The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 1852 What is the Immortal Mountain?

Since they had agreed on the meeting time and place in advance, Feng Jiuxiao, Pang Shiwu, Bigwof, and Zeng Yong had already washed up when the sky just turned light, and they all gathered in an inner courtyard of the palace.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they entered the door, they found that Du Ruhui had been waiting there!

There were thirty fully armed soldiers standing beside him! Each of them was fierce and murderous, and one could tell at a glance that they were veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles! Feng Jiuxiao had even guessed who they were!

Feng Jiuxiao smiled and asked, "You got up so early?"

Du Ruhui smiled and said, "I'm used to it. I can't sleep at night!"

Feng Jiuxiao said with a hint of sarcasm: "Can't you sleep at night? You chase people and fight them during the day, and you have to think about how to continue fighting tomorrow at night, right?" He actually wanted to praise Du Ruhui and his men for their hard work in the battle. The words of the deputy envoy obviously touched the infantry, and they were all moved!

Du Ruhui also seemed to have found a soulmate, and immediately began to complain: "Yes, sir, not only do we have to study how to encircle and suppress the remaining soldiers of Dashu the next day, but we also have to worry about our safety at night!

"Oh? It's not safe at night? Do they dare to attack you?"

"Yes, sir. Marching and fighting are different from fighting between martial arts masters. When fighting between martial arts masters, they still follow the rules of the rivers and lakes, using swords and guns openly, and they also follow the rules of stopping when they come and go! When these two armies fight, they don't follow any rules at all. It is said that all is fair in war, and they can encounter any tricks. When we were chasing the remnants of the Great Shu some time ago, they ran desperately during the day, and at night they came to attack, set fire, poisoned, shot cold arrows, sprinkled lime, and even set off firecrackers! We either dared not sleep or couldn't sleep, we were almost crazy!"

Pang Shiwu said: "Then you should sleep during the day and hunt at night!"

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly and said, "Young Master Pang, you are joking! We have done this before. But when you sleep during the day, they come to harass you during the day! They break up into small groups and fight guerrilla warfare with us. They are more flexible than us! As soon as we attack, they retreat. As soon as we rest, they attack. They don't give us any time to rest at all! In the end, most of us can only stay in the camp, and then send spies every day to find out the location of their main force. As long as we can eliminate their main force, the remaining small groups of stragglers are actually nothing to be afraid of. The reason why we are so scared when they send dozens of people to harass us is not because their main force has been eyeing the surrounding area and waiting for an opportunity to move, right?"

Feng Jiuxiao asked: "How did you deal with the main forces of Dashu later?"

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, it was all thanks to these veterans under my command that this was solved!"

"Oh? What happened? Did one of your old soldiers give you some advice?"

"Yes! Sir, do you know where the Northwest Wolf Soldiers, who were once at their peak of combat power, have gone?"

"They should have been dispersed to various armies of the Song Dynasty."

"Yes, as you know, the Northwest Wolf Soldiers were originally General Lian's troops. After General Lian rebelled and was killed, these Northwest Wolf Soldiers first joined the Zhou Dynasty and then the Song Dynasty! In order to prevent these Wolf Soldiers from becoming hidden dangers and causing trouble, the court kept dismantling them. In the end, there wasn't even a single Wolf Soldiers assigned to a battalion-level team!"

"Is it really that cruel? A hundred people make a city, five cities make a battalion, and there isn't even a single wolf soldier among the five hundred people... That's not right. In the past, at least tens of thousands of wolf soldiers returned to the Song Dynasty. If you calculate this way, doesn't it mean that the Song Dynasty has tens of thousands of battalion-level troops?"

"Ah? Really?"

Feng Jiuxiao looked at Du Ruhui with a half-smile, "Tell me the truth, is this just your own guess or did someone tell you?"

Du Ruhui was embarrassed to death!

"This... is just my blind guess!"

Feng Jiuxiao smiled and said, "I know what you want to say! You want to tell me that each barracks is assigned very few wolf soldiers, but you have a lot of wolf soldiers, so you are very lucky and very proud, right?"

Du Ruhui was stunned!

Most people can’t guess what I’m thinking!

But the Deputy Envoy is not an ordinary person!

He nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, yes! Right, right!"

Feng Jiuxiao smiled and said, "Then how many wolf soldiers do you have?" His eyes lightly swept over the thirty arrogant and fierce soldiers!

Du Ruhui straightened his back and shouted, "Thirty-six! These are them!" He pointed to the infantrymen around him.

Thirty Northwest Wolf Soldiers clasped their fists towards Feng Jiuxiao at the same time and said, "Greetings, Deputy Envoy!" Thirty murderous and fierce soldiers shouted in unison, with a force like thunder!

Feng Jiuxiao also clasped his fists and said, "Hello everyone! How have you been lately?"

Thirty brave soldiers said in unison: "Okay!"

Almost at the same time, everyone recalled the glorious days when they had fought side by side in the past, and their blood boiled!

Feng Jiuxiao hummed, "Okay!" But this was not the time to reminisce. He turned to Du Ruhui and said, "So you mean, there is not a single wolf soldier in the other team of 500 people, but there are 36 in your team of 100 people. You are just lucky?"

"Haha, please stop making fun of me, sir!"

"Go on."

"what?"

"Go on, tell me how we dealt with the main force of the Shu Army!"

"Oh, yes. One day, a few wolf soldiers came to me and said I was too effeminate. I got angry and asked them what right they had to say I was a effeminate?"

"Haha, they dare to call you a woman? It seems they are quite courageous!"

At this time, a wolf soldier said with a stiff face: "Your Excellency, you don't know that General Du loves his soldiers like his own sons and treats us brothers like his own hands, so we dare to go straight with him!"

Feng Jiuxiao said with a smile: "Are you father and son, or brothers? Haha, don't be nervous, I'm just joking. I can see that you have a good relationship. What happened next?"

Du Ruhui continued, "They said my method was too conservative and that if I continued like this, I would just passively take the beating! When I saw their eyes turn red, I thought this was bad, it had finally aroused their wolf nature!

I was afraid they would do something reckless, so I asked them what they could do. They said those remaining soldiers of the Great Shu were just engaging in guerrilla warfare. They were sure we would take a break, so they would come to harass us. So why don't we just not take a break? We should just fight them to the end! Let's see who can beat the other!

I said, "Okay, I wanted you to have a good rest because I was afraid you would be tired. Since you called me a sissy, let's be manly for once. No one will sleep this time. Whoever sleeps is a sissy! I ordered the whole army to attack! I divided the enemy's approximate activity range into countless grids according to the map. Each soldier is responsible for one area. No one is allowed to come back until the enemy's main force is found! Whoever finds the enemy's main force must immediately send out a fireworks signal, and the rest must immediately assemble at the signal sending area. Violators will be punished by military law!

Then we searched for a whole day and night and finally found the enemy's main force, and wiped them out in half a day!"

"After the victory, you will stay to defend the city, while the rest of the Song army will continue to hunt down the remaining remnants of the enemy?"

"Yes!"

"Who leads the troops?"

"Liu Chengen! He is the leader and I am the deputy. Of course he will not let me have the chance to accumulate military merit by beheading people!"

"How many people are there in the remaining main force of Dashu that you just mentioned?"

"To call them the main force is actually only relative to those ten or eight scattered soldiers. The number of soldiers is not that large. The largest number is no more than 700 or 800, and the smallest number is about 300 to 500. Anyway, they are all defeated Shu troops, so they are not that many."

"Don't underestimate these three or five hundred people! Sometimes three or five hundred people can change the course of the entire battle! I didn't expect that there were so many defeated Shu troops! You did a great job!"

"Thank you for the compliment, sir!"

"Well, are the horses ready? If they are, let's set off now!" "Already ready, right in front, sir!"

Ta-da-da-da-da... With the sound of horse hooves, a group of more than thirty riders galloped out of Guanzhou City in a mighty manner!

Du Ruhui and Feng Jiuxiao rode side by side in the front.

"Sir, I heard from the people here that Qingcheng Mountain is one of the ten great caves, one of the four famous Taoist mountains, and one of the five great immortal mountains. I was really shocked. I asked them which of the other ten great caves were, and they all said they didn't know! When talking about others, they knew nothing, but when talking about themselves, they talked about how great they were here and there. Sir, don't you think they are just trying to make themselves look good - shameless?"

Feng Jiuxiao knew that Du Ruhui was just trying to get closer to him, so he admired this general who loved his soldiers like his own sons. He smiled and said, "They are not flattering! What they said is all right! Let me tell you, the ten great caves are: the first is the Xiaoyou Qingxu Heaven in Wangwu Cave, the second is the Dayou Kongming Heaven in Weiyu Cave, the third is the Taixuan Zongzhen Heaven in Xicheng Cave, the fourth is the Sanyuan Jizhen Heaven in Xixuan Cave, the fifth is the Qingcheng Cave, also called the Nine Chambers Heaven of Treasure Immortals, the sixth is the Ziyu Qingping Heaven in Chicheng Cave, the seventh is the Zhuming Yaozhen Heaven in Luofu Cave, the eighth is the Huayang Heaven in Juqu Cave, the ninth is the Zuoshen Youxu Heaven in Linwu Cave, and the tenth is the Chengde Yinxuan Heaven in Kuacang Cave."

"Ah? Your Excellency is really... really well-read and has a photographic memory!"

"Speaking of these four famous Taoist mountains, you already know at least two of them!"

"Ah? I know two?" Du Ruhui's eyes flashed, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "I know, Longhu Mountain and Qingcheng Mountain!" He started his journey from Longhu Mountain, and now he is talking about Qingcheng Mountain, so which two mountains could it be if not these two?

"General Du is indeed very smart! The other two are Wudang Mountain and Qiyun Mountain!"

"I've heard of Mount Wudang, it seems to be in Junzhou, but I've never heard of Mount Qiyun!"

"Qiyun Mountain is in Huizhou."

"Oh."

"As for the five great immortal mountains, you already know four of them!"

Du Ruhui's eyes lit up, "Wudang Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Qiyun Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain!"

Feng Jiuxiao gave a thumbs up, "Not bad!"

Du Ruhui asked, "Is the remaining mountain Laoshan?"

Feng Jiuxiao shook his head, "Why did you guess it was Laoshan?"

Du Ruhui scratched his head and said, "I think the Taoist priests of Mount Lao are very famous, haha. Is that Mount Mao?"

Feng Jiuxiao shook his head again, "A mountain is not famous because of its height, but because of the immortals living there! It can be called a fairy mountain, but it is not called a fairy mountain just because there are a few Taoists living there! The last fairy mountain is Jingfu Mountain!"

"Jingfu Mountain? Never heard of it?"

"General Du, what do you mean by a fairy mountain?"

"Well, it's named after the immortals. Does that mean that a mountain that has immortals enshrined on it is called a fairy mountain? No, no, there are many mountains that enshrine immortals. They can be called the Five Great Fairy Mountains. This..."

"What you said is actually correct. If there are immortals, then there is a name. Naturally, there must be immortals on the mountain! First of all, the 'immortals' in 'if there are immortals, then there is a name' are not ordinary immortals. They must have a very high status in Taoism! Ordinary immortals will not do! Secondly, what does the word 'have' in 'if there are immortals, then there is a name' mean? To put it bluntly, there must be a close connection between this mountain and this immortal! This mountain is either the immortal's Taoist temple, or the immortal's ascension place, or the immortal's residence and alchemy place. In short, there must be a connection and it must be close. At the same time, the main gods worshipped on the mountain must also be them! For example, Wudang Mountain worships the Great Emperor Zhenwu Dangmo, Qingcheng Mountain worships the Heavenly Lord of Daode, Jingfu Mountain worships the Jade Emperor Haotian, Longhu Mountain worships the Heavenly Lord of Jiangmo Hudao, and Qiyun Mountain worships the Heavenly Lord of Guangyuan Pudu!"

Du Ruhui nodded repeatedly, "Thank you for your advice!"

More than thirty riders galloped at lightning speed and soon saw Cuiyue Lake in the distance.

On the other side of the lake, there is a mountain that looks like a city wall, hence the name Qingcheng. Qingcheng Mountain is about 20 miles away from here.

Feng Jiuxiao looked at the green mountains in the distance and sighed: "It is said that Qingcheng Mountain has thousands of steps and winding paths, which can be called a paradise on earth. After we are done here, let's go to Qingcheng Mountain!"

When they were thirty feet away from the lake, all the horses automatically stopped, as if there was some invisible danger ahead!

Everyone had no choice but to dismount and tie the horses to trees.

Feng Jiuxiao looked intently, and saw the vast expanse of Cuiyue Lake in front of him, sparkling and clear, with nothing unusual. Could it be that the horse's spirituality had surpassed his own?

The lake is very large, with undulating mountains almost all around its edge. The nearby mountains are densely wooded and it is hard to see if there are any houses. However, there are a few dilapidated fishing boats stranded on the shore, indicating that someone has fished here before.

Du Ruhui pointed at the broken boats and said, "Since the water monster appeared, no one has been fishing here for a long time. After we entered the city, many people came to us, hoping that we could get rid of the evil for them. In fact, at the beginning I even suspected that those people were deliberately luring us into a trap, I ignored them, and then a few old ladies knelt in front of me and said that their men and sons were all gone, crying very sadly, I began to believe them a little, so I sent people to inquire, and later I heard that there was indeed a water monster here."

Pang Shiwu asked, "Is there a village nearby?"

Du Ruhui said, "Yes. It's behind this mountain. In fact, there are several families on this mountain. Their houses are right there, but the trees are too dense and blocked, so you can't see them. The people around here mainly make a living by raising silkworms, fishing, chopping wood, and hunting. This is basically mountainous land with many slopes, and it's difficult to grow food, so fishing is one of their main sources of livelihood. I heard from them that there are many kinds of fish in this lake, and they often use some precious fish to exchange for food and vegetables in the city. If there is a water monster in this lake, it's equivalent to cutting off their livelihood!"

Feng Jiuxiao looked at the tearful lake, closed his eyes, and began to sense the situation within a radius of dozens of feet at the bottom of the lake.

The spiritual power spread to the bottom of the lake, and I saw all kinds of fish of different sizes swimming freely. The dense water plants at the bottom of the lake were swaying back and forth. There were also several sunken ships and... a few skeletons...

Feng Jiuxiao suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the broken ships, and then walked over.

"Sir, that boat is no longer usable. It will sink if we go aboard."

"Of course you will sink to the bottom if you go up there, I will go up there myself."

"You... go alone? That's... too dangerous!"

"How about you go?"

"Well... hehe... sir... you are joking. If I go up there... won't I just be a big bait?"

"Haha, bait, great! It looks like that guy won't come out without bait! Let me be the bait!"

Feng Jiuxiao walked to the rotten boat and suddenly frowned and said: "Strange!"

Pang Shiwu came over and asked, "Brother, what's so strange?"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "The fish resources under the water are very rich. There are also many large fish weighing dozens of kilograms. Isn't that enough for it to eat? Why does it have to eat humans?"

Thank you Yudong for your strong support and encouragement!