Witch Wind

Chapter 98: Moonlit Night Raid (Part )

In the center of White Clam Harbor, the people of Saint Ross erected a tall flagpole.

Along with the sound of high-pitched music, a flag of the Emperor of Saint Ross slowly rose up. A savage dragon crawled on the iceberg, and its cold eyes looked down at the world.

The Saint Rose warships were lined up on the sea, with thousands of secondary guns roaring and blank shells firing in unison.

Large groups of Saint Ross soldiers shuttled through the White Clam Port, wantonly breaking into houses and looting all usable supplies, especially the wealth that the Dongyun people did not have time to take away.

The logistics officers, along with a large group of soldiers, quickly sealed off the warehouses on the dock that had not been damaged. The various precious resources piled up like mountains, especially the unpurified gold sand, large pieces of raw gemstones, and jade that could be sold at sky-high prices in the Great Jade Dynasty, made these officers smile with joy. While registering them, they did not forget to put some money in their pockets.

Soon, in a large warehouse at the foot of a mountain near the destroyed coastal artillery position, the people of Saint Ross found food - a huge amount of food, enough to feed tens of millions of people for three years.

Black Borneo has a hot climate, with summer all year round. Rice grows very fast, reaching the point where it can be harvested four times a year. Moreover, the land here is extremely fertile. No fertilizer is needed for one acre of land, and the rice yield has reached an unreasonable eight stones!

The Dongyun people opened up a large amount of fertile land here and captured countless indigenous people to farm for them.

Just near Baijiao Port, several of the largest landowners in Dongyun owned more than two million mu of land, and their grain output in one season exceeded 16 million shi. There were hundreds of other small and medium-sized landowners, and their total land area exceeded five million mu.

A season of grain has just been harvested, and part of the rice has been shipped back to Dongyun.

Beihe Xiuyi and Nanshan Qingye also received telegrams from the mainland and learned that the Saint Ross army would be stationed in the White Clam Port. They deliberately retained a large amount of food in the port warehouse to use as military rations.

Now, well, all the benefits have gone to the people of Saint Ross.

In the streets, the shrill cries of the Dongyun women could be heard everywhere. After the lower-level soldiers of Saint Rose had plundered their wealth, they began their customary post-war entertainment.

What kind of people are these lower-level soldiers of Saint Rose?
The guards stationed in the imperial capital might be considered elite, but these big-name soldiers of the Far Eastern Legion were basically exiled criminals, or prisoners who had committed various crimes, or even idlers temporarily captured from the streets, or bankrupt refugees who had nowhere else to go and voluntarily sold themselves to the imperial army.

They are almost all illiterate.

They have absolutely no discipline.

As for profound things like "morality" and "ethics", they basically have nothing to do with them.

Rather than saying that they are "citizens of a civilized country", it would be better to say that they are a group of complete "human beasts" driven by instinctive desires.

Moreover, they had just experienced a bloody fight and were all drunk.

The Baima Port has a vast area and a very high population density. In the port area with a radius of nearly 100 miles, the total number of Dongyun people living there exceeds one million, or even more. After all, there are many ronin, and the authorities are too lazy to count their specific numbers.

When the battle broke out, only the lucky ones living in the most remote areas were able to escape from the port.

More than 80% of the Dongyun people are still stranded in the port area and unable to escape.

Most of the 400,000 Saint Ross soldiers landed. They sang cheerful folk songs, brandished swords and guns, violently broke into houses, and began an unbridled carnival!
Amid the shrill cries, another Saint Ross officer swung his whip - literally swung his whip, forcing the drunken soldiers of the brigade to rush out of the White Clam Port while cursing. They noticed that a large number of Dongyun people had fled the port area, including a large number of Dongyun garrison troops.

Balkin's order was to bring back as many fleeing Dongyun civilians as possible, and as for the Dongyun garrison troops, those who dared to resist would be shot dead.

The sound of a dog barking could be heard faintly.

These Saint Ross soldiers actually brought a large number of ice wolf dogs with them when they sailed on the ocean!
These huge guys, shaped like white wolves, twitched their noses desperately, wagged their tails happily, and followed the scent left by the Dongyun people.

The sun has sunk below the sea, and a half blue moon is slowly rising in the east.

The light is always a little dimmer than in the daytime.

In the jungle, an inexplicable fog rose. The big trees that were so thick that several people could hug them were surrounded by the thick fog. They looked like the corpses of giants that had been dead for thousands of years, standing lifelessly in front of the people of Saint Ross.

The leading Saint Rose officers stood there for a while, looking at the completely unfamiliar tropical jungle before them. After a brief discussion, they resolutely urged the soldiers to chase in.

It's just a jungle.

In the far east of the Holy Ross Empire, on the vast ice fields, there were also frigid forests of astonishing size. They had seen many cedars and cedars that were so thick that several people could hold them together. In the frigid forests, there was no shortage of giant bears, wolves, deer, and other big guys.

It's just a jungle!

More than 30,000 Saint Ross soldiers walked into the jungle drinking, cursing, and full of resentment.

Deep in the jungle, a thousand Xingtian clan members were escorting hundreds of thousands of Dongyun people, walking slowly for a long distance.

Xing Tianren and his companions, formed groups of ten, admiring the rising moon and swallowing various dry food in big gulps.

Seeing those Saint Ross soldiers entering the jungle without fear, Xing Tianren couldn't help but laugh and scold: "Don't enter the forest, don't they even know this taboo? Hey, they say that Saint Ross people are stupid, big and black, but it turns out they are really stupid!"

The light bird calls echoed in the jungle, one after another, spreading out continuously.

'Boom'!
A low gunshot was heard, and the head of a Saint Rose officer who had just entered the jungle exploded.

Gunshots rang out from all directions. Even though the dense branches and leaves of the jungle blocked the moonlight and the light in the jungle was extremely dim, after Xing Tianren and others activated their bloodlines, there was no difference between night and day in the jungle.

The Saint Ross people who broke into the jungle with torches became the best targets.

One after another, the Saint Ross people fell to the ground. The dense gunfire continued. In an instant, thousands of Saint Ross people were killed on the spot. They pulled the trigger randomly and panicked, shooting around randomly, but didn't even hit a ghost.

The Saint Ross army, which had just crashed into the jungle, rushed out again in a mess.

The sound of gunfire followed closely, and the accurate bullets carved huge holes in their bodies. Soldiers kept falling to the ground and could no longer get up. They simply dropped their guns, spread their long legs and ran wildly, madly fleeing into the port area, using the dense Dongyun wooden buildings to cover their bodies.

Just rushing out of the woods, across the ten-zhang-wide dirt road, and into the port area, thousands of Saint Ross soldiers were killed on the spot.

In just half a quarter of an hour, 60% of the 30,000 Saint Ross soldiers were killed, and only a little over 10,000 were lucky enough to escape.

The blood of the Xingtian family, combined with advanced large-caliber, high-powered rifles, unleashed a terrifying lethal force in this special jungle battlefield. This could not be considered a war at all, it was simply a standard "line-up shooting"!
In the jungle, in a makeshift wooden house, the small flag floating in front of Xing Tianli shook, and more than 18,000 ghosts were obtained - moreover, the ghosts of the Saint Ross people were much stronger in quality than those of the short Dongyun people. The soul essence extracted from one Saint Ross ghost was actually equivalent to that of six Dongyun people?
Xing Tianli sighed inexplicably: "Really, so plump!"

Beihe Cangyi and the others looked at Xing Tianli in confusion, but they did not dare to look any longer and lowered their heads in a hurry. Nanshan Qingye murmured softly, "What's going on here must be known to the locals. Ah, Your Majesty, do you think I will be ordered to have my caesarean sectioned?"

Nanshan Qingye looked at Xing Tianli with concern, his eyes full of fear.

He was the commander of the garrison in White Clam Port, but it was under his leadership that White Clam Port was captured by the Saint Ross people. The people of Dongyun suffered heavy casualties, and at least tens of thousands of people became cannon fodder.

Well, the loss of civilians is nothing.

In fact, the Dongyun high-level officials have never regarded these lower-class people as human beings. They are nothing more than cattle and livestock.

However, the 50,000 well-trained elite troops were all killed in one battle, and they did not even cause much damage to the Saint Ross people. According to the tradition of the Dongyun people, he, the general who led the army, must commit seppuku to apologize.

"Idiot." Xing Tianli scolded him rudely, "You are mine now. If I don't ask, who would dare to ask you to cut open your stomach? Your Holy Emperor? Why do you care?"

Nanshan Qingye blinked his eyes, looked at Beihe Cangyi, then looked at Beihe Xiuyi, and suddenly realized. Yes!

Now that he has joined Xing Tianli, why is he still worrying about Dongyun tradition?
If a caesarean section is to be performed, Beihe Cangyi, the eldest son of the Beihe family, will be the first in line!

Beihe Cangyi noticed Nanshan Qingye's strange look, and he roared angrily: "Hey, bastard, what's that look? What do you mean? Are you looking down on me?"

Beihecang stood up and slapped Nanshan Qingye in the face.

Nanshan Qingye angrily cursed in Dongyun dialect, lowered his head heavily with a red face - as a collateral descendant of the Nanshan family, facing the legitimate son of the Beihe family, his status only allowed him to curse, but it was impossible for him to resist or fight back!

Xing Tianli looked at these guys coldly, then he sat cross-legged and closed his eyes again.

Midday on the moon.

The lights in Baijiao Port were bright. Several huge bonfires were burning in the ruins of the former garrison headquarters and government office that had been razed to the ground. Dozens of Holy Fathers wearing scarlet robes embroidered with gold and holding gold and silver scepters were walking slowly around the bonfires, mumbling and chanting scriptures to appease the dead.

This is the tradition of the Holy Father Church of the Holy Ross Empire. After every war, regardless of victory or defeat, a large prayer ceremony is required. Pray for the spirits of one's own warriors to return to the Holy Father's throne and enjoy eternal glory; curse the souls of the enemy to be forever damned and never return to the human world to seek revenge.

Two miles away, dozens of small buildings were flattened, revealing a large open space.

Team after team of Dongyun people were pushed up roughly. The bare-chested Saint Ross executioners, holding axes, chopped off their heads mercilessly, just like slaughtering pigs and sheep.

These Dongyun people are all wealthy people in Baijiao Port.

It is also the tradition of Saint Ross that after conquering the enemy city, if the silver and money seized from any house exceeds a certain amount, all males will be killed!
The wealthier the family, the more cleanly they were killed!

Because rich people mean a network of social relationships, which means endless subsequent "cause and effect", which means that they have enough wealth and connections to launch endless "revenge" against Saint Rose!
As long as all these wealthy people are killed, the subsequent revenge will naturally disappear!

Compared with these rich people, the Holy Ross Empire is extremely tolerant of the lower-class civilians who are so poor that they can't even find a few copper coins on their bodies - what trouble can these poor and destitute people who have no money, no power, and nothing at all bring to them?

Team after team of wealthy people from Dongyun were escorted up. The sound of beheadings being severed could be heard continuously, and heads tumbled to the ground one after another.

Thousands of Touno Ronin had gathered beside the execution ground.

At first they looked at the falling heads with "quite saddened", but gradually, as more and more heads fell to the ground, these Dongyun ronin actually began to applaud and stamp their feet, cheering loudly for the brutal acts of the Saint Ross people.

When the number of heads on the ground exceeded two thousand, several leaders of the Ronin gangs actually found the Saint Ross officer present, knelt down respectfully in front of him, and prayed obediently for a chance to "devote themselves to the great Saint Ross Empire"!

The officers of Saint Rose laughed wildly. They had dealt with the Dongyun people in the Far East for many years, and they deeply understood what kind of people these Dongyun ronin were.

Immediately, someone took these Dongyun ronin to the nearest military supply warehouse and took out bundles of Dongyun regular army uniforms. These Dongyun ronin happily changed into regular army uniforms, carried swords and spears, and walked around in high spirits. Hey, they actually looked a bit like real soldiers.

Midday on the moon.

Yang energy diminishes.

Amid the sound of footsteps, Yueqi, accompanied by more than a hundred priests and priestesses, quietly came to the cabin.

Xing Tianli stood up and kicked each of Beihe Cangyi and his companions who were dozing off nearby: "Come on, enjoy the slaughter tonight. This way, you can give an explanation to your homeland, right?"

The jungle was completely silent, not even an insect could chirp.

The giant python of Xing Tianren slowly lowered its body from the tree branch, its golden eyes flashing with bloodthirsty light, and kept circling around Beihe Cangyi and others, scaring Beihe Cangyi, Beihe Xiuyi, and Nanshan Qingye so much that they trembled with fear and almost wet their pants.

Yue Qi sneered and looked at these guys with great disdain: "What a bunch of trash, just as disgusting as that ugly Moth Prince. It is such a tragedy that this world tolerates the birth of ugly and incompetent men like you!"

Beihe Cangyi looked at Yueqi angrily and gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness Yueqi, please be aware that you are insulting the children of the Beihe and Nanshan families."

Yue Qi raised his chin in contempt: "Yes, I insulted you, what can you do? Haha, I am your Excellency's man, what do you want?"

Beihe Cangyi shut his mouth obediently.

He looked at Yueqi's pretty little face in frustration, and suddenly had the urge to draw his knife and chop her face hard a few times.

Xing Tianren's big turtle quietly walked over, put its huge head in front of Xing Tianli, and sniffed the Tongtian Yuling Banner floating in front of him. The thousand-year-old turtle suddenly trembled, took two steps back, lowered its head, raised the corners of its mouth, and showed Xing Tianli an extremely human smile.

Xing Tianli looked at him deeply and patted his huge head gently: "Hey, your spirituality is really strong. Um, why didn't you become a celestial being or something?"

The old turtle turned his head and rolled his eyes at Xing Tianli. He even snorted two balls of cold air from his nostrils, with a kind of disdain and helplessness of "you are a full man who doesn't know the hunger of a hungry man".

"All right!" Xing Tianli smiled and rubbed his head fiercely for a while: "Old man, follow my brother. As long as you are not blown into a pot of turtle soup by heavy artillery, I will ensure that you will have a day to rise in the future."

According to Xing Tianli's report, the Kingdom of Yingji is transporting a set of equipment for a large steel plant to Black Borneo.

Black Borneo has extremely rich mineral resources. As long as this set of steelmaking equipment is obtained, hey, if Xing Tianli cannot embezzle millions of tons from finished steel every year, he will be truly incompetent to the extreme.

With enough steel, he could trace back to the primordial Qi. He didn't dare to say anything about the celestial immortals, because it was the Dharma Ending Age and the restrictions were too great. But as for the scattered immortals, or even the earthly immortals, Xing Tianli was still confident that he could convert three or five of them.

This old turtle has a strong foundation and his own cultivation is extremely amazing, so helping him break through is just a natural thing.

Yue Qi, who was standing by, was showing off. Seeing this old turtle with such a strong spirit, she shouted softly, waved the round fan in her right hand gently, and the black jade ruyi in her left hand floated up lightly. Along with the faint and shrill cries, more than a dozen sets of heavy armor filled with dark yin energy flew out of the jade ruyi. Next to each set of armor, there were two snow-white long swords whistling and circling.

More than a hundred other priests and priestesses also took action.

Various evil creatures also flew out around them, some were heavy armor with yin energy that was the same as the one around Yueqi, some were bird-shaped shadows flying at high speed in the form of smoke, or some were various beasts with two or three eyes flashing with eerie ghostly fire and their bodies seemed to appear and disappear.

Among these evil creatures, the strongest are the dozen or so sets of heavy armor around Yue Qi, which are probably at the peak of Qi Refining and close to the Core Formation stage.

As for those other evil creatures, Xing Tianli was too lazy to even take a second look at them.

"Your Majesty!" Yue Qi looked at the dozen or so sets of evil heavy armor around him with great satisfaction. Just as he was about to say something like 'work diligently and be loyal', Xing Tianli pointed his hand and the ghost general from the Earthly Immortal Realm in the Tongtian Yuling Banner, along with two ghost generals from the Scattered Immortal Realm, and a large group of ghost officers and ghost lieutenants whose bodies resembled living people, flew out one after another.

All the evil creatures around the Dongyun priests and priestesses froze, then subconsciously knelt on the ground, not daring to move at all.

The temperature around dropped rapidly, and wherever the evil spirit passed, black and red ice crystals slowly fell in the humid and sultry jungle.

On the Tongtian Yuling Banner, a very fine spiritual light flickered, and invisible restrictions lingered in the bodies of the ghosts, completely blocking their auras without any leakage. The Tongtian Yuling Banner itself was connected to the life of Xingtian Carp. While the nine small tripods suppressed Xingtian Carp's body, they also suppressed the restrictions in the Tongtian Yuling Banner.

Wisps of cold wind rippled out from the Tongtian Yuling Banner, and all the ghosts controlled by it were freed from the influence of the Dharma Ending Age!
Xing Tianli waved his hand at the ghosts and said, "Go ahead, kill those that are over five feet tall. Well, for those that are under five feet tall, if they are stained with blood and murder, kill them as well!"

The ghosts sneered silently, and their figures suddenly turned into illusions. In a flash, they flew a hundred feet away. After a few flashes, they rushed out of the jungle and rushed into the White Clam Port.

Outside the port area, on the top of several small buildings, the extremely happy Saint Rose sentinels who were drinking and singing suddenly staggered and fell heavily to the ground.

(End of this chapter)