"Boom. Rumble. Rumble. "The artillery bombarded again, and the city of Basra could no longer withstand the onslaught of artillery. A large part of their walls had collapsed. A large number of resting musketeers passed, and they attacked fiercely with their muskets. There were not many people on the walls of the city anymore who resisted. Blood was being shed everywhere, and the city was already stained red with blood.

Zhang Bi held a telescope and watched the attack, and the Seth people at the head of Basra suffered heavy losses, and when the artillery hit, many limbs would fly down, and the head of the city was extremely miserable. Zhang Bi couldn't stand it anymore.

After the artillery stopped attacking, the musketeers began to attack, and there was a row of shield soldiers in front of them, which was the only way to effectively protect the musketeers from damage, they shot through the shields, and the Sethians could charge with their shields, but this must require a very heavy shield to be effective, if not, it is very likely to be hit by bullets, after the shot, it is the crazy killing of the resting people, they wave the scimitars in their hands, and the short swords will rush directly to kill, Some cavalry archers also make throws from time to time. This is a very efficient offensive operation, in the face of such a killing machine, the Seth cannot resist, their city can only be breached, followed by a large number of killings. With the screams of the city. This means that the city of Basra has been captured.

"Basra, finally taken down. Next up is Baghdad. The young general said to Zhang Bi. He was at ease at the moment.

"Here. What to do? Zhang Bi turned around and asked.

"This will be an important center of commerce, mainly to cooperate with you Koreans, I don't know if the Koreans near Basra are your people, I hope you can go back as soon as possible, contact your merchant ships, we need you to send more muskets, ammunition, we also need to attack the city of Baghdad. There will be a lot of gunpowder needed. The young general said.

"Basra's role is to trade with you, and we need your goods, although the goods from Qin can also play a big role, but they are too far away. This is very inappropriate for us. We need more goods. The young general said.

"Hmm. Well, how do I contact you? Zhang Bi knew this was an opportunity.

"Don't worry, I'll probably live here permanently, Basra, I've been appointed governor of Basra. My mission is to deal with you Koreans, and I just want your merchant ships to come here as soon as possible, after all, we have a great need. "Young generals.

"That's right. You may not know my name, but my name will be recorded in the history of the Sabbats, my name is Hazabi. Happy to work with. Hazabi said with a smile. As he spoke, he had already waved his arm to signal his men to continue the larger offensive battle, and they had already won.

Mengla, the garrison of the 3rd Regiment of the Native Soldiers, they have already repelled two attacks by the Divine Po Sect, and at first there were still native soldiers who refused to shoot, after all, in their opinion, the Divine Woman is the existence of victory, but later, they were killed. The heads were hung in front of their positions, which was the worst part of the Koreans, and the sergeant major would cut off their heads without mercy. Their salaries, as well as their wives and children, were all killed or distributed to other native soldiers, which was an order of the Koreans. In such a situation, the native soldiers could only shoot.

In the trench dug in front of them, the barbed wire hung the corpses of many Goddess Cultists, flies flew around their corpses, the blood had dried up, and there was no red blood in the wound, but a purple, or dark brown lump of flesh.

"Damn, I look at those old goddesses taught by the gods, and I look annoyed." A captain officer scolded in annoyance. Every time they attacked, the Goddess Cultists would carry the Goddess to attack, and even if those people were killed, many Cultists would replace them. It's a religious belief, and Koreans know what it's all about, but now it seems. They felt that it was an insult to them.

"Artillery. Artillery, go and transfer the artillery. The captain shouted. He wanted to attack the other side with artillery. In the first attack, they barely blocked the opponent's attack. After all, they didn't know the power of the muskets, and the second time, the Divine Woman Sect had already attacked their side. Barbed wire, trenches are no longer functional. Worst of all, the native soldiers also collapsed. In the end, it was with the help of artillery, which was an artillery company transferred from the station, and they arrived in time and played a huge role, only one round of firing. They successfully dismantled one of the opponent's attacks. This time, the Divine Woman Sect finally adjusted, and they were ready to launch a new attack.

"No need. We're already here. Your location here is very good. is the best artillery point. "An artillery captain came with binoculars, the artillery was pushing the artillery to get here, and the nurgeons were digging trenches and setting up artillery positions.

"Well, with your artillery, things will be much easier. Do you see that goddess?" The infantry captain walked over and said to the artillery captain.

"See. The goal is big. What's wrong? Let's have a shot? The artillery captain asked.

"Yes. One shot, I'm going to make their goddess*. The infantry captain said fiercely. Every time, this goddess is like a monster, and as long as he appears, their attacks here will definitely go crazy. Crazy enough that their native soldiers would all collapse, and those native soldiers were okay to shoot, if it weren't for the gendarmes behind them as the overseers, they might have collapsed the first time. Faced with such a situation. The infantry captain's first thought was to kill their goddess statue, probably out of anger.

"Well, such a big goal. It's great big, but what's the benefit? The artillery captain asked, the infantry captain.

"Pick any woman, of course it's a Mengla woman, I can give you a few white-skinned ones, they are from the Northern Dynasty, and the dark-skinned women here are different, you'd better get me a shot." Otherwise I enjoyed it myself. The infantry captain said.

"Hehe, you just see. This cannon is no more accurate than mine. The artillery captain grinned.

"I hope so, don't hit women." Captain Infantry said. Saying that the artillery was deployed, the artillery captain himself went into battle, and after he took aim, he began to load his soldiers with shells.

"Boom." The sound of artillery firing was heard. The cannonballs whistled out, and in order to ensure the accuracy of the hit, four guns were fired together, and two shells hit the statue of the goddess directly, and one shell hit the disciple carrying the statue of the goddess. There was also one shell that was too off. However, there was also a bloody path, many disciples were beaten to their internal organs, blood and flesh were splashed, and many people knelt on the ground in fright.

"Great. Hit. I don't want a woman. It's all for you, give me another time. The infantry captain shouted excitedly with a telescope.

What he saw in his telescope was that a large number of believers were overwhelmed by the fright, they had never imagined that their gods would be beaten like this.

"Damn, if it weren't for these native soldiers, they wouldn't be able to use it. Lao Tzu launches a charge now, and these gods and goddesses will definitely be killed. The infantry captain scolded fiercely. But now he felt more satisfied, after all, there were still many goddess cultists who had been killed.

"The goddess is in chaos. It's messed up. The sergeant shouted at the side. They saw that the Goddess Sect was in chaos all of a sudden. The artillery continued to bombard them. Their formation was already chaotic. Together with artillery, they are already facing a tendency to collapse, some are sitting, some are kneeling, and many are running away. The situation was very chaotic, and their god was killed.

It's a pity that the native soldiers are not useful, and many of the native regiments have shown such a situation, they have little training, the morale of the fighters is not high, and they may only play a role when they bully the weak, but let them fight a difficult war, I am afraid, it will make them extremely difficult.

Under the attack of artillery, the third attack of the Divine Po Sect was knocked out before it could begin. for their God was smitten out. Their faith was knocked out. Cultists who have lost their spiritual power have no combat effectiveness at all.

Chu people port.

"Some of them will be transported back, and some of them will be left behind to form our own Mengla Tu Corps, with at least three regiments." Liu Ji looked at the local Mengla people who kept picking out and said.

"But, big brother, it takes a lot of money. These native soldiers, not cheap, we just came, are we in too much of a hurry. We're only 2,000 at most, which is a lot. So many people. We can't afford to feed it. Lu Juan persuaded.

"And, I've heard about it. These native soldiers are not easy to use, you see the Koreans also use them. The result? There were ten of their earthen regiments. As a result, the Divine Woman Sect did not do well. Moreover, many people can't stand it. We want these goddesses, what can we do? Lu Juan said that he was not optimistic about the native soldiers. He was not interested in the native soldiers, although it was Liu Ji's decision to recruit them. But the combat effectiveness shown by the native soldiers is too doubtful, and if the native soldiers are not defeated by themselves, the best thing to do is not to use it. These soldiers are not enterprising.

"I know what you think, these native soldiers can't be used, but the problem is, now we can only use native soldiers, use other soldiers, we can't have such a result, you say, what should we do?" Liu Ji is also very helpless, if he recruits Chu people and Koreans, the price will be very high. Here, the commissions of Koreans and Chu people are surprisingly high. Only the local indigenous people are very cheap, and sometimes they don't have to pay. That's what Liu Ji thought of, as long as he gave them food. Anyway, there is a lot of food. In that said. There are also a lot of native soldiers, and they don't have such a large number of native soldiers, facing such a situation. Liu Ji can only do this, and the most important thing is that their business has just started, and it is impossible to have too much money concentrated on it at once.

"No, no." That's when it happened. An old man dressed as a Confucian came over and said.

"I think this brother is wrong." The old man said.

"I wonder what this old gentleman thinks?" Liu Ji asked.

"I see that both of them are arguing about whether this native soldier can be used, and I think that this Mengla people are very religious, there are Buddhism, there are local Zinkeism, there are other religions, and this Goddess Religion is a new doctrine that has suddenly developed recently. Because Koreans are taxed too much. It's too serious. This is how the Goddess Cult has grown. The old man said.

"Oh. I see. Liu Ji sighed.

"But there aren't enough of these soldiers." Lu Juan said angrily. He lost interest in the native soldiers, after all, no one wanted to fight with such soldiers.

"Well, it's simple. Dare to ask, this little brother. What about the followers of this goddess cult? The old man asked.

"This, I heard, the native soldiers can't withstand it." Lu Juan said.

"Why can't the native soldiers resist it?" The old man then asked.

"This, the Koreans say that the training is insufficient, I don't think so, it may be that their training is not good, or other reasons, I can't say." Lu Juan said.

"That's right. Why is it that the Goddess Cult can launch an attack when it is poorly equipped, but the native soldiers cannot solve such a problem, they are equipped with muskets, which can kill many Goddess Cultists. The old man said.

"That's right." Liu Ji realized at this time. He had always felt that something was wrong there, and now the old man suddenly said so. He felt that things seemed to make a lot of sense.

"I don't know the old man's name." Liu Ji saluted at this time.

"Eat it in Xiali." Li Shiqi said. He came here with the merchant ships of the Chu State. He also wanted to make a career, the development of the country completely depends on businessmen to act, the people of Qin are very practical, Li Shiqi felt that he had no space, so he came here to seek development. Pity. It's also a place for merchants. Li Shiqi can only be a small steward, but he still secretly observes the development of the situation, and the abnormal rise of the Shenpo Religion has given him an inspiration, and this inspiration is religion, because the local people he contacted, especially the Mengla people, many people believe in religion, and some people actually believe in three religions, which makes Li Shiqi feel very surprised, and the things taught by the Shenpo have given Li Shiqi a great inspiration.

"Oh. Mr. Li, I don't know what the reason is? Liu Ji asked.

"It's very simple, religious, the local people are very religious, they believe in a very large number of religions. As soon as the religion told them to do anything, they would do it, and those gods and goddesses attracted a large number of bankrupt people, and then launched such an attack, while the Koreans did it according to the training method of the army, and their native army expanded very strongly, in less than two months, they formed ten earthen regiments, and the last regiment began to fight as soon as it was fully equipped. So, herein lies the problem. "Li Shiqi explained the reason.

"Hmm. Really. It seems that this native soldier can still be used, but I don't know how to use it? Liu Ji asked curiously. He felt that the native soldiers could be used, because the Mengla cultists of the Divine Po Sect exerted a lot of influence, and they were also Monglas, so why could the Divine Po Sect exert its combat effectiveness.

"Religion, people here are very likely to believe in religion, as long as we launch a religion, we can greatly influence them." Li Shiqi said.

"Religion is a good way, but what kind of religion we use, we can't come up with a religion of our own." Liu Ji said.

"Good way, I'll see it, big brother, how about I think I'll come up with a Liu Jiao?" Lu Juan put forward his own opinion.

"Go, go, return Liu Jiao, why don't you launch a Lu Sect." Liu Ji said angrily.

"Isn't that religion?" Lu Juan said.

"I think I would like to ask Mr. Li to explain this matter. We don't yet know how to explain it. Liu Ji asked in a low voice.

"It's very simple, Confucianism, based on the doctrine of Confucius, in this way, can absorb a large number of Confucian students, they are a force to be reckoned with." Li Shiqi said. Li Shi itself is a Confucian student. He was a strong believer in Confucianism. Therefore, it is understandable to put forward such an idea as Confucianism.

"Confucianism. This one. Liu Ji was still a little dissatisfied, after all, Confucian scholars were forced to come here. He heard in the Qin State that Confucianism was not good, and some people were still poor, far less than they lived as well as these slave traders, if such people were used.

But come to think of it, it seems that this is the only way to do it at the moment. Because some Confucian scholars came here. They don't have a good source of livelihood, and many people don't buy Confucian accounts, because in the eyes of businessmen, they rely on their ability and their own minds to make money, and Confucian scholars don't know how to do business, they only talk about some state affairs, and these things don't care about their affairs, they are related to taxes, as long as the taxes are small, they don't care about these things. Therefore, the treatment of Confucian scholars is not good.

But if you want to take the position of governor, you must also rely on such people, because this is what they do, and Confucianism seeks a stable order, which is not in line with Liu Ji's idea? However, what he needs now is a talent like a Legalist or a soldier, at least to be able to expand his own affairs, thinking of this, Liu Ji doesn't care about this.

"Good. It's Confucianism. I don't know where I am. Liu Ji put forward the meaning of wooing.

"This. No, no. It's just a small supervisor. Li Shiqi said.

"Well, sir, it's good to be a strategist by my side. This Confucian thing still needs to be promoted by Mr. Liu Ji said immediately.

"This. So-and-so is not talented. Willing to serve. Li Shiqi said. said that Liu Ji pulled Li Shiqi to go for a big meal, which solved the religious problem. Liu Ji felt that solving a lot of problems had reduced a lot of obstacles for their next path, and they should indeed thank Mr. Li Shiqi for such a thing. Without him, Liu Ji would not have thought of these things at all. Liu Ji was very happy about this.