Chapter 44: If You Don’t Have Enough Strength, You Can Make up for It with Weapons and Armor

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Seeing that Tang Long was very knowledgeable about soldiers and armor, how could Jiang Hongfei not see that Tang Long was definitely an expert in soldiers and armor?

There is a very popular saying in this world: if strength is not enough, soldiers must come together.

Whether a Qi Master is strong or not depends not only on its attack power and defense power, but also on martial arts, magical powers, speed, spiritual power strength, spiritual power recovery speed, spiritual power usage skills, combat experience, etc.

However, no matter who it is, they have to admit that as long as their attack and defense power increase, those weak Qi Refiners can still pose a threat to powerful Qi Refiners under some special circumstances, such as on the battlefield.

What's more, there are also weapons such as bows and crossbows that can narrow the strength gap between Qi Refiners.

It is no exaggeration to say that even an entry-level Qi practitioner who only has a certain spiritual root and has barely awakened his spiritual power, as long as he is given a crossbow and arrows, it is theoretically possible for him to kill a powerful Qi practitioner. Spiritual.

This was also the reason why Zhao Xin and others became a little wary when they saw that Jiang Hongfei had brought 300 spiritual guards equipped with armor and crossbows that day.

Just because, if the tactics are used properly and the spirit guards cooperate well, then the three hundred spirit guards may not be able to kill powerful Qi practitioners such as Zhao Xin and Gao Liang.

What's more important is that in large-scale wars, the main competition is between these low-level Qi warriors. In this way, the war is almost a battle of armor, morale, will, tactics, and command. .

In short, for a force, soldiers and armor are extremely important.

Therefore, although Tang Long's strength and character were not very good, his skills in refining armor and his understanding of armor alone were worthy of Jiang Hongfei's efforts to recruit him.

After the meal, Jiang Hongfei asked Wang Qing and Tang Long if they were okay. If they were okay, Jiang Hongfei would accompany him to the Daxiangguo Temple.

Wang Qing is an idler, so of course there is no problem.

It's too late for Tang Long to hide from the eunuchs in charge of the armory in the capital, so how can he go back? Furthermore, Tang Long was still thinking about borrowing some spiritual money from Jiang Hongfei and repaying his gambling debt to the eunuch in charge, so how could he not leave with Jiang Hongfei?

So, a group of four people came to Daxiangguo Temple.

Daxiangguo Temple is a large-scale royal temple, covering an area of ​​more than 500 acres. It has majestic palaces, deep and wide courtyards, more than a thousand monks, and more than 10,000 monk rooms.

Zhao Ji sometimes came to Daxiangguo Temple to hold some prayers, birthday wishes or foreign affairs activities.

However, Zhao Ji, who believes in Buddhism but not in Buddhism, mostly goes to the Shangqing Baolu Palace he built himself to hold prayers, birthday celebrations or foreign affairs activities.

Daxiangguo Temple is open five times a month. The first, fifteenth and eighth days of each month are open days.

At these times, the outside of Daxiangguo Temple turns into a big market. People from the Gyeonggi area come from all directions, and it is crowded and bustling.

——Some of them came to burn incense and worship Buddha, some came to set up street stalls to do various businesses, some came to hang out and watch the sideshows, and some came to steal chickens and dogs. There were all kinds of people.

Today is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and it is the day when the Daxiangguo Temple is open, so the Daxiangguo Temple is crowded and very lively.

Jiang Hongfei came to Daxiangguo Temple not to play, but to see the flower monk Lu Zhishen.

After Jiang Hongfei rescued Lin Chong's family, Coach Zhang said to Jiang Hongfei:

Lu Zhishen sent Lin Chong to Cangzhou, and after saving Lin Chong's life, he returned to Daxiangguo Temple and wanted to continue to see his vegetable garden.

Unexpectedly, Dong Chao and Xue Ba came back and said to Gao Qiu: "Just as he was about to kill Lin Chong in the wild boar forest, he was rescued by Lu Zhishen of the Grand Prime Minister's Temple. The monk was sent directly to Cangzhou, so he could not be harmed."

After hearing this, Gao Qiu was furious and ordered the elders of Daxiangguo Temple not to allow Lu Zhishen to hang out with him, and also sent people to capture Lu Zhishen.

Fortunately, Zhang San, the street rat, Li Si, the grass snake, and other gangsters informed Lu Zhishen in time. Lu Zhishen set a fire and burned down the vegetable garden, and then escaped in the rivers and lakes.

This happened not long ago. Jiang Hongfei estimated that Lu Zhishen might still be in Bianliang City now.

If you want to know whether Lu Zhishen is still in Bianliang City, you only need to find Zhang San, Li Si and the others and ask.

Wang Qing knew that Zhang San and Li Si were gangsters, and said that they hung around the Daxiangguo Temple all day long.

So Jiang Hongfei came over.

As soon as the four of them arrived at the Daxiangguo Temple, they saw a group of scoundrels armed with slingshots, blowpipes, and sticks, surrounding a dignified young woman and her maid to tease her. Now, the young woman and the maid may have been taken advantage of by these rogues.

Tang Long took a closer look and immediately became furious. It turned out that the young woman who was being teased was none other than his sister-in-law, who was Xu Ning's wife.

Tang Long rushed over without saying a word, and at the same time shouted: "The world is peaceful, but you are teasing your loved ones, and you gangsters will see if the Sa family doesn't kill you!"

But before Tang Long could rush to the place, a dark-faced, majestic beggar with a curly beard, nine feet tall, ten waists wide, and very blue hair knocked down all the gangsters with one punch.

When Tang Long saw him, he quickly bowed to the beggar and said, "Thank you, hero, for saving my sister-in-law. I'm Tang Long, and everyone in the world calls me Golden Leopard. Do you dare to ask me your surname?"

The beggar returned the gift perfunctorily: "Yan Shude."

Tang Long did not neglect Yan Shude because of Yan Shude's attitude, but continued to say enthusiastically: "If brother doesn't dislike it, I would like to buy him a drink to thank him for saving his sister-in-law."

As soon as the words came out, Tang Long remembered that he had no money on him.

Fortunately, at this moment, Jiang Hongfei, Wang Qing and Ruan Xiaoqi came over.

Seeing Jiang Hongfei, Tang Long immediately felt confident. He quickly said to Yan Shude: "Brother, I will introduce you to a first-class hero. I just met him today and we are not close friends, but he lent me 100 strings of cash."

Yan Shude was interested when he heard that Jiang Hongfei was so generous.

When Jiang Hongfei, Wang Qing and Ruan Xiaoqi came closer, Tang Long quickly introduced Jiang Hongfei and the other two to Yan Shude: "This is Brother Jiang Fei, a big official from Jeju. This is Wang Junshi of Kaifeng Prefecture, Brother Jiang Fei's sworn brother. This is Brother Ruan Qi, Brother Jiang Fei's companion."

Then, Tang Long introduced Yan Shude to Jiang Hongfei, Wang Qing and Ruan Xiaoqi: "This is Brother Yan Shude."

In fact, Jiang Hongfei had already heard Yan Shude's self-introduction.

To be honest, Jiang Hongfei really didn't expect Yan Shude to appear here.

Yes.

In "The Outlaws of the Marsh", Yan Shude met Xu Huai in Bianliang City, but that was because he lost all his capital in business and went to his cousin Qin Ming. As a result, Qin Ming was persuaded by Song Jiang to become a bandit. He didn't want to become a bandit, so he killed the person who persuaded him to become a bandit and came to Bianliang City.

At present, Song Jiang is still working as a bailiff in Yuncheng, and it is impossible for him to persuade Qin Ming to become a bandit.

So the timeline doesn't match at all.

But Jiang Hongfei didn't dwell on this little thing.

In "The Outlaws of the Marsh", Yan Shude had a brilliant record of fighting against Lu Junyi, Xu Ning and Zhang Qing, a Liangshan hero, and two Liangshan Eight Cavalrymen who were undefeated.

Considering that it was the Zhao Song court that won a great victory at that time, and Liangshan Marsh lost two of the three passes and was about to be wiped out by the government army, Lu Junyi, Xu Ning and Zhang Qing's momentum was frustrated and their strength might be greatly reduced. Yan Shude should not be Lu Junyi's opponent.

But even so, Yan Shude, who could surely defeat Qin Ming, should have the strength of the Five Tigers, and be about the same as Lin Chong and Guan Sheng.

What is even more commendable is that Yan Shude is also a very loyal person. Later, when Xu Huai, the benefactor who saved him from poverty, passed away, he actually hit his head against the coffin and died.

Jiang Hongfei must have tried every means to recruit such a brave and loyal general.

Therefore, as soon as Tang Long introduced the two parties, Jiang Hongfei couldn't wait to repeat the old trick and said: "Brother Shude, you made me wait so long!"

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