A day later, Luoyang, the head of Shangchun Gate.

Liu Yu was dressed in military uniform, the dust was not washed, standing at the head of the city, standing side by side with Zhu Xu, looking at the long dragon under the city, the people gathered from the northern Nagangshan area, they helped the old and the young one by one, the man pushed the wheelbarrow, on which there were high rice bags, many people shed tears, turned back while walking, kept shaking their heads and sighing, and in the north of the Gangshan area, there can be black smoke rising faintly, accompanied by firelight, even if it is hundreds of miles away, you can see it clearly.

Zhu Xu's expression was grim, and he sighed: "It seems that the Xiyan Army has returned, and it has arrived at the Gangshan Mountain, and now it is killing in retaliation in various villages and docks." ”

Liu Yu nodded: "Fortunately, the owner of Dong Zhuang notified all the villages yesterday to let them withdraw into Luoyang, and in this day, nearly 100,000 people poured into Luoyang City, and it seems that they are ready to evacuate at any time." ”

The corners of Zhu Xu's mouth hooked: "Actually, I want to tell you that it is not Dong Chang who let so many people come to Luoyang, but Heavenly Master Dao, before you fought this battle yesterday, people from the area of Luoshan began to come, not only Gangshan, but also the people within a radius of 100 miles outside Luoyang City. ”

Liu Yu's face changed, and he turned relieved: "No wonder there are so many people, it turns out that the Heavenly Master Dao has already mobilized them, but you said that someone came before we broke Xiyan yesterday?" ”

Zhu Xu nodded: "Yes, to be precise, when you just left Kim Yong City, some people from Wuzhai came to Luoyang, almost at the same time as Lu Xun entered Jin Yong City, Heavenly Master Dao seems to have been prepared for a long time, knowing that the Xiyan army will come in a big way, and they persuaded these people to come to Luoyang to bring a lot of food, and what we were worried about was tens of thousands of people at once, and the matter of not enough food to eat is no longer a problem." ”

Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "I only know now that the Heavenly Master Dao has such a big power in the Central Plains, didn't Lord Assassin Shi know this before?" ”

Zhu Xu sighed: "It's just that I've heard about it, after all, the Heavenly Master Dao is a folk Taoism, and the imperial court's strength in the Central Plains is limited, and it can't control the village dock fort, and it can't control the preaching of these Taoist priests. ”

He turned around and walked to the other side of the city wall, pointing to the foot of the outer city wall, in the vacated large temporary containment area, many people wearing Heavenly Master Dao robes were setting up altars to burn incense, chanting and preaching, and these refugees who had just entered the city and didn't even have time to eat didn't care about settling their children and family members, all bowed down in front of these Heavenly Master Dao disciples, with five bodies and heads, with a pious face, many people looked at the bowls of water placed on the divine case, and watched the Heavenly Master Dao disciples burning the yellow talismans, and then sprinkle the incense ash into these runes, and the people who stepped forward to receive these runes were overjoyed and grateful, and drank them in one gulp, as if they were drinking the fairy dew that could make him immortal and inviolable.

A trace of helplessness flashed in Liu Yu's eyes, this trick he had seen a lot in Jingkou many years ago, and he sighed: "After so many years, they are still like this." I've always wondered why so many people believe in their charlatans. ”

Zhu Xu shook his head, and said: "Behind these deceptions, there are all kinds of methods used by the Heavenly Master Dao to deceive people's hearts, I asked a lot of villagers who came to Luoyang in the past two days, and I learned that they are usually good at buying people's hearts with small favors and small favors, which family has no rice to put in the pot for a while, they will send rice grain, which family has someone who is sick or a woman gives birth, they will also send someone to send medicine to help give birth, in short, even the court does not pay attention to it, but it is closely related to the life of the people, they will do it, and promote what is a brother, and mutual assistance depends on everyone's point of view." , coupled with the fact that their disciples are scattered in various villages and villages, and can lead each village and each dock to repel the attacks of small bandits, can the people not return to their hearts? ”

Liu Yu sighed: "If you want to take it first, you must give it first, when Tianshi Dao entered the sect, he collected five buckets of rice as a tax, and then used these rice grains to help the difficult sect members, and then had a good reputation, and then helped to guard the villages, in fact, most of the disciples they stationed in the villages are also the newly developed locals, and they do not need to consume such as the imperial court to send military food to the garrison. Originally, I wanted to use this way to win the hearts of the people of the Central Plains, so that they could be grateful for the kindness of the court and their hearts to the court. ”

Zhu Xu nodded and said: "It's useless to say these things now, only this time we have repelled Xiyan first, and then we can talk about how to compete with the Heavenly Master Dao for people's hearts in the future, what we have to do now is to work together to get through the current pass, if we are suspicious now, prevent and contain each other, then this city cannot be defended, let Xiyan break the city, we will all become ghosts under the sword, what is the future?" ”

Liu Yu smiled slightly: "What Lord Thorn Shi said is extremely true, is it Sun En, the senior brother of Heavenly Master Dao, who led the people here this time?" I want to meet him. ”

Zhu Xu shook his head: "No, Sun En didn't come this time, it was Lu Xun and Xu Daofu who helped guard Luoyang, and they are not here now, but in Kim Yong City." ”

Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly, and he turned his head and walked towards the city: "Then the defense here, there is Master Lao Shi, I will go to meet these old friends of mine." ”

Half an hour later, Kim Yong Chengtou, Liu Yi and Lu Xun, Xu Daofu stood together, standing opposite Liu Yu, Liu Muzhi and others, He Wuji and Zhuge Changmin between him and Liu Yu, the atmosphere seemed a little unnatural.

Tan Pingzhi said coldly: "Xile, you are really good, we don't know when you will have these new friends." He didn't introduce us earlier, but we went to Gangshan Mountain, and this Kim Yong City became a dojo. ”

Liu Yi smiled "hehe": "It's too much to say this, the friends of the Heavenly Master Sect have joined the Beifu Army before and fought side by side with us, the enemy is current, we need to join forces, send slaves to find his friends, and I will also find my old relationship, there is nothing wrong with it." ”

Wei Yongzhi's rabbit lips rolled: "Xile, this time we all came with Brother Jinu, he is our leader, you don't tell him when you do such a big thing, do you still have Brother Jinu in your eyes?" If we all hide our minds like this, how can this battle be fought? ”