Chapter 9: Marshal Hong and the Quartermaster (II)

This time, Meng's attack on the Castle Peak Pass defenders is extremely dangerous, if not for Hong Linying ruthless and decisive, with more than 10,000 soldiers to delay the other side of the attack time, I'm afraid it is not ready to enter the city to deploy, will have been taken. The battle also made the people in the city scared to death, but saw the enemy's hideous faces coming up from the city, close at hand, so they would never forget. After this battle, the blood was spread all over the city, flowing down the stone cracks of the walls to the outside of the city, like a trickling stream. Half a mile near the city walls, are like pools of blood, usually bright and clean street, then walk on it, shoes and blood stick together, emitting "bla bla bla" sound. Hong Linying afterwards every thought of this battle, even with his determination, but also feel a lot of danger, the back chills. After the enemy army retreated, he remembered Ji Wenhe said last night, which mentioned that the opponent's army may hide heavy troops waiting for the opportunity to come out of the words, can not help but feel some regret. A few months later, the same two times Ji Wenhe still visited him in the middle of the night to inform him of the enemy's movements and deployments. These two times Hong Linying began to pay attention and made targeted arrangements in accordance with the information given by Ji Wenhe, and as a result they won a big victory with very little loss. The other thing is that Ji Wenhe has also started to look for people in the army to pass on the legacy, but his selection conditions are very odd. Neither to see their martial arts roots, nor use internal force to detect each other's bodies, but to use silver needles to check the pulse of the person being measured, as a doctor. Ji Wenhe has also told Hong Linying, because they are a school of internal energy techniques is very strange. If you can't pass the test with this method, forcibly cultivate his school's unique heart method, the result will only lead to the cultivator, internal Qi backwards, reverse the meridian rush blood and die. But as time went on, what surprised Hong Linying was that with so many physically fit people in the army, Ji Wenhe hadn't found anyone suitable in the year he'd been in the army, much to his surprise. With Ji Wenhe's several major military victories, Hong Linying simply let the original military commander step down as deputy military commander a year later, allowing Ji Wenhe to become the military commander. As for how he learned each time the enemy news, he did not care much, with this quarter military division, I think the means is extremely, not to mention that he gave several times the enemy news, are extremely accurate. If he is a spy, then the price is too high to use the lives of 70,000 or 80,000 people accumulated these times to exchange for the scheme that may succeed later. This move, however, many generals in the army was not convinced at first, but the next few big or small engagements, all the plans have Ji Wenhe planning, almost the incoming enemy to kill the rout. This made Ji Wenhe's reputation in the military grow and his position become more and more solid. The peak of his reputation was a battle two and a half years ago, before that battle Ji Wenhe went to the army camp 30 miles north of the city to continue the search for his unknown "disciple". The local garrison has hundreds of thousands of people, Ji Wenhe is a great skill, all day and all night nothing to do, to his power up to test a hundred people, not to mention the army is busy, it is impossible to do this. So he has more than three years of time in addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Castle Peak Pass measured almost, began to go from time to time to the central army camp side to seek apprentices. For the quartermaster to choose a disciple, the military people at first felt very strange, but then everyone slowly get used to it. That time on the afternoon of the day Ji Wenhe went to the middle camp, Meng suddenly launched an attack, Hong Linying led the troops to meet the enemy, and the enemy fought in a bloody battle. The enemy reinforcements this time using the tactic of adding oil, a strand slowly increasing, ironically not hesitant to fill with human life, this time the Hong Linying entangled can not get away, slowly fall into a heavy siege. At this time, Ji Wenhe, who was 30 miles away, had already gotten a fast horse report and led the troops from the central camp to come. Ji Wenhe let the army from the periphery of the command of the crowd to the eight trigrams in a chain of formation, cycling inward to kill, step by step, while he himself for the first time in front of people to show his terrifying martial arts. One man and one sword, such as the sky flying immortal, shuttling in the enemy army, as in no man's land, in addition to occasionally set aside the enemy attack weapons, where a sword, there will be a person killed. In the end, he killed alone to the other side of the army, flying in the air, like a hawk fighting a rabbit, before the other side's guards had time to react, has stepped into the air, such as a meteor flying vector a sword picked the other side of the vice marshal's head. Then set aside the swords, spears and halberds beside him, soft body and up, only a few steps will stand in the enemy several feet high on the top of the marshal's flag, a sword in one hand, the other hand held high the head of the enemy marshal. Mouth loud drink, such as rolling muffled thunder, shocked around, the enemy's army under the sight of a sudden laxity, do not want to fight again, defeated and went, Hong Linying this just led a break out of the siege. After this battle, the quarter military division's fame was instantly unparalleled, even surpassing the name of Marshal Hong, so that people also know that in addition to the "paper" military division, is also a master of the world. After this battle, the imperial army is no longer mainly defensive, but also often out to attack the other side of the border, or also a large army pressure, since then the two sides have attacked and defended each other, almost considered evenly matched. Although the presence of Ji Wenhe, but on the battlefield, the power of one person can not determine the outcome, not to mention the Meng country knows that the Castle Peak Pass has a master can take the head of 10,000 troops, but also from the domestic mobilization of several first-class and top experts to pressure. Hong Linying through that time can be sure that Ji Wenhe martial arts has reached the land of the realm of transformation, there may even be above this realm, that is a realm he did not know. Previously, although he guessed the realm of Ji Wenhe, but did not expect the other side so powerful, as a martial arts nerd, through that battle he could not help but start to fire up in his heart. But no matter how much he investigated, he couldn't find out where this sect actually came from. And through the occasional sparring with Ji Wenhe, he felt that the other party's martial arts skills were wonderful to the core. To be precise, the opponent's internal skill is exquisite, any move ordinary moves, in Ji Wenhe injected internal force to make, always let Hong Linying feel like a big river of water continuous, and like a big mountain crushing the top to destroy, simply unable to resist. This allows him to Ji Wenhe's internal energy heart method is already lustful, greedy for a lifetime, but also to try to get it. The matter of Ji Wenhe's apprenticeship is always delayed, and Ji Wenhe's health, as he said before, has been getting worse over the years, and even his face has aged a lot. Hong Linying then sidetracked himself to inherit this mastery, so after a banquet, he said to Ji Wenhe. "Warlord, so many years have passed, but you have not met the disciple you choose, what kind of talent can enter your eyes?" Ji Wenhe replied with a faint smile. "The reason why our sect is a single generation, not not to accept disciples, but the requirements of the heart method is really quite restrictive, can be described as one in a million. What kind of person, in fact, is also very good to say, as long as I can use my unique heart method under the silver needle pulse test body has a unique appearance, there can be hope." "You're more than one in ten thousand, I've been in the army all these years, whether it's old or new recruits, you've measured half of them, I think it's one in a hundred thousand." Hong Linying shook his head and sighed, and then he added. "What kind of abnormal appearances are you going to have in your body when you go down with this silver needle?" Ji Wenhe gave it a moment's thought. "This is not necessarily, maybe it is abnormal qi, maybe it is abnormal breath in the body, then I must pass the silver needle as a guide, with internal force probe to know, if it is a blend with my internal energy party is up." This Ji Wenhe each test also does not allow outsiders to watch, in addition to the test, outsiders are not allowed to enter, although Hong Linying also inquired, but those people have not succeeded, since it is impossible to say a subtlety to. Hong Linying pretended to be slightly drunk and said through the "strength of wine". "Then can the military commander come to see how this marshal's physique is?" He also did not say how suitable, nor did he say how inappropriate, these words down to give the feeling of drunken joking, just as curious. Ji Wenhe smiled faintly at the words and nodded in response. "Anyway, there is nothing to do, this is something to try, say the marshal really has a destiny with my faction." Then took a cloth bag from the side of the body, unfolded it and pinched out a silver needle to. That said, this cloth bag Ji Wenhe but said every time must bring around, because once he has free time, will go to find some soldiers test. When a silver needle went down, Hong Linying felt a numbness in his wrist, and then also did not feel half of the so-called abnormal, not to mention the internal force probe into the. Ji Wenhe also shook his head in disappointment and put away the silver needles between a single sticky finger and a belt. "It seems that the marshal is also not related to this school!" This means that Hong Linying is also unable to learn this technique of his, but how can this argument convince Hong Linying. He has been practicing martial arts since childhood, all the way, only one by one to overcome the difficulties, no he has seen but can not learn the gong method, mainly depends on whether he is willing to practice is. But he is not strong enough for Ji Wenhe, and he thinks he is never Ji Wenhe's opponent. Even if this person looks worse than a year in the past few years, but it is estimated that dealing with him like this is just a few moves, or even a matter of raising a hand. Although he is already a top expert in today's Jianghu, that score and what people than, this point he still has self-awareness. It wasn't until early last year that Ji Wenhe finally found a disciple in the middle army camp. Hong Linying also found a reason to get in touch with Ji Wenhe's disciple, who was like a drop of water in a "sea of people". Even with internal force to explore the person's internal meridians, but did not feel the other side of the meridians what special place, which makes him feel that Ji Wenhe is deliberately hiding something, but the reason he has no way of knowing. But it was only a month after Ji Wenhe found his disciple, the disciple who had just started suddenly died one night. Afterwards, Ji Wenhe is also a look of pain and regret, only to say that its illiteracy, understanding of the school of martial arts deviated, and caused the Qi blood reversal rushed the body and died. Hong Linying also saw the man died tragically, the whole body blackened and swollen and died, but in his opinion does not seem to practice stubble, but rather like the death of poison. This leaves him with two guesses: One is that Ji Wenhe uses the human body as a medium and wants to use a method to force the poison from his own body into the other person's body to cure his own poison. And the person he chooses must have some connection to his sect's gongfu or this severe poison in order to administer it according to the law. Otherwise, the martial arts skills of the quartermaster, directly pull individuals can also be, and simply will not let people know. But then look at Ji Wenhe's appearance, but its face does not seem to be any better, which indicates that their own guesses of the method does not have any effect, which makes Hong Linying doubt the correctness of this judgment. Second, Ji Wenhe this heart method should be quite domineering, may be really this just started disciple practice improperly, reverse gas upward in leading to Qi and blood backflow, broke the internal organs, the whole body only appeared abnormal. But people like Ji Wenhe, since he knew that his disciple could not read and write, he should have used a compromise to solve the problem, or to supervise his practice with the kung fu of water millstone. In his understanding of the quartermaster, this person is quite thoughtful, should not appear this situation is right, is it really his time is running out? Ji Wenhe that disciple died, still every time also go to the army to find some ministry to test the pulse, Hong Linying although still no reason to probe close, but he still want to see in the first time Ji Wenhe chosen disciple is what kind of person. That way, he can have a chance to see some clues. And this time the recruitment of the close guard, the quartermaster began testing again, and Hong Linying was able to approach with a straight face. He leaned back in his chair and looked at the tent, the light in his slightly narrowed eyes kept flickering and his mind kept thinking. "This matter is really when it is tricky, these years both hard and soft, but always unable to get it. If according to his words he only has one or two years of life left, is this true or not? If once it is true, when he put up with the loss of gongfa, but also not to take out, how is this good?"