The battle in Lingguan City was over, and the attack started when the snow stopped at Xu Shi, and it was completely over when the Hai Shi came, and the battle ended in less than an hour.
The Gu family's army concentrated all the superior forces, and with the absolute advantage in numbers and combat power, they killed the 30,000 troops of the former dynasty's remnants to nothing.
King Yi was shot and wounded, and his concubine escorted him to escape from the other side of Lingguan City with an army of 5,000.
Of the remaining 25,000 men, 5,000 were killed in battle, and 20,000 became prisoners.
The vast majority of the 20,000 captives were strong men from the frontiers and other places. They were either followers of living Buddhas, or were coerced and lured by King Yi and became part of the rebel army.
Of course, there were also some descendants of the nobles and gentry of the previous dynasty who held important positions under King Yi, but it was ridiculous that King Yi did not take them with him when he abandoned the city and fled.
Gu Changqing wore a cloak of silver armor and rode on a high-headed horse that also wore silver armor. Behind him were the uniform Gu family cavalry.
The infantry was left at the gate to clean up the battlefield, and formed patrols to hunt down the fish that had been caught by the remnants of the previous dynasty.
It was not the first time that Lingguan City had fought. The most terrifying one was that it was captured by the army of Chen Guo not long ago. On that day, just like today, a large number of Chen Guo cavalry broke through the checkpoint of Lingguan City and captured the defenders of Lingguan City.
They also rode mighty down the long street on horseback.
They kidnapped women when they saw them, arrested strong men when they saw them, burned, killed, looted, and did everything.
When the war broke out again, the wind in Lingguan City was shaking, the doors and windows of every household were closed, and the sound of horse hooves was heard again.
However, the sound of the hooves approached, and the sound of the hooves was far away. There was no screams of women, no roars of men, and no noise of soldiers breaking and plundering from the long street.
Finally, a daring young man quietly pushed open a crack in the door and looked out.
He saw the flag of Zhao State fluttering and hunting in the night and the cold wind, and also saw the flag of the Gu family guarding behind the flag of Zhao State.
"It's Gu Jiajun!"
he exclaimed.
When the people heard that it was the Gu family army, they came in a bit of hope, but they were not bold enough to immediately come to the long street. They also opened a crack in the door and looked out.
Gu Jiajun walked from the west end of the long street to the east end of the long street, all the way to the direction of the prefect's mansion.
They did not disturb any of the people in the city, nor did they take away any sheep or chickens by the roadside.
They have strict military regulations, and they are awe-inspiring!
Gradually, some people came out of their homes. At first there was only one, but a large group slowly gathered at the back. They followed the Gu family's army curiously towards the direction of the prefect's mansion.
At this time, the prefect's mansion was completely surrounded by the Gu family's army.
General Zhang Can searched the prefect's mansion inside and out, and found dozens of King Yi's aides, and also wiped out the thousands of Chen Guo's army who were too late to withdraw from the city.
When Gu Changqing led the iron cavalry to the gate of the prefect's mansion, the people also followed.
Zhang Cang suddenly summoned a bald-headed monk in a cassock from a nearby house.
The monk is about fifty or so, with a kind face, a wide heart and a fat body.
Many of the people recognized him, and a woman exclaimed, "It's a living Buddha! They, they caught a living Buddha!"
Hearing the exclamation of the people, the bald-headed monk, who was terrified at first, flashed his eyes, straightened his back, and said fearlessly, "Amitabha, how good is it, how good is it, why did all the benefactors commit murder in the city?"
"I'm going to your mother's benefactor!" Zhang Can kicked the bald monk's ass and kicked him to the ground, throwing him on the ground, "Fake monk! Swagger!"
The reputation of the Living Buddha in Lingguan City is still quite high, and Zhang Cang's move undoubtedly angered some people.
General Zhang Cang did not think it was the fault of the common people. After all, the common people were innocent. It was all this shameless fake monk who colluded with King Yi and fooled the soldiers and common people in the frontier.
Cang Zhang wished he could vent all his anger on this fake monk, but Gu Changqing raised his hand to stop him.
Gu Changqing said lightly, "Stop."
Zhang Can backed his hands aside: "Yes, General!"
The fake monk fell so hard that he cursed three times in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest on his face.
He simply sat cross-legged on the ground, hung a Buddha bead in one hand, performed a Buddha salute, and said in a general way of saving all beings: "Amitabha, the benefactor's murder is too heavy, my Buddha is merciful, and I hope that all the donors will not kill any more evil."
"How can you treat the Living Buddha like this! The Living Buddha is a good person! It was sent by the Buddha to rescue us! If you disrespect the Living Buddha, you will be punished!" An old lady said indignantly.
Zhang Shen will have a toothache!
Old man, keep your eyes open, this bald donkey is a fake!
Which master would collude with the rebels and trap the frontier people in the flames of war!
And he, he also...
Zhang Cang almost blurted out what he had just found out, but Gu Changqing interrupted him in time, Gu Changqing looked down at the living Buddha sitting on the ground, and asked slowly: "You said you are a living Buddha, then I will ask you. , How many articles are there in the Diamond Sutra?"
"Thirty-two!" The Living Buddha said without hesitation.
"What is the thirty-second rank, do you remember?"
The fake monk sneered in his heart. If he wanted to pretend to be a living Buddha, how could he not even know the Diamond Sutra
He bowed to the Buddha, and said slowly, "Subhuti! If there are people who fill the immeasurable world of Asangka with the Seven Treasures, and if there are good men or good women who have a bodhicitta mind, they should hold this sutra and even the four-line verses, etc. , Receiving, upholding, reciting, and speaking for others, their blessings are better than others. How to speak for others, not to take pictures, as if they are not moving. Why? All existences are dharmas, such as dream bubbles, dew and electricity, and should be viewed in this way. After the Buddha said this sutra, the elder Subhut mentioned that the monks, nuns, Upasakas, Upasians, all the world, gods, people, and asuras, when they heard what the Buddha said, they all rejoiced, believed, accepted and practiced.”
"Look! He is a living Buddha!" Another commoner said.
Zhang Cang's temper became violent, and he couldn't help but say a few words: "If I know the Buddhist scriptures, I will be a living Buddha. Then I will recite two paragraphs of the Four Books and Five Classics. Am I the champion of the new division?"
"Then do you know that Sakyamuni once wrote a volume of "Little Shurangama Sutra", which was written when Sakyamuni was still in the royal family before he attained enlightenment. Could you say a few sentences in it?"
The fake monk's expression froze for a moment.
In general, these small scriptures are Buddhist scriptures that are not very popular, and he is not a real monk. How could he really memorize all the Buddhist scriptures
It is also strange, obviously he is a reckless man who fights, how can he still understand Buddhist scriptures
Has anyone in your family been a monk
Or are all Buddhist scriptures memorized and read to you every day
"The "Little Shurangama Sutra" is naturally known to poor monks, but when poor monks preach the Dharma, they rarely mention this Buddhist sutra, and even if poor monks say it, not many people have heard it. I'm talking nonsense, who will prove the innocence of the poor monk?"
Haha, it's rare to beat him with the little trick of carving insects!
Gu Changqing said again: "You are a living Buddha, you should have this scroll in your hand."
The fake monk said without changing his face: "The scriptures... have already been burned by your people!"
Zhang Cang said angrily: "You are talking nonsense! When did I burn your stuff!"
Gu Changqing looked at the fake monk with a calm and calm expression: "So the master admits that there is this Buddhist scripture in the world."
As soon as these words came out, the fake monk's expression froze again.
Gu Changqing said calmly, "Master knows that there is no such Buddhist scriptures in the world."
The Shurangama Sutra does exist.
But the "Little Shurangama Sutra" was purely Gu Changqing's deception.
Gu Changqing looked at him lightly and said, "Shakyamuni was an ordinary person before he realized the Dao. How could he write Buddhist scriptures? The master was regarded as a living Buddha, yet he didn't even understand such a simple truth?"
"..." The fake monk was choked up and speechless.
Who said that those who lead the army to fight have no brains, this kid is so cunning! Put him in a suit!
Not all of the people are followers of the Living Buddha, but there are still many sensible people. When they see the Living Buddha showing such a big leg, they can't help but say loudly: "It can't be a fake monk!"
The fake monk said sharply, "I'm a living Buddha! I'm not a fake monk!"
"Then you don't even know the Buddhist scriptures!" The young man who had just attacked him continued.
"I was..."
Before waiting for the fake monk to finish, Gu Changqing raised his hand, and several Gu family troops came over with several women.
The woman at the head is about the same age as the fake monk, surrounded by pearls and jewels, which is in stark contrast to the poor and down-to-earth people after the war.
The women behind her were all dressed as rich and noble as her, but younger than her.
The fake monk couldn't hold back when he saw this group of people appearing. He wanted them to shut up, but it was too late.
"Sir, save us quickly - they're going to take us to the officials!"
The master of the headed woman completely removed the fake monk's fig leaf.
"Everyone, don't listen to her nonsense! I don't know them! I don't know what tricks these people in the court used to find a bunch of women to frame and slander poor monks! Amitabha, sins and sins!"
"father-"
Behind several women, a childish voice sounded with a weeping voice.
There are more than one, and a rough count, at least seven or eight.
If it is possible that these women were played by Gu Changqing, then these children who all look like the "living Buddha" will not be recruited.
There are a lot of similar people in the world, but these people obviously have a borderline accent. There are only a few children in the borderland, and there are seven or eight who look like living Buddhas. Who believes that they are not his own
The fake monk did not expect Gu Jiajun to be so cruel, not only dug him out of the secret room, but also found his family from the cellar.
This time I really jumped into the Yellow River and I couldn't wash it.
With all the human and material evidences, Gu Changqing left Military Sergeant Shao to take care of the general affairs of Lingguan City, and sent General Zhang to guard Lingguan City with 10,000 Gu family troops.
Afterwards, Gu Changqing hurried back to Yue Ancient City with the rest of the team.
Chen Guo's army really came to Chaoyue Ancient City at night, but something went wrong on their way and they encountered an avalanche, which caused them to arrive an hour later than planned.
At this time, Gu Changqing had already rushed back with his army, and Chen Guo's army decided to withdraw after seeing the situation.
Chen Guo's army has experienced two forced marches and long journeys. If they turn around and attack Lingguan City at this time, it is like hitting a stone with an egg.
Gu Changqing was not worried about the situation in Lingguan City, he took the army into Yue Ancient City.
The first thing he did was go to the wounded barracks to find Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao once told him that if things went well, she would go to the prefect's mansion to meet him, but he didn't wait for her, she should have implemented the second plan - to bring the patient back to Yue Ancient City.
He came to the wounded barracks and saw Doctor Song wearing an oil-paper isolation gown, mask and gloves at a glance.
Doctor Song usually does not wrap up so tightly, it seems that Gu Jiao and the plague patients have returned.
Just come back.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
However, before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he saw Doctor Song walking towards him suspiciously: "General Gu, didn't Doctor Gu come back with you?"
Gu Changqing was slightly startled: "Didn't she come back with those patients?"
Doctor Song shook his head: "She didn't come back!"
The two men realized something was wrong at the same time.
Gu Changqing's expression changed, and he called the six secret guards over. When he learned that Gu Jiao was alone to deal with those Chen Guo masters, his heart sank.
"No," he said thoughtfully, "I'm just here to chase a few plague patients, I won't dispatch the most powerful masters, as long as they are not the most powerful masters, Jiaojiao won't be able to come back. Unless—"
Gu Changqing suddenly thought of the dead man beside his concubine who was enough to defeat the three Dragon Shadow Guards, and a chill ran across his back!
"General, everything is ready, are we going to attack the north the day after tomorrow—"
The left commander who was in charge of guarding the ancient city of Yue came over with a few marching bamboo slips. Halfway through the conversation with Gu Changqing, he saw that Gu Changqing didn't hear it. up the horse.
The left commander chased after him and was splashed with a nose of snow.
He erased it indiscriminately, looked at Gu Changqing who was walking away, and said loudly: "General! Where are you going so late! General! General—"
…
The cold wind whistled and the snow swayed.
Gu Jiao froze into a small ice sculpture in the ice and snow.
She lay there frozen in one body with Sirius' body, losing her body temperature and breathing little by little.
People will think of many things before dying, but Gu Jiao can't think of anything, her head is frozen.
After an unknown amount of time, her last remaining consciousness was frozen in the snow.
She closed her eyes.
Gu Changqing's horse was galloping fast in the night. It was his favorite mount. When he came to the house, he was just a foal. They had been together for several years, and they had already formed an indescribable tacit understanding.
The horse felt the anxiety of its owner, and its hooves almost broke in the snow.
Gu Changqing went to the forest where the camp had been stationed, and found the body of the former master who was buried in the heavy snow.
He sliced open the snow with his bare hands and turned the corpses over one by one.
Not Jiaojiao.
Not Jiaojiao.
Not Jiaojiao.
Everyone had signs of being killed by the Hongying spear, and it could be seen that Gu Jiao was able to deal with them with ease.
If the dead man was here, Gu Jiao would not have succeeded so easily.
After Gu Changqing finished digging up the last corpse, he knelt in the snow with stiff fingers and panting.
If Gu Yan is here... If Gu Yan is here... I must be able to sense where Jiaojiao has gone...
Gu Changqing was not Gu Yan after all, he couldn't sense Gu Jiao's movements, he just had an intuition that Gu Jiao left this forest with some kind of mission.
She may have predicted that she would not come back so soon, or might not even be able to come back, so her planned retreat was to have the patients rush to the ancient city of Yue and leave it under the management of Doctor Song.
She... She took the initiative to find the dead man.
Why is she going to find him
Why
…
The wind and snow were so heavy that even the horses were reluctant to move forward.
The soldier had to dismount from the horse and lead the horse to try to keep up with the team. However, just after taking two steps, he felt something tripped on the bottom of his foot, and he stumbled and fell forward.
He was planted on a small hard snowdrift. The snowdrift was a little hard. He didn't pay much attention to it. He just held the other side of the snowdrift and stood up.
But just press it.
He was stunned.
What's wrong with the feel
His back was cold, and he looked carefully at his hand, only to see a round head.
He fell backwards with a thud, and fell somersaults in the snow, and when he sat up, he happened to meet a pair of dead eyes.
He was so frightened that he lost his mind, and the horse didn't even care about it.
"What's the noise?" A corporal grabbed him, "You want to attract chasing soldiers, don't you?"
He didn't dare to look back, he just pointed his finger behind him tremblingly: "No... No... Brother Zhang... Then... there's a ghost over there!"
Safety along the way is very important. If there is a ghost, it may not be a real ghost, but a person lurking in the dark!
The corporal, who was called Brother Zhang, walked towards the small snowdrift with the wind and snow on his back.
When he got closer, he realized that it was a person who had been frozen to death.
It made him worry in vain, and thought it was some assassin in ambush!
The corporal leader planned to turn around and catch up with the team, but he suddenly felt that the face was a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
He bent down again and looked at the other person's face thoughtfully.
He finally remembered where he had seen him.
"My lord! My lord!"
The silver fox man was sitting in a carriage pulled by eight horses, when a soldier's anxious voice suddenly came from outside.
He looked at the unconscious uncle beside him, took out his slender jade-like right hand from his warm hand, opened the curtain and asked, "What's the matter?"
The soldier reported: "It seems that someone... has seen Sirius!"
After a while, the silver fox man and a few confidants appeared beside the small snowdrift that had just tripped over the person.
The confidant pulled away the snow, revealing the whole body of Sirius.
He knelt sideways beside the other corpse, nodding his head on the ground, his cheek slightly turned to the right.
This action made him not put all his weight on the opponent's body, but it was heavy enough.
Everyone was stunned.
Sirius is the number one master under the adults. Didn't he escort Princess Ning'an to escape
How can you die here
Who died with him
The silver fox man frowned, his unbelievable gaze fell on Sirius' corpse.
The confidants understood why the adults showed such an expression. Sirius was a dead man bought by the adults from the nobles of Yan Kingdom with a lot of money, and he was by no means comparable to ordinary dead men.
The Dragon Shadow Guard of the Zhao Kingdom's royal family couldn't hold on to ten moves in the hands of Sirius. The person who could kill Sirius was in Yan Kingdom, and no one in Zhao Kingdom or Chen Kingdom could even hurt him!
The silver fox man's handsome face was covered with frost, and he said coldly to his subordinate: "Look who is the other dead?"
"Yes!"
A confidant crouched down and brushed the snow off the man's face.
It was a young and immature face with a red birthmark on the left cheek.
The silver fox man recognized the birthmark at once.
"It's him?"
He was surprised.
The silver fox man fought with Gu Jiao, and Gu Jiao wounded him with a red ying gun on the ice on the lake.
Before that time, Gu Jiao and another man in black broke into the prefect's mansion in Lingguan City at night, used black gunpowder to kill a bloody way, and rescued the old Marquis of Ding'an of Zhao State.
"My lord! He's still angry!" said his confidant in shock.
He originally planned to separate Sirius from this little corpse, but when his hand touched Gu Jiao's face, he realized that something was wrong, and he probed the other side's breath again.
Although the breath is weak, it is real!
"My lord, King Yi woke up, let the subordinates ask what happened here?" The guard next to King Yi came over and said.
The silver fox man looked thoughtfully at Gu Jiao who was unconscious: "Tianlang is dead, just caught the murderer."
The silver fox man returned to the carriage.
He was also brought into the carriage by an armored, unconscious soldier.
King Yi covered the wound on his shoulder, frowned in pain, and asked, "Who is he?"
"The murderer who killed Sirius."
King Yi looked up and down Gu Jiao's figure and her armor without any special emblem at all, and said, "What? Him? A soldier?"
"It's a soldier of Zhao Kingdom," said the silver fox man.
King Yi had just suffered a defeat, and mentioned that Zhao Guo's face was not very good, he said solemnly: "Gu Jiajun?"
The silver fox man threw Gu Jiao on the carpet of the carriage, and gently kicked Gu Jiao's feet away with his feet: "Look at the armor, it doesn't look like it."
The armor of the Gu family is silver armor. This kid's armor is a bit like the armor of the Tang family archers, but there is no Tang family archer's emblem.
King Yi looked at Gu Jiao strangely: "You said he killed Sirius? How is that possible? How old does he look?"
The silver fox man hooked his lips and smiled: "Uncle, do you still remember the boy I mentioned to you who was related to the state of Yan?"
King Yi frowned and said, "Is that the person you're talking about?"
"My lord! His luggage has been found, here it is!"
Outside the carriage, the silver fox man's confidant handed over a heavy basket and a red tassel.
The silver fox man took it in the snow.
The moment the curtain was lifted, the wind and snow rushed in, and King Yi shivered from the cold, his brows furrowed even tighter.
The silver fox man tied the curtain and first turned it over in the small back basket.
Seeing that there was only a little dry food and a small tattered medicine box, the silver fox man was a little disappointed.
I thought I might find something precious.
The silver fox man casually placed the small back basket beside Gu Jiao, fondly stroking the red spear in his hand, and said to King Yi, "Uncle, this is the weapon of Xuanyuan Li, the divine general of the Yan Kingdom."
"So ugly?" King Yi's eyes hurt because of the big red flowers and braids on the red spear.
The silver fox man smiled lightly, but he didn't care about the ugly weapon: "I inquired about Chen Guo a few days ago, and Xuanyuan Li's red tassel was given to Chen Guoguo as a birthday gift by the king of the state of Yan. Chen State and Zhao State were at war, and the red tassels were snatched by Xuanping Marquis of Zhao State.
King Yi pondered for a moment, and agreed: "Well, that person can do such a thing."
It's just a shameless one.
King Yi paused and asked again, "Then is he from the Xuanyuan family or from the Xuanping Marquis mansion?"
The silver fox man shook his head: "It's not clear for the time being, he not only got this long spear, he also has black powder, he must have an inseparable relationship with the country of Yan."
"That's why they belong to the Xuanyuan family." King Yi made a judgment in his heart, and then his expression changed greatly, "We have caught the Xuanyuan family! If the Xuanyuan family knew about it, they wouldn't need a hundred thousand cavalry to trample us into flesh. !"
The silver fox man smiled: "Don't worry, uncle, if he is really a pivotal member of the Xuanyuan family, the country of Yan would have sent reinforcements here long ago."
When King Yi thought about such a rationale, what came to his mind, King Yi said again: "Then you...why didn't you kill him? He killed Sirius, won't you avenge Sirius?"
The silver fox man touched the red ying spear in his hand and said: "Sirius is dead, even if I avenge Sirius, Sirius will not survive. But if he can kill Sirius, it means that he is more powerful than Sirius. Uncle, if he is willing to submit to us, wouldn't we have a second Sirius?"
King Yi hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if he doesn't submit?"
The silver fox man curled his lips arbitrarily: "He is a soldier of Zhao State, and he saved the life of the old Ding Anhou. We used him to threaten the Gu family army. What does my uncle think the Gu family army will do?"
King Yi stared at the boy lying on the ground for a moment. For some reason, he was a little confused: "I think it's better for us to kill him."
The silver fox man smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, uncle, he is frozen like this, and he can't pose a threat."
On the last day of the month, the ticket is cleared.
(End of this chapter)