Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2497 Burning Building ([-])

Speaking of this, Yun Ting slowly stretched out his right hand and pointed out his index finger, saying: "One, you can't touch it head-on, you can only hit it sideways to avoid its sharp edge, just drag it, don't hit it, wait for it to change, and gradually erode its momentum. When the court soldiers and horses arrive, things can be done.”

After finishing speaking, Yun Ting stretched out his middle finger again, and said: "Second, block its government orders, make it difficult for the puppet government to implement the government orders in the countryside, attack and kill the single and puppet officials, and turn to the troublesome people, choose one or two hard-line new ones to vote for the false, kill His family is full of warnings to imitate others, and the people in the village are frightened, so the common people dare not be officials, dare not speak out about things. They just blindly stir up trouble, making it difficult to establish their authority, difficult to collect food and rice, and difficult to enforce laws."

Then he pointed out his ring finger and said: "Three, let the heroes from all the mountains harass the traffic, intercept and kill pedestrians and merchants, block the roads, and destroy its public order. The thieves can only set up more checkpoints and spread soldiers and horses for security and order. It is hard to look at the end. The Kun people place the most importance on pottery and craftsmen. If they find an opportunity to set fire to the newly established Kun bandit workshops, warehouses, warehouses, and shops in Guangli, disturbing their business operations and creations, it will increase their troubles and chaos. its footsteps."

Speaking of this, he pointed out his little finger and said: "Fourth, I see that the Kun people recruit more local soldiers every time they go to a place, but these local soldiers have neither guns nor armor, only knives and spears, and there are few thieves in the camp. There are scholars, but there are very few fake officials and fake officials. They have no choice but to use the elders of the village's sages to govern the people. There are also good and bad among these village soldiers. Prepare, heroes gather together, cooperate inside and outside, shoot down one or two village offices, seize guns and rob food, it will definitely shock the gangsters and boost morale, but this is not easy, it cannot be done easily."

Taking a breather, Yun Ting continued: "On weekdays, I mostly rely on the local tyrants, relying on the relatives in Tuli to hide and hide, and roam around with the thieves. The men and horses retreated to Bagui, entrenched in the frontier, hidden among the mountains, looking for opportunities to cause trouble and harassment, and when the soldiers arrive, they will think that they are the first to advance, and then they can make a comeback."

After hearing this, Taoist Mushi said, "It's all a strategy to reduce the superficiality, and you can't touch the root."

Yun Ting snorted coldly and said, "It's not easy to be able to do one or two things in planning and planning. People must not be greedy. The gangsters cover the land of two prefectures and have enough soldiers and food. How can you and I do it overnight?" Shake. As for Xiong Du you mentioned, his head is still there, which shows that the imperial court has no intention of dealing with the Kun bandits."

Taoist Mushi pondered for a moment, and said: "Well, it makes sense, let's not talk about this matter for now, the matter of the alliance..."

Yun Ting said: "Probably for sure, I have already contacted Xue Tu, and I will come to meet with us tomorrow. You have seen this person the last two times. He is short-sighted, rough and greedy. He can only be used as a coercion, not by others." Its master, at that time you have to set your mind on it, lure him into the trap, and don't let him influence you. But this man is very loyal, he is not afraid of being beaten, he is quite famous in the world, and he has several gates behind him to support him. This Marshal of Tianmen, at its peak, could pull 7000 to [-] people. Now the Kun people are powerful, and the big households and Daoist sects are suppressed, but there are two to three thousand people, and now this person is being squeezed. It’s sad, and I’ll make some money just to protect myself, so it’s not hard to recruit Xu Yizhong.”

Taoist Mu Shi nodded slightly, and said: "Poverty Taoist understands, last time I gave Xue Tu a practical teaching guerrilla, seeing how happy he is, there is no place to scratch him, and he is a heartless person when he is probing with words."

Yun Ting frowned and said, "Maybe you can let him get what he wants?"

Taoist Mushi sneered and said, "Hey, he's going to take the pole off the shore, and then he won't be able to let him go. Does it matter if it's true or not?"

Pausing for a while, he said again: "Brother Yun, you and I will plan carefully, think carefully, and don't make any mistakes."

Distant mountains, dense forests, hills, and strange rocks, the moonlight shines through the dark clouds, reflecting the mountains and fields are hazy and illusory, the branches of the trees sway gently in the mountain wind, the leaves rustle lightly, and the shadows of the trees are reflected on the mountain walls On the sky, it looks like a ghost, a ghost fire in an ancient temple in a deep mountain, reflecting two black shadows on the window paper whispering secretly, like the whisper of hell.

A small boat swayed and meandered in the river, and there were three people sitting in the canopy. Xu Tong and Li Baiqing were both blindfolded by a black cloth and sitting next to each other, while a big man sat upright and stared at the two of them intently.Xu Tong leaned against the canopy wall with a crooked body.The body shakes gently with the ups and downs of the ship from time to time, as if staring and dozing, secretly feeling and distinguishing the moving speed, tilting and on-demand of the boat, and capturing every subtle and special sound feature of the environment along the way.Xu Tong silently counted the numbers and recorded the time. He crossed his hands in front of his chest seemingly casually. If you turn left, draw a line on the inner side of the collar from top to bottom; In the case of not being able to record directly, Xu Tong used this as a supplementary reference for memory, and roughly estimated the mileage and time of each turn based on this, hoping to roughly guess the location of the destination by comparing it with the map afterwards.

He has practiced this training method many times in the past, and it is at least sixty to seventy percent accurate.But in the past it was all land and land, either by car or sedan chair.It was the first time to take a boat.Compared with cars, it is more difficult to control the position on board.It can only be regarded as a chat.

The junction is far away from the city, the two rented a house nearby the day before, and stayed for half the night. They came to wait before dawn, and after boarding the boat, they traveled for a long time before the boat stopped slowly. Remove the black cloth.When he opened his eyes, he was in a huge mangrove forest.

Abandoning the boat and landing on the shore, there is another trail in the woods, which is led by a guide all the way forward.The two of them didn't distinguish between east, west, north and south, and just followed the guide all the way.

Walking along the road, there are other people coming in from time to time on the road, and they all come on foot.Obviously, there are no vehicles and horses here, and those who come have to rely on boats.Xu Tong was secretly worried. Since ancient times, the waterways are the most complex and changeable, especially the waterways in such a large swamp sandbar.The 36 heroes of Liangshan in the Song Dynasty gathered in Liangshan for decades, but the officers and soldiers were helpless.In fact, there is no dangerous place in Liangshan, and it depends on the eight hundred miles of water to cover the government.

These people are probably the leaders of today's associations.Xu Tong looked at Li Baiqing with searching eyes, and Li Baiqing only nodded slightly.When we moved again, the road became more and more complicated. Sometimes it was necessary to push through the bushes, and sometimes we had to pass through a temporary board on the stream.The surrounding area is not the woods, but the reeds, and even the sky cannot be seen.On the road, the light and dark checkpoints flickered, and the guards were heavily guarded. They didn't come to a temple in the open space until about noon.

Xu Tong was secretly startled. The speed of paddling and paddling of the boat was very slow. Regardless of the time, this place is only about [-] to [-] kilometers away from Guangzhou City.That is to say, from the west gate, there are bandits' nests on the side of the road for at most forty miles.And this bandit's nest is deep in the mangroves on the sandbar, if there is no guide, even if you use a large army to pull a net, you can't easily search it out!No wonder this group of people are fearless and openly gather here.

The courtyard of this temple occupies a very wide area, but the layout is not very large.When the temple was built, it is said that because of the lack of large wood beams, the spliced ​​main beams were covered with iron sheets, so it was named Tieliang Temple. The temples and houses in the temple are all built with stone foundations. The layout has two entrances, the front is the Shanmen hall, the middle is the Buddhist hall, and the back is the abbot's room, kitchen and layman's room.Most of them have now collapsed.The gate of the mountain has long been dilapidated, and the plaque in front of the gate is nowhere to be found. There is a missing incense tripod in the hall. In the main hall, there is a wooden statue of Buddha, but the color painting has faded and the gold decoration has peeled off. There are two standing statues of monks beside the Buddha. , there are more than [-] Bodhisattvas of different sizes in the side halls on both sides. They are tall, short, fat and thin, and they are in disrepair for a long time.

A few minions in front of the mountain gate greeted the guests. After checking the official posts, someone led them in. In the courtyard, there were dozens of tables and chairs arranged in two rows. Many people had already taken their seats. cigarette.An armchair is placed in the middle, an incense table is set behind the chair, and a shrine is placed on it for the Taoist emperor to write "Haotian Jinque Jade Emperor Xuanqiong Gao God". In front of the table, there are three furnaces and four dishes. Three talents, three injections of high incense are inserted in each furnace, and pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens are placed on the four offering plates for meat offerings.

The tables and chairs in the courtyard were arranged in their respective seats. A minion led Li Baiqing and Xu Tong to the last table, and the minion sang loudly: "Li Baiqing, a disciple of the old Li Zhuang, brought his nephew Li Jian to the table. , take your seat in line." After announcing Li Baiqing and the two of them to sit, they were served with tobacco, tea and fruit before leaving.Not long after, the two rows of seats gradually filled up. Apart from the forty or fifty leaders, there were more than a hundred Jiamen disciples, all of whom were in strange shapes, talking loudly or whispering, everyone had different thoughts, and their eyes flickered. His eyebrows and eyes could not help stroking around, and the courtyard was noisy and noisy.

What everyone paid the most attention to were the hardwood boxes piled up in the left and right corridors, guarded by more than a dozen young men. Iron hoops were added to the lids of the boxes, and big locks were also locked.Could it be inside.

About the fact that Chief Xue got a large sum of money, it has long been spread among the leaders.It is said that a certain Taoist came here to "turn a stone into gold", and some people say that he dug up the military pay buried by Dudu Xiong in the past.But Xue Tu was noncommittal about this, and it became more and more mysterious.

They couldn't help guessing, suddenly there was a sound of a quiet whip, and the courtyard immediately fell silent, and then a drum sounded, and a minion came out with a wooden order in his arms, and sang: "Tianmen order generals, everyone obey orders." Hearing Qiqi stand up, the tables and chairs were clanging, and I waited for everyone to stand still before singing:

"Driving must take Yangguan Road,

When sailing a boat, you must sail across the sea.

……

The auspicious day is selected early,

The gate of heaven is wide open and some generals will be named.

The good time has come, open the gate of heaven, and the flag officer holds the flag. "After singing a general order, there was a burst of cymbals and a muffled drum. A big man picked out a big green bamboo banner and wrote five big words: Tianmen Dao Shenhui.

After a short pause, Minoru sang again: "Marshal is promoted."

(End of this chapter)