Liu Yuanjing's understanding of Taoism was obviously much beyond Guo Hong's imagination, and he benefited a lot, so he followed this line of thought.

The law of the operation of all things in heaven and earth is the Tao, and the method created by human beings to adapt to nature is Shu. Taoism encompasses all the occupations and life behaviors of human beings!

At this time, Guo Hong's eyes suddenly froze, and he pointed to the front of the formation and said, "Master, look, there are black worms on that person!" ”

Liu Yuanjing got up and came to the railing, looked in the direction of Guo Hong's finger, and saw that the Modao team encountered resistance, and the array was no longer a horizontal line, but a recess into a semicircle.

A strange man in a cloak, his face covered with a black cloth, only showing a pair of eyes standing in the array, he was not afraid of swords, and used his body to fight Mo Dao!

Mo slashed at this person, only cutting through his clothes, but no blood splattered, some black insects fell through the cracks in his clothes, and quickly crawled back under this person's feet.

Hu Yande was blind, so he hid behind the strange man, heard the shouts around him and knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly ran for his life.

The strange man faced the Modao team, and he didn't see how his legs moved, and walked backwards, but he always kept three feet away from Hu Yande, which looked extremely weird!

"Immortal King Gu!"

Liu Yuanjing's face was pale, just now the bandits besieged, this strange man hidden in the crowd is not inconspicuous at all, at this moment, the big waves are sweeping the sand, and this stubborn stone is finally exposed.

"Disciples of Hengshan listen to the order, go forward with this seat to eliminate the demon!"

He and Liu Tai hurried downstairs, Guo Hong and Cao Shouzhen followed behind the master, and Zhang Shoujing and He Deng also led the disciples to gather.

The gate of the village was wide open, and everyone rushed out and went straight to the Modao Army.

Hu Yande was extremely embarrassed at this time, after all, he was blind, and his subordinates fled without a trace, the terrain in this mountain is complicated, no one leads the way and stumbles, where can he run fast?

Liu Yuanjing led people to bypass the side of the Modao Army and intercept the way in a forest!

The former lieutenant of Hengshan County stopped suddenly, he hesitated for a moment and shouted: "But Liu Zhenren? ”

Liu Yuanjing stared at the strange man behind Hu Yande and didn't say a word.

Guo Hong said for the master: "Exactly, aren't you trying to arrest us?" Now all the people you're going to arrest are here! ”

Hu Yande knelt down with a puff, kowtowed and shouted: "The little blind dog has offended the real person, please be a big man, spare my dog's life!" ”

At this time, the strange man also stopped with Hu Yande, and the Modao Army was slow to move in heavy armor, and there was still a little distance from them.

Lu Zhizhen and the two leaders rushed over, and when they saw Liu Yuanjing hurriedly saluting, the person known as the fourth brother stepped forward and said, "Zuo Jinwu Wei Guoyi Du Lieutenant Lu Congbi has seen a real person. ”

The white-clothed scholar behind him also saluted: "Zuo Jin Wuwei rode Cao to join the army, and he had seen a real person in Xingjian." ”

Liu Yuanjing's face was still very serious, and he nodded: "There are two workers this time." ”

The two hurriedly said: "Don't dare to be, the same branch is in the same place under the Fujiao seat, I just happened to pass by when I went to join the young master, and I heard that the real person has something to do!" ”

"Who killed this thief for me?!" Liu Yuanjing's gaze never left the strange man.

Lu Congbi thought that Liu Yuanjing was talking about Hu Yande, so he pulled out his sword and stabbed the enemy's throat.

When Hu Yande heard someone rushing over, he naturally refused to stand still, and hurriedly drew his sword to parry, Lu Congbi turned to one side, his posture was almost unchanged, but he staggered half a step, and the long sword entered his chest slightly.

The former lieutenant of Hengshan County coughed twice in his throat, bent his legs, and fell to his knees.

Lu Congbi drew his sword to let go of the blood, and the opponent fell headlong.

Guo Hong saw the two of them and had a deeper understanding of battlefield fighting skills.

The battle array is only a moment, relying on strength also depends on luck, a face will determine life and death, if you can't defeat the opponent in front of you, it is likely to rush over to fight with the next person, and there will be no chance to see each other again.

Lu and Hu are both fierce generals, Hu Yande's eyes are inconvenient and he has lost the opportunity, this kind of level of competition, he will die.

Lu Congbi attached himself and grabbed Hu Yande's bun, lifted the person halfway, raised his sword and slashed at his neck, only to hear a ding, and was bounced away!

The strange man in the distance moved slightly, and there was a buzzing sound on his body.

A small hole appeared in the back of Hu Yande's neck, and a small black worm came out and crawled up the back of his head.

Lu Congbi was startled, and hurriedly let go of his hair and jumped away.

The worm crawled to the top of Huyande's head, lost its purpose, made a buzzing sound, and then quickly fell to the ground again, crawled towards the strange man, and soon disappeared under his cloak.

Lu Congbi's heart palpitated, and he took two steps back, and defended himself with a horizontal sword.

The strange man seemed to hesitate, and suddenly without raising his hand, as if something was sitting under his cloak, he moved sideways, jumped into the stream, and sank to the bottom of the water in a blink of an eye!

Liu Yuanjing hurried to the edge of the stream, pulled out his sword and shot at the cloaks at the bottom of the water.

The cloak was nailed, and countless black bugs poured out from underneath, rushing downstream with the current of water, and there seemed to be a fist-sized white shadow in it.

Liu Yuanjing shouted: "This is an evil demon, everyone follow me!" Eliminate the evil! ”

He jumped into the water, drew his sword, and stalked the water downstream.

Guo Hong was able to keep up with the master at first, but then he got farther and farther away, and only Zhang Shoujing, He Deng, Lu Zhizhen, and Liu Tai were still in front of him, and the rest became long snakes, scattered in the stream.

Lu Congbi had already ordered the Modao Army to rest, and their heavy armor was not suitable for this kind of pursuit on foot at all.

Guo Hong chased to the Yu monument and saw the master sitting on a big stone next to him, and the other people who arrived first also gathered together.

"Didn't catch up?"

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

Lu Congbi and Zeng Xingjian arrived immediately, and Liu Yuanjing didn't seem to care about the chase, and casually asked him:

"This Baimo Sword Army is the elite of the forbidden army, and they are all willing to go to Jiangxi with you to join Xingzhang?"

"Yes, the Guo family army is all the relatives of the young master, and the new emperor's accession to the throne this time may not be conducive to the Guo family, so he voluntarily left Beijing to assist the young master." Zeng Xingjian replied with a slight breath.

"What's the deal with those water pirates?" Liu Yuanjing asked again.

"I'm passing by Dongting, they want to rob, the four leaders were subdued by Captain Lu, and they must go to Jiangxi with them, Zeng Mou thought that when the young master was employing people, he agreed to come down." Zeng Xingjian said.

Lu Congbi shook his head again and again, and said, "Don't pull it on me, it's all your mouth that is so fanciful that you fool people!" ”

Liu Yuanjing asked the others to scatter to find traces of the monster, leaving only Guo Hong, Lu Zhizhen, and Lu and Zeng, the two generals of Jin Wuwei.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, he pointed to Guo Hong and said to Lu Zeng and the others: "You two are the old subordinates of Sect Leader Guo, you should know him, right?" ”

Lu Congbi looked at the little Taoist boy with white markings on his face in front of him, and felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember who it was, so he asked Zeng Xingjian: "What do you think?" ”

Zeng Xingjian thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up and asked, "Could it be Erlangjun?" ”

Liu Yuanjing nodded and said: "Xuanyuan Ji took him out of the capital, and I waited for Huayin to catch up and snatch it back, and later decided to be raised by Liu." ”

Lu and Zeng thanked each other and said, "Thank you for being a real person!" He saluted Guo Hong again and said, "I've seen Erlangjun!" ”

Only then did Guo Hong know that these two people were his father's old subordinates, and hurriedly took their hands and asked questions.

After talking, he learned that the situation of the Guo family in the capital was not optimistic, and his second and third uncles were originally generals in Jin Wuwei, but now they were all transferred by the emperor under pretext.

As soon as the Guo family lost power, the magnates in Chang'an City fell into the ground one after another, and even some ruffians and hooligans took the opportunity to encroach on the ancestral industry, and the biggest profit was of course those eunuchs.

Jingzhao Mansion did not dare to accept the complaint at all, and everyone surnamed Guo was blocked from the door.

Guo's generation is a general, many children in the forbidden army as errands, some of the hot-tempered people to fight with the people who come to seize the industry, which inevitably has damage, but the government is biased towards the other party, many people can't bear it, so they gathered hundreds of people to go south together, go to Jiangxi to join Guo Hong's eldest brother Guo Xingzhang.

Among the hundreds of people in the Guo family, there are old and young servants, and only a hundred of them are men in the prime of life, that is, those hundred Mo sword soldiers!

Lu Congbi is the same clan as Lu Zhizhen, a descendant of Lu Bu of the Three Kingdoms, who is brave and has the highest official position, so he became the leader of this team.

He was born in the personal army of Guo Hong's father Guo Zhongwen, and was accepted as a righteous son, but he did not change his surname, so Guo Hong soon called him the fourth brother, and the two brothers were commensurate with each other.

Zeng Xingjian was the Jin Wuwei cavalry Cao joined the army, responsible for the management of weapons, armor and war horses, the weapons and armor of the hundred Mo Sword Army were secretly stolen from the arsenal by him, and the horses and vehicles used by these hundreds of people all the way south were also obtained by him.

Jin Wuwei changed the general, both of them were classified as Guo's descendants and cleared out, they were unwilling to be idle at home, taking advantage of the chaos in the inner court of the new emperor's succession to the throne in the past few months, they pretended to be a business traveler on the road, and planned this trip of 3,000 miles!

Both of them had joined the Fujiao with Guo Zhongwen in the past, so they called Liu Yuanjing a real person.

Liu Yuanjing and Lu Zhizhen, Lu Congbi, and Zeng Xingjian continued to chat, and Liu Yuanjing asked Lu Zhizhen how he contacted Lu Congbi and Zeng Xingjian, how Guo Jiajun concealed the actions of the state government, and how Lu and Zeng arranged to go to Jiangxi next.

You must know that they are a brigade of hundreds of people, plus those water thieves have thousands of people, so they can only act separately, because there is no caravan in Datang that has such a large scale.

At this time, the surrounding detectives returned one after another, but did not find anything suspicious.

Guo Hong asked, "Master, do you want to go back first?" ”

Liu Yuanjing shook his head and said: "Black insects eat human flesh and blood, I'm afraid it won't be long before they come out to harm people again." Besides, the teacher has always been able to see the black shadow in the water, and when he chased here, he suddenly disappeared, and there must be something strange in it! ”

Guo Hong looked around and his eyes fell on the Yu monument.

Last time he came to Yubei, he was deeply impressed by the words on it, and felt that these words seemed to be much deeper.

Guo Hong suddenly picked up a stone and threw it over, smashed it on a word, the word moved, and then with a bang, all the handwriting fell off, stacking a black humanoid shape, with long limbs propped up in the water, and a long neck, like a demon!

The face of this monster is the appearance of Feng Nandi, and on his forehead is a cocoon, and something in it is slowly squirming!

Liu Yuanjing shouted: "This demon is laying eggs, everyone is attacking and killing with all their might, don't let it escape, otherwise the harm will be endless!" ”

Hengshan sent everyone to surround them, and due to the large number of people, only the strongest dozen people rushed to the front.

Guo Hong was blocked by Liu Yuanjing, and he knew that the master intended to protect himself.

He Deng took the lead in stabbing the monster with a sword, making a dang sound, and the long sword could not enter an inch.

Guo Hong breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that although these black insects are hard, they just can't be cut by the knife, which is much worse than the black insect king breaking the dagger hoe.

He suddenly remembered that Cao Shouzhen burned the Black Worm King with a torch, so he shouted to Liu Yuanjing: "Master, it is afraid of fire!" ”

Liu Yuanjing immediately ordered, and more than a dozen soldiers behind him lit torches and rushed up and burned them together.

The monster jumped up and down to avoid the flames, and the black worms on its body gathered and scattered, fluttering into the water and swimming back quickly, as if it was fatally attracted, and refused to leave even if it was in danger of dying!

Feng Nandi's face twisted, and he opened his mouth to roar, like a cicada!

It suddenly lunged at one of the soldiers and pounced on him, and the black worm roared down, drowning it in the blink of an eye.

The man kept screaming, and the other soldiers attacked with fire.

The black worm was gone, and the man had turned into a charred skeleton.

But none of these soldiers retreated, one after another, and the monsters were on fire and screaming, and the black worms on their bodies were burned to death, and they fell into the water and floated away.

It rolled in the water, and when the flames were extinguished, it hit the crowd again, killing several more people, but instead of fear, the people around it besieged more urgently.

The monster also seemed to be frightened, and threw himself into the water again, this time not getting up, but scattering into a piece of insects, dragging the face with the insect cocoon under the Yu monument and disappearing without a trace!

"Push the stele away!"

At this time, a group of people ran from the forest in the rear, these people were the auxiliaries of the Modao Army, none of them wore armor, only with waist swords, bows and arrows.

The One Hundred Mo Sword Army was still repairing in the distance, as hoplites, it was actually not suitable for fighting in the mountains, so although the battle was not long, these people were tired enough, and after the battle, they put down their weapons and sat around to rest.

It's the end of November in the Gregorian calendar, and the weather is very cool, so if you wear this armor in the summer to fight in the field, you will be roasted!

The task of the auxiliaries is to help the Modao Army unload their armor and provide other assistance.

This also includes opening roads and building bridges in the mountains.

I saw that they quickly took out the rope from their backpacks, circled around the Yu monument a few times, and divided into six teams shouting and pulling hard.

There are also others who put cobblestones underneath.

Seeing that the boulder was pulled down into the water with a bang, everyone continued to exert force, and the cobblestone rolled like a wheel, and they pulled the Yu monument all the way to the shore.

Guo Hong is also a little staggered, isn't this an ancient sapper?

A large hole was formed in the place where the Yu monument was originally located, and the stream flowed into it.

"It's a hollow!" Zhang Shoujing stepped forward to check and shouted loudly.

"The situation in the cave is unknown, Senior Brother He Deng is in charge here, Senior Brother Shoujing, Zhizhen and Chaoyang will follow me down!"

Liu Yuanjing made a decision immediately, and ordered a few more disciples to accompany him, and Liu Tai, Cao Shouzhen, Guo Hong and others were all left behind.

They went in for a long time, and the people outside were a little anxious.

After a while, Lu Chaoyang came out and shouted, "There is a valley inside, and Master will let you enter in a detachment." ”

He Deng asked, "What else did your master say?" ”

"He said that each team should not exceed ten people, one or two masters with a few soldiers, and also said that it would take a long time to prepare dry food."

So the people outside began to divide into formations in a chaotic manner.

The four major water thieves of Dongting Lake are also visiting the old-timer Liu Tai at this time, the fathers of the four people are the old department when the dragon was rampant on the Yangtze River, and they were still children wearing open crotch pants when Liu Tai left.

He Deng deliberately divided Guo Hong, Cao Shouzhen, and Lu Chaoyang into a team, and asked them to bring two Mo Dao soldiers and ten auxiliary soldiers.

The Mo Sword Army was already in armor, and their long knives seemed to pose a certain threat to the Immortal King Gu, and in the short confrontation ahead, the monster had been resisting with its hands, preventing the blade from slashing at the cocoon on its face.

Cao Shouzhen grabbed a fifteen or sixteen-year-old Mo Dao soldier and asked, "Brother, what do you call it?" ”

This Mo sword soldier has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a dark round face, a straight nose and a wide mouth, and when he saw Cao Shouzhen dressed as a Taoist priest, he said: "Little Taoist, my name is Guo Qiong, what is your name?" ”

Cao Shouzhen got his name, and the two of them love to make friends, and they became acquainted after a while.

"This is my junior brother Guo Shangzao, and that is Lu Chaoyang."

Guo Qiong became even more enthusiastic when she learned that Guo Hong had the same surname, and when she saw that his face was full of markings, she smiled and said: "If this little Taoist grows up in the future, if he joins the army, he can intimidate a group of people without wearing a mask, just like a general wearing a mask on the stage!" ”

"I don't know, that's Gao Changgong." As soon as Guo Hong finished speaking, he remembered that the other party really shouldn't know who the masked general was.

Gao Changgong is Gao Su, the king of Lanling, this famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty was too handsome when he went into battle, and he wore a ghost mask to deter the enemy, and later had a noodle dance in order to commemorate him.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin adapted "Dai Mian" into "Qin Wang Breaking Array Music" to tout his bravery, and since then he has banned the performance of "Dai Mian", but there are still people who secretly perform it, but they don't say the origin, so many people know this scene, but they don't know that the general is the king of Lanling.

As for Guo Hong, he just knew that in the memory of fusion, it seemed that there was a very close person telling him a story, and the voice was very familiar, and he couldn't help but cry when he thought about it......

By this time, the whole team had ended, and everyone began to light torches one after another and enter the cave.

The murmur of the stream in the dark cave and the sound of droplets of water dripping down the rocks.

Guo Hong's team are all young people, walking forward with torches, and always feel that something is staring at him in the dark.

But these people refused to show weakness, and some people kept talking loudly to give themselves courage, so they gradually talked about the battle just now.

Cao Shouzhen said: "We have all seen it in the Huixian Pavilion, and it is all thanks to the Mo Dao Army to attack the thieves to disperse. ”

Guo Qiong, who was beside him, said proudly: "Of course, it is said that these Mo knives were still made by Li Siye back then. ”

"Is it Li Siye, the commander of the Modao Army under Gao Xianzhi in the Battle of the Western Regions?" Cao Shouzhen asked.

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Historical figure: Guo Qiong.