Chapter 123: Counterattack

Welcoming the Great Immortal was essentially the job of the Daoist Palace. Yao Pei and Li Zhuyu could come or not. Zhang Yuelu, as a member of the Lingnan Daoist Palace, simply did not come, but stayed in Lion City to preside over the situation.

Yao Pei happened to be in Shenglong Palace, so he came to welcome the Great Immortal. Li Zhuyu's main battlefield was in Lion City, so there was no need for him to make a special trip from afar.

The same was true when they welcomed the Great Immortal Jiang in the Imperial Capital last time. A group of young people happened to be in the Imperial Capital, and even lived by the Penglai Pond, so they naturally had to go to welcome him. If they were not in the Imperial Capital at that time, there was no need to run back specially.

Li Zhuyu was the acting deputy head of the Beichen Hall. The reason why the Beichen Hall was one of the top three halls, while the Fengxian Hall was not, was because in addition to internal affairs, the main responsibility of the Beichen Hall also included covert operations against the outside world, which was not available in the Fengxian Hall.

With the weakening of Buddhism and its lack of momentum, who else could be called the enemy of the Daoist Sect? Naturally, it was the Holy Court.

Therefore, Beichen Hall has a lot of dealings with the Holy Court, which is not inferior to the Ancestral Hall. Zhang Yuelu and Li Zhuyu are both from Beichen Hall, but Zhang Yuelu changed his route to Tiangang Hall halfway through. Now, most people in the Taoist sect think that Zhang Yuelu is from Tiangang Hall, and almost no one mentions Beichen Hall.

The same is true for Qi Xuansu. He is from Tiangang Hall, but he went to Ziwei Hall halfway through, and now others also think that he is from Ziwei Hall.

To put it bluntly, where you become the first deputy hall master is crucial. Li Zhuyu has always been rooted in Beichen Hall. In terms of business ability in this area, he is still very good, much better than Zhang Yuelu. After all, when Zhang Yuelu was in Beichen Hall, he only had contact with internal affairs, and basically did not involve external affairs.

During the last riot, after Qi Xuansu announced the martial law order, the Nanting Duhufu arrested many people and detained them in the military camp.

After these people were controlled, the men in black sent people to register them separately and confirm their identities.

According to Qi Xuansu's request, these thieves should be controlled and identified, and the organizers, instigators, and those who caused major damage should be interrogated in surprise.

There are also differences. If they are native Borneo people, they are accomplices, and they are only restricted in their activities, cannot leave the barracks, have no shackles, and are guarded by black-clad men.

If they are foreigners such as Westerners or Western Borneo people, they will be placed in places with stricter guards and interrogated strictly. The black-clad men in charge of guarding not only hold fire guns, but even set up thunder guns that can fire continuously.

Then, according to the results of the interrogation, the behind-the-scenes forces that have not been arrested will be arrested. At the same time, the Nanting Protectorate sent black-clad men to control Lion City and various ports to prevent these people from escaping.

After Li Zhuyu came over, he mainly connected with Qin Hengjun, which also made Qin Hengjun feel relieved. He was really not good at these things, but he was just trying hard under pressure. Now that the real experts have come, he can also feel relieved.

As the saying goes, quality is more important than quantity. Li Zhuyu did not bring many people, but they were mainly responsible for sorting out clues and determining targets. When it came to specific execution, the Taoist priests did not have to go into battle in person, but the black-clothed men and spiritual officials were responsible.

The organized black-clothed men or spiritual officials, fighting collectively, were much more powerful than ordinary Taoist priests fighting alone.

In any case, Nanyang was always the territory of the Taoist sect. It was much easier to find an outsider in one's own territory than to find an insider in one's own territory, because you have me and I have you, and this is where all the bad things in the world go wrong.

So Li Zhuyu's progress was faster than Yao Pei's, and she quickly locked on the first target. According to the results of the interrogation and some other clues, a group of Western merchants were highly suspected, but they had not entered Lion City, or even the port, but were floating on the sea outside the city. Once the situation was wrong, it would be convenient for them to turn around and run.

In order not to alert the enemy, Li Zhuyu did not use the ironclad ship of the Nanting Protectorate, but borrowed a flying boat from Zhang Yuelu.

The two had worked together in Beichen Hall, so they had some incense and affection. Now they were conspiring together, so Zhang Yuelu had no reason not to lend it.

Strictly speaking, it was Li Zhuyu who asked Xie Jiaofeng to borrow a flying boat, and Zhang Yuelu suggested to borrow it. Li Zhuyu planned to give these Westerners a divine attack.

Because Westerners entered Nanyang under the banner of business, they could only have sea vessels, and it was impossible to drive flying boats to Nanyang.

Before this, Li Zhuyu had been observing for a long time. This is a ship from Ibia. Although there were many disputes between the Kingdom of Rune, the Kingdom of Ibia, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not long ago, which led to the instability of the situation in Xiposuzhou, but in the end, under the pressure of the Holy Court, the disputes between the three families were temporarily shelved, maintaining the status quo, and united against the outside world.

If the Holy Court wants to punch, it must clench its five fingers into a fist. The reason why the Taoist sect is on the defensive on some fronts is not that the Taoist sect is weaker, but because the Taoist sect has suffered serious internal friction in recent years.

This kind of internal friction is not just the open and covert struggles like the Jiangnan case, even the wars in the Western Regions and Fenglinzhou are also manifestations of this kind of internal friction.

In the final analysis, this is a kind of competition. You conquered the Western Regions yesterday, and I conquered Fenglinzhou today. No one is weaker than the other.

In fact, these two wars do not have to be fought, at least they do not have to be fought so quickly, and they do not have to fight continuously.

But the two crown princes and the forces behind them have to fight now in order to accumulate enough capital for the competition for the Grand Master.

When the dust settles on the selection of the Grand Master, it will not be so meaningful to fight again. When the Taoist sects have been fighting each other to a certain extent, the Holy Court has naturally made considerable progress in other aspects.

Under the command of Li Zhuyu, the borrowed

"Huang Chi" took off like a normal cargo ship, preparing to go to Thang Long Province. Just when it passed over this Western ship,

The huge hatch of "Huang Chi" for unloading cargo was opened, and the spirit officers jumped out one by one. They quickly descended with the short-term flight ability brought by the spirit officer armor.

This scene is not surprising. Daomen used this kind of method when they attacked Kobe City. They parachuted directly into the city, bypassed the city wall, and attacked both inside and outside.

At the same time, many Western soldiers also appeared on the deck. Because they had to disguise themselves as businessmen, they could not wear armor, but they all held firearms in their hands.

Different from the firearms of the Central Plains, the firearms of the Westerners have obviously developed in another direction. Many people carry something like a backpack on their backs, which is square and square. There are thin tubes on the backpack connected to the long guns in their hands. In this way, What the Westerners fired was not a projectile, but a shock wave, as sharp as sword energy.

Depending on the backpack, there are also long guns that can continuously spit out thunder, fire, and ice to suppress the enemy.

All of a sudden, the Western soldiers on the ship opened fire one after another, like a Taoist battle, with various brilliance stirring.

The spirit officers are still equipped with firecrackers based on talisman projectiles. They do not have such beautiful light and shadow effects. They have stronger penetrating power and explosive damage. As long as they hit the vital point, they are basically a

The word "death". In terms of weapons alone, both sides have their own pros and cons. The Lingguan is better because he wears armor and has a shield, and can even fight against all kinds of fancy ice, fire, thunder and lightning. The Westerners lack the necessary armor and dare not resist, but they have the terrain advantage of the ship and have some bunkers.

But this is Nanyang’s home court after all. After the spirit officer boarded the ship, the men in black also took action. An armored ship that had been prepared for a long time shot out diagonally and directly hit the side string of the Western ship.

People in black jumped onto the deck one after another. The situation gradually became chaotic, and the fire guns were no longer of much use. Both sides pulled out their sabers or hand guns and began to fight in close combat.

At this moment, a burly Western officer walked out of the captain's cabin of the Western ship. He wore a three-cornered hat, a beard, and a pipe in his mouth, spitting out smoke like a chimney.

He is somewhat similar to the pirate captain in many people's minds. He is blind, has a broken arm, and a broken leg. However, he does not use an eyepatch, an iron hook, or a prosthetic leg. His blindness is replaced by a prosthetic eye made of gemstones, and his arms and legs are broken. A prosthetic limb is installed, the whole body is shining with metallic luster, and is connected to the real meridians of the body with fine metal pipes.

There are no talismans in the West, but there is alchemy. As the world develops, Western warlocks are no longer the ancient figures who only hold staffs and recite incantations. They have developed

"Alchemy and Arcana" are things that are not inferior to the creations of Taoism. In the concept of Western magicians, alchemy and arcana are two incompatible things. Both the basic theory and the superstructure are two completely different systems. However, later a great sage discovered that the two can be be integrated in the human body and reach a certain balance, so

"Alchemical Arcana" came into being and developed rapidly, and was directly controlled by the Arcane Council. The transformation on this person came from the Austrian Parliament.

"Alchemical Arcana". What if Xuansheng did not integrate Taoism more than two hundred years ago, nor did he defy all opinions and start the creation project on the basis of the legacy left by his predecessors, but instead stuck to his own laurels and continued to despise firearms and creation as Confucianism did, treating them as strange skills and ingenuity , even though there are various methods spread, but the practice depends on the individual, not only depends on the qualifications, but also takes time. So facing the West today, I really can’t imagine what the situation is like.

After this person appeared, he quickly reversed the situation. pass

The tyrannical power given by "Alchemy Arcana" is almost comparable to that of a celestial being. Even his body without a prosthetic body has been specially strengthened by some kind of alchemy. He has supernatural powers similar to those derived from flesh and blood. He runs rampant like a celestial warrior, ordinary. The spiritual officer was no match for him at all.

Just when Li Zhuyu was about to take action personally, another man in black burst into the battlefield. It was Qin Hengjun, the Deputy Protector of the Nanting Protectorate. He did not hold a blunderbuss, but a dark spear. This was also a man in the army. The most common weapons are swords in the arena and swords and guns in the battlefield.

Qin Hengjun went straight to the Western Captain. The captain also saw how terrifying Qin Hengjun was, and instead of using his bare hands, he pulled out his own saber.

The swords and guns clashed. Qin Hengjun shook the spear in his hand. First, the gun bent like a half-moon, and then he flicked upward, knocking the captain's sword away. At the same time, the tip of the spear was like a snake spitting messages, and it continued to castrate. , pierced the side of the neck of the captain who was unable to dodge, and pulled out his spear, only to see a big blood hole, but there was no blood flowing, but billowing white steam spewed out from it.

The captain seemed to be fine. Through the wounds, various metal pipes, rotating gears, and ups and downs of pistons could be vaguely seen in his body.