Born short-lived

There is a lot of rain in the East China Sea in February, and it didn't take long for the sun to shine, and the cloud came over heavily.The wind to the west of the first line of the Great Wall was mostly blocked, but the east side was different.

The wolf smoke billowed from the top of the Great Wall, and the gray gull hovered silently under the low sky, almost merging with the sky when it flew far away.

Fifty naval ships sailed out of the East Outer Harbor Wharf, and headed towards the Great Wall, chopping the waves all the way.The towering Great Wall is getting bigger and bigger, like a continuous mountain range. Before you know it, everyone is tightly covered by its shadow, and the surroundings suddenly darken. The psionic blue light at the tail of the ship Looking at the calm sea, it looks like a group of blue will-o'-the-wisps from a distance.

On the dark side of the Great Wall, the closer you get to the city wall, the colder it is. Although there is not much wind, you can still feel the coldness that seems to seep from the gaps in various organs.

The surface of the sea was trembling slightly, and the humming sound of the Great Wall's fortifications was filling his ears. Zhou Zirong looked up at the sky, and there were layers of cloudy clouds. He estimated that it would rain soon. It didn't rain much—but it did last, which meant their gray gulls wouldn't last long.

A soldier wearing a white crystal lens observed for a while, and reported: "General, the Daling is still fifty miles away from the Great Wall."

Zhou Zirong gave an understatement "Hmm", silently counting the time with his hands behind his back.

The black flag embroidered with the pattern of the rising sun in the sky was hanging limply on the pole, and the copper weathervane remained motionless as if it had been watered.

Yinfeng leaned out nearly half of his body by the strings of the boat and went out to look around. Their main ship was probably at the position of the Chinese army, and the front row of small naval ships had already sailed to several giant gates similar to entrances.

Nongyue grabbed Yinfeng by the collar and pulled him back: "Be careful not to fall."

The men on the towers of the city wall swung their flags at them a few times—this meant asking for instructions on whether to open the gates.

"General." The orderly at the bow turned his head to look at Zhou Zirong, waiting for his order.

Zhou Zirong glanced at Yinfeng and Nongyue beside the strings of the boat, then nodded at the messenger: "Go."

The orderly at the bow immediately picked up the bronze horn, stepped steadily, and took a deep breath: "Open——gate————————!"

The sound of horns came from the corresponding tower above each gate, and the creaking sound of the mechanism turning came from inside the huge city wall, like the whimpering of some kind of giant beast, the whole city wall and even the sea trembled violently.

Yinfeng clutched the railing of the ship's side, staring at the huge gate moving not far away—he had never seen such a battle in the past 1000 years, and even Nongyue was dumbfounded.

Dozens of gates made of fine iron screamed strangely, and were torn open from the gap in the middle by an unexplainable force, and shrank towards the door openings on both sides of the city wall.

As soon as the gate was opened, a strong wind wrapped in waves rushed in.

The banner was blown wildly and fluttered in an instant, and the wind vane was blown into a spinning top like a broken toothpick. The strong wind rushed towards the face, and the few who did not stand still almost fell back. Ass sits on the deck.

The sea ship was bumped up and down like a small fishing boat by the influx of sea water. Fortunately, the white crystal spirit in the power cabin was driven to the maximum, so it was not pushed back.

Yinfeng was blinded by the wind, squinting his eyes and vaguely saw Zhou Zirong standing motionless on the deck of the bow, as if molten iron had been poured under his feet, and the cloth at the interval of the armor was blown close to his body. He was also strangled very tightly, with his right hand clasped on the handle of the knife at his waist, his whole body looked like a longbow stretched against the wind.

Not long after the gate was fully opened, the sea water gradually calmed down, and fifty sea ships sailed out of the gate against the strong wind outside the gate.

The gate closed heavily behind them, and a row of black shadows had already appeared on the sea far away.

The messenger beside him said: "General, they are almost past the line of defense."

Zhou Zirong waited calmly, and the fingers clasped on the handle of the knife, groping for the texture of the handle, inadvertently exerted more and more force, and the fingertips turned white.

"There are still three miles."

The city wall began to vibrate faintly again, but this time, the source of the vibration seemed to be under the sea.

"There are still two miles."

"One mile."

One could only hear the sound of countless undercurrents stirring from under the sea, followed by strings of bubbles bursting out of the water, creating waves of spray.

Nongyue couldn't help but stared down at the side of the boat, and there seemed to be something flashing past in the deepest part of the water. She was shocked and said, "What is this?!"

Zhou Zirong raised his finger and pointed to the sporadic bubbles on the sea surface in the distance, and said, "The eight hundred stone spirit beasts of the East China Sea Defense."

Just one is as big as three black bears stacked up.

After Zhou Zirong finished speaking, he added a sentence very rigorously: "But there are only three hundred left."

Most of the remaining [-] were exhausted during the first onslaught of the Da Ling people. At that time, Zhou Zirong was still in the capital, and the generals stationed did not dare to lead troops out of the Great Wall without authorization, so they could only rely on stone spirit beasts to carry them. .

Daling seemed to have gained experience from being bitten by this thing. As soon as he noticed the clues on the water surface, he pointed the muzzle down and shot into the water.The cannon hit the surface of the water with a bang, bang bang, even though it couldn't drill too deep, there was still an unlucky stone spirit beast that happened to hit it, and it was directly blown into crushed stone powder, which flew up together with the white water spray from the explosion. It splashed on the sea surface.

The little soldier wearing the white crystal lens frowned tightly, and after a while, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and shouted excitedly: "It's been bitten!"

In the distance, there were still many stone spirit beasts that broke through the artillery attack, bit the bottom of the enemy ship in one bite, and pulled and shook it a few times. A series of more than a dozen Daling sea ships shook violently and sank slowly. .

"General, hold it back, there are still thirty miles left, should you fire the thousand-mile cannon?"

Thousand-mile cannon is the common name of long-range cannon in the army. Although this cannon has a range of more than [-] miles and is extremely powerful, it is very precious. There are only a dozen rounds in total. If it is not confirmed whether the enemy has the ability to retreat or dodge Next, it will not be used easily.Da Lingren's ships are not of the same class as Pan Yang's, especially the ones sent this time are not only heavy in tonnage, but also extremely flexible.It’s fine on land, but if you miss a hit and rush into the sea at sea, that’s a waste of thousands of silver.

Zhou Zirong stretched out his hand to him, and the little soldier understood immediately, took off his white crystal lens and handed it to him, Zhou Zirong put it on, looked at it, and said: "Open, and then you can ask the people from Nanjiao to prepare it."

Zhou Zirong put on the white crystal lens and had no intention of returning it to him. The little soldier led away, and not long after, two strings of fireworks of different colors flew into the sky.

The stone bricks on the outer wall of the Great Wall were moved slowly, and two square holes were opened above the wall, revealing the muzzle of the gun inside.

It was getting darker and darker.

Nongyue walked behind Zhou Zirong, looked up at the sky: "It's going to rain soon."

"Yeah," Zhou Zirong said, "so the long-range cannon has to be used quickly, or it won't work if it rains."

The long-range guns are aimed by gray gulls or gray pigeons. Once it rains, both gray gulls and gray pigeons will be "drowned", and the long-range guns can only be used blindly.

I only heard two muffled sounds on the city wall behind me, and two shadows passed by in the blink of an eye.

"Boom—boom!"

A ball of red flames exploded in the distance, and another cannon hit the turret of a large enemy ship. The ship instantly turned into a ball of fire, and even three or four surrounding ships were burned.

In fact, after they suffered a loss before, they intentionally opened the distance between the boats, but they still suffered heavy losses.

"Hitted?" Yinfeng asked hastily, only hearing the voice.

Zhou Zirong said: "Only one shot was shot, and the other shot was blocked by their artillery."

The orderly at the bow turned around and shouted, "General! Are you still driving?!"

"open!"

When the distance between the two armies is less than twenty miles, their superiority in weapons will disappear.

At the same time, in the capital city of Silan in Nanyang, Luo Chi and Yuan Li were sitting in Aldan's carriage covered with printed silk.

Ten days ago, they took Zhou Zirong's token, went down the business road to Silan, and then went to Dima to find Aldan.At first, Aldan thought it was strange that Donghai fought like that, and instead of staying at home to defend the line, Aldan came to him to make a fuss.It was only later that I found out that it was Zhou Zirong who wanted to find the missing Vulcan Mo Yuzhu, and he insisted on going to southern Xinjiang to find it, so he specially asked them to go to Silan to ask - Aldan was completely dumbfounded by this question.

Whether or not that thing exists now is a secondary matter for the time being. Even if it does exist, the southern border is so big, wouldn't it be like finding a needle in a haystack.

Luo Chi also felt that this matter was unreliable, and asked Yuan Li several times, but he was a dull gourd who couldn't even give two farts with three sticks, and he was determined not to reveal anything more.

But after probing for several times, even if he was as dull as Luo Chi, he could gradually feel that this kind of thing meant a lot to Zhou Zirong, and if he couldn't find it, he might not be able to deal with it.

"My lord said, what kind of holy sword was handed over from the Black Banner...it was the broken Vulcan sword." Luo Chi recalled Zhou Zirong's description in the letter, and felt a little embarrassed when he said it—this is also true. It's too unreliable, there is no black jade on the sword, maybe it has been thrown into an unknown corner, after all, it is said that the black jade bead was broken into slag.

But this seemed to evoke a certain memory in Aldan, a flash of light flashed in his mind, he clapped his hands and said, "Well, when you go out to the city with me, I think of a place that I can go to find. "

So, they got into this golden carriage together with Aldan.