There was a large open field next to the barracks outside the city, and there was a wooden stand on one side of the open field. The Atta City Lord was already waiting in the stands. Everyone went up to the stands, the city lord sat in the guest seat, and Su Yue waited for the guest seat. The lord of the castle ordered the drill to begin.

The soldiers practiced in a neat pace, with swords and guns; When fighting, they are divided into groups of three, and the groups attack each other, and the tacit understanding of the three people is like one person, and it is not a number, all of them.

Su Yue was amazed, and asked the city lord of Yata how he had trained to this point. A motivated person always wants to know how he did it when others climb higher than himself, and every general who wants to lead good soldiers is looking for how to bring out an army that is more capable of fighting, even if he no longer leads soldiers, which is a professional instinct.

The city lord of Yata kept his mouth shut about the training, and said: "This is because all Penglai people are honest and dedicated. ”

When he took the seat, Liao Tingyun did not sit next to Tong Xi, but deliberately sat between him and Dian Yin. He whispered to them what he had seen and heard this morning.

"I was looking for game in the mountains this morning, and I came across a temple with a lot of monks' bones, and a little monk I caught, he said, were all killed because they didn't want to believe in Sanssoucianism. Now in the entire Penglai City, there are no religious people, either dead or gone? ”

"Nothing—worried?" Hidden doubts. As soon as he finished speaking, Liao Tingyun stabbed him, and signaled in the direction of the city lord to remind him not to make a fuss.

This scene happened to be seen by Hou Sheng, who was sitting on the outside, and he immediately turned his head and looked at the sergeant who was performing the drill blankly, secretly sad.

"Then these sergeants ......," Su Yue said as he looked at the soldiers who were practicing.

"Do you think normal people can do this?"

Su Yue and Dian Yin nodded slowly.

"Do you remember Sanssouci and Master Beadheart, and the enchanted townsfolk in Sanssouci Town? The people here call the things they take every day as Sanssouci fruit, and Sanssouci Town calls it Sanssouci Dan. Liao Tingyun said.

Su Yue pondered for a moment, nodded slowly, and said, "I see." If so, you'll be able to match. That being said, his face was still as calm as water, and although "worry-free" could explain many strange phenomena, it was the words of the little monk after all. He was a cautious man.

Liao Tingyun knew the scruples in his heart, so he turned his head and asked the city lord: "Why does the city lord only say that faith is true, but he doesn't talk about worry-free teaching?" ”

Yata was startled at first when she heard the three words of the Sanssouci Sect, and then regained her composure.

"Now that you all know, then the Lord will not hide it."

"The city lord really forced your city citizens to believe in the Worry-Free Sect, what kind of worry-free fruit should you eat?"

"Religion is but a tool, and it is used because it can gather people's hearts and make them obey in the most effortless and quick way, and now that the purpose has been achieved, what is it to do? Since you are asking, you must have heard some rumors here, and I said at the time that they believed in religion freely, and they did not kill anyone, and they were the ones who killed them. The city lord said and pointed to the soldiers who were training, "It wasn't my order, and they weren't my soldiers yet. However, what is the pity of a few dust that blocks the wheels of history rolling forward? ”

"Who wasn't raised by biological parents? Is your life your fate? No one else answered, and Tong Xi was the first to stand up and say.

"In that case, what right do you have to kill my master and my fourth brother?" Yata's face was still calm, "You hypocrites, when you do bad things, you will always exalt yourself to the moral high ground and reduce your opponent to a demon on earth. Since I have no right to treat others like mustards, you haven't killed anyone along the way? My master, my fourth brother, and so many of my Qi compatriots in Sanssouci Town who are either dead or injured, or displaced, who should I go to settle accounts! ”

"Who talked to you about benevolence and justice," Liao Tingyun sneered, "It turns out that you are Zhu Xin's apprentice." ”

Yata didn't answer, and snorted coldly in acquiescence.

"That's going to be easy." Liao Tingyun said and pulled out his green pupils.

Yata laughed wildly.

"Originally, I wanted you to watch this drill before you do it, since you are in such a hurry to die, then it will be fulfilled for you." After speaking, he felt some white powder in his hand, sprinkled it on the platform, and then jumped to the ground himself, after the wooden platform they sat on was sprinkled with powder, it quickly softened, and became a tentacle-like living vine, Dianyin was sick, picked up the Tong rhino next to him and ran, Hou Sheng sat on the outside, no one had time to save him, and he didn't know martial arts, so he was soon entangled by rattan like a giant snake. He was timid himself, and when he encountered this battle, he saw his body being swallowed by vines, and he was so frightened that he cried and screamed on the spot.

Su Yue pulled out the golden knife to cut the vine, Yata pinched out two copper beans in his hand and threw them at him, although Su Yue did not read all the "Wood Qi Book", but also knew something: as long as the copper bean does not touch the soil, it will not exert any power. And this is as easy as a palm for him, at the moment the horizontal knife is blocked, those copper beans are hit on the knife surface one after another, Su Yue stretched out his palm under the knife edge, and the copper beans are all in his hands. He clenched his fingers and tossed the beans back to Yata. The copper bean fell around Yata, and in a few moments, giant vines grew around him, enveloping his legs and feet. Dian Yin and Liao Tingyun took the opportunity to save Hou Sheng.

It was only then that they began to believe Hou Sheng's previous words. There is indeed a problem with this Penglai City.

Su Yue made the golden knife rush to Yata first. Although her feet were wrapped, Yata didn't panic at all, smiling and closing her eyes. Normal people don't send themselves to death like this, Su Yue kept an eye on it, glanced to both sides, and sure enough, he saw five sergeants running in the direction of the exercise, and the speed was so fast, as if he was trying his best. Two of them held their shields and covered Atta in their arms. Su Yue's knife was fast and heavy, the two shields had just been raised, the golden knife had already cut up, these ordinary sergeants did not have any martial arts, the golden knife chopped heavily on the shield, only a layer of skin on the shield hit the wood chips horizontally, Su Yue also heard the sound of the two sergeants under the wooden card breaking their arms after taking the knife. Amazingly, the two men did not suffer any pain, and with the other hand they still slashed at the rattan that bound Yatta. At that moment, the remaining three spears came up one after the other, stabbing him in the face. The gun is like a dragon. Su Yue used to snatch the shot, grabbed one hand, and was just about to snatch it, but the second one had already been squeezed, and the connection was dense, so as not to give people a gap to exert force. This level of tacit understanding, let alone through training, may not be able to be achieved even by the left and right hands. Su Yue secretly thought that these sergeants were not normal people, but Su Yue was also very human, he always thought one step more than others, when the second gun came, the little finger of his right hand had hooked the hilt, so that the golden knife hung down, and another four fingers were freed to grab the second gun, and at this time the third gun would stab him in the face, he grabbed the head of the gun and jumped back, one to avoid the third gun, and the other was to drag the first two people over, this leap was not an ordinary step, where could the two sergeants take such a distance from Su Yue? Immediately, because the lower body couldn't keep up with the upper body, he fell to the ground, and a dog gnawed on the mud.

When the two of them got up again, the two guns were already in Su Yue's hands. The sergeant in the back caught up and wanted to stab again, but he was shot in the chest, the sergeant was bleeding in the chest, and he still gritted his teeth and rushed towards him, Su Yue grabbed the spear in his hand. The sergeant only knew how hard to push forward, but the harder he pushed, the faster the blood gushed out of his chest. Su Yue saw that his face was getting paler and paler, his lips were blue, and he finally fell to the ground and died. Seeing this, the two people in the back also had some fear on their faces, they took a few steps back, but did not flee, but took the knives in the hands of the two soldiers whose hands were broken by Su Yue's golden knife before, and protected the city lord.

And the sergeants who had been practicing in the open space in the distance had already rushed over. Although they were small in number, they were neat and majestic, and they did not look like they could be easily defeated.

Liao Tingyun's "Flowing Clouds" and Dianyin's Thousand Shadows Knife Technique are very suitable for this kind of fast-in and fast-out fighting. At this time, they had already saved Hou Sheng, pulled out their swords, and stood with Su Yue.

At the critical moment, Yata pushed aside the sergeant, walked to the front, and raised his voice: "Slow! ”

"You are all heroes of the Eight Counties, and Yata doesn't want to embarrass you."

"Your master and your fourth brother were both killed by us, and I killed one of your soldiers just now. How do you make us believe what you say. Su Yue said.

"General Su don't have to doubt, Yata can hold everything in his heart; Master and fourth brother, one person cannot be resurrected after death, and the other is also fate; Although the soldier is light, I have raised it for so many years. It's not that Yata doesn't want revenge, it's just that a character like the general, if he dies, it's a pity. ”

"And what do you want?" Liao Tingyun said coldly.

Yata didn't answer her words, and only said to Su Yue: "Doesn't the general want to know, how did I train this elite general?" "Su Yue already roughly knows how he practiced, and it is nothing more than learning from his master who has no worries about the death. But he wanted to see what he had to say next.

"You are all heroes of the eight counties, well-informed, and you must know that the most bitter thing in the world is the people, the so-called 'Xing, the people are bitter; Death, the people suffer. 'Buddhism only teaches people to endure hardships in this life, reincarnate in the next life, and karma; Taoism tempts people to become immortals, harming others and themselves, but it can be passed down for centuries. ”

"People live for less than a hundred years, and in this life, it is often 'unsatisfactory, nine times out of ten'. It is better to die than to live, and it is better to believe in religion and eat fruits. My worry-free religion is different from Buddhism, the so-called bliss after death and feathering into immortals are just water and moon mirror flowers. And if you don't have to worry about food, you can worry about it in this life. ”

"They don't look like people, ghosts don't look like ghosts, how can they be worry-free?" Liao Tingyun sneered.

"Then do you see that their faces are full of frowns, and are they sad? My people are not walking dead, but they are selfless in their hearts and are only dedicated to Penglai. Let go of all the distractions and imprisonment of time, and the goal is pure, how can there be pain? And every person who has made contributions or sacrifices for Penglai City, we will engrave their names on the heroic monument in the town, and in the "Penglai City Chronicles", they will also leave a good name in history as righteous soldiers, and for future generations to admire and remember. ”

Liao Tingyun sneered: "You are quite good at wearing a high hat for yourself." ”

Yata glanced at her: "The master's mind is only on General Su, but he didn't pay attention to this woman." The heroine has an upright temperament, presumably a person in the green forest. ”

Liao Tingyun didn't answer him, nor did he pay attention to her, as if he wasn't talking about himself.

"The heroine is in the green forest, how do you know that you come and go in this power field?

This lord will give you an example: It is the same with your eight counties, and the governor of one side is called the parent official. But how can anyone in this world regard their people as the parents of their children? Have you encountered it? Don't hear, seeing is believing. ”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.

"Parents, it sounds so comfortable, but if you commit a crime in his hands, he doesn't care whether you are guilty or not, as long as it is in the way of his promotion and wealth, you will be better off than dead.

In order to coax the people at the bottom and prevent them from rebelling, the people in power said the pleasant words. What 'the people are noble and the king is light', what 'water can carry the boat and can overturn the boat', the people in power say that the people are the sky, and the people are the waves that can capsize the boat. Those ordinary people really believed it. But those kings and county lords don't say this, how can they make the people grateful to Dade? How can they starve for him to squeeze?

What is the rule of the Qingming Dynasty? No matter how honest the official is, the first person who thinks of it is always the person in power himself, and the power and money are in my hands, so I don't have the final say on what to do? It's nothing more than letting the world know or not letting the world know. People say that paper can't contain fire, but they don't know that iron can hold fire. Use your brain and think about it, there can be no absolute equality in our world, history is just the new trend submerging the old trend, and then the old wine in a new bottle. ”

"Well said!" Liao Tingyun high-fived and cheered, and after speaking, she immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing, and lowered her head and wanted to stand back.

Su Yue looked at her and said softly: "This person is good at confusing people, but don't follow his way." He turned his head and said to Yata again: "The city lord's Qi skills are profound, and there may not be such a thing in Sanssouci Town. It's just that tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Penglai City, how can you manage it alone. ”

Yata laughed loudly: "General Su is thinking about it, how can this master manage so many people alone?" The Lord said that Sanssouci does not make them obey me like the walking dead, they have brains, just like an ant in an anthill, it has its own mind, but the queen ant is always the most important thing in its heart. Everything they do on weekdays is for the nest and their queen, and they don't need the queen to manipulate them like a puppet.

Their strength is not that they are numb to the pain, but that the whole unit is very closely connected. My troops are like a giant with me as their brain. When he said the last sentence, his face was red.

No wonder Hou Sheng said that people outside called Penglai Ant Town, which turned out to be true. Isn't the city lord in front of him the "ant king" of Penglai?

Dianyin suddenly remembered something extremely terrifying.

"This morning, I also saw a general horn running all over the street, this ......"

"The Lord also has a wife and a son. Of course, I will also teach them this method of exercising the Worry-Free Fruit, and children can take the Worry-Free Fruit after the age of twelve. ”

Even Su Yue, Liao Tingyun and others who are accustomed to seeing the bloody wind did not expect this stubble!

Everyone saw that he even persecuted children in such an ordinary tone, and even Liao Tingyun was furious. Su Yue snorted coldly: "This is not bad, it is still an heirloom." ”

Yata suddenly changed color, the harmony on his face was gone, his face contorted, he laughed loudly, and wrinkles appeared on his face.

Su Yue and the others didn't know what was going on, but they heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the flat ground gradually became dusty, and after a while, a cavalry arrived, and the footsteps behind were heavy, and the infantry following behind them must be galloping quickly.

Yata laughed wildly behind the dust, and without saying a word, the cavalry in the distance was in front of him in the blink of an eye, and the slender halberds came to their necks like the long tongues of impermanences.

Su Yue rushed to the head, rolled a mine, rushed to the horse's belly, pulled out a golden knife and only cut the horse's feet, Liao Tingyun and Dian Yin protected Tong Xi and Hou Sheng respectively and retreated to the back. The horse's legs flew everywhere in the blood, and a howl was terrible behind Su Yue, he wanted to cross the cavalry to control Yata, but he didn't expect that after the cavalry, there would be heavy infantry, spears, knives and shields. They are really as close to each other as Yata said, and they are really like a martial arts master who can be used for battle with any part of his body. Su Yue looked at Yata, who was quickly protected by heavy troops, and sighed: "This may really be the strongest army in the world." ”

Seeing that it was hopeless to control Yata, Su Yue had to retreat and join Liao Tingyun and Dian Yin.

"Fooled." Su Yue was a little discouraged.

"What's wrong?"

"I underestimated these soldiers, thinking that they don't know martial arts, and they are not difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect this Qi man to be able to gather so many troops without a single horse. No," Su Yue suddenly shook his head again, "These soldiers and horses were not transferred by him from elsewhere, as he said, he is the 'brain' of the border guards of Penglai City, and what he thinks is what every soldier in his army thinks." ”

"What do you mean?" Dian Yin and Liao Tingyun asked.

"This Qi man talked to us about this in order to hold us back, so as to wait for his large army to come."

"There are a lot of them, let's go first, and then take the dog's head when we have the opportunity." Liao Tingyun comforted.

Su Yue just wanted to sigh and shake his head, but he suddenly thought that if he shook his head and sighed now, it might make them fearful. Therefore, he nodded and smiled: "Mr. Qingzhu is reasonable, let's go out first, but we are in one place, don't separate." ”

Everyone said yes.

As soon as the words fell, shouts and cheers were heard from all sides. Immediately afterwards, the flag was fierce, and the gold ware flashed. Yatta's forces had surrounded him from all sides.

"These soldiers cooperate tacitly, the two of you have to use all your strength, there are many people here, in case we disperse, we have to go in the opposite direction of Penglai City, and the person who leaves first will make marks consistent with their weapons on the road, so that we can get together." Su Yue didn't show any depressed mood when he said these words, but Liao Tingyun still sensed that something was wrong from his face and words.