Chapter 208: Flood, Flood! (1)
On the top of Wuzhou City, the sword lights of Qingyou and the other two girls came back with a ball of golden light.
The golden light was wrapped in three green sword lights, constantly jumping and vibrating. The sword lights collided, making a sharp noise, which made countless soldiers on the city wall lose their balance and hold their ears.
Seeing that the golden light was so violent, Lu Yi raised his spear and smashed the spear shaft on the golden light with a "bang".
The golden light dispersed, revealing a nine-inch short sword.
The dagger was golden in color, as smooth as a mirror, and shining brightly. Looking closely, one could see that inside the sword, there were chains made of runes that were as gorgeous and smooth as flowing clouds, spinning rapidly.
Lu Yu fired a few more shots and sneered at the dagger, "I know you are all intelligent . Do you accept it or not?"
The golden sword vibrated slightly in the air.
Lu Yi released two small swords, Yaoguang and Xuanying, and surrounded it on the left and right.
The golden sword made a high-pitched sound, and Lu Yi suddenly reached out and grabbed it. In his mind, the spiritual light of his soul turned into a flood-like mental shock, silently invading the golden sword.
The spiritual imprint left by Wu Heyun was violently broken, and the aura that Wu Heyun left in the golden sword with the Heart Sword Sect's secret technique was also washed away in an instant. The golden sword stopped beating, very obediently, and stopped in Lu Yi's hand.
Lu Yi picked up the dagger and looked at the sword.
A faint golden rune lit up on the sword, which was the word "Jin Yang".
“Golden Sun, Golden Sun.” Qing You took out her ancestor’s notes from her bag again and quickly flipped to the column that recorded the famous flying swords of the major sword cultivation forces: “Golden Sun Sword, the Heart Sword Sect’s Golden Sun, Green Sun, Red Sun, White Sun, the first of the four Yang Swords!”
"The Four Yang Sword is one of the top ten flying swords inherited by the Heart Sword Sect."
Qing You looked at Lu Yi with a strange look in her eyes: "We in Qinglin Sword Pavilion value the sincerity of the sword. A Qinglin sword is enough for us sisters to use. This sword is too hot to handle, so you should keep it!"
Lu Yi put away the Golden Sun Sword with a smile and said to Qing You, "You are afraid of trouble, but I am not. I will accept this sword. I will give it to you when I have something good that suits you in the future."
Lu Yi shot a volley of arrows, which made many sword practitioners of the Heart Sword Sect lose their temper. They stood at the gate of Qi Li's central army camp in frustration, looking towards Wuzhou City again and again. None of them had the courage to continue charging forward.
After hesitating for a long time, they could only save the dying and the wounded, and helped the injured fellow disciples to retreat with Qili's central army camp. This retreat was a hundred miles. Qili's army only retreated a few miles and then continued to surround Wuzhou City.
Lu Yu was not in a hurry either.
Let Qi Li besiege the city . If nothing unexpected happens, Lu Yu's Cang Lang Cavalry and the follow-up troops of the Eastern Expedition Army are rushing here. When the follow-up troops arrive, Lu Yu and others will attack from the outside, and Lu Yi's army will explode from the inside of Wuzhou City, which will be enough to give Qi Li a good look.
Lu Yi was examining the Golden Sun Sword on the top of the city wall. As the disciples of the Heart Sword Sect followed Qi Li to retreat, the pleasure boat on the river was also slowly moving upstream.
On both sides of the river, cavalry under Qi Li's command were keeping an eye on the pleasure boat.
Ordinary people definitely don't have such courage. Facing the army's reprimands and orders, they continued to swim leisurely on the river without any response.
The pleasure boat went upstream, and the cavalrymen on both sides of the river followed closely behind it.
The river was only two or three miles wide. A Tuomai realm master with superb archery skills in the army took out a strong bow, aimed at the burly men who were operating the boat at the stern of the pleasure boat, and shot armor-piercing arrows with sharp whistling sounds straight at those men.
Several big men manipulated the sails and oars calmly. When arrows were shot at them, they grabbed them without even looking up. Arrows that were strong enough to pierce armor from two miles away were easily caught by them and thrown onto the deck.
The cavalry on both sides of the strait were stunned and subconsciously pulled the reins.
The speed of the pleasure boat was getting faster and faster, gradually accelerating to a speed comparable to that of a fast horse. It went against the flow of the river to the northwest for a distance, turned a huge corner, sank into the green mountains, and disappeared from the sight of the cavalry on both sides of the river.
This matter was reported to the superiors by the Rangers.
The captain reported the matter to his superior.
The general under the command of Dongqi Bo, who was in charge of these cavalry, did not take this matter seriously at all. Could a mere civilian pleasure boat cause any harm to Dongqi Bo's army?
Even if there are three or five martial arts masters on the pleasure boat, what use are these few martial arts masters when facing millions of elite troops?
"What a fuss! It's pointless." The general threw away the information that was sent to him and went to busy himself with other more important things.
Dongqibo's army was on an expedition, and the army was huge. Both the soldiers and the mounts were big-bellied, and the daily logistical consumption was an extremely terrifying astronomical figure. Moreover, Wuzhou was extremely far away from Dongqibo's own territory, and it was impossible to transport enough logistical supplies from Dongqibo's territory.
Dong Qibo’s order was to collect grain on the spot!
Eat wherever you go.
Relying on the swords and guns in their hands, wherever Dongqi Bo's army passed, the common people had to hand over their food rations, the government had to take out all the supplies in the government warehouses, and the local gentry and wealthy people had to "make active contributions" and work hard to support the army!
Wuzhou is a famous land of fish and rice, very rich, very rich!
The main combat army besieging Wuzhou City could not leave the camp easily, so the cavalry responsible for patrolling, reconnaissance, and killing enemy scouts became the main force for collecting grain.
This is a lucrative job. Very lucrative, very lucrative!
Just find a few local tycoons and extort money from them, and a huge amount of wealth will fall into your pocket.
In comparison, who would have the mood to take care of a pleasure boat?
"However, let those little guys who saw the pleasure boat go with us to collect grain." The Ranger Commander suddenly remembered something: "If they see the pleasure boat during the grain collection and find its owner, we can charge them with attacking the army and plotting against the government, and make them cough up more food."
The pleasure boat, which had been used as a pretext for blackmail, had already traveled more than a hundred miles against the wind and the current.
The young men and women walked out of the cabin and looked at the terrain on both sides of the river.
The oldest young man suddenly clapped and laughed: "There is not much here, the two banks are ridged, and the mountains stretch for hundreds of miles. It is a good place to store water."
After he finished speaking, he pointed his finger, and the pleasure boat that was speeding on the river suddenly stopped. Without any deceleration process, it stopped directly on the river.
He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a stack of light green talisman papers that were more than a foot long and three inches wide, covered with all kinds of strange patterns. He took a deep breath and blew on the talisman papers.
"Hua La La", dozens of talisman papers flew into the air. The higher they flew, the bigger they became.
Gradually, these talisman papers turned into huge green light curtains that were hundreds of feet long and nearly a hundred feet wide. They were shining brightly all over. Huge runes slowly moved in the light curtains, emitting a huge and suffocating pressure.
The young man pressed his hands lightly, and the light curtains formed by the talisman papers fell down one after another, falling directly into the river with a "clang" sound. They were neatly lined up in a row and turned into a light curtain dam hundreds of feet high.
The mighty river suddenly stopped flowing.
To the west of the light curtain dam, the water level gradually rose.
On the east side of the light curtain dam, the river water fell little by little at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Beside the young man, a charming girl smiled and said, "I'm afraid there's not enough water to kill the people in and outside the city."
The young man smiled at the girl and said, "Thank you, Junior Sister, for your help."
The charming girl nodded, rummaged through her sleeves, and pulled out a palm-sized altar. She threw the altar casually, and the small altar swayed in the wind, and turned into an altar several feet wide and landed on the bow deck of the pleasure boat.
The girl walked to the altar, took out three pieces of talisman paper, flicked her fingers, and the talismans ignited, turning into three flames that rushed into the sky.
She lightly grabbed three tokens from the altar and tapped them, then picked up a triangular flag with patterns of wind, rain, thunder and lightning and waved it lightly towards the sky.
"wind!"
The girl drank softly.
A cold wind suddenly rose up, whistling from the northwest. Suddenly, countless trees of all sizes on the peaks on both sides of the river were swaying, and some weeds were uprooted.
The howling wind blew across the river, creating waves several feet high.
"cloud!"
The girl yelled again.
The originally clear sky was now filled with thick clouds rolling in from all directions. The thick clouds piled up densely, and within a radius of a hundred miles, the sky suddenly darkened. The wind blew the dark clouds, and the dark clouds rubbed against each other, and suddenly large flashes of lightning appeared faintly in the dark clouds.
"rain!"
The girl waved the command flag vigorously.
In the dark clouds, countless lightning bolts exploded with a rumble, sparks of lightning and sparks flew everywhere in the air, and bolts of lightning fell on the peaks on both sides of the river, causing mountains to collapse and the earth to crack. Countless trees were ignited by the flames and burned like torches in the wind.
Then, an outrageously heavy downpour came roaring down.
This rain is outrageous.
The raindrops are actually the size of a fist.
It was raining heavily all over the sky, as if the dam of the Milky Way had collapsed and the water from the river was rushing directly to the earth.
There were strong winds and heavy rains, and the river water level on the west side of the Guangmu Dam was rising steadily.
In the areas covered by heavy rain, small rivers and streams turned from clear to turbid in a very short period of time. The water surface rapidly expanded several times, and the dim yellow river and stream water was like a mad poisonous snake, sinking fiercely into the river.
The water level of the river was rising at an outrageous speed.
One zhang, two zhang, three zhang...
Another young man smiled and said, "Brother, this dam is good, but the terrain on both sides is still a little low... Tsk, I don't know, it will cost a lot."
The young man smiled and took out a bone plate from his sleeve.
There were mountain patterns engraved on the black and yellow bone plates. The young man grabbed the bone plates, bit his tongue, and sprayed a mouthful of blood on the set of seventy-two bone plates, then threw them randomly to both sides.
On both sides of the river, those originally gentle and beautiful mountains, which were originally no more than a hundred feet high, are like bamboo shoots in the spring night, rising higher and higher with a "crackling" sound.
Accompanied by faint earthquakes and thunder, these mountains grew hundreds of feet taller in a quarter of an hour, like two rows of screens stretching for hundreds of miles, sandwiching the river in the middle.
The height of the river water was rising rapidly, and the waves on the river surface, blown by the strong wind, increased from several meters high to more than ten meters.
