Chivalrous Song Dynasty

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Fang Jinzhi was about to continue his defense, but he heard someone yelling near the temple gate outside the hall: "Stop coming! If you continue to move forward, don't blame me for breaking the precepts and killing lives!"

After hearing this, everyone knew that it was a Shaolin monk who spoke, so they couldn't help but change their faces again, thinking: This Liao army came so fast!

But I heard someone outside the gate of the temple say: "Under the Xiafeng Nandu and Yixiao brothers, under the order of Di Gong, the owner of the Bianjing Wansheng Boxing Gym, they came to Shaolin just to beg the senior Zhou of the Yuquan Gym to return to Beijing. , I also ask your temple to make it easier for me and my brothers to meet and talk with Senior Zhou."

Everyone felt relieved when they heard that the person was speaking Chinese and they were looking for Zhou Tong.And there were only two of them, so it didn't matter if they were enemies or not friends, because although the speaker's internal strength was very good, far better than Shaolin Huiguang, he was not at the level of Fang La.

So everyone looked at Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong felt that his old face had recovered a little bit of brilliance. Did you see that, although the old man lost to Bai Sheng, his reputation in the martial arts is still not lost, even if Di Lie wants to If you are looking for me, you must send the two most capable experts to invite you.

He was afraid that others would not know the identity of "Grand Di", so he said immediately: "Well, this Di Lie is the aunt and cousin of the official family of the Great Song Dynasty, the grandson of the former God of War Di Qing, the two old generals of his family knew each other, let them come in." .”

Lingxing was already preparing to launch an offensive, and he joined forces with the others to kill Bai Sheng. After hearing this, he had to pause, and said to the outside world: "Let them come to the Daxiong Palace to talk."

"Please!" A monk in the large formation of Arhats outside the hall gave permission to let him go. He only heard the sound of two pairs of steady and powerful footsteps approaching from far to near. After a moment, two tall and straight figures appeared at the entrance of the hall. Of course Bai Sheng recognized that the people who came were Di Lie's two generals, Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao.

Zhou Tong took two steps forward to meet the visitor, and Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao bowed to salute Zhou Tong the first time they saw him. Feng Nandu said, "Senior Zhou, my Duke Di ordered me to come forward. Come to invite you back to Beijing"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Bai Sheng standing in the middle of the hall out of the corner of his eye, and a look of surprise appeared on his face. Even talking to Zhou Tong was affected, so he couldn't help but paused, and then looked at Yi Xiao beside him.

Yi Xiao also saw Bai Sheng at the same time, and the look of surprise on his face was even better than that of Feng Nandu, it could even be described as ecstasy.Feng Nandu was talking to Zhou Tong, and it would be impolite to change the addressee before he finished speaking, but he, Yi Xiao, did not have this concern, and immediately bowed to Bai Sheng from afar, saying: "Mr. Bai, you are here too. This is really nice!"

Seeing this, Zhou Tong couldn't help being a little upset, but he couldn't blame Yi Xiao, so he turned slightly sullen and asked Feng Nandu, "General Feng, what's the important thing for the Patriarch to find the old man?"

Of course he knew that although it was not a long distance from Bianjing to Dengfeng, it was not very close either. If there were no major incidents, Di Lie would definitely not be like this.

Of course, Feng Nandu didn't know that Zhou Tong had just lost to Bai Sheng, so he didn't know how to hide his surprise when he saw Bai Sheng, and said to Zhou Tong: "Senior Zhou, one hundred thousand cavalry from the Kingdom of Jin besieged Bianjing, but Bianjing has no heavy troops to defend it. , the city is broken only overnight, so my family Di Gong intends to join hands with friends in the martial arts of the capital to help the imperial army of the Song Dynasty to defend against the enemy. Senior returned to Beijing to take up the post of leader of the martial arts alliance."

Next to him, Yi Xiao added to Bai Sheng: "Master Bai, my Patriarch has already sent another man to look for you. My Patriarch said that now Bianjing City is in danger, and only you, Mr. Bai, can lead the group and defeat the Golden Army."

Chapter 1145 Clarification

After only listening to Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao's words, Bai Sheng could already deduce the general situation of the matter. This is the Jin army's surprise attack on Bianjing.

Although the battle of Yanjing ended with the disastrous defeat of the Jin army, there is still a doubt that cannot be explained after taking stock of the entire process of the battle, that is, the number of Jin soldiers annihilated by the Bai family army is wrong, which is not the same as the total number of Jin soldiers who besieged Yanjing. Come, there is a difference of one hundred thousand people.

Since he didn't die at the hands of the Bai family army, where did the one hundred thousand gold army go?Moreover, when counting the generals of the Jin army annihilated by one's own side after the war, Jin Wushu, Ha Michi, and Wanyan Zongxian who was once captured and then left were not among them, so where did these people go?

However, now it seems that these questions are no longer a problem, and the communication between Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao gave an accurate answer.

Compared to Bai Sheng's relief, Zhou Tong felt very uncomfortable.Di Lie's words relayed by Yi Xiao were too hurtful. He said that as long as Bai Sheng can be found, as long as Bai Sheng arrives in Bianjing, he will be able to defeat the enemy army. If so, why are you looking for me, Zhou Tong?Is it for Bai Sheng to overwhelm Zhou Tong?

Just let Bai Sheng go back with you to defeat the enemy army. Anyway, I have exhausted my internal energy, and I will not be able to do anything if I go back to the capital.

Of course, Bai Sheng would not speculate on Zhou Tong's thoughts, Zhou Tong could think whatever he liked, since Brother Di Lie was called, he was obliged to do so.

Not to mention being a great hero for the country and the people, just talking about the friendship between me and Brother Di Lie, I must rush back to the capital immediately to fight side by side with my brother, not to mention that I still need to protect Li Shishi and Zhao Fujin's two wives-to-be Safety.

So he replied to Yi Xiao: "Since that's the case, let's go back to Bianliang, but"

Having said that, he turned to look at Zhou Tong, and said, "Before I leave, I need to ask Master Zhou about one thing."

Fang La knew something was wrong when he heard the words, of course he knew what Bai Sheng wanted to ask Zhou Tong, and immediately interrupted: "Bai Sheng, don't rush away, I think your Taijiquan technique is quite amazing, I want to learn from you One or two, come, come, let's do two tricks."

Bai Sheng shook his head and said, "Father-in-law, I'm afraid my son-in-law won't have time to compete with you." While speaking, he pointed to Feng Nandu and said, "You heard it too, this brother Feng brought the news of my elder brother Di Lie Come on, my son-in-law is about to rush to Bianjing and discuss with Brother Di the plan to defeat the enemy."

"Nonsense!" Chan Master Lingxing interrupted abruptly, and said, "It is obvious that you, Bai Sheng, colluded with the Liao people to invade the territory of the Song Dynasty and have already reached the territory of Dengfeng. Instead, you reasoned that it was the Jin people who besieged Bianjing. The country and the Great Song Dynasty have no grudges in the past and have no enmity in the present, so how could they attack Bianliang? Do you really think that my fellow martial artists in the world are all fools?"

After saying this, without waiting for Bai Sheng to refute, he looked at Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao, and asked with a sneer: "At this moment, there are tens of thousands of Liao cavalry trampling the whole territory of Dengfeng, killing Song people when they see them, I don't know you Where did the two brothers come from? Don't say they flew from the sky!"

The martial arts heroes in the hall nodded after hearing this, expressing their approval of Lingxing's inference.

The reason why people recognize Lingxing is because of Huiguang's report just now.Compared with Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao who are relatively unfamiliar, people are more willing to believe in Master Huiguang, the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

Although Huiguang's martial arts is mediocre, people still believe in a common practice - monks don't tell lies.Earlier Huiguang said that tens of thousands of cavalry from the Liao Kingdom descended from the mountain, almost killing the two or three hundred people who went to Juxian Village to investigate. This must be true. If so, then where did you Fengnandu and Yixiao come from? ?Could it be that the iron cavalry of the Liao Kingdom just let the two of you go without killing them, and let you come to Shaolin Temple swaggeringly?

Feng Nandu and Yi Xiao knew Lingxing, because they, Lolita and Shui Ningzhu followed Bai Shengxizheng, and once saw Lingxing standing on Xixia's side in Yanzhou City, and even saw Bai Sheng with their own eyes. Sheng beat Lingxing and his disciples to flee, so Fengyi and Fengyi had a very bad impression of this Shaolin monk, and they didn't even bother to refute Lingxing's framing, so they only looked at Bai Sheng.

Because they knew that Lingxing was Bai Sheng's enemy, and they also knew that Shaolin Temple was plotting against Bai Sheng, but they didn't expect that Bai Sheng would come to Shaolin Temple on his own initiative.As for whether to argue or fight at this time, it only depends on Bai Sheng's attitude, and they will follow.

In fact, before they left Bianjing this time, Di Lie gave some instructions. Di Lie's original words were: Shaolin Temple will deal with my brother Bai Sheng. I believe that Brother Bai Sheng will not fall into the trap of himself. Just come back.

Di Lie also said: "It would be great if my brother Bai Sheng was here. With his wit and strategy, he will definitely be able to defeat the Jin army. Then it doesn't matter if there is Zhou Tong or not. It's a pity that I don't know where he is."

Originally, in Bianjing City, the news about Bai Sheng was still at the stage of Bai Sheng's death on the empty island, but since the Shaolin Temple recently invited the World Martial Arts Association to deal with Bai Sheng, it can be inferred that Bai Sheng is still alive, otherwise the Shaolin monk is crazy , invite everyone to deal with a dead man?Obviously impossible.

It is precisely because of Di Lie's words that Yi Xiao's ecstasy just now occurred, and he also gave Boss Zhou Tong an embarrassment without restraint.

The person Yi Xiao admires the most in his life is Bai Sheng, not one of them.He admired Bai Sheng even more than Di Lie, because Bai Sheng surpassed him in archery.

His Yi family ancestors passed down the divine archery. In today's world, he refuses to accept Huarong and Pang Wanchun, but he has to obey Bai Sheng, because he and Bai Sheng shot successively at the head of Yanzhou City, which shocked the 30 troops of Xixia. It is an indisputable fact that Sheng's shooting skills surpassed his.

Going back to the present, it is only said that Feng Yi and the two looked at Bai Sheng, but Bai Sheng hadn't made a statement yet, but Zhou Tong sighed and said with great pain: "I really didn't expect that the owner of Di Guan was also colluding with Bai Sheng, and wanted to You, Di Lie, who lured this old man into the siege of the Liao army, are relatives of the emperor, and your Di family has a share in the great Song Dynasty, how could you do such a thing!"

Although Di Lie was not present, Zhou Tong kept talking to Di Lie, obviously thinking that Feng Yi and Feng Yi were not worthy of reasoning with him.

Feng Yi and Feng Yi became very anxious when they heard the words. They could ignore Lingxing, but they couldn't ignore Zhou Tong. After all, their patriarch Di Lie was too low-key in the past, so that his prestige and influence in Bianjing Wulin was not as good as Zhou Tong. If Zhou Tong was misunderstood, people would probably believe him when he said it when he returned to the capital someday.

Just when he was about to argue, Bai Sheng said: "Master Zhou, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. It's all right if you slander my reputation. I'm too lazy to explain to you, but you slander my brother Di." Reputation is not enough, I have to be serious with you about this!"

Just like Yi Xiao's admiration for him, Di Lie is the person he respects most in this world, and there is no such thing as one.He can disregard anyone's opinion and evaluation of him, but he cannot allow them to damage Di Lie's reputation.

Zhou Tong was defeated by Bai Sheng just now, he was defeated and slapped in the face. Seeing Bai Sheng's retort back so aggressively, he couldn't help being discouraged. He didn't know how to argue for a while, but he had tasted Bai Sheng's power , Even bickering is too far away, and he seems to always fall into Bai Sheng's trap without realizing it.

Seeing that Bai Sheng has become the head of the family, Feng Yi and the two felt relieved in their hearts. The brother of the head of the family really did not make friends in vain, and he was righteous enough!The two remained silent at the moment, only to see how Bai Sheng clarified for the Patriarch. If there is no evidence, it will not be too late for his brother to provide him.

Of course, Bai Sheng didn't finish his sentence, and continued: "I believe that there is an enemy bandit coming to Dengfeng right now, but it will definitely not be from the Liao Kingdom, it must be from the Jin Kingdom."

Speaking of this, he turned to Huiguang: "Excuse me, great monk, can you tell the difference between the Liao people and the Jin people? Can you tell whether the enemy is speaking Khitan or Jurchen?"

"Uh..." Huiguang was speechless when asked, not knowing how to answer.He really couldn't tell the difference between people from the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom.

He had only seen the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun led by Xiao Feng at the martial arts gathering in Shaoshi Mountain more than ten years ago, which was regarded as seeing a Liao countryman once, but even that time, with his identity and status at that time, he could only see him from a distance. How can you remember it after taking a look?

Not to mention Khitan dialect and Jurchen dialect, of course he couldn't tell the difference.

This is like the era before liberation in later generations, you ask a young man in a remote mountainous area in China who has never been out or went to school, you ask him what is the difference between Germans and French?How are their languages ​​different?The answer is obvious, of course he doesn't know what is Gaul and what is German, and German, French and English are all the same to him, and he can't understand them in the same way.

Bai Sheng didn't make things difficult for Huiguang, and said, "You don't know, but I can tell you that the costumes and hairstyles of Jin people and Liao people are obviously different. Most of them are animal skins, recall, do those people you saw just now have this feature?"

Bai Sheng was right. At that time, the people of the Liao Kingdom had been sinicized for a long time, and had already transformed from nomadic people to farming people. Their clothing and hairstyles were not much different from those of the Song people, but the people of the Jin Dynasty were different. Maintaining the distinctive features of their nomadic peoples.

Bai Shengman thought that this alone would prove his and Di Lie's innocence, but Hui Guang looked at him in a daze, raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, and said, "They are wearing heavy armor, their heads are Wearing an iron helmet, how can the poor monk see the two features you mentioned?"

Lingxing sneered without losing the opportunity: "Bai Layman, don't waste your time, you can't fool the martial arts heroes present here, the Song Dynasty has always been hostile to the Liao Kingdom, how can the people of the Jin Kingdom have anything to do with it? The country is just a small country, not to mention that they can't have tens of thousands of cavalry, even if they have, how can they make an expedition here? It doesn't make sense!"

Speaking of which, without waiting for Bai Sheng to refute, he looked at Feng Yi and the two of them and said, "Besides, even if it was Jin Guo cavalry, how did the two of you come to Shaoshi Mountain? Could it be that the enemy knows you two, and you are alone?" Let it go and you don't kill?"

Hearing this, Feng Nandu couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Let us go without killing? To tell you the truth, the ten thousand cavalrymen from the Kingdom of Jin under the mountain came all the way from outside the city of Bianjing to kill us. They don't want us to move Reinforcements go back!"