The wooden bridge spanning half of the lake is only three feet wide, but it is the only way in and out of the Ghost King's Palace. Although the bridge is two feet wide, it can be blocked by one man and cannot be opened by ten thousand people, which can effectively hinder the enemy's attack.
The dangerous place in the palace is now being used by Xiao Shizhu to deal with the death squad sent by the Ghost King.
It was not that the Ghost King was reckless or that he was scared out of his wits by constantly sending troops to rush out with the tactic of adding fuel to the fire. Of course, he knew that sending troops to rush on the bridge at this time was the next best thing. Xiao Shizhu, who was waiting for work, was happy.
He knew that Xiao Shizhu would definitely use the land to deal with the sergeants he sent. But he had no choice. If the army could not rush out, he would not be able to break the siege. Therefore, he could only place his last hope on
Give it a try.
The first group of ghost kings had just rushed down the bridge, and they were surrounded. The Xiao family's army, which had already lined up in a mandarin duck formation, used the sharp blade at the front of the wolf to assassinate them.
There is a wooden bridge made of sacred trees here, and the surrounding temperature is not high. The Xiao family soldiers do not even wear wood pith, and are not affected by the high temperature. They allow the enemy troops to rush in one after another like waves of waves. But the Xiao family soldiers still remain the same.
With no fear on their faces, they took turns in the battle in an orderly manner, one by one, and stabbed to death on the edge of the bridge any enemy who dared to step off the bridge.
War is so cruel and ruthless; the moment you come and go, screams, screams and roars continue to sound near the bridge, one after another, soaring into the sky and resounding throughout the world.
Although they saw their companions constantly falling down and turning into dust, the Ghost King Army still moved forward without fear of life or death. They were in a dilemma and had no choice but to fight. The anger or fear that kept rising in their chests,
It turns into countless courage and madness; I am determined in my heart that even if I die, I will die on the way forward.
This courage colored the surrounding air, blended with the constant fighting between the two armies, and formed a tragic and tragic scene. Even the enemy Xiao Shizhu and his Xiao family army looked at it in awe.
Suddenly, bursts of non-stop drumming came from the Ghost King's Palace, each sound getting louder and louder than the last, making the Ghost King's army attacking on the bridge become more and more courageous.
Under the fierce attack of the enemy troops, the Xiao family troops who surrounded the bridge gradually became exhausted and gradually became exhausted. After Xiao Shizhu saw this, he strode to the bridge regardless of Yu Rong's objection and grabbed the drummer's hand.
Drumstick, grit your teeth and beat the drum hard.
The sound of sonorous and powerful drums came, and it was the Lord General who beat the drums himself. The morale of the Xiao family troops was immediately boosted. They hurriedly put away their fatigue and once again showed their ferocious faces to the enemy.
Although occasionally a few skilled enemy soldiers would escape the attacks of the wolf spearmen, but they had just stepped off the bridge and before they could make any move, they saw two eager and quick spearmen on the left and right of the Yuanyang Formation on the opposite side.
He rushed out, moved forward with the spear in his hand, and surrounded him.
The next second later, the spearhead in the spearman's hand was shaped like a pear blossom, and with the cold stars dotted and the silver light shining brightly, the enemy soldiers died.
The refueling tactics used by the Ghost King as a last resort also completely failed after the twentieth wave of attacks. The artillerymen of the Xiao family army, under the command of Qin Yuan, took turns to replace the cannons with shotguns, and aimed at various corners south of the Ghost King's Palace in the distance.
There were rounds of shelling.
Especially at the other end of the arch bridge, in the ruins-filled open space in front of the palace, every few tens of seconds, two or three shotgun shells would fall from the air with a sharp whistling sound of death. They would explode when they hit the ground.
Finally, flames suddenly appeared, and then smoke rose from the charred land.
Thick smoke billowed down, and most of the enemy troops who had just lined up there, waiting to rush onto the arch bridge, were blown apart by artillery shells and shot out of it, shooting at the lead and iron pellets that were fired in all directions, leaving them bloody.
Just when the Ghost King's army was miserable, Yingzhao and Xuanshui arrived. Xiao Shizhu immediately ordered the troops to continue the artillery bombardment. The infantry formed a mandarin duck formation and attacked the bridge, heading straight for the Ghost King's palace.
The Ghost King's troops who were trapped on the bridge suddenly felt desperate. The Xiao family's army was approaching step by step in front of them, and the enemy's artillery bombardment behind them not only cut off their support, but also cut off their retreat.
When they retreated to the middle section of the bridge, they turned their heads in unison, with red eyes. For the last time in their lives, they took a deep glance at the palace in the distance behind them, and smiled lightly. Just such a glance, their faces disappeared.
There was no trace of despair or concern, and a look of firm fearlessness appeared on his brows.
Then, the Ghost King's army who were still on the bridge all turned around, their eyes bursting with the cold gaze unique to beasts, which contained the desire for bloodthirsty and killing. They roared in unison and kept pushing forward.
He pushed forward and bumped head-on into the Xiao family's army on the opposite side. Even if he couldn't kill the enemy with his own hands, he still tried to force the Xiao's army that was attacking the bridge down.
At first, when the Ghost King's army went crazy, the Xiao family's army was really stunned. The few sergeants at the front were suddenly rushed by the enemy. They were caught off guard and lost their balance. They stumbled and screamed and fell off the bridge. In an instant, they were in contact with the bridge.
The magmas have merged into one.
But the Xiao Family Army was the Xiao Family Army. They quickly reacted and immediately re-launched the mandarin duck formation on the bridge. The shield bearers at the head of the formation withstood the enemy's fierce attack. The soldiers behind them also rushed in one after another.
He came up and supported every comrade who was crumbling after being violently impacted. At the same time, he used the method of the Ghost King Army to squeeze forward and pushed several Ghost King Army rushing in front off the bridge.
Fortunately, this arch bridge is not a shoddy project, otherwise it would have broken apart long ago after the two sides pushed and pushed it back and forth for hundreds of times.
But even so, these more than 300 Ghost King troops still stood on the bridge, blocking the advance of the Xiao family army for half an hour. Until they were all killed in the battle, no soldier retreated out of fear, let alone surrendered.
All died on the way to the charge.
For this reason, the Xiao family army also paid a heavy price of nearly a hundred soldiers to completely eliminate the Ghost King's army on the bridge. If they had not mastered the Yuanyang Formation skillfully, the casualties would have been much greater.
Xiao Shizhu, who was standing on the shore of the lake in the distance, saw the last ghost king's army guarding the bridge through the telescope. When he saw that he was the only one left, he did not retreat or hesitate. Instead, he spread his arms without hesitation.
He stopped Xiao Jiajun who was walking towards him quickly; he chose to fight to the end.
In the end, he was assassinated to death by three wolves at the same time, but he showed no regrets.
His strength was small at this moment, but his figure appeared so tall in this cruel battle for the arch bridge. So much so that the Xiao family troops passed by the place where he fell, even though his body had turned into dust.
The soldiers would also subconsciously raise their feet to avoid the armor lying quietly on the bridge.
When the ghost king army fell, Xiao Shizhu also silently put away the telescope, then slowly took off his helmet and held it in his hand, stood at attention and stared at the arch bridge in front, bowed his head slightly and slowly bent down,
He straightened up and said solemnly to Yu Rong beside him: "Pass on my order to build an ancestral hall for this army after the war, and enshrine the tablets of all the enemy warriors who guarded the arch bridge for future generations to admire, and
Send someone to clean and worship every day, don’t neglect it.”
"General, they are certainly respectable." Yu Rong opened his eyes wide and slightly opened his lips, but did not speak. Instead, he looked at him in astonishment for a moment, then slowly said: "But they are enemies, your
This move will only make the enemy's obedient people who have surrendered to our country become rebellious again."
"Of course what you said will happen, but this move can win more people's support." Xiao Shizhu still stared into the distance with a solemn face, watching the neat steps from the bridge, advancing forward like a mountain wall.
The Xiao family soldiers said slowly: "Furthermore, although they are enemies, their courage is admirable. Even though they know that they will die, in order to protect their comrades behind them, they fight hard to kill the enemy and never retreat. This is something we should learn from.
Even if they are hated enemies to us, it does not prevent us from admiring and respecting them. Yu Rong, remember, I brought you down from Yumin Village not to make you a bigoted person for the rest of your life.
As a narrow demon soul, you must learn to respect every opponent who is worthy of your respect."
The serious look on his face was completely opposite to his usual cheerful behavior. No one expected that Xiao Shizhu, who was not a serious person in the past, could actually say such philosophical words. This made Yu Rong once again
Shocked.
"No." Yu Rong was stunned for a moment again. After silently remembering his words in his heart, he stood at attention and said solemnly: "The general's teachings will definitely be kept in mind."
Xiao Shizhu saw that Xiao's army had already rushed off the bridge. With lightning speed, he quickly occupied the south side of the Ghost King's Palace. He turned to Xuan Shui and said, "Xuan Shui, I will give you a glorious mission."
"What are your orders, general?" Xuan Shui came up and asked.
"You and Qinyuan Yurong, lead five thousand soldiers to guard this place and the artillery." After saying that, he took Wu Zhiqi and others and followed the army to the bridge.
An hour later, the defenders entrenched in the Ghost King's Palace were completely wiped out by the Xiao family's army. The only ones left behind were the Ghost King's ministers and servants who had not died in the battle. Even the Ghost King himself was captured by the Yingxu.
Xiao Shizhu came to the palace under the escort of the guards. He saw that the Ghost Palace was twenty-eight miles in circumference, with the main hall Tiansha Hall fifty feet from east to west, forty-three surrounding terraces, and nine springs and ponds.
All the halls are made of fragrant wood for rafters and apricot wood for beams and columns. There are golden patterns on the door leaves, and the facades are inlaid with jade ornaments. The ends of the rafters are decorated with walls, and the windows are green. The hall steps are all red.
In front of each hall is a slope on the left, which can be climbed by car, and steps on the right for people to climb up. Each hall has walls made of gold, interspersed with rare jade stones, which make exquisite sounds when the breeze blows.
Xiao Shizhu looked at these magnificent things and shouted happily: "Get rich, get rich. I will dismantle them all in a while and transport them all back to Shuoyue Island."
As he spoke, he came to the Tiansha Palace. After seeing the emerald throne where the Ghost King used to sit, Xiao Shizhu walked over and sat on it. With his eyes shining, he looked left and right for a long time, and with his hands
After touching the armrest of the chair, he said to himself: "If we hold an auction, this thing should fetch a sky-high price!".
After he finished speaking, he saw Yingzhao leading the sergeants and escorting the disgraced Ghost King and his ministers to the main hall.
"Brother, the Ghost King and his wife, children and ministers have been brought here." Yingzhao cupped his hands at Xiao Shizhu and arrived.
Xiao Shizhu carefully looked at the Ghost King standing in the front, but when he saw that the Ghost King was tall, with protruding nostrils and outwardly tilted lips, he kept shaking his head and complaining: "Could it be that hundreds of years ago, all male ghosts in the underworld were all
Are you dead? I really don’t know how my wife fell in love with such an ugly guy like you back then?”
As he spoke, he walked to stand next to the Ghost King whose hands were tied, and saw two women behind him. One was a middle-aged woman with an ordinary appearance; the other was a young woman.
She is only twenty-eight years old, with a round oval face, small and exquisite facial features, and smart and delicate eyes under the slender eyebrows, revealing infinite purity; she is actually a beautiful woman at such a young age.
After Xiao Shizhu looked at the young woman for a few more times, he said to the Ghost King with a half-smile but not a smile: "Ghost King, you are quite lucky."
As soon as he finished speaking, the woman let out a sound of "Bah!", stared at him and spat, then turned away. The spittle was spitted on Xiao Shizhu's face without any deviation, but he was not in a hurry.
Not angry, just slowly raised his hand and wiped away the spit.
"Brother." Yingzhao walked up to Xiao Shizhu and said, "This is the daughter of the Ghost King, Princess Linglong, Gui Qian'er. That woman is his princess, Gui Qian'er's biological mother."
"Oh, that was my mistake." Xiao Shizhu pretended to suddenly realize. He looked at the extremely ugly Ghost King, then at the plain-looking Ghost Princess, and then fell on Gui Qian'er's face.
But no matter how you look at it, Gui Qian'er's delicate appearance doesn't look like that of the Ghost King's biological queen. He smiled playfully and said to Yingzhao, "The Ghost King's head is quite green."
Before he finished speaking, the Ghost King glared at him and said sternly: "Xiao Shizhu, I challenge you, do you dare to challenge me one on one?".