Under the low-hanging dark clouds, the wind is still chasing the rain and the rain is chasing the wind in the big lonely city, and the rain and fog are hazy between the sky and the earth, and the smoke blurs everything in the city.

The raindrops the size of beans kept falling on the ground, splashing one after another.

Xiao Shizhu continued to turn his back to Yu Rong and said slowly: "However, the cities you are attacking are not easy to conquer, so I don't feel at ease if you hand them over to other young generals to attack, but in order for you to win, I still have to give you a deputy general for the sake of insurance." ”。

After finishing speaking, Xiao Shizhu raised his hand and patted it gently, and the palace people outside the door immediately understood, and rushed out of the palace in the rain after a little head.

Yu Rong was suddenly curious in his heart, he didn't know what kind of ghost general Xiao Shizhu was going to equip him, and he couldn't help but turn his head and look out the door.

After a while, I saw the palace man who had been gone for a while, rushing out of the rain with a ghost. The ghost then stood still in front of the door and hurriedly saluted Xiao Shizhu.

Yu Rong looked at it, only to see that this ghost was not only born but also born a little strangely, although his body shape and appearance were no different from other people's souls, but the skin on his body was golden, and the pupils of his eyes were red. Another strange place is that there is a small snake on the left ear, the snake's mouth is biting his earlobe, motionless, I don't know if this little snake is dead or alive?

However, for Yu Rong, who is a birdman and a feather people, he doesn't seem to be qualified to say that this ghost is weird.

The ghost is the harvest.

After Xiao Shizhu walked into the hall and sat down, Xiao Shizhu introduced to Yu Rong: "This is the righteous general who rebelled against the Northern Yin Dynasty, because according to the intelligence, in the several cities you are about to attack, there are also cavalry of the Xudu Army of the Northern Yin Dynasty stationed in them, about a total of more than 100,000. ”。

Yu Rong and Rong were included in his introduction, and when they glanced at each other, they smiled slightly, and then bowed their heads slightly, which was regarded as a greeting to each other.

"General Beishu is familiar with the combat methods of the cavalry of the Xudu Army, so I asked him to be your lieutenant, and I can also give you more good advice. After Xiao Shizhu said this, he shouted to the palace people outside the door: "Serve tea." ”。

Although Bei Shui is a ghost general who has just been cast, Xiao Shizhu pays attention to employing people and does not suspect that people are not used. Therefore, he did not have too much mustard and excessive precautions for his sincere receiving, but instead gave the other party relative rights and positions.

"Don't know this ghost general's surname?" After politely greeting him, Bei Shu remembered to ask who Yu Rong was?

"My surname is Yu, a single name is Rong, from the Yumin ghost clan. Yu Rong replied slowly.

"It turned out to be General Haei. The general who killed King Taishan is your clansman, right?" It's just that when he spoke, when his eyes were filled with excitement, his face couldn't help but show admiration: "After I heard about the process of the war, I admired General Yumoss for his courage and strategy, although we were still enemies at that time, but he was indeed an opponent whom I admired. ”。

The harvest is like this, he will not observe the uprightness of words and expressions, and he will not turn around and speak.

"Okay, okay, don't mention this sad thing about the past. Seeing him mention this, after the smile on Yu Rong's face froze, Xiao Shizhu hurriedly changed the topic and said, "You better tell Yu Rong more, the details of those Xudu cavalry are better." ”。

However, Yu Rong was not angry, but was proud of his outspoken words, and he was also proud of his deceased brother.

"Okay. After thinking about it for a while, he said thoughtfully: "In fact, the cavalry of the Xudu Army is not the most powerful cavalry of the Northern Yin Dynasty, compared to the cavalry of the Xuandi Army, the cavalry of the Xudu Army is mainly light cavalry. However, he is very disciplined, and he is also very mobile, and he is good at shock and assault. The equipment is also used with soft bows and long arrows and light knives, and as for the beast souls of the mounts, they are basically beast souls that are good at long-distance running, so that their speed is fast, and they can exercise about 120 to 160 li a day. However, for this kind of high-speed cavalry, our country's Rainstorm Gun and Thunderbolt are their nemesis. The high-speed and intensive shooting can hit the cavalry of the Xudu Army and cannot get close. Moreover, the Flying Thunder Car can also fight them without any power to fight back. ”。

After a pause, the voice of the harvest slowly echoed in the hall again: "The key is the cavalry of the Xudu Army, and the riders of each horse are carrying a bag of dried dried meat. This kind of high-calorie, nutritious and comprehensive food can be eaten for several months in one pack, and there is no need to be equipped with additional logistics support personnel, which seems to be something that our cavalry of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can also learn. ”。

"Well, our cavalry always needs food and grass, and it is indeed worth learning this tactic of Xudu. Xiao Shizhu nodded thoughtfully, falling into deep thought.

The idea of raising young children on a large scale gradually came into his mind. And it also occurred to him that perhaps his soldiers could also carry Huamei as a way to quench their thirst......

Since the beginning of autumn, the original green trees and leaves on Luo Yu Mountain have begun to gradually wither and yellow, and the autumn slaughter is also pervasive in the mountains and forests.

In the depths of the Six Heavens Gods and Ghosts Palace on the top of the mountain, there is a flower garden far away from the dense pavilions. Although it is a flower garden, there are only 1,000 locust trees in the garden and no flowers and plants. But each one grows strangely, and the scars on the trees resemble smiling human faces.

There are no more or no scars on each locust tree, a total of eighteen. Every time the wind blows, the smiling scars let out a burst of giggling laughter.

This is a kind of ghost tree in the underworld, called the smiling locust, which is named because of the scarred shape of the tree.

In the middle of the garden, there is a rockery made of mille-feuille stones, and the texture is simple and majestic and natural. On the south stone wall on this rockery, there are several streams of red blood, which continue to spurt out from the rock cracks, forming a blood-red strange waterfall, which flies down from a foot above the ground into the pool around the rockery.

The same blood-colored pool water, in the mountain breeze is the ripples and ripples, as if there is a bloody breath, rising from the water with the wind.

Emperor Xudu was standing on the top of the rockery with his hands in his hands, and the silk book he was holding tightly in his hand had been crumpled by him.

The content of the silk book is from the death news of Tubo being killed in Dongyi Continent. It is clearly written in the book that it was the greatest enemy of his life, the Nine Shadows, who killed Tubo and captured the king of Yama.

After the news came, Emperor Xudu was sullen all day, and there was not a single smiling face all day.

Thinking about the war that lasted for many years in Dongyi Continent, which had caused Emperor Xudu to lose a lot of generals and ghost soldiers, he couldn't help but get angry, and all his anger was transferred to the heads of Jiuyouguo and Xiao Shizhu.

Now even his cronies Tubo and King Yama were killed in battle and captured, which made Emperor Xudu even more annoyed.

But he is not a good ghost who does not have revenge, and is good at repaying grievances with virtue, and the revenge against Xiao Shizhu and the Nine Shadows Kingdom has already begun quietly in secret.

He not only grasped the recruitment of Kunlun Continent, but also strived to complete the unification of the underworld as soon as possible. At the same time, he also secretly sent a powerful soul to quietly go to Dongying Continent, and secretly persuaded the ghost countries in the continent to accept the recruitment of the Northern Yin Dynasty, and then encircle the Qingqiu Kingdom that was about to become Xiao Shizhu's family.

As a result, Xiao Shizhu was busy with the war in Dongyizhou, and he had no time to take care of Dongyingzhou. Not only can you take the opportunity to seize Dongying Continent, one of the granaries of the underworld, but you can also destroy the Qingqiu Kingdom, which is about to become a vassal country of Xiao Shizhu.

made Xiao Shizhu use the Qingqiu Kingdom to make a springboard plan for attacking Dongyingzhou.

Just thinking of this, Emperor Xudu saw a fat-headed and big-eared black-faced human soul in the distance, shuttling between the locust trees in the garden under the guidance of the palace slave, and walked quickly towards this side.

The hot sweat oozing from his forehead, the soul of the person who kept sliding down his cheeks, followed the palace slave along the stone steps on the rockery, and walked quickly to the top, but he didn't have time to wipe the hot sweat on his face, so he hurriedly knelt on the ground in a whole robe, and said loudly between kowtows: "Minister Zhu Maichen knocks to see Your Majesty." ”。

This soul is Zhu Maichen, who died because of Zhang Tang's suicide note when he was in the world. After his body was beheaded by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, his soul came to the underworld and was admitted to the Yin Division as an official.

Now he is one of the cronies of Emperor Xudu, and he is the official to the Soul Chaser, responsible for managing the hell in Luo Yu Mountain, and his daily work is to hunt down ghosts who are trying to escape from hell.

And Emperor Xudu sent him to Dongying Continent to lobby other ghost countries.

"Is that done?" the Emperor Xudu asked straight to the point, while throwing the silk book in his hand into his cuffs.

"Yes, the minister has worked hard for half a year, coercion and temptation have been used, and the ghost countries in Dongying Continent finally agreed to accept Zhao'an. In the next step, His Majesty can send troops to the ghost countries in Dongying Continent. Zhu Maichen, who pressed his forehead against the cold stone in front of him, replied slowly.

Emperor Xudu, who had been full of anger all day, finally showed a smile at this moment.

Once his army is stationed in the various ghost countries in Dongying Continent, he will then send the ghost officials designated by the Northern Yin Dynasty to each ghost country, and the local Hades must be under the jurisdiction of the local county and county officials and officials. In this way, the originally independent local ghost kingdom automatically handed over power to the state. After that, the local Hades were only able to enjoy material privileges, namely the tax of their fiefdoms. However, the former political privileges and military power are gone.

After thousands of years of exploitation, as well as the wars secretly provoked by Emperor Xudu, these ghost countries with a large territory have become foreign powers.

In addition, the recent Xudu Army and Emperor Xuandi Army of the Northern Yin Dynasty followed the example of the Nine Shadows Kingdom and equipped the soldiers with a large number of guns and artillery for combat, and those ghost countries that had never independently developed artillery guns did not even have the strength to protest with the Northern Yin Dynasty.

forcibly arguing with the Northern Yin Dynasty will only end up with the same fate as the bear country. It took hundreds of thousands of troops a year to wipe them out.

This is still because Emperor Xudu wants to preserve his strength and prepare for a decisive battle with Xiao Shizhu in the future. Otherwise, it is like fighting Shuoyue Island in the Nine Ghost Country, and millions of troops will be sent together, ensuring that these ghost countries will be destroyed in an instant.

And after hearing that there are old ghost countries like the Bear Country that have died, all the ghost countries in Dongying Continent are afraid. Including the ghost kingdom that once clamored to break away from the Beiyin Dynasty, they saw the wind and steered and threw themselves into the arms of the Beiyin Dynasty.

"Well, then send troops to Dongyingzhou as soon as possible, and at the same time order those ghost soldiers of the ghost country to either join the Xudu army and eat the military rations of the imperial court, or disband and get out. After a soft snort, Emperor Xudu looked down at Zhu Maichen, who was kneeling at his feet, looked at him and thought for a moment, and then said: "Go and prepare for the garrison immediately, you are solely responsible for this matter, you don't need to report to any Hades, just connect with me." ”。

"No. Zhu Maichen answered, and after kowtowing to Emperor Xudu, he got up and slowly retreated.