Chapter 34 The thirty-fourth round of Fan Gaojie's defeat at Evil Tiger Beach

The officers and soldiers fled and hid from being hit by rolling stones, and immediately blew up the battalion.Some passed through the battle formation and knew how to hide, or looked for a big tree or a big rock to hide behind; some fled down the mountain in a daze, and some hid in a ditch.People shouted and horses neighed, mixed with miserable howls. The three generals were protected by their own soldiers and hid behind a big steamed bun stone to watch the stone flow rush down the hillside.After a shock, forty-six were injured and seven died when the army horses were counted.The most pitiful thing is that more than one hundred war horses exploded and ran around without restraint, and a large area was washed down in an instant.Some rolled down the cliff on all fours, some broke their legs, collapsed on the ground and neighed, and some fell motionless in a pool of blood--the horses were counted and suffered heavy casualties, and only a dozen or so horses escaped the flying attack Unexpected misfortune.

Fan Gaojie waited for a while, seeing that there was no second wave of rocks flowing down, he probed to look at the top of the mountain, the bushes and trees were swaying, and there was not even a shadow of a person.When I asked the soldiers for the binoculars, the binoculars were in the saddlebags and rolled to nowhere with the horse.Fan Gaojie's eyes were bloodshot with anger, he turned his head and said to the other party: "This is a small thief. Be careful when passing the order, you lead people to take down this mountain!" "Zha!" Fang Jin agreed, turned around and waved his hands, led a team of about 300 people, rushed up with a shout.But the mountain was too steep, the soldiers were frightened by Shi Yu just now, so they had to climb listlessly step by step.Fan Gaojie looked eagerly at the marching team, and he was only a stone's throw away from the top of the mountain, so he breathed a sigh of relief.A message came from the rear team that they had passed Yukou and were approaching the Chinese army.He wiped off his cold sweat and said, "It seems that we have to gather here and cross Ehutan wave by wave. We have seized the top of the mountain. We will have no worries." Hu Zhenbiao tilted his head and said coldly: "This mountain We haven't occupied it yet! It's not a safe place to go to Ehutan." Fan Gaojie was choked by him, his face was blue, he looked at the soldiers around him, and didn't say anything.Suddenly there was a whistling sound from the mountain, and an arrow flew down from the "Sun" ground.Hu Zhenbiao saw that Fan Gaojie was so angry that he was in a daze. He didn't guard against the back arrow at all. He took a step forward, pushed Fan Gaojie away, and stretched out his hand to shoot the arrow. The arrow was four feet long. The blue light on the top is flickering, and a roll of paper is tied to the arrow.He broke the arrow shaft with a "click", carefully took out the note, and said with a sneer, "With such a little effort, you dare to fight!" He unfolded the note and read:

The demon and thief general, dare to offend me!You have now been trapped in Baishigou by thirty thousand of my soldiers.The 3,000 soldiers from Zijing Mountain have sealed off Ehutan, and they want to survive in the copper net and iron formation, unless God bestows bird wings!If you don't, you will be tied down, and you have to wait for Hongli to collect the body for you! Piao Gao Yu Fan Gaojie was saved by Hu Zhenbiao. He was very grateful at first, but when he saw that he spoke nonsense, opened and read letters without authorization, and looked arrogant and domineering, he couldn't help being furious again. Seeing another arrow shoot directly at Hu Zhenbiao, he actually Holding on to the idea of ​​seeing death and not saving, he watched the arrow piercing Hu Zhenbiao's shoulder.

"Ah!" Hu Zhenbiao yelled and rolled over to the ground, the arrow had pierced through his shoulder.He was also really fierce, he closed his eyes with a "swish" sound, pulled out a bloody long arrow, held it in his hand, stared at Fan Gaojie, and passed out. "Help this talented general down and ask the medical officer to heal him." Fan Gaojie coldly ordered while reading the letter, "Don't let him make a contribution!" He took a long breath. Suddenly there was a cannon on the mountain, and there was a loud clamor on the top of the mountain. Fan Gaojie trembled all over and looked up in shock. The mountain was full of flags, divided into green, red, white, yellow, and five colors. Taiji pictures were drawn on the flags. Fang Jin pressed on a small hill.The believers did not attack by force, and they were condescending on the main peak, and arrows poured down like locusts in a shower.Poor these three hundred sergeants, they were exhausted from climbing the mountain, and they were left to hang on the top of a small hill that was neither high nor low, isolated and helpless, only to be beaten and dodged, and even the retreat route down the mountain was cut off, and only Qing soldiers could be seen in the distance The wolves and hogs were as chaotic as a wasp that had just stabbed a nest.Fan Gaojie suddenly became furious, drew his sword in his hand and ordered: "The whole army is attacking! This is a fake momentum. I saw that his soldiers are less than two thousand! The left and right soldiers shouted in unison to cheer Fang Jin, Tell him to stand up!"

But Fang Jin couldn't stand it anymore, and led dozens of soldiers to hack and kill to open a way down the mountain.The soldiers at the foot of the mountain were yelling and responding, seeing that the large group of people was about to rush up.There was another "wow" sound suddenly, and the rolling logs and rocks poured down like a river of stones opening a gate. The attacking team turned around and fled without waiting for an order. Those who fell to their deaths in the valley fell to the ground and rolled down the mountain. Yes, lying on the hillside waiting to die, everything.

"Military Gate," the sergeant beside Fan Gaojie said with a frightened face, "Only Ehutan can escape for a while, and I'm afraid if we go late..." "Fart!" Fan Gaojie yelled angrily, and ordered loudly: "Let the army move closer to me!" It is impossible for the whole army to move closer.The soldiers and officers who fled in all directions have completely lost their organizational structure. Fan Gaojie even beheaded a few deserters, but it didn't help at all.His mount was also taken away by a defeated soldier, and he beat the horse and ran wildly in the dust.He didn't dare to hesitate when he heard the thunderous sound of rolling stones getting closer.Fan Gaojie sighed and said: "Retreat to the Evil Tiger Beach..."

Dozens of soldiers of the Chinese army were eager for his sound, put the seriously injured Hu Zhenbiao on the horse, surrounded Fan Gaojie and rushed to the southwest.It wasn't until the mouth of Ehutan Valley that he completely avoided the stone formation that he took a breath. At this moment, the defeated soldiers had followed him like a tide, exchanging sweat and blood one by one. A little tricky. "Hurry up, split up and find out Fang Jin's whereabouts!" Fan Gaojie stood at the entrance of the beach with his face covered in dirt and sweat.Evil Tiger Beach is surrounded by mountains, all of which are steep cliffs.Three rivers, Weifen River, Jie River, and Yi River, squeezed into this dangerous shoal with an area of ​​more than 100 mu from the three canyons with raging waves.The water interweaves with each other at the mouth of the beach, forming a ring, and the middle is washed into a rocky beach.I don't know when and what generation washed down a huge tiger-spotted strange rock.It has a tiger's head and a tiger's hoof, and its ears and eyes are also vaguely similar. It tilts its head and looks ferociously at the entrance of the post road in the north.The south post road and the north post road face each other across the beach, there is no bridge in the middle, and the white and green river swirls and flows.The landscape is really scary, but the water is not very deep. Many soldiers stood in the gentle running water to wash their hair and legs, and the depth was no more than waist level.The entrance to the post road in the south is blocked by a row of wooden gates, and there are three large characters of "Tuo Tuo Peak" chiseled on the stone wall next to the gate - the post road actually goes south around the east foot of Tuo Tuo Peak - I don't know which one next to the big characters The poet holds a teacup-sized word on the stone:

I once traveled the Shu Road, and I also passed Loushan Mountain.Now after passing through this place, I feel discouraged!The high standard pierces the sky, and the strange water hovers in the deep valley.That is to say, when the pavilion is standing between the ancient wells of Qianren, the sun and the moon are hard to see!Tigers squatting, wolves crouching on rocks and waterfalls, curling up like smoke!Do you know?This is the first beach in the world! There are inscriptions and postscripts at the back, but I can't see clearly.Although Fan Gaojie could read a few words, he was not in the mood at the moment, only felt that his eyes were full of anxiety.Out of nowhere, a group of people from Taniguchi arrived again, and Fang Jin came back with more than forty remnants.Almost all of these people were wounded by arrows, their heads were wrapped around their faces, their chests and arms were tied, but they were well bandaged. The most difficult thing was that they also led more than 20 mules to carry dry food, and everyone was exhausted. Walking alone, he entered the mouth of the Evil Tiger Beach.

"Okay, it's easy to handle if there is food!" Fan Gaojie's eyes lit up, and he threw himself on a grain bag, caressing the coarse dry grain bag with his hand, and said to the other party with some shortness of breath: "The most important thing now is to hurry up!" Report to Fu Zhongtang to Taiyuan—it turned out that the report was not accurate, the bandits were so powerful, we were ambushed, the bloody battle ended here, and we were trapped in Evil Tiger Beach waiting for help! You, me, and Hu Zhenbiao are all there, and we finally got back If the situation is settled, it is better to hand over to the imperial court."

Listening to him, Fang Jin felt a chill in his heart.More than 300 people were trapped in the arrow formation and stone rain, and they broke the blood to join the army, and there were less than 50 people left... Fan Gaojie, the commander, was incompetent. He didn't blame himself or comfort him. They are all here", I really don't know why Zhang Guangsi took a fancy to this living treasure to lead the army!He swallowed a mouthful of bitter saliva, walked up to Hu Zhenbiao who was drowsy and leaning against the big rock without saying a word, leaned over and sat beside him, and shook his head slightly.

"Eight generations of Japanese ancestors!" Hu Zhenbiao scolded as soon as he opened his eyes. "The price of cowhide is so high all day long, and the bed is so wet when it's about to happen! Zhang Guangsi—what kind of 'famous general' are you!" He turned around and didn't turn his face away. "Brother Hu, it's me." Fang Jin knew he was delirium, and said softly.He took out another piece of bread from his bosom, "I am Fang Jin...whatever it is, we are still alive now. You have to eat something first..." Hu Zhenbiao finally came to his senses, looked back at Fang Jin, and suddenly hissed and howled Said: "Fang Jin! My brother followed Zhang Guangsi, what a disaster!" Fan Gaojie looked at this pair of suffering brothers and sisters, and suddenly there was a murderous intent in his heart: the defeat of Baishigou was inappropriate, and the imperial court will always pursue this account.I am the chief general, who does the blame pass to?The two former members of Yue Zhongqi were already at odds with him, so how could they know that they wouldn't attack and bite him with one voice?He thought about it for a while, and looked around. There were stragglers everywhere who were looking for a team, and the soldiers around him had nowhere to hide. At this time, he definitely couldn't make a move, and many people had seen him die. At this moment, it is most likely to provoke a mutiny...Fan Gaojie restrained his murderous intentions, and when he saw the military academy who had counted the number of people coming back, he asked, "How is the next step?" "Go back to the military gate." The military academy reported, "there are 2,938 students in total, and the organizational system has been restored. It's just that there is no food, and some fainted from hunger. There is no medicine for the wounded." "Ask all the battalions to come here to receive dry rations," Fan Gaojie said coldly, "tell the commanders of the battalions that the 4,000 catties of dry rations will last for four days. Send a few teams back to the original road, drag some smashed horses, and return If there are scattered grains, get them all back. Tell everyone that the rescuers will arrive in three days, and after this period, a few bandits can't escape with their wings!" As soon as the words fell, I heard the sound of horns from various mountains and peaks in Zhouza. As the horns corresponded to each other, there was a faint sound of beating drums and shouts.Not sure how many people it was.The faint echoes continued, adding a bit of eerie atmosphere to the increasingly dark and dangerous shoal.Fang Jin came over and said: "Fan Junmen, this place is not a place to stay for a long time. Since the enemy has let us in, it must be a dead end. It is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents on the way. We are short of food, let alone defend. The most important thing now is Hurry up and send someone to find the way, the pictures we brought were drawn by some living treasure during the Shunzhi period, and they are useless at all!" "Of course the way out is to the south." Fan Gaojie grimaced, and suddenly smiled, "The bandit's mystery is a trick of the suspicious soldiers. His soldiers have used the north to block us, and now they are going to be transferred to the south to block us. I said Standing on guard and waiting for help is because the soldiers have no fighting spirit at the moment, and we must stabilize the morale of the army. At dawn, we broke through the siege to the south and gathered at Haojiapo to wait for help. First, it was easy to attack Tuo Tuofeng, and second, it cut off the way back for the bandits in Linxian County I'm so tired now, I can't get out of Pathfinder!" Being besieged for help, or breaking out of the encirclement, this is the most common military measure. Fan Gaojie has no courage and no knowledge, so he uses it headstrongly. Fang Jin, who is deep and introverted, finally can't help it.Turning around, he said loudly to the surrounding bianzuo: "You are soldiers from the camp of Jin Province, and I am a veteran from Gansu Province. I first followed General Nian, then General Yue, then Zhang Junmen, and finally this 'fan 'General, you have heard what I said and what he said, I just ask you to remember, don't forget!" After saying that, he clasped his fists together, and tears fell like rain.Fan Gaojie took a cold look and saw that the faces of all the sergeants around him were livid. He knew that he had committed public anger. If he reprimanded the general who had been rushing for a day, he would probably be hacked to death. He was stunned for a long time, changed his smile, and said: Fang, now we are in the same boat through thick and thin, how do you do this with me? Listen to you—ask the middle battalion to select strong, smart and capable soldiers to scout the way ahead, with 30 men in each team, all the way to the north and all the way to the south!" He also ordered: "It's getting dark, we must prevent night attacks, and no fires are allowed anywhere!" "Hey!" Fang Jin squatted down and sat beside Hu Zhenbiao, without making another sound. Piao Gao defeated 5,000 Qing soldiers with 1,200 troops. Half of the enemy army was injured, and almost all the food, horses and luggage were lost, but the Shanzhai rebels had no casualties.At this moment, his command position is almost at the top of Fan Gaojie's head, Huaxiang Peak, which is tens of feet high, and dozens of Dharma protectors, including Shan Flea, are guarding next to his big tent. It whistled loudly.He drank wine and sat alone, occasionally glancing at the Evil Tiger Beach below.He has a white beard and green robe, a feather fan and a scarf, and a burner of Tibetan incense is burning on the desk in front of him, and he looks like a fairy. But he wasn't thinking about military affairs at this time. The military has already won the battle: the water in Ehutan is shallow because the upper streams of the three rivers are blocked. The breaches occurred at the same time, and none of the Qing soldiers trapped on the beach escaped with their lives.The soldiers ambushing in the south had prepared enough rocks on Tuotuo Peak, and they couldn't pass through at all.The soldiers in the north were still the same troops, more than enough to intercept a few frightened deserters.He was thinking about the situation of the followers of the Bauhinia Mountain Cult reported by the mountain fleas, but the words did not match, and he was proficient in the teachings of the White Lotus Sect, so he said that he came to help, but he did not see contact.They are like friends, but they are rude to the mountain fleas who are specially waiting for them; they are enemies, why has there been no movement for six days?Where can the governor of Shanxi transfer these uncouth soldiers?However, in order to fight this battle well, he used up all the people, commanded himself in the middle, and couldn't leave for a moment. His head swelled from thinking about it, and he still couldn't understand it.The rebels below all regard him as a god who can pinch and calculate, withdraw beans into soldiers, and can't show the slightest anxiety, so although he looks elegant and unrestrained on the surface, he is extremely uneasy in his heart.It was already dark, and Piao Gao's army also ordered a ban on lights.The huge shadow of Tuotuo Peak became more and more blurred. Under the starlight, we could see the mountains and miscellaneous trees swaying uneasily, as if countless ghosts were cheering and dancing in the dark, and the pine waves roared sometimes tight and sometimes slowly.It also seems that thousands of troops are galloping and fighting in the distance, giving people a mysterious and terrifying association.He couldn't sit still anymore, so he walked out of the tent.A waiter immediately came up to him and said, "Prince Zongfeng, do you have a decree?" "No." Piao Gao replied calmly, "Oh, tell people to keep an eye on the horse house, and report any movement with lights. Red lights are bad luck, yellow lights are good luck!" "Follow the law!" Piao Gao looked to the south, where his "adopted daughter" Juanjuan was leading a thousand righteous people to attack Lin County, and only waited for the victory here before returning to seize the city.I don't know what to do at this moment?Piao Gao is fifty-seven years old this year, and her common name is Jia Yingying.He was originally from Sizhou, Jiangnan Province, and lived in a small town by the Hongze Lake. One year he got mad, the family asked the gods for divination, and looked for monks and Taoism to cure him.Bathing him in dog's blood and whipping him with peach wood is of no use at all.In desperation, his family sent him to Linggu Temple as a young monk, and then to Ziyang Taoist temple as a Taoist priest, proficient in some astronomy, geography and Taoist magic.In the sixth year of Yongzheng's reign, the imperial court secretly summoned the supernatural powers to enter the palace to treat the emperor's illness.Li Wei recommended him.In the palace, he worshiped Jia Shifang as his teacher. One night, the master and the apprentice faced the wall. Jia Shifang said, "There will be more hail on Thursday tonight. We can't sit in the open air." We sat on the north side, and we couldn't hit any of them." Later, it really came true.As a result, he aroused Jia Shifang's jealousy, and after only staying in the palace for three months, he asked for trouble and expelled him from the school.When he was about to leave, he said: "I floated here, and I flew away. I have the body of a dragon, and I am destined to be noble, and I must be accompanied by the Lord of Life. I named myself 'Piao Gao', and your life is in an instant, so you are not worthy of being my teacher!" " From then on, Piao Gao traveled around the world, looking for his "Allah". In the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, there was a severe drought in Anhui, and the autumn grain harvest was cut off.This is a good time to help the world and save people and make friends with evangelism.Piao Gao rushed from Xiangyang, Huguang to Nanyang Mansion.It was February when we crossed Laohekou, but it was raining and snowing. Under the eaves of the two rows of houses, there were hungry people huddled together in the cold, and everyone was so hungry that they were yellow-skinned and thin. The weather was extremely cold, and the spring breeze was wrapped in smog-like drizzle, sleet and snow, rippling on the street from time to time, and Piao Gao was completely soaked, so he went into a small restaurant on South Street and asked for a drink. Bowl of hot rice wine, drink slowly with spiced beans. The door of a framer's shop opposite the wine shop creaked open, and a little girl came out carrying a bucket of paste, as if she was going to take it somewhere.She looked at an old woman curled up at the door, hesitated for a moment, then lowered her body and asked, "Ma'am, you look so bad, I'm afraid you're sick, or you're hungry, do you have a bowl? It’s hot, let’s warm you up..." In a blink of an eye, a broken bowl was placed on the steps, and he stopped talking, and silently poured out a bowl and handed it to the old woman. "Good man!" This move of hers immediately alarmed a dozen or so victims around her, who immediately surrounded her.All kinds of broken bowls were brought up.Piao Gao looked carefully, and saw that she had a distressed expression on her face, and it took her a long time to forcefully lift the bucket, each of them poured more than half of the bowl, and the small bucket was already upside down.Without saying a word, he returned to the mounting shop with the empty bucket. After a while, I heard the faint sound of beating and scolding coming from inside, and it became louder and louder. A woman shouted: "Do you know how much a catty of noodles is? It has risen to thirty yuan! You can't earn a penny by yourself, and you have to practice it." People! The streets are full of beggars. You are not Guanyin Bodhisattva, insisting on throwing out a bottle of dew! How can I support you, a slut who eats inside and out!" Then there was another crackling sound, and everyone was stunned. The tall woman dragged the girl out by her hair, and threw her in the street, and the girl fell on all fours in the snowy beach, unable to get up for a long time.She was eleven or twelve years old, and she was born weak. She was beaten so severely for giving a bucket of paste. Several middle-aged men couldn't stand it, so they surrounded her silently, staring angrily at the tall woman.Piao Gao also stood up. "Look at what? Didn't drink enough, didn't you drink to your heart's content?" The woman had cross-eyed eyes.He shouted in a high-pitched voice: "Your father is here to decorate a new house for Mr. Hua's house, and you have a whole bowl of flour paste noodles. How dare you give it to those rascals who are hungry! You are a master, you just died!" Do you want to disturb your father again?" It was only then that Piao Gao realized that the girl was a child bride. He let out a sigh of relief, stepped forward to help the girl, and said to the woman: "Everyone has his own destiny, whoever interferes with whom? Shut your dog's mouth! Anyway, she It is also a life, can you bear such torture?" "Hey, there's a wild Taoist who supports me!" said the woman, "My Ma family bought her from the market for 12 taels of silver, she was not carried by three media, six certificates, and eight palanquins! I'm going to die! It is my Ma family's business to live or to be dismissed! What's the matter, are you standing in the way?" Ma Pozi was furious immediately, her eyebrows were raised upside down, but for some reason, under Piao Gao's gaze, she was a little frightened, so she pulled the girl over, raised her duster without saying a word, and was about to strike. "Shut up!" Piao Gao raised his whisk and muttered something: This woman's predecessor was Ananda, the seventh-grade lotus in front of Sakyamuni. Now that the catastrophe has passed, turn around and go to Lei Yintian! "I am the first child in front of Lao Tzu's furnace, the great ancestor of the world!" Piao Gao saw more and more people gathered, and began to pass on the scriptures: "The world is in a catastrophe, and the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism will discuss business. Highly set up Taoism, culture and religion, called Red and White Two Suns! There is no sky and no earth, first there is Hunmeng, then there is Mimeng, and Mimeng grows up to become the heaven and earth Xuanhuang, and the inanimate mother is the master of heaven and earth. Anyone who helps the world and does good deeds can form a good relationship with me. In this life, a bucket of rice saves people, and in the next life a stone will be returned to you. If you accumulate two thousand stones, you will be paid back as a prefect!" After saying that, he closed his eyes and clapped his hands together.There are words in the mouth again. During the chanting, some people donated money one after another: "I donate a stone of rice!" "I donate two taels of silver!" "I donate... ten coats!" "I donate..." "Good!" Piao Gao said.There was already a thick layer of copper coins in front of him, and someone threw them in front of him clangingly.Piao Gao squatted down, stroked the girl's hair, and said softly: "You will follow me to learn Taoism, okay?" The girl timidly looked at the fierce and godlike mother-in-law, and her big tearful eyes flickered twice .Piao Gao turned around and said to the crowd: "This woman is willing to donate her life to learn Taoism. The mountain man donates twelve liang of silver himself!" With his right hand, he touched Kong and took out a silver pancake. Everyone cheered in unison, but Piao Gao turned around and said to Ma's mother-in-law: "Are you willing? If you are willing to give up for good, you will redeem the donated money and goods, and I will clear up your sins... ..." The mother-in-law of the Ma family said repeatedly: "I am willing to..." "Let's go," Piao Gao said to the girl, "You donated it, so let's call it Juanjuan..." With the passage of time, Juanjuan gradually learned many Taoism skills of Piao Gao, and practiced martial arts with agility. There was no suspicion between "Father and Daughter" between the master and apprentice, Piao Gao just felt that she was becoming more and more beautiful and fragrant.One summer, he accidentally caught a glimpse of Juanjuan taking a bath... He suddenly discovered that he was also a sentimental man... Several times pretending to be possessed by the gods, teasing and hooking up did not move Juanjuan's heart, and Yao Qin was always in the way , all to no avail.In a rage, he drove Yao Qin away—from then on, Juanjuan became more wary of him.Although he didn't turn his back on the face publicly, he was already wary in his heart. "Let's talk after this battle is over. I'll be the king, and I'll make her a princess. Let's see how it goes..." He was about to pay back the bill, when suddenly there was a thunderous explosion from Tuo Tuo Peak on the opposite side, and in a shock, countless torches were lit at the same time.Walled buildings, performance halls, barracks, granaries, stables... first, black smoke rose into the sky.Then it was like a gunpowder depot exploded, and Tuotuo Peak suddenly became a flaming mountain.After a short pause, a bright red lamp was burning at the opposite stone gate. For some reason, it swayed a few times as if drunk, and it seemed that even the person and the lamp fell off the cliff. "Someone robbed the village!" Piao Gao was stunned!