After the incident at Lu Gou bridge had happened, the Japanese first tried to rope Zhang Tianrann in. Zhang Tianrann did not deny it, but a few of his subordinates already pledged their allegiance to the Japanese, especially the traitor Zhou Fuhai, who was one of the most powerful. Zhou Fokhai was later the finance minister of the Japanese Vanguard, and his private identity was that of the fourth rank of the Guang Ming Altar, which showed the scale of his former strength.


    Just as Zhang Tianrann was hesitating, he was recruited by the Kuomintang to the Nanjing government and placed under house arrest for a year. He did not know what had happened in that period of time, but the final result was that Zhang Tianrann decided to take a stand against Japan.


    May 1943


    The Japanese army went up the river, attacking from Nanzhenguan and Gaojiayang, etc. The location of the battle was at the middle section of the West Mausoleum Gorge. This battle was later known as the "Chinese Stalingrad Defensive War" because if the Three Gorges was lost and the Japanese army broke through the heavenly danger of the Three Gorges, then the capital of Chongqing would definitely fall. The Kuomintang government would have nowhere to retreat to, and the Japanese army would take over China in all its aspects.


    The Kuomintang Hu Lian Clan led one hundred and fifty thousand troops to stop the Japanese army at the stone tablet. They launched a month-long, bloody fight. This was a land war. The Japanese air force continuously raids on the positions, and the Kuomintang air force continuously raids on the Japanese military airport at Tumenya in the Yichang. This is an aerial battle.


    But the most widely armed of all was the water war between China and Japan, in which the Kuomintang troops were forced to retreat. At the time, China had been weak for a long time and the navy was simply a decoration, but Japanese warships had already swept across the Pacific Ocean. Thus, the most dangerous battle was actually on the Yangtze River.


    However, the Kuomintang troops had set up a lot of mines on the Yangtze River, and with the reef advantage of the river of Three Gorges, they were able to defend the West Tomb Gorge. The Japanese were also unable to attack smoothly. So the least known part of the war began. This was yin battle.


    Dark War was a term that no military scientist was willing to mention. This was because this method of warfare did not rely on people to fight, but on magic and ghosts. All wars, both in ancient and modern times, could not be left behind in this manner. However, they would never be brought up in history. War was extremely strange, and there were many things that surpassed natural phenomena. The later generations would talk about the general trend, chance and coincidence, and other explanations. Actually, these were all the results of secretly manipulating it with spells.


    At that time, Japanese warships were obstructed near the Qiongtai beach in the West Ling Gorge. Because the Kuomintang government knew that the Yangtze River was narrow, with numerous beaches and rocky reefs, and that the Japanese could not get on the large warships that ate deep water, they placed a lot of water mines in the river. The shallow light warships of the Japanese army, weak in attack and defense, fought well with the civilian ships improvised by the Kuomintang troops under the influence of natural peril and mines.


    The next battle was suddenly reversed. The Japanese had the upper hand, and the Chinese warships were forced to retreat step by step. This was because the Japanese had deployed two 2000 ton warships to move up from Nanzheng, skilfully avoiding the reefs in the gorge. And all the mines were useless. With the Japanese on board, most of the Chinese ships were still wooden ships for civilian use. Of course, they could not stop the heavy artillery on the Japanese ships.


    The Kuomintang troops were terrified. They didn''t know why the Japanese could send two thousand tons of warships straight into the middle of the Western Gorge. It was impossible. As a result, they secretly investigated and finally found out that the Japanese had recruited a Yin Yang Master from Japan. The Yin Yang Master was surnamed Tong Duan and his name was unknown. He was an expert from the Japanese Flow Avoidance Sect.


    The most powerful move of Tong Duan''s school was that he could order the river boy around. He was brought to China by Japan to participate in the water war at Poyang Lake. It cost the Kuomintang troops a lot.


    When the Riverboys, driven by Tong Duan, met with rocks underwater, hundreds to thousands of Riverboys would carry their warships underwater to bypass them. Furthermore, the Riverboys were able to remove all the fuses for the water mines. This was Tong Duan''s ability!


    When Tong Duan participated in the battle for the stone tablet, the spy immediately informed the Kuomintang''s Chongqing government, causing panic and alarm for Mao Renfeng, so Mao Renfeng arranged for the two top warlocks of the time, the most powerful folk religious Grandmaster, the Soul Summoner and the one who had been the Yin People, to secretly arrange for the stone tablet.


    Thus, in this protection battle, the army fought ferociously. However, in the dark, the confrontation between the two Warlocks from China and Japan was also a thrilling one. As a result, almost all of the river children on Tong Duan''s side were drowned, and a few who survived were no longer under Tong Duan''s control. Those river children who survived were hiding in the waters of the Changjiang River, and later, they followed the rivers of the Changjiang River basin to various places in the southern part of the country to reproduce, which was what everyone was talking about today — — Water Monkey. This was something to be said later, after the establishment of the Water Monkey.


    The first match between Zhang Tianrann and, the two great warlocks from China and Japan, ended with Zhang Tianrann''s complete victory. The Japanese warship that Tong Duan was on suddenly realized that without River Tong''s help, not only was it unable to continue moving up the Yangtze River, it was also unable to return to the Southern Jin Pass.


    Because Zhang Tianrann''s magic was powerful, he had already set up a special array for the Yangtze River — — Iron Lock Hengjiang.


    Tong Duan did not escape, but secretly planned his next step.


    Zhang Tianrann was not idle either. He alone guarded the three battle fields while his assistant, Zhuang Chongguang, his brother in life and death, had found the four biggest Warlock families in the western region of western Hubei and joined in the battle.


    These four families were: the Plowshare Witch Family that guarded Wu Gorge, the Huang Family of the Warlock family in Sichuan, the Wei Family that raised corpses with Chenzhou, and the Gu family in Xiangxi.


    Thus, before Tong Duan could attack again, Zhong Yifaang from the Plowshare Witch Family, Huang Soongbai from the Huang Family (Huang Kun was stunned when he heard this), Huang Tiehyan from the Wei Family, Wei Yongqi from the Wei Family, and the Ghaob Miel from the parasites all rushed to the Three Fighting Plains to meet up with Zhang Tianrann to resist Tong Duan''s attack together. Actually, the four families weren''t very familiar with Zhang Tianrann initially. At that time, Zhuang Chongguang took a letter from someone and persuaded the four great families to join. And the person who gave the order to the letter in Zhuang Chongguang''s hand was a high ranking officer of the Communist Party at the time — — Gu Chixiao, whose private identity was that of a descendant of the art of deception.


    So at that time, the Sanduping field was almost filled with the most prominent warlocks in southern China. They were fighting against Japan''s Flow Avoidance Grandmaster Tong Duan together.


    This was a desperate, desperate gamble.