Some religions are like pyramid schemes, the deeper the spiritual deception, the worse the ability to perceive reality.

Bailiyan believes that the vast majority of Jinxuedi people, including Mooney, will not know that solar and lunar eclipses are just astronomical phenomena, even if it is said that the sky is broken, and the moon is blocking the sun, they will not believe it.

They don't have enough cognitive knowledge, and they don't believe it in their hearts. They are also very aware that the Luna Cult is an instrument of their legitimate rule, with an absolute godhead, and once the ugliness of the moon's surface is revealed, the core values of its religion will cease to exist, and the regime will be plunged into chaos and turmoil due to the collapse of the core doctrines of the religion. Any blasphemy against religious doctrines, even scientific truth, becomes a so-called heresy.

Quickly returning to the west bank, Jiang Jie led the horse in a panic:

"My lord, it's getting dark, let's go."

Bai Liyan shook his head and said:

"What are you doing, I don't know if I have only seen such a strange scene once in hundreds of years, Jin Xuedi people will definitely not cross the river before dark, stay here and watch Motian for the time being, so as to give you a long insight. Go, find some leaves to block the telescope, so that the sky is observable. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

The total solar eclipse lasts for more than two hours from start to finish, and the total darkness period in the middle is about seven or eight minutes long. If a person stands still on Earth, it will take about 400 years to see a complete solar eclipse.

At this time, the moon gradually entered the ring of the sun, and the Jinxuedi people began Mass on the east coast:

"The moon god gives us strength and blesses us to win......"

"Bless the victory... Winning ......"

The army was excited, the momentum was huge, the shouts resounded in the sky, and the sound was heard one after another.

"My lord, Jin Xuedi's people are as angry as rainbows, can Mo Tian really bring them divine power?"

Jiang Jie asked, and Baili Yanfu smiled:

"This is the change of the sun, moon and stars, every few years, I can see the ink sky in all parts of the Central Plains, or half ink, and there are many records in the classics. At this time, most of the Central Plains can't be seen, but Qianyue Mountain must be able to see, but it's just half ink, don't believe you can ask others when you go back. ”

Religions and beliefs that promote the creation hypothesis of the gods are essentially spiritual demagoguery. In primitive societies and agrarian societies under universal cognition, all unexplained natural phenomena can be far-fetched by the rulers as "miracles". The worship of the moon by the Jinxuedi people may be closely related to their early life in the cold regions of Antarctica.

A few years later, the eclipse caused Bailiyan to spend money to build an observatory on Miaotian Mountain, laying a solid foundation for the development of astronomy.

About two quarters later, the moon obscured a quarter of the sun, and the excitement reached a climax in the night, Mooney decisively ordered:

"Norrenga, the moon god has appeared, giving us the strength to send an army to cross the Norlandon River immediately!"

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

At this time, Norengar was also like a chicken, and his spirit was highly excited, and he was convinced of the appearance of the moon god, and he was convinced that they would win this battle.

When the moon completely obscured the sun, the sky was pitch black, like a thick fog falling in the night and you couldn't see your fingers.

"My lord, it's dark, it's really dark, the sun won't be gone!" Jiang Jie was surprised.

"Stupid, when did you see the sun go down and then disappear the next day!"

"But I often hear the old people say that the sun sets is deliberately hidden by God, so that the moon can be more valuable at night, so that the day and night can be distinct, so that people know the time, so the moon will come out at night. Now that the moon is appearing in the daytime, isn't this a mess? ”

"That's the old man doesn't understand, nonsense, this is called misunderstanding, do you understand."

"Oh......"

"Go, let everyone raise the fire and get on the horse, slow down on the road before dawn, and speed up after dawn."

"Yes!"

There are many versions of the folk interpretation of the change of day and night in the Central Plains, Jiang Jie's value of the sun and moon is the most common, and the most mysterious is the change of dynasty.

It is said that there are days and moons, there are four seasons in the year, people have life and death, and the changes are frequent and repeated, and the dynasty is the same as the sun and moon in the sky, and there is always a time to change the dynasty, which is undoubtedly the most primitive doctrine of the mandate of heaven.

At this time, tens of thousands of Kincherdi were either rowing rafts and boats, or erecting pontoon bridges, and launched a full-line attack on the west bank at the same time as it was dark.

When the solar eclipse fell, Jiao Muhua, Su Hong, and Bai He fell into chaos, most of Lu Gao's troops were veterans of the coalition army, and the situation was much better, Fang Liang and Tian Peng were in a very different situation, although Fang Liang did not believe in the Moon God Cult, he was somewhat superstitious.

Tian Peng didn't eat this set at all, in the early years of mining in the pit, there were more people who prayed to God and worshiped Buddha, almost all gods worshipped, and there were no fewer dead people.

At this time, with the help of the dark curtain of the solar eclipse, at least tens of thousands of people crossed the Norlanton River to the west bank in ten minutes of total darkness. When the sun was shining, tens of thousands of people easily occupied the beachhead with great effort.

"Your Excellency, 7,000 of our army have successfully landed in Manibasa, will you pursue the fleeing northerner generals!" Norrengar Road.

"No, let them go. Bailiyan is scheming, and I am afraid that he has already arranged for the soldiers crossing the river to stick to the beachhead and continue to cross the river, and when the pontoon bridge is completed, send cavalry to attack to the north to cover the assembly of infantry troops landing elsewhere on the west bank! ”

Bailiyan's calmness made Mooney worry that Bai He's 30,000 cavalry had been prepared, and he deliberately set up an ambush, waiting for his cavalry to break away from the infantry alone and go north, and then ambush halfway. The previous several painful lessons made Mooney dare not despise any subtle behavior of Bai Liyan.

The eclipse lasted for an hour and three quarters of an hour, causing no less chaos than a setback, and the army of Jinxuedi, on the east bank of Armando, bypassed the main force of Sukhon on the west bank of Armando, and landed eight miles down the river.

Although there were only 15,000 or 6,000 people, they dared to launch a thorough offensive against the 120,000 people of Su Hong and Jiao Muhua. really thought that the blessing of divine power was unstoppable, and in the end, it still caused a lot of casualties to the new annexed army.

Bailiyan detoured all the way to the north, and when she saw Jiao Muhua and Su Hong, it was already early the morning of the next day, and the new annexed army was embarrassed to lose their armor and abandon their armor, and there was no shortage of people who took advantage of the chaos to escape.

"The last general is not strict in control, he is guilty, please punish the general!"

Jiao Muhua took the initiative to plead guilty, and Su Hong followed suit:

"The last general is not good at governing the army, and he is guilty of the same crime as General Jiao!"

"You don't have to blame yourself, this matter is not a crime of war, it cannot be violated by manpower, both of you are exempt from courtesy."

"General Xie!"

The two spoke in unison, and Bai Liyan asked Jiao Muhua:

"How are you and Su Hong lost?"

"More than 13,000 people were killed, wounded and missing, and the enemy was roughly estimated to be less than 2,000."

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan laughed at herself: "I haven't seen the world before, so I'm scared!" ”

"General Qiyu, at that time, there were many new annexed army gossip to confuse the public and disturb the morale of the army, all of which were the last general's shallow knowledge and ineffective handling."

"This has nothing to do with the two of you, it is the people of Jin Xuedi who have been prepared for a long time and calculated the approximate time of Motian, so as to hit the morale of our army. Otherwise, our army of more than 100,000 people would probably be annihilated in sections and wiped out. ”

Now that I think about it, I am still afraid, and the solar eclipse undoubtedly has great superstitious pressure on the ordinary superstitious masses who have no knowledge. At this time, Mooney attacked on all fronts, and the new annexed army was too busy to take care of itself, where there was any power to fight back, and it would definitely be defeated under the battle, or even annihilated.

It took four days for the army to flee back to Kelownas, and the effects of the eclipse were far from gone, and the Kelownas defenders and the populace were still panicking, and there was no shortage of trivial rumors.

On the third day of Mooney's landing on the West Bank, under the cover of cavalry, he gathered 120,000 cavalry troops, and another 70,000 were deployed on the east and west banks of Manibasa, and reinforced pontoon bridges and artillery positions. At the same time, on the north side of the pontoon bridge, the rafts used to cross the river were used to imitate the gunpowder boats of the allied forces, and the cards were set up layer by layer, so as to prevent the allied warships from breaking through the pontoon bridge.

On the twenty-sixth day of April, Mooney recaptured the empty city of Montina, and along the way, there were starving corpses all over the place, all displaced by the winter, freezing to death and starving. As the coalition forces left, they set fire to the city, and the fire continued to burn for days, leaving behind a scorched earth and rubble, and it was desolate.

"Your Excellency, more than 2,000 people were found alive in the whole city, and there was no one else. In addition, according to our eyeline, shortly after our army crossed the river, the northerners had 30,000 cavalry, and they were driving their horses westward, and they should have joined the 20,000 cavalry that had gone west before. ”

Norenga said quickly, and Mooney looked desperate:

"It's useless to chase, 70,000 people need to defend Manibasa, and then transfer 30,000 cavalry to pursue, we can only use 90,000 people. The naval army of the northerners will soon arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and our dispatch of cavalry at this time will only weaken our combat strength. Bailiyan has set a trap for us a long time ago, and now it is a dilemma! ”

After crossing the river, Mooney discovered that the hundreds of miles around Montina had been slaughtered and bloodbathed, and that there was no rear to rely on. On the contrary, after crossing the river, the troops were restricted and logistically transferred, and could not radiate to the periphery, so they could only be trapped in Montina and Manibasa, unable to look westward, nor capable of attacking Kelownas north, and fell into a dilemma.

"By the way, the northerners are a mile outside the city, a trench dug around the city wall, do you know what it is for?" Mooney asked.

"According to the survivors of the city, Montina was overcrowded this winter, and the northerners ordered the siege of the city to dig a trench, and dug a hole in the inner side of the trench, and put a quilt to block the hole to inhabit people, which seems to be the same as the trench found on the shore."

"You see, the northerners do everything, and they will never have endless schemes, which is beyond people's reach."

"Then what should our army do next?" Norenga asked.

"Your Majesty lost on the front line, I'm afraid that you won't be able to hold out for long, and the northerners are eager to return north, probably expecting Your Majesty to be in a difficult situation, once the class teacher returns home, it will be extremely unfavorable to them. At present, our army's vitality is greatly damaged, and it is hopeless to eliminate Bailiyan in a short time, and now we can only find a way to drag them to Your Majesty's class. ”

"How long will this be delayed, Your Majesty will be able to teach the class, we can wait, and the northerners will not wait. Their cavalry is still raging, and the Central Plains people are not rioting for a day or two, and if they continue like this, it will be over outside the gates. ”

"So make peace with them."

"Peace talks!" Norenga was shocked: "Your Majesty knows and will kill us!" ”

"And what better way do you have to stop them from wreaking havoc?"

"Then you can't talk to the north behind Your Majesty's back, and then Your Excellency will be scolded by the world and bear the stigma of a lifetime."

"This is just an expedient measure, it is too late to ask Your Majesty at the moment, if you can't stabilize them, in less than two months, the whole of Sondia will be burned by them. I've made up my mind, I don't need to say anything more, whatever happens, I'll take care of everything!

Immediately send a messenger to Kelownas, demanding an armistice and peace talks. ”

Mooney was well aware that he was now powerless to destroy Bailiyan or hold on to Sondia, and that it would be him and the country who would be injured if he continued to fight.