Chapter Ninety-Eight: Fang Liang Dao Yuan

Luoma City in Qingping Prefecture is not a very large city in a state, but its status is very respected in the territory of the entire diocese dominated by the Taiyi Sect. The Taoist believers in the Xuanhuang world regard Hongmeng Mountain as the birthplace of this religion. Xijing City under Hongmeng Mountain is a Taoist holy city in the Xuanhuang world.

And Luoma City is the Taoist blessed land of Xuanhuang world.

At that time, the Heavenly Master of Hongmeng Mountain was carried by the heavens, founded Taoism, and led the military martial arts, and the battle to expel the barbarian madmen was actually extremely hard. In the past, the clan territories in various places were intertwined with the madman tribes, and the army was formed, but it was extremely difficult to gather into a piece. Originally, according to local conditions, it was set up to recruit troops according to the territory of the clan, and the trend of scattering flowers in the sky was carried out against the madman tribes.

Unfortunately, the strategy at that time was not successful; the madman had rough skin and thick flesh, steel and iron bones, and was originally tall and powerful. To this day, there is still a popular folk history that the madman of the year can pierce the city wall with one punch and sweep dozens of soldiers and horses with one kick. Of course, there is an element of storyteller adding vinegar to sensationalism, but from another aspect, it can also reflect that the general public at that time was in danger of hitting a stone with an egg.

After the Hongmeng Mountain Heavenly Master had insight into the battle situation in various places, he reformulated the strategy with the three parties of the Martial Arts Academy, and first led the main force of his descendant army to the southeast, until the madman's power was weaker, but it was the Southern Wilderness Yueling where the clan territory was relatively dense. After opening up several battlefields in the Southern Wilderness, defeating several smaller madman tribes and establishing a legion territory, the soldiers began to gather the soldiers and horses of the local clans to join the battle line of the Bingjia Legion.

It is said that the military army at that time was not strong compared to the thousands of clans in the mountains and wilderness of the Southern Wilderness. The tens of thousands of troops of the legion, in the end, are only about 10% of the strength of the local clans. But the local clans are all scattered, and within a clan and a clan, they can be sincerely united, and everyone fights to the death. But once the military horses of more than two clans encounter on the same battlefield, they will become each other's skins, and even have a mentality of watching from the wall, waiting for an opportunity for the snipe and the clam to compete and the fisherman to profit.

Therefore, it is often a clan that fights alone, and there is still some resistance to the madman tribe, and once the clan fights together, it is most likely to be defeated.

Now there are soldiers stationed in the Southern Wilderness, becoming the backbone of the battlefield, the soldiers and horses of a place and a clan, into the army, it is like a trickle of spring flowing into the stream, and then all the way forward, it slowly forms the Yangtze River, rushing into the sea.

The soldier army fought all the way, annexing the clan's soldiers and horses along the way, marching forward, and the battlefield advanced to a place in the west of the Qingping Prefecture Plain today.

It is said that at that time, the military army was like a bamboo, and the army of soldiers was approaching step by step, once they got the news that the madman tribe was about to form an alliance and planned to resist stubbornly, Song Yuanshan, the ancestor of the soldiers, ordered the whole army to fall off their horses and camp and wait for the other party to choose the leader of the alliance and form an alliance.

At that time, Gu Wannian, the sect master of Tieliuyi, who accompanied Song Yuanshan to inspect the military camp, was very puzzled by this, and asked why he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue and beat the water dog. Song Yuanshan said with a smile: "Although the madman tribe is already vulnerable, it is a plate of scattered sand; the battle line is too long, and it will be very troublesome to fight, not to mention, even if you kill all the way through and kill until the blood is flowing like a river? Those small tribes that have slipped through the net are all self-contained, and they will still feel that they are the pride of the sky; even if they finally retreat to the northern wilderness and the western desert, they still have the spirit to make a comeback. Why do you say that? When the sand is scattered, the other tribes are wiped out, and I am alone, not the pride of heaven under the favor of the gods?"

"At the end of the war, it doesn't matter how many enemies you kill. What is really meaningful is whether killing people can punish the heart. Only when they have the consciousness that they have been bitten by a snake once and are afraid of the well rope for ten years, then such an ending can be considered perfect. ”

Gu Wannian suddenly realized, "I see, once these madmen complete the alliance, then the various tribes that are scattered will become one." Not only can they be gathered and annihilated in a fight, but it also has a heart-wrenching effect on those fish who slip through the net in the future. ”

In this big war, as Song Yuanshan said, after the madman tribe formed an alliance and formed an alliance, instead of stopping the decline, it collapsed with one blow and fell for thousands of miles. From here to the north, the local tribes joined the powerful alliance to protect themselves, and the alliance was driven north by the army of soldiers to continue to rout. In this way, the centripetal cohesion of the Madman Alliance has also invisibly helped the military legion.

If it weren't for that, the soldiers would divide their forces to deal with the small madman tribes scattered around the place. This kind of small group of enemy troops, relying on the geographical convenience, not only has extremely agile tactics, but also causes casualties in sudden attacks every once in a while. The key point is that a large number of troops must be stationed in one place before they arrive, and the battlefield advance is extremely slow, and the later it gets, the more likely it is to have a shortage of troops.

Before the start of the war, the ordinary herdsmen and people in the same place, who could still run, had fled with their families. But there are still many old and weak women and children, or poor herdsmen and slaves, who have nowhere to go. In order to supplement the supply of grain and grass, the army purchased cattle, sheep and horses from these herdsmen, and recruited herdsmen and those slaves who were scattered to harvest forage and take care of the military horses.

After the army was launched, these herders and slaves occupied the original military camp and multiplied. That place gradually developed into the city of Luoma in later generations.

Lok Ma City is located in the western perimeter of Qingping Prefecture, and since ancient times, it has been a barbarian land where education has not flourished. Until 20 years ago, from Tongchuan City, 700 miles to the southeast, a wealthy son with profound knowledge came. Fang Liang, the second son of the Fang family of the Tongchuan Wang family, after the age of thirteen, was a deviant who was "famous all over the city" in Tongchuan.

At that time, the Tongchuan literary scene was very prosperous, especially famous for its miscellaneous works. Although there is no kingdom in the Xuanhuang world, after the local sects have carved up the civil cities, the interests of various families and factions have conflicted, and the infiltration of forces has always been surging, but it has never been a regional dispute between soldiers and fires.

In fact, Hongmeng Mountain, as the head of the world's sects, is happy to see it come to fruition, but if there is a real war between the subordinate sects to form a border between the subordinate sects and encroach on the territory, it is easy to be strongly suppressed by the powerful Xijing Legion and the soldiers stationed in the local area.

For Hongmeng Mountain, the lower sects contain each other's consumption, and it will not be possible to form a certain family that can concentrate on making great efforts to govern the country, and once a war breaks out and encroaches on each other's regions, it will inevitably form a single family.

The fact that the Yudai Mountain monk, who had been in it before, united with the inner line of the Tongchuan City Guardian Legion, attacked the Yinchi Hui caravan, and wanted to snatch the Haishan Order and control the illegal salt trafficking in several states, which was actually the tip of the iceberg of the open and secret struggle between this sect. The reason why he wanted to buy the inner line of the Guardian Legion in Tongchuan City was mainly the sword of Taoism hanging high above his head. In addition to the Xijing Legion subordinate to Hongmeng Mountain, once the other local legions cross the border, they will commit a capital crime that is not repugnant in the world. This is also why after the sword demon bloodline was awakened, Hongmeng Mountain would only use the Xijing legion of the descendant line to pursue the traces of the remnants of the sword demon all over the world.

In this form, the Zongheng family from Tongchuan is very popular in the whole world. As long as there are scholars in the literary world who have made a little achievements in Tongchuan, no matter whether they are from high or low backgrounds, they are very easy to become the mountain worshippers hired by the world's sects and become the think tanks of a sect.

Therefore, in addition to the two world-famous martial arts academies of Wu Youqin and Fang, Tongchuan City and the various schools and academies are not a few famous.

But the literary movement of the Xuanhuang world seems to have burst out suddenly in the past 20 years. First of all, in various parts of the secluded plains, the academy schools sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they were very prosperous. The hundreds of schools of thought that are not under the jurisdiction of the Daomen have appeared, and countless famous disciples have appeared in each family and faction. Once these disciples were admitted to the sect and became preachers, they had to go to various places, set up their own doors, and open academies.

The most famous preacher in Youyuan at the moment has the saying of East Palace and West Liangzhi. The so-called East Palace is the husband of the Changqing Dao Yuan in Hezhu City, Dahe Prefecture, in the southeast of Youyuan, and the West Liang is the husband Fang Liang of the Fang Liang Dao Yuan in Luoma City, Qingping Prefecture.

As a result, the status of Tongchuan City scholars in the literary world, not to mention that it has been declining, at least it is no longer as hot as when the family was dominant.

Fangliang Daoyuan is not in Luoma City, but in Baizhuyuan, more than 20 miles north of the city. In the plains and wilderness, there are several rare Danxia Peak forests and stone mountains rising from the ground, and the green bamboo forests under the mountains are forested, as for why this place is called Baizhuyuan by the locals, it is vague, and there is no clear statement.

At the foot of the main peak of Baizhuyuan Mountain, there is a dog trace lake, the lake surface is only more than ten acres in circumference, and the shape is like a dog's footprint. Fangliang Daoyuan, which covers an extremely wide area, is backed by the mountain wall of the wine pot and faces the Dog Trail Lake in front.

The doors and walls of the Taoist courtyard are not extravagant, they are all ordinary blue brick and blue tile houses, and there are no carved beams and painted buildings, eaves and arches that are common in those large academies; The courtyard is full of green trees, full of grapes, and the whole academy gives people a feeling of simplicity and purity, returning to the basics.

Outside the gatehouse of the courtyard wall, an old elm tree hugged by several people by the lake, the crown of the tree is like a canopy. At this time, under the tree, two people were talking on a nineteen-way chessboard carved from bluestone. One of them was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in a white robe, with a bun crown on his head, and he looked like a student of the Taoist Academy. The person opposite was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, with a handsome appearance, a brocade dress, and a fat and white hosta on his bun, which was a rare object of great value at first glance.

In the chessboard, the situation made by the black chess is successful, and the attack and defense are successful, and there are clever moves in the fierce offensive of the white son. And that heroic and martial son, the rhythm of the fall is steady, not slow or fast, but every time he falls, it is like thousands of troops and horses marching together, the heavens and the earth are shaking, and the momentum is compelling; (I am blind in chess, and I ask all book friends to make up for it by themselves.) ）

The chessboard was treacherous and murderous, but the two people playing chess didn't seem to be attentive at all, their hands were falling and their mouths were arguing. It's just that the two are arguing, but they are all topics that have nothing to do with the chess game.