The Monkey King

Tushita Palace in the Thirty-third Heaven.

Amidst the clouds and mist, the huge rocks suspended in the air were dotted with green. In the pavilion, Taishang Laojun and a black-haired old man were sitting at two ends of a stone chessboard playing chess.

The black-haired old man stared at the chessboard intently, stretched out his hand to open his sleeves and stuck some sunspots on them, and said leisurely: "I heard that Marshal Tianpeng resisted the decree and is now leading the Tianhe navy to suppress demons in Huaguo Mountain in Dongsheng Shenzhou. It seems like Li Jing from Nantianmen is here too."

With that said, Heizi settled down and raised his eyelids slightly to glance at Taishang.

The old man was dressed in a red splendid Taoist robe, and his long, oiled black hair was swaying around his shoulders. However, his temples were gray and his face was rough. The water chestnuts were as sharp as a knife. Coupled with the short beard, he did not look like a human being. The Taoist and Immortal family is like a martial artist.

In terms of face, he is much younger than Taishang.

"Junior brother, haven't you been interested in world affairs for a long time? Why are you so concerned about it this time?" As he said that, the Supreme Master casually picked up Bai Zi and settled down, with an expression that seemed to be at ease.

"It's not that I'm interested." The black-haired old man clicked his tongue and laughed: "I just heard someone mention it by chance and asked in passing. In my free time, I occasionally hear some rumors, so I should just dismiss them."

After that, he lost his son again, let out a long sigh, and said casually: "Junior brother, I have been practicing recently, and I have a glimpse of the way of heaven. At this time, fighting in the Huaguo Mountain... seems a little wrong. Could it be that the way of heaven has something to do with it? Strange?" "Junior brother, you are overly worried. The way of heaven is not easy to understand, it is just a twist." As soon as he got down, the Supreme Being stroked his long beard and laughed.

The black-haired old man was slightly stunned. He stared at the chessboard with less than thirty chess pieces for a long time, and then he suddenly realized: "After all, I am not as good as my senior brother. Hahahaha."

"Another game?" Taishang asked.

"No, I can't. Even if I play a hundred games, I can't beat my senior brother." The black-haired old man waved his hand.

"Well, isn't playing chess just for winning?"

"What are you going to do if you don't win?"

Looking at the black-haired old man, the Supreme Master sighed: "Junior brother is still as energetic as when he was young. I really envy him."

"What's so enviable about this? Junior brother, I remember that you, too, were very angry when you were young. At that time, you quite hated this state of mind."

The Supreme Being stretched out his hand to clean up the chessboard and said with a dry smile: "It is often when things are lost that you know how to cherish them. In charge of the way of heaven, five hundred years of prosperity. Five hundred years of decline. In the end, everything is just a passing cloud. The further you look, the more helpless you become. .Senior brother, I no longer have the determination I had when I was young."

After saying that, the Supreme Being gently patted the black-haired old man's hand and whispered: "It's not terrible if you don't get it. The terrible thing is that there is nothing in front of you." The black-haired old man stared at the sad-looking Supreme Being. Bantian: "Hey, senior brother is right to say that. Everyone has their own sufferings. We are not those in the West who practice Buddhism. How can we have 'bliss'? Hahahaha."

After laughing. The black-haired old man paused and then asked: "Senior brother, who do you think will win in this battle at Huaguo Mountain?"

"I think?" The Supreme Being thought for a moment and replied with a half-smile, "I don't know."

"You don't even know, senior brother?" The black-haired old man looked at the Supreme Being with half-squinted eyes.

"have no idea."

"That's really strange." The black-haired old man stroked the beard at the corner of his mouth with his thumb and said: "Marshal Tianpeng, when it comes to leading troops, he should be the best in heaven. Could it be that he can still lose to a monster monkey in the lower world? Can’t do it?”

Putting the last chess piece into the box, the Supreme Emperor raised his eyes and looked at the black-haired old man and said, "What does victory or defeat have to do with us?"

The black-haired old man pouted: "That's true. Originally, humans were chosen to be the rulers of the Heavenly Court in order to achieve balance. In recent years, the Tianhe navy has indeed suppressed the demons more harshly, and it has become the dominant family in the Three Realms. The situation. It doesn’t matter if he loses, the demon clan rises, and everything returns to the beginning.”…

"The waxing and waning of one thing is inevitable, but it cannot return to the beginning."

"Why can't you come back?" The black-haired old man was slightly startled.

Stroking his long beard, the Supreme Master sighed: "This time the demon monkey is a bit special."

…

The confrontation lasted for a whole day, and the mighty army of more than 20 and nearly 300,000 people just stared at each other.

During this whole day, the two sides only did verbal abuse, but neither of them took any action.

It was not until sunset that the three prominent phalanxes of the Tianhe navy began to retreat.

"Could it be that they just came here to show off and then left?" Monkey raised his hand and said, "Push forward, don't let them leave like this."

Turning his face sideways, the monkey said to the nine-headed insect: "I can't leave, how about you go and lead me?"

"Okay." The nine-headed insect nodded, turned into a black light and flew towards the front line.

The war drums of the Huaguoshan Demon Army, which had been silent all day, finally started to beat. The demon soldiers deployed on the front line quickly cheered up and began to move forward.

The originally unorganized troops slowly spread out to guard the twelve wooden warships and moved forward slowly. The faces with extremely different appearances exuded murderous aura.

Seeing that the demon army in Huaguo Mountain finally made some movement, the three retreating phalanxes immediately stopped.

"Marshal." Tianfu's eyes slowly tilted towards the canopy.

Touching his chin and pursed his lips, Tianpeng frowned and stared at the slowly advancing demon warships. He stretched out his hand to indicate: "The 17th and 30th phalanxes on the left wing, the 58th and 72nd phalanxes on the right wing." , taking the fifty-eighth square formation as the standard, march out and advance eight hundred feet. The first and third square formations of the Chinese army remain in place, and the second square formation retreats fifty feet to form a "one-word" formation. Tian Ren continues to be responsible Vanguard command.”

"promise!"

At the same time as the messenger flew out, Tianpeng turned to the general on the side and said: "The Chinese army retreated one hundred and fifty feet, and the left and right wings advanced six hundred feet in a flying geese formation."

"promise."

"Marshal, is this...?"

"Try it." Tianpeng raised his head slightly and tapped his fingers unconsciously on the side of the ship: "This monster monkey is very cunning. Depending on the situation, he also knows a little about arranging troops. It's just that this formation's transformation technique, I don’t know how much I know.”

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"Aren't you going to withdraw?" Monkey stretched his head and looked at the fleet on the opposite side carefully.

At this time, four new battle formations had slowly moved out of the Tianhe navy's fleet, converging with the original three battle formations in front, and rapidly changing.

But the monkey is more concerned about the changes in the rear formation.

The originally rectangular formation began to compress. The two wings are spread out towards the Huaguo Mountain. It's like a widened mouth ready to swallow the protruding part of the demon army at any time.

"Do you want Hydra and the others to stop advancing?". Short Mouth asked.

"No. They continue to advance. We also advance with the whole army, keeping a distance of five miles and ready to support at any time. The Nine-Headed Insect is inside, there is nothing to worry about."

"OK."

"etc."

"kindness?"

"Move the two wings forward, let's set up the flying geese formation. By the way, allocate the long-barreled troops to the two wings. The Vulcan ship moves forward, ready to charge at any time!"

With the waving of the command flag, the demon army also slowly changed its formation.

"Looking at the situation, I really want to make a quick decision." Tianpeng opened his eyes slightly.

"We don't know the opponent's trump card yet. This... is not good, Marshal." Tianfu said.

"It's not very good. It's just a show. If we retreat now, they will definitely pounce on us. Although it won't endanger the entire army, it will definitely cause casualties. There is no need for it to turn into a rout. "As he spoke, Tianpeng pointed at a general beside him and said: "The Chinese army will retreat another fifty feet, the twentieth, twenty-fifth, thirty-fourth, thirty-nine, forty-one, forty-seven, Fifty-two and fifty-six square formations, two by two exchange positions, the rest of the battle formation moves forward twenty feet, the archers are ready to shoot. The first-line fleet warships move forward to defend against the assault. The second-line warships mount their crossbows. Also, prepare The flow-rejection array protects the opponent from long range.”…

"promise."

Wait until the general who delivers the order has left. Tianpeng raised his head slightly and sighed: "This monkey obviously doesn't know how to organize troops. But he is also smart and adopted the simplest way to deal with it. Well, this is good, we can have an advantage. As long as we try our best Just avoid getting stuck in a war situation and move forward and retreat freely."

Countless warships broke away from the phalanx and sailed to the front. They turned the rudder and placed the warships in front of the formation. Afterwards, the phalanx formations of the Tianhe navy were mobilized as frequently as flying bees, but in an orderly manner.

That lineup made Monkey's eyes twitch.

The overall formation has not changed, but almost every part of the formation is being fine-tuned. The key is that it changes so fast that a monkey can see it, let alone judge it.

"Some things are beyond just reading a few books."

"What should we do now?" Short Mouth asked.

"Now... now..." The monkey kept rubbing his fingers as if waiting for something.

At this time, the distance between the front-line troops of both sides was less than 300 feet. The seven Tianhe navy formations at the front, under the command of Tian Ren, had their bows fully drawn, and all the swordsmen and halberdiers were ready. Already prepared to deal with the demon army's charge.

Three hundred feet is the effective killing distance of the Tianhe navy's bow and arrow troops, and since the demon army is all wearing heavy armor, this distance must be shortened to two hundred feet.

Just when the nine-headed insect was about to transform into a half-animal state and lead a group of demon soldiers to kill him, the monkey's order came.

"Stop attacking? Damn it, I tried my best and you want me to stop attacking?"

"I'm not stopping the attack, I'm just asking you to wait."

Looking back, the Nine-Headed Insect saw dozens of wooden warships passing around him and rushing towards the enemy.

These battleships are exactly what the general Tian reported to Tianpeng earlier, and they are the battleships without ramming horns!

Before entering the shooting range of the Tianhe navy, the demon soldiers guarding the battleship had already dispersed.

"What do they want to do? Collide with these broken ships?" All the heavenly soldiers stretched their heads.

Canopy was also slightly startled.

"Could it be used to block arrows?"

Soon, these warships entered the shooting range of the Tianhe Navy, but the troops led by the Nine-Headed Insect behind did not keep up.

Amid doubts, Tian Ren tentatively ordered a round of arrows to be fired. The silver-white arrows hit the battleship, piercing the canvas, and some even directly penetrated the wooden ship planks, but there was no damage at all. Reduces the speed of the battleship.

The warships were still rushing towards the direction of the Tianhe Navy at high speed.

"If we continue like this, we will directly collide with the battleship at the front, right? That's a lot of words."

"Can this broken battleship crash into our battleship?".

"Don't say it crashed, it's hard to even break through the gap!"

No one doubts the tenacity of the steel battleships deployed by the Tianhe navy at the forefront to block the attack.

But at this moment, the rear hatches of these wooden warships opened, and hundreds of monsters filed out of them with flapping wings!

"No -! Dodge quickly!" Tianpeng suddenly exclaimed.

"boom--"

Before he finished speaking, he saw that those wooden warships had hit the warships of the Tianhe Navy heavily. Then, they fell apart under everyone's gaze. With the roar, they turned into a wave of fire that swallowed up the warships, and together with the warships The military formation behind...

Nezha's hand slipped in the distance and he almost fell down.

ps: Sorry, I am not very good at writing about war... I write slowly. There's only so much left for today.

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