Three days later, Qian Dashun got the exact news that the Living Buddha of Tubo would visit Tianti Mountain, 40 miles south of Liangzhou, on the 10th day of the 10th month of November to pray for blessings and preach for the people in Liangzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info led the army to guard Liangzhou, the Tubo general Nazha will personally lead the soldiers and horses to Tianti Mountain to cheer for the living Buddha of Tubo.

After listening to Qian Dashun's words, Lai Xing'er was even more convinced in his heart that most of the living Buddhas of Tubo who came to Liangzhou to preach and preach the Dharma were the master of Gongpo who was regarded as a national teacher by the Tubo people.

Therefore, in order to meet with the lama Kampot at the foot of the Tiantai Mountain, Lai Xing'er, together with Qian Dashun and Jiang Zhongshi, made careful and detailed arrangements and arrangements for the actions to be taken on the day of the big assembly, and used the method of flying harriers to pass on the requirements for cooperation in a timely manner to the other four or five branch priests, and only waited for the day of the 10th day of the first month of November, when people and horses from all over the country cooperated with each other, hoping to achieve something at the great gathering of the living Buddha in Tubo to preach and preach the Dharma.

Tiantai Mountain is located in the south of Liangzhou more than 40 miles of Huangyang River, the mountain is majestic and precipitous, the snow on the top of the mountain does not melt all the year round, forming a famous landscape - Tiantai snow. Tianti Mountain Grottoes is known as the originator of Chinese grottoes, according to history, in 439 A.D., the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Beiliang, had moved 30,000 households from Guzang to Pingcheng, among which there were more than 3,000 monks, fully reflecting the prosperity of Buddhism in Liangzhou since the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

In order to occupy a favorable position at the big rally, on the 10th day of the first month of November, just after the fourth watch, Lai Xing'er and Jiang Zhongshi were mixed with a group of wranglers, and they set off with Qian Dashun and rushed to Tianti Mountain.

When they arrived at the foot of the Heavenly Ladder Mountain, which was more than 100 miles away, the sky was already bright, and they saw that a half-person-high Dharma transmission platform had been set up on the flat open space at the foot of the mountain. Around the Dharma platform, with their backs to the platform, stood a row of sergeants dressed in military uniforms and holding long sticks, and the people from all over Liangzhou were also sparsely numbered to several hundred, gathering in twos and threes, whispering something.

Lai Xing'er carefully observed the terrain around the Dharma platform, and chose a place that was close to the Dharma platform, could see every move on the platform, and was conducive to advancing and retreating, and stood still, turned back to Qian Dashun and asked: "Big brother, these sergeants guarding the Dharma platform, why don't I look like Tubo, are they Han Chinese?" ”

Qian Dashun cast a disdainful look at the sergeants who were standing guard around the Dharma transmission platform, and replied, "Brother, don't you see that these people are holding sticks without the tip of a gun or a halberd? They are all Han Chinese who were recruited by the Tubo people in the name of the puppet emperor Li Chenghong, and now they are all under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Thorn History, which is actually the shield and watchdog of the Tubo army. ”

Lai Xing'er understood, so it seems that this time the Tubo people sent troops to invade and occupy the cities of Zhuzhou in Western Xinjiang, and it was really not like in the past, they attacked the city, burned and looted and immediately evacuated, they actually recruited Han people as soldiers in the local area, and replenished the troops on the spot.

"How many people are there in this team under the Liangzhou Thorn Shi now? How did they get along with the Tibetan army in the city? ”

Seeing that Lai Xing'er was so interested in this Han team that served the Tubo people, Qian Dashun thought about it seriously and replied hesitantly: "Usually the people in and outside the city look down on this group of people, and they all call them 'Fan Dogs' behind their backs, and the specific number of people is only a few hundred. As for their relationship with the Tibetan army, I haven't heard of any friction between them at the moment, but judging from every meeting in the city, it seems that the commander of this team, Lord Liangzhou Thorn Shi, has some complaints about the Tubo army, thinking that their hands are too long and too wide......"

The two men were talking, when they suddenly heard a commotion in the crowd. Lai Xing'er hurriedly followed the prestige, but saw thirty or forty Han monks wearing gray monk robes coming down from the Tianti Mountain. These monks came down the mountain, and did not speak, each of them had a blank face, put their hands together, and followed each other to the Dharma platform, and under the guidance of a Han official, they stood in two rows in the position immediately behind the Dharma platform, and recited the Buddha's name in unison.

"Big brother, isn't it the Living Buddha of Tubo who came to preach and preach the Dharma today, why did so many Han monks suddenly come to the stage at this time?" Lai Xing'er didn't know which play the Tubo people played, so he asked Qian Dashun in confusion.

"Yes. I still know the two monks in this team, they are the leading monks in the Guanghui Temple on the Tiantai Mountain, could they be here to cheer for the Tubo Living Buddha? Qian Dashun looked at the stage and also felt that the second monk was confused.

More and more people gathered at the foot of Tiantai Mountain from all directions, and some people hid in the crowd and shouted loudly on the platform: "I said masters, don't you know that the monks from Tubo have come to our Liangzhou to recite the scriptures today, why do you also join in the fun?" ”

Others simply shouted: "Now that we have all become barbarians with ochre faces, have you monks also converted to barbarian religion?" ”

One person spoke out, and the group responded, and all of a sudden, the audience was bustling and chaotic. Seeing this, several officials on the stage who were responsible for maintaining order on the scene hurriedly scolded the crowd in the audience: "What kind of noise, if the Tubo people hear it, they will not survive if they open their mouths to talk nonsense." ”

The people in the audience were willing to buy their accounts, and not only did the shouting get louder, but some people also threw stones at the stage.

Seeing that the scene was in chaos, the officials on the stage were also anxious, and they were about to order the team of "fan dogs" standing around the Dharma transmission platform to take people, when they suddenly heard a terrifying scream behind the crowd of people in the audience: "Murder." ”

Lai Xing'er and the others turned around and looked at the back of the crowd with everyone, and saw from a distance a young man in a fur hat and covered in soft armor with fish scales was picking up a bloody human head with a long sword in his hand, riding a horse to separate the crowd, and walking towards the Dharma transmission platform. Behind the Tibetan boy were two teams of heavily armed Tibetan hoplites.

"General Naza has arrived, and if anyone in the audience speaks out again, they will all be killed." Behind Naza, a Han Chinese man with a male duck voice screamed.

Naza rode his horse to the Dharma platform, threw the head on the tip of the sword at the front row of the people, turned over and dismounted, raised his eyes to look at the two rows of Han monks who were already standing on the platform, and spoke in Tubo to the Han man with the voice of a male duck beside him. (To be continued.) )