From the Ming Dynasty, we will conquer the world

Chapter 18: A dragnet of danger lurks on every side!
Xiangshan is broken?!
In the past, Zhu Tiandu led tens of thousands of pirates to roam the southeast, burning, killing and looting, and landed at the Xiangshan Seaport.

Therefore, since that sea disaster, the defense of Xiangshan City has been reinforced several times, and with the world-famous "Qi Hu" personally in charge, it can be said to be impregnable.

Even if Zhu Tiandu took action personally and all thirty-six ship owners came out in full force, the enemy would not collapse at the first blow.

Xu Xing's pupils shrank slightly, his body shook, and he immediately thought of something.

Could it be that... someone is colluding with them from inside and outside?

Considering what he had seen and heard in the Neisi Yamen, Xu Xing already had some guesses in his mind, and couldn't help but feel a sense of surprise yet reason.

In Hangzhou alone, so many people who were "collaborating with the Japanese" were arrested. One can imagine the style of the Yan party officials. It is not surprising that they forced the southeast to rebel.
Rather, it is a real miracle that the Southeast has been able to hold out until now without any major rebellion!

Xu Xingxuan raised his eyebrows and raised his hands like a roc spreading its wings. The muscles on his shoulders and back bulged, his shoulder blades flapped violently, he lunged forward and straightened his feet, took a step forward, the air flow surged, and a strong wind suddenly arose.

The man's power was so fierce that it was like a cannon fired from a barrel. Not only was it extremely fast, but it also carried a fierce and explosive force.

A huge pit suddenly exploded in the mud behind him, with mud, water and soil splashing everywhere, and a dull echo came from under his feet, continuously.

Qi Dazhu only felt the ground shaking and a strong wind blowing. Even with his level of boxing skills, he found it difficult to breathe.

The thirty-odd men behind him were shaken by the wind, but fortunately after a week of training, these apprentices had gained some skills and did not fall to the ground.

Beside the official road, in a deep forest.

A dozen strong men in tight clothes with long swords hanging from their waists gathered under the shade of the trees. Even in the heavy rain, one could still smell a strong fishy smell from them.

There were dozens of corpses lying around in a mess, blood had formed a dark red pool, and there were broken limbs, livers, intestines and flesh everywhere. The woods, treetops and even the ground were all filled with traces of the fierce battle.

There was a thin man in black with a sword on his waist, squatting in the bloody mud, slapping a Ming army officer on the cheek.

"Kill me if you want to, why waste your words!"

The officer's legs had been cut off at the knees, his right forearm had been cut off, and there were horrific wounds on his chest and abdomen. His skin and flesh were rolled up, his body was covered in blood and his bones were exposed.

This was not a decisive martial art used in battle to kill with one strike, but rather a method of execution that was almost like slow slicing.

It was obvious that his opponent enjoyed the pleasure of torturing him.

But even so, the officer's eyes did not waver in the slightest.

The man in black raised the corner of his mouth and revealed a cruel smile.

"The Qi Family Army is indeed worthy of its reputation. Unfortunately, Qi Hu is dead!"

The officer sneered:

"If the general is really dead, would you still set up an ambush here?"

Hearing this, the man in black laughed with a look of childish and ignorant pity.

"After enduring half a punch from the Ghost Emperor and then withstanding the continuous thirteen-handed quick hammer from the young master, not to mention Qi Hu, who is relatively inexperienced among the grandmasters, even if Yu Long were alive and Lu Bing were resurrected, he would still be crushed to pieces.

I only have half my life left, what's the point of running away? My internal organs are shaken, my bones are broken, and my tendons are torn. Even if I have a miracle drug, it will be useless. Even if I hang on for a breath, I won't live for more than a few days."

He shook his head and said with regret:
“He killed so many warriors of my Inoue family, and he died as a warrior at the hands of the crocodile head. It was really easy for him.

I wanted to chop off his head and hang it on the bow of the Blood Shark ship to show the honor of the Wu family, but it's a pity."

Among the thirty-six ships, the ten most ferocious ones were called the "Ten Shark Generals". Each of them was a great boxer who had practiced body training at least three times, and their ships were also named "Shark Ships".

The man in black was none other than Inoue Jusanro, the captain of the Blood Shark ship and one of the “Ten Shark Generals”.

That shark flag soaked in blood has caused countless bloody storms at sea and created countless tragedies that angered the people.

Just then, a muffled thunder resounded through the sky.

A burly man with his upper body naked raised his head and looked at the sky obscured by the deep leaves of the forest, and said in confusion:

"It's going to rain again—"

Before he uttered the last word "了", he suddenly felt the sky darken and a dozen elite pirates turned around, only to see a shocking scene.

A black shadow, accompanied by a raging storm, slammed down to the ground with such overwhelming momentum that it was as if the sky was shattered and collapsed.

The man's head was slammed into his chest, and his whole body was torn into pieces, exploding in the air, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Inoue Jusanrou looked up, his eyes narrowed to the point of a needle, the hairs all over his body stood up, and he cried out in shock:
"It's you?!"

Although Xu Xing's temperament is completely different from a few years ago, his handsome and heroic face has not changed at all.

So Inoue Jusanro immediately recognized that this was the madman who had dared to rob him and Crocodile Head alone!

He was hit by the crocodile head, but he didn't die? !

In the bloody rain, Xu Xing also set his sights on his old acquaintance.

He took a big step, crossed the distance of five or six feet, rushed in front of Inoue Jusanlang, and laughed loudly:

"You bastard, we meet again!"

As soon as he said the word "West", Xu Xing had already arrived in front of Inoue Jusanro.

He stretched out his ape-like arm lightly, stirring up a violent gust of wind and cyclone, and chopped down with one claw. The force penetrated through each joint, tearing out five grim white marks.

This is still the form of "Mind and Eagle Catching", but it is combined with the violent power of "Prairie Spreading Wings" with the flapping of shoulder blades and shaking of bones, which is extremely powerful.

The sky is falling?
After the light in front of him was taken away by Xu Xing, this illusion flashed through Inoue Jusanro's mind.

"Covering the sky with one hand? This person's aura is so strong? How is it possible!"

Although several years ago, Inoue Jusanro had personally experienced Xu Xing's methods.

But he still couldn't imagine that this madman could not only escape from Zhu Polong, but also become a master quietly!

At this moment, Inoue Jusanrou wanted to shout loudly, but the strong air flow poured into his chest and he could not make any sound.

There was only one road left in front of him.

escape!
Fortunately, Inoue Jusanro was a fierce general under Zhu Polong. He had personally experienced the grandmaster's boxing skills more than once, and had an extraordinary resistance to this kind of mental shock.

Even though his mind was overwhelmed by Xu Xing's fist, his body was still able to respond in the most appropriate way.

Inoue Jusanrou instinctively stimulated his Dantian and closed his pores, allowing the Qi to circulate throughout his body, gathering strength in his pelvis, hands, feet, knees, shoulders, elbows and hips. He exerted strength in six parts of his body at the same time, with the lumbar spine as the center, and he curled his spine and bent his body, moving sideways about a meter.

This is the upper-level artistic conception of the dragon shape.

It is not the might of a dragon turning rivers and seas upside down, nor the continuous shaking of a blue dragon's scales, but the unpredictable ability of a dragon, such as raising clouds and mist when it is big, hiding its form when it is small, and stretching out its claws and shrinking its bones.

Back then in the underground prison of the Neisi Yamen, Inoue Jushiro used this kind of skills to save his life from Xu Xing.

The level of this "Blood Shark General" is much, much higher than that of his younger brother. He has already reached the state of perfection and can perform with ease.

However, Xu Xing did not make any changes at all, and followed like a shadow, making it obvious that he was going to use this trick to beat Inoue Jusanro to death.

Mingming's five fingers were still one foot away from Inoue Jusanro, but he felt a sharp pain in his lumbar spine and it was difficult for him to continue the dragon-shaped body movement.

"what?!"

Inoue Jusanlang then noticed that in the center of Xu Xing's palm, layers of white air waves were rolling in. It was this air wave that broke his waist!
Although the airflow and wind created by the boxing master's full strength can blow away ordinary people, it is almost impossible to injure a great boxer with this kind of "fist wind".

However, after Xu Xing reached the ultimate level of skin refining, strong power could be emitted from every pore of his body, evaporating the sweat of his body, and using the water vapor as a support to punch through the air in a mist-like state.

The power of this energy is much stronger than that of simple fist wind.

This is a bit like Lei Bin's method of shooting flying needles with the power of skin and flesh without moving muscles, the only difference is that Xu Xing evaporates sweat and uses mist as needles.

In fact, Inoue Jusanro's skills today are not inferior to Xu Xing's back then, and his physical skills are even better.

Even if he met a master of boxing head-on, he would most likely be able to escape at the cost of being seriously injured, just like Xu Xing.

However, his opponent was not an ordinary master, but Xu Xing, the only one in the world who had achieved the "Ultimate State of Skin Refining".

So, with just one contact, the Blood Shark General, who was notorious throughout the world, was pulled out of the top of his head by Xu Xing and died beyond all possibility of death.

After Inoue Jusanro's death, these people were naturally no match for Xu Xing.

He stretched his muscles and in a few jumps, he chopped off the heads of the dozen pirates, leaving only one alive who lay limp on the ground.

When the Ming army officer saw Xu Xing's ghostly figure, he suddenly looked up, with surprise in his eyes.

The officer struggled to stand up, opened his mouth and was about to speak, but Xu Xing had already killed the pirates and landed in front of him.

As soon as Xu Xing saw him, he knew that this man was beyond help. He sighed and pointed directly at the place and said:
"Any last words?"

The officer barely propped himself up, and with his bare left hand, he tightly grasped Xu Xing's arm, and said in a hoarse voice:

"General Qi, save General Qi!"

The voice became lower and lower, weaker and weaker, until it became silent.

Blood foam gushed out of his mouth and the man took his last breath.

In fact, given the man's injuries, he was able to hold on until now only by relying on the breath in his chest and trying not to bow to the Japanese pirates.

When the officers first saw Xu Xing slaughtering the Japanese pirates, they were surprised and delighted, but also disappointed and could not hold on any longer.

When Xu Xing was practicing boxing outside the Great Wall, he had cooperated with the border troops a lot and was accustomed to separations and deaths. He did not express much, but just silently helped him close his eyes and laid the body flat on the ground.

He turned around and faced the only remaining pirate.

Seeing the villain walking towards him, the pirate couldn't help but tremble in his legs and almost fell to his knees.

Xu Xing was not in a good mood and was too lazy to talk nonsense with such a person. He said calmly:
"If you explain clearly, you can die quickly."

The pirate had followed Inoue Jusanro for a long time, so he was naturally aware of the torture methods these big boxers used, which could truly make people wish they were neither alive nor dead.

He didn't even say a word of nonsense, but simply explained the recent situation in Taizhou and Xiangshan.

Xu Xing also learned from this what great changes had taken place in the southeast when he was leading people to practice in the mountains.

Five days ago, Zhu Tiandu, along with his adopted son Zhu Polong and more than twenty great boxers, crossed the sea storm and launched a surprise attack on Xiangshan City.

To Xu Xing's surprise, the way Prince Baolong attacked the city was not by colluding with the outside forces, but by taking advantage of the heavy rain to sneak into the Xiangshan camp and assassinate Qi Jiguang.

As a master himself, Xu Xing knew very well how strange this was.

Grandmasters who have entered the path of utmost sincerity all have extremely keen perceptions. They can sense murderous intent within a few miles. How is it possible for someone to sneak into the camp and be assassinated?

This can only mean one thing, that Zhu Tiandu's boxing level has already stepped into the threshold of "returning to the void", and his mind is mixed with heaven and earth, which even Qi Jiguang, who is at the grandmaster level, cannot detect.

Although they were on opposite sides, Xu Xing was still impressed by Zhu Tiandu's courage to go deep into the Xiangshan camp to carry out assassination with only a few trusted men.

There are indeed many heroes in the world. Compared with Zhu Tiandu's actions, his assassination of Zheng and He seemed like a small matter.

Xu Xing raised his eyebrows and grinned, revealing a row of sharp white teeth, as if gnawing at the invisible fighting spirit and murderous intent.

——However, it is precisely this kind of opponent that is worth fighting.

Ever since the moment his master passed away, Xu Xing knew that there would be a battle between him and Zhu Tiandu.

But he didn't expect that the opportunity for the two to fight would come so soon.

As the pirate was speaking, he suddenly saw Xu Xing's aura change, like a hurricane raging across the oceans, sweeping across the sky and earth, roaring towards him, as if it wanted to tear him apart completely.

Although the momentum was released and then subsided, the pirate still felt his chest tighten and his vision went dark, as if his heart had stopped beating for a moment.

In the darkness, he heard Xu Xing's cold words.

"go on."

Fortunately, there is not only one grandmaster in the Xiangshan camp.

No one had expected that the Left General of the Rear Army, who was said to have died from practicing martial arts, would appear here.

What they didn't expect was that Lu Bing was not only alive, but his boxing skills had even improved to the point where he almost surpassed the Grandmaster level and reached an invincible level.

Even Zhu Polong, who was fighting fiercely with Qi Jiguang, had to sigh that Lu Bing was indeed qualified to compete with his adoptive father.

In that battle, Lu Bing and Zhu Tian exchanged the twenty-four-hand hammer technique, and their fists were like artillery bombardments. Within a hundred feet of the camp, there were hundreds of deep footprints, and the ground was covered with cracks, and it was collapsing like sand!
Even if one is a great boxer, in such a horrific battle, he can't help at all and can only become a spectator, or even stay away from the battlefield to avoid being affected.

At the end of the battle, the two peerless masters both died.

Unexpectedly, just when Qi Jiguang was extremely sad and indignant, he used heavy means to kill Zhu Polong regardless of his life.

The Dragon King raised his head and came back to life.

The punch came out of nowhere, and no one could see clearly what happened. Qi Jiguang's fists collapsed and he fell out.

Only Zhu Polong, who was only concerned with the fierce battle in front of him, did not care about the sudden changes on the battlefield. He seized the fleeting opportunity, shook off his ferocity, rushed forward and fired thirteen quick hammers in a row.

If there hadn't been a monk who was practicing Buddhism with his hair untied, who took advantage of Zhu Polong's opportunity to catch his breath and rest, rushed out from the side, withstood three blows, and took Qi Jiguang away, I'm afraid this "Qi Tiger" would have died on the spot.

One of the two great masters died and the other was injured, and the people of Xiangshan City were in panic. The martial arts masters from the southeast that Zhu Polong had contacted in advance launched their attack at this moment.

Even though Qi's army was the strongest in the world, it was still caught off guard by this attack that was like a divine force descending from the sky.

Night fighting is always the big boxer's advantage, let alone in such heavy rain?
Therefore, although the elite troops in the army were barely organized to cover Qi Jiguang's retreat, they could no longer take the city defense into consideration, and the Xiangshan defense line collapsed at the first touch.

After all, no one could have imagined that Zhu Tiandu and Zhu Polong were able to carry more than 20 great boxers and cross the country through hurricanes, huge waves, heavy rains and other extreme weather conditions.

Even for a master, this is a miracle.

Fortunately, after Zhu Tiandu delivered the life-saving punch, he had no energy left to take care of other things. He could only recuperate in Xiangshan and wait for the thirty-six army ships to land after the rain stopped.

Therefore, the one leading the team to hunt down Qi Jiguang now is only one "Crocodile God of the Four Seas" Zhu Polong.

He knew that if Qi Jiguang was not dead, he would definitely flee to Taizhou, so Zhu Polong and his group of great boxers were scattered in the many mountains and fields leading to Taizhou, searching for Qi Jiguang's trace.

For Xu Xing, this means one thing.

——Next, the dozens of miles road leading to Taizhou will become very difficult to walk.

(End of this chapter)