Chapter 65: The Arhat Stick Formation

General Huang saw that the officers and troops in front of the battle were intercepted one by one by ten men wearing hats, and could not take a step forward, so he had to order the use of chariots in the army to attack the monks. Each chariot was pulled by 4 horses and loaded with 3 armorers, arranged on the left, center, and right. The armor soldier on the left holds a bow and shoots the main shot, which is the head of a chariot, called "the left of the chariot", also known as the "head of the car"; the armor on the right holds the Ge (or spear), the main stab, and has the responsibility of removing obstacles for the chariot, called "the right of the chariot", also known as "the ride"; in the center is the emperor who drives the chariot, and only carries the weapon short sword of the guard.

Seeing that several chariots of the official army were rumbling towards him, Zen Master Zhide hurriedly ordered his disciples to avoid their edge first, and then set up an arhat stick formation to meet the enemy. After the disciples received the order, they quickly retreated, stacking into several layers of arhats, forming a tall human wall. This Arhat stick formation is said to have been created by Tanzong, with both offense and defense, and there are more than a dozen changes.

The starting and closing formations of this Arhat stick formation are stacked Arhats, which are divided into 3 layers, the lowest layer of defense, the middle layer is mainly to change the formation, and the top layer is responsible for attacking. Although Xu Zhi and the three of them fought side by side with the monks for the first time, they quickly comprehended the mystery of the Shaolin Arhat stick formation under the guidance and dispatch of the monks.

After the monks put down their positions, they asked Zhide: "Master, the chariot of the official army is menacing and unstoppable, how should we deal with it?"

He also sighed: "May the Buddha help the disciples to break the enemy! Otherwise, how can the flesh and blood of the disciples stop this iron-armored thing?"

Xue Atan scolded: "These thieves and soldiers are really hateful, they usually bully men and women, according to my old Xue's idea, even if we can't win, we must destroy the first few chariots in front of him! Brother Xu and Brother An, what are your ideas?"

An Jingsi shook his head and said helplessly: "If it weren't for the speed of these chariots, I would have sent stones to blind the eyes of horses and emperors!

Because of the last martial arts competition in the ring, he was very jealous of An Jingsi, and he wanted to take this opportunity to make An Jingsi majestic in front of the monks, so he sneered a few times and said: "An Jingsi, you are not preaching everywhere in the temple: the stones in your hands can hit every shot." I didn't expect you to have a time when you couldn't today?"

An Jingsi saw the irony in the famous words, "bah", and said angrily: "At least I, An Jingsi, dare to admit my own shortcomings, unlike some people who have no ability, but shout everywhere!"

Xu Zhi was very rude to An Jingsi when he saw the name, and said loudly: "Senior brother, don't you know: the ruler is short, the inch is long, everything in the world has a length and shortness, you use Xiao Jingsi's shortcomings to ridicule him, it's really rude!"

Xue Atan also said: "Brother Xu said well, Brother An, you don't have to worry about such a villain!"

Zhide listened to the discussions of the monks, and also stood on An Jingsi's side, and shouted: "It's rude to be famous, disciples, now that the enemy is present, everyone must not be quick to speak, or unite to retreat from the enemy!"

Mingming was rebuked by Zhide, bowed his head and muttered a few times, and stopped talking. All the disciples didn't dare to be distracted anymore, and they all responded: "Follow the master's teachings!"

Xu Zhi, who was at the bottom of the stacked arhats, carefully observed the rumbling chariot in front of him, and he shouted to the topmost chariot and Lichen: "Xue Atan is right! Although the chariot of the official army has the advantages of fast speed and great impact force, such a bulky chariot, his braking and turning direction are definitely not flexible enough. Two senior brothers, as long as you try to stop the two chariots in front, you can stop the chariots in the back!"

Lichen suddenly comprehended Xu Zhi's intentions, and he saw that a chariot at the front was only a dozen steps away from him, and with a move of "Dapeng spreading his wings", with the help of a high human wall, he pounced on the chariot in front. The armorer on the chariot looked up and saw someone in the air pounce on him like a falcon, and hurriedly shot arrows at him.

He grabbed the mane on the horse's neck, jumped up from the horse's back with his strength, held the wooden stick in both hands, and then fell with the force to break the wheel pulled by the four horses, and suddenly the chariot separated from the end and soon disintegrated.

Because he saw that the dust was successful, he was not to be outdone, jumped down from the air, a move "immortal guidance", a stick hit the heart of the emperor in the chariot, the imperial man did not have time to stop the horse, he spit blood, and after a while, he lost his breath. The chariot lacked a driver, and soon lost control, deviated from direction, and rushed into the willow grove behind the monks. The chariots behind did not have time to brake and turn around, and they crashed into the chariots in front of them, and with a roar, these chariots were overturned by the people who hit them, and they no longer had combat effectiveness.

Zhide saw that he killed the imperial husband with a stick, opened the killing ring, closed his eyes tightly, and looked up to the sky and recited: "Amitabha, sins and sins, I hope the Buddha will forgive his disciples for blood and blood, and fight violence with violence!"

General Huang saw that the ironclad chariots in his army could not break through the arhat formation of eleven men, and he was angry, and he saw that Zhide and others had changed a formation again, and the array formed was like the "Big Dipper", the door was wide open, and he thought: How can these dozen people stop their thousands of troops and horses, and he couldn't help laughing a few times, taking the lead, and rushing into the stick formation. It turns out that this Arhat stick formation is a sharp weapon for Shaolin Temple to deal with a strong enemy, just like the formation of the two armies when facing each other, deliberately leaving a gap to lead the enemy deep; and then the end and end are combined to form two formations, both inside and outside, which can not only make the enemy fall deep in it, but also resist the enemy outside.

General Huang saw that the Shaolin monks had set up a "long snake formation", and he had no fear in his heart, and he waved the mace in his hand to rush east and west, trying to break up the stick formation, but he attacked the head of the formation, the leader of the formation retreated, and the end of the formation came to the rescue; General Huang had to retreat step by step, but the formation shrank smaller and smaller, just like the "stars and the moon", surrounded him, General Huang knew at this time that he was too light on the enemy, he saw that the monks surrounded themselves in a circle, and the formation kept changing. However, his own rescuers were blocked by Xu Zhi, An Jingsi, Xue Atan, and Liwen outside the formation in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest.

General Huang failed to break through several times, and he saw that Liao Dian in the northwest corner was still a child, bullied him for being young, let go of his war horse, picked up his mace, and slammed it on the top of his head. Seeing the danger, he took the first step, picked up the wooden stick in his hand, and "swept away thousands of troops" with one move, breaking the front legs of General Huang's mount, and the horse chief neighed, foamed at the mouth, knelt on the ground, and threw General Huang to the ground.

Seeing General Huang fall to the ground, without thinking, he raised his stick against the Fengchi point on the back of his neck.

Zhide saw that General Huang had been captured, and he was afraid that the disciples would kill again and defile the cultivation of the Buddhist family, so he hurriedly stopped: "Don't be reckless, leave him alive?"

He hurriedly replied: "Respect the master's teachings!", and then clicked on General Huang's acupoint, making him unable to move.

When the officers and soldiers saw that their generals were captured, they all consciously retreated dozens of steps back and stopped.

Master Zhide said to the general: "General, these are hungry ordinary people in front of you, and I hope that the general will take pity on them, give them some food, and let them live!"

Although General Huang couldn't move his body, he scanned the surroundings with his eyes and saw that there were some monks around him, and he thought that the monks were the most compassionate and did not kill, and he had no worries about his life for the time being. He deliberately shirked and said: "Masters, spare your life! Ben will be ordered to stick to the granary of the imperial court, without the instructions of the imperial court, how dare he give the grain and grass in the treasury to the people, if the imperial court blames him, Ben will be broken to pieces, and he can't afford it! Please have mercy on the masters!"

Seeing that General Huang said some truth, he felt pity for a while, and said to Master Zhide: "Master, we can't blame the general on the ground, he is also in a dilemma, if he wants to help the victims, he must sacrifice himself; if he does not save the hungry people, then he will starve to death tens of millions of people! Our Buddhists pay attention to the equality of all beings, and these left and right are all lives to be saved, and the disciples are stupid, and they don't know what to do.

When the monks heard this, they were also confused, and they all turned their eyes to the Zhide Zen Master.

Zhide replied: "My Buddha is compassionate and often admonishes his disciples to sacrifice themselves for others and save others from distress. Nowadays, how difficult the world is, one life is small, and thousands of lives are big, my generation should give up the small to protect the big, so as to show my Buddha's compassion beyond everyone, Amitabha!"

Seeing that Xue Atan's face showed a look of incomprehension, he explained: "What the master means is that we would rather offend the imperial court than borrow grain from the granary to save these tens of millions of hard-working creatures!"

Master Zhide said to the generals on the ground: "General, we monks are also forced to be helpless, so we are disrespectful to the generals. As long as the general is merciful and distributes several loads of rice and grain, he can save the urgent needs of these tens of millions of people, which is also a great merit planted by the general himself, and he will inevitably shelter his descendants in the future, and please ask the general to give permission!"

General Huang smiled bitterly and said: "Masters don't know, even this general can't open the granary to release grain without permission, and he still needs the edict of the imperial court to help the victims and the warrant of Lord Chen, the commander of the Longmen Warehouse!"

Sure enough, dozens of archers were sent to the officers and soldiers to surround the hungry people, and the officers and soldiers shouted in unison: "Listen, traitors, let go of our General Huang, otherwise you will be pierced by thousands of arrows and dead without a whole body." ”

Xu Zhi knew that the matter was urgent, so he hurriedly discussed with Master Zhide, and let the scattered people gather in the middle, while the eleven monks held sticks in their hands and held General Huang hostage to block the outermost.

Just when the two sides were holding each other, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly emerged from the willow forest in the southeast direction, led by the general wearing silver armor and yellow cloak, riding a white war horse, holding a jade flute, and led the team to rush over.

Xu Zhi saw that Na Qincha had a handsome face and a light and graceful body, and thought that there was such a handsome general in the world, which was really amazing. The general sat on his horse, waved his flag, and commanded his army to be stationed on the spot. Several lieutenants of Longmen Cang saw a white horse general, and they all stepped forward one by one to see it.

Na Qincha listened to the reports of several deputy generals of Longmencang, urged him to step forward, looked around at the people, and saw that the people were all unkempt and hungry, and looked at Xu Zhi, Xue Atan, and An Jingsi a few times.

Na Qincha said loudly: "All the soldiers of the Longmen Warehouse listen to the order: This general was ordered by Princess Xiuyun to come to inspect the Longmen Granary. As the envoy of the princess and the imperial court, General Ben ordered to open the Longmen granary and take out 2,000 loads of grain to help the victims from all directions. ”

Xu Zhi stared at the white horse general for a long time, and he saw that the general was very familiar, and his voice was soft, like a woman.

The adjutant general beside General Naqin Chahe hurriedly stopped in a low voice: "General, we are just inspecting the two granaries of Luokou and Longmen on behalf of the princess. The princess didn't let the general open a warehouse to release grain! If you release grain without permission and miss the military affairs of the imperial court, how can you explain to Her Royal Highness the princess after you go back?"

At this time, the officials and soldiers also mutinied, and they all discussed: "It turns out that he is only patrolling the military camp on behalf of the sky, and he does not have the will of the princess to open a warehouse and release grain! Longmen Cang is a military important place of the imperial court, how can he open a warehouse at will for disaster relief?"

Na Qin said unhurriedly: "Ben Qin sent a sword from the princess to Shang Fang here, the princess ordered, see that the sword is like seeing the saint, do you not obey the will of the saint?"

General Huang was very naïve and ridiculous when he saw that the young Qin sent the princess holding the princess's Shang Fang sword and fox fake tiger might, but the imperial court had a system: seeing Shang Fang's sword was like seeing the saint, since the Qin sent a decree, he could open a warehouse and release grain to help the victims, and he would not blame himself for the court in the future. General Huang rejoiced in his heart: this will come too timely, otherwise his life would not be guaranteed, even if a few high-ranking monks did not kill him, those victims were hungry, and they would definitely not let him go. Regardless of his face, he shouted: "The court is wise, the princess is wise, the people have really met the blue sky, and I also ask the masters to let go of the officials and go to the granary to receive two thousand loads of rice grain together!"

Master Zhide replied for the people: "Thank you for the good intentions of the imperial court, since the general has the will of the imperial court, please return to the camp immediately and open the warehouse to release grain!", at this time, hundreds of victims behind him shouted in unison: "Long live!".

General Naqin Chahe asked the people to wait in line outside the camp, and then followed the soldiers into the Longmen granary, Master Zhide was afraid that the officials and soldiers would deceive the people, so he still asked the people to be more careful.

After a while, the camp gate was wide open, and General Qin Chahe commanded dozens of soldiers to push dozens of bags of rice and grain, and stacked the grain outside the door.

General He saw that Xu Zhi and the other eleven Shaolin monks had received their own rations, but they still stayed at the gate of the barracks, and they were reluctant to leave for a long time, so he specially asked: "Several masters have already received rations, why are they still reluctant to leave?"

Xu Zhidao: "The general doesn't know, we only received our own rations, but at this moment there are still hundreds of monks like us who need relief, and please ask the general to give us some more rice and grain to bring back!"

Then General He seemed to be very happy when he saw Xu Zhi, and deliberately asked: "Hey, this young man, I see that you are full of black hair, how do you look like a monk, are you pretending?"

An Jingsi said: "General, how can I listen to your voice so much like my Sister He? I, Brother Xu, and Xue Aniu have not shaved their degrees, and they are not official Shaolin disciples!"

Then General He said a little unnaturally: "Who is your sister He? You little monk, full of oily and slippery, what are you talking nonsense?", after speaking, he secretly glanced at Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi saw General He's eyes and the jade flute in his hand, and he was even more sure that she was He Mengjiao, but it was inconvenient for him to reveal her identity at this time, so he had to smile deliberately: "Jing Si, this General He is the Qincha of the imperial court, how can it be Sister He?"

General He smiled again: "Today, General Ben will do a good thing to the end! You monks have neither super strong arm strength nor carriers, how much rice and grain can you take away?"

Master Zhide bowed his head and said: "Thank you for the kindness of the general, yes, there are only eleven people on our trip, even if we each carry a load of rice and grain back, it will not be enough to eat?"

General He said: "Old monk, you won't let Ben Qin send you a few hundred loads of rice and noodles back! If you are so greedy, then General Ben will not be able to help!", after speaking, he was about to turn around and go back to the camp, he walked past Xu Zhi, picked up the jade flute in his hand and shook it, and said to the adjutant general of his entourage: "General Ben has been running all the way, he is tired early, and he spends a full moon tonight, if he can get drunk and rest, how good it would be!"