The lake breeze blows, passing through the streets and alleys from the lifeless Yingzhu City, rolling up the dust, caressing the already devastated Yingzhu City, making a burst of "woo" sound. It seems that there is a faint soul crying softly in the ruins, and it is like a wandering ghost, whispering mournfully.

Today's Yingzhu City has long been a matter of people, the once prosperous alleys and streets, exquisite houses and courtyards, and the delicate and upright green bamboos have all disappeared, replaced by ruins one after another.

Ying Ying had just entered the city, so she secretly transported her soul energy, flowed through the meridians, and quietly opened the pores of her body. The breath of heaven and earth passed into her body along the pores in this moment, making her clearly feel that the ruins around her were filled with the breath of death.

She lifted her legs and feet, and walked slowly forward, shaking involuntarily every time she stepped over the rubble scattered on the street, her right hand holding the cane.

The farther you go into the city, the more intense the anger becomes. Everywhere you passed, there was scorched earth and countless rubble, and the surroundings were full of broken pillars and ruins.

The crooked houses are in tatters, and the potholed streets and alleys are full of rubble and broken bricks. Although there was no trace of the soul soldiers, there was no trace of torn armor and discarded weapons everywhere.

From time to time, you can see the broken flesh and limbs of many demon spirits, or the corpses of war elephant beast souls lying on the streets, buried in the ruins, or abandoned in the stream that shuttles through the city, soaked in the stream and turned white and swollen.

The wounds on the corpses that had been dead for a long time were already covered with viscous blood, and then when the blood dried up, brown scabs formed, which gathered countless mosquitoes and flies to bite the corpses.

The farther you go to the city, this kind of tragedy is even more common, which makes the four protectors who are accustomed to life and death even daunted by the four protectors who have been born and died many times with Yingying. The brow hidden under the mask was already slightly furrowed, and it didn't open up again.

Yingying, who was walking in front, moved her nose slightly from time to time, looking for the stench in the air.

Fang had just walked half a cup of tea, and Ying Ying suddenly stopped. Although the eyes are still calm, the pair of beautiful eyebrows in the eyes can't help frowning.

And not far from her right, the plaque on the door of the restaurant, which was so dilapidated that only the scorched black door wall remained, was also blown by the autumn wind at this moment, swaying up and down a few times and falling from the door, making a "pop" sound.

The Dharma Protectors behind her were slightly startled by her sudden stop, and then they all felt the disgusting stench around them getting heavier and heavier, and they all looked forward curiously.

It's okay not to look at it, but at first glance, the faces of several women turned pale almost at the same time.

The open space five feet away in front of them was covered with scratches from swords, guns, swords, and halberds.

And in the middle of the clearing, there are countless lifeless water tigers, lying quietly on the open space in front of them. The corpses were full of men, women, and children, all of whom were wounded by partial scales, and they were piled up to form a mountain of corpses about three feet high.

The faces of those water tigers were full of fear, their mouths were full of blood, their bloodshot eyes were wide open, and their eyes were full of unwillingness and horror, telling of the great pain they had suffered before they died.

Countless mosquitoes and flies buzzed around this mountain of corpses, and countless white maggots crawled between the corpses. Ying Ying sensed the strong aura of death emanating from this mountain of corpses, and only then did she stop.

It's just such a tragic scene, it's like a rakshasa is here, a hell!

Coupled with the few black-feathered crows standing on the top of the corpse mountain, this corpse mountain looks even more desolate and weird. And the source of a large number of stenches came from this pile of decomposing demon corpses.

Obviously, before they died, these water tigers should have been forced to be besieged here, and then slaughtered one by one, so that their corpses were piled up. As for what the hell it is, everyone knows it.

It's just that the horror of this corpse mountain makes the ghosts who are used to seeing life and death feel frightened.

In less than a moment, one of the four protectors, Zhao Xi, who was standing on the far right, couldn't hold back any longer. After a flurry of stomach upside down, she hurriedly ran to the side to hold on to a broken pillar, hurriedly took off the mask, lowered her head and opened her mouth to let out a "wow!", and spit out the acid water in her stomach mixed with the food.

Several other Dharma protectors hurriedly came over to check on Zhaoxi, but Ying Ying had never moved, and she didn't even look back, just frowned, and a trace of murder and anger flashed on her cold face.

"Send scouts to quickly find the traces of the Xiao family's army. The autumn wind blew again, blowing her purple robe, making her robe stir again and again, and the star pattern embroidered on her robe swayed incessantly, as if there were stars circling around her. The five fingers of her right hand suddenly exerted force, clenched the long staff in her hand, gritted her teeth a few times, and said angrily: "I want to meet this Xiao Shizhu in person!"

There was no blandness in the tone, and a bit of cold killing intent was added.

"No!" Several Dharma protectors didn't dare to slack off when they heard this, and hurriedly responded.

"Wait. As soon as their words fell, Ying Ying turned around, facing north, and a trace of suspicion appeared on her face: "Let the scouts focus on finding the north, where is the powerful soul qi!" As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed in front of him......

The north shore of Thousand Star Lake.

Since Zhu Rongjun left, Xiao Jiajun's army quickly cleaned up the remnants of the enemy in Yingzhu City like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and retreated one mile to camp in the mountains south of Meiziling. He also took local materials, cut wood from the mountains, built arrow towers, made horses and other things, and placed them on the edge of the camp around the camp.

Then the trench is interlocked, and the arrow tower is connected to the horse and other things to form a line, forming a staggered trend of guns, bows and crossbows. Xiao Shizhu also ordered the military workers in the army to make ten trebuchets according to the drawings drawn by the Greek trebuchets he saw when he recalled the world when he was in the world, and placed them in ten places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack in the camp.

It makes the whole camp look like a pass between a mountain pass, and whoever comes near it almost always has no return.

Most of the tents left by Changqin to Xiao Shizhu were also placed in the woods on the east and west slopes of the military camp, and then the Zhurongguo military flag was planted in the forest for the only use of suspicious soldiers.

At first glance, it really looks like Zhu Rongjun has never retreated.

Xiao Shizhu did not move for a long time, firstly, although the county was still fighting a small war, but the enemy commander was beheaded, the general trend had gone, Hu Hui and other ghosts had stabilized the situation, and there was no need for him to come back to help; second, he had a dragon in hand, and he wanted to make a fuss about it, so as to attract more communist workers to come, so as to wait for work.

After all, the communist country is no better than the ghost kingdom, with a vast territory and a large population, and when the large army acts, it is easy to cut off the back road if it rushes in. The only way to do this is to wait for work, attract its main forces, and eliminate them one by one.

On this day, in the big tent of the Chinese army, Xiao Shizhu, who had come out of the grief of Wu Zhiqi's death, was in a good mood, so he set up a long table and feasted his generals and Julong.

According to the military regulations of the Xiao family, it is not allowed to drink alcohol when you are in the camp and when you are on the march and fighting, and hot tea is naturally used on the table instead of wine.

And the spell on Julong's body has also been unraveled.

Since the late conversation that night, Xiao Shizhu untied the spell the next day, and allowed Julong to leave on his own, and the sergeant could not stop him. But Julong never left, maybe he also wanted to see Xiao Shizhu's unification.

For a few days, although he had gained a certain amount of freedom, he remained silent. In addition to eating, sleeping and sleeping, he is looking at Qianxing Lake in a daze. There will always be a little sadness in the eyes inadvertently.

But when he saw that the old, weak, sick and disabled people in Fengdui County, who had been abandoned by his father, actually volunteered to serve as a transport team for Xiao Shizhu, and sometimes sent supplies to him, he was very surprised.

During the banquet this day, he was also silent, just lowered his head and silently ate the dishes in his bowl, quietly listening to Xiao Shizhu and the generals of the Xiao family army joking with each other.

"Dare to ask the King of the Nine Shadows. After the five flavors of the dish, he suddenly felt that the taste of today's meat was a little special, and suddenly put down his chopsticks and thought for a while, then raised his eyes to look at Xiao Shizhu, and slowly asked: "This is the war elephant meat of my Gonggong War Elephant Army." ”。

"Did you taste it?" Although Xiao Shizhu was slightly surprised by his sudden opening, his face was not shocked, but he looked at him with a smile and asked.

Julong nodded silently.

"That's right, the same elephants that died on the beachhead last time. Xiao Shizhu still didn't think so, pointed to the delicacies on the table, smiled and said bluntly: "Our army is indeed a little short of food and grass, so I will collect the corpses of war elephants and wash them and cook them into these delicacies." The rest of the meat is dried and marinated to make cured meat. ”。

Julong frowned slightly, and after inadvertently sighing, he didn't say more. I never moved my chopsticks again, and went to eat a bite of the food in front of me.

"In fact, the taste of this elephant meat is also average, not as good as the lion and tiger meat. The ghost captive sitting under Xiao Shizhu's right hand smiled at Xiao Shizhu and said, "If you meet a fox one day, I will give you a few to try." ”。

"Haha. Xiao Shizhu laughed heartily and said, "I will be content with elephant meat, but you don't know that it is illegal to eat elephants in the world." ”。

As soon as he finished speaking, a feather man entered from outside the tent without making a report, and when he walked to him, he stood still, and arched his hand and said: "Your lord, a hundred enemy ships have been found on the Thousand Star Lake, and they are coming towards our army. ”。

"Hmm. Xiao Shizhu nodded his head without fear, looked around at the generals, waved his hand and said lightly: "You all have your own responsibilities and are ready to fight." ”。

The generals got up, looked at him in unison, smiled, and left.

"The person who picked you up is here. Xiao Shizhu raised the teacup, took a sip of fragrant tea, inadvertently glanced at Julong, and said, "You can leave at any time, but remember my words, next time we meet on the battlefield, I won't spare you." ”。