(The big chapter fills in the missing chapter yesterday)

Maoshan Mountain is not as good as Baohua Mountain, not to mention that it is comparable to Wuling Mountain, Xuefeng Mountain, Wushan Mountain, Daba Mountain and other majestic mountains in the land of Jingshu, but on the Jianghuai Plain, it can also be said that there are peaks and peaks, steep mountains and rocks, forest caves, and streams criss-crossed.

Maoshan as the ancestral mountain of the Taoist Shangqing altar, has the reputation of the first blessed land, the eighth cave heaven, since the Han and Jin dynasties to the previous dynasty, the dojo of Maoshan has gradually developed to the peak.

Even though the previous Shengzhou Festival envoy and Emperor Tianyou suppressed the development of Buddhism and Taoism, coupled with the continuous wars in the past hundred years, there are still nearly 200 Taoist buildings such as palaces and palaces in Maoshan Mountain.

Located in Leiping Peak Zixu Temple has six Taoist temples, but it has not been repaired for decades, it is already dilapidated, a stone path splits out of the mountain, as if a rope connects the Taoist temple halfway up the mountain and the valley at the foot of the mountain.

There is a small village in the valley, where more than a dozen families live together, and there are more than a dozen old Taoists living and practicing in the Taoist temple on the mountain.

In the afternoon, a large number of women and children entered the valley at the foot of Leipingfeng Mountain from outside the mountain, and camped next to more than a dozen houses in the valley.

Tonight the sky was fine, the stars and the moon were bright, and by midnight there were almost two or three thousand people crowded into the valley under Lei Ping Peak, which covered less than two hundred acres.

Taoist incense is not prosperous, and there are more than ten years of old Taoists guarding the empty Taoist courtyard that has not been repaired for many years, watching this scene with trepidation.

Even if the crowd of people entering the mountain, no one has climbed Lei Ping Peak to find the Purple Ruins Temple for the time being, but how can the Taoists in the temple settle down?

Nowadays, the war is in chaos, and it has always been a matter of thought for the homeless people or the bandits.

The Taoists didn't know whether to close the Taoist temple, or to open the gate, or to send people to the valley to find out the truth.

What's the use of just opening the door or sending someone to find out what is true?

In addition to the worship of the villagers under the mountain, they mainly rely on the more than ten acres of vegetable gardens after the temple to support themselves, even if all the food is taken out, it may not be enough for the two or three thousand people who squeeze into the valley today to have a full meal.

At this time, the three vigorous figures, from the steep cliff on the west side, with hooks and other objects, quickly climbed to Lei Ping Peak, agile, like an ape.

There is a dilapidated pavilion behind the view, the young man at the head went straight to the pavilion to walk the clouds, and saw that Yun Puzi, the master of the Purple Ruins Temple, could still play chess with his father leisurely at this time, and the countless homeless people who poured in at any time may tear down the Purple Ruins Temple, thinking that his father said that Yun Puzi was a rare Taoist Confucianism in the world, it was really true, but the other Taoist priests in the temple had already collapsed at this time.

Sitting in front of Yun Puzi, the main observer of the Purple Ruins, was a young old man, his thin old face revealed the blue-gray of a serious illness, but his eyes were clear, without the turbidity of the elderly.

When the old man saw the young man coming, he put down the chess pieces in his hand, suppressed his cough, and asked, "Has the news been confirmed?" ”

"It was indeed Han Qian who came over, and three days ago he took away the military power from the second uncle, imprisoned the second uncle, Chen Mingsheng and Hu Wei in Yanlingbu, and blocked the news from the outside world. Han Qian's influence among the soldiers of the Dragon Bird Army is indeed very great, I see that the family soldiers raised by the second uncle's mansion also have many people who defect to each other, and the second uncle and Chen Mingsheng have no room for struggle at all."

The young man was twenty-five or sixteen years old, and he didn't look very strong, but the muscles under the short shirt revealed great strength, and he was a brave general who had been refining his body since he was a child, and he didn't feel the slightest difficulty in climbing the hanging wall with a rope just now, he walked up to the old man and detailed the situation he had detected when he went out of the mountain today, and said,

"Han Qian took advantage of the darkness last night to lead his troops out of Yanling Port, touched the vicinity of Danyang City and lurked, and in the early hours of the morning, he sent out a group of men and horses disguised as grain conscripts to deceive the city gate, and then three or four thousand people attacked the city in one go, and it took only half an hour to almost control Danyang City. Han Qian moved very fast, and the guards were defenseless against Yanling, and it was estimated that they didn't know where the soldiers and horses came from to attack Danyang, so they were beaten and blinded, and they fled from Danyang in a hurry, and it was not until noon that they thought of sending scouts to Yanling Port to investigate. However, yesterday, 20,000 elites in Shouzhou just crossed the river, and there was no movement on King Xin's side until dark, and the child guessed that Han Qian was using the elite of the Shouzhou army to cross the river to fish in the water, but the child was puzzled by the fact that Han Qian captured Danyang City but did not defend it, and finally fled to Maoshan with forty or fifty thousand women and children. Even if he looted Danyang City and got more than 100 truckloads of grain, it was more than worth the loss, and he could only make these women and children support for more than ten days, why did Han Qian bother to provoke the king? Even if it is said that it is to avenge the blood hatred, the hatred between Anning Palace and him is not deeper, and his move is not more helpful to Anning Palace? ”

"Mr. Yun Pu may have guessed Han Qian's intentions?" The old man asked Yun Puzi, the master of the Purple Ruins Temple.

"I have been reading scriptures and reciting Buddhism in the mountains all these years, where do I still know the general trend of the militarism? The prince should not use this kind of question to embarrass the old way. The viewer said.

"Reading the scriptures and reciting the Buddha, you are an old way, and you are also cultivating crooked doors," the old man coughed while pointing to the master and smiled, "If you really ignore the world, why did Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, send an envoy to Jinling, but he first went to the Zixu Temple to offer incense at the first time?" ”

"The Shenling Division has long disappeared with the previous dynasty, and all the remaining sins are all thoughts of fighting for power, what is the difference between the military general Xiongfu who was based on the territory back then? I've been stupid all my life, if I don't have a little self-knowledge, wouldn't I be even more embarrassed than your second brother? But the master did not admit that he had something to do with mundane things, and said, "After all, Wang Yong is a prince and the son of an old man, he wants to climb this Lei Ping Peak, can I stop him?" Anyway, you don't live in Hongzhou, what are you doing when you come to my Zixu Temple? Since you want to go out of the mountain and help Yang Yuanpu win Hongzhou, you must have the dignity of a master and a master! ”

The old man coughed violently for a while, and it took him half a day to breathe, and he didn't argue with the old treacherous viewer, and said in frustration: "Wang Jixiong ran out of oil when he walked to Xuzhou, how many years can I survive this body?" Yang Zhitang didn't guard against me, he just saw that I was about to go into the ground, what else to talk about? ”

"I think Yang Zhitang is better than your second brother

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It's better to have ambitions, but at this moment he doesn't dare to show it, and he chooses to ride on the wall and watch, if you really want to go out of the mountain, how dare he dare to stop you? The viewer said.

Seeing that Yun Puzi knew the situation in Hongzhou well, the young man naturally knew that he did not honestly stay in this Maoshan Taoist temple to recite scriptures and practice as he said, but he couldn't guess why his father came to Jinling and what Han Qian's intentions were, right?

The young man didn't care about the master, and asked the old man directly: "Father, what do you think Han Qian means?" ”

"'The Xuan Room seeks to visit the ministers, Jia Shengcai is even more incoherent, and he is pitiful in the middle of the night, and he doesn't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods'," the old man did not directly answer the young man's question, but stood on his sleeves, looked at the long white clouds above the mountain stream, and recited a poem by Li Shangyin, a poet of the previous dynasty, and said, "In the seventeenth year since the founding of the Great Chu, there are as many generals as carp crossing the river, but when it comes to those who can sacrifice their lives for the common people and forget the dead, only Han Daoxun is alone, and Wang Jixiong can only be counted as half. ”

"You handed over the military power in a hurry, why didn't you count yourself as half? If Yang Yuanyan didn't have the foundation you left behind, he wouldn't have been so majestic in the previous battle! The viewer said.

"How many years ago was that? Besides, I was just afraid of death at that time, and I wanted to live a few more peaceful days, not as good as Wang Jixiong, and even worse than Han Daoxun," the old man said, "It's just that I didn't expect that the raging tide would be more than after all!" ”

"You mean to say that this kid from Han Daoxun's family is here for the common people, why didn't I see it?" The viewer returned to the topic and asked.

"If it weren't for that, I can't figure out why he was wading into this troubled water at this time." The old man said.

"Children are also stupid," the young man couldn't understand why his father had such a judgment, and interjected next to him and asked, "It is rumored that Han Qian is a scheming, ruthless and vicious person, and his father also judged the battle of Xichuan. And Shen He had gone to Tanzhou to announce the decree before his poisonous death, if Han Qian didn't notice it, it would be difficult to be the reputation of 'three or five people', if he was aware of it, then the Great Chu fell apart and Jinling fell into today's crisis, he could not escape the blame. ”

"Yes, I used to think that although Han Qian is talented, he is ruthless, but people will change and grow," the old man sighed leisurely and said, "Therefore, I have to run to Jinling with my sick body, just to see if Han Qian will come to Jinling in the face of the current chaos, or will he join forces with Zhihe to capture Yongzhou with troops first......

The viewer interjected and asked, "What's the difference?" In his humble opinion, Yueyang should attack Yongzhou first, and it is necessary to consolidate the fundamentals. Zheng Yu and Zheng Chang advocated the deployment of troops in Huang and Hubei Prefectures, but they wanted to take advantage of the situation to consolidate their Zheng family's power in Jingxiang, while Chai Jian and Li Chong attached themselves to Li Zhihe's momentum - your Li family is not at peace internally, otherwise you wouldn't have to be so embarrassed this time. ”

The old man didn't want to say much about the internal affairs of the Marquis of Xinchang, and said: "The Zheng family, Chai Jian, and Zhou Yuan have their own selfish intentions, and it may be beneficial to Yueyang to take Yongzhou first, but after a year and a half of delay, the situation in Jinling collapsed, and Jianghuai fell apart, thousands of miles of red land, and blood flowed down. And after Jianghuai is completely disabled, the foundation of Great Chu is shaken, and it will be difficult to resist the southern invasion of the northern army......"

"What's the matter?" In other words, the viewer would only think that it was a surprising statement, but the viewer knew what kind of person the old man in front of him was, and he couldn't help but ask in shock.

The young man was also puzzled.

The old man said: "Not counting the counties, Jinling alone has a population of six or seven hundred thousand, and in previous years, grain was transferred from Yangtai in the east, Surunhu, Xiuyuehang, and other eastern states in the south of the Yangtze River to meet consumption. After the Jinling Incident, Yangtai had been completely controlled by the Chuzhou Army, and continued to recruit troops and transfer food from it; In the grain and straw in Jiangnan Dongdao, not to mention that the business travel was cut off, the grain that should have been escorted into Jinling before the end of last year was either intercepted by Chuzhou as military salaries, or hoarded in the warehouses of various states to become a bargaining chip for these people to sway and wait and see. In fact, to this day, not a single grain of grain from the eastern prefectures in Jiangnan has been transported into Jinling for almost half a year," the old man said, "You just came back from Jinling City the day before yesterday, and you also know how much the price of grain in Jinling City has risen?" ”

"One stone and fifteen yuan has increased three times compared with the lowest price in the past two years, but compared with the sky-high price of one stone of grain worth hundreds of dollars back then, there is still a long way to go, not to mention that Anning Palace is also trying to find a way to transfer grain from the states and counties in the west and Jiangbei to stabilize the price of grain." The young man said disappreciatively.

"To the west of Jinling, Jingxiang and Hunan are already out of control, and the next step will even be to strictly control the export of grain to the east; Poyang Lake has been flooded for many years, and there are many mountains and few mountains in the surrounding prefectures, even if the Hongyuanjiangchi and Jiangxi prefectures have no wait-and-see mind, there is no surplus grain in their hands, and even with Yueyang in Hubei and Huangzhou, Jiangchi and other prefectures will also recruit troops and horses, aggravating the consumption of grain. Jiangbei has always been a place of many wars, and it has not been calmed down for more than ten years, even if the Anning Palace controls Shouzhou, Chaozhou, and Chuzhou, the grain that can be requisitioned can only barely guarantee the food supply of their hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but it is difficult to take into account the large number of civilians," the old man said, "These situations do not seem to be particularly sinister, but we have to take into account the thoughts that Chuzhou has and will have!" ”

"Chuzhou's mind is to tighten the supply of grain in Jinling step by step, and finally want them to collapse without a fight because of the lack of food?" The young man asked in shock.

"After the first battle of Jingshan'an, the Chuzhou army couldn't wait to take Danyang from your second uncle, and expelled your second uncle and their 50,000 people to the front line of the Xipu River to get food, so I have this idea more or less. In addition to using the old and weak women and children in the hands of your second uncle to consume the grain stored in Liyang and Jiangcheng, they also sealed the trade road east of Liyang through Huzhou. However, I didn't have any special worries at that time, after all, Chuzhou should have made two preparations at that time, and perhaps preferred a quick decision. However, the chaos in the Liang State made Chuzhou not afraid of the pressure from the north within a year, and Yueyang transferred Li Zhihe to defend Ezhou, and the Zheng family would also focus on operating Huangzhou and make a trend of profiteering, but I was afraid that it would be more difficult for the Chuzhou army to make up its mind to attack Jinling quickly...... "The old man said.

"The Chuzhou army is afraid of storming Jinling, and the casualties will be too great, or it will be defeated by Anning Palace, and in the end it will only make Yueyang Fisherman profitable?" The young man asked.

The old man nodded and said, "Once Chuzhou doesn't have the intention of fighting a quick battle, the strategic options they can have will become extremely limited!" ”

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"As more and more Shouzhou soldiers and horses land from the western foot of Baohua Mountain, civilians in Jiangcheng and other places have fled into Jinling City to avoid trouble, and some refugees want to flee east into Runzhou and Suhu, they will encounter the interception and looting of Chuzhou soldiers and horses, and they have already planned to drive people to Jinling City?" The young man suddenly noticed that the information he had gathered also had some obvious clues, and asked, "Father is saying that Han Qian has already spied through Chuzhou's plan and attacked Danyang without defending it, just to sabotage their plan?" Retreating to Maoshan is also to ensure that there is a gap in the southeast corner of Jinling that is not controlled by the Chuzhou army? ”

"It should be so," the old man said, "Whether the two sides have such intentions, you can verify whether the Chuzhou army will attack Maoshan or not, and whether Han Qian will defend Maoshan or not!" ”

"I think that Maoshan is only twenty miles north and south, if Chuzhou does not allow Han Qian to defend Maoshan to open a gap for Jinling, Han Qian has less than 3,000 remnants of soldiers and nearly 50,000 women and children, and it will be a problem for food, how to defend Maoshan?" Problems that young people don't understand.

"Looking at his women's battalion, he may have a plan to guard Maoshan with women and children, and travel outside the mountain with elites, right?" The old man said.

"How long can he support this style of play?" The young man asked, puzzled or with a hint of disdain.

"If you know that you can't do it, you will be brave." The old man sighed.

The young man turned his face to look at the mountain stream, obviously disdainful of the old man's words, or disdainful of Han Qian's actions that he knew he could not do, and secretly said Isn't this the courage of a horseman?

Yun Puzi, the master of the audience, saw the young man's reaction, slapped a chess piece on the chessboard, and said to the old man:

"Anyway, Han Qian sneaked to Jinling to seize military power, and he probably wasn't the virtuous minister you were counting on."

"What is a good minister?" The old man asked.

Guan Zhu Yun Puzi smiled slightly and did not answer the old man's question.

Seeing that the young man felt quite sympathetic to Yun Puzi's words, the old man sighed in his heart, thinking that Xiu'er had no thoughts in his heart, and the so-called mental technique of the Shenling Division could not play a role, but he had experienced countless ups and downs in his life, and he knew that the most difficult thing to shake was the human heart.

At this time, he didn't bother to intrigue with Yun Puzi, who was also a lot of age, and turned his mind to the endgame of the chessboard.

The young man said to the old man: "I saw the second uncle enter Maoshan with Han Qian and them, should I go to see the second uncle?" ”

"All of you have stiffened wings, I insist on keeping you by my side, most of you will be angry in your hearts, and besides, I am terminally ill, and I can't stop you for two or three years," the old man held a chess piece, sighed lightly, and said, "You have to remember a few points, Yuzhang King Yang Zhitang's city mansion is deeper than you think, otherwise there are so many side descendants of the Yang clan, he can be crowned the king of the county to guard Hongzhou." It is difficult for your second uncle to become a great weapon, you can go to see your second uncle or Han Qian at this time, but don't say that I am in the mountains, if possible, you still try to help Han Qian guard Maoshan as much as possible, and don't be an enemy of him. ”

"You all said that guarding Maoshan is the courage of a horseman, helping Han Qian to guard Maoshan is not following yourself to death?" The young man muttered in his heart, but his mouth was still full of promise.

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Da Mao Feng Yinyun Nunnery, is one of the many Taoist nunnery in the depths of Mao Mountain, more than a dozen old nunnery hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests, several old Taoist aunts guard, living a poor practice life, but there is no Taoist Buddha in the world to save the world.

By midnight, in the valley where the Hidden Cloud Nunnery was located, nearly 2,000 old and weak women and children had also been stationed in succession.

Seeing that there was a women's camp to maintain order, several Taoist aunts in the nunnery were in a stable mood, and they especially lent the back kitchen to these people to cook on the fire.

"Miss, what's the matter with you, why haven't you packed up your things? If you don't leave again, and those people outside find out the identity of the young lady, it will be really bad! In the west courtyard of the Hidden Cloud Nunnery, two maids with short knives on their waists went out to inquire about the news, and came back vigorously, seeing that the young lady was still sitting in front of the window and reading the scroll leisurely, they were so angry that they hurriedly stepped forward to pack their bags and prepared to leave the Hidden Cloud Nunnery at night.

"We are cultivators who keep to ourselves, what will they do to make things difficult for us?" The young lady put down the scroll, sat in front of the window with her knees crossed, and looked at the new green mountain forest outside the window, and there was a stream gurgling in front of the window.

"Miss said that the homeless and the bandit are just a matter of thought, and if they become bandits, won't they tell Miss anything? Besides, Miss is so beautiful, if I were the King of the Mountain, I would also be tempted to snatch Miss back as Mrs. Zhai," the older maid muttered, "Besides, Miss has already seen everything she wants to see, is it because we misunderstood the feelings of the Han family before, okay?" However, after Yueyang got into a mess with Chuzhou, the Han family captured Danyang and didn't defend it, I don't know what His Royal Highness and the boss will become, and the young lady won't still think about marrying in Xuzhou? Miss, aren't you afraid that the Han family can tear each other apart when they meet the boss? ”

"If you talk nonsense again, I'm really going to pinch you." The young lady said shyly.

"Gotcha, gotta pinch our big mouths, right? Miss, look at what else hasn't been packed, if not, let's hurry up, it's still a mess outside, we can still find a gap to get out, and we may not be able to leave tomorrow. The big girl said.

"But I haven't figured out how he will guard Maoshan Mountain......" The young lady held her snowy cheeks, looked at the stream outside the window, and said suspiciously.

"But miss, you can't hand yourself over as a bargaining chip!" The big girl hurriedly said, "You're really not afraid of making the boss angry to death!" ”

At this time, a man in black hurriedly walked into the courtyard, knelt down on one knee in front of the porch, and said, "There is a group of soldiers who have broken straight to the Hidden Cloud Nunnery, and it seems that they have sensed that this is one of our contact points. Miss is hiding in the back mountain, and we can still delay for Miss for a while. ”

As soon as the man in black finished speaking, he heard a popping sound from the bamboo forest in the back mountain, but the mechanism they placed in the depths of the bamboo forest was touched, and the birds in the bamboo forest were startled to fly, and soon the people in the bamboo forest no longer hid their whereabouts, and the footsteps came towards the nunnery......

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