Tang riddles

Li Jinyue rode fast on the horse, and the torch in Cheng Yan's hand next to her illuminated the area within two feet in front of her.There is endless darkness in front of the light, staring at the front, it is a long road leading to nowhere.

But her horse speed never dropped.Behind her, followed by thousands of Imperial Guard troops, galloping, horseshoes sounded like thunder, kicking up dust all over the sky.Among them are the people assigned to her by the saint, her own Gongyue army, and the people brought by the tracking expert Huyan Zhuoma sent by Qianyumen.They were heading northeast along the official road in the north of Luoyang City.It was Huyan Zhuoma who judged the direction. The traces on the ground could not escape his eyes. He could even judge the approximate size of the person who took the prince.

A team of seventeen or eighteen people is small in scale and highly mobile.The horses are all fast horses, without a carriage, and the leading horse is very unusual. The horseshoe prints are deeper than the rest of the horses, indicating that this horse is quite heavily equipped, and it is likely to be a heavy cavalry.But even the heavy cavalry is still quite fast, surpassing other horses, which shows that the quality of this horse itself is terrible.

After the horseshoe print extended for a mile, it gradually faded.They should have tied large canopy branches and leaves to the horse's tail and dragged them on the ground to cover up the traces.But time was in a hurry, and they didn't have time to completely hide their tracks. Eliminating the horseshoe prints in this way was not very effective.

However, this group of foreign spies is also quite smart.It is useless to know how to cover tracks on such trails.After that, they simply went to the officialdom.Cars and horses come and go on the official road every day, full of messy horseshoe prints, which immediately confused their tracks.

In doing so, they did delay the speed of the pursuers.Because Huyan Zhuoma needs to stop and carefully distinguish the horseshoe prints to confirm the direction of tracking.However, there is also a disadvantage in this way. The position at the end of the official road is determined. They must not walk along the official road all the time. They must leave the official road halfway, otherwise they will inevitably encounter the pursuers.You must know that the palace has sent swan geese to send letters urgently, and the garrisons in various cities hundreds of miles outside Luoyang City will soon receive emergency military reports, and the speed of mobilization is very fast. The encirclement and suppression of the Wan Da army.

Li Jinyue was very interested, where would they go?

After running for nearly a hundred miles along this official road, they came to a fork in the road.This is a three-way road, the leftmost one goes to Heyang Meng County, the middle one goes to Yanshi, and the rightmost one goes to Songshan Dengfeng.

The large army stopped, Huyan Zhuoma dismounted again, and carefully identified the horse's hoof prints. After a while, he said:

"The other party set a trap here. They sent a few people to pretend to be horseshoe prints, trying to lead us to Meng County, but in fact, they took the far right road to Dengfeng."

Li Jinyue didn't hesitate too much, and immediately led the large army onto the far right road.

After galloping on the road for several miles, suddenly heard the cry of an eagle in the night sky, Huyan Zhuoma looked up at the sky, laughed loudly and said:

"Sure enough! The direction is right." Bai Hao's tweet is the best evidence.

The hawk chirped and disappeared without knowing where, and then there were countless flapping wings from behind, and birds chirping one after another. A large number of frightened birds also followed their direction, and soon passed the top of their heads, flying go ahead.

"What a frightening flock of birds, princess, what's going on here?" Cheng Yan asked in a low voice.

"I'm afraid they are going after Shen Erlang." Li Jinyue replied with a frown.

Huyan Zhuoma didn't speak, but his heart was beating wildly.

This night is destined to be long, but no matter how long the night is, it will come to an end.It was only when the eastern sky turned pale that Li Jinyue realized that they had been running all night, and they had traveled an incredible number of miles.

And when the sun rises in the east, they face difficulties again.

Another fork in the road, one to Songshan, one to Dengfeng.This time, even Huyan Zhuoma had no idea.

"They divided up, one group went to Songshan, and the other went to Dengfeng." Hu Yanzhuoma said.He looked up at the large flocks of birds heading for the green hills, and frowned, "According to the direction the flocks are going, my Erlang went to Mount Song, but the crown prince probably went to Dengfeng. The other party should have noticed the flocks of birds." Following Erlang's situation, we had no choice but to divide our troops."

Li Jinyue's face was serious, this time she thought for a long time, and gave an order:

"The opponent divides the army, so we divide the army. Cheng Yi! You take the Gongyue Army and the Forbidden Army with 1000 people, and follow them to Dengfeng! The rest, follow me to Songshan Mountain!"

"Princess?!" Cheng Yan was taken aback by Li Jinyue's order, "The crown prince is going to Dengfeng, why did you go to Mount Song in person?"

"Don't ask too many questions, obey orders!" Li Jinyue reprimanded.

"Here!" Cheng Yan took the order, immediately mobilized his troops, and hurried to Dengfeng along the fork on the right.

Li Jinyue counted the rest of the team, a total of 1000 people, all of whom were assigned to her by the saint.She cleaned up the team and led the team to continue to Songshan.Huyan Zhuoma also went to Mount Song with the team. For him, recovering Shen Jin was naturally more important than recovering the prince. No matter what, he had to bring Erlang back safely.It's just that he didn't expect that Li Jinyue would choose to go to Songshan Mountain in person.

"Princess, why did you choose to go to Songshan Mountain?"

Li Jinyue looked at the vast mountain in front of her, and replied: "This may be the enemy's trick to confuse. The division of troops here makes us misunderstand that Qin Nu and the prince are separated. But I think it is possible that they are still together." The nature is not small. The opponent may want to confuse most of the pursuers to Dengfeng. They entered the vast mountains, and it is not impossible to escape. In addition, Dengfeng has a large number of troops , the other party should not take the prince there. I judge that the possibility of the prince and Erlangyi being taken to Songshan is relatively high. But just in case, I let Cheng Yi go to Dengfeng, it should be safe .”

Li Jinyue's judgment was very clear, and Huyan Zhuoma also had a sudden sense of enlightenment. She couldn't help sighing secretly. Princess Jin is indeed a general who has been honed for many years in the frontier. She is very good at tracking down the enemy's tracks. Also an expert.

Moving on, the road changed from a dirt road to a gravel road, and it became increasingly difficult to recognize the enemy's tracks.When they came to the foot of Songshan Mountain, the sun had turned from rising in the east to setting in the west, and they completely lost the enemy's trace.

It is not an option to continue searching like this without thinking. After searching for a day and a night, Li Jinyue found a relatively open area and ordered to stay in place for repairs.

Huyan Zhuoma took the water bag, drank it, and walked to Li Jinyue who was sitting in the shade of a tree looking at the topographic map.Li Jinyue brought her marching bag with her when she came out. She habitually stored maps in the bag, because she has been studying the military situation in the northeast area recently, and Luoyang area, which is the rear of the Heshuo battle, was also included in her bag. There are more detailed maps of Dugi Province and Henan Province.For the current situation, it is much more convenient to have a map by your side.

He handed his water bag to Li Jinyue, Li Jinyue didn't dislike him drinking it, took a few sips after taking it, raised the back of his hand to wipe his mouth, and said:

"Right now I have lost track, and the birds have entered the mountain, but they can't find the target. It seems that we have to wait for the large army to come and find a way to search the mountain before we can find someone." When she said this, she couldn't help but Some worried.The longer the time dragged on, the less and less the possibility of the prince surviving.I don't know what the other party's purpose is for kidnapping the prince. Whether it's the secret passage in the Nanyuan pond of the East Palace or the kidnapping in Hanjiacang, no matter how you think about it, the other party is all after the prince.I heard that the gangsters wanted to assassinate the saint at that time, but Zhang Gong stopped him.Come to think of it, they wanted to kill the sage, take the crown prince away, blow up the imperial palace and burn the grain and grass in Hanjia, causing great chaos within the Tang Dynasty.If the Shen sisters hadn't found out the secret of the black fire/powder being secretly sent by the water channel, this conspiracy would have been carried out even more secretly.If it succeeds, the consequences will be disastrous.

Right now, only if the crown prince is taken away, the threat to Datang will be greatly reduced.The other party may use the prince as a bargaining chip to threaten Datang to make a deal, but the prince's weight is not enough, it is hard to say whether the sage will completely abandon the prince for the sake of the overall situation.It can only be said that the prince's life is safe for the time being, it depends on whether the other party's request will exceed the value of the prince's life in the heart of the saint.Once the prince loses its value, it is useless, and it is only natural to be abandoned.

But, why did they take Qin Nu away?Is it to follow the trend in an emergency, or is there another purpose?Knowing that Qin Nu has attracted a large flock of birds, in order to hide his tracks, he should leave him behind, why does he still have to be with him all the time?Li Jinyue frowned suspiciously, unable to figure it out.

During the time when Li Jinyue bowed his head and thought, Huyan Zhuoma stood at the mountain pass, looking at the misty and winding green mountains in front of him, observing the terrain.Songshan Mountain is famous all over the world, especially since the second sage enshrined Zen Buddhism 40 years ago, the name of Zhongyue Songshan Mountain has surpassed other mountains, and it is faintly comparable to Dongyue Mount Tai.

Taishi Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain face each other far away, and the 72 peaks stand tall.The topographical structure is strange and complex, with anticlines, synclines, domes, and overlapping faults. The situation is majestic and magnificent.Right now they are located on the upwind side of the foothills on the sunny side of Shaoshi Mountain. The terrain here is relatively gentle, and there is an easier-to-walk mountain path opened by mountain people on one side.Going further up, the terrain will become steeper and the mountain road will become more difficult to walk.And Shaoshi Xifeng Liantian Peak is the highest peak in Shaoshi. It is thousands of feet high and precipitous.

"Boom~~" "Boom~~", the evening drum reverberates from Shaoshi Mountain into the valley. It is vast and vast. Huyan Zhuoma looks up to the mountain. Although he can't see anything, he knows that it is the evening drum of Shaolin Temple. Voice.

"Princess, why not ask the monks from Shaolin Temple to help us. They are more familiar with the terrain of Mount Song than we are. When the thirteen stick monks in Shaolin rescued the King of Qin, Shaolin Temple and the Tang royal family had a constant kindness. The monks and soldiers would not be able to deal with such a big event. Ignore it. Besides, the soldiers left in a hurry when they came out, and they didn't expect to fight a protracted battle. They only had one day's rations and water on their bodies, and they needed supplies and rest, so they couldn't just eat and sleep outdoors all the time." Huyan Zhuoma said.

Li Jinyue's eyes lit up, she nodded and said: "This strategy is very good, brother Huyan, you can go with me, Shaolin Temple is not far from where our military camp is stationed, so we will leave without further delay."

After speaking, she gave some instructions to the officers under her command, and then she brought two guards and went up the mountain together with Huyan Zhuoma.

Through the dense jungle, they followed the mountain path upwards.The stone steps seemed to have no end. After climbing for a quarter of an hour, I still couldn't see the destination. The sky was getting darker, and the scenery in front of me had become blurred.Huyan Zhuoma lit the torch, held it up to lead the way, and the group continued to climb the mountain path panting.

After walking for another quarter of an hour, two figures in white robes stepped out of the deep twilight in front of the mountain road.After a while, it has come to the front.After a closer look, it turned out to be two monks.He is only in his teens or 20s, very young, with handsome features and heroic faces.They carried eyebrow sticks behind their backs, and when they saw Li Jinyue and his party, they immediately stopped, put their hands together, bowed and chanted, and performed the Buddhist ceremony.

"Amitabha, several benefactors, you have worked hard all the way up the mountain." One of the monks said.

Li Jinyue stepped forward, clasped his palms together and said in return: "You two young masters are polite, we are about to pay homage to Shaolin Temple, may I ask if these two young masters are monks of Shaolin Temple?"

"Exactly, the poor monk Qingyuan, and his younger brother Qingguang, according to the order of the abbot, went down the mountain to welcome several benefactors into the temple. In addition, the temple has already made preparations to welcome the soldiers from the mountain to rest in the temple. Several benefactors, please."

Li Jinyue and Huyan Zhuoma looked at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes.It was really quick for Shaolin Temple to get the news, but at the same time, they were secretly delighted. It seems that there is already a way to ask monks and soldiers to help.

So he hurriedly ordered a personal soldier to go down the mountain to inform the soldiers to come up the mountain immediately, and then stepped up, followed the two monks, and went to Shaolin Temple in the twilight.

The author has something to say: Zhongyue Songshan, Luoyang to the west, Zhengzhou to the east, and Huasong on the left and right are in the middle. "The Book of Songs" has a saying: "Song is as high as Yue, and it is as steep as the sky."It is the mountain with the oldest geological history on the land of China. It has experienced the Archaean, Proterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic to the present.

Empress Wu Zetian climbed Songshan Mountain 10 times.In the fourth year of Chuigong after Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty (AD 685), Empress Wu Zetian climbed Songshan Mountain, changed Songshan Mountain to Shenyue, named it King of Heaven, and was accompanied by a concubine Tianling.In the first year of Long Live of Empress Wu (695 A.D.), she built the Dengfeng Altar on Junji Peak of Mount Song.In the following year, he climbed the Junji Peak of Songshan Mountain, granted Zhongyue the title of King Tianzhong as Emperor of Tianzhong, and Concubine Tianling as Queen of Tianzhong, and erected a monument on the southeast side of Junji Peak. "The Monument of the Monument in the Great Zhou Well", and an altar was built in Wanyanggang, west of the county seat, and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Shaoshi was held.In the same year, an altar was built in front of Songyang Academy, where he received the court congratulations from the officials after he was named Zhongyue.After some celebrations, the queen went to Yangcheng to have fun.

In order to commemorate the grand ceremony of Feng Zhongyue, Songyang County was changed to "Dengfeng County" and Yangcheng County to "Gaocheng County" by Wu Zetian's decree. It is the first year of "Long live Tongtian".In 700 A.D., Wu Zetian once again led a group of ministers to cast a golden slip on the Junji Peak of Songshan Mountain. The Nine Houses exonerated Wu Zhao, Taifa Gengzi Seventh () Moon Jia Shenshuo Seventh () Japanese Jiayin Small Envoy () Hu Chao Jishou and I will pay homage to him." After that, he brought all the civil and military officials to Shiconghe for a joyous celebration. feast.Shicong River is now a tourist attraction. In May 1982, a herbal farmer in Dengfeng picked up the golden slips dropped by Wu Zetian that year, which provided "golden evidence" for the study of Wu Zetian's seal of Songshan.The golden bamboo slips are now in the collection of Henan Museum.

【Emperor Wu is the most named emperor I have ever seen. He is the only one who conferred the title of emperor on a mountain and has a wife. (?ω<)?てへぺろ】