"...Learn the five methods, cultivate and cure confusion, practice to become wise, and follow this practice to achieve Buddhahood. That is, the Eighth Assembly Puguang Hall said that there are eleven grades, namely the ten concentration, the ten penetration, and the ten endurance. The Tathagata has a long life Quantity, the residence of Bodhisattva, the unthinkable Dharma, the ten bodies are in the sea. With good merits and the conduct of Samantabhadra, the Tathagata appears, this is it. Coolness is the first six grades, the cause of enlightenment is round, and the last five grades, the fruit of bright and wonderful enlightenment is full. …”
In the small market to the west of Tongfu Inn, the abbot of Puguang Temple, Huiyuan Monk, was still explaining the Avatamsaka Sutra to the believers. In fact, he had been teaching for nearly an hour. The sun was setting in the west, and it was almost half an hour later. , the sun was about to set, but no one among the believers who participated in the Dharma conference found it boring. Instead, they all listened with great interest and seemed to have forgotten the time.
In the lobby on the first floor of Tongfu Inn, Scorpio couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief after learning about the situation outside. He thought to himself: It seems that these monks are really just here to lecture the people.
Scorpio has actually always been very wary of this Dharma gathering. He couldn't help but be wary. In the days since they took control of Tongfu Inn, except for a brief commotion when Jian'anfang was surrounded by officers and soldiers, , Jian'anfang has always been calm at other times, at least on the surface.
Today, a group of monks from Puguang Temple suddenly came to Jian'anfang to hold a Dharma conference. It was impossible to say that there was no conspiracy. From the beginning, Scorpio suspected that the masters from the government must be monks who were teaching scriptures or attending Dharma conferences. Among the people, he intended to take the opportunity to cause trouble and rescue Li Tai in the inn, so he was on guard in his heart and sent his brother Mu Jiao to personally keep an eye on Li Tai!
But the Dharma Conference has been going on for more than an hour now, and the group of monks from Puguang Temple are still preaching honestly. There seems to be no unusual behavior, and nothing special happened inside or outside the inn. Everything seems to be They were all so normal, proving that he had indeed been overly worried before. This was indeed a normal Dharma conference that could no longer be normal!
Thinking of this, Scorpio couldn't help but relax his vigilance a little.
Once the string in his heart relaxed, he couldn't help but feel a little sleepy. He hadn't had a good night's sleep since he kidnapped Li Tai the night before yesterday. On the first night, Xuan Ye was worried about the government officials attacking the inn at night. , to rescue Li Tai, so he ordered all the Turkic wolf guards to be on guard inside and outside the inn. As the number three person in the inn's wolf guards, Scorpio naturally stayed up all night;
Last night, Xuan Ye and Tian Ying left the inn together and went to the governor's prison to rescue Zhao Deyan. Although the plan was foolproof, they were afraid of an accident, so Scorpio stayed up all night worried. Until dawn, Xuan Ye and Tian Ying did not come back. Apparently something had happened. Naturally, Scorpio was not in the mood to catch up on sleep during the day. He had to "take charge of the overall situation" on behalf of Xuan Ye and Tian Ying and lead the gang of wolf guards in the inn to escape. sky!
At this time, listening to the faint voice of preaching coming from the small market to the west, Scorpio relaxed his heart, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and after a while, he fell into a light sleep.
Anyway, there is nothing unusual inside and outside the inn. Mu Jiao is still staring at Li Tai in the guest room. If he takes a nap, it should not affect the overall situation... Well, the old monk of Puguang Temple is really too hypnotic by chanting sutras...
This was the last moment Scorpio was conscious, and the thoughts flashed through his mind.
In fact, the Sanskrit sounds used by Master Huiyuan in his sermons only have the effect of calming and concentrating the mind, and have no hypnotic effect. If it really had such a magical effect, Li Junxian would have asked Master Huiyuan to stand outside the inn and use Sanskrit sounds to A roar inside made all the Turkic spies inside fall asleep, so there was no need to go to all the trouble of making so many arrangements.
In addition, on the surface, as Scorpio imagined, there was nothing abnormal inside or outside the inn at this time, but that was only on the surface. However, the actual situation was that around the inn, at some point, there were some more people, some who looked like Very normal person:
Vendors selling watermelons, beggars begging for food, big men drinking and selling tea, sellers carrying poles, old men pushing carts, boys pulling carriages to transport goods, as well as pedestrians coming and going or people staying at various stalls. Diners, tea drinkers...
Obviously, there are more people outside the inn than before, and it is more lively!
But the Turkic spies who were guarding outside the inn didn't care, because these people were perfectly normal in their clothes and behavior, and there was really nothing to doubt. In their opinion, the reason why the streets near the inn became so different today It was more lively than the previous few days, mainly because of the Dharma assembly in the small market. These stall vendors must have seen so many people outside the market attending the Dharma assembly, so they immediately came out with their carts to do business!
After all, during the period when the government closed Jian'an Square, the vendors in the square must have been exhausted!
Therefore, instead of paying attention to these "insignificant" people, it is better to focus on the small market. After all, the monks giving lectures there and the people listening to the lectures are all from outside Jian'anfang. Among those people Among them, the person most likely to sneak into the government!
Moreover, the Turkic spies were ordered to always pay attention to the Dharma gathering!
Therefore, it has to be said that the Dharma gathering held by Puguang Temple attracted the attention of most of the Turkic spies outside the inn!
"...General Li, all of us have arrived at the designated location and lurked down. We are just waiting for your order. Our experts will definitely be able to clear the sixty-five outposts and outposts outside the inn within the tea time. Get rid of all the secret whistles, and no fish will slip through the net!"
To the southwest of Tongfu Inn, in a dilapidated courtyard, a ragged, unkempt "little beggar" whispered to a young man in the courtyard wearing coarse clothes and a bamboo hat.
According to what the little beggar said, this young man turned out to be a general. However, as a general of an army, he did not wear military armor but wore ordinary people's coarse cloth clothes. I don't know what the reason for this was.
The young man nodded silently when he heard the words, and the "little beggar" continued: "To ensure that nothing goes wrong, I just walked around the inn a few more times to make sure that there were no omissions or errors in the 'defense map' of the inn that I drew before. The number and location of sentinels and concealed sentinels has not changed!"
When the young man heard this, he couldn't help but frown. He said somewhat reproachfully: "What? You actually went around the inn again? What a nonsense! If the Turkic spies notice it, it will not only affect the plan, but also your life will be in danger !”
After these conversations, the identities of the two people in the small courtyard were revealed. They were Li Junxian, the commander of Baiqi, and Tiedan!
Tiedan scratched his head and said: "Don't be upset, General Li. I was just worried that the positions of the Turkic spies' overt and covert sentries would change, so I thought of checking again. I was very careful with my movements. Besides, I was touching the platoon at noon. When the guards outside the inn saw me, they just thought I was a beggar. Even if they saw me wandering outside the inn, they wouldn't care! Besides, the Turkic spies who were guarding the inn now were all distracted. At the Dharma gathering in the small market in the west, you didn’t notice me at all!”
At noon, Tiedan disguised himself as a beggar and wandered around the inn for a long time. He even tried to enter the inn to beg for food. In the end, he was kicked out by the Turkic spy guarding the door of the inn, and he was slightly injured for this.
However, Tiedan's move was not without success. After that brief "fight", he discovered that the main entrance of the inn had more than just defense forces on the surface. There were also two hidden sentries hidden on the side of the roof on the first floor. With a telescope, Observe, this position is just outside the viewing angle.
And there's another advantage - getting "familiar" in front of those two Turkic spies in advance!
So he just walked around outside the inn a few times with confidence, because even if he was discovered, others would only regard him as a beggar and would not think of him elsewhere.
"Well! The Dharma gathering in the small market indeed attracted most of the attention of the Turkic spies. Otherwise, it would be difficult for our people to lurk outside the inn!"
Li Junxian nodded after hearing this, but there was no relaxed look on his face, because the current situation is still not optimistic. On the surface, the government's experts are already in place, but the next action is the key. They need to do it in a very short time. Within the time limit, eliminate all the open and hidden sentries outside the inn, rush into the inn, and rescue Li Tai before the Turkic spies inside the inn do anything to endanger Li Tai's life!
This sounds like an absolutely impossible task, because once they attack the other party's overt and covert sentries outside the inn, the Turkic spies inside the inn will definitely hear the movement and will arrest Li Tai as soon as possible. At hand, let's fight to the death!
After a pause, Li Junxian looked at Tiedan and said: "According to the pattern observed yesterday, the Turkic spies will change shifts around the fourth quarter of the hour. We must act before the fourth quarter of the hour. We will use the fireworks as a signal. Hearing the explosion of fireworks, everyone acted at the same time!
There are a total of twenty-five people on our side, including you and me, and a total of sixty-five people are guarding the outside of the inn. According to the plan, you and your father will take care of the main entrance of the inn as soon as possible. There are two open sentries and two hidden sentries. Later you go back and lurk, ready for action! "
Twenty-five VS sixty-five!
It sounds like there is a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, but Li Junxian has analyzed it many times before. He cannot use brute force to rescue Li Tai, but can only use skill. Therefore, he only brought 25 people for this rescue operation, but these 25 people They are all top-notch masters. At the top of their game are Li Junxian and Wang Chengwu, two masters at the master level, and Han Lizheng, a master who is infinitely close to the master level. The rest are all above the Qi Transformation realm, and Tiedan is only slightly stronger. Worse, the strength is only in the early stage of Qi transformation, and most of the remaining people are in the middle or late stage of Qi transformation!
With such an extremely powerful combat force, let alone the overt and covert sentries that destroyed 65 Turkic spies, even if the number of opponents was doubled, there would be no problem in destroying them. The difficulty lies in the control of the Turkic spies in the inn. Li Tai, the "heavyweight" hostage, made Li Junxian a little jealous!
The members of this rescue team come from various forces, including eight from the Hundred Cavalry, ten from the Forbidden Army, and five from the Wang family in Taiyuan. Together with Tiedan and Han Lizheng, there are twenty-five people in total.
There is no one from Bingzhou Camp!
Because of Zuo Gongquan's collusion with Xuan Ye and Tianying, Li Junxian doesn't particularly trust the people in Bingzhou Camp. This rescue operation is very important, and the people in the rescue team must be 100% reliable. People, although Fang Gongteng carried out a comprehensive cleanup of the Bingzhou camp after telling the story about Zuo Gongquan, what if something slipped through the net?
Therefore, when forming the rescue team, Li Junxian did not select experts from Bingzhou Camp, because once an unreliable person enters the rescue team, it will definitely cause a devastating blow to the rescue operation at a critical moment!
This is why Li Junxian told Wang Yuqian and Wan when he asked Wang family members to choose people with absolutely clean and reliable identities!
"Don't worry, General Li. There will definitely be no problem with my father and I!"
Tiedan bowed and accepted the order. After saying that, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he showed a hint of excitement and said to Li Junxian: "By the way! I just saw Qingque when I was walking around the inn. He was on the second floor of the inn." In the first guest room on the west side of the building, he has been standing next to the window, watching the Dharma assembly in the small market. I guess Qingque must have realized that we want to use this Dharma assembly to rescue him!"
"The first guest room on the west side of the second floor of the inn? I know where it is. It's the Tianzihao guest room of Tongfu Inn. Zhao Deyan lived in that guest room back then!"
When Li Junxian heard this, he couldn't help but get excited. When he arrested Zhao Deyan, he had entered Tongfu Inn, so he knew that the first guest room on the west side of the second floor of the inn was the Tianzihao room of Tongfu Inn. He patted the iron egg on his shoulders, he said excitedly: "Great! Now we have finally determined the location of His Highness!"
Previously, they had never been able to determine which guest room Li Tai was staying in, because outsiders could not enter the inn, and Li Tai rarely had the opportunity to show up at the window. This posed certain hidden dangers, because they would "attack" later. After entering the "Inn", you have to search every room to find Li Tai, and there are "variables" during the time you are looking for Li Tai!
Well now, with the "accidental discovery" of Tiedan, this "variable" is completely gone!
Thinking of this, Li Junxian could no longer blame Tie Dan for "acting without authorization", because without Tie Dan's "acting without permission", there would be no such important unexpected discovery!
"...The plan needs to be changed temporarily. Tiedan, I have to trouble you to go to the west of the inn to inform Han Xu and Lin Ping of the Imperial Army to lurk at No. 3 lurking point in the southwest and No. 8 lurking point in the southeast respectively. Waiting for orders, Fei Ying and I will take their original positions!"
After pondering for a moment, Li Junxian quickly made a decision.
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(End of chapter)
