The fire became more and more intense as they entered the mountain, and waves of heat continued to churn. The Xiao family troops on the top of the mountain were so scorched that they could hardly breathe. They stopped shelling, and all retreated behind the fire ditch, huddled together.
Seeing that the mountain fire was only more than ten feet away from the top of the mountain, a dull thunder suddenly came from the sky; then there was heavy rain falling from the sky. The rain became heavier and heavier with the thunder, and the big raindrops were like broken pearls.
A gray curtain of rain formed in the sky and continued to fall, causing more and more water to accumulate on the ground. This also weakened the intensity of the mountain fire.
There was originally a mountain with thick smoke billowing everywhere. After a cup of tea, it was obvious that the amount of smoke was reduced a lot. A lot of white water vapor formed by the combination of rain and flames rose from the charred land.
rise.
The Xiao Jiajun on the top of the mountain raised their hands and heads, letting the rain wash down their cheeks, and cheered. The rain came at the right time. If it had been a little later, these hundreds of Xiao Jiajun would have been roasted.
At the same time, Yu Rong also led hundreds of militiamen to the top of the mountain, circled in the air and then landed.
"General, we have completely wiped out the Heavenly Soul Army who set fire at the foot of the mountain!" After saying this, he walked straight towards Xiao Shizhu, but cursed in his mouth: "These enemies are so ruthless, they have prepared more than two hundred barrels of fire.
Oil came to burn the mountains, and when we wiped them all out, there were still more than fifty barrels left that were useless.”
"Brother." Yingzhao and Wu Zhiqi also came over, stood to the left and right of Xiao Shizhu, stretched out their hands to wipe the raindrops from their faces, and asked: "Did you know it was going to rain tonight?".
"Yes." Xiao Shizhu nodded and smiled, and said: "So even if grandma sets a trap to attract us to attack the mountain, and then traps us with fire attacks and burns us to death, she still dares to lead you into this trap."
"Why is this?" Wu Zhiqi, Yingzhao and Yi Rong all looked puzzled and asked in unison: "Are you a fortune teller?".
"Hahahaha!" Xiao Shizhu laughed heartily and said: "This is not divine calculation, it is called foresight. I have heard from Black and White Wichang before that almost everything in the human world is imitated in the underworld, which means that the weather proverbs in the human world are the same in the underworld.
It works."
"Remember in the afternoon, when we were taking our final rest in the mountains not far away, a soldier reported that he had found a water pool in the mountains. Did I go with him to see the water pool?" He looked around at Wu Zhiqi, Yingzhao and the others.
, seeing their expressions of confusion, he nodded blankly after hearing this, and then said: "At that time, I saw a loach in the pool, and it would jump out of the water from time to time. The fish in the water,
I also frequently came up to the surface to breathe, and I knew it was going to rain soon. This is what people often say, when the loach jumps, the rain will come. And the thunder just now was muffled, which is called muffled thunder and it is difficult to clear up, so the rain will continue to fall.
It has been a long time since we put out the mountain fire before we can stop." As soon as he finished speaking, there was another burst of thunder in the sky, and the rain became much denser, blurring their vision.
"That's it." Yingzhao said in a long voice when he heard this, and touched his beard with his hand, and said thoughtfully: "No wonder Lu Wu suggested that occupying the top of a hill is easy to be attacked by the enemy with fire.
At the top of the mountain, when the retreat was cut off, you still made a resolute decision to take the top of the mountain and bombard the pass."
"Yes, but what Lu Wu said is not unreasonable, so we can't go up the mountain with the whole army, lest we lose all escape routes. Although shelling on the top of the mountain is effective and can catch the enemy by surprise, they can also choose to escape to reduce the number of enemies.
Casualties, and in the dark night, the distance is long, the bombardment cannot be as bad as during the day
Steady, accurate and ruthless. So I asked Lu Wu and Qingmu to attack the north and south of the pass with a force each. The narrow mountain road is an advantage for the enemy. It allows them to guard the pass with one man and prevent ten thousand people from opening it. It can also be used by us to deal with them.
, the premise is to destroy their passes first and force them to flee; while the other Xiao family troops
Immediately afterwards, once the city walls on the north and south of the pass are broken, the army will file into the ruined pass and close the net." After finishing speaking in one breath, Xiao Shizhu took a long breath and said proudly to them
To: "Her grandma wants to burn me to death, so I will do what she wants, but I have to use the right time to do it."
move to make her trap ineffective; and when she saw the mountain fire, she naturally thought that I had really fallen into the trap and became paralyzed. When the sound of cannons continued in the mountain, her attention was inevitably attracted to the top of the mountain, thus ignoring it.
A pincer attack from the north and the south. This is foresight, seeing farther than others and thinking more."
"According to the art of war taught by the ancient gods, when encountering a trap, you should avoid it instead of diving directly into it, but you did the opposite." Yingzhao and the others all felt that listening to your words was worth reading ten times.
Nian Shu couldn't help but cast an admiring look at Xiao Shizhu. After a moment, Yingzhao asked thoughtfully: "Brother, where did you learn these strange moves that go against military common sense?"
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"My master in the human world taught me this; this is also the terrifying thing about the human soul. Other souls are better at thinking and discovering, so they can constantly innovate." Xiao Shizhu scratched his head and smiled awkwardly, and said: "But when I am in the human world, I only
You are just using these to play money-cheating games played by profiteers. You are ashamed of my master’s teachings.”
"You remember, the land will eventually expand and the army will grow stronger; one day, you will all become ministers or generals in charge of your own affairs. At that time, whether you are dealing with state affairs or leading the army in battle, you must have foresight." Xiao Shizhu lectured.
After finishing, seeing that one-third of the mountain fire had been extinguished, he turned around and ordered to the Xiao family's troops: "Put away the artillery and ammunition, and we will immediately go down the mountain to meet with Lu Wu and the Five Thousand Households."
As soon as the pass city wall was stepped on, the shelling on the top of the mountain stopped soon after. The surviving Tianhun Army was frightened and fled in all directions towards the north and south. After climbing over the city wall, they dispersed like birds and beasts.
But just as they turned over the ruins, they saw the fire ahead accompanied by the sound of gunshots. Amidst the undulating gunfire, pieces of the Heavenly Soul Army fell down. The Heavenly Soul Army behind them were stunned and stopped advancing.
By the light of the fire in the ruins, one could vaguely see the mountain road outside the pass, lined with rows of soldiers. They were so dark that they almost blended with the night. They must be the Xiao family army.
Before the Heavenly Soul Army could react, the Xiao family's troops formed a mandarin duck formation and attacked the Heavenly Soul Army standing on the ruins.
This Yuanyang Formation is not only easy to move, has both long and short lengths, and is both offensive and defensive. Its formation characteristics are unique in ancient times when formations were required to highlight one-sided uses. Especially when resisting unknown foreign enemies, the advantages are very obvious. And in many hills, ravines, rivers and canals
It can also exert huge lethality and destructive power in terrain conditions such as vertical and horizontal directions and narrow roads.
In an instant, the Tianhun Army, which had lost its arrow tower and city wall, panicked again. The temporary defense line they formed on the ruins to defend against the enemy was easily broken by the Xiao family's army.
Immediately afterwards, a steady stream of Xiao family troops entered the No-Return Pass, chasing the Heavenly Soul Army who had no resistance between the broken walls and on the ruins.
As the cold light of the sword shone, gunshots erupted, intertwined with shouts of death and screams for mercy. The breath of death pierced the night sky, echoing the muffled thunder from the sky.
After a while, heavy rain began to fall in the sky, but the Xiao family's army's offensive was not frustrated by this. On the contrary, it became more and more fierce as they fought. The speed of their swords and swords was as fast as the raindrops falling from the sky, killing people from all over the sky.
The soul armies were retreating steadily.
After sacrificing countless companions, the remaining Tianhun Army retreated to the middle of the pass and gathered together. The densely packed Xiao Family Army surrounded them with ferocious faces.
The battle is about to end
In the early morning, the rain stopped, but the clouds were still thick, and the sky and the earth were dark.
On the ruins of the No Return Pass, the Xiao family troops were cleaning the battlefield. They gathered the armor left behind by the enemy soldiers in order to calculate how many enemies they had wiped out.
Xiao Shizhu stood on the ruins and looked around without saying a word. Grandma was a demon soul and would leave a body even after she died in the underworld, but he had never heard that Grandma's body was found, which made him very suspicious.
"Brother." Lu Wu walked to him and stood next to him, saying: "Qianhu Qingmu sent someone to report that there were only fifteen thousand armors in the pass. In addition, Yu Rong said that they probably killed more than three hundred Tianhun who went to set fire.
Army, there should be only about 16,000 to 20,000 Heavenly Soul Army here, the others are not here.”
"In the capital of the Ghost Kingdom." Xiao Shizhu nodded after hearing this and looked towards the north. Due to terrain factors, this pass is not very big. Xiao Shizhu knew with his butt that the entire five-person Tianhun Army could not be crammed here.
Thousands of horses and horses.
"Yes, I think so too." Lu Wu looked puzzled and said suspiciously: "It's just that we didn't encounter Ma Mian from the time we came in to the end of the battle. Is she also in the capital?".
"It's very possible." Xiao Shizhu sighed softly and gritted his teeth secretly. His original intention was to kill Grandma here and reduce the enemy's combat effectiveness, but he never thought that the enemy general would escape; he couldn't help but feel
Secretly sighing: "It's true that plans are not as fast as changes."
Just as he was thinking about it, a messenger ran over, knelt down on one knee after standing in front of him, raised his hands and said to him: "General, a dying banshee was found under the ruins to the south. She has a horse face, which seems to be a horse face.
.”.
Xiao Shizhu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Take me to have a look." and headed south of the pass.
When they came to the edge, they saw several sergeants forming a circle, and there seemed to be something in the middle. Xiao Shizhu stood among the soldiers, and saw lying on the ground in the circle was indeed her grandmother with a horse face. Her
His body was covered with messy gravels of different sizes from his abdomen to his feet, with only the area above his chest exposed.
"Horse face?" Xiao Shizhu looked at her bloody face with a joking look. When their eyes met, he saw the other person's eyes widened and looked at him with a puzzled look, then he smiled and said: "You
You must think I was burned to death?".
"You, you, you're not dead?" The shock in Grandma's eyes flashed away, and then turned into a little bit of loss, and she murmured to herself: "As expected, as expected, he is the son of God, his life is really great."
Every time she said a word, she would gasp loudly, and it seemed that she was indeed seriously injured.
Fortunately, she was a demon soul and a servant of the gods. She was given some divine power to protect her body by Emperor Fengdu, so she did not die immediately.
When she finished speaking, a trace of regret appeared in Grandma's eyebrows. After a moment, she turned her head slightly and looked up at the thick dark clouds in the sky. She opened her lips slightly again and said, "I really should tell the master about your situation, at least.
In this way, you will face millions of Fengdu troops." He regretted in his heart why he had to wait until he killed Xiao Shizhu before repaying the emperor of Fengdu.
After Xiao Shizhu heard this, although he still smiled, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. A few days ago, the Night Travel God visited Shuoyue Island and did not mention arresting him. This means that grandma did not lie, although Xiao Shizhu did not know
As a loyal follower of Emperor Fengdu, why didn't she tell her master about his situation immediately? But he secretly felt lucky.
"It's not because I am the son of God that I have a great destiny, but because I have more foresight than you." He slowly knelt down next to his grandma, looked at her with interest and said, "You are pretty awesome too.
Damn you, I should have spared your life to serve me
"Li, but you are a loyal fan of Emperor Fengdu, so you must have learned a lot from his selfishness; in this case, I don't dare to leave you alive." As he said this, he reached behind his waist and pulled the former grandma's hand.
The soul-breaking arrow used to assassinate him was drawn out.
"I would actually lose to a human soul like an ant like you." Grandma looked at the arrow and saw that it had come to this, so she could only smile bitterly.
"The power of the human soul is far more powerful than you imagine." Xiao Shizhu slowly pointed the arrow at the center of her eyebrows, but did not rush to kill her. Instead, he raised the arrow and said slowly: "You
What we lost was also the foresight that the human soul is good at.”
"Don't be complacent, ant. One day, the master will notice your existence." Grandma was a little excited and coughed violently. Her throat immediately became sweet and she coughed up a mouthful of blood. However, she still smiled with relief and said happily: "
At that time, the master will come to deal with you personally."
"Yes, but not today. On that day, I will not escape. I will face him in person and teach him what foresight is." As he said that, he stabbed the soul-breaking arrow into Grandma without hesitation.