Hua Yuxi sat on the bow of the boat, with her legs bent and her hands around her knees. Her beautiful eyes looked at the blue bridge on the shore with a smile, and she was so elegant.

Bai Xueyin stood at the back end of the bamboo raft, holding a slender bamboo pole. With a slight tap in the water, the bamboo raft accelerated towards the shore like an arrow.

Encountering rocks on the water blocking the road, as well as fishing nets and enemy ships entangled in fishing nets, Bai Xueyin clicked the bamboo pole again, and the bamboo raft jumped out of the water like a flying fish, rushed over the obstacles on the water, and then smoothly and steadily

Fall back to the lake.

Lan Qiao laughed out loud at this, and without even thinking about rolling up his trouser legs, he stepped directly into the water and faced the two women's bamboo raft.

When passing the last rock, Bai Xueyin seemed to show off intentionally. He threw away the bamboo pole, unsheathed his sword, split the rock with a burst of sword energy, and then used his internal strength with one step. The speed of the bamboo raft increased instead of decreasing, and in the blink of an eye he reached the Blue Bridge.

forward.

It is now the end of April and the weather is hot, so both women are wearing cool clothes.

Hua Yuxi wore a floral embroidered skirt, while Bai Xueyin wore a blue satin skirt. In order to avoid getting their skirts, shoes and socks wet by the lake water, the two girls looked at each other and joined hands to soar into the sky, crossing over the blue bridge and crossing the nearby area.

The three-foot-long lake surface falls on the shore.

"What a handsome kung fu!" Lan Qiao clapped his hands and praised. Just when he was about to return to the shore, Hua Yuxi raised her chin and said, "Don't come here empty-handed, help us get something."

Lan Qiao took a look and saw that there was a bamboo basket placed on the bamboo raft. When he opened it and looked again, he found a large watermelon.

"You came to me without a change of clothes, but you brought a watermelon." Lan Qiao smiled bitterly and carried the watermelon ashore.

"Why bring a change of clothes?" Hua Yuxi wrinkled her lovely nose, "Humph, something is wrong with your husband, he must be thinking of bad things."

Bai Xueyin knew that Hua Yuxi was joking with Lan Qiao on purpose, so she explained with a smile: "Sister Hua means that we are here to help, so we must share the joys and sorrows with everyone, and we cannot appear to be pampered."

"You are the only one who can speak idioms." Hua Yuxi glared at her.

"Then this watermelon..." Before Lan Qiao could finish his words, a primary school student reported over: "The enemy has started attacking again!"

Since Xu Huizu first used personnel carriers to attack the gorge, Lan Qiao led people to dig trenches in the gorge.

Xu Huizu then sent troops to use shields as cover and quickly filled the trenches. He pushed the front line outside Xianyue Gorge significantly forward and aimed three heavy crossbow vehicles at the gorge road. If Lanqiao dared to send troops to dig trenches again, these three ballistae vehicles would

It will cause huge damage to the soldiers digging trenches.

This time Xu Huizu once again sent a troop carrier across the gorge and attacked the gate tower guarding the south entrance of the gorge.

He learned the first lesson and improved the personnel carrier by removing the heavy armor on the left and right sides and retaining only the front and roof defenses, thereby reducing the weight of the personnel carrier and increasing its speed.

If arrows are fired from both sides, the soldiers raise their shields to defend themselves.

When the speed of the troop carrier increased, the speed of the new army soldiers moving forward to enter Xianyue Bay also became faster. If the Lanqiao side wanted to defend the Guan Tower and the walls on both sides of the Guan Tower, they had to send more troops to participate.

Fierce fighting near the mouth of the gorge.

At the same time, a master group led by ten red-faced masters also cooperated with Lan Zuwang's 20,000 troops to try to attack Xuanshan.

Xu Huizu took full advantage of his numerical advantage and started the two battlefields at the same time, trying to prevent Lanqiao from taking care of both ends.

Guanlou and the Gorge Road were the top priorities. Lan Qiao personally led the team, plus Feng Yeling, Yun He and others, and the 20,000 main force in Crescent Moon Bay came out together, and then they were able to repel the enemy.

Hua Yuxi and Bai Xueyin joined Tang Li's elite guards and cooperated with the 5,000 garrison on Xuan Mountain. They fought fiercely with the enemy's red-faced master group and Lan Zuwang's commando team for nearly three hours before forcing their opponents to retreat down the hillside.

Today's battle has come to an end for the time being. Lan Qiao and the other soldiers were sitting around behind the wall. Some took off their helmets and some unbuttoned their armor, letting the hot sweat that had been pent up all day pour out.

Even Feng Yeling took off his combat boots "regardless of appearance" and stretched his feet into the lake to wash them.

Hua Yuxi walked over with a frown on her face and said, "If you are going to put in all your strength like this every time we fight, what can we do if Xu Huizu changes his team and attacks again while you are resting?"

"If we didn't use all our strength, Guanlou would have been captured by them long ago. In that case, you would have to sleep outside tonight."

Hua Yuxi said: "I have a plan that can stop the enemies attacking from the gorge, so that you can save your troops, let more people take part in the rotation, or invest in several other fronts."

"Any good ideas?"

"Look at the terrain here. The Xuanlang Mountains are like the bottom of a bowl holding our position, leaving only a small opening at Xianyue Gorge." Hua Yuxi said as she picked up a broken bowl and used her fingers to press it into the bowl.

He poked a small hole in the bottom and blew into the bowl.

"It's midsummer now, and the southeast wind is strong. Where will it go after it blows over?"

Lan Qiao thought for a while and said: "The north side is blocked by mountains, so it will naturally go into Crescent Moon Gorge, which is the small hole at the bottom of your bowl."

"That's right." Hua Yuxi smiled and said nothing, with a playful look of "please guess, husband."

Lan Qiao thought for a moment and then suddenly realized: "Do you want to use poisonous smoke? We set off poisonous smoke at the south entrance of the gorge. The poisonous smoke penetrated into the gorge along with the wind. The enemy's modified personnel carrier removed the armor on the left and right sides.

If it is no longer airtight, the soldiers inside the vehicle will be seriously affected by the poisonous smoke."

"That's right!" Hua Yuxi snapped her fingers, "My husband is so smart!"

"What, it's like praising a child..." Lan Qiao sighed, "But where can I find the materials for making poisonous smoke?"

"Today I was fighting on Xuanshan Mountain and discovered a poisonous weed in the dense forests at the northern foot of Xuanshan Mountain. Although it is not very toxic in itself, if it is used to create thick smoke, it can easily cause weakness in the hands and feet and make people dizzy.

"Hua Yuxi said confidently, "We can collect this kind of poisonous weed in large quantities, and then set off poisonous smoke when the enemy invades the gorge, which can greatly reduce the defensive pressure in the Guanlou area."

At this time, Tang Li brought Hua Feng over and asked Hua Yuxi to check Hua Feng's pulse first. After confirming that he was recovering well, she asked: "The red-faced masters we met on the mountain today, and their team of sixty or seventy people

Who are the master group? Are they the 'heroic guards' beside Xu Huizu?"

"You have asked the right person." Hua Yuxi nodded and said, "Although Xu Huizu is the Duke of Wei and an honorary relative of the imperial court, in order to secretly develop the power of the world, he secretly established an organization called the Red Ghost Sect."

"This organization is extremely strict. It is composed entirely of orphans adopted by the Xu family or purchased from personnel. Xu Huizu selected those with martial arts qualifications to tutor him, and he accepted dozens of real and nameless disciples."

Feng Yeling remembered and said, "I seem to have heard Miao Jin mention it before. She said that she once saw her eldest brother forcing his servants to practice boxing in the backyard, and beating and scolding them at will if they didn't do well at all."

"Those who are qualified to enter the Xu Mansion and are beaten and scolded in the backyard are the outstanding ones. More disciples are imprisoned in a secret courtyard of the Xu family outside the city." Hua Yuxi added,

"The other courtyard is run by Chang Hong, and the daily food supply is always less than one portion, forcing them to kill each other. When the deceased is carried out of the other courtyard, no one will even look at it."

"Under such a harsh survival rule, there were less than seventy disciples left in the Red Ghost Sect, all of whom looked after Xu Huizu. Among them, the ten most outstanding ones were afraid of being recognized because they had entered the Xu Mansion as servants.
Chapter completed!