Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 60: Wu Mu's Legacy, Secret Records of Military Formations

Wang Chongyang's painting skills are good. As far as Qiu Chuji feels, it is already a relatively detailed map of this era. If the landscape painting part could be restrained a little more, it would be even better.

After seeing Qiu Chuji fold the map and put it safely in his arms, Wang Chongyang handed him another stack of documents.

"These are the identity documents of Jin and Song that I prepared for you. You can use them as appropriate."

"This way you don't have to avoid cities and sleep in the wilderness!"

Upon hearing this, Qiu Chuji immediately took it with a smile on his face.

In this way, the biggest trouble is solved. Not to mention that you can go into the city to eat and stay along the way, even if you occasionally miss the journey, you can go into the city to find someone to ask, and then follow the official road, or simply find a caravan to travel with, which is more convenient.

"Thank you, Master!" Qiu Chuji was so moved that he clasped his fists.

Wang Chongyang handed over a belt with gold thread inside. "When traveling in the martial arts world, it is inevitable to have to eat and eat. When we fight with others, we may forget some of the things we carry with us. In the early years, I suffered some losses. Later, I sewed gold thread and silver cakes into clothes, and took them out from time to time to use them, which was considered to avoid embarrassment."

As the saying goes, a penny can make a hero fall. Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin, had to steal melons from melon fields to fill his stomach because he was short of money. This shows that it is useless to have high martial arts skills in the world. If you don't want to rob and become a bandit, you have to have some money.

What's wrong with being the best in the world? You still need to eat!
Qiu Chuji took the belt with both hands, then wrapped it around his waist. It felt heavy and safe.

Finally, Wang Chongyang handed Qiu Chuji two small medicine bottles, one red and one white, which were used to treat internal and external injuries respectively.

After everything was explained, Qiu Chuji went down Mount Hua alone.

Perhaps Ouyang Feng had already started to take action, as the smell of horse manure on the Jin soldiers could no longer be smelled near Huashan.

This is a pity. Without Qiu Chuji's horse, he can only suffer with the shoes on his feet.

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With an identity and money, Qiu Chuji's journey eastward was much smoother.

About five or six days later, we took a boat up the Yuan River and saw a mountain shaped like five fingers pointing to the sky between Luxi and Chenxi.

That is Iron Palm Mountain, the home base of the Iron Palm Gang.

The mountain road was rugged and the grass on both sides of the road was waist-high, making it extremely difficult to walk. Qiu Chuji rode for about fifty or sixty miles and when he reached the foot of the mountain, he could already see five peaks towering into the clouds.

When you get closer, you can see that the five peaks are steep and protruding, just like five fingers standing in the air.

The peak in the middle is particularly tall and straight.

"What a great Iron Palm Mountain! If I hadn't known about it in advance, I would have thought we were at the Five Finger Mountain."

Looking at the mountain, Qiu Chuji became more and more certain that although this world was inextricably linked to another period of history he knew, there was absolutely no exact overlap, whether it was the mountains and rivers or the vivid characters living in this world.

Leaving the rented horse at the foot of the mountain, Qiu Chuji didn't care whether there was anyone guarding the mountain. He used his lightness skills to transform into a green light and flew across the mountain, heading straight to the top of the mountain.

Although the mountain path is winding, Qiu Chuji does not have to follow the mountain path. Although Iron Palm Mountain is dangerous, it is not as dangerous as Mount Hua.

Mount Hua was as flat as the ground at Qiu Chuji's feet, so what was the point of mentioning this mountain?
Halfway through the journey, Qiu Chuji vaguely heard the sound of a large number of weapons clashing on the mountain, as if there was a fierce conflict and fight within the Iron Palm Gang.

Could it be that Qiu Qianzhang’s identity has been discovered?

The heroes have no leader, so they start fighting among themselves?

If this is true, it is... cause for celebration!
Qiu Chuji had not forgotten that Wu Yan had said that the Iron Palm Gang was also a "guide party" among the underworld gangs. Now that they were exhausted by internal strife, they would not have to take up swords and go up the mountain to sweep in the future.

However, Qiu Chuji obviously underestimated the impact of his killing Qiu Qianren. The Iron Palm Gang was originally led by the previous leader Shangguan Jiannan. It was an anti-Jin gang. Although it was underworld, it maintained national integrity.

After Qiu Qianren succeeded to the throne, he changed his ways and led his gang members to join the Jin people. He also treated those old men in the gang who had resisted the Jin people ruthlessly.

However, the tree is big and the roots are deep. Even if Qiu Qianren wants to completely turn the Iron Palm Gang into a one-man show, it will take some time.

Qiu Chuji killed him with a sword without giving him time. There were two obvious voices within the Iron Palm Gang. Without the powerful force to suppress them, the contradictions between the two voices intensified immediately, and they fought endlessly until they were at death.

When he reached the top of the mountain, he saw a stone chamber. Qiu Chuji went in quietly and walked inside step by step. After turning two corners, a huge cave suddenly appeared in front of him.

This cave was formed naturally and is ten times larger than the artificially excavated stone chambers outside.

Looking around, there are more than ten skeletons in the cave, some sitting or lying, with different expressions, some skeletons are scattered on the ground, some are still intact, and some are bone urns and spirit tablets. Beside each skeleton are weapons, hidden weapons, tools, treasures and other items.

This is the forbidden area of ​​the Iron Palm Gang, and also the burial place of successive gang leaders.

The Iron Palm Gang has a rule that after the death of the gang leader, one of the disciples will carry him up the mountain and then commit suicide in the cave, which is quite like burial alive with the dead. Therefore, the corpses in the cave are not all those of the Iron Palm Gang's leader. I'm afraid most of them are the disciples who committed suicide.

Qiu Chuji had great internal strength and his eyes were as sharp as lightning. Even though the cave was dark, there was no need for lighting. He swept his eyes around and immediately found a wooden box placed on a skeleton on the east wall of the cave. The words "Secret to Breaking Gold" were engraved on the box.

Qiu Chuji did not move, but used the Qi method of the Dragon Catching Skill to reach out his hand through the air, and the wooden box flew over and jumped into his palm.

He waved his hand to wipe off the dust on the wooden box, then solemnly opened the box. There were two booklets in the box, one thick and one thin.

Qiu Chuji first picked up the thin book in front of him and flipped it open. It turned out to be a collection of Yue Fei's memorials, petitions, inscriptions, letters, and poems over the years.

Flipping through it casually, one can see the spirit of loyalty and righteousness evident in every word and sentence.

After taking a quick look at it, Qiu Chuji carefully put it away and took out the thicker one.

After flipping through it again, Qiu Chuji didn't think there was anything special about the part about training soldiers and how to strengthen their physique and will.

These may be considered "treasures" to the ancients, but as a time traveler, Qiu Chuji dares to say that no one knows how to train a disciplined force better than him.

Growing up under the red flag, all I learned was dragon-slaying techniques.

Don’t take college students as office workers lightly. If you change your place and arrive at the battlefield in Africa, you can immediately transform yourself into a military strategist and come up with all kinds of wise plans.

However, when it came to the part of deploying troops, Qiu Chuji was surprised.

There are masters in the martial arts world who can set up formations and borrow the power of everyone, or even the power of all things in heaven and earth, to trap, injure, or even kill people.

The best among them was Huang Yaoshi. He set up the Peach Blossom Formation on Peach Blossom Island, which trapped Zhou Botong for more than ten years. Even with Zhou Botong's strength, he couldn't break out by force.

Such formation drills seem to have a stronger effect when applied to military formations, but because they involve too many people to be deployed, they are not suitable for micro-management.

Therefore, a strong military formation needs to be simple and convenient, able to be immediately broken up and reorganized, but also extremely powerful.

"Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation, Heavenly Gate Formation, Great Peng Scattering Stars Formation, Cloud Palace Bullfighting Formation, Smoke and Cloud Locking Mist Formation, Thousands of Troops Bewitching Soul Formation..."

"No wonder Guo Jing, who was so simple and honest, was able to help Mongolia conquer the Jin Dynasty after obtaining the Wu Mu's posthumous book, and was able to defend the city of Xiangyang for many years with the help of the Jianghu people and the soldiers. The Wu Mu's posthumous book is not only a summary of Yue Fei's military tactics and military formations, it almost encompasses the essence accumulated by the military families of the Song Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)