Chapter 704 The Night of Horror

The night is like ink, and the clouds are overwhelming.

In the ink-splashed night sky, not a single star can be seen, and even the crescent moon is quietly hidden in the clouds and disappears. The entire night sky is like a black and boundless canvas, which is oppressive and suffocating.

The cold wind blows, rolling up bursts of dark clouds, rolling up and down, forming an unusual picture scroll.

Chibi crawled quietly in the night, like a beast with its fangs retracted, slowly accumulating energy, waiting for dawn, and preparing to tear all enemies to pieces.

In Wulin Water Village on the west bank of Chibi, nearly a hundred large and small warships loomed in the night, like a group of ghosts, quietly lurking in their lairs. On the edge of the battleship deck, there are torches, and the flames are shining.

Against the backdrop of the fire, the surface of the Shuizhai River is shimmering.

On the deck of the battleship, there were occasional trampling sounds of patrolling guards walking back and forth. In the unremarkable cabin, there was a faint yelling sound, as if some sergeants were gambling together to pass the boring night.

Even the soldiers on night watch were chatting quietly.

"This damn weather, it's so cold that a bird can grow out of it!"

"Who says it's not? After staying in this place in Uri Bajo for so long, I haven't even seen a ghost. Why do you say we are hiding here?"

"That's something the lord is considering, why are you guessing!"

"That's right, what are you doing talking about these useless things!"

"It's better to get through this class quickly and go back to the bed, that's called comfort!"

"Everyone be quiet, pay attention to vigilance!" The captain who led the team finally couldn't stand it anymore, and stopped talking.

The night returned to silence, and occasionally one or two whispered complaints came from the cold wind.

In the center of the water village, a huge five-story building ship stood out like a flock of chickens, surrounded by other warships, like a king, commanding the other warships, aloof.

That boat is Xiongba's flagship—Bawang.

In this battle, Xiongba is in charge of guarding Wulin, while the opposite Chibi is guarded by War Wolf.

On the top floor of the Bawang, in the luxuriously decorated study room, Xiongba, dressed in military uniform, sat in front of the desk. An exquisite oil lamp was lit in front of the desk, and the night wind blew by, the lamp swayed from side to side, and it was about to go out.

The erratic lights made Xiong Ba's face a bit hideous.

The windows of the study creaked and creaked in the cold wind, which was extremely ear-piercing.

"Is it windy?"

Xiongba got up and came to the window, ready to close the window. He looked up at the pitch-black night outside the window, and frowned, "The moon is dark and the stars are hidden, such weather is abnormal!"

As the saying goes, the abnormal is the demon.

For some reason, since the day, Xiong Ba has been a little restless, he always feels that something bad will happen. The ink-splashed night made Xiong Ba feel oppressed and suffocated.

"But there's no reason!" Xiong Ba shook his head and vetoed, trying to shake off the messy thoughts in his head. Slightly suppressing the emotions in his heart, Xiongba simply closed the window, not wanting to take another look at the eerie night.

As early as half a month before the start of the battle, [Yanhuang League] was already preparing for this big battle. In Di Chen's words, no matter what, the [Yanhuang League] will take this opportunity to completely suppress the arrogance of the [Shanhai League], and regain the right to speak in China in one fell swoop.

The big explosion in the first half of the year was a process of [Yanhuang League] accumulating energy.

Shanhai City was promoted to the third-level county city, which slightly suppressed their accumulated momentum. But after all, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. The real competition is still on the battle map.

After acquiring the artillery manufacturing technology, Xiongba is even more confident.

"Qiyue Wuyi, you should do a big somersault!" Although Xiongba admires Qiyue Wuyi's achievements, it doesn't mean that Xiongba doesn't want to defeat Qiyue Wuyi.

On the contrary, this desire to win, Xiongba is more intense than anyone else.

The battle on Yizhou Island was generally regarded by the outside world as a game between the [Yanhuang League] and the [Shanhai League].

The result was naturally the victory of the [Yanhuang League], which made a good footnote for the strong rise of the [Yanhuang League] in the first half of the year, and became a symbolic event of the ebb and flow of the two giants.

Xiong Ba, one of the parties, naturally wouldn't think so superficially.

Although taking Yizhou Island was Xiong Ba's proud work, he also publicly or secretly publicized the fruitful results of this battle on different occasions in order to enhance the prestige of Bawang City.

But to say that this is a game between the two major alliances is a bit exaggerated.

Xiongba knew very well that from the beginning to the end, Shanhai City did not intervene in this battle. Otherwise, among other things, if Shanhai City's Jiaozhou Fleet intervened in the war, it would be enough for Bawang City to drink a pot.

After defeating Xunlong City, Xiongba borrowed a lot from the successful model of Qiongzhou Island in the operation of Yizhou Island, such as introducing shipbuilding industry, salt industry, and adventure players to jointly develop marine resources.

For Yizhou Island, Xiongba devoted too much effort. Xiongba's ambition is to divide the sea area equally with Shanhai City, one in the north and one in the south.

Yizhou Island is a dividing line between the two sides.

To realize this ambition, the Battle of Chibi is a key node. Xiongba must prove on the battlefield that even in water battles, the navy of Bawang City can defeat the legendary Shanhai City navy that has been rumored to be miraculous.

From this, it is not difficult to understand why Xiongba attaches so much importance to this battle.

It even goes so far as to say that in order to defeat the Shanhai City fleet, Xiongba gave up on conquering the historical generals on the battle map, allowing Di Chen, Chun Shenjun and others to take the lead.

Outside of the battlefield, Xiongba has also done a lot of work.

For example, the third-party forces that have secretly contacted Xunlong Dianxue are actually hidden forces secretly cultivated by the Xiongba family. Its purpose is to stir up internal strife in the [Shanhai League].

Xunlong Diancu and Siege Lion chose Sun Liu's camp, which undoubtedly proved the success of Xiongba's strategy.

For Xunlong's acupoints, to be honest, Xiongba is somewhat contemptuous. In Xiongba's eyes, Xunlong and acupuncture point is just a matter of good luck, and the relationship with Shanhai City made it all the way to the present.

How can a real commoner lord fight against aristocratic families like them.

The only difference is that Qi said no clothes.

Therefore, the determination of the major families to eliminate this anomaly has never wavered.

"It's just, it's difficult!"

Thinking of the achievements of Shanhai City's ocean voyage, Xiongba felt a little frustrated.

Even on the campaign map, they're not doing well. The swift annihilation of Lu Su's army undoubtedly gave Xiong Ba and Zhan Lang a blow.

The first ring of the plan was a complete failure.

Calculated according to the time, Shanhai City's fleet should have arrived at Chibi two days ago. The results of it? They waited in full force, their nerves were tense, they were both nervous and excited, but they were in vain.

The Shanhai City fleet seemed to have disappeared.

Xiongba also speculated whether the Shanhaicheng fleet had given up on Chibi and went to attack Liu Bei instead. After all, Liu Bei has huge baits such as Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang, and Shanhai City has every reason to go there.

The information received in the evening denied this speculation.

In order to achieve long-distance communication on the battle map, [Yanhuang League] also took great pains. They spent a lot of money to buy four golden eagle spirit beasts from an adventure team.

This spirit beast is extraordinary, it can really travel thousands of miles a day and pass information back and forth.

In this way, the three teams of [Yanhuang League] distributed in Chibi, Dongting Lake and Yunmengze can maintain smooth communication and report information to each other.

The information in the evening was sent by Mr. Chunshen. Although the two have rifts, they are both extremely rational people, and they can still cooperate with each other on the battle map.

According to Chun Shenjun's report, the situation on their side is also a bit bad.

As early as when Lu Su's army was destroyed, Huang Gai sent a letter to Liu Bei, asking for a merger and a joint rescue of Chibi. The problem is, Liu Bei was busy taking over Changsha County at that time, so how could he set off immediately.

Liu Bei's refusal undoubtedly angered Huang Gai.

Huang Gai directly reprimanded Liu Bei for treachery in the letter, saying: Liu Bei was chased by Cao Cao at that time, like a dog that lost his family, Jiang Dong kindly took him in and gave him a place to live.

It was Jiangdong's army that defeated the menacing Cao Cao's army in one fell swoop, shattering the undefeated myth of Cao Cao's army. In this way, Liu Bei was able to linger on his last breath, preferring to settle down.

Now that Chibi is in trouble, Liu Bei only wants to occupy the territory, but does not send troops to reinforce it, it is really shameless.

Such a letter humiliated Liu Bei to the point of shame, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were blown up on the spot, muttering that they wanted to lead troops to fight Huang Gai.

Fortunately, Liu Bei knew he was wrong, so he finally stopped the two of them and avoided an "internal fight".

Even so, the two sides have developed suspicions and can no longer cooperate. In a fit of anger, Huang Gai has personally led the army and is heading towards Chibi.

Calculated according to the time, it will take three days to reach Chibi.

As for Liu Bei, he was not really indifferent. While Liu Bei was busy appeasing the people of Changsha and stabilizing the rule of Changsha, he was already preparing for the expedition.

At the same time, in order to appease the Jiangdong Group, Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to lead the vanguard of the navy and set off early.

In other words, the Shanhai City fleet did not attack Liu Bei at all at this time.

In this way, Xiong Ba and Zhan Lang were unable to figure it out.

Logically speaking, if you really want to attack Chibi, the sooner the better. It has been delayed for a long time, waiting for the army from all sides to gather in Chibi, what should we do at that time, will we have another one-pot end?

Xiongba didn't believe it, how could Wuyi be so arrogant.

"There must be something wrong here!" Xiong Ba thought, "But where exactly is the problem?"

Regarding this point, Xiongba has always been unable to figure it out.

"Could it be that there are spies here, and Ouyang Shuo has already known about Chibi's arrangements? That's why the Shanhai City fleet didn't dare to come?" Xiongba can't be blamed for being suspicious, they really can't afford to lose this battle.

Xiongba focused his suspicion on the other lords.

All of a sudden, Chibi became jittery, and the tense atmosphere has not been relieved until now.

But after checking and checking, they didn't find a suspicious person.

In this way, Xiong Ba shut himself in the study, thinking hard.

So far, it doesn't seem to be working.

"Forget it, go to sleep!" Xiong Ba finally let out a long sigh, got up and left the study.

The oil lamp in the study gradually went out, and it became pitch black again.

The night became thicker and darker.

As night fell, even the sergeants who had gathered to gamble had dispersed, and each took a rest. The water village became more and more quiet, silent, leaving no sound of the cold wind blowing.

At this moment, a group of "ghosts" sneaked in from the bottom of the water village and went straight to the Bawang.

An unexpected fight is about to be staged in this dark night.

This night is destined not to be peaceful!