Bloodshed at the Wu Family Stockade

This book continues Lingyan Qiaozi's consistent folk storytelling style, blending Tang court intrigue with stockade attack-and-defense warfare into a tight, conflict-focused narrative. The story begins with Li Linfu colluding with the Wu Family Stockade to rebel, with Guo Ziyi leading the heroes of Mount Taihang in a campaign as the main thread, advancing layer by layer to the breaking of the stockade and the rescue of the imperial family, with plot links tightly connected. The book's highlight lies in its depictions of duels of magic and formations: immortal-sect experts such as Hei Saihua suppress the Tang army with the Immortal-Beating Whip and mountain-moving magic, while the Tang army achieves reversal through Zhuge Ying's fire attack plan and Ling Chun's return to life and subjugation of the enemy general—combining the fantastical color of magic-treasure duels with the military interest of troop deployment and formation. The passages in which generals such as Zhao Wenjun and Ma Biao die add a sense of tragedy to the story, preventing the victory from feeling too light. It is suitable as light reading of traditional novelistic and historical-romance fiction, and also suitable for readers interested in the Guo Ziyi theme or folk narratives of magic warfare to read in fragments of time. When reading, focus on the shifts in strategy between attacker and defender rather than on historical verification.