Chapter 12: The Red Fox Crate (Part II)

"The Red Fox Treasure Crate rules the world, and the gods will be heavenly soldiers to protect the Zhu family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

It is said that the red fox treasure box has a mysterious power, can summon the heavenly soldiers and gods, Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was helped by this treasure, the south and the north to fight, pacify the world, and create the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that in August of the twenty-third year of Yuan Zhizheng (1363), Chen Youliang, the king of Han, led an army of more than 600,000 troops to fight a decisive battle with Emperor Taizu in Poyang Lake. The Hongwu army fought for several days without victory, but Zhu Yuanzhang was destroyed in the battle and almost died. The two sides confronted each other for nearly a month, during which they fought more than 10 battles one after another, but they could not win. Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about this, and it was difficult to sleep and eat.

On this day, I was thinking hard about countermeasures in the room, and suddenly I found myself in the barren mountains and mountains, surrounded by trees and greenery, green screens and obstacles, and waterfalls and clear springs, strange flowers and stones, like a fairyland on earth. In amazement, I couldn't help but walk along the road, gradually moving away, and unconsciously walked to the depths of the mountains, and there was no way ahead. When he was at a loss, he suddenly heard a shout for help, and said in his heart: "Why is there someone in this wilderness calling for help, and go and see, if it is a hunter who often walks this mountain forest, it is better to ask for the way back." ”

Make up your mind now and follow the sound. The forest was dense and the grass was long, and the thorns and vines were entangled, and it took a lot of effort to find the source of the sound when it turned left and right. When I looked closely, I saw an old man with white hair being entangled by a giant python, which was as thick as a bucket, more than three feet long, with black and shiny scales, and a huge mouth spitting blood-red letters, hissing. The old man was entangled, and he couldn't move at all, so he could only cry out for help weakly. What's even more weird is that there are wolves, tigers and other fierce beasts next to them, with cracked teeth and mouths, and it seems that they also want to get a bite. Even if the old man can get out of the snake's mouth, he will be divided by the wolf and tiger in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Yuanzhang said in his heart: "I came out in a hurry, and I didn't even bring a sharp weapon with me, besides, the wolf, tiger, and python, that is not extremely vicious, I gave my life in vain, or find a way down the mountain as soon as possible, and the officers and soldiers in the army are still waiting for me to lead the battle." So he turned around and left, walked about ten steps, stopped again, and said: "Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang, since you are determined to dominate the world, why did you run away in panic when you encountered a few fierce beasts, and be a coward?

So he walked back again, but there was no weapon on his body, and he didn't know what to do, and he looked around and found that the old man was on his side with a boulder more than two feet high, if he could climb to it, and then throw it with a stone, maybe he could scare away the wolf, tiger and python. The forest here is dense with tall trees and branches that are connected to each other, so it is not difficult to climb through the trees. After making up his mind, he picked a nearby tree and climbed it three or two times, knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang was also a military general when he marched to fight, so it was not difficult for him to climb this point, he could get up to the tree, jump around on it, and soon reached the boulder.

Hearing that the old man's voice calling for help was getting weaker and weaker, it seemed that there was more air out and less air in, and he knew that if he didn't hurry up, the old man would die. So hurriedly picked up the stone and smashed it to the wolf and tiger python, for a time the wolf howled and the tiger roared, jumping up and down, the giant python was in pain, and actually gave up the old man, and pounced on it with his head high, and the blood basin spewed bursts of fishy smell, and the smell was disgusting.

Zhu Yuanzhang lifted a stone and was about to smash it, when he suddenly saw the giant python rushing up, he was taken aback, stumbled under his feet, stepped on the moss on the stone, stood unsteadily, and fell straight to the mouth of the snake. I thought that my life was at a rest, but I didn't expect that I, Zhu Yuanzhang, had fought for many years, did not die on the battlefield, and today I was buried in the belly of a snake. At the moment, all thoughts are lost, close your eyes and wait for death.

But the world is so unpredictable, and his life should not be extinguished, when he fell, the foot stumbled on the vine and hooked, but the upper body fell unabated, and the head and feet fell, and it became the head to pounce first, and the stone in his hand hit the python seven inches impartially, and then he fell down and smashed the wolf and tiger half to death.

Things changed so suddenly that Zhu Yuanzhang himself couldn't believe that he had picked up his life, and he hung on it for a long time before coming back to his senses. When he came down from the top with difficulty, the old man thanked him again and again, saying that he was trapped by the giant python just now, and his legs and feet were afraid that he had broken and could not walk, so he lived on the top of the mountain, and he could go up the stone steps by turning two corners in front, so that Zhu Yuanzhang was a good person to the end, and he would carry himself back, and he would be very grateful.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately picked up the old man, carried him away, turned two corners, and saw a stone step. At first glance, I couldn't help but gasp, only to see that the stone steps hung steeply on the mountain wall, less than two feet wide, and the height was hidden in the clouds, and I didn't know where the end was. asked the old man and said, "Old man, why do you live in such a precipitous place at such a young age, it is better to find a place to live in that village and town, and the neighbors should take care of each other."

The old man said with a sad face: "Now that the war has been raging for many years, the people are not living, how can there be a pure land in the world, and I have no choice but to live here, I just hope that the world will be peaceful as soon as possible." Look at the dress of the benefactor, and he is also a general on the battlefield, when you know how many families have been lost and ruined by the war. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "No one knows the suffering of war, but at present, the court is corrupt, the people are full of grievances, and the heroes of the world are rising up together, killing each other. ”

After hearing this, the old man bowed his head slightly, and said: "The old man has something to help you, if you carry me up, I will give it to you." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed when he heard this, so he bent down and picked up the old man, who knew that the old man looked thin and weak, but he was surprisingly heavy, although Zhu Yuanzhang was in the prime of life, and he was marching and fighting all year round, he also had to carry it hard, and he was already sweating and wheezing after one hundred and ten levels. I secretly wondered how this old man was so heavy. Fu walked another hundred and ten steps, his legs were sore, his head was dizzy, and he was far from the end, so he said to the old man: "Old man, let's rest first, I can't walk." ”

The old man said: "You young man is so unenterprising, how much can I weigh, I can't carry these few steps on your back, what else are you talking about dominating the world, let's go." ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard him say this, he was a little embarrassed in his heart, he hardened his head at the moment, gritted his teeth, and walked dozens of steps even after crawling, and finally couldn't support it, and sat down on the stone steps, as if he had gone to most of his life, and he didn't want to move for a while.

The old man looked at him, nodded, shook his head again, sighed, and said: "Providence, this is the will of heaven, you carried the old man on his back and walked two hundred and seventy-six stone steps, and the old man protected your Zhu family for two hundred and seventy-six years." Go back, and someone will help you. After the old man finished speaking, he rose into the air and walked away on the clouds.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he had met an immortal, and when he heard the old man say that he had just carried him on his back and walked two hundred and seventy-six stone steps, he couldn't help but shout urgently: "Immortals, wait, I can still walk, I can still walk......"

"Marshal, marshal......" suddenly heard someone calling, only to realize that it was a dream, and his heart suddenly lost. couldn't help but show displeasure on his face, and shouted, "What's the noise?"

"Marshal Qiqi, someone outside the door asked to see him, saying that there was a way to break the enemy, and he wanted to meet the marshal. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his heart moved, and the old man said that he had someone to help me, could it really be that the dream had come true?

I asked to see that the man was about thirty years old, with a thin face, three locks of long beard, but there was a bit of fairy wind and bones, and he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that he had heard that the marshal had fought against the enemy for more than a month, and failed to win.

"I don't know what magic weapon the master has, it is really a blessing for the people in the world to help me defeat the enemy. Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

The man took out a package, opened the layers of wrapping cloth, revealing a box seven inches long, five inches wide, and four inches high, the box was not wood, stone, or iron, and I don't know what material it was carved.

The man said: "This box is called the Red Fox Treasure Box, it is an ancient treasure, you can summon the heavenly soldiers and gods, the ancestors got this treasure by coincidence, today it is a catastrophe, and the living beings are charcoalized. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "So I don't know how the master is the enemy?"

The man said: "After three days, it will be a good opportunity, the marshal only needs to prepare a light raft, which is conducive to flexible operation on the water, and then he can intercept and chase the remnants of the defeated army in time." I have a secret recipe here, the marshal ordered people to prepare it, boil it into a soup, all the soldiers who participated in the war should take it, it can refresh the mind and delay fatigue. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately ordered people to do it one by one. The battle three days later was really earth-shattering, and the sun and moon were gone. The man's altar casts a spell, as soon as the box is opened, the red mangs cover the heavens and the earth, and the twelve gods in mid-air with angry eyes and majestic appearances, each holding a blade, come into the air, and the killing sound shakes the sky for a while, the red flame is thousands of miles, and the mourning is all over the field, the huge ships and fierce ships of Chen Youliang are all destroyed, and countless people are burned and drowned, and those who are lucky to escape are chased and slashed by the Hongwu army on the light boat and fast raft, and most of the poor 600,000 troops are buried here, and the blood dyes the lake red, and Chen Youliang was also killed by an arrow in the melee.

After this battle, Zhu Yuanzhang's regime was greatly consolidated and strengthened, and in the following years, relying on the help of the Red Fox Treasure Box, he finally completed the hegemony and dominated the world. In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne as emperor, and just one day before he ascended the throne, the man took the red fox treasure box and said goodbye, and he has not been seen since.