Leaving a division commander to guard the prisoners, after defending the West Gate, Mai Ke led the rest of the men and horses to chase and kill the fleeing Yan Wangcheng.

When Mai Ke arrived in the northwest of Yingzhou City, he saw that the houses here were dense, taller than those in other places, and there were some relatively large courtyards, forming courtyards of different sizes.

Outside a manor with a radius of no less than 1,000 acres, Xie Qian came to greet Mai Ke and introduced him to the current situation.

It turned out that the defense here was very tenacious, and the two sides finally attacked after repeated strangulations.

But just when the Heavenly Army was not firmly established, Hades Duo led about 100,000 people to support! Fortunately, the Heavenly Army had already entered the compound, and the strong courtyard walls had become the help of the Heavenly Army!

Even so, after destroying 50,000 enemies, the Celestial Army still paid the price of 10,000!

Knowing that reinforcements were coming from outside, the Yan family inside desperately fought back, wanting to cooperate with the reinforcements, and in the end, I don't know how they operated, they still broke through the barrier of the Heavenly Army from the northwest corner and received the remaining 50,000 reinforcements.

As the two spoke, they walked in, until they reached the innermost point, where they were on a mountain in the middle of the park, and they were exhilarating each other.

At this time, a team suddenly rushed out of it and rushed out to the north!

The heavenly army there didn't stop it!

A division commander of the Heavenly Army who was in charge of the attack in that direction was in mourning, and the team of men and horses who had escaped from the circle just now had returned!

Not only did they come back, but they also brought back Yan Wangcheng's 50,000 people.

Now the division commander understands that they just went out to pick up people!

Since you are willing to enter the encirclement. The division commander also breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered everyone not to block them head-on, just seize the opportunity to attack from the side and kill more enemies!

As a result, after paying the price of more than 10,000 people, Yan Wangcheng led 40,000 people to go in again.

"Now the number of enemy troops inside is about 150,000!" Xie Qian said to Mai Ke, "The last strength of the enemy is concentrated here, and this is the last base of the Yan family, they must have prepared some perfect strategy; Grounds at a glance. If you still can't see the crowd, you know that there must be something else inside. ”

The two were muttering, and the situation on the hill had changed again, and it turned out that there were figures everywhere. Now no one is gone!

Carefully observe the future. The two climbed the mountain.

The two went straight to the top of the mountain. Then look around.

The first thing that entered Mai Ke's sight was that there were strange rocks everywhere, and there was no grass.

The bare rocks glow grayish-white in the afterglow of the setting sun. The mountain wind is raging and rampage. Tumbling in the forest of stones.

The roar caused by the mountain wind blowing through the cracks in the stone is like the roar of a group of beasts, some sharp and loud, some low and deep. Brave people, like Mai Ke, of course, let it go and don't take it seriously, while those with more sensitive nerves may have rich associations and fluctuating hearts.

Mai Ke and Xie Qian couldn't help but look awkward, a lonely mountain that was calm and ordinary just now, I don't know why, such a change suddenly happened.

Mai Ke and Xie Qian chose a commanding height with a wide field of vision, stood firm, and first came to look around, condescendingly, and have an intuitive understanding of the surrounding scene.

When I attacked just now, I didn't think how high this hill was, but now when I look at it, it looks very high, and I can see a long way outside the city.

Looking to the north, but see the mountains and mountains, the longitudinal mountains are alternate, the green trees are halfway up the mountain as skirts, and the white clouds are all covered with veil canopies.

At a glance to the south, a piece of pastoral land, flat and open, a hundred roads and Qibu pass through the eight fields, and a water crosses the four directions.

Looking eastward, there are fruit groves and farmhouses, descending the stairs, men, women and children looming from time to time, and the sounds of chickens, dogs, cows and horses are heard from time to time.

Looking down to the west, several places are crowded and prosperous, and the high-rise buildings and vast buildings gather in one corner, and the vast smoke waves gather in the northwest.

At this time, the sunset shone obliquely on the green mountains, and the distant peaks sprinkled with thousands of golden threads; the blue sky hung high with white clouds, and the earth was covered with a jasper plate.

It is the inexhaustible number of thousands of customs, and the mountains and rivers are full of enchantment.

Seeing such a majestic natural landscape that he had never seen before, Mai Ke suddenly felt refreshed.

Looking at the beautiful mountains and rivers, Xie Qian couldn't help but be full of pride and high morale.

Time did not allow Mai Ke and Xie Qian to linger for too long, so they took back the attention that was deeply attracted by the splendid mountains and rivers, and instead focused on the scenery around them.

The entire summit area is about four or five hectares in circumference, and there is nothing but oddly shaped rocks.

The two decided to patrol the edge of the hill for a week to see if there were any attractive goodies, especially the flaws left by the enemy.

The starting point of the duo is the eastern part of the mountaintop, and the direction of the cruise is counterclockwise, from east to north.

Not far away, a natural boulder is blocking the road. It took a lot of effort and overcoming a lot of difficulties and obstacles to step on this stubborn stone.

Just as Mai Ke left it behind and was about to continue westward, Xie Qian grabbed Mai Ke and whispered in surprise: "Look, what is it?"

Mai Ke turned around and looked in the direction of Xie Qian's finger.

I saw a cave looming behind the huge rock that the Mai Ke had just crossed.

"Let's go and look at the cave, maybe the enemy is hiding in it. So saying, the two of them walked towards the cave.

At first glance, the cave seems to be quite old, and it is difficult to tell whether it was excavated by hand or natural. Stones of different shapes, of different sizes, were piled up in and out of the cave, covering most of the holes.

Mai Ke approached the entrance of the cave and looked inside, and there seemed to be a lot of things inside.

Mai Ke decided to go inside and find out.

Of course, he couldn't go in by himself, so Mai Ke called his mixed special combat team, the guards led by Da Niu, and Yue Blade's monks.

Everyone cleared the few big rocks that stood in the way, tried to get in, and then entered the cave.

As soon as they entered the cave, they found that there was a different world in the cave.

As soon as you enter the cave door, you will see a long corridor stretching to the left and right.

Because of the dim light in the cave, the Mai Ke could not see where the end of the corridor ended.

Mai Ke took out the flashlight from the equipment bag. Turn on to brighten.

Under the light of the flashlight, the wheat kees could see clearly in a range of seven or eight meters in diameter.

Everyone stood still, looked left and right, and found that seven or eight meters away on the left was the end of the cave. The cave on the right leads straight down and there is no end in sight.

Mai Ke decided to search to the right.

As he walked forward, Mai Ke paid special attention to the rock walls on both sides of the cave to see if there were any signs of artificial excavation or other meaningful things hidden.

At the same time, Mai Ke is also very worried to prevent sudden dangers.

But. Walk a few dozen meters. Nothing was found, not a trace of artificial carving.

As far as the eye can see, it is desolate and full of rocks. or dust covering. or moss spreading.

On the other hand. Mai Ke and the others also had a safe journey, and nothing frightening happened.

The cave does not extend straight, but gently descends the slope.

All the way. I just feel that there are uneven heights and potholes everywhere.

When you go down, sometimes it is soft dust, sometimes it is hard rock, sometimes it is cold mountainwater.

After walking slowly for about 20 minutes, everyone finally came to the end of the cave on the right.

After a short rest, Mai Ke approached the cave wall, patrolled from left to right, approached the flashlight, and observed carefully.

It didn't take long for Mai Ke to notice several strangely shaped arches in the middle of the rock wall.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a stone door inside the arch, tightly closed, and no gap can be seen.

Mai Ke wanted to see if he could open the door and enter.

Under the tentacles, it was cold.

Mai Ke shouted with one hand and pushed towards the stone gate, but the stone gate did not move.

Mai Ke's dark luck internal strength is left and right, and a vigorous force comes out, and the stone gate is still as stable as a rock.

Mai Ke switched to reaching the stone gate with both hands, first carrying the boat against the current for a few minutes, and when he felt energetic, his arms screamed violently, and his hands knocked out, and a condensed greater force was suddenly added to the stone gate.

I don't want the stone gate to just sound slightly, and there is no movement.

Seeing this, Yue Jian also stepped forward to help Mai Ke.

The strength of the two of them, Xie Qian was added later, and they were pushed a few more times, but the effect was still the same.

After failing to open the door, several people took a few steps back and gave up trying.

Mai Ke looked at Shimen and pondered for a while, and suddenly remembered the lecture that Master Yi had given him before.

When he once talked about the combination of formation and architectural art, Master once mentioned that there is an application of using ancient Chinese battle formations in fortifications, such as Qimen Dunjia and Jiugong Bagua formations.

Without the expertise of these bizarre things, it is difficult to decipher them.

Maybe Mai Ke is in good fortune and happens to run into such an application.

It's a pity that Mai Ke doesn't know much about the master's lectures at most, and now I'm afraid that he will hate less when the book is used.

However, Mai Ke still remembers one thing, that is, to deal with such a formation, you can't use brute force. One is that brute force doesn't work, if the materials used in the formation are strong enough.

The second is that brute force may cause damage or danger.

For example, there are valuable, fragile and fragile items hidden in the array, which are immediately destroyed in the event of violence, or explosives, which are immediately detonated at the touch of a mechanism, and the jade is burned.

Mai Ke told Xie Qian and Yue Jian about Mai Ke's thoughts, and they also felt the same way.

Although the two of them have deep military attainments, they do not have a deep study of such a formation.

Mai Ke then learned more about the clearance, and searched carefully paragraph by paragraph to see how many arches there were at the bottom.

As a result, Mai Ke identified a total of eight arches.

They are arranged in a row, each spaced about five meters apart.

Mai Ke also noticed that in the middle of each door, there was a large Chinese character.

After careful discernment, we know that it is those eight characters of Qian, Kun, Kan, Zhen, Gen, Xun, Dui, and Li, which represent the eight things such as heaven, earth, water, thunder mountain, wind, ze, and fire.

However, although Mai Ke knew that these were the eight characters representing the eight trigrams, Mai Ke could not understand why the eight characters representing the eight trigrams appeared here, whether there was something behind the eight arches, and what was there.

By this time, Mai Ke was convinced that the cave was the product of man-made excavation, or at least the use of natural caves by man.

Although they knew that they couldn't break the maze, the Mai Ke were still not too desperate. I carefully studied each door again, hoping for a breakthrough.

The result was still no progress, but it was not without gain, and the Mai Ke at least learned more about the arches and their surroundings.

First of all, the stone used to make the door is the same color as the rock of the surrounding door frame, and it seems that the whole piece was intentionally preserved when the cave behind the door was excavated.

The harmony of the colours and formats of the doors and frames is a testament to the skill and ingenuity of the openers.

At the same time, the Mai Ke also found that different symbols were carved on the door frames around the arches. That's a number of straight lines of different lengths. Mai Ke knew that their different arrangements also represented one of the eight trigrams.

In Master's office, Mai Ke once saw a diagram of yin and yang gossip full of similar symbols.

All of them. All point to one point: this cave is closely related to the Bagua Array.

To get into the hole. You have to be familiar with gossip.

Mai Ke's current gossip is far from the requirements.

Relying on Mai Ke himself, that's the end of it, but Mai Ke has a golden finger.

He immediately asked the spirit to move. Ask it to guide him to open the Bagua Array!

Kung Fu for a while. There is a result.

The spirit rhino moved and started with the gossip map. Mai Ke introduced some specific applications.

On the surface, gossip is an auxiliary tool used by the ancients to predict good fortune and evil, but in essence, it represents the ancients' perception of the world.

In the opinion of the ancients. The heaven and earth, wind, thunder, water, volcano, and Ze represented by Bagua are the eight basic material forms of the world's existence. Everything in the world is nothing but an illusion or appearance of these eight substances. The application of gossip in different fields has since evolved into different disciplines, such as economics, politics, military, and so on.

The Bagua Formation is an application in the military field.

So where did gossip come about?

Mai Ke couldn't help asking.

Lingxi Yidong briefly introduced the source of the gossip.

Bagua was first recorded in the Book of Changes, the first of the four books and five classics of the Chinese classical thought, the so-called life Taiji, Taiji gives birth to two yi, two yi gives birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip.

"Since Bagua comes from the I Ching, you also have to have a basic understanding of the I Ching in order to truly understand the Bagua. "Lingxi Mobile's voice system prompts.

According to Lingxi Yidong, the so-called I Ching is a book compiled by the ancients, which records the different changes of the 64 hexagrams evolved from the eight trigrams, as well as the various conditions and reasons that prompted the changes.

Of course, when divination is done with eight trigrams, the so-called change is just a difference in the other hexagrams placed with the yarrow of divination, and therefore the position of the yaku.

When gossip is not used for divination, but for other occasions, such as arranging troops, it is varied and can be used as you like.

Fortunately, Mai Ke didn't plan to tell fortunes or read feng shui for others, so she didn't have to worry about the meaning of the sixty-four hexagrams.

Then, Lingxi told Mai Ke about the general knowledge of the Bagua Array.

For example, which are the Jimen and which are the murderous gates, the Jimen are the only ones who can enter and exit unharmed, and the murderous gates are dangerous and must be avoided.

Lingxi moved and told sù that the location of the Mai Keji Gate is generally located in the northwest of Qian, and the Shengmen in the northeast of Gen.

The Chinese on the eight doors of this cave represent eight different formations, and the back of each gate has a different arrangement.

If it is a living door, there will be no design to put people to death.

There may be some teasing tricks inside, harassing visitors, and it is harmless.

If it is a murderous door, it will be difficult and dangerous, the light will hurt people, the heavy will kill people, and the lightest consequence will also be destroyed and destroyed, so that the intruder will gain nothing.

Another function of the Chinese character in the center of the cave door is to secretly mark what is hidden in the cave.

The symbols on those door frames are the codes to open the cave doors, or the message switches that activate other secret passages.

If you don't know how to open the password, no one will be able to open the door at once.

There are usually two types of passwords, one is that you can only try it once. If it can't be opened, then the person who opened the door proves that the enemy is the enemy, and the next action can be to destroy the contents of the cave, or to destroy the incoming enemy, or both.

Another kind of password can be tried out, if the method is not right, nothing will happen, but you can't get in.

The problem is that no one knows exactly what kind of password they came across. Will you die if you try it, or will you be unharmed if you try it all the time?

"That's a big problem. Can't you solve it?" Mai Ke asked Lingxi.

Lingxi didn't say anything to him, only said a word. With man it is impossible, with God all things are possible.

Then, Lingxi gave him a Wen Jiàn bag with the words "Bagua Array Collection" written on it.

The sub-directory is divided into three aspects, including: the basic theory and practice of Bagua Array accumulated by predecessors, the experience of Bagua Array by masters, and excerpts from contemporary research articles on Bagua Array.

One thing was especially reminded of Mai Ke, that is, the Bagua Array has a distinction between the positive formation and the reverse formation.

That is, the gossip array has the difference between the door of life and the door of death, and most of the formations have signs, distinguishing which ones are the doors of life and which are the doors of death, and insiders will know which door to enter at a glance.

But when I encountered the gossip array, I was in a counter-formation. Then the door of life becomes the door of death. The door of death is the door of life.

Both the positive and negative formations have rules to follow, and the doors of life and death are arranged in order.

There is also a kind of formation that changes formations, and there is no law in the door of life and death, or even all of them.

Meantime. It's time to enter the Bagua Array. There are two more factors to be aware of.

The first one is that there is a gossip array, the door of life and death, and the door of death has a self-changing function. This is mostly linked to temporal variations.

The second is that there are other formations after the Bagua Array, for example, the Bagua Array connects the Five Elements Array or the Bagua Array sets the Four Elephant Arrays.

Although Mai Ke felt that it was too complicated. There may not be a chance to master them, but out of curiosity, Mai Ke still asked to infiltrate the text to see what they were talking about.

Originally, according to the method of the heavenly stems and the earthly branches, the ancient Chinese timekeeping system divided the day into 12 hours, which were Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Each hour is two hours of the modern method of timekeeping. The day begins with a sub-hour, and its time phase begins at 23 o'clock and ends at 1 o'clock.

The self-change related to the Bagua array generally starts from the sub-time, passes through each hour in turn, and completes a cycle when it reaches the next sub-time.

At the same point, the next cycle of change is repeated. Therefore, the person who breaks the formation must be clear about the rules of change of time and the time of day, so that he can take advantage of the situation and logically find out the law of change of the Bagua Array and the method of breaking the formation.

Mai Ke turned his attention to the second question, what are the main aspects to pay attention to after entering the Bagua Array.

Lingxi pointed out that after entering the door, it is the real moment of life and death.

Those who enter the battle must listen to the six directions, see all directions, be bold and careful, and not panic when encountering changes.

Needless to say, the risk of entering from the door of death, shocking the door, etc., even if you enter from the door of life, it is still a trap step by step, and it is trapped.

If those who enter the battle fail to follow the correct route, they may fall into a trap and not be able to get out, or at worst, they will strayed into the maze and lead into the abyss of death.

So it warned Mai Ke that when entering the Bagua Array, you should think twice about every action, and don't touch anything that looks safe, beautiful, or attractive with any part of your body.

If you are not careful, you will lose everything, and if you don't make the right move, you will often be doomed.

It seemed that there was a trend of becoming more and more complicated, and Mai Ke hurried to the Holy See: "Come on! I'll listen to your old command, be a puppet, and never move around!"

He also had a concern, no matter how long he took himself, he would have nothing to do, but there were still more than a thousand people waiting! It had already taken two or three hours, right?

Actually, Mai Ke is overthinking.

He learned a lot, and felt that it had been a long time, but it was only two minutes.

How can the ability of the spirit rhino move be comparable to the ordinary progress?

Then Mai Ke demanded to everyone: "Now we are going to enter the Bagua Array, and everyone must be consistent with my footsteps and movements, and there must be no difference! Otherwise, not only will your own life be difficult to protect, but you will also be burdened and suffer with you!

"Hear me!" replied with a bang.

"What's the most important thing?" Mai Ke was really not at ease.

"I'll do whatever you want!" Although Da Niu was a little stupid, he understood Mai Ke's meaning the fastest, and he replied violently.

Others answered, but not as succinctly as the bulls, while others were still thinking about how to answer.

"Da Niu answered accurately, that's it, you can do whatever I do! Is it clear? This is a matter of life and death, everyone repeat, what should you do?"

"I'll do what you do!"

"Okay! That's it! In addition, I ask Brother Yue Jian to be the overseer, find out who is acting out of shape, understand and stop, what means do you have the right to take!"

"Guaranteed completion!" Yue Jian replied loudly.

Then, Mai Ke strode towards the birth gate, pressed his hands on it, and shouted: "Open!"

Lingxi moved with tacit understanding, and with a sound of rolling, the door opened!

Mai Ke stepped forward first, into the space inside, and then the others followed closely.

Someone just wanted to shake his arm, snapped a stick, knocked over!

Looking at Mai Ke again, his hands were tightly attached to his thighs, without a trace of shaking.

Everyone realizes that you can't shake your arms inside!

So, everyone straightened up and shook into the cave one by one!

After everyone entered, the scenery in front of them changed, which surprised everyone!.

(To be continued......)