Gui Qinzhong led his fleet of ships and naval forces, charging madly towards Rocky Island.
“Form the array.” Suo Mu gave the order.
Immediately the one hundred Suo clan family warriors all stood at the very front, raising huge shields to block the more than one thousand salt people behind them.
The Gui clan fleet drew closer and closer.
“Prepare!”
Gui Qinzhong fiercely drew his sharp sword and pointed it towards Rocky Island.
Instantly the more than one thousand archers and crossbowmen on dozens of ships bent their bows and nocked arrows, aiming at the salt people and Suo clan warriors on the island.
As long as the order was given, countless sharp arrows would smash down like a violent rain. The Suo clan family warriors might still hold, but the almost unarmed salt people would have no way to resist and there would definitely be massive casualties.
Gui Qinshao held her breath. Her beautiful eyes revealed an incomparably excited light.
Although she had not seen Suo Lun, being able to kill Suo Lun’s subordinate warriors and salt people could also relieve the hatred in her heart.
As long as they charged onto the island and killed all of Suo Lun’s subordinates clean, there was basically nowhere to hide on Rocky Peninsula. Suo Lun could be easily captured.
The thought of being able to torture Suo Lun until he could neither live nor die made Gui Qinshao tremble all over with excitement.
Dozens of ships charged desperately, charged, charged…
They drew closer and closer to Suo Ningbing and the others. The massacre was coming. The time to harvest lives had arrived.
“Shoot!” Gui Qinzhong gave the fierce order and swung his great sword violently.
“Swish swish swish swish swish…”
The arrows from the Gui clan navy shot out like a violent rain, streaking across several hundred metres of night sky.
“Bang bang bang bang…” Countless feathered arrows densely struck the beach in front of the Suo clan warriors, only dozens of metres away from their defensive line.
This first round of shooting was only for testing and intimidation. It had not yet entered effective range.
The Gui clan fleet continued to advance rapidly. Gui Qinzhong raised his sharp sword once more and shouted sternly: “Second round, prepare!”
Instantly more than one thousand archers and crossbowmen bent their bows and nocked arrows, waiting only for the order.
Suo Ningbing closed her beautiful eyes in pain. This second round of shooting would definitely kill people, perhaps dozens, perhaps over a hundred.
These people were all subjects of the Suo clan. Every single one was extremely important and represented the hope of the Suo clan’s rise.
Moreover Suo Lun was not here at this moment, so protecting these subjects was her responsibility as Suo Ningbing. If tonight these salt people and family warriors were all killed, she really did not know how to explain it to Suo Lun.
Hearing the sound of the Gui clan navy bending their bows and nocking arrows, Suo Ningbing felt pain in her heart and said inwardly: “Heaven, why do you treat my Suo clan like this? Why do you want to cut off all hope for my Suo clan?”
Then she waited for the arrow rain to descend.
All the salt people gripped their crude weapons tightly. Although they did not retreat even half a step, despair filled their hearts as they waited for the arrival of the god of death.
“Suo clan lowly commoners, your time of death has come…” Gui Qinzhong laughed loudly.
“Swish swish swish swish swish…”
Countless feathered arrows streaked across the sky, producing piercing whistling sounds.
But… Gui Qinzhong had not yet given the order to shoot.
Moreover these arrows were actually carrying firelight, flying in from the sea behind like countless meteors.
“Third young master, enemy attack, enemy attack…”
“Bang bang bang bang…” Countless rockets poured down like raindrops, all falling into the sea.
Gui Qinzhong turned to look. The sea surface behind had originally been pitch black, with almost nothing visible.
The cunning Suo Lun had, long before, ordered the fleet to extinguish all lights to avoid attracting the attention of the Gui clan navy and sailed in darkness. Although this was a very dangerous action, this sea area was very safe and had no hidden reefs.
Immediately after, the rockets on Duke Zhi Ting’s fleet were lit again and shot over like countless meteor showers.
Borrowing the light of the rockets, Gui Qinzhong clearly saw that several hundred metres behind there were fully more than a dozen building ships, each one extremely huge.
“Where, where did this army come from?” Gui Qinzhong’s soul instantly flew out of his body. Then he roared loudly towards Duke Zhi Ting’s fleet: “I am the third son of the Linhai City lord. This is the sea territory of my Gui clan. Any army must immediately withdraw, otherwise you will be killed without mercy.”
“Swish swish swish swish…”
But the answer he received was a second round of arrow rain. Although it still shot into the sea, it caused extreme panic in the hearts of the Gui clan navy.
Now caught between enemies in front and behind, they were in a nine deaths and one life situation.
Gui Qinshao stared fixedly at the building ship fleet behind. Perhaps it was an illusion, or perhaps it was real, but she vaguely felt that the figure standing at the bow of the ship was Suo Lun.
“Suo Lun, is that you, you thief?” Gui Qinshao shouted loudly, using dragon strength to send her voice far out.
Hearing Gui Qinshao’s voice, Suo Lun was immediately stunned. It really was the Gui clan navy, but he had not expected Gui Qinshao to be among them.
However he did not open his mouth to respond, because once he did, his sister Suo Ningbing would be in danger. Gui Qinshao would then risk everything to charge onto Rocky Island and use Suo Ningbing and Ye Jingyu as hostages to threaten him.
Therefore he could not let her know of his presence.
“Suo Lun, I know it is you.” Gui Qinshao said: “Fleet, full speed ahead. Charge onto Rocky Island and capture Suo Ningbing. Only then do we have a chance of survival.”
This reminder immediately enlightened Gui Qinzhong. He instantly shouted loudly: “Full speed charge onto the island. Capture Suo Ningbing.”
Then the Gui clan navy stopped shooting arrows and rowed frantically, charging towards the Rocky Island beach.
The people on the island had originally been filled with despair and were bravely waiting for the arrival of the god of death. They had not expected that their lord Suo Lun would actually return at this moment and bring a powerful army to save them.
“Charge up and block the enemy army.” The family warrior Suo Mu gave the order and led the one hundred family warriors to rush quickly into the sea.
At the same time Ye Jingyu quickly pulled Suo Ningbing and ran at top speed, leaving the seaside to avoid capture by the Gui clan army and prevent bringing trouble to Suo Lun.
“Swish swish swish swish swish…”
From behind, Duke Zhi Ting’s army launched the third wave, fourth wave and fifth wave of arrow rain fiercely. While shooting arrows, the fleet continued to approach.
Finally, during the sixth wave of rocket rain, they hit the Gui clan fleet.
“Ah… ah… ah…”
Screams immediately rang out from within the Gui clan navy.
At the same time the Suo clan family warriors all dived into the sea, reached the bottom of the Gui clan ships and dug and chiselled desperately.
“Return fire, return fire…” Gui Qinzhong roared loudly.
Immediately the Gui clan navy hurriedly bent their bows and nocked arrows to counterattack Duke Zhi Ting’s fleet.
But unfortunately they were in a headwind position. The other side could hit them, but they could not hit the other side.
“Stop the ships.” The cunning Suo Lun gave the order.
Immediately Duke Zhi Ting’s navy all stopped rowing and even began rowing in reverse, bringing the fleet to a stop in the shortest time so that the two fleets always maintained several hundred metres of distance, with one in tailwind and the other in headwind.
Thus the Gui clan navy was completely tragic and fell into a completely passive position of being beaten.
“Swish swish swish swish swish…” Duke Zhi Ting’s army shot wave after wave of arrow rain.
Although the hit rate was not high, even if only half a percent hit, the consequences were extremely terrifying.
Because these were rockets being shot down. Soon the Gui clan ships caught fire one after another. Moreover the Suo clan warriors hiding underwater chiselled the ships desperately, blocking the enemy ships from landing.
Immediately the Gui clan fleet could neither advance nor retreat and became chaotically jammed together in the sea.
“Into the water, into the water. Kill all the thieves chiselling the ships.” Gui Qinzhong roared in great anger.
Thus the Gui clan warriors all jumped into the water and engaged in fierce battle with the Suo clan warriors in the sea.
Then the Gui clan naval archers and crossbowmen shot arrows desperately to counter Duke Zhi Ting’s fleet.
However all of this was in vain. They were in a headwind and their range could not reach at all. While the rockets shot from the enemy ships hit them one after another. The raging fires quickly ignited the Gui clan ships.
At this moment Gui Qinzhong regrettedæ— æ¯”. Why had he underestimated the enemy so lightly and rashly led the navy to Rocky Island for revenge? Moreover he had not even sent out scout boats, so in the darkness the enemy fleet had approached within one thousand metres without being discovered, causing him to fall into such a desperate situation.
Father Gui Xingfu had repeatedly warned him never to underestimate Suo Lun, that this person was extremely cunning and insidious. He had never taken it seriously, and today he tasted the terrible consequences.
The enemy rockets grew denser and denser. Looking at the fleet being swallowed by raging fire and the soldiers falling into the water like dumplings, Gui Qinzhong felt complete despair in his heart.
As for Gui Qinshao at this moment, her peerlessly beautiful face had no colour at all. Her eyes flickered with incomparably unwilling light and endless regret. Today the Gui clan navy was about to be completely destroyed in her hands. If third brother had not done it for her, he would not have rashly led the army to take revenge.
“Sister, you leave quickly.” Gui Qinzhong suddenly roared: “It does not matter if I fall into enemy hands, but if you fall into Suo Lun’s hands, then… the consequences will be unimaginable.”
Gui Qinshao said: “If we leave, we leave together.”
“No. I am the commander of the Gui clan navy. I must live and die with my brothers. I cannot abandon them and escape.” Gui Qinzhong said.
“Uncle Ming, come with me.” Gui Qinshao gave her brother a deep look, then suddenly dived into the sea. A thin small figure closely followed behind her.
Gui Qinshao was not escaping but secretly swimming towards Rocky Island amid the chaos. She wanted to capture Suo Ningbing.
Because Suo Ningbing was the person Suo Lun cared about the most. If she captured her as a hostage and threatened with her life, she and her brother Gui Qinzhong would still have a chance of survival.
In such chaotic circumstances no one noticed Gui Qinshao’s figure. She led a family expert and quickly chased in the direction Suo Ningbing had left.
On the sea the Gui clan fleet had almost been completely swallowed by raging fire.
At this time Duke Zhi Ting’s fleet suddenly charged forward, then from a high position shot and killed the Gui clan naval forces struggling in the sea.
Immediately the sounds of arrows piercing flesh and the miserable howls before death rang out continuously. Blood almost completely dyed the entire sea surface red.
The navy that Gui Xingfu had spent enormous cost to build was being madly slaughtered like snow melting under the sun.
Gui Qinzhong finally could not endure it and shouted loudly: “We surrender, we surrender…”
But Duke Zhi Ting’s army seemed to turn a deaf ear and continued madly shooting and killing.
They originally wanted to take the opportunity to kill the Suo clan navy clean so as to avoid future threats to Rocky Island.
When Gui Qinzhong saw this, his eyes almost split open. He roared hoarsely: “Despicable, shameless, Suo Lun you thief, kill me, kill me!”
Then he charged almost madly onto the building ship, wanting to kill Suo Lun.
But before Gui Qinzhong could get close, countless fine poison needles as sharp as blades suddenly shot out from the darkness. His body immediately went numb and he collapsed softly to the ground. Then in the next second he was pinned down and forced to kneel on the ground.
One second before losing consciousness he discovered that Suo Lun was actually no longer on the building ship.
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Gui Qinshao, soaked all over, quickly crossed the salt fields and climbed onto the bare rocky mountain.
Although she had not seen it, she could guess that Ye Jingyu must have taken Suo Ningbing and fled up the mountain.
Only by capturing Suo Ningbing would there be a chance of survival, and she could even do whatever she wanted to Suo Lun, because this pervert had a crazy obsession with his sister.
Leading the family expert, Gui Qinshao climbed a rocky cliff at the fastest speed and indeed saw Suo Ningbing and Ye Jingyu above.
“Sister Suo Ningbing, where do you think you can escape to?” Gui Qinshao said.
Without waiting for her order, the expert Uncle Ming beside her directly drew his sword and stabbed towards Ye Jingyu.
This person called Uncle Ming had very high martial skill and almost instantly entangled Ye Jingyu, completely suppressing her so she could not protect Suo Ningbing.
Then Gui Qinshao drew her sword and advanced step by step towards Suo Ningbing.
Suo Ningbing retreated step by step and soon reached the edge of the cliff, where she could fall at any moment.
Although this cliff was not very high, it was still fully several dozen metres. The delicate Suo Ningbing falling down would almost certainly die, her fragrant soul scattering.
“Jump, jump down if you have the guts!” Gui Qinshao said coldly: “You do not have the guts, right? Then obediently become my captive. Tell me, if I exchange Suo Lun’s eyes for your eyes, will he agree? If he does not agree, I will dig out your right eye. If he does not agree, it means his feelings for you are all fake.”
Hearing these words, Suo Ningbing’s delicate body trembled violently. She would rather die than let such a thing happen.
Then her expression suddenly changed slightly and a trace of pleasant surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.
“Gui Qinshao, just wait. You are about to be finished.” Suo Ningbing said, then suddenly leaned back and directly jumped down from the several dozen metre high cliff.
Gui Qinshao could not believe the other party was so resolute. She stepped forward and looked down.
Suo Ningbing’s soft and beautiful delicate body fell faster and faster. It looked as if she was about to hit the ground and her fragrant soul would scatter.
Suddenly a snow white figure flew over swiftly and fiercely caught the falling Suo Ningbing, then spun more than a dozen circles on the spot to cancel out the momentum of Suo Ningbing’s fall.
The one who saved Ningbing was an old eunuch whose hair and beard were already white.
“Miss Suo, your younger brother and you truly have a telepathic connection. He actually had me rush here immediately to save you.” This aged eunuch said kindly.
At the same time Suo Lun arrived quickly with three high skilled eunuch warriors, then shouted towards the top of the cliff: “Jingyu, jump down.”
Ye Jingyu, who was completely at a disadvantage on the cliff and in danger, quickly retreated, then jumped down from the cliff without hesitation.
The white haired and bearded eunuch once again easily caught and saved her.
Suo Lun first went to his sister’s side to confirm she was safe and sound. Then he raised his head to look at Gui Qinshao on the cliff and sneered coldly: “My former wife, you have nowhere left to go. Jump down. I guarantee I will not catch you and will let you smash into a pile of minced meat.”
Gui Qinshao stood at the top of the cliff, looking at the four eunuch experts below and at Suo Lun whose face was icy cold.
That was right. She really had nowhere left to go. Either she jumped off the cliff to commit suicide or she was captured by Suo Lun and suffered endless humiliation. Today she had come proudly, truly never expecting to fall into such a desperate situation.
“Gui Qinshao, if you have the guts, jump down. I guarantee I will not catch you and will let you fall to your death.” Suo Lun said with a smile, his voice filled with coldness and cruelty.