king array

After a few rounds of bargaining, the two parties finally agreed that Ling Xun didn't need to profess the five senses. He only needed to voluntarily walk into the cage formation set up by Master Bai after Zhong Lishan was sent out of the guard formation by Chen Bing, and then Chen Bing would ask Master Bai to remove his own guard. Let Ling Xun enter the formation, and when Ling Xun's formation gradually loses its effectiveness due to Ling Xun's departure, Zhong Lishan can enter his own camp. During this period, Master Bai was restrained by Ling Xun's prison formation He couldn't do anything to Zhong Lishan anymore.In addition, there is another condition, that is, Chen Bing will withdraw the troops behind Tiger Leaping Gorge, leaving Zhong Lishan with a way to retreat.

The agreement was reached, Chen Bing found a stretcher for carrying wounded soldiers, and ordered the formation masters around him to send Zhong Lishan out of the guard formation with formation techniques.Ling Xun also walked out of the Tiger Leaping Gorge at this time, and stepped into the cage array set up by Master Bai at the edge of the Tiger Leaping Gorge.

Mu Jiu once told Ling Xun that the so-called cage formation is like a cage in the human world, and those who step into it are enclosed as a prison, and cannot leave the world of the small formation.However, this formation was invented a long time ago. With the rapid development of the formation technique in later generations, the cage formation has become no longer monolithic. It can be broken with a little more effort. It is usually used for replacement transactions. Buyers and sellers will Money and goods are placed in the cage formation, and after the transaction is successful, each takes what they need, so the cage formation was also called the barter formation later.

Zhong Lishan was sent to the middle of the two formations, then he was placed on the ground, supported by himself, and moved forward slowly.

At the same time, under the restraint of the cage formation, Ling Xun slowly moved towards Chen Bing's position.In order to welcome Ling Xun into the formation, Mage Bai had no choice but to temporarily remove the barrier of the guardian formation.Chen Bing is a cautious person. At this moment when the defense is weakest, he ordered all the formation masters under him to keep an eye on Ling Xun's movements, and everyone with formation skills should pay close attention to it. If there is any trouble, the hostage exchange will be canceled immediately. action, a full counterattack.

The whole process went very smoothly, but when Ling Xun was about to enter the range of Chen Bing's guardian formation, an accident happened suddenly.

I saw Zhongli Mountain who should have waited until Ling Xun's protective formation failed before approaching Tiger Leaping Gorge, suddenly threw a handful of stones from his hand, and those stones hit the protective formation that had not yet disappeared, and immediately hit countless people. Qing's light blade scattered in all directions.

"Wuge! From now on, you will be the master of Qingping Mountain, take care of me..."

Zhong Lishan yelled, but fell silent halfway through his words.His whole body was pierced by the light blade, and he fell straight down.The reason why no one expected him to do this was precisely because if he did so, Chen Bing and the others would certainly be caught off guard, and he himself would be the first to be the living target and would undoubtedly die.

"Not good! Hurry up and protect the lord!" Because of the sudden incident, Chen Bing's camp suddenly turned their backs on their backs. Except for a few formation masters with high levels of formation skills who used formation techniques to protect their bodies in time, most of the others were shot by the light blade. In the middle, either death or injury.And Chen Bing was so frightened that his face was livid, and he was protected by Master Bai to find a place to hide.

Ling Xun was stunned and couldn't recover, but found that the cage formation on his body had disappeared. It must be that the white mage was too busy avoiding the light blade to take care of him.He reacted very quickly and drew a protective formation rune in front of him, so that he didn't let his protective formation be shot into a sieve, and took this opportunity to run to Zhongli Shan's side.

"Brother Zhongli! Brother Zhongli!" Seeing that Zhonglishan seemed to be still alive, he treated his wound hastily and dragged him into the camp.

Zhong Lishan slowly opened his eyes and looked at Ling Xun, his eyes were extraordinarily clear at this moment, even with an almost joyful calm.

"Xiaozhen...buried together..."

With only time to say these intermittent words, Zhong Lishan closed his eyes forever, bid farewell to this broken body, and no longer need to be disturbed by the world.

"Brother Zhongli!! You, why are you doing this..."

Ling Xun felt that Zhong Lishan's body temperature was losing little by little, and wanted to cry, but his eyes were dry and painful.

Zhong Lishan must have seen it clearly. If he is still alive and is a hostage in Chen Bing's hands, the people of Qingpingshan will definitely try their best to save him, and Ling Xun and Mu Jiu can't let go of their hands and feet to organize a counterattack. In the end, they will only let Qingping Pingshan suffered a catastrophe.Therefore, he has only one death, which can not only break the current predicament, but also hand over all the manpower and material resources up and down Qingping Mountain to Ling Xun for deployment.

In a battle with few enemies and many enemies, all people will be united, and with the help of grief, put death in the hands of future generations.

That's why he thought of this method, and the moment he proposed to exchange with Ling Xun, he had already made up his mind to die.

"Your master!" Wang Da had already run to Zhong Lishan's side at this time, and after seeing the tragedy on his body, he couldn't help crying like a beast, knelt on the spot with tears streaming down his face, kowtowed to him several times, and Randomly wiped away tears, choked up and said: "Don't worry, brother will definitely avenge you!"

Wang Da once received kindness from Zhongli Shan, and he has a very deep affection for Zhongli Shan, so this mourning is completely from the heart, and it can be said to be deeply painful.

Everyone was infected by Wang Da's emotions, and seeing Zhong Lishan being tortured to such an inhuman form, they all felt sad and furious. They followed Ling Xun and took advantage of the chaos to break into Chen Bing's camp. One by one, they all crawled out of hell. evil spirits.

And Ling Xun, in the midst of extreme grief and hatred, further stimulated the potential of the formation, and deployed several large formations one after another, catching Master Bai and others by surprise, and were driven to Hukou Pass step by step.Riding on the horse, Chen Bing dodged in embarrassment among the scattered Liangzhou stragglers. When he rode his horse and looked back, he saw that the tiger's mouth was closed like a beast's huge mouth, which was opening quietly, waiting to swallow him up. eat into the stomach.

It has been said since ancient times that a proud soldier will be defeated, but a mournful soldier will be victorious.

Chen Bing led Liangzhou soldiers to conquer Hanzhong and took advantage of the momentum to march into Qingping Mountain. It was a battle of exhausted soldiers with a contemptuous attitude, which had already planted bad results. Therefore, when Ling Xun took advantage of the military chaos in Liangzhou, he drove them to Hukou Pass. Nine soldiers came out all over the city and pinched Chen Bing outside the Hukou Pass for three days in a bloody battle. After all, Ling Xun personally beheaded him under his horse, and the result was not so unexpected.

Master Bai took advantage of the chaos to escape, but the formation master who had stripped the peasant and hung him in mid-air to humiliate him, and then executed Zhonglishan, fell into the hands of Ling Xun.

"The villain is just obeying orders, and looking forward to General Feng's forgiveness!"

"I forgive you, who will forgive the person who died in vain?" Ling Xun just said this coldly, and cut off the person's head without hesitation. Thinking of Zhong Lishan's tragic situation before his death, there was nothing but hatred in his heart .

The blood soaked the scarlet wedding gown, but no blood was visible. The battle ended at sunset on the third day. Standing on the half-hillside of Hukou Pass and looking down, I couldn't tell whether the glaring patches of red were the rays of the sun or the human blood.

Ling Xun held a long knife in his hand, dripping blood on the knife, he did not know how many lives were stained, but he just stared blankly at his feet, amidst the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, he seemed to have returned to his childhood nightmare.

Someone approached from behind, and Ling Xun's nerves suddenly tensed up. Before his consciousness could make a judgment, his body reacted first. He raised his knife and was about to slash, but he heard someone behind him call out, "Young period."

Ling Xun paused for a moment, then relaxed his body, looked back at Mu Jiu, and saw that he hadn't had time to change into his wedding clothes, so he couldn't help but twitched his lips, and let out a sad smile, "A happy event has changed to a funeral, you choose a good one day."

Mu Jiu stared at Ling Xun, walked over suddenly, and covered his eyes with his hands.

Ling Xun frowned, "What are you doing?"

Mu Jiu sighed and said, "I can't bear to see you sad."

Ling Xun finally couldn't help it, his eyes were slightly sour, and he abandoned the knife and hugged Mu Jiu.

"Important people left me one by one. First, my parents and relatives, then my sister and brother-in-law. Do you think I have a hard life? Did I kill them all?"

"It's not your fault, don't think about it."

Ling Xun raised his head, his eyes were a little blurred, and he said in a hoarse voice, "So now I only have you."

Will you leave me one day?

Ling Xun didn't say the last sentence, but for some reason, it became a thorn in his heart.

It took a full day to collect the corpses, and everyone on and off Qingping Mountain wore sackcloth and mourning mourning for Zhong Lishan and others.

The surviving Liangzhou soldiers were captured, and Ling Xun ordered not to kill the prisoners of war, and all these soldiers were recruited and recovered.And the most embarrassing general among them was Chen Xun, who was said to be Chen Bing's biological son.

"I am willing to gather all the ministries of Liangzhou for General Feng and submit to the general! As long as you give me one month, I can give you all the household registration and financial books of Liangzhou!"

When Wang Da heard that Chen Xun was Chen Bing's son, he wanted to tear him up with his bare hands, but Ling Xun had seen Chen Xun during the confrontation at Tiger Leaping Gorge, and knew that he and Chen Bing were not fellow travelers, so he could use him.Furthermore, their current strength is still very weak. The Chen family has been stationed in Liangzhou for many years and has a deep foundation. It is not realistic for them to swallow Liangzhou by themselves. It is better to leave it to Chen Bing's son to continue manage.

Therefore, after discussing with Mu Jiu, Ling Xun tried his best to let Chen Xun go back to Liangzhou.And before the news of Chen Bing's death came out, he quickly captured Hanzhong.When the news spread that Chen Bing, the Northwest wolf, was beheaded by a bandit in the Qingping mountain area, Hanzhong was already Ling Xun's territory, and it was too late for others to think about it.

But Ling Xun didn't expect that it was this decision that created a rift between him and the people in Qingpingshan. They were used to obeying Zhonglishan and never regarded Ling Xun as the master, so they were quite critical of his arbitrariness.

The overall situation was initially determined, and finally the day of burial came.

According to Zhong Lishan's last wish, Ling Xun buried him with Ling Shu.Holding the little nephew in his arms, the worship ceremony was held, Ling Xun did not leave the cemetery immediately, but sat in front of Zhonglishan and Lingshu's graves, staring blankly for a long time.

He suddenly remembered what his father said when he held him on his lap when he was very young.

He said, the world is, after all, made up of bones.

But he didn't expect that the bones he saw were still those of his closest relatives and loved ones.