In the misty night, the firelight reflected in the sky, and the small county town fell into a battle and chaos.

The reason why it was chosen as a gathering place for people in the green forest is that Taoting, a small county town, was not a good place in the first place. There are already many sects and nine streams in the county, and they have long been accustomed to the occasional chaos, but tonight, the officers and soldiers who came over were obviously not small. Zhou Tong and Fu Lu got off their horses and sneaked all the way in, and there were three or four fights in secret, some of them were killed from the dark alleys, and some were hidden in the houses, and they were found and resisted. In addition to the officers and soldiers wearing fast hunting clothes and military uniforms, there are more warriors in groups of five to seven people.

These people did not wear the official court clothes, but they were able to move in unison with the officers and soldiers, and they had obviously greeted them beforehand. Followed by the officers and soldiers, they were able to enter the houses to conduct searches, and the people living here knew that the matter was not small, so they hid in their homes in peace, and they also cooperated with the search of the officers and soldiers. Zhou Dong and Fu Lu saw several green forest people sneaking into a house, they obviously knew the owner of the house, and wanted to go in and hide, so they pressed against the wooden door inside, and only said, "You guys go quickly!" Let's go, don't bother me! ”

Several people in the green forest just scolded him for not being righteous, and someone threatened: "If you don't open the door, you will burn his house." But then the sound of fighting spread in the streets, and several green forest people hurriedly fled.

Along the way, the closer you get to the center of the county, the more you can see the fire ahead. Zhou Tong of Taoting County has also been here before, and knows that there is a large-scale inn and theater in the center of the county, which is the most popular place where the three religions and nine streams gather. Tonight's Heroes Conference must have been held there, but at this time, it seemed that the building had turned into a sea of fire, the whole had been burned and collapsed, and there was a faint smell of burning in the air, and it was obvious that many people had died in that sea of fire.

Zhou Tong had a vague guess about what happened here, and after passing the center of the county, he went to the south.

The convener of this Green Forest Conference is named Yan Lian, and he is a registered disciple he had instructed at the beginning. He is a Taoting person. It is also quite famous in the rivers and lakes. Zhou Tong was originally going to Yanjiazhuang to find him, but along the way, what really made Zhou Tong care about was the actions of those searchers. It felt something familiar to him.

These warriors in groups of five to seven took on most of the task of searching and arresting. The reason why they are viewed separately from the people of the Green Forest. It's because most of the people in the green forest act loosely. If you get along with each other for a long time, although you have a good cooperation, you can't talk about too many rules. And these people are clearly trained. In action, they work together as a whole - even if they don't work perfectly, they seem to be at least going in this direction.

The weapons they held in their hands were different, some were wielding fishing nets, some were wielding spears, some were wielding broadswords, some were armed with crossbows, and some were wielding swords and shields—at least in the rivers and lakes, there were few warriors who used swords and shields to cooperate. In this way, a group of people looks like nothing at first glance, but after a few groups of people, they have some doorways. These people's martial arts may not be first-class, but they cooperate well with each other, once they fight, the shield blocks the opponent's attack, the two spears stab directly, the big knife slashes, and the powerful crossbows at medium and close ranges are combined with fishing nets, and the average three or five green forest people are not opponents at all, and they are often broken up and won after a few fights.

And especially here in Zhou Tong, I can feel some other things.

About more than ten years ago, when he was still the head of the Imperial Boxing Gym, he once considered using advanced martial arts in the military formation - although he did not advance an inch after becoming the head of the Tianzi Sect in the Imperial Boxing Gym, Zhou Tong was still enthusiastic about these things, even if the boxing method was widely rumored to be a taboo in martial arts, he didn't care.

He had put a lot of thought into these things. For example, simplifying the boxing method and pursuing quick success, or simplifying the moves and pursuing practical results, or designing a special formation to play a greater role on the battlefield. But most of these attempts have failed. The things passed down from the ancestors have their own reason, boxing and martial arts, one is to seek talent, and the other is to be able to eat well. In the army, even if there is no class, there are only a few people who can learn boxing and become teachers, and this is fine, the biggest problem is that the teaching is not good, the teaching is not in place, and the other party will hurt the body if he learns.

This thing is just like the drawbacks of the quick, even if it is a "breaking the six paths" such a profound internal skill, it will still leave a dark wound on people, if you want to alleviate this, every once in a while, there must be someone with higher martial arts skills to push the palace through the acupoints for the other party, massage the body, in the end, the price of cultivating a small master needs a big master to take care of, and the gains outweigh the losses.

And even those who really learn advanced martial arts, there are not many people, and they often eat a lot of food. If there is such an army, they are strong in martial arts and good at cooperating, and they will first eat up the country.

As for the simplified moves, the training methods in the army are extremely simplified killing techniques. According to the requirements of the book of soldiers, the soldiers practice simple chopping, stabbing and stabbing thousands of times every day, if you want to simplify, Zhou Dong really has nothing to simplify.

Due to such and such reasons, in the end, Zhou Tong also realized that his ideas were mostly empty talk. As a martial artist, his mastery of his body has reached the peak, but if he wants to be a general, he is actually not as good as those junior generals who are not high in martial arts. Eventually, Zhou Tong recorded some of his thoughts, and later these manuscripts were also stored in the Imperial Boxing Gym, and not many people could see them.

In front of him, the formation of five to seven people was quite similar to the small formation he had designed before for the battlefield - although there were many changes, the several footwork, positioning, and the know-how of advancing and retreating between the coordination obviously had traces of what he had originally envisioned.

At the beginning, Zhou Dong's idea was to arrange a formation, so that the soldiers could fight separately after being divided and surrounded on the battlefield, and fight for survival one by one. With his martial arts cultivation, the cooperation between several people is quite wonderful, if they practice properly with each other, cooperate tacitly, and block, kill, block, and kill rhythmically, several people can deal with a steady stream of enemies well. But this is also a fantasy after all, and the daily training in the army is naturally carried out by the whole army. Where can you practice the coordination of several people all day long. Even if you practice, as soon as you are scattered on the battlefield, you will be strangers when you gather, and this kind of formation with clear cooperation between each other is actually not of much significance.

However, these people in front of him obviously took the forward and backward footwork in his formation, although at first glance everyone's weapons are different, and the formation is a little chaotic, but there are traps everywhere in it. The man who walked in the front and seemed to be scattered, as soon as he was attacked, immediately retreated. Then the shield blocked. The big knife is slashed, the spear is sealed in the middle and the back road, the crossbow deterrence and the fishing net are thrown, even the first-class master will suffer a loss suddenly. I watched a few fights at random. Two Green Forest warriors were knocked to the ground in such a dilemma. The useless position on the battlefield has become a sharp weapon for small-scale combat at this time.

Zhou Tong originally didn't design so many weapons to cooperate. At this time, while watching, he also thought again in his heart. Before they arrived at Yanjiazhuang, the master and servant suddenly discovered the target they were looking for. It was a middle-aged warrior in his forties, accompanied by a small team of searchers from the other side of the long street, knocked on the door of a house, and then told the family to go in and search, and the other party also let the door go.

Zhou Tong and Fu Lu looked strange, the reason why this Yan Jian was able to earn a reputation in the green forest was because of his boldness and righteousness, and now that the green forest conference was held like this, he actually cooperated with the government? Although Zhou Tong's position has always been on the side of the government, it is really incomprehensible at this time, after today, is Yanjiazhuang still on the rivers and lakes?

After looking at it secretly for a while, Zhou Tong came out of the street and shouted in a deep voice: "Yan Lian." The other party was coming out of the courtyard, Yan Lian's body was shocked, and he looked over here, and for a while, his eyes were staring, and his hands were a little trembling. However, the searcher next to him immediately set up a formation, and it seemed that the person who was vaguely like the leader of the team was about to shout "take it", but he heard Yan Jian say: "Master, master!" ”

"You ......"

"Ahh

The next moment, I saw Yan Jian grit his teeth violently, suddenly attacked, and slashed a palm at the leader, but the other party also reacted at this moment, raised his hand to block, and was beaten back two steps, and the rest of the people were about to shoot at Yan Lian, the leading man shouted: "Retreat!" Don't hit! It's the 'iron arm' Zhou Dong! ”

As soon as this name came out, everyone holding knives and guns looked at this side in unison, and they all subconsciously took a step or two back, but they subconsciously formed a small formation. Yan Jian looked at them, took a few steps to the side, and walked towards Zhou Dong, a man in his forties, there were tears in his eyes: "Master, Master...... The disciple is guilty. So saying, he knelt down on the long street, knocked his head to the ground, and did not get up for a long time.

Zhou Tong frowned, he didn't figure out what this scene was at all, so he had to take two steps and raise his hand to help Yan Jian up: "No need to be like this, although you and I are commensurate with master and apprentice, I really haven't taught you anything...... What's going on. ”

"Them." Yan Jian pointed behind him and gritted his teeth, "They...... Arrested my family of thirty-nine, and threatened me to set this green forest conference to death, I ...... My eldest son has been killed by them...... Master. ”

Zhou Tong was silent, and he could see that the tears in Yan Zhuo's eyes were not for his son's death, but for the guilt of betraying so many people. After a while, I heard the leading man over there speak first: "Senior Zhou, my master once talked about you, you won't also come to 'gather righteousness' with these people, right?" ”

The other party's words were sonorous and powerful, obviously not feeling the slightest guilt about what was happening in front of him. Zhou Tong glanced at him and arched his hand: "Your master, but Ning Liheng?" ”

"That's the man!" Yan Jian paused, his eyes were blood-red, and after saying this, he took a step back abruptly, "Teacher, my family of thirty-nine is still in the hands of that devil." Yan Lian is coerced by others, and if he takes a wrong step, it will be difficult to accommodate the world and the world, so he will take the first step! As he finished saying this, he slapped his palm on the top of his head. Before he could swing into the air, Fu Lu took a step forward, waved his hand and cut into his arm, dissipating his strength, and then grabbed his hand.

Zhou Tong's gaze was stern, and he glanced at him: "The man stands up to the sky, don't follow this daughter's posture, I have a relationship with Ning Liheng, let's go, go and meet him." In his words, he didn't hear much joy or anger.

The leading man over there arched his hand and led everyone towards the northeast of the county. One of them was dragged in a fishing net, screamed by the sticks, and began to beg for mercy. When Zhou Tong saw this scene, he frowned and tilted his head slightly.

Along the way, Zhou Tong also learned about this night from Yan Lian's mouth. In fact, it's simple, this green forest hero conference was held in the inn in the center of the county, the other party took Yan Lian's family, prepared fire oil in the venue, buried gunpowder, and when the conference was halfway through, the devil appeared, and everyone took a look, and then they surrounded the venue and lit a fire. These green forest people knew the situation at a critical moment, some of them rushed out desperately, most of them were blown up and burned to death, and at this time, the search was only a small part of the escape.

Yan Jian said this, his eyes were blood-red. Zhou Tong just listened silently, did not speak, and after a while, he said to the leading man in front of him: "Your name is Tian Donghan, if I remember correctly, I saw you once at the foot of Mount Tai." ”

The man looked back in surprise, and then bowed his hand and nodded: "I saw my predecessors from afar five years ago, but I didn't expect my predecessors to remember." ”

"The world that your master took you out to see, he said that you inherited his mantle, but unfortunately he was too loyal, and he was afraid that he would suffer a loss, and he would serve as a nurse, but he injured the landlord's son...... Your master passed away three years ago, and I thought that he had a disciple like you. Zhou Tong said, "Why did you do things for Ning Yi?" ”

Natian Donghan thought for a moment, and while walking, he said in a deep voice: "Last year's famine, my family had no money to buy food, and my family ...... The old lady was sick, and then starved to death, and the woman also died, so I took my two children all the way to Beijing to beg for art, and met the officials of the Ning family who were giving porridge and picking up the nursing home, so I went. ”

Zhou Tong nodded, and after a while, he said, "How did you kill his son?" ”

Tian Donghan walked in front and tilted his head: "I don't know, I went to Ning's house last year, and the master of the family has been running for disaster relief, offending people, and in a few months, a total of thirteen batches of door-to-door assassinations came." Half a month ago, my master married two girls, they came to the door again, his son killed a nurse, a maid, after escaping, said that it was for the heavens, this surname Yan also celebrated. My master came to force him to comply, and he didn't want him to bargain with his son's life, so he first beheaded his son in front of him, and then threatened him with the lives of his whole family. ”

Tian Donghan said here and paused: "I also know that this is a little undesirable, but I want to come...... There is no other way. ”

Yan Jian clenched his fists, trembling all over, and was almost about to rush forward. Zhou Tong just followed and stopped talking. (To be continued......)