What makes this team special is that they are all Taoist priests in Taoist robes.

The Tang law clearly stipulates: "All Taoist priests, female Taoist priests, monks, and nuns wear the color of magnolia (i.e., black), green and blue, soap and wattle yellow, and deterioration." Note: If you wear a common dress and a silk line, take a big horse...... It's all vulgar. ”

Therefore, it is relatively easy to distinguish between Taoist priests and ordinary people.

Seeing this group of people, Chen Jingle was stunned: "They are...... Someone in the Daomen?"

I had heard the rumors of Taoist priests going down the mountain to help the world in troubled times, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes one day......

Chen Jingle was in a complicated mood and didn't know what to say.

In this world, there are gods, Buddhas, and ghosts, and these Taoist priests will naturally not be ordinary Taoist priests in later generations. Although it is not known why they did this, there is no doubt that this behavior has a great effect on the morale of their soldiers.

Many people on the battlefield noticed this scene, a group of Taoist priests actually raised their swords to kill them, and the target was the opposite side, and in an instant, the morale of the Shence army soared, and for a while they actually pressed the Fengxiang army.

"Where did these bull-nosed Taoist priests come from?"

Li Maozhen on the other side looked gloomy, he didn't expect this to happen, it was really unexpected for him.

……

"Fellow Daoists, there are no eyes on the battlefield, be careful of the arrows, and you must pay attention to protecting yourself!"

Among the dozens of Taoist priests, Daoist Zhong Haoran of Qingliang Mountain rushed to the front, his expression was grim, and his voice was solemn.

"Zhong Daoyou rest assured, we will naturally save ......"

"Since Poor Dao has chosen to go down the mountain, he has already put life and death out of the way, and he can only reincarnate and rebuild, what if this body is cultivated to the realm, what about him!"

"In the world of life, if the white horse passes through the gap, it is all of a sudden. Since you can't become an immortal, why don't you regret this!"

“……”

Zhong Haoran smiled freely, everyone in the world thought that the Taoist priest would escape from the world, and the Taoist priest would be extraordinary, but he didn't know that the priest was also a human being, and the Taoist priest was not a god, and he couldn't transcend the cycle of life and death, so how could he talk about breaking off the seven emotions and six desires.

Let's go, since I'm here, even if I fight to scatter my soul, I have to fight him to be bright and create a prosperous world.

Dao Ancestor, look at the blood stained in the world today!

……

"National Teacher!" Liu He next to him reminded slightly.

Chen Jingle came to his senses and hurriedly ordered left and right: "Quickly send someone to answer!"

If you are willing to come to help, you are allies. I don't know if these Taoist leaders all have special skills, but in the army of ten thousand, personal force does not play a big role, and one accidentally loses his life in minutes.

He still had a lot of questions to ask, but he didn't want them to die because of it.

……

Taiping Town did not have a tall city wall, and Chen Jingle could only rely on a few arrow towers, as well as some other simple military buildings such as rejecting horses, to defend against it.

Fortunately, the terrain outside the town was not very flat, and neither side could invest too many troops, Li Maozhen could not press all the troops, and Chen Jingle only sent 2,000 spearmen and 2,000 sword and shield men to go up.

However, Chen Jingle is not passive defense, but takes the initiative to attack, the advantage of the Shence army over Li Maozhen is that it has a large number of people, once there are large casualties, you can immediately send another team to replace the previous troops.

In this way, the other side does not feel any problems for a while, and after a long time, the advantages are clearly highlighted.

Li Maozhen also figured this out, with a gloomy face, fighting a war of attrition with the other side was not what he wanted.

And he couldn't figure it out, aren't the Shence Army all recruits, why can they have such combat power?

What the fuck is this new recruit?!

When recruits go to the battlefield, shouldn't they shiver and their legs go limp?

But these killings are red-eyed, like hideous demons, even if they die, they have to drag a cushion back, what is the situation?

Even his veterans of a hundred battles may not be able to have such a tenacious will!

Li Maozhen's face twitched, and the anger in his eyes grew, even mixed with a trace of horror that even he didn't notice.

I heard some news before, saying that Han Jian's 20,000 soldiers and horses were defeated at the hands of the new national teacher, and at that time he thought it was a rumor, no matter how wasteful Han Jian was, he was a festival envoy, and it was impossible to defeat an army that had never been on the battlefield.

But now it seems that it is clearly true.

The only thing that Li Maozhen couldn't figure out was what kind of demon technique did that young national teacher use to make a group of recruits grow up enough to confront veterans who have been through a hundred battles in a month?

The killing on the field was fierce, and although the Shence Army had disadvantages in the early stage, after stabilizing in the back, the situation slowly came back.

Now it's Li Maozhen who should be anxious.

30,000 and 50,000, the gap is not small, and as a defensive side, even if there is no city wall to defend, the Shence Army also has a slight natural advantage.

Seeing that the victory trend on the field has gradually leaned towards the side of the Shence army, if this continues, it will be a matter of time before the Fengxiang army is defeated and retreated.

If the casualties are too large, the whole army may even be defeated.

Most of the armies in these years are just a handful of elites fighting with a group of soy sauce parties, and once the vanguard elites are killed too much, then others will have a kind of fear, and they dare not charge forward, or even run back.

At this time, there will be a rout, that is, the battle loss ratio is often said in later generations, and the army will be defeated.

After all, a soldier is a human being, not a killing machine.

The Shence Army and the Fengxiang Army are both elite troops, but they can't hold out for long.

Especially the Fengxiang Army, this kind of feudal town soldiers, if it is said to be strong, it is actually not much stronger, but it relies on the strength of the regular army to crush the Quartet.

However, other opponents were not strong, and they all relied on their peers to set off, and other feudal towns could not defeat Li Maozhen, let alone any peasant uprising. In fact, it is a group of homeless people, who have not been trained, and when they have an absolute advantage in numbers, how can they stop the regular army?

In comparison, the Shence Army is undoubtedly much better, with higher potential than the soldiers of the Domain, and it grows extremely fast in the course of combat. Except for some who were too unlucky, most of the soldiers who died were not psychologically good and not responsive enough, and the rest were elites who would accelerate their transformation in every subsequent battle.

The so-called big waves wash the sand, this is the case.

But even so, once the casualty rate reaches a certain level, morale will still plummet, and you will be defeated.

In ancient times, there was no fixed value for this casualty rate, depending on the army. The only thing that is certain is that the ability of the Shence Army to resist pressure is definitely stronger than that of the Fengxiang Army.

This is thanks to Chen Jingle's brainwashing ability, which forcibly turned a group of wine bags and rice barrels into an iron will.

However, in later generations, there was an army that completely subverted people's imagination, even if the casualty rate exceeded 50%, it could not retreat.

It is precisely because of this that the red flag of Shenzhou was flying later!

"Prepare to retreat!"

In desperation, Li Maozhen had no choice but to postpone the attack, and ordered the guards around him to immediately go to the interrogation.

……

Seeing that the opposite side took the initiative to withdraw his troops, Chen Jingle did not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Both sides were just tentative attacks, a few appetizers, and the real feast was yet to come.

Li Maozhen's means and ability, among the envoys of all feudal towns, are first-class, and he originally had every opportunity to use his strength to narrow the prince to order the princes to compete with Zhu Quanzhong for the world, but he had to die.

But since he came, Chen Jingle categorically would not let him go easily.

At this time, the group of Taoist priests was also escorted back by the soldiers.

Chen Jingle dusted off his crown and shook his clothes, and saluted solemnly: "Thank you for your righteousness and coming to help, and you haven't asked for the Dharma name yet." ”

The Taoist priests also returned the salute.

Zhong Haoran smiled calmly: "When it comes to righteousness, we think we are not as good as the national teacher. Poor road Zhong Haoran, added as the master of Qingliang Mountain. These are the two apprentices of the poor road, and they met many like-minded Taoist friends on the road, so they came to help together. I didn't expect to encounter a battle between the two armies as soon as I came, and the national division commanded it to a certain extent, which really opened our eyes. ”

"Poor Dao Xuandu View Chongyang ......"

"Shangqing Pavilion Daozhen!"

"The old road is the mountain and the wild road......"

“……”

"Poor Dao, thank you again!"

Chen Jingle once again solemnly saluted, and his heart was mixed.

In fact, the cultivation of these Taoist priests who came to help was not high, even Zhong Haoran, who was promoted by everyone as the leader, was only a golden pill that had just been cultivated.

This is not even cannon fodder in the Xianxia world.

But at the secular level, if the gods, Buddhas, and demons do not participate in the war, they are already at the level of the world's superiors.

Moreover, for cultivators, killing will be tainted with karmic cause and effect, and they will not kill unless they have to, unless they kill people who are very vicious.

When he went into battle to kill the enemy, he was stained with the blood of ordinary people, and without merit to protect himself, it can be said that he had taken the initiative to give up his cultivation.

Chen Jingle can't do that.

Because of this, he admired these Taoist priests more and more.

Chen Jingle is right: "It's okay to be poor, anyway, the left and right are nothing more than cultivation, and being born and entering the world is all in one thought, but you are the Taoist leaders, meddling in the worldly affairs, isn't it considered breaking the vows?"

Zhong Haoran's expression was calm, and he smiled: "If it is broken, it will be broken, the poor road will break the rules and precepts, and the immaculate Dao heart will be kept, and there will be no regrets when you look up to the sky, and you will not regret it." ”

"What Chief Zhong Dao said is very true!"

"The old man is old, life and death, and he has long looked down on it. ”

"Our Daomen disciples are cultivating more than just the realm of mana......

“……”

Chen Jingle was full of emotion in his heart.

All of them said that the temple was closed in the troubled times to avoid disasters, and the prosperous times opened the door to collect wealth.

Such a statement, although it is biased to generalize, but the impression of Buddhism to the world is really not very good, compare the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an City, even if it is the royal Xuandu Temple, it is less than half the size of the Great Ci'en Temple.

Especially in later generations, Buddhist temples were too commercialized, and religious beliefs have been regarded as a business, from tickets to incense money to incense oil money to asking for signatures and releases......

This era is even more than that.

Li Tang was a Taoist worshipper, and only had a brief period of worship of Buddha during the Wu Zhou period.

However, in the context of the great era of worshipping Taoism, Daomen is still in a weak position in the confrontation with Buddhism.

Because Buddhist monks and nuns not only received land from the state, but also had the privilege of not paying taxes.

Note that taxes and taxes are two different concepts.

The tax generally refers to the land rent, and the peasants need to pay taxes to the state.

Fu had a specific meaning in ancient times, and the military supplies collected to meet military needs were called fu. Such as requisitioned military vehicles, weapons, armor, etc. Therefore, the character Fu is composed of the words "bei" and "wu", that is, the meaning of currency used in war.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there was a government soldier system, that is, all the people were soldiers, and soldiers often needed to be sent to various places to serve as government soldiers, and if they didn't want to go, they needed to pay taxes.

In addition, there are all kinds of strange and exorbitant taxes. (This is something I take to the extreme.) ）

Monks and nuns are exempt from all kinds of taxes and servitude.

This protective policy of religion gradually evolved into the basis for the expansion of the monastic economy during the Tang Dynasty.

In the later stage of development, there was too much land in the monastery for monks and nuns to cultivate, so tenants would be hired to farm, and a large number of laborers were attached to the monastic economy.

Since the monastic economy was not part of the national tax system, a large number of people hid in monasteries to avoid paying taxes.

There are also many fugitives who hid in temples, shaved their heads and received ordination, and turned into Buddhist monks.

This is the so-called putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot.

What a great kindness, such a big breath!