Magical Water Margin: They all call me brother

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To be honest, Liu Hong wasn't a eunuch. Looking at the three delicate beauties in black stockings right in front of him, it would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted. He intensified his interrogation, and under the horrified gazes of Iverson and Vendica, his hands slowly climbed up Calidus's toes, his fingertips tracing her slender calves, rounded knees, and trembling thighs, finally stopping between her V-lines. With a sudden rip, he tore the tightly wrapped black stockings in half, revealing the snow-white flesh and pink lips hidden inside.

At this moment, under the pain of suffocation and the despair of impending death, the female constable had a physical reaction. It was as if it were a genetic instinct that made her try to continue her genes and life before she died. Her lower mouth was incredibly wet, and her two tender lips, covered with dew, opened and closed, swallowing and spitting, as if welcoming Liu Hong's arrival.

Liu Hong showed no mercy, only wanting to extract information while venting his anger. He used an expansion spell, and under Calidus's horrified gaze, every muscle in his body doubled in size, and his weight increased eightfold. His already terrifying penis, after multiplying, reached an inhuman size, forcibly parting her dewy lips and rubbing against her moist passage, reaching straight to her core! It even caused a very noticeable bulge in his lower abdomen!

"I can play with you all day long."

Liu Hong grabbed Kalidus's waist and began to violently assault her body. The enormous penis gave her extraordinary satisfaction and a sense of fullness, but also inflicted pain and a tearing sensation beyond her limits. Each time the tip of the penis pierced her core, the feeling of it pushing against her lower abdomen drove her to madness. Several times, Kalidus's entire body was lifted into the air by the penis! Her spirit seemed to have reached a heavenly palace of bliss, and then, with the withdrawal of the enormous thing, her body and spirit plummeted heavily into the clouds, crashing back to earth. She was almost driven mad for a moment.

And the small mouth below was completely stretched into the shape of Liu Hong.

Not only that, the suffocating torture on her face did not stop. While enduring the inhuman pleasure in her lower body, Kalidus also had to suffer the pain of suffocation. The two extreme nerve stimulations drove her almost crazy. There was a ball of fire in her brain, burning away all her rationality!

Even so, she still refused to say anything and just stubbornly endured it until she was tortured unconscious under double interrogation.

Chapter 181: The Three Female Constables Live and Die

"Hey? Don't fall asleep yet, the night is still long."

Liu Hong splashed a bucket of cold water on her face, waking Kalidus from her daze. She stared at Liu Hong blankly for several minutes before remembering that she was still in the torture hell.

Seeing that the other party had regained her senses, Liu Hong continued to interrogate the female constable. The huge fleshy spear once again hurled her smooth, flat abdomen, along with her entire graceful and beautiful body, into the sky. Her limbs, which were bound to the table legs, felt a tearing pain, and then she was thrown heavily back onto the table.

Before she could catch her breath, the damp cloth was once again draped over her face.

At this moment, Calidus was filled with utter despair—who the hell invented this suffocation torture? The Six Doors did have water torture, but it was generally more complicated, while this person had actually used just a simple wet cloth to create an effect that surpassed the Six Doors' water torture!

While she was suffocating above, she was also experiencing waves of ecstatic pleasure in her lower body. The intense pleasure and pain intertwined with the tearing of flesh and blood, causing Kalidus's heart rate to become erratic. After lifting the wet cloth, Liu Hong also keenly noticed that her pupils had begun to dilate.

The two did it countless times. Calidus fainted repeatedly from the pain of suffocation and sexual abuse, and then awoke again and again from the pleasure of suffocation and sexual abuse. In this frenzied pleasure, he even reached the point of near death.

In that instant, Calidus even had a change of heart, thinking that dying so happily wouldn't be such a bad thing.

"Don't even think about dying, this is just the beginning."

Liu Hong suddenly reached out his right hand and caressed Kalidus's beautiful left breast, feeling its amazing softness. The already exquisite flesh felt even better after being wrapped in black stockings, making it so irresistible. However, Liu Hong did not forget his purpose. Through the delicate skin, he tested her heartbeat. Then, a soft and dazzling starlight emanated from his right palm, healing her body, restoring her disordered heartbeat, and allowing her nerves, which had reached their limit, to heal completely.

However, this treatment brought Kalidus not warmth, but profound despair.

The first lesson in interrogation techniques taught by the Six Doors is about the limits of the human body. Generally speaking, there are limits to torture. If you exceed these limits, the other person will die, and you won't be able to get anything out of them. So you must be extremely careful not to kill your prisoner.

The theoretical basis for anti-torture courses is the same: no matter what, as long as you resist, there is a way! Even if you are captured, the enemy will not go beyond this limit. Once they do, you will be free.

But Liu Hong is different! This person has healing abilities, which means that no matter how much torment or pain I suffer, I will never be free!

And so, amidst Calidus's painful moans and under the stunned gazes of Vendica and Iverson, Liu Hong "interrogated" Calidus for a full twelve hours, tormenting her to the point of near death, her body repeatedly teetering on the brink of collapse only to be revived time and again. Her spirit was repeatedly soared to the heavens of ecstasy by that giant flesh spear, only to plummet into the abyss of agony. She was practically worn out, only to have the ordeal end due to Liu Hong's exhaustion.

With an appreciative look, Liu Hong gazed at Kalidus, whom he had ravaged. Her black silk bodysuit was tattered, revealing large expanses of alluring flesh. The bright red ropes binding her body shone brightly against the black silk and her fair skin. Her beautiful face was contorted with rage, and her sexy body lay in the murky water, her small mouth still spitting out semen in a blasphemous manner. This only added to Liu Hong's satisfaction.

However, the female constables of the Six Doors were indeed formidable. Even after being manipulated like this, they remained silent and refused to utter any information.

"Okay, I'll rest for a bit and give you some more time to consider."

After killing the chicken Calidus, Liu Hong looked at Vindica and Iverson, who were hanging upside down from the rafters, and revealed a sinister smile.

"Are you willing to speak? Just open your mouth and I'll give you a quick death! A release! I might even let you return to Kaifeng! I, the Great Sage of Chaos, mean what I say."

Liu Hong said succinctly.

“But if you don’t tell me, I’ll treat you the same way I treated her.”

Vendica and Iverson looked at the blasphemous and alluring Kalidus lying on the muddy water and felt a surge of fear. Their delicate bodies trembled, but even so, they firmly refused Liu Hong and shook their heads.

Liu Hong nodded. After all, they were female constables from the Six Doors. If they were to speak up after being frightened, he would find it strange. Therefore, he went to rest first. These past few days, he had spent almost all his time on endless, high-intensity interrogation and torment of the three female constables in an attempt to force them to speak. He also mobilized all the people in Liangshan except for the craftsmen to find the remaining three female constables.

Meanwhile, outside, Sun You and Qin Ming were also gathering ships, preparing to land at Liangshan Marsh, eliminate this gang of bandits and villains, and reclaim the birthday gifts.

Meanwhile, the craftsmen of the Chao family were working diligently to forge matchlock guns with higher damage and longer range, gradually replacing the fire muskets and making the Liangshan musketeers even more powerful. The support staff were also changing the amount of gunpowder in the paper-packed bullets—after replacing the hollow steel tubes of the matchlock guns, they could load more gunpowder and fire more powerful bullets.

For a time, both sides were preparing for battle with great intensity. One side was determined to wipe out Liangshan Marsh and eliminate the villains. The other side was determined to defend their homeland and protect their land. Both sides were full of fighting spirit and making final preparations for this decisive battle!

Chapter 182: The Ferocious Merman Who Overturns Rivers and Seas

At this moment, Vanus, who was in charge of overall coordination, felt utterly desperate. Liangshan had become an insurmountable dead end. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't turn the tide. Not to mention that Liu Hong's Liangshan generals were all incredibly capable fighters, Lin Chong was an overwhelming force, and Yang Zhi, Chao Gai, Suo Chao, and Liu Tang were all formidable opponents.

The three female constables responsible for dealing damage—Kalidus, who was best at stealthy approach and killing without a trace; Vendica, who was best at long-range sniping and delivering a decisive blow; and Iverson, who was best at large-scale explosions, annihilation, and incineration—were all captured alive by Liu Hong, and Liu Hong also lost too many of his cards.

Of the remaining three female constables, Vanus specializes in overall planning. Chusari specializes in elven counter-attacks and demon exorcism. Wennam is a poison-based weakener—with all three damage dealers gone, what's the point of having three support characters?

Even more terrifying was the intelligence network that Liangshan had built in Jeju. It can be said that the six female constables did not make any mistakes in this infiltration operation. It was just that Iverson was a little impulsive and wanted to drag the entire Liangshan leadership into self-destruction. Unfortunately, the other side was one step ahead and stopped him.

The remaining few were captured because hundreds of thousands of people in Jeju were tipping off Liangshan. Even if their espionage skills were no match for the Six Doors, the sheer number of them and the public sentiment were enough to make all the female constables of the Six Doors despair—we were not dealing with a small Liangshan, but the entire Jeju. Now we only dared to report intelligence to the highest level, and we could not even trust the soldiers in Jeju.

With no other option, Vanus had to abandon all plans, even the rescue of his companions, since the three wouldn't talk for the time being.

Right now, we just need to stall for time and gather intelligence. The three of us need to be able to act as inside agents. Once Commander Sun launches the attack, everything will be alright!

The three female constables had endured countless rounds of torture, abuse, pleasure, and ecstasy in the prison. They only watched the sunrise and sunset, the clouds drift by. Several times, before fainting, they found the sun at noon, and when they woke up, they found the sun was almost at noon. They could no longer distinguish the time or date.

At that very moment, Sun finally managed to gather ships from nearby prefectures and counties, and with a wave of his hand, led his army, which he claimed to number 100,000, to launch a beach landing!

In an instant, a thousand sails raced and a hundred boats competed. The ships of the Song army, like a school of fish, surged into Liangshan Marsh. Hundreds and thousands of fishing boats, fully loaded with heavily armed and menacing Song soldiers, sped toward the center of the eight-hundred-mile-long marsh. The hastily added rams on the bows of the boats cut silver ripples on the water. Behind the sides of the boats, where fishing nets and shields covered the sides, the leather armor of countless crossbow-wielding sailors gleamed with sweat under the scorching sun. Thousands upon thousands of oars were raised high and then slammed down, creating deathly ripples on the water.

In the center of the fleet, more than thirty huge two-masted merchant ships stretched across the middle. The decks, now unloaded of cargo, were crowded with heavily armored imperial guards from Kaifeng. On the top of the superstructures of three large ships hung the command flags of Sun You, the commander of the imperial guards; Zhang Shuye, the prefect of Jizhou; and Qin Ming, the commander of the Qingzhou Commandery. The flags fluttered wildly in the breeze on the water.

As the fleet sailed, a flock of egrets suddenly took flight from the reeds. The Song soldiers, knowing the prowess of the three Ruan brothers, and unsure whether the birds had been startled, simultaneously fired steel arrows from a thousand bows into the reeds. The sharp whistling of the arrows pierced the mist, and the entire sky dimmed as the sun was obscured by the rain of arrows. The reeds were battered by the arrows, scattering broken leaves and flying reed flowers. Thousands of arrows, accompanied by strings of bubbles, sank to the bottom of the lake.

"False alarm! It's headwind now, let's lower the sails and row across!"

Sun snorted coldly, realizing that Liangshan Marsh was really strange. It was summer, and the southeast wind should be blowing. He could easily reach Liangshan Marsh by riding the wind.

Now, the warm southeast wind suddenly turned into a fierce northwest wind, forcing the entire fleet to sail against the wind and greatly reducing its speed. With no other option, he ordered all the warships to lower their sails, and thousands of oars neatly cut into the blue waves, shaking the duckweed within a ten-mile radius into fine jade fragments.

At that very moment, the three Ruan sisters launched a fierce attack on the government troops. The fish-snake tails of the three hundred mermaids stirred up dark green eddies in the chaotic waters. Ruan Xiaoer's six arms covered with green scales, holding three chains, rapidly approached the target!

"Crash!!!"

As the lead boat approached, three splashes of water were heard simultaneously from the left. Looking to the side, three chains shot into the sky like giant pythons, tracing three beautiful, crescent-shaped arcs across the sky before flying out from the water on the left, passing over the boat, and landing on the water on the right.

It turned out that Ruan Xiaoer had already swum to the bottom of the ship's support. With her three right hands, she threw out three chains, which flew horizontally over the support above her head. The ends of the chains flew back to her three left hands, and with a strong pull from her six jade arms covered with dark green scales, the chains flying in the sky suddenly tightened, like a giant python strangling its prey, tightening around the support above her head. Immediately, a loud tearing sound rang out! The wooden blocks on both sides of the ship's side, strangled by the iron chains, cracked and shattered, and the keel of the ship's bottom was torn apart as if by dragon claws, with a large number of jagged cracks appearing.

What a cunning Ruan Xiaoer! He actually used three terrifying iron chains, like strangling pythons, to strangle the ship into five pieces! The soldiers on the ship fell into the water with a thud. Before they could even react, Ruan Xiaoer wielded the three iron chains to bind their bodies and drag them into the abyss of death!

"Sister, you're so strong!"

Short-lived Erlang Ruan Xiaowu praised the unparalleled strength of the Earthly Tai Sui Ruan Xiaoer, while simultaneously taking action. She was much more methodical, using her three arms to take out three steel nails and hold them against the keel of a boat. Her other three arms wielded a hammer and smashed the boat, breaking through the bottom of the second fishing boat with a few clangs. This caused the soldiers on the boat to start leaking and sink, making them scream in terror. As they frantically tried to plug the hole, Ruan Xiaowu suddenly threw the steel nail in her hand, which pierced through the hole in the bottom of the boat and easily killed the man.

Unlike her sisters, one used superhuman strength to forcibly break the ship, and the other used a more conventional approach to slowly sink it. Ruan Xiaoqi, the "Living Yama," acted with unrestrained abandon. With a flick of her fishtail, she caused the fishing boat that Bi Tao had collided with to shake violently, and the soldiers on board were all unsteady on their feet, teetering on the verge of falling.

Just then, Ruan Xiaoqi suddenly leaped into the air, bursting out of the water. Like a shooting star, surrounded by Bi Tao, he jumped directly onto the fishing boat carrying thirty government soldiers. His right hand wielded a spear that shot out like a dragon, piercing through the heart of the soldier dressed as the captain who was kneeling on the boat! His second hand, wielding a trident, blocked a soldier's sword slash and then, with a backhand thrust, pierced three transparent holes in him like a fish.

"Kill her!"

Seeing Ruan Xiaoqi's audacity, the other government troops drew their swords and swarmed forward! Ruan Xiaoqi remained calm and composed. Those at a distance used spears and tridents for precise thrusts, while those at close range engaged in hand-to-hand combat with two swords. He also used his two arms to wield two shields, fiercely protecting his vitals. With six arms wielding four weapons and two shields, he fought thirty Song soldiers to a standstill, killing them with blood splattering everywhere and severed fingers flying everywhere!

The fish-snake's tail slammed against the ship's hull, causing the entire ship to shake violently. The twenty-odd Song soldiers lost their footing and were unable to fight properly. Taking advantage of this stumble, Ruan Xiaoqi launched a surprise attack, his spear and fork ripping open the man's belly, his double swords tearing through flesh, and his two shields smashing into him, causing his facial bones to collapse and his teeth to fly out!

At that moment, three hundred merfolk followed behind the three sisters, coming to destroy the government army's naval fleet.

Chapter 183: The Power of Uncle Ye in Summoning Thunder and Lightning

Seeing that Ruan Xiaoqi was about to kill everyone on the boat, several nearby boats rushed to their aid, but it was too late. More merfolk had entangled them. These merfolk were not as strong as the three Ruan brothers, but with two people working together, destroying a fishing boat was a piece of cake. If they encountered a larger boat, three merfolk working together would not be a problem at all.

In an instant, all the vanguard ships were either destroyed or sunk, or on their way to sink. The entire navy was completely thrown into chaos by the three Ruan's merman navy. The screams, splashes, and wails of the soldiers filled the air!

"Prefect Zhang! Magistrate Hua!"

However, the Imperial Guard Commander Sun remained calm and unhurried, dispatching his two generals without hesitation. A young general in silver armor flashed forward. The Song army's armor was generally iron armor woven from black iron plates and dark brown leather ropes. Or, for a more advanced version, steel armor with bright silver plates and dark brown leather ropes.

But she used snow-white, supple leather ropes to string together thousands of icy-colored mithril armor plates, transforming them into an extremely magnificent and mysterious mithril battle armor. It reflected a silvery, cold light in the sunlight. Over the armor, she wore a pure white robe, as white as snow, and even the helmet plume, the long spear in her hand, and the longbow at her waist were dyed pure white.

Not only that, her youthful and beautiful face was as pale and cold as snow. Even her eyebrows and pupils were pure white. There was not a single color other than white on her body. She was noble and aloof, like a snow-white moon.

"Boom!!!"

With a twang of the bowstring and a flash of silver light, Hua Rong, clad in silver robes and white armor, stood majestically on the crest of a wave. The powerful bow, with the strength of three stones, was drawn into a terrifying full moon by a pair of snow-white arms! The arrowhead, with its goose feather tip, suddenly ignited into a crimson glow as it grazed the torch of shark oil, and Hua Rong was able to draw her bow and nock an arrow more than a thousand meters away from Ruan Xiaoqi!

The instant the arrow left the bowstring, the shockwave from it carved straight furrows into the eight-hundred-mile-long lake, and the spray that fell along its path created countless ripples on the surface. The arrow, like a meteor, traversed a thousand meters, striking Ruan Xiaoqi like a grim reaper. Her hastily raised sharkskin shield was first struck by the arrow, leaving spiderweb-like patterns of light, before the central steel guard shattered, its precious tridacna shell peeling away in pieces as if struck by lightning!

After shattering the shield, the arrow continued its advance, grazing the snake's tail and green scales, sending sparks flying everywhere. Before the sparks died down, blood splattered everywhere, mingling with the sparks, indistinguishable from each other. Half of the arrow shaft was deeply embedded in Ruan Xiaoqi's abdomen!

Not only that, Hua Rong didn't just shoot one arrow. After firing quickly and hitting the target with one arrow, three or four more arrows whistled through the sky and fell like meteors!

"Xiao Qi! Retreat first! Don't surface!"

Ruan Xiaoer's expression was grave. He simultaneously unleashed six iron chains from his six arms. One chain wrapped around Ruan Xiaoqi's waist, pulling her into the water. The other five chains danced wildly like pythons, attempting to intercept Hua Rong's arrow in mid-air. However, these chains, powerful enough to sever fishing boats, were shattered by Hua Rong's arrows! They could only barely hinder the arrow's movement!

"It's that person again! Last time, she stood on the opposite bank of the lake and shot an arrow from thousands of meters away to break the encirclement and save Qin Ming. This time, it was she who shot and injured Xiao Qi!"

Ruan Xiaowu, hiding in the water, watched the arrow streak across the sky like a shooting star, and felt shocked and afraid—who exactly is this person?

After Hua Rong suppressed the three Ruan brothers with arrows, Zhang Shuye also made his move. He wore a bright yellow Taoist robe over his armor, his aged face was extremely solemn. He stepped on the Heavenly Gang Step and made the Five Thunder Seal with his hands, summoning the Heavenly Calamity Yang Thunder lurking in the clouds. The terrifying reflection of the golden heavenly thunder had just appeared on the water's surface when the entire pool of blue waves was blasted dozens of meters into the sky by bursts of thunder!

In an instant, the scales on the bodies of the three hundred merfolk stood on end—a biological instinct triggered by the approaching high-voltage current. Golden bolts of lightning, shaped like giant dragons, exploded into the water's surface, electrolyzing large amounts of the water into a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Ruan Xiaowu's scales flared, her fins cracked, and the water droplets on her skin were evaporated by the high-temperature current. Some of the merfolk warriors who approached were also affected by the heavenly lightning, letting out piercing screams from the depths!

Harpoons and spears, radiating intense heat underwater, melted into drops of terrifying, crimson molten iron. The power of the lightning scalded their fair skin, leaving charred, tree-like lightning runes that convulsed, writhed, and struggled wildly at the bottom of the water.

The most terrifying thing is the secondary damage caused by water conduction. All the merfolk are underwater, completely soaked, with almost zero electrical resistance. When golden electric snakes travel along the merfolk's meridians, they will spray out terrifying golden plasma from their seven orifices. Ruan Xiaowu was hit head-on and felt like his great healer was beckoning to him!

Although there were many casualties, the powerful merfolk could withstand the electric current. After all, their huge size was a factor. The fish in the nearby waters, which weighed only two or three pounds or even smaller, could not withstand it. They were electrocuted and rolled belly up. In an instant, the entire surface of the water was filled with fish that had been electrocuted.

Hua Rong also tried to shoot arrows at the mermaids underwater, but none of them hit their mark. She frowned as she watched. This archer had never fought in a water battle before and was completely bewildered by the reflection of light and shadow on the water's surface. She didn't know how to aim, and the water in Liangshan Marsh effectively hindered the arrows' penetration.

"Retreat! Retreat!!!"

Seeing that the situation was not good and that someone was electrofishing, the three Nguyen brothers had no choice but to lead their merman army to retreat. In this battle, nine of the three hundred mermen were electrocuted by Zhang Shuye, and more than fifty were injured.

In an instant, more than fifty Song ships were sunk, and more than a thousand people drowned, either dead or wounded; the exact number is unknown.

The three Ruan brothers didn't go far either. After the wounded Ruan Xiaoqi led the injured and wounded brothers back to the bottom of the water to rest, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu led the remaining two hundred or so people to continue the attack!

This time they learned their lesson—among the Song army, only Zhang Shuye, who fishes with electricity, can truly threaten us; no matter how powerful Hua Rong's arrows are, they can't reach underwater.

Since that's the case, then things will be much easier. We'll divide our two hundred men into groups of ten, splitting into twenty groups, and simultaneously sabotage the ships at twenty different locations within this massive fleet. I'd like to see if Uncle Zhang can get through to us!

The answer is of course not. The three Nguyen brothers' policy of dividing their forces left Zhang Shuye overwhelmed and unable to spare any attention. He could only keep ordering his oarsmen to row his flagship across the battlefield to put out fires everywhere. However, whenever they arrived at a place, the merfolk would immediately dive into the deep pool and escape, never engaging Zhang Shuye in battle. The merfolk in the other nineteen places were even more unscrupulous in their rampage and sabotage of the ships!

There were too many Song soldiers and too many ships. While Zhang Shuye was not tired from running back and forth and casting spells, the rowers were exhausted and some even fainted. Zhang Shuye could only force back a local group of merfolk, but he could not threaten the merfolk who were divided into multiple groups at the same time.

Under the relentless guerrilla warfare and harassment of the three Ruan naval forces, the Imperial Guard Commander Sun You was also in despair and had no choice but to sound the retreat and hastily withdraw to the port from which they had set out.

Chapter 184: Thunderbolt's Beach Landing

Just as Liangshan was celebrating their victory and the medical team was saving the mermaids, Sun Quan, having failed in one plan, devised another. He began to calculate the limits of Zhang Shuye's abilities. Zhang Shuye was the reincarnation of Lei Zu's eldest disciple, and his rank was even above the thirty-six generals of the Thunder Department, making him even more terrifying than Wen Da. The range of his thunder magic could cover five large ships and fifteen small ships.

Each small boat can carry a team of up to thirty people, and three boats can transport a total of one hundred soldiers.

Each large ship can carry a maximum of one hundred officers and soldiers.

Therefore, Zhang Shuye's lightning magic's limit was that it could protect one thousand soldiers, ensuring their safe arrival at Liangshan by boat. The three Ruan brothers' mermaids would be unable to freely sabotage the boats under the pressure of the lightning.

Therefore, instead of sending out 100,000 heavenly soldiers at once, Sun ordered Zhang Shuye to lead 1,000 men to land on Liangshan first and establish a safe bridgehead. Afterward, Zhang Shuye would return by ship to transport the next batch of 1,000 men to continue landing!

However, this plan has a problem: the first wave of a thousand men will inevitably face the fiercest counterattack and attacks from Liangshan, so their fighting strength cannot be too weak. They must hold out against the Liangshan army's frenzied counterattack until reinforcements arrive. If these thousand men fail and cannot establish a safe landing base, then Sun You's plan will be a major taboo in military strategy: a piecemeal tactic, sending soldiers by boat to Liangshan to their deaths one thousand at a time.

However, no matter how brave and skilled these thousand men were, they would certainly suffer heavy casualties in the face of the Liangshan army's desperate counterattack, so Sun could not possibly send his own imperial guards to do such a thing.

Zhang Shuye's Jizhou Xiang Army was wiped out in a single battle by Liangshan last year. The new Xiang Army's combat effectiveness is really poor, and it is simply incapable of undertaking this task.

Therefore, this task ultimately fell to the Qingzhou army led by Qin Ming, Liu Gao, and Hua Rong.

Without further ado, Sun gave another order, and Zhang Shuye, acting as a protector, used lightning magic to cover the thousand Qingzhou soldiers under Qin Ming's command. For the second time, they set sail in a grand procession, heading straight for Liangshan!

This time, the fleet was too small. The three Ruan brothers tried to launch an attack, but found that Zhang Shuye's ultimate lightning strike could cover the entire small fleet. The fish near the ships were all electrocuted and turned belly up, so they couldn't get close at all. They had no choice but to go back immediately and report the matter to Liu Hong.

Liu Hong remained calm. If all 10,000 men were to land at Liangshan, it would indeed be quite troublesome. He would try to intercept them by water if possible.

But you only have a thousand men, and you think you can storm Liangshan? Who do you think you are!

"Pass on my orders! All generals, form ranks and prepare for battle. The Ruan sisters, continue patrolling other areas with the navy to prevent government troops from landing elsewhere! Lü Fang and Guo Sheng, follow me. Do not make any moves. Just be on high alert against the female assassins from the other Six Doors."

Liu Hong made a brief deployment, then mustered a thousand Liangshan soldiers and went to the port to meet Qin Ming!

At dawn, a dozen or so Song army ships, large and small, approached the beach under the cover of Zhang Shuye's thunderstorm. A female general, 2.4 meters tall, wearing obsidian armor and wielding a giant wolf-tooth mace, eagerly disembarked first. It was Qin Ming himself. Behind her, a rider carrying a banner that read "Ruled by the Commander of Qingzhou" followed closely.

Behind them, more Qingzhou warriors jumped off the decks one after another. Each of them held two sharpened wooden stakes, each about the thickness of a forearm and more than two or three meters long. The first thing they did after jumping off the ship was to diagonally insert these stakes into the sand. Then they took out ropes from their waists and tied all the stakes together to build the simplest barricades and antlers to prevent the enemy from attacking.

While these people were building the antler-shaped defensive line, the Qingzhou army also began to gather together in a hurry and form a battle formation. Shields stretched out to form a low wall of wood and iron, and crossbows formed a bloody array to kill the enemy!

The Song army was a rather peculiar force among ancient armies. Out of every ten soldiers, eight carried crossbows and two carried bows and arrows, meaning almost all soldiers possessed ranged weapons.