Chapter 403 Si Xingfang's Soul-Retention Technique

Chapter 403 Si Xingfang's Soul-Retention Technique

In Fang La, the "family world", according to the Manichaeism rules, religious believers at all levels must closely unite around the Fang family with Fang La as the core, take out their legal labor income, and selflessly devote themselves to those surnamed Fang to enjoy for generations... This led to the death of Sixingfang, no one in the water village dared to stand up and call themselves the leader and command the believers in the village to fight back - kidding, without the appointment of the leader, you will jump out by yourself. Do you think the world is not from the Fang family? Do you think you are not from the Fang family?

The attacks of Shi Chuan's army were very fierce, and one after another almost gave people a chance to breathe. The continuous sense of oppression made Fang La army have no time to discuss. The Fang La army formed an army based on the Mani doctrine. Faced with attacks carrying thunder, countless ignorant believers seemed to be even more terrifying than the "palm thunder" released by the "living gods" in the church.

It is indeed very terrifying. There is no fixed bullet point in the night. Whether standing by the wall of the village or deep in the water village, it is not safe. The shells may come with roar and flames anytime and anywhere. Fang La's believers did not dare to gather together, so they could only look for a hiding place like headless flies. In a panic, the believers did not care about the teachings of "selfless dedication". Some believers began to rob the village, preparing to grab some escape tools and quickly escape from the fire hell in front of them.

Of course, there are also some deadly members of the sect who have been brainwashed by the cult doctrines and become "brain idiots". Seeing that the building is about to collapse, the only thing that the sect needs them to selflessly contribute, so these people decided to give up their lives and climb up the wall to resist - basically, in several rounds of artillery fire, these idiots have been killed or killed.

At this moment, in the eyes of the Song army on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the offensive of the Haizhou army was as surging as the waves of the sea, one wave after another, leaving no room for people. After the warships were fired, the front line gradually advanced forward, and after the design of the large warships was completed, they no longer retreated. They approached the ship as close as possible to the riverside, anchored and fixed it, and treated themselves as a fixed turret, and bombarded the enemy troops on the shore with fierce artillery fire.

At the same time, the small boat of the Navy began to rush to the beach.

There seemed to be not many small boats on the beach. When Liu Zhen saw that the lights on the boat were not dense, he smacked his lips with regret: "Sure enough, the number of soldiers in Haizhou is not large, it was just a half-day battle. I wonder how many casualties are now?"

Tong Guan glanced at Liu Zhen with dissatisfaction and thought to himself: Come on, don’t take advantage and behave like a good person. How fierce these Haizhou soldiers are. What are you commanding a partial army? Why do you need so many people to do?

As the battle progressed, the number of boats on the beach gradually increased. The lights on the south bank of the Yangtze River became denser and denser. Standing at Tong Guan's position, it was impossible to tell how many people jumped down from the boat in the darkness. The lights on the boat were occasionally covered by black shadows, making the lights appear flashing, as if a naughty child was blinking.

Tong Guan sighed in succession: "I didn't expect that they were really unwilling to give up. After suffering a loss, they had to get back the interest. They actually went to attack Fangla camp."

And he also captured this camp... If Tong Guan was braver and sent troops to cooperate, or he might just take advantage of the opportunity to attack Fang La Shui Army and take the opportunity to send troops to attack Fang La Shui Village, then the contribution of this battle would be all his Tong Guan.

When Tong Guan said this, he glanced at Liu Zhen, but Liu Zhen didn't feel any taste. He stroked his beard and said leisurely: "Yes, it's a strong army, but unfortunately there are fewer people."

Tong Guan turned his eyes in disappointment to the group of generals he brought from Shaanxi. Those generals really had a wink. They looked at each other, but because they were not good at showing up, they turned their eyes to the third general on Helan Huang Road, Quan Zhigong Gongzhou Ningyuan Village, Wang Yuan's men prepared to be the general Han Shizhong. Han Shizhong had long been unable to hold it in, and immediately jumped out as soon as he was suggested, and worshiped Liu Zhen with a big gift - the Song people said "I sang a fat promise"

"Mr. Liu, there is no organized resistance on the other side. There is no objection to the Haizhou soldiers taking over the opposite water camp. However, there are only a thousand soldiers in Haizhou. Once they take over the water camp, they will be prepared to face the siege of Fang La's army. Fang Qifo, a powerful general under Fang La, has just killed the famous Southeast general Guo Shizhong, and is leading a 400,000 army to show off his power in Xiuzhou. Although the Haizhou soldiers are brave, the thousand soldiers are fighting for 400,000, and they may not be able to stand firm. Therefore, the last general will ask to bring a team of people across the river to reinforce Haizhou soldiers, and ask the eldest master for permission."

Liu Zhen woke up as if he was dreaming. He just discussed and decided: the soldiers of Haizhou were under his command. So Han Shizhong wanted to ask him for permission. But Liu Zhen thought for a while and felt a little embarrassed: the person who led the army on the other side was a county chief clerk, who was only half a level shorter than the magistrate, and he came from Haizhou to reinforce, so it was not easy to win. How could he allow others to grab the credit? This chief clerk was a famous petty scruple.

Liu Zhen pondered, thinking about the words of rejection in his head: "Shi Changqing, I have heard that he once sang to King Zhao Shixia of Yan. It is said that he also compiled four female learning textbooks. He was born in the Shi family of Jiaxing. He is now a juren. If he had not been urgently assigned by Lord Zhang to lead the Haizhou soldiers to fight, he would have been waiting for the palace examination in the capital...

In order to fight this time, Shi Changqing didn't even care about his status as a Jinshi. In terms of talent and knowledge, it might be easy for him to take the Jinshi as a watch on his palm. Now, he is willing to put down the palace examination and come to fight, because one is because Jiaxing was trapped in the enemy and was planning to rescue him. Secondly, this military achievement was also his favorite..."

Liu Zhen then said a lot of reasons, and the meaning of shirking was very obvious. After his disturbance, everyone woke up like a dream and suddenly realized. Then he remembered that the person fighting on the other side had a famous scruple... Next, Liu Zhen's words no longer caused everyone's resistance. Liu Zhen continued to add: "Does it need reinforcements of Haizhou soldiers... It seems that we should wait for Shi Changqing to make a request by himself to avoid the conflict between the two armies. Cough cough, how about it?"

Tong Guan pondered for a moment, immediately lowered his voice and reminded softly: "Shi Changqing seems to be a man of military intelligence. He can seize the opportunity and easily capture the opposite water army camp. His vision is poisonous, but I think that even if he has the courage of a god and Buddha, he will not dare to bring a thousand people to provoke Fang La's million-strong army on the other side... Liu Magistrate, you'd better prepare. When Shi Changqing stabilizes his position, I guess he will come to ask for help soon."

These words disappointed the generals a little.

Tong Guan’s words mean: After the Haizhou soldiers cleaned the battlefield, they would let other troops go to assist in defense - after cleaning the battlefield? Everyone was training troops. When they went to the battlefield, the court did not pay any salary. They all counted on the harvest of hunting on their own swords and guns. The Haizhou soldiers saw the extremely fierceness. If they cleaned the battlefield, what soup would they be left? At that time, would anyone dare to go to the Haizhou soldiers to grab food?

He was ready to try Han Shizhong, but he bowed to Liu Zhen again and said earnestly: "Mr. Liu, I will organize the team overnight. If the soldiers under Mr. Liu are unable to assemble for a while, I will be on standby at any time."

Liu Zhen led the "unity army". The word "unity" came from the Song Dynasty. It refers to the "school review and training within the organization" of the imperial court. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), the imperial court stipulated that "the southeastern road united the army as thirteen generals, Huainan East Road first, West Road second, Liangzhe West Road third, East Road fourth, Jiangnan East Road fifth, West Road sixth, Jinghu North Road seventh, South Road eighth, Quan, Shao, Yongzhou Preparation Guangxi Response Army ninth, Fujian Road tenth, Guangnan East Road eleventh, West Road eleventh, Guizhou West Road twelfth, Yongzhou West Road thirteenth."

Since then, the organization of the Unity Soldiers continued until the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the Song people sorted the Unity Soldiers into songs and songs. Guo Shizhong, a famous southeast general who was killed in the hands of Fang Qifo, was the Unity Soldiers "the third general in the western route of Liangzhe". After Guo Shizhong's death, there were no generals in the southeast. Although Liu Zhen had about 20,000 Unity Soldiers in Linlin, judging from the performance of this civil servant just now, this guy didn't understand military affairs at all. It was almost impossible to expect him to organize his team overnight, complete the crossing of the river and reinforce the Haizhou soldiers.

The general of Fuzhou Town, who commanded the Jinxi vassal army, blinked in anger - he was the subordinate of Liu Zhen, and Han Shizhong was like robbing food in his bowl... However, the cavalry was not good at defending the city, and the Sunan River on the other side of the river was dense and not suitable for cavalry to run. If you really want to fight, the non-combat reduction of cavalry must be very powerful. Shizhan Changqing cleaned the battlefield, and it was a harvest... So Zhe Keqiu just frowned and didn't speak again.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the remaining battles were no longer worth watching - while everyone was talking, the leader of the Haizhou soldiers who came down from the boat bombarded the guards with dense thunderbolt bombs, and the continuous explosions were made, just to let everyone glance at the other side at will, and then everyone continued to discuss... how to attack.

Only Han Shizhong was still paying attention to the battle situation on the south bank. He was prepared to be the general, but he couldn't get into the official occasion, so he had to pay attention to the attack situation of the Haizhou soldiers. Next, the second wave of the Haizhou soldiers robbed the beach, and soon, the wall of the village collapsed, and the soldiers attacked in depth along the gap with smoke and fire. Immediately afterwards, the warships of the Haizhou soldiers lit up bright lamp posts and illuminated the sea surface, and the warships carefully bypassed the collapsed wall and entered the depths of the water village. Since this water village can be parked in the building boat, the fast sailboats they were wearing would enter the water village boldly.

As Haizhou soldiers and warships sailed into Fangla Water Village one by one, the river surface also returned to darkness. Only the depths of Fangla Water Village came from time to time, and one or two thunders and flames jumped. In addition, there was a crisp sound like a bean-burning sound...

There is no scenery to see, who is still staying on the river to eat the wind? Tong Guan led the way and walked towards his tent with big strides. Next, the generals went back to their own houses, pillowing their own pillows, and listening to the faint thunder sound of the river wind - the thunder kept ringing all night.

At dawn, Shi Chuan was already sitting in the central army tent of Sixingfang (Director Fang), and leisurely observed the central army tent.

The luxurious decoration of this central army tent is even dumbfounded when I always pursue enjoyment. The outer edge of the tent is actually surrounded by red brocade, and these are all high-quality brocades, with very thick and full dyes. The brocades used in the entire tent are roughly from the same batch, with very uniform colors and integrated, giving people a very dazzling feeling.

"It's really an outbreak." Shideng was just sighing before he even made a payment. He used brocade to make a tent surface - this kind of luxury Shideng couldn't even think about it, not because he couldn't afford so much silk, but because it was not worth it. Silk is a very breathable fabric. In summer, people feel cool when wearing it; in winter, in such a cold season, sitting in a large silk tent is no different from sitting naked in the wild.

However, Director Fang obviously knew the cold and warm, and he was also afraid of the cold - the big tent was covered with a whole circle of scarlet Persian carpets, making the tent warm.

In fact, at this time, Persian carpets were called "Arabic carpets". Later, this kind of high-quality carpet was called Turkish carpets. At that time, Persia had fallen into its country and there was no "big food" since then. However, the Song people are used to calling this kind of carpets "big food mats", or "big food mats", "big food lichens", etc.

The best Turkish carpet is woven with donkey wool. If you step on it, the soft carpet can sink your feet to your ankles. This kind of carpet cannot be used by wealthy people. The number of "lichens" imported from the sea trade every year is very small. About "Director Fang" collected all the carpets from the wealthy people in Hangzhou. Not only are there carpets on the four walls of the tent, but the carpets are laid on the ground and on the bed - the most expensive carpet in the world.

"Director Fang" seems to have a bit of a collectible, but his collection area is small - he only likes gold and silver things. Therefore, the small decorations in the tent are basically yellow and silver. Occasionally, there are a few jade pieces, but none of them belong to antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

Judging from the name of "Si Xingfang", this person seems to have little cultural cells, so he doesn't like antiques, so he likes cash - even his seat is made of gold. Under the lights in the tent, the surrounding gold is shaking, which makes people unable to open their eyes. It is hard to imagine how Si Xingfang sat in such a dazzling tent and handles official duties. Oh... "Si Xingfang" does not read books, and there is no memorial or text report in the tent.

The lights in the camp came from countless golden lamps on the ground. The arrangement of these golden lamps is very strange, and it seems to be arranged according to the location of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gangs. This arrangement is really not suitable for reading, because the lights in some places cannot be illuminated at all, while in some places the lights are very concentrated, and the flames are roasted, making people unable to sit still.

Shi Chuan stood at the entrance of the tent, wrinkled and looked at the lights on the ground, Ling Fei bumped into him, glanced at the scene in the account, and immediately cheered: "I'm getting rich, now all the shells fired can be regained... Master, I have taken over the warehouse of the Sixingfang, which was robbed in a mess. But the things inside were even more messy, everything was complete - women's jewelry, children's dolls, and even some old clothes for men and women... This Sixingfang really doesn't ban the price, he wants everything."

Shi Chuan was still staring at the thirty-six Tiangang lamps underground and slowly replied: "This Sixingfang probably used to pick up rags."

Ling Fei nodded and said, "That's right, the clothes and shoes in the warehouse are all old goods, as if they were just taken off from their bodies not long ago."

Shit wearing a light under his feet and replied: "Oh, probably, the original owners of those clothes and shoes are all there now."

Ling Fei was also a man in the world. When he saw the strange lights, he was immediately surprised: "Is it... Si Xingfang able to do anything to restrain his soul? He killed those people and imprisoned his soul in these thirty-six lamps?"

Shi Chuan smiled disapprovingly: "Dog shit's 'soul-retaining means'. A ritual circulated in Fang La's religion. This ritual requires the use of fat in the human body to burn the lamp (speaked by Lu You)... Do you know what is burning in the lamp? It's that thing. Fang La killed all the people in Hangzhou, and cut off the fat in his body to make the lamp...

According to those merchants who escaped from Hangzhou, Fang La captured Hangzhou and carried out more than a month of robbery. After robbing, he set fire to Hangzhou City. After a full month, the fat on the streets melted into a small river. "(Hangzhou) was trapped. Chen Jian, the commander of the regime, and Zhao Yue, the commander of Lianwen, and the deceased were in danger of setting fire for six days. The dead were invisible... Anyone who gets rich officials must cut off the body, explore their lungs and intestines, boil them with ointment, prepare all the poison of Chu to compensate for their resentment."

About Fang La used the entire Hangzhou as his temple to practice Mani magic... Haha, if the people of Hangzhou, especially those descendants of those who were massacred by Fang La, have been deeply missing Fang La for thousands of years from now on, do you believe it?... Oh, as for whether you believe it or not, it will be up to you."

Ling Fei shivered: "Huh-Master, don't say whether you miss it or not, I just feel panicked...Master, if you want to remove these lights, are there any taboos?"

Shi Chuan smiled: "There is no taboo, I'm just worried that I'll kick over these lights and ruin these precious carpets."

Ling Fei thought for a moment and immediately suggested: "Master, we have to do this quietly, so that we can know that these carpets were used by Fang La to lay altars and use evil magic. I am afraid that they will not be sold for a good price."

After pausing, Ling Fei shook his head and said, "Master, the disciples are timid and do not dare to extend their hands in this matter. I believe those soldiers dare not extend their hands. In this matter, the master must do it himself, and he cannot make a sound everywhere... Master, hurry up, get rid of these lights."

"You will be lazy..." Shi Chuan laughed and cursed, holding up the golden lamp casually, and asked, "Who will be the soldiers who will command you when you are back?"

Ling Fei replied casually: "Lin Chong is here. After getting ashore, my artillery team had nothing to do. I asked them to take care of the treasury and ran to meet the master - this is the first time we have encountered a big battle."

Shi Chuan thought about it and immediately ordered: "Send a few small boats to quickly pick up Xu Ning and his logistics team, and ask them to start counting the prisoners, calculate the spoils, and distribute rewards - the hands and feet should be faster. The camp we have to seize will try to move away before Tong Guan crosses the river."

Ling Fei nodded, and then quietly accompanied the master out of the military account. He saw that the master poured out the lamp oil outside the account and turned off the lights. He replied casually: "It's okay, Master, now we have no rivals on the river. We can walk across the river. Let's just hire civilian boats, transfer people to Tongzhou first, and then identify them... Oh, in fact, it's nothing if you don't identify them. Tongzhou Water Village alone requires a large amount of manpower to build, and we are only responsible for supplying food."

Shi Chuan thought about it and immediately said: "Only business does not last long, you cannot eat alone - 150,000 people on the north bank of the river are eyeing me. We are too unique and will be jealous of 150,000 people..."
Chapter completed!