Pawn Crossing the River

Welcoming Da Zhenren was essentially the Taoist government's errand. Yao Pei and Li Zhuyu could come or not. As a member of the Lingnan Taoist government, Zhang Yuelu simply didn't come and stayed in Lion City to take charge of the situation.

Yao Pei happened to be in Shenglong Mansion and coincided with the meeting, so he came to greet Da Zhenren together. Li Zhuyu's main battlefield was in Lion City, so there was no need to make a special trip all the way.

The same was true for the last meeting with Master Jiang Da in the Imperial Capital. A group of young people happened to be in the Imperial Capital, and even lived next to Penglai Pond, so they naturally went to greet him. If they were not in the Imperial Capital at that time, there was no need to go back all the way.

Li Zhuyu is the acting deputy head of Beichen Hall. The reason why Beichen Hall is the third hall and Fengxian Hall is not is because in addition to internal affairs, Beichen Hall's main responsibilities also include external covert operations, which Fengxian Hall does not do. Possessed.

As Buddhism weakens and loses its original momentum, who else can be called the enemy of Taoism outside? Of course it’s the Holy Court.

Therefore, Beichen Hall has a lot of dealings with the Holy Court, no less than the Ancestral Hall. Zhang Yuelu and Li Zhuyu were both from Beichen Hall, but Zhang Yuelu changed his way to Tiangang Hall halfway. Now everyone in the Taoist sect basically thinks that Zhang Yuelu was from Tiangang Hall, and almost never mentions Beichen Hall.

Qi Xuansu agrees. He was born in Tiangang Hall, but he went to Ziweitang halfway, and now others also think he is from Ziweitang.

To put it bluntly, where you become the first deputy hall leader is very important. 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, Zhang Yuelu only had internal contact with Beichen Hall when he was in Beichen Hall, and basically did not involve external aspects.

During the last riot, after Qi Xuansu declared martial law, the Nanting Protectorate arrested many people and imprisoned them in military camps.

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

According to Qi Xuansu's request, these thieves should be controlled and screened, and organizers, instigators, and those who caused major damage should be subject to surprise interrogations.

There are also differences. If you are a native of Borneo and are an accessory, you will only be restricted in your range of activities and cannot leave the barracks. You will not be shackled and will be guarded by men in black.

If they are foreigners such as Westerners or Western Posas, they will be placed in a more closely guarded place and interrogated strictly. The man in black who is responsible for guarding not only holds a fire blunderbuss, but even sets up a rapid-fire thunder blunderbuss.

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

After Li Zhuyu came over, he mainly interacted with Qin Hengjun, which also made Qin Hengjun breathe a sigh of relief. He was really not good at these things, but he just tried his best under pressure. Now that a real expert is here, he can also breathe a sigh of relief. .

As the saying goes, the manpower brought by Li Zhuyu is not many, but they are mainly responsible for sorting out clues and determining the target. When it comes to specific execution, these Taoist priests do not need to go into battle in person, and the men in black are responsible for it.

The organized men in black or spiritual officers fight collectively, which is much more powerful than ordinary Taoist priests fighting alone.

In any case, Nanyang has always been the territory of the Taoist sect. It is much easier to find foreign thieves on one's own territory than to find insiders on one's own territory, because there is me in you and you in me. This is where everything goes wrong in the world.

Therefore, Li Zhuyu's progress was faster than Yao Pei's, and she quickly locked in on the first target. According to the interrogation results and some other clues, a group of Western businessmen are highly suspicious. However, they have never entered the Lion City, or even entered the port. Instead, they are floating on the sea outside the city. If things go wrong, they can turn around and run away. .

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

The two of them had worked together in Beichen Hall, and they had some close friendship. Now they were colluding, so Zhang Yuelu had no reason not to borrow.

Strictly speaking, it was Li Zhuyu who borrowed a flying boat from Xie Jiaofeng, and Zhang Yuelu's suggestion was to borrow it. Li Zhuyu planned to give these Westerners a magical weapon from heaven.

Because Westerners entered Nanyang under the pretext of doing business, they could only bring sea ships, and it was impossible to sail flying boats to Nanyang.

Before that, Li Zhuyu had been observing for a long time. This is a ship from Ibia. Although there were many disputes among the Kingdom of Rune, the Kingdom of Ibia, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands not long ago, which led to the unstable situation in West Borneo, in the end, under the control of the Holy Court, Under pressure, the disputes between the three companies were temporarily shelved, the status quo was maintained, and they were unanimously disclosed to the outside world.

If Sheng Ting wants to punch, he should clench his five fingers into a fist. The reason why Dao Sect is on the defensive on certain fronts is not that Dao Sect is weaker, but because Dao Sect has suffered from serious internal strife in recent years.

This kind of internal strife is not just overt and covert fighting such as the Jiangnan case, but even the war in the Western Regions and the Fenglinzhou War are manifestations of this kind of internal strife.

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

In fact, these two wars are not necessary. At least they do not have to be fought so urgently or continuously.

But the two princes and the forces behind them had to fight now in order to accumulate enough capital for the fight for the chief master.

Once the selection of the Great Master is finalized, there will be no point in fighting again. While the Taoist sects are fighting on their own 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 all kinds of splendor surging.

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 rushed 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 based on the legacy left by his predecessors, but instead stood on 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 endowed by the "Alchemy Arcana" is almost comparable to that of a heavenly being. Even his body without a prosthetic body has been specially strengthened by some kind of alchemy. He possesses supernatural powers derived from flesh and blood. He is as rampant as a heavenly 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 captain's neck 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.