Chapter 199: The Impact of War
Yuan Lijin and the young man who had freed his hands immediately killed the other three bandit leaders on horseback.
Without receiving the order, the bandits who were watching the battle behind them saw that in the blink of an eye, the two leaders were cut down, and some of them surrounded them with a shout.
Some of them retreated and froze in place.
Under the flanking attack, before his men could rush to his aid, two more bandit leaders were cut down under their horses.
During the battle, the bandit leader who was furthest from the carriage was also clever when he saw that the four leaders had been cut down under the horse. After slashing his sword and forcing away the young man who was fighting with him, he immediately turned the horse's head and fled.
His men, who had just rushed to his mount, were turned around and knocked over two of them.
As soon as the other robbers saw that the only remaining master was about to flee, the bandits who had just rushed over turned around and fled after the horses, and the bandits, who did not move their nests, turned around and ran in front of the horses.
Wei Zule led three teenagers to chase and kill behind, and cut down a few more robbers. Yuan Lijin shouted: "Stop!
The four of them were quite reluctant to stop, still unsatisfied.
Chen De has been standing on the roof of the car to watch the battle, and he is also happy to see the martial arts of Wei Zule and the three teenagers.
Even if this trip to Dianyin Mountain, if the elixir was not found, with the martial arts of Wei Zule and the three teenagers, after they returned to Gule City intact, this trip to Dianyin Mountain would not be in vain.
After watching the battle from beginning to end, Chen De knew the weakest people in their line, Wei Zule and the three teenagers, and felt that he could let them fight.
And he is a monk in the realm of Zhan Qi, Chen De maintains enough awe for the qi of this world, so in the territory of Dazhu to deal with the robbery, Chen De decided that in the future, Yuan Lijin and Wei Zule will lead the three teenagers to deal with it.
This can also allow Wei Zule and the three teenagers to get enough sharpening in the fight.
He only intervenes when they are in crisis.
At this point, Chen De began to look at the scenery along the way completely from the perspective of a traveler.
In the preaching pulpit of the Tiantai sect, more than one lama once said:
In monasticism, enlightenment is crucial. The higher the level of retreat, the cultivation of the aura has reached the accumulation thickness required to break through the realm, but if the cultivator's consciousness realm is not enough, it will always be difficult to break through the realm, and the improvement of the consciousness realm comes from enlightenment.
If this were not the case, the cultivator would only need to retreat on the spiritual veins and keep refining the spiritual energy, and then he would be able to accumulate cultivation and reach immortality.
This is also why, in front of the realm barrier, many cultivators have cultivated for decades, or even hundreds of years.
Experience, experience, and insight are the cornerstones of a monk's enlightenment.
This is also the reason why many monks are running around the world, and while they are colliding with chances, their other purpose is to increase their experience and knowledge.
This is also the reason why Chen De himself had to go to the silver mountain to collide with the opportunity.
Before the war between the two countries, people living close to the border had interacted with each other.
There is no seamless communication, and the difference between the border and the people is not obvious.
As their carriage marched towards the territory of Dazhu, the exoticism displayed in front of Chen De became more intense.
The difference between the people's clothing and dwellings became more and more obvious.
There are many slopes and pastures in Dazhu, and there are many livestock stored.
The crops in the fields are mainly glutinous rice and a kind of taro melon planted in the dry land.
After driving in Dazhu for a few days, Chen De found that all the official roads here must have been repaired, so the road surface was smoother and wider than in Dayuan, and many of the road protection trees on the roadside had obviously just been planted.
It seems that the attack of the Great Zhu State on the Great Yuan State was premeditated and had been prepared for many years.
Because, during the war, in addition to the huge number of troops, the most important thing that supported the war was military supplies.
The army's demand and consumption of grain and grass and other materials is huge, so the dispatch and transportation of materials are particularly important in wartime, so the repair of roads is a necessary homework before the war.
War is a huge burden for both warring parties.
This is true even after several years of preparation.
Because in the fighting, the loss of personnel and materials is enormous.
This can be seen in the territory of Dazhu.
Many of the fields on the side of the road, especially the slopes, were in a barren state, probably caused by young men who were drafted in large numbers by the army and then left uncultivated.
When passing through the town, similar to the territory of Dayuan, there were many beggars, old and young.
Moreover, there are many physically handicapped people everywhere.
The life of the people of Dazhu is not much better than that of the people of the Great Yuan Kingdom.
Although there was no wanton looting by the soldiers, the huge war consumption forced them to pay for the lives, food and property of their loved ones.
Chen De saw all the way that many of the people in Dazhu were thinly dressed and shabby in the winter, and most of them had vegetables. The people of Dazhu are obviously short of food and clothing.
Chen De watched all the way, pondered all the way, and perfected his insight into the mundane world, some of the causes and consequences of the war between the two countries. It is a kind of perception of his way of people who have a thousand things.
After leaving the border, more and more towns are passing through.
At the beginning, every time he went to a town, Yuan Lijin became nervous.
Because, in the towns where the official road passes, it is possible to meet people from Peraktang.
On several occasions, people from Perak Hall passed by the carriage of Chen De and his party.
Yuan Lijin immediately looked ahead and avoided looking at them.
Until one time, a gang leader from Perak Hall went straight to their carriage and asked them about the road when they came.
Only Yuan Lijin knew Dazhu dialect, so he couldn't pretend not to see it, so he came to Chen De's side and answered the other party's inquiries for Chen De.
He sweated in his palms as he walked over, because he had dealt with this leader in the past when he was in Perak Hall.
Face to face, the leader didn't recognize Yuan Lijin at all as the person that Perak Hall wanted to hunt down.
After he said goodbye and left, Yuan Lijin was relieved.
He had great confidence in the mask and neck mask that Chen Tak gave him.
From then on, every time he entered Dazhu Town, Yuan Lijin was no longer as close to the enemy as before, but more relaxed.
In the past, as soon as they left the town, they would sometimes be followed by people behind them, and these people were often the sentry agents planted in the town by robbers.
If these sentries found a convoy or horse team leaving the town, they would send a message to the bandits in the cottage, and they would use magic pigeons or ordinary carrier pigeons.
It turned out that Yuan Lijin was afraid of revealing his identity, so he would not do anything to these people, and after letting them go, sometimes after walking for a while, he was intercepted by the robbers who came out of the cottage to ambush.
Although he is not afraid to fight them, and can let Wei Zule and the other four increase their actual combat experience, but after all, it will delay time.
As a monk, Chen De has already shown his appreciation of time.
Yuan Lijin knows his real owner, and hopes to arrive at his destination early, rather than wasting more time on the road.
After having no scruples, whenever Yuan Lijin found these sentry agents, or when Chen De found them and alerted them, he would immediately find a way to deal with these sentry agents soon after leaving the town.
In this way, Chen De and his entourage encountered much fewer interceptions on the road, and the speed of their march to Dianyin Mountain was much faster.
Along the way, we first crossed the Shannan Province and then the three provinces of Dazhu, which can be described as a long way.
Chen De does not waste too much time, when he sits in the car during the day, Chen De meditates and refines the Juzhen Pill at certain intervals.
At night, when staying in a hotel or spending the night in the wilderness, he either meditated or delved into the "Essence of the Tiantai Formation" given to him by Elder Tianxuan.
Studying the same book at the same time in different places and different environments is also a new experience for him.
Moreover, as long as he stayed at night, he would draw talismans for more than an hour every day. There are two main types, namely the guide talisman and the extension talisman.
These two talismans are currently the cash cows in his hands.
As long as it is drawn, it means that it can be made and exchanged for spirit stones, so Chen De will not relax the drawing of these two kinds of runes, even if he is on the road.
In order to facilitate the drawing of talismans, and in order not to be disturbed, Chen De asked for a room by himself every time.
In terms of proportions, Chen De is currently arranged in a two-to-one arrangement.
Therefore, every time he stayed in the hotel, he would draw sixty guiding talismans and thirty hair extension talismans before he meditated and entered the cultivation state.
For Wei Zule and the three teenagers, who have never been far away, especially Dazhu, they have maintained a sense of freshness and excitement for a long time from the very beginning, and finally gradually dissipated, replaced by discomfort with the food and customs of a foreign country, which brought unhappiness.
Dayuan's Shannan Province, located in the south, has abundant rain and sunshine, and the residents' food taste is relatively light and fresh.
The deeper you go into Dazhu, the more different the food taste is from the ancient music city, and the local taste likes to eat spicy, especially the very rushing and exciting condiments.
Even if Xiao Er had been told to add condiments, the food served to their table was still too exciting and spicy for Wei Zule and the three teenagers.
The stomach of the four of them began to be unbearable, and whenever they went to the hotel or when there was no one in the wild, the four of them often took turns to take turns to make a big move.
Chen De's young heart has not disappeared, and sometimes he jokes about them, saying that they are rich and noble stomachs and can't eat the diet of ordinary people.
Yuan Lijin has a lot of knowledge in this area, and he has been in Dazhu for many years, so he enlightened them: "This is the process of adaptation of the stomach and intestines to food, just endure it for a few days, and slowly you can eat more local food." ”
After more than 20 days of driving, the carriage of Chen De and his entourage finally entered the territory of Deculan Province.