Chapter 9: Marshal Hong and the Third Division (2)
If it weren't for Hong Linying's ruthlessness and decisiveness, with more than 10,000 soldiers delaying the opponent's siege time, I am afraid that it would be too late to deploy the city wall, and it would have been captured.
This battle also made the people in the city frightened of the souls of the dead, seeing the enemy's hideous face from the city head constantly rising, close at hand, so that they will never forget, after this battle, blood water spread all over the city, flowing through the stone cracks of the city wall to the outside of the city strands in the city, the city is close to the city wall half a mile of the place, are like a pool of blood, usually bright and tidy street, at this time walking on it, shoes and blood water together, emitting the sound of "chirp horn chirping".
Hong Linying thought of this battle afterwards, even if it was his determination, he felt extremely dangerous, and remembered what Ji Wenhe said last night, which mentioned that the opponent's army might hide heavy troops waiting for an opportunity, and couldn't help but sigh.
Then, in the next few months, Ji Wenhe still visited in the middle of the night for the second time, informing him of the enemy's movements and deployments. This second time, Hong Linying basically believed it, and according to the information given by Ji Wenhe, they made targeted arrangements, and as a result, they won a big victory with minimal damage.
The second thing is that Ji Wenhe also began to look for people in the army to inherit the inheritance, but his test is very strange, not to see his martial arts roots, nor to test the opponent's body with internal force, but to use silver to diagnose the pulse of the person tested, Ji Wenhe said that because their internal strength is very peculiar, if you use this method to test those who cannot pass, forcibly practice the unique heart method of his sect, the result will only lead to the cultivator, the internal qi rushes backwards, and the blood rushes against the meridian and dies. What made Hong Linying a little strange was that there were so many able-bodied people in the army, and Ji Wenhe was surprised that he had not found a suitable person in the army for a year.
With Ji Wenhe's several major victories in the military, Hong Linying simply let the original military division abdicate as a deputy military division a year later, and let Ji Wenhe become a military division, as for how he learned the enemy's news every time, he didn't care much about it, with the skills of this Ji military division, there must be a lot of means, not to mention that the several enemy news he gave were extremely accurate, if he was a spy, then the price was too great, and it was impossible to use the lives of 70,000 or 80,000 people accumulated these times in exchange for the possible successful plan later.
This move made many generals in the army unconvinced at first, but in the next few big or small battles, all the plans were planned by Ji Wenhe, and almost the enemy who committed in the future was defeated, which made Ji Wenhe's position in the army stable and his prestige became more and more powerful.
And what made him reach the peak of his prestige was a battle two and a half years ago, before that battle, Ji Wenhe went to the Chinese army camp thirty miles north of the city to continue to look for his "apprentice" who didn't know whether it existed, which is also the local garrison There are hundreds of thousands of people, Ji Wenhe has great skills, he doesn't do anything for a day, and he can test hundreds of people at most with his skills, so in addition to testing the tens of thousands of soldiers in Qingshan Pass for more than three years, he will also go to the Chinese army camp from time to time to find apprentices.
People in the army thought these things were strange at first, but later officers at all levels gradually got used to them. However, few people in the outside world know about this, after all, Ji Wenhe is low-key, usually taciturn, and rarely interacts with people in private.
This time on the afternoon of Ji Wenhe went to the Chinese army camp, Meng suddenly launched an attack, Hong Linying led the troops to meet the enemy, and the enemy fought together, the enemy reinforcements this time were like adding oil, slowly increasing, Hong Linying was entangled and could not get away, and slowly fell into the encirclement, at this time, Ji Wenhe, who was thirty miles away, had to fly quickly, from the Chinese army camp to lead the crowd to come, when they came, Hong Linying and his troops were already in danger, Ji Wenhe let the army from the periphery to the gossip chain array, cycle inward rush to kill, step by step, and he himself showed his terrible martial arts for the first time in front of people, one person and one sword, such as flying immortals outside the sky, shuttling among the enemy army, such as entering a no-man's land, except for the occasional removal of enemy weapons, the rest of the others are killed with a sword. In the end, he actually killed the opponent's Chinese army, flew in the air, such as a goshawk fighting rabbit, before the opponent's guards had time to react in the future, they had stepped into it, and a sword took off the head of the opponent's deputy marshal, and then set aside the blades that came to him one after another, and went up softly, only a few steps to stand at the top of the enemy's handsome flag more than ten meters high, holding a sword in one hand, and holding the head of the enemy marshal in the other.
After this battle, the name of the third army division was unparalleled for a while, even more than the name of Marshal Hong, so that people also knew that in addition to the military division who can "talk on paper", he is also a master of the world, and at the same time, the imperial army is no longer mainly defensive, but also often sends troops to attack the other party's border, or also a large army to press the border, the two sides have attacked and defended each other in the next few years, and it is almost evenly matched. Although there is the existence of Ji Wenhe, but on the battlefield, the strength of one person cannot determine the result after all, not to mention that Meng Guo knows that there is a master in Qingshan Pass who can take the head of the army, and he has also mobilized several first-class and top masters from China to suppress the formation.
Through this time, Hong Linying was basically sure that Ji Wenhe had reached the realm of transformation, and it was even possible to be above this realm, which was a realm he didn't know. As a martial arts idiot, of course he knew that this was the martial arts of Ji Wenhe's sect, although he had guessed Ji Wenhe's realm before, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful, after this time, he couldn't help but start to feel hot in his heart, but no matter how he investigated, he couldn't find out where this sect came from.
And through occasional exchanges with Ji Wenhe, he felt that the other party's martial arts were subtle, to be precise, the subtlety of the other party's internal skills, any ordinary move, in Ji Wenhe's internal strength, always made Hong Linying feel like the water of a big river endlessly, and sometimes it was like a mountain crushing and decaying, and he was powerless to resist at all, which made him can't stop Ji Wenhe's internal strength, greedy for a lifetime, and even more tried to get it.
However, Ji Wenhe's selection of apprentices has always been delayed, but Ji Wenhe's complexion has been as he said before, it has become worse and worse in recent years, and even his appearance has aged a lot. Hong Linying knocked on the side and wanted to let himself inherit this mastery, so after a banquet, he said to Ji Wenhe, "Military advisor, what kind of person do you want to choose to inherit your sect? After so many years, I haven't met you, what kind of person do you want?"
Ji Wenhe replied with a slight smile: "Our sect is only a single generation of generations, it's not that we don't accept disciples, but the requirements of the mental method are really very special, and it can be said that there is no one in ten thousand, in fact, as long as I can have a unique performance in the body under the pulse measurement of the silver needle used by my unique mental method, there can be hope." ”
"You are not only one in ten thousand, in my army over the years, whether it is the old department or the new soldiers, you are afraid that you have also measured seventy-seven eighty-eight, I think there is no one in hundreds of thousands. Hong Linying shook his head and sighed.
Then he said, "What kind of abnormal performance should your body have to be hopeful?"
Ji Wenhe said, "This is not necessarily, maybe it is an abnormal complexion, maybe it is an abnormal breath in the body, then I must be guided by the silver needle, and I will know it by probing with internal force, if it is integrated with my internal strength." ”
This Ji Wenhe is always in one place every time he tests, or in the house or tent, except for the person who is testing, outsiders are never allowed to enter, so when these words are said, Hong Linying is always skeptical.
Hong Linying pretended to be a little drunk, and said with the strength of the wine, "Then the military advisor, can you come to see how the physique of this handsome man is?" He didn't say how it was suitable, nor did he say how it was inappropriate, and he didn't say how it was inappropriate.
Ji Wenhe smiled slightly when he heard this, as if the two of them were inadvertently saying something casually in the chat, and nodded in response, "Anyway, if you have nothing to do, you can give it a try, I can't say that the marshal really has a relationship with our faction." Then he took the cloth bag from beside him, unfolded it, and took out a silver needle to test his pulse.
In other words, Ji Wenhe said that he would bring it with him every time, because once he had free time, he would go to find some soldiers to test. When the silver needle went down, Hong Lin Yingzhong felt a numbness in his wrist, and then there was no abnormality at all, let alone an internal force penetrating.
Ji Wenhe also shook his head in disappointment, and put away the silver needle, "It seems that the marshal has no relationship with this faction, so there is no need to use internal force to check it." ”
This means that Hong Linying can't learn his exercises, but how can this statement convince Hong Linying, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and along the way, he has only overcome the difficulties, and there are no exercises that he has seen but can't learn, it's just a matter of whether he is willing to practice.
But he can't be strong against Ji Wenhe, he thinks that he is definitely not Ji Wenhe's opponent, even if this person seems to be worse than a year in the past few years, but it is estimated that dealing with him is just a few moves or even a gesture, although he is already a top master in today's rivers and lakes, what is the score compared to anyone.
Until the beginning of last year, Ji Wenhe finally found the disciple he was looking for in the Chinese army camp, Hong Linying also found a disciple of Ji Wenhe who was looking for a drop of water in the "vast sea of people", and even used internal force to explore the internal meridians of this son, but he did not feel that there was anything special about this meridian, which made him feel that Ji Wenhe should have something to hide, but it was these that made him puzzled.
But just a month after Ji Wenhe found a disciple, this disciple who had just started suddenly died one night, and afterwards Ji Wenhe also looked painful and regretful, saying that he was illiterate, had a deviation in his understanding of the sect's martial arts, and his cultivation was improper, and he died of qi and blood.
Hong Linying also saw the tragic situation of the man's death, his whole body was black and swollen and died, not like he was practicing stubble, but like he died of severe poison. This made him have two ideas: one is that Ji Wenhe used the person as a poison object, and wanted to use a method to force the poison on his body into the other party's body to relieve his own poison, and this poison object must have something to do with the exercises of other sects or this poison, so that it can be performed according to the law, otherwise it will be enough to directly pull someone to be the object of this poison. But looking at Ji Wenhe's appearance later, his complexion didn't seem to have improved much, which also made him doubt the correctness of this judgment. The second is that Ji Wenhe's mental method should be to be domineering, maybe it is really that this beginner disciple is not practicing properly, and he really rushes against the qi, causing the qi and blood to flow backwards, breaking the internal organs, and the whole body is abnormal. But people like Ji Wenhe, since they know that their disciples are illiterate, there should be a compromise method to solve it or use terrazzo kung fu to supervise their practice, is it really that his time is running out? In addition to these, there are still some other places that Hong Linying can't figure out, if you want to know this, you still have to start from the pulse test, maybe there will be clues revealed.
Ji Wenhe later still went to the army every time to find some subordinates to test the pulse, but Hong Linying had no reason to follow, if he followed to watch, once or twice it might be said that it was due to interest, and if there were more times, it was obvious that he had an intention. What's more, this also involves some privacy in the rivers and lakes, and it is taboo to listen to the privacy of other sects in the rivers and lakes, and it is not an exaggeration to kill people. It's just that every time he recruits new recruits to join the army, he has a reason to come and watch the quality and status of the recruits.
In fact, Hong Linying also guessed that Ji Wenhe would have a clear understanding of him every time he came to check the recruitment of new recruits, with people like Ji Wenhe, it was not difficult to see this, but there was no other way for Lin Ying, he could only start from here, he wanted to get clues from some clues, and then make the next plan, so that he could get one step closer to the top exercise method he dreamed of, but Ji Wenhe completed the pulse measurement in the tent every time, and it was not easy for him to enter.
Even so, he still wanted to see what kind of person Ji Wenhe's chosen disciple was at the first time, and what clues could be caught, of course, such a thing had to be seen with his own eyes, and he could do it himself, what others said, after all, it was not as clear as what he saw with his own eyes.
Hong Linying leaned back in the chair and looked at the tent, her slightly squinted eyes kept flickering, and she kept thinking in her heart, "This matter should be really tricky, and in the past few years, it has been hard and soft, but it can't be done." If he says he will have a year or two to live, is this true or false? Even if it is true, he will not take it out if he desperately loses it, so how can this be?"