The night was dark and the fields were desolate. A group of men and horses were galloping on the official road, with torches like dragons spreading across Junlin Port - an important military port in the easternmost part of Xiangzhou.
The sound of the wind was in my ears, and the shadows of the trees on both sides were passing behind me. The leading general Zhao Quanquan glanced at the fork in the road three miles away, and sent a message to the military magician accompanying him to urge him: "The county prince's office has already urged me twice.
, haven’t you contacted the Navy yet?”
"No, the spiritual power tide is too strong, and the naval signal is unclear... Wait, general, there are enemies on the right side of the woods."
"Enemy attack——"
Roars with the same content sounded from both sides of the woods. Immediately, the forward general saw a cavalry rushing out from the right front, instantly seizing the right of way at the fork in the road. The lighting spell rose like a small sun in the sky, illuminating the surrounding fields and woods.
, both men and horses turned pale.
Immediately afterwards, there was a heart-wrenching "creak, creak, creak" and the sound of the crossbows being cocked. The front team and the rear team seemed to recognize each other and stopped for a while.
"What's going on?" Zhao Quanquan drew his sword and asked.
"General, they are..."
The voices of the forward generals were drowned out by the rumble of horse hooves. Amid laughter, the cavalry in front of them drove away: "Zhao Quanquan, a certain family has been waiting for you for a long time, and they just want to piss you off."
"It's Zhang Qi, Xianghou's men." Zhao Quanquan's face was livid and he ordered: "Don't listen to the bluff, he has just arrived. Let's chase, don't let Xianghou's people take the lead."
The two cavalrymen chased each other back and forth and arrived at the port in almost half an hour. Then, everyone was stunned.
The continuous port area and military camps are all dark and silent, with no one around, only the waves lapping at the south bank... This is an airport.
"Where are the people and the fleet? These are two thousand battleships..." Zhang Qi was also anxious. He hurriedly checked that there were no signs of battle, and then he felt calm.
He also arrested the owner of a prostitute near the port, grabbed his collar with his hands and asked: "When did the navy fleet disappear? Where did it go?"
"Go back... back to the general, it was last night. Last night, I don't know where Marshal Sun went. I don't know... Don't use the knife. I remembered that the girls heard from some junior officers two days ago that it was a transfer."
Village, transfer to village"
Transfer to the village?
Zhao Quanquan, who came from behind, heard what he heard. He opened the naval defense map and saw that the nearest backup water stronghold was no longer in Xiangzhou. His face was ugly: "What a slippery loach, Sun Xinbo."
On the broad river, the wind and rain crackled and splashed like a forest of water.
In this curtain of water that connects the ground to the sky, a huge naval fleet has been sailing downstream for a day and a night, crossing the vast 800-mile Taiping Lake and descending to the border of Xiaozhou.
The entire huge fleet stretched out for ten miles in the darkness. The large and small warships only lit up a small string of bright guidance lanterns at the stern. One by one, they followed the safe channel opened by the front ship and sailed orderly to a continent in the middle of the river downstream...
…
When we were still twenty miles away from this islet in the middle of the river, we saw a continuous field of stars, shining like sparkling lights on the water. This was the brilliance of the water village welcoming the navigation.
"Slow down...the fleet slows down..."
The message board was not very flexible in the turbulence of the spiritual energy tide. The light signal was changed, and the small string of lanterns changed light colors. The special metal burning light pierced the rain curtain, allowing the ships to adjust accordingly.
At this time, the front of the fleet is a jet-black flagship, exuding the smell of rust mixed with algae. The crystal formation on the bridge is lingering, and several formation flags depict thunder patterns. They are swimming like snakes with cables pulling the sails.
It presents a strange weightless suspension state, and the sailors walking on the deck are all light-footed and very quick to shuttle and adjust. The magician on the watchtower is even more vigilant about whether there are any rocks ahead that need to be avoided.
On the bridge, a middle-aged man in military uniform was flipping through the hydrology records and nodded slightly: "It's almost the highest water level recorded. I'm afraid the Taiping Lake guy will take action himself."
There were twenty or thirty naval generals standing below. The older deputies looked at each other and whispered, "Admiral Sun, we left the military port without permission. What will the court say afterwards?"
Sun Xinbo had a stern look on his face: "What can we do if we can't get in touch with the interrogation board? Or do you want to get involved in the chaos in Xiangzhou? Let's go to the backup water village. This is just a regular water training."
Routine water training...¨The deputies felt suffocated and speechless.
"That's right, it's best to avoid running away." The generals agreed with admiration. With the Admiral on their side, they were all convinced. They secretly thought that he was indeed Admiral Sun. In the past, he fought hundreds of battles with the Blackwater Ocean monster in the East China Sea.
The undefeated general, unfortunately, made a mistake and was saved by the court boss and demoted back to the river.
Of course, some people secretly call him a slippery loach.
"You are all heirs of generations of Navy soldiers. You must remember that the purpose of the Navy is not to interfere in local military affairs. This is the principle of establishing a military. Our fleet is closely related to the safety of the seven thousand miles of waterways downstream of the Yangtze River. Even if the lawsuit is filed,
In the Ministry of War, no one can criticize us harshly on big issues... We are elite soldiers of the imperial court, not just for the sake of living for the local government..."
"Report to the commander - a water monster was found ahead, blocking the waterway, and heading towards a breach of the long embankment not far from the water village." A magician rushed down the watchtower.
"Water monster? Not a reef?"
"The position changed very quickly, and the sound pattern of the water is different from that of the reef. However, the turbid currents and spiritual energy under the water are chaotic. It is dark at night and the form cannot be seen clearly. I only see a small mountain diving down. There is no response to the light and question..." the magician reported confidently...
Said.
Several deputies listened hesitantly: "Maybe the signal is not received due to spiritual disorder, and it will be dawn soon. Do you want the fleet to stop and wait, and investigate clearly before responding?
"Without this kind of free time, the watermen only use the waterway under the river. The recent floods have stirred up water monsters from all over the river. Who knows what kind of arrogant water monsters come out of the sewers?"
"If you hit my knife, you are seeking death. Give me my order and kill me." Sun Xinbo ordered casually and ignored him. He was more concerned about the safety of the Xiaozhou No. 2 backup water village. Recent news
The governor of Xiaozhou and a distinguished family are competing fiercely in Xiatu, but there has been no result yet.
"Yes, Commander." More than twenty generals responded and cast their light towards the main force of each branch fleet.
In fact, Black Star is becoming more and more obvious. The superiors have issued the right to conduct war against possible raids on enemies in the outer domain. Now it is a state of war. This treatment cannot be wrong. Even if it is accidentally killed, there is room for explanation.
The strength of the human race does not mean that all the deaths of alien races are in vain.
The sound of rumbling thunder resounded on each ship. Huge arrays gathered on the array flags. The magnetic field surrounded them and burst out with electric light. A burst of dazzling turbulence bombarded them. Each ship launched a continuous battle according to the enemy's procedures.
saturation attack.
The entire water surface within a radius of three miles in front of the fleet boiled, with a faint collision of huge mana fluctuations, and a faint roar of fright and anger.
What greeted it was only the firepower of the entire fleet, which was suppressed in almost ten breaths.
"I'm really looking for death..." A hydrographic guidance ship came out of the port area on the Huxinzhou side. Seeing this scene, the captain above tsk-tsked twice and bypassed the combat area.
On the bridge of the flagship, Sun Xinbo was still asking: "Has the Xunpan communication been restored? What did the court say?"
"It's unclear, but I have received a notification from the water government nearest Taiping Lake that the astronomical tides will stabilize. It is expected to last half a month, and passenger and cargo ships in various ports can prepare to set sail tomorrow..."
Sun Xinbo waved his hands and said impatiently: "You don't need to tell me these things..."
The Xunpan magician shut up. Indeed, the navy's fleets are all specially made boats and are not afraid of the waves and rain of ordinary typhoons.
After a while, the sky dimmed and brightened. Next to the fleets passing by the river, the whirlpool subsided, and a dragon corpse floated up. It was accompanied by the broken seal of the heavenly talisman, and the dragon's eyes were still wide open.
This is...a dragon?
Everyone's eyes were stunned. Sun Xinbo ran out after hearing the news, his face turned pale, but he recognized that the talisman was the official title of the county-level water master.
"How could it be like this? Snakes have their own snake paths, and dragons have their own paths... This guy has a dedicated waterway and doesn't use it. What's going on in the river?"
"Sir... Your Majesty, it may be related to the breach not far to the east." The captain who came to the flagship to guide the hydrology was trembling. Probably because he was new and did not participate in this matter, he could barely answer: "Uncle Taiping
He ordered the Ten Prefectures to control floods. Maybe this gentleman will be responsible for this section of the river..."
Rumble——
A green shadow was passing up and down the long river, and it stopped in the sky: "This is a wave of resentment from our clan."
At this moment, Taiping Bo Ao Zheng'an suddenly remembered what his son-in-law had reminded him that being an earthly immortal would not cause unreasonable reactions, and he suddenly felt an ominous premonition.
Looking through the clouds, he was suddenly shocked and angry: "How dare Zhu Zian bully me?"
"Your fleet arbitrarily killed the righteous god of heaven, my dragon. If I don't wipe out all of you, An Neng can calm my anger."
A "boom" of thunder shook the earth slightly, and black clouds were like ink, surging and rolling, covering the sky in an instant, covering up the entire time. Then it rained heavily, and the sky became as dark as the night.
"Commander, what should we do?" The heavy rain made the boat roar, and the deputy general asked in a different voice: "The magician tested the reaction to a strong thunderstorm, it is not natural."
There was a bright flash in the sky, followed by thunder. In the lightning, a dragon shadow was seen, and everyone's heart sank.
Thunder thundered down in the sky, the fleet couldn't help but automatically defend itself, and the conflict was about to break out.
"Raise defenses, prepare to launch the magnetic field," Sun Xinbo ordered with a livid face, but his heart sank. He had never thought of such a disaster in advance.
February 21·Tianyin·Sanshui County.
After days of heavy rain, the river surged and became turbulent. However, the 37th Exit downstream was blocked, and the storm basically stabilized.
Since the Taiping Lake Dragon Palace’s announcement on waterway navigation was issued last night, the passenger and cargo ships stranded in various ports have started sailing again. Many of them passed by the dock in Sanshui County, pointing and curious at the large-scale cargo fleet that has not yet dispersed.
No wonder, after all, you won’t see so many heavy cargo ships at ordinary docks.