The white blade of the spear was approaching, but the Xuzhu monk seemed quite calm, just clasped his hands together, quietly staring at the yellow clouds, and between the eye waves, he only felt that there was clearly a pool of frozen lake water in his eyes, and there was no ripple.

"Aren't you afraid?"

I saw that the Xuzhu monk said the Buddha's name, and then replied: "There is a Tao that Bodhi has no tree, and the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing originally, where is the dust?" The general came with a knife and killed the poor monk, but it was just to send the poor monk to the Western Bliss early; If you don't kill the poor monks, the Buddha told the poor monks through the hands of the generals that they still need to purify all sentient beings before they can go west. In that case, why should the poor monk be afraid? ”

This sentence of the Sixth Ancestor Huineng is very famous in later generations, and almost every netizen knows this sentence full of Zen machines. It's just that in this era, because the Internet has not yet appeared, and the popularity of books is extremely low, although Huang Yun, who grew up in a place like Tiantai County, where there are many Buddhist temples, feels that this is a little familiar, and it seems that he has heard it before, but he can't remember which great monk is the beginning and the end.

The monk in front of him had a modest gaze and a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he didn't take these blades seriously at all, but his junior disciples had their own appearances, and they didn't look like they had been discovered. Huang Yun recalled the scene when Yu Guowang's Neiying was arrested and killed by him when he stormed the city gate the year before last, and the expressions and expressions of those people seemed to be completely unrelated to these monks.

There are many people who worship the Buddha in Tiantai County, the Qing army surrounded these monks, although the people around them did not dare to lean too forward, but most of them looked at each other angrily, only a man who sold charcoal led the cart and the old cow under the command of an old man who looked like a housekeeper and continued to walk towards the city, but occasionally turned his head to look here.

Could it be that I'm thinking too much?

Huang Yun thought for a moment, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it seemed to be like this, although these monks had not been ordained, which seemed very abnormal, but if it was really a meticulous work, then how could they be so stupid and make such a big mistake.

Suddenly, among the surrounding people, a man timidly said that he knew the monk who was the leader. Hearing this, Huang Yun immediately asked the man, but the answer was that Xuzhu was indeed a monk of Wannian Temple, but his master was not famous.

Huang Yun hesitantly looked at the man who spoke, as a military household who took over his father's duties since he was a child, he has been guarding the city gate since the Chongzhen Dynasty, and it has been more than 20 years now. He has some impression of the person in front of him, a country idler who has to go to the city every ten days or half a month to resell between the city and the countryside, or buy some things on his behalf to make a living, and this impression has probably been around for some years.

This guy shouldn't be lying?

The suspicion of his own judgment grew heavier, and at this moment, the voices of the surrounding people and those who had not yet been examined began to agree. Under the three of them becoming tigers, even the mother of Zeng Shen still threw herself over the wall, let alone Huang Yun?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that maybe he was thinking too much, and Huang Yun looked at the Xuzhu monk headed by him, the more he felt that he was kind and kind, and the law was solemn. If it were according to normal times, since he had a heart of suspicion, Huang Yun would always directly detain him to see the after-effects. But this time it was a group of monks who came, and it was a little difficult for him, who has always been filial, to make a bad choice.

Huang Yun looked at the people who met, some he didn't know, but there were also some who seemed to have seen before, maybe they were really wrong to blame the good people? This thought began to affect Du Huangyun's judgment more and more, and the time to close the city gate had come.

Let's try it one last time.

"This master, can you have a degree with you?"

Du Mu is the identity certificate of the monk. It's just that in the past dynasties, the distribution of the degree itself was also a kind of business income of the feudal dynasty. Therefore, it often leads to those who really devote themselves to the Buddha not necessarily having the degree, while some people who do other things under the condition of a monk can afford to buy the degree.

This year is the fifth year of Yongli, that is, the eighth year of Shunzhi, this year the Qing court decided to exempt the silver to give the degree, but when it came to the implementation stage, it immediately became the gray income of the yamen, just like the Ming Dynasty in theory, the military generals could apply for weapons and equipment for free, but when they arrived at the arsenal, they still needed to give the officials of the arsenal according to the proportion of the weapons they received, and the reason for the money calculated to take things away was the same.

The reason why Huang Yun asked this question was mainly because this Xuzhu monk seemed to be carefree in terms of food and clothing in his early years, at least not like a hungry person. Although there are many people who fall into the middle of the family road and escape from the world in this troubled world, there is always a reason to ask.

Obviously, after hearing Huang Yun's question, the Xuzhu monk really took out a degree from his arms. After Huang Yun took it, he found the little official who was responsible for collecting taxes over there and asked him to identify the authenticity of the text. And the little official looked at the few monks in front of him, then looked at Du Mu, and then stuffed Du Mu to Huang Yun.

"Mr. Huang, this degree is real. However, it seems that it should be a blank from a few years ago, and it has only recently been filled. ”

Blankness?

After receiving the overblow, Huang Yun quickly saw the clues from the difference in ink. It's just that because the blank space is easier to sell, it is not uncommon in the world, and neither the little official nor Huang Yun is too concerned.

"Dare to ask this master, I don't know what happened when you brought a few little masters into the city?" Letting go of most of his worries, Huang Yun planned to ask two more questions according to his habit, and let him enter the city if there was no doubt.

Hearing this question, the monk said the Buddha's name, and then replied, "The poor monk is here to avoid disaster." ”

Next, the monk described to Huang Yun his experience these days. In the mouth of this monk with the name of Xuzhu, a thief named Chen Wen sent people to rush into Wannian Temple, wantonly looted the food and vegetables of the Buddhist temple and the sesame oil money of the pilgrims, and forced the monks in the temple to join the army.

"When the group of thieves entered the temple, the poor monks and these junior disciples escaped by luck, it was really Amitabha. Although the poor monk has the heart of martyrdom, the inheritance of the Wannian Temple must not be broken, so he fled to the city with a few junior brothers, hoping for the general's mercy. ”

After denouncing the evil deeds of the Buddha's enemies in his mouth, the monk even asked Huang Yun to lead the troops to recruit and suppress them in order to solve the catastrophe of the Buddhist disciples of Wannian Temple.

Robbing a temple?

Isn't that thief from Dalan Mountain afraid of going to hell?

Such shocking news really diverted the attention of Huang Yun and the surrounding Qing troops, at least in their opinion, even the most vicious and vicious villains would be embarrassed to leave their families, offending the Buddha is not a joke.

Wait, that's not right.

Huang Yun suddenly realized something, and hurriedly took care of these monks, and by the way, blasted all the people who were being inspected outside the city, and closed the city gate tightly.

The big blue thief Chen Wen is looting the Buddhist temple and forcing the monk to join the army, isn't that just going to make trouble?

Thinking of this, Huang Yun immediately ran to the military camp in the city, where the garrison was assisted, such important information must be reported immediately, otherwise it would probably be a big deal.

Closing the city gate, Huang Yun and a few soldiers immediately escorted these monks to meet the garrison. But not long after arriving at the barracks, the garrison had just asked the matter clearly, and the news came from outside the city that a large number of Ming troops were approaching.

These days, the Qing army in Zhejiang is assembling in Dinghai, Ningbo, in order to eliminate the Ming army in Zhoushan. Whether it was the prefect of the city, or the garrison, even Huang Yun felt that even if he thought about it with his knees, he could guess that the Ming army in Tiantai Mountain would come out to make trouble and share the pressure for the Ming army in Zhoushan.

Although Yu Guowang and the other Ming troops near Tiantai Mountain were not a big threat, it was just that the newcomer Dalan thief Chen Wen was a ruthless character who defeated the Tibiao battalion last year, and it would be strange if he didn't come out to make trouble.

Hurried to the city, Huang Yun and the garrison stopped to look. There are more and more thieves under the banner of the Ming army in the distance, and there are quite a few people who are crowded, but these people are always divided into two parts, and there is a gap in the middle that separates them. Due to the artillery they were carrying, the Ming troops did not move very fast, and it was not until they got closer that the two men and horses began to deploy themselves after a pause.

A short time has passed here, and after learning the news of the appearance of the Ming army, the magistrate immediately began to organize the people. At this time, he rushed to the city in a sedan chair. It's not that he is brave, it's just that the Ming army on Tiantai Mountain was defeated by the Qing army last time when there was an inner opening, so why didn't he go to the city and make a good name with experience.

Ascending to the top of the city, reading the books of sages all the year round has led to a lot of eyesight inferior to ordinary people, but as soon as he went to the city, he saw the face of the guard, and the magistrate immediately felt that the situation was not good.

Looking at the city from the head of the city, I saw that the Ming army in the distance was divided into two parts along the official road out of the city, the Ming army on the left hand side set up a somewhat strange phalanx, and the Ming army on the right side separated the soldiers one after another from each other, divided into several columns, and stood on the other side of the road.

In the phalanx on the left, the sword and shield soldiers are on the outermost layer, densely packed with pikemen, while the bird gunners are distributed in the four corners of the phalanx, each forming four smaller phalanxes. From the top of the castle, it looks like a large rectangle with four smaller rectangles connected to the four corners.

The formation is strange, the weapons are also strange, except for the bird, the spear of this Ming army is far longer than the seven or eight foot spear used by the Ming and Qing armies in this era, or even much longer; The shields of the sword and shield soldiers are also larger than the standard shields, and it feels like these sword and shield soldiers are more used to defend than to break the formation.

It's just that the surprise was also surprised for a moment, and after seeing the words written on the one-foot-tall general flag behind the formation, these strangeness all turned into disdain.

"The rooftop thief Yu Guowang has humiliated himself again, he really doesn't remember to eat."

The ridicule flashed in his mind, and Na Zhixian turned to look to the side to the right. In contrast, the weapons of the Ming army on the right side are much more messy, bamboo poles, boring palladium, long cards, rattan cards, and spears. The soldiers with various blades seem to be fairly neatly distributed.

But that's just the thing, it's not like the configuration of those strong armies he had seen before, and it's not even as imposing as the formation of the thief Yu Guowang on that day. In the eyes of the magistrate of Tiantai County, only these soldiers could still see the meaning of the regular army with the same helmets, but when he noticed the flag, his previous disdain immediately turned into a cold sweat, and instantly came out of his body.

In Tiantai County at the beginning of August, the heat began to fade gradually, followed by rainy weather. There are still two hours before nightfall, but in gloomy weather, behind the left flank of the Ming army, the general flag with the words "General Qin's Order, Chief Officer of Dalanshan, Chen" is waving in the wind.

Estimating that the hour was almost up, Chen Wen, who was under the command of the general, ordered to shout to the city according to the habit of the army in this era, and prepared to start attacking the city.

PS: It snowed today, didn't go out, and continued to write after eating.