With the help of the mountain fire that had not yet been completely extinguished, he vaguely saw that many southern barbarian troops were surging towards Qingfeng Ridge, Xiao Fuling panicked, and immediately waved her hand and shouted at her guards: "Prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Don't panic. After Xiao Shizhu heard her shouting voice trembling slightly, he leaned over and raised his right hand, gently patted his daughter on the shoulder, and smiled warmly: "For the general, you must not be in danger." ”。

As he finished speaking, an arrow slashed from the cuff of his left hand.

Xiao Shizhu, who was calm and calm, then held the arrow, strode to the east tower of the dock fort, and sounded the arrow at the shore.

The dazzling arrows shot into the air with a long whistling sound, and brilliant fireworks bloomed in the sky.

The sea immediately screamed again and again, and all the flying soldiers of the Nine Shadows National Army spread their wings in unison, flew up from the deck, and after quickly forming in the air, they rushed towards Qingfeng Ridge in black pressure.

These flying soldiers are all Lords and Feathermen, who hold firearms or crossbows in their hands, and the leader is Feather Moss, the younger brother of Haei.

After he flew over Qingfeng Ridge with the flying soldiers, he first circled, and then opened the dragon bow in his hand like a full moon, aiming at the back of the head of an enemy soldier who had fled in the desert below.

Then Feather Moss stretched out her wings on her back, leaned forward in the air and made a dive, a blue light whistled, like thunder and lightning shot out from the bow, and the flying soldiers who followed Feather Moss also opened fire, shooting crossbows.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Bang!" "Bang!" One after another, the fire in the air flickered again and again, the steel arrows of the Nine Shadows Kingdom roared and shot quickly, the muskets were all over the sky, and the mountain slopes screamed one after another, and in an instant, the enemy army had a lot of flesh and blood, either by the steel arrows through the body, or by the quilt to open the scoop.

Some of them don't use firearms or crossbows, but simply take off the * from their waists and light them and throw them at the place where the enemy is gathered.

In an instant, it can bring a piece of flying earth and rocks and the stump of the enemy's limbs.

On the messy Qingfeng Ridge, blood was spilled everywhere in an instant, and corpses were everywhere.

After the end of the first round of attack, the flying soldiers immediately changed their formation, except for the feather moss, the other feathered people all retreated in the rain, and the rest of the feathered people formed several squads of two and two, first flew high into the air to shoot arrows at the enemy, and then staggered and dive, and as soon as the servants landed, they drew their swords and killed the surrounding enemy troops.

After taking away a few more ghost lives of the Southern Barbarian Army, they immediately spread their wings and took off under the cover of their partners, put their swords into their sheaths and rotated back in the air, re-aimed at the enemy on the ground, bent their bows and arrows, loaded and fired, and then took their bows and arrows or firearms, drew their knives and dived into the enemy formation.

The Flying Troops were extremely fast, and they cooperated with each other tacitly, and their attacks were fast and accurate, and their attacks were as fast as lightning; although they were not as numerous as the Southern Barbarian Army, they always had the upper hand.

In addition, the Southern Barbarian Army had not been able to rest well for several days, and they had already panicked, and a little smoke was still smoked by the mountain fires, and they did not have a decent counterattack at all, and it didn't take long for them to be rushed to pieces by the fierce Nine Shadows Army.

In the wind and rain, the screams and killings were intertwined, resounding in the pre-dawn sky......

In the southeast of the Yuque Palace, there is a long and narrow pool of clear and emerald green at the bottom of the pit wall that day, standing on the edge of the rock wall at the edge of the sinkhole, there is a waterfall with a width of nearly 100 zhang above the lake surface, gushing out from the rock wall and falling down from the top, falling in the pool. The droplets poured back, like smoke rising into the air, and the momentum was very powerful.

In the middle of the waterfall, a natural stone beam emerges from the mountain wall with stalactites and layers of green forests on both sides of the waterfall, erecting a natural stone arch bridge in front of the waterfall.

The bridge is made of mixed lithified granite with a slight arch under the deck, creating a natural stone bridge. And behind the waterfall behind the bridge, there is a hidden hole. The hole is gourd-shaped, 100 zhang deep, and the narrowest part is also dozens of zhang. The water curtain in front of the cave door flies down, the breeze blows through the water droplets, swaying and falling with the wind, as if the goddess scatters flowers, and it is just like hanging the bead curtain.

And the Yamen of the Nine Shadows Kingdom is built in the cave behind this wide waterfall. Therefore, the arch on the bridge is strictly guarded, no more than 100 zhang long, more than 10 zhang wide on the stone bridge, there are actually 100 majestic forbidden soldiers.

In the depths of the cave, there is an arched stone door inlaid on the rock wall in the middle, push open the thick and tall stone door, you can see a dark passage that rotates down, straight to the punishment of evil, secretly presided over by Lai Yueqi, secretly built the "evil" prison.

Follow the secret passage to the end, and after passing the three gates at the end, you will see a huge cave. Through the flickering sconces on the walls, you can see a number of small, low natural caves, arranged on both sides of the crisscrossed passages in the caves, embedded in the solid prison doors at the entrance of the caves, and plastered with various bondage runes.

And all the people who are imprisoned here are thieves who are trying to subvert Xiao Shizhu's regime. Among them, there are all kinds of heroic children who oppose Xiao Shizhu's emancipation of slaves and the policy of equality between men and women.

Because the cave was small, they could only sit on the dirty and smelly toilet in it, and they sat on the straw-paved floor.

At the edge of the cavern, there are torture chambers, filled with all kinds of torture instruments, from iron hoops to shackles, from iron rods to leather whips. There are also sticks and bamboo sticks, which are also available.

And under Xiao Shizhu's policy of eliminating chaos and putting punishment first, the arresters of the Punishment Division used their brains together to invent all kinds of strange punishments, and there are more than 100 kinds of punishments so far.

Every thief who enters the Division of Punishment and Punishment can be punished every day without any duplicate punishment for a month. Therefore, all the prisoners held here are always dying.

Xiao Shizhu also knew that this was inhumane, but the underworld was a troubled world, and it was said that in troubled times, only in prosperous times could he be benevolent, and he had to do it as a last resort.

At this moment, the ghost mother was taking Chenruo and Qinglan and slowly walked into this dim prison. It was the first time she had come to the prison in person, but her face was always calm, and she turned a blind eye to the angry prisoners around her, and under the guidance of the officials, she went straight to the deepest torture room.

"Open the door. Standing in front of and behind the door of the stone chamber, the ghost mother whispered.

The forbidden soldiers guarding both sides of the door bowed slightly, took out the key to open the huge and heavy iron lock on the door, and pushed the door open together.

As soon as the door opened, there was a pungent smell of blood, and the ghost mother frowned slightly, and when she looked over, she saw that in the middle of the stone chamber with stalactites hanging on the top, there were two iron standing cages side by side, and the two sisters with pale faces and covered with blood were standing in the middle of these two tall standing cages.

They were already covered in bruises, their necks and the wrists of their hands were stuck in the flail at the top of the cage, and there were several bricks under their feet.

A female officer with a heroic face, dressed in a flying fish suit and holding a long whip, stood in front of the standing cage. Under her two sharp sword eyebrows, a pair of eyes revealing a murderous aura were looking coldly at the green beads and pothos.

"Aren't you still recruited?" The ghost mother left Chen Ruo and Qinglan outside the door, slowly walked into the stone room, and after standing next to the female official, she raised her eyes and looked at the green beads and pothos in the standing cage.

A month ago, after the assassination incident in the Juexiang Garden, Qinglan was immediately ordered to lead the forbidden army to the Shuangbi Palace, and the Xuanjiao disciples who disguised themselves as palace maids and guards in the Shuangbi Palace secretly arrested Lu Zhu, who had quietly fled back to the palace, and Lu Luo, who was rubbing medicine on her to heal her wounds.

At the time of his arrest, Lu Zhu was still wearing the black clothes he had been wearing when he fought with the ghost mother, and the sheep's horn dagger was still hidden in the bun on the back of his head.

The forbidden army and the disciples quickly intervened, subdued them three or two times, tied them up and put them in a sack, and secretly sent them to the Punishment Division, where they were handed over to Qiu Qiao, the judge of the Punishment Division, for personal interrogation. The main thing is to find out all the secret agents who are partnered with Luzhu and Pothos.

"I, I, I'm pregnant with the flesh and blood of the lord, you, you, how dare you do this to me?" Without waiting for the female official to answer, although Lu Zhu did not speak, she had already glared at the ghost mother with a vicious gaze, but Lu Luo moved her lips vigorously, and scolded angrily: "Just, just, not afraid, not afraid that when the lord comes back, yes, after learning about this, will you also be punished?"

"Just you talk a lot of nonsense!" As soon as she finished speaking, the female official's face was angry, and she immediately raised her eyebrows upside down, raised her right hand and whipped it over, hitting the corner of the pothos's mouth impartially, and then left a conspicuous blood mark on the other party's beautiful face.

"Hehe, that's a lie. The ghost mother was not in a hurry or angry, but after sneering, after showing a little contempt, she asked coldly: "As a secret agent of the Emperor Xudu, you have drunk the yellow thorn soup, can you conceive a ghost fetus?"

As soon as her voice fell, the eyes of the two sisters invariably dilated a lot, and a little consternation appeared in their eyes. The lips, which had long been chapped, couldn't help but open slightly.

Obviously, they didn't expect that the ghost mother would know that Emperor Xudu would give the female spy yellow thorn soup to sterilize in order to ensure the loyalty of the secret agent.

"Arresting you is a dream of the lord, not to mention that your assassination of me is a conclusive fact, even if I kill you, the lord will not punish me, but will only applaud. The ghost mother sneered again, and said: "From the first day you saw the lord, he knew that you were spies sent by the Emperor Xudu to monitor him; ”。

After a pause, the ghost mother's face suddenly turned gloomy, and she scolded in a deep voice: "Has the Emperor Xudu also arranged for you to have Neiying? If so, who is this Neiying's surname?"

When the two sisters heard this, they suddenly raised the corners of their mouths slightly, but the resolute color between their eyebrows did not decrease but increased.

As secret agents, they have undergone all kinds of rigorous training, including anti-torture training, although the punishment of the Nine Shadows Kingdom is quite a lot and very torturous, but for them, this kind of flesh and skin suffering can still be endured.

They also knew that as long as they didn't open their mouths, the ghost mother could convict them of assassination at most, but the crime of the secret agent could not be confirmed.

So they laughed, with contempt for the ghost mother, but they gritted their teeth and did not speak.

Seeing that they were still obsessed, the ghost mother also smiled lightly, raised her hand and patted the female officer's shoulder: "Hill sandpiper, go get some iron needles and insert them into their fingernails." ”。

"It's okay to continue the interrogation, the means are ruthless, you don't have to make them too comfortable. Saying that, the ghost mother turned away without hesitation, not wanting to look at the two sisters again.

As soon as she stepped out of the gate, the guards immediately closed and locked it.

She took Chen Ruo and Qing Lan and walked towards the road without saying a word, and only after walking four or five steps, Chen Ruo, who was following her, accelerated her pace to catch up, and walked side by side with her and whispered: "Mother of the country, the guards at the north gate of Yuque City came to report that Black and White Impermanence had entered the city with the edict of Emperor Xudu. ”。

[The Department of Punishment of Evil - one of the four divisions of the prefecture, sentencing all ghosts according to the principle of "four noes and four noes", the four nos - disloyalty, filial piety, untrustworthiness, and unbelief; the four noes - rudeness, unrighteousness, incorruptibility, shameless; light punishment for minor crimes, and heavy punishment for serious crimes. 】