Tao Tang Houyao exterminated the Nine Babies in the West and won a complete victory. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info stunned the Western princes who came to help in the war, thinking that Yao was a god. They all came to compete to make friends with Yao. Yao also treated the princes of the Western countries sincerely. Set up a banquet to entertain everyone. The next day, the princes of the Western countries who had been sent to aid in the war returned home.

Tang Yao himself led the soldiers of his headquarters to continue westward. Over the mountains and mountains Xiaoxing overnight, not a day, came to the western mountain of Wudu.

This western mountain is divided into two slopes, north and south. The northern slope of the mountain is also called the shady slope, which only produces orpiment, and it is useless to use orpiment to treat snakes. It can only be used to rewrite miswritten handwriting. So there is an idiom called "Confession". And the male yellow that can subdue the snake demon is only produced on the sunny slopes of the western mountains.

Tao Tang Houyao led the soldiers to the Chaoyang slope of the Western Mountain. At first glance, there are smoking mountain passes everywhere on the slopes, and the surrounding areas of the mountain passes are covered with realgar. The soldiers were overjoyed at first sight, and each of the 1,000 soldiers took a piece of more than 10 catties of realgar and carried it in their arms.

After taking the realgar, Tao Tang Houyao led the team to the south. Go straight to the Dongting Wilderness in the south.

But it is said that the snake on the edge of Dongting Lake is also called "sealing snake". He was more than 800 feet long, his waist was thicker than that of a house, and he was covered in thick scale armor. Opening a large mouth is bigger than two doors. Where the snake passed, the mountains shook and the houses collapsed.

The snake can eat more than a dozen people in one bite, and one year, it devoured dozens of elephants in a row. The elephant was swallowed into its belly, and it took three years for it to be digested, and the snake finally expelled the bones from the body and piled them up into a small mountain, which was called the Elephant Bone Mountain.

The snake can also spew poisonous gas from its mouth, and it can poison people to death at a distance of half a mile. It turned out that the snake did not grow so big at first, and it grew so big because it ate too much elephants.

At this time, the snake had turned into a gluttonous giant demon, and in the past few years, countless people had been eaten, and the remaining people on the shore of Dongting Lake had fled to other places. The princes of the south were at a loss. They all complained to the court and asked the court to send troops to slaughter snakes.

One of the three fierce men had sent 2,000 soldiers to kill the snake, but when the soldiers arrived there, before they could get close to the snake, they were half killed by the poisonous gas spewed by the snake, and the remaining soldiers were swallowed by the snake, and finally only a few fast soldiers ran back. Therefore, he instigated Emperor Zhi to order Tao Tang Hou Yao and told him to kill the snake and send him to death.

Tao Tang Hou Yao led the army to the Dongting field in the south. I found the local mountain people and learned about the situation of the snake. One of the mountain people had seen the snake and knew the bottom of the snake. So Tao Tang Houyao asked him to be a guide and led the soldiers to find the traces of the snake.

Tao Tang Hou Yao asked the soldiers and guides to drink a bowl of realgar wine each, rubbed realgar on their faces, and then each person cut a bundle of dry firewood, and a bag of realgar powder was bundled in the dry firewood.

On the third day, news came from the front that the snake had been found. Tao Tang Houyao took Hou Yi and Feng Meng to the front, crouched behind the mountain rocks, and looked forward.

I saw that the snake was coiled into a plate, and its body was covered with red, yellow, blue, green, and black scales. The scales are the size of a wheel, and when the sun shines, they look dazzling. There was poisonous gas in his mouth, and the smell was smoky.

The snake coiled as high as a hill, and the back half of its body was still in the woods in the distance. With his head held high, his eyes as big as a millstone, glowing green, and his mouth spitting out a letter, which grew bigger than a giant man.

Tao Tang Houyao ordered Hou Yi and Feng Meng to aim at the two eyes of the Ba snake, Hou Yi shot the left eye of the Ba snake, and Feng Meng shot the right eye of the Ba snake. Then he ordered the soldiers to get ready, and when the snake pounced, they lit the firewood and grass in their hands and threw it at the snake.

Tao Tang Houyao was arranging here, and the snake in the distance had already spotted the crowd. rushed over to this side, and was about to open his mouth to spray poisonous gas, only to hear Tao Tang Houyao's order, Hou Yi and Feng Meng, both arrows fired together, and they were blinded in the eyes of the snake. At this time, the soldiers lit the firewood and grass wrapped in realgar and threw them at the snake.

The snake was blinded by arrows in both eyes, and the pain was unbearable, but instead of retreating, it jumped up and swooped back towards the crowd.

Because he was blind, he lost his accuracy, but he crashed headlong into the yellow fire. The dry wood was sandwiched with realgar, the flames soared to the sky, and the yellow smoke was billowing out, burning so that the snake rolled and rolled, scurrying around, and spraying poisonous gas out of its mouth. Finally, he struggled to get out of the fire and fled down the mountain.

I could only hear the click, click, and sound along the way, the trees were broken, and the rocks were knocked over.

Tao Tang Houyao led the soldiers and followed the trail all the way down. I didn't catch up for three days. On the fourth day, the snake was finally found. By this time it was badly wounded, dying, and struggling to breathe on a mound of earth. The snake heard the human voice and raised his head again, but he no longer had the strength to spray poisonous gas.

So Tao Tang Houyao took the soldiers to the snake, and released a burst of arrows at the snake. Seeing that the snake had no movement, he walked to the snake. Another slash and chopping finally killed the snake.

The mountain people in the Dongting Field, who had suffered from the scourge of the snake, heard that Tao Tang Hou Yao led his troops to slaughter the snake. They all rushed over to see the excitement. People climbed up to the backbone of the snake, stood on the backbone of the snake, pointed, compared, talked and laughed.

Along the way, there was an endless stream of people coming and going, and people from hundreds of miles away came to see the excitement, which lasted for more than ten days.

Anyone who came to see the excitement cut back a piece of the snake's flesh, saying that the snake's skin and flesh can be used as medicine to treat various intractable diseases.

In the end, all that remained of the snake was a pile of bones, as high as a hill. Tao Tang Houyao ordered people to dig a soil pit, bury the bones of the snake with soil, and build a mausoleum. Later, people called this place where the snake was buried "Baling".

Because this Dongting Lake was originally a land of fish and rice, the common people fled elsewhere because they avoided the snake. After Tao Tang Houyao got rid of the snake, the common people returned to their hometown one after another. There were also people who moved from other places, and they gathered more and more, and later the place became a city. The name of the city is "Baling", and it has been called until now.