Volume 2 Who Masters the Ups and Downs Chapter 122 The Artifact Sinks in the Sand
Su Qin carried out the plan of moving the Ding to blame the Qi State three times, the first time was destroyed by the Divine Arrow Gate Yidan, the second time he intercepted halfway, and seeing that the third plan was about to succeed, he didn't expect to pick up a cheap one for Lu Maoshou. Su Qin's plan to move the trouble and take care of the wood implemented a double insurance, using Jiuding and Song as a double bait, no matter whether the king of Qi obtains Jiuding or Song, Qi will suffer from the joint crusade of other vassal states. People are not as good as heaven, Su Qin's first bait was destroyed by Lu Maoshou, but what he never expected was that the person who destroyed his second bait turned out to be King Yan. Su Qin was so angry that he stomped his feet when he learned that King Yan had conquered Qi, and when the battle of Yan Qi fell into a tug-of-war, he had to wipe King Yan's buttocks.
This time, Su Qin provoked the war of the Five Kingdoms, Zhongshan was destroyed, and Zhao was the only country that got cheap, so Su Qin entered Zhao again and asked Zhao to mediate the battle of Qi Yan. Before Zhao attacked Zhongshan, Zhao Yong had entered Yan to ask Yan and Zhao to form an alliance, and the king of Yan asked Zhao Yong to send troops to help Yan attack Qi. Under the mediation of Zhao Guoxia, Yan State ceded several cities and 10,000 taels of gold to Qi State, and the war ended.
After Lian Po returned to Handan, he immediately went to see Fei Yi and told Fei Yi what had happened in Lingshou. Lian Po once crossed the Kunlun Glacier with Wang Xuling Junzi and others, and heard a lot of stories about the undead ghost soldiers, and he saw that there were "undead ghost soldiers" in Zhao Zhang's army, so he naturally didn't dare to be careless. After Fei Yi checked the spoils handed over by Zhao Zhang after the war, he found that as Lian Po said, Zhao Zhang had swallowed a lot of property privately, and heard that there were some "ghosts" in Zhao Zhang's army that could not be killed, so he asked Lian Po to hurry up to Taihang Mountain to find Ling Junzi.
When Ling Junzi heard this, he was shocked in his heart, and the past of Wu Wa's arrow in the past came to mind. Ling Junzi had already confirmed that Wu Wa's arrow was inseparable from Lu Maoshou, and at this time, there were ghost soldiers in Lingshou City, and Ling Junzi felt that it must be related to Lu Maoshou. The ghost soldiers were originally owned by Gongsun He, and Ling Junzi estimated that his senior brother Gongsun He was afraid that he had passed away at this time, so Lu Maoshou got the ghost soldiers. Ling Junzi didn't expect that Zhao Zhang had something to do with Lu Maoshou, and when he was pondering, someone came to report that there was an incident along the Yellow River where the "Divine Soldier and Heavenly General" protected the Ding. Ling Junzi vaguely felt that it was related to Lu Maoshou, so he hurriedly sent Xia Barley and others to investigate, Xia Barley found out that the undead ghost soldiers snatched Jiuding from the hands of the King of Qi, got on the Yellow River and hit a big boat, and when he came back to report to Ling Junzi, he had already sent someone to pursue the big boat along the river.
Ling Junzi didn't care about the old affairs of the Zhao royal family, and immediately took one or two hundred people, including Linlang and Qiji, and Xia Liang, the master of the Benqi Hall, to intercept Jiuding along the Yellow River.
Lu Maoshou had ghost soldiers and several masters of the Nine Clans, and a lot of property, and even obtained the Jiuding artifact, and he was ecstatic in his heart, ready to find a holy place to open a religion and set up an altar, and do something big. When the big boat went upriver and went west along the Yellow River to the northwest of Xinzheng, South Korea, Ling Junzi and his men caught up with the big boat and saw nine big tripods lined up on the boat.
At this time, the Yellow River where the letter boat was located was sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and Ling Junzi's people released a burst of arrows at the narrow road, and found that it was useless. Qi Ji, the master of the lower sect, ordered the disciples to use rockets instead, and the rockets were fired into the wooden boat and ignited a lot of fireworks, and the fire burned bigger and bigger in the wind, and the people of the upper and lower sects cheered. Suddenly, several columns of water appeared on the deck of the ship, and the fire was extinguished. It turned out that when the public transport was building the big ship, it had already considered that the big ship was vulnerable to fire, so the bamboo tube water absorption device was built.
When the big boat sailed to another narrow road, more than a dozen indecent men threw anchor claws tied with ropes to the big boat, jumped into the water and tried to climb onto the big boat, but as soon as these people got on the boat, they were easily killed by the poor cicada and Cang Shu and others, which caused Ling Junzi's people to look at the boat and sigh.
The people of the upper and lower schools chased the big ship along the coast, but they were helpless for a while. Ling Junzi inspected the terrain and water flow along the north bank of the Yellow River, and did not find that there was a water level difference, but the water flow was stable, and most of the time the river was wide, and it was not easy to stop this behemoth. Ling Junzi walked forward more than ten miles quickly, and saw a river divided into many trickles by several small continents, and decided to lead the men to set up an ambush here.
When the big boat passed through the trickle, the upper and lower people suddenly shot arrows at the boat, and at the same time, Ling Junzi led the two masters of Linlang and Qiji and several people with high martial arts skills in the door, each holding a long bamboo pole, and used the leaping technique of pole vaulting to board the big boat smoothly. The two sides fought for a while, and Ling Junzi didn't expect that the masters of the nine clans who were in the Great Yi Tomb before were all on the boat, plus the undead ghost soldiers, Ling Junzi's combat effectiveness was dwarfed. Ling Junzi's people soon couldn't support it, several men were killed, and Ling Junzi had to order the remaining people to jump off the big boat one after another.
After discussing with the two masters, Linlang and Qiji, Ling Junzi decided to use a large catapult to attack the big ship at the narrow passage on the Yellow River. Xia Barley immediately led people to cross the Yellow River to South Korea's Tiger Prison Pass to borrow catapults from the generals defending the city, but the generals defending the city naturally did not borrow them. Xia Qi and others then took the general who defended the city and persecuted him to death, but they encountered a hard bone, and the general would rather die than borrow it. Xia Barley was helpless, so he had to hurry back to report to Ling Junzi.
Although the upper and lower schools are known as the Hundred Techniques Gate, the big boat is sailing on the Yellow River, the hull is unprecedentedly large, and the boat is full of masters, and the people in the upper and lower schools feel that it is difficult to deal with for a while. Ling Junzi instructed Linlang and Qiji, the two masters, to watch the big boat, and he and Xia Barley continued to move forward along the Yellow River to inspect the terrain. After crossing the Heluo confluence, the two of them rode westward for most of the hour, and found that there was a river at the foot of the mountain on the south bank of the Yellow River, the river was not wide, and there was a boulder stretching out to the Yellow River halfway up the mountainside. Ling Junzi had an idea, and thought to himself that only the power of the thunder fireball could sink this big ship.
Originally, the thunder fireball was used on land, and it was impossible to throw a huge stone ball onto a ship, but the terrain here is special, and if the thunder fireball rolls down from a boulder halfway up the mountain to the surface of the river, it may hit a large ship. Ling Junzi stood on the boulder and looked at the terrain, carefully thinking about how to use the thunder fireball, thinking that the stone ball was too big to be thrown onto the ship, too small and not powerful enough. Ling Junzi calculated the time again, asked Xia Barley to stay and look for some pine resin, and immediately returned to find the two masters of Linlang and Qiji.
Under Ling Junzi's questioning, the master of the Linlang Sect really brought with him pine oil, sulfur ore powder and saltpeter and other substances that can make thunder and fireballs, but it is not easy to make spheres in the wilderness, fortunately, the big ship is moving slowly against the current, and they still have time.
A few hours later, the upper and lower sect members made two thunder fireballs as they wished. Ling Junzi knew that if the big ship was driving on the north bank, it would be difficult for the stone ball to hit the big ship if the speed of the stone ball rolling down was not enough, so he asked the master of Qiji Gate to shout on the north bank of the Yellow River and pretend to attack the big ship, in an attempt to force the big ship to move on the south bank.
Everyone took their places, and in less than half an hour, the big ship appeared in sight and slowly sailed towards the boulder. Qi Ji led the men to shout loudly on the north bank of the Yellow River, shooting wave after wave of rockets, and Lu Mao Shou then instructed the big ship to drive on the south bank. When the big ship was approaching the boulder, Ling Junzi ordered two thunderous fireballs to roll down from the high places one after the other along the arranged fairway, and hit the hull of the ship impartially.
The huge stone ball smashed through the deck of the large ship and sank into the cabin, and one of the thunderous fireballs exploded, producing a loud noise. After the explosion, although the big ship was blown to pieces, the exterior was not blown out of a hole, nor did it sink immediately, but stopped moving forward and wandered near the boulder.
The explosion of a thunderous fireball did not completely destroy the power plant of the big ship, Lu Maoshou and the others came to their senses and ordered people to continue to drive the ship. Ling Junzi descended from the boulder and followed the big ship, and found that although the big ship had not been sunk by the explosion, a crack had already appeared in the hull, and the thick planks were obviously loose and cracked.
Ling Junzi picked up a spear full of fine iron from the hand of a doorman, followed the big ship, and followed all the way. The master of the Qiji Sect understood, and also took an iron spear to keep up with Ling Junzi. In a place where the river was narrow, Ling Junzi first ran for a while, and casually threw the iron spear in his hand at the big boat. The iron spear roared out, with great force, and struck the damaged part of the ship's hull, and the hull began to seep water. The master of the Qiji Gate did the same, and just hit a broken ship's plank, causing a hole to appear in the big ship in an instant.
The big ship began to enter the water, and after half an hour the hull began to tilt. Just when Lu Maoshou's people were anxious and helpless, the big tripod on the deck began to slide to the side with the tilted hull. Dading began to shift, pressing the hull more and more tilted, sliding and accelerating. The rapidly sliding Dading crashed into the guardrail of the big ship, and in an instant, all of them fell into the surging Yellow River. Lu Maoshou looked at the falling Shending, his face turned blue with anger, but he had no choice but to command his subordinates to abandon the ship and go ashore.
Ling Junzi stood on the shore and watched Jiuding fall into the rolling Yellow River, as if he didn't expect such a result, his mind was blank, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad. When he intercepted Lu Maoshou at the beginning, Ling Junzi only thought that he couldn't let people like Lu Maoshou get the Jiuding artifact, and he didn't think about how Jiuding should belong.
The big ship floated to the shore before it sank, and Lu Maoshou landed with the remaining ghost soldiers and the masters of the Nine Clans one by one. Although Lu Maoshou suffered heavy losses, his combat power was still not inferior to that of Ling Junzi's upper and lower sects, and both sides were unwilling to fight to the death, so they went their separate ways.