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The next day, in a vacant lot near the Yun's auction house and dueling arena in Yunhua City, a group of young people came here with various building materials, and the young people surrounded this area with thin iron plates, not allowing outsiders to enter, and also brought some mystery to this area......

In late March, the situation in the Dali Empire continued to deteriorate, and the Guangming Army throughout the Dali Empire continued to advance, and thirty-four county towns and four hundred and twenty-five county towns had been captured by the Guangming Army, which was equivalent to almost one-third of the land of the Dali Empire falling into the hands of the Guangming Sect, and the Guangming Sect obtained a large amount of money and food in the hands of large households in the occupied area.

With a large amount of money in hand, the Guangming Army has rapidly increased from more than 700,000 to more than 1 million, but the increase in recruits has also reduced the strength of the Guangming Army from all walks of life, but fortunately, the commanders of the Guangming Army from all walks of life are not stupid, and they did not mix recruits and veterans together, at most they only transferred out a small number of veterans, and used veterans as the backbone to fill in the recruits and establish new troops.

The Illuminati Sect is very different from other anti-thieves in the history of the Great Li Empire:

The first point is the scale of the Illumination Sect, the scale of the Illuminati Sect is extremely large, and after the Illuminati Sect uprising, there will be a plan to sweep the world, if the Dali Empire does not deal with it well, the rivers and mountains of the Dali Empire may change hands.

The second point is that the Bright Sect is very unfriendly to the big families, within the rule of the Bright Sect, the big families are almost extinct, the clansmen are dead, and the coolies are coolies, and the wealth accumulated by the big families is also taken away by the Bright Sect, and most of the other anti-thieves never dare to do this, if they do this, without the official action of the Dali Empire, those big families will directly destroy the anti-thieves, but the strength of the Bright Sect is strong, and the big families can't fight against the Bright Sect even if they join forces.

The third point is that the Illuminati Sect treats the ordinary people well, especially the victims outside the city, and the Illuminati Sect takes out a large amount of food to help the victims, and persuades the common people to go home for spring ploughing. The church was about to hit here, and they fled and left, without spring ploughing; In the area ruled by the Illumination Sect, the common people took the grain given by the Illuminati to their homes for spring ploughing.

So much so that in the area ruled by the Illuminati Sect, the ordinary people did not have much resistance to the sudden change of ruler, and through the propaganda of the Illuminati Sect, the common people felt that it was not bad to have such a ruler.

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The various manifestations of the Illuminati can be seen that the Illuminati is not an ordinary thief, and anyone with brains can see that if the Illuminati continues to develop like this, the Illuminati will be able to take root and have a foundation in the area it occupies, and it will be extremely difficult for the Dali Empire to eliminate the Illuminati.

The major clans in the Dali Empire are not fools, and the patriarchs of each family clearly understand the current situation, after the Fangling Qian clan was the first to rescue the Yingchang Lu clan, the clans led by the seven surnames and twelve clans have sent troops to rescue the city besieged by the Guangming Army near their fiefdoms.

In this case, the Guangming Army did not fight hard with the reinforcements of the major families, but directly turned around and withdrew, stationed an army in the nearby city to guard against the situation here, and then continued to march to other cities.

The clans that have been inherited for hundreds or even thousands of years have a profound background, but now it has not been a month since the Bright Sect uprising, and at this time, the clans have not been able to completely transform their own heritage into their own strength, that is to say, the clans are not ready, and it is not bad to be able to support the cities in the neighboring areas for the time being, and it is impossible to collide with the Bright Army head-on in a short period of time.

The Bright Sect took advantage of this time to attack cities in the territory of the Great Li Empire, but compared with the Thirty Years, various cities have already made various preparations, and it will take a few days for the Bright Army to capture a county seat, and it will take at least five days for the Bright Army to capture a county, and it will take at least five days to capture a group of names.

If it encounters the kind of county town where the army and the people are united and the large families donate generously, it is impossible for the Bright Army to capture the city without sending an army of more than 10,000 people and various siege equipment without spending more than ten days and paying a huge price for casualties.

Tongzhou, as the base camp of the Guangming Sect, is the best week for the situation of the Guangming Sect among the eleven states of the Dali Empire, except for Guo's Fengyuan County, Qian's Fangling County and several other county towns and state towns, almost all other cities have been taken by the Guangming Army.

The Bright Army in Tongzhou, part of which is stationed in various places, two of which are guarding Fengyuan County and Fangling County, and the rest of the Bright Army is gathering near Tongzhou City, the central area of Tongzhou, under the leadership of Sect Leader Yuan Hao.

Yuan Hao wanted to conquer Tongzhou City, and once Tongzhou was conquered, the morale of the Dali Empire would be greatly reduced.

However, it is not so simple to conquer Tongzhou City, the walls of Tongzhou City are extremely tall, there is a wide moat outside the city, and more importantly, a garrison of more than 30,000 people has been gathered in Tongzhou City, and there are at least five innate warriors in the city.

Taken together, it is very difficult for the Guangming Army to capture Tongzhou City.

Although the strength of the defenders of Tongzhou City is strong, but the Guangming Army is not weak, Tongzhou is the helmsman of the Guangming Sect, Yuan Hao has been operating for decades, and he has more than 50,000 elite armies of the Holy Disarmament and the Judgment Army in his hands, plus the ordinary army mobilized from other places in Tongzhou, it is expected that the total strength of the Guangming Army will reach 80,000, which is more than twice that of the defenders of Tongzhou City, and the number of innate warriors will also be about ten, which can completely suppress the innate warriors in Tongzhou City.

Tongzhou Prefecture Mu Li Wen also discovered the abnormal situation outside Tongzhou City, and personally visited the major families in Tongzhou City, asking them to support the government to defend Tongzhou City.

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There is not only one Dali Empire in the land of Shenzhou, there are other countries outside the Dali Empire, and the Dali Empire borders the Dayue Empire, the Tang Empire and the Chu State, but because of a horizontal and a vertical mountain range, the Dali Empire is separated from the three territories, and the Dali Empire wants to travel between the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire, and can only pass through the two checkpoints of Zhangde Pass and Wuwei Pass.

Because of the importance of these two checkpoints, there are two elite armies of 50,000 people stationed at the two checkpoints all year round, once the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire both sent hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Dali Empire, but they were blocked in front of these two checkpoints, as long as these two checkpoints are not lost, the Dayue Empire and the Datang Empire will not be able to threaten the Dali Empire.

Although because of the existence of Zhangde Pass and Wuwei Pass, the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire could not attack the Dali Empire, but both countries have a large number of spies in the territory of the Dali Empire, and the changes in the Dali Empire were also sent out of the Dali Empire, and were known to the emperors of the Dayue Empire and the Tang Empire.