Hearing this Ning Yi Taishou's big sycophant, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but sneer secretly, and asked De Yizi on the high platform: "Xiaodao Chief, how much food can you bring in total when your sky-filled 'Kong Ming Lantern' flies into the city?" Tonight, there are a total of 3,000 'Kong Ming lanterns', and under each lamp hangs a pound of yuba, which is the dried soybean milk skin; and counting the loss, at least 2,000 catties of yuba can be sent to the city. These two thousand catties of yuba are expanded with water, and the total is six thousand catties. ”

As soon as these words came out, it was like a basin of cold water poured directly on Lord Fang's head, and he couldn't help frowning and said: "At present, there are about 20,000 surviving people in Ningyi City, and these 6,000 catties of yuba are only afraid of ...... I'm afraid it's a drop in the bucket, at most...... At most, it is only enough for the soldiers guarding the city and the officials in the yamen to wait for more than ten days......" Before he could finish speaking, he said coldly: "What's the hurry? This ritual tonight has just begun." ”

At this time, the 3,000 "Kong Ming lanterns" in the area of the eastern city wall had been shot down by the 400 soldiers on the city wall, and all the soldiers dropped their bows and arrows and went to the city wall to pick up the bean curd on the ground. And the Hengwang rebels stationed outside the city finally came back to their senses at this time, knowing that the movement made by the two hundred strong men at the west gate of Ningyi City was just a bluff, the purpose was to attract their attention, but the real intention was to use the sudden east wind tonight to use thousands of "Kong Ming lanterns" to send food into Ningyi City. For a while, the rebels who had originally gathered to the west of Ningyi City had all turned back to the east of Ningyi City, wanting to intercept those "Kong Ming lanterns" in the night sky halfway.

And the east wind that blew tonight continues to this day, and it still does not stop. A moment later, I saw thousands of "Kong Ming lanterns" rising again in the night sky in the far east, coming in the direction of Ningyi City with the help of the wind, obviously sending the second batch of yuba into Ningyi City. Lord Fang upstairs of the "Tianyun Residence" saw the movements of the rebels outside the city, and couldn't help but stomp his feet and said: "Although the Dao Chief's plan is wonderful, the rebels outside the city have now seen the clue and are rushing to intercept outside the east gate of Ningyi City. If you want to repeat the old trick, and then use the 'Kong Ming lantern' to send food to the city, I am afraid that it will ...... I'm just afraid ......"

But I heard De Yizi on the high platform say slowly: "The so-called Taoism, in a word, is the word 'punishing the heart'; to put it bluntly, it is the same as strategy, the key lies in the eight words of 'watching people cook and prescribing the right medicine'." No matter how simple and crude a ploy is, it can work in one fell swoop if it can be used at the right time and in the right place for the right people. It is a mortal's plan to succeed or not, the time, the place, and the three are indispensable, and those who can control the subtlety of it, know how to judge the situation and adapt to the situation, so as to plan accurately and plan must succeed, can be described as the dragon and phoenix among people. Just like Kong Ming and Qingtian you just mentioned, and even that guy, they all belong to this category. ”

Xie Yixiang and Master Fang heard it in a fog, and they didn't know why Yizi suddenly said such an unrelated remark, and they were about to open their mouths to ask again, but they saw that the thousands of "Kong Ming lanterns" that flew from the east again, when they were still a few miles away from the eastern wall of Ningyi City, a group of 2,000 rebels outside the city were already waiting in the wilderness with bows and arrows. When the "Kong Ming lantern" in the night sky came closer, the two thousand rebels in the wilderness shot feather arrows at the same time, and a rain of arrows passed by, and its momentum was naturally five or six times greater than that of the four hundred soldiers on the east wall of Ningyi City.

Seeing this, Xie Yixiang and Master Fang both sighed secretly. Who knew that before the two of them could speak, they saw that with the thousands of "Kong Ming lanterns" falling in the night sky, the entire wilderness east of Ningyi City suddenly exploded into sparks, and there were bursts of roaring sounds. The two thousand archery rebels were in the midst of it, and they were blown to pieces on the spot, and almost all the sergeants were covered in flames.

It turned out that under the thousands of "Kong Ming lanterns" that flew this time, it was not a bean curd at all, but gunpowder that hurt people. When the 2,000 rebels were ordered to shoot down all the "Kong Ming lanterns" that were transporting grain from the sky, they naturally decided that they were still hanging with yuba under the lamps, so where could they see clearly in a hurry? When the "Kong Ming lanterns" were shot down, the entire papier-mâché lampshade was ignited by the flames inside, and naturally the gunpowder hanging below was also ignited, and for a time thousands of gunpowder exploded at the same time in the wilderness, so naturally the 2,000 rebels suffered heavy casualties on themselves.

De Yizi on the high platform continued to follow Fang Cai's words: "Those who plan accurately and plan must succeed, although they can be described as dragons and phoenixes among people, but throughout the ancient and modern times, they are actually everywhere, and the skills stop here, and they are not enough to worry about at all. In contrast, the sun shines on the green mountains, so that the common people thrive and multiply, and the rain moistens the forests, so that Ze is flourishing and vibrant, which is exactly what the Taoists say, 'Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things'. My Taoism is inherited from the way of heaven, and with this as a plan, it is to move the whole body, interlocking, and connected, of course, far better than those mortals who only seek success or failure. ”

Xie Yixiang knew that Deyizi at this time was like a storyteller, and he needed a partner to continue, so he hurriedly asked: "What the little Taoist chief means is that what you set up tonight is not a plan, but a chain plan. First used the two hundred sturdy men at the west gate of Ningyi City to attract the attention of the rebels, but in fact, they wanted to use this east wind to send food into the city with the 'Kong Ming lantern'. When the rebels surrounded and intercepted in the wilderness outside the east gate, the second batch of 'Kong Ming lanterns' was hung with gunpowder, which immediately caused the rebels to fall into the trap and suffer heavy casualties?"

De Yizi shook his head slowly, and sneered: "Tonight, I opened the altar to borrow this east wind with the Xiaoguang Huowen Divine Seal, and used the 'Kong Ming Lantern' to carry the sucurd bamboo that saved people and the gunpowder that killed people. However, this 'Kong Ming lantern' in the sky seems to be huge, but in fact, the yuba is only 6,000 catties, which cannot save all the people of Ningyi City, and the gunpowder is only more than 1,000 copies, and it cannot kill the 30,000 troops and horses of King Heng. Therefore, tonight's move outside the east gate of Ningyi City is actually the same as the two hundred strong men outside the west gate, just to attract the attention of the other party. ”

When Xie Yixiang heard this, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and asked tentatively: "So the real good show tonight is actually at the south gate and the north gate of Ningyi City?"

You must know that tonight at the south gate of Ningyi City, according to the previous arrangement of De Yizi, more than 100 soldiers dug a deep pit behind the city gate, and at this time, two deep pits with a square circle of three or four zhang and a shallow depth of two zhang have been dug and placed side by side on the street behind the city gate. The lord didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered the official beside him to go and give an order, asking the sergeant there to open the south of Ningyi City, and then asked Deyizi for the reason. Who knew that a son had already meditated with his eyes closed on the high platform, chanting words in his mouth, and no longer paid attention to the two people under the high platform.

After about a cup of tea, the gate to the south of Ningyi City had been opened by the sergeants. Deyizi on the high platform immediately opened his eyes and recited in a loud voice: "Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, the root of ten thousand qi." Inside and outside the Three Realms, only the Tao is the only one. Covering the world and nurturing the masses. The five are steaming, and the fire invades the four fields. Hurry as the law!" As soon as the words fell, he set off the fourth fireworks of the night into the night sky, exploding a red light in the sky.