Duxue and Chaoshuang are heroic, and the Han family takes the lead in integrity.
Xia Zi died for justice. This incident was like a heavy hammer that hit Liu Yi's heart hard.
The kind of mentality that Xia Qing's return brought Liu Yi with strong troops and self-respect was completely nipped in the bud by this incident. Liu Yi returned to his usual appearance and became timid and cautious again.
Life is like an adverse journey, with difficulties everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will be plunged into an abyss.
Under the leadership of the sentry cavalry of the Bai raccoon camp, Pingtian's army went all the way to Hanshan without daring to delay for a moment.
After several days of marching, Liu Yi gradually calmed down, summoned his important officials, and drew up the marching formation again.
After some deliberation, Liu Yi finally decided to use the northern guards as the central army. Li Erniu was responsible for the dispatch of the central army. Su Daoyun and Wang Dali, two generals, led the headquarters as the front army and were jointly responsible for the dispatch of the front army. Mou Xiao and Qiao Miaoqing He led his headquarters as the rear army, and Xia Qing was in charge of the rear army's dispatch.
This change of plan is entirely based on overall considerations.
Su Daoyun and Wang Dali are experienced and can ensure that the army fights steadily; Li Erniu is a little less experienced, but he is proficient in the art of war and is suitable for the deployment of the Chinese army; Mou Xiao dares to fight and charge, and Qiao Miaoqing has strong martial arts. Under Xia Qing's management, the two of them can Keep the rear army safe.
It can be said that Liu Yi made the most of his existing human resources.
Thousands of people and horses were vigilant and marched all the way into the Taibai Mountains.
The road was lonely, with all the animals disappearing, except for pheasants and young rabbits. Liu Yi thought silently all the way, speculating on the timing and countermeasures for Jiang Ruisheng to stop him.
The army marched to a narrow passage between two towering mountains. Liu Yi's eyes lit up and he suddenly ordered Li Erniu to order the entire army to stop. Li Erniu ordered the flags to wave, and the entire army stood still in unison.
Li Erniu walked to his side and saw Liu Yi frowning.
Before Li Erniu asked why, Liu Yi said in a deep voice, "The mountains here are steep and long, and the roads are narrow and difficult to navigate. It is an excellent place for an ambush."
Li Erniu suddenly realized, "Brother, no, sir, you mean, Jiang Ruisheng will lead his troops to set up an ambush here?"
"It's not impossible!"
Liu Yi didn't say much to Li Erniu, and immediately summoned the sentry cavalry of the Baiji Camp who was responsible for guiding the way, and asked, "Brother, this place is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and is suitable for ambushes. Can your Baiji Camp soldiers be stationed here?" Can you help me investigate?"
The sentry rider of the White Raccoon Camp happily accepted the order, and immediately rode in front of the army. He took out the small whistle in his arms and blew it several times very rhythmically. Seeing no one responded, the sentry rider of the White Raccoon Camp turned his horse and returned to the central army. , said apologetically to Liu Yi, "Sir, the Taibai Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, and the Baiji Camp only has a thousand people, so it is impossible to cover everything and take care of everything. Therefore, we patrol the border on weekdays, mostly focusing on key areas, and the rest of the areas regularly Inspection, unfortunately, my lord, there are no brothers from Bai Raccoon Camp on inspection here today."
Liu Yi said "Oh" and turned to Li Erniu and ordered, "Erniu, you personally take twenty capable soldiers to investigate the tops of the mountains on both sides. Remember, you must be careful. At the same time, inform the surroundings to repel tigers." Help brothers, be on guard."
Seeing this, the sentry rider of the Bai Raccoon Camp who was responsible for leading the way patted his chest and said to Liu Yi with a smile, "Don't worry, Sir, the only one who can dig tunnels in the Taibai Mountains is our Bai Raccoon Camp. With us guiding the way, the general does not have to worry about the underground." Danger."
Liu Yi whispered softly, "Be careful with your ship!"
Li Erniu took action upon hearing the order and quickly led people to find a way to climb the mountain.
At this time, Wang Dali came with thousands of troops on horseback. When he saw Liu Yi, the strong man from the Northeast raised his hands and said, "Sir, the road ahead is rugged and winding, and there may be an ambush. The general suggested that we change the route."
At this time, Mou Xiao also came from the rear. After hearing what Wang Dali said, he immediately retorted, "Sir Wang, as long as our army conducts proper reconnaissance and confirms that the front is clear, this road is still passable. Detouring is time-consuming and laborious. It’s really an unwise move!”
Just as the two were quarreling, Li Erniu returned with the sentry. Before Li Erniu could explain the situation to everyone, suddenly, a clear whistle came from three miles away. Qiao Miaoqing hurriedly came from the rear and said: "I am naked." The brothers of the Tiger Gang sent a signal that there was a vision ahead.
After hearing this, the generals immediately dispersed and returned to their respective posts, ready to prepare.
Liu Yi looked solemn and suddenly laughed.
The little girl standing next to him was really startled and asked, "Brother Yi, are you crazy?"
After Liu Yilang laughed, he said, "Fear is not terrible. What is terrible is the unknown. Since I know that the enemy is here, what else should I be afraid of? In fact, once we master the idea, the unknown is not terrible. We let ourselves know in advance , doesn’t it solve the unknown problem? It also solves the fear! It’s a pity that few people have been able to do this since ancient times!”
Qiao Miaoqing pursed her lips and said, "Brother Yi's words are mysterious and mysterious, making people confused, hum!"
Liu Yi did not argue with the little girl, but held his breath and stared straight ahead.
The front army, Su Daoyun and Wang Dali, have ordered the troops to stop and form formations, with their guns, knives, and swords unsheathed, and their shields and armor ready. The rear army and the center army, under the control of Xia Qing and Li Erniu, are on full alert. .
It was slow at first, then fast, just as the soldiers under Liu Yi's command had just set up their positions, a sudden gust of snow suddenly broke out in the lonely valley, attracting everyone's attention.
The snowy peaks were small in the clouds, and accompanied by bursts of roaring, I could only see a short Chongxi Snow Mountain three miles away. Snow fell like rain, and the heavy snow like a waterfall poured down on the low valley in front, directly sealing the flat fields. The army’s path forward.
After the snow fell, the word "death" made of hundreds of large trees spliced together halfway up the low snow-capped mountains came into view.
When Liu Yi saw this, he couldn't help but sneered, "Are you following Sun Bin's example of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao?"
Qiao Miaoqing asked in confusion, "Brother Yi, where did this come from?"
Liu Yi patiently explained to Qiao Miaoqing, "During the Warring States Period, Sun Bin and Pang Juan were brothers in the same school. Sun Bin was the senior brother and Pang Juan was the junior brother. Due to various reasons, they served Qi and Wei respectively, and King Wei Hui wanted to release him. Sun Bin had an old grudge against Zhongshan, so he sent General Pang Juan to attack Zhongshan. Sun Bin saw the emptiness inside Wei State and figured out a way to take advantage of it. He ambush a heavy army in Maling and ordered the soldiers to plant a tree here. The bark of the big tree was scraped off, and the seven characters "Pang Juan died under this tree" were written on the white trunk, and the archers were ordered to fire thousands of arrows when they saw the light of fire under the tree."
Liu Yi paused slightly, "Pang Juan led his army to chase the Qi army in the dark. He happened to be stationed under a big tree. When he turned around, he saw words on the tree trunk, but he couldn't see clearly, so he ordered someone to light a torch to look after it. Poor Pang Juan , probably before he had finished reading the seven characters, thousands of arrows rained down from both sides. The Wei army was suddenly in chaos and collapsed. Only then did Pang Juan see clearly that the seven characters on the tree were for him to die. In an instant, the ambushes on both sides were The Qi army came to fight bravely, but only a few of their own men were shot by random arrows. Knowing that the situation was over, and recalling all the injustices they had done to Sun Bin before, they had no choice but to draw their swords and kill themselves."
Liu Yi's eyes were sharp, "Today, Jiang Ruisheng set up an ambush here and imitated Sun Bin in carving words on the mountainside. It's not without a sense of ridicule!"
Qiao Miaoqing pulled out her sword, faced the engraved hill, and mocked, "Red tape, huh, I have a sword in my hand to kill all the heroes in the world!"
As soon as Qiao Miaoqing finished speaking, the valley was dark, the surrounding fields were silent, and murderous intentions were rising. Hundreds of beasts suddenly sprang out from under the snow, surrounded on three sides, and the herds of beasts were out of sight, watching eagerly.
Outside the valley, a middle-aged man's voice came, "This place is very good. Is it acceptable to bury it here for the purpose?"
Liu Yi was completely unafraid, raised his chest and raised his head, and responded loudly, "Second uncle! Is that you?"
The man stopped talking, and a scarlet light emitted from the place where the voice came from in the valley.
In an instant, tigers with broken legs, leopards that lost their eyes, deer that lost their ears, tailless minks, hairless storks, half snakes, all dripping with blood, tens of thousands of them, appeared in the depressions in the valley. Hirata's army rushed over.
Liu Yi observed carefully and saw that these beasts, insects, and snakes all had a talisman attached to their bodies. He said to himself, "It seems that Jiang Ruisheng is doing the same trick as the previous two times!"
After Li Erniu drew up his defense in front of the army, he rode his horse to Liu Yi's side and said in surprise, "Bah! Brother, Jiang Ruisheng, this old man, wants to eat all over the world with one move!"
"Dead things are naturally impossible to detect, and it's no wonder that the tigers and dead men are incompetent. Ha, the second uncle is really good at finding places, and he found such a remote valley!" Liu Yi lowered his head in confusion and sighed, "It's all snowy here. Unable to attack with fire, you look at the beasts all over the mountains and plains and keep fighting, fearing that we will really be buried here."
The lives of the army were in danger, and Li Erniu was also a little panicked, "What, what should we do? Boss, make up your mind quickly!"
"Do you think I am Zhang Liang? I am only thirteen years old!" Liu Yi glared at Li Erniu, and then observed carefully.
Suddenly, Liu Yi's eyes lit up, he pointed into the distance and said, "Er Niu, look!"
"Huh? What are you looking at?" Li Erniu looked at the charging beasts, looked again and again, and finally pointed at the zombie beasts with his whip, and said excitedly, "Ah! Ah! Brother, yes!"
Seeing Li Erniu's incoherent words, Liu Yi continued, "Outside Zhangwu City, in Chisong Wilderness, this dead thing appeared twice, both at night. Look, it appeared today. Erbo found a low-lying, dark valley. , this dead thing only dares to run in the shadow of the mountain, but does not dare to appear in the sun."
Li Erniu turned his head and immediately looked at the terrain, then laughed and said, "No wonder there are hundreds of beasts in the South Mountain, but not in the North Mountain. It turns out that these dogs are afraid of light!"
"Command the flag soldiers!"
Understanding the weak points of all beasts, Liu Yi rolled up his robe, and with indescribable high spirits, he ordered, "Give me the order. The whole army will change one word into a sharp cone, with the center army as the tip, and the front and rear armies as the wings. Immediately go all out to the top of the mountain in the north. Go forward and tell the leaders of each army that dead things are afraid of light, and the soldiers must march in the sun as much as possible."
After the general gave the order, the generals took action immediately. It was early afternoon, the south light was shining in the north, and the south slope of the North Mountain was bright. The entire Pingtian army was in uniform, without losing a single soldier, and they quickly rushed to the sun. The dead thing really didn't dare Entering the place where the sun shines, they shrank one by one in the darkness, grinning and roaring at Sergeant Hirata on the top of the mountain.
Sergeant Hirata, who was stationed in Nanshan, looked at the 'ox ghost and snake spirit' below with various expressions. The first time he saw it, he was frightened, and the second time he saw it, he was angry.
Liu Yi, Li Erniu, Xia Qing, Qiao Miaoqing, Mou Xiao, Su Daoyun, and Wang Dali quickly gathered together.
In an open space, Xia Qing tilted her big head, basking in the sun, and said happily, "Hey Nanshan, the sun is shining, it's cool at the bottom and warm at the top, it's so good!"
When Qiao Miaoqing saw Xia Qing acting like it had nothing to do with her, she said coquettishly, "Boss Xia, our butts are on fire, and you're still here leisurely!"
Liu Yi, who has been with Xia Qing for many years, can naturally smell every fart Xia Qing makes. He understands that Boss Xia never engages in loss-making business or fights unprepared battles.
So, he hurriedly stepped forward and rubbed Xia Qing's shoulders, "Boss Xia, do you have a secret treasure with you?"
"I promised your father that I would keep you alive all the way!"
After that, Xia Qing took out an object from her arms and saw that it was pitch black and transparent, the size of a finger, more than an inch long, shining with a moist light under the sunlight. The front end was sharp and pointed, and the cone-shaped lower end was inlaid with several terpene gold threads. , the silk is in the style of "transparent ground pattern", and the body of the talisman is engraved with two ancient seal characters "touch gold".
"This, this is!" Liu Yi looked at it again and again, wondering, "Is this the gold-touching talisman for touching the gold captain?"
Xia Qing nodded and explained, "Back then, in order to make up for the lack of military pay, Emperor Wu of the Wei Dynasty Cao Cao established military ranks such as Faqiu Zhonglang General and Mojin Xiaowei to collect all the calligraphy of the previous dynasties and search for the Yi seals of all dynasties."
Speaking of this, Xia Qing looked at the beasts in Nanshan from afar and said, "To ask for money from the dead, naturally you have to rely on something. To touch the golden talisman, use the sharpest claws of the pangolin and soak it in a ditch for seven or forty-nine days. It must be buried 100 meters deep underground in the Dragon Tower and borrowed the earth's spiritual energy for 800 days. It is black, bright and extremely hard. The two ancient seal characters "touch gold" are engraved on the body of the talisman, which is used for protection and to ward off evil spirits. The method of making gold talismans may have been lost. Boy, I spent most of my life savings to get a piece of this thing!"
Xia Qing lay leisurely on the blanket, holding the golden talisman in one hand. The small talisman swayed back and forth in front of everyone, and said with a smile, "With this thing, boy, your life is safe!"
Liu Yi's eyes sparkled and he grinned, "Look, the name of the Three Heroes of Quzhou is not for nothing! Oh my boss Xia, you have solved our urgent need!"
Everyone laughed.
Liu Yi grabbed the gold-touching talisman, held the gold-touching talisman, and smiled at everyone, "Look, look, with Boss Xia here, I will have a worry-free future!"
Xia Qing rolled her eyes at Liu Yi, "I promised to protect you all the way, and I didn't tell anyone else! There is only one golden talisman, and there are more than a thousand soldiers of the Pingtian Army. Boy, who do you want to give it to?"
Awkward! The scene was once embarrassing!
Holding the gold-touching talisman that was tasteless and was a pity to throw away, Liu Yi sat back with his head lowered. Xia Qing moved her mouth, but did not speak.
If it weren't for his father's orders, the extremely ambitious Mou Xiao would not listen to Liu Yi's instructions. At this moment, he saw that Liu Yi had no good ideas, looked directly at Liu Yi with cold eyes, and said in a cold voice, "My lord, the sun has just arrived, and Sir Liu still needs to make arrangements early." Strategy, I haven’t even tasted the girl’s peach, but I definitely don’t want to die here.”
At this moment, Su Daoyun also stood up and spoke, "Sir, the general is here to help you, thanks to your order. Brothers are full of enthusiasm. They have not even cut off one of the enemy's heads, but they are going to expose their bodies in the wilderness, brothers." We are unwilling to accept this, and please make a decision quickly."
This sentence speaks to everyone's feelings. After all, no one wants to die in this place where birds don't shit.
Some people died, but not completely...
