Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 513 Chaotic soldiers, dark camp

The towns around Taihang Mountain have gurgling water, white walls and black tiles.

Originally, it was the busiest time of day in the market, but today's long street was full of mess.

Those fruits and vegetables rolled all over the ground, and there were traces of being trampled everywhere. The stalls selling masks, windmills, clay sculptures and other gadgets were all overturned.

The people in the market ran home in panic, and hid in the house shivering. The sound of the child crying was quickly covered by the elders of the family.

But in some places, the crying was completely unstoppable.

Those houses in the town that look a little more luxurious are now ruined houses, and the door panels were directly kicked open.

As long as someone dared to stop, or moved a little slower, or got in the way, they would all be chopped down with knives, and blood would splatter everywhere.

On weekdays, the head of the family with the toughest waist, with a shining steel knife on his neck, kept crying and begging for mercy, and tremblingly led the group of gangsters to collect the family's money.

Said they were bandits, but this group of people held uniform steel knives and wore leather armor, iron armor, and chain mail, which looked like they were in the army.

If the mayor who had been hacked to death could still speak, he could tell others that this group of people was clearly dressed like the soldiers in the Taihang Thirteen Banners camp.

After robbing the big houses, these people didn't give up. They weighed that they didn't get much, and they didn't dare to ask other people who were also armed with knives and guns, so they had to focus on those shops and even those ordinary people's houses.

'No matter how ordinary it is, maybe it will save some money? '

When these people ran around with such thoughts, the sound of crying finally spread to all parts of the town.

boom! ! ! !

A gust of wind blew up in the sky, and the roaring sound of the airflow was even more shocking than the usual thunder.

The knives in the hands of some soldiers and robbers were about to be chopped off. Hearing this sound, they couldn't help trembling and looked up at the sky.

A white line in the sky spread from afar.

The whole town suddenly became much colder, and raindrops as big as beans fell from the sky.

No, where are the big raindrops? !
There was a leader riding a horse, his whole body stiffened with fright, his pupils constricted, and the things that fell from the sky were reflected in his eyes.

Those are obviously fist-sized water polo.

The man on the horse was hit by the water polo, and his bones were shattered. He didn't have time to groan before he fell off the horse and died.

Those who raged all over the town were also killed by water balloons.

Needless to say, those in the open-air area, even those who had already killed into other people's houses, could not escape the blow of these water polo volley turning and automatic turning tracking.

"What a bunch of beasts!"

As the air current reverberated, Dongfang Jie stayed in the air for a while, overlooking the whole town, holding a large flag in his left hand, which fluttered in the wind and made loud noises.

"The three-point return to vitality created by the Great Tang Army God is just right for killing you scum."

He didn't go to stay in the town, and the big flag in his hand showed him another direction.

This banner of the evolution of heaven and things is one of the eight banners refined by Guan Luoyang. It is closely related to the concept of war and has many wonderful uses.

Wherever there is a bloodbath, this big flag can generate a sense and point out the direction.

Originally among the eight sects in northern Kyushu, the Taihang Thirteen Banners claimed to be the most powerful and the most powerful side, but the territory they occupied actually showed a very narrow and long shape.

Now the situation in northern Kyushu has undergone tremendous changes. Wenxiang Sect, Bagua Sect, etc. have all been taken down by Guan Luoyang, and the Qisha Sect and the Yuyuan Army in Qilu Land have also accepted Guan Luoyang's side Unified deployment of camps.

In this situation, it would be very inappropriate for the Taihang Thirteen Banners to maintain their original distribution of troops. They can only shrink with all their strength, move the army closer to the north, and merge with the troops dispatched by the Jurchen Dynasty and the northern Raksha countries. .

Only in this way can they show a strong enough momentum to fight against the camp of Guan Luoyang and Zi Yuanjun.

However, soldiers are not machines.

It doesn't mean that the leader is thousands of miles away, and if he gives a few orders and conveys them layer by layer, the entire army can be easily and quickly mobilized like human hands and feet.

In fact, looking at the thousands of years of human history, there have always been very few elite soldiers who can be called as capable as they are, and there may even be exaggerations among them.

Fifty years ago, the Taihang Thirteen Banners, those elite soldiers and warriors, might barely meet the standard of prohibition, but after 50 years, everything has changed beyond recognition.

The number of soldiers and horses in the Thirteen Banners of Taihang is about [-]% more than that of that year, but the total number of generals and officials at all levels is more than [-]% more than that of that year.

On the territory of the Taihang Thirteen Banners, ordinary people don't want to live a peaceful life. If they want to live a good life and live a stable life, they have to rely on those powerful and powerful families.

And for those powerful and powerful families, if they want to live better, they have to curry favor with the government and try to get their own people to become officials.

They are colluding and linking up and down, making the Taihang Thirteen Banners management system, which was not perfect at first, become more and more bloated.

That Yan Shuangfeng, Yan Taibao, was used to hearing the bragging of those under him, and gradually he really thought that this increase in numbers was a manifestation of "all people returning to their hearts, Wenchang Wusheng".

Now that the war is imminent and the army is about to be fully mobilized, they can finally see what changes have taken place in the Thirteen Banners of Taihang over the past 50 years.

When large-scale marches began in the major military camps, deserters also began to appear at the same time.

Not all soldiers want to fight, and they are not fools.

It has been a long time since the accidents that happened in Bagua Sect, Wenxiang Sect, and even in Minshan, those earth-shattering scenes, and the soldiers have heard those rumors more or less.

The Tianxiang Pagoda of the Wenxiang Sect, the Tianliu Mountain outside the main altar of the Bagua Sect, suddenly shook, half of the mountain collapsed, and the mountain peak mysteriously disappeared and reappeared.

The interruption of the great river in the Minshan Mountains has caused changes in the water level of the tributaries and rivers, the huge abyss in the mountains, and the crystal light torrent rising from the abyss.

Flying from the west, the black castle that walks through the clouds undisguisedly; the glazed lair formed by dozens of peaks; the long-lasting purple beam of light that surrounds the entire mountain range, isolating the inside and outside...

Ordinary rumors would only be treated as jokes after dinner by these soldiers, but this time, these rumors appeared too much and too densely.

In addition, the order for large-scale mobilization was actually handed down from above. As soon as everything was thought through by them, panic gradually spread in the army.

After the first batch of deserters appeared, the rumors became more terrifying, and more and more soldiers and even generals fled with others.

Some deserters among them just want to find a place to hide after fleeing to avoid the limelight. This kind of people often lose all their armor, knives and guns long ago, so as not to be too conspicuous.

But some others, although they also escaped from the marching team, were not so peaceful.

There are too many small calculations in their hearts, and there are many people who want to take advantage of this "good opportunity" to live a happy life for a few days.

So this kind of people changed from soldiers to bandits.

They were even more vicious than ordinary bandits, running around, burning, killing and looting.

Dongfang Jie and the others were originally going to come out to inquire about some movements of the opposing army.

Just as they were about to set off, Guan Luoyang just returned to Tianzidu, took out seven banners of the evolution of heaven and earth, and distributed them to the leaders of the seven teams.

Because of the Taihang Thirteen Banners, in addition to the several major military camps around the Forbidden City, there are seven large camps distributed in other areas.

However, what Guan Luoyang ordered them to do was not only to find out the movement, but also to suppress the soldiers and bandits that might appear.

During this period of time, Shao Dongfang Jie said that he had dealt with six or seven bandits like this.

He traveled around for another half a day, tossing and turning around to inspect the surrounding areas. At night, he returned to the agreed place, met with his subordinates, and led them to find other investigation teams.

With the connection of the banner of celestial evolution, it is more convenient and more accurate than the spiritual core communication of Yuanjun Temple. The seven investigation teams merged smoothly in a short time.

Here is a pine forest on the top of the mountain. Not far from the pine forest, there are many incomplete, lying, weathered and dirty Buddha statues surrounded by weeds. You can also vaguely see some foundations that are almost completely buried under the soil, and Collapsed columns.

Daoist Jiuying stretched out his hand to wipe off the cobwebs on the shoulders of a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva statue that lacked ears, and said: "This should be a temple that was abandoned before it was completed, probably about 50 years ago. "

In the Taihang Mountains, there were already many Taoist temples, some of which were old, broken, and collapsed. Some people always repaired them, and some people thought about building new ones.

Even in times of turmoil, high-level officials and dignitaries, down to the people to raise funds, all want to build temples for peace of mind.

Was it ever God who killed them?How could it be these gods and bodhisattvas who bless them?
Fifty years ago, the army from all walks of life continued to conquer, thieves swarmed up, and the people who built the temple died, so the temple could not continue to be built.

Liu Ziyan also stopped in front of a stone statue that hadn't started carving its facial features, stretched out his hand to gesture on the head of the stone statue for a while, and then opened his mouth to blow.

Stone powder was flying all over the sky, Dongfang Jie and the others turned their heads to take a look.

I saw that the stone statue revealed a face very similar to Guan Luoyang's.

I didn't know which Bodhisattva this stone statue was going to be carved into. It wears the seven treasures on its body, holds a lotus in its hand, and wears a crown.

When Liu Ziyan sculpted his face, he put some thought into it, and sculpted it into a look of lowered eyebrows and downcast eyes, gazing at the lotus, which complements each other without being obtrusive.

"Senior Luoyang bless us to win tonight."

Liu Ziyan bowed to this Buddha statue very seriously.

It's hard for Liu Ziyan to say whether worshiping other stones is useful, but worshiping this one is really useful.

Of course, Liu Ziyan and the others could have directly contacted Guan Luoyang, so this action was mostly absurd.

Just because they are going to do a big thing tonight, relaxing a little bit can also make these people they bring don't look too anxious.

Everyone smiled knowingly and began to chat about business.

"The soldiers from the Seven Routes have already noticed about the deserters."

Daoist Jiuying said, "I think they are planning to slow down for the time being and make a proper rectification."

"However, even if this is the case, at the latest tomorrow afternoon, the seven soldiers and horses will be able to meet up, and the day after tomorrow, they will be able to reach the Forbidden City."

"We have to do it, and tonight is the best time."

After Guan Luoyang intervened in this matter, the size and quality of these small teams that were originally spies immediately improved by more than one level.

Now the seven spies are led by Dongfang Jie and his four reincarnations, Wudang master Jiuying Daochang, the first generation leader of the Yuyuan Army Zhang Qi, and the number one master of Southern Shaolin layman Liu Yude.

Those who followed them were all the elites from Nanming.

Which one of these people is not a bold, or even lawless figure? Of course, it is impossible to gather them together just to find out what's going on. Even if it is to suppress the soldiers and bandits along the way, it is just a small test for them. .

What they really want is to weaken, contain, and even directly control the seven soldiers.

After Tai Sui Martial Arts appeared in the world, and in the contemporary age where personal force is constantly increasing, it is not impossible to do this kind of thing, but there are still quite a few challenges.

So they are going to fight before the seven routes of soldiers and horses really meet, and at the most delicate moment when they will meet or not.

Everyone gathered the movements they had heard and drew a road map, marking the positions of the soldiers and horses of the Seven Routes.

"For the sake of convenience, let's directly give the soldiers and horses of the seven routes, and use the first route to the seventh route. The farthest from the Forbidden City is the first route, so they are arranged in order to seventh."

Daoist Jiuying pointed to the map and said, "There are also experts in each of the seven groups of troops. The first group of soldiers and horses originally belonged to the frontier generals of the Taihang Thirteen Banners because they were stationed in the farthest place. , Recently, the masters who came from the north also came to sit in the First Route Army."

"So let's do the opposite, start with the seventh army, gather strength, make a final decision, quietly control their leaders, and then push forward."

Everyone discussed it properly, and after asking some details, they set off without further delay.

In the dark night, the rolling Taihang Mountains are definitely not quiet.

In addition to the places where the army is stationed, the sound of burning oil glass flames, the sound of soldiers patrolling, etc., among other mountains, forests and wild places, the howling of animals is intermittent, and the sound of insects is endless.

The leaves rustle and move, and when the wind passes by, the strange vegetation in the valley can make thousands of different fine sounds.

But it is the endless fine sounds that form a deeper and heavier feeling than pure silence, making people's experience of words such as "late night" and "darkness" unprecedentedly profound.

However, in the camp of the Fourth Army, some people were able to detect some changes in other camps from the deep darkness.

"Hmph, you are so daring, you actually dare to do something!"

"Do you really think that after leaving Tianzidu and the protection of Zi Yuanjun and Guan Luoyang, their little lives will be safe?"

"Based on their age, these people's strength is still very good, their talents are even more impressive, and they have a bright future. If we kill them, I wonder if we can mess up Guan Luoyang's mood? Hehehehe..."

A few voices were discussing in the unlit tent, and soon all disappeared, falling into a deadly atmosphere.

After more than an hour, Dongfang Jie and others approached the camp of the fourth army.

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