19. Mourning

Goshawk and others did not know that Zhao Sheng was in danger, so they ran with Zhang Sui and Tang in the army, and traveled twenty miles of mountain and forest roads, and came to the front of Nanya Village. ”

Zhang Suitang exclaimed: "Why did they come out? What's going on with this miserable sound? Hurry up and support, whoever dares to fall this time, whether it is my apprentice or junior brother, I will not spare it!"

Everyone was helpless, mustered up their courage, struggled forward, came to a path in the forest, saw hundreds of people rushing here, the two sides saw each other, each showed joy, Zhang Sui Tang recognized a person, shouted: "Senior Brother Zhen, why are you so embarrassed?"

Senior Brother Zhen shouted from afar: "Helper, the peak of Nanyazhai has collapsed, crushing more than half of the village, and there are stone oxen rushing out to kill people, we can't resist it, this village can't live anymore." ”

Zhang Suitang felt a pain in his heart, and secretly thought: "The past two days have been unfavorable, and even the stronghold has been lost, isn't it really a demon?" shouted loudly: "Let's go stop Shi Niu, you go to the rear to rest!"

The two sides shouted in the air, and finally met, Senior Brother Zhen was wearing a military uniform, but his face was full of mud, and he seemed to have suffered a lot, Zhang Sui Tang said: "What about those stone cows?"

Some villagers cried out: "Sui and Tang gang leaders, many people were left behind and were bitten to death by stone bulls, so we escaped." Everyone screamed and couldn't support it, and many people fainted in an instant.

Zhang Sui Tang immediately ordered people to rescue the wounded, dig trenches, set up wooden barriers, lay traps, cast fishing nets, set up a good position, and settled down. I'm afraid that they will all be trapped in the cottage and killed by Shi Niu.

Zhang Lan said angrily: "How many monsters are there in the village?"

Na Zhen's real name is Zhang Zhen, who is a powerful general under Zhang Sui Tang, he said: "There are only more than ten stone oxen, but first the cliff collapsed, we all have damage, and the children cover the hiding place, and those stone oxen are all big and scary, and under the wild bite, how can they resist?"

Goshawk thought to himself: "The sword-forging fire shop has the ability to escape." Sure enough, it was the true inheritance of the ancestors, and when he encountered a predicament, he immediately evacuated, and he did not resist at all. He was sneering in his heart, but his face was full of sympathy.

Zhang Ran said: "Uncle, let's kill the generals and kill all these harmful beasts." ”

Zhang Suitang nodded yes, and was about to give an order, Zhang Zhen said, "Helper." The matter of revenge is not busy for a while, and there is more urgent news. I received a message from Bingfeng Zhai Flying Pigeon, saying that the Shihao faction took advantage of our unpreparedness. Sneak attack at night, the situation is extremely critical. ”

That Bingfeng Village is the place where Zhang Sui and Tang are guarded, facing the Shihao faction and always competing with the enemy. did not back down from each other, Zhang Sui and Tang originally got a letter for help from the mountain niche village, and they were in a hurry. led a large army to rescue, so Bingfeng Village was empty and unprepared. He didn't expect the Shi Hao faction to tear his face and attack in a big way, so he was shocked and hurriedly asked, "How long has it been since the letter was received?"

Zhang Zhen said: "I just received this letter when I encountered this tragedy. It's been more than half an hour. ”

Zhang Sui Tang's mind was in a mess, but Zhang Lan said: "In this way, that young boy and girl have come all the way here, I'm afraid that the Shihao faction made a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?"

Zhang Suitang scolded angrily: "Yes, they first destroyed the mountain niche village, lured me to rescue, and then lured us to save the Nanya Village, and then destroyed the Bingfeng Village while we were distracted. ”

Goshawk said: "Brother Sui and Tang, it's useless to scold now, and this South Cliff Village is obviously not a place to live for a long time, so it's better to rush back to Lidong Village, regroup, and then make plans." ”

Zhang Sui Tang gradually figured out that the big enemy in the mountains and forests is not a stone cow, but a scheming, insidious and vicious Shihao faction, if he transfers troops and horses back to rescue Bingfeng Village, the enemy occupies a favorable location, and waits for work, although he is strong and strong, but he will be defeated. But if you leave the cave village, gather soldiers and horses, recuperate, and use Shihao to send only a few troops, then it will not be a problem. The only way to do this now is to go back first and stabilize your position.

He figured out this section, but calmed down, left five hundred men and horses, escorted the survivors of Nanya Village, and slowly returned, leading the remaining 1,000 people to take a shortcut through the forest to reach the cave village. Hidden from the location of the cave village, the Shihao faction may not know, he will definitely be able to arrive one step earlier, and the defeat will be reversed.

Goshawk said again: "Brother Zhang, the stone cow here is not enough trouble, I will stay and wait for the opportunity to rescue Xiaoqiuyang, you rush back to the emperor's side as soon as possible, just in case." ”

Zhang Axe Shan was convinced of the goshawk's ability, and he didn't know what happened to Zhao Sheng, he was afraid that he would be trapped in the cave village, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Brother be careful, brother, I'll go now." ”

Zhang Lan said: "Senior Zhang, you don't know the way out of the cave, it's better for me to lead you there." With that, he jumped up, and in an instant he was already far away.

Zhang Axe Mountain secretly praised: "Good and neat light body kung fu." "There is a heart to compete, take a big stride, and Zhang Lan has walked side by side with a snap of his fingers, these two people are rare masters in the martial arts, when they run with all their might, they are vigorous and flying, and the soldiers will be dumbfounded, and after a long time, they cheered in unison, and they were amazed.

Zhang Zhen didn't know the origin of Zhang Axe Mountain, and he never thought that Zhang Lan's skills would reach such a point, and exclaimed: "With these two people opening the way for us, no matter how vicious the Shihao faction is, we will be invincible." ”

Zhang Suitang smiled silently, but thought in his heart: "The great benefactor of our sword-forging fire shop once told me that our gang is destined to have a catastrophe, although there will be tragic casualties, but because of this, we can meet the master of the Ming Dynasty and break off the grievances with the Shihao faction. Thinking of this, he gave an order and led the army to march towards the cave village.

The goshawk saw that everyone left one after another, leaving him alone, but it was very relaxed, and he turned his head and rushed to the south cliff village, where there were corpses on the ground along the way, but he was eaten by the stone ox very miserably. Occasionally, the stone ox rushed towards the goshawk, but the number was sporadic, and the goshawk was familiar with the routine, and killed it with a red sword like chopping melons and vegetables, and there was no hindrance.

He wanted to walk in from the gate of the village, but after a little thought, he bypassed a section of the road, climbed the wooden wall two zhang high, condescendingly, looked towards the village, and saw a village, on both sides of which were high mountains and cliffs, and there must have been boulders falling on the mountain before, which crushed more than half of the village, and there was no sign of stone cattle in the village.

The goshawk stared for a moment, and used his skills to investigate, but there was a big chaos in the village before, and there was a dispute in the air, and he couldn't find the trace of Xiaoqiu Yang and the little young master, he secretly scolded and jumped into the village, and walked all the way to the deepest part of the village, passing a pile of rocks, and suddenly heard someone shouting inside, and his voice was frightened, as if he was crying.

The goshawk hurriedly listened to it, and knew that it was a woman crying, but the voice was extremely far away, if it weren't for the goshawk's luck to the extreme, and the perception was subtle, it might not be able to hear it if it was Gui Yanran. He mustered up his strength and shouted, "Who's in there?"

He shouted like thunder, and the rocks occasionally fell, and the woman babbled a few times, but she didn't seem to hear him, but gradually moved away. Goshawk thought to himself, "Is this woman deaf? Lao Tzu screams like this, and the dead can be scared to urinate." Looking at the pile of rocks, which were ten feet high, the goshawk stared for a moment, and was greatly surprised: this mountain wall was originally intact and integrated, but before the mountain collapsed, the wall collapsed, and the rubble piled up, but a passage behind the mountain wall was exposed. It seems that there is a line of heaven in this mountain wall, but from the outside of the mountain, it is just a thick cliff.

The goshawk thought again: "That woman must have been so frightened that she ran around in distress, and she ran into the secret passage of this mountain wall, and then the boulder blocked the way, and she could only go along the road." This woman may not have seen Xiao Qiuyang, but this secret passage is so strange, how can I not explore it?" The goshawk began his light work and ran along this road for miles, but he did not hear the woman's voice again.

The goshawk was suspicious in his heart, he didn't dare to venture forward, and he found that there were several true qi in the air, and when he smelled it in his nose, it was indeed the smell of Xiaoqiu sheep.

But there is still one person, and his kung fu is farther than that little young master. He grabbed the two of them and sped by.

The goshawk suddenly felt bad, and said to himself: "Yin Bodhi, Zhao Sheng, Empress De?" suddenly became anxious, looked back, but saw the mountain walls on both sides banging, as if someone had blown up the cliff with explosives, thousands of pounds of boulders fell like raindrops, and the road was strictly blocked, the goshawk was horrified, ran wildly, fled for his life, and finally ran out of the mountain road, jumped forward, boomed and roared, the smoke and dust rolled between the mountain walls, and the way to the road was cut off.

The goshawk was sweating, lying on the ground to recuperate for a while, getting up, suddenly his back was tight, and he had been resisted with a sharp object.

The goshawk said in a loud voice: "Yin Bodhi, you really didn't die! What are your intentions in arresting Xiao Sheng and his wife here?"

Yin Bodhi laughed, very chic, removed the blade, the goshawk looked back, and saw that what he was holding in his hand was the jade hairpin on the head of the Empress De, which was fragile and easy to break, and could not be used to hurt people, but his intention to make fun of it was obvious.

Yin Bodhi didn't answer, but said: "There is a monster in this mountain, it is rumored to be one of the twelve demons of ancient times, called the earth cow, with the world's magical powers, which can compete with the gods and Buddhas, but a long time ago, it suffered a catastrophe and was injured by a person who claimed to be Taiyi, and could only survive and be trapped here. ”

The goshawk's body shook violently, and his heart was agitated for no reason, but he immediately calmed down and asked, "What are you telling me such a story?"

Yin Bodhi smiled: "Taiyi, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the god of Chu." In this world, there are immortals, Buddhas and monsters, not in the heavenly realm and the abyss, but in the mortal world, around you and me, mortals are ignorant, worship them as respect, so all kinds of myths, thousands of legends. Haha, Donghuang Taiyi is worshiped by the Chu people, but what Taiyi did should not be done by the immortals, but it is also a demon and a monster, which is really too much. Do you know what he did to the cow?"

Goshawk asked, "What did you do?"

Yin Bodhi said: "He cut open the brain of the earth cow, disturbed its heart, made it an idiot, and captured countless mortal women, made the earth cow have sex with all the women, gave birth to children, and after decades of growth, it was for the stone cow in the valley." (To be continued.) )