Confucianism in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 22

Outside Yiyang City, banners and flags were flying, and camps stretched for several miles.

On the top of the city, soldiers of the Qin Army held long spears and looked like they were ready for battle.

The city guard, Zhangqian, supported the battlements and looked into the distance with burning eyes. His face was slightly anxious, and his eyes were full of worry.

Wei Jun came faster than he expected. It was only one day after the fire burned Pingyang warehouse, and they had already approached the city.

However, since the arrival of the Wei army, there has been no sign of attacking the city. They are only stationed ten miles outside the city, looking towards Yiyang from a distance.

This is a high slope, surrounded by vast plains on three sides. The Wei army outside the city built on the mountain, and a huge mound of earth rose from the ground, traversing the only road from Yiyang to Luoyi.

The height of the earth wall has also reached two feet and four feet, which is enough to resist the attack of the Qin army, not to mention that now the Wei army has built an earth fort outside, and the crossbowmen in the earth fortress can shoot and kill a large number of cavalry.

Wei Jun set up a formation on the high slope, and a series of thick wooden fences were erected on the mound, firmly sealing the gap in the high slope.

Below the high slope are three trenches about four meters wide. There are a lot of stones buried in the trenches, and the stones are full of sharp wooden spears.

These days, the Wei army did not attack the city, but instead repaired the fortifications.

"General, Wang Ji's army is here!" Wei Qing looked into the distance from the mound, and caught a glimpse of the black torrent rushing in the distance.

After Wei Qing attacked the Qin army in Xiegu, he led Wei Wuzu Fengzi battalion to Yiyang to join the main force.

Lord Xinling turned around and looked at the Qin army in the distance. The whole was divided into eight parts, echoing from beginning to end, calmly.

"General, now that the Qin army has just arrived, and the army is exhausted, the army is exhausted and their foothold is not stable. Now is a good opportunity to attack!" Long Jia, who was at the side, suggested to Lord Xinling.

"General Long, this Wang Ji is a veteran in the battlefield, how can he not know how to fight, he came prepared." Ji Yanran said while looking into the distance.

"Look at the formation of the Qin army. Although it looks scattered, it is actually arranged according to eight formations. This kind of formation technique has obviously been arranged a long time ago. If we attack rashly, I am afraid it will be difficult to get benefits. On the contrary, it will make you fall into a passive position." Ji Yanran said, "Presumably, Wang Ji already expected that our army would attack."

"The Pingyang heavy-armored army under Wang Ji's command is an army that has fought for a long time, and its combat power is extraordinary. If our army forces an attack, it is very likely that it will be restrained by it under Yiyang City. When the Qin army in the city takes the opportunity to attack, we The army was attacked by the enemy, but he followed his way." Lord Xinling accepted the words, and said in a deep voice.

Fu Nian guessed Lord Xinling's intentions, from the moment he ordered Pang Nuan to burn food to drive away the enemy, he never thought of attacking Yiyang by force.

After cutting off the Qin army's food and grass, his real target was only Wang Yu's Pingyang heavy armor army from beginning to end.

On the one hand, he built the city here to cut off the connection between the Qin army in the city and the reinforcements outside the city, so that they could not merge.

On the other hand, it should be a plan to confront the Qin army and create opportunities for the actions of the Han army. Now time is on the side of the Wei army.

"The Wei army is cautious, and they didn't come to attack." Wang Ji rode his horse and raised his whip, looking at the Wei army camp in the distance, frowning slightly.

Behind him was a heavily armored army of nearly [-] people. These heavy armored soldiers were covered with iron armor, and under the armor was a heavy long knife.

"Pass down the order, and the whole army will set up camp on the spot and take strict precautions." Wang Jue ordered in a deep voice.

"Here!"

Qin Jun camped outside Yiyang City, facing Wei Jun five miles away.

In the next few days, Wei Jun remained silent, and Qin Jun didn't waste time, and set up a few more archery towers around the camp.

The battlefield became eerily silent.

.........

"General Wang." A lonely swordsman entered the tent, bowed his hands to salute General Wang.

Behind him is a group of black-armored swordsmen. These swordsmen are wearing light armor and holding long swords. Their faces are expressionless and look rather cold, and their eyes are as sharp as eagles.

"Commander Shen." Wang Jue replied when he saw the person coming.

"Master Xiangguo ordered me to come and assist the general." Shen Lingxiao said.

"My Black Ice Terrace has found out that many masters of the rivers and lakes participated in the battle of breaking the Iron King Fort and attacking Pingyang Cang." Shen Lingxiao said, "In addition to my Black Ice Terrace, the elders of the Yinyang family also came with me to help the general .”

"Oh? People from the Yinyang family are here too." Wang Jue frowned. He never liked this group of pretenders.

"This is the first time I have met General Wang."

At this time, an old man in gray linen came in slowly. He had gray hair, a slightly hunched body, and a faint smile on his face, looking very friendly.

"You are the one who came?" Wang Ji looked at the person who came.

"I'm a mountain ghost, the deacon elder of the Yin Yang family." The old man smiled, and he smiled kindly.

Besides him, two other people also came in, a mysterious man whose whole body was covered in a tall black robe whose face could not be seen clearly, and a red-clothed swordsman.

It is Li Ying, the eldest of the 36 Taihang giants, and Yidaoxian, the fourth eldest.

Seeing Li Ying and Yidaoxian, Wang Ji's face suddenly became gloomy. It was these two who lost the Pingyang warehouse.

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On the second day, at the foot of Weijun Mountain, an old man rode a white deer and walked slowly towards the city. Behind him were a group of disciples from the Yin Yang family. This old man was the elder mountain ghost of the Yin Yang family.

In addition to the Five Elements Department, the Yangyin School also has the Eight Elders of the Yi Department, and the mountain ghost is one of the eight elders.

The archers of the Wei army on the mountain city have already drawn their bowstrings. Once they enter the range of the arrow array, they will be shot and killed.

The old man didn't pay any attention to it, and ordered a group of Yin-Yang disciples to form a formation under the city, and then walked slowly towards the city.

His body is slightly stooped, but his eyes are piercing. He has a thin figure, but his aura is very intimidating.

"You old man, if you don't hide well, why come here to die, but you have lived enough."

A chuckle resounded from the end of the mountain path, and the man in the green shirt came flying over the blue clouds.

"Old man, I've lived long enough, come out and exercise your muscles and bones." The mountain ghost laughed, without any anger on his face.

Yang Gongxie's figure changed, and he was already in front of the old man, grabbing the old man's chest with his claws.

The old man stepped on the void, swayed his body slightly to avoid the grab, clenched his right hand and slammed Yang Gongxie's face, and his left palm slapped Yang Gongxie's ribs.

His movement was strange, his figure changed again, he flashed to the side of the old man, his hands protruded like dragon claws, the fierce claws tore through the air, and let out a dragon roar.

The old man formed seals in his hands, slapped his palms, and had a head-on bump with Yang Gongxie, and the two retreated a few feet each.

At this time, the old man's arms trembled, and the surrounding earth and rocks broke away from the ground one after another, rolling and circling in mid-air, and enveloped Yang Gongxie.

When Yang Gongxie saw this, a gust of icy cold air rose from his whole body, the temperature of his whole body dropped suddenly, and a gust of extremely cold freezing air burst out, turning into an ice mist and spreading in all directions.

The old man pushed with both palms, and the huge lump of earth and rock slammed towards Yang Gongxie.

Han Jin collided with the giant block, and the broken pieces and ice crystals flew, turning into debris that filled the sky and fell down.

The old man seized the opportunity to retreat violently, retreated several zhang, and was no longer affected by the freezing air, only then did he stabilize his figure.

"Old man, it's meaningless for me to fight with you like this. Why don't you change the game." The old man said.

He just wanted to test the strength of these quacks in the Wei army, and he never thought that if only one person came, he would not be able to win.

"Talk about it." Yang Gongxie looked calm and breezy.

"You can see the formation set up by my group of disciples. This formation is called the Shutu Mountain Demon Formation. If someone from your younger generation can break through this formation, I will lose, and I will not make any more moves, and vice versa." The old man said.

"Okay, it's up to you." Yang Gongxie agreed, and then flew back to the mountain city.

Yang Gongxie returned to the top of the city, and everyone was waiting there.

"That formation was changed according to the principle of five elements and eight trigrams, and it played the shape of a mountain, four lines and nine palaces." Xue Zhu said to the crowd, "Either use magic to break it, or use force to break it."

He is quite proficient in the technique of Qimen Dunjia.

"It's easy to just break the formation, but I don't have any suitable candidates among the others. If I go, I'm afraid it will be said that the big bully the small." Xuan Tieshou Ren Ping said.

"Who said no, I think Brother Fu is the most suitable candidate." Su Moci suddenly said.

When he spoke, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Why not me!" Zhang Tan yelled hastily when he heard the words, "Brother Fu is still young, An Neng is going to break the formation, so it just so happens!"

"Then do you understand Yili spells? Do you know how to break through formations?" As soon as Zhang Tan's words fell, he was asked back by Su Mo.

Zhang Tan was speechless for a moment.

"That person only said to break the formation, not to defeat that group of people, if that's the case, it's not impossible for Brother Nian to go." Ji Yanran said, looking at Fu Nian with a pair of beautiful eyes.

"If so, I can try it." Fu Nian said.

"Brother Fu, the so-called capable people work harder, I believe you." Yang Gongxie looked at him and said seriously.

He intends to let Fu Nian experience some experience, and with him protecting Fu Nian, he will have no worries.

Fu Nian cupped his hands and said, "This is a matter of Fu Nian's duty."

"Brother Nian, I will go with you." Ji Yanran said.

With Fu Nian, Ji Yanran and Yang Gongxie plundered down the city and came to the front of the formation.

I saw 56 disciples of the Yin-Yang family standing on one side of the formation, forming a large formation.

"I'm going." Fu Nian nodded to the two, and then jumped into the formation.

As soon as he stepped into the formation, the disciples of the Yin Yang family swam away and surrounded him.

With a thought in his mind, he mobilized his true energy in the sword, and a flash of sword light suddenly appeared, and he slashed at one of the Yinyang disciples.

The disciple of the Yin Yang family greeted him with a palm, and several other people also attacked Fu Nian.

The swords and palms were wrong, Fu Nian didn't love to fight, and immediately retreated with the power of this move, stepping into another formation.

There are eight divisions, and each division can cooperate with each other and defend together, so that the disciples in the formation can shift positions and change formations as they like.

As soon as Fu Nian stood still, he saw one of the disciples rushing towards him.

As soon as Fu Nian pointed out, the disciple of the Yin-Yang family immediately fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, clutching his chest and vomited a mouthful of blood, obviously seriously injured.

With a flick of the long sword in his hand, he forced the rest of them away, Fu Nian withdrew and retreated into a new formation.

Li, Zhi, Huo, Tian, ​​Zun, Kong, Sheng, Fu Nian can accurately find the location of the seven-step birth door in each formation every time, and easily intersperse.

"This child is extraordinary. It is really rare to be able to see the origin of this formation and grasp the rhythm of this transformation." The old man praised in his heart. Take the young boy away and let him worship in the sect.

Ji Yanran who was at the side saw that Fu Nian was able to handle the battle with ease, and couldn't help but feel relieved.

Dinghai, Jiawu, Yisi, Bingshen, Renyin, Wuji, Gengxin, Guihai, Renchen, Fu Nian saw where the formation was.

Yamagata anti-close method, draw the ground, go out of the gate of heaven, enter the house of the earth, close the golden gate, and ride on the jade shaft.

Seeing that the eight-direction array was already at the empty door, Fu Nian gathered all the true energy in his body and walked according to the pulse of the array. The sword edge in his hand bloomed with a dazzling cold light, and went straight to the center of the array. Those disciples blocked the frame in panic and fell to the ground with a sword The entire formation was instantly broken.

Fu Nian put the sword back into its sheath, and saluted the old man: "The junior has broken the formation."

Although he broke the formation, he did not kill a single person.

"Brother Fu is really amazing." Yang Gongxie praised, seeing that Fu Nian broke the formation, he felt quite complacent.

With a pretty face, Ji Yanran walked up to Fu Nian, pulled up his sleeve, and said, "Are you injured?"

"Sister Ji, I'm fine." Fu Nian said broadly.

"You kid is beyond my expectations." The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "This time it's the old man who made a mistake."

After finishing speaking, the old man sighed leisurely, as if he was a little melancholy, then he hugged his fists to everyone and drifted away.

What makes him melancholy is that he has missed such a good seedling, what a pity.

　According to the six elders of the Five Elements in the original book, any of the masters around the protagonist can single-handedly defeat the Yinyang family, and add the eight elders of Yibu to the Yinyang family to strengthen the overall strength of the sect

　　
　
(End of this chapter)