Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 113 The Wind Blows Through the Sandy Land

Birds stop at the corners of the towers to comb their feathers.

In the rising morning sun, Li Anfu, who had walked up the tower, came here early. These days, he couldn't sleep well. He came here every morning to have a look, and then returned to the city to wait for the news.

Only two days ago, the scout reported that the Juqi camp had been burned. He was so excited that he walked around the mansion all night, looking at the map to figure out where the cavalry was moving, and he never came back.

The mood of waiting is anxious, which is related to the life and death of two thousand cavalrymen, and also involves his future career.

While thinking about it, he heard footsteps, Li Anfu turned his head and saw that it was Yun He, the Taoist priest of the Tianshi Mansion, who also went up to the city wall, holding a mahogany sword, and walked to the wall with a whisk in his hand to look forward.

"Is the Taoist priest also worried?"

Yun He smiled, then nodded as well: "It's been a few days, and I've pinched my fingers to calculate, and it's all the hexagrams, but I can't see it with my own eyes, and my heart is not at ease after all."

"I thought it was just me. It turns out that the Taoist priest is also like this."

Having caught someone with the same mood, Li Anfu can finally confide the doubts and anxiety in his heart to the other party, most of which are about "how about the gods and men using soldiers?" "Can the Taoist figure out how many people were lost?" Where" or something.

While the two were muttering to each other, there were patrolling cavalry outside, galloping back, saw two figures standing on the city tower, reined in their horses and stopped under the city wall, and cupped their hands: "General Qi, we saw Daoist Yunlong Coming back with a monk!"

"Oh?!"

A smile suddenly appeared on Li Anfu's face, and he quickly restrained himself, leaning against the wall and looking at the past, "Can you see the cavalry in the army coming back?"

"Back to the general, this is not true."

"General Li, don't worry, the son of the army is brave, and nothing will happen."

Yun He said with a smile, in fact, he was not sure, but why did the senior brother and the monk come back, and then Daoyou Chen still had two thousand cavalry?
He looked into the distance, and sure enough, not long after, two figures came back with a journey of dust. The mottled dark red blood stains on Taoist robes and monk robes looked a little scary from a distance, but when they got closer, Yun He and Li Anfu hurried down to Go to the city gate to meet it, and if you get closer, you can smell the stench.

"Senior brother, why do you look like this?" Seeing this, Yun He hurriedly cast a spell to remove the blood stains on the robe. In his opinion, this somewhat stained the Taoist robe.

"No, just let the blood of these barbarians stay."

Yunlong was old, even a cultivator would be exhausted if he swung his sword while casting spells among an army of tens of thousands of people.The Zhenhai monk next to him was much younger, his face was still plain, he just saluted Li Anfu and Yun He with palms together, and then went straight to the posthouse.

The two took off their clothes in the room, took a bath and washed, then fell asleep on the couch, and did not wake up until midnight.

After changing into new clothes, Yunlong and Zhenhai sat in the room, and when Li Anfu came over, they talked about the past few days.

When they heard that the cavalry was attacking, they encircled the point to fight for reinforcements, nibbled away at the barracks outside the barracks, and finally broke into the barracks, set fire and killed people everywhere, and created chaos.

Li Anfu slapped his thighs excitedly, this is a great achievement!Quickly asked further: "And then? Two thousand riders are escorting the captives back now? No wonder they are so slow."

"The captive...has been buried."

"Buried well, buried... huh?!" Li Anfu's smile froze, and when he realized it, he stood up from the chair and widened his eyes, pointing a few fingers, "Buried them all?!"

"To be precise, it was murder! The leader of the army said that soldiers are precious and fast, and two thousand riders are not enough to guard thirty thousand barbarians, and there is no food for them to eat, so they simply dug pits overnight and buried them deeply in batches." Daoist Yunlong He picked up the tea and blew on the floating tea stalks, "Poverty Dao followed the army and saw the cruel scene of the barbarians. All the murders will be easy for them!"

Li Anfu wasn't disturbed by the murder of barbarians, but felt that so many people deserved a lot of credit, so if they were buried like this, they might be used to criticize him in the future.

"Then... what happened next? Can the soldiers and horses return?"

"Soldiers and horses are fast, rescue the prisoners in the army, go all the way across the state and counties, and kill Yujian Pass." Yunlong also followed, took back the pass, and entered the border of the Western Regions all the way. Seeing a group of people from the Western Regions looking tremblingly, even if As a practitioner, one can't help feeling heroic.

"Yi Di surrendered, what a man did!"

Hahaha!
After finishing speaking, the old Taoist Yunlong laughed loudly, the window lattices and door frames trembled slightly with loud laughter, and dust fell from the roof tiles.

Monk Zhenhai closed his eyes, followed by a chuckle, then got up and went to the back room to read scriptures and do homework.

At this time, Li Anfu knew that Yujian Pass had been retaken, and he was no longer excited. He was only one of the troops stationed in the Northwest, and his status was not as high as that of Gansha and Guazhou. The matter of killing prisoners is nothing.

After talking for a while, Li Anfu saw that the two priests had other things to say, so he left.After the people left, the room became quiet, and amidst the faint voice of chanting sutras, Yun He asked about Chen Yuan.

"Why didn't Chen Daoyou come back with senior brother?"

"He has his own business to do, incense and gods, please come here, and send God away with peace of mind, right?" Old Taoist Yunlong was obviously different from the past. He looked at the junior in front of him, was silent for a moment, and talked about other things. if.

"This matter is taken over by the imperial court. When you and I return to the Tianshi Mansion, I should also plead guilty to the Tianshi and then bid farewell."

"Farewell?"

"Leave the Tianshi mansion, go out to practice, and take a good look at the world." Yunlong saw his junior was puzzled, and his smile became wider: "In the past few days when I get along with Chen Daoyou, sometimes I listen to his simple words, but hide some truths, but I feel that it is easy to understand. , Xiannai has one person and one mountain, but even the people are not good enough, how can they enter the mountain? Even if they can enter, they are just sitting in the mountain mansion empty-handed, delusional about the immortal way."

"After leaving the mountain, how will senior brother practice? Subduing demons and eliminating demons?"

"Subduing demons and demons is practice. Indulging in mountains and rivers is practice. Rescuing people in danger is practice. Lying on haystacks with people's wine and singing is still practice. Every word, deed, and action in this world is a practice. It depends on how you go. Done."

Yunlong's eyes were radiant, and he was not at all troubled by the previous killing. Instead, he moved his hands and feet with a kind of freedom and ease, caressing his sleeves, and walked straight out the door with the mahogany sword on his back.

Yun He, who was watching, was stunned, and hurriedly chased out the door, arching his hands.

"Congratulations, senior brother, you have seen the sun through the clouds, and you have an epiphany in your heart!"

"Hahaha!"

The old Taoist's laughter echoed across the roof, "When Chen Daoyou comes back, I will go back to the Heavenly Master's Mansion!"

The sun is shining brightly, and the eaves are slanting towards the sun. In the distant sky, white clouds are wandering. In the ruined camp, two thousand soldiers are sitting quietly on horseback, looking at the captain who is leading them forward, arching their hands and looking at them. say goodbye.

"The marching day is short, but you are all excellent Han family members. It is very lucky to be able to work with you!"

The two thousand cavalrymen were silent, and the corners of some people's eyes were wet with water. After spending the past few days together, they more or less knew that the young lieutenant in front of them was not the original one at all.

But a man of God.

A soldier called out a name he had heard by chance, pulled out his weapon and raised it up, shouting: "Mr. Wu An, Bai Qi!"

Silent figures around them drew their knives and raised them above their heads.

"Mr. Wu An!!"

"Mr. Wu An!!"

A roar made the figure on the horseback laugh, and there were wet marks in his eyes. He slowly raised his hand, and clasped his fists heavily at the cavalrymen who were looking at them one by one: "It is enough for you to know!"

The two thousand cavalry clasped their hands together and clasped their fists: "That's enough!"

Bai Qi nodded with a smile, waved at them, and signaled to turn around and return to Guangwei. Some people were unwilling, but they were still glared at by Bai Qi, and obediently followed the brigade to the southeast slowly.

A gust of wind came.

The captain on the horse trembled suddenly, regained consciousness, looked at everything around him in a daze, and before he had time to ask, the sitting horse led him away.

The woods rustled.

Standing in the shade of the tree, Chen Yuan watched the group of cavalry go away, then looked back at the forest, a figure in armor standing there quietly holding a long dagger, thanking him.

(End of this chapter)