Chapter 9 Marshal Hong and Division III (Part 2)

This attack by Meng State was extremely dangerous for the defenders of Qingshan Pass. If it were not for Hong Linying's ruthlessness and decisiveness, who used more than 10,000 soldiers to delay the enemy's siege time, the city would have been captured before they could deploy the city walls.

This battle also frightened the people in the city. Seeing the ferocious faces of the enemy constantly emerging from the top of the city, so close that they would never forget it. After this battle, blood covered the top of the city and flowed through the cracks in the city wall to the outside of the city. The area half a mile near the city wall was like a pool of blood. Walking on the usually bright and clean streets, shoes were stained with blood and made a "bang bang" sound.

Hong Linying felt that this battle was extremely dangerous every time he thought of it afterwards. He couldn't help but sighed when he thought of what Ji Wenhe said last night, which mentioned that the enemy's army might hide heavy troops waiting for an opportunity to attack.

Then, in the following months, Ji Wenhe visited him twice in the middle of the night to tell him about the enemy's movements and deployment. Hong Linying basically believed it this time. According to the information Ji Wenhe gave, he made targeted arrangements. As a result, they won a great victory with minimal damage.

The second thing was that Ji Wenhe began to look for people to inherit the skills in the army, but his test was very strange. He did not look at the martial arts roots or use internal force to test the opponent's body. Instead, he used a silver needle to diagnose the pulse of the person being tested. Ji Wenhe said that because their internal skills were very strange, if those who failed the test with this method were forced to practice his unique skills, the result would only lead to the person practicing the skills to reverse the internal energy and bleed from the reverse meridians. What surprised Hong Linying was that there were so many strong people in the army, but Ji Wenhe had not found a suitable person in the year since he entered the army, which surprised him.

With Ji Wenhe's several major military victories, Hong Linying simply let the original military advisor step down and become the deputy military advisor a year later, and let Ji Wenhe become the military advisor. As for how he learned the enemy's news every time, he didn't care much. With Ji Wenhe's skills, he must have many means, not to mention that the enemy's news he gave was extremely accurate. If he was a spy, the price would be too high. It is impossible to use the lives of 70,000 or 80,000 people accumulated in these times to exchange for the possible success of the subsequent plan.

This move made many generals in the army unconvinced at first, but in the next few large and small battles, all the plans were planned by Ji Wenhe, and almost the invading enemies were defeated, which made Ji Wenhe's position in the army stable and his reputation increasingly prosperous.

What made his reputation reach its peak was a battle two and a half years ago. Before that battle, Ji Wenhe went to the Central Army Camp thirty miles north of the city to continue looking for his unknown "disciple". There were hundreds of thousands of local garrisons. Even if Ji Wenhe had great skills, he would do nothing all day. With his skills, he could only test a few hundred people at most. So in the past three years, in addition to testing the tens of thousands of soldiers in Qingshan Pass, he would go to the Central Army Camp from time to time to look for disciples.

These things were very strange to the people in the army at first, but later the officers at all levels gradually got used to it. However, few people outside knew about this. After all, Ji Wenhe was a low-key person, usually silent and seldom interacted with others in private.

This time, on the afternoon of the day when Ji Wenhe went to the central army camp, Meng State suddenly launched an attack. Hong Linying led his troops to meet the enemy and fought with them. This time, the enemy reinforcements were like adding fuel to the fire, slowly increasing in number, entangled Hong Linying and unable to escape, and slowly trapped in the siege. At this time, Ji Wenhe, who was thirty miles away, had received a fast horse report and led his troops from the central army camp. When they arrived, Hong Linying and his troops were already in danger. Ji Wenhe ordered the army to rush inward from the outside with the momentum of the Bagua chain formation, step by step, and for the first time he showed his terrifying martial arts in front of people. He was like a fairy from the sky with a sword, and he shuttled among the enemy troops as if he was in an empty space. Except for occasionally pushing away the enemy's weapons, all those who blocked him were killed with one sword. Finally, he killed his way to the enemy's center, flying in the air like a hawk catching a rabbit. Before the enemy's guards could react, he had already stepped into the middle and plucked the head of the enemy's deputy marshal with a sword. Then, he pushed aside the weapons that came one after another, and stepped up. With just a few steps, he stood on the top of the enemy's flag that was more than ten meters high. He held a sword in one hand and raised the enemy's head in the other hand. It was really a peerless demeanor. The enemy's morale was immediately dispersed, and they had no intention of fighting again. They were defeated and left. Only then did Hong Linying lead his troops to break out.

After this battle, the name of the third military division was unparalleled, even surpassing the name of Marshal Hong, so that people also knew that this military division, who was not only able to "talk about war on paper", was also a peerless master. At the same time, the imperial army no longer focused on defense, but also often sent troops to attack the enemy's border, or also pressed the border with a large army. In the following years, the two sides attacked and defended each other, and they were almost evenly matched. Although Ji Wenhe was there, one person's strength could not determine the outcome on the battlefield. Moreover, Meng State already knew that there was a master in Qingshan Pass who could take the heads of thousands of soldiers, so it also mobilized several first-class and top masters from the country to support it.

Hong Linying was basically sure that Ji Wenhe had reached the realm of transformation through this, and it was even possible that he had reached a realm above this realm, which was a realm he did not know. As a martial arts fanatic, he certainly knew that this was due to the martial arts of Ji Wenhe's sect. Although he had guessed Ji Wenhe's realm before, he had never thought that it was so powerful. After this, he could not help but feel excited, but no matter how he investigated, he could not find out where this sect came from.

And through occasional exchanges with Ji Wenhe, he felt even more that the other party's martial arts were exquisite, or more precisely, the other party's internal strength was exquisite. Any ordinary move, when Ji Wenhe used his internal strength, always made Hong Linying feel like the endless flow of a river, but sometimes it was like a mountain pressing down on the top of the head and destroying everything, and he was completely unable to compete. This made him unable to stop wanting Ji Wenhe's internal strength, and he was greedy for his whole life, and he wanted to get it by all means.

However, Ji Wenhe's selection of disciples has never been finalized, and Ji Wenhe's complexion has become worse and worse in recent years, just as he said before, and even his face has aged a lot. Hong Linying wanted to let him inherit this unique skill indirectly, so after a banquet, he said to Ji Wenhe, "Military Advisor, what kind of person are you going to choose to inherit your sect? So many years have passed, but I haven't met anyone. What kind of person do you want?" Ji Wenhe smiled and replied, "The reason why our sect is passed down from generation to generation is not that we don't accept disciples, but the mental method requirements are very special. It can be said that there is only one in ten thousand. In fact, as long as you can show unique physical performance under the silver needle pulse measurement used by my unique mental method, there is hope." "You are more than one in ten thousand. In my army over the years, whether it is old or new soldiers, you must have measured seven or eight. I think it is one in hundreds of thousands." Hong Linying shook his head and sighed. Then he said, "After you put the silver needle in, what kind of abnormal performance should the body have to have hope?"

Ji Wenhe said, "It's not certain. Maybe it's an abnormal complexion or an abnormal aura in the body. I must use the silver needle as a guide and use my internal force to explore to know. It will be only when it is integrated with my internal strength."

Ji Wenhe always tests in one place, either in the house or in the tent. Except for the person being tested, outsiders are never allowed to enter. So when these words are spoken, Hong Linying is always half-believing and half-doubting.

Hong Linying pretended to be a little drunk, and said under the influence of alcohol, "Then military advisor, can you come and see how my physique is?" He did not say what if it is suitable, nor what if it is not suitable. These words gave people the feeling that they were just jokes after drinking, just curiosity.

Ji Wenhe smiled slightly when he heard this, as if the two of them had just casually mentioned something during a chat. He nodded and said, "Anyway, I have nothing to do, so I can give it a try. Maybe the Marshal is really destined to be with our sect." Then he took the cloth bag from his side, unfolded it, and took out a silver needle from it to test his pulse.

Speaking of this cloth bag, Ji Wenhe said that he would always carry it with him, because once he had free time, he would go find some soldiers to test it. When the silver needle went in, Hong Linying felt a numbness in his wrist, and then there was no abnormality at all, and he did not feel that there was any internal force probing.

Ji Wenhe also shook his head in disappointment and put away the silver needle. "It seems that the Marshal is also not destined to be with our sect, so there is no need to use internal force to check." ??

This means that Hong Linying cannot learn his martial arts, but how can this statement convince Hong Linying? He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. Along the way, he has only overcome difficulties. There is no martial arts that he has seen but cannot learn. It is just a question of whether he is willing to practice.

But he couldn't use force against Ji Wenhe. He thought that he was no match for Ji Wenhe. Even though this person seemed to be getting worse and worse in recent years, it would only take a few moves or even a gesture to deal with someone like him. Although he was already a top master in the current martial arts world, how could he compare with others?

Until the beginning of last year, Ji Wenhe finally found the disciple he was looking for in the central army camp. Hong Linying also found a reason to contact Ji Wenhe's disciple who was just like looking for a drop of water in the "vast sea of ​​people" in private.

He even used his internal force to explore the meridians in the boy's body, but he didn't feel anything special about the boy's meridians. This made him feel that Ji Wenhe must be hiding something, but it was these that made him puzzled.

However, just one month after Ji Wenhe found his disciple, this new disciple suddenly died one night. Afterwards, Ji Wenhe looked painful and regretful, saying that the disciple was illiterate, had a distorted understanding of the sect's martial arts, and practiced improperly, which caused the qi and blood to rush into his body and he died.

Hong Linying also saw the tragic death of that person. His whole body was black and swollen. It didn't seem like he died of a problem with his training, but rather he seemed to have died of a severe poison. This gave him two ideas. One was that Ji Wenhe used that person as a target of poison, and wanted to use a method to force the severe poison in his body into the other person's body to detoxify himself. This target of poison must have some connection with his sect's skills or this severe poison, so he could act according to the law. Otherwise, he would just pull someone to be the target of poison. But later, looking at Ji Wenhe's appearance, his complexion didn't seem to have improved much, which made him doubt the correctness of this judgment. Second, Ji Wenhe's mental method should be intended to be overbearing. Maybe this new disciple really practiced improperly, and really rushed up against the qi, causing the qi and blood to flow backwards, breaking the internal organs, and causing abnormalities all over the body. But people like Ji Wenhe, since he knew that his disciple was illiterate, should have a compromise solution or supervise his training with terrazzo skills. Is he really running out of time? In addition to these, there are still some other things that Hong Linying can't figure out. If you want to know these, you still have to start with pulse testing. Maybe there will be some clues.

Later, Ji Wenhe still went to the army to find some troops to test the pulse, but Hong Linying had no reason to follow. If he followed to watch, it might be said that he was interested once or twice, but if he did it more often, it would be obvious that he had an intention. What's more, this also involves some privacy in the martial arts sects. It is a taboo to pry into the privacy of other sects in the martial arts world, and killing people to silence them is not excessive. But every time he recruited new soldiers, he had a reason to come, to observe the quality and application status of the new soldiers.

In fact, Hong Linying also guessed that Ji Wenhe would know something about his inspection of new recruits every time. It was not difficult for Ji Wenhe to see these things, but Hong Linying had no other choice but to start from here. He wanted to get clues from some clues and then make the next plan, so that he could get one step closer to the top skills he dreamed of. However, Ji Wenhe always completed the pulse test in the tent, so he could not enter.

Even so, he still wanted to see what kind of person Ji Wenhe chose as the first time, and what clues he could catch. Of course, such things must be seen with one's own eyes and done in person. After all, what others say is not as clear as what you see with your own eyes.

Hong Linying leaned back in the chair and looked at the tent. His eyes flickered as he squinted. He kept thinking, "This is really a difficult matter. I have tried everything in the past few years, but I still can't get it. If what he said is true, he only has one or two years left to live. Is this true? Even if it is true, he would rather lose the secret than give it out. What should I do now?"