The earth wall of Qinlin Gol City is actually very high. The whole city was built according to the shape of the city in the Sui Dynasty, but the soil quality on the grassland is not good enough to burn hard bricks. Although the earth wall was built with special However, after decades of experience, it also appears to be dilapidated.
There are no less than 400,000 people around the city, but just like the Li Yuanshan rebellion in the Sui Dynasty, the herdsmen led by these Buddhist disciples are really not on the table in terms of combat effectiveness, especially in the siege battle. On the prairie where there are no guns, even if you want to build siege equipment, you can't find materials.
The cleverness of the Fozong people is that they know that they have a strong appeal but they can't command the army, so they appointed Dianbie, who was once one of the nine golden tent generals under Kuoktai Mengge, as the marshal to command the siege. But to put it bluntly, although Meng Yuan is a brave general, he has no experience in siege warfare.
So Qinlin Gol was besieged for more than a month, but there was still no progress.
The people of Fozong were not idle during this period, and sent practitioners to sneak into the city to try to assassinate the general who was in charge of the defense. Unexpectedly, how many people went in and died, and the bodies of those practitioners would be killed by wolves early the next morning. Cavalry were thrown from the walls. Although the wolf cavalry were not good at defending the city, they still had an advantage in condescending and shooting arrows down.
Practitioners of the Buddhist Sect suffered heavy losses in Qinlin Gol. Later, the head of a temple entered the city in person, but was cut in two by an old man in a black Taoist robe on the city wall with sword energy. After the old man killed a chief, he stood on the city wall and pointed at a distance, and the flag held by a herdsman a hundred steps away was broken in response. Don't turn pale in shock, retreat immediately.
Since then, although they have sent troops to attack the city every day, there has been no progress.
The Buddhist sect disciples had no choice but to send someone back to Dalun Temple to ask for help. They had been away for half a month and calculated that it would take at least half a month before they could come back. Don't worry about other things, just worry about that old man in the Taoist robe coming out of the city to kill him. A person with such a cultivation level may not be able to stop even if there are thousands of troops in the army.
Fortunately, the old man had no intention of leaving the city.
The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty is too big, and the climate varies greatly across the empire. The climate for thousands of miles around Wangting is like the south of the Sui Dynasty, with rivers everywhere and almost no snow. Therefore, the existence of Daxue Mountain is even more mysterious, and the Dalun Temple on Daxue Mountain is even more mysterious. In the night, the majesty and wind are caressing. If there is no such war, there may be many young men and women sitting on the grassland, complaining to each other in the cool night wind, but now, everyone feels that there is a faint feeling in the wind. The smell of blood.
Xiang Qingniu lay down in the grass and looked at the herdsmen's camp not far away, spit out the dust in his mouth and asked Fang Jie: "If it's really my eldest brother Xiao Yijiu in the city, why doesn't he just Just come out and kill that other guy? By the way, kill those people from the Buddhist sect and the commanding generals, and the herdsmen will disperse without their leader."
Fang Jie smiled, looked around and found that there were no rangers patrolling the night.
But after thinking about it, I was relieved, Qinlin Gol is now an isolated city, and there is no way to mobilize troops from the royal court. Most of the wolf riders are on the side of the Daxue Mountain, so don't even need to be wary of an army sneak attack. Although there was news that the Black Mountain Army was about to break the siege of Qinlin Gol, the Black Mountain Army was still two thousand miles away and would not be able to come for a while. What's more, even if it doesn't go on, those herdsmen are not soldiers who strictly abide by military orders, and it's normal for the people below to be perfunctory.
"It means that your elder brother is not crazy at all."
Fang Jie smiled and said something, but Xiang Qingniu didn't understand: "What do you mean?"
Fang Jie said: "Let me ask you, if you are really your elder brother who is helping the wolf riders defend the city, what is his purpose?"
"Look at the Mengyuan people biting themselves. If he doesn't make a move, the generals in the city will be assassinated by the practitioners of the Buddhist sect. Then the wolf cavalry will be a piece of loose sand, and Qinlin Gol won't last long. The big brother should mean to help How long the wolf cavalry can defend, anyway, the longer the battle lasts, the less good it is for the Meng Yuan people, the longer the time, the more vital the Meng Yuan will suffer."
"Don't you already understand?"
Fang Jie said with a smile.
Xiang Qingniu was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Understood, senior brother came out of the city to kill Dubie and those Buddhist sect people, because if you kill all these people, those herdsmen will really coax you." And scattered. Once the siege of Qinlin Gol is untied, Kuoketai Mengge doesn't need to send troops to help, he will have time and energy to deal with the fight on the Daxue Mountain wholeheartedly. If Qinlin Gol is broken If so, the next step is Wang Ting..."
"That's right."
Fang Jie nodded: "Your elder brother is grasping the key point where the war may change. Qinlin Gol has become a turning point in the war. As long as the army of the Buddha sect confronts the wolf cavalry, Quoke Taimeng will If you don't worry about it, Wang Ting must send troops to support him, and the troops in his hands will become thinner, and the war on the Daxue Mountain will be even more stalemate."
"Xiao Yijiu is really not crazy."
Xiang Qingniu sighed: "I really didn't expect that our brothers and sisters would meet on the prairie one day, and we are all working for the same goal. This is a scene that has never happened in so many years. Senior brother Obsessed with power, the second senior brother is a maverick, and I have been doing nothing... Who would have thought that the senior brothers who have never united in the Central Plains are working hard for a goal in the enemy's country instead."
He sighed for a while, then asked Fang Jie: "When shall we enter the city?"
Fang Jie smiled: "Don't worry, just wait here, now you still don't understand why I asked you to use Qingle Mountain's unique technique to seal the energy veins of those two Buddhist sects?"
Xiang Qingniu's eyes lit up: "You want to lure my elder brother out to meet you!"
Fang Jie nodded: "The situation in the city is unknown, and no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents if we rush in. So, just wait for your senior brother to come out to see you."
"What if my senior brother can't find me?"
Xiang Qingniu curled his lips: "It's late at night, and he's already old and dim..."
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a sigh not far away: "Fourth... isn't he afraid of his tongue being rotten if he speaks ill of people behind his back?"
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Hearing these words, Fang Jie's heart was shocked.
The person who listened to the voice was not far away from him, and with his current cultivation base, he didn't notice it at all. It wasn't just him, Xiang Qingniu, who understood the Taoist heart, didn't even notice it.
Fang Jie looked back, under the moonlight, not far away, the former Taoist venerable who was obviously much thinner was standing there. If he didn't speak, he would be like air, grass, or stone, and he wouldn't know it at all. Get anyone's attention. He seems to be completely integrated into nature, although there is no human breath there.
Fang Jie didn't doubt it at all, even if Xiao Yijiu walked behind him, he wouldn't notice it.
"Old Niubi, you scared me to death."
Xiang Qingniu stroked his chest a few times, his voice was full of dissatisfaction but his voice had become hoarse, Fang Jie didn't need to look to know that the fat man's eye circles must be red now. He and Xiao Yijiu said goodbye to Chang'an City, and it was absolutely impossible to say that the relationship between teachers and brothers was cut off like that. Xiang Qingniu originally thought that he would never see Xiao Yijiu again in this life, after all, it was a serious crime of treason and rebellion, and it would be lucky that Qingle Mountain was not in trouble.
But now, this mortal man was standing in front of him alive.
"Are you here to find the second child?"
Xiao Yijiu, who was in the distance, asked calmly.
"Come… "
Xiang Qingniu bit his lip, and finally held back his tears: "I planned to collect the corpses of you two, since you are both alive and well, then I have nothing to do, Daoist, I am tomorrow Go back to Qingle Mountain early in the morning and continue to be a Daoist."
Xiao Yijiu was silent for a while, and then said in a low voice: "I'm sorry for you. I shouldn't have sealed your Qi meridian in the Taoist temple in Chang'an City that day, and I shouldn't have thought of killing you for a moment."
Xiang Qingniu said viciously: "From that day on, I have always wanted to kill you."
"very good."
Xiao Yijiu nodded: "Xiang Qingniu, who was intent on killing, finally took a step forward. Master said back then that Zong Xingsheng would be in your hands sooner or later, and he was right after all. You have clearly understood the truth. Heart, stronger than me and your second senior brother, if you can go back and meditate for ten years, Qingle Mountain Yiqi Temple will still be the leader of the Taoist sect, and it will also be a holy place in the Jianghu of the Central Plains."
"Pooh."
Xiang Qingniu scolded: "What the hell do you want to do when you come out? Why do you let me guard the Taoist sect? I'll tell you the truth, I have passed the position of Taoist priest to Mo Ningzhi, Daozong has nothing to do with me for a copper coin, Daoye, I want to do whatever I want!"
"Foaming Fat..."
Xiao Yijiu was silent for a while and murmured: "That's a junior whose thoughts are unpredictable, Qingleshan's whole concept is entrusted to her... I'm afraid most of them will go to two extremes, either they will stand up again soon, or they will be defeated by her. Lost. She has too much ambition in her heart, and she does not act in an extreme way, and she will not take an upright path."
"You left?"
Xiang Qingniu asked back.
Xiao Yijiu shook his head and remained silent.
Xiang Qingniu asked: "Aren't you crazy?"
Xiao Yijiu replied: "I have already met your second senior brother."
This is the answer.
He said it as a matter of course, and Xiang Qingniu understood it as a matter of course.
"Fang Jie."
Xiao Yijiu looked at Fang Jie, paused for a moment and sighed: "I didn't expect you to come too. I have seen your fate. You are a disaster star, and you will be messed up wherever you go."
Fang Jie smiled: "You are never accurate in fortune-telling."
Xiao Yijiu said: "This hexagram may be accurate."
He looked at Fang Jie carefully, and sighed again: "I never imagined that you have become so strong in just a short time. When Master commented on the strange physique in the world, he was the only one who kept silent about your physique." Talk. I once asked Master, why he shook his head and said nothing about this constitution? Master said, there is only one case in thousands of years, and I dare not comment. I asked Master again, does such a person really exist? Master said, heaven and earth There are no surprises in good fortune."
"you… "
Xiao Yijiu pointed to Fang Jie: "He is the most extraordinary person, I am just curious, why didn't Master accept you to teach the way of practice?"
Fang Jie smiled and said, "You asked him back and then told me, I'm also curious."
"You go back."
Xiao Yijiu said suddenly: "You shouldn't interfere with the affairs on the grassland. This place is very close to Daxue Mountain. If you are seen by someone who can't see you, it will be doomed for you, but for me. It is not a good thing to say. It is not a good thing for the current situation in Meng Yuan."
"Who is the one who can't see me?"
Fang Jie asked.
Xiao Yijiu didn't say any more, he turned around and walked back: "The fourth child, the second child is in the royal court, you just have to find him yourself, the three of you and I, brothers and sisters, it's a preordained thing to meet here. The old man Second, seeing you, I may have a lot to say. As for Fang Jie... I'd better listen to my advice, don't go further west, or you will be doomed. If you don't go back, I will kill you."
If you don't go, I will kill you.
Hearing these words, Fang Jie's expression changed suddenly.
Xiao Yijiu, what are you worried about