53, River Valley Showdown
Lei Hong because of the deception of the young woman of the shop, causing himself to suffer deeply, in the valley to see this woman actually came out to challenge, did not wait for the order of Prime Minister Miao, rode a war horse to kill out, the young woman of the shop was extremely afraid, hurriedly turned around and fled for her life, was chased by Lei Hong into the depths of the valley, the scholar king found that this was also an opportunity to retreat, immediately organized the army prepared in advance to retreat to the depths of the valley, Prime Minister Miao Wen had long known the intention of the scholar king, according to the old abbot's arrangement, Miao Cheng led the kingdom's army to chase away.
When King Shusheng's army retreated to the open area of the river valley, he paused, and let Wei Xiong, who had stretched out his hand in the barracks, cross the middle of the river valley avenue, and organize Miao Wen's army to advance again. Prime Minister Miao Cheng understood the intention of King Shusheng, stopped the pursuing army, settled down, and prepared to duel here.
Lei Hong chased the young woman of the shopkeeper into a mountain forest, which was densely wooded, because of Lei Hong's eagerness to chase, the young woman of the shopkeeper hurriedly jumped off her horse and fled into the woods in order to survive. Lei Hong jumped off his horse and went into the woods to search for most of the day, but could not find any trace of the young woman of the shopkeeper, so he returned to the barracks. Du Yang, who stayed in the barracks and was worried, found that Lei Hong had turned around and did not see any trace of the young woman of the shop, so he immediately rode his horse to look for the young woman of the shopkeeper who had fled. Du Yang was afraid that Lei Hong would hurt him in a hurry, so he only dared to go to find his wife after Lei Hong returned. Du Yang knew that the young woman of the shop was also an elf woman, and he would not be easily harmed by Lei Hong, because he found that the anger on Lei Hong's face had not disappeared when he returned, so he speculated that the young woman of the shop had not been killed by him.
The two armies settled down for the time being, and both were planning an extraordinary decisive battle in this valley. In order to lead Hongyang Lao Dao to come forward, the old abbot has been hiding in the army and has not shown his head. At the same time, the old abbot also warned Prime Minister Miao Wen not to let Hongyang Lao Dao find out that they had prepared a big drum in the army. After coming to the open area of the river valley to garrison, the old abbot asked the drummer selected by Prime Minister Miao to be ready at any time, and after the abbot's order, he immediately carried the big drum and the drummer went to beat the drum. To achieve the effect, the drummer must have sufficient strength and the drum sound must be loud.
Now that the time is ripe for the decisive battle in the river valley, King Shusheng is very anxious because of the loss of the capital, and he asks his master Hongyang Lao Dao to go into battle as soon as possible and defeat Miao Wen's army in one fell swoop with the same method. Hongyang Lao Dao knew the anxiety of his disciples, he instructed the scholar king to quietly retreat most of the army to Gucheng in the middle of the night, and then ordered the remaining soldiers to also prepare cotton balls with ear piercings when they went out to fight. Lao Dao knew that Miao Wen had always been cautious and weird when he went out of the army, he had already experienced the power of the guqin, and he would not be willing to be defeated again, and for the defeat of the scholar king, Prime Minister Miao Cheng pounced on him without any worries, which made Hongyang Lao Dao feel a little worried.
The old abbot here knew that after the two armies confronted each other in the open area of the river valley, the official decisive battle was about to begin, and the abbot instructed Prime Minister Miao Wen to prepare for a counterattack in advance, as long as the abbot broke his guqin after the old way came forward, the army of the scholar king would definitely be defeated, and then take this opportunity to counterattack, take advantage of the momentum to march, defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop, and regain the river valley.
On the second day after the two armies entered the open area of the river valley, the scholar king ordered a soldier to lead a part of the soldiers to secretly retreat to the valley city that night, and he personally brought an army to call for battle. In order to cover up his trick of using the guqin again, the scholar king first arranged for the night to fly out to challenge, and he was ready to let the old Taoist play the guqin again in the process of the competition between the two armies. Ye Chang Fei according to the instructions of the old way, first plugged the ear holes with cotton balls, then took the weapon, rode out of the horse to call the battle, Prime Minister Miao Wen immediately arranged for General Lei Hong to go to the battle, this Lei Hong nested a belly of fire has not yet vented, and rushed up with the weapon and rode a horse to fight with Ye Chang Fei. General Lei was vicious and vicious, and he wanted to take Ye Changfei's life immediately. After a few rounds, the night fly seems to be ineffective. Seeing this situation, the old trick of Hongyang Lao Dao, who was hiding in the barracks, was repeated, and seeing that Ye Changfei was at a disadvantage, he immediately took his guqin out of the barracks, made a posture and began to play.
Because this old way of playing the guqin makes people sound relaxed, cheerful, and intriguing at the beginning, and then slowly makes people upset and confused. So the old abbot asked the sergeants to slowly enjoy the sound of the old way, and secretly, the abbot arranged for the soldiers to carry out the prepared drums, and told the drummers to get ready, and after receiving the abbot's instructions, they immediately beat the drums.
When the soldiers of Cuizhu Country could not bear to make strange moves, the old abbot ordered the drummers to immediately beat the drum hard, and the sound of the drum was particularly loud in this empty river valley. Hongyang Lao Dao, who was playing the piano and had been in a trance, heard the sound of the drums and suddenly felt that the situation was very bad. The sound wave of the drum rushed straight to the sound of the old qin, resisting the encroachment of the guqin sound wave on Sergeant Miao Wen. The drummer had plenty of strength, and the drums were getting louder and louder, to the point where they completely covered up the sound of the old way. The soldiers of the Miao Wen army only heard the sound of drums, which invisibly stimulated the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and they suddenly seemed energetic and eager to fight the enemy.
Hongyang Lao Dao's heart was full of panic at this time, and the loud drums came to him one after another, and suddenly the sound of the piano and drums surrounded him, causing this old Dao to feel dizzy and almost unable to support it. Seeing this situation, the scholar king hurriedly let the night Chang Fei, who had retreated from the formation, to stop the old man from continuing to play, the old way was hindered by the night flying, stopped playing, and slowly recovered his senses, knowing that he had met the opponent this time, he was about to instruct the scholar king to retreat quickly, but he saw the old abbot in Miao Wen's army suddenly rose from the barracks, and then stood on the opposite side of the old road impartially, and the old man saw that it was the old abbot of Cuibai Mountain who appeared, Suddenly cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he knew that a grievance had to be understood.
The terrified Hongyang Lao Dao, in order to get the first chance of victory, first attacked the old abbot with a palm. The old abbot knew that this old way was the desperate palm that he had cultivated for many years, this desperate palm was very powerful, if he couldn't dodge, he would be attacked by this attack, which would cause the internal organs to be broken and die, only to see the abbot react quickly, take off on the spot, and get out to avoid the fatal blow of the old way. When the abbot stood behind Lao Dao, preparing to attack him, the old guy turned around, and threw out a few darts from his sleeve one after another, straight to the abbot's neck, without further ado, the old abbot retreated one after another, dodging left and right, avoiding Lao Dao's sneak attack again. After the old abbot dodged, he immediately began to counterattack, folded his hands, chanted Amitabha, and then rose into the air again, in mid-air with a hurricane towards the old way, the old abbot used his deadly trick volley kamikaze, only to see that at this time the ground of the river valley was flying sand, Hongyang Lao Dao was hit by this volley kamikaze and retreated one after another, his heels were unstable, one staggered, and fell to the ground. The old abbot was windy, and he threw himself in front of Lao Dao from mid-air, and hit Lao Dao's chest with a palm, and Hongyang Lao Dao, who had not eased his breath, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood with a "wow". The old abbot recited Amitabha Buddha at this time, picked up the guqin that was snatched away by the old way, rose into the air, rushed out of the river valley, and disappeared into the mountains and forests.
Seeing that the master was so defeated this time, the scholar king was already the master of the six gods, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to carry the seriously injured master back to the barracks. Prime Minister Miao Wen, who was watching from the side, felt that it was time to attack, and hurriedly commanded the army to press overwhelmingly towards the military camp of the scholar king. Prime Minister Miao Cheng led the army in pursuit, the sergeants of the scholar king who fled in a hurry, in order to survive, fled in the valley four or three, and did not follow the prior plan once the army was defeated, retreated to the valley city, Ye Chang Fei took the seriously injured Hongyang Lao Dao, rode a war horse to hide in the valley city, Lei Hong longitudinal horse in the back of him is also relentless, Ye Chang Fei fled into the valley city in a panic, in order to prevent the pursuers behind to enter the valley city, the night Chang Fei felt that he had escaped after the danger, hurriedly closed the city gate, the scholar king and the princess Yuping, and the owner, Wei Xiong, Wanqiu and several women fled from behind, ready to enter the ancient city to hide, but saw that the gate of Gucheng was closed, and Miao Wen's army behind them was in a hurry, and they panicked, and several of them bypassed Gucheng and fled straight to Yunmeng Mountain.
Prime Minister Miao Wen's army did not enter Yunmeng Mountain to pursue and kill the scholar king, because Prime Minister Miao was worried that once his army entered Yunmeng Mountain, Ye Changfei, who had retreated to Gucheng, would lead Gucheng's army to pounce from behind, and he would be in a dilemma at that time. Prime Minister Miao once again stationed his army outside Gucheng and surrounded Gucheng, preparing to recapture Gucheng no matter what.
The king of the scholar country is completely defeated this time Waterloo, and now he is homeless, the capital of the kingdom was attacked and occupied, his elderly mother has died, and he cannot be buried, and now he has failed miserably in the river valley, and there is no place to stay, and the king of the beast who has allied with himself has also completely turned against himself, and the king of the scholar country who has been disheartened can't help but cry on the ground.
Because the king of the scholar country really had nowhere to return, the owner of the village took them back to his Lihai Villa.