The fire on the mountain became more and more fierce, and the heat wave was churning non-stop, so hot that the Xiao family soldiers on the top of the mountain were almost out of breath. They stopped the shelling, retreated behind the fire ditch, and huddled together.

When the fire was only about 10 zhang away from the top of the mountain, a dull thunderclap suddenly sounded in the sky, followed by a heavy rain falling from the sky. The rain became heavier and heavier with the thunder, and the raindrops the size of beans were like pearls with broken threads, forming a gray rain curtain in the air, and then falling continuously, making more and more water on the ground. It also made the fire of the mountain fire weakened.

On the mountain, where thick smoke could be seen everywhere, after a cup of tea, it was obvious that the amount of thick smoke had decreased a lot, and a lot of white water vapor formed by the combination of rain and flames rose from the charred black earth.

The Xiao family soldiers on the top of the mountain raised their hands and raised their heads, letting the rain wash their cheeks, and cheered. This rain is really timely, if it is a little later, these hundreds of Xiao family troops will only be roasted.

At the same time, Yu Rong also led hundreds of militiamen to the top of the mountain, circled in the air and landed.

"General, the Heavenly Soul Army that set fire to the mountain has been completely annihilated by us!" After finishing speaking, he walked straight towards Xiao Shizhu, but he cursed and said in his mouth: "These enemies are so ruthless, they have prepared more than two hundred barrels of fierce fire oil to burn the mountain, and when they are completely annihilated, there are still more than fifty barrels left to be useless." ”。

"Big brother. Ying Zhao and Wu Zhiqi also walked over, stood on the left and right of Xiao Shizhu, stretched out their hands to wipe the raindrops on their faces, and asked, "Do you know that it is going to rain tonight?"

"Yes. Xiao Shizhu nodded and smiled, and said, "So even if Grandma sets a trap and wants to attract us to attack the mountain, and then trap and burn us with fire, she dares to take you to drill this trap." ”。

"Why is this?" Wu Zhiqi, Ying Zhao, and Yi Rong all showed puzzled looks, and looked at them curiously and asked in unison, "Are you a god?"

"Hahahaha!" Xiao Shizhu laughed heartily and said, "This is not a divine calculation, it is called foresight." I used to hear black and white impermanence say that almost everything in the world is imitated according to the underworld, which means that the weather proverbs in the world are just as effective in the underworld. ”。

"Do you remember that in the afternoon, when we were doing our last rest in the mountains not far away, a soldier reported that he had found a waterhole in the mountain, and I went with him to see the waterhole?" He looked around at Wu Zhiqi and Yingzhao, and saw that their faces were puzzled, and after hearing this, he nodded stunned, and then said: "At that time, I saw loaches in the waterhole, and they would jump out of the water from time to time. The fish in the water also floated to the surface frequently to breathe, and I knew that it was going to rain. This is what the world often says, the loaches jump, and the rain comes. And the thunder just now is muffled, this is called muffled thunder, so this rain will still fall for a long time, and we have to extinguish the mountain fire before it stops. ”。 As soon as he finished speaking, another muffled thunder sounded in the sky, and the rain became much more dense, blurring their vision.

"I see. Ying Zhao let out a long voice when he heard this, touched his beard under his chin with his hand, and said thoughtfully: "No wonder Lu Wu proposed that when occupying the top of the mountain is easy to be surrounded by enemy troops with fire on the top of the mountain and cutting off the back road, you still resolutely decided to take the mountain and shell the pass." ”。

"Yes, but what Lu Wu said is not unreasonable, so we can't go up the mountain with all our troops, lest we don't even have a way back. Although the hilltop artillery bombardment is effective and can catch the enemy by surprise, they can also choose to flee to reduce casualties, and in the dark of night, the distance is too long, and the shelling cannot be as steady and accurate as during the day. So I asked Lu Wu and Aoki, each generation of a force, to attack the north and south of the pass. The narrow mountain road is the advantage of the enemy, which can make them untouchable, and can also be used by us against them, provided that their passes are destroyed first, forcing them to flee; After saying it in one breath, Xiao Shizhu took a long breath and said to them proudly: "Her grandmother wants to burn me, and I will do what she wants, but I must use the time to see the trick and make her trap ineffective; This is foresight, looking farther and thinking more than others. ”。

"According to the art of war taught by the ancient gods, you should avoid traps instead of getting into them directly, but you do the opposite. Yingzhao and they all felt that this was really listening to your words, better than reading for ten years, and couldn't help but cast an admiring look at Xiao Shizhu. After a while, Ying Zhao pondered and asked, "Big brother, where did you learn these strange tricks that go against the common sense of the soldiers?"

"My human master taught me, this is also the horror of the human soul, other souls are better at thinking and discovering, so as to keep innovating. Xiao Shizhu scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, and said: "But when I was in the world, I only used these to play the game of profiteers to cheat money, and I was worthy of my master's earnest teachings." ”。

"Remember, the kingdom will grow and the army will grow, and one day you will become a minister or a general, and you will have to have foresight in dealing with state affairs and leading armies into battle. After Xiao Shizhu finished speaking, after seeing that the mountain fire had been extinguished by a third, he turned to the Xiao family army and ordered: "Put away the artillery ammunition, and we will immediately go down the mountain to fight Lu Wu and the five thousand households." ”......

As soon as the walls of the pass were stepped on, the shelling from the top of the hill soon stopped. The surviving Heavenly Soul Army was frightened and fled in all directions to the north and south, and scattered after climbing over the city wall.

But when I turned over the ruins, I saw the firelight in front of me accompanied by the sound of gunfire, and in the undulating gunfire, pieces of the Heavenly Soul Army fell in response. The Heavenly Soul Army behind them were stunned and stopped advancing. By the light of the fire in the ruins, you can vaguely see that the mountain road outside the pass is full of rows of soldiers, and the black pressure is almost the same as the night, it must be the Xiao family's army.

Without waiting for the Heavenly Soul Army to react, the Xiao family army formed a mandarin duck formation and killed the Heavenly Soul Army standing on the ruins.

This mandarin duck array is not only convenient to move, both long and short, both offensive and defensive, and its formation characteristics are unique in ancient times that require the formation to highlight the unilateral use, especially when resisting foreign enemies of unknown depth, the advantage is very obvious. And in the terrain of many hills and ravines, rivers and canals, and narrow roads, it can also exert great lethality and destructive power.

In an instant, the Heavenly Soul Army, which had lost the arrow tower and the city wall, panicked again, and the temporary defense line they formed on the ruins was easily crushed by the Xiao family's army.

Immediately afterwards, a steady stream of Xiao family soldiers who were in the middle of the pass, chasing and killing the Heavenly Soul Army who had no resistance and only cared about the head of the rat in the broken wall and on the ruins.

The sword was cold and shining, and the sound of gunfire was intertwined, intertwined with the shouts of killing and screams for mercy, piercing the night sky with the breath of death, echoing the muffled thunder in the air.

After a while, it rained heavily in the sky, but the offensive of the Xiao family's army not only did not suffer a setback, but rose more and more. The speed at which they swung their swords and danced their swords was as fast as the raindrops falling from the sky, killing the Heavenly Soul Army and retreating one after another.

After sacrificing countless companions, the remaining Heavenly Soul Army retreated to the middle of the pass and moved closer together. The dense Xiao family army showed hideous faces and surrounded them.

The battle is coming to an end......

In the early morning, the rain stopped, but the clouds were still thick, and the sky and the earth were dark.

On the ruins of the No Return Pass, the Xiao family army is cleaning the battlefield. They gathered together the armor left behind after the death of the enemy, so as to calculate how many enemies they would destroy.

Xiao Shizhu stood on the ruins and looked around without saying a word. Grandma is a demon spirit, and even after death in the underworld, he will leave a corpse, but he has never heard of finding Grandma's body, which makes him very suspicious.

"Big brother. Lu Wu walked up to him and stood still, and said: "Aoki Qianhu sent someone to report, there are only 15,000 armor in the pass, plus Yu Rong said that they probably destroyed more than 300 Heavenly Soul Army who went to set fire, there should only be about 16,000 to 20,000 Heavenly Soul Army here, and the others are not here." ”。

"In the capital of the ghost kingdom. After Xiao Shizhu nodded when he heard this, he looked to the north. Due to terrain factors, this pass is not big, and Xiao Shizhu knows that he can't fit the 50,000 horses of the entire Heavenly Soul Army here.

"Yes, that's what I thought, too. Lu Wu looked puzzled, and said suspiciously: "It's just that from the time we came in to the end of the battle, we didn't meet Ma Mian, is she also in the national capital?"

"Quite possibly. Xiao Shizhu sighed lightly and gritted his teeth secretly. His original intention was to destroy Grandma here and reduce the enemy's combat effectiveness, but he never thought that the enemy general would escape, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart: "It's really not as fast as the plan is to change." ”。

Just as he was thinking, a herald ran over, stood still in front of him, knelt down on one knee, and said to him, "General, a dying banshee has been found under the ruins to the south, with a horse's face, as if it were a horse's face. ”。

Xiao Shizhu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Take me to have a look." He headed for the south of the pass.

When I came to the edge, I saw several sergeants in a circle, and there seemed to be something in the middle. Xiao Shizhu stood among the soldiers, and saw that on the ground in the circle, it was indeed a grandmother with a horse face lying down. Her body was covered in a mess of rubble of various sizes from her abdomen to her feet, with only the area above her chest exposed.

"Horse face?" Xiao Shizhu looked at her bloodstained face with a playful gaze, and when he looked at each other, he smiled when he saw the other party's eyes wide open and looked at him with a puzzled gaze, "You must think I was burned to death, right?"

"You, you, you're not dead?" Grandma's eyes flashed with consternation, and then turned into a little loss, and muttered to herself: "Yes, yes, you are the son of God, and your life is really big." ”。 Every time she said a word, she would gasp heavily, and it seemed that it was indeed hurting a lot.

Fortunately, she is a demon soul and a divine servant, and she was given some divine power by the Emperor Xudu, so she didn't die immediately.

After a while, she turned her head slightly to look at her in the thick dark clouds in the air, opened her lips slightly, and said, "I should really tell my master about your situation, at least in this way, you will face millions of Xudu army." ”。 I regretted again and again in my heart, why did I wait until I killed Xiao Shizhu to repay Emperor Xudu.

After hearing this, Xiao Shizhu was still smiling, but secretly relieved, since the night of the wandering god visited Shuoyue Island a few days ago, and did not mention the arrest of him, it means that Grandma is not lying, although Xiao Shizhu does not know why she, as a loyal follower of Emperor Xudu, did not tell his master about his situation in the first place, but he secretly feels lucky.

"Not because I am the Son of God, but because I have a foresight than you. He slowly squatted down beside Grandma, looked at Grandma with interest, and said: "You are also a powerful ghost, you should have left your life to serve me, but you are a loyal fan of Emperor Xudu, you must have learned a lot of his selfishness, so I don't dare to leave your ghost life." As he spoke, he reached behind his waist and pulled out the soul-breaking arrow that Grandma had used to assassinate him before.

"I'm going to lose to you like that, an ant-like human soul. Grandma looked at the arrow, and when she saw that it had come to this, she had to smile bitterly.

"The power of the human soul is far more powerful than you think. Xiao Shizhu slowly aimed the arrow at her eyebrows, but he was not in a hurry to kill her, but raised the arrow and said slowly: "What you lost to is also the foresight that human souls are good at. ”。

"Don't be complacent, ant, one day, the master will notice your presence. Grandma was a little excited, coughed violently a few times, her throat was sweet, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood, but she still smiled with relief and said happily: "At that time, the master will personally come to deal with you." ”。

"yes, but not today. When that day comes, I will not run away from him, I will personally face him and teach him what foresight is. As he spoke, he stabbed the soul-breaking arrow into Grandma's eyebrows without hesitation.