"It's these gray thieves again."

Squeezed between a group of bald heads with panicked faces, Zhao Ziri, Zhao Daguanren, looking at the banner opposite, only felt that new hatred and old hatred surged into their hearts.

"Is it really my fate?"

It was these gray-clothed grass thieves who ruined his ambition to claim the position of one side because of the situation outside Changle City; He also broke the Zhaojiazhai run by his family in his time, causing his family to be ruined and could only wander away from the road, and constantly bent down to live in others like a lost dog, so as to survive.

Counting this time, it was the fourth time that he had bumped into these scourge stars. When he broke through on a rainy night outside Chaoyang City, if he hadn't seen the opportunity to take people out of the team after crossing the river, he was afraid that he would have crashed into the camp of these gray-clothed thieves and would have ended up unsparingly. As a result, the situation and circumstances are worse and worse each time, and each time is more unlucky and downcast.

Beside him was an officer and army colonel surnamed Su, known as Lucky Sula; is a strange character who is known as a person who can always survive nine deaths.

It is said that he was originally accused of bewitching the public with demonic words at the head of Chaoyang City, and he should have been dragged down and beheaded on the spot; But unfortunately, a falling wall stone smashed to death the knife and axe hand waiting below; Then the grass thief began to attack the wall, and the guards hurried to stop it, and he ran out with his life; Then, when he suddenly left on a rainy night, he was in the wrong direction and fell into the water, and when he swam to the shore and climbed up, he found that all the people who rushed to the camp were dead, and he was the only one who hurried away.

This time, in order to resist the invading grass thieves, I asked all kinds of people stranded in the temple to pick out some people who had experience in the battle or in the army to serve as the leaders; So this Colonel Su was also pointed out by Zhao Guanren in this team. It's just that Zhao Ziri didn't get along for a long time and became a little impatient, this guy was like an old bustard's noisy and chattering, and he couldn't stop talking about it as soon as he went into battle, and he was impetuous when he talked about people.

"Zhao Guanren, don't worry."

However, this Junior Colonel Su didn't seem to see the impatience and disgust on Zhao Ziri's face, and continued to sigh loudly and comforting

"I've fought against these grass thieves a lot."

"They came from afar in such a hurry, it was not so easy to attack"

"At the very least, we have to set up a camp and then make plans."

Then, I heard the sound of a dense locust whistling wind sweeping over the wall, and bringing out a small sound like the beating of rain. In an instant, I could hear screams from left to right, and in the crowd of people in front and behind, I fell and overturned a number of monks and earth groups with arrows on their heads, faces, chests, abdomen, shoulders and arms.

"Don't panic... It's just a temptation,"

Colonel Su hurriedly waved his hand and shouted to the others who had shrunk under the wall.

"Steady, steady, pick up the bow and arrow, and we're going to return the color."

"As long as you deter the other side, you can win a buffer...

However, at the moment when they were cowering and got up, another wave of dense arrows clanged straight across the wall, and the hands of those who hurriedly exposed their bodies and were about to release the arrows were dragged to the ground, killing them on the spot or bleeding profusely.

"It's okay."

Colonel Su's face couldn't help but turn pale again, and he hurriedly said louder

"There's a wall that prevents them from reaching us...

Before he could finish speaking, a fireball with a long trail of smoke was thrown high, and with a roar, it fell behind the crowd not far from him, and many hot sparks and burning debris exploded in all directions, and scattered on the heads and backs of the crowd, and suddenly burned a terrible scream and wail.

"Don't run, it's safest to hide under the base of the wall"

Colonel Su didn't seem to be able to think about it, so he could only continue to shout calmly.

"Hurry up and raise the gearbox, and it'll be fine."

"The grass thief came in a hurry, because he didn't have time to buy the equipment for attacking the fortifications."

"We just have to watch the gate ... Not to lose"

Then, Zhao Ziri and he heard a dull chisel sound, which suddenly sounded on the back of the high wall full of green vines, creepers, and moss marks, and shook down a brick that had fallen into disrepair and cracked wall, hitting a fat monk with a shiny head, and falling down with blood splashing everywhere.

At this moment, Zhao Ziri only felt that he didn't hate a person so much, and he couldn't wait to pull out his intestines and strangle him around his neck.

。。。。。。

As the array of archers of the crossbow team and the archery team flew out, the arrows rained down, and suddenly the mottled moss walls of the temple were covered with a layer of white tail feathers, which looked like a layer of white fluff growing from the gray-brown moldy stinky tofu. The figures and figures that could not dodge were like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and they fell from the walls and walls that were clinging.

The opponent also shot a few rounds of uneven arrows, but they were so scattered that they fell before and after the attack sequence of the trolley crossing the bridge, but they were not able to cause any casualties and losses; After all, under this kind of targeted full suppression, they no longer have the ability to raise their heads and lean out to aim at the identified direction;

At this time, the messenger to Shaoguan finally brought back, from the main force of another rebel army, the liaison who led the Feihuang Army before, a bearded and quite old captain, named Huo Cun.

"Wait, this Nanhua Temple can't be easily attacked."

Before he could get close on horseback, he shouted in some astonishment

"It's really a big deal."

"It's late."

Zhou Huai'an said lightly

"The attack has already begun, and we can't stop anymore."

"That's a big problem."

The other party was a little anxious.

"Don't you know where this Nanhua Temple comes from?"

"What is the origin?"

Zhou Huai'an made a sincere look and asked.

"It's hard to get to the sky."

"Even if you can't reach the sky, it's not far away."

The deputy lieutenant Huo Cun said persuasively, but his face changed.

"There are thousands of devout believers involved in Buddhism, and it is really a place that affects the whole body."

"Can the virtual master book know the ancestral court of the Zen Gate? . . ."

"Isn't that the Shaolin Temple in Dengzhou Shaomu Mountain,。。。

Zhou Huai'an thought about it, but he remembered "Shaolin" again in his mind. Shaolin".

"That's in the past."

This lieutenant Huo Cun's expression became more and more distressed

"But now, it is the world of the Six Ancestors' lineage flourishing."

What, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, he was attacking Hongquan Temple, which is the ancestral court of the Southern School of Zen Buddhism?

It turns out that the Nanhua Temple in the land of Shaozhou is actually known as the first Zen temple in Lingnan. It was first founded in the third year of Liang Tianjian in the Southern Dynasty, and was originally named Baoling Temple. The court of the Tang Dynasty in the past dynasties gave the names "Zhongxing Temple" and "Hongquan Temple", and there are many rewards and gifts, which have been inherited to this day.

But it also has another identity that has attracted the attention of the world, that is, the first major branch of Buddhism in the world - the ancestral court in the true sense of the Southern School of Zen Buddhism, and the dojo of the Dharma propagation after the six groups of Zen Hui Neng founded the Southern Chan lineage;

At least in terms of rank and specifications, it can almost be compared with the Shaolin Temple in the first Zen forest in the north at this time, and as one of the ancestral courts of the "Eight Sects and Six Veins" of Buddhism in the world, and this seems to involve the black history of the split between Zen Buddhism in the north and south.

For example, according to the historical allusion known to Zhou Huai'an, the five ancestors of Zen Buddhism in the early Tang Dynasty, Hongren, were in Huangmei's tomb mountain, and privately passed on the mantle to the new disciple Huineng, who stood out; As a result, the eldest disciple of the sect who is highly respected and respected is dissatisfied, and even sent his junior brother Huiming to chase and kill him thousands of miles, and was subdued by Huineng.

Later, Huineng who went all the way south to Guangzhou lived in seclusion for five years, and then began to preach Taoism in the Dharma Temple outside the city and became a blockbuster, and was invited to Baolin Temple in Shaozhou, creating a southern school of Zen Buddhism that is different from the ancestral north sect of Shaolin Temple; In his later years, it was also the death of the Sinju Guoen Temple in Lingnan Province.

Later, in the Kaiyuan period, there was Huineng's big disciple Shenhui, who overwhelmed the heroes and persuaded the sects at the Luoyang Slip Platform Uncovered Conference, and began to spread to the north; After the Anshi Rebellion, due to the political power of the Divine Society, the status of the six ancestors of Huineng was finally officially recognized by the imperial court, and finally in the twelfth year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty of Tang Dezong, Huineng was designated as the six ancestors of Zen Buddhism.

Since then, the southern sect has overwhelmed the northern sect of the Shenxiu lineage, and has become the main school of Zen Buddhism that has been handed down to the present day in later generations; As the saying goes, "there are eight sects in the world, and Zen Buddhism is dominant; Zen Gate Six Pulses, Six Ancestors Alone".

However, as a new generation of university monks who have been educated by the materialism of New China, and have a view of life, worldview, and values, they actually do not particularly care about this kind of vain thing that the ancient people were quite attached to and valued.

These armed monks and soldiers entrenched in the monastery can tell at a glance that they are not good people; And the previous reaction and performance focused on this. So don't say anything about the false name of the Zen ancestral court, even if the sixth ancestor Hui can take his disciples and grandchildren and climb out of the relics to block the way, Zhou Huai'an can still use the sword to go back to Chaodu.

"It is said that the master of the void was also a person in Buddhism,"

Speaking of which, this Huo Cun complained a little broken

"Why are you so rash and impulsive?"

"But I don't know what else will be involved."

"Aren't you afraid of cutting yourself off from your teacher? . . ."

"That's because I've been taught Tantra."

Zhou Huaian smiled slightly

"So naturally there are no taboos...

"Secret... Sect.. ”

At this moment, he opened his mouth in amazement, but he didn't know what to say.

"So, it's basically not a one-way person.."

When Zhou Huai'an said this, he still silently recited in his heart, "Tantric Great/Dharma is good" and "Tantra is back to the pot".

In the name of the Dharma of all practices, you can kill when you should kill, eat and drink when you should drink and eat meat, find a woman when you should find a woman, and you can also use the human organs of young men and girls in the name of cultivation, and it is also touted by foreign adults as the lofty Pure Land of Mankind, the last mystery. And in this era, Tang Mi used to be a rather tall thing;

Although they are not as endless as later generations, there are all kinds of fake living Buddhas who have been reincarnated without the approval of the people's government at or above the county level, dancing and swaggering in literary circles and petty bourgeois groups, and indiscriminately accepting celebrities and rich disciples everywhere to collect money; There are also literary young women who take the initiative to stick to the door or something, willing to play the role of Rinpoche, Empty Nurse, Vajra Nu and the like, to do whatever they want to and group P; But it is also one of the once awesome high society fashions.

In particular, the three great scholars of Tantric Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty were wise and fearless, and not empty, all of whom were favored and respected by the emperor at that time, especially the last one who was known as the contemporary Sanzang of the Immortals, who was named the national teacher of Tang Suzong and Tang Dynasty.

One of the second apprentices, the monk Huiguo, received another scholarly monk Kukai from Japan, which indirectly gave birth to the more evil Eastern secret lineage headed by the Japanese Shingon sect. It also extended the Nichiren sect, which specialized in cultivating women to become Buddhas, and the Pure Land Shinshu, which specialized in forming associations to incite peasant riots, and claimed to be murder and arson, which could be described as the bliss of rebirth.

Of course, Zhou Huai'an claimed to have studied Tantra in Buddhism, mainly to give back to those chaotic and heterogeneous thoughts.

After all, in the early days, because of the decline and decline of Tianzhu Buddhism, it repeatedly suffered from the crisis of severing the inheritance, which gave birth to the tantric sect of the secret practice of the society below; In the process of Buddhism entering the last days, although all kinds of eminent monks and great virtues who want to travel eastward to enter Middle-earth are like carps crossing the river, only a few can really succeed, such as Bodhidharma, Kumarosh, etc., who have very good skills and are appreciated by the emperor.

Others, many more nameless beings, were buried in the thirst and heat of the desert Gobi, plague and acute disease, quicksand and swamps, or under the mouths of dead beasts and robbers, and became a nameless white skeleton that Xu regarded as a bannation on the Silk Road;

And the survivors who finally made it to Middle-earth are not the result that everyone can be appreciated and recognized, and more often than not, they don't even leave a name in the historical books, and they die of illness and old age in Middle-earth one after another.

Only a few of them with the best luck can be accepted by the upper-class characters out of curiosity; But it is also very difficult for them to get ahead, and they must possess various skills outside of Buddhism, such as political, economic, and cultural knowledge, as a stepping stone to impress the upper echelons of the elite and preach in a roundabout way. A lot of ancient knowledge from Tianzhu, such as medicine, literature, music, and dance, was communicated and integrated with the local culture through these ways of Buddhism.

Of course, the best of these is undoubtedly the frontal chamber technique from the ancient Brahmin system and other derived health preservation methods; After all, the instinct to pursue reproduction and immortality has always been an eternal theme that has been consistent regardless of human race and national boundaries. It is also the easiest area for any emperor and general who is at the top of society to control the vast resources, and it is easiest to pay attention to and be impressed. As a result, these monks, who were active in the court and the ministers' families, often had a variety of strange and negative reputations.

For example, the first Tantra to enter Tibet, the master and apprentice of the Lotus Ring, even the Dan Dan were expelled by the Han Mahayana Buddhist monks brought by Princess Wencheng and the disciples of the Dharma Protector Warrior Monks of the "Mokoyanna" group; Another ordained lama, Yeshe Wangpo, also died of a hunger strike due to fright.

Later, there was Padmasambhava's re-entry into Tibet to spread the law, relying on the shepherdess girl who was specially adjusted/taught, and the son of the princess of Jincheng - the sixth generation of Zampu Trisong Dezan, playing the wife exchange game of giving alms to concubines and designating Ming concubines, and teaching the local Bon religion according to local conditions, inventing the offering instrument of living organ sacrifice to win over local nobles; Only then was he able to unilaterally declare victory at the Dharma Discernment and Uncovered Conference under the influence of the contemporary Zampu, and thus drove out the Han Mahayana Buddha and Dharma monks;

Then, not long after, because of the dispute between foreign Tantra and the indigenous Bon, it completely detonated the continuous civil strife in Tibet and had to flee to avoid disaster; In the end, it was only through the later Venerable Axiadi that he re-entered Tibet and integrated the remnants of Tantric believers on the plateau, so that the prototype of the Tibetan Esoteric system in later generations was formed.

And the fate of Tang Mi is not much better; With the Wuzong generation in the Huichang period, because the monasteries occupied a large number of Buddha households and monks who did not pay taxes, they hid and sheltered a large number of Buddha households and monk households who did not pay taxes, and the Buddha extermination movement was carried out all over the world; Many Buddhist sects have suffered a great loss of vitality because of this, and the Tang Dynasty Tantra, led by Qinglong Temple and Daxingshan Temple, has not been established for a long time and has only taken the upper route, and it has almost disappeared and gradually declined.

Of course, in this difficult way, there is another difficult brother who is even more unlucky; It is the branch of the Nepolis sect that was exiled by the Roman Church and the Emperor of Dongluo, one of the three foreign religions that was once established, and the Nestorianism that was once committed to localization and put the kings and gods of the Tang Dynasty and the following dynasties in the church to worship with God; simply hit the street without even leaving a splash.

Now it can be said that under the squeezing, annexation and absorption of many sutras, only a few of Tang Mi can survive; Therefore, it is really fitting that such a short-lived existence and name in Chinese history, which was once prominent and withered, is used to cover all kinds of irrational phenomena and super-common knowledge; Anyway, because the focus is on the development of the upper echelons. There are not many people in the middle and lower classes of society who can know and know about it.

In this era, the Tang Dynasty Tantra gave the impression to the world that it was good at spells and many strange methods, especially the room technique and health preservation method.

"Besides, you see that this generation actually hides weapons privately."

"And secretly accommodating so many armed thugs. Intended to resist the rebels and enter the internal investigation. ”

"Doesn't that make their wolf ambitions a reality."

"Where is there still a little bit of the appearance of monks and Buddhist ancestors."

"It's just a thief village that occupies the mountain."

Zhou Huai'an was arguing with him, and the battle against the temple had already entered the next stage.

This Nanhua Temple is only a foot high wall, which can never be compared with the city wall that the rebel army has conquered, or the walled wall; It can also be compared with an ordinary camp wall; Thus, in the array, which was soon unfurled after crossing the river under the cover of the platoon, the light rams of the horse-drawn vehicles made many cracks and gaps in the cones;

Then, under the large row overhead, soldiers with various cones and chisels quickly poured out, and they chiseled, dug and pulled up with force against the root of the wall. And the monks and bald donkeys guarding the wall couldn't even look up and lean out, they were shot by waves of bows and crossbows, and the poisonous smoke balls thrown in sections made them unable to stand on their feet.

It didn't take long to hear a cheering shout, and the whole wall was hollowed out and pushed inward and collapsed, and many breakthroughs were obtained.