Turbulent Times Chapter 89: Stuck in the ancient temple

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Looking at the thriving scene in front of him, Wang Junlin secretly sighed in his heart: "Who would have thought that in just a few years, a powerful Sui Empire would collapse?"

Because the Sui Emperor did not set a time limit, the convoy was traveling neither fast nor slow, and had not yet left Jincheng County in a day.

It's just that the weather was good at first, but in the afternoon, dense dark clouds began to appear in the sky, surging from the sky. The sun disappeared, and the sound of thunder came faintly from the dark clouds.

The leader of the guard is another famous general in Wang Junlin's mansion, named Zhan Peng. Like Yu Bao, he was also a centurion who was injured in the battle last year and was waiting to die. He was rescued by Wang Junlin.

At this time, Zhanpeng urged his horse to Wang Junlin's side, and said, "Master, from the way it looks like, there might be a thunderstorm coming. Shall we find a shelter from the rain in front?" According to Wang Junlin's request, Everyone on the road called him son.

Wang Junlin raised his head and looked at the sky.

"There is no village in front of this place, no store behind, where can I get shelter from the rain?"

"After passing the valley in front, it belongs to the boundary of Lanping County, Jincheng County. I passed by there before I was humbled. I remember that there is an ancient temple. Although it is dilapidated, it can shelter from the wind and rain."

"In that case, let's go to the ancient temple to avoid the rain."

Wang Junlin knew that in the northwest, the thunderstorms in spring were astonishing. In addition, the road condition of the official road was not very good. Therefore, it is best to find a place to hide.

Therefore, Wang Junlin asked Zhanpeng to lead three people to explore the way ahead, and at the same time ordered the team to speed up the march.

At this time, two knights galloped from the opposite side. The knights were wearing coir raincoats and could not see their faces clearly. They passed by the convoy without any intersection.

Wang Junlin didn't care either. When the convoy drove through a valley, Zhanpeng sent someone to report that the ancient temple was still there, empty, and that it could be sheltered from the wind and rain.

"Hurry up, everyone. From the looks of it, the thunderstorm will come soon."

Wang Junlin kept urging the chariots and horses to speed up, and the sound of thunder in the dark clouds became clearer and clearer. The cloud layer was thick and getting lower and lower, and one could vaguely see the silver awns circulating in the cloud layer, and the thunderstorm aura became more intense.

When turning the fork, two more knights in coir raincoats passed by the side of the convoy.

With a click, thunder exploded, followed by pouring rain. The rainwater was the size of a grain of rice at first, but then it got bigger and bigger. The cold rain hit his face, and it hurt.

For a moment, when I looked around, there was a vast rain curtain in the front, back, left, and right, and I couldn't see the road clearly.

"Speed ​​up and take shelter from the rain in the ancient temple."

With such a downpour, let alone rushing, even traveling becomes difficult.

"What the **** is this weather, it was fine this morning, why did you change your face all of a sudden?" Yu Zimo cursed carelessly

The convoy rushed to the ancient temple that Zhanpeng mentioned. Two or three courtyard walls have collapsed, and there is a main hall and more than a dozen dilapidated wing rooms in the temple. What is enshrined is the statue of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. However, due to years of disrepair, the gold paint on the statue has fallen off and become mottled.

Zhanpeng has ordered people to clean the main hall, and lit a bonfire from the main hall, sweeping away the haze in the main hall.

Wang Junlin and Li Chun went in on their own, and the guards stopped to unload the goods and gathered the horses together. Yu Zimo also went to help without saying a word, but Wang Junlin didn't stop him.

The original scale of the ancient temple should not be too small, because a stable was found.

Of course the blood-maned horse would not stay with the other horses, Wang Junlin didn't tie him up, and led him directly to the porch of the Great Hero Hall.

At this time, the rain is getting heavier and heavier.

The main hall of the ancient temple has begun to leak rainwater.

Rainwater flows down the walls and beams, and gathers into puddles on the uneven ground. Fortunately, there was no air leakage, and everyone didn't feel much coldness.

Wang Junlin personally walked around the ancient temple, and found a well in the aisle of the apse of the Daxiong Palace, but the water in the well had already dried up. In addition, the gable wall collapsed in several places. Wang Junlin thought about it and asked someone to push the vehicle over to block the gap in the gable wall.

"Brother Wang, although this place is a bit desolate, I haven't heard of any bandits. Are you being too careful?" Li Chun couldn't help asking.

Wang Junlin said: "Be careful when sailing for thousands of years. Just now, two groups of people passed us one after another in the heavy rain. It seems to be pulling the flag as the thieves on the Green Forest Road said. The things in my truck, Each piece is worth a thousand gold, maybe it will be discovered by the experienced old thief on the green forest road and stare at us. Although it may not be true, but it is always right to be more careful when going out."

Putting the flag is a slang word on the green forest road in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which means spies, eyes and ears, and eyeliner.

Although Li Chun felt that Wang Junlin was being too cautious, but when Wang Junlin said this, he felt that being so careful was not harmful.

So he was idle, so he went around with Zheng Wangjunlin, and Wang Junlin made arrangements for all the places he should pay attention to.

Then the two of them returned to the Guanyin Hall, only to see that Zhanpeng had led people to set up another bonfire and started cooking food.

"Uncle Master, will there be thieves coming?" Yuzi ran over silently, holding his two hammers, with an excited expression on his face. Since Wang Junlin worshiped Yu Juluo as his teacher, Yu Zimo called Wang Junlin his uncle.

Wang Junlin and Li Chun walked over and sat by the campfire, the little lynx immediately rushed forward and started playing with him. While playing with the little lynx, Wang Junlin smiled and said, "Zimo, some thieves may come to **** our things. If there are few people at that time, use your hammer to beat them all to death."

"Okay, uncle, you have to keep your word." Yu Zimo said happily.

Wang Junlin pulled Yu Zimo to sit next to him, and said: "But you have to listen to me later, whenever you are told to do it, you do it, and you hit whoever you are told to hit, otherwise you are not allowed to do it. "

"Master, don't worry, my grandfather and father told me when I came here, let me listen to you." Yuzi scratched his head silently, and said with a simple and honest face.

Adding some firewood to the bonfire, it started to smoke. Wang Junlin and Li Chun walked to the door of the Guanyin Hall and looked out. The rainwater flowed down the corrugated hall, turning into beads.

"This **** rain, I don't know when it will stop."

Li Chun cursed in a low voice, stepped out of the threshold of the main hall, stood on the porch steps and looked into the distance. One of the mountain gates was missing, and the other was crooked, crumbling in the wind.

Wang Junlin looked up at the rain and said, "Brother Li, maybe we will stay here overnight."

Li Chun sighed and said: "If it rains continuously after nightfall, that's the only way to go."

At this moment, the little lynx who had been lying down suddenly turned over and barked non-stop towards the rain outside. Almost at the same time, the blood-maned horse on the porch also started to move uneasy.

Wang Junlin and Zhan Peng looked at each other, stepped out of the hall, stood on the porch, comforted the blood-maned horse, and looked into the distance with squinted eyes.

In the darkness, there were faintly beating knights, and faintly, some people neighing.

"Get ready for battle."

Wang Junlin gave an order, and Zhanpeng led twenty guards and immediately opened their bows and arrows, occupying a favorable terrain, and aiming outside.

"Ah! Junlin, the ones here are really thieves, how many people are there, why don't we escape as soon as possible!" Li Chun rushed out of the wing with a worried face, and asked Wang Junlin.

"I'm afraid there are hundreds of people coming, and this temple has only one exit. If you escape, you will only be stopped by them on the road, which is even more unfavorable. It's better to relax here and wait for work." Wang Junlin said lightly, he had never seen any battle before. , although worried, but not the slightest panic, in fact, from Zhanpeng down, although the twenty guards looked dignified, they also did not panic, but murderous intent on their faces.

As for Yu Zimo laughing wildly and holding two big hammers with fighting spirit on his face, if Wang Junlin hadn't stopped him, he would have rushed out by himself.

"What should I do?" Li Chun hurriedly walked around in the temple, Zhan Peng and others looked contemptuous. Seeing this, Wang Junlin thought that Li Chun was a technical talent, but his courage and intelligence were too weak, no wonder Yu Juluo didn't like him very much.

Wang Junlin didn't have time to talk to Li Chun, so he squinted his eyes and kept looking into the distance. In the dark night, the beating fire was getting closer and closer, and the sound of people neighing became more and more clear. It seemed that there were no less than four hundred of them, all cavalry.

It is normal to have such a group of horse thieves in the Western Regions, but it is unreasonable for such a group of horse thieves to appear in Jincheng County. But they couldn't gather so many war horses.

"My lord, there is a steep hill going out from the side door of the backyard. With the extraordinary strength of a blood-maned horse, we can climb over it. Why don't we block the thieves? You retreat first..." Zhan Peng came to Wang Junlin and whispered. But before he finished speaking, Wang Junlin glanced at him and snorted coldly, so he didn't dare to continue.

"Pile up all the chariot battles at the gap in the gable wall, Zhan Yong, take everyone to prepare their bows and arrows, divide up their hands, and guard the gap, Zimo, you guard the front door, don't let thieves rush in, but you must pay attention I'm safe. I'll climb over the gable, go around behind them, and catch them by surprise." Wang Junlin said suddenly.

As the thieves kept approaching, Li Chun couldn't help but gasp: "Junlin, there are quite a few people coming, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep it, why don't we run away!"

Wang Junlin ignored Li Chun's remarks. He led the blood-maned horse through the temple and came to the backyard. There is a side door leading out to an extremely steep hillside. It is difficult for ordinary war horses to go up, but for the blood-maned horse , is not difficult.

Going down the hillside, you can walk four or five miles to the main road facing the entrance of the ancient temple. Wang Junlin is going to take advantage of the heavy rain to cover it and kill the enemy from behind to catch him by surprise.

PS: One update will be delivered in the middle of the night, and the other update will be delivered after getting up.