Xing Shan and Wu Xiang led 20,000 infantry and surrounded Jintan Mountain, forcing Li Liangjin's 20,000 bandits to surrender.
Although there was still a stalemate, the bandits would rush down the mountain risking their lives from time to time, but they were all easily blocked. Food was exhausted, and surrender was only a matter of time.
Li Xiuyuan, on the other hand, led his cavalry to win the battle, then repaired for a few days before heading south to seize the city.
Although Li Liangjin died, his traitors were wreaking havoc in villages and counties without control, causing harm to the world. How could Li Xiuyuan let them go? He took the city all the way, and all the traitors surrendered wherever he passed.
, at most, seven cities were captured in one day and marched hundreds of miles.
Every time he captured a city, he left two battalions of troops and one staff member responsible for cleaning up the aftermath and restoring order.
In just ten days.
All the cities in Yangzhou were captured from the rebels. At this point, the turmoil of the Nine Mountain Kings finally subsided.
But Li Xiuyuan did not stop after quelling the turmoil of the Nine Mountain Kings.
On this day, in a remote county in Yangzhou.
This place was occupied by a group of followers of the White Lotus Sect, and they developed secretly, absorbing followers, building large-scale construction projects, and building temples and Buddha statues.
At this moment, the Chenghuang Temple in the county has been demolished and rebuilt into a Guanyin Temple.
There is a huge Buddhist altar in the temple, with various ladders built nearby. Dozens of craftsmen are building a golden statue of Guanyin. If built, this golden statue of Guanyin should be six feet high, and it would cost a lot of money. It is made of gold, silver and copper.
I don’t know how much it cost, but this golden statue of Guanyin has just been built right now.
It is estimated that it will take half a year to complete the entire construction.
As usual.
The saint of the White Lotus Sect, Gu Hua, along with some close followers, began to inspect the construction speed of the golden statue.
She is wearing a white dress, a white gauze on her head, and her hair in a high bun. She is dressed like a Guanyin. Coupled with her extraordinary beauty that is not what an ordinary woman should have, she is indeed capable of bewitching all living beings and a goddess descending to earth.
attitude.
"As long as this six-foot golden body is built, my Taoist practice will be increased by at least five hundred years. Although it is still slightly inferior to before, self-preservation is not a problem." Aunt Hua looked at that little bit.
The golden body was built, and I felt a little happy, but also a little anxious.
She has been working hard for hundreds of years and has built a nine-foot-long golden body and a six-foot-long golden body. She is so high in spiritual practice that she has almost no rivals in this world. Even the gods in heaven cannot come down to kill her.
However, after a battle, his golden body was destroyed and his moral integrity fell. He wanted to plot against Li Xiuyuan, but in the end he almost lost his wife and lost his army.
Shi Hu was right, he was impatient.
She was going to hibernate and spend decades to recover her Taoism. When Li Xiuyuan became old and frail and could no longer hold the Immortal Killing Sword, it would be her chance to take revenge.
A gentleman's revenge is never too late.
As a ghost, she wanted to take revenge for thirty years, not even a hundred years. She had plenty of time to waste.
"Holy Lady, if we continue to build it like this, it will probably be completed in less than half a year. We will definitely not disappoint the Holy Lady." The bewildered loyal believer next to him said.
Aunt Hua nodded: "That's good. By the way, what's the news from Jiushan King Li Liangjin?"
Although she was a ghost and god, she did not dare to send the evil ghosts around to find out the news because they were dormant. After all, Yangzhou was almost controlled by Li Xiuyuan, and the ghosts and gods under Li Xiuyuan already made her feel afraid.
"Don't you know the saint? The King of Nine Mountains was defeated and killed half a month ago. The imperial army has wiped out all the rebels. Now they are using the surrendered troops to build houses and cultivate farmland everywhere in Yangzhou.
There is an urgent shortage of food, cattle and horses everywhere, and many businessmen are here
Selling livestock and food?" The disciple said in surprise.
He thought Aunt Hua had known about it for a long time.
"What? So fast?" Hua Gu's face suddenly changed.
I thought Li Liangjin could wait for a few months and a half, waiting for her golden body to be completed before leaving Yangzhou. Unexpectedly, Li Liangjin was actually defeated and killed in such a short period of time.
If this happens, won't my plan fail?
Without Li Liangjin holding Li Xiuyuan, she knew exactly what this guy was going to do next.
"No, we can't stay in Yangzhou anymore. We will immediately gather the believers and we will go north to the capital to preach." Hua Gu said with a bit of anxiety.
This was the second escape route she had prepared, to go to the capital.
The capital is at the feet of the emperor, and there are countless nobles in the palace. If the evil spirits can sneak into the capital, even Li Xiuyuan will not be able to kill them.
Just as the congregant was about to speak, suddenly, there was a roar of thunder above the temple's head.
The thunder continued continuously, appearing out of thin air, like the beating of war drums, standing above the head for a long time.
"How come there was such a loud thunder?" Some people were startled and covered their ears in confusion.
thunder?
Aunt Hua thought of something and looked horrified, her eyes instantly showing a hint of panic.
"Boom~!"
A thunder suddenly fell from the sky, splitting the roof of the temple, and fell directly on the Guanyin Gold which was still under construction.
The golden body of Guanyin, which was less than half built, was struck by the thunder, and instantly burst into flames. Then the golden body exploded, turning into countless copper blocks and splattering everywhere. Even the lotus platform was shattered into pieces.
The scene frightened the craftsmen who were still building the golden statue and collapsed on the ground, panicking.
to run away and hide.
But the strange thing is that none of the craftsmen who built the golden statue were hit or injured.
"It's over, it's been discovered."
Seeing this scene, Hua Gu instantly felt her hands and feet feel cold, and fear welled up in her heart.
"Aunt Hua, do you recognize me, the Demon-Suppressing Thunder Lord?" A loud, majestic voice came from the sky.
Thunder and lightning flickered in the dark clouds, roaring continuously, and the shadow of a god stood in it. This god was wearing golden armor, holding a thunder cone, and manipulating the thunder around him. People who looked at it were frightened and fearful.
"The Thunder Lord from the sky needs to be ordered to come down to earth to slay demons. This Demon-Suppressing Thunder Lord came suddenly. It is definitely not because he was ordered by the Heavenly Palace to come down to earth to kill me, but because Li Xiuyuan has arrived." Aunt Hua looked at the lurking figure in the dark clouds.
Lord Demon Thunder suddenly gritted his teeth.
The only person in the world who can mobilize the Lord of Thunder, apart from the Heavenly Lord of the Thunder Department, is the human saint.
"Hurry, go quickly. The evil deeds you have done have been known to the Thunder God in the sky. Now the Thunder God is going to kill you. Come with me. I will ask the Bodhisattva to come down to earth and protect you." Hua Gu ignored the Demon-Suppressing Thunder God.
He suddenly performed some small skills, and his whole body glowed with colorful lights.
Filled with a scent of sandalwood.
It's like a goddess descending to earth and a Bodhisattva appearing.
The believers who were frightened by the thunder were all bewitched when they saw this scene. They knelt on the ground one by one and worshiped the Bodhisattva, with incomparable enthusiasm in their eyes.
However, Huagu didn't have time to enjoy their pious worship, but immediately took the believers and fled here quickly.
The Demon-Suppressing Thunder Lord in the sky was furious when he saw this: "What a monster, it ensnares mortals and hides in them. Do you think you can escape the strike of the thunder in this way?"
The thunder roared, as if in response to his anger.
However, although the thunder roared, there was no more thunder and it fell, because Lord Fu Mo Lei was not completely sure that he could kill the Huagu without hurting anyone.
It is not uncommon to borrow someone to protect yourself from lightning strikes.
Many fairies who have practiced Taoism for six hundred years will turn into beauties when the thunder disaster is about to come, sneak into the house of the good family, become wives and concubines, and sleep with the kind person when the thunder disaster is coming, forcing the thunder god in the sky
Afraid of accidentally hurting kind and meritorious people, so the thunder cannot fall, so I have to
The roof turned around several times and then had to disperse.
Because there is a time limit for the thunder tribulation brought by the Lord Thunder, after the time has passed, they will return to the heavenly palace and have to let the fairies survive the thunder tribulation.
Now Hua Gu is also using this method to avoid lightning strikes.
"Damn the Demon-Suppressing Thunder Lord, why should I be afraid of you? How dare you, the Thunder Lord, to strike me with lightning while I am still here?" Hua Gu gritted her teeth, feeling angry and angry.
When she was at her highest level, she could fight against three Thunder Lords and gain the upper hand.
A mere thunder gong kills him just to die.
However, just as she was rushing out of the temple with her followers, her eyes narrowed again before she had taken a few steps.
In the open space in front of the temple, a crocodile was found prostrate.
The crocodile opened its mouth and remained motionless, as if hibernating, but its eyes were always staring at her.
In the eyes of mortals, this is just an ordinary crocodile, and they are just curious as to why it appears here without incident.
But in Hua Gu's eyes, this was no ordinary crocodile.
This is the great demon who has practiced Taoism for thousands of years, the King of the Yangtze River.
She had once visited the Yangtze River and had a wine discussion with the King of the Yangtze River at a banquet. Although she did not know the alligator very clearly, she would never admit her mistake.
Because a small section of the Yangtze River King's tail was broken. He was hibernating one year and was crushed by a huge boulder washed down from the upper reaches of the water.
That was his calamity.
The crocodile in front of me happened to have a section of its tail broken off.
"King of the Yangtze River, have you even taken refuge with Li Xiuyuan? You are the majestic king of the Yangtze River, dominating one area, and yet you are willing to be his lackey?" Hua Gu said.
The alligator glanced at her with a hint of disdain, then its still body suddenly burst out with unimaginable speed, and immediately ran over, opening its huge mouth, as if it wanted to catch someone and eat it.
"Ah, run quickly."
The nearby churchgoers were frightened and ran away when they saw a big crocodile charging toward them.
Tigers in the mountains and dragons in the water are all things that make people fear.
The dragon in the water refers to the crocodile. Because it looks like a dragon, people often call it a dragon.
"Come back, where are you running to? This crocodile doesn't dare to eat you." Huagu shouted hurriedly, hoping to stop these believers.
But who dares to stand still when this big crocodile attacks?
Look at those sharp teeth, who believes that this crocodile doesn’t eat people?
Within a moment, the congregants gathered around Gu Gu were frightened and fled in all directions.