Zhou Fan was about to go on the expedition, so he entrusted the peony and chrysanthemum to Zhonggu to take care of, and Zhonggu agreed, and said: "Brother Zhou Fan, although you can rest assured to go to the country, I will take care of the peony and chrysanthemum here." Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" and Peony asked to follow Zhou Fan to kill Xia Bing, Zhou Fan said: "Your injuries are not healed, how can you kill the enemy?" I'll be back soon. Peony had no choice but to stay and recuperate.

Early the next morning, according to the original plan, the merchant soldiers were disguised as soldiers, and Zhou Fan himself pretended to be the general of the country of Jin, and led the troops to follow Bai Zhi to the country.

Bai Zhi led Zhou Fan into the palace of the king of Youyi. Renbo, the monarch of the Kingdom of Jin, was walking back and forth in the palace, presumably anxiously waiting for Shiro's return from the Shang Kingdom. In the face of the strong invading Xia soldiers, what is the best way for him, a small prince, to deal with it? can only wait for news from the Shang country. Bai Zhi and Zhou Fan stepped into the palace together, and as soon as Ren Bo saw Bai Zhi coming, he asked urgently: "Bai Zhi, you are back, what did the Tang King of Shang Guo say?" ”

"King Tang decided to send troops to the country of Xuan, unite with my soldiers, and fight against the Xia soldiers together." The White Way.

When Ren Bo saw a young officer who came with Bai Zhi, he said, "This is a general of the country of Yan, why have I never seen it?" ”

"This is the high-ranking general sent by King Tang to my country-Commander Zhou Fan."

"Zhou Fan meets the monarch of the country!"

"Commander Zhou, don't be polite, I see that Commander Zhou is young and high-spirited, he must be extraordinary, and he will definitely be able to defeat the Xia army."

"Zhou is only leading troops to fight for the first time, especially against Xia Bing, he doesn't dare to win, but he will do everything he can to defeat Xia Jun."

"May I ask why you are pretending to be my general?" Ren Bo saw that Zhou Fan was dressed as a general, and said suspiciously.

"Not only am I pretending to be a general, but even the three thousand soldiers I brought are disguised as soldiers, and they are waiting outside the palace for the order."

"Why is that?" Ren Bo was even more skeptical.

"This is because the Xia soldiers came to the Youyi country, not the Shang country, and the Shang country helped the Youjin country to fight against the Xia soldiers, which could only be done in the name of the Youjin country."

"King Tang is really thoughtful, Renbo is ashamed of himself, and now he has allocated 1,000 elite soldiers led by Bai Zhi to assist General Zhou in fighting against the Xia army."

"White Venerable Order!" The White Way.

"Report! General Mengliang of the Xia Dynasty arrived. A guard came running.

"General Zhou, you'd better avoid it first."

"Okay." Zhou Fan then walked into the back hall of the palace.

Before Meng Liang could wait for the guards to report, he walked in proudly.

When he saw Renbo, not only did he not pay attention to etiquette, but also said unceremoniously: "Renbo, are you guilty?" You haven't paid grain and tribute to the Celestial Empire for nearly a year, and now the emperor has sent me to lead troops to crusade against you, if you have the knowledge of the country, you will obediently hand over the year's grain, otherwise, our soldiers will set foot on the country of Youyi, and arrest you to the Celestial Empire to ask for guilt. ”

"The Celestial Empire should know that I have a country of Shan that suffers disasters every year, and the people themselves are difficult to protect, even last year's grain was borrowed from the Shang State, and in the past two years, I have a country of Shan that has relied on the help of the Shang State, so that I can survive without being strong, and the Celestial Empire wants grain, I think it should be, but I really can't take it out, and when the year is better, we will make up for it together."

"Humph! That's not good, I'm leading the troops here today, just to get food, you don't want to hope that there is a country with a dangerous terrain, and my heavenly soldiers can't fight in. ”

"The Celestial Empire is invincible, how can a small country in our region compete with it."

"Then you should get acquainted with each other, and you will be limited to hand over all the food within two days, otherwise, you will not blame us for being polite."

Meng Liang said that, and walked away proudly.

Zhou Fan walked out of the back hall, and Ren Bo saw him and said, "It seems that only soldiers have met." ”

"Bai Zhi, you take me to familiarize yourself with the terrain of the country." Zhou Fan said.

"Okay." So they took their leave to Renba.

The eastern part of the kingdom is flat and adjacent to the Shang kingdom. To the west, the mountains are towering, and the terrain is treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Xia army had to pass through the Shang State to enter the Xia Kingdom, which was relatively easy in terms of terrain, but since the Tang King had already sent troops to the Jin Kingdom to help the Xia army resist, how could he agree to borrow the road?

Two days passed, and Zhou Fan did not receive the news that the Xia army of the Shang State was going to attack the Kingdom of Youyi by means of their unstoppable posture. Zhou Fan and Bai Zhibing were guarded in various dangerous areas of the country. After a while, the forward of the Xia soldiers came to the mountains. The soldiers hidden on the mountain were ready, and Zhou Fan gave an order, and the archers pulled their bows in their hands, and suddenly the arrows shot towards the Xia soldiers like moths to fire; The other soldiers held up the stones, and the stones rolled and smashed towards the Xia soldiers like a torrent on the mountain, and the Xia soldiers were quickly defeated and retreated. The first battle of the army was victorious.

Bai Zhi saw that he won the first battle, and he had a psychology of underestimating Xia Bing, and he said to Zhou Fan: "I heard how powerful Xia Bing is before, but I don't think it's like this, I don't know if I don't fight, I will know it as soon as I fight." ”

Zhou Fan said: "We won this battle completely by virtue of the dangerous terrain, and we must not underestimate the enemy." ”

Xia Bing tried to enter again, but was beaten to the ground again.

The third time, Xia Bing sent people to the mountains to curse the formation. Bai Zhi couldn't bear the pressure of himself, so he said to Zhou Fan: "Xia Bing always scolds me, what kind of shrinking turtle are we, don't dare to fight face-to-face with them, I think Xia Bing seems to be strong, but in fact they are all weak soldiers, not terrible, we can't always stick to the mountain, this battle is not happy, if Xia Bing commits it again next time, I will lead my troops to fight in the past, see what Xia Bing can resist?" ”

When Zhou Fan heard this, Bai Zhizhi was anxious and said: "Meng Liang is a veteran of the Xia Dynasty, after many wars, as long as we stick to the mountain, after a long time, they will be short of food and grass, and they will naturally retreat." ”

"But with such a strong wall, I don't know when they will run out of food and grass before they can retreat? They had only 2,000 men, and we had 4,000 men, twice as many as them, so it would be better to win them in one blow and drive them away and end the battle. ”

Zhou Fan didn't answer again, thinking that Bai Zhi's words were not unreasonable, our army was twice as large as theirs, and he doubted whether he was too cautious in leading his troops to fight for the first time.

After a while, seeing Xia Bing coming again, Xia Bing seemed to be a little weak. Bai Zhi didn't care about Zhou Fan's attitude anymore, so he led his soldiers down the mountain to meet the Xia army, and Zhou Fan didn't stop him. After a while, the Xia soldiers were defeated, the soldiers on the mountain saw that the Xia soldiers were not terrible, all of them had itchy hands and feet, everyone shouted to kill them, Zhou Fan was affected by the emotions of the soldiers, and his heart was also moved, thinking, the Xia Dynasty was corrupt, and its soldiers may also be famous, strong outside, and the number of our soldiers is twice as large as the Xia soldiers, it is better to lead the troops to defeat the Xia soldiers in one fell swoop and end the war. Besides, the morale of our army is really high and should not be suppressed. So he led his army out of the nest and fought against the Xia soldiers, who had no fighting spirit and all withdrew from the mountains, and even General Meng Liang took the lead in escaping. Zhou Fan and Bai Zhi led the whole army, out of the mountain, and pursued the Xia soldiers. From time to time, they came to a pair of slope forests, and the left and right Xia soldiers suddenly appeared in the two slope forests. Zhou Fan only then knew that Meng Liang diverted the tiger from the mountain, Zhou Fan and Bai Zhi led the troops to fight on three sides, and there were many casualties on both sides, but somehow, the Xia soldiers fought more and more, and the soldiers became fewer and fewer, Zhou Fan and Bai Zhi resisted unhindered, and had to retreat, wanting to retreat into the mountains and fight again. Unexpectedly, Xia soldiers appeared at the entrance to the mountain pass, and the mountain pass had been sealed by Xia soldiers, and they were not allowed to enter the mountain. Therefore, the soldiers had no choice but to fight with the Xia soldiers. The Xia soldiers poured towards them in all directions like a tide, the soldiers were surrounded in the center, countless casualties, the encircled area was getting smaller and smaller, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers who could fight, Zhou Fan and Bai Zhi wanted to fight a bloody way and break out of the encirclement, but they failed to succeed several times. Although Zhou Fan knew martial arts, it was difficult to give full play to his martial arts advantages in the face of a large number of Xia soldiers and leading the soldiers to break through. He saw Bai Zhi fall with his own eyes, and after a while, except for him and a few seriously wounded soldiers, almost all of them were wiped out, and if he didn't leave quickly, he would also die here. At this time, he thought of care, peony, Mianxiu, Meixi, as well as Tang Wang, Yiyin, Zhonggu, etc., and he came to think that there were still many things to do in the Xia Dynasty, so he couldn't just die. He doesn't need to think about leading the soldiers to break through together, but he is alone, and it shouldn't be difficult to break through. At this time, he saw that one of the soldiers of the Xia soldiers was riding a horse, commanding the Xia soldiers to fight, he gave full play to his martial arts advantages, used his housekeeping skills, jumped in the air, waved the officer off the horse with a sword, sat firmly on the horse, and then used the Xuanyuan swordsmanship to kill a bloody road, breaking through the siege and galloping north.

Zhou Fan ran all the way, and he didn't know where he went, at the foot of a mountain, he dismounted quite sadly, he thought, he led the troops to fight for the first time, but he didn't expect the whole army to be wiped out, and the defeat was so incredible, how could he explain to King Tang? He was physically and mentally exhausted, lying on the ground in a daze when he saw a white-haired old man walking towards him, and when he approached, he clearly saw that he was his Master Pengzu, he was full of sadness, and cried: "Master, it is useless to lead the disciples, lead the troops to battle, the whole army is annihilated, and the disciples have no face to say goodbye to King Tang." ”

"Zhou Fan, this time you are leading the troops for the first time, Bai Zhi said that there are 2,000 Xia soldiers, in fact, the Xia soldiers are far more than 2,000, there are indeed as many as 6,000, the information is wrong, if you stick to it, it is okay, but you are not stable, you are allowed to attack under the mountain, you are affected by the emotions of the soldiers, Cao led the soldiers down the mountain, fought with the Xia army, and fell into Meng Liang's plan to lure the soldiers out of the mountain, so it is so far. You don't have to blame yourself too much, and you can't just give up, as the saying goes: 'Failure is the mother of success.' "You are the first time, and this is also the disaster you deserve, so don't be discouraged. Have you forgotten your senior brother's dying words, he asked you to go to Taiyue Mountain to find your uncle, but you haven't gone until now, it is not surprising that there is such a catastrophe. Now Taiyue Mountain is right in front of you, so you can do it yourself. ”

Peng Zu said, then turned around and gradually walked away. Zhou Fan was still shouting vigorously: "Master! Master! ...... But the master who was far away never looked back. He was chasing the master, but he couldn't run fast, he couldn't catch up with the master, he was feeling why he couldn't run fast, but someone was pulling his arm, he was about to get angry, as soon as he moved, he woke up, it turned out to be a dream, he looked at his arm again, only to know that it was the horse that ate grass, ate elsewhere, scratched his arm, and then felt this in the dream.

Zhou Fan recalled the dream just now, and he wondered if the master was entrusting him with a dream and telling him to go to Taiyue Mountain to find his uncle? Since he went to the north, he said that he heard from his master in his dream that Taiyue Mountain was in front of him, so he had already arrived at the foot of Taiyue Mountain, no matter what, he must go to Taiyue Mountain to meet his uncle.

He rode his horse, at the foot of the mountain, along the sheep intestine path, trying to find a way up the mountain, and after a while, he came to a three-way crossing, there was a road that seemed to go up the mountain, and he stepped on this road, and the way up the mountain, although sometimes high and sometimes low, but in general it still rose. After he walked for a while, the road became very steep, and there was a stone tablet on the side of the road, on which were written the four Jiacharacters of Taiyue Jinding, and Zhou Fan really felt that he had come to Taiyue Mountain. The mountain road is so steep that the horse can no longer be ridden. So he tied his horse to the side of the road and said to it, "Stay here first, and I'll come and pick you up when I'm up the mountain." ”

The horse seemed to be very human, so he made a "aggressive" sound to him. As if to say that I know.

He did his tricks, like a Spider-Man, from one staircase to another, and soon came to a platform. He looked around, there was no road, it was all woods, but he looked up and could see the Taiyue Taoist Temple, and the word "Golden Top" was written on the top of the temple. He thought that this temple was not far from above, and as long as he could get out of this jungle, he could reach it. Therefore, he chose the general direction leading to the Taoist temple, and walked towards the woods, he walked and walked, I don't know how many walks, but he still didn't get out of the woods, he wondered, it seems that this forest is not too big, why can't he get out? He went up to the tree to see, the Taoist temple was still so far away, he didn't believe it, continued to walk forward, and saw that the sky was exposed in front of him, and the forest finally came out of the head, he ran forward excitedly, and came to the edge of the woods to see, but he didn't expect that the edge of the forest was where he had just come up, and he walked back again, just in a big circle in the woods. He felt very angry for a moment, and only felt that he had suffered defeat in the battle, and even this forest would deceive him. He looked at the temple again, re-oriented, and went into the woods again, this time, carving a mark into the tree for each part of his journey to see if he was turning back. He hurried through the woods, and from time to time saw the mark in the tree to see if he had gone back again, and he thought confidently that this time he could not be wrong. But after walking for a long time, when he made a mark on the tree again, he found the tree mark he had carved, which surprised him. He put down his hurried steps and seriously thought about all that he had done, and he suddenly thought that this might be a stun array specially set up by Taiyue Mountain in order to prevent people with bad intentions from coming to the mountain, just like the mechanism set up in the entrance and exit hole of Wuyi Xianchun Ridge, which had to be cracked before he could enter the Taoist temple. He chose the highest tree, jumped on the highest point of the tree, carefully watched and deliberated, and finally found that this forest was set up according to the five elements of the eight trigrams, as ordinary people think, they can only enter the forest at the platform, and cannot walk out of the woods along the direction of the Taoist temple, let alone reach the Taoist temple. If you want to break the Five Elements Bagua Array of this forest, you must use the thinking of the Five Elements Bagua to identify the direction, so as to achieve the purpose of going out of the forest and entering the Taoist Temple. So he followed the method of the Five Elements Bagua Technique, after walking fifty steps, meditating, using qi, identifying directions, and then, after walking another eighty steps, meditating, using qi, identifying directions, and in this way, he alternated, and finally walked out of the woods and came to the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is magnificent and magnificent, and the aura is extraordinary, which is much larger than the pavilion of Wuyi Xianchunling.

There was someone in the Taoist temple guarding it, and when he saw Zhou Fan, he asked, "Who are you?" What happened to coming to my Taiyue Taoist Temple? ”

"I'm here to meet Uncle Taiyue."

"Who is your master?"

"Peng Zu."

"My master has been in retreat for many days, and he has not seen any visitors."

"Who's coming?" A voice came from inside the temple.

"Senior brother, he is a fellow brother."

As soon as he fell, he saw a person coming to the door of the view like a whirlwind from the view, and Zhou Fan saw that it was Liu Lai.

Liu Lai glanced at Zhou Fan and said, "It's you, kid, where did you take your heart?" I didn't come to me until now. He looked around again, but when he didn't see any concern, he said, "What about the heart?" I haven't seen you for so long, are you embarrassed to deliberately avoid me, I won't blame you, come out for me! As he spoke, he looked around, but for a while he could not find it. And he said, "You kid, where did you hide your heart?" ”

"...... you care about her?" Zhou Fan squeaked.

"What's wrong with her? Didn't come? ”

"Missing."

"How so? Didn't she take it with you? In fact, I agreed with Huang Bing, that is, I broke the rule that the head of the Huang faction does not get married, and I will do a happy event for you the next day, you don't know, or it's too late, and I disappeared that night, and the next morning I heard a disciple of the Huang faction say that he saw you and care about falling into the Valley of the Dead that night. I don't believe it, look at you, aren't you good? It's not dead, Xin'er must have taken it away for you, where is she now? Why don't you come to see me? ”

"The disciple was right, I didn't take her away, she was framed that night, and she was going to fall into Youshi...... When I didn't go to the Valley of the Dead, I went to pull her, but they all fell into the Valley of the Dead. ”

"Isn't that dead, alas, how are you still alive? Is Xin'er dead? Oh! Oh no, I know, Xin'er is dead, and if you don't want to say it, just say she's missing. Liu Lai cried sadly as he spoke.

"None of us died, we were saved by the people of the valley."

"Someone in the valley?"

"Yes, it's just that she suffered from amnesia due to the powerful oscillation of her brain, and soon after she was taken to Taishan to seek medical treatment, they disappeared, and I still don't know where they were."

"Missing? You came to Taiyue Mountain, did you come to find Xin'er? She didn't come here, I didn't hide her, don't believe me, you can ask them. ”

"Who's arguing over there?" There was a sound in the air, and its internal force was strong.

"Master, it is an old man that the disciple met when he went down the mountain in the past, he came to my Taiyue Mountain to find me, and talked about the old things together, because the disciple was excited for a while, he spoke too loudly, disturbing the master's meditation, please forgive me!" Liu Laidao.

"Senior nephew Zhou Fante came to meet Uncle Taiyue!" Zhou Fan said.

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