The Sacred Ding Chapter 39: Conspiracy
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Fu and counties are equipped with a small number of local weapons, because the weapons are mainly ordinary swords and bows, mainly to maintain local security.
According to the decree drafted by the General Mansion of Daduhu, the local military equipment of Yulong Mansion has a staff of two thousand soldiers. The soldiers and lieutenants of the prefectures are all appointed by military attachés and veterans who have retired from the Wuwei Army. If Ge Tong, Shen Kun and others make new breakthroughs in the difficulty of cultivation, they will be able to serve as soldiers and horse lieutenants in Fuxian and rectify local military equipment, which is also quite good.
Although Mawei is a military attache who retired from the Wuwei Army, and his cultivation is not too weak, the archers below can only recruit Wu Yong from the local area, which is uneven.
After the large-scale civil unrest in Jade Dragon Mansion, the army also mobilized manpower from the small and middle-aged clan to replenish its military equipment. At one time, it expanded to more than 5,000 people who marched and suppressed Yulong Mountain. However, they failed miserably and returned. The later masters only led more than a hundred people to escape back to Yulong Mansion City.
Suffering from this disastrous defeat, the few thousand soldiers left in the local armed forces only dared to stay in Yulong Mansion City, waiting for reinforcements.
Although there are more than a thousand soldiers in the Yulong Mansion Army, they are uneven and cannot be compared with Chen Hai and his team of Zongmen Dao soldiers.
Not to mention that most of the inner sect disciples who have stepped into the Spirit Realm with their cultivation bases, and the 1,000 soldiers drawn from the three Taoist schools, most of their cultivation bases are also above the Tongxuan realm.
In terms of personal force alone, only the Daoya soldiers of the General Protector General's Mansion can be compared with this sect.
Because of this, after Chen Hai followed the crowd into Jade Dragon Mansion City, not only the Dao Bing disciples themselves were proud, but also the officials and officials in the city had strong confidence and expectations for them. In addition to vacating half of the alley houses as barracks for the Chinese army and left and right guards to settle in, a large number of beef and mutton were also sent to reward the army.
Ge Tong and Shen Kun went to Dazhang to participate in the military meeting. After they came back, Chen Hai learned that they would go to the foot of the northern **** of Yulong Mountain together with the Yulongcheng government army, and then enter the mountainous area to clean up the troubled people.
There are more than 1,000 soldiers in Yulong Mansion, plus more than 2,000 elite civilians, more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, but only a few horses.
The Chinese army, composed of disciples of the Inner Sect, was unwilling to go with the slow-moving Yulong Mansion local armed forces and horses, and led the Right Guards to open the next day in advance; leaving the Zuo Wei and Yulong Mansions mixed Compile peers.
From Yulong Mansion City to the foot of Yulong Mountain’s northern slope, it is a two-hundred-mile journey. There are large hills and valleys in the middle. There are two county towns and dotted villages, but most of them have been destroyed by the chaos; several are close to the north of Yulong Mountain. The Walled City of Po is still in the hands of the chaotic people.
Walking with the jagged local military equipment of Yulong Mansion, Chen Hai and the others dragged on until the fifth day of the night before they arrived at Chenqiao Village at the foot of the northern **** of Yulong Mountain.
Chenqiao Village was originally built by a village in Shanyin County. It is located on the north bank of a river. The village is small, with only more than a hundred houses inside, but Shiche’s wall is five or six meters high.
By the river and the mountains, the terrain is rather dangerous. It can be seen that the villagers who lived here were quite powerful in Yulong Mansion.
Two large gaps of tens of meters were blasted on the north side of the wall. I don’t know if it was caused by the masters of the Ming Aperture Realm who used the profound technique. The scattered debris, as small as corn, is obviously not an ordinary Spirit Realm disciple. What can be done; the remaining stone walls are stained with several layers of blood, which shows that there have been several fierce blood battles here.
There are still many broken arrows deeply inserted into the stone wall, showing how terrifying the bower's strength is; there are some simple bamboo and wood arrows scattered inside and outside the wall, presumably they were shooting randomly when the people stayed at the village. fall.
There is a stone bridge in front of the village. It crosses the river through the stone bridge. Even if you formally enter Yulong Mountain, there is a deep stone gorge leading to the hinterland of Yulong Mountain. The peaks on both sides of the stone gorge are steep and the cliffs are steep. Difficult to climb.
The former army has penetrated into the Yulong Mountain from this stone gorge; after the Chinese army and the right guard arrived at Chenqiaozhai, they also marched on the mountain for three days to chase the insurgents. The remaining order was for soldiers and horses of the Yulong Mansion. Defend Chenqiaozhai to block the way for the chaotic people to exit from this stone gorge, while the left guard left the horses at Chenqiaozhai, then lightly loaded into the mountain, and rushed over to join the Chinese and right guards in search of annihilating the chaotic people.
Entering the Shixia in the hinterland of Yulong Mountain, the terrain can only be said to be relatively easy, but there are no existing roads, and only the black horses of the class can pass quickly. Chen Hai and the others led them from the Taoist Temple. Ordinary mounts, there is no way to fight in the mountains, they can only stay in Chenqiaozhai.
Unlike the Taiwei Mountains with deep forests and abundant aura, Yulong Mountain stretches for more than a thousand miles, but most of them are barren hills and stone ridges. The few sparse vegetation has withered due to the severe drought that lasted for several years. Several columns of thick black smoke can be seen rising in the mountains. That should be the result of the battle left after the former, Chinese, and Right Guards destroyed the chaotic and bandit villages.
The creek in front of Chenqiao Village also shows a dry and cracked riverbed.
There were two to three hundred corpses lying in rags, ragged, and skinny. They should have been the chaotic people who had occupied Chen Qiaohan and were annihilated by the former military disciples.
On the riverbed and along the river, there are some stone axes, bamboo spears, bamboo spears, and bamboo bows scattered all over the place. They should be abandoned by the people. The former Zongmen Taoist soldiers did not bother to pick up these simple weapons.
"Senior Brother Shen, the former army took Chenqiaozhai so easily, is it possible that the people were trying to lure the enemy?" Chen Hai crouched in front of the riverbank, looking at the corpse on the riverbed, and asked Shen Kun in confusion. .
"Humph!" Chen Qing, who was looking at Yulong Mountain from a hundred steps away, heard a scornful snort at this time. Obviously, after such a distance, she still listened to the whispered conversation between Chen Hai and Shen Kun. In the ears.
Shen Kun has been with Chen Hai for so long, and knowing what he is worried about when asking this, he can only shrug and smile at this time.
In the early morning of the next day, the eagle eagle raised by Li Xianghai spread its wings from Chenqiaozhai and flew into the sky, staring sharply at the grass and trees within a hundred miles.
With this eagle, the left guard does not even have to send out scouts and guards, and it is extremely convenient to communicate with the Chinese, right guards, and the front army.
This spirit eagle has been tamed by Li Xianghai for many years. In addition to the pill that strengthens the bones and muscles, he also eats at least two fat sheep every day.
This eagle standing on the ground is taller than a calf. Its iron feathers are like arrows and its sharp claws are as hard as cast iron. It emits a biting cold light. It can quickly smash the century-old poplar into pieces. Even those deacons and teachers in the Daoyuan who step into the spirit realm are not the enemies of this ferocious spirit eagle.
This ferocious spirit eagle, although incomparable with the blue-scale thunder eagle splashing on the cloud cliff, it also envied the eyes of countless Taoist disciples.
Chen Hai and the other three hundred soldiers, led by Li Xianghai, Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo, and Lu Hongqian, entered Shixia and marched towards the hinterland of Yulong Mountain.
Along the way, good news came back about the former army attacking camps. Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo, and Lu Hongqian were all worried that the credit would be taken away by others. They were left behind and only reaped the benefits. All the way urged the Zuowei general to speed up.
Fortunately, the front army opened the way, and the left guard was not worried about being harassed. Two days later, they caught up with the Chinese and right guards and stationed in a simple stone village.
More than a thousand soldiers went all the way into Yulong Mountain for more than two hundred miles. Seven or eight bandit villages have been conquered and burned along with the annihilated corpses to avoid being reused.
The defenses of these seven or eight chaotic bandits are simpler than those of Chen Qiaozhai. All the former army annihilated were some scrawny old and weak chaotic villagers. Although the other generals were all arrogant, they felt that if they walked this way, they would be able to suppress the tens of thousands of people gathered in Yulong Mountain. They were worried that their marching speed was too slow to take much credit for, and Chen Hai became more worried. .
If the chaotic people got the news earlier and feared the strength of Zongmen Taoist soldiers, and the main force moved to the depths of Yulong Mountain, there would be no need to leave hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled to guard the surrounding villages; and just three or four months ago, Yulong Mansion The army had more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the invasion and suppression of Yulong Mountain was smashed. A large number of soldiers should have been captured. Even if the rebels wanted to guard the surrounding villages, they shouldn’t just be simple bamboo spears and bamboo bows. weapon.
In addition, although Zongmen Dao soldiers conquered nearly ten bandit villages one after another, they wiped out less than 2,000 enemies, and they were far from hurting Luanmin’s muscles and bones. More importantly, Luanmin defeated the Yulong City Army by 5,000 soldiers. Horses are almost completely wiped out, not like a mob.
Of course, Shen Kun and Ge Tong can listen to Chen Hai’s worries and doubts, but even more than Qi Siyu, a captain of Baiwu, they only regard Chen Hai’s doubts as a joke. In the eyes of Taoist disciples, the military capital of Yulong City It is a useless pustule, being swarmed and defeated by the chaotic people, does not explain the problem at all.
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On a stone cliff where the Taoist soldiers could not be stationed in Shizhai, there were people with their heads and faces shrouded in black robes. They didn't feel the heat. Only two eyes were exposed, staring at the village a few miles away.
There is no shelter from dense shrubs on the stone cliff~IndoMTL.com~ But what is strange is that the three spirit birds flying in the sky, monitoring the left and right, did not find the existence of the two black-robed people.
"Master Jijiu is really a clever calculation. These Zongmen Taoist soldiers are too arrogant, and they didn't notice at all, so they got into the pockets of Master Jijiu. This time we should also be able to do a good job. ......" A black-robed man lowered his voice and whispered.
"Different from the decadent sects and Hou tribes in the mainland, the martial **** Hou Dongliang, who has governed the borders and martial arts over the past few years, should not be underestimated, and the Taiwei Sect has not completely fallen. The slightest slack. We mix the Ni Ling San given by Lord Jijiu into the earth springs that these Taoist soldiers drink. It is already a great achievement, and the rest is left to the rebels assembled in Huanglongyuan... …" The black-robed man warned his companion not to have extra branches, and turned like a spirit bird, silently sliding down into the ravine behind the stone cliff.
The ravine behind the stone cliff was originally a rocky creek. During the severe drought, there was no running water early, revealing the rocky beach on the river bed.
In a pile of pebbles, there is a slender iron pipe which is very inconspicuous. A man in a black robe squatted over and listened to the gurgling water coming from the iron pipe. He took out a black pottery from his arms. Bottle, poured the whole bottle of slightly fishy powder into it.
Stone Creek is actually connected to the underground spring of Shizhai. The people in Heipao had long expected Taiweizong to enter the main force of Taoist soldiers to suppress Yulong Mountain. After conquering several stockades in a row, they would most likely choose Resting in this Shizhai, they now only need to mix the medicine of Niluanxuanxiu Linghai Zhenyuan into the drinking water source of the Taoist disciples through the hidden waterway that connects the stone creek and the ground spring, and everything is ready...
The two men in black robes did all this, and fleeed like a ghost along the stony creek; the three spirit birds flying high in the sky were never able to catch them.