"You can't just retreat."
This was the first thing the King of Yue said when they came to the river bank and met General Yu's men.
He had a broken bone. Under the severe pain, his face was covered with cold sweat, but he still commanded calmly and said: "Taoist Priest Jiuying said that when he was ambushed before, he encountered dozens of warriors who could transform into nine-foot bodies. Like rhinoceros, their appearance is very different from ordinary people, I'm afraid all of them have the courage to charge into battle."
"If you want to kill me, the various types of people sent out will only be more than less. If we just retreat and are caught up by them, we will easily become disorganized and lose our armor."
The King of Yue was arranging matters in Jiaozhou Mansion and met the seriously injured Jiuying. Not long after, he heard that Jiuhe had died, and he became more vigilant. He mobilized the Diwei army not only to prevent Ma Qiang from counterattacking, but also to deal with those strange and strong giants.
It's a pity that the monster made too much noise when it first came out of the Snake Valley. There are tens of thousands of venomous snakes and pythons around it, just to protect it and choose people to eat. , can replenish the body, eat its famous name and wealth, and can replenish luck.
The majesty of the monster's greed caused the birds and beasts within ten miles to flee in fright, staring at the Yue King's team, causing the psychic elephant soldiers to be alert and restless.
After an unstoppable encounter, almost all the troops on both sides were wiped out, with only the leaders remaining.
"Then we form a formation to attack and delay until reinforcements arrive?"
General Yu was by his side. He just replied this sentence and said with some annoyance, "But the last general has no right to mobilize other troops. Although he sent a message to the capital commander early this morning, according to my estimation, Due to the transfer orders and the distance, it will take at least more than half an hour before they can arrive nearby."
The King of Yue said: "We must fight, but it is impossible to form an array here. The jungle is dangerous and dense, and it is difficult to be careful. The river bank is wide and there is nothing to rely on. Are there any towns nearby?"
General Yu immediately replied: "Ten miles away..."
"Six miles away!"
There was a splash in the water, and Guan Luoyang walked ashore, interrupting General Yu's words.
He washed in the river and the blood on his hair and face had been washed away, but clothes were not so easy to clean.
The dark blue round-neck clothes were completely soaked with blood. After being washed again, they now turned into a color similar to ink.
General Yu asked in confusion: "We brought a map with us. In all directions, there are six miles around. Are there any towns anywhere?"
Guan Luoyang glanced at him, pressed his temples with his palms, and said, "You came from the main road, and when I chased you from Snake Valley, I saw a deserted town."
Qiushi said from the side: "There was a flood here a few years ago. One town was indeed flooded, and many people were washed away. The remaining people were also moved away and never came back."
General Yu said: "But this kind of..."
But this kind of abandoned town has been flooded and has been uninhabited for a long time. The houses will not be very strong. Although they can barely be used as a support for arranging troops, how can they compare with those ten miles away? That big town?
Walking four more miles can buy you more complete defenses, and you can even call on the local people to help resist. This comparison is a good deal.
As soon as he started speaking, the King of Yue raised his hand and told him not to say any more.
"The evil bandits are brave. If the people in that big town flee in panic and attack the sergeants, wouldn't it be self-defeating?"
The King of Yue selected the target in one sentence and said to Guan Luoyang, "Without further delay, Guan Shaoxia, please lead the way."
Among the general's troops, there were fifty-six cavalry in advance, followed by infantry.
On the way, Qiu Shi and others used magic to communicate, and other groups of people who went to search in the jungle also gradually gathered together.
Six miles away, there was indeed an abandoned town.
During the floods back then, the water level here was as high as a person's chest, but after all, it has been several years, and there is no sign of a swamp here now.
The ground is overgrown with weeds, and the sun shines on the houses covered in dust and mud. Grass grows out of the mud in the tiles, which is green and tender under the light of just past noon.
Many soldiers immediately began to rely on the terrain of the house to set up defenses.
After General Yu's men dispersed, they walked lightly and came to the side of King Yue.
"Your Majesty, after we fight the bad guys later, while their attention is on the battlefield, Your Majesty can leave first, escorted by a few mages, and join the army as soon as possible."
Several mages around looked at him with strange expressions.
The King of Yue coughed and said in a nonchalant manner: "General, I'm afraid you've underestimated those people. As soon as we leave, the people over there will definitely notice and send out experts to chase us."
"When the time comes, if we can't resist here, will the general have to divide his troops to rescue him while resisting the evil bandits?"
After General Yu thought about it, he realized that this approach had too many disadvantages.
He was really afraid that something might happen to the Yue King Qiantai around him, so he made this suggestion. As soon as he was awakened, his face turned red with embarrassment.
"I will be ashamed in the end."
The King of Yue shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, you are also sincere. But you must know that I am with you in this battle today."
"If the heavens are unfortunate, I will be buried here with you, and my blood will be mingled with each other. If I can hold on undefeated, and even defeat the evil thief, I, the king, will also drink with you, and comfort this hard work with gold, silver, silk, and the reputation of fine wine! "
The second half of his words were heard in a high pitched voice, heard far and near, and many soldiers responded in unison.
The mages have each found a place. Some silently carve the Eight Diagrams on the ground and fix the long banners. Some of them collect materials nearby, dig out some decayed wooden tables, use the earth as a stove, and put incense sticks on them.
All of them had serious expressions on their faces, and they looked even more solemn than the soldiers.
If I had known that things would develop to this point, some people might not come. Not every magician is willing to fight and kill. When the fifteenth warlocks were summoned to help the government encircle and suppress the water pirates, most of the weekdays were still just Feng Shui is famous for its luck-changing and medicinal insect skills, so you can't get away with it.
But since the King of Yue has revealed his identity today, for the sake of reputation and the future development of their temple sect, it is impossible for this group of people to escape.
Guan Luoyang found a sunny place and leaned against the wall, rubbing his head, hoping to get rid of the dizzy feeling faster.
However, Qiu Shi came with Taoist Priest Jiu Ying, pulled him into the shabby house, handed him something, and said, "Eat it."
"what?"
Guan Luoyang took a closer look and said, "Is it the gall bladder of that giant python?"
"Yes, you probably didn't recognize it. In fact, the original form of that monster is the Xiongbo snake. Its head is as thick as its abdomen, and its scales have black and yellow textures inside. This snake gallbladder is the main ingredient for your medicinal bath. "
Qiushi said, "I have asked Master. The snake gallbladder of this monster is hundreds of times more effective than ordinary snake gallbladder, and it is not poisonous."
Taoist Master Jiuying also said: "Pindao heard that you can directly swallow the medicinal properties, so after you swallow this snake gallbladder, Pindao will use the Supreme Refining Chapter to protect you. Its effectiveness may be achieved within just a few moments." , comparable to a complete bone training medicinal bath."
When Taoist Master Jiuying said this, there was still a somewhat uncertain look on his face.
After all, the complete bone training medicinal bath requires steaming the person in a medicinal vat at midnight and noon every day for fifteen days, so that the medicinal power can be completely penetrated.
Condensing the power of such a medicine in just a moment, even a great boxer with a second degree of mastery would probably be "deficient and not replenished", which would be extremely harmful to the body.
But Qiu Shi told him about Guan Luoyang swallowing dozens of kilograms of medicinal materials raw, and then he was persuaded to come over and give it a try.
Guan Luoyang took the snake gallbladder, which was almost half the size of a palm. When he looked at it, he felt that it was as dark green as jade, and actually had a crystal clear feeling.
Taoist Master Jiuying sighed: "We are facing a formidable enemy. Now is by no means a good time to take medicine and practice martial arts. However, the snake gallbladder of this monster is unusual and its effectiveness is lost quickly. It is only useful if you take it now. There are pros and cons, but It’s up to you to decide.”
Guan Luoyang asked: "After I eat it, won't I be able to fight for a short time?"
Taoist Master Jiuying said: "It mainly depends on your endurance, but for at least half a quarter of an hour, you will be hit by the power of the medicine and it will be difficult to take action."
"Half a quarter of an hour, endurance..."
Guan Luoyang felt his drowsy and bulging temples and his somewhat blurry and hot eyes.
If he goes to fight in this state, he will probably have many flaws.
As he closed and opened his eyes, Guan Luoyang made a decision, "It's just time, I'll fight it."
Qiu Shi reminded: "Don't chew it. The bitter taste of snake gall may be physically unacceptable. Just swallow it whole."
Guan Luoyang nodded, adjusted, and swallowed the snake gall in one gulp. His Adam's apple slipped and the snake gall entered his abdomen, making a grunt, as if it had been squeezed.
Suddenly, a bitter and burning taste rose up from his stomach.
Guan Luoyang's expression suddenly changed.
'Depend on! How could there be something so unpalatable in the world? ! ! ! '
Although he had been reminded, when he actually tasted this taste, Guan Luoyang still couldn't hold back.
It was so unexpected.
His dizzy brain was suddenly awakened, and he even felt that every strand of his hair was in pain.
Only by gritting his teeth tightly, falling to the ground, pressing his abdomen, and curling up, Guan Luoyang could guarantee that he would not spit out everything in one breath.
He noticed that his stomach began to ache, and the blue bird's vitality was stimulated and surged, flowing along his chest and ribs, coming into contact with the burning pain in his stomach.
The bitter taste was reduced, but the endless flow of heat began to be drawn out by the blue bird's vitality, like a boiling wave, expanding and beating from his stomach to his whole body.
Taoist Master Jiuying recited the incantation at the right time, put the four fingers of his hands together, and poked various acupuncture points on Guan Luoyang's back from time to time. He walked around with his feet, and the soles of his shoes crushed the weeds in the dilapidated house, outlining lines like charms. Mark of.
The magic power is circulated and intersects with the natural energy through the rules of the spell.
This patch of weeds and this entire shabby house seemed to be connected together and turned into a medicine furnace.
Qiu Shi's body was pushed out of this broken house, and the broken wooden door automatically pulled and closed, shaking off a layer of dust.
Fine dust flew in the sunlight, and the ground began to vibrate slightly.
This time, the source of the vibration was far away.
Qiu Shi turned around and saw hundreds of cloaked figures running towards him a hundred feet outside the town.
As they ran, their bodies swelled. With every step they took, they were a head taller than before, and their cloaks were freed and flew away.
When these people turned into huge bodies with a height of nine feet, only some extremely malleable leather was left on their bodies to protect the joints of their waists, hips and limbs. Their iron-blue skin was exposed in large areas. outer.
A shield the size of an ordinary person's entire torso was taken out from behind them.
The charge launched by hundreds of humans was like a large herd of bison migrating, like a herd of elephants running. The soil on the ground was kicked up with a lot of dust, like a long yellow dragon rushing towards them.
The King of Yue was originally sitting on a chair, resting on the rotten door frame. Seeing this scene, he lost his temper and crushed the rotten wood at hand.
"There are actually so many..."
The number of these nine-foot giants was much greater than he expected. If there was no Diwei army, even in the nearby three mansions, where 5,600 soldiers gathered together, they would have to pay a very heavy price. Contend with it.
It is not impossible for such a force to directly attack and occupy a land.
The tremors on the ground were getting closer and closer, and the soldiers guarding the forefront of the town launched a thrilling attack first.
Boom boom boom boom! ! ! !
The sound of gunpowder exploding overwhelmed the sound of the nine-foot giant running wildly.
The more than 500 people brought by General Yu were originally just to welcome the King of Yue, so naturally they did not bring many heavy firearms. Most of the firearms and gunpowder bags carried by the elephants were trampled and damaged when entangled with snakes, and were stained with blood. The river gets wet.
There were only more than thirty sub-cannons, which were still in good condition and easy to transport, and they were brought to this abandoned town.
Fortunately, according to the regulations of the Jiaozhi Army, each centurion except the cavalry must have ten gunmen, twenty crossbowmen, thirty swordsmen, and forty spearmen.
These gunmen have also practiced loading and firing cannons on weekdays. Even if they are not as proficient as artillerymen, they can at least use those cannons.
The mother cannon is divided into mother cannon and sub-cannon. The mother cannon is five feet and three feet long and weighs ninety-five kilograms. The cannon body is thin at the front and thick at the back. The bottom is like a cover, with five hoops and lugs on both sides.
There is an open-shaped charging chamber on the rear and belly of the gun, which can be used for sub-guns.
The sub-cannon is like a hollow cylinder, weighing eight kilograms, containing two taels of gunpowder and five taels of iron.
Each main cannon is equipped with five sub-cannons, and multiple people take turns loading ammunition. When used, they can load the sub-cannons onto the main cannon and then fire. The rate of fire is much faster than that of ordinary cannons.
When each cannon is fired, a large number of small projectiles are sprayed out, covering an area so wide that it is almost impossible to avoid it.
When dozens of cannons were fired one after another, like a heavy rain of projectiles, they knocked down the charging giants one after another.
But the remaining giants are still charging.
What's even more frightening is that most of those who were knocked down by the projectiles got up again.
It can be clearly seen that there are many projectiles embedded in their flesh, but as long as they do not directly hit the face, eyes and other vital parts, the wounds in other places do not even bleed much.
The Forbidden Lamp Master carried an oil lamp, and several mages who were usually of similar status to him gathered around him to help him.
"Crisis is opportunity, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, this kind of battle situation, today is the time for me to make a blockbuster."
Master Forbidden Lamp felt nervous and excited. With the help of several mages around him, he raised the oil lamp and blew it into the sky.
The green poisonous flame suddenly swelled and returned to the size of a bean.
But the arrowheads of the archers in the front rows ignited green fire out of thin air.
General Yu shouted at the same time: "Shoot!"
Rounds of arrows carrying poisonous fire were shot out, many of which were blocked by shields. Even if they landed on the bodies of some nine-foot giants, the arrows could not break through their skin.
However, if the person has been injured by artillery before and there are damaged areas on the body, then as soon as those poisonous rocket arrows touch the surface of the body, the fire will be like a poisonous snake, traveling along the skin for several feet and finding gaps to penetrate.
When smoke came out from the eyes of the nine-foot giant, it proved that the poisonous fire had burned out the heart veins in the body, and the running figure immediately fell to the ground.
This rain of poisonous rockets burned dozens of nine-foot giants to death, and the actual battle damage caused was actually a little more than the previous artillery attack.
But after being baptized by artillery and bows and arrows, the nine-foot giant had rushed outside the formation and was close at hand.
A mother cannon was directly knocked over by them, and many archers had no time to dodge.
But after they broke through the artillery and archer positions and broke into the town, they were filled with dilapidated houses, but there was no one there.
Suddenly, the sky turned red, and meteorites fell down one after another, hitting these nine-foot giants.
Many nine-foot giants rushed into the formation from the north, and on the west side of the town, on the roof, several broken wooden tables were set up as a ritual platform.
Six Feng Shui masters, dressed as monks, Taoists and laymen, looked down at the battlefield over there and worked together to cast spells.
One of the old scholars wearing a square scarf shouted out loud: "I imitated the old story of Guangwu of Han Dynasty and bombarded the enemy with sky fire and meteors. It seemed fake and real. At least, it should have killed dozens of people. How come these people are not immune to illusions?" damage?!"
Master Gaodian stood on the ridge of the roof, the linen wrapped around the staff in his hand was emitting smoke one by one, and even showed signs of burning.
He looked at the treasures that had been passed down for centuries from his family with distress, and said: "The loss of these people's vision is far greater than expected. What methods did they use to cultivate such a monster?"
In the battlefield, many soldiers holding long guns are active.
They took advantage of the fact that these nine-foot giants were blind, and stabbed their spears through the giants' private parts and anus, and some even tried to stab the giants in their eyes.
However, the physical toughness of these giants was too much. Some of the spears that were pierced into the lower body only penetrated half of the spearhead before being clamped. The nine-foot giant was in pain and would kill the spearman with a wave of his shield.
Only a few hundred households and General Yu could kill with one blow.
Master Yanglian, Master Yuanyuan, etc. are also directly active on the battlefield.
While the red monk's robe was flying, Grand Master Yang Lian struck three fire lotus seals on a nine-foot giant. Finally, fire erupted from the giant's seven orifices and rose to the top of his head.
But after the nine-foot giant fell, the fire above his head continued to burn for a while.
"There is clearly Yin energy, but the joints can move freely. It is not a corpse monster. There is even a little bit of true Yang in the Yin energy, which can keep it burning for so long."
Grand Master Yang Lian glanced up and down, and then he saw that the nine-foot giant had several lines of spells engraved on it from his chin down his throat to his upper abdomen, but the color was very similar to his ashen complexion. , difficult to distinguish.
Those mantras are like the traces of crawling insects, like Sanskrit and Chinese mixed together, but there are many mistakes and omissions. The meaning can only be guessed from a few glyphs.
"Grandson of King Dong Tian?"
Dongtianwang is also called Fudongtianwang and Chongtian Divine King. According to local myths and legends in Nanyang, he lived in the Wenlang Kingdom during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. He was three years old and could not speak or sit up.
But when the king was recruiting warriors, his appetite suddenly increased. Overnight, he grew from a baby to a giant. With one person, he could defeat an army of the Yin Shang Dynasty.
"Cut the land and divide the territory, and become the king with bravery!"
A woman's voice came.
Grand Master Yang Lian looked up and across the battlefield, he saw the female owl Hanaya leading a group of warlocks approaching more than fifty feet away.
"These five hundred heavenly princes and grandchildren are going to inherit the ancient fortune, split Jiaozhi apart, and bring out a new king."
Grand Master Yang Lian's beard curled up, and he kept calculating with his hands behind his back. He said disdainfully: "King Dong Tian is just a myth. These nine-foot giants, although their skin, flesh and bones have been infiltrated and changed, they are not born after all. Why? Can you hide it from me?"
"After they transformed into a nine-foot body, their head shells became larger, but their brains did not become larger. They just relied on a little energy from the yang in the yin to fill the gap, so that the brains would not be shaken. Such evil methods , dare to falsely call yourself the grandson of God?"
Hua Mi's face changed slightly, and he stepped forward and stabbed straight with his sword.
Yang Lian stepped forward to fight and shouted: "Disturbing the balance of the two qi in their minds."
Qiu Shi, Qiu Di and others, Master Jinden Deng, Lady Aze, Master Xuluo, etc. all heard this sound.
Everyone rushed to the Feng Shui platform on the roof on the west side.
If you want to run subtle and ingenious Feng Shui illusions, shield the five senses, etc., then of course the more people, the better.
But to simply and crudely disturb the Yin Qi in the giant's mind, these mages only need to transfer their magic power to the Feng Shui platform and release it.
Except for Yang Lian and Jiu Ying, all the mages gathered around this room.
The colorful paper clothes rustled in the wind, and Grand Duke Huangtou also came to the bottom of the house and swung the ax in his sleeve outward.
The ax blade was embedded in a pillar in the back wall of the house, only cutting in an inch.
But when he pulled out the ax, the sound of cracking continued throughout the whole house from this position.
At the moment when everyone realized something was wrong, the whole room fell apart and the Feng Shui system was broken.
In the north of the town, there were thousands of enemies and ourselves fighting in a melee.
Suddenly, many nine-foot giants regained their sight, their eyes were bloodshot, and they swung their shields wildly.
In an instant, most of the five hundred soldiers were lost.
Blood splattered, lives disappeared, walls collapsed, houses collapsed, and broken tiles flew everywhere.
The old man's eyes were dim and his eyesight was declining. In fact, many things could no longer be seen clearly.
I just relied on my feelings, listening to the screams and screams near and far, and feeling the atmosphere of this moment.
He sighed and raised the ax in his hand for the second time.
The ax fell, the old eyes widened and murderous intent filled the air.
