[372] Daoshan Island

At the foot of Luofu Mountain, the 100,000 menacing fire beasts rushed forward, forming a huge sea of fire that spread northward. The flames were blazing, and the sky instantly turned red.

The hot wind whistled by, and the flames on the flames of the firelight beasts became even hotter.

On the other hand, the Nine Shadows Army did not move at all. The military appearance is still neat, and their faces are calm and composed.

Just when the firelight beast that was rushing to the front was less than half a mile away from the front army of the Nine Shadows Country, the blue-skinned ghosts in the military formation sat cross-legged on the ground, raised their hands straight to the sky, opened their palms to the sky, and chanted words in their mouths.

In just a few breaths, the cloudless sky above Luofu Mountain suddenly changed. The wind blew and swept through countless dark clouds that appeared out of thin air, turning the land dark.

The sky was dark and heavy, as if it was about to collapse. Thunder and lightning danced wildly in dense dark clouds, and cold winds fell from the sky, roaring and rushing. There is a great tendency for wind and rain to come.

Immediately afterwards, there was a torrential rain falling from the sky in Du Ziren's panic. The rain pillars in the sky fluttered and swayed in the wind, like thousands of broken pearls, and shot unstoppably to the ground. In just a few moments, the raindrops were connected into a line, forming a rain curtain between heaven and earth.

In the fire forest below the mountain, a layer of mist like smoke and clouds suddenly rose.

The raindrops were like flying stones, falling one after another with the strong wind, blurring the heavens and the earth in an instant, and smashing the already menacing fire beasts all in unison, screaming and rolling all over the ground to avoid the raindrops. However, the raindrops were too dense to avoid it, and the firelight beasts had no choice but to let out a terrible roar.

Although this fire-light beast is not afraid of flames, and dances with fire, and eats fire for a living, it has a fatal weakness, that is, it dies when it encounters water. This stormy sky is its natural enemy.

As early as the time of Muli Pass, Hu Hui formulated a counterattack plan based on the principle that Du Ziren was a fraudulent surrender.

After several days and nights of sleepless hard thinking and meditation, Hu Hui decided to push the boat down the river, and told the ghost captives to agree that it would be surrendered under the mountain, in order to let Du Ziren make the first move.

In the process of countless battles that Hu Hui deduced in his mind, Du Ziren used the Southern Barbarian Ghost Witches (wizards of the ghost clan) to use the beast control technique when he surrendered, and it was most likely that he would drive the fire beasts living in the fire forest under Luofu Mountain as the vanguard.

So Hu Hui discussed with his old acquaintance and decided that once Du Ziren used the Fire Light Beast, they would use the ghosts of the Gonggong clan to bring wind and rain.

Although the weather near Luofu Mountain is dry and dry, there are also dark rivers and springs underground, and it is not that there is no water vapor and water spirit.

Back then, with only a thousand Gonggong clan clansmen, he could easily attract torrential rain in Zhongtiantong City, Danshui County, but now there are more than 10,000 ghosts of the Gonggong clan in his hands, which is enough to rain heavily for an hour.

Countless raindrops fell deep into the cracked land, cooling the heat in the air, and in less than a moment, the ground around Luofu Mountain turned into a muddy mass. Countless Flame Light Beasts fell obliquely under the whip of the torrential rain, and when the flames on their bodies were extinguished, they lay in the muddy water and lost their breath after a few convulsions.

The rest were also dying, wanting to retreat to the fire forest that was still in flames under the washing of the storm, but they were weak and quadriplegic, so they had to lie on the ground, looking at the heavy rain between heaven and earth like the Milky Way falling and the Yao Chi collapsing, and despair appeared in his eyes.

Du Ziren's fantasy of the beautiful Fire Light Beast Array was easily broken.

Shocked and angry, he raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily: "Fight with them!"

As the words began, the trumpeters blew to the trumpeters. The melodious and loud sound of the horn drifted into the distance through the rain and mist.

The Southern Barbarian army on the mountain rushed down the hillside, holding high the flickering swords, guns, swords, halberds, and headed towards the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

The firecrackers of the Nine Shadows Army stepped forward slowly, raised their firearms in their hands and aimed at the enemy troops who were getting closer and closer. The shield-bearer calmly and orderly stood in front of the musketeers, held the shield in his hand in front of his chest, and slowly stretched his spear forward, pointing the spear straight ahead.

After a while, from the mountains and forests on the east and west sides of Luofu Mountain, which were only a dozen miles away, more than a dozen Southern Barbarian armies of different numbers suddenly rushed out. There are thousands of them, and only a few hundred.

Du Ziren is not an absolute fool, and he doesn't just think about using the fire beast array to fight the victory, and he is even more unwilling to fight to the death with only the defenders on Luofu Mountain. He also summoned all the slave owners in the vicinity of Luofu Mountain, within a radius of hundreds of miles.

For Nanban, a land that was still under the slave system, there were thousands of large and small slave owners. They were in charge of countless poor slaves for Du Ziren, and Du Ziren was in charge of them.

The slaves did things for the slave owners free of charge, and the slave owners had to give free dedication to Du Ziren.

Therefore, Du Ziren gave an order, and they had to obey if they didn't obey, so they had to follow his requirements, leading their young and strong slaves to lurk in the mountains and forests on the east and west sides of Luofu Mountain with weapons.

The sound of the trumpets echoed through the heavens and the earth, and they were full of apprehension and anxiety, but they still rushed out of the mountains and forests without looking back, and went straight to the Nine Shadows Army. In addition to the infantry, there are also cavalry with giant wolves and colorful tigers under their crotch.

Don't look at their majesty, the shouts of killing shook the sky and the earth under the rain curtain. In fact, they were all recruited by Du Ziren to catch ducks on the shelves, and they still lack tacit understanding and practical experience. Nine times out of ten, ghosts can only hunt, and this is the first time they have killed an enemy. Many of them saw the neat lineup and fully armed Jiuyou Army, and their calves were trembling.

But the deep-rooted servility has not stopped them from moving forward.

In the Nine Shadows Army, at this time, the war drums sounded in unison, and the cavalry sergeants on the left and right flanks turned around, raised their swords and guns, and aimed at the Southern Barbarian slaves and beasts that roared towards them.

The beasts roared and roared, and the sound shook the universe in all directions.

Under the sound of gunfire, heart-rending screams came one after another in the wind and rain, and the artillery of the Chinese army facing Luofu Mountain was also fully reloaded and calibrated with muzzles......

On the sea and the sky, the sky and the sea are blended together, shining in the cloudy light.

On the waves, a huge fleet was speeding from west to east, speeding in the wind and waves, towards the eastern edge of the sea. The waves swirled and danced, constantly lapping the side of the ship, spraying thousands of white foams.

The fifty eagle ships headed by this fleet with their heads and tails turned up, and thirty-five square ships with square heads and square tails with spacious decks.

Each warship was made of the finest camphor wood, stronger than copper and iron.

This was followed by thirty large fortune ships made of unsinkable wood. The guards on the left and right of the Fu Ship are 50 Haicang Ships that are slightly smaller than the Fu Boat, with a draft of about seven or eight feet, and are all made of high-quality Tsubaki wood.

Behind them were a hundred Wakagi Sea Falcons and a hundred supply ships.

And in the sea under the ship, there are tens of thousands of boat ghosts trailing forward, and the momentum is extremely huge.

The exterior of each warship was wrapped in iron sheets, and the ships were equipped with a variety of cannons and guns. At the top of each mast, there is a flag with a white background and embroidered with flowers on the other side.

It is the main force of the sailors of the Nine Shadows Country!

Standing at the front of the flagship deck, squinting at the horizon in the distance, a little pride appeared on his face.

Even when he was a prince, the main naval division under his command was not so large, and commanding such a large fleet was exactly what he dreamed of as a man who was good at water warfare.

And in addition to the sailors, the ship-borne infantry this time are all elite three seedlings who can fight well, and there are 100,000 people. They were all boarded by sailors when they passed by Yunmengzhou.

Their target is Daoshan Island on the eastern border of the Kouhai Sea.

"Governor, the sentinels have spotted an island above the sea. A moment later, a three-seedling ghost dressed in a cardigan, with a blue head wrapped around his head, and a bending knife at his waist, strode up to the co-worker and stood side by side with him, handed him a telescope, and pointed to the sea level in the distance ahead.

This ghost is the leader of the three Miao soldiers this time, Dongmeng, the son of Dong Wuha. He is also the current deputy general of Gonggong.

Gonggong took the binoculars, stretched them out without saying a word, and looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that there was indeed an island on the sea level.

Through the binoculars, you can vaguely see that the mountains on the island are all composed of swords. There were no rocks, no soil, no trees on the mountain, only a variety of sharp swords next to each other.

In the light of the cloudy sun, the cold light on the sword flickered, and it was extremely dazzling. But it also makes the island seem very strange.

"That's Daoshan Island, ready to attack. Gonggong, who had collected the binoculars, showed a little excitement in his eyes, and turned to the sailors behind him and said aloud: "Speed up, Daoshan Island is ahead." ”。

His shout soon reached the ears of every sailor on deck. The flag bearer waved the flag to the surrounding warships, and the rest of the sailors immediately got busy.

The fleet rode the wind and waves, and in less than half an hour, it was approaching Daoshan Island. I saw that the island three or five miles away was desolate, with neither flowers nor trees. In addition to the earth and stones, there were only a few swords-made peaks surrounded by a few rivers.

The defenders on the island are all Xudu troops, as well as many ghosts and ghosts of the Northern Yin Dynasty. Although there was a fleet in the harbor, it was all a small number of Mengchong warships, and there were less than fifty of them.

As soon as they saw such a huge fleet appear on the sea off the island, they first thought it was the Northern Yin Naval Division cruising the ocean, and they didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, in their cognition, in the huge underworld, the only one who can have such a huge fleet is the Northern Yin Dynasty of the Emperor Xudu.

What they never expected was that when this fleet approached, they could see clearly that the five dragon flags fluttering on those warships were not the five dragon flags of the Northern Yin Dynasty, but flags with white backgrounds and embroidered with flowers on the other side.

Because of the news, the defenders on the island did not know that the Nine Shadows Kingdom had already started a war with the Northern Yin Dynasty, so they naturally did not know that the situation was serious.

In this way, while they were in shock, they guessed when the Nine Shadows Kingdom had such a large fleet, and they did not make any defensive preparations at all.

Moreover, the Xudu Army has always been used to running rampant in the underworld, and they definitely did not expect that the Nine Shadows Water Division was about to open fire on them.

Xiao Shizhu grasped the psychology that they would inevitably make this plan. Originally, under such circumstances, the sailors of the Nine Shadows Kingdom did not have to be almost dispatched. However, for the time being, the area around Satsuki Island could not leave warships for the naval cavalry led by Masuzu God to take advantage of, so he ordered the Satsuki Island fleet to follow.

However, the Nine Shadows Water Division was not idle, and the fleet stopped on the sea only three miles west of the island. The vanguard ships pointed their bows toward the islands, and three of them lined up on the sea with horns on each other, while the 30 main ships turned their sides on the sea and slowly turned their starboard side towards the islands, forming a long snake formation that lasted for several miles

When the ships were lined up, the gunners reloaded. After a while, the roaring cannons came from the Fu boat one after another, and the fiery red cannonballs flew quickly towards Daoshan Island.

[The Great Tsubaki Tree - "Zhuangzi" records: "In ancient times, there were great Tsubaki, with 8,000 years old as spring and 8,000 years old as autumn."] "One year of such a tree is thirty-two thousand years. 】