Returning to the cave, Zhao Ran gathered all the spirits and monsters together and said: "This time the enemy is attacking Hongyuan, I have arranged for the Toad Palace Fairies to station themselves in Hongyuan City. Hongyuan City can be protected. There are two other tasks.
I need your help, and I hope you will work together to protect the Red Plains."
The spiritual demons' cultivation is self-contained and they let nature take its course. They don't need to meditate and practice like monks, so they have too much free time. As soon as they heard that there was a battle to be fought, they all signed up enthusiastically.
Zhao Ran made arrangements on the spot, and asked Huangshan Jun and Shen Jiangzi to lead their men to practice the spirit tiger, and the spirit leopard followed. He also asked the Ape-like monkey to lead his hundreds of demon monkeys as the main force to obey the orders, and the sky was in charge.
Return to the Taoist people in the south.
This strange force is used to roam outside Hongyuan City. Once a fighter is caught, the militia cavalry led by Baozhong will fight out of the city, while he leads this strange spirit monster force to wander outside to ensure that this force will be attacked.
Not a single one of the bandits was left behind.
The rest of the Spirit Wolf Yueying, Spirit Badger Yashi Taoist, Lingyang Huangjiao Daxian, Black and White Taoist, Fei Longzi, Gao Yuanshuai, Five Color Masters, Qingtian layman, etc. guard the cave, especially Yueying, asking him to take good care of his second senior brother Yu Zhichuan, Wan Wan
Don't let any accident happen to Yu Zhichuan.
This second senior brother is the treasure of Lou Guan. According to his teacher Jiang Tenghe, he is a person destined to receive the Heavenly Talisman. If something happens to him, it will be a huge loss to Lou Guan.
A few days later, Dongfang Jing suddenly sent a warning. One of his monks discovered an abnormality in the river section of the Dege Valley. After receiving the news, Zhao Ran rushed over immediately.
The Dege Valley is located between Yueliangdu and Anqu Village in the south, sixteen miles away from both places, and is in the middle. The river here has fast currents and many dangerous shoals, making it completely unsuitable for boats to cross, and the river is deep.
It is embedded in the mountains, and the river embankments on both sides are more than ten feet high. Even if a boat comes across, it is impossible to climb ashore.
The two sides of the bank are said to be river embankments, but they are actually cliffs.
Therefore, during the Ming army's military deliberations, the Dege Valley was not included in the key areas for investigation, but only general patrols along the route. The discovery of abnormalities here was entirely due to the high sense of responsibility of the patrolling monks.
When the monk under Dongfang Jing was inspecting the southern section of the Baihe River this morning, he accidentally felt anxious. In a fit of excitement, he jumped up the cliff and poured water into the river. On his way back, he passed by this place and felt anxious again - the chance of this is really too small.
, then jump back onto the cliff where water was filled before, and fill it with water again.
This time, he found that the "water column" dissipated before falling into the river. To put it bluntly, he couldn't pee straight!
"Not straight urine" means that the urine column does not coagulate and becomes loose after it goes down. Generally, if this happens, it is either due to kidney deficiency or the impact of strong winds. If it is an ordinary person, it will be fine, but he is a yellow
Monk Guan, who happens to be very knowledgeable in Taoist medicine, knows that he is not weak, and he also knows that with his cultivation level, the urine column will definitely be solid and will not be scattered, even if the wind blows it away!
The monk immediately became cautious and did not dare to detect traces of mana fluctuations with his Taoist Talisman. He walked down the cliff as if nothing had happened and urgently reported to Dongfang Jing.
Dongfang Jing received the report and immediately rushed to the Dege Valley. With his experience and ability, he was no match for monk Huang Guan. He immediately saw that there must be a problem here, so he hurriedly informed Zhao Ran and others.
Zhao Ran lay down next to Dongfang Jing and looked down at the river valley carefully. Seeing that there was nothing special about the river valley, he opened his heavenly eye. When he opened his heavenly eye, he could see the flow of Qi in the surrounding world and said to Dongfang Jing: "Senior brother Jing, there is indeed a problem.
, this is the illusion array. Well, this illusion array is extremely clever, a three-layer illusion array!"
Dongfang Jing asked: "Are you sure it's the third floor?"
Zhao Ran responded: "The qi of heaven and earth was disturbed three times, the north and south opened together, the east and west turned back, the up and down were misaligned, the three-layer phantom formation did not run away!"
Being able to set up a three-layer illusion formation, at least an Arhat realm monk is comparable to a Taoist master. Could it be that in order to invade the Hongyuan this time, Wu Huawen's army specially assigned Arhat realm monks who are good at formations?
Preparing to cross the river under the cover of a phantom formation is also a commonly used method of smuggling on the battlefield, but it is certainly not suitable for large armies to cross the river. As for the phantom formation in front of us, in order to cover a length of more than thirty feet on both sides of the bank, we can only
Minimize the width of the coverage as much as possible, to about two feet wide. Otherwise, if the phantom array is too big, it will not be able to hide the agitation of the heaven and earth energy, and it will be easily detected.
You must know that there is a Ming Army observation tower less than a mile away from the north and south directions of this cliff. Once discovered, it will inevitably lead to an ambush by the enemy. It is self-evident that the losses will be heavy when crossing the river.
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Building a two-foot-wide pontoon bridge on the river? Can this be considered a pontoon bridge? No matter how you look at it, this is not the place to build a pontoon bridge. The water flow is too fast and it is difficult to pass people on the pontoon bridge.
Dongfang Jingchong winked at a monk next to him, and the monk went upstream. After a while, a piece of residual wood rolled down the river, and in a blink of an eye, it passed the river covered by the phantom array. There was nothing abnormal on the river.
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"Iron chain bridge!" they both said in unison.
It is very difficult for a person to walk on the two-foot-wide iron cable bridge, let alone the heavy baggage. This shows that as expected during the military meeting, Wu Huawen's troops were not many, and they attacked quickly with light troops, otherwise the baggage would become a huge burden.
After coming down from the cliff, Pei Zhongze found the young monk again and asked: "This place is inaccessible. How did you think of it... um... convenience?"
The monk said: "Two and a half years ago, I was transferred to the Hongyuan garrison on rotation. During my inspection, I saw a woman committing suicide here by jumping off a cliff. I used to be in the capital..."
Only then did Dongfang Jing have time to introduce him: "This is Junior Brother Liu Tengci from Kuixing Hall in the capital."
Zhao Ran said: "So he is a junior brother from Kuixing Hall? I am familiar with senior brother Li Tengxin."
Li Zhiheng said: "Yes, I heard Senior Brother Li mention Senior Brother Zhao that you fought side by side in Mount Taihua."
Zhao Ran laughed: "Senior Brother Li Tengxin achieved elixir last year, and I couldn't come over to congratulate you for some reason. I'll say hello to you later. Okay, go on."
Liu Tengci said: "Yes. I have never seen such a scene before in the prosperous place of the capital. I quickly stepped forward to save people. After climbing the cliff, the woman was washed away by the river without a trace. Later I passed by this place.
When I was in Guifangya, I would often come up and sit..."
Zhao Ran was startled: "Is this place called Guifangya?"
Liu Tengci pointed to a cliff on the cliff: "This place is famous, but I don't know who carved it or when it was carved. At that time, I was thinking, could this be the legendary ancient Guifang Kingdom? Haha, it's just a wild idea, and it can't be taken seriously.
real."
Zhao Ran flew up, climbed up the cliff in a few steps, and pushed aside a bush from between the cliffs. He saw the words "Ghost Square Cliff" and secretly thought, "It should be here."