In Jiangling, the capital of the Liang Kingdom, at the Loquat Temple fifteen miles east of the city, a group of soldiers gathered at the gate of the temple and confronted an old monk.

"Abbot, hand over the people, aren't you afraid of polluting the pure land of Buddhism if you accept women in your temple?" One of the generals tried to speak in a calm tone to an old monk in front of him, and behind him was a group of soldiers who were pressed by black.

"Amitabha, please spare their lives." The old monk was the presiding officer of the Loquat Temple, with snow-white eyebrows and a thin body like withered grass in the wind, but he stood at the door of the dilapidated temple and blocked the soldiers of the Chen army.

Behind him was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old novice, with a green face and a thin body, but as stubborn as a host, standing in front of everyone, his face was pale, his hands were clenched with brooms, and he desperately opened his eyes wide, trying to stare at a group of killers in front of him.

"Life? Ben Jiang didn't come to kill people, let them all come out and go home quickly, there is no mother-in-law in this family to talk like that! The general's eyebrows and rat eyes forced out a smile, and it turned out that laughing was more ugly than crying.

This is a group of Chen soldiers, half a month ago the Chen army crossed the river to attack Jiangling, at the beginning the troops were used to siege the city and hold the main road, so there was no attack on the surrounding villages

However, this brief lull began to be broken as Jiangling City could not be attacked for a long time, and although Chen's army crossed the river and went north, although it had the power of boats and ships, it was still a little nervous to transport supplies for tens of thousands of troops, so the villages around Jiangling City became the target of raising grain and grass.

The young men were captured as coolies or built equipment to assist in the siege of the city, as for the women, it depends on the mood of the generals and their subordinate soldiers, but unfortunately the generals of the Chen army who patronized Loquat Village today are in a bad mood.

Because all the women in the village had run away, the soldiers searched the surrounding woods and hills without finding a trace, and after torturing several villagers, they learned that all the women had fled to the loquat temple near the village and hid.

It is not known when the loquat temple was built. Because it is located near the village of Loquat, it is named Loquat Temple. In addition to Loquat Village, there are also scattered manor courtyards of officials in Gangneung Castle nearby. After all, it is much more convenient to have a Zhuangzi to take care of the surrounding fields.

"Donors, please come back, the female donors will naturally go home in a few days." Where does the abbot not know what the other party wants to arrest the women and what they want to do, just pretending to be crazy and stupid and trying to maneuver around, this wave of people has come twice before, and they were fooled by him, but this time they are menacing, I am afraid that they will not be good.

As a disciple of Buddhism, the old abbot decided to take in the women of nearby villages and houses to help them survive the war disaster.

The Southern Dynasty was extremely popular in worshiping the Buddha, so although the soldiers of the Chen army knew that there were women hidden in this ruined temple, they still didn't want to offend the Buddha in the Buddha's gate, but if it continued like this, it would change sooner or later.

There is no share of them in attacking Gangneung City, although the disaster of blood and light is avoided, but the spoils after the city is broken are also gone, and it is easy to be sent to collect grain, and have the opportunity to taste the 'game', but this hateful old monk is blocked outside the temple, which is really anxious.

The generals repeatedly ordered that they were not allowed to do anything wrong, it was just a scene, and besides, they were busy attacking Gangneung, so they had the heart to take care of this trivial, and everyone was just playing, venting fire, not killing. These mothers-in-law are going to get them anyway, so who is going to get them!

They felt that it would be cheaper for the later brothers to be transferred to another place if the time dragged on for a long time, so they decided that the old monk could not be allowed to delay, and they had to 'make a decision on the spot'.

"Old monk, don't toast and don't eat and drink!" The general saw that the other party was soft and didn't eat, and immediately changed his face and showed a fierce light.

"If the monks don't drink, who cares if you toast and punish you!" Not to be outdone, the little novice was not to be outdone.

"What are you talking about, little bald donkey!"

"Wuming, don't be rude!" The old abbot saw that the little novice was about to refute again, and immediately stopped, and when he saw that the crowd in front of him was about to forcibly rush into the temple, he put his arms together: "Buddha Gate Pure Land, if you donors want to do dirty things, aren't you afraid of going to hell!" ”

"Old monk, do you let it or not!" General Chen Jun is now waiting to rush into the temple to catch the woman, and he has no intention of grinding with the other party, but after all, he takes into account that this is the Buddha's 'territory', and tries not to pull out a knife and cut people.

Two monks, one old and one young, blocked the entrance of the temple in this way, intending to turn the tide.

Inside the temple, the dilapidated hall is crowded with many women in shabby dresses. Listening to the movement outside the temple, they all trembled like chaff, and there were some men who seemed to be husband and wife or relatives of some women.

The few men looked out of the hall with pale faces with hoes, wooden sticks and other items in their hands. The catastrophe is coming, and they don't want to watch their wives, daughters, and dependents being ruined, so they can only fight with their lives.

"Uncle, it's done," a young woman in the corner timidly spoke to a middle-aged man beside her, her clothes were no different from other women, but because of the shocking large red spot on her right cheek, her face was hideous, making it impossible to see clearly.

"Put it away and wipe your hands clean." The middle-aged man whispered to the woman, and then asked her to put away a red gadget in her hand, and the woman's hand holding the thing was also dyed red, and then wiped it off the wall.

"Uncle, what should I do" The woman listened to the movement outside, her face was pale, she trembled uncontrollably, and one hand tightly pulled the corner of the middle-aged man's clothes.

"Jiu Niang, if it's not right for a while, run out of the broken wall behind you and run quickly, don't go to the city all the way to the east, run as far as possible!" The middle-aged man held a dagger in his hand with a solemn expression, "Remember not to wash your face!" ”

When the woman heard this, her eyes were red, and she was about to speak, but she suddenly heard a cry of exclamation around her, and looked up at the outside of the hall, but saw that the walls on both sides of the small temple courtyard had turned in, and many soldiers rushed towards the main hall.

The women hiding in the temple suddenly exploded and fled in all directions, they knew what the other party wanted to do, and they also knew what would happen to them if they fell into the hands of the other party.

The old abbot who was confronting Chen Jun outside the temple gate heard the screams coming from the temple behind him, and his face turned his head to look back, and he knew at this time that the other party had sent someone to outflank and climb over the wall to enter the temple, and he couldn't stop the two of his master and apprentice.

Seeing that the plan had succeeded, the general of the Chen army was overjoyed, pushed the old abbot away, and led his subordinates to rush in, but was hugged by the other party: "Donor, God has the virtue of a good life."

"Get out of the way!" He kicked the old abbot away, and was about to move on with a sinister smile, but was struck in the door by a broom from the little novice behind him.

"Dog thief! When you die, you will definitely be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell! Seeing that the master was beaten, Xiao Shami's eyes were red, and he immediately attacked and scolded.

The general never thought that the other party would dare to make a move, and was caught off guard and was beaten so that his nostrils were bleeding and embarrassed, and in anger, he asked his subordinates to step forward and take down the little novice, but the little novice was nimble like a loach, dodging many soldiers who pounced on him, and rushed directly to him and kicked him in the crotch.

This kick kicked the generals of the Chen army to the ground, rolled on the ground, and the soldiers on both sides were dumbfounded, shouted smartly, and stepped forward to help, and the scene was chaotic. The little novice took advantage of the chaos to grab the old abbot's hand and ran to the temple.

At this point, their master and apprentice could no longer protect the women who had taken refuge in the temple. Seeing that an unbearable event was about to be staged, the little novice retreated into the temple with his master and fled through the back wall. There was a crowd of people in front of the temple, and they had to flee for their lives through the dilapidated back wall.

"Hack him, hack him!" The generals who were rolling on the ground in pain looked at the old and young backs with red eyes and howled, and a group of soldiers rushed into the temple, and a few stupid and stunned Qingzhen went to chase the monks, but more of them gasped and threw themselves at the women in the hall who had begun to be 'divided'......

A few miles north of the Loquat Temple, on the shore of the Long Lake, a group of Chen soldiers were sitting in the forest and chatting.

Changhu Lake is located on the northeast side of Gangneung, which is in the shape of an elongated strip and runs east-west, with a length of about 100 miles between east and west. The task of this group of soldiers was to stand guard here, and to guard against the Hanjin garrisons of the Liang State who might have entered Hunan by boat from Hanjin in the north along the ancient canal.

"Team Zheng, I heard that the canal has been silted up for a long time, so do you need the brothers to blow the cold wind here?" A soldier muttered. The rest of the soldiers also complained.

"Then what's the solution, the team leader arranges like this, don't you dare to disobey?" The team was also complaining, and the team leader asked him to lead his men down to look at the wind here to defend against the enemy army that was basically impossible to appear, but he took people to the Loquat Temple to be happy.

One soldier swallowed and looked at the loquat temple to the south, which seemed to be starting to get noisy, and the other looked at it and sighed, "They make their mother-in-law happy there!" ”

"Forget it, I'll have to get one when I go back later, even if it's used, it can vent the fire, right?"

As soon as the team's voice fell, the surrounding crowd laughed, they were the lowest soldiers, and their military salaries were always deducted by the officials on weekdays, and they couldn't even eat enough for themselves, let alone marry a daughter-in-law, and the only hope was to be able to get a little cheap and get a few mothers-in-law to play with when they went out with the army.

It doesn't matter how you look, as long as it's not an old woman, it doesn't matter how old you are, as long as it's a woman. If you are lucky, you can carry it home and be a daughter-in-law, it will be a great thing.

"I said how come they haven't come back for so long after a few of them went fishing at the lake!" The team was looking at the reeds a few hundred paces to the north, and half an hour ago he had sent some men to fish at the lake in the reeds, and had not heard from them until now.

The reeds just shade the surface of the lake. They looked through the woods, and saw only a white reed, and there was not a figure in it.

"Could it be that you have suffered?" One soldier looked at the reeds in disbelief, and the rest of the people were also shocked.

If it weren't for the Jiangling Governor's Mansion of Zhou to help protect it, it would have been destroyed by its own side, and the Liang army was all cowardly, but with a knife in his hand, he could always cut people, so if the Hanjin defenders in the north really came over and killed a few people, it was possible.

As for the categorical impossibility of attacking the rear of your own army, what else can you do with those people!

The team was a little anxious when they heard this, and said: "Quick, a few of you guys will go over and take a look, and the rest will be police immediately."

Before he could finish speaking, an arrow flew and hit him in the face, and the rest of the soldiers saw that the team was falling to the ground, and before they could recover their senses, they were shot to the ground one by one.

However, they had only run a few steps before they stopped, for at some point someone had already outflanked the back road, and behind them there were many people stumbling out of the reeds, and several of them were soaking wet, as if they had just come out of the water, and they were holding blood-dripping sharp knives in their hands.

"Spare your life, uncle!" These people were not dumbfounded, seeing that they were about to be finished, they quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for mercy under the knife, and the other party did not talk nonsense, and rushed up to throw him a few flowers tied up and threw them on the ground.

"What's going on in that temple in the distance? Is the noisy person doing something? A young general dressed in Mingguang armor walked up to them and asked, and a soldier of the Chen army was about to speak when he saw many soldiers pouring out of the reeds, and some were even leading war horses.

"The team leader is running errands in the temple," the Chen soldier stammered, and was immediately stunned by more and more people coming out of the reeds.

"Doing things, is it the Hanyi Buddhism?" Yu Wenwen looked at the temple surrounded by trees in the distance and smiled slightly, "Everyone is neat, ready to do it!" (To be continued.) )

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