Chen Mu said with an ugly face: "The other party is well prepared."
"Is there any good strategy?"
"The Yellow Turban is using its sharp edge to kill us. It can be resolved by extraordinary things. I need to prepare a few things."
"how long?"
Zhu Jun asked.
Chen Mu shook his head: "Give me a day and come back tomorrow."
In fact, with his intelligence, how could he not understand that the Yellow Turban Army wanted to fight him.
But Chen Mu didn't prepare in advance at all, because he didn't want to.
The reason is simple. What Changshe City needs most now is time.
He pretended to do it in order to delay time.
Now that the other party is so cooperative with me, of course he can delay it day by day.
Therefore, pretending to be defeated today will make the opponent think that there is nothing they can do, and wait until tomorrow to delay the battle for another day.
In fact, when the Yellow Turban Army saw that there was no action in Changshe City today, Bo Cai and others immediately became happy and praised Gao Feng.
Gao Feng said proudly: "This is the dragon-slaying sword given to me by the great virtuous master, specially designed to sever the dragon veins of the Red Emperor of the Han Dynasty."
Bo Cai asked out of curiosity: "Red Emperor Dragon Veins? What do you mean?"
Gao Feng explained: "Back then, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, called himself the son of the Red Emperor and killed the White Emperor's son in the uprising. Today's Han Dynasty is the continuation of the red emperor's dragon vein. If the dragon vein is cut off, the Han Dynasty will lose its vitality, and it will be replaced by a great virtuous teacher. Replace him with the Yellow Emperor's son."
"I see."
Bocai suddenly realized that he was a general of the Yellow Turban Army, but not a Taoist priest. He really didn't know much about these things.
In fact, these things are a mythical cloak that Zhang Jiao has put on himself, which is exactly the same as the mythical legend about Liu Bang's uprising when he killed the White Snake, and when Mrs. Gan dreamed of the Big Dipper and filled the house with a strange fragrance when she gave birth to Liu Chan.
Huang-Lao's learning during the Eastern Han Dynasty is actually the collective name of the learning of Huangdi and Laozi, who can also be regarded as the founder of Taoism.
During this period, Huang-Lao theory was popular, and many Taoist thoughts were gradually derived from it.
Figures such as Zhang Daoling of the Tianshi Dao, Ge Xuan of the Lingbao Sect, Yu Ji and Zhang Jiao of the Taiping Dao, and Zuo Ci of the Taiqing Sect were all born in this period.
Among them, Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao believed in the Yellow Emperor. They used the name of the Yellow Emperor and said that Liu Bang conquered the world as the son of the Red Emperor. Now that the Red Emperor has reached the end of his life, it is the Yellow Emperor's turn to take power.
This was actually an excuse used by Zhang Jiao to give his rebellion a legal appearance.
The same is true for the dragon vein statement.
The word "dragon vein" first came from "Huangdi Nei Jing·Su Wen". From the late Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Feng Shui flourished. In the Han Dynasty alone, "Palace and House Terrain", "Picture House Technique" and "Zhou Gong's House Divination" appeared. "Sutra", "Kanyu Golden Chamber" and other Feng Shui monographs reached its peak in the Jin Dynasty when Guo Pu wrote "The Burial Sutra".
At that time, Feng Shui was called the art of prophecy, and together with the art of prophecy and latitude and longitude, it was collectively known as the theology of prophecy and latitude.
Modern people may think it is a pretense, but it was indeed one of the mainstream theories at the time. Many great Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty were not only top Confucianists, but also top Confucians and prophecies.
Among them, Confucianists refer to the study of these Confucian classics, Confucian scholars refer to the elaboration and interpretation of all the scriptures handed down, and prophecies are masters of astronomy and geography, such as astrology, Feng Shui, geography, meteorology, and numerology. Etc. are all included in the prophecy technique.
For example, the physiognomy that Chen Mu once studied and the method used by Zhang Fei and Zhao Lin to make inferences fall into the category of prophecy.
Therefore, these two people's fight in the air was not without purpose, but had a purpose.
The Yellow Turban Army raised two swords today and suppressed Chen Mu's spell.
Bo Cai immediately ordered the Taoist priest Huang Lao in the camp to publicize it everywhere to boost the morale of the troops.
When they learned that there were masters in Changshe City who were planning to bring disaster to them, the soldiers were frightened at first.
But when I heard that the Taoist priests in the army opened altars at the same time and held down the altar in Changshe City, their morale increased greatly. The morale that had declined due to Zhang Fei's killing of generals also gradually recovered.
On the third day, countless soldiers, with the permission of their superiors, ran out of the military camp and came to watch the battle between the two sides.
Tens of thousands of people on both sides stopped to watch, waiting for the masters on both sides of the altar to take their seats.
However, after Gao Feng went to the altar, no one came out of Changshe City, as if no one accepted the challenge.
Bo Cai, who was under the altar, was overjoyed, thinking that the altar in Changshe City had been defeated and would no longer dare to compete with Taiping Road for supremacy.
However, not long after, I saw a huge wooden shield slowly lowering from the tower of Changshe.
This shield didn't even bother to cover it with iron sheets, it was just a large wooden board with a thick layer of black dog's blood splashed on it, as if a spell had been drawn on it.
The Yellow Turban soldiers were stunned and confused.
"what does this mean?"
"I don't know, are they afraid and are they putting up the no-war card?"
"You're stupid, you don't know this. The master's sword hangs to prevent disasters, while others use shields to prevent disasters."
"I see, then who loses and wins this game?"
"It should be a tie..."
The soldiers were talking a lot and couldn't understand the fighting situation.
Gao Feng frowned on the altar. After a while, he had to get down from the altar, shook his head and sighed.
Bo Cai hurriedly asked: "Master Gao, what's the explanation for this?"
Gao Feng said with a serious face: "Black dog blood is the most yang and red thing in the world, which coincides with the virtue of fire in the Han Dynasty. I wanted to kill the son of the Red Emperor with the Yellow Emperor's sword, but was blocked by the black dog blood shield, and was turned back by him.
Made."
Bo Cai asked blankly: "Can't our sword pierce his shield?"
Gao Feng rolled his eyes: "How can we break the conflict between the five elements?"
Bocai wondered: "Isn't he fire? We are earth, how can we overcome each other?"
"Do you think his shield is made of wood?"
Gao Feng explained patiently: "The wooden shield is splashed with black dog blood. This shield will become a fire and wood shield in a short period of time. Our Yellow Emperor's Sword is restrained by his wood and burned by his fire. How can we defeat it?"
"All right......"
Bocai's expression was taciturn and he was slandering in his heart. We didn't know and we didn't dare to ask...
But Gao Feng really didn't fool him.
The Five Elements theory existed as early as in the Book of Documents. During the Warring States Period, Zou Yan, a Yin-Yang scholar, proposed the Theory of the End of the Five Virtues, which was inherited by later scholars.
The Western Han Dynasty was initially considered to be inherited from the Qin Dynasty, so the Liu Bang period considered themselves to be the water virtues of the Qin Dynasty, so the color of the emperor's dragon robes at that time was all black to express inheritance.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, through the efforts of Sima Qian and others, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally changed the dynasty attribute and changed the Han Dynasty's water virtue into earth virtue. Since then, the dragon robes of the Western Han Dynasty have been a little yellow.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang, the author of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", proposed the concept of the new Five Virtues to Liu Xin and his son, believing that the Han Dynasty should be characterized by fire virtues.
This concept was not recognized by the public at the time, but it happened that Wang Mang, the leader in the late Western Han Dynasty, admired this theory very much, so he forcibly changed the attribute of the Han Dynasty and changed the five elements to fire.
When Guangwu Zhongxing came, Liu Xiu originally wanted to change it, but Huode had already been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the concept of Huode was consistent with the popular saying at that time that Liu Bang's red emperor's son killed the White Snake to revolt, so he finally identified the Eastern Han Dynasty as Huode, and since then
This has been passed down.
There is no mutual restraint between fire and earth, but there is a mutually reinforcing relationship.
Therefore, Zhang Jiao called himself General Tiangong, believed in the Yellow Emperor, and believed that the Han Dynasty was fire, which should be cultivated and unearthed as a dynasty. In this way, he defined himself as Tu De.
Chen Mu lowered a wooden shield, and the wooden shield suppressed the earth. Gao Feng's earth sword, of course, could not cut the wooden shield, but was restrained by the black dog's blood on it.
Bocai hesitated for a moment and asked, "If that's the case, what should we do?"
Gao Feng thought hard, wondering: "It's hard to handle. If he only used a wooden shield, I could also use an ax made of pure iron. But he used a fire-wood shield, and metal defeated wood, but fire defeated gold. He only relied on an iron axe."
, it’s hard to compete with him.”
"What about water?"
Bocai asked again.
"Water can extinguish his fire, but it can moisturize his wood. It can only lead to a draw, but not a win."
Gao Feng shook his head.
Bo Cai said: "Is there any other way?"
"For the current plan, there are only two ways. One is to attack him with water and make a draw. The other is to wait for a few days. If the wood can't light a fire, you will be burned by the fire. Wait until his blood turns black, which means the wood has burned out.
, then attack it with water to win."
Gao Feng came up with another bad idea.
In fact, Chen Mu didn't think about fighting at all. He was pretending to be a ghost and just waiting for the east wind.
Little did they know that the Yellow Turbans started out by talking about ghosts and gods. The soldiers believed it, and the Taoist priests of Taiping Road even believed in Zhang Jiao as a god. They thought that Chen Mu was fighting with them, so they attacked themselves and knocked on the door.
Chen Mu originally wanted to delay the situation, but of course he didn't want this situation now. He wished that all the Yellow Turban soldiers would huddle in the barracks and watch them dance their swords for fun.
Bo Cai heard that there was nothing he could do or do now, so he could only order the soldiers to wait quietly.
The officers and soldiers in Changshe City here saw the Taoist priests on the opposite altar running away as soon as their shields were erected, not daring to continue practicing. They immediately cheered and shouted loudly.
The yellow scarf soldiers over there discovered that Gao Feng had left the altar and returned. They also understood that they had lost the battle today, so they had to pretend to be deaf and mute and return in anger.
In today's battle of wits, Changshe City won again.
The Yellow Turban Army Camp hung a no-war sign, and Gao Fenglian and others did not dare to come to the stage for three days to practice law. Changshe City was cheering and making noise every day, making the Yellow Turban Army Camp full of complaints. I did not understand that they were dignified Taiping Dao Celestial Masters (the word Celestial Master comes from Zhuangzi Xu
"Wu Gui") was defeated by the imperial court and his morale dropped a lot again.
But on the fourth day, which was the sixth day when the battle began, the Yellow Turbans finally made new moves.
Gao Feng saw that the black dog's blood had completely dried up, because the blood stains had turned black and soaked into the wooden board, dyeing the entire board black, like a piece of burnt rotten wood. He couldn't help stroking his beard and laughing, and said to Bo Cai: "That wood has all burned
At the end of the day, it’s time for our water attack.”
Bo Cai asked cautiously: "What if after our water attack, they put up fire and wood shields again?"
Gao Feng sneered and said: "Every method can only be used once. If you use the same method again, it will fail. In this way, their sacrifice will completely fail, which will anger God and bring disaster to them. If the Taoist on the tower is smart, how could it be possible?
Will you continue to do this?"
"I see."
Bo Cai was overjoyed, and according to Gao Feng's previous instructions, he asked the soldiers to bring a huge water basin and place it under the altar.
The water surface sparkled in the sunlight and actually reflected on the wooden board, as if it was washing away the wooden board.
Seeing this scene, Huangfu Song asked Chen Mu: "What kind of magic is this?"
Chen Mu thought for a moment and said, "This is the art of water attack."
"How to fight the enemy?"
"As the saying goes, when water comes and earth comes to cover it, we should build a mound of earth at the gate of the city."
"Okay, I'll tell the soldiers to do it now."
"No, after today's Yellow Turban water attack, our army's momentum has dropped, and the enemy's momentum has increased greatly. Once they get out of the city fortress, they will definitely attack. It's better to wait until midnight when no one is around to make any calculations."
Chen Mu quickly stopped him.
He doesn't want to fight several times a day. It's better to fight once a day or once every few days. This will make it easier to delay time.
Huangfu Song didn't understand these gods, but he believed that he had seen the two sides fighting for several days, and this day was not far behind. He nodded and said: "Okay, I listen to you, then we won't do it today, and we will talk about it at night."
The two sides cast spells in the air, fighting wits and courage with the air, which makes people lose their wits.