Chapter 154: Bandit Suppression Outside the Forest 2
"Bandits?" Shao Yan was stunned for a moment. In the past, Changfeng Village was destroyed in the rock hills of Nanliang Kingdom, and now there is a bandit nest popping up in Donglin Kingdom. The world is really big, and there are all kinds of bandits. It seems that
I have quite a connection with the bandits, why don't I go meet these people?
"Your Majesty, look!" Just when Shao Yan ordered the army to prepare to cross the river, Yun Yun, who was sitting behind him, suddenly pointed at the woods and shouted. Shao Yan saw her reaction was so strong, so he looked in the direction of her finger.
When I went there, I saw thick smoke billowing from the dense forest. The smoke quickly enveloped the sky above the forest, and then shot straight into the sky. The big trees in the forest kept shaking there, and each tree kept shaking.
The soldiers' eyes were dazzled by the changing position.
Strange thing, how can such a big tree move around at will? Shao Yan was very puzzled. If these trees were planted in the water, it would be possible for them to move back and forth, but the roots of these big trees are very solid.
And it has roots and leaves, so it doesn’t look fake.
"Could this be the legendary Five-Shaped Bagua Formation?" Yun Yun stared at the strange woods and said in surprise.
Shao Yan asked curiously: "What is the Five-Shaped Bagua Formation?"
Yunyun said: "Your Majesty, this is a set of formations. The five shapes refer to the five directions, namely, southeast, northwest, center, yin above and yang below. Yin and yang are each replaced by a symbol, forming eight forms, called Bagua.
, each hexagram represents a certain thing. Qian represents heaven, Kun represents earth, Kan represents water, Li represents fire, Zhen represents thunder, Gen represents mountain, Xun represents wind, and Dui represents Ze——"
Shao Yan was confused and quickly cut her off, "Well, you said so much, but I can't understand a word of it. Can you explain it more simply and clearly? What is the use of this formation?"
He said solemnly: "Your Majesty, this formation is generally used for marching formations. It has been adopted by armies of various countries for more than a hundred years. Anyone who can skillfully use this hexagram, no matter how many opponents there are, will be able to defeat them with just one attack."
Anyone who enters his hexagram will never come back."
"No, is it so magical? I don't believe that my 50,000 soldiers and horses can't take down a forest." Shao Yan said unconvinced. He didn't care about how to break the formation. He only knew that there was strength in numbers.
, it will not be a problem to deal with a few bandits with our current strength.
"Your Majesty, this formation was created by eight people and is divided into eight stages. The first and second stages are easy to advance, but few people can pass the third stage."
Shao Yan chuckled, "You talk about them too much. What's first and second, aren't they just bandits? I still don't believe it." After that, he shouted to the team behind him: "Where are the southeast and northwest?
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"My subordinates are here!" was heard. Everyone in the southeast, northwest and northwest held scimitars and turned over in the air to come to Shao Yan's horse. The four of them had been hiding in the team in accordance with Shao Yan's orders and would not show up easily unless absolutely necessary.
"I order you four to each lead fifty people into the woods ahead. Remember, if you find something wrong, retreat immediately."
"De Ling" each of the four men led a group of troops and rushed into the river. The river was not very deep, and the deepest part could only be flooded to the knees. The soldiers rushed towards the other bank through the river, and the water was splashed as high as one person. After a while,
, more than two hundred people ran straight into the woods
The trees were still swaying constantly, with the occasional whistling wind. People from Southeast, Northwest and others stepped into the woods. Before they could explore the nearby terrain, they suddenly saw countless fireballs as big as heads falling from the sky. The soldiers were unable to dodge.
Their clothes were all ignited by fire. They rolled around on the ground one by one and finally extinguished the flames on their bodies. As they continued to move forward, the big trees beside them suddenly moved around, quickly blocking the group of more than 200 people.
After more than a dozen sections, the four masters realized that the situation was not good and immediately slashed at the tree roots with their swords, but they were all dodged nimbly.
"Retreat!" the four masters shouted in unison, and the soldiers stepped back after hearing the words. Unexpectedly, thousands of arrows suddenly shot out in the distance. Everyone picked up their weapons to resist. However, the arrows fired by the opponent were as fast as lightning, and most of the soldiers were caught off guard.
They fell to the ground. At this time, a gap opened in the ground, like a big mouth that directly swallowed their bodies.
In the blink of an eye, only fifty or sixty people were left in the team of more than two hundred people. The four masters led them to rush out desperately. Fireballs fell again in the air, blocking their way forward. Just as they turned to another
As they retreated, the big trees quickly lined up to block their way. Everyone tried to cut off the tree roots with knives, but they didn't know that the roots were as hard as steel.
A gust of wind blew by, and fallen leaves began to fly from the top of the forest. Many soldiers looked up, and the fallen leaves pierced their eyes like sharp swords. The soldiers covered their eyes in pain and rolled on the ground. The four masters led
With the remaining ten people breaking out, it took a lot of effort for them to break out of the woods.
Seeing that the team of more than 200 people was suddenly reduced to a dozen people, Shao Yan couldn't help but feel guilty for underestimating the enemy. After learning about the situation in the woods, he suddenly fell into deep thought. This was the first time in his life that he had encountered such a situation.
Weird things
Yunyun also found it incredible. She had only heard about it before, but she did not expect that the legendary five-shaped Bagua array was so powerful, so she asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do next? Should we continue to pass through here, or take a detour?
OK?"
Shao Yan thought about it carefully. This is the only way to Changqing. If he takes a detour, he must go back at least ten miles from here. This will definitely delay the march. Changqing has already been defeated by Liang Jun.
After conquering, with Jin Dingguo’s personality, he will attack several other cities vigorously next.
"You can't take a detour, you have to go through here," Shao Yan said decisively.
"But we can't break the Bagua array at all."
"If it can't be broken, then we will burn it."
"Burn it?" Yunyun asked in confusion.
"Yes, these people are using the woods as a barrier to play tricks inside. I will remove this barrier and see where they can hide." As he said that, Shao Yan pulled out his long sword from his waist, pointed at the woods ahead and drank.
A voice said: "Commanders, listen, I order you to burn all this forest. If anyone is found to be resisting, shoot to death."
"Yes" The soldiers lit torches on the shore and crossed the river as quickly as possible to approach the woods. Just when they were about to throw the torches into the woods, they heard the sound of killing all of a sudden in the woods.
The trees stopped swinging for an instant
"Archers prepare," Shao Yan ordered. The archers waiting on the shore tightened their bowstrings and aimed at every corner of the forest. When someone rushed out of the forest, they would let go and shoot at each other without hesitation.
In an instant, all the large trees suddenly fell down, and vivid men in black emerged from the ground. There were at least a hundred or so of them. Half of them were archers, and the other half were all holding long swords. The leader
It was a middle-aged man with a long beard. Seeing so many soldiers coming outside the forest, the middle-aged man didn't have a trace of fear and said angrily: "I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If you want to live forever,
Leave money to buy the way”
Today, today's robbers really have no creativity at all. They have to say such an old-fashioned sentence every day. Shao Yan shook his head with a smile and said to the man: "Who are you? Why should I buy you money for traveling?"
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"Nonsense, if you don't pay, you can't live here," the middle-aged man said angrily.
"Do you think you can stop us today?" Shao Yan made a gesture, and the soldiers took two steps forward.
The middle-aged man snorted, "Looking at you, you look like troops from the imperial court, but without my permission, you can't even think of leaving here today."
A soldier stood up, pointed his finger at him and said angrily: "Bold maniac, how dare you stop the emperor's team, disturbing the emperor will lead to death."
The middle-aged man laughed loudly and said coldly: "God is really helping me. The person I killed today is the current emperor."
Shao Yan was suddenly startled. This guy kept saying that he wanted to kill the emperor. Could it be that he was sent by Jin Dingguo?
Seeing the man's arrogance, Yunyun said angrily: "What a arrogant tone. Who are you?"
The middle-aged man sneered and said: "You don't care who I am? I use people's money to eliminate disasters for others. In short, the best emperor must die today."