In this campaign, the reason why Xia Xing was chosen to be the commander of the main force of the Ghost Mother Country was because she was indeed as the Ghost Mother said, she was older than Qiushuang and calmer than Chunyun. But today she was anxious too.

Xiao Shizhu understood her mood at this time, this time he sent troops to the Ghost Kingdom, and the Ghost Mother Country's sailors were almost overwhelmed, and the local coastline could only be defended by Quan Xian and his clansmen. All kinds of supplies were also being transported here from the mainland of Shuoyue Island, and the two islands were not close to each other, so the supply line was stretched a lot. In addition, in addition to the Xiao family's army, the ghost mother also allocated 150,000 troops to Xia Xing, and at this moment, there are not many troops left in the country.

The longer the battle drags on, the more extremely unfavorable it will be to the Ghost Mother Country, and if the Black Dragon Island side can't fight quickly, if something happens in the country, such as being taken advantage of by other enemy countries or something, then the Ghost Mother Army will fall into a disadvantage that is difficult to balance left and right.

It's just that the more this is the case, the more you must fight steadily, and once you attack rashly in order to achieve a quick victory, it is easy to be calculated by the enemy.

Facing Xia Xing's questioning, Xiao Shizhu just smiled and asked her to sit down first, and then asked to himself: "Have the cities outside the Guanwai in the east, south, and north of the ghost kingdom been taken over?"

"According to your wishes, General, all of them have been taken over, and my lord is constantly transferring capable ministers to the country to govern these places. Soldiers were also stationed in various dangerous places, and at the same time, the action of encircling and suppressing the capture of ink collectors in various places was also carried out silently under the auspices of the arrest and arrest arranged by me. After Xia Xing took his seat, he was slightly deflated, and said to Xiao Shizhu: "All passes are also being rebuilt according to your requirements." But there was still a hint of complaint.

"And what do I want?" Xiao Shizhu rubbed his hands together and looked at him again.

"It's all shipped to you. Xia Xing replied and stopped talking. The other thousand households were really confused when they heard it, and they didn't know what they were talking about, let alone what Xiao Shizhu had asked Xia Xing to bring to the Xiao family's army?

Xiao Shizhu stroked his palms and shouted the word "good", and asked Xia Xing: "How many soldiers and horses do you have around you now?"

"Fifty thousand. Xia Xing looked at him in a daze and replied; after calming down completely, she felt that Xiao Shizhu was reasonable, and would not do anything negative and slack, and the slow attack must have a reason, so she put away her face and asked, "What are the orders of the Xiao family?"

"Bypass Linglong City and take the Tiger Pass in the Ghost Kingdom to the western region. After Xiao Shizhu smiled faintly at her, he turned his head to look at Xuanshui and said, "Xuanshui, can't you sit still? ”......

In the evening, the ghost king stood alone in the city gate building above the palace gate, raising his eyes and looking into the distance to the south.

More than ten days ago, Xiao Shizhu got married, and the news of marrying the ghost mother spread all over Xuanyanzhou, and the ghost king also heard a little about it. At that time, he was still thinking that in this way, the ghost kingdom would have time to be rebuilt, and while he felt glad about it, he scolded Xiao Shizhu in his heart for being a lustful fool. If you take the ghost kingdom first and then hold a wedding, you can let the ghost kingdom have no chance to breathe.

But as Xiao Shizhu expected, the ghost king, who disdained him, didn't even dream that he would actually use swords and soldiers on the second day of the wedding, regardless of the happy day, because it was ominous, so he dared to send troops to recruit the ghost king.

How did the ghost king know, if Xiao Shizhu was not injured last time, he would have already broken the country and his family; The news of letting the ghost mother out of the pavilion reached the ears of the ghost king, which made him immersed in the illusion that Xiao Shizhu did not dare to use the sword soldiers on the day of the great joy.

When Xiao Shizhu and the Xiao family army came to the ghost kingdom again, the ghost king suddenly realized that his opponent was a ghost who arranged troops and never followed the rules when marching and fighting.

This kind of opponent is scary because you can never keep up with his mind and guess what he is going to do next. For the first time in the ghost king's life, a trace of fear appeared in his heart.

Especially after the death of Grandma, the Xiao family's army came to Linglong City again, and this fear became more and more intense. He originally wanted to use deception to lure the enemy deeper, so that after the Xiao Jiajun, who liked to rely on firearms, approached Qiyue Lake, he made the opponent's firearms explode, but they always ended in failure. This made the ghost king feel a lot of frustration in his heart, and it was intertwined with fear, which made him very restless.

The remnant sun was like blood, and the ghost king who was melancholy sighed lightly.

Before he landed with a sigh, he saw his daughter Gui Qian'er with a team of maids ascending the city tower and standing beside him. The handmaidens said they were maids, but they were more like female soldiers. They were all dressed in silver armor and wore two swords at their waists. This is Ghost Qian'er's county lord army, made up of her maids.

And Ghost Qian'er is also wearing a set of silver bright light armor today, wearing a silver helmet and pressing temples, brilliant scales and armor, and a double sword of the sun and moon hanging on her waist. She stood on the tower of the city, stood against the railing, and let the green wind blow in her face, and the cloak on her shoulders was hunting, and her eyes were heroic.

"Father, according to the child, this Xiao Shizhu is also a mediocre talent. A ghost slave is a ghost slave, how can he become a general?" Ghost Qian'er looked at the bright red clouds in the southern sky with a look of disdain, and snorted softly: "After two or three days of fighting, I only advanced two miles. With such a mediocre talent, why should my father worry about it every day? Otherwise, it won't be long before he and his Xiao Jiajun will not be able to adapt to the high temperature baking, and they will collapse and be unable to fight again. ”。 said in a relaxed tone, nothing more than to comfort the ghost king. But she is young and inexperienced in the world, and the meaning of looking down on Xiao Shizhu in her words is sincere.

"Hehe, Qian'er, in the eyes of this king, he is not a mediocre talent. Hearing this, the ghost king turned his head to look at the newborn calf-like look between her eyebrows, not afraid of heaven and earth, and his mood was a little better, and he squinted and smiled: "He has only come here, and he has already discovered the secret use of the divine tree, and he has followed us to use the divine wood to cool down the place where he is. Therefore, if it was only defense and confrontation, he and his soldiers would not be roasted by the heat. Moreover, he has been advancing slowly in the past few days, and he should have seen that I had been luring him close to the lake, so he did not dare to advance rashly. ”。

"Tempting the enemy, Father, do you want to use the high temperature in the lake to solve the firearms that Xiao Jiajun is proud of?" Hearing this, Ghost Qian'er turned her head to look at the Ghost King after a little thought, and asked in a wink.

Although this girl is young, she is not stupid, and the ghost king only gave a little hint, and she guessed her father's intentions; it can be seen that the ghost king's teaching to her on weekdays is not only about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting or female red embroidery.

"yes. The ghost king nodded his head and said, "He didn't dare to venture in, he should have seen through my intentions." ”。

"Then the father doesn't have to worry, Xiao Shizhu's slow progress shows that he hasn't come up with a way to deal with you. And we have enough food in the city, and it will not be a problem to survive for three or five years, but he Xiao Shizhu will be in trouble, and once the grain and grass cannot be supplied, he will retire from the army. At that time, we will take advantage of the victory and pursue and regain the lost ground. Ghost Qian'er chuckled lightly and pouted, the disdain on her face a little heavier.

The ghost king is also smiling, but this laugh is so bitter. In the past few days, he has even connected to the battle report, and the ghost king army has been chased by the ghost mother army led by Xia Xing, and many troops have been captured, and many have defected. Moreover, the southern and northern parts of Black Dragon Island, as well as the eastern region, were no longer under his rule at this time, and it was impossible to rely on the kings from all over the country to lead the army to serve the king.

In addition, earlier, he also received a report from the spies, saying that after seeing Xia Xing with about 50,000 soldiers and horses and successfully join the Xiao family's army, he left in a hurry, bypassing Linglong City, and headed directly to the west. The ghost king guessed that this Xiao Shizhu was going to take down the four regions of the ghost kingdom, east, west, north and south, and then trap him in the capital.

Once this plan came true, after the implementation was successful, he could only fight with the last 40,000 defenders in the capital, and all this made him anxious for an afternoon.

It's just that at this time, he didn't know that trapping him in Wangcheng was just part of Xiao Shizhu's plan, and the more anxious ones were still to come.

Gradually, the sky darkened completely, and in the Linglong City and the Ghost King's Palace, you could see lights lit one after another everywhere.

"Report!" Suddenly, a ghost slave climbed the city tower and came towards him, and said, "The Xiao family army suddenly advanced two miles forward. Our front-line positions were routed, and the sergeants were retreating to the city of Linglong, preparing for a street battle with the enemy. ”。

"Got it. The ghost king gritted his teeth, and after answering casually, he said to the ghost slave: "Tell the defenders that it is night at this time, and you must not take the initiative to attack." Always looking ahead.

After finishing speaking, he said silently in his heart: "Xiao Shizhu suddenly pushed forward, what is he going to do?" In the confrontation for several days, Xiao Shizhu protected himself because he was afraid of firearms due to the high temperature, and his attack was very slow, and he basically did not take the initiative to attack, but today he advanced two miles in one go, which made the ghost king very puzzled.

His intuition told him that Xiao Shizhu was about to act. But he racked his brains and couldn't guess this opponent, let alone what the other party was going to do.

Just when he couldn't figure it out, a lot of fireballs suddenly rose into the sky in the darkness south of Linglong City, and with a whistling sound, they shot towards Linglong City.

In the blink of an eye, it exploded in Linglong City. The houses in the city were not on fire, but they were torn apart. Far away, the ghost king also felt the vibration brought by the explosion, which also made his heart tremble, and he scolded angrily in his heart: "What kind of artillery is this, how can it hit so far?"

The voice sounded in his heart, and he saw more than a dozen cannonballs, accompanied by a "whoosh", shoot out of the camp of the Xiao family's army, quickly spinning and cutting through the night sky, and then falling towards the ghost king's palace behind him......

"Fifty fortress-type Fran cannons fired in a row, enough for his ghost king to drink a pot. Xiao Shizhu stood on the artillery position, looked at the turbulent Linglong City in front of him, and laughed.

Around him, there were fifty chariots made of Fuso Shenmu, divided into two columns, front and back, lined up. The cars are all rectangular, more than three zhang long, two zhang wide and high, like a container in the world. There were eight tall wheels, four on the left and four on the left, and the axles alone were waist-thick, and each of them was pulled by two powerful young beast spirits. The four walls of the car are almost sealed, except for a door that can be opened and closed at the back. Directly in front of the plank, there was a round hole, and behind the hole was a black gun port;

There was one in each car, and Lai Yueqi worked overtime to produce a fortress-type Franc cannon, which was more than two zhang long and weighed as much as a thousand catties, with an effective firing range of up to twenty miles, about equal to ten kilometers in the world, which was the killer weapon that Xia Xing escorted for him earlier. In addition, it is equipped with a chariot made of Fuso sacred wood, so it is not afraid of self-explosion due to high temperatures.

The ghost king relied on the geographical advantage, and was once again completely cracked by Xiao Shizhu's idea.

According to Xiao Shizhu's request, the artillerymen of Xiao Jiajun plugged their ears with cotton, drilled into the car through the door at the back of the car, controlled the artillery in the car to aim at the target, and opened fire in an orderly manner.

What was even more damaging was that Xiao Shizhu ordered the soldiers to fill the artillery with solid shells after every other round of shelling; this kind of shells had no * inside, and were all made of iron or lead, although they were not very lethal to soldiers and horses, but they had a very long range and could penetrate the fortifications of the city walls made of stone, wood, copper, and iron. The houses in Linglong City were torn apart by these solid bullets in an instant.