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On the morning of this day, after the two little eunuchs delivered a letter to Gao Xingzhou, He Daxian pretended to be successful in Shuozhou and subdued the Shuozhou army, and at the same time, in Lanzhou, three hundred miles south of Shuozhou, Zhao Sang ushered in the second battle after his body recovered.

Zhao Sang took the surviving people of Xianzhou to set off from Xianzhou the night before when it was about to get dark, and they did not arrive at Lanzhou City until three o'clock in the morning. Regardless of Tang Qun's opposition, he took advantage of the dawn to drive thousands of Xianzhou people into the military camp in Lanzhou City.

Of course, because the vast majority of the people were women, all the Lanzhou troops were also driven to rest on the streets and city walls.

After a long journey overnight, everyone was tired to death, and when they fell asleep, they didn't know when it was dark.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, on the banks of the Puming River, more than ten miles southwest of Lanzhou, two routine patrol Lanzhou scouts spotted that on a river beach downstream of the river, two Khitan cavalrymen were standing in the river half a waist deep bathing their war horses.

These two Lanzhou soldiers are also bold, one of them led the horse behind, and the other quietly walked to the river with a bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the two happy Khitan soldiers, hitting the back vest of one of them!

The Khitan soldier who was hit by the arrow fell into the water and died on the spot, and the dazzling blood-red color spread rapidly in the river. Another Khitan didn't understand the situation, thinking that the Tang soldiers of the brigade were coming, and he didn't dare to turn back, so he hurriedly jumped on his war horse and ran away all the way away with the splash in the sky.

These two Khitans are scouts sent by the Khitan general Naye Agum.

After breaking up with Jiang Shuzhe the day before yesterday, he led a thousand cavalry south to Shizhou, and after sweeping away several farms and villages and horse bandit dens along the way, he came to Fangshan County, which is located between Shizhou and Lanzhou.

Fangshan County is a very small city, built on the halfway of a small hill, and the population of the city is only about 3,000 people. The city wall is not high, but the terrain is dangerous, condescending, it is not easy for the attacker to attack on the back, and if you are not careful, you will have to pay a big price.

Naye Agum didn't think so at first, and randomly pointed to two teams of 100 cavalry, and planned to attack the city directly.

Although this Fangshan County is small, there is a strong man in the county, surnamed Pei, called Pei Baoman, tall and burly, with golden hair, blue eyes, hooked nose, and a white Westerner.

Pei Baoman came to the Central Plains with his parents to do business when he was a child, and on his way back, he met a horse thief near Shizhou. Parents and other retinues fought to their deaths. The horse thief, seeing that the little boy was blonde and blue-eyed, wanted to capture him and sell him for money. I met a white-bearded old Taoist priest on the way, and when I saw this child, he said that he wanted to buy it.

The horse thief offered three taels of silver, and the old Taoist priest bargained for a penny, and the two sides fought without saying a word.

How did the horse bandits know that this white-bearded old Taoist priest was so fierce, he used a bamboo cane in one hand, stabbed whoever died, knocked whoever was split, and only after a moment of fighting, more than a dozen people lay down on the ground drenched in blood, and the remaining 30 or so horse bandits didn't even want the goods they had just robbed, and ran wildly, scattering and fleeing.

The old Taoist priest didn't chase after him, picked up a few valuable items from the goods that were thrown all over the ground, and took this Westerner child who was still named Baoman at that time, and walked to Fangshan County to live.

The old Taoist priest's surname was Pei, so this Westerner child also changed his name to Pei Baoman with the surname of the old Taoist.

Pei Laodao told Pei Baoman that he was ninety-eight years old this year, and he was destined to be only one hundred and five years old. Now thanks to the blessing of my ancestors, I finally met Pei Baoman in my lifetime. In the eyes of Lao Dao, Pei Bao was full of spirit and was the best choice to save the earth, so he decided to stay in Fangshan County for the last seven years of his life, accept a closed disciple, and ask Pei Baoman to learn Taoism from him.

Pei Laodao's origin is mysterious, but his vision for seeing people is still very accurate.

Halfway through, I picked up a Caucasian child who didn't match each other, and he was really smart and clever, worked hard, and had a very high level of understanding on the way to cultivation, and his cultivation was also advancing by leaps and bounds.

An old man and a young man lived in Fangshan County, changed a dilapidated land temple into a Taoist temple, read and wrote in the temple every day, and meditated on the truth of the world.

Seven years later, the white-bearded old man really died.

Before parting, the old man tightly held Pei Baoman's hands that were wet with tears, and chattered that he finally lived up to the legacy of his grandfather, and left a spark for Taoism, hoping that Pei Baoman would be able to shine on the road in the future.

As he spoke, Lao Dao left with a satisfied smile.

Pei Baoman lost his parents when he was a child, if it wasn't for this old way to save him, he wouldn't know where he would have died. Now the kind Master has also left him, leaving him alone in the world, with no relatives. Thinking of the sadness, the thirteen-year-old little Pei Baoman couldn't help but cry.

This crying was three days and three nights, and my eyes were swollen and my voice was hoarse.

When he finally stopped and came to his senses, he was surprised to find that Lao Dao's body and the clothes on his body had shrunk to the size of a garlic head, and the stone was so hard.

Pei Baoman guessed that the master turned into a stone to escort his future life, so he respectfully wore this stone with a rope and hung it around his neck as a necklace.

was still young, and there was nowhere to go for the time being, so Pei Baoman, who was young, continued to stay in the small Taoist temple in Fangshan County to cultivate. Lao Dao left him some silver, and there will be no problem in eating and surviving, plus he usually uses Taoism to treat the villagers in the county and calculate a hexagram or something, and he will also receive a lot of gifts, and he is quite comfortable and comfortable in his small life.

Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Pei Baoman has grown into a twenty-three-year-old boy.

Most people who have faith, who grow fat, or who are getting fatter, are generally mostly practicing Buddhism. Cultivators are basically thinner and thinner the more they cultivate.

But Pei Baoman, a different species, is getting fatter the more he cultivates

As he grew older, the muscles on his body bulged as if he was cheering, and when he was in his early twenties, he was even more burly and tall than Stallone in later generations, and his body was also bigger, and his muscle shape and lines were much more beautiful than Stallone. Walking on the street of Fangshan County, it is like a bear walking into a chicken coop, which is out of place and particularly conspicuous.

On weekdays, the small Taoist temple is open to the door, the street security of the entire Fangshan County is very good, all the ruffians and gangsters and street bosses have all disappeared, everyone went home to sleep with their heads covered, and waited until the middle of the night to see that the door of the Taoist temple was closed, and it was estimated that Pei Ye was asleep, so he dared to come out and walk lightly to the street, and quietly sighed twice in the moonlight.

At noon on this day, Pei Baoman, who had meditated all morning, felt a little sleepy, and was about to close the door and take a good nap, but the official patrol on the street sounded the gong and shouted loudly:

"The Khitan cavalry is coming to the city, and all the strong men are on the city wall to defend the city!"

There is no garrison in Fangshan County, and there are more than a dozen patrols on weekdays, plus 200 villagers, which can be regarded as a conventional defensive force. Now that someone is actually attacking the city, then the whole people have to go into battle.

Pei Baoman became excited.

In recent months, whether in meditation or dreaming in his sleep, he had always felt like he was killing people all over the place, killing heads all over the ground, as if he were born a demon.

In fact, Pei Baoman is still very well-behaved, he has never killed anyone, although he is big, he has basically never bullied anyone. Of course, once he accidentally stepped on the legs of a few street thugs, he can't be blamed, those people found it themselves.

As Pei Lao Dao learned martial arts and his Dao heart was transparent, Pei Baoman decided that he should be a god-killing star.

But there is no one to kill! You can't go out on the street and kill people for no reason. A few years ago, a group of horse thieves came, and when they saw such a large man rushing out with a stick from afar, they were frightened and scattered.

Since then, no horse bandits have dared to approach Fangshan County.

Now, the Khitan cavalry came to attack the city? Doesn't that mean I can kill openly and legally?

Pei Baoman was overjoyed, quickly changed into tight clothes, picked up the bamboo cane left by the master, and buckled a brown hat on his head.

The bamboo cane looked like a three-meter-long bamboo pole on the outside, but it was actually a heavy object made of meteorite fine iron inside, weighing eighty-six catties! Otherwise, do you think those horse bandits back then were all paper paste? Was knocked on the head casually by that old man with this bamboo cane? Poke and burp?

This is not a mythical world, everything is scientifically justified.

As for the brown hat, it's actually quite embarrassing to say.

Pei Baoman heard people talk about books when he was young, and he must pretend to be forced to fight when he comes out. Pei Baoman didn't know much about the skills of pretending to be forced, and once when he went to buy vegetables, a foreign vendor lied to him that this hat was absolutely high, and Pei Baoman was full of joy and spent a full thirty copper plates to buy it.

Fangshan County is not big, Pei Baoman didn't run a few steps, he had already arrived at the city wall, and walked up to the city to take a look.

Wow, there are so many people in the city that they can be knocked on their heads.

Pei Baoman's face was so excited that he couldn't help but stand on the head of the city, and howled wolf at the same dense Khitan soldiers under the city:

"Oh ooh