Chapter 399: Ancient Hidden Techniques (3)
"Pap, pap, pap", Jingguan Xiaowu walked out while applauding.
I just sneered and didn't want to speak.
"Affection is better than ruthlessness, and the red face is invincible to the thick soil - land grandma, you have always been consistent in your attitude towards doing things since you were young. Isn't it contradictory that you teach others that they have desire in order to be motivated, but you yourself cut off your desires and practice submersible techniques wholeheartedly? You just said that Mr. Xia is not suitable for submersible techniques if he has no desires, is it true or false? You, you, the older you get, the more interesting you become, and every sentence is said in reverse, even I almost believe it. Jingguan Xiaowu said with a smile.
Grandma Land shook her head: "What I said is the truth. β
Jingguan Xiaowu also shook her head: "No, no, no, Grandma Land, what you said is not the truth." If you drag it any longer, you will become a sinner in China. To tell you the truth, at this moment, the frogman troops of the occupation army have been launched from the south bank of Daming Lake, and their mad dog troops have formed a situation of control from west to east, cobra troops from east to west, and wildfire cavalry horse teams from north to south. It is a foregone conclusion that all those who rush to the Hongmen banquet will die. β
Her words confirmed my analysis, the occupation force is not bandits, but the elite of the Japanese military academy that has undergone formal strategic and tactical training, and has a clear view of the overall situation, and has formed a delicate relationship with Zhang Quanzhong's Hongmen banquet of encirclement, counter-encirclement, ambush, and anti-ambush.
In this kind of life-and-death battle, calculating is only one of the conditions for victory, but it is not the decisive factor.
In the past, the world was divided into three parts, and the five tigers of Zhuge Wuhou, Zhang, Zhao, and Ma Huang would be available to be sent, so that they could strategize and win a thousand miles. At the end of the period, the five tiger generals were all killed, there were no generals in Shu, and Liao became a pioneer, which led to the death of Shu.
In the same way, there is no one under Zhang Quanzhong who can be of great use today, so what can he do to fight the occupation army?
"Hmph. Grandma Land sneered twice, "What are you panicking about? The soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it, and in the end, I can naturally draw a chasm and let everyone retreat safely." Aren't the three battles of Ganggou, Liubu, and Changqing Ping'an Ridge all the results of this? No matter how fiercely the devil pounces, he can't break the submersible technique of our Tu clan. β
Jingguan Xiaowu sighed: "There is no unbreakable thaumaturgy in the world, you are an old Jianghu, don't you even understand this most simple truth?"
The five elements are mutually reinforcing, and this is of course the most superficial thaumaturgical theory. The land grandmother was too conceited, so she formed a blind spot that blinded her eyes and did not see Mount Tai.
In times of peace, blind spots can only be ridiculed and ridiculed, but there is no danger to life. At such a time, Grandma Land wants to carry everyone's lives on her shoulders, and once the blind spot is breached by the enemy, the consequences are too terrible.
"No one can break the submarine, absolutely no one - the one who cracks the submersible has not yet been born!" said Grandma Land.
"Really?" Jingguan Xiaowu smiled wryly at the corner of her mouth.
"Of course it's true. Grandma Land was extremely sure and nodded heavily.
Jingguan Xiaowu slowly stretched out her right hand towards the blue flower, and there was both sigh and appreciation in her tone: "What a good flower, it's a pity-"
Her fingers were slender and white, her nails were neat and round, and it was a beautiful sight to pluck such a faint little wildflower by such a beautiful hand.
In fact, Jingguan Xiaowu is very beautiful, with both the delicate facial features of a Chinese woman and the gentle personality of a Japanese woman, even if she is measured by the strictest female standards, she must be given at least eight or even nine points.
In the era of war, people were accustomed to life and death, and they were no longer in the mood to appreciate a Japanese-American beauty.
The flower has been plucked, just between the thumb and middle finger of Jingguan Xiaowu. Her thumb naturally stretched forward, and with a sudden shake, a translucent nail ejected silently.
As she floated away, a man fell out of the leafy bushes, staggered a few steps forward, and fell to her knees with a pop.
The man's hands reached out to his Adam's apple, but he didn't dare to press it, because Jingguan Xiaowu's ejected nails were embedded in the middle of the Adam's apple, impartial, and right to the point.
"To be honest, maybe it can change your life. Jingguan Xiaowu said lightly.
The man, with his face painted green and wearing a dark green bodysuit, bent deep into the leaves, and deceived me and Grandma Land with a false one. It must have been in his ears that our conversation just now, it was terrifying.
"I ...... Didn't know anything, didn't hear anything...... Spare your life, spare your life, spare your life......" The man was panting in his throat, his voice hoarse and embarrassed.
"Will high-ranking military officials come to the banquet?" asked Jingguan Xiaowu.
"No...... No, they are all commanding on the periphery, and only after the first two rounds of raids by artillery units and armored vehicle units will they bring infantry squadrons to clean up the mess. He knows that you are setting up a Hongmen banquet, and whoever comes will die, so he simply doesn't even come out of the headquarters, just waiting for the heavy weapons to open the way and kill them all over again. The man replied.
"Are they all in the headquarters?are all the high-ranking military officials??, which unit do you belong to, and how did you hear these things?" asked Jingguan Xiaowu.
The man shook his head, pointed to the nails on his Adam's apple, and barked like a mad dog.
"If you tell the truth, you can save your life. Jingguan Xiaowu said.
The man nodded anxiously: "Well, I directly belong to the military reserve battalion unit, codenamed 'Ghost Face Trick', and the main task is to eliminate the Chinese thummer troops." We have first-hand enemy intelligence, and we are fully equipped with guns and radios, so we can always rush to the accident site as soon as possible to secretly ambush and strike at the enemy by surprise......"
There is very little mention of the Japanese thaumaturgic forces within the occupation forces in recent history books. In the mouths of the common people, it is more about exaggerating the combat effectiveness of Japan's individual soldiers, but no one has ever investigated the reason.
Quite simply, when we think about it from the perspective of thaumaturgy, we know that the Japanese government has incorporated thaumaturgists into the official army, and they are invincible and invincible against the enemy with mixed tactics.
In the massacre of the ancient city of Jiangnan that shocked the world, the ancient city had complete defensive facilities such as moats, gates, city walls, and watchtowers, and the defenders were well-armed, and the commanders were experienced in dispatching and planning, and the sister cities were also well prepared...... Under so many favorable conditions, the ancient city was still lost in a short period of time, and it was reduced to a vegetable field where the enemy was ravaging and trampling.
The world only knows to condemn the incompetence of the defenders, who can think deeply, how can those brave and loyal iron-blooded soldiers are just mortals, how can they resist the sneak attack of the elusive Fuso thaumaturgists?
Similarly, at today's Daming Lake Hongmen banquet, before the banquet opened, the ghost-faced troops had quietly infiltrated, and the battle had already been decided.
"Where is the Ghostface headquarters?" I asked.
A hint of schadenfreude quickly flashed in the man's eyes, and he immediately replied, "It's under the garrison headquarters." β
I understood what he meant, and according to his judgment, those of us who took the initiative to seek battle with the Ghost Face Tactics were tantamount to sending them to death.
"Mr. Xia, what do you want to do?" Jingguan Xiao Wu smiled bitterly, "If you want to destroy the nest of the Ghost Mask Tactics in one fell swoop, it's better to dispel this idea early." For this tactical goal, nearly 200 warriors have been slaughtered in mass graves. β
I thought for a moment and replied in a low voice: "Under the great siege of the enemy, if you want to leave alive, you can only do the opposite and insert your backhand into the enemy's heart." This is the best way and the only way to survive. β
Grandma Land sneered: "Insert it into the heart of the enemy?
"I can lead the way, I can lead the wayβ" the captive gestured with a raised hand.
"Okay, then we've decided, gather all our forces tonight to counterattack the headquarters of the occupying army. I said.
When I turned my back to avoid the captive's gaze and glanced at Jingguan Xiaowu, she immediately understood and nodded slightly: "Okay, according to what you said, mobilize all the people tonight, make a desperate bet, and if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent." β
Grandma Land snorted coldly, scoffing at our decision, but too lazy to argue.
The captive saw the vitality and once again showed his courtesy: "I know that there is a secret passage leading directly to the inner circle of the headquarters, which can avoid the three outer guards. β
"Okay. I nodded to Jingguan Xiaowu.
She stepped forward and faced the captive with a pleasant face. Looking at her appearance, it seemed that there was something to ask the other party again, so the captive honestly lowered his hands and waited for her to speak.
Suddenly, Jingguan Xiaowu flicked his right hand, and his fingers swept over the captive's Adam's apple like a pipa bullet, and the nails that had been embedded in the Adam's apple pierced through the body with a thud, and shot out from the back of the captive's neck.
The captive waved his hands in the air in vain, staring at Jingguan Xiaowu with wide eyes, not believing that the other party would suddenly kill the killer.
"You have done a great job and have passed on our plans to headquarters. Now, you're useless, the secret passage you said must be full of mechanisms, just waiting for us to get into it. The Chinese are not as stupid as you think, especially when the battle between the thummatist and the thunchman begins, it must be you Japanese who die - the Chinese are the masters, the Japanese are the apprentices, you should rarely hear the joke 'the apprentice can kill the master', right?" I told him lightly.
In fact, I had already noticed that his fingers were pressed on his trouser pockets, and his ring and little fingers were constantly tapping, and he was passing on the message in a special way.
The "attack headquarters" is a disguise, and after a false shot, the enemy will deploy heavy troops there, and the defense in other places will be lax, giving us an opportunity to take advantage of.
The captive fell on his back, his hands trembling, and he tried to tap on his trouser pocket.
I took a step and put my right foot on the back of his left hand.
"You ...... Chinese, the cunning ...... "cannot blind the captives until death, because he underestimates the intelligence of the Chinese and overestimates the thaumaturgical level of the Ghost-Faced troops."
The captives died, and the faces of Jingguan Xiaowu and I became more and more solemn.
The enemy's encirclement has begun, and the plan of "boldly cutting out the heart" to counterattack the enemy's heart cannot be carried out.
Anyone who has read the city map of Jinan will understand that at the beginning of the siege, there was almost no place for people to hide in the city, and there were no fortified buildings that could resist the danger. The coast of Daming Lake is a smooth road, and it is the best battlefield for armored vehicles and machine guns to roar and roar.
"Grandma Land, you go first. Even if you refuse to teach me the art of submersion, at least find someone to pass it on and prevent the Chinese thaumaturgy from being lost. I said.
Under the nest, it is difficult to have eggs. It would be of no use for her to stay here, it would only increase the number of casualties.
Grandma Tu straightened up suddenly: "Who said I wouldn't pass it on to you?" just now, now now, I didn't want to just now, now I will." β
Jingguan Xiaowu smiled silently, look at me, and then look at Grandma Land, and her tangled brows gradually relaxed.
"You go first, when I teach, no one can peep around. Grandma Land waved to Jingguan Xiaowu.
"I'm going to patrol all sides and protect the Dharma for you. After Jingguan Xiaowu finished speaking, he turned around and left freely.
Although the tone of Grandma Land's tone was unpleasant, the first words at the beginning made me pause: "Any retreat can be explained by the words 'Ku Ding Jie Niu', what we pursue is to meditate ourselves to be incomparably small, preferably to molecules, atoms, microscope-visible individuals, almost non-existent, even negligible." Towards the end of the meditation, you imagine that there is a gust of wind blowing in there, giving you the motivation to ride against the wind and walk through any solid crevices. Unless you encounter a very dense object, you can move in and out of any place freely......"
I have read Ku Ding Jie Niu tens of thousands of times, and I know every sentence and word in it very thoroughly.
"Imagination is just imagination, you have to combine the mind with the body, light the body and heavy on the mind, and rely on the mind to lead the body to transform. "Grandma Land's words rang in my ears.
Suddenly, everything around me rose into the air and went over my head.
I looked at Grandma Land, but all I saw was the black tips of her shoes. After that, I saw the ground, and then my body sank, and the soles of my feet were dangling, and I continued to fall.
This feeling is exactly the same as when Tu Lao Er rescued me, but without external traction, my fall became more and more urgent, and the situation was very terrifying.
"Ku Ding Xie Niu, what ordinary people see in their eyes is a complete cow, but what he sees in his eyes is the decomposed beef, cow bones, and cow skin. Ordinary people see a solid enemy, but I feel like I'm in the water, stop, I can't sink anymore, stopβ" I shouted, and the sinking stopped suddenly.
I was already standing dozens of meters deep underground, and when I looked up, it was all gray-black dirt, brown tree roots, and pebbles with smoothed corners. Unfortunately, I was stuck and couldn't move anymore.
"Young man, concentrate, keep your direction firmly in mind, go forward, move forward......" Grandma Land whispered in my ear.
Like a beginner swimmer, I slowly paddled my arms and pushed away the obstacles around me. At first, the resistance on my shoulders and forearms was extremely great, at least hundreds of pounds, and I had to concentrate my whole body and concentrate on my arms to barely paddle. Eventually, I struggled forward, and when my arms and legs became more and more perfect, I was able to stride through the dirt.
It's a strange feeling, but it's still very different from what I imagined to be the art of teleporting thousands of miles. At the moment, I can only walk in the dirt, and even if I reach the maximum speed of walking, it is only four kilometers per hour, which is very inefficient. If there had been an emergency battle, the battle would have been over long ago by the time I "walked" to the intended location.
After walking for a few minutes, I looked up. Of course, there was also impermeable mud above my head, but I kept this posture, and my feet were like climbing steps, one by one, and gradually rose to the ground, and I stood in front of the land grandmother again.
Grandma Land's face was full of surprise and joy, as if I had achieved this to her great satisfaction.
"It seems that your talent has surpassed that of all the Tu Clan's disciples, and in time, you will definitely be able to reach the highest level of the Hidden Earth Technique. She rubbed her hands together excitedly and said with a smile.
"What is the highest level?" I asked.
"Eight hundred miles at night. She replied.
That was the highest speed of the legendary Earth Diving Founder Tu Xingsun, presumably the descendants of the Tu clan had never reached it, but they had extravagant hopes.
I don't mean to belittle the art of diving, but I think Grandma Land's words are very debatable.
In my opinion, the essence of submersible art lies in "diving" rather than "fast", which are two completely different pursuits, which are equivalent to the difference between shield soldiers and marksmen in combat arms. The pursuit of the former is an airtight defense, and the pursuit of the latter is a shooting that penetrates through the Yang. Only by giving full play to the strengths of a certain class can we work together to pursue a big victory.
Once again, I lamented the problem of "dynastic" thaumaturgy in China, although Grandma Land was conceited for the ancestral submersion, she could not help but be suspicious of being incomplete. Today, she has less than one percent of the thaumaturgical power of the founder, and if she blindly adheres to the outdated rule of "passing on sons but not sons-in-law, daughters-in-law but not daughters", then it will not be far from the true loss of submersible arts.
"I pass on the subterranean technique to you, and you must swear that you will never use it to do bad things with a broken conscience and a rooster and a dog thief. Grandma Land said.
I pressed my right fist on my left chest and solemnly swore an oath: "I learned the art of submersion from my grandmother in the summer, and I will definitely take the right path and do good deeds, and I will never use my skills to do things that are harmful to nature and morals." If you disobey, you are willing to die with ten thousand arrows piercing your heart. β
Grandma Land breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, okay, I'm relieved." β
In fact, even if she didn't want me to swear, I wouldn't do anything morally corrupt.
Although thaumaturgy is named "Qi", anyone who has made great achievements in thaumaturgy starts with righteous people, righteous spirits, and righteous deeds, and takes the road of righteousness. Because of this, their life pursuit path will be wider and wider.
"Today, my Tu clan's submersible technique has finally found a successor. Grandma Land sighed again with satisfaction.
As we talked, the pots and pans were loud at the Iron Shrine, and it seemed that the chefs had officially started work.
It's a signal that the chef does it and the guests are in place. Of course, this will be followed by the closing of the encirclement by the occupying forces and the exhaustion of the participants.
"We don't have much time left. I told myself silently.
The Chinese thaumaturgists were the backbone of the resistance against the occupation forces, and if they were killed in one battle, would they expect honest, ignorant and unarmed civilians to resist the Devil-Faced forces in the future?
"Kill a bloody road and save them from escaping - no, shoot the man first and shoot the horse, capture the thief and capture the king first, and the enemy commander who leads the brigade to outflank must be killed, in order to deal the greatest blow to the enemy's arrogance and take advantage of the chaos to get out of trouble. "I quickly found the direction of the fight.
"Hahahaha, I'm going to introduce you to a new friend...... Please come here, just ahead, the corner is ......" Zhang Quanzhong's voice sounded around the corner dozens of steps away.
I knew that he must have brought the local thaumaturgists of Jinan who were attending the banquet.
At this moment, I have no time to entertain anyone, and the only question in my mind is: "East, West, South, North, which direction is the easiest to escape?"