Chapter 54 The practice of building a platform with too much water and gold
Yeli subdued Huonan, and the whole army rejoiced, treating it as a god descending from heaven.
Huo Nan kept his promise and put a stamp on his head, which was the pattern of the Demon Slashing Knife of the Night Departure Weapon.
The medical officer of the night return army cleaned and dressed Huonan and bandaged the war wounds.
Although Huo Nan has been called a slave, he has not forgotten his own treasure, and begged Yeli to return the bag to him.
Yeli readily agreed, so he entered the tent and discussed with Yinguang, wanting to get back the bag, but was strongly dissuaded by Fu Xinbo.
Fu Xinbo said: "Second prince, anyone with a discerning eye knows: the reason why this Huonan surrendered is because of this thing, if he makes the bitter meat plan to surrender, and then goes back when he gets this thing, but instead of letting the tiger return to the mountain, there will be endless troubles?"
"Well, Lao Zaisuke has a point. As soon as he surrendered, he asked for this thing, which shows his heart and has to be guarded against. Yinguang felt very reasonable, so he agreed, "This thing is originally a Gu thing, and it is not shallow to harm people, so it is better to send it to Master Yan Jingshan." ”
Seeing that he had refuted his face, Yeli said quite unhappily: "Wouldn't it be a great reduction in the casualties of our army if this thing is returned to Huonan and make him a pioneer and attack the city and the pool?"
When Yinguang heard this, he also felt reasonable, so he looked at Fu Xinbo with his eyes and did not answer.
Fu Simbo continued: "Even so, how can a stamp bind Huonan?
"Old Jaesuke, this is too much to worry about. If he can turn back, I will be able to catch him, and he will not try to escape from my hands to the ends of the earth. Yeli said slightly, "Since he is already my house slave, please ask Lao Zaifu to look at my thin face, and believe him for once." ”
"This ...... This ......" Fusimber knew the ability of the night to leave, and his words were deep.
Yeli said it categorically, and Yinguang was inconvenient to go against his face too much: "Old Zaifu, we don't believe that Huonan doesn't matter, but we can't help but believe Yeli." ”
When Fusin Bowen heard this, he bowed his head and was silent, and he didn't speak for a long time.
Yinguang then took out the bag and handed it to Yeli. Ye Li's cold face didn't even say thank you, picked up his bag, and walked out of the tent.
Huo Nan regained his pocket, opened it and saw that the drums, jars and spoons were there, and he couldn't help crying with joy, lying on the ground, and thanking the great grace.
Yeli recounted Fusimber's suspicious words.
Huonan is walking on thin ice, sincere and fearful, Si Yu swears: He will be willing to be a slave at night for life;
The ghost also knelt on the ground, confessed the new master, and was willing to serve his life.
Gu Tuocai, the official of Haitun County, sent Huonan's excerpt to Dihongkou, and when he learned the news that he had defected to the official army, he was as anxious as a dog chasing a monkey scratching his ears, and he was irritable, and immediately discussed with Hu Delie.
The two discussed for a long time, and both felt that Haitun County would be lost, so they decided: 1. Abandon the city, preserve their strength and retreat to Dihongkou, and join the great suzerain Wuyanghua; 2. Gu Tuo led the Zhan army and all his family members to go first, and Hu Delie led 1,000 soldiers with firearms and weapons to solve the remaining ghost soldiers in Huonan City, and then followed; 3. Leave 3,000 soldiers to defend the rear.
The two of them agreed and went their separate ways, and Xin Shi had already evacuated Haitun County.
It wasn't until the second day that Yinguang and the others captured Haitun County that they found that it was already an empty city.
Huo Nan was wounded and did not participate in the siege, and when he entered the city to look for those ghost soldiers, he found that they were all burned into a pile of charcoal. Huo Nan's hard work was ruined, so he didn't hurt it, so he took the injury and asked him to be the pioneer, and led 5,000 soldiers to catch up.
Everyone rested for a while, struck while the iron was hot, and then set off, and the soldiers pointed directly at the mouth of Ogihongkou.
Dihongkou is a big coastal city, the capital of the people, majestic and majestic, the momentum is extraordinary, only more than 220 miles away from Haitun County.
The counterinsurgency army drove south, and in three days it had gathered under the castle of Ogihongkou, and set up a war camp, with flags like a forest, and a murderous atmosphere.
The keeper of Ogihongkou Castle is the two sons of the great sect leader Wuyanghua, the second son dances Tenghai, and the third son dances Tengyun. The two were ordered to lead 5,000 soldiers to block the official army in order to gain time for the great suzerain and his people to smoothly withdraw to the ancestral land of Champa Island and build fortifications.
After three days, the officers and soldiers were already under the city, and the siege was imminent.
The Wu brothers knew that the strong army was pressing the territory and the castle would fall sooner or later, so they gathered the sergeants to give a lecture and vowed to live and die with the castle.
Those Zhanjun were originally descendants of the Wu clan, and when they saw that the two young sect masters were willing to live and die with them, they were all enthusiastic, and they were willing to serve and die.
According to the usual practice, when the two armies are at war, each has its own claims, which is called an "ultimatum", and when both sides are not satisfied, they declare war and start fighting, and speak by force, which can be described as the civilization of war. Occupying people is to cause chaos, and the official army is to quell the rebellion, how can there be a sense of harmony?
Therefore, Yinguang launched a fierce attack on Ogihongkou Castle the next day.
After five days of fierce fighting, the battle basically ended, and the remnants of the city were cleared, and the Wu brothers died in the chaos.
Inside and outside the city, corpses were gathered like mountains, and blood flowed and pestles.
Yinguang inspected the city, full of devastation, so it was not desolate, so he ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and pacify the people in the city.
After capturing Dihongkou, Yinguang learned that Wuyanghua had fled to Cham Island, the ancestral land of the Cham people, a few days earlier. He ordered Huonan to lead the way, and the army followed, until he pursued him to the edge of the sea.
The endless sea stretched in front of you, the waves were rough, the sea breeze was howling, not to mention Cham Island, not even the shadow of a rebel could be seen. The coast stretched for more than ten miles, and there were all burned boats and sampans, scattered and scattered, and it was very messy.
When Yinguang saw this scene, his heart was very bleak, and while ordering the soldiers to set up camp, he ordered Huonan to collect ships and prepare to cross the sea and attack Cham Island.
At that time, it was the middle of winter, and the wind on the sea was howling, blowing the camp like a flag, and it was shaking. Although a fire had been set up in the tent to keep warm, it was still bitterly cold.
The goldfinch is also not very accustomed to the seaside climate, hovering high in the sky, but does not want to fall.
At dusk, Huo Nan reported in frustration that not a single ship had been found within a radius of thirty miles, and that even if there were, they had been destroyed.
When Yinguang heard the news, he was worried, and said to Fu Xinbo: "Old Zaifu, how can I cross the sea without a boat?"
Fusimber said: "It seems that the only way to build a warship is to build a warship. ”
"How much time will that take!" Yinguang asked.
"Even if we recruit all the skilled craftsmen who occupy the people and build two hundred warships, I am afraid it will take at least a year and a half of effort. Fu Xin Bo said, "When Botuo conquered the Zhan people, he never hit this Cham Island. ”
"The island of Cham is the birthplace of the Cham people, about seven or eight nautical miles away, and it is very large, and the island has fields, land, fresh water, and fortifications. It was here that the villain came ashore across the ocean. Huo Nan continued.
"In this way, it will not be easy to conquer Cham Island. Yinguang said worriedly.
Everyone was speechless, helpless.
Yeli sat on the side and heard that he had been listening for a long time, and at this time, he saw that everyone was depressed and had no good plan, so he said: "Brother, why bother to fight this battle, I can succeed alone." ”
"Oh, what kind of trick does the second prince have, you alone can succeed?" Fu Simbo was still skeptical, although he knew that the night was far from the supernatural powers.
"I'll cross the sea tonight and capture the great sect master Wu Yanghua alive, this is the method of 'capturing the thief and capturing the king first'. As long as the dancing yanghua is captured, the occupants will be scattered. "The night is separated by the Tongxuan Railway.
Leaving Haitun County at night, and subduing Huonan before the battle, everyone had already seen his ability to come and go without a trace, so they smiled one by one and agreed.
Yinguang had no confidence in building a warship, and he didn't think of a countermeasure for a while, so he agreed to leave at night, telling him to be careless all the way.
Yeli answered the promise, secretly twisted the spell, turned around and disappeared.
Everyone looked at each other, all showing admiration.
Huo Nan was even more surprised, and admired it so much that he threw himself to the ground.
Ye Li walked out of the camp with the help of the Xuantie Path, and wanted to escape across the sea, but as soon as he reached the sea, he couldn't escape, just like a paper kite with a broken line "poof" and fell into the sea.
Ye Li was frightened, panicked and frightened, and fluttered desperately in the sea, it turned out that he was a landlubber! In an instant, the sea soaked his whole body, and he was cold to the bone, and he was lucky to fall on the seashore, and his feet were crossed and stepped on the sandy shore, and he climbed to the shore after a few flutters, but he was so embarrassed.
Ye Li spat out a few mouthfuls of seawater and ran back to the camp like a water dog.
Seeing Yeli returning wet from head to toe, everyone was taken aback, inexplicably.
Yinguang didn't have time to ask, so he hurriedly called into the tent, changed his robe for Yeli, and lit a bonfire to keep him warm.
Yeli sat by the fire, wrapped tightly in his robe, shivering all over.
He wondered, "Why did this dark iron fail? ”
Yinguang listened to him talking to himself, and his heart was stunned, so he asked, "What 'Tong Xuantie' failed?"
Yeli unintentionally said that he leaked his mouth, and he wanted to cover it up but couldn't hide it, so he simply said that Tianyou Hall met Qu Yi to get "Xuantie", but he didn't say anything about sneaking in Zixi that night.
In the end, he honestly took out the "Tong Xuan Tie" and said: "It's this piece of Xuan Tie, it all depends on it to hide and become invisible, why did it fail today?"
The dark iron is only more than an inch, resembling a sitting vulture, and the whole body is black, and there is nothing strange about it.
Although Yinguang also remembered the encounter with the demon in the Tianyou Palace, he didn't study it in detail, and only pinched the "Tong Xuantie" in his hand to look at it left and right, and he didn't see a name. He pondered for a long time, and suddenly said, "I know the reason. ”
"What is the reason?" said Yeli in surprise.
Yinguang said: "I heard Master say: All things in the world are born according to the five elements. And the five elements are mutually reinforcing each other, and the cycle is endless, and this iron is gold......"
"This iron is gold, gold gives birth to water, but where does water come from gold?" Ye Li didn't wait for Yinguang to finish speaking, and knew a little about what it meant, so he asked rhetorically.
"This water can't be golden, but everything has its limit, when the water is full of gold, it can sink gold, this is the principle of 'water sinks gold'. This iron meets the sea, the supernatural power fails, and it is strange if you don't fall. Yinguang said.
Yeli scratched his head, and said with a depressed face: "It seems that this is the truth, but I have already said this big word, and I am asked how to take it back, this face is not too big!"
Yinguang didn't answer, lowered his head and thought, and kept pacing back and forth.
Yeli stared at it with wide eyes and stunned, and kept warm with his hands on the fire.
After a long time, Yinguang suddenly said excitedly: "Yes, I have thought of a way!"
Yeli was startled and asked, "What's the solution?"
"Speaking of the five elements, it reminded me that we also learned some techniques of bigu food qi and summoning gods to exorcise demons in Yanjing Mountain, why don't I build a platform to cast spells, freeze the sea into ice, and go straight to Cham Island. The Cham Island is only five or six nautical miles away, and if it works, the army can cross the sea on the ice and take the Cham Island directly. ”
Yinguang knew that it would take more than 200 warships to build it, but he didn't know how much time, manpower and material resources it would take, so he thought of a way.
"If you want to freeze the sea into ice, it is better to fall a heavy snowfall and freeze them to death directly, which also saves some worry for the soldiers. "Night Departure.
"No, no...... If it snows heavily, it will not harm innocent people. Yinguang said.
"Hehe, my brother is so kind!"
"I'm afraid that my Taoist skills are shallow, and it will be difficult to work. If you can't summon the northern cold dragon, it will be a big loss. "Yinguang is not 100% sure.
"Since my brother has thought of this method, why don't you give it a try! Whether it succeeds or not, it depends on the creation. "Night Departure.
Yinguang nodded solemnly and fell back into deep thought.
It was inconvenient to disturb Yeli, so he lowered his head and thought about it, but he was thinking about how to cross the sea, capture Wuyang and bring it back, and earn back face for himself.
The tent was quiet, and the sea breeze howled outside the tent.
The night is like a troll that is wild and crazy, constantly devouring the earth, devouring the sky, and devouring everything in between.
Yinguang didn't sleep all night, and when he got up early on the second day, Yeli still knocked his mouth and slept well.
He did not alarm Yeli, but went to the camp of Shuai, summoned Fu Simbo, and ordered him to lead a thousand soldiers to collect cotton jackets, robes, and other things.
Fusimbo was full of suspicion, and did not ask for the collection of warships, but for the collection of these objects, but it was inconvenient to ask in detail, so he took the order and left.
Yinguang called Huonan again and ordered him to lead more than 100 soldiers to the back camp to build an earthen platform, which is three zhang wide and three meters high.
Huo Nan was also puzzled and dazed, and took the order to go.
Yinguang drew his own talismans, trimmed flags, and prepared various spell-casting utensils.
When I woke up at night, it was already noon. He saw that Yinguang was so busy that it was inconvenient to bother, so he sneaked out of the camp, but he was too embarrassed to meet everyone, so he strolled to the sea and looked into the distance.
But when I see the waves crashing on the shore and the sea water filling the sky, where is there an island and an island come into view!
The night is full of thoughts, and he walks aimlessly along the long coastline.
About a mile away, the sound of birds suddenly chirping in the air.
Yeli looked up and saw that the goldfinch bird was spreading its wings above his head, hovering in the wind, about to rise and fall. He was suddenly enlightened, jumped with joy, looked up to the sky and laughed: "There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to find them, why don't I drive the birds across the sea?"