Cao Cao couldn't help but feel chicken skin when he saw the strange whirlwind in the valley and the faint crying sound. He thought about it for a moment and asked Gongsun Sheng if he had ever brought incense sticks.
Gongsun Sheng said: "How can a Taoist priest not bring something with him when he is eating?" He immediately found a few sticks of incense sticks in his baggage.
Cao Cao dismounted and took it, lit it on the fire stick, held the incense respectfully, and said loudly: "The heroic spirit of the Han family is here. The younger generation Wu Zhi, in order to ward off the aliens, led his troops through your land and disturbed the heroic spirit. I am really uneasy." . Because the military situation is like a fire and cannot be sacrificed, I would like to offer you three sticks of fragrance to express my respect for our juniors! When Wu succeeds in his hundred battles, he will make the Luotian Dajiao here to redeem the fighting souls of our seniors!"
After that, Chang bowed to the ground and stood up. Just as he was about to put the incense somewhere, he heard Hu Sanniang, Shi Qian and others exclaiming in unison -
As soon as Lao Cao lowered his head, he saw a long string of incense on his hand, as if someone was sucking it, it quickly shortened visibly to the naked eye, and turned into gray in the blink of an eye.
Immediately, whirlwinds all over the ground gathered in one place and rolled straight into the sky. In an instant, the clouds broke away, and the sunlight shone through and sprinkled on the bottom of the valley. The coldness that was originally soaked in the bones was gone. Everyone felt inside and outside, and their bodies and minds were warm.
The whole army was amazed when they were in such a wonderland. Gongsun Sheng's face turned red and he shouted loudly: "With a single thought, you can transcend the ghost of an injustice. This is the golden words! My brother Wu Zhi is destined to be together." Allah!"
When he roared out, all the internal skills he had cultivated for decades were unleashed. The loud voice echoed repeatedly in the valley, and the four words "God of Destiny" kept rolling.
Shi Bao worshiped Ming Zun, and he believed in this more than ordinary people. His knees immediately softened and he fell to the ground: "My elder brother is the God of destiny, and my younger brother Shi Bao will fight to the death to protect him!"
Shi Wengong, Shi Qian, Jiao Ting, and Gongsun Sheng all knelt down and said: "My little brother and others will swear to save my brother to the death."
The three thousand troops under his command are elite warriors selected from the eighty thousand troops. Most of them are Han, but there are also Khitan and Xi people. However, at this moment, under the shock of their souls, they all couldn't help but prostrate themselves, and they prostrated themselves from the bottom of their hearts. He shouted: "The King of Wei is the master of destiny, and the villains will fight to the death to protect him!"
Cao Cao looked around, the bright sunshine in the sky illuminated the ferocious peaks and rocks, they were as brilliant as heavenly generals and beasts. There were people prostrating themselves everywhere. Only Hu Sanniang stood blankly, her beautiful eyes were full of intoxication and intoxication. Admiration.
Lao Cao laughed and pointed at her: "Hey! That woman, since you have seen the God of Destiny, why don't you worship me!"
Hu Sanniang came to her senses and rolled her eyes angrily: "You and I are one husband and wife. If you are the God of Destiny, I will be the Queen!"
Cao Cao laughed, stepped forward and hugged his waist, nodded and said with a smile: "Such a heroic spirit! You are enough to be the mother of the world!"
Then he raised his hands to everyone one by one: "Brothers, get up. We are brothers for one day and close for the rest of our lives. Wu will wait with you. I am willing to imitate Liu Guanzhang of Taoyuan!"
The brothers were so hot-hearted that they almost shed tears. Shi Bao wiped his eyes, jumped up and said impassionedly: "Brother treats me like this, and I want to be my brother's Guan Yu..."
Before he finished speaking, Shi Qian stretched out two fingers and pinched the soft flesh under his armpit: "Are you Guan Yu? Did you win after passing Guan Yu?"
Jiao Ting nodded repeatedly: "I haven't asked the beautiful bearded man, brother Zhu Dian, or me, Zhang Fei."
Shi Bao was jumped by Shi Qian, and he grabbed Jiao Ting's neck: "You still want Zhang Fei? Have you asked Lin Chong and Du Bo?"
Jiao Ting was stunned for a moment, then he broke free, raised his face and said, "I, Zhao Zilong, have done what I have done all my life, why do I need to explain it to others?"
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Cao Cao also laughed, but he thought in his heart: "I didn't expect that future generations would love the big-eared group so much. Hey, when the world is settled and I have nothing to do, I will write a book called "The Heroes of Wei Wu". "Biography", to rectify the audio-visual experience of Baidai, for example, we are sworn brothers, I am the eldest brother, Dian Wei is the second brother, Xu Chu is the third brother, the three of us fight against Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian in front of Hulao Pass..."
These thoughts are not enough for outsiders to understand. After all, those who write history are always the winners.
Everyone laughed and laughed for a while, urging the troops to resume their march. The soldiers were all in high spirits, and the rugged mountain roads were traversed as if they were flat ground, and they didn't feel tired at all.
At dusk, we were close to Ninghua County.
The mountain road became more and more rugged and narrow, and after traveling for several more miles, suddenly a hillside stood in front of us, standing majestically in front of us. There was a city on the slope, with a wall three feet and two inches high, and a circumference of more than two miles. The setting sun was like blood, making the city more and more dilapidated.
Shi Qian pointed to the high fort in the distance and said: "That place is Niujiao City. My younger brother and his colleagues found out that there is a Tianchi and a warm spring here. Therefore, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Fenyang Palace to escape the summer heat. In the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to The castle was named Niujiao City because Xinzhou was also known as Wo Niu City. In this dynasty, in order to prevent the invasion of Xixia, Ninghua Junkou was established here and a county was established. In recent years, it has won successive victories over Xixia and the Xia people have stayed away. The road gradually became unknown and there were many bandits, so it was abandoned."
Cao Cao looked at it for a while, shook his head and sighed: "Yanmen Pass is indeed a dangerous place in the world, but without this Niujiao City, the natural danger will inevitably fail. Song Dynasty abolished this place, just like Jiang Wei abolished Yinping! If there are hundreds of people guarding this city, we will It’s sad to wait for wings!”
If you look at the map, it is not difficult to know that the Taihang Luliang Mountains meet and divide Shanxi into two parts. The upper part is Jiuzhou after the mountains of Liao State, and the lower part is Hedong Road of Song State. If it is regarded as an hourglass, the waist in the middle is Yanmen Pass.
However, in the Luliang Mountains, two rivers originate. The Hui River is at the top, flowing from south to north, and the Fen River is at the bottom, flowing from north to south. Wherever the water passes, there are large and small plains, and wide and narrow paths are dotted along the way. People go here and go south. If you look for the dangerous path in the canyon, you can enter Xinzhou, which is the lower half of the hourglass in Shanxi.
The palace was built in the Sui Dynasty and Niujiao City was built in the Tang Dynasty, both to plug this gap. Its significance is just like that of Yinping to the Shu Kingdom.
When Zhuge Liang was explaining his future affairs, he specifically mentioned: "There is no need to worry too much about the roads in Sichuan; only the land of Yinping must be carefully considered. Although this place is dangerous, there will be mistakes for a long time."
Later generations did not listen to his words and did not want to "waste food" here, so it was a pity that Deng Ai made a surprise attack and reached Chengdu with his surprise troops.
Hu Sanniang was too lazy to pay attention to this, and only said with concern: "I don't know if the pool and the warm spring are still there now."
Shi Qian joked and said: "Sister-in-law, my little brother has found out in detail that the lake on that day never overflows with rain, never dries up due to drought, and the clear pavilion is like a mirror. It is naturally still there, but the warm spring is there, but we have to explore it."
Hu Sanniang listened leisurely and fascinated, but she knew that now was a march, but she did not dare to invite Lao Cao to visit the secrets with her.
Unexpectedly, we entered the ruined city, and there was another surprise. There was a palace in the middle. Dozens of hot spring houses were built high and low along the mountain. They were dug into pits and pools, and the water from the warm springs was introduced. They were illuminated by torches. The water is slightly white and very clear.
Hu Sanniang was overjoyed and wanted to take a bath. Old Cao also liked this activity in the wilderness, so he immediately had Hu Sanniang clean it up. He took Hu Sanniang and occupied a hot spring house at the top. The other rooms below were distributed among his brothers.
The so-called hot spring water washes away the fat, and the spring scenery was so full that night, it almost made the king not come to court early.
The next day, everyone got ready and set off, hiking south for several miles. As expected, they saw the Tianchi Lake, which looked like a flawless giant stone in the middle of the vast mountains. The spring sun in the sky reflected the dazzling water in the pool, and everyone was stunned.
Lao Cao pointed and said: "This water may be the source of Fenhe and Huihe rivers. I have read in history books that Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty used gold beads to pierce fish and put them into it. He also shot a giant whale in it with an arrow. Later, he used an arrow to , gold beads, were all found in the Sanggan River, it can be seen that there must be some orifices under the water."
Hu Sanniang asked curiously: "It's not like the ocean. How can there be a giant whale on a high mountain?"
Cao Cao shook his head and said: "This is recorded in the history books. It may be some kind of huge fish. The ancients were ignorant and thought it was a whale. It is unknown."
Jiao Ting stared straight at the big lake and said, "It would be great if the Ruan brothers were here. If it's a big fish or a giant whale, we'll know if we go down and take a look."
Shi Bao stared and said, "You are such a good brother! Do you know whether that giant fish eats human flesh?"
When Hu Sanniang heard that giant fish eat people, she was immediately frightened and did not dare to stand by the water. On a whim, Lao Cao ordered some dried meat.
Shi Qian said with a smile: "The dried meat may not be able to attract giant fish if it has no blood. Please wait a moment, brother!" He took out a slingshot from his arms and flew away. He came back not long after, holding three hot hares in his hand. It's dripping with blood.
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Zhao Zilong, throw it as far as you can."
Jiao Ting was overjoyed when he heard Cao Cao calling him like this. He nodded, picked up a hare, pulled his legs backwards, spun around in two or three circles, and threw it out.
The rabbit flew more than ten feet away and fell into the water without any movement.
Everyone stared eagerly for a while before Shi Bao became impatient and shouted: "Jiao Zilong is useless, let me, Shi Yunchang, try it!"
Immediately, Qian grabbed a rabbit from his hand, backed out a few feet, ran as fast as he could, reached the water's edge, jumped hard, and threw it. As expected, it flew farther than Jiao Ting could reach, but fell into the water and fell silent. No interest.
Cao Cao looked at it for a moment and saw that the water surface was still. He shook his head and said: "That's all. Shooting fish and whales. I guess it's the ancients who want to put gold on their faces. Let's go."
Hu Sanniang saw that Shi Qian still had one in his hand, so she asked him for it and said with a smile, "Let's go, and I will throw one away later."
After saying that, he raised his hand vigorously and threw the rabbit.
She had not accumulated any strength, so she threw it only five to six feet away. Shi Bao and Jiao Ting immediately laughed.
Unexpectedly, before the rabbit fell into the water, there was a loud noise from the water, the waves exploded, and a huge carp leaped into the air and bit the rabbit in one bite.
Everyone on the shore took a step back in shock. The whole body of the fish jumped out of the water. It was more than a foot long from head to tail. It was covered in golden scales. It was so dazzling in the sun!
With a loud splash, the big fish fell into the water and disappeared instantly. Jiao Ting screamed strangely: "Giant whale!"
Gongsun Sheng was a cultivator after all, and he reacted the fastest. He shook his turtle shell fan, looked calm and composed, and said with a smile: "What a giant whale! Can't you see the dragon's whiskers on its lips? It's clearly a golden carp. But When a carp grows to such a large size, it is very frightening, and it may turn into a dragon!"
After hearing this, Jiao Ting slapped his thigh and said, "Ah! I understand. I'm afraid this fish knows that my brother is the God of Destiny and has come here to ask for silence!"
When everyone heard this, their eyes suddenly changed, and they couldn't help but look at Cao Cao.
Cao Cao waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't listen to Jiao Ting's random talk and ask for silence on anything. He is obviously a greedy rabbit."
Before he could finish his words, suddenly there was a flash of light near the shore, and the big fish swam back and was wandering in the shallow water in front of everyone.
Hu Sanniang was surprised and said: "Oh, I'm really here to ask for a seal! My husband, Jiao Ting is such a straight person and he never talks nonsense. Don't accuse him unjustly in the future."
When Cao Cao saw that Yu Lian was not leaving, he looked around. Except for Gongsun Sheng, who was still quite calm, several brothers and thousands of soldiers were all opening their mouths and staring straight. They looked at the fish and themselves, obviously. The matter of "asking for silence" is already firmly believed.
Cao Cao secretly thought: The thing about ghosts and gods is false after all. It is probably because there has been no one here for many years, so the fish does not know how to avoid people, and it has been hooked by a few rabbits. It is addicted. Do you expect me to feed it again?
But I heard Gongsun Sheng smile and say: "Brother, due to fate, this golden carp can be considered a blessing. Why not seal it with a seal?"
Lao Cao looked at him, and he knew something immediately. He laughed and said, "The Taoist priest is right. Things in the world are nothing more than fate, and what all living beings want is nothing more than blessing!"
Then he plucked up his courage, walked a few steps towards the water, pointed his finger and said: "Golden Carp, you and I meet here, and we are destined to be together. I will promise you to become a dragon, but remember to make clouds and rain in the future to protect this place." The common people live together."
They didn't know whether the fish got what he wanted or was frightened by his approach. Everyone watched as the fish nodded a little, flicked its tail, and disappeared into the depths of the smoke.
Gongsun Sheng said loudly: "We are reunited with God in Tianchi, and the golden carp kowtows to worship the human emperor! Everyone, we are all witnesses of today's grand event!"
Hu Sanniang was overjoyed and rushed forward to hug Lao Cao with a smile as bright as a flower: "Hey! This golden carp is so snobbish. It only worships the emperor, so why not worship the empress?"
Seeing that she was taking her seriously, Cao Cao couldn't help but laugh, and turned around and said, "Today's adventure can be considered auspicious. I expect that I will be invincible with our troops this time!"
After hearing this, all the troops cheered in unison.
Lao Cao laughed and waved his troops to advance.
In the afternoon, when we descended from the mountain into a canyon, there were suddenly several loud thunders in the sky, and then it started to rain.
You must know that the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, but it will become even more difficult when it rains.
Gongsun Sheng's face was full of surprise. He pinched his fingers, turned around and pointed in the direction of Tianchi, and shouted loudly: "Brother, you made that golden carp a dragon. It really obeyed your orders and came with clouds and rain. This Spring rain is as valuable as oil, and the people here are all considered to have received the favor from my brother."
He had a good voice and used his inner energy to shout so that the whole army would know it.
When the troops thought about it, it turned out to be logical!
For a time, the morale was getting higher and higher. Not to mention that the road below was just a rugged mountain road, and it was also the Sea of Fire and Knife Mountain. I was afraid that it would be flattened by a big attack.
On the second day, Lao Cao and others jumped out of the mountains and occupied Guo County in one fell swoop.
This county is located in the north of Xinzhou and is a county under Daizhou. It is only more than 20 miles away from Yanmen Pass.
Lao Cao took out the bird map and compared it for a long time, only to realize that he and others took the wrong path in the mountains. He didn't want to hit the mountain by mistake, but they ended up closer to Yanmen than the original target.
Looking at the sky, it was raining non-stop, and Lao Cao couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that the golden carp had to get my letter? What kind of weather has it really become? Otherwise, how could it rain like this at the right time——
If it hadn't been for the rain, how could we have taken this shortcut by mistake?
Besides, wouldn’t it be a rainy day like this that would be good for me to win the level?
This is exactly what happened: Lao Cao was destined to revive the Han Dynasty, and the people in the barren land sighed. He flew to seize Yanmen Pass and restore the Jin'ou Hu Yunduan.
(End of chapter)
