"Today, the city gate was closed early, and General Li Jing led three hundred people to search Jiugong City to find believers in the Night City Church. ”

Uncle Bao swaggered and sat in the palace, handling all military and political affairs instead of Yang Ke. He sent someone to order the defenders of the city to directly close the gates of the four directions and prevent all characters from going out.

"The monarch marched westward, with General Meng Tian as the deputy marshal and Mr. Wei Yu as the military advisor. Worship Liu Sheng, Xun An, and Deng Kai as generals, and lead 100,000 troops to sit on the side. ”

The 100,000-strong army was very well stocked, and with the exception of the 15,000 regular army, all of them were filled with slaves and logisticians.

"The southern defenders assisted the White River Kingdom to collect its citizens and transferred them all to the White River Castle. ”

The fourteen vassal states of the Xia Kingdom are all city-states of the most traditional standard.

A city and a fringe village make up a small country. In the face of the demonic disaster, Bao Shuya chose to temporarily give up guarding the villages and towns, and directly transferred to Baihe City to defend it.

"If the other four countries in the south encounter the demons, they can also deal with it in the same way. ”

Resist the enemy with five cities, and support it for about ten days with the Xia Kingdom's witchcraft and immortal forces.

Uncle Bao lifted the pen and flew the book, and a document was quickly formed.

Tian Ping put his hand on the side, and when he saw the paperwork, he suddenly said: "At present, spring plowing has not started, and I am not worried about destroying this year's harvest." As long as the five southern countries can hold out until the situation of the war in other areas is reversed, they will naturally be able to free up their hands to solve the problem. ”

Therefore, the Western side took away almost two-thirds of the combat power of the Xia high-level state.

"The defenders of Eastern Caro City cannot be temporarily moved, and the main purpose of everything is to protect the queen and princess. ”

After thinking about it, Uncle Bao wrote another secret letter to Nangong Qingyan.

Seeing this, Tian Ping couldn't help asking: "Gong Bao, you stick to the western front and shrink the southern front, but there is no move in the east? Doesn't General Huo plan to transfer troops from Caro City?"

"Transferring the troops of Carrow City, aren't you afraid that the demons will turn to attack Carrow City? ”

"But Taimingshan didn't last long. ”

Uncle Bao smiled: "Zhao Gao'er is not here, with his thoughts, he already understands the old man's plan." ”

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"Borrow soldiers!" In Taiming Mountain, Huo Quzhi and Zhao Gao spoke in unison after learning the content of Uncle Bao's dispatch.

Yu Yuan looked to the left, then to the right, and asked suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"

Huo Quzhi seemed to have a big stone in his heart, and the young man's smile was very bright: "We don't have anyone at the moment, and we can't take care of the three fronts." But the eastern countries have armies, and Bao Gong's meaning is very clear. ”

Zhao Gao said: "We don't have soldiers, but we have food." Then exchange the grain for the Eastern countries to send troops and fight the demons. ”

"There's another good thing about it. Because Mount Taiming traverses the eastern soil and the eastern part of our country, the demon clan wanders here. There is no fear that the eastern countries will drive down and directly enter our territory. ”

In this case, the demon clan instead became a barrier for the Xia Kingdom, ensuring that the Eastern Kingdoms would not take advantage of the fire to rob.

Yu Yu thought for a while and said, "Then if the demon clan retreats, and the people of the eastern countries refuse to retreat, how about using Taiyue as a base and directly entering the country to seize grain?"

"So we have to control the situation on this side. On the one hand, they must borrow the troops of the eastern countries, and on the other hand, they cannot be allowed to win a big victory as soon as possible. Reinforcements must arrive until our other locations, and that's when the army in Carrow City is important. ”

Caro City was watching from the side, so that the eastern countries did not dare to really enter the Xia Kingdom. As long as they move, the city of Carlo will directly attack to cut off the opponent's rear route, leaving all the invaders in the country.

Listening to the explanation of the two, Yu Yu was a little relieved: "Looking at it this way, Taiyue is worry-free for the time being?"

"That's right, wait for news from the west, as long as the West can take it, everything is easy to say. Huo Quzhi said to Zhao Gao: "Then next, you go to the east to borrow troops." ”

"Understood. Zhao Gaoshi Shi Ran got up and led the envoy group straight to Tianzhou City.

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That night, Li Jing led the crowd to open the palace gate and searched in the royal court and the spirit palace. The royal court didn't find many believers in the Night City Church, but the Spirit Palace found several miniature statues that sacrificed to the goddess of the Netherworld.

Undoubtedly, this is a secret sacrifice to the goddess of the shadows in private.

This incident caused Yi Zhi to be furious, he and Taibu joined forces with the divination class, and launched another sweep after Li Jing, finding out all the gods who were worshiped by many witches in private and asking them to leave, and issued palace rules strictly prohibiting witches from sacrificing to the indigenous gods without the permission of the Spirit Palace.

At present, the gods allowed by the Spirit Palace are: the three gods of the sun, wind and thunder, and a few great gods such as the craftsman god and the earth god.

As for the great gods such as Youmeng, Heavenly King, and Heavenly Concubine, they are all on the blacklist. Among them, the king of heaven is more ambiguous, and he is privately forbidden to sacrifice by the spirit palace, but on the surface, he belongs to one of the great sacrifice gods of the Chengtian Temple.

Sun Boyu was very unlucky to find a statue of the Heavenly King indoors. After the incident, Hua Tuo hurried to plead guilty.

In the Yongle Palace, Ji Le and Cui Jing, Xi Shi, Su Yu and other witches sacrificed to the gods, and sacrificed the Taixu God, the Sun God, and the Shenxiao Lord over and over again. However, none of the gods knew of Motoxi's whereabouts.

Looking at the three daughters in front of the brazier in front of the hall, Ji Le lost his temper: "Can't find it?"

With worry on his face, he couldn't even do anything about the two divine powers of the Taixu God Venerable and the Sun God, indicating that Yuan Xi's situation was very bad.

Hua Tuo came in to help Sun Boyu intercede, but saw Ji Le waving his hand impatiently: "For the matter of the Spirit Palace, go find Yi Zhi." He's in charge of all these things!"

He watched Su Yu and the others put away the sacrificial utensils, and said, "Come again, this time to sacrifice the goddess Huifeng, I want to see if she, as the mother goddess, can find the whereabouts of her daughter." ”

"Ji Le, don't worry. Bai Qi stepped forward at this time to comfort Ji Le: "We will inform Fengshen of the news as soon as possible, there is no news over there at present, and I am afraid that we are also searching for Yuanxi's traces." We should not disturb lest bad things. Why don't you ask the gods of the grains first? Maybe the gods of saturnalia have a clue here?"

"That's all there is to it. ”

Ji Le instructed the three daughters to prepare for the ritual of communicating with the god of agriculture.

Cui Jing brought the ears of grain, Xi Shi held a gold belt, and then Su Yu presided over the sacrifice on the side, dancing and singing.

Ji Le sat on the main seat and waited, and suddenly turned to Hua Tuo: "Why are you still here?"

Hua Tuo looked embarrassed, and said his intention again: "Sun Boyu's kid has always claimed that it was a misunderstanding, and he didn't worship the king in private at all. ”

"So this kind of thing, you go to Yi Yin and let him deal with it. Ji Le didn't want to worry about this matter at all.

"Ji Le, don't worry. Bai Qi glanced at Hua Tuo and said kindly: "After all, Sun Boyu is from Taoyuan Village. Now that Cai Ji and the others are about to return to China, it is not easy for us to deal with the clansmen here casually. Otherwise, Yuan Huagong and Cai Ji don't look good. ”

"Besides, Sun Boyu's sacrifice to the Heavenly King may just be a moment of greed and want the divine power of the Heavenly King to protect him. After all, there are many powers of the Heavenly King, power, wealth, protection, heavenly firmament, purification, judgment, etc., maybe there is one that Sun Boyu needs?"

"After all, we have too few gods to supply the desires of the people. Otherwise, if you go outside, there must be a lot of statues of foreign gods in the homes of ordinary citizens. ”

"Especially the King of Heaven, as the God of Creation, the sacrifice is already forbidden, so let it go for the time being. ”

"Hmph-" Ji Le's expression was a little dissatisfied: "What's wrong with the Heavenly King? According to the rules of the homeland, the court can only come forward to worship the sky, how can ordinary people sacrifice Haotian?"

"Is Sun Boyu planning to set up his own court, or is he looking down on our 'Haotian'?"

Hua Tuo looked embarrassed, and complained in his heart that Sun Boyu was not doing things properly.

And Bai Qi smiled slightly, stood next to him and didn't speak.

"That's it, since Wu Anjun and Yuan Huagong came forward to intercede, then this matter is over. Not only Sun Boyu, but other witches who worship the Heavenly King will not be held accountable for the time being. However, one article was added that the people were not allowed to worship the king. ”

"Sacrificing to the God of Creation, this is the work of Linggong Taibu. ”

Although Ji Legao raised his noble hand, he wrote down this matter in the end, and he felt a little more unhappy with Sun Boyu.

Destroy Sun Boyu's promotion, complete!

Bai Qi secretly made a victory gesture in his heart.

Soon, the three daughters of Xi Shi failed to communicate with Ceres.

Cui Jing: "Your Highness, there is an invisible resistance to interfere with our sacrifice, and we can't get in touch with the god of agriculture. Unless ......"

"Unless what?"

Cui Jing secretly looked at Ji Le and whispered, "Unless we make a public sacrifice and set up a shrine in the Chengtian Temple in the form of a big sacrifice to communicate with His Highness the God of Ceres." ”

The Great Sacrifice?

Ji Le smiled coldly and did not reply.

The witches communicate with the gods of heaven and earth, and the witches of the Spirit Palace, with the help of Yi Zhi, will bring forth the art of inducing the gods, even if they are not their own natal gods, they can also communicate through rituals.

This is also why, Yi Zhi and the others can find so many statues of the outer gods when they search the Spirit Palace. After all, everyone communicates with the gods, and sometimes they need a medium, don't they?

But this time the news leaked out in advance, and Ji Le suspected that it was leaked through these gods. Therefore, the rules of the Linggong Palace were tightened again, prohibiting low-level witches from trying to worship the local gods.

Theoretically, Ji Le's ordering the three daughters to sacrifice to the god of Ceres, Luoya, in the Yongle Hall is also considered to be a violation of the palace rules, but no one dares to come to him to settle accounts.

"This only means that the goddess of the shadows intervened and prevented us from getting in touch with the gods. But as long as the news is smooth on the side of the wind god. After Bai Qi rectified Sun Boyu, he was satisfied and said to Ji Le:

"In this case, I will go to the kingdoms of the underworld to search, and you can rest for the time being. Wait for early tomorrow morning, let's go directly to Yuanxi's Sanctuary Temple to find clues. ”

For a while, Ji Le had no other way but to agree: "It's the only way to go." ”