Legend of the Demon Emperor of Kyushu

Chapter 90 The Night before the Storm (1)

Every child deserves to go home before the storm arrives.

On Mount Chongwu, Le Zhong and Lian Hongye had a bloody battle overnight, until the cold moon turned pale and the vegetation was turned into ashes. Hong Ye fled all the way to Xueling.

The Gale Department of the barbarian clan dug three feet on the mountain, but they couldn't find the target in the end. When the apparition technique reappeared, they were already hundreds of miles away. The patriarch Pan Gula was furious, and led ten thousand people, and then went to Xueling to kill him again. Come.

Le Zhong first came to the vast snow mountain, but the expected army did not see him, and Lian Hongye led him into the cave.Le Zhong was confused, and asked why this was so?
Lian Hongye smiled: "Elder, our soldiers are in this mountain."

Le Zhong followed Lian Hongye to grope in the deep and dark cave. After walking for a long time, he actually saw the light of fire.It turned out that the second guard guarded every corner of the cave with a torch.

The two turned and turned eight times, and finally came to a huge hollow, with torches coiled around the walls, and the vision was suddenly bright. The second guard and thousands of people from Chivalry Road were all guarding inside the cave, performing military drills, seeing the second leader Come back, needless to say the surprise.

Le Zhong looked at the huge hole again, and his shock still persisted: "So it's not a big tomb inside, is it?"

Lian Hongye said: "No. The ancestors of Xueling are good at digging rocks and opening holes. They have lived in caves since ancient times. They didn't go to the earth until Gonggong smashed the sky pillar. Therefore, there are so many caves in Xueling. Tonglian, these tunnels are the relics left by them. In addition, our country has been digging mountains and mining for hundreds of years, which has created this boundary."

Le Zhong understood it, and first met with Chivalry's subordinates, and the count was all right, looking at the second guard, there were 2000 more people than before, he couldn't help being surprised again.

Lian Hongye had no choice but to continue explaining that this was his soldier who had originally stayed in Xueling.According to past practice, the second guard will guard the main mountain passes at the foot of Xueling in winter to resist the invasion of barbarians.

But this year, because he was ordered to return to Hanye City by Baicheng Jiong, the Marquis of Ju State, and because there were too many barbarians coming, he was unstoppable. Before returning, he secretly ordered the commander-in-chief Sun Yong and Xue Xin to hide in the city with 2000 people and military supplies. Snow Ridge mountainside.

He planned to wait until the horse bandits were exhausted and fled back to Qianzhou, and then let the two of them guard the mountain pass to intercept them, and set up their own troops to go north, so as to double-team back and forth, eliminate as many horse bandits as possible, and regain supplies.

Now the situation has changed, not only did the ambush soldiers not come out to stop the attack, but the second guards and horses also hid in, and the grain stored in the mountains was only enough to cover another ten days.

Le Zhong looked around with emotion, the five to six thousand people in the cave were undoubtedly the most powerful military force in the Northern Kingdom today.It is also Ju State's only one-stop strength against the barbarian Gale Department.

After that, Lian Hongye gathered the generals to discuss the situation of the war, and finally formulated a strategy of relying on terrain and fighting barbarian guerrillas.

Because Lian Hongye himself was under the "Spell of Appearing from a Thousand Miles", he couldn't hide his location. In the next few days, he shuttled back and forth in countless caves in the snowy mountains, luring the barbarians to pursue them, and setting traps to catch them all.

After the barbarians arrived, they immediately launched the "Mountain Search" operation. In a few days, the swords and halberds of the second guard and the sabers of the Gale Department broke out on the snowy ridge. Countless life and death fights broke out.

Le Zhong, on the other hand, stayed in the belly of the mountain to recuperate due to the exhaustion of the Chongwu battle. He sent all his subordinates to cooperate with Lian Hongye in killing the enemy, leaving only his confidant "Beiyue Condor" Lin Hongyu to take care of him.

After a few days of meditation like this, Le Zhong felt that his physical strength had almost recovered, so he regained his composure and asked Lin Hongyu next to him about the recent battle situation.

The 30-year-old middle-aged man replied worriedly: "Elder, the King of Hades just came to talk to me about the situation of the war. According to him, the barbarians in Ganzhou are indeed as rumored, and they are the army with the strongest individual combat capability in Kyushu. .

Relying on the favorable location, our people maximized the advantages of martial arts, but we could only keep the casualties on par with them.

But there are more than ten thousand of them, and we cannot afford to consume them.None of the brothers had much confidence in the prospect of this war. "

Le Zhong knew that the "King of Hades" that Lin Hongyu was talking about was Cheng Ba, one of the leaders outside commanding chivalrous operations, "Fire Hades" Cheng Ba, and Lin Hongyu and "Dragon Spear" Yue Cheng were his most trusted subordinates.So he nodded and said, "Call Cheng Ba, I'll listen to him explain in detail."

Lin Hongyu took the order to go out, and after a while, he brought back a giant man who looked like a hill. This giant man had a bald head.As soon as he entered the stone room, a thunderous voice yelled happily: "Elder, are you in good health?"

"It's all right."

Cheng Badao: "That's good, brothers are looking forward to you, elder, coming out of the mountain as soon as possible. Alas, it's a pity that many brothers didn't wait to see you."

Le Zhong said: "You can't support the backbone? What's going on outside, tell me carefully."

Cheng Ba hastened to report all the recent war situation, and said that more than 50 brothers were killed or killed in the first battle yesterday, especially gritted his teeth.

Le Zhong listened, only nodded slightly in the middle.

At the end of Cheng Ba's speech, he looked bitter, and said: "Elder, my subordinates are worried that this will continue, and we are just waiting to die!"

"Do you not trust General Lian?" Le Zhong asked back.

"Old Cheng doesn't dare. But, Elder, when we started our chivalrous way, we only said that we would help the country of Ju eliminate the horse thieves, but we didn't say that we were going to fight the army!"

Cheng Ba's expression was quite displeased: "Now we have a lot of brothers here. Of course, this is also considered to protect the family and the country. My old Cheng has no objection, but there must be hope of winning, right?
On our side, the number of people, combat power, and warlock skills are all too far behind.General Lian is powerful, but he only has one person. Even if he is a great general, how can he fight this battle? "

Le Zhong waited for him to finish complaining, and asked, "Cheng Ba, are you afraid of death?"

When Cheng Ba heard it, his face flushed immediately: "Elder, how can you say that about me? Could I be that person who is greedy for life and afraid of death? I—"

"Elder," Lin Hongyu interjected at this moment: "From the perspective of the younger generation, what Cheng Ba is worried about is that this time our Chivalrous Dao has dispatched one-third of the whole sect. If there is a mistake here, I am afraid it will hurt the foundation of my Dao." .”

"Yes! Yes!" Cheng Ba said in surprise, "That's what I meant!"

Le Zhong nodded: "In this case, the old man asks you, Hong Yu, Cheng Ba, in your opinion, what is the foundation of our chivalrous existence?"

When Cheng Ba heard this, he turned his head and looked at Lin Hongyu.Lin Hongyu said: "The sages have a saying: if you enter the country and don't keep the scholars, the country will perish. [The words come out of "Mozi's relatives".] (Note [-]) The younger generation thinks that it is to save people."

Cheng Ba nodded again and again: "I am the same. Only when there are people can things be done."

Le Zhongdao: "People are the foundation, that's right. But our Chivalrous Dao has always advocated that we have the ambition of heaven, go to the fire and die without hesitation, it has never been a sect that spares lives, right? But we still exist today and continue to develop. "

"This..." Lin Hongyu hesitated: "This junior is stupid, please enlighten me, elder."

Le Zhong stood up, walked towards the torch, and said to the two of them: "Look, the old man has something falling on you now, what is it?"

When the two heard this, they hurriedly searched for clothes, but they were all very poor and couldn't find anything. After a while, Lin Hongyu came to his senses and said, "Could the elder mean the shadow?"

"Yes." Le Zhong admitted: "One person can't keep pressing on another person, but the shadow can. This shadow is like a person's reputation, and it is also the foundation of our chivalry."

"The juniors don't understand."

"Let's talk about something. Ten years ago, there was a rice shortage in Songzhou, and a large number of military grains and field grains were transported into official warehouses. Rich merchants hoarded grains again, and a large number of people starved to death.

Elder Peng Yuyue couldn't stand it, and led people to kill officials to open warehouses, rob the rich and save the poor. Later, he was assassinated on Yushan, and his body hung on the wall of Lianshi City for three months.

The conflict between farmers and wealthy businessmen in Songzhou was sharp because of this incident, and chaos was on the verge of breaking out. In order to implement his "non-aggression" concept, Xia Kui of the previous generation went to Songzhou by himself, and was chopped alive in Xianchi Kongfang City for three days before calming down. The anger of the merchants made the government stop its counterattack against the rioting people.

As a result, our power in Song and Ling prefectures has also been uprooted..."

"Elder, this matter is not that simple!" Lin Hongyu became excited all of a sudden, frightening Cheng Ba, only to hear him say hurriedly:
"I was in Songzhou that year! Elder Peng didn't want to cause trouble at first. On that day, we juniors followed him to see the full granaries in the city, and we went outside the city to see starving people everywhere.

I saw with my own eyes that Elder Peng vomited blood, knelt on the ground and cried, "What is our chivalrous ideal?"The strong do not oppress the weak, the many do not rob the few, the rich do not oppress the poor, the noble do not become arrogant, and the deceitful do not deceive the foolish. [Speaking from "Mozi·Jianai". ] (Note [-]) It’s not that there is no food now, they are lying to us, they are lying to us! '

Later, Elder Peng asked us to go to various states and lead the local farmers to revolt to seize grain. Half of the poor peasants in Songzhou were encouraged by us. Because of this incident, no less than a million people survived by grabbing grain!
So later, the merchants forced the government to come forward to kill the troublemakers, but there were too many people involved and implicated. After the government killed more than [-] people, they were worried about causing civil strife, so they wanted to stop, but under the pressure of the merchants, they let go. Do not under the knife.

We Xiakui just went over at this time, and used our own lives to do what the imperial court gave to the merchants, to stop the killing with our lives!

Before the execution, the wealthy businessman asked our leader if he was afraid of death by a thousand swords, Xia Kui also said:
'By waiting for food, you can fill the stomachs of the people, and you will be full with a knife, and the knife is fast'..."

"The result is the same." Le Zhong said lightly: "I don't want to blame Lao Peng, you don't have to be so excited. I want you to think about it. Since that day, the kings of Songzhou have never stopped looking for us. , wanting to drive us out of Songzhou, but how is our power in Songzhou now?"

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Note [-]: The words come from "Mozi Relatives".

Note [-]: The words come from "Mozi·Jianai".

(End of this chapter)