[785] Retreat

The Reincarnation King, who was shrouded by the murderous aura that was constantly exuding from the Emperor Xudu, was still trembling on his knees in the cold hall.

An inevitable, legitimate, massacre is about to unfold. This caught the reincarnation king off guard, and the fear and panic in his heart suddenly appeared, mixed with a little regret.

This is the first time that the Reincarnation King has had this kind of emotion since he came to the Netherworld. For the first time, he reflected on his despicable deeds.

The reincarnation king's heart was like numbness, and the palms and foreheads between the whiskers were covered with cold sweat. He never expected that it would be just three copies, a few fluttering pages, and so many ghosts' lives would be ruined at once.

"With this token in hand, the elite Forbidden Army and the defenders of the Forbidden Capital are at your disposal. Quickly arrest all the ghost officials and generals on the list in the notebook, and execute them on the spot in case of resistance. The Emperor Xudu, who was full of anger, stuffed the token in his hand into the hand of the Wheel King, and then said sharply: "I don't want to see these thieves again!"

The tone is firm and unquestionable.

"No. The Wheel King clenched the cold token, answered the trembling voice and slowly stood up, turned around in a daze, and walked slowly towards the outside of the main hall.

At this point, he had to continue to carry out the orders of Emperor Xudu. It's just that the fact that hundreds of thousands of ghosts are about to die is still haunting the heart of the Wheel King, making him panic

Emperor Xudu also turned around and walked to the depths of the main hall, and sat on the straw mat again, still angry.

The face shrouded in shadows was still covered with iron blue and angry, and the anger was like a surging tide, constantly washing over the strong chest of the Emperor Xudu.

Emperor Xudu has been summing up experience and lessons, and his army of the Northern Yin Dynasty has many generals, although the weapons are backward, but they also have firearms. And according to Gong Mingyi's suggestion, all the troops were equipped with firearms on the largest scale.

Although the firearms produced by the military industry of the Northern Yin Dynasty were not as sophisticated and advanced as those of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, they were not the biggest and only factor in the defeat on the battlefield. Emperor Xudu has always been unable to figure out why the Northern Yin Dynasty always won less and lost more in the confrontations with the Nine Shadows Kingdom in various parts of the Yin Cao Prefecture. Now I understand, most of them are too many ghosts.

These inner ghosts are also really hateful in the eyes of Emperor Xudu, not only are they very likely to report to the Nine Shadows Kingdom, but they also secretly sold many strictly controlled prohibited goods to the Nine Shadows Kingdom in exchange for rich money.

It was these two points that made Emperor Xudu move with a strong killing intent, and he was always angry.

Just when he was still breathless, there was a rush of footsteps at the door of the main hall, and a loud shout sounded: "Your Majesty, there are 100,000 urgent reports from Shuoyue Island. ”。

A messenger in a red robe and silver armor rushed in from outside the main hall. In the blink of an eye, he ran to the Emperor Xudu, and when he knelt down, he had untied the long wooden box he was carrying on his back, held it in both hands and handed it to the Emperor Xudu, and repeated: "The 100,000 fire rush report sent by Shuoyue Island just now." ”。

Emperor Xudu reached out and took the wooden box, opened it and took out the silk book rolled up in it, and after taking a look, the anger and iron blue on his face gradually faded.

"Good, good, good. After a while, Emperor Xudu put away the silk book, and after calling three times in a row, his face was already full of joy.

The silk book he rolled up and put aside was sent by Gong Mingyi. It is clearly written that the army of the expedition to Shuoyue Island has torn through the fortifications of Shuoyue Island, and has driven the few remaining Jiuyou troops on the island to the city of Xiaoyu Mountain.

Although it was more than ten days ago, Emperor Xudu was still overjoyed to see it. The capture of Shuoyue Island is just around the corner, and Xiao Shizhu will be sealed in the Yellow Spring.

If there was no Xiao Shizhu in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, it would be nothing, and it would not be able to enter the eyes of the Emperor Xudu at all. And no longer a threat to him and his Northern Yin Dynasty.

Even rebellions in the Netherworld can lose faith and hope. After all, Xiao Shizhu is their spiritual pillar, and without this spiritual pillar, the rebellion in various places will no longer be so fierce.

The day when Emperor Xudu once again firmly controlled the ten continents and six seas is no longer far away.

While he was immersed in this joy, another rush of footsteps sounded outside the door of the main hall, and another shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, the Northern Yin Water Division of the expedition to Shuoyue Island has sent an urgent request for help." ”。

Before the shouting could reach the ground, another messenger had already rushed to the front of the Emperor Xudu, kneeling on the ground with both knees bent, raising his hands as he bowed his head, and presented another long box.

Emperor Xudu narrowed his eyes, and the pleasant color on his face instantly receded. Instead, there was a flash of worry and tension.

Asking for help, that's not a good thing.

He took the long box and opened it, took out the silk book in it, and opened it to look at it. The fact that the Beiyin Water Division, who was besieging Shuoyue Island, had been trapped in the stone forest on the sea, and was frequently attacked by the Nine Shadow Water Divisions and had almost no power to fight back, presented in front of the eyes of Emperor Xudu, which caught him off guard......

The beauty of mountain flowers and peach willow green has long been lost on Shuoyue Island for months.

This small island of valley floors, hills, and swampy rivers is now full of flames and smoke. The island is filled with the sound of strong wind, and sometimes there are screams and guns that resound through the heavens and the earth, echoing between the heavens and the earth.

The Great War turned this beautiful island into a scorched earth shrouded in death. There are no green mountains and green, and there are no pools of clear water. Towns and land are full of devastation.

The army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom held on to the city of Xiaoyu Mountain for nine days, and finally couldn't stop the overwhelming Xudu army. The fortifications were breached, tearing open gaps that made it difficult to recapture them from the enemy.

Ying Zhao could only lead the remnants of the army to defeat the generals and retreat to Xiaoyu Mountain City. Today's Shuoyue Island, only Xiaoyu Mountain City and Yuren Village, which has long been cut off from the mountain road and used to house most of the civilians and the families of the Jiuyou Army, are still under the control of the Jiuyou Kingdom.

At this moment, Ying Zhao was standing silently on the northern slope of Xiaoyu Mountain City, looking at the Xudu army trampling on the sea of corpses and blood all over the mountain, stunned.

A bloody mountain wind came to his face, and Ying Zhao's thoughts suddenly drifted. More than ten years ago, he followed the place where he is now looking, and came here with Xiao Shizhu.

Since then, they have begun the struggle and hegemony to survive in the troubled times.

Step by step to today, it is not easy for the Nine Shadows Kingdom to be strong enough to compete with the Northern Yin Dynasty in the Netherworld. And before Yingzhao retreated to Xiaoyu Mountain City, he didn't expect that the situation would develop to this point.

His original plan was only to retreat to the city of Xiaoyu Mountain, and concentrate his forces to attack and resist the invading enemy.

But Gong Mingyi's dozens of shellings fired more than 100,000 rounds of karmic fireballs, which caught him off guard. Although the tactics of gathering spirit bracers and trenches to cover the ground hole made the Nine Shadows Army suffer little damage under the attack of karmic fire, it still killed and injured more than 10,000 ghost soldiers.

The already insufficient military resources of the heroic move made it even worse. And the Xudu Army seized this opportunity and attacked the Jiuyou National Army from all sides, beating them left and right, and nearly 10,000 ghost soldiers of the Jiuyou Kingdom were killed.

When the breach in the fortification was torn open and the position was difficult to recapture, Ying Zhao could only lead the army to continue to retreat and retreat to Xiaoyu Mountain City.

He looked back at the top of the mountain, thousands of feet above the ground, and slowly clenched his fists. As far as his eyes could see, there was a passage to the Yellow Spring. In any case, the ghost soldiers of the capital can't be allowed to get close to that place.

Otherwise, the passage will be destroyed, and Xiao Shizhu will not be able to come back.

"Dashuai, the defense of Xiaoyu Mountain City is really impregnable. Ji Kang, who was on crutches, limped to Ying Zhao's side, and said with great interest: "I have never seen such a powerful fortification. Even if it is the military industry of the Northern Yin Dynasty, it may not be able to make it. Our military industry was able to chisel through the hard rock along the cliffs of the hillside to build a support point composed of permanent firing fortifications. It can also be divided into artillery fortifications and artillery fortifications, some of which have several floors, including food pantries and ammunition depots, ambulance hospitals and ordnance supervisors, and ventilation rooms. The fortifications are connected by passages, and there are springs in the caves. Outside, near the edge of the cliff, there are fort turrets, each with several of the strongest mother forts at its core, and several sub-forts around it. This is no longer a city, this is a huge fortress pass. As long as there is enough food and ammunition, we can hold out again for a year and a half. ”。

"This was designed by the lord and Mrs. Lai together, and it had already begun to take shape before our army marched south. Ying Zhao came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Ji Kang, his gaze slowly moved down, moved to the other party's bandaged right leg, and asked with concern: "Is your leg okay?" I can send air cavalry to send you off the island, and the medical conditions outside are better than here. ”。

Ji Kang's leg injury fell when he retreated to Xiaoyu Mountain City. On the battlefield, a Xudu army drew a bow and an arrow and gave him an arrow as he ran.

The feathered arrow missed and failed to penetrate his chest, but pierced his leg. Ying Zhao desperately saved him, but he had to pestle the cane made of the branch recently.

"It's just an arrow wound, and he'll be fine in a few days. Ji Kang, who was on crutches, smiled, and turned his head to look at the Xudu army who had set up a formation at the foot of the mountain to confront the defenders on the mountain: "I want to watch Gong Mingyi fall, suffer losses, and be tortured by frustration." ”。

Ji Kang, who had just spoken, had no smile on his face, and only a layer of frost-like coldness was left on his face. But slowly, Ji Kang's eye circles turned red.

He looked at the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood at the feet of the Xudu Army, as well as the scattered blood-colored powder, and his eyes were red.

Those mountains of corpses, sea of blood and red powder are comrades-in-arms and brothers who have eaten and slept with him in the past since he was transferred to Shuoyue Island, sharing weal and woe. Now he has been trampled under the feet of the enemy, and he doesn't even have a decent funeral.

This made Ji Kang feel sad and sad. This is a feeling he has never felt when he is loyal to the Northern Yin Dynasty.

"I annoy you readers the most, and you're going to cry when you see a sad scene. If we survive, we can still fight. After Ying Zhao looked at him silently for a long time, he also aroused the sadness in his heart, and hurriedly turned his head to look at him and pretended to be impatient and shouted: "If we survive, we can avenge our brothers." Retreat is not the same as failure, we still have Xiaoyu Mountain City, as well as tens of thousands of ghost soldiers and hundreds of thousands of ghost people. ”。

"And reinforcements will arrive tonight, and the sea outside has been blocked by our naval divisions, and the time for our revenge has arrived. Facing the smelly mountain wind, Ying Zhao paused, and after Ji Kang quickly raised his hand and wiped the corners of his eyes, he said: "Gong Mingyi thought he had won, but he just thought." Soon, he will have to pay a heavy price for the slaughter of our comrades. ”。

Anger burst out in Ying Zhao's eyes, and he shot straight towards the Xudu army at the foot of the mountain.

"Yes, you are right, handsome. Like a wronged child, Ji Kang snorted suddenly, nodded heavily, and said, "Retreating doesn't mean that we will fail." Whoever has the last laugh is not certain. ”。