The giant tortoise swam ashore, stood up slowly, and walked steadily, without obvious shaking, until it reached the thirty or forty scaly generals who had been waiting for him, and then slowly lay down one by one.

Before they could settle down, the scales flew up one by one, landed on the deck of the large ship in the middle, and entered the building in two groups.

There are three floors of the ship, and the first floor is the conference hall. At the top of the hall, the commander of the scale army, Haitian Banquet, was sitting in danger.

It was not the first time I had been here, and I remember that the last time I laid a trap to lure the enemy army to attack, and then I was defeated in a great battle, encircling and annihilating 600,000 people, and the main general Jiting was wiped out, and I was in a very good mood at that time;

The generals in the hall were all lined up, and Haitian Yan said with an unkind face: "You should remember that about half a year ago, this marshal inspected this place and designed an ambush with you to ambush the enemy's main general. At that time, the situation was very good, and it was a big good, not a small good. All of you have said that you will be able to take the stone forest in half a month to a month, and Ben Shuai believes that you are leaving, so let you do it. But now that half a year has passed, Shilin Feidan did not take it, but made the beetles in it jump more happily, and it can even be said that it was happier than when Ji Ting was in the past, so that our army's offensive was repeatedly frustrated. ”

The generals were speechless, and Haitian Yan paused and continued: "Looking at the overall situation, the generals of all districts and all walks of life are like bamboos all the way, and the fastest has penetrated more than 500,000 miles inland. Only this road in the central area, after half a year, has not advanced an inch, it is just a stone forest, not to mention the long-term attack, and the successive losses of troops and generals, which is really puzzling! Who can explain one or two?"

As he spoke, his eyes swept over one by one, and he fell on one person and said: "'Yuzao Frost See' Hai Xuanmiao, as the master of this road, what do you say?"

A rather powerful general responded and said: "Commander, as the name suggests, the stone forest is a well-known dangerous place in the world, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The group of beetles shrank in it, and they resisted stubbornly, which can be said to take advantage of the time and place. Even though our troops are large and wide, after the attack, they are limited by the terrain, and it is impossible to set up a position, and it is even more difficult to form an effective cooperation. Until we think of effective countermeasures, there is nothing we can do about them for the time being. ”

"Yes, this situation is like a street battle in the city, and it is right in the middle of our army. Another general came out to add.

"That's enough, there are many reasons! Ben Shuai didn't come this time to listen to this. Anyway, Ben Shuai will put his words here, whoever captures the stone forest will officially become the main general of this road. Hai Xuanmiao, remove you from the post of general and temporarily serve as the acting general, what is your opinion?" Hai Tianyan looked at Hai Xuanmiao again.

"The last general obeys!" Hai Xuanmiao saluted and bowed his head silently.

The generals were silent and silent, and some of them had a fiery light in their eyes, and the opportunity to ascend had come.

"Ben Shuai doesn't believe it, even if the stone forest is really a hard bone to gnaw, it has been gnawed for so long, and it hasn't been gnawed at all?" Hai Tianyan suppressed his anger and said after a while: "If you destroy the stone forest or drive them out of it...... Have any of you ever thought of this?"

"Marshal Qiyu, there are many strange and strange things about the Stone Forest Heavenly Danger, and it is not as simple as a dangerous place surrounded by stones. Judging from the situation that our army has now, the entire stone forest is divided into two parts: the inner area and the outer area. The outer area is a general dangerous place, there is nothing too special, but the stone is relatively hard, if the stone forest is destroyed by warship shelling, the consumption of Yuan Jing is very huge, it will hollow out the old bottom accumulated over the years, and it may not be useful. A veteran smacked.

"It means that our army can't afford the price of destroying the Stone Forest, so we don't need you to remind you. Haitian feasted.

"That's right, and this method is not feasible at all! The western region has used dozens of warships to try to destroy its outer area, and create a passage for the army to advance in a straight line, but the result is counterproductive, after the bombardment, the upper part collapses, capsizes and seals many passages, but hinders the advance and sweep of our army, and what is worse is that there are often gaps under the large pieces of rubble, forming many secret holes and secret passages, which are more conducive to their hiding, and they drill in and out like rats and cockroaches, often unexpectedly inflicting heavy blows on our troops who are deep in, and it is very difficult to deal with them. As for the inner area, there is a powerful ban on the air, and if you enter, you will fall. I didn't check it earlier, but I wanted to be airborne inside, come to the interior to blossom, and attack them, but as a result, all the six ships sent out crashed, and none of them survived. Therefore, it is very difficult to destroy the stone forest or drive them out of it. Unless......" the veteran said.

"Unless what?" Haitian Yan looked concerned.

"Unless you can ask the ancestor of the Biyuan Sect or the Monstrous Heaven Palace to make a move, it may be possible!"

"Ha, don't think about this, if the situation develops to the point where they can do it, we will have nothing to do with it for a long time. The only way to lure them out is to try to lure them out, as before. However, they will not be easily fooled again. ”

"yes...... Earlier, they successfully lured the court to attack, completely annihilated its main force, and made them suffer a big loss, but now how to lure, they ignore it, and they can't defend it, that is, they are not fooled, but our army often has soldiers who will be lured deep into it, divided and eliminated. ”

“...... No matter how difficult it is, it has to be done. "Haitian Banquet is unacceptable.

After dawn, the meeting ended, and no result was discussed, and the generals broke up unhappily. The Haitian banquet did not stop, and began the inspection of the army.

In the next three days, under his supervision, Hai Xuanmiao dispatched troops and gathered a group of elite soldiers to launch a continuous fierce attack into the depths of the stone forest.

The elite combat power is not a little stronger than that of ordinary soldiers, not only is it well-trained, but it is also more well-equipped. The defenders led by Fei Duo directly felt the pressure, and after several major battles, they lost their troops one after another, losing more than ten strongholds in three days.

In a short period of time, it is impossible to recapture it, and the depth of defense has been greatly compressed.

In the depths of the stone forest, Fei Duo had a faint premonition that the scale army seemed to be about to make a big move, and decided to step up intelligence gathering.

On the evening of the seventh day, another meeting was held at the Haitian Banquet. After the previous warm-up, the generals lost the restraint of the previous days and spoke freely.

"The results in recent days are good and worthy of commendation, but they cannot solve the fundamental problem. Haitian Banquet made a speech and set the tone of the meeting.

"If you want to conquer the stone forest, it is best to start with the road network in the stone forest. The passage in the stone forest is like a spider web, narrow and extending in all directions, there is no law at all, it is actually more complicated than a spider web, the whole is a labyrinth, it is very easy to get lost and trapped in it. The open space in the interior is very limited, because it covers a large area, and there are many caves in the mountain, if it is scattered, it will not be a problem to hide millions of soldiers and horses. Before the war, there were no less than hundreds of entrances and exits of the stone forest, but after the war, most of them collapsed or blocked due to destruction and abandoned, and only about a dozen remained. Our army's ground troops can only attack from these ten or so places, and the number of people who enter at a time is only forty or fifty thousand, and they are scattered into it to exert little strong combat power, and many times it is like sending food to the other side. As for the use of warships to bombard, as said at the previous meeting, first, Yuanjing cannot afford to consume, and second, it is counterproductive. Based on the above-mentioned unfavorable factors, it has been a fluke that we have been able to occupy some of the outlying strongholds since the war. Judging by the situation, it is necessary to continue the tug-of-war with the enemy forces on the periphery. There is no feasible solution to the current predicament. The veteran stood up and summed it up again, although it was true, but it was a cliché, and the explanation for Hai Xuanmiao's exculpation could not be more obvious.

"Speaking of which, it is nothing more than an indication that our army is unable to take down the other side. If this is said before the defeat of the enemy, Ben Shuai believes it. But now, our army's strength is far 10 times greater than that of the other side, and it has an all-round superiority! However, I am afraid that they have deeper problems, and not only those unfavorable factors that you have mentioned. For example, if our army enters the same stone forest, they will get lost and slaughtered, and they will be alive and kicking inside......" Haitian Yan said impatiently.

"Otherwise, they come and go freely because a few of the officers have maps, and ordinary soldiers who are not led by an officer and deviate from their usual routes will get lost and become trapped in them. ”

"Maps! Don't tell you you didn't try to get this map. ”

"We've been trying to get it. It's just that the stone forest map is one of Tianyu's top secrets, nominally controlled by the core of the Tianyu royal family, but actually controlled by the core of several major sects of Tianyu. Many, many years ago, after the ancestors of those sects discovered that there was a secret in the stone forest, they continued to send people to explore, survey, and map, and spent many years finally figuring out the situation, and then set the stone forest as a forbidden place to block it. It wasn't until the recent war between the two sides that it was opened again, and maps were issued to some of the generals stationed through the royal family, all of which were divided, and whoever was responsible for guarding could only have that piece of the map. Usually the higher the level, the larger the map range, but even the main general, there is no complete map. And some low-level officers will only issue maps when they go out on a mission, and after the mission is completed, they will have to take it back. ”

"It's very tightly controlled. We haven't captured or killed those generals, captured their maps, and we should have gained a lot from defeating Ting and the army he leads. ”

"Naturally, there is, but not much. We can't read the captured maps directly, and the results of the torture of the captives are very few and scattered, of course, there are still some gains after accumulation, otherwise, how can we occupy hundreds of strongholds on the periphery. ”

"It seems that I have to survey and map by myself, I don't know if it is feasible?"

"It's feasible, the army has been doing it all the time, and many generals have been sacrificed for it. The general outline has been drawn, and at the current pace, it may take decades to refine it. What's worse is that they are inside, and if they can, they will block many paths, and at the same time, many dead ends will be opened. They will be updated in a timely manner, which we have difficulty doing. ”