Chapter Eighty-Eight: Passing the Torch
At this time, Zhide's wooden stick was entangled by the flying Nine Dragons whip, and the two fought for a while. Yun Feiyang couldn't resist Zhide's continuous internal force, so he had to untie the mechanism of the Nine Dragons Whip, take a few steps back, and bumped into Wang. At this time, although Wangwang's feet were able to move, the ropes of his hands had not yet been untied, and he was stumbled, fell, and fell at Yeluchun's feet.
Yeluchun didn't know that Wangwang was an undercover agent of the imperial court, and when he raised his foot, he was about to crush Wang's head.
Lichen looked at the side when he saw the air, and said hurriedly: "What are you still doing in a daze!
With the emptiness on his back, he felt that the eyes of Li Xiuyun, Zhou Chen, Zhide, Liyin and others were staring at him, he was stunned there, raised his wooden stick, and didn't know what to do. Seeing the void, Yeluchun hesitated, stepped on the head of Wang, and stabbed the sword in his right hand into the air.
Zhide saw that Kong's reaction was slow, and he thought that he had not woken up from the drug, so he jumped in front of Yeluchun and fell on Kong's body despite the strong enemy on his side. Yeluchun stabbed Zhide in the back with his long sword.
The empty was shocked and cried: "Master, why do you want to save the empty regardless of your own safety!", Zhide ignored the severe pain of the wound, and a "carp jumped over the dragon gate", and he was about to turn over and stand up.
Ye Luchun waved his long sword, which was a move of "sword pointing to the abyss", stabbing Zhide in the chest, preventing him from jumping on the ground.
Seeing that Zhide was injured and trapped on the ground, Yun Feiyang was a perfect opportunity to open the kickback of the Nine Dragons Whip and lock Zhide's feet violently. Zhide was shocked, turned around and made a move of "dragon gripper", breaking Guo Sheng's left arm, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't untie the buckle of the Nine Dragons Whip.
Yun Feiyang shouted, "Shoot arrows!" , Liao Yin and the others rushed to kill and block the archers in front, but several archers went around the back of Yin and Zhiran, and a burst of arrows shot at the monks. Zhide couldn't move because his feet were clamped, and he was hit by an arrow in the chest, and he was bleeding profusely.
Yun Feiyang saw that Zhide was pierced through the heart by an arrow, and ordered, "The leader of the Shaolin bandits is dead, the soldiers rush quickly! Kill a monk and reward a hundred yuan, and capture a monk alive and reward a thousand yuan!" Thousands of soldiers rushed up like a tide.
Xu Zhi saw that his side was limited in manpower, and shouted: "Master Zhixin, take advantage of the chaos, quickly order a retreat!"
Zhixin made a false move, jumped out of the siege of Jiang Chao's white rainbow sword, took a few steps back, and ordered: "All the monks of Shaolin Temple retreat to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion." Xu Zhi, because of this, you escort Senior Brother Zhide to go first, and the other monks of the courtyard will follow the old man to break off!"
Xu Zhi roared, killed Guo Sheng, and carried Zhide Zen Master from the ground, Zhou Yuanzhi and Pang Xun followed him closely. Because he also carried the seriously injured Likong, the other disciples also supported each other and hid in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of the Shaolin Temple. This Tibetan scripture pavilion because it has the books and brief information of the Shaolin Temple in the past dynasties, so there is a two-zhang high wall around it, the south wall is directly connected with the outside of the temple, and there is only one corner door in the whole Tibetan scripture pavilion to enter and exit. Zhixin ordered the monks to lock the door of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and send warrior monks to guard the passes.
Yun Feiyang led the officers and soldiers to chase after him, and he saw that the monks had fled into the Scripture Pavilion, and the commander soldiers surrounded the Scripture Pavilion. Yun Feiyang saw that the walls of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion were high and thick bricks, and he was ready to let the soldiers move the ladder to attack. Li Xiuyun was worried about Xu Zhi inside, and persuaded him to attack his heart. Yun Feiyang didn't dare to disobey the princess's wishes, so he had to let Liu Jingren, Guo Sheng and others shout loudly: "Listen to the Shaolin monks, you come out and surrender as soon as possible, and you can be lenient, if you are stubborn again, you will be punished for treason!"
Besides, in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, all the monks couldn't help but cry like rain when they saw Zhide covered in blood. Zhide endured the pain and said with a smile: "Zhixin junior brother, disciples, today the Shaolin Temple was slaughtered, the temple was destroyed, we are ashamed of the ancestors of the Shaolin Temple, we must unite against the enemy, support justice, and rebuild Shaolin!"
Zhixin and the monks nodded silently, and Zhide asked again, "How is the injury of the empty space?"
Empty body was seriously injured, and at this time he was dying, he heard Zhide call his name, and replied: "Zhide Zen Master, you shouldn't sacrifice your life to save your disciples! Senior brothers, the disciples are guilty! The disciples have something to say, otherwise the disciples will die!"
All the monks turned their strange eyes to the void, and the void scolded: "The void is a beast that is not as good as a pig and a dog, today the Shaolin Temple was tragically destroyed, the abbot died tragically, and it was the void that harmed everyone!", and then he talked about how to go undercover in the Shaolin Temple, how to encourage the brothers to defect, how to assassinate Uncle Zhijing, how to report the Shaolin grain robbery to the court, how to use drugs to numb the whole temple, and how to lead the officials and soldiers into the temple. Except for Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi, the more the others listened, the more angry they became, and they interrupted empty speech several times.
He said angrily: "It's empty, you brute. The abbot, Master Zhide, and Uncle Zhijing love you so much, but you will take revenge, I want to get justice for the abbot and Uncle Zhijing who died unjustly!", after speaking, he used the dragon grip to break the neck of the cause.
Zhide shouted: "Stop, you are a senior brother, and you will take on the important task of revitalizing Shaolin in the future!
Zhide said: "Since the day he took refuge in my Buddha, the old man saw the unwillingness in his heart, even if he made a thousand mistakes, the sage said: 'Death can be done at the end of the day', he can know his mistakes at this time, it is not too late;
Seeing that Zhide was on his deathbed, he was able to forgive himself, and said with great shame: "Master, senior brothers, I and Wang acted as the eyes and ears of the court, secretly doing things for the court, and we were not happy at all. In fact, the happiest time for us is to be able to share weal and woe with our brothers and sisters. You may not know that when you bring rice and grain and let us eat our stomachs, we are both grateful and sad in our hearts! We are both happy and melancholy! How we want to be an upright Shaolin monk, but we can't do it, because our family is controlled by the imperial court, and we can only go to the dark with our conscience until we die!"
When all the monks heard the empty words, they all felt sorry for him, and they all turned their heads silently. Seeing that all the monks did not speak, knowing that everyone had forgiven themselves in front of them, but they were still unwilling to accept it in their hearts, he sighed and said: "I should be content, Abbot, Master Zhijing, I have made amends for you!", and closed his eyes and died.
Zhide struggled and said to the monks, "The abbot once ordered me to be the next abbot of Shaolin, but unfortunately I can't do it. The houses of Shaolin Temple can be destroyed, but the disciples cannot be without presiding over for a day, as long as there is an abbot, the Shaolin spirit is there, and the Shaolin spirit will be passed on from generation to generation!"
Zhixin saw that Zhide's face was pale, and he choked up; Senior Brother Zhide, your words, the junior brothers and disciples have written them down one by one!"
Zhide took a breath for a while, and said: "Since the construction of the temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty, under the protection of the Buddha and the struggle of the ancestors of the past dynasties, I have protected the Tang Dynasty, saved the community, and is a model of martial arts in the world. As the saying goes: when the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses, and I never thought that it would fall to such a point today, just like the firewood has been burned out, and only the spark remains. ”
Zhou Yuanzhi saw the misery of Zhide's words, and comforted: "Master, God has the virtue of a good life, and Buddhism also talks about the origin and extinction of fate, Shaolin has always been kind and charitable, and if you plant good causes, there will be good results!"
Zhide listened to Zhou Yuanzhi's words, finally loosened his tightly locked brows, nodded to her, and said: "Everyone, Lao Wei still has a word I hope you will remember: If there is chaos today, my Shaolin will not be able to toss anymore because of your family background, I hope you will be cautious in your words and deeds, stay away from the disaster of Shaomu Mountain, save the fire, and rebuild my Shaolin in the future!"
Zhixin led the disciples to nod together, Zhide was very pleased, and said intermittently: "There is also that you have to learn the lesson of emptiness, in the future, Shaolin will accept disciples to pay attention to morality, and everything else is secondary;
Zhixin and his disciples finished mourning and began to discuss how to break through the siege of the imperial court outside the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
Zhou Yuanzhi said with a smile, "There is a tall cypress tree outside the wall of the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, we can jump from the cypress tree to the outside of the wall!"
Zhixin was surprised: "How does Miss Zhou know?"
Zhou Yuanzhi replied: "Master, don't ask me how I know, you just say whether this plan is feasible?" , After speaking, he smiled proudly at Xu Zhi.
Lichen said: "It's feasible, but there are so many officers and soldiers outside the wall, how should we deal with it? Otherwise, if we go out, we will also be shot into big hedgehogs by random arrows!"
He suggested: "Then we will choose the third watch in the evening, when the officers and soldiers have the loosest defense, and we can take a risk!"
After thinking for a while, he exclaimed, "This is a good way, even if we are slightly injured, it is easy to escape." How can those disciples who are seriously injured or who don't know martial arts get out?"
Seeing Xu Zhi constantly looking at the distance between the Zangjing Building and the big tree, Zhixin asked, "Xu Zhi, what do you think?"
Seeing that Xu Zhi didn't answer, An Jingsi reminded: "Brother Xu, why don't you speak, Master Zhixin asks you!"
Xue Atan said, "This matter is too difficult, don't embarrass Brother Xu, he is an immortal, and he can't take us out of the encirclement with one left hand and one with his right hand!"
Xu Zhi came back to his senses and said, "Xu Zhi just thought, if we use a rope to connect the big tree with the pillars of the Scripture Pavilion, knock the wounded into the bookcase, and slide the bookcase along the rope to the big tree, so that we can not only carry the wounded, but also transport the scriptures!"
Zhou Yuanzhi applauded first, "Brother Xu still has a way!", and everyone applauded.
Xu Zhi said: "We still have to plan this matter thoroughly, but we can't delay it!"
Suddenly, he ran in in a panic and shouted: "Oh no, Yun Feiyang ordered his subordinates to shoot rockets, trying to force us out of the Scripture Pavilion!", Zhixin led the monks to open the window to check, and sure enough, he saw thousands of rockets falling from the sky, and there were many wooden pillars, porches, and windows that were inserted in the Scripture Pavilion.
At this time, all the monks turned their eyes to Xu Zhi, and listened to his orders, Xu Zhi was not afraid of danger and said: "Master Zhixin, you first let people extinguish the open fire in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and then let people prepare ropes and wooden boxes for people, An Jingsi, you first occupy the big tree in the southeast corner, and prepare a large number of stones, listen to my orders, and scatter the defending soldiers." Then Liyin and Lichen led several martial brothers to rush out of the temple and lead the officers and troops to the southwest corner, and we broke through from the southeast corner. ”
Qiu Yue took Zhou Yuanzhi's hand and asked, "Miss, why did Xu Gongzi choose the southeast corner to break through instead of the southwest corner?"
Zhou Yuanzhi smiled, "If I knew, wouldn't I be the roundworm in his stomach?"
Xu Zhi saw that others also had such questions, and explained: "Don't hesitate, the southeast corner of this Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is directly connected to the outside of the temple, and the terrain is steep, not suitable for defense, I don't think there are too many defenders there!"
Zhixin saw that there was already a fire outside the Scripture Pavilion, and said, "Just act according to Xu Zhi's method." ”
Liao Chen first made a mistake: "Master, how can my Shaolin Temple have such a long rope?
Zhixin said with a smile: "There is more than ten zhang of hemp rope on the top of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, which was originally used by Shaolin Temple to bundle books, and it just came in handy at this time." Find a few more big wooden boxes that can hold people!"
Seeing that everything was ready, Zhixin asked Xu Zhidao, "When will we act?"
Xu Zhi said with a smile: "When the fire burns to the inner room, close to the third watch, we will act again!
"Brother Xu, wouldn't it be easy for you to have an external response!", a black shadow fell from the roof beam.
Xu Zhi wiped his eyes, he couldn't believe that the person in front of him was the big brother Lingkongzi he was looking forward to day and night. Xu Zhi grabbed Ling Kong's hands and shouted, "Brother Ling, since I said goodbye to Ezhou, I want to kill my little brother, I didn't expect to see you here!"
Xu Zhi introduced Ling Kongzi to the monks. The monks saw the volley fairy wind bones, informal, and just nodded slightly in the face of everyone, even in the face of the Zhixin Zen Master, they just said: "The poor Taoist is the head."
Zhixin has long heard that there is a wandering volley Taoist in Wudang Mountain, this person loves to take care of the affairs of the rivers and lakes, loves to fight unevenly, it is really famous as meeting, he never thought that the volley in front of him is just a raunchy old way.
Ling Kongzi said with a smile: "Brother Xu, now is not the time to talk about the old days, we have to help Shaolin break out as soon as possible." In addition, I would like to tell you a great piece of good news, the vanguard of the Yellow King has passed Bozhou, and it will be here tomorrow!"
Xu Zhi told Ling Kong again about his strategy. Ling Kong nodded yes, and saw that Zhou Yuanzhi was inseparable from Xu Zhi, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many days, Brother Xu has not only grown in knowledge, his martial arts have improved, but there is also an extra confidant by his side, and the eldest brother is completely relieved." ”
Qiu Yue smiled and said to Zhou Yuanzhi, "I didn't expect Xu Gongzi to have such an old big brother!
Ling Kongzi made a grimace at Qiuyue and said, "Little girl, what do you know? There are brothers in the four seas, Xu Zhi and I have the same temper, why can't we become brothers in life and death?", the monks understood the reason.
At this time, the fire in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion burned bigger and bigger, Ling Kong, Xu Zhi slid the boxes full of scriptures and the wounded along the rope one by one to the big tree in the southeast corner, An Jingsi, who had already answered on the tree, took over the big wooden boxes, he saw that there were not many officers and soldiers outside the temple, and some soldiers saw that the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion was surrounded by fire, they all put down their weapons and cheered. One of the soldiers said: "This group of bald donkeys in Shaolin Temple is dead." Another said: "What's so good about this fire, it's better to go back to the camp and rest." Tomorrow morning, I have to collect the corpses of this group of rebel monks!"
An Jingsi threw out a handful of stones from his sleeve, and beat the soldiers guarding outside the temple screaming, he didn't wait for those soldiers to react, and threw out a few more stones, those soldiers couldn't see the figure, thinking that it was the ghost of the monks of Shaolin Temple, and shouted: There are ghosts. An Jingsi deliberately learned to scream, and those soldiers fled without a trace. An Jingsi just threw the wooden boxes out of the temple, and the warrior monks such as Liyin and Lichen also jumped out of the temple, in order to prevent the officials and soldiers from coming back, they deliberately shouted and turned back in a circle from the southwest corner.
At this time, Ling Kongzi, Zhixin, Xu Zhi and An Jingsi took advantage of the chaos to transport the other monks out of the Shaolin Temple Tibetan Scripture Pavilion one by one, and the monks joined hands with each other and crossed the Shaolin Mountain step by step. Everyone was congratulating each other on escaping from the clutches, but they saw a large number of torches coming behind them.
Ling Kongzi said to Zhixin, "The master is the pillar of Shaolin's revival, Shaolin Temple cannot be without a master in the future, and please lead the Shaolin disciples first, and Xu Zhi and I can break off!", other warrior monks should also stay to help.
Ling Kong said: "It's still night, Xu Zhi and I are easy to get out, there are too many people, but it is inconvenient!"
Zhou Yuanzhi said angrily: "Brother Xu, we said that we will not be separated in this life and this life, why did you patronize the eldest brother and forget the oath between us?"
An Jingsi and Xue Atan also said: "What Miss Zhou said is reasonable, it is the so-called brother who fights the tiger, we and Brother Xu were born and died, and we will fight the enemy together today!"
Xu Zhi didn't know what to do, so he had to look at Ling Kongzi helplessly, and when Ling Kongzi saw that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, he sighed: "Brother Xu, you can't be as happy and comfortable as your eldest brother in the future!