In the seventh year of Longwu in Southern Qi, due to the repeated violations of the border by the barbarians, the king of Qi ordered that the Great Qi urgently needed warriors to guard the southern frontier, and all those who made meritorious contributions on the battlefield could be crowned marquis.

For a time, the government and the opposition were proud of practicing martial arts, and the children of rich and noble families, who had a little qualification, invested in the financial resources to learn from teachers, thinking that the qualifications for seeking official promotion were also those who practiced the method of strengthening their bodies.

As soon as Wang Ling came out, all the major sects in the rivers and lakes swept away the depressed scene of the past, and the disciples who signed up to learn art were endless, overcrowded, and some masters of the rivers and lakes who had been famous for a long time also set up their own doors and recruited disciples to teach martial arts.

In a few years, there were many sects in the Southern Qi Dynasty, but this also led to some drawbacks, the newly established sects were uneven, and the heads of the various factions were not all righteous people, and the incidents of killing each other between the sects often occurred, and even colluded with the government to bully the market and fish the people, which was one of the troubles.

In the spring of March of the 11th year of Longwu in Southern Qi, dozens of miles southwest of Jiangzhou County, an important town in Shudi, stretching for hundreds of miles, on the Shuyang Mountain, because the officers and soldiers of the Jiangzhou garrison battalion pursued the Liukou, the leading lieutenant unfortunately fell into a deep pit, and the military was able to find a building hidden in the mountain.

Jiangzhou general Qin Zhanxiong issued a heroic order, claiming that there were divine weapons and peerless cheats in the tomb, and recruited people from the rivers and lakes to come to explore the tomb to hunt for treasures.

Two months later, in the southwest of Jiangzhou City, at the foot of Shuyang Mountain, a group of people rode horses, and saw a sentry post at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and there were vaguely many camp tents.

Among this group of people, the leader is a man in green clothes and long beard who is about fifty years old, only to see Qi Le Ma said: "It has been an ancient tomb, everyone stop, this time into the mountain to hunt for treasures, you and other disciples should observe other sects of martial arts, to their own experience as the main, do not be rash, light risk, I heard that the tomb is heavy, stay to the tomb, each need to be more careful, but also support each other." ”

The disciples behind him replied in unison, "Follow the teachings of your uncle." ”

This group of people is a famous and decent Qingcheng faction, a total of nine men and women, this long-bearded uncle is the current head of the Qingcheng faction's junior brother Shangguan Law, upright and upright, the head of the door rules, rewards and punishments, a body of skill is even more profound, won the trust of the sect, and the others are outstanding disciples in the door.

Shangguan Lu led the disciples to drive the horses to the sentry post, it turned out to be the Jiangzhou garrison camp a song of people and horses here, hundreds of people in the same color of cyan battle clothes, brown leather armor, standing along the mountain road, the end is like a rainbow, intimidating. The leading general was the captain Sun Du who fell into the pit, and he moved freely again after only two months, and it seemed that his martial arts were good and his injuries were not serious.

After the people temporarily handed over the horses to the officers and soldiers, they reported their identities, showed the sect tokens and road guides, and each paid a hundred taels of silver tickets, and then went up the mountain.

Everyone used the method of lightening their bodies to rush to the ancient tomb on the mountainside, along the way there are trees, wild grasses, and occasionally wild foxes, wild boars and other small beasts infested.

A handsome young man said: "Uncle Shi, this treasure hunt, the army set up cards to charge, each person tattooed a hundred taels of silver, as well as the cost of temporary storage of the horses, whether there is a treasure in the tomb is not yet known, this Qin general is doing a good business, ordinary people's annual expenses are only a dozen taels of silver, such a way to accumulate wealth, I am afraid that it is not this continuous war that has caused the treasury to be empty, and there is no money for military salaries." ”

"What Yu Heng said is not bad, I have been raising for many years, intending to recover the lost land in the north, and return to the old capital of Qi, but the barbarians in southern Xinjiang were provoked by the Northern Zhou Dynasty and frequently made rebellions, in recent years, the treasury was empty, and the people in the border areas were also deeply affected, but I was afraid that if I continued to fight, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was also afraid of knocking on the border." Shangguan Law stroked his long beard in his hands, and his face was quite heavy.

Everyone pondered, but they heard a female voice as crisp as a bell: "Uncle, brother, most of the people in the rivers and lakes don't care about national affairs, just to compete for fame and fortune, but my Qingcheng faction is worried about the country and the people, and is deeply loved by the people of the southwest, but the affairs of the country have their own temple people to preside, according to Qingshuang's opinion, it is better to be open-minded, for my chivalrous generation to do what I can. ”

As soon as the words fell, Liao Yuheng, the handsome young man, the leader of the young generation of the Qingcheng faction, and the eldest disciple of the head of the family, knew that it was the adopted daughter of the head of the family and the "high opinion" of the little junior sister Ling Qingshuang, Liao Yuheng looked back at Ling Qingshuang and grinned in recognition of it.

After hearing this, Shangguan Lu nodded again and again, feeling very pleased, and said, "Well said, good!" Women don't let the eyebrows go! It is worthy of being the pearl of my Qingcheng, much stronger than you, a senior brother who only knows the smell of copper. ”

Ling Qingshuang was protected by everyone in the middle of the team, and she was proud when she heard her uncle's praise, although this girl was only seventeen or eighteen years old, she was already slim and elegant, and she was praised by Shangguan Law at this time.

Everyone chatted all the way, and unconsciously arrived at the mountainside, at this time it was almost evening, but they saw a camp, the lights had been raised, and the scale of the camp had to be more than a thousand soldiers, and the people who had arrived in the rivers and lakes gathered in the camp, and there were also one or two hundred people.

Shangguan Law led the disciples to show the way to introduce Dazhai, looking at the people in the rivers and lakes, from the clothes, the old acquaintances have the local Tang Gate and the Jue Dao Gate in Xichuan, the Tianjian Gate in Luoyi, and the Bagua School located in the north of the lost land and the old capital of Linji.

In addition, there are several newly established sects in recent years, with the Central Plains Sanjue Gate being the most famous, and there are some gangs and scattered people in the rivers and lakes, etc., but there are no time-honored sects such as the Shangqing faction, the Beicang faction, the Kongtong faction, Penglai Island, and Tianzhufeng.

This mountainside military village is very lively, but at the foot of the mountain there is a horse rushing to hurry, and the rider is a middle-aged man, with an anxious look, afraid that he is going to miss the time to go up the mountain.

The man galloped on his horse, but saw a young man in black standing in front of him, blocking the way, waving his hand at him.

"Jiang Wei, who is your Excellency? Why the roadblock? The man on horseback asked.

The young man who was blocking the way did not answer, but approached quickly, drew the long sword behind his back with his left hand, and stabbed it with only one sword.

Jiang Wei was shocked, hurriedly turned over and dismounted to dodge, and shouted: "Not far away is the Jiangzhou Army garrison, you are so bold, you dare to block the road and plunder!" ”

The young man in black put his sword into the sheath, looked at Jiang Wei, and said to himself, "It's a little stronger, but it's okay." ”

The young man said that he was attacking in great strides, and he was actually going to fight Jiang Wei with his bare hands.

Jiang Wei walked the rivers and lakes with a pair of fists, and when he saw that this young man collected his sword and changed his palm, he was overjoyed, so he waved his fists to meet him, and the two fought together.

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However, it is said that although the Northern Zhou and Southern Qi are two countries, they were split from the Great Zhou Dynasty decades ago, and they belong to the same family, the same root and the same origin.

Now the truce between the two countries has been going on for many years, there are many trade contacts among the people, there is no exchange, the famous masters on the rivers and lakes, the temples of the two countries are all heavily co-opted, and the famous factions are not divided into geographical boundaries, and there are preferential treatments, so the people in the rivers and lakes in the Northern Zhou Dynasty can also be recruited.

Shangguan Lu looked around Dazhai, and just by looking at the formation of this garrison, he could see that Qin Zhanxiong attached great importance to this matter.

A song of men and horses guarding the foot of the mountain, three songs of soldiers and horses guarding the ancient tomb, deterring the martial arts heroes, these two thousand soldiers and horses are placed in Shuyang Mountain, you must know that there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the whole Jiangzhou, of which 5,000 people from the patrol battalion patrol the river road, and there are only 5,000 soldiers of the garrison camp near Jiangzhou City, and these two thousand people are drawn from the garrison camp.

Southern Qi military system: 50 people are a tun, and a tun chief is set up; 500 people for a song, set up a song governor; 1,000 people for one part, set up a captain; 5,000 men for a battalion, with a captain; 10,000 people become an army and a general. The Northern Zhou Dynasty was similar, all of them followed the Great Zhou military system.

Qingcheng sent everyone to greet each faction without mentioning, night came, each went to the camp to rest, the night was fine, the next day was the time to go down to the tomb to explore the treasure.

In the early morning of the second day, everyone heard the sound of the trumpet, and went out of the camp, only to see more than 100 strong soldiers guarding the southwest corner of the camp, all wearing strong armor and holding sharp spears and iron shields.

Presumably, that is where the pit leading to the ancient tomb in the mountain is located, and there are more than 100 soldiers guarding the periphery, and there are a few wooden tables, a few small colonels, and a general, who are discussing something, and the rest of the soldiers have already blocked the camp, and they really can't even fly in, and no one wants to get out.

When people from all factions in the rivers and lakes gathered, the general cleared his throat and said loudly: "This general is under the command of General Qin of the Jiangzhou garrison, and the captain Li Jingkui, this general has a few words to say, you all listen to it." ”

Seeing that everyone in the rivers and lakes was engrossed in listening attentively, Captain Li was quite satisfied, so he continued: "One, don't make trouble here, what grudges do you have to wait for Shuyang Mountain to go out of the Jiangzhou boundary and then go to fight; Second, the treasure hunt lasted for two days, three rings of gold in the evening, two rings of gold in the early morning as a reminder, and after the early morning of the third day, only waiting for you for an hour, as soon as the hour passed, our army would fill the hole; Third, all the things in the tomb such as the divine soldiers, secret books, and goods that you have obtained are not allowed to be kept privately, and they must be checked and handed over by me for half of the rest of the items before they can be taken away, and I hope you will not break the rules. Alright, this general has finished speaking, everyone is ready, and you can go to the tomb immediately! ”

Qin Zhanxiong obviously used the heroes of the rivers and lakes as guns, everyone walked the rivers and lakes casually and unrestrained on weekdays, and they had never been treated like this, although they were unhappy, but in the face of thousands of well-trained soldiers, they did not dare to make any indignant voices, even if their status in the rivers and lakes was high, but in front of the army and the king, they were just like ants.

Everyone in the rivers and lakes had to respond in unison, and they went back to the camp to prepare, several gangs and most of the scattered people in the rivers and lakes rushed to go to the tomb first, but the martial arts sects such as the Tang Sect and the Absolute Sword Sect were not in a hurry, and they were in the back, and the Qingcheng faction and his party were actually dragged to the end.

The collapsed pit is two or three zhang deep, about one zhang wide, the military has slightly built, erected a rope ladder, Qingcheng sent everyone through the rope ladder to go down one after another.

Under the pit is a passage that is more than one zhang high, two or three people wide, but this passage has not been repaired much, the traces of excavation are still clearly recognizable, the chisel marks are horizontal and vertical, disorderly, and there are many sharp stones protruding, it should be that it was not completed that year.

There was only one road, one end had been blocked by the collapsed rocks and mud, and they could only go to the other end, and the chiseled stone walls had been lit with oil lamps and torches, and the ground under their feet was fairly smooth, and everyone groped forward by the flickering firelight.

According to the information told by the military, from the pit for a quarter of an hour, there will be a three-way crossing, and there are three passages, each passage has been explored, there are traps, the middle passage has three corpses, looking at the clothes and the degree of decay of the corpses, it should be at least ten years dead, it is impossible to distinguish who the character is, because of the traps, the soldiers have suffered heavy casualties, and the three passages have not reached the end.

When the Qingcheng faction arrived at the three-way crossing, there was no trace of other sects, Shangguan Lu chose the middle passage, only to see that from this three-way crossing it was very different from before, the blue brick wall, the bluestone paving, Shangguan Lu secretly said: "I am afraid that there are all organs under this brick and stone." ”

Shangguan Lu led the disciples to move forward cautiously, and arrived at the three corpses after about a quarter of an hour, Shangguan Lu wanted to take a closer look to see if he could identify where the three corpses were sacred, but unfortunately the only trace left was also destroyed by the people from all walks of life in advance, and some people actually fought for the three corpses, the scene was messy, the white bones were scattered all over the ground, and the clothes that were not completely rotten were torn everywhere.

Shangguan Lu sighed lightly, he could only give up and continue to move forward, but when he walked for a short time, he heard the sound of fighting in front of him, and sure enough, there were still people who were selfish, regardless of Captain Li's admonition to fight in this mountain.