The moon in the sky gradually turned westward, and from time to time dark clouds obscured the moonlight.

The torches on the city wall were blown by the wind, and the flames whirled and rolled.

The defenders, armed with spears, stood beside the torches, half on the outside of the wall, facing the outside of the city, and the other half facing the inside of the city.

The defenders facing the outside of the city are naturally guarding against foreign enemies, so there is no need to mention it.

The defenders facing the city are used to observe whether there is a fire in the city, whether there are crowds to fight, whether there are gang riots, raids and looting, etc., if there is, they can pass the flag during the day, and at night they can direct the soldiers patrolling the city by waving torches to deal with it.

Lao Ding, who is in his Chinese New Year's Eve, is in charge of monitoring the situation in the city.

He had been a soldier for twenty years, and had spotted a bandit disguised as a caravan operating at night, and had spotted three signs of fire in the city, which he reported in time.

So although he had never fought and his martial arts were not particularly outstanding, he relied on these merits to rise to the position of centurion.

This makes Lao Ding's life much more comfortable than that of ordinary soldiers, even if he is also standing here blowing the cold wind, he also has two warm bamboo tubes around his waist, both filled with piping hot rice soup, or boiled with sweet reed millet, fragrant and sweet.

When the wind is a little uncomfortable, come to take a sip, not to mention how pleasant.

"Boss, take a bite of me!"

"It's also the middle of the night, you guys take it yourself, and divide it."

The people in the army have all entered the door with the idea of cultivating the concept, and their physique is extraordinary, but they blow a lot of cold wind, and they are also a little lazy, and they can't lift their energy.

When this mouthful of sweet and hot soup was served, everyone was in a lot of energy, and they no longer looked at the city in a daze, but talked and laughed a few words, and their eyes swept around the city.

It was at this time that the group of people near Lao Ding discovered the unusualness in the city.

Those well-known wealthy families, in the middle of the night, seemed to have signs of chariots and horses coming out of the mansion.

A while ago, several officials came to Chang'an City, and repeatedly ordered that the curfew in the city be implemented more strictly.

Going out in the middle of the night and wandering on the street is definitely not allowed, and if you are beaten up, officials and the like, most of them will be scolded and brought into the yamen to squat for a day or two.

Driving in the middle of the night is even more prohibitive, and it stands to reason that the penalty is more severe than that of a person walking on the street.

But in fact, it is not the case, those who can be qualified to drive horses and travel are not ordinary, not only rich, but also must have a way in the official mansion, and the patrol officials see it, at most they say a few words of greeting, and persuade the people in the car to go home early.

Therefore, for such a large family, traveling in the middle of the night is still repeatedly prohibited.

Lao Ding didn't care at first.

But after nearly an hour, he felt a little strange.

The horses and carts were coming and going too often, and the numbers were increasing.

Besides, the carriages and horses of these big families, when they went out the night before, also went to the right place, the same rich people, or simply went to the homes of some officials.

Tonight, they wandered around the road, but they went to the neighborhood of the common people.

Thinking of some rumors in the city recently, Lao Ding couldn't help but be a little cranky.

But seeing that the brothers under his hands were also looking at each other with a look of surprise, Lao Ding came to his senses.

"Look inside the city, I'll report to the envoy!"

There are many female officials in the cities of Chang'an, but the ones who have come to the city recently are very different.

Because they were cultivated by the county lord of Yuanzhen, they have been by the county lord's side since childhood, and they can be regarded as protégés of the palace.

Lao Ding would think of going to report to a female official, instead of going to the city to report to the city's guards and lieutenants.

Part of the reason is that when those Chang'an officials came to the city, they summoned all the more clever and famous people in the army like Lao Ding, and especially told them some things.

But the more important reason is that compared to the mansion of the deputy general, there is a female official who recently lives downstairs at the city gate, and she is close!

The middle-aged woman with a scar on the corner of her eyebrows, wearing a dark robe with narrow sleeves and a waist, slept in her clothes, and almost when she heard Lao Ding's footsteps, the lights had already turned on in the hut and pushed the door out.

"What's the matter?"

As soon as Lao Ding said this, the female official's face changed slightly, stepped on the city wall, rushed up, and turned to look back at the city at the head of the city, her face became more and more solemn, and her eyes were cloudy.

"How did it start so quickly, it's different from the wind we've heard before......

The female official returned to the city and took out the carrier pigeon and released it, then took out a few tokens and asked Lao Ding and a few others to report to the city lord's mansion and the guard's mansion.

The atmosphere of the entire Bonan City soon changed even more drastically.

The dispatch of the soldiers made the chariots and horses that were secretly moving, and the people who were instigated, as if they had confirmed something, more eagerly pack up their baggage and rush out of the house.

Many people have not thought about any cover-up, standing on top of the carriage and horses, shouting loudly, and there are responses everywhere, and more and more torches, or lamps and candles directly grasped in their hands, are lit.

"Run, run, run out of the city to survive!"

"Dad, don't think about the acres of land at home, the Zhao family and the Li family have all run away, and those well-informed big people have run away, it must be true, run and run!"

"Yes, I saw the young master of the Chen family pass by the street in front of our house, right over there, follow him, yes!!"

The construction of the city wall does not mean that a city only relies on the outermost four high walls, enclosing a boxy lattice to enclose the dwellings.

In fact, the layout of the walls of the castles that have really been tested by war is quite complicated.

It is more common that at each city gate, an additional circle of urn cities will be built.

The section of the city wall where the real city gate is located is used as the inner wall of the urn city, and even if the enemy breaks through the outer wall of the urn city, there is still a tall and solid real city gate in front of it.

And after entering the urn city, the defenders on the four walls can shoot arrows at the enemy army in this small city, the so-called leading the king into the urn, catching turtles in the urn, the reason why the urn city is called the urn city, contains this meaning.

In addition, if a castle were to be expanded outward, it would certainly not be possible to tear down the original walls.

Those who presided over the expansion would only pile up new bricks on both sides of the original city wall, and continue to build new walls outward to include more areas.

Therefore, a city that has been expanded many times often shows irregular shapes on the map, and even within the city, there are many walls that separate different areas.

Coincidentally, almost all of the cities of Chang'an are this kind of war cities that have been expanded many times.

After the fall of the three northwestern cities, some people were able to escape, and this layout of the city was also indispensable.

But now, when such a city layout has to face a huge turmoil from the inside, it seems a little confusing.

The soldiers wanted to close the city gate and block the way of the chariots and horses on the opposite side, but behind the soldiers, there were also large groups of chariots and horses.

There are even men who are dressed in civilian attire on the surface, but they are powerful and oily, and they dare to directly step forward and hug the soldiers and kick off the wooden stakes that are against the city gate.

The officials from Chang'an City and the local officials and soldiers shouted hoarsely everywhere, which was useless.

Because there is indeed an army of living corpses attacking on the battlefield in the west, it is also true that the situation is not optimistic.

After so many days, everyone can feel that a large number of elite soldiers in the city have gone west to support, and the grain and grass have also followed.

Now they believe that the only way to survive is to escape from the city, even if the officials of Chang'an tell them again, if they all flee from the city now, what serious the consequences will be, if they can't escape the Yellow River, they may be chased by living corpses.

Under the influence of preconceived ideas, they will only feel that these officials harbor evil intentions.

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around!! ”

The city guard stomped on the city wall, was angry, and shouted, "These people, wait for me to go down and release my fist intent, stun thousands of people, and see if they dare to storm the city gate!" ”

The brobrow-breaking female official grabbed him and said coldly: "If there are only a few thousand people down there now, then you may be able to suspend the situation with this method." ”

"But look at how many people in the city are being coerced now, and you have released your fists and picked up knives and guns, which will only make their already tense hearts even more panicked and completely frenzied."

"Do you really want to force everyone into a mob?"

The guards on the city wall, looking at the boundless scene, as if the whole city was agitated, his heart was shocked, and he couldn't help but take half a step back, and he was speechless for a while.

The maid was also very annoyed in her heart.

These people would rather believe in those "masters", and they don't have the slightest trust in the people of the local government, which shows how derelict these guys usually are.

After the officials of Chang'an City came to the city, they originally thought that as long as the local officials were mobilized to curb the rumors, the situation could be stabilized.

As a result, when they really mobilized the people of the government, they found that it had a great counterproductive effect, and then they woke up.

The government encouraged the operation of the wealthy merchants and provided convenience, and then in many things, the wealthy merchants provided to the government, and even replaced the government at some times, and dealt with the problems of the people first.

This is a situation that Du Wentong single-handedly promoted, and he used to be quite proud, feeling that the government is harmonious, and the upward and downward effects are effective.

In the past few decades, the cities of Chang'an have been prosperous again, and the trade is both glorious and the military is also prosperous, which is the proof of his clever methods.

Now, the officials of Chang'an City are finally asked to suffer this hardship.

Since in the hearts of the local people, the most active and influential are these wealthy businessmen, then, when these wealthy businessmen unite and have different opinions with the government, why should the people believe your government's words?

Regardless of whether those wealthy businessmen are good or bad, at least the common people are familiar with them, and the adults in the government ...... It's too far away.

The female officials looked at the wealthy slaves who were mixed in the crowd, pretending to be ordinary people, but rushing through the city gate again and again, and her teeth itched with hatred.

These bastards are going to bring everyone to their deaths!

She looked at the cars and horses of those wealthy families, she hated them so deeply in her heart, but she didn't dare to act rashly, looking at the people who were deceived and followed the wealthy cars and horses, her chest was full of indescribable powerlessness.

The carrier pigeons have been released, but even if the county lord comes, will he really be able to persuade these people to return to the city?

Time passes by moment by moment.

When the sky was slightly white, the efforts of all the officials and generals in the city were finally overwhelmed.

The easternmost gate of the city was completely opened, and the carriages rushed out, and the people flocked to the city.

The female official with broken eyebrows sat at the head of the city, her throat was unbearable, and she looked at this scene with some blankness.

Not far outside the city, there is a small river.

Suddenly, among the trees on the bank of the river, a large red flag embroidered with a golden phoenix was erected.

There were one hundred and ten red-clothed and red-armored generals, slowly appearing in the jungle, their fresh clothes were bright, eye-catching, and intercepted on the road ahead.

The woman with broken eyebrows was in good spirits, and recognized the person who led the rider, with phoenix eyebrows and sideburns, and a flag gun in his hand, who was the county lord of Yuanzhen.

By the way, the moment when the people can really go out of the city, the moment when the tense hearts are slightly relaxed.

If you seize this opportunity, things may be able to turn around.

"Everyone!!"

Du Yuanzhen's flag gun was slightly tilted forward, and the sound came from afar, and the people who had just poured out of the city gate didn't feel anything.

But the carriages that rushed out first suddenly trembled and stopped.

The people in the carriage felt that their internal organs were inexplicably falling, covering their chests with their hands, and they were sweating coldly.

Far away, the spiritual momentum is condensed and does not disperse, does not affect outsiders, directly restrains the spirit of those horses, and then tightly presses on these leaders.

"You want to come to see me, why do you want to go out of the city with such fanfare?"

There was a faint smile in Du Yuanzhen's voice, "All the elders have a huge amount of money, and if they want to go to my military camp to reward the soldiers, I naturally welcome them, and tens of thousands of sons and daughters in the camp are also ready to meet each other after setting up camp." ”

"But the people in the city, after all, there are no carriages and horses to travel, running back and forth along the way, too tired, this heart, the county lord on behalf of my battalion sergeant heart, people, don't have to go."

With these words, all her spirit was emanated, and she tried to spread higher and farther.

In addition to these people outside the city, there are also those people who have entered the eastern urn city, and they all feel a little dazed, and the noise is low.

What's going on? Aren't you trying to escape from the city and find a way out? Why are these lords going to reward the soldiers?

In the east of the city, there were also soldiers and horses from the government camped in the east of the city?

These people have indeed heard a lot of rumors on weekdays, and after being incited tonight, they will inevitably panic.

But there are only so many of those wealthy merchants, and it is impossible for them to shout at every household where they are going.

Many people were actually driven by the shouts of their neighbors on the street.

There are still many people who don't know that they want to flee first, just because they saw everyone running wildly in the streets, and thought that the living corpses had already hit the city, so they fled.

These methods planned by Chen Fan and others are extremely insidious, even if there is no suggestion of Haha Zen Master to act in advance, they were originally going to launch the plan on a certain night.

People in the middle of the night, suddenly awakened, lack of energy, especially easy to fall into chaos, and after dawn, everyone has already gone out of the city, and because of the night running and toiling, there is no time to think, it is difficult to recover.

But as long as you are stopped and relieved, everyone is not stupid, you can always detect something wrong, and it will be difficult to deceive so many people afterwards.

The old men in the carriage had already thought of this, their eyes were rolling, and they became flustered and agitated.

However, as the carriages that rushed to the front and attracted the most attention from the people, no one came out to reply now.

Because of Du Yuanzhen's momentum on them, it revealed a bright threat.

As long as they act recklessly, even if Du Yuanzhen can't stop so many people, it is enough to crush these people.

If it is the momentum threat of those guards in the city, everyone in the wealthy merchants has the confidence to resist.

But this is Du Yuanzhen, and it really makes people dare not act rashly for a while.

But at this moment, in those places where Du Yuanzhen's shouting could not be heard clearly, among the people who were still stranded in the city, Haha Zen Master folded his hands and smiled softly.

Among the crowd around, there were two or three thousand people, and they all felt a moment of trance, as if they had seen the terrifying scene of blood flowing sideways, broken limbs and bones, and broken heads.

The hallucination flickered, but they were all strongly stimulated, and rushed forward with a wild shout.

"O dead man! Dead! ”

The scene in the hallucination made them let out such a shout, and those who were not stimulated by the hallucination, hearing such a shout, felt the squeeze from behind, and only thought that someone was dead behind, and rushed forward in a hurry.

Du Yuanzhen's deterrence was broken after only a few breaths, and the people who had hoped to calm down were frightened by the crowded situation in the rear and ran forward.

"Don't ......"

Du Yuanzhen wanted to make another effort, but suddenly her pupils shrank, and she felt a terrible threat coming from the crowd, but she couldn't detect it for a while, where this threat came from.

Haha Zen Master walked slowly through the crowd, walked through one city gate after another, and came to the outside of the city.

His gaze swept slightly over Du Yuanzhen and the others, and then cast it farther away.

Upstream of the small river outside the city, less than ten miles away, two figures were floating on the water, coming quickly.

Su Hanshan stepped on the large piece of ice floe made by himself, the area was about a bamboo mat, half a foot thick, and the ice cube rode the wind and waves, carrying him and Yang Baifa away.

"We're late."

Yang Baifa said in a heavy tone, looking at the city, "It seems that the residents of the city have been lured out of the city. ”

Su Hanshan also looked in that direction and said, "It's not surprising that instigating everyone to go out of the city at such a time is most likely to have the shadow of the corpse demon behind it, and the corpse demon can sense my position and perceive my approach, so it is possible to plan in advance." ”

"Maybe there are still corpse demons, who are now mixed in the crowd, preparing to sneak attack the masters of Chang'an, and even plot against me."

This is a logical speculation.

Although Yang Baifa was angry at the time, he also figured out in a blink of an eye that what Dewey said must have been secretly caused by someone.

"But ......"

Yang Baifa was worried and sighed, "The hateful thing about many conspiracies is that we know that they are conspiracy, and we can only enter the game. ”

"Entering the game does not mean that you have to cater to the rhythm of the enemy. Human wisdom is a rare treasure in human beings, and it is nothing but a tyrannical thing to use such treasures exclusively for the purpose of defrauding and exploiting innocent people. ”

Su Hanshan glanced at the people at the gate of the city, lowered his eyes to the flowing water, and said, "The use of wisdom should be to explore the truth between heaven and earth, and verify it so that people can use it to do things other than human power." ”

"Even if you want to make a profit, how can the power obtained by defrauding innocent people compare to using the truth?"

When Yang Baifa was surprised, he saw Su Hanshan spread his arms, leaned forward, and threw himself into the river with a smile.

The ice floes under their feet were already moving rapidly.

Su Hanshan seemed to fall forward gently and casually, and after entering the water, the speed of moving away was much faster than that of the ice floe, almost just a silent afterimage under the water.

But on the surface of the water, there was also a wave at the same time.

Outside the chaotic city gates, tens of thousands of people have already left the city one after another, following the chariots and horses of those wealthy families, and inside the city, there are more people pouring out.

When the wave reached the bend of the river, it had surged nearly two feet high.

The carriage of the Hao clan was originally fleeing along the riverbank, and the wave was just lapping on the road ahead.

Boom!!

There was a loud bang, and the waves crashed down, but it was not as simple as slapping the ground wet.

Instead, a ravine four or five feet long opened on the bank, and the river poured in frantically, and the white spray mixed with the turbidity of the soil.

The coachman looked astonished, grabbed the reins urgently, and turned the horse around.

Haha Zen Master watched everything, naturally knew the origin of the wave, but remained silent.

It is impossible to stop today's chaos by means of intimidation.

How far can you break through the water and waves? How much territory can be blocked by the power of an individual?

Ordinary intimidation will only stimulate these people, make them flee faster and more chaotically, and no one can stop all the people from choosing the road in all directions.

And if they are dispersed and fled to the wilderness, the chances of survival will be even slimmer than the current way of gathering crowds to escape.

Mo said that there were so many people in the city, just the tens of thousands of people who had already left the city, if they wanted to completely defeat their common sense and deter them from even daring to flee indiscriminately, then I am afraid that they would be able to stun tens of thousands of people in one fell swoop.

It is impossible for anyone to do such a thing.

Oh, if the target guided by the source of the corpse transformation is really soft and naïve to the point of ridiculousness, if you want to do your best and try it, then it just gives Haha Zen Master a chance to kill.

If the other party chooses to concentrate on raiding those wealthy clans after weighing it, in the chaotic situation, Haha Zen Master will ...... with the corpse demons and living masters who can be dispatched under his hands

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!!!

The water column exploded in the river again, interrupting the mind of the Haha Zen master, and the water column continued to form a continuous stream.

Sure enough, the people became even more panicked and hurried, trying to make a detour.

But between the water droplets and mist flying in the sky, in the surging river, a majestic body slowly rose.

The top of his head is like a snail, his face is as pure as the moon, his eyes are kind and slightly closed, the corners of his mouth seem to be smiling, and his ears are wide and his shoulders are hanging down.

The head alone is larger than the entire carriage that is turning the horse around the road.

When the head of this Buddha statue completely rose from the water and began to show its broad shoulders, a very small number of those panicked people stopped in a daze.

If someone sees the underwater scene, they will find that the Buddha statue is not actually surfacing from the water, but is sharply pumping a large amount of river water, condensing into ice, constantly replenishing the parts below the water surface of the Buddha statue, and then lifting upward.

When the whole Buddha statue came out of the water and stood on the earth, the height had exceeded ten zhang.

Ten zhang doesn't sound like much, but the houses of ordinary people are not even one zhang high.

The big Buddha statues that are more than ten zhang high are ten times taller than their houses, similar to the human body, and bring them a sense of shock that is different from watching high-rise buildings.

At this time, the tens of thousands of people who went out of the city, all the defenders and officials on the city wall, all could see the existence of this Buddha statue, and they couldn't help but slow down their breathing.

But more people in the city are still running out, so the people outside the city can't stop, at most they are a little slower.

"There are many monsters and cold disasters on the road ahead, which is impassable, and there is a way to survive when you return to the city!!"

Between heaven and earth, there seems to be a Zen sound that is like nothing.

The towering ice is like a big Buddha, holding the Dharma seal, looking down at the world, and the body exudes layers of light.

Su Hanshan's figure flickered out of the water, appearing on the back of this ice Buddha, pressing one hand on the ice, his eyes were focused, and he used all his strength to continue to speak.

"The bitter sea is boundless, and turning back is the shore!"

When he made this Ice Buddha, he used the principle of pure yang water method to choose the internal structure that could best amplify the volume.

At the same time, he also took into account the secret sound in the Southern Song Dynasty world's "Three Lost and Three Destroyed Mudras", which explained the secret that some ordinary people can affect the hearts and minds of others by relying on tone.

The whole Buddha is actually a huge megaphone, which can perfectly convey the special tone of the maker.

When Su Han spit out those eight words in the mouth, the synchronous vibration of true qi reached the whole body of the Ice Buddha through the back of the Buddha statue he had reserved, and then released it forward.

"Bitter! Sea! Not! Side!!! ”

"Back! Head! Be! Shore!!! ”

The magnificent sound was released from a high place, and in an instant, the heavens and the earth, the rivers and cities, all were covered by this huge Buddha sound.

The bitter sea is boundless, and the shore is back!!

Never too late to mend!! Never too late to mend!! Never too late to mend!!!

Not just the tens of thousands of people outside the city, but the entire city, all the people crowded to the east, all heard such a sentence.

The sound of the grand chanting echoed for a long time in the city walls, on the ground, and between the houses and streets.

When those wealthy businessmen saw the Buddha statue before, they were secretly scolding in their hearts for pretending to be a ghost.

Chen Fan, Bai Zhongtuo and others were even more willing to smash the Buddha statue.

But before they could make a move, the pervasive Zen sound that covered from the nine heavens had already filled all their senses, covering every inch of space around them.

Let them be the initiators, at this time, in their minds, they can't get rid of the constantly reverberating sound.

Never too late to mend! Never too late to mend! Never too late to mend!!

Haha Zen Master's eyes became extremely deep, and he saw that everyone around him was retreating.

The people in the city didn't hear this tone too violently, but they became quiet, while these people outside the city, after hearing that voice, all retreated.

How they came out, they retreated, and every step was where they had stepped before.

If it is difficult to recover from the flood, these tens of thousands of people were originally like a torrent that rushed out of the city gate, but now, this flood is flowing backwards.

The large area of water mist behind the big Buddha statue of the cold ice, under the influence of this violent sound wave, turned into a bright seven-colored rainbow long bridge.

In the early morning, the mist born naturally dissipated a moment earlier in this magnificent chanting.

The rising sun in the east, jumping out of the sea of clouds, on the rainbow bridge, behind the Buddha's head, illuminates this city, illuminates this mountain and river.

Some of the people retreated, and then unconsciously turned back to their hometowns.

The sky is high and the earth is far away, and the sky is clear.

Su Hanshan is far from being able to achieve this miracle with his spirit alone, and in addition to the amplification of the Buddha, he also relies on the tone of the three secrets to imprint the heart with the heart.

It is with one's own sincerity that one can blend into the tone, so that these deceived people can understand the good and the bad, and let them know where is the place where they are more likely to survive the disaster and live.

Only the heavens and the earth are bright, and may the hearts of the people not be blinded!

(End of chapter)