The mountain fire is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a flaming red flame and thick smoke on Qingfeng Ridge. Under the high flames, dark clouds rolled in the sky, rushing from all directions, piling up denser and denser over the Devil's Crying Beach, obscuring all the light of the stars and moon. Heavy ink clouds kept squeezing the sky, heavy, as if they would immediately fall from the sky.

"Father!" Xiao Fuling exclaimed and pulled Xiao Shizhu's sleeve, then raised her hand and pointed to the sky: "Look at this day, it won't be raining, right?"

The excitement that Ben still had on his face quickly turned into consternation, and then it was replaced by a hurry.

"Yes, it's going to rain. Xiao Shizhu nodded and said disapprovingly.

"The terrain of Devil's Cry Beach is narrow at the entrance, wide in the hinterland, high and low on both sides. In addition, although there are no streams and waterfalls in Qingfeng Ridge, it is near the sea, so the moisture in the soil is not small. He turned his head to look at his daughter, who was already sweating with tension between his eyebrows, and after smiling lightly, he said slowly in a calm tone: "Once a fire breaks out on this kind of terrain, the air on the ground will quickly expand and rise, and the hot air will rise under the hot wind, and the water vapor that rises to the height will condense into clouds due to the decrease in temperature, and after a large amount of smoke and dust from the burning of wood and grass rises into the air with the wind, it will accelerate the condensation of water vapor, which will eventually lead to a situation of heavy rain pouring." It's like a steamer, once the fire is bigger, when the lid is lifted, the lid is full of water droplets. ”。

Xiao Fuling was born in the underworld, she has not received nine years of compulsory education, and it is impossible for her to learn anything about nature, most of her father's words she only half-understood and ignorant, but she still understands the fact that such a big fire will bring heavy rain in such a terrain.

Now Xiao Lingling is even more puzzled, once the heavy rain falls, won't the tactics of attacking and burning the mountain after being busy for a long time be completely abandoned?

And looking at her father's look full of indifference, Xiao Fuling was even more anxious.

"Don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of. Xiao Shizhu looked at Xiao Fuling, who was so anxious that she stomped her feet for a while, and was about to cry, laughed a few times, reached out and rubbed her little brain, and asked meaningfully: "Take it easy, think about what is the purpose of our burning mountain?"

Yubi gestured to the sergeants and motioned for them to stop shelling.

Xiao Fuling was stunned when she heard this, and then calmed down a little, and after thinking about it for a while, she said in a daze: "Attracting the attention of the enemy army and attracting most of the enemies can allow the army to attack Mingyue Mountain and Ghost Cry Pass smoothly." ”。

"So our purpose was achieved. Xiao Shizhu stretched out his hand and pointed to the bottom of the mountain.

Xiao Fuling, who was still a little puzzling, looked in the direction of his finger, and through the monstrous firelight, after the billowing smoke could be vaguely seen, on the opposite side of Mingyue Mountain and in the Ghost Cry Pass west of Ghost Cry Beach, there were many Southern Barbarian troops carrying buckets rushing to the foot of Qingfeng Ridge; even though it was a drop in the bucket, they still tried to extinguish the fire on the ridge and rescue their companions who had not yet been burned to death.

In less than a moment, the otherwise peaceful Ghost Cry Beach was already noisy and shouting, shouting and shaking the sky. And the enemy soldiers trapped on Qingfeng Ridge, all who were not burned to death took off their clothes, went into battle shirtless, bare-chested and bare-chested, and shouted while waving the clothes in their hands to put out the fire.

This is exactly what Xiao Shizhu wants to see.

"If they are tired for a long time, and finally it rains and extinguishes the fire, then they are working in vain. Xiao Shizhu curled the corners of his daughter's mouth and showed a sly smile: "And even if the heavy rain extinguishes the mountain fire, we only need a hundred ghosts to play the enemy around and make them embarrassed?"

"And there are mountains here, and if such a big mountain fire continues to burn, I don't know where it will spread. After a pause, Xiao Shizhu added bluntly: "Although we are here to be invaders, burning, killing and looting are justified, but we can't go too far." If you burn them all to death, what do you want in a desolate land?"

Xiao Fuling raised her right hand, bent her right index finger and scratched her cheek, secretly wondering, her eyes rolled slightly, and she suddenly felt that what her father said was reasonable, and immediately nodded At the same time, after dragging a long "um", a bad smile bloomed on her face.

The tension and worry in my heart before have faded a lot, and there are a few more installments, hoping that this rain will fall soon.

"That's a clever 'prank'. Xiao Shizhu said triumphantly.

The sailors raised their guns and shot the enemy who dared to approach the sea to get water to put out the fire, and the artillery door pushed the cannon forward, and the pitch-black muzzle of the cannon stretched out from behind the female wall on the side of the warship, pointing straight at the Ghost Cry Pass.

Xiao Shizhu didn't wait too long, the roaring cannons and the cannonballs that threw fiery red arcs in the air arrived over the Ghost Cry Pass as scheduled according to his original plan, and fell in the pass with a roar.

The thunder in the sky continued, echoing with the cannon sound after the cannon muzzle spewed fire, shaking the sky and the earth.

Dozens of artillery guns fired in unison quite spectacularly, and the violent explosions flashed one after another in the dark night, tearing the stone wall of the Ghost Crying Pass, and the earth and stones around the pass were overturned, and the defenders of the pass turned over on their backs, screaming again and again. The entire Devil's Cry Beach was filled with a pungent fishy stench and the smell of burning plants and trees.

The flames that burst out after the explosion of the cannonballs swept through the heat waves, and the smoke and earth that flashed with thunder and lightning rolled over the pass.

It can be seen that it is the Heavenly Thunder Cannon of the Nine Shadows Country that bombarded the pass.

As early as a few years ago, Xiao Shizhu discovered that the thunder and lightning burst out from the heavenly thunder cannon can not only paralyze the enemy, but also crack stones and trees;

Under the bombardment of the heavenly thunder cannon, the thunder and lightning shot out with the explosion, piercing the air at the same time, and striking a series of scorched black holes of different sizes and depths in the stone wall of the pass.

Even though there were as many as 300,000 Southern Barbarian troops stationed here, in the face of all kinds of disadvantages of fire attack and long-range artillery bombardment, all enemy troops were in a dilemma in an instant, not only to avoid the shelling of the Nine Shadows Army, but also to brave the artillery fire to fight the fire.

After half a cup of tea, the Devil's Cry Pass between the two peaks, the already dilapidated city wall cracked sharply, and the towers that were on fire in many places suddenly leaned forward, and the tiles on the roof slipped down one by one, and fell down with the rumbling and collapsing city wall. Deafening, dusty.

At the same time, the rain that had been dormant in the dark clouds in the air for a long time no longer had patience, and it couldn't wait to fall, overwhelming, and sprinkled on the Devil's Crying Beach, and the sky and earth were filled with rain and fog in an instant.

Countless fine and dense rain filaments form a gray curtain of water falling from the sky, swaying with the wind.

The sea of fire and flames that burned almost the entire Qingfeng Ridge into a scorched earth gradually weakened under the pouring of a timely rain for the Southern Barbarian Army, leaving white smoke rising from the scorched earth on the hillside.

At the same time, the artillery of the fleet of the Nine Shadows also stopped shelling.

The Southern Barbarians were stunned for a moment and cheered. At the same time, he thought that the artillery of the Jiuyou National Army stopped firing because of this heavy rain, and he shouted in unison: "God help me! God help me!"

At the top of Qingfeng Ridge Mountain, overlooking Xiao Shizhu under the mountain, he saw the Southern Barbarian Army cheering like a tsunami, and the corners of his mouth rose again.

In his eyes, the Southern Barbarians at this moment are like the sea creatures left on the wet shore after the tide suddenly recedes, and the joy is not long.

The wind and rain did not decrease but increased, and the cheers of the Southern Barbarian Army were even greater, but their joy had not yet dissipated, and the guns of the warships of the Nine Shadows Army fired again, the muzzles of the guns puffed out flickering flames, and the pungent smoke of gunpowder sent out one cannonball after another.

It's just that the target of this artillery bombardment is no longer the Ghost Cry Pass, which has become a pile of broken bricks and tiles, but the Southern Barbarian Army, which has not yet recovered from its senses, is crowded on the Ghost Cry Beach.

Most of the garrisons on Mingyue Mountain came down to save the fire on Qingfeng Ridge, and half of the garrisons in the pass also went out to fight the fire. The rest were either killed by shelling or escaped from the pass to avoid the overwhelming shells.

The small ghost crying beach is full of grizzled ghosts. The artillery of the Nine Shadows Army doesn't need to be deliberately aimed, and a single cannon can take away a few ghost lives.

In the panic, they wanted to flee in all directions, but on the unobstructed beach, no matter how they fled, they could not escape the shelling.

So, they thought of Mingyue Mountain. At least in the mountains, there are grass, trees and rocks, which are somewhat sheltered.

The Southern Barbarian Army rushed towards Mingyue Mountain in unison, and just as they were about to run to the foot of the mountain, the horn on the mountain suddenly roared with war drums, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

Bai Qian led the 10,000 Nine Ghost Army, and when the Southern Barbarian Army went down the mountain to put out the fire, and all the attention was on Qingfeng Ridge, he climbed the Mingyue Mountain from the coast in the dark.

After sneaking closer to the enemy tower in the mountains, he assassinated the guards among them.

In addition to ordinary souls, the Nine Shadows Army led by him also has many three-body ghosts and monkey demon soldiers, as well as ghosts who are good at long-range shooting.

The archery skills of the ghosts are famous in Xuanyan Continent, they can take five arrows with one bow and fire a salvo at the same time. You can also shoot dragonflies on the water, and you can shoot every shot.

The flying arrows roared, and under the cover of the ghosts, the monkey demon soldiers and the three-body ghosts only used a hot tea to solve all the outer guards on Mingyue Mountain.

Immediately after they saw the Southern Barbarian Army on the beach, they wanted to escape into the mountains and forests to avoid the shelling, so they did not hesitate to launch a fierce attack on the remaining enemy troops in the mountains.

The Monkey Demon Soldiers climbed the captured tower, and with their longbows and firearms, they shot at the enemies in the mountains. The three-body ghost swooped down from the hillside with all kinds of blades in his hand, blocking the enemy troops who dared to approach Mingyue Mountain at the foot of the mountain, making it difficult for them to move an inch.

The wind and rain became stronger and stronger, and the sand on the entire beach was wet with raindrops without exception, forming a huge pool of mud and sand, which made it even more difficult for the Southern Barbarian Army.

Now the enemy troops suddenly realized that the firearms of the Xiao Jiajun were not afraid of wind and rain at all, and the ultimate purpose of the mountain fire on Qingfeng Ridge was not to burn the garrison in the mountains, but to attract them to put out the fire first, and to force them to exhaust themselves with artillery bombardment, which eventually caused this heavy rain and turned the beach under their feet into a place where it was difficult to move.

Xiao Shizhu's calculations can be described as step-by-step, seemingly simple but actually interlocking, and the ultimate purpose of each move is to kill them.

The whole Devil's Cry Beach has fallen, and the terrible howls and * resounded between the heavens and the earth. Despair and faintness enveloped the hearts of every soldier of the Southern Barbarian Army.

Many enemy troops are still braving artillery fire and stubbornly resisting, and most of the Southern Barbarian army has collapsed, kneeling on the ground and surrendering with their hands raised. And a small number of southern barbarian troops, after seeing the raging mountain fire on Qingfeng Ridge, became smaller and smaller under the pouring of wind and rain, they struggled to run towards that side, one foot deeper, one foot shallow.

In myths and legends, it is a kind of monster that secretly harms people in the water, and if it shoots people with sand grains in its mouth or shoots people's shadows, it will have sores if it is shot, and it will also get sick if it is shot at the shadow. The idiom of insinuation comes from this thing. 】