A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 289 Bloodbath in Southeast Asia

Annam, Thang Long City, Royal Palace.

After the rescue, some remote palaces were finally saved and used as temporary palaces by the new king to entertain distinguished guests.

Fan Lin was sitting together with the patriarchs of Annan's major families to discuss matters.

According to the rules, he, a mere bastard of the Fan family, was not qualified to sit with these distinguished figures, but who allowed him to succeed in speculation!

He was keenly aware of the strong resentment of the people, and guided and led the people to rise up first. Fortunately, instead of pioneering the king, he broke through Thang Long City in one fell swoop, drove away the former emperor Li Qiande, and ascended the throne himself. The palace.

Frankly speaking, this Li Qiande is not actually a fool.

When Li Qiande first came to the throne, he launched a war against the Song Dynasty and occupied Yongzhou and Lianzhou. He gained a lot. Although he was later defeated by the Song army Guo Kui, he did not suffer much loss due to the convenient geographical location of Annan. , Generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

If Li Qiande was still young, Fan Lin would have no chance to come forward, and he would have been killed by Li Qiande's army long ago.

But time is a butcher's knife, and Li Qiande is getting old after all, giving others the opportunity to challenge the Wolf King.

Of course, the large number of angry people is also an important decisive factor.

But no matter what the reason was, Fan Lin won and became Annan's new king, and others had to pinch their noses to recognize her!

He became the emperor because he was recognized by the people at the bottom, but he was recognized by these big families only after he became the emperor.

Relying on their strong power, these big families formed a group to negotiate terms.

Fan Lin didn't want to start a huge civil war in China, but the final outcome was unpredictable, so she could only sit down and talk with these people.

Both sides were wary of fighting and neither wanted to fight, so it was easy to reach a consensus on the general direction.

But in order to seek more benefits, they argued endlessly about specific details and kept arguing. However, no matter how fierce the argument was, no one lifted the table and quit.

After compromising with each other again and again, the number of agreed terms gradually increased, and the final agreement was soon reached.

"Haha, your Majesty understands justice well and takes the overall situation into consideration. He is really a blessing to all people!" After taking advantage of another clause, the Ruan clan leader happily complimented while stroking his beard.

When the negotiating opponent was happy, Fan Lin naturally couldn't be happy anymore. He snorted coldly and said unhappily:

"If I hadn't been in urgent need of food to appease the people and prevent further chaos, how could I have allowed you to take advantage?"

The Ruan clan leader then said with a smile:

"Where did your Majesty's words come from?"

"The king borrowed a knife to kill people and took all the land and wealth of the Han people for himself. Isn't this kind of harvest much better than that of a small tribe like us?"

Fan Lin felt proud, but she said:

"Those things belong to the national treasury, but they have little to do with me."

"Moreover, I have to take the risk of being attacked by troops from the Song Kingdom, which is worse than picking peaches directly from all tribes!"

The clan leaders of each clan burst out laughing after hearing this, and said with great joy:

"I know the habits of the Han people best."

"Only the local people in the Central Plains have always been regarded as Chinese by the Han people. Who has ever cared about the life and death of Han people overseas?"

"When we need them, we are overseas Chinese; when we don't, we are pirates."

"This practice is not once or twice, not every year or two, but it has been like this since ancient times, and it is expected that it will not change after a thousand years."

"It's ridiculous that people overseas don't know it. They still cherish their homeland. After making money, they always want to return home in rich clothes."

While everyone was laughing at themselves, they suddenly heard the faint sound of thunder coming from the sky outside the hall above their heads. The sound suddenly increased from small to loud, as if God was angry and made people shudder.

Everyone was in shock when they heard a loud "rumbling" sound. Hundreds of stone bullets as big as human heads seemed to fall from the sky. They penetrated the solid outer wall of the palace hall in an instant and hit the palace with thunderous force. The blue brick floor in the palace.

At that moment, the entire hall was torn apart by this irresistible force.

The bricks and stones shattered and flew like countless sharp arrows, which were even more powerful than strong bows and crossbows. An unknown number of people were hit by fragments, and blood spattered on the spot. They fell to the ground, screaming in agony.

The stone bullets did not stop after they hit the ground, but rebounded with the powerful impact, running rampantly in the devastated hall, rolling forward aimlessly.

Wherever the stone bullet passed, whether it was the gorgeous palace furnishings or the noble guards in the palace, they were all mercilessly crushed, leaving behind a terrifying path of flesh, blood, gravel and wails.

In the face of this sudden bombardment, the originally arrogant family heads had nowhere to hide. They could only allow the shells to turn them into a pulp. The newly renovated palace instantly turned into a hell on earth again, filled with a thick atmosphere. The smell of death.

The Annan people had never heard of such an attack from the sky, and they were all stunned and didn't know how to respond.

Just when the surrounding guards reacted and surged towards this side, trying to step forward to save people, the second round of shelling arrived.

With Jin Dajian around, this telescope would certainly not be a problem for him. This kind of strategic equipment has long been popularized in the navy.

Relying on the ultra-long viewing range of the telescope, the second round of bombardment was more accurate than the previous school fire bombardment, and more stone bullets fell into this densely populated place.

The huge air wave created when the stone bullet landed in the crowd swept the person into the air, and then he fell heavily, leaving his life or death uncertain.

Bricks and stones flew like rain, tearing apart the fragile flesh mercilessly, leaving bloody bodies lying on the ground.

The palace hall, which was already dilapidated, became even more miserable after this round of shelling.

The walls shattered and collapsed, and the gorgeous decorations turned into powder, rolling down together with the rubble onto the blood-covered ground.

The rebounding stone bullets were like out-of-control beasts, rampaging through the crowd, leaving victims everywhere, broken limbs and remains scattered everywhere, and it was a mess. No one could escape this brutal killing from the sky.

Their bodies were shattered under the ruthless crushing of stone bullets, and blood and soil mixed together to form winding bloody paths.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, mixed with desperate cries and dying gasps. The huge crashing sounds were continuous and echoed over the entire city, like thunder rolling and divine punishment coming, making people feel terrified.

The guards who were rushing over now didn't even have the courage to escape. They knelt on the ground one after another, praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky, asking the gods and Buddhas to temporarily suspend the anger of the thunder and forgive them, the ignorant people of the lower world.

The sound of the cannons finally stopped, and a figure descended from the sky riding on the clouds, suspended above the palace, and shouted:

"A certain one is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui!"

"You, a small country, dare to kill our Liangshan people and expel our Liangshan merchants. Your crime is unforgivable!"

"Today my Liangshan army is here to seek justice for my people who died in vain!"

He pointed at Fan Lin, who had a leg broken and was lying in a pool of blood on the ground, and shouted angrily:

"Are you the foolish king who ordered the killing of our Han people?"

Fan Lin was so excited that she didn't care about her broken leg. She hurriedly struggled to her knees and shirked her responsibility and said:

"God bless you!"

"The villain originally just wanted to get food for the hungry people, and had no intention of provoking the Han people!"

"It's just that this food is in the hands of the big families. If the villain doesn't make this will, they won't give us the food!"

"For the sake of millions of people in Annan..."

Before he finished speaking, the few living clan leaders became anxious and interrupted him hastily, rushing to complain:

"Immortal, don't listen to this guy's lies!"

"It is clear that he wanted the gold, silver, fields and food in the hands of the Han people, so he issued an order for the entire people to encircle and suppress the Han people!"

"This matter has nothing to do with any of our families!"

Seeing that the two sides were quarreling and about to start a fight, Li Gui gave a shout.

"shut up!"

"A certain family doesn't care who of you is right or wrong!"

"You have ten days to kill all the criminals with Han blood on their hands and pile their heads outside the city gates. Otherwise, my heavenly soldiers will be angry and the Qi Kingdom will be reduced to powder!"

"Don't try to use some scapegoats to get rid of the blame, otherwise a certain family will let you know what it means to be as powerful as prison!"

After Li Gui finished his explanation, he turned around and left, leaving everyone looking at each other, wondering whether they should comply with it.

The heads of the clans never need to use their hands to do things. Naturally, they don't have the blood of Han people in their hands. If they can escape like this, of course they are willing.

However, many young men from each family personally went out to rob and kill people in order to seize the property of the Han people. I am afraid that they will all be killed.

Moreover, most of the guards in the palace were from the rioters back then, and I am afraid that many of them have Han lives on their hands.

After a moment of silence, Fan Lin was finally cruel enough. He slapped the ground hard and growled:

"How can I, a descendant of Annan, be threatened by this bandit and grass bandit and attack my own children?"

"In my opinion, this Li Gui must not be a god, but he is probably a strange person or something like that."

"I see that he has never landed. I think he is afraid of being surrounded. As long as we gather a large army to attack, we can definitely kill him!"

"As for those stone bombs just now, they were probably fired by powerful trebuchets. We only need to find the location of the trebuchets, and then we can send a large army to attack and burn them down. There is nothing to be afraid of!" "Today, we were just attacked by a sneak attack, not a battle." If we fight head-on, even if the Song Dynasty comes again, we will not be afraid!"

"Pass on my military order, mobilize all the warriors from all over the world, prepare weapons, armor, strong bows and crossbows, gather in Shenglong City within seven days, and fight against this Li Gui from Liangshan!"

After everyone listened, they immediately became energetic and nodded in agreement. Their eyes immediately regained their vitality and they began to hurriedly rescue the wounded.

That night, several decrees were issued from the palace and sent to various places, and soldiers and horses began to be mobilized.

But not everyone among the chaotic people had the courage to continue to face the enemy directly.

In particular, most people rebelled just to make a living, but later did not participate, or did not have time to massacre the Han people, and did not get any benefits. After seeing the horror of artillery and war, they became even more unwilling to participate in the war.

As a result, Annan's army began to show signs of fleeing, and a large number of rebel soldiers began to flee to other cities with dry food.

In the end, after the news spread, most of the rioters who came from all over the country were sinners whose hands were stained with Han blood and could not be washed away no matter what.

Only these people are worried about being liquidated and will work hard no matter what to kill this so-called "Sky Killer" to avoid future troubles.

And this was Li Gui's intention in giving them ten days.

If he was asked to investigate slowly, it would be too troublesome, and he would not be able to distinguish who is the murderer and who is wrongly accused.

Unless everyone is killed at once, most people will definitely slip through the net.

But now if they are allowed to take the initiative to resist the Liangshan army, then they can kill them simply and neatly, just kill them all in one sweep.

There may still be some leakage left over, so they can only count their luck.

Ten days later, Fan Lin gathered tens of thousands of troops, fully armed, and came towards the dock.

Over the past few days, they had already found out clearly that the stone-throwing attack that day was entirely carried out on a large ship next to the pier, and Li Gui himself also lived on this ship.

The flow of people rushed toward the big ship like a tide. At the front were more than a thousand cavalry, one after another, moving forward in a sharp formation.

In the distance, several miles away, naval guns began to fire.

Just like the scene in the palace reappearing that day, the round stone bullets fell like meteors and fell towards the dense crowd on the ground.

Different from the attack in the palace that day, everyone at this moment could clearly see that it flew up from the ship like a bird, and then hit the head like a meteorite.

Fortunately, Fan Lin and others had vaccinated them in advance before the war started, otherwise people with poor mental endurance would almost collapse on the spot.

There was a dense crowd on the ground. After the dozens of stone bullets landed, almost none of them missed, creating a path of flesh and blood in the crowd.

But among the tens of thousands of troops, the death and injury of hundreds of people had no impact at all, and there was not even a splash of water.

What has a greater impact is the huge roar, as well as the sand, gravel and fan-shaped shock waves caused by the stone bullets falling to the ground. Although the damage is not necessarily fatal, it affects the largest number of people.

"do not stop!"

"Keep moving forward!"

"We win if we get in front of the ship!"

Fan Lin and the patriarchs of the major families no longer cared about their status at this moment. They all came to the front line and kept cheering for everyone.

Because the formation was very wide, the cavalry line in front was very thin, so the losses were not much.

The remaining cavalrymen ignored the fallen comrades around them and just kept pushing their horses forward.

The distance between the cavalry and the infantry quickly widened. When the cavalry stepped into the middle distance, the second round of artillery was ready.

However, this second round of bombardment did not target the fast cavalry, but continued to attack the slow and dense infantry.

This phenomenon was quickly discovered by Fan Lin and others. While urging the infantry to move forward, they also shouted in unison.

"The cavalry has passed!"

"The cavalry has passed!"

"Everyone, keep moving forward to meet the cavalry!"

Of course, the soldiers in front also noticed this, and their morale was immediately boosted and they cheered thunderously. However, before they could be happy for a long time, when the cavalry stepped into the ship at close range, a row of small cannons on the deck came out again. Then they revealed the dark muzzle of the gun.

The fire flashed, the cannon roared, and countless gravel blasted out from the muzzle of the small cannon, covering the cavalry team not far away.

This is Ling Zhen's cannon, which is specially designed to fire shotguns. However, the shooting range is relatively short and cannot reach far, so it is rarely used and is usually mounted on the city wall.

However, when fighting at sea, there is often a sea area between the two ships, and they have to join forces to get over. This kind of close-range shotgun is more effective, so there are many spares on board.

Seeing that these cavalrymen were about to approach the large ship, they were bombarded by the shotgun shells, and they were instantly overturned, dead and wounded.

The remaining people had their arrows on the string and had no choice but to move forward. But when they were about to step onto the pier, they suddenly saw a person on the boat stepping out of the boat on a hot wheel, carrying wind and thunder, and the cavalry arrived in an instant. In front of the team, he raised his hand and several fire dragons flew out, setting all the cavalry on fire.

The war horse that was burned by the flames immediately howled and stood up, knocking the knight off the horse, and then trampled the horse with all four hooves, running around wildly, trying to extinguish the flames on its body.

Before those fallen knights could get up, they were heavily trampled on the backs by horse hoofs, fell to the ground again, and then were trampled by another war horse.

After a period of chaos with people neighing and people neighing, the flames on the horses were taken back by Li Gui, while the flames on the fallen knights were stamped out by the random horses.

But even after the flames were extinguished, none of the knights could get up. After being trampled by hundreds of frightened horses, their whole bodies were turned into mud.

At this time, the infantry from the rear was about to arrive. After seeing the blood, Annan's soldiers not only were not afraid, but were inspired by the brutal and ferocious nature in their blood, and became more and more manic.

Even after suffering three rounds of heavy artillery, one round of shotgun bombardment, and more than 10,000 soldiers who were killed, seriously injured, disabled, stragglers, and escaped, the Annan army still had tens of thousands of soldiers, overwhelming and densely swarming here. .

However, the horn sounded, and dozens of huge sea ships slowly retreated, leaving the coastline and slowly heading towards the deep sea.

Before leaving, the ship fired another volley of shotguns, causing the thousands of soldiers at the front of the enemy array to fall down like mowing grass.

Li Gui did not get on the boat, but activated the Hot Wheels and ran rampant among the endless crowd.

The eight-foot Qiongmagatama in his left hand kept firing out fire dragons and wind blades, and the Tian Cong Yun Sword in his right hand kept releasing various plague viruses.

When he rushed out of the densely packed army, he looked back and saw flames soaring into the sky on one side behind him and corpses littering the other side.

As long as you have enough luck, these two artifacts are really deadly weapons!

If the artillery attack could still hold them together, then Li Gui's attack caused them to completely collapse.

This killing was too straightforward!

And it is not something that humans can do at all, it is clearly the likes of ghosts and gods!

The remaining dead ones didn't dare to continue fighting. They shouted, turned around and ran away.

"Hey, now that you're here, don't leave in a hurry!"

Li Gui sneered, activated the wind and fire wheel, and rushed towards wherever the crowd was densely packed, and when he got close, he would kill them.

His speed was far superior to those of the infantry. After sprinting dozens of times, the remaining guys were reduced to scattered teams.

At this time, everyone had already dispersed, and it would be troublesome to chase them. Moreover, Li Gui also wanted them to tell the story of today's battle, so he stopped chasing them and returned to the ship.

“Set sail to the next country!”

Not to mention how those guys who had the chance to escape would add more miraculous and exaggerated stories to the name of the Heavenly Killing Star Li Gui after they returned. Li Gui and his men traveled along the coastline to all the surrounding countries one by one. .

The methods are very similar to those in Annan Kingdom. They first intimidate with force, issue ultimatums, lure the enemy to attack, and finally annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

The method is simple but very useful.

But it didn't take long for the surrounding countries to receive the news. Before Liang Shan and others arrived, they took action first and killed the murderers with Han blood on their hands. Their heads were placed on the dock and they were discharged in a row. Miles and miles away.

At this time, Li Guicai sent someone to send King Annan's young prince back to Annan Kingdom, made him ascend the throne as emperor, and crowned him himself.

Troops will be stationed here and rotated regularly. All countries will jointly bear the military expenses, and the door will be opened to Liangshan merchants, allowing Liangshan merchants to trade freely in various countries and assist in the purchase of grain.

After achieving this series of goals, Li Guicai led part of the navy to return home in triumph.

(End of this chapter)