64. Zhaolie Trial II
Fu Wei immediately arranged a carriage and horses to escort Liu Bei into the car.
"This sergeant, you escort Your Majesty all the way to the west to the White Emperor City, and I will stay behind to hold off Lu Xun's army!" Fu Wei said to Luo Kang.
Luo Kang watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and knew that Fu Wei stayed in Ma'anshan and would die here, he was sad, but he couldn't do anything.
After bidding farewell to Fu Wei, Luo Kang and Liu Bei rode out of the city in a carriage, with only five hundred elite soldiers by their side.
After less than five miles of marching, flags were suddenly scattered in the mountains on both sides, and the shouts were deafening. I saw that on the top of the mountain, a handsome flag of the Wu army was impressively written: Lu
"Oh no, Lu Xun's siege of Ma'anshan is just a feint, and setting up an ambush here is his real purpose." Liu Bei, who had killed half his life, immediately understood his situation.
"Brothers, today we are fighting with our lives, and we also want to protect Your Majesty to break through, everyone rush!" Cao Chang, who was with the army, shouted loudly, and five hundred soldiers quickly attacked, rushed forward to kill, and opened the way for Liu Bei's carriage.
Despite the best efforts of the escorts, they were outnumbered, and soon there were only a few of the 500 soldiers still alive.
"Capture Liu Bei alive!" With the sound of shouting, the soldiers of Wu rushed to the front of the carriage together.
"Get out of the way!" With a sudden shout, I saw a person wearing a Shu army uniform, suddenly jumped out of the bushes, jumped into the carriage with a sword in his hand, and killed the surrounding Wu soldiers in an instant.
Luo Kang fixed his eyes and saw that it was none other than Zhang Shaojie from Wudang Mountain.
"Why are you here?" Luo Kang asked Zhang Shaojie loudly.
"We've been looking for you for a long time but can't find you, so we have to come here and wait for the rabbit!" Zhang Shaojie said to Luo Kang while fighting.
"How did you know I was here?" Luo Kang asked again.
"That Zhuge Yun found a few copper coins from a dead soldier of the Shu army, and made a hexagram, and the hexagram said to come here and wait." Zhang Shaojie said.
"What about the others?" Luo Kang asked again.
"Except for Uncle Wang Yongjian, they are all here!"
Luo Kang looked around, and sure enough, all the people who participated in the trial had already appeared, and they were all wearing the clothes of the Shu army and fighting with the Wu army.
Zhuge Yun leaned over, held his head, dodged left and right and ran to the carriage.
"I've found you! I just made another hexagram, the hexagram is dry, and the concern is that the trapped dragon must strive for self-improvement to get out of trouble, this is Uncle Liu Huang, please get out of the car, let's kill it together! Zhuge Yun said.
And Liu Bei looked at the young man who boarded the carriage, with a look of surprise on his face, and he said, "You are Kong Ming?" ”
Luo Kang and Zhuge Yun were both stunned by Liu Bei's words, but they immediately came back to their senses, because Zhang Shaojie and they had already opened a bloody road.
"What are you waiting for? Come on! Zhang Shaojie shouted loudly to Luo Kang and Zhuge Yun.
When the two heard this, they immediately helped Liu Bei get out of the car, and Liu Bei also drew his sword and rushed forward while fighting.
Under the desperate protection of everyone, Liu Bei finally escaped from the encirclement of Lu Xun's army. But Yi Xiaoqian, Tan Heng and Chen Anya have already suffered minor injuries.
"Isn't this just a trial, how can you really get hurt?" In a forest, Zhuge Yun, who was bandaging Tan Heng's wounds with fragments of his military uniform, said.
"This is not a real wound, our physical bodies are not in the Ten Halls, let alone in the box of this trial, how can we bleed!" Luo Kang, who treated Yi Xiaoqian's wounds, said.
"It should be the trials that control our souls, mimicking pain and making us feel real, but be careful, if you die here, you can't be sure that it won't come true!" Zhang Shaojie said while bandaging Chen Anya.
After everyone finished resting, they covered Liu Bei and continued to move forward, and it didn't take long to arrive at Yubeipu.
"It can't be so close from Ma'anshan to Yubeipu!" Zhuge Yun looked at the boundary monument of Yubellypu, thinking that it was fake, and tried to find out if there was a watermark on it.
"After all, this is just a trial, the map should have been simplified by King Taishan, otherwise how could it be completed in a few hours." Zhang Shaojie analyzed.
"What do you mean by trials?" Liu Bei suddenly asked.
Everyone was silent, considering that they still didn't know what the conditions for passing the trial were, whether they could let Liu Bei know the truth, no one could say.
"Alright, we'll be safe after here, let's go!" Luo Kang broke the silence.
As they walked forward, they reached the vicinity of the mountain pass, where a large river appeared, and many pebbled stone piles spread over the river beach. The stone pile was filled with fog and occasionally made strange noises.
"What is this?" Zhang Shaojie asked.
At this time, Luo Kang had the first opportunity to popularize science since the beginning, he said: "When Zhuge Liang entered Sichuan, he laid out a formation on this only way to enter Shu - Yubellypu, called "Eight Formations", which can reach 100,000 male soldiers. Entering the formation, the inside was unpredictable, Lu Xun was trapped in the formation, and finally Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan rescued him. ”
"Shall we go in too?" Zhuge Yun asked.
"Look at these stone piles, one side faces the water, and the two sides face the mountain, and if you want to pass through here, you have to pass through!" Luo Kang said.
"So what are you waiting for! Let's go! After Zhang Shaojie finished speaking, he walked in and quickly disappeared into the fog.
"This mallet! Let's go together! Luo Kang scolded Zhang Shaojie.
"There are twelve of us, only eight of us can become yangcha, this formation is very likely to eliminate some people, Zhang Shaojie is in a hurry to enter the formation, he should want to be one step ahead of us!" Yi Xiaoqian said.
"This formation has to be twelve of us working together to pass!"
I saw that behind everyone, a tiger slowly walked towards them, still talking about people.
Luo Kang turned around and saw that this tiger was the one who had covered Liu Bei's retreat before, and signaled everyone not to panic.
"Are you the old man Wang Yongjian?" Luo Kang has experienced all kinds of unbelievable things these days, and he has already exercised this intuition.
"Yes, the badge that Dong Yun gave us has this kind of mana, and after a long press, it will turn us into corresponding animals, and my badge is Yinzi, so it becomes a tiger." Wang Yong spoke, stretched out his tongue with great difficulty, reached the badge that was still pinned to his chest, and returned to his human form in an instant.
"Then what does this have to do with our breaking?" Zhuge Yun asked again.
"These eight arrays are one together, two instruments, four elephants, eight gates, nine stars, ten heavenly stems, and twelve earthly branches from the inside to the outside. Wang Yongjian explained.
"Then wouldn't it be good for us to go directly to Yihe or Liangyi?" Luo Kang asked.
"Of course not, the difficulty of this formation from the inside out is different, one is the power of the wilderness, the two instruments are the power of heaven and earth, the four elephants are the power of the four seas, the eight gates are the power of the martial gods, the nine stars are the power of the demon beasts, the ten heavenly stems are the power of the evil ghosts, and the twelve earthly branches are the power of the human king. With our current strength, we can only consider the twelve earthly branches. Wang Yongjian said.
Before the words fell, I saw a huge dragon in the formation soaring from the center and soaring into the sky. And the thunder and lightning, karmic fire, wind and sand, water dragon, etc., in the array, are like no money, and they are greeted like this dragon. The dragon struggled in agony, then turned into dust and dissipated into the mist.
"Do any of you remember what the words on Zhang Shaojie's badge are?" Wang Yongjian asked.
Zhuge Yun thought for a while and replied: "If I remember correctly, his word should be - Chen!" ”