Sect Leader of the Sect of the Dead, Wang Ling, took a look at the powerhouses of the six major sects and the Song Fa of the Outer Heaven who were only watching his tribulation from a distance, and then released the shackles of his own cultivation, his hair rose to the sky, the black robe on his body bulged up like an inflatable, and his body was surrounded by a whirlpool of black air currents visible to the naked eye, and a black calamity cloud quickly gathered above his head, which was different from the ordinary dark clouds in that there was a circle of golden light on the edge, and exuded a majestic coercion, and a thick pillar of light was released from the black calamity cloud that was enough to envelop a house, Enveloped Wang Ling with lightning speed, although Wang Ling raised the black skull scepter to resist, in an instant, Wang Ling and the black skull scepter turned into powder, scattered with the wind, and disappeared. The palace pavilions in the original place were all burned into fly ash, and a bottomless pit covering an area of 100 acres appeared, and with the gushing out of groundwater, a small pool was gradually formed.

The first-class masters of the six major sects who watched Wang Ling's tribulation around were a little desperate, looking at the powerful Wang Ling, who couldn't even stop a thunderstorm of the heavenly tribulation, looking at his own cultivation, could he only die at the mortal level, and never enter the immortal level, they were all overshadowed, and the rabbit died and the fox was sad. Song Fayou was worried and told his three sons again, and then quietly returned to the outer heavens.

The nimble-minded Tuobu Aiqing pulled the newly enthroned emperor of the Shengyan Empire, Tuobu Changshun, and came to persuade the three brothers Song Zhenkong, Song Zhenkou, and Song Zhendi to enter the court as officials.

In view of the fact that what Tuobu Aiqing said was true, the three Song brothers took the overall situation of the Eastern Continent as the most important thing and accepted the appointment of Tuobu Changshun, and the three brothers decided in front of the first-class masters of the six major sects and the emperor Tuobu Changshun: the boss Song Zhenkong will hold the imperial examination in the sixteen prefectures of the Shengyan Empire, select outstanding governing talents to fill the vacancies of various important court officials, and repair and rebuild Kaiping City; The old third Song town carried the guilt of the emperor Tuob Changshun, and the rebel armies in Zhao'an all over the country fought against foreign enemies, relieved disasters and stabilized the people's hearts; The 20,000 soldiers of the Jing'an army led by the second Song Zhenkou and his wife Xu Wenjun went to the five border provinces to resist the allied forces of the nomads of the western continent outside the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

Among the seven major sects of the Sheng Yan Empire, the Dayan War Hall, the Shenji Gate, the Hades Palace, the Zhuyuan Gate, the Zhitian Pavilion, and the Pinjin Hall, in the face of the large-scale invasion of the nomads of the Western Continent, abandoned the previous suspicions and resisted the invading nomads together. The Necromancer sent an envoy to inform Song Zhenkou that the invasion of the nomads in the Western Continent was triggered by the Necromantic Cult, and the Necromantic Cult would expel these barbarians with all the strength of the Cult. The civil war of the seven major sects was extremely attritional, the leader of the Sect of the Dead, Wang Ling, failed to cross the catastrophe and passed away, and the other six heads and elders of the sect were not lightly injured, and they needed to retreat to recuperate, so they could only send lightly injured elders and disciples to fight.

Tuob Changshun announced the enthronement of the Emperor of the Shengyan Empire, the year name Jianyuan, appointed Song Zhenkong as the prime minister, Song Zhenkou as the general of Pingxi, Song Zhendi as the patrol envoy and the household servant, awarded the three Song brothers the title of marquis, after the world was stable, gave the fief, set up the eldest son Tuob Yuanqi as the prince, followed Song Zhenkou to resist the invasion of the nomads in the western continent, and the second son Tuobu Yuansheng was the prince, inherited the fief of Jing'an Mansion, and the third son Tuobu Yuanzhan was appointed as the prince and appointed as the military department.

On the first day of his appointment, Song Zhenkong led the soldiers of Jing'an to wash up the bloodstains, clean up the carrion, hunt and kill rats, mosquitoes and flies in Kaiping City, clean up the sanitation of Kaiping City, transport all kinds of garbage out of the city for burning, arrange craftsmen from surrounding provinces to build Kaiping City, arrange for sergeants to reclaim the abandoned farmland around Kaiping Mansion, and send post envoys to the provinces of the Shengyan Empire to paste the imperial examination notices; At night, it is necessary to pick up the lamp, set up the examination questions of the imperial examination, often busy until the second watch genius and sleep, get up at dawn and continue to be busy, with Song Zhenkong's example of leading by example, the officials of Kaiping City do not have the slightest negative slack, but Kaiping City will be repaired in a week, and the surrounding thousands of acres of farmland are also planted with millet and soybeans.

Song Zhendi ran in various provinces, in and out of the rebel army camps, with a three-inch tongue, knowing reason, moving with affection, successfully sent a rebel army to Zhao'an, and the strong people were sent to the five border provinces to support the border war, the old and weak people returned to the countryside to farm and farm, the people took food as the sky, abandoned farming, caused a great famine, it was necessary to kill many people, and there would be a plague, Song Zhendi naturally did not dare to be careless, and the corrupt officials who were very angry with the people were killed, and the profiteers who raised prices confiscated their property, and the treasury was confiscated to replenish the empty treasury at the same time. Suppressing the arrogance of profiteers, cutting off the source of funds for corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and allowing the people to survive can alleviate the people's dissatisfaction with the imperial court, and Song Qingtian's name will spread far and wide.

Song Zhenkou, Xu Wenjun and the prince of Tuob Yuanqi who accompanied the gilded Tuob Yuanqi led the 20,000 soldiers of the Jing'an army to rush to the precarious Anxi Mansion day and night, the grain and grass brought by the army were not much, and they only marched for two days, and they were consumed clean, and the grain stored in each province along the way was barely self-protective, and there was no surplus grain and grass, so they could only play some game along the way, dig some wild vegetables to barely wrap their stomachs, and the two hundred military horses with the army only ate grass, and naturally lost their fat, and the horsepower was also seriously insufficient, and they couldn't run, which seriously slowed down the marching speed of the army.

Tuobu Yuan, who had not suffered, turned over the sour water from hunger, and the armor and weapons on his body were handed over to the entourage guards, and he staggered forward with the support of the entourage guards, his mount became the last fallen military horse yesterday, slightly improved the prince's food, more than ten pieces of horse meat under the stomach, very comfortable, in order to buy people's hearts, he gave his horse meat to Song Zhenkou and his wife and the commanders, and today walked until noon, not even a game was caught, and the hungry Tuobu Yuanqi almost fainted.

Song Zhenkou took five sergeants from Orion to look for wild beasts in an unknown mountain he passed, and found that there was not even a sparrow, and the beasts and birds here had been wiped out by the hungry people around, and he accidentally saw a half-meter-high plant not far away, and walked forward happily, carefully uprooted the rhizome of a nearby plant, and washed away the soil on the surface of the lumpy rhizome with the water bladder he carried, dug a little, tasted it carefully, and laughed: "There is hope for military rations, Erwang, you quickly go back and find 200 sergeants with digging iron tools to dig up these sweet potatoes, which are edible roots, stems and leaves! ”

The wild sweet potato found by Song Zhenkou solved the problem of rations for the army, and after half a month, he finally arrived at Xishui City, Anxi Mansion, and the elders of the Seven Great Sects had already led his disciples to arrive in Anxi Mansion a week ago, considering that this was a battlefield, among thousands of troops, a martial arts master could play little role, so he did not act rashly, and waited for Song Zhenkou to arrive and act together.

Song Zhenkou listened to Shi Chang'an, the governor of Anxi Prefecture, introduce the enemy situation: The nomads of the Western Continent, led by the two nomadic tribes of Bier and Wokotai, gathered fifty-three nomadic tribes, known as one million iron horsemen, under the banner of revenge, captured the three border passes of the Shengyan Empire to reject the slave pass, behead the Kou Pass, and guard the border pass, and the fifty cannons and hundreds of customized cannonballs left by the Great Qin Dynasty of the previous dynasty in the three border passes fell into the hands of the enemy, and under the auxiliary artillery bombardment of the gunners of the surrendered Sheng Yan Empire, Anxi Mansion has been broken through three important towns, The soldiers and civilians who failed to flee in the important town, the men were slaves, the women were humiliated by the army, the old and weak were all killed, and the last important town of Anxi Mansion was left in Xishui City, and the grain and grass were still sufficient, but the sergeants had not fought for many years, lacked training, and were not the opponents of the enemy's iron cavalry.

Song Zhenkou's heart sank slightly, and he thought in his mind: The disparity in combat power between the two sides in this battle is a bit big, although the Song clan is proficient in the art of Qihuang and the art of hundred crafts, but now that the war is imminent, the barbarians under the city will not give themselves time to make poisonous smoke and combat equipment, and there may not be enough materials around.

Song Zhenkou thought about the details again, and summoned the chief elders of the Seven Great Sects, the Prince of Tuob Yuanqi and the Governor of Shi Chang'an, and arranged the battle arrangements: "The elders of the Seven Great Sects will lead the elite disciples of the sect to change the nomadic tribal clothes and quietly go out of the city from the back of the city wall with ropes in the early morning of tomorrow, and kill all the enemy's centurion and above generals. After the general mobilization was carried out on the second watch in the morning, the enemy tent was first set on fire with rockets, causing a riot among the enemy sergeants, and our army went out of the city to launch a counterattack! ”

Governor Shi Chang'an asked with some uneasiness: "General, the enemy's tent stretches for nearly a hundred miles, and there are tens of thousands of mobile outposts on duty at night alone. ”

Prince Tuob Yuanqi got up angrily, stepped forward a few steps, pointed at Shi Chang'an's nose, and scolded: "Old horseman, you lead the court's salary, and it is just a matter of deducting military salaries on weekdays, but when it comes to the use of troops in the imperial court, there are no available soldiers!" is still afraid of the enemy, and what is even more hateful is that Wu Dayong, the chief soldier of Tianshui Town, under your command, actually led his troops to surrender to the enemy, and you dare to conceal it and not report it! ”

Shi Chang'an Governor heard this, "poof", knelt down in front of Tuobu Yuanqi, and kowtowed sonorously to beg for his life, according to the laws of the Sheng Yan Empire, if the military governor's command is to surrender to the enemy, his top boss will raid the house and be punished by the nine clans, and then the boss will be dismissed from his post and sentenced to the prison is light, and when Long Yan is furious, a series of high-ranking military officials will be raided and punished by the nine clans, and Shi Changan is a member of the Yan tribe, and he is often hated and attacked by the ruling courtiers of the Xianyu clan, and the officialdom of the Yan people is frightened every day. Shi Chang'an Governor cursed the informant in his heart, praying that the sky could open the net and save the lives of his family.