Chapter 21 Worship the Mountain
Early in the morning of 19 December, three young men in civilian clothes came down from Baihu Mountain in the Xuefeng Mountains of Chenzhou (now Yuanling County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province), and walked along the direction of the stream along the spacious stone road to the depths of the Tiger Roaring Gorge.
"It's almost the New Year, and this Panlong's Tujia nest doesn't even have a trace of joy, I'm afraid that I'm panicking like a lost dog!" The wind and clouds on the left said to Lin Feng in the middle, and Chen Desheng on the left looked at the surrounding scenery curiously, the mountains here are very different from the mountains in his hometown of Fujian!
"Attention, someone's coming!" Lin Feng's ears were extremely sharp, and he heard a faint sound from the depths of the jungle in the distance, and the smile on his face did not change at all. Just yesterday, Feng Jingyun sneaked into Chenzhou City, connected with Zhou Xingfeng, and knew Liu Yan's final choice, and his mood was naturally very relaxed.
"Lord Lin, I still don't think it's appropriate to let go of the Dong, She, and Miao tribes who ambushed us in Tanzhou City, and they should be exterminated!" Feng Jingyun suddenly said angrily.
In the process of sneaking to Chenzhou, everyone once discussed together how to deal with these ethnic groups, Lin Feng overrode public opinion, and decided to only punish the first evil, led by special fighters, and newly selected special fighters were assisted, forming a mixed special team to assassinate Pu Guishan, the head of the Dong nationality, and Lei Shanming, the head of the She tribe. The group has been on the road for four days and should have results soon.
Lin Feng looked in the direction of the north, shook his head lightly and said, "The most important thing for us is time, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time. In Lin Feng's planning, how to deal with the upcoming Hou Zhou in the north and the new helmsman Guo Wei is the most important thing, and he doesn't want to consume too much time and energy in this small Chenzhou.
However, when I heard this sentence, I thought that Lin Feng was saying that the New Year was approaching, and we had to go home quickly, so I didn't ask anymore.
"Who? Stand still! "The bushes and shrubs in the previous col suddenly shook, and five men dressed in colorful pipa shirts, with green handkerchiefs wrapped around their heads, and mountain knives in their hands, burst out.
The wind frightened the clouds and roared, and said loudly: "Lin Feng, the general of the Tang Xingyun Army, has come to worship the mountain, go to Tongyu!" ”
"You are the Lin Feng who killed my clan and killed a thousand knives!?" A man immediately pointed a knife at Lin Feng in the middle and roared angrily.
"It's Lin Feng down there, but I don't want to take a knife!" Lin Feng replied with a smile.
"Wait for the speed, don't toast, don't eat and drink!" Feng Yun said angrily.
"You!" The Tujia man in front of his head was so angry that his eyes were about to breathe fire, and he was about to step forward, but he was stopped by the person next to him. As soon as a few people discussed briefly, one of them who ran fast into the valley immediately reported the news, and the other four surrounded Lin Feng.
Lin Feng and the three of them didn't pay attention to the four of them at all, and still walked towards the depths of the canyon. The four of them had no choice but to surround Lin Feng and the three of them in the middle and walk towards the valley.
Ahead for a few miles, the canyon suddenly widened, on the open space on the east side of the stream, nearly a thousand Tujia men held mountain knives in unison, and put out a square knife formation, the two columns of men in the middle were obviously the most elite ones carefully selected, all of them were naked, the knives in their hands were raised high, and the heads of the two knives were against each other, forming a knife-shaped channel with a cold light.
"Doesn't it mean that the Tujia people are hospitable, and the girls will dance and dance with their hands, sing mountain songs, and wave Xilankapu to welcome guests? Why are they all these rough men, I don't look at it! Lin Feng laughed and walked straight towards the knife-shaped passage.
One of the leading men who flashed to the side turned red and said angrily: "You are not invited, you are not our guests!" ”
Feng Jingyun took a quick step and took the lead in the knife formation.
Chen Desheng, who was walking behind the most, stretched out his hand, tried the blade on a mountain chopping knife, and said loudly: "This knife looks fierce, but it is much worse than our weapon!" ”
The man who was tried by him was so angry that his eyes were red, but the knife in his hand trembled twice, but he did not cut it down.
The wind and clouds in front of him were even more exaggerated, and he took out his waist knife and touched the steel knife on his head one by one, like playing a game.
The "arrogance" of the three people immediately angered the men in the phalanx, and the men on the periphery even squeezed over to the middle, ready to make a move.
"Ahem, stand up for me!" A sound mixed with a cough sounded, it was the voice of the coiling dragon.
Lin Feng walked out of the knife formation and looked up, Panlong was standing there with a long knife, his originally burly figure had become much thinner, and he would cough twice in an instant after a moment's pause.
Behind the coiled dragon were three older men and six particularly strong men.
"Panlong, we came from afar, you won't even let you drink tea, right?" Lin Feng laughed loudly.
Panlong's face froze, his body turned to the side, and he stretched out his hand to make a gesture of please.
The source of the stream is a high waterfall, under which a large pool is formed, and a row of "dry-bar" stilted buildings with a sense of urgency are built on the ground floor and the upper floor. They were confronted by the largest three-story wooden building in between.
Walking straight to the second floor, Lin Feng picked up the teapot by himself, filled it in front of himself, poured it for Feng Jingyun and Chen Desheng, and took a cup and drank it directly.
Panlong held his waist injured by the ambush of the special soldiers, sat down with some difficulty, stared at Lin Feng, and asked angrily: "Lin Feng, the three of you are here, can you make a special trip to humiliate my Tujia man?" Believe it or not, we're chopping you to pieces with a slash?! Believe it or not, we can gather 6,000 Tujia warriors from all over the state in three hours?! ”
Lin Feng laughed, pointed at Panlong and said sharply, "I'm afraid that you even count women and children, right?" Do you really think that with thousands of Tujia warriors, you can run rampant? Then believe it or not, with my order, 30,000 elite soldiers will arrive overnight, and you can easily slaughter all the Tujia families in Chenzhou? ”
Panlong was so angry that he wanted to get up, but the old wound on his waist made him crooked and didn't stand up.
An old man from the Tujia family who was sitting behind Panlong stepped forward, refilled Lin Feng's tea, and persuaded softly: "Lord Lin, don't be angry with Panlong. I am the former patriarch Pansheng, can you tell me, what do you mean by this trip? It's not going to be a war letter, is it? ”
Lin Feng got up and bowed lightly to Pan Sheng before sitting down.
Lin Feng pointed to the waterhole behind the building, and said with a smile: "Such a beautiful scenery, it shouldn't be so hot and spoil the scenery!" You already know the outcome of the Battle of Guizhou and the chaos in Tanzhou City, right? ”
Pan Sheng nodded slightly, but Pan Long did not say anything, his face was extremely embarrassed, and his heart was extremely annoyed. From the time he was greedy for money and ambushed Lin Feng in Tanzhou City, he made a wrong step, every wrong step, until today, he has completely embarked on a road of no return with his clansmen.
"I think you also know that Li Tai has already been arrested by me, and now he is only half a breath away from death! Within three days, Pu Guishan and Lei Shanming will definitely become dead! You say, what will I do with the Tujia family? Lin Feng chuckled softly, gently fiddling with the teacup in his hand.
"You!" Panlong was so angry that he wanted to slap the table again, but his hand was raised in the air, but he didn't shoot down.
"Perhaps, you will think that the mountains and rivers here are far away, and it is inconvenient to march, and my army cannot enter, but I can tell you clearly that I have selected hundreds of good soldiers in the Guiguan area, and they have all arrived at your Tujia holy land!" Lin Feng still said softly, and moved his finger at the wind and clouds.
Feng Jingyun walked to the window, mustered all his strength, and let out a long and sharp howl!
The whistling sound immediately caused some Tujia men in front of the building to shout angrily, waving their knives and rushing towards the building, but halfway through, someone had already noticed the strangeness on the top of the mountain, and the eyes of the men were also attracted, and they couldn't run up.
When the howling sound first started, on the surrounding mountainside nearly 100 meters high from the bottom of the valley, many people wearing black Datang military uniforms suddenly appeared, they cut off the branches around them neatly with their hands and feet, cut them into an arrow shape with two brushes, and threw them hard, and then each picked up a stone and threw it down the mountain. At the same time, thick and long ropes were thrown down the mountain, and some of the soldiers rushed down the rope with great speed.
However, it is clear that the direction in which these people threw was a specially chosen inconsequential place, and just like that, the branches and stones that whistled down smashed into the house, which collapsed into a big hole, and smashed on the water to raise a very high Lang flower! It turned out that many children, old people and women who were hiding in the building ran out in surprise.
"Lin Feng, prepare to fight to the death! Let's see if my Tujia Yong'er will admit defeat! Panlong was so angry that the green tendons on his neck rose high, jumped up and said.
Lin Feng looked at Panlong with a sneer, and only then did he stop jumping before he said leisurely: "If you want to clean you up, we started to act last night!" In that case, there are not many living people left in your valley now! If you want me to spare the women and children of your clan, there are three conditions:
1. Tell me who bought you to ambush me in Tanzhou City!
2. Carefully select 600 Tujia warriors from the clan and put them into my sin battalion, and atone for your sins with their military exploits!
Third, Panlong, you cut off your own arm, which can be regarded as revealing the beam between you and me! ”
While speaking, some of the black-clothed soldiers had already run down the mountainside, ignoring the long knives of the Tujia soldiers at all, and went straight to the bottom of the three-story small building, Qin Hansheng, Liu Qi and others rushed into the small building in a few steps, and stood behind Lin Feng, staring at Panlong hatefully.
Panlong gasped for breath in his mouth, coughed violently for a while, and his face changed rapidly.
Lin Feng poured himself another cup of tea, and said leisurely while drinking: "If you agree, I can also make a Yihan alliance with your Tujia family, the Tujia family is also free of rent for three years, and the treatment of the soldiers of the Sin Battalion is similar to that of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, and those with outstanding strength can also be promoted to special forces, you can do it yourself!" ”
Panlong looked at the special soldiers who were still holding stones and ready to throw themselves on the mountainside, and then looked at the panicked children and women in the valley, gritted his teeth, pulled out the knife in his waist and slashed it at his left arm!