The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 188 The Destruction of the Allied Forces on Outlying Islands

Just tens of miles north of the Guhong Island camp, there is a huge mortal military camp.

The scale of this camp is larger than that of the Guhong Island Camp, and the camp is crowded with people. However, unlike the soldiers under Tian Beixi's command, the morale is high. The soldiers in this camp are all downcast, like a defeated rooster. The few grassroots leaders who shouted and shouted to maintain order also seemed out of breath when they shouted.

If you take a closer look, you will find that the equipment of these soldiers is better than that of the soldiers of Guhong Island, but the shape is a bit messy, and the flags are also different, as if there are many different troops mixed together. .

This is the main force of the outlying island coalition that has lost more than a dozen encounters and two decisive battles in a row.

The outlying island coalition is composed of the twelve most powerful lords in the entire outlying island.In a huge marching tent in the center of the camp, facing the extremely harsh situation, the senior leaders of the coalition forces on the outlying islands gathered together and were discussing the next combat deployment.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces on the outlying islands was named Huang Xuan.

This person is the lord of the largest island in the Outlying Islands [Main Island]. Since the area, food production, and total population of the Island are almost equivalent to one-eighth of the entire Outlying Islands, according to the practice of the Outlying Islands, he The lord of this island is also honored as "big lord" by other outlying island lords.

As the most powerful mortal lord in the entire Outlying Islands area, he not only accepted the appointment of the Infinite Sword Sect and became the so-called Special Chief Executive of the Outlying Islands, he was also elected as the commander of the Outlying Islands Allied Forces.

Huang Xuan looked to be about five or sixty years old. He was sitting upright on the head seat behind the commanding table. His temples were graying, and there was still a pair of reading glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose. His eyesight had obviously declined.This great lord usually pays great attention to his image, and has a meticulously combed back hair all year round. However, due to continuous defeats and running away, the big back hair of the island lord has obviously become a little greasy and messy, and his image looks like Quite embarrassing.

In fact, Huang Xuan's life has indeed been difficult recently.

The outlying island coalition had a total of [-] troops at first, but after being defeated by Tian Beixi from the front many times in a row, there are only [-] to [-] soldiers left that can still be gathered.

Considering that Tian Beixi's strength has greatly increased due to the capture of a large number of prisoners from the outlying island coalition forces, even in terms of total strength alone, the outlying island coalition forces have no advantage over the Guhong island army.

Because of this, when the senior leaders of the coalition forces on the outlying islands discussed countermeasures, the atmosphere was as heavy as a funeral.

"Master Ke Island, has the food from our rear arrived?"

The person being questioned by Huang Xuan was wearing a neat military uniform and looked quite capable.

This person's full name is Ke Laibo, and he is the lord of Haihong Island, another big island in the outlying island. He is famous among the lords of the outlying island as a soldier. He once defeated the Huoyun State Intervention Army who tried to intervene in the outlying island 15 years ago.It is precisely because this person has a good record in repelling Tian Shangcheng, the former head of the Shenhuo Sect, that he was also elected as the Chief of Staff of the Outlying Islands Allied Forces.

Hearing the big lord's question, Kelaibo said with a serious expression: "I've already sent someone to urge you, it shouldn't take long!"

Huang Xuan rubbed his temples and said: "Must be as soon as possible! Our army has been defeated repeatedly and morale is low. Although Tian Beixi didn't pursue for some reason, if the food can't keep up, I'm afraid our defeated soldiers will not fight! "

Ke Laibo said: "Lord, don't worry, we have two grain roads available for the outlying island coalition forces, one is to supply directly along the coast, and the other is to build a pontoon bridge at the narrowest part of the outlying island strait to transport grain from the main island. I don't know whether our military rations are loaded on vehicles or on boats. In order to confuse Tian Beixi, I deliberately sunk several large ships on the south side of the outlying island strait, blocking the navigation route towards Guhong Island, and pretending to use vehicles to transport rations. The appearance of preventing the Huoyun State fleet from destroying the pontoon bridge. In fact, they ordered the grain ship to come directly from the north side of the outlying island strait, and hit her east and west!"

The Kelaibo lord was able to defeat Huo Yunzhou's last attack, and he did have two brushes in his hands.

Hearing Ke Laibo's plan, not only Huang Xuan nodded in satisfaction, but even the other lords of the outlying islands praised him like "Lord Ke's great insight", "Light insight into fire", "Lighting the light of opportunity"... and so on.

However, at this moment, a messenger from the sect suddenly stumbled in, knelt down on the ground with a thud, and cried loudly: "Great lord, all lords, something is wrong!"

Disgust flashed across Ke Laibo's eyes, and he said angrily, "Speak up if you have something to do, what's the proper way to panic?"

The messenger hurriedly explained: "Our grain ship has been blocked, so we won't be able to arrive on time today!"

Just after bragging about his tricks, Ke Laibo's expression froze instantly: "Nonsense! Could it be that Tian Beixi's demonic technique can still be used at sea, and our grain ship was sunk in the end?"

The messenger replied honestly: "That's not true, but after Tian Beixi saw that we blocked the channel on the south side of the Outlying Island Strait, instead of sending people to destroy the pontoon bridge, he actually scuttled several large ships on the north side of the Outlying Island Strait." , completely blocked the waterway on the north side of the outlying island strait. Now our grain transport ships can’t get in at all. Even if we want to unload on the spot, there are not enough vehicles to pull the grain to the camp. The land journey can’t be carried by everyone’s shoulders!”

Tian Beixi's "I predicted your prediction" show operation completely stunned the lords of the outlying islands.

Ke Laibo stammered even more: "This...it's impossible! How did she know that we planned to transport food by boat? How dare she let us repair the bridge? Could it be that there are spies from Tian Beixi inside us?"

Yet no one answered his question at all.

No matter what the truth of the matter is, the current situation is that Tian Beixi has seen through Ke Labo's deployment and has successfully cut off the food route of the coalition forces on the outlying islands.

This made all the outlying island lords present panic.

"Quiet!" Seeing the chaotic posture of the lords, Huang Xuan immediately made a gesture of calmness, "Tian Beixi is not only powerful in demons, but also cunning in using soldiers. It's not like everyone hasn't learned how powerful she is. Now it's just that the food didn't come in in time. Our camp is only forty miles away from the place where the food ship was blocked. Even if we really let everyone carry it on their shoulders, I don't think it's impossible. The situation is not as good as everyone imagined. serious."

Huang Xuan's reassurance did not convince everyone, and someone immediately questioned: "But the great lord, the morale of our coalition forces is already low, and now we have to travel dozens of miles to transport food back and forth. Can you fight?"

This soul torture made Huang Xuan's expression froze.

If he had a way to retreat from the enemy, he would have used it long ago. How could he be beaten into such a situation by the opponent?
Huang Xuan really wanted to tell him that even with [-]% morale of the outlying island coalition forces, they couldn't beat Tian Beixi, and now it doesn't matter if the morale is high or low.But as the commander-in-chief of the army, he couldn't say that, which was tantamount to admitting that he was sitting still waiting to die.

So he knocked on the command table in front of him with a gloomy face, and ordered softly: "Ke Labo, you can introduce the latest battle situation to everyone first! I can't answer all your questions until I understand the battle situation." !"

On the table in front of the great lord Huang Xuan, there was a huge map of outlying islands.

However, compared with Tian Beixi's accurate map of the outlying islands, the map of the outlying island coalition forces is somewhat unsatisfactory. From this point, we can also see the slackness and carelessness of the outlying island coalition forces in the face of the war of aggression.

If the gap between the Haiya Fleet's map and Tian Beixi's map can be explained by the lack of preparation of the Haiya Fleet, then the outlying island coalition, as the host of the outlying island, has a map that is not as accurate as Tian Beixi, an outsider, which is very unreasonable.

Of course, although this map is not accurate, it is barely enough to explain the battle situation.

Ke Laibo, the chief of staff of the Outlying Islands Allied Forces, listened to the order and immediately introduced the map to the lords: "Dear island lords, our current situation is very bad. Tian Beixi has already defeated all the remnants we left on the other side of the strait. Yes, in the south, they occupy the best landing point in the outlying island strait, ready to launch an attack on us at any time. In addition, although the Huoyun state forces did not directly participate in the war, their merchant ships are shuttling through the outlying island strait to provide combat materials for Guhong island. Now our morale is low and we are unable to fight, we can only watch them complete their combat preparations..."

Everyone knew that their own situation was not good, but hearing Ke Laibo speak so bluntly, the faces of the lords of outlying islands became even worse. Everyone turned their attention to Huang Xuan, and no one dared to speak up .

Being stared at by everyone with heavy eyes, Huang Xuan forced himself to be calm and said: "If Xu Tong from Yanbo Island organizes his troops and launches an attack from the flank, everything will be fine. He still has thousands of well-equipped soldiers under his command!"

Everyone looked at each other, and in the end Ke Laibo said hesitantly: "The great lord...Xu Tong..."

Before he could finish speaking, the lord of Garden Island next to him immediately added: "Island Master Xu said that his men are short of troops, and he is currently unable to launch an attack!"

Hearing this, Huang Xuan almost lost his breath.

After a long silence, he took off his reading glasses tremblingly, and said slowly: "The lords of Haihong Island, Garden Island, and Yingyue Island stay here!"

Huang Xuan named the three most powerful lords.

The other weaker lords turned around and left the oppressive meeting before he could continue speaking. Everyone knew that the big lord was about to start swearing.

Sure enough, when all the idlers had retreated, the great lord Huang Xuan finally couldn't bear it anymore, and said furiously: "That's an order! Let Yanbo Island attack from the flank is an order! How dare Xu Tong disobey my order? Things have come to this point , are you all ready to betray the outlying island and surrender to Tian Beixi? Especially that bastard Xu Tong is simply a disgrace to our outlying island lord!"

The roar came from outside the big tent, and the lords of the outlying islands who had just left the big tent were silent.

The lord of Yingyue Island who was present hastily persuaded him: "My lord, Xu Tong is our last hope after all, you—"

"Xu Tong is a coward!" Huang Xuan didn't listen to the persuasion at all, but dropped his pen heavily on the map, interrupting the other party's defense: "I've seen it since he first refused to join the outlying island coalition forces. He has only learned to eat, drink and have fun for so many years. He has not experienced a real war for many years. When he encounters a real strong enemy, he will only hinder us all! It's time to cut him down, just like Tian Beixi did to the captured outlying island lord!"

This rebuke directly made the three lords present not know what to say.

However, Huang Xuan was not satisfied, and continued to scold angrily: "If this battle continues like this, we have no hope at all! If you think that losing the war can save lives, then you are wrong! Tian Beixi has absolute Strength, she will never let any of you go, no one is allowed to keep strength!"

The three great lords looked at each other, and none of them dared to answer the question first.

That Xu Tong resisted the pressure and did not join when the Allied Forces on the Outlying Islands were at their strongest. Now that the Allied Forces on the Outlying Islands are in a precarious situation, it is simply wishful thinking to expect Xu Tong to send troops to help.

After venting his anger, Huang Xuan finally calmed down a little: "Master Ke Island, is there any news from the Yufeng faction in Borneo? We have agreed to all their requests. Where are the practitioners they sent? "

Ke Leibo said nervously: "The Yufeng faction didn't send anyone, at least they didn't contact me!"

Huang Xuan slapped the table hard again: "I knew that these cultivators were unreliable at critical moments! What about the Zhongzhou Wuliang Sword Sect? They will definitely make moves!"

Just when the other party didn't know how to answer, another messenger suddenly stumbled into the conference room.

Being able to break into the high-level combat meeting of the coalition forces on outlying islands without authorization, one knows without thinking that the messenger must have brought important information.

"The fleet from Haiya City has arrived!" Before Huang Xuan could ask, the messenger took the initiative to say, "The Wuliang Sword Sect has ordered Haiya City to organize a fleet to rescue the outlying islands. According to the latest news, the Haiya fleet left three days ago. Yanbo Island is coming to the outlying island strait!"

Hearing the news that the Haiya Fleet came to help, Huang Xuan instantly showed ecstasy.However, soon, as if he suddenly thought of something, his expression of ecstasy turned into suspicion again.

He stared at the messenger who came to report the letter, and said word by word: "The Sea Cliff Chamber of Commerce is famous for its ocean-going trade in Kyushu, and the merchant ships are big and fast. If they left Yanbo Island three days ago, why haven't they yet?" Rushing to the Outlying Island Strait?"

Hearing Huang Xuan's doubts, the other three lords also slowly recalled:
Yup!

If the Sea Cliff Fleet had set off from Yanbo Island three days ago, it would have been time to fight Tian Beixi's army by now!

There is no communication spell on the outlying islands, and information communication is very poor.

This messenger also set off from Yanbo Island with the Haiya Fleet three days ago. Naturally, he couldn't know what happened to the Haiya Fleet in the middle. Facing Huang Xuan's questioning, he hesitated for a long time and couldn't tell why. Come.

Seeing that Huang Xuan's face was a bit unkind, the messenger had no choice but to tell the official statement of the Haiya Fleet: "Han Guanshi and Yang Xianshi of the Haiya Fleet said that when they fight Tian Beixi, they hope that the outlying island coalition forces will cooperate from the flanks, At that time, they will send messengers to contact us in advance, as for why they haven't arrived for so long, I really don't know!"

Seeing that the messenger couldn't explain why for a long time, Huang Xuan said angrily: "Come here, drag this messenger down for me. If the Haiya Fleet doesn't arrive tomorrow, kill this guy who faked the news first." The sacrificial flag!"

(End of this chapter)