Chapter 44: The Flames of War Erupt
"The patriarch summoned all the clansmen to gather in the ancestral hall, and there was an urgent matter to announce! Huh, who is this?" Xiao Fat panted, but a pair of eyes looked at Cui Yan on the side.
"Oh! This is Cui Yan, the niece of Cui Hao, the commander of the Tsing Yi Guard of the City Lord's Mansion, who has come to inform me of the attack that happened in the city yesterday. Yun Linlian explained to Chubby.
"Sister Yan, why don't you follow me to the Yun Family Ancestral Hall? I also want to listen to the arrangements of the clan, and then make a decision on the next step. Yun Lin said as he walked towards the gate.
"It's okay! I'm not in a hurry to go back to the city right away, so I'll go with you!" Cui Yan followed Yun Lin Dao very simply, and then the three of them hurriedly closed the door and headed towards the Yun family ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall of the Yun family, the wide square in front of the ancestral hall and temple was full of four or five thousand people, old and young, all of whom were relatives of the Yun family, and everyone had solemn faces, chatting in groups of three and three. Xiao Pang directly led Yun Lin to a bunch of half-sized young men, this group of young men were silent, neatly lined up in several rows, and in front of several rows stood an old man in a white beard and green shirt.
"Yun Lin has seen the old master!" Yun Lin stepped forward and bowed as soon as he saw the old man.
"Yun Lin is good, have you memorized all the scriptures for you?" the old master smiled and said, the old master has placed high hopes on Yun Lin since he can never forget him, and he has relied on him very much.
"I've memorized them all!Old Master, do you want me to memorize them now?" Yun Lin replied respectfully.
"Okay! Okay! Remember, kung fu must be learned, but the scriptures must be learned, and the scriptures can make you go faster and farther than others!" The old master did not forget to educate the younger generations.
Suddenly, a big-eared, tall middle-aged man walked to the center of the square surrounded by several old men, and this person was Yun Dingtian, the head of the Yun family.
"Everyone be quiet!Now something important is being announced!" Suddenly, the loud voice of the patriarch Yunding Tian spread throughout the audience, and suddenly there was silence in the square.
"I believe some people have also heard about last night's incident, a group of black-clothed bandits attacked the guards of the four great families and robbed the treasures from the auction. Now the four great families and the city lord's mansion have no way to exterminate this gang of bandits. Most of our Yun family's foundation is near this Feilin Town, so there is absolutely no way to move it all, we can only stick to it. Fortunately, as a vassal of the Luo family, the Luo family will send a team of 100 people to help us protect our homeland, and this team will usually guard the ancestral hall. In case of an alarm in the town, everyone will take refuge in the ancestral hall, and at the same time, the clan general will send people to the Luo family and the city lord's mansion for help, and in the past few days, the clan will send people to build a parapet wall around the ancestral hall to strengthen the protection of the ancestral hall. In addition, the clan will form three teams of 100 people, and they will usually take turns patrolling outside the town to prevent bandits from sneaking up. The patriarch's gaze swept over the young men on the side, and suddenly these half-sized young men straightened their waists with excited faces.
"Three teams of 100 people, each team is divided into teams of five and twenty people. According to their duties, they are divided into two squads: scout team, crossbow team, spear team, and melee team, of which the melee team can use knives, swords, axes, etc., and the spear team cooperates with two melee team members to attack. The captains of the three hundred-person teams are served by the three masters in the clan, Yun Zhongtian, Yun Zhongshan, and Yun Zhongying. Those who have cultivated to reach the sixth level or above can voluntarily go out and stand behind the three captains, and then the three captains will choose. Yun Dingtian said, stretched out his hand and pointed at the three big men beside him.
Yun Lin nodded to Cui Yan, and in a few steps, he rushed behind the three big Hans, and the other young people who had reached the cultivation level also came out one after another, and the last few who had reached the sixth layer of the Yuan Shi did not want to be in the ranks, but looking around at the few people on the left and right, they also twisted and walked behind the three big Hans.
Yun Dingtian swept behind Yun Zhongtian and the other three people, and even the number of young men and strong men exceeded five hundred, and he nodded with a satisfied expression.
Seeing that there was no one in the ranks, Yun Zhongtian, who was two meters tall among the three Han men and whose body was like a giant tower, took a step forward and selected more than 60 people from more than 500 people. After Yun Zhongtian randomly divided the more than sixty people into three rows, he continued to choose among the remaining people, and when Yun Lin was looking down and worried that he would not be selected, suddenly a hand patted him on the shoulder, and Yun Lin couldn't help but walk towards the three rows of people in surprise.
In the end, Yun Lin was assigned to the 100-person team of Yun Zhongtian, a tower-like man, but coincidentally, Xiao Pang was also assigned to Yun Zhongtian's team. Yun Zhongtian did things in a thunderous manner, and divided more than 20 people into two melee squads equally, and cultivated to enter the crossbow arrow squad first below the eighth layer of the Yuan Shi, and the spear team was mostly the first layer of the Yuan Shi, Yun Lin was originally assigned to the spear team, but he took the initiative to ask to enter the scout team.
After the distribution was completed, Yun Zhongtian immediately distributed spears and crossbow arrows to the pikemen and crossbow teams; the scout team of the melee team did not have standard weapons, and they all brought their own weapons; but the scout team still issued a crossbow and various arrows and arrows each.
Yun Lin touched the various arrows in the quiver, only to see that the arrow was not a metal tip, but a small bamboo tube with reeds inside, similar to the general bamboo whistle, a box was tied to the end of the arrow, and the color of each arrow box was different. Yun Lin was fascinated, and grabbed the arrow in his hand with a big hand like a fan, and when he looked up, it was Yun Zhongtian, the captain of the hundred-person team.
Yun Zhongtian raised the arrow in his hand and said in a voice like thunder: "Everyone, listen, our team of 100 people will be called 'Zhongtian Team' from today onwards; Scouts spot an enemy in front of them and fire arrows of different colors in the direction of the town, depending on the situation. Red means that the enemy is less than 50 men, yellow means less than 100 people, green means more than 100 people, and black means more than 200 people. If there are less than 100 people, the 100-person team on duty will go to meet the enemy, if there are more than 100 people, the 300-person team will go out together, and if the number of people is more than 200, the whole clan will enter the ancestral hall to take refuge and ask for help from the Luo family and Shanyang City. The spear squad, melee squad, and crossbow squad below are led by the squad leaders for training, and the scout squad will set off immediately after listening to the instructions!"
Next, except for the scout team, all the other squads dispersed, and the heavenly tiger in the cloud stared at the twenty people of the scout team: "Scout, in addition to reporting the enemy's situation in time, you also have to fight against the enemy's scouts, and the safety of the whole clan is in your hands, so you must not slack off." Feilin Town is backed by a large mountain, and you mainly observe the large and small roads in three directions, with five people in each direction, and the remaining five people in the center. Yunlin, you lead this center to respond to the five people. Let's go. ”
"Yes!" Yun Lin straightened up and responded, waved his hand, and walked out of Feilin Town with the other four people and Cui Yan. Six people went to the direction of Shanyang City for five miles, there is a towering lonely mountain here, called Duxiu Peak, from the top of the mountain can overlook Feilin Town within a radius of twenty miles, it is the most suitable for observing the enemy's situation.
As soon as he arrived at the foot of Duxiu Mountain, Yunlin sent Cui Yan back to Shanyang City, Cui Yan was a little reluctant, but after Yunlin said, "Sister Yan returned to the city to facilitate our Yun family to contact and rescue", the woman didn't say a word, and immediately swept away like Yan. Seeing Cui Yan go away, Yun Lin felt a little melancholy, and turned around to look at the four partners who were all on the eighth layer of the Yuan Shi.
Yun Xiangtian, tall and thin and white-faced, in addition to the crossbow arrow behind his back, with a spear in his back, his eyes shining, and the whole person looked like a sharp sword out of the sheath.
Yun Xiangyan, of medium stature, with a slightly yellow complexion like a sick man, but he ran extremely fast and was nicknamed "Absolute Dust", in addition to preparing crossbow arrows, he also brought a big knife.
Yunxiao Tiger, with a strong body, is good at using double axes.
Cloud arrow, medium stature, face like Fu powder, good at shooting, known as "cloud one", in addition to crossbow arrows, but also make a big sword.
When the four of them saw Yun Lin looking at themselves and the others, they all stood as tall as arrows, with solemn expressions. Yun Lin pointed to the tall and thin Yun Xiangtian with his right hand, and said: "Xiang Tian and follow me to the top of the mountain to look, the three of you are on standby at the foot of the mountain, pay attention to the towering and straight tree on the other side of the road, if you find anything, I will shoot the signal arrow with a crossbow arrow from the mountain." The three of you see the contents of the flare arrow and do as you are told. ”
With that, Yun Lin and Yun Xiangtian climbed to the top of the mountain.
As soon as Yunlin and the others reached the top of the mountain, they looked east and west, looking east and west of Feilin Town, to see if there were any black-clothed people appearing, as well as the arrows of other scouts.
After Yun Xiangtian reached the other side of the mountain, Yun Lin found a stone platform to sit cross-legged and carry the Taizhen Soul Technique. Duxiu Mountain is lush and green, there have always been many birds, less than half an hour, the two big eagles and a heron are trembling and then flying into the sky, flying to the three directions outside Feilin Town. Since the three birds flew away, Yun Lin had been cultivating the Taizhen Soul Technique wholeheartedly, and he remained motionless. The Taizhen Soul Technique has taken out time to cultivate for one or two hours every day since it arrived in Yunlin, but the cultivation of soul power can be described as "turtle speed" compared to the speed of internal qi; so far, only half of the soul threads in the soul space have been transformed through the "Hundred Threads in One", and it will take at least twice as long to break through to the second layer.
In the afternoon, the scouts of another hundred people came to change shifts, and after Yun Lin led the team back, he casually ate something to cultivate his internal qi, and the tense atmosphere in the family made Yun Lin double the pressure, and he seized the time to improve his cultivation, thinking that he would increase his chances of surviving in the next possible battle.
In the room, Yun Lin sat on a futon, his heart was facing the sky, his mind was guarded, and the soul in his body was constructed into a medium-sized magic circle in the nine awakening acupoints, and the internal qi in the circle formed a high-speed rotating vortex along the meridians, whistling and involving the aura outside the body. The mist outside the body was thick, and a whirlwind sizzled around Yunlin, and the mosquito net was carried to the body of Yunlin.
This situation lasted for about an hour, and suddenly Yun Lin's body shook, and the whirlwind outside the body suddenly whistled loudly, and a white mist in the room was so thick that he couldn't see his fingers. Yun Lin got up and got out of bed, muttering to himself: "This ninth-layer dantian has more than doubled, if it weren't for the cultivation of Shengshenggong, I'm afraid it would take at least two or three years to promote Yuanjue, and now in another month at most, it is expected to impact the Yuanjue realm." This realm is increasing too fast, and I'm afraid it will be a bit troublesome to explain. It seems that there is only an excuse for the work of the elixir. ”