Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongyan escorted Kublai Khan to Fenghua Temple, and under Liu Bingzhong's clever strategy, the road can be described as peaceful.

Zong Zheng and Zhongshan Eight Wolves adhered to the orders of the Valley Lord of Beauty Valley, so they naturally did not dare to slack off and secretly protected them along the way.

Fenghua Temple is located on a secluded mountain outskirts, and there is a trail at the fork of the main road to the north that leads to the temple, the trail is about half a mile long, and there is a dense mountain forest along the way, and there is also a mountain road leading to Fenghua Temple on the south side of the small mountain forest.

When Zhang Rou led more than 100 bikes to the intersection of the road and the trail, he immediately shouted to stop.

The entire marching team froze in an instant, Zhang Rou looked around, and saw that the mountains and forests here were dense, and the terrain was undulating, which was the most suitable for ambushing soldiers, so according to Liu Bingzhong's orders, he ordered more than 100 people to ambush in the nearby mountains and forests, and obey the order.

Subsequently, Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongyan only led a small team of men and horses to accompany Kublai Khan along the trail to Fenghua Temple.

That Fenghua Temple is a small temple of 100 square meters, together with the courtyard wall, only 300 square meters left and right, although the temple is small, but the pattern is exquisite, antique, counting the year, there are also hundreds of years of history, because of the battle of Ezhou, the monks who live in the temple here sneaked to other places to avoid the war.

The temple is planted with all kinds of plants and trees, although it is late autumn, there are also green trees, stand up arrogantly wantonly, pour the green of the garden, the main hall of the temple is open, there is a partial door in the main hall to enter the partial hall, the two thick pillars on the outside are engraved with two columns of dialogues, the left pillar is written 'Fengyun Lanji Mountain Hidden', the right pillar is written 'Huaguang first appeared in the world', two sentences say the origin of Fenghua Temple, but also highlights the name of the hidden temple, there is a charm.

Before Kublai Khan rode to the temple, four soldiers came out of the temple to greet him outside the door, Zhang Hongyan stepped forward and glanced at the four soldiers, and the four nodded in unison, indicating that it was okay.

Instead, Zhang Hongyan said to Kublai Khan: "Lord, this is Fenghua Temple, it's safe inside, I'll wait outside." ”

Kublai Khan dismounted with a 'hmm' sound, stretched out his hand to untie his cloak, calmly entered the small temple, and went to the main hall of the temple.

Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongyan stood in a conspicuous place outside the door, Zhang Rou saw that the terrain of the hills in the distance was conspicuous, so he ordered fifteen people to work in groups of three to set up light and dark guards on the hills of 100 meters outside the temple, always vigilant of the surrounding situation, leaving the remaining five people and the original four people who guarded the temple to guard the temple inside and outside.

Kublai Khan entered the main hall of the temple, looked at the gods and Buddhas on the temple, and thought that this place was about to turn into ashes, so he thought of putting in a few sticks of incense to apologize.

In front of the temple gods and Buddhas, Kublai Khan secretly promised that if he could resolve the crisis safely this time, he would ascend to the throne of Khan one day, and he would come here to rebuild the small temple to forgive today's mistakes.

According to the hour, Kublai Khan arrived a quarter of an hour earlier than Jia Yidao, and this quarter of an hour was actually a buffer time, and according to Liu Bingzhong's calculations, the assassin would arrive at this moment or so.

Sure enough, after only a short while, the scouts who were lying in ambush in the woods half a mile away rode to report that five assassins had rushed to Fenghua Temple.

After Zhang Rou got the news, she was not nervous, but retreated from the scouts and ordered him to send orders to the soldiers and horses in the forest, not to act rashly, and to listen to the signal instructions.

Soon after the scouts left, the ghost-faced old monster and other five people came to the periphery of Fenghua Temple along the path, looked at the mountain from afar, the tile roof of Fenghua Temple was faintly in front, and saw the small temple hundreds of meters away, just when the five people were about to ride forward, the ghost-faced old monster saw Zhang Rou's sentry arranged at the intersection of the hill from a distance, immediately reined in the reins, stopped, and the other four people also stopped the horse in time.

"The other side has set up sentinels, and the truth is not clear, so let's not startle the snakes, and wait until all the sentry posts are found out, and then we will march. The grimace said,

After today's events, the people were also cautious, and felt that the grimace was right, so they dismounted and tied their horses and hid them in the dark.

The grimace saw that there was a tall tree not far ahead, and the leaves had turned yellow, so he flew up to the top of the big tree with ease, and looked down from the top of the tree, and could see all the sentry posts outside the temple.

The grimace old monster gestured to the position and number of sentries on the tree, and the four people below marched separately according to the gestures of the grimace old monster.

In just a moment, more than a dozen light and dark sentries scattered by Zhang Rou died in the mountains and fields before they could speak.

Five people smoothly came to the hill outside the Fenghua Temple, seized this treasure land that can see the temple in front of them, and can see the scenery under the mountain, across a hundred meters away, looking at the small hill, Kublai Khan seems to be close at hand, looking at such an opportunity, the five people will rush down the hill, break through the temple gate, and take Kublai Khan's life.

Just when the five of them were about to rush into the temple to make a move, suddenly, a shout of killing sounded, and Jia Rudao led a large number of Song troops to kill from the southern mountain road to Fenghua Temple.

The grimace old monster and the others didn't know why, so they had to retreat, and instead lay down on the small hill, standing still, quietly watching the situation in the temple.

Seeing that Kublai Khan was close at hand, the grimacing old monster took out the bow and crossbow he had with him, and aimed it at Kublai Khan with his crossbow arrows, ready to release his arrows at any time, his sharp eyes like a cheetah staring at his prey.

Seeing that a large number of Song soldiers were killed, Zhang Rou hurriedly ordered the remaining guards to guard the temple, and then hurriedly walked into the inner hall of the temple with his son Zhang Hongyan.

Just when the old monster with a ghost was about to release the crossbow, Zhang Rou came to Kublai Khan's side and blocked the crossbow shot by the old monster with a ghost for a while, but the old monster with a ghost held back in time and did not release the crossbow.

When Zhang Rou saw Kublai Khan, her face was slightly gloomy, and she replied: "The guards on the periphery don't seem to have moved, I'm afraid that something unexpected has happened, please take refuge in the side hall for a while." As he spoke, he moved his body, wanting to lead Kublai Khan to the side hall, but at that moment, he moved to give the ghost-faced old monster a chance to shoot Kublai Khan, and the ghost-faced old monster decisively released the crossbow arrow, and the moment the crossbow arrow was fired, there was a burst of secret joy in his heart.

At this time, Jia Rudao ordered the Song army to release arrows to the guards at the temple gate, and hundreds of sharp arrows flew in, some shot directly at the Mongolian soldiers, some fell in the courtyard, and a few arrows shot far away to the main hall, Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongyan immediately blocked with knives, and inadvertently knocked the crossbow arrows of the grimace monster to the ground together with the arrows shot by the Song army.

Seeing this, the grimace old monster felt angry for a while, and couldn't help but slam his hand on the ground and sighed, "Hey, damn it." Then another bolt was loaded.

Zhang Rou obviously felt that his knife was hit by some hard object, so he looked underground, but saw that in addition to Song Jun's arrows on the ground, there was also a short arrow with fine workmanship, Zhang Rou felt that something was wrong, and glanced at the knife in his hand again.

But seeing that the blade of the sword shining with white light obviously had a round white ash trace, although Zhang Rou was puzzled, she didn't have time to think, she only knew that Kublai Khan was in danger and had to find a safe place quickly, so she quickly pulled Kublai Khan into the side hall to avoid the rain of arrows.

The traces on the knife are caused by stones, from the hands of the eight wolves in Zhongshan, he saw the grimace old monster secretly put cold arrows to Kublai Khan, worried that Kublai Khan had an accident, he didn't hold back for a while, so he came to the rescue, but he didn't want to want to hit the grimace old monster cold arrow The stone was blocked by Zhang Rou and Zhang Hongyan with a knife together with the Song army's arrows and the grimace old monster's crossbow arrows, but fortunately, after the Song army's arrows were stirred, otherwise, the grimace old monster's dark arrow was shot down by the stone for no reason, and he would definitely be puzzled, and it was inevitable that the plan would be ruined.

The grimace old monster put on the crossbow bolt again, thinking about finding an opportunity to launch again, but before he could take aim, Kublai Khan had already entered the temple hall and disappeared from view.

The nine guards outside the gate were all shot, and the Song army was about to attack the temple gate in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the Mongol army, which was lying in ambush half a mile away, arrived on horseback, and the situation suddenly reversed.

Dao Tuo was in a hurry, so he wanted to carry his knife and go straight to the temple to kill Kublai Khan, but was stopped by the ghost-faced old monster,

"The snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman profits, and it is not too late to start when the two armies fight to the death. ”

Zhu Yunshi also echoed: "The old monster is reasonable, anyway, Kublai Khan is in the temple, we just need to watch carefully, it seems that the person who rescued him last time was not in the temple, this little reinforcement, he will definitely not be able to run this time." ”

After hearing what the two said, Dao Tuo felt reasonable, so he retracted his body and quietly watched the situation in front of him.

Seeing that the Mongol army was coming to help, Jia Rudao immediately ordered someone to quickly ignite the gunpowder that had been placed at the entrance of the temple, and then led the troops to retreat.

When the powder is ignited, sparks are sputtered everywhere.

When the Mongol vanguard arrived, the gunpowder was immediately detonated.

There was a loud bang, and the fiery red light shook the entire mountain, and the ground within a few hundred meters around Fenghua Temple trembled significantly.

The rubble of the Fenghua Temple exploded into the sky, and the poor Mongolian reinforcement vanguard cavalry was blown to pieces with men and horses.

Fenghua Temple became a ruin in a blink of an eye, the fire was soaring into the sky, the smoke and dust were filled, and a little greenery in the temple courtyard before no longer existed, and turned lifeless.

The entire temple was only 300 square meters, but explosives were placed in every corner, and the power of the explosion made everyone in the place stunned.

The five people, including the old monster with a ghostface, were also surprised by the situation in front of them, and they were all a little stunned by this sudden and powerful explosion.

When the soldiers and horses of the Mongolian army in charge of pursuing the Song army saw this explosion, they couldn't help but feel lucky, so they stopped the pursuit instead, and hurriedly went back to surround the scene, put out the fire and rescue, and the whole army shouted: "Lord Wang, General Zhang." ”

Seeing that the Mongol army did not come out to pursue, Jia Rudao relieved himself and glanced back at Fenghua Temple, and saw the fire and smoke of Fenghua Temple, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Kublai Khan is also ruthless enough to treat traitors, and the old man admires it." ”

Dao Tuo, Liqi Si and Shang Mensero, and the other three had never had an idea in their hearts, and when they saw this, they asked the ghost-faced old monster and Zhu Yunshi, "What should I do now?"

The grimace old monster and Zhu Yunshi looked at the situation in front of them, but they had no idea for a while, the situation changed too quickly, and the two of them still haven't reacted.

At this moment, the rumbling of horses stepping on the ground sounded at the bottom of the mountain, and Dong Wenbing led a large number of troops to arrive.

Seeing this, the old monster with a grimace had no choice but to leave with the other four people.