At dusk, Guo Hong came to the lake, sat down next to the boulder, and sensed the evening star (Mercury) while approaching the water vapor.

There is someone in the kitchen in the distance who is sacrificing the furnace, and the furnace god is Taishang Laojun!

As the sky got dark, Guo Hong finished his work, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Liu Yuanjing sitting on a stool next to the stone table, looking at him with a smile.

"Master!"

"Are you cultivating the Huang Ting Sutra?"

"Exactly, Master, let me tell you, I have now practiced all the nine palaces of the Yellow Court, and I have seen the real ...... of Taiyi."

Guo Hong excitedly told him about his situation.

Liu Yuanjing shook his head with a smile and said: "Master also likes to be whimsical when he is as old as you, I have already said last time, "Huang Ting Jing" is to cultivate the two qi of yin and yang, it is not so complicated, I have been practicing for many years as a teacher, and I have never communicated with Taiyijun, what you see is an illusion that naturally occurs when you cultivate, and it will slowly disappear when you grow up." ”

The world in the eyes of children is different from that of adults, and Liu Yuanjing certainly won't believe what Guo Hong said.

There was nothing unusual about what the boy said, it was much like the fantasies of other children.

"But I also saw the Emperor of the Water Officials!" Guo Hong shouted unconvinced, how could the master not believe himself?

"How do you know that's true?" Liu Yuanjing shook his head with a smile, stood up, waved his hand, and turned to leave.

Guo Hong was stunned for a moment, yes, how can I prove that what I saw was the Emperor Shuiguan?

He secretly gritted his teeth, thinking that one day he would find evidence to prove it to Master!

Liu Yuanjing was actually not on a whim, he suddenly wanted to come to see Guo Hong to practice, after talking to Cao Shouzhen, he wanted to teach this little disciple well.

At that time, Liu Yuanjing asked Cao Shouzhen: "How has your junior brother practiced martial arts recently?" ”

Cao Shouzhen scratched his head and replied: "Everything else is very good, that is, one will say that I saw this immortal, and another time I will say that I saw that immortal, but I see nothing." ”

"This is an illusion caused by excessive cultivation, he worked too hard and lost the true meaning of Daomen's inaction!"

This is the reason why Liu Yuanjing deliberately came over to order his disciples today.

Liu Yuanjing actually didn't let Cao Shouzhen go, reprimanding them just to give Mao Taixuan a step, and he wouldn't have any opinions when he thought about it.

Since the Huixian Pavilion had not been celebrated after its completion, Liu Yuanjing took the initiative to invite the thirteen Taoists of the two views to Yinzhen Rock.

Before Qi Yuanyi left, he went to find Zong Ba and asked him to inform Hu Yande.

At this time, Hu Yande was in a village not far from the bottom of the mountain, and he was overjoyed when he received the news, and sent his subordinates out to contact him.

He is the general alliance leader of the underworld in Hengshan, although the strength of the second brother has been greatly reduced after the death of the second brother, there is still the third brother Hu Yanzhi who is the big leader in Xianshan Mountain, Hengyang County, and there are more than 100 bandits under his command, and dozens of villages like Niujiaoling Zongjiazhai can also gather more than 800 people, plus the power in Hengshan County, there are 3,000 people in total!

However, the bandits in these villages are no different from ordinary villagers, far inferior to the fifty or so people brought by the second brother.

As soon as he thought that his second brother and fifty cronies from Wei Bojun were killed by the other party, he felt blood in his heart.

Now Hu Yande is blind, and his eyes are covered with a black cloth, but his martial arts are not weak, and he has practiced listening to the wind discerner before, and he will get used to it after a long time.

Listening to the wind is a basic skill in the ancient army, and if you don't learn it, you will soon be shot to death by stray arrows flying around the battlefield.

Since Qi Yuanyi had been secretly communicating with the news, Hu Yande had already guessed that Liu Yuanjing might go to Yinzhenyan in the past few days, and had already summoned more than 3,000 people, and at this moment he only notified them to gather in the village.

Hu Yande secretly calculated, of course Liu Yuanjing couldn't move, Zhang Shoujing and He Deng were named by Qi Yuanyi to kill, Mao Taixuan, the master of Jiuzhen Temple, could also be easily removed, Guo Shangzao wanted to be arrested, although he couldn't be killed, but he could also give him some hardship, pull out his nails and chop off his hands and feet, presumably Wang Jufang wouldn't care, the other two were Cao Shouzhen and Liu Tai who were there that day, and he was ready to cut these two people with a thousand knives!

It wasn't until noon the next day that the bandits arrived one after another, and the villagers had no discipline at all.

However, in the poor and remote countryside of central Hunan and the mountain people are very strong, with a little training, it is a strong army.

This is also the reason why Hu Yande did not dare to directly attack the Zhenzhen Palace, there is a town where there are thousands of people in the town, and the old people and children add up to thousands, and they occupy a geographical advantage, and they are afraid that they will suffer heavy losses on their side when they fight.

It is said that those Taoist martial arts are not weak, otherwise they would not have been defeated and lost last time.

This time, Qi Yuanyi first inquired about the situation of Yin Zhenyan: the thirteen Taoists did not even have more than a hundred disciples and servants.

With more than thirty times the number of their own side, they will definitely be able to fight quickly under the siege, even if the town sends people to help, it will be too late.

Hu Yande saw that everyone had arrived, and led the leaders of each family to form an alliance under the old locust tree at the head of the village.

The loose bandits immediately fell silent when they saw the boss, because he was always followed by a strange man covered in bugs, walking quietly, only occasionally making a slight buzzing sound.

This person is very mysterious, and Hu Yande seems to have become accustomed to it, which makes those thieves even more secretly in awe of this boss.

They all privately said that the strange man was a mountain god, and he was taken in by Hu Yande by chance.

Soon finished drinking, Hu Yande smashed the wine bowl to the ground and shouted: "Brothers, Hu was not thin to everyone in the past, today we will jointly attack Yinzhenyan, catch the old Taoist, and avenge the second brother!" ”

Everyone shouted together: "Avenge Hu Erlang!" ”

More than 3,000 people were divided into villages, more than 100 people, and dozens of people were less than 100 people, and they went to the hidden true rock one after another!

These people are all mountain people, walking in the mountains and forests like a fish in water, and they did not meet anyone along the way, and they came to the vicinity of their destination at the time of the afternoon (three to five o'clock), and each of them hid himself.

Hu Yande sat on a shoulder made of bamboo, and was carried here by two people.

This kind of bamboo made of shoulders, is a kind of mountain walking tool, with two long poles sandwiched a chair, very similar to the sliding rod of later generations, Bai Juyi's poem "East Return" has: "Pian Pian flat shoulders, there is a drunk old man." "That's what I'm talking about.

Hu Yande was full of ambition in his heart, and he was also a little drunk, if he caught Guo Shangzao today, even if he was blind, he would definitely rise to prominence in the future, and when the time came, he would look for a famous doctor, and maybe he would recover.

"Big Boss, there's the Hidden True Rock ahead!" A bandit reported.

Hu Yanzhen, the third brother who was scared away by Lu Zhizhen's snake group, also came to the side at this time and asked, "Big brother, is this going in?" ”

Hu Yande asked, "San Lang, is there any movement inside?" ”

Hu Yanzhi replied: "There is movement, it seems that we have been discovered, the other party closed the gate of the village, many people went up to the wall, and fireworks were lit, this is asking for help!" ”

"Is this wall really a foot high?"

"Indeed...... Some. Big brother, each family has prepared ladders, this kind of wall that is less than two people high can't stop us! ”

Hu Yande said: "Then order the siege, don't let them escape, and send a team of people to the direction of the Zhenzhen Palace to block the reinforcements!" ”

Hu Yanzhi waved his hand, several of his subordinates ran to a conspicuous place and waved flags, and a group of mountain people saw the signal, carried ladders and raised weapons, and shouted and roared out of the mountains and forests!

Three thousand people rushed over in this not wide place, and immediately the water surrounding the Immortal Pavilion was impassable.

Hu Yande asked people to carry him to the gate of the wooden wall, lowered his shoulder, and walked over to the main gate with the support of his younger brother.

"Mr. Liu, I'm Hu again, I know you and quickly hand over Guo Shangzao, Cao Shouzhen, Liu Tai, Zhang Shoujing, and He Deng, otherwise we will kill it, in case we don't stop and hurt Mr., it will be too much of a crime."

An arrow came from the wall, but his men raised their shields to block it.

Since the last defeat, Hu Yande learned from the pain and ordered these bandits to make a large number of simple wooden shields.

This time, I'm not afraid of the other party's archery, anyway, the wood is there, and the shield is broken and the side is changed.

"You are only seventy or eighty people, except for the old and young, there are less than fifty people who can fight, Hu Mou and five thousand people, all of them are heroes and heroes in various cottages in Hengshan, if you don't surrender, it will be inevitable that the jade will be burned!"

Hu Yande said in his heart: Only 3,000 people can falsely claim 5,000, which is already very conscientious.

He roared a little thirsty, took the water bag and drank two sips, and shouted: "Hu swore to heaven that he would never hurt Guo Shangzao's life, if we don't open the door, we will attack it!" ”

He waited for a moment, but the other party did not respond, so he stepped back under the crowd of his men, and at the same time ordered an attack with a wave of his hand.

The bandits had been waiting impatiently, and rushed forward with a clamour.

Those who rushed to the front raised their wooden shields to ward off the arrows, and the men carrying the wooden ladders followed closely behind, and soon came to the edge of the stream outside the wall.

The stream is two feet wide and looks more than half a man deep, but it is a little muddy, and the surface of the water is pale green, and there is no bottom in sight.

The bandits diverged and swam across the river, and soon someone screamed, but they were trampled by the follow-up people and could not retreat, and trampled each other and fell into the stream!

Hu Yande heard the voice and asked his younger brother beside him, "What's the matter?" ”

"It seems that a trap was buried in the stream, and now the surface of the water is red with blood, and dozens of people have died!"

"Order them to go down and let them step on the corpses in front of them to reduce casualties!"

Hu Yande also has archers on his side, who are constantly shooting arrows inside, and as long as the opponent shows his head on the wall, he will become the target of fire!

Many ladders were built on the fence one after another, and the people inside could only squat behind the wall and push the wooden ladder with poles.

But there are more than 3,000 people outside, and if you push it around like this, it won't be long before the other party will be exhausted!

The third floor of the Huixian Pavilion was more than twice as high as the wall, and an arrow suddenly shot out from inside, knocking down the archers here, which could be said to be a hundred shots, which reminded Hu Yande of the nightmare last time!

It's that Liu Tai again!

The archers were so frightened that they hid behind the wooden shields and did not dare to raise their heads, and the people on the wall had no scruples and rose up to engage the bandits who climbed up.

There are indeed a few good hands among these Taoists, who use spears and lances condescendingly, and dozens of ordinary bandits can't beat one!

Hu Yande heard his younger brother say, knowing that the battle situation was anxious and secretly anxious, after all, he was a thief with a weak heart, and he was afraid that the nearby Nanyue Town would come to help if he got the news, and he was afraid that it would not be easy to get out at that time.

The vast majority of these 3,000 people are dead, and he is not distressed, but the more than 100 people of his younger brother are the capital for him to suppress the Hengshan underworld, and there can be no more losses no matter what.

"You should let your subordinates keep an eye on it, and let those villages that are not too close go first."

"Big brother, don't worry, now the top in front is all thorns, when they are consumed, we will go again!"

Hu Yande shook his head, and said with hatred: "What's up, if more than 2,000 people die and can't be attacked, you will also be sent to death if you go up, this is the capital of our brother's life, we can only be a supervising team, we must not be left here, and when you see that the situation is not good, you will take people to withdraw first." ”

He thought for a moment and then said: "Let them shout, and say that those who attack first will take 30%, and all the property plundered this time will be distributed to the brothers, and I, Hu Yande, don't want a single copper!" ”

As soon as the bandits around him shouted this, the people who were climbing the ladder attacked like chickens.

The two Taoist priests on the wall couldn't keep up with their physical strength after a long battle, so they had to be replaced, and the bandits outside were even more excited when they saw it, and cheers rang out.

Hu Yande was also very happy when he heard the effect of his order, and kept urging to step up the attack.

Guo Hong sat on the top floor of the Huixian Pavilion and poured tea for the master before asking, "It's almost." ”

Liu Yuanjing nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

He was about to get up, Guo Hong said, "Let the disciple come!" ”

Liu Yuanjing smiled and nodded in agreement.

Guo Hong jumped up happily and ascended the altar on the top floor of the Huixian Pavilion!

I saw him holding a wooden sword in his hand, stepping on the seven star steps, and there were words in his mouth, and the incense candle on the incense table in front of him suddenly ignited automatically!

Immediately after a wave of the wooden sword, the incense candle turned into a firework, only to hear a loud bang, a firelight swished into the air and exploded, blooming like a flower!

On the top of the mountain in the distance, a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Taoist saw the fireworks and smiled.

He was followed by a fierce tiger, it was Liu Yuanjing's eldest apprentice Lu Zhizhen!

Lu Zhizhen turned around and beckoned into the distance, where there were a few people sitting under the tree, but they refused to come.

Lu Zhizhen laughed helplessly at himself, let the big worm stay where he was, and walked towards those people by himself.

"Fourth brother, my master will send the message to do it!"

Lu Zhizhen said to the leader of the group.

This person really looked a little similar to him, turned his head and exchanged glances with another white-faced scholar, then took out five five-color flags from his waist, walked to the boulder on the edge of the cliff and waved them.

This set of flag slogans is a bit complicated, and it is really inexplicable for ordinary people to see it.

After a while, a flock of birds flew in the mountains and forests, and there was a slight vibration on the ground, as if a giant beast was walking in the forest!

Hu Yande at the foot of the mountain was proud, when he suddenly heard an unusual voice, and he was shocked for a while.

Hu Yanzhi saw that the mountain rock not far away suddenly cracked, and hundreds of hoplites in armor came out of it, lined up in formation, and pushed forward in unison, what they held in their hands was the Mo Sword of the Mighty Western Regions!

Four more teams of men and horses emerged from the two wings of the woods, dressed as fishermen.

Each of the four teams had a foot soldier at the head of the group, and they all shouted to report their names.

"Lin Qin, a good man from Baotai Mountain, is here!"

"Longyang good man Qin Heng is here!"

"Dingkou Haohan Valley Dahuai is here!"

"The sewer is a good man, Ding Hongshi is here!"

Hu Yande was shocked when he heard this, these people are all famous Dongting water thieves, why did they suddenly come to Hengshan!

"Big brother, a team of officers and soldiers came out of the rocks, there are about a hundred people, and they are Mo Dao soldiers!" Hu Yanzhi said quickly.

Hu Yande shouted: "Quickly retreat, quickly retreat, this is a trap!" ”

The rocks are cracked, and the formation map hides soldiers, this is the Taoist method of the legendary immortals!

What's more, it's a Mo Sword Soldier!

Not to mention that he is only 3,000 people, even the 5,000 people who really have a false claim are not the opponent of this hundred Mo sword soldiers.

In the tenth year of Tianbao (751), the famous general Gao Xianzhi in the battle of Talas was to use 5,000 Mo sword soldiers to mainly 20,000 Tang troops and 10,000 Western Regions army, successively defeated 300,000 Great Food Army, and finally the other party used the power of the country, the strength reached 500,000, and the Tang army defected, which led to the failure of the expedition, the Tang army still had thousands of people successfully returned, and two years later, the Anxi Protectorate restored the 24,000 military system in its heyday!

The history books at that time said that the power of the Mo knife was like a mountain and a sea like a wall, and everyone was shattered everywhere it passed!

The power of the Tang Dynasty is so great!

Hu Yande was born in Wei Bojun Town, and grew up listening to the legend of Modao Shenwei since he was a child, and at this time he was terrified and hurriedly urged to escape.

The front team of the bandits besieging Yin Zhenyan has not yet received the news, they are still fighting hard, the rear team has become a mess, they find themselves surrounded by three sides, many thieves have not yet closed the other side, desperately fleeing to both sides, no one dares to confront that officer and army head-on!

The battle process was like a devastating process, and the Modao team was hiding not far from Hu Yande's rear team, and the corpses were everywhere at this time, and the stream was completely dyed red.

Of the more than 3,000 thieves, at least 500 rushed into the mountains and forests from the water thieves on both sides and disappeared, and Hu Yanzhi also fled with more than a dozen of his men in the crowd.

"That's amazing!"

Guo Hong leaned on the railing and saw this scene from a distance, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"With such an army, the entire Tang Dynasty can't muster 3,000 people now!" Liu Yuanjing stood behind him at some point, sighed and said.

"But I finished the fight before I finished the battle, and I felt a little boring." Guo Hong is young, but he still tends to charge into battle by himself.

Liu Yuanjing shook his head and said: "Since ancient times, there are few generals who charge ahead, and standing in a high place can use the flag to mobilize the command, just like playing chess." If you lead the troops into battle one day, you will understand the benefits of looking at the whole picture. ”

Guo Hong looked at the battlefield and said: "But this time it's too simple, and the reserve bandits were defeated without any use!" ”

"There will always be difficult opponents in the future. This encirclement and suppression is the use of the world's strong army, it can be said that the strong attack on the weak, after the command of the battle is not difficult, it is not difficult to practice more, the real difficulty is the training of the troops, you go back and select some people from the Taoist temple to train yourself, for the division to check how well the training is! ”

Guo Hong nodded and said: "Master just said that conquest is like playing chess, so training is like accumulating thick momentum in Go. ”

"Teachable! Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor created the Taoist technique of teaching his children based on the art of war. There are many kinds of Taoism, the fundamental avenue is simple and unpretentious, such as astronomy, geography, medicine, writing, food, and hundreds of crafts, these are all the techniques of carrying the Tao, which have been integrated into the world, and now the avenue is difficult to create, and the Taoist can only study some side roads, confusing people's ears and eyes. The old man sighed, as if he was commenting on the technique of "Array Diagram Hiding Soldiers" just now.