After the small episode of the arrest of Cao Cao, the army continued to march east. Just after Chen Liu, he had not yet arrived in Yanzhou, and on the way he happened to meet a fast horse from Jinan to deliver a letter.

Luan Yi wanted to take a look at the letter, and found that the letter was actually sealed in red skin, but it was an urgent letter. So I didn't dare to slack off, so I hurriedly opened it and looked at it.

Ten lines at a glance, he quickly finished reading the letter, and his anger rose vigorously. "Okay, you Tian Kai, it's better than a beast, I'm your uncle!"

Xu Shu hadn't seen Luan Yifa so hot for a long time, so he couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with the sect leader?" ”

"See for yourself!" Luan Yi handed the urgent mail to Xu Shu, and seeing that Lu Bu also looked suspicious, he roughly retold the content of the urgent mail to Lu Bu and Zhang Liao.

It turned out that Tian Kai, the assassin of Qingzhou, was terrified when he heard the news that Luan Yi had captured Chang'an. He was afraid that after Luan Yi welcomed the Son of Heaven, he would take away his position as the Assassin of Qingzhou in the name of the Son of Heaven, so he decided to strike first.

Ten days ago, he mobilized a total of more than 2,000 of his cronies overnight to carry out a large-scale cleaning of the Church of Our Lady in Linzi City, Qingzhou Zhizhi.

Because the believers in Linzi City did not receive the news in advance, they were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. Patriarch Zhang Xu and Vice-Patriarch Guo Sanli of Qingzhou died in battle, hundreds of priests died overnight, and three churches in the city were burned.

Subsequently, Tian Kai searched for followers everywhere, but anyone with a cross pinned to his chest was killed indiscriminately. Within two hours, all the Qingzhou officials who usually believed in the Church of Our Lady were arrested and executed en masse. Countless Linzi people died, and the streets of the city were littered with corpses.

Tian Kai then posted a list to announce the whole city, saying: The actions of the past few days are only aimed at the Catholics of the Holy Mother, and as long as they carry a cross on their chests, they will be killed. Without a cross, a good citizen is not harassed.

The implication is very clear: as long as the believer is willing to take off the cross, he can find a way to live, and if he continues to carry the cross, there is only one way to die. The decisive factor between death and life is on the cross, which symbolizes whether or not it belongs to the believer, and it is up to the people to decide what to do.

After Tian Kai's original one-night frenzied killing, he has achieved the effect of killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys. After the proclamation was posted, out of fear of death, the people would surely consciously take off the cross, and taking off the cross would represent a departure from the religion of Our Lady on a deep level. Without believers, the Church of Our Lady of Linzi will become an empty shelf.

However, to Tian Kai's shock, after slaughtering a full 1,200 people, the people in Linzi City did not fear death, nor did they have the slightest intention of taking off the cross badge, but picked up the guy and rose up to resist. From house to house, male and female believers rushed to the street with kitchen knives and flat poles, and fought with the Qingzhou soldiers on the street.

It is a pity that the chief and deputy patriarchs, the bishops of the county, the archbishops and the priests and other important clergy in Qingzhou all died at the first time, so that the believers in the city and the believers in other counties lacked an orderly organization. In the face of the well-trained and world-famous Qingzhou Army, it was difficult for the common people, who took their families and neighbors as combat units, to form an orderly resistance.

Linzi County was slaughtered. More than 5,200 believers in the city died, accounting for 75% of the total population of Linzi County.

Seeing a specific and skinless corpse, Tian Kai was crazy. He wondered what had happened to these believers. Are you all crazy? Isn't it just a small wooden cross, which can be thrown away to survive, but it has to be begged to die. Is it worth losing your life for it?

How did he know that for the believers of the Church of Our Lady, the cross is not a small piece of wood. It symbolizes their faith, but also their lifelong ideal of eternal life and heaven after death.

For them, the life and death of ** can be ignored, but eternal life after death cannot be ignored. As Luan Yi said, the Catholics of Our Lady are not afraid of death, because for the Catholics, death is the best destination. Death is not true death, but the beginning of eternal life for the soul. Whoever is pleased with the Blessed Mother of Mary will have eternal life after death, go to heaven, and enjoy eternal happiness in a carefree paradise.

The proverb of the Book of Our Lady says: "Whoever cherishes the cross more than his life will be pleased with the Blessed Virgin Mary, and will be able to enter the temple of God and be baptized by God!"

It is precisely because of this sentence that the staunch believers of Our Lady in Linzi City will go forward one after another, and would rather die than take off the badge on their chests.

After seizing control of Linzi through a bloody massacre, Tian Kai took advantage of Beihai's Taishou Kong Rong to go out and seize Beihai County. After entering the North Sea, it was another killing.

With the experience of Linzi believers, the believers of Our Lady in Beihai County learned a lot wiser, and the vast majority of believers escaped from the city before Tian Kaijun arrived in Beihai, and hid in the deep mountains and forests or the countryside, avoiding this catastrophe. Only a few old, weak, sick and disabled refused to leave the city and were killed by Tian Kai.

Three days later, Tian Kai's soldiers pointed to Changyi and Donglai again...... The counties of Qingzhou are in an emergency. A large number of surviving Qingzhou believers poured into Dongpingling County, Jinan. Dongpingling County ordered Wu Tian to accept them one by one with kindness, but he never thought that the cunning Tian Kai took this opportunity to let hundreds of Qingzhou spies disguise themselves as believers and infiltrate the county seat, and forcibly seized the city gate in the middle of the night.

Tian Kai took the opportunity to enter the city and set off a bloody killing again. Dongpingling County ordered Wu Tian to die in battle, and Wu Liushi, the wife of the archbishop Wu Tian, saw that her husband was killed, and she was inevitably molested and threw her son into a well and died. Dongpingling fell, the door of Jinan was wide open, and the military situation was urgent.

While Luan Yi told Lu Bu about these situations, Xu Shu also finished reading the urgent items at hand. Knowing that Wu Tian and his wife, the early loyal believers of the church, were both martyred, they couldn't help crying and drew a cross on their chests, "Brother Wu...... Mrs. Sister-in-law...... May you wait in heaven to continue the frontier. Our Lady bless! ”

"Ah...... Heaven's Gate! Luan Yi was already in tears. I think that at the beginning, if there was no Wu Tian, I would have let Zhu Ying die in the saint earlier? Nuwa Cathedral is in. It is no exaggeration to say that without the support of Wu Tian and Wu Jiabao, there would be no current Church of Our Lady. They are all benefactors of the Church of Our Lady. Now...... But he didn't die well. In this regard, Luan Yi deeply blamed himself.

Lu Bu didn't know Wu Tian, but through the performance of Luan Yi and Xu Shu, it was not difficult to see that Wu Tian had an important position in the minds of Luan and Xu. Then he stepped forward to comfort, "The deceased is gone, and I hope that the sect leader and the bishop will mourn." The top priority is to think about how to help Jinan. I Mao Tui recommended himself: "Tian Kai is this fang, and even the defenseless people will not let go." It's just a beast. Sect leader, the Flying Bear Army asked the horse to set foot in Qingzhou and take Tian Kai's head to offer! ”

"Good!" Luan Yi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, spat out turbidity, and said, "The commander of the Flying Bear Army, Lu Bu, listens to the order!" ”

"Whoa!"

"With Lu Bu, the commander of the Flying Bear Army, as the vanguard, he led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to supply grain and grass in Pingling County, Xipingling County, Jinan State, and marched to aid Dongpingling, there must be no mistake."

Lu Bu gave up!

"I mentioned that the Chinese army followed the general closely behind, and I thought it was a backup. General Wanglu opened victoriously. ”

"Sect Master, rest assured!" As soon as Lu Bu thought that there was a battle to be fought, he couldn't help but be excited. The urgently ordered troops and horses, and led the army straight to Dongpingling.

Luan Yi was worried about the situation of the believers in Qingzhou, so he handed over the young emperor and a group of civil and military personnel to Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei to guard. He took the lead and took Guan Zhang and the two people, the Shuai Shentong Battalion, the Shenpan Battalion and 8,000 guards as the Chinese army, and rushed back to Jinan day and night.

The Holy Bear Army traveled day and night, and arrived at the foot of Dongping Tomb in only three days. Before Lu Bu could line up the array, he saw that the gate of the county seat was automatically opened, and the Qingzhou guard who was in charge of guarding the city gate took the initiative to go out of the city and surrender.

At first, Lu Bu thought that the Qingzhou army surrendered without a fight, and he was afraid that when the army entered the city, the Qingzhou army would suddenly attack. So he divided the army into three and entered the city in batches. In this way, the front army is ambushed, the Chinese army can follow and respond, the Chinese army is ambushed, and the front and rear flanking attacks can escape.

It's just that Lu Bu's cautious measures did not come in handy, and the army entered the city safely and easily took over the city defense. Only then did he be convinced that the Qingzhou army had really surrendered.

Puzzled, he summoned the Qingzhou generals to ask about the reason for the surrender without a fight, as well as Tian Kai's eastward direction. The answer was that Tian Kai ran away.

According to Tian Kai's original plan, before Luan Yi returned to Jinan, he would spend five days to completely purge the Church of Our Lady and the clergy in Qingzhou, and deal a heavy blow to the believers in the state, making them turn their backs on the Church of Our Lady. Later, while Luan Yi was leading his troops, he captured the entire territory of Jinan in five days. lost Jinan, Luan Yi became a lost dog, and it was not a problem.

However, the devotion of the believers of the Church of Our Lady to Our Lady far exceeded Tian Kai's expectations, and Linzi's move to kill the high-level of the Church of Our Lady of Qingzhou overnight not only failed to make the Church of Our Lady of Qingzhou collapse, but provoked a crazy counterattack from the whole state of the Church of Our Lady. As a result, Tian Kai had to kill and suppress it by force.

In the end, he succeeded in suppressing the sporadic uprisings of the Notre Dame, but it also caused irreparable bloodshed - known as the night of Linzi.

After learning of the "Linzi Night", all the counties in Qingzhou were filled with righteous indignation at Tian Kai's brutal and barbaric behavior. Unite as one, and swear to fight Tian Kai to the end under the organization of the archbishops of each county.

As a result, in the next four days, Tian Kai only captured one county in Beihai, and the rest of Donglai, Changyi and other counties suffered serious setbacks in their offensive under the tenacious defense of the parishioners, and they are still in the hands of the churches in various places.

The Notre Dame Christians in the counties of Qingzhou used their firm faith and belief in not fearing death to shatter Tian Kai's dream of seizing the entire territory of Qingzhou and annexing Jinan within ten days.

Tian Kai saw that there was no result in recovering Qingzhou, so he could only point the finger at Jinan. However, he had just occupied Dongpingling County, and before he could continue the attack, he heard the Malay report that Luan Yi's army had returned. The Pioneer Holy Bear Army will soon return to aid Dongpingling County. The commander of the Holy Bear Army is none other than the flying general of "Lu Bu among people and red rabbit among horses".

Who is Lu Bu? He Tian Kai has admired his name for a long time! Where did he dare to compete with Lu Bu, not to mention that there was a god general Luan Ziqi after Lu Bu.

Tian Kai knew that he couldn't get the territory back, and now he had lost the hearts of the people in Qingzhou, and he couldn't wait to go to Qingzhou, so he could only roll up and run away.

He was originally an old official of the Yuan Sect, and now he is also acting under the instructions of Yuan Shao to destroy the religion in Qingzhou. chose to flee to Hebei and went to Yuan Shao.

As soon as Tian Kai left, the already small number of soldiers and generals under his command lost the meaning of continuing to fight. At the same time, these generals were originally dissatisfied with Tian Kai's bloody actions, and they had to act as they were ordered because of military orders. Looking back now, they were greatly remorseful when their hands were covered with blood, and said that they should not have done what Tian Kai said.

They also said that even if Tian Kai didn't escape, they would betray Tian Kai, and maybe they would take the initiative to offer Tian Kai's head to surrender when Luan Yi's soldiers arrived.