The cloudy day had completely sunk below the horizon of the east, taking away the last faint afterglow between heaven and earth.

When night fell on Shuoyue Island, the dead silence also fell in front of the two armies, and the scorched earth with flames scattered and thick smoke was scattered.

The night wind dissipated the residual heat on the scorched earth, and also blew the scorching smell and bloody smell in the soil, overflowing and flying.

The army of Xudu cowered in the camp to recuperate. The Nine Shadows Army got busy, jumping out of the trenches and sneaking onto the scorched earth, using the cover of night to clean up the battlefield and recover all the metals scattered on the pitch-black scorched earth.

Then quietly recover the tattered armor, knives and guns, as well as the bullet casings of the Zi Gong one by one, and bring them back to the trenches. Give it to the ghost people who are already waiting in it, and let them go to Xiaoyushan City at the rear of the Games to make new cannonballs and guns.

Fortunately, Yingzhao has already made all preparations. When Gong Mingyi led his army to capture the four major ports, he formulated a strategy to shrink his forces. The ghost people in the rear were evacuated in advance, and the granary, ammunition depot, and ordnance supervisor were also emptied overnight. All of them were transferred to Xiaoyu Mountain City.

Even the grain and livestock in the ghost people's homes, as well as the silver and silver coins in the silver treasury, were all taken away. All that was left for the army was empty ports and towns.

Therefore, all Gong Mingyi got was empty houses and towns. It is impossible to feed the war with war, so it can only rely on the materials and supplies sent by the capital to support it, and it is already a strong foreign force.

Ying Zhao, who took a nap after the battle, woke up to see night fall. He stood on the front line again, watching the last group of ghost soldiers sent out, and after returning from the scorched earth in front of the battle, he smiled with satisfaction.

The Nine Shadows Army occupies a long distance from the enemy, and there are no advanced firearms, swaggering to clean up the battlefield from a safe distance. And it won't be long before these recovered metals can make a large number of guns and cannonballs to hit the enemy again.

"Great. Ji Kang strode over, stood beside Ying Zhao, and also looked at the fire-lit military camp in the distance under the night, and said thoughtfully: "You should have also discovered that in the past five days, Gong Mingyi, this kid, has not used the ghost cannon to bombard our army's position. ”。

Ji Kang, who looked ahead, slowly raised his brows.

Everyone knows that the Netherworld Ghost Cannon is the killer weapon of Gong Mingyi and the ghost soldiers of Xudu. So far, the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can think of a way to deal with this kind of ghost cannon, and they try to dodge it as much as possible. Prevent the karmic fire that bursts out of the exploding cannonballs from splashing on your body and burning them.

This is a huge advantage for Gong Mingyi, and it is unreasonable not to use it. In addition, the trenches of the Nine Shadow Army extend in all directions, and as long as he Gong Mingyi concentrates on one point and bombards wildly, the Xudu Army can tear a hole in the heavy fortifications of the Nine Shadow Country.

When the time comes, the whole line will be broken. A steady stream of Xudu troops can follow this opening and kill all the way to Xiaoyu Mountain City.

"I also wonder about this, but we have prepared a lot of countermeasures in advance, waiting for his hundreds of Nether Ghost Cannons to fire in unison. He Gong Mingyi is good, he has been doing thunder and no rain all the time, and he wasted the countermeasures you came up with. Ying Zhao snorted and said with some displeasure.

The wind blew and swept in, raising the dust on the trench in front of the two ghosts. Some of the ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom who had cleaned the warship escorted the ghost people to transport the supplies away, and the others stayed on the front line, ready to resist the attack that the Xudu army would launch at any time.

And Ying Zhao said that he didn't want Gong Mingyi to really mobilize all the ghost cannons and bombard a point on his position together. Although he, Ji Kang and other ghost generals have already discussed and worked out several feasible plans, the karma of the ghost cannon is still a little fearful.

After all, the karmic fire that specializes in burning the soul is not small in harm to any ghost clan. The ghost qi is not abundant, and the soul of the person is even more stained with a little, and it is burned to the ground in an instant.

"But I always feel that Gong Mingyi, a little ghost with a bad stomach, doesn't use the ghost cannon, but he didn't expect it or is holding back, waiting for the best time to start a large-scale artillery bombardment of our army. Ji Kang, who was on the side, then took over and said.

This is what he fears and fears the most.

As soon as Ji Kang finished speaking, his eyes had been slightly narrowed for a long time, and he saw countless bits of blue light and fire in the camp of the ghost soldiers in the distance. Like falling stars, it covers the entire camp.

Ying Zhao's heart thumped, and the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched when his eyebrows were raised.

"Shelling, it's karmic fire!" Ying Zhao blurted out in exclaim. When the shouts instantly spread all around, a sharp sound had already shot towards the forward position with the firelight rising from the ghost barracks in the Xudu Ghost Barracks.

At this time, the germs on the battlefield also transmitted the news of the shelling to the minds of every front-line soldier.

The scorching wind and heat wave in the sky pierced the night, and the blue light of the fire that was getting closer and closer tore at the darkness under the night.

The ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom on the forward position catted their waists one after another, burrowing into the small holes in the earthen wall in the trenches. Ying Zhao also pulled up Ji Kang and jumped down from the trench, found a hole dug in the earth wall nearby, and got into it at once.

When the two ghosts curled up in the cave, one by one the karmic fire bombs had already exploded one by one on the forward positions of the Nine Shadows National Army.

"Boom!" followed with a loud sound that shook the heavens and the earth. Thick smoke and flames rose from the forward positions of the Nine Shadows National Army under the cannonballs, the dust was flying, the wind was roaring, and the heat wave swept through every corner of the trenches.

The karmic fire of the red outside and the blue inside splattered out, spreading out in the trenches and spreading rapidly in all directions. The roar was everywhere, and many of the Nine Shadows National Army who had not had time to dodge, most of them were like broken kites, and in the explosion, they flew high with the ejected earth and rocks, and the blood sprayed wildly when they fell and flew.

The remaining ghost soldiers who didn't have time to dodge were instantly burned by the body of the karmic torch, and their skin was scorched and rotten. In the blink of an eye, even the belt flesh and skeleton were all turned into a corpse in a sea of blue karmic fire.

Nearly 1,000 ghost soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom were instantly reimbursed in the explosion, and their bones were completely gone.

And the Nine Shadows Army that hid in the cave was the ghost soldiers at the entrance of the cave all raised their arms and aimed the spirit gathering bracers on their arms at the outside of the cave entrance.

These ghost soldiers suddenly concentrated, and the ghost qi was injected into the fan-shaped spirit gathering bracers at both ends. The aura of the surrounding heaven and earth also converged like a tide, continuously injecting into the slightly concave middle of the bracer, inlaid with a thin blue round stone, with dazzling green rays, gathering into a barrier of light, tightly blocking the narrow entrance of the ground cave.

The surging and roaring karmic fire rushed over, and suddenly collided with this cyan light and scattered in all directions, even though it was like a tsunami and raging waves, but it could not rush into the hole again, and Qi Qi was blocked outside the hole.

In the distance, the ghosts of the Gonggong clan, far away from the range of the shelling, had already gathered, their hands raised above their heads, and their palms were aimed at the air to gather qi and cast spells.

The ghost qi rose and condensed the water aura between heaven and earth, gathering in the sky above the position, and the dark clouds gradually condensed, and lightning and thunder followed.

Bursts of chill scattered out in the fierce wind, sweeping over the front line with the wind. A little bit of rain also fell from the sky in a moment, more and more extinguished, washing the karmic fire swaying in the wind on the front line......

From the stone bed in the Demon God's Palace, Xiao Shizhu, who slowly sat up, raised his arms, let out a long yawn in his mouth, and lowered his hand to rub his hazy eyes.

"Lord, you're awake. At this moment, the door of the main hall slowly opened, and the national teacher Yingying slowly walked in with a few female ghost soldiers.

On the tray carried by the female ghost soldiers, there were towels and water and toothbrushes used as brushes to make brush heads. There are also green salts for brushing your teeth and morning tea for breakfast, as well as combs and other things.

Ke Yun's ghost soldiers and Xiao Shizhu have successfully rendezvous in this mountain. Although in the process of retreating here, Ke Yun and the others also encountered several obstacles from the ghost soldiers of Xudu, but the casualties were not large, and they did not hurt their vitality.

Coupled with the cover of the torrential rain, it wasn't until their group of mighty ghost soldiers rushed into the mountain range south of Jiuquan Valley that a large number of ghost soldiers from Xudu knew that Xiao Shizhu and Ke Yun, the ghost soldiers of Huangquan, had already killed in front of the Eight Kings of Huangquan.

"Hmm. Xiao Shizhu nodded in response, grabbed the robe at the head of the bed and put it on his body with his backhand, picked up the big belt and belt, and put it around his waist.

"What's the situation outside?" Xiao Shizhu, after yawning again, stood up and washed his face.

"Everything is going according to your plan, the preparation of the stone and the excavation of saltpeter and sulfur, also going well. National Teacher Ying Ying has been following Xiao Shizhu, standing behind him and replying: "Qin Yuan also went to the Nine Springs Valley twice to investigate, but in order not to startle the snake, he didn't dare to go deep into the hinterland. ”。

Xiao Shizhu, who washed his face and began to brush his teeth again, listened quietly. After Ying Ying finished speaking, he spit the mouthwash in his mouth into the copper spittoon held by a ghost soldier, picked up a towel and wiped his face and mouth, and asked, "How is the situation down the mountain?"

After asking this, Xiao Shizhu raised the hot tea and blew it, his expression was still so calm and calm, calm and without the slightest wave.

The lights in the hall were flickering, and the firelight was a little dim.

"As you might expect, the enemy forces have come in a steady stream, forming three lines of defense at the bottom of the hill and besieging us on the hill. The national teacher Yingying's face was full of joy, and then he said: "Fortunately, before the previous encirclement was formed, General Ke Yun had already gone down the mountain to rob the surrounding basic enemy barracks and pass fortresses according to your orders, and the materials we needed in the past have been hoarded. ”。

"Sit down and say. Xiao Shizhu said this to Yingying, and walked to the stone table on the side, asked the female ghosts to put down his breakfast and morning tea, and asked them to retreat first.

Leaving the national teacher Yingying alone, she sat across the table from him.

"Let's have a bite to eat. Xiao Shizhu was very bold and divided half of his breakfast to Yingying, and then asked: "Hearing you say this, the ghost soldiers of Xudu still only surrounded the mountain at the bottom of the mountain, but they didn't dare to go up the mountain, right?"

"Yes, they are taboo about this deep mountain and old forest, and they are all talking about it. A few days ago, Taifeng quietly arrested a ghost soldier in Xudu, and talked about it under inquiry. Ying Ying, the national teacher who thanked Xiao Shizhu, held a bowl of hot porridge and recalled: "According to the confession of this ghost soldier of Xudu, the reason why the ghost soldier of Xudu is afraid of this leafy forest is that he sent a large army to camp in the mountains before, but they all disappeared inexplicably. It should be the pile of white bones we found in the corner of the deep hall. This army of ghost soldiers in the capital was solved by the demon god a long time ago, and since then it has left a lot of psychological shadows on them. ”。

After a pause, Ying Ying said again: "But in this way, we can't manage to weaken the ghost soldiers of Xudu." ”。