Great Sui Guoshi

He took the hand of the son in his arms and shook it: "Yun'er, say goodbye to uncle!"

The little man in the woman's arms was still dozing off, and the sleepy-eyed mother shook his little hand a few times before lying on his shoulders and continuing to sleep soundly.

......

The noisy Longevity Temple suddenly became deserted. In the square, only Zhu Gangli, Nie Honglian, and Zhu Erniang were left, but she couldn't leave the city, so she could only guard in the temple.

"We also..."

Just as Lu Liangsheng opened his mouth, there was a rustling sound in the forest. Two figures stepped on the tree cage, and the moment the branches bent and swayed, they jumped down. He holds a knife in his arm and wears a bamboo hat.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, if you want to accomplish great things, how can you do without the two of us?"

In the sunlight gradually revealing the gaps in the clouds, Yan Chixia and Zuo Zhengyang stood on the left and the right.

"Okay!" Lu Liangsheng showed a gentle smile, raised his hand and arched heavily at the two of them, "You and I are old acquaintances, so I won't be hypocritical, please follow me out of the city!"

Hahaha--

Hearing this sentence, both of them laughed, clasped their fists heavily, and said in unison: "Let's go together!"

Among the clouds, the morning sun is shining down.

Chapter 757 The waves are surging, and the strong wind rises

On a summer day that shines through the gaps in the clouds, cicadas are neighing in the forest, and on the official road to and from Hongnong County, smoke and dust splashes from people's feet, rises to the sky and fills the sky with a touch of light gray.

The creaking shaft twisted and moaned, and the man driving the old donkey wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked back from time to time. The wife and children sitting on the back of the cart looked panic-stricken and huddled together. There were countless figures moving around, lost. The old man of his wife was holding a broken bowl, staggering on crutches, and followed the crowd blankly; the occasional cries were ignored, and the lost children stood on the side of the road and cried loudly; there were also people in the green forest Among them, looking back anxiously at the way they came here, at a glance, they are full of moving heads, moving numbly and slowly.

The yamen servants who maintained order rode horses and shouted in the distance between the field ridges: "Don't go any further, don't block the road!"

However, no one paid any attention to it. Tongguan was broken, and the soldiers in the entire city would either surrender or die in battle. The people who heard the news did not dare to stay. No one would be willing to bet on whether these rebels would kill ordinary people like them.

"Folks, I beg you to get out of the way, disperse to the nearby villages, and don't go any further."

The long dragon seemed to move to the side of the team, and the officials led the horses and ran along, constantly persuading the people passing by. The capital issued an order, Chang'an will deploy a defense line, and the refugees who escaped from the disaster cannot be taken in, and the gods will not They cared about the other meaning of these people, but they dared not announce it. Once it was mentioned, people who worshiped gods and Buddhas were likely to cause even greater chaos.

Yang Guang could only send officials and yamen servants to lobby, move people to remote villages and towns, and wait for the end of the war. Even if officials knelt down and kowtowed to them, few people went to the mountains and villages.

Not only in Hongnong County in the east, but also in Zheyang and Shangluo in the south, and Feng Ling in the north. The Wan army marched eastward, and it was difficult to resist. The general Liu Jianwu, who had been in the northwest for many years, led the remnant soldiers to fight and retreat all the way, and stopped in Tianshui County.

"I can't go back anymore... If you go back any more, you will be in the land of Gyeonggi, Chang'an."

The towering city wall stretched left and right, surrounding more than 30 miles. Liu Jianwu stood on the top of the city, looking at the sky in the west, his gray beard and hair trembling slightly in the wind, and let out a long sigh.

Beside him, the guards in the old army and the city kept moving the equipment for defending the city, piled up stones and rolling logs, and even the beams of the houses of the people were collected and moved to the city wall. Liu Jianwu clenched the hilt of his waist, turned around and walked slowly Okay, looking at the scene of the city wall being busy, he couldn't help but think of Murong Fuyun who was trapped in the Dadouba Valley back then, and smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Presumably that Emperor Tuyuhun was in the same mood as me..."

The wind blew in the evening, and some broken "Sui" flags were flying around. Along the way, the lieutenant beside Liu Jianwu looked at the residual red in the sky, and looked a little uneasy.

"General...can we hold this place? Those are not like human beings at all. How can they get up and continue fighting after being cut down by knives and guns? Brothers say...all say... ...."

Liu Jianwu turned his face sideways: "What are you talking about?"

"It's said to be a monster, and it's said to be possessed by a god."

Ha ha.....

Liu Jianwu chuckled, turned his face away, and continued to walk forward. He helped the two soldiers resist the log and patted the dust on their hands.

"So what? It's a god, a monster, and we won't guard it?"

He patted the wall with one hand, blinked his tired eyes, and said firmly: "When a soldier eats food, he should guard the territory and wrap his body in horse leather. How can he stop fighting because he can't win? Then, don't we, soldiers, become a joke? , let people look down on you!"

"Even if there are gods and men... monsters... don't they still have the national teacher? At this time in Chang'an, His Majesty and the national teacher should be dealing with it, and what we have to do is to defend and delay Rebel."

In fact, he didn't understand why Li Gui was originally the Sima of Yingyang Mansion in the Sui Dynasty. Why did he rebel and become king? How did he recruit such a group of soldiers who were not afraid of swords and guns?

And there are still more than a hundred miles to the west, Li Gui, the King of Great Liang that Liu Jianwu was talking about, has already led [-] men under his command to conquer Zhangye, Dunhuang, Xiping, Jincheng, and Longxi, and quickly moved eastward, as if he was racing against time, pushing all the way. Come in the direction of Chang'an.

As the sun set, the banners stretched for several miles in the red light, and the mighty army raised dust to the sky in a straight line. Li Gui, who was riding on his horse, was looking at the far east.

"Cross the city ahead, and you will be able to make peace with all the immortal families in Chang'an."

Li Gui, a well-known noble family in Hexi, was originally the Sima of Yingyang Mansion in Wuwei County. He suddenly raised a rebellion, which made everyone puzzled. However, no one knew. The stomach soil pheasant possessed him, which caused this military chaos. He wanted to disturb the world and get back the Kongtong seal. These things were actually planned in heaven and cannot be changed.

"When it gets dark, arrive outside Tianshui City and set up camp!"

He issued an order, and the marching army around accelerated their pace, stepping forward with dense sound, and in his sight looking into the distance, there was a fast horse returning in front, which was the scout attached by his immortal soldiers.

"Report, there is Yin Qi spreading in front, it should be haunted by Yin God."

Li Gui frowned slightly, and raised his face on the horseback to look at the sky. It was getting dark, "It seems that the Yin God sealed by Lu Liangsheng has come."

Thinking of what happened to the Xingxiu Xianjia before, he waved his hand and said:

"Be careful, push forward slowly! Go and investigate again, who is the Yin God?"

The scouts who led the order turned their horses and galloped away. However, the sky was getting dark, and within thirty miles, a gust of wind blew out the sparse forest, and hundreds of ghosts holding banners and crossbows were seen guarding a car. The chariot floated out, and the next moment, the chariot pulled closer. Before the scout could react, a simple bronze short sword sliced ​​across his body, splitting a golden figure in half.

The figure on the chariot came down, and the tip of the sword wrote a few scripts at will on the horse, leaving behind the fainted body of the scout, and patted the horse, causing it to run back to Li Gui in its original direction alone, and was taken away by others. Going forward, I saw a few large characters formed by the lingering Yin Qi - King Wu'an of the Qin Dynasty, Bai Qi.

"The dark god in the world dares to bully me!"

Li Gui yelled suddenly, and slapped away the lingering Yin Qi with his palm, the war horse let out a mournful cry, and was also knocked over on the ground, struggled a few times, and then fell silent.

"I want to catch him with my own hands and wipe out the soul!!"

Soon, [-] troops advanced rapidly along the horizon. On Tianshui City, Liu Jianwu, who heard the news, rushed over in armor and held a sword. When he saw the end of the sky and the earth in the distance, a black line swept over with dust and smoke, he also punched He smashed against the wall, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sound.

"Prepare for battle!"

"General!"

Almost at the same time, the voice of the deputy general also shouted: "Look over there!"

The last ray of the setting sun, pointing to the direction, the army from nowhere, there are thousands of people, lined up to guard a chariot slowly coming from the side, the armor on the body, the long soldiers in the hands do not look like the Central Plains here.

For the strange army that suddenly appeared, Liu Jianwu on the city wall and a group of guards fell into a tense atmosphere, waiting for the opponent to be an enemy or a friend.

However, at the same time, Dou Jiande and Li Mi, who spread across Hongnong County to the east of Chang'an, encountered a group of enemies first.

At the end of June, across the wilderness of Hongnong County, there was a gust of cold wind, and more than a dozen Yin gods who had been waiting for a long time launched a harassing attack on the two combined armies, and slashed the first knife fiercely.

Chapter 758 It's up to the old man

The light of the sky sank to the top of the mountain, and the foothills immersed in darkness far and near, exposed ground, dense forests, and mighty figures spread.

The night sky was gloomy, and there was a faint sound of thunder. In the occasional flashes of lightning, the face of a person on a certain cliff was illuminated, his eyes glowed with light blue light, quietly watching the rapidly moving army below, the foot of the mountain, the mountainside, like ants The crowd is full of dense figures.

"Jiaomu Jiao Dou Jiande, Lou Jingou Li Mi, Juling God Cheng Yaojin, Zuo Tianpeng Qin Qiong, Wang Shichong Pleiades Chicken...Compared with the other three directions, this is the most difficult place to crack."

Several people were covered by the spell of concealing energy on the cliff. The leader was an old man with a dusty robe and a cloak embroidered with yin and yang. His face was old and calm, looking at the ridge stretching into the distance in the dark night. Zuo Zhengyang, Yan Chixia, Hong Lian, and Zhu Ganglian who carried the wooden box.

"Need to eat too."

As the old voice fell, Lu Liangsheng shook his sleeves and lifted them up slowly. The dew accumulated in the leaves and grass rolled, flew away from the tips of the leaves, and gathered in his hands.

Rumbling--

The sound of thunder suddenly exploded in the night sky, and the dark clouds moved away and gathered together. For a moment, the torrential rain fell all over the sky, hitting the forest and fields with crackling sounds.

On the cliff, Lu Liangsheng dispersed the water stains with one hand, pinched out his finger, and the night sky flashed more and more frequently. The next moment, there was a loud bang, and an electric snake split out of the clouds and fell between the foothills, illuminating the troops marching all over the mountains. .

In the wet fallen leaves and mud, someone raised his face, waved his hands down to the Dharma Realm, blocked the rain, and turned his face slightly to give instructions to his subordinates behind him.

"Someone travels with clouds to spread rain...to drive thunder and lightning? Tell the Holy Mother of the Golden Light, Immortal Hanzhi, and the fairy family of the Leibu to take the thunderstorm back!"

"Yes!"

The figure of the attendant lowered his head, turned and left, and soon, in the line of countless figures spreading back and forth, there was a flash of divine light, the heavy rain gradually subsided, and the electric snakes that fell among the clouds disappeared without a trace.

The mountain wind blew through the woods, Lu Liangsheng looked at the sky, and the corner of his mouth could not help but smile slightly, the spells he knew, the other party could also, and it was expected that he was restrained by the spells of moving clouds and rain, and calling thunder.

"It's not good for a good Dharma to come into the world, you have to imprison yourself in a human body..."

"Strategy" has a saying, "Use your own strengths to attack the other's weaknesses." '

With a flick of his wide sleeves, his two fingers merged into sword fingers and quickly wrote an imperial edict in the air—the ground fire, and then disappeared into the ground. Lu Liangsheng looked back and said softly: "Ready to do it."

The words seemed to be speaking to Yan Chixia, Zuo Zhengyang, and Zhu Gangli behind him, and they also seemed to be giving orders to the empty surroundings. When there was a dark wind blowing past, the two of them nodded, turned around and left, and disappeared into the on the cliff.

The remaining woman in a red dress looked at the foot of the mountain in the distance outside, and said in a low voice: "My lord, can we really stop the gods here? After all, they are gods. They have been guarding us for so long, and... There are many more."

Lu Liangsheng drew out the Moon Misty Sword and held it in his hand, shook the upper leather rein, leaned on the ground, and squeezed a small stone to the bottom of the cliff.

After looking outside for a moment, he opened his mouth slowly.

"Yeah, there are no corresponding soldiers. We can only take advantage of the dark night and all the terrain that is favorable for us to sneak attack. Even Hong Lian doesn't believe it. I don't believe that we can stop them here and send them back to the sky one by one. I guess It won't be long before they are really forced to the city of Chang'an."

In the night, the ground under the feet watered by the heavy rain gradually became steamy. Lu Liangsheng waved his sleeves and fanned the mist a few times, and saw that a layer of white mist was rising from the ground on the opposite side of the mountain. His tone was calm, even a little indifferent,

"But as a human being, always try your best."

On the ridge in the distance, someone stopped and murmured in doubt.

"It's getting foggy?"

Rapidly advancing, the countless figures spreading across the ridge suddenly stopped. Immortal soldiers were attached to the bodies of human soldiers, and they were in the lower realm of souls. The fine water particles in the air rise up and fill the field of vision, forming a white mist, making it impossible to see the road under your feet clearly.

Even in the distance, the shrill scream of "Ah——" became ethereal. Someone stepped on the wrong foot and fell to the cliff, and then there was a dull sound from the deep stream.

Hearing the muffled sound, the figure reined in the reins, pulled out a pair of iron maces from his waist, and turned his head: "Let Immortal Hanzhi help the wind and blow away the mist."

"Hmph! This Lu Liangsheng will think of a way."

In the mist in the forest, the figures stopped slowly, one of them was like a tall tower, dragging a huge ax upside down on the ground, looking at the vast mist, there was a hoo hoo sound in his throat.

"However, if you come, you will die."

The sound was like a bronze bell ringing at the foot of the mountain. When the mist blown by the wind surged, it permeated the other mountaintop that extended to it. More than a dozen shadows curled up, riding war horses or leaning on weapons, each occupying a position. row out.

Guan Yunchang sat on the rock with his eyes closed and held a knife, feeling the wind passing through his nothingness. If the living age is calculated as nearly 400 years, and most of his surroundings are like this, there are also a little smaller, but it doesn’t matter. up.

The beard and beard fluttered, feeling the wind getting stronger, the phoenix eyes slowly opened, dragged the knife and turned on the horse.

"Everyone, no matter what dynasty we are in when we are alive, but now our souls are still there, and we hope to work together to prevent evil gods from wreaking havoc on the world."

At the same time as the yin gods occupying various parts of the mountain arched their hands one by one, huge black shadows snaked along the Weishui River and rushed towards this side.

......

The stars covered the sky behind the clouds, and the whimpering wind blew away the prosperous giant city. The emperor climbed up the city tower with civil and military forces, and commanded the soldiers to strengthen the city defense. In front of the window, I looked up at the gray clouds flickering in the distance, and there was a faint noise from the city wall in the distance.

The temple is very quiet. In the past, even at night, people's voices could be heard here. The sudden change changed everything.

The short figure with the flippers on his back sighed, "In the end, it's up to the old man!"

Taoist Toad turned around slowly, jumped to the desk, then jumped to the edge of the bed, opened the small bed, and pulled out a pitch-black token that was about the same size as him from underneath.

Putting the purple gold gourd on his back, dragging the token in his hand, he went down to the attic and walked out of the eaves. In the cool night wind, he walked step by step to the mountain gate below without looking back.

"Come on purple smoke!"

The sound of toads echoed in the darkness, and a cloud of purple smoke gathered between the flippers. Taoist Toad, carrying a gourd on his back, slowly rose into the air, looking at Lishan Mountain shrouded in darkness to the east, and silently reciting formulas, he controlled the cloud of purple smoke and disappeared into the night inside.

Chapter 759 A Million Stone Figurines

In the distance, there was the sound of thunder passing across the sky, the mountains in the darkness below were undulating, and in the rustling wind, the gaps in the trees sprinkled the bluish-white light cast by the flickering electric lights.

Above the swaying forest field, a cloud of purple smoke descended. The short figure dragged a token and jumped to the stone steps. He raised his toad face slightly, looked at the temple that was shrouded in black in front of his field of vision, and slowly climbed up the whole place with his flippers. It is the stone steps of fallen leaves, step by step into the temple.

Rumbling--

The sound of thunder exploded in the distance, and in the blue and white lightning that illuminated the sky and the earth, the temple gate was slightly open. Taoist Toad climbed over the threshold and squeezed in. There was still smoke lingering from the furnace, the ground was clean and tidy, and there was a faint sound of temple blessings from the gatehouse. Slight snoring.

Walking to the main hall, gently pushed open the half-covered door, amidst the creaking sound, the dim yellow light illuminated the short figure of the toad, in the middle of the hall there was a clay sculpture on the altar, and an ever-burning oil lamp was placed alone on the tribute table and swayed Follow the flames, follow the slanting shadow at the door and enter.

Ding Ling clang clang.....

There was a loud noise when the metal touched the cold ground, and the token engraved with the green-faced fangs and ghost head was thrown to the ground. Toad raised his face and glanced at the clay sculpture of a kind and closed-eyed old mother on the stage, walked slowly to the futon, and threw it behind him. Putting the purple-gold and black-patterned gourd on his back to the side, he sat down on his buttocks and called softly.

"Mother."

In the empty hall, the solitary lamp swayed, the colored silk hanging on both sides of the altar moved suddenly, and a kind and gentle voice suddenly sounded in the quiet old mother's hall.