In mid-March, 23 counties and 317 county towns in 11 states of the Dali Empire had fallen into the hands of the Guangming Sect, which had occupied almost a quarter of the territory of the Dali Empire and had a population of more than 10 million.

In Tongzhou, where the head of the Guangming Sect is located, the strength of the Guangming Sect is the most powerful, in just one decade, more than half of the 135 counties in the ten counties of Tongzhou have fallen into the hands of the Guangming Sect, and the more than 100,000 troops of the head of the Guangming Sect are attacking the rest of Tongzhou.

However, in Tongzhou, the Guangming Sect also has two opponents that are difficult to win in a short period of time - Fang Ling Qian and Fengyuan Guo.

Fangling Qian surname is one of the seven surnames, Fengyuan Guo is one of the twelve clans, the two families have a county as a fief, there are many congenital warriors in the clan, and the news of the Guangming Sect uprising was known earlier, ten years have passed, the two families have more than 15,000 troops in their respective territories, although there are many militias, but the armies of the two families are not short of weapons and armor, and there are also a large number of city defense equipment on each city.

The family clan is different from the government, even in the era of peace, the family clan will attach great importance to the development of their own military strength, without the slightest relaxation, so the family clan can gather a large number of troops in their own territory in a short time, and there is also a large inventory of armor and weapons, compared to the city controlled by the government, the city in the hands of the family clan is like a difficult bone to gnaw, and the Bright Sect will not attack the territory of the family clan in the short term.

The Guangming Sect will not launch an attack on the territory of the Fangling Qian and Fengyuan Guo clans, and the two great families will not take the initiative to fight with the Guangming Sect, although the troops in the hands of the two major families have exceeded 15,000, but it is still too small for the Guangming Sect, and the two major families rely on the city to defend it, if they go out of the city and fight with the Guangming Sect, the probability of defeat is very high.

Therefore, the two great families are seizing the time to expand their armies, and only enough troops can make the next arrangement.

In Suzhou, in Hengzhong, and in other states of the Dali Empire, hundreds of thousands of Guangming soldiers attacked the city in dozens of ways, and the cities were conquered by the Guangming Army.

In Zezhou, the army of the Zezhou rudder of the Heishui Hall of the Bright Sect was divided into three routes, and now almost all the cities of Jiangchuan, Huwei, and Jieliang have been taken, and the Huaili City, which is closest to Yunhua County, has also fallen into the hands of the Bright Army, and about 3,000 Bright Army guarded Huaili City under the leadership of a deacon of the Bright Sect of the ninth order of the day after tomorrow, and guarded against Yunhua County.

After conquering Huaili City, this Guangming army confiscated all the wealth of the big families in the city according to the custom, and took out a large amount of food to help the victims inside and outside the city, and also took out a lot of money and food to recruit young people from the victims and replenish them to the Guangming army.

Fortunately, there are a lot of victims in Huaili City, but more than half of them have fled to Yunhua County, and now they have become a member of the residents of Yunhua County, and the number of young people that the Guangming Army can recruit in Huaili City has greatly decreased.

The situation in the states of the Great Li Empire is not very good, and the government and the family can only defend passively, but every city that encounters the Bright Army cannot stop the Bright Army, and at most after a few days, it will be conquered by the Bright Army.

Among the eleven states of the Great Li Empire, the best situation is probably Linzhou, where Xinping City is located.

Linzhou was the richest state in the Dali Empire, with a population of more than six million, and the Dali Empire had strict management of the cities in Linzhou.

In Linzhou, the strength of the Bright Army is not weak, it is composed of two parts, the Bright Sect Platinum Hall and the Linzhou Rudder under its jurisdiction, but the strength of the Dali Empire and the family is stronger, this Bright Army is also a soldier to attack the city, but none of the targets of the siege are counties, but they are all counties closer to other states and counties.

It was relatively easy to conquer the county seat in the first three days, and it could be taken in one day at most, but after three days, a lot of preparations had been made in each county seat, and the number of defenders in the city had increased greatly.

Time passed day by day, and the middle of March was about to pass, and the number of cities in the hands of the Bright Sect had increased by dozens more.

Compared with the first half of the year, the offensive of the Bright Sect has slowed down seriously, but the slowdown is slowed down, and the Bright Sect definitely has no idea of stopping the offensive to rest, and the plan made by Yuan Hao is to sweep the world at one time, instead of watching a tug-of-war with the enemy.

The armies of the Bright Sect are still attacking the city, and the other clans of the Dali Empire are also actively expanding their armies to prepare for war, during this period, except for the fiefdoms of the clans that the Bright Army took the initiative to attack, no clans have taken action against the Bright Sect.

The strength of the Bright Sect is seen by the clans, and before they have enough strength, the clans will not take it easy, and they will not take it easy, and watch the cities officially controlled by the Dali Empire be conquered by the Bright Army, but the clans are indifferent, and the same is true of the Yunhua Yun clan, even if a letter for help is sent, they will not pay attention to it, and even some of the clans prohibit the exiles from entering their territory to prevent people from the Bright Sect from mixing into the exiles.

The "indulgence" of the great families caused the situation in the Dali Empire to continue to deteriorate.

Some veteran families still look down on the Bright Sect, thinking that the Bright Sect is not as good as them, and once they go all out, it will be easy to eliminate the Bright Sect.

There are not a few ambitious people in the big family, and those who have a heart can see that this large-scale Guangming Sect uprising is a very good opportunity, an opportunity to replace the Emperor Fang clan and establish a country of their own.

In Xinping City, although the Guangming Sect uprising was on a grand scale in the outside world, it was difficult to have any major impact on Xinping City, and Prime Minister Zhou Shu tried his best to exterminate the Guangming Sect, but some ministers began to compete for the position of the emperor on the grounds that the country could not be without a king for a day, and Xinping City became a little chaotic.

Zhou Shu watched coldly, there was unspeakable sadness in his heart, he had already made up his mind, and when the Bright Sect was pacified and a new emperor succeeded to the throne, he would return to his hometown and leave this court that had completely disappointed him.

With the efforts of Zhou Shu and other ministers of the Zhongjun faction, there are already more than 100,000 troops assembled near Xinping City, half of which are elite troops, and the remaining newly recruited soldiers are also at the level above the county soldiers.