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Chapter 482 Shuanglong Temple

However, outside Laiwu City, Zengtou City's camp had been repaired for these days. Zeng Mi patrolled the camp every day with injuries, and morale gradually recovered. Zeng Mi went to Zhao Zhen's camp every day to beg Zhao Zhen to send troops to attack the city, but Zhao Zhen made excuses and refused to do so, insisting on waiting for reinforcements before he was willing to attack the city.

Zhao Zhen only trained his troops in the camp every day and dealt with the affairs of Liangshan and Yizhou. On this day, Zhao Zhen was having fun with Liu Hui Niang in the camp when he heard the guards come to report that Yang Xiong and Xue Yong were coming.

After calling the man into the camp and greeting him, Zhao Zhen asked, "Have you dealt with the coal mine?"

Yang Xiong said, "My lord, Shi Quanzhong is here to help, and the camp manager Cai Fu is able to look after the mines. Xue Yong and I will lead 2000 men and stay in Pingyi County as ordered. We will come here to take orders."

Zhao Zhen nodded, pointed at the big man behind the two men and asked, "Who is this strong man? I have never seen him before."

The man pushed the golden mountain and overturned the jade pillar, and bowed his head and said: "I am Li Zongtang. I heard that you are recruiting talents, so I came to seek refuge with you. I hope you will accept me."

"I've heard of your name. Is Wei Yangyin your junior fellow apprentice?" Zhao Zhen asked.

Li Zongtang replied: "That's right, I don't know how you talk about him."

"Why, you haven't seen him in Bai Shi Manor?" Zhao Zhen asked.

Li Zongtang said, "I have never been to Baishi Manor. I passed by Dulonggang Market. I had no money, so I had to set up a stall to perform. The patrol officer Zhu Gui saw me and saw that I was good at martial arts. He also heard that I came to seek refuge with you, so he wrote a letter and asked me to go to the state government to find Xiao Tongpan. It happened that Yang Xiong and Xue Yong were coming to see you, so I followed them."

Yang Xiong said: "No wonder you are so skilled in martial arts, it turns out you are Brother Commander Wei."

Yang Xiong then told Zhao Zhen how they had fought on the way here and how they had fought for fifty rounds without a clear winner. Zhao Zhen was overjoyed and asked Li Zongtang to stand up.

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Name: Li Zongtang (hero, tiger head and round eyes, eight feet tall, the reincarnation of General Zhongshan Zhenling, commander of the Fire Department of Baohua Leifu)

Nickname: None
Race: Terran

Reputation: 20 (slightly unknown)
Occupation: Hero

Secondary occupation: Hunter
Level: Level 4 and Level 5 (Strength 50, Commander 20)

Attributes: Strength 50, Constitution 50, Agility 39, Spirit 25
Skills: Mountain Climbing 4 levels (Mountain Walking, Agility +4), Hunting 3 levels (Lasso, Snare, Digging Traps, Proficient in Everything, Constitution +3), Archery 3 levels (Drawing Bow and Arrow, Strength +3)

Commander skills: Ambush level 2 (good at hiding in the mountains, waiting for the rabbit, morale +2), Fighting general level 1 (fighting generals in front of the battle, morale +1 if winning, morale -1 if losing)

Martial arts: Sword (minor success, using sword weapons to increase force +5, Seven-Force Mountain Splitting Sword Technique), Bow and Arrow (minor success, using bow and arrow weapons to increase force +5, heavy archery)
Equipment: Wind-throwing Chopping Blade
Zhao Zhen said to Li Zongtang: "Since you are here, you should obey my orders in the army."

Li Zongtang quickly responded.

Zhao Zhen then said to Yang Xiong and the other two, "I asked you two to lead the troops to Yizhou, but not to encircle and suppress Laiwu Prison. Yizhou's magistrate Kong Hou reported that there is a Red Flower Valley between Pingyi and Feixian. In the valley there is a Shuanglong Temple. Recently, a group of monks and Taoists have arrived and are living together there. This group of people are not monks. They lead their followers to occupy the temple, pretending to be monks, but secretly committing crimes such as setting fires in high winds and killing people in the dark of the moon."

"Originally, we didn't need you two, but the Gou brothers had other things to do, and Xu Ning was also not available. It just so happened that you two took over the Black Tiger Temple Mine, so we met at the right time."

"I heard from the farmer who reported the case that the Taoist is called Liang Zhengyi, nicknamed "Guo Tianxing" and also called "Zhengyi Taoist". The monk's nickname is "Yellow-faced Bodhi" and his Dharma name is Jingkong. Both of them are very powerful. You two should lead the troops to eliminate them."

Yang Xiong was overjoyed when he heard this: "It is our turn to perform meritorious deeds. Sir, we will go find Magistrate Kong and wipe out this gang of thieves."

Li Zongtang said: "Sir, when I was at home, I often went into the mountains to hunt and walked through the forests. Now that I have just arrived, I have no merits, so why not let me help the two commanders."

Zhao Zhen heard this and said with a smile, "That's fine. You three can go together so that we can have someone to look after you. Kong Hou has his own guides there so that we can wipe out the bandits as soon as possible. Brothers Li Zong and Tang can still come here, but you two can go to Mizhou to find Guan Sheng, the Great Sword, and follow his instructions."

After hearing this, the three of them said goodbye and left.

Yang Xiong and his two companions took Zhao Zhen's order and rode back to Pingyi County at full speed to meet Kong Hou.

Kong Hou saw the three men and said, "General Yang, does your Excellency have any instructions?"

Yang Xiong said, "My lord, please order the three of us to find a prosecutor and come to wipe out the bandits at Shuanglong Temple in Honghua Valley."

After hearing this, Kong Hou asked the three men to wait for a while and called a yamen runner to give him some instructions. Soon, the yamen runner brought in a man who was obviously an honest farmer.

Kong Hou pointed at the man and said, "This man is from Maojia Village. He has a wife who asked [Yellow Faced Bodhi] to go up the mountain. This man came to report to the authorities and learned about the Shuanglong Temple in Honghua Valley. Mao Laosan knows the geography of the place well and can be your guide." Yang Xiong took Mao Laosan to the military camp and asked him about it carefully. He said to Xue Yong and Li Zongtang, "The path in Honghua Valley is tortuous, and there are many mountains behind the temple. I'm afraid it's not easy for a large group of people to go there."

Li Zongtang said: "Brother is right, how about I pretend to be a hunter and go to investigate first?"

Xue Yong also said, "I will accompany you. Brother Yang Xiong will select the best soldiers, and we will rush to Shuanglong Temple after we have found out everything."

The three of them had made their plan and went about their business.

Li Zongtang and Xue Yong took Mao Lao San to find out the situation and returned three days later. Li Zongtang said to Yang Xiong, "We two went to Zhangta Temple on the high ground and also got some information from Li Laoshi, who was delivering wine. There are about fifty monks and Taoists in Shuanglong Temple. There is only one way up the mountain. Fortunately, there is no defense there. Every night, the temple gate is closed and no one is on duty."

Yang Xiong heard this and said, "In that case, we must go at night. I have selected a hundred men who are good at traveling by mountain roads. We will go there today and break into the temple at dawn. Then we will rush in and kill all the monks in the temple."

Li Zongtang and Xue Yong nodded after hearing this.

After a night's rest, Yang Xiong asked the selected soldiers to have a full meal the next morning, and then they took their food and water bags and headed straight for Maojia Village. At noon, they passed by a pine forest, and Xue Yong said, "Brother, after this pine forest, you will reach Maojia Village. There is a hotel in the village, where you can rest for a while."

Yang Xiong heard this and said, "We have so many people here that we are afraid that our whereabouts will be exposed. Let Mao Lao San buy a fat pig and stew it well. We will just wait in this pine forest and don't alert the enemy."

At night, under the moonlight, Li Zongtang led a group of soldiers to sneak up, and Xue Yong led his men to bypass the temple and ambush at the back door. At four o'clock in the morning, they set up a ladder, and Li Zongtang climbed up first, quietly opened the temple door, and let the soldiers in.

Everyone rushed into the backyard dormitory, broke down the door, and started hacking with their knives. Yang Xiong and Li Zongtang ran straight to the abbot's room, shouted, kicked the door open, and rushed into the room.

In the abbot's room, [Yellow-faced Bodhi] Jingkong was sleeping soundly with a woman in his arms. Upon hearing the noise, he quickly got up, naked, and tried to grab the iron rod leaning against the table.

After snatching the iron rod, Jingkong suddenly became bolder and shouted, "Where did you come from, you little thief, to dare to touch the Buddha's tiger whiskers?"

As he said that, he went straight to Li Zongtang who was leading the group.

Li Zongtang and Jingkong were fighting in the room. Yang Xiong just glanced at them. The room was small and it was not easy to display his skills. He turned and went out. He bumped into Liang Zhengyi [Guo Tianxing] who was coming out of the Zen room. Neither of them spoke to each other and just swung their knives at each other.

There were screams in the dormitory. The monks and Taoists were unprepared and unarmed, so they were quickly killed by the soldiers. Liang Zhengyi was panicked when he saw the soldiers coming in. Yang Xiong knocked his weapon away and stabbed him to death.

Jingkong heard Liang Zhengyi's screams and knew something was wrong. He took advantage of the clash of weapons to retreat, broke through the back window and ran away. Li Zongtang saw them and chased them. The two ran out of the back door of the temple one after the other. Jingkong was so focused on escaping that he didn't expect Xue Yong to be ambushed on the side. He stabbed Jingkong in the leg with a gun and he fell to the ground. Li Zongtang caught up with him and cut off his head with a knife.

The two of them also came to the temple with the head of Master Jingkong.

After clearing the place inside and out, most of the monks and Taoists were killed, leaving only a few young monks and Taoist boys resting in the kitchen, who were also tied up by the soldiers.

In the empty room, Yang Xiong ordered the woman to come out. Seeing that the woman was indeed quite sexy, Yang Xiong asked, "Are you the third wife of Mao Lao from Mao Village?"

The woman knelt down immediately after hearing this and said, "I am Mao Lao San's wife. This monk came to beg for alms and saw me, and he took me up the mountain by force. May I ask if you are here to rescue me?"

Yang Xiong frowned when he saw the lady's half-opened clothes and her seductive eyes. He ordered the woman to fasten her clothes.

After calling in a few captured Taoist children and monks to interrogate them, they found out that this woman was actually having an affair with Jingkong and had taken the initiative to go up the mountain. Yang Xiong shouted, "What's the point of keeping such a lewd woman? Kill her with a single blow."

Mao Laosan, who was standing by, knelt down hurriedly after hearing this and said, "General, I spent all my family wealth to marry this woman. Please forgive me, General."

Li Zongtang said: "There is a saying since ancient times that if a poor man does not marry a beautiful woman, he will be in trouble sooner or later."

Xue Yong heard this and quickly advised: "This is his own business, not ours, why worry about it, brothers? We will wipe out this group of monks and Taoists, and then go back to report."

Yang Xiong looked at the exhausted Mao Laosan and his wife, feeling annoyed, and shouted, "You two, get off the mountain as soon as possible."

After hearing this, Mao Laosan didn't dare to say anything and just pulled his wife away.

The three men ordered the soldiers to search the temple inside and out and found a lot of gold, silver, and cloth. They also collected the bodies and brought firewood from the kitchen to burn it. The kitchen found rice, flour, meat, and vegetables, and after the soldiers had a good meal, Xue Yong found an iron lock and locked the temple door. The soldiers carried the treasures, including the heads of Jingkong and Liang Zhengyi, down the mountain together.

The seized property, along with the heads of Jingkong and Liang Zhengyi, were sent to Zhao Zhen to ask for credit. After the Shuanglong Temple was renovated, Gongsun Sheng arranged for monks and Taoists to take over and preside over it.

(End of this chapter)