearly, the current imperial court is already in decline, and it is impossible for Ling Huazong to be the opponent of Ling Huazong, and we people are fighting hard for the imperial court, but in the end, in the eyes of those big people, we are just a group of insignificant ants, and we can be sent to death at any time, do you think of such treatment, Is it fair to us? ”

"It's not fair!" At this time, all the soldiers shouted involuntarily, with raging anger in their eyes, and the deputy continued: "So, in order for the brothers not to be vain ghosts, I, Lu Zhengyang, are here to kill this waste of the Meng family, but because of this, I can no longer tolerate the Meng family, so I decided to join Ling Huazong, at least I can find a place to live, and after that, the brothers can put all the blame on my Lu Zhengyang, and I will bear everything with all my might, and it has nothing to do with everyone!" ”

"Hmph, Deputy General Lu, you also underestimate our brother too much, you are willing to kill this waste of the Meng family for us, brother, how can I let you bear this responsibility alone, I Mao Lao Liu doesn't understand any big truth, I know that people are good to me, I will pay it back tenfold, and I will kill this waste today as my share, I will go with you to join the Linghua Army!" A bearded man immediately stood up and shouted.

"Yes, let's all go to the Linghua Army, damn, let's be honest, this bird merchant army Lao Tzu doesn't want to do it for a long time, we little soldiers, no matter how hard we try, we can't have any success, and those big families can be generals with just a waste, such a court is not worthy of our allegiance!" Another lieutenant general also shouted.

"Okay, okay, let's all go to the Linghua Army!!" Most of the soldiers shouted.

At this time, a commander came out and frowned, "But, what should our family do?" ”

Lu Zhengyang laughed and said: "Haha, most of our brothers' families are in this Ruijin City, and this will already be the territory of Linghuazong in the future, what can the Shang Kingdom do with us, as for a small number of brothers' families in the capital, you only need to hide your identity, can the imperial court really go to kill for a few of your soldiers, besides, as long as your identities are not exposed, who knows whether you are dead or escaped?" ”

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and it didn't take long for the big protective array of Ruijin City to be withdrawn, the city gate was opened, and Lu Zhengyang walked out with a kind of high-level merchant army, and respectfully saluted Fang Lin and said: "Lu Zhengyang, the deputy general of Ruijin City, led all the soldiers to kill the city guard, and came to surrender to the sect master, and hoped that the sect master would take him in!" ”

Fang Lin looked at Lu Zhengyang, and saw that his fist clenched slightly made a strange gesture, that was the code he had agreed with Meng Xuan, Vice General Wang and Deputy General Ma, Fang Lin's face showed a smile, it seems that these three people have done a lot of work in private.

"General Lu is exempt, generals are exempt!" Fang Lin immediately jumped off the horse, made a false gesture with both hands, and said loudly: "Linghua Sect welcomes you to join, the sect is now at the opportunity of development, and it needs a large number of people, but your arrival is just to solve Fang Lin's urgent need, Fang Lin is here to thank you." ”

After Fang Lin finished speaking, he bowed deeply to the merchant army, this time, the merchant army on the opposite side was taken aback, but it also caused layers of ripples in their hearts, as the lord of a high sect, he even saluted these surrendering troops, which made all the merchant troops have a feeling of not throwing the wrong person.

The next incorporation was very smooth, Lu Zhengyang was unexpectedly named the city guard of Ruijin City, the rest of the generals were also promoted, and all the soldiers were also rewarded, Fang Lin also handed over some of the original merchant prisoners to Lu Zhengyang and asked him to reorganize by himself.

Immediately afterwards, the cities around Ruijin City set off a huge wave, the Ruijin City army mutinied, killed the city guards, and all surrendered to the Linghua army, and the deputy general Lu Zhengyang was also because of his meritorious service, and was directly named the city guard, which formed a huge impact on the rest of the city rules, and had a great impact on the defenders in the city.

Just when everyone was in a panic, there was another exciting news, the city lord of Intoxicated City surrendered, and suddenly, the entire western part was boiling, and the fact that Intoxicated City became the territory of Ling Huazong was equivalent to cutting off all their connections and retreats from the south, and the seven cities in the north, they didn't even think about it, General Hua fled without a fight, and didn't take care of them at all, even if they went to the north, they would be killed as deserters and evacuate in the direction of the capital? Don't be funny, it will be hanged alive as a spy, and for a while, the city guards of the remaining five cities have a feeling of entering a cage.

However, what was strange was that in the next five days, Ling Huajun didn't make any moves, as if Fang Lin was already satisfied, but instead, these city guards were all sitting on pins and needles, and the atmosphere became even more tense.

The next day, another news came that caused an uproar among the merchant troops, the city guard of the city next to the city of Intoxication committed suicide because he couldn't withstand the pressure, and the city was immediately disheartened, and finally chose to surrender to Ling Huazong! This made the remaining four city guards even more nervous.

Ruijin City City Lord's Mansion, Concubine Shu in the council hall looked at Fang Lin and said, "That city guard was clearly killed by our strong man from the secret passage of Intoxicated City, but why do you say that?" ”

"Hehe, this is to make the remaining city guards feel more pressure, and when they can't stand it at all, they will come and surrender." Fang Lin smiled faintly.

"But won't they fight hard?" Bai Lian asked curiously.

"Hehe, no, if they were going to fight hard, they would have fought a long time ago, and they would definitely not be so cringe." Li Haoran laughed.

"I still think we should kill it, with our current strength, it will only take two or three days to easily settle it." Ainata said with some unhappiness.

"Hehe, Fang Lin's thoughts, I know, this is called a soldier who surrenders without a fight, right." Wen Yue'er said playfully with crescent-like eyes.

Fang Lin glanced at Wen Yue'er with a smile and said, "If you don't fight, try not to fight, these are our future troops, don't waste it." ”

Qu Shan'er rolled her eyes on the side and muttered, "Money-obsessed." ”

Princess Xiangxiang said with some concern: "Are you sure that they will definitely come to surrender, in case they don't come like this?" ”

"Hehe, don't worry, they'll come, because they're not stupid." Speaking of this, Fang Lin paused, and said with a cold light in his eyes: "If you don't come, you will kill them cleanly!" ”

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In the Huanhua Wetland Buyue Station, the Shadow Guard Commander was drinking alone in the lobby, when suddenly, a rush of footsteps outside woke him up from that hazy state, and then, he shouted angrily: "Who is so unruly, get out!" ”

"Hmph, the commander is so powerful." Suddenly, there was a cold drink outside, and although the sound was not loud, it suddenly made the commander completely sober up.

He immediately bounced up from his seat, his body straight, his eyes not squinting, and at this moment, the door to the lobby creaked open, and a thin man dressed as a standard Shadow Guard, but with a large red wide cloak behind him, slowly walked in, the Shadow Guard logo on his chest was purple and gold, and there was a slight flash.

He glanced at the commander, did not speak immediately, but found a place, slowly sat down, after a while, the commander's head was a little sweaty, and then said lightly: "Waste, actually tossed all your subordinates, now it's okay, your third leader can also be revoked." ”

His voice couldn't hear men and women, nor could he hear joy, just like the voice of a machine, but the commander was shocked when he heard this, and immediately knelt down on the ground and said: "Great Commander Rongyu, the strangeness of the Huanhua Wetland has completely exceeded our imagination in advance, and many of our previous detection and absconding methods have no effect, until now, how and where most people died, and they haven't figured it out yet." ”

When the Grand Commander heard this, he became angry, and slapped the table beside him heavily and said, "You are embarrassed to say that you have been serving in the Shadow Guard for hundreds of years, don't you know how to deal with such a situation, why do you want to take people to explore a completely unknown place?" ”

"My lord, that's really not a humble recklessness, but my captain has come back to report ••••••" Then, the commander relayed what the captain said in this way, and finally raised his eyes and glanced at the two guards behind the commander secretly.

Seeing this, the Great Commander's eyes narrowed, and he casually made a soundproof prohibition and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it, the two of them are definitely trustworthy." ”

Hearing this, the commander no longer hesitated, swallowed his saliva and said: "And we are not without harvest this time, my lord, we have found countless rare elixirs in that valley, and there are many genius earth treasures, among them, I can see the earth dragon root that the adult has been looking for, and it is more than a thousand years!" ”

"Hmm!" When the Great Commander heard this, his eyes hidden behind the mask flashed with a stunning light, he had been at the peak of the reincarnation realm for nearly two hundred years, and he had not been able to break through, and this earth dragon root was one of the main materials for refining an elixir that was extremely helpful for him to break through, and it was also the most difficult to find one, a thousand years ago, the effect was even more needless to say.

The Grand Commander pondered for a moment, his tone softened, and he said lightly, "Then can you detect the situation inside?" ”

The commander shook his head and said: "We just entered the valley, and before we had time to investigate, we were attacked by the demon wolves, and several people died at that time, among which there was a demon wolf who had been transformed, and her strength was very strong. ”

When the Great Commander heard this, his eyes flashed, and he shouted: "Bastard, the demon beasts that transform are at least third-level spirit beasts, do you want this seat to be sent to death?" ”

As soon as the commander heard this, he knew that the great commander had misunderstood, and immediately explained: "That demon wolf is only a second-level peak spirit beast, but according to him, it seems that he was given a transformation pill by an adult. ”

"Transfiguration Pill!" The Grand Commander's tone deepened, and after a moment he asked, "What kind of adult is it, have you inquired clearly?" ”

The commander shook his head and said, "The demon wolf said that she didn't know the identity of the adult, but her subordinates thought that the person who could take the Transformation Pill and was willing to use it for the second-level spirit beast must not be a mortal, maybe it was an old monster who lived in seclusion in the Huanhua Wetland, let's ••••••"

The Grand Commander also couldn't sit still, stood up and paced back and forth in the lobby, pondering for a long time before gritting his teeth and saying: "We must take down that valley, the treasures inside must not fall into the hands of others, the demon pill of the shape-shifting spirit beast is a rare good thing, even the old monsters of the life and death realm will not let it go, so, we must not miss it!" ”

"But my lord, if that old monster is here, I'm afraid we won't be able to stuff people's teeth enough." The Commander hesitated.

"Hmph, are you the means of being the commander of this position, or do you think that the combat power of our Shadow Guard is really that weak?" Saying this, the Grand Commander sneered, glanced back at the two guards behind him and continued: "Isn't the realm of life and death amazing! ”

Listening to the words of the Great Commander, the Commander suddenly shook his whole body, he quietly probed the two guards, and was shocked to find that he couldn't see through the cultivation of other people at all, and suddenly a layer of fine sweat soaked in his back, and said secretly: "Fortunately, I didn't disrespect this person before, otherwise I don't know how many times I was shot to death." ”

The Grand Commander thought for a long time, and then he spoke to one of the guards: "Send two more people from the Commandery to come over, during this time, we will temporarily put down the things we are doing and concentrate on dealing with the Huanhua Wetland, and then inform General Yingyangwei to order those wastes from the South Vietnamese Kingdom to enter the wetland and open the way for us." ”

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Shang Guo, Jin Luan Palace, all the ministers are boiling, on the solemn hall on weekdays, but today there is some taste of the vegetable market, the Shang Emperor sat on the dragon chair, looking at the noisy people below, his face was difficult to see, and he shouted in a deep voice: "You are a member of the court, so noisy, what kind of system!" ”

The whole hall suddenly fell silent, but all the ministers did not speak, and Emperor Shang glanced at everyone and said, "Speak, why weren't you all very active just now, why are you dumb now?" ”

After a while, seeing that everyone still didn't mean to speak, Emperor Shang was secretly angry in his heart, stared at a minister and said: "Long Zhongtian, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, I saw that you were the happiest just now, now you can talk about it, how to deal with the current situation." ”

Long Zhongtian heard the emperor call his name, and his heart was secretly bitter, but he could only bite the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, our forty-nine acropolis are originally a whole, if all of them are in our hands, the Ling Hua army will not be able to enter no matter what, but now the seven cities in the south have all fallen into the hands of Ling Huazong, and the seven cities in the west are about to fall, and our acropolis can no longer play any role, so Wei Chen suggested, let's send envoys to the peace talks first, as long as we can delay some time, Without the support of the Yeyue Empire, Ling Huazong would inevitably die down, so that we would have time to recover slowly, and as for the matter of recovering the two domains, we could also slowly figure it out. ”

Emperor Shang didn't say anything when he heard this, however, at this time, the national teacher said lightly: "Stupid, you all know that the Yeyue Empire has given Ling Huazong a time limit, doesn't Ling Huazong himself know, if you talk about peace, Linghua Sect will make peace with you?" You're as stupid as Fang Lin is you! ”

Long Zhongtian was immediately furious when he heard this, and pointed at Shang Rong's nose and scolded: "You old horseman, you are embarrassed to say, if you hadn't advocated for the imperial court to deal with Ling Huazong, where would there be today's situation, hum, the first wise man in the Great Shang Country, he is simply the first fool in the Great Shang Country, and now he is still running to scold others." ”

"You...••" Shang Rong was suddenly so angry that his eyes were on fire, and he pointed at Long Zhongtian and said: "I'm embarrassed to say that the old man, the old man has obviously arranged a very careful plan, but what did Long Tiansheng do with that waste, for the resources of Ling Hua Sect, in order to hold Ling Hua Sect in his hands, he gave him a chance to breathe again and again, until he was killed by Fang Lin, he didn't know what he was wrong, if he did what the old man said, Ling Hua Sect would have been destroyed a long time ago, where did the many things behind come from?" ”

Shang Rong seemed to be getting more and more angry the more he spoke, pointing at Long Zhongtian and shouting: "And the Long Tianyue of your family, it is even more of a waste of waste, the three million army of the imperial court, and the cloud-piercing crossbow given by the Yeyue Empire, such a strong strength was actually wiped out by the 1.2 million army of the Linghua Sect, it doesn't matter if you were killed by others, it also involved a large number of my strong people to be martyred, and even the Fengming Pass was lost inexplicably, hum, the people of your Long family are themselves waste, But they still have to blame the sins on others, the Long family is not only a waste, but also a complete scoundrel! ”

This sentence immediately angered the prime minister on the side, and he said with a dark face: "The national teacher is really a powerful mouth, just a few words have sent my entire Long family into the eighteenth layer of hell, if you continue to say it, I'm afraid that even the other families will be doomed." ”

As soon as his words came out, the faces of the Meng family, who were still watching the show on the sidelines, and the faces of several other big families were a little unsightly, although they knew that they were pulled in by the prime minister, but who knows what the national teacher will say in the next sentence.

At this time, the Shang Emperor snorted angrily and said, "Are you ministers or shrews, are you Jinluan Hall or a vegetable market here?" Have you all forgotten your duty!? ”

Everyone was suddenly silent, and the prime minister stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty is angry, Wei Chen knows that he is wrong, although Long Zhongtian said the current situation before, but his solution is wrong, Ling Huazong is already determined to destroy us, and it is a waste to negotiate peace with them, so Lao Chen thinks that we should be ready for the final decisive battle." ”

At this time, the national teacher also stood up, nodded and said: "What the prime minister said is exactly what the old minister thinks, now the defense of the Acropolis is meaningless, we can only defend the capital, as long as we hold on for a few more months, once the time limit is up, Ling Huazong will not be able to withdraw even if he wants to." ”

When Emperor Shang heard this, his face finally looked better, and he looked at a minister and said, "Ministry of War, what do you think?" ”

The secretary of the military department immediately went out and said: "The minister seconded the proposal." ”

Next, the ministers also seconded the proposal, and Emperor Shang nodded and said: "Since all the ministers think that we can only fight against the water, then let's also prepare for the final decisive battle, draft the will!" ”

Immediately, a close attendant prepared a set of utensils, and the Shang Emperor said solemnly: "There is a strong enemy attacking today, and it has reached the autumn of critical survival.

I have a special order: First, ninety percent of the escort force of all families must report to the military field of the school at noon tomorrow, and the reorganization of the army will be uniformly deployed by the imperial court; Second, all children over the age of 18 of the family must report to the military field of the Forbidden Military Academy at noon tomorrow to establish Ying Longwei and be ruled by Prince Youguo; Third, all young and middle-aged civilians must accept the unified deployment of the imperial court and do a good job of logistical support for the army; Fourth, the imperial court accepts donations from many parties, and all those who have made outstanding contributions, regardless of whether they are high or low, can be recorded, and after the fact, the court will have a reward! ”

The holy decree was drafted, and suddenly the people of the big family in the court were a little dumbfounded, because the emperor's move almost hollowed out all their families, and the accumulation of hundreds or even thousands of years was almost attributed to the imperial court, and a wave of anger rose in everyone's hearts, but in this Jinluan Palace, no one dared to attack, and under the fierce eyes of the Shang Emperor, everyone only had the mountain to shout long live, and they were grateful for the order.

A hint of triumph flashed in Emperor Shang's eyes, and at this moment, a long message suddenly sounded outside the hall, and Emperor Shang suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

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