"Therefore, the method of using military force is to surround it ten times, attack it five times, divide it twice..." - "Sun Tzu"
Lu Ziming and his Chunyang Cult backbones spent a lot of effort to improve the art of war before launching an army. They could recite some of the classic passages by heart.
Now, there are at least 11,000 Chunyang sect brothers under his command. The officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain are at their best, only over 2,000!
According to the art of war, the Chunyang army should trample the officers and soldiers under their feet and rub them repeatedly! Who would have thought that a mere two thousand officers and soldiers would actually besiege 11,000 Chunyang believers on Tiger Rock?
Just because you can't think of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
As Lu Ziming said last night, there is only one way up the mountain from Laohuyan, and there are cliffs behind the mountain.
Although the cliff is only fifty or sixty steps high, it is as straight as a knife. An ordinary person standing on the edge and looking out will feel dizzy, let alone trying to find a way to grab the edge of the raised stone or the wild vines to climb up.
Down.
If you can't leave from the back of the mountain, you have to force your way through the only road on the front slope.
The mountain road, which is only five feet wide, and the relatively gentle hillside on the roadside, is completely blocked by a low wall. How many lives will the Chunyang Army have to sacrifice if they want to break through?
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A group of officers and soldiers holding shields, surrounded by a man in gray robes, slowly marched out. They climbed over the low wall and walked along the mountain road towards the first stone formation.
Immediately, he climbed through the first stone formation, slowly walked towards the second one, and climbed over it again.
"What are they going to do?" Lu Ziming frowned and asked in a low voice to Yan Feng, the official next to him.
"I don't know. I must have something to say to the King of France in person." Yan Feng also frowned and guessed in a low voice. "The man in gray robe must be the lobbyist! Hiss, why does he look so strange?
look familiar?"
"His Holiness, I will ask them for you as to their purpose of coming!" Xia Guan Yang Wenzhong was very courageous and took the initiative to ask for help in a low voice.
"The two countries are at war, so I won't kill the envoys. You might as well ask them what their purpose is!" Lu Ziming glanced down a few more times and nodded hesitantly.
The distance was a bit far, and he could not clearly see the appearance of the man in gray robe. However, he felt that the figure belonged to an acquaintance.
"Lu Xiucai, surrender! Han Tixing said that only those with blood debts on their hands will be punished, and the rest will not be asked?" Just when Lu Ziming was confused, the man in gray robe had already climbed up the third stone.
In formation, they raised a copper trumpet and shouted towards the hillside.
Oddly enough, there was at least a distance of two hundred steps between the two sides, so Lu Ziming should not have been able to hear the other party's voice. However, with the copper speaker, the other party's voice was transmitted in every word.
His ears. (Note: The amplification effect of the horn-like device is also effective without power.)
"Ma Xiu?" In an instant, all the backbones of the Chunyang Sect, including Lu Ziming, felt cold from the top of their heads to their heels.
They heard that the speaker was none other than Lu Ziming's most trusted dog-headed military advisor, Ma Xiu.
This man, just yesterday afternoon, was ordered by Lu Ziming to go to Qingzhou with a large amount of gold and fine goods to seek opportunities for recruitment for the Chunyang Sect! This morning, he actually became an accomplice of the dog official Han Qing!
"Lv Xiucai, brothers, it's not that Ma Mou deliberately betrayed you. Ma Mou was very unlucky. As soon as he left the team, he was knocked over by his fellow soldiers and tied to a tree. The gold and silver he was carrying were also divided up by them.
.Thanks to the officers and soldiers passing by, we were saved from being bitten to death by wild wolves!"
As if he guessed what Lu Ziming and others were thinking, Ma Xiu, who was standing on the stone formation, sighed and told the truth why he fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers.
He didn't want to bear the reputation of a traitor to his friends, so he took it upon himself to explain clearly in public the reason why he served the officers and soldiers. Zhang Fan, who was responsible for escorting him to persuade him to surrender, was soft-hearted and did not stop him in any way. However, after the words fell, the effect
But it's better than the previous sentences.
Even the most trusted soldiers, after leaving the brigade, immediately turned against each other, grabbed the gold, silver and soft goods and fled! Among the more than 11,000 followers trapped on the hillside, how many of them are of the same mind as Lu Ziming?
The reason why everyone hasn't dispersed yet is because, on the one hand, humans are accustomed to following the herd and sticking together. On the other hand, they are worried that if they fall into the hands of the government, they will be tortured and treated harshly!
Now, through Ma Xiu's mouth, Han Qing publicly announced that those who had no blood debts against his opponents would be forgotten, which was equivalent to opening a way for most of the believers on the mountain to survive.
Now that there is a way to survive, who is willing to go all the way to death on the road to death?
"His Holiness, brothers, the reason why Ma joined the religion in the first place is the same as you. He believed in the Chunyang Sutra and wanted to build a heaven on earth where everyone has food to eat, everyone has clothes to wear, and the government acts fairly." Ma Xiu
As expected of a dog-headed strategist, he said one thing after another, "But Ma later saw that the way things are done in religion is no different from the government. The sutra is a good sutra, and Lu Xian is also a good god, but those who recite the sutra,
But they are all ordinary people. When they have power in their hands, they forget all the scriptures!"
Lest the churchgoers on the hillside didn't understand, he sighed again and quickly added, "Bribery to the government, money to buy an official position, extortion, cover-up of prostitutes and gambling, are there any of these dirty things that our church has not done before?
Recently, I simply joined the traffickers again! The Dharma King always said that these dirty things are all for the future and have to be done. But we have not yet established the world, and we are just confusing right and wrong. In the future, our Chunyang Sect will dominate the world, so what?
Could it be the heaven on earth mentioned in the scriptures?”
These few sentences are more harmful to Chunyang Sect.
Especially being complicit with human traffickers was a thorn in the hearts of most of the believers. At this moment, being pulled out by Ma Xiu in public made many believers so embarrassed that they could not raise their heads.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow, shoot him to death, kill this weakling who sells his teachings and seeks glory!" Not daring to let Ma Xiu continue, Lu Ziming personally grabbed a horn bow and shot an arrow at the opponent.
Yan Feng, Yang Wenzhong and other core figures of the Chunyang Sect also knew that if Ma Xiu continued to speak, the brothers would definitely be defeated without a fight. They also grabbed their horned bows and shot at Ma Xiu on the stone formation.
Compared with ordinary people, their physical strength and shooting skills are undoubtedly much higher. However, they cannot shoot two hundred steps away.
The feather arrow had already fallen to the ground before it could fly in front of Ma Xiu. The latter, on the other hand, dropped the stone formation without hesitation and ran away.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot him to death!" Lu Ziming then realized that he had ignored the distance. He picked up the bow and arrow and ran forward, vowing to shoot Ma Xiu through with an arrow.
Since Na Ma Xiu chose to surrender immediately after being caught by the officers and soldiers, how can he be a master who is willing to wait for death? He took two short legs, took three steps and then two steps to rush to the front stone formation, and then climbed up
And up.
Zhang Fan and more than a dozen officers and soldiers holding shields followed him calmly. The shields in their hands were always pointed at Lu Ziming, determined not to give this man a chance to make a sneak attack.
"You coward, don't run!"
"You bastard, stand still and die!"
Lu Ziming was furious, yelling loudly and speeding up the pursuit. However, the stone formation on the mountain road that was originally used to block sneak attacks by officers and soldiers had exactly the opposite effect at this moment.
No matter how much he wished to take Ma Xiu's life immediately, he still had to close the distance between them to within eighty steps. And there were still two stone formations between him and Ma Xiu! If he wanted to close the distance,
He had to climb over the stone formation first!
"His Holiness, be careful not to be deceived, they are trying to trick you into coming here!"
"Be careful, Dharma King, there are many people over there. Just wait, the brothers will follow immediately!"
Seeing that if Lu Ziming continued to pursue, he would have to face more than a dozen shield-wielding officers and soldiers alone. Yan Feng, Yang Wenzhong and other core figures of the Chunyang Sect were so anxious that they kept reminding them at the top of their lungs.
Lu Ziming immediately trembled in his heart and quickly regained his senses. Stopping, he pointed his horn bow at Ma Xiu's back and cursed, "Coward, eggless coward. Lu treats you like a brother..."
Ma Xiu felt guilty and did not dare to talk back. He rolled and crawled all the way to the bottom of the mountain, then turned around again, raised his copper trumpet and shouted: "Lu Xiucai, I am indeed sorry for you. But so many brothers are with you."
We are trapped together in Laohuyan, there is no way you can let everyone die with you..."
"Coward, soft-headed, eggless eunuch!" Lu Ziming was not willing to listen. He continued to curse across several stone formations. It was not until Ma Xiu stopped persuading in despair that he turned around and met Yan Feng who came to rescue him.
Together with the others, they returned to the camp halfway up the mountain.
"His Holiness, break out of the encirclement as soon as possible!" Yan Feng followed closely behind him and suggested in a very low voice, "Otherwise, if the morale of the army collapses, I will die without a burial place!"
"Yes, Dharma King, what Ma Xiu said just now is so vicious!" Yang Wenzhong also stepped forward and quickly added, "It is inevitable that some of the brothers will be deceived. The longer it goes on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for us!"
"Take out all the money and recruit those who dare to fight. Each person will receive five slings or equivalent gold and silver silk cloth!" Lu Ziming hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and made a decision.
Once the morale of the army collapses and the officers and soldiers take the opportunity to kill him on the mountain, Han Qing will have to take advantage of how much money he has in his hands. Therefore, it is better to use part of it to recruit dead soldiers.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
Hearing that there were five ounces of cash available, and seeing that the actual number of officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain was only a little over two thousand. Some bandits in the Chunyang Army plucked up their courage again, took the initiative to come to Lu Ziming, and signed up to fight. After a while, they actually gathered together
Three thousand "elites" were recruited.
Lu Ziming did what he said, and cashed in the golden copper coins and white silver on the spot. Immediately, he divided the elite recruits into three battalion heads. He ordered two of the battalion heads to seize the time to eat dry food and maintain their strength.
He himself led the third battalion and drove other men who did not want to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers to clear the stones on the mountain road.
Last night when I was building the stone formation, I didn't feel it was hard. Now I moved the stones away, but the minions were complaining. However, the shining steel knife was in the hands of Lu Ziming and his cronies. No matter how hard it was, no matter how tired the minions were.
, and did not dare to rise up to resist, so they could only endure their exhaustion and act according to Lu Ziming's instructions.
There was such a big movement on the mountain, and Han Qing at the foot of the mountain had naturally seen it clearly.
However, Han Qing did not order any intervention and allowed the minions to clear the stone formations blocking the mountain road one by one.
About half an hour later, the mountain road was finally open again. The two battalions of dead soldiers who had rested earlier also had enough to eat and drink.
Lu Ziming gave the order, and Chun Guan Yan Feng immediately jumped on his horse, leading 300 cavalry and 700 infantry, and shouted down the mountain road.
At first, due to the steepness of the mountain, neither man nor horse dared to run too fast. After a while, they arrived at the foot of the mountain, only about fifty steps away from the low wall built by the officers and soldiers, and the terrain quickly became gentle. Chun Guan Yan Feng
The courage in my heart also surged.
"Brothers, jump over together and scatter them! Don't give them a chance to throw fire bombs!" With a shout, he spurred his mount to accelerate decisively. In front of and behind him, three hundred cavalry also roared in response.
There are only over two thousand officers and soldiers!
The officers and soldiers traveled all night and must be exhausted by now!
The officers and soldiers are located lower down, so there is no convenient location!
It takes time for the fire bombs in the hands of officers and soldiers to be lit and thrown out. The faster everyone rushes, the less likely they are to be bombed.
In the blink of an eye, the three hundred cavalry distanced themselves from their own infantry and rushed directly under the low wall. Chun Guan Yan Feng pulled the reins suddenly, and the horse under his crotch roared, "Sigh, ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss S S S S S S S S S S Su S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S .
, the four hooves instantly rose into the air, and passed over the top of the wall like a swimming dragon.
Everything went smoothly beyond imagination, and Yan Feng felt a surge of ecstasy in his heart. However, the next moment, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
Behind the low wall, there is actually a deep ditch hidden.
Thousands of sharpened wooden stakes were inserted at the bottom of the ditch. At the top of the ditch, far away, there was a wooden board.
Ma Xiu had just climbed over the wall on foot and could see his feet clearly, so he was able to pass safely on the wooden board. But he didn't know the existence of the deep ditch at all. At this moment, it was too late to order his mount to change direction!
"Boom!" Yan Feng, including his men and horses, was poked on the wooden stake, and blood jumped like a fountain. Beside him, more cavalrymen and their horses fell down, turning into a series of corpses!