The eleventh episode Li Mu and Bai Qi
"Are you saying that this person who is called the God of War 'Wu Anjun' is Li Mu of the Zhao Kingdom?"
"It should be so, as far as we know, because of Li Muwu's meritorious service, the people of Zhao State were not disturbed by the Xiongnu, and when he fought against Qin, he was greatly respected by the people of Zhao at that time, and was called the god of war by the people, and even the king of Zhao was quite jealous of him because of Li Mugong's high mastership. Even at the end of the Warring States Period, Zhao State was in the case of long-term wars, earthquakes, and droughts, and the military strength and morale of the troops were already quite low, but under the command of Li Mu, even if the Qin State sent Wang Jian to lead the elite soldiers and strong generals, it was not Li Mu's opponent. In the end, the Qin State had no choice but to resort to a counter-plot and bribe Guo Kai, King Zhao's favorite minister, with a large amount of money, so that he told King Zhao the news that Li Mu was going to oppose Zhao State. Because King Zhao was already quite jealous of Li Mu, he was even more uneasy after hearing the news, so he designed to kill Li Mu. As a result, as soon as Li Mu died, no one in Zhao could stop the Qin army, so within two days, Zhao was destroyed by Qin. Speaking of which, this Li Muzhen is a generation of god generals, but he died with some grievances. "Monk Jingqing told us a lot about Li Mu's life.
"But why don't the people of Zhao respect Lian Po? I remember that Lian Po is also very famous. Zhang Haitian asked.
"Hehe, Lian is quite arrogant, first disobeyed Lin Xiangru, and then disobeyed Li Mu, plus in old age, he betrayed Zhao and went to other countries to become a general, so Zhao people don't have much good impression of him, and most of Lian Po's military exploits rely on the elite of Zhao soldiers. You know, the soldiers of Zhao were the strongest in the Seven Kingdoms at that time, both in individual combat and obedience were second to none, when Lian Po went to other countries to be a general, because there were no elite soldiers, he was extremely uncomfortable in the war, and suffered several defeats, and finally quietly retired. Monk Jingqing said.
"So that's the case, then, how could this Li Mu command the soul of Zhao Guojun after so many years without being reincarnated?" Zhang Haitian's doubts are also what I want to ask.
"Hey, this matter, according to what we heard from some yin ghosts and military spirits, may start with the Battle of Changping...... Jingqing said to us slowly.
Back then, although Bai Qi won the Battle of Changping, but the Qin army also lost most of it, Bai Qi knew in his heart that the reason why he was able to win was that Zhao Guo replaced the veteran Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, who could only talk on paper, and if you really talked about the quality of troops and soldiers, the soldiers of Qin State were not as good as Zhao State.
If the 400,000 soldiers of Zhao State were allowed to go back, it would be a great disaster for Qin State, and in order to completely reduce the elite strength of Zhao State, Bai Qixin killed more than 400,000 elite Zhao soldiers with a ruthless heart.
Speaking of this Bai Qi, it is actually the first general in ancient and modern times, and some historians have roughly counted that he destroyed more than 1.6 million enemies in his lifetime, that is to say, in order to completely eliminate the living force of the opponent's troops, Bai Qi ordered his subordinates to kill more than 1.6 million soldiers, so he was also called "war demons" by later generations.
Bai Qi has been on the battlefield for more than 30 years, starting at the age of 14, and has fought nearly 1,000 battles in his life, never defeated. If purely from a military point of view, Bai Qi should be ranked first among the four famous generals of the Warring States, but he is fond of killing people and killing too much, and later generations have a very bad impression of him, and he is considered to be too much meritorious.
In contrast, Li Mu loved soldiers like sons all his life, tried to minimize casualties in battle, slaughtered cattle and sheep every day to reward soldiers, and also won a hundred battles and used soldiers like gods, especially Li Mu was mainly fighting with the Huns in the first half of his life, and created the first time in history to defeat a large-scale cavalry corps with an infantry legion, which was ranked as the first of the four generals by later generations.
Having said that, the more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers in the Battle of Changping failed to die on the battlefield, but were killed by the enemy army so wronged.
He also said that Li Mu, after being killed by King Zhao's design and becoming a ghost, couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. He was dedicated and loyal to Zhao Guo all his life, but in the end he ended up unjustly dying, in his heart, he really had great grievances, and he also had deep disappointment in King Zhao.
Li Mu's ghost wandered in this heaven and earth, unwilling to fall into the yin for a long time, in his heart, full of unwillingness and accusation against this world, moreover, Li Mu discovered an important thing, it turns out that there is a cruel reincarnation in this world!
Whether you are a god or a demon, it is all to transcend the six realms of reincarnation, which shows how terrifying reincarnation is for gods and demons, because no matter what kind of experience you had in your previous life, as long as you enter the reincarnation, your memory will no longer exist, and from then on, people will continue to repeat ordinary life in the reincarnation of one life after another, and they are bound by karma in past and present lives.
This Li Mu is also a masterpiece of a generation, and after discovering this problem, he suddenly had the idea of going against the sky in his heart. Because he found that no matter whether you are a human being or a ghost, as long as you are in reincarnation, you are subject to the underworld arrangement of the six realms of reincarnation, and you cannot have complete memories to live freely and independently in this universe.
Li Mu, who died unjustly, no longer wanted to hand over his fate to others, he wanted to completely jump out of reincarnation and heaven, and have his own complete and indelible memory, but the ghost soldiers and messengers of the underworld would not allow him to stay in the world for a long time, so Li Mu made a major choice.
Li Mu came to Changping, as the god of war in the hearts of the dead soldiers of Zhao State, he has an incomparable appeal, under the leadership of his raised arms and shouting, those who died unjustly in Changping, and the more than 400,000 military souls who were also unwilling to fall into the yin Cao all surrendered to Li Mu, because of the large number of military souls, ordinary ghosts have no way to take them, so Li Mu's army has become a group of ghosts who openly escape the six reincarnations.
Of course, this is the end of what the Pure Monk and the Prajna Vajra Temple know, and as for many other details of those years, there are not many people who know about them.
The following is a recount of the situation at the time, so as to facilitate the development of the plot after the novel:
In fact, after Li Mu received more than 400,000 military souls from Changping, he met another person, this person was none other than the most hated person in the eyes of Zhao Guojun's army - Bai Qi!
Bai Qi killed countless people in his life, and in the end, he didn't end well. Before Qin launched the Handan campaign against Zhao, the king of Qin wanted to invite Bai Qi to lead the army to fight, but Bai Qi happened to be seriously ill and it was inconvenient to lead the troops, and persuaded the king of Qin not to send troops, saying that the Qin soldiers had suffered most of the casualties and low combat effectiveness due to the previous battle of Changping, so it was better to rest for a while. It's a pity that the king of Qin thinks that the state of Zhao should be destroyed as soon as possible, so he appoints others as generals to attack Handan, the capital of the state of Zhao, as a result, under the confrontation of Li Mu and other generals of the state of Zhao, the state of Qin suffered heavy losses and returned in embarrassment.
Who knew that Bai Qi's words fell in the ears of King Qin, which made King Qin angry, and King Qin ordered Bai Qi to lead the army again, but Bai Qi was stubborn, so he was sent to the frontier by King Qin. After a few more days, the king of Qin felt that instead of sending Bai Qi to the frontier and keeping such a scourge, it was better to kill him altogether, so he ordered a group of envoys to catch up with Bai Qi and give Bai Qi to cut himself by the order of the king of Qin.
Bai Qi knew that it was the King of Qin who wanted him to commit suicide, and at first he was a little puzzled, thinking that he had not committed any major crimes, thinking about it carefully, sighing and saying to the messenger around him, I have killed millions of people in my life, but the sky is going to kill me, so I killed myself with a sword.
It is recorded in Buddhism that after Bai Qi's death, he was always punished in the path of hungry ghosts, animals, and hells. For example, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when Master Daoying and Xianheng lived in Jingzhao Fahai Temple, they once encountered a hungry ghost led by King Xiang of Qinzhuang who came to beg for food, and among them, there was Bai Qi, which proved that Bai Qi fell into the punishment of a hungry ghost There is also a certain woman in ancient times, who was 19 years old and had an incurable disease, and before she died, she said that she was the white of the Qin Dynasty, because she committed murder, even if she was a man, she could only get her daughter's body, and she could not live to be 20 years old.
Religion has always been a persuasion, but history is ruthless.
In the Warring States period at that time, it was normal to kill and surrender pawns, because from the perspective of war, this was the most effective way to directly reduce the enemy's vital forces. Ancient generals have always served the country loyally, and for the sake of the country's victory and future prosperity, although these cruel actions are too cruel in reason, they are objectively in line with the logic of war in the era of cold weapons.
In fact, many things, when a person reaches a specific position, he can't help but choose whether to do it or not, he can only choose how to do it, maybe Bai Qi is just doing something absolutely, or maybe he just bears the will of a country, and it is possible that he is just the executor and scapegoat of the strategy.
Whether Bai Qi was punished in hell or not, except for the karma preached by Buddhism, no one in the world knows. The problem was that Li Mu met Bai Qi shortly after he absorbed more than 400,000 military souls in Changping.
Just when Li Mu led his Zhao State Army Soul Force to find a remote place to recuperate and avoid the pursuit of the underworld, several soldiers brought in an alien Yin ghost, saying that this Yin ghost had to see Li Mu.
After the Yin ghost who came saw Li Mu, he looked Li Mu up and down for a long time, and then reported to his family that he was Qin General Bai Qi. Li Mu was shocked when he heard this, how could this sworn enemy of Zhao State come to him with such a swagger, isn't he afraid of being devoured by ten thousand armies?
Although his heart was full of questions, Li Mu still asked Bai Qi to sit down and speak very graciously, because as an imaginary enemy in his heart, although he had never fought with Bai Qi head-on, but in Li Mu's heart, Bai Qi still attaches great importance to Bai Qi, after all, from a military point of view, Bai Qi is the only opponent that Li Mu respects in the world, this may be the so-called heroes of the past, not to mention, the fate of both of them is too wronged, it can be said that they have similar experiences.
Li Mu once thought that if he stood in Bai Qi's perspective to deal with the more than 400,000 elite prisoners of war of the enemy in the Battle of Changping, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, and completely eradicate the elite troops of the enemy country, he might be like Bai Qi, and simply kill them all.
According to Li Mu's current approach, it is obvious that he wants to take the more than 400,000 military souls of Zhao State to start a new stove and escape reincarnation. Bai Qi knew Li Mu's intentions, so his purpose in coming to Li Mu was also very simple: he hoped to defect to Li Mu, be willing to be Li Mu's comrade-in-arms and deputy, escape reincarnation together, and even open up his own world.
Li Mu also knew that this kind of behavior was undoubtedly resisting the sky, although there were many people now, and the general individual ghosts had no way to take themselves, but this was not a long-term solution, and in the future, it would definitely cause the Ten Halls of the Underworld to attack the Yama King or even a higher level of ghosts and gods, and once the regular ghost soldiers came, it would be difficult for him and his hundreds of thousands of military souls to survive. Moreover, he led these more than 400,000 subordinates to be displaced, and everything was so strange in the underworld, there was really not much certainty that he could escape freely like this forever.
However, how much benefit can it be to take Bai Qi in, firstly, Bai Qi is the sworn enemy of the soul of the entire Zhao army, once Bai Qi is taken in, if it may lead to the rebellion of his military souls, and secondly, Bai Qi has become a great killer of gods and ghosts, and the underworld will definitely arrest him and take him back to hell for trial, if the news of Bai Qi's army leaks out, it will undoubtedly cause the rapid dispatch of troops from the underworld to arrest him. At the moment, Li Mu also put his concerns and discerned them 1510, since he has been made a ghost by a person, everything in his life is a mediocre self-disturbance, and now he is not embarrassed by Bai Qi, and I hope that Bai Qi can also understand Li Mu's difficulties, and he can leave.
Unexpectedly, Bai Qi seemed to have foreseen Li Mu's thoughts, and told Li Mu at the moment that if he was taken in, then the benefits he could bring to Li Mu and his army were as follows: 1. Bai Qi had a lot of information about the underworld (hereinafter referred to as 'the underworld'), and knew the various rules and maps of the underworld, which could help Li Mu better establish and expand his strength and escape the pursuit of the underworld. 2, Bai Qi will have a kind of kung fu that can be practiced by yin ghosts, only through the cultivation of this kind of ghost skill, Li Mu can really have the strength of the ghost king and even the ghost god, and can also improve the combat effectiveness of the troops according to this, and have the strength to compete with the underworld legion in future battles. 3. Bai Qi and Li Mu have the same purpose, that is, to transcend reincarnation and open up their own free world, no longer subject to the constraints of various gods and gods. Bai Qi frankly told Li Mu that there was no Buddha or god in his heart, he believed that all the rules of heaven were set for ordinary people, reincarnation and destiny were two mountains on the body of free souls, and only by overthrowing these two mountains could he control his own destiny. 4. Bai Qi is willing to swear with his soul, and then advance and retreat with Li Mu with one heart and one mind, and be Li Mu's comrade-in-arms and friend. 5, Bai Qi has more than 100,000 Qin army souls in his hands, and has cultivated into a powerful ghost army, with Li Mu's appeal, the other army souls he killed during his lifetime can be slowly absorbed.