The cloudy day that gradually set in the east was particularly bright red today, turning the afternoon sky of the underworld into blood red, as if the blood in the sky was scattered, and only a piece of red was left between heaven and earth, and even the clouds were dyed blood red.

After the retreat of the enemy army, Manjiang City was exchanged for a short period of tranquility and temporary comfort.

The river breeze outside the city was blowing, and the black fog and haze composed of the ghost qi rising from the river spread on the river surface, and it did not blow away even if the yin wind was chaotic. The sentinels in the city were watching warily outside the city, the sergeants were busy taking time to rest, and the craftsmen were busy repairing the damage in the fortifications.

Xiao Shizhu and Gu shot the goddess, still sitting in front of the palace gate, staring at the city in front of them. The wind howled through the streets and alleys of the city, sending out bursts of sharp whistling.

And Xiao Shizhu's sudden, brainless words made the eyes of the goddess overflow with a little confusion.

In the past few days, the enemy forces outside the city have been attacking extremely fiercely, and the goddess who also participated in the city defense is clearly visible. Although the artillery of the Nine Shadows Kingdom was fierce, it was not able to defeat the United Army.

Every time the United Army launched an attack, it was a million-strong army at every turn. Under the sound of winter drums, when the gong sounded, under the escort of the majestic air horsemen, there were thousands of transfigurative aircraft or vehicle-mounted repeater chariots speeding across the country. The high-spirited road cavalry beast soul roared, and its four hooves and four claws spread out and ran wildly. A wide variety and a huge number of siege equipment frequently approached the city walls under the escort of bright armor and high-spirited infantry.

Every attack is cold and windy, and the fog is cloudy. The combined army can always bring up the sky-high black air and strong winds outside the city, and the sand and rocks can be seen everywhere under the sand and dust. It's simply that the heavens and the earth are dim, and the sun and the moon are dark and gloomy.

And these enemy troops are full of spirit, from the Xudu Army to the Black-toothed Ghost Army, to the Fusang Army and the Corpse Soul Army, they are all oily and slippery, where does it look like a person who can't eat enough and is about to run out of food?

Xiao Shizhu smiled and said nothing; Gu Shooting Goddess didn't know, he still didn't know that a few days ago, his flying army and air cavalry burned seven or eight out of ten of the opponent's military rations in the night attack. Moreover, the Tanuki Tianying and Gonggong, who were fighting along the coast, had also destroyed most of the supply ships of the Beiyin Water Division that came from the east, along with the ammunition, grain, grass, and fresh water on board.

forced the Beiyin Water Division to go north along the coast and go to the rear of the Xudu Army in the eastward expedition to the Desert Plain to replenish.

There is only so little food and grass, and there are so many ghosts rushing to eat at once, and there will always be no food to eat. And Liutianzhou, the core area of the Northern Yin Dynasty, is not three or five steps away from Dongyi Continent. It is impossible to drop food from the Six Heavens Continent overnight, and it is inevitable that the Xudu army will starve immediately afterward.

People are like ghosts, they can do anything once they starve. Since the Xudu Army is a combined army, once it starves, it will deduct the military rations of other ghost armies.

"Just wait and see the excitement, it won't be long before the enemies outside the city will have to fight themselves because of what they eat. After a long time, Xiao Shizhu said this and said no more.

Gu shot the goddess who had just surrendered, and he didn't want to say anything more. So a few ambiguous words fooled the past.

When the goddess heard this, she tried her brain to think for a long time, but she still didn't understand why he could say such confident words?

After a while, Xiao Shizhu saw her looking at herself with incomprehensible eyes, and after thinking about it for a while, he felt that the goddess and the ghost soldiers of the deer fairy she brought in the past few days were also struggling to kill the enemy, and after loyalty was still reliable, he finally stopped selling Guanzi, and said slowly: "On the night when you led the army into the city, I sent troops to attack the rear of the enemy army outside the city at night. The main thing is to burn down the granaries and blow up the enemy's Guanyuecha. ”。

said that it was explicit, but he didn't say much, just simply pointed it out.

But the goddess is not a straw bag, and after hearing him say this again, after thinking for a while, I figured out the mystery. She suddenly nodded her head and sighed: "You occupy their supply line too long, so you destroy most of their military rations, so that their supplies cannot be supplied, so that in the army fighting on the front line, there will be a situation where there will be more monks and less porridge." ”。

"Yes, whether there are more monks and less porridge, or wolves with more meat and less meat, they will have civil strife for a bite. Xiao Shizhu squinted and smiled, and bowed slightly.

"It's indeed a good plan, but if they don't have civil strife, or if they bypass Manjiang City to plunder the rear, won't this plan fail?" After thinking about it again, the Gu Shooting Priestess turned her head, looked at Xiao Shizhu's side face again and asked with a wink.

When she finished speaking, she had already smiled, she had never seen Xiao Shizhu very surprised or lost in the past few days, at this time the words came out, but she was a little eager to see, Xiao Shizhu's surprise, or because of negligence, did not think of this, but when she suddenly discovered this problem, what kind of expression would she have?

However, she doesn't know much about Xiao Shizhu, how can she know that Xiao Shizhu looks like he is indeed doing everything on weekdays, but when he starts to do the right thing, he is still thick and detailed, and he still has all the questions.

Xiao Shizhu had already thought of this problem, so the Ghost Mother urgently transferred the Tianyong Army to him, and he only arranged for half of the sergeants to be in the area of Junzi Port to assist the local garrison in coastal defense.

Most of the remaining half of the Heavenly Warrior Army ghost soldiers were arranged by him in the cities south of Manjiang City. At the same time, effective ghost officials and battalion generals were dispatched to mobilize the masses, so that in all cities outside Manjiang City, the army and the people were mobilized to actively prepare for war and famine. The common people distributed cold weapons such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc., and the hunters were also organized, and the army relied on the favorable terrain in various parts of the south to form a line of defense.

Moreover, the target of the Xudu Army will only be Xiao Shizhu. Hatred makes the Xudu army only overwhelm Manjiang City with a large army, even if they go to plunder outside the south of the city, they will not send too many sergeants, and the rear army is enough to deal with the enemy's sneak attack.

"That's why I'm here!" Xiao Shizhu smiled again, suddenly turned his head and met the eyes of the goddess, and when the other party hurriedly looked away and looked into the distance in front of him in a panic, he said triumphantly: "You just go and catch an enemy prisoner and ask, if you don't catch me and kill me, will they and their boss be willing?"

"You're so daring. He praised Xiao Shizhu, but he also realized that Xiao Shizhu's gaze, and the goddess who was still rolling on his face, still didn't dare to turn her head.

At this moment, Zuo Fan, Zhu Hai and other generals walked over, Xiao Shizhu hurriedly put away his smugness and smile, stood up and asked the generals standing in front of him, "Is something wrong?"

"Didn't you say it yourself, my lord, that you have to hold a combat meeting every evening to sum up the day's combat experience?" Zuo Fan and Zhu Hai, as well as Ji Yan, who were standing in front of him, were slightly stunned, looked at Xiao Shizhu blankly after looking at each other, frowned, and asked suspiciously.

Xiao Shizhu was reminded by them, and then suddenly remembered that there was really such a decision, so he hurriedly turned around with a smile and said, "Yes, yes, go to the palace for a meeting." After that, he strode towards the back of the palace gate......

To the south of Mingfeng Valley, it was handed over to the 100,000 army led by the king of Beishu and Yama, and camped on both sides of Mingfeng Valley.

Since the corpse of Haobi was killed by Xiao Shizhu's cannon, and extravagant hope became the new king of corpse souls, the Xudu army has killed it again. However, this time, because the Corpse Country has sincerely surrendered to the Northern Yin Dynasty, the two sides have also ended their hostile relations.

In the valley of the wind wind, it is full of valley wind and comfort that runs through. Under the shade of the sun on the hillside, the camp of the Xudu army stretches along the mountain. Flags stood between the tents, and with the valley wind flipping, there were bursts of hunting sounds.

The soldiers in the camp all had pleasant faces on their faces, either basking in the sun on the hillside or curled up in their tents and falling asleep.

Even the sentry on the sentry is a loose one. It's not about sitting on the turret. It is to throw the weapon that should be in his hand on the ground at his feet, and replace it with a fan or a wine jug in his hand.

Either fanning the wind and enjoying the coolness, or drinking heavy wine.

The reason why the Xudu army here is scattered is precisely because their duty is to transport grain this time. As a grain and grass army, when food is not transported, the Xudu army here is too idle.

As soon as they have their free time, they have to find something to do. The king of Yama, who was able to command them, 'ruled by inaction,' and did not force them to train them. Over time, the Xudu army under his command became loose and lazy.

"King Yama, go and see the outside of the tent. At this moment, the angry Harvest was standing in the big tent of the Chinese army, staring at King Yama, who was sitting behind the handsome case, playing with the troop transfer token in his hand, and said in a deep voice with hatred: "What kind of ghost soldiers have become of those ghost soldiers under our command now!"

"General Beishui, we are originally ghosts, shouldn't we just have a ghost?" After patiently listening to him, King Yama raised his eyes and glanced at Beishui, and said disapprehantly: "Soldiers are fighting, they are not allowed to go to the battlefield at this time, and it is normal to have a little temper." ”。

"But if this continues, how will they still transport grain?" After seeing that he was not in a hurry or impatient, and he was not worried, the harvest became even more anxious, and he suddenly stomped his feet and said: "Now most of them are drunk for ten out of twelve hours in a day, what if they encounter the enemy army when transporting grain?"

There was a hint of impatience on King Yama's face, and after a flash of sucking mouth, he finally put down the token in his hand, looked at the harvest, and said slowly: "What about the millions of troops ahead, not to mention that an enemy army can't let go, even a rabbit can't let go." ”。

As soon as he said this, the harvest became even more anxious, and the hot sweat overflowed one after another. But he is also a general, the kind of military general who only knows how to fight, and he has always been stupid. I was in a hurry for a while, I only knew how to open my lips, but I didn't know what to say.

came and went, and the harvest was even more anxious. After being speechless for a long time, even his cheeks were flushed, and he squeezed out a sentence of anger from his mouth: "Anyway, the grain and grass will be delivered the day after tomorrow, you can watch it." ”。

Then Huo Ran turned around and walked away angrily.

When he left, after the king of Yama was left alone in the big tent of the Chinese army, he immediately put away the cynicism and impatience on his face, frowned and showed a solemn face, stared at the troop transfer token on the handsome case in a deep groan, and pondered.

He knew that this batch of grain and grass was the life-saving straw for the combined forces of the Northern Yin Dynasty fighting in front, and he also knew that as long as this batch of grain and grass arrived, then Xiao Shizhu would be under even greater pressure.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about when to send the information of this grain and grass so that this information can be safely delivered to Xiao Shizhu's hands.

Because of the reason that it was collected in the tent of the camp and pasted with a talisman seal, the fungus man sent to him by Xiao Shizhu could not enter the camp at all, so this information was always held by King Yama but could not be sent.

For this reason, the king of Yama was also very distressed in private.