"Did they really say that?"
The Canggu temple is bathed in the continuous rain. The high stone walls are undulating with moss and winding like wrinkles. The thick wooden sill in front of the temple is peeling and faded, but it still looks at the vermilion wooden door of the other courtyard in the distance.
Today's King Pingnan is wrapped in layers of blue satin embroidered dragon-patterned iron leaf armor, almost airtight. Only his exposed hands are covered with black spots. At first glance, he looks like a dying old man. He was wearing a tunic-like robe and armor, with a blue plain satin surface, a moon-white blue cloth lining, and thin silk cotton lining. He stared at the gloomy sky of Guangxiao Temple with his hands behind his back, and slowly opened his mouth to break the silence.
Jin Guang, the counselor of Shang Kexi's tent and the minister of Honglu Temple, also wore a helmet and armor while fighting today. It was not until Shang Kexi's words completely faded that he was the first to speak among the cold-eyed generals.
"Replying to the prince, I heard this matter with my own eyes, and it is absolutely true. Those people in the world were originally suspicious of each other, but now they unanimously believe that it was done by that person. I am afraid there is another hidden story..."
Counselor Jin Guang was originally named Hancai, with the courtesy name Gongxuan. He was appreciated by Shang Kexi for his intelligence and talent in his early years, and he has been working under the account for more than 20 years.
As Li Xinghe's most powerful competitor, he naturally knew that he could seize the opportunity to regain his position as the mastermind, so he took the initiative to offer suggestions and help, and decided to imitate the Zhanying Society to lure those who were imprisoned who had long wanted to surrender, but were hindered by the The face-saving Jianghu people revealed the information and revealed the real mastermind of the assassination.
"What a 'Junzijian' Jiang Wen, how he was able to remain silent under my nose..."
Shang Kexi's expression was gloomy. The wound on his lower side was still aching due to the rain, and half of his body was starting to become stiff and swollen. But he knew that he couldn't stay in bed, rest, or even tell others that he had been in pain for three days without sleeping a wink. ——This Guangzhou Mansion is like a volcano, and the heavy rain cannot extinguish the blazing flames. Pingnan Prince's Mansion must transform into a Chinese army. If he falls, Pingnan Prince's Mansion will soon fall into this dark and dark place. middle.
"Immediately send people to arrest them. If anyone blocks this trip, shoot them to death... Mr. Jin, I think I will let the leader of the troops in the backyard go and take action."
Shang Kexi lowered his voice and said, turning to look at Jin Guang, "I am raising him like this and letting him go. Whether to kill or let him go depends on his will. Now it's time to do something good, don't you think?"
Jin Guang quickly lowered his head and said yes. Immediately, a personal guard general beside him automatically stepped out of the queue, strode towards a side hall in the temple's annex, and quickly disappeared into the rain.
Shang Kexi looked like an octogenarian and was very frightening. At this time, he stopped talking, but stared straight at the few myrobalan trees in the rain curtain, whose branches and leaves had withered after being exposed to the wind for days. His expression was not full at all. The ease and ease expected of those who have taken the initiative.
"Mr. Jin, Master Tianran Zen Master told me that when the Yu of the Three Kingdoms came to live in this temple, myrobalan trees were already planted all over the garden. In the first year of Emperor Yongchu of the Liu Song Dynasty, Nabhadra Tripitaka was stationed in the temple. Get past them.”
Shang Ke happily talked about the treasures, but the light in his eyes became darker, "Later, Patriarch Bodhidharma saw them, Master Huineng saw them, famous people from Panyu in the past generations saw them, and even the false emperor Shaowu saw them. The trees are still like this to this day, but all the famous people have been blown away by the rain and wind, but these trees are still deeply planted here..."
Shang Kexi said something that seemed sad for spring and autumn, but he didn't show a trace of humanity on his body. Instead, his expression became more and more fierce.
"Everyone says these are treasures of the ages, but who would have thought that they actually came from the South China Sea of Tianzhu, thousands of miles away, which is where they should not belong?"
Jin Guang listened carefully word for word, not daring to miss any of it. He knew the old prince very well, and for many years he had always acted and spoken in an impeccable manner. If he treated his words as ordinary, he would definitely miss the true meaning behind them.
Shang Kexi seems to be talking about the myrobalan tree, but not the myrobalan tree. Just like Zen master Tian Tian talked about Prajna Paramita when explaining the Diamond Sutra, it is not Prajna Paramita. Everything should have no abode and arise in his mind.
It was in the sound of Sanskrit chants that Shang Kexi, who was originally only proficient in writing, actually realized a lot of Buddhist principles from Zen Master Tianran in the past ten years, and his words and actions became more unpredictable. This made the counselor who has been in the military for many years The golden light made it increasingly difficult to guess what Shang Kexi was thinking.
But in this matter, Jin Guang still knew what Tian Zen Master meant.
The myrobalan trees in Guangxiao Temple have been able to change their focus after thousands of years. Naturally, the Prince of Pingnan who came to Guangdong from outside also had the opportunity to stand still. What the old prince Shang Ke dreamed about day and night was nothing more than to imitate King Mu of the Ming Dynasty and inherit the title of prince hereditary, so that the Shang family would be rich and powerful for generations to come.
For this reason, Zen Master Tian Tian long ago expressed his willingness to persuade the city's officials, gentry, traders, and lackeys to use Buddhism to resolve the karma and blood debt of the two kings who entered Guangdong, and lay a solid foundation for Shang Kexi's Yongzhen town in Guangdong. This is why Shang Kexi has condescended to surrender for many years. Expensive, the reason for burning incense and worshiping Buddha.
Needless to say, Shang Kexi and the Buddha express a gesture, while Master Tianran represents a vision. The inner story between the two is far less bizarre than what the outside world says about sleepless nights and innocent souls seeking their lives - so what if the city is filled with innocent souls? So what if there is a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood? When the bright butcher knife was raised, how could you ever be afraid of retribution? When you put down the butcher knife in your hand, how could you ever expect to become a Buddha immediately?
On the day when the city of Guangzhou was destroyed ten years ago, Jin Guang saw Shang Kexi, whom he had never known before. If his murderous intention to select and devour people was real, he was still not satisfied with the killing and cleaning along the city, and ordered to kill people until the sky was filled with blood. Ants gathered in the street to eat, and hungry birds flew up to the north of the city to peck at their intestines. Even Jin Guang wanted to protect the internal agents in the city that he had bribed, and persuaded Shang Kexi to stay and descend to contain the defeated troops, but he was almost killed by Shang Kexi himself with his sword...
Fortunately, today's Shang Kexi is a little more tolerant. Even if Master Tianran intends to protect Southern Shaolin and the real assassin, Shang Kexi will not pursue it. After all, as long as Master Tianran's golden body is still shining, he is determined to become a living Buddha in thousands of families. If you are still happy, you must borrow his Buddha's light.
It's just that Jin Guang has never been able to figure out why the Gengyin incident has passed so long and King Pingnan has been very happy in the past ten years. Why is he still walking on thin ice...
"Report to the prince, the prince is asking for an audience outside the temple."
The bodyguard came in a hurry despite the rain, and there was a particularly obvious shoe mark on his body.
Shang Kexi's eyes narrowed when he heard the report from his subordinates. It seemed that his mood instantly changed from the worry just now to another negative emotion. However, Shang Kexi still relied on years of suppression by the city government. He turned around with his back and acquiesced that his subordinates would open the door and let him go.
Footsteps came in a hurry, then bounced off the wall and then came back again. Just like that, a young man in rich clothes broke into the room.
Jin Guang had previously advocated the issue of changing the crown prince, but Shang Zhixin had long hated him, and the two were in the same boat. Now seeing Shang Zhixin's tall figure appearing, Jin Guang immediately wanted to retreat into the side room, but was stopped by Shang Kexi's eyes. With no way to retreat, the two finally met in a narrow road in extreme embarrassment.
"Humph, get out of here."
Shang Zhixin was a bit taller than him. He looked at the counselor who once suggested deposing his son's position with an unkind expression. He uttered a few hisses of unknown meaning from his mouth, as if he was chasing an old man who was blocking the road with contempt. dog.
"Father, I heard that you have set up a dragnet at Guangxiao Temple, and I am waiting for the thieves to reveal their traps, so I brought people here to help. I will definitely capture the bandits today and offer them to the military tent!"
Shang Zhixin was talking happily, but Jin Guang quietly noticed that Shang Kexi's expression was getting more and more serious, and the previous depressed and gloomy feeling gradually changed. Finally, after holding back for a long time, he expressed his anger with a rare and straightforward viciousness. Said the expression.
"fool."
Shang Zhixin's smug look suddenly froze, his face turned red for a moment, and then turned pale again. He clenched his fists harder and harder, and he could hear the creaking of his joints from a distance.
"Father...the child doesn't understand..."
Shang Zhixin raised his head and looked at Shang Kexi. The father and son, who had very similar facial features, were facing each other from a distance. However, the old man in robes and armor seemed to be burned by the smoke, while the young man looked like a sword and gun that had just been forged. .
"I said you are a fool."
Shang Kexi spoke word by word with unusual clarity, as if he was afraid that the young man opposite could not hear his curse.
Shang Zhixin's anger reached its peak, but he suddenly turned his head to look at the submissive golden light on the side. His overwhelming anger turned to this counselor who was not dealing with him. He determined that this person was the one who was causing the trap and was about to pull out the sword from his waist.
"The generals who complain a lot and are angry with their generals, who do not obey the restraints and are even more difficult to control are called arrogant soldiers, and those who offend are killed. The army fights with weapons, fights and kills in anger, and then cuts off the city with axes and axes."
Shang Kexi read out the military order slowly, and looked at Shang Zhixin's angry actions, as cold and ruthless as looking at a dead man. This actually made Shang Zhixin suddenly calm down and decided to put down the knife in his hand honestly.
"...I'll spare your life for now!"
Shang Zhixin laughed angrily. He knew that Shang Kexi was not joking. The military orders of Pingnan Palace were strict and there were many rules. Only in this way could he be invincible. He also knew that if he really killed people today, Shang Kexi would not be happy. Those who mind being ruthless to enforce military discipline.
"Thank you...Thank you, Your Majesty..."
After walking in front of the gate of hell, Jin Guang was sweating profusely, and his hands and feet were still numb. However, in the face of the great horror between life and death, he suddenly figured out why Shang Kexi had to give up today. Stay by yourself.
And this thought once again made him dizzy and almost made him fall!
The so-called grievances over the dethronement of the crown prince are nothing more than a struggle for power between the king and the loser. Shang Kexi originally had no need to stop Shang Zhixin from what he did. After all, people are destined to die. After a hundred years, his descendants will act recklessly, so what is the need to stop him?
But there is only one exception, and that is Shang Kexi’s decision to let Shang Zhixin take over the vassal!
At this time, he not only represents a counselor, but also the other person who supports the crown prince in Prince Pingnan's palace! If you kill yourself, the mountain will always exist. Only if you don't kill yourself, the mountain can be leveled!
"Your Majesty, Jin is a common man. From now on, he will be killed or beheaded as he pleases, but you must not let down the old prince's painstaking efforts..."
Jin Guang finally stopped flinching, and instead raised his head to meet Shang Zhixin's gaze. He didn't even have time to wipe his sweaty forehead before he hurriedly spoke. Since ancient times, no one has done more meritorious deeds than Qian Di Conglong, but there are precedents in the books for those who performed meritoriously and were relied upon. He just hoped that the free-spirited Prince Pingnan in front of him would be smarter and not let this drama go wrong.
Sure enough, Shang Zhixin wanted to scold him with a bad look, but was stared back by Shang Kexi, and then he gradually became more honest.
"I know you want to be King Pingnan, but do you really have the ability?"
Shang Kexi finally restrained his complicated emotions. As he sat down, his armor leaves rustled, and the generals in the Buddhist hall were also dismissed one after another. At this time, only the portrait of a monk with shaved hair and robes in the Buddhist temple was left. On the altar, because no one has worshiped all year round, the curtain shrine has long been desolate and faded.
"Do you know who this person is?"
Shang Kexi pointed to the portrait behind him and said.
Shang Zhixin, who was full of anger, said indifferently: "It's just an old monk, what's there to guess?"
Shang Kexi's expression was calm: "You are qualified to be complacent today, but you are just taking advantage of the status of Prince Pingnan. As for the former Ming Zhao King Zhu Youyi in the portrait, how is he inferior to you?"
Seeing Shang Zhixin's look of astonishment, counselor Jin Guang quickly explained that when Li Chengdong captured Guangzhou ten years ago, he immediately captured and killed Shaowu Emperor Zhu Yuxuan who had only been on the throne forty-one days, as well as the few remaining Ming emperors in Guangzhou who could not escape. More than twenty vassal kings were all killed, and only King Zhao was left leading the army.
In February of the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647), Tong Yangjia, the governor-general of Guangdong and Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, and Li Chengdong, the admiral of the Qing Dynasty, sent people to recruit Zhu Youping, King of Zhao of the Southern Ming Dynasty, who had surrendered in Xingning. The monk entered Guangzhou in June to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and was imprisoned in the west Zen room of Guangxiao Temple.
However, due to the special status of Zhao Wang Zhu Youping, the former Ming Dynasty officials still fought to save him for Zhengshuo, and countless people shed blood around Guangxiao Temple. For example, Chen Zizhuang, the eldest son of Panyu, his eldest son Chen Shangyong, and his younger brother Chen Zisheng donated all their wealth and raised money from the villagers. He raised his troops in Jiujiang and joined forces with the volunteers of Chen Bangyan of Shunde and Zhang Jiayu of Dongguan.
They contacted the former Nanming Guangzhou Guard commanders Yang Guangshuan and Yang Jingye in the city as internal agents, and 3,000 Huashan bandits pretended to surrender to the Qing army. They agreed to start an uprising inside and outside at three drums on July 7 to recapture Guangzhou.
However, unexpectedly, Tong Yangjia captured and beheaded all Yang Guanshi and Yang Jingye. He also took Zhao Wang Zhu Youyi to Yuanmiao Temple and ordered him to hang himself. Therefore, of all the right and wrong, only this deep picture was left. The portrait hidden in the west Zen room of Guangxiao Temple was hidden by Zen Master Tianran for the old man Siming to admire secretly.
"I set up my big tent in Guangxiao Temple to warn these people with evil intentions not to test the skill of my sword. And if you want to occupy the title of 'king', I will also give you a warning. , lest you think that when you become King Pingnan in the future, you also think that you can have the final say in your life and fortune!"
Shang Kexi stood with a sword in his hand. The light in the Zen room was dim. At this time, there was some noise around the Zen room. Many generals from Pingnan Palace came in and out in a hurry, their helmets and tassels shaking.
These figures were projected on the windows of the closed Zen room, creating an atmosphere of chaos, as if a war was imminent, so much so that even Shang Zhixin, who was in the room, could not help but feel his palms sweat slightly and his breathing became rapid.
"Father, what happened outside?"
Shang Zhixin was affected by the atmosphere and frowned, but the old King Pingnan was sitting on the Diaoyutai with a calm expression. The counselor Jin Guang also lowered his eyes and said nothing. He only felt that the scene in front of him was different from the past twenty years of military campaigns.
"It's such a trivial matter that I can't keep calm."
Shang Kexi turned the finger of Cui Yu on his hand, "It's just that some rats think that this king doesn't know how to fight and wants to seek death. But they don't understand that today's world has been in chaos for decades, and it should be the world of our warriors."
Shang Kexi, who was standing alone in the meditation hall, pointed to the portrait of a monk on the wall with a shaved head, "The Tianhuang Guiwei and Haoying family don't understand this. They think that with their meager efforts and two empty shouts about the support of the people, they can reverse the situation." The general trend of the world is, in the end, just seeking death."
Shang Kexi waved his robe sleeves after saying this, and the sound of armor leaves piercing the air was like an arrow shooting, setting off the billowing dust in the room. It was indistinguishable in the darkness, but more like a huge beast lingering in the sky, with its claws and teeth in the gaps between the scales. It was all smoke and blood, leaving only a mess behind.
Shang Zhixin squinted his eyes because of Chentu, and had to cover his mouth and nose and said angrily, "What the father said is... the child has been taught..."
The emotional Shang Kexi showed pain on his face, and rebuked in a hoarse voice: "Do you understand?! The kings of Qin, Chu, Shu and Fu in the former Ming Dynasty didn't understand, so they were killed in the wilderness without their whole bodies. The later king of Zhou , King Tang, King Gui, and King Lu understand, but aren’t they being played by a group of warriors?”
"If you say you understand today, I can wait to collect your body tomorrow!"
Jin Guang's heart skipped a beat, fearing that Shang Ke would get angry and say something like, "The emperor will do it only if he has strong soldiers and horses."
The King of Qin, King of Chu, King of Shu, and King of Fu mentioned by King Pingnan were all particularly mediocre among the vassal kings in the late Ming Dynasty. Even though their lives were in danger, they refused to spend money and efforts to defend the country. Each of them died worse than the last, more than three hundred people. Li Zicheng threw the Jin Fu Wang into a pot and cooked it together with the sika deer into a "Fu Lu Banquet", which was divided and eaten by others.
The other kings of Zhou, Tang, Gui, and Lu, except for the unlucky Zhou kings who spent all their wealth to hold Kaifeng but failed, the rest all established small courts with the support of military generals, with titles such as " The names of "Longwu", "Shaowu", "Yongli", and "King Lu supervising the country".
But Shang Kexi said that the rather naked point is that these so-called emperors are just tools of military generals. No matter how wise and powerful they are, they cannot escape the control of warlords such as Zuo Liangyu, Zheng Zhilong, and Sun Kewang. Even a few such as Huang Daozhou and Zhang Huangyan Common civil servants tried to defend the emperor, but they were still destined to be defeated.
There is no chance of winning in civil and military conflicts in this world. Therefore, with Huang Daozhou's wisdom, he can only lead his troops out of Xianxia Pass to fight against the Qing Dynasty. With Zhang Huangyan's talent, he can only run alone to call for help, helplessly watching the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty encroaching on the last inch of the world.
There may be military heroes like Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo who are loyal to the country, but these people themselves are full of factions and refuse to give in to each other. They attack each other without mercy. In the end, it is destined to be difficult.
Jin Guang looked at the still ignorant Crown Prince Shang Zhixin, and suddenly felt a sigh of relief. If he were put in Shang Zhixin's position, he would undoubtedly listen to the lesson sincerely, and he would only shed tears of gratitude in his heart! Because this is not just gossip spoken by Shang Kexi himself, but also something that King Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty and the head of the Shang family must know!
Jin Guang looked at Shang Zhixin anxiously, and hurriedly wanted to persuade Shang Zhixin to kneel down and listen to the instruction, but when he was about to speak, he didn't know how to explain.
Tell him that Shang Kexi is imparting the motto of settling down and settling down? Shang Zhixin would say that he could shoot an eight-stone hard bow, dance with a spear and a big spear, and he could gain fame and wealth on a horse. Tell him that Shang Kexi intends to pass on the position of vassal king to him? Shang Zhixin will only say that King Pingnan is his property, and it is not your turn as a slave to speak!
Shang Kexi looked at Shang Zhixin, Jin Guang lowered his head and said nothing. Shang Zhixin's expression gradually became impatient, and the last trace of expectation in Shang Kexi's eyes also faded, until it was replaced by indifference, and the atmosphere in the Zen room once again settled down.
"Niezi, get out of here!"
Shang Kexi could say something to Jin Guang and also to Li Xinghe, but he could not express it to Shang Zhixin alone, he had to detect it himself. What he just said was about the martial artist Xuanhe, so why didn't he mean that he was walking on thin ice now? Shang Zhixin only remembered that the daughter of the Kong family was handsome. Why didn't he want to think about the "Three Mining Disciples of Liaodong" Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, and now he was the only one left?
Shang Kexi still remembers that in the third year of Shunzhi, his good eldest brother Kong Youde was granted the title of General Pingnan and went to attack Yongli of the puppet Ming Dynasty. From then on, he began to lead the army alone and was in the limelight. Even he, the King of Pingnan, was supposed to be his. .
After Kong Youde returned to Beijing, the situation in the south became uneasy again. Therefore, the Qing government planned to mobilize Wang Sanshun to march to the south. At first, it was decided to use Kong Youde to defend Fujian. Shang Ke was happy to bring peace to Guangxi. However, he knew that Guangxi was remote and the situation was complicated, so he deliberately declined. At this time, Kong Youde "resolutely requested western Guangdong", so the Qing government approved it and renamed him King of Dingnan. He led an army of 20,000 people to Guangxi and guarded it with his family.
At this time, the contradiction between the three people has gradually become apparent. They all found that the Qing court did not need so many Han vassals, let alone so many disobedient warlords. Kong Youde took advantage of the situation and stepped on his old brother. to highlight its unique role.
Shang Kexi understood this truth at that time, so he would add insult to injury when his second brother Geng Zhongming went into hiding, just to monopolize Pingnan affairs and take advantage of the situation to annex the Geng family's influence.
However, things changed so drastically that people were caught off guard, and the results were very clear. Kong Youde took risks and went to Guangxi, and was eventually defeated in Guilin and died in the hands of Li Dingguo. Years of accumulation made Dorgon and Shunzhi cheaper, and he sought stability. Marching into Guangzhou, there were many dangers in the process of conquering Guangzhou Prefecture, and he almost died there. Fortunately, the assassin accidentally hit the deputy, Geng Jimao, and only turned him into a terrifying appearance that was neither human nor ghost.
Wu Sangui is now very high-spirited and wants to take off Yongli's head to claim the title of king, marquis and Yongzhen in Yunnan. He also specially sends people to cooperate with him, but Wu Sangui is still too young after all. He had only seen the fierce Manchus outside Shanhaiguan and the unruly Li Zicheng who saw a piece of stone, but he did not know that there were more terrifying enemies in the world.
What the Qing court called Pingnan and Dingxi at the beginning was a trap, and the situation had already reached the point where the world was in rebellion. It was only Shang Kexi who acted cautiously and had God's help that finally earned the title of Pingnan King. Ke Shang Kexi woke up from nightmares countless times, feeling that the word "王" was a reminder of death, and that he should have died under a hidden arrow!
It was only a few years ago. Kong Youde died, Nikan died, Geng Zhongming died, the pseudo-ming Hongguang, Longwu, and Shaowu also died. Geng Jimao could not be considered alive. Even the arrogant regent Dole Gon also died inexplicably while hunting!
Shang Kexi also knew by intuition that all this must have been planned deliberately by someone, quietly using the world as a chessboard and heroes as chess pieces, and controlling the general trend in the palm of his hand, as if just to give this little piece of land a chance. The narrow country has made room for the heroes who are about to appear...
He held the handle of the sword tightly, and couldn't help but tremble all over, because he thought again of the cold-blooded butcher who looked down upon him, and recalled the confrontations between life and death they had in Guangzhou City, and that Such crazy, evil, cruel and ruthless eyes are the source of nightmares that make Shang Kexi sleepless day and night!
"Father, I came here to tell you that Mr. Li Xinghe has disappeared from his residence. Do you know his whereabouts?"
Shang Kexi breathed a beat faster, and suddenly suppressed the uneasiness surging in his heart, and his voice was raised due to anger.
"Don't ask any more questions, go back to the house immediately!"
The sound of angry curses rang out, and Shang Zhixin pushed open the door of the Zen room in embarrassment, preparing to ride back to the house in the rain and find a servant to beat him to vent his anger. However, he found that there was a chaos outside the door, and the sergeants of Pingnan Palace came and went in admiration. Looking panicked.
Shang Kexi stepped out of the door first and called to the guard at the door: "What's going on?"
"Your Majesty! There was a sudden fire in the west hall of the Zen Temple. Many tourists were trapped inside. The monk pushed down the wall to let the tourists out, so there was a conflict with the people in the palace."
"But later, the wall of the courtyard was shaken by the soil, which broke through another sutra storage hall. The monks came to collect the sutras, and then we blocked them."
King Pingnan's blue robe and armor were very eye-catching. After listening attentively, he spoke decisively.
"Set fire to burn food to disturb the morale of the army, drive the people to attack the city and disrupt the enemy's position. These are all the things left by this king."
Shang Kexi smiled contemptuously, pointed in the direction where the courtyard wall was knocked down and said, "What a little trick of people in the world, why are you afraid of a fire with the heavy rain? You immediately send people to surround the wall and don't let anyone in or out!"
Jin Guang also quickly echoed: "My lord, the other party must be here for the imprisoned martial arts people. We are afraid of playing into the opponent's hands when we dispatch troops and horses at this time..."
Shang Kexi said confidently: "That's because they only know one thing but not the other. Now this city is full of people from Prince Pingnan's palace. No matter how they hide their whereabouts, they can't hide it from the public. In the end, they will be caught in one sweep - —What I want is for them to break in and save people!"
He waved his hand and said, "The entire army must guard the courtyard wall and must not let up!"
In the pouring rain, hurried footsteps came and went, but the figures were invisible. Everything seemed to be a story blocked in another world.
Then, as Shang Kexi said, when the people from Pingnan Palace went to block the collapsed courtyard wall, several masked figures immediately appeared on the wall. They stepped on the black tiles with their feet and walked quickly past. From the roof of the side courtyard of Guangxiao Zen Temple, he jumped into the main hall where martial arts practitioners were imprisoned, and the vermilion wooden door of the other courtyard was immediately knocked down.
"Father, the thieves are here! Watch my child and catch them!"
When Shang Zhixin saw the excitement, he didn't want to leave. He wanted to lead his troops to make a splash, but he found several more figures appearing from the southeast and northwest at the same time. He turned around and fought with King Pingnan's personal guards. In one place, the flash of swords and swords made people feel horrified. The screams of pain and killing were swallowed up in the rain, leaving only pools of blood slowly dizzying in the heavy rain.
Among them were sword masters with ethereal figures, hidden weapon masters with sharp blades like rain, and foreign masters who looked like ghosts. They could almost all fight one against ten, instantly turning the situation around.
"Attack the Chinese army and take the enemy chief directly? Interesting!"
Shang Kexi's eyes burst out with astonishing light, and his old appearance seemed to be re-infused with vitality.
"To use such a trick to detour the tired enemy and attack him to save him, I never expected that there are some smart soldiers among the thieves!"
A series of plausible conspiracies appeared at the same time, which made Shang Kexi feel dizzy. The other party had such a precise grasp of people's hearts that his method of cracking it was already expected by the other party. Whether he was fighting or defending, he could It was inevitable that the opponent would see the flaw - no wonder he chose to set the fire on a rainy day, it turned out to be a sign of weakness to the enemy!
Counselor Jin Guang immediately said: "My lord, let your men escort you away first. As long as you are safe and sound, the thieves will be helpless!"
Jin Guang obviously also saw the uniqueness of the other party's plan, and immediately responded with a plan that eliminated the firepower. For a moment, the secluded courtyard of Guangxiao Temple was filled with shouts of killing, turning into a Shura battlefield of desperate battle, and everyone involved in it Neither can tell whether he is a chess player or a chess piece.
However, Shang Kexi did not panic. Teams of armored guards walked out of the side hall and guarded Shang Kexi in the center, watching the fight continue with cold eyes.
The so-called numerous strategies in marching operations are only to reduce the probability of one's own flaws, rather than to defeat the weak and the strong or use danger to win. If someone really does that, it's not a way to win, but a way to death.
Since ancient times, the way of using troops has been to rely on correct coordination to win by surprise. The "surprise" here does not refer to cunning plots, but refers to the extra force. That is, when fighting the enemy with regular soldiers, always be prepared. An extra force is a surprise force!
The martial arts people in the side hall had broken free from their imprisonment, rushed out of the encirclement and gathered together, struggling to escape outside Guangxiao Temple. Shang Kexi's uncertain expression finally showed a hint of a smile.
I saw him, surrounded by armored guards, stretching out a hand high, and then a row of black gun muzzles instantly appeared in the East Zen Room, instantly targeting the martial arts people who were about to turn their backs...
