The winter of 779 came especially late in the Imperial calendar, and it was not until December that the first cold snap rolled over the fortress of Valen, from east to west, and swept across the land. The temperature dropped below zero in ten hours, but the first snow was long gone, but thunder roared, and a thunderbolt knocked down the two guards on duty in front of the Governor's Palace, and the flagpole was broken. After that, it poured rain. After three days and three nights of torrential rain, the rain finally cleared, and a beautiful rainbow appeared in the east, while a huge cross appeared in the western sky.

People have never seen such an unusual weather in their memory. The well-informed old people recalled that winter fifty years ago, it was also the same winter thunder and torrential rain, and in that year, there was a collective rebellion of 300,000 border guards, and on the Gudu Plain, less than thirty miles away from Dìdū, the Zichuan Army and the rebels with the help of the Liufeng Army launched a tragic battle, and there were so many dead people that they were stacked on the battlefield for hundreds of kilometers, and the wild dogs were red from eating. The old people swore that this would definitely indicate that there would be a great battle of unprecedented scale between the family royal army and the Far Eastern rebels in the coming year, and the number of dead people would probably exceed that of fifty years ago. The people nodded their heads, and although the Senate had already passed the resolution to negotiate peace with the rebels, and peace negotiations were underway, almost everyone, from family officials and nobles to ordinary people, had a premonition that a terrible battle with the rebels was inevitable and that an unprecedented catastrophe was coming.

The citizens of dìdū were panicked and rumored to be scattered, believing that this must be because someone was guilty of a deep sin, and the cause was angry with God. (There are different opinions on who is the most guilty, for example, President Luo Minghai and Inspector General Di Lin have different opinions.) For a time, various religious groups were able to flourish in temples and churches of all sizes. All monks, priests, tantalum monks, nuns, priests, nuns, mullahs, priests, prophets, and religious leaders declare:

It is because you are greedy, ignorant, do not believe in gods, and do many evils, and now my God, Buddha, Allah, gods, saints (or whatever he is) are angry, and his wrath will come to the earth and cleanse him of sin. Repent, you sinners, your sins are great!(Weighing as much as your wallet!) Only those who sincerely believe in us can be saved! As for how to express your pious heart? (At this time a holy maiden dressed in white appeared with a merit box in her hand) Come, everyone, show your sincerity! Remember, the miserly will not enter heaven! God has long said that it is as difficult for a rich man to enter heaven as it is for a camel to figure out the eye of a needle. Money is a symbol of sin! The devil uses to tempt the world! The only way to be saved is to let us bear these "sins" for you...... Don't get me wrong, we serve the gods wholeheartedly, and the glory and pleasures of the world are no longer in our hearts, and we are using our years of pure cultivation to atone for your sins! Doubting us, the messengers of God, is tantamount to doubting God! You will go to hell!

Every time Di Lin passed a street corner, he saw a man in strange clothes pointing at the roadside or crying and shouting:

"God saves the world!" "Those who believe in me are saved!" On the same street, two "angels of God" were panting and scolding each other in the street because they were about to grab the turf and give speeches: "You are the devil!" "God will destroy you!" "God's wrath will punish you!" -- they cursed for a long time, and as a result, their gods and gods did not know whether they had not heard their call or whether they were not available, and they did not come for a long time.

As a result, the two of them had to punish each other in place of their own gods, and they scuffled in the street. There was a large crowd around the side to watch this "battle of the gods".

Di Lin thought that those people were crazy at first, but then he understood, and sneered: "This is really a great gain from all kinds of popular religions, and a great loss to the minds of our nation." ”

A bearded tantalum monk suddenly came out of nowhere and stopped Di Lin: "Friend, would you like to listen to the will of God?" Di Lin's guards saluted the tantalum monk in awe.

Di Lin didn't reply: "No need, God lives next door to me, if he has anything to say, he will tell me himself." "Stride through.

The monk chased after him angrily: "You unbelieving fellow! You devil! You will go to hell and be burned by fire! You will be cursed!" He scolded loudly, foaming at the mouth, and the guards crossed on their chests one by one in horror, not daring to approach.

Di Lin suddenly turned around and pressed the tantalum monk against the wall, and said in a low voice: "Actually, I am really the devil, and God is my opponent......!

Di Lin's thin lips smiled and distorted, his eyes flashed with a strange light, and the murderous aura as sharp as a razor pressed straight over, and the sword pressed against the throat of the monk without being sheathed.

The tantalum monk's face turned pale, and in an instant he understood: The person in front of him was really going to kill him!

The monk fled with a crawl, crying, "Devil, devil, God save us!"

Di Lin laughed wildly: "Hahahahaha!" Turning to the guards, he said, "Just kidding, haha, devil, hahaha!!"

The guards' faces turned pale one by one, and a thought flashed in their hearts: No, this is not a joke.

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As if to verify the ominous omen, there was bloodshed on December 21, dìdū at the end of the year.

The cause of the incident is very simple: in the Ssangyong Bar in Dìdū, several drunken officers of the Command Office made a disturbance and got into a group fight with the patrolling gendarmes - the exact cause of the group fight is impossible to investigate, because the original parties can no longer speak.

Most of the gendarmes were Far Eastern Army soldiers brought back from the Far East by Di Lin, and they were battle-hardened and experienced, and in a moment they beat up the already drunk officers of the Command to the point of howling wolves. One of the officers ran into the street and shouted, "Come here!!, the people from the Inspectorate are bullying us!" It was Saturday night, and all the bars were filled with the officers of the Command, who were drinking and their fists were itching, and that shout was like a fuse that detonated the long-standing grudge between the Command and the Inspectorate, and they came out of the bars in all directions and rushed to the Shuanglong Bar, as if the Shuanglong Bar had been occupied by the Demon Army, and they were going to rescue them immediately, shouting. Down with Dilin's lackeys!", surrounded the gendarmes inside the Ssangyong Bar and threw them into it like a rain of wine bottles and bricks.

Seeing that the shape was reversed, the gendarmes were outnumbered, and they were guarding the door of the bar while blowing the jǐng whistle.

When several nearby gendarmerie patrols arrived, they saw a large group of "thugs" (as Di Lin said) besieging their colleagues, and immediately became furious, pulling out jǐng sticks and stepping forward to fight and relieve the siege. The warband expanded further, expanding from a bar to an entire street, where beer bottles, torches, and bricks flew in the air, and angry men punched, kicked, and cursed, one side shouted: "Down with Luo Minghai's lackey!" and the other side immediately replied:

"Down with Dirin's lackeys!" both sides were constantly shouting, summoning their own reinforcements.

Twenty minutes later, Dìdū Zhibu Shao's Jǐng Cha arrived to put an end to the chaos -- at a later investigation meeting they said that they were "very fair to both sides of the melee and tried to calm them down" -- but they singled out the back of the gendarmes and hit them "gently" with jǐng sticks: not surprising, because the Shobu was under the orders of the chief of staff, and he was also a member of the command office. However, Di Lin's subordinates were not pacifists who were beaten and did not fight back, and the gendarmes immediately fought at the same time, and the melee expanded.

At this time, the command had an advantage in numbers, but Di Lin's subordinates had the upper hand because of their bravery, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and they were about to win a great victory over Luo Minghai. At this time, a large number of soldiers of the People's Army, who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic, rushed to hear the news. Seeing such a big scene in front of them, they immediately trembled with excitement and trembling all over, and they didn't ask the reason or the reason, and joined the battle group happily and shouting, as if their net worth and future fate were all in this battle. From time to time, the soldiers of the People's Army shouted: "Long live the president!"

He helped the command office to fight the military police of the Supervision Department, and sometimes shouted: "Down with Luo Minghai!" and turned around and fought with the officers of the command office and Jǐngcha, and sometimes suddenly shouted nothing to his own people and fought with his own people again. The two sides that had clear barriers became a mess because of their participation.

Seeing that the opportunity was not to be missed, the local ruffians also joined in. They shouted: "We love the president!" while smashing open the doors of roadside shops and houses, swarming in and plundering them, and shouting: "Long live Dilin!" Coerced passers-by to hand over their wallets and took the opportunity to insult the girl; the kind citizens and owners were unwilling to be damaged, and the residents' committee of the neighborhood shouted: "Long live Luo Minghai! Long live Di Lin!"

Women and children do not come out, men take up arms and defend our neighborhoods!" - no one dared to offend these two giants - the men answered the call, armed themselves with kitchen knives and iron pots, and trembled against the invaders.

The war spreads from shopping streets to residential homes and parks, where two opposing religious lords are calling on their followers to fight a holy war against the other's godless infidels, and the two largest gangster groups in Dìdū take advantage of this rare opportunity to settle their grievances, with hundreds of mafiosi in black suits and sunglasses slaughtering them......

Dozens of shops were set ablaze, and the night sky was lit up red. The thugs cheered and drank uncontrollably beside the burning ruins. From here to anywhere, there was a scuffle everywhere, with officers beating the gendarmes, and the gendarmes beating officers, and then they all worked together to beat jǐngcha and hooligans. The residents upstairs threw flower pots down and smashed the heads of the people below, and the people below took torches and burned down the entire building in retaliation......

Sticks were flying, the wounded were moaning, women and children were screaming, and men were murderously searching for their next target. Recalling that night at the end of 779, people can only describe it in one sentence: "That night, dìdū went crazy." ”

Less than half an hour after the incident, Luo Minghai got a report: "There was a big sāo chaos in dìdū!"

He immediately set off to the Governor's Mansion, thinking all the way about how to sue in front of Zichuan Sanxing: "My subordinates are good citizens who abide by the law. This is entirely because Di Lin connived at his subordinates and maliciously provoked us to cause an incident! We have conclusive evidence to prove that it was they who made the first move! Di Lin and his subordinates should be fully responsible for the misfortune that happened tonight! Please ask His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief to severely punish them for their contempt for the law and discipline!" He prepared a perfect statement in his heart, and he felt very satisfied.

As soon as he entered the meeting room, he heard Di Lin say sternly to Zichuan Shenxing: "His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, the subordinates of the subordinate officials are all good citizens who abide by the law. This riot was entirely due to Luo Minghai's connivance with his subordinates and his malicious provocation to our side, causing the incident! We have conclusive evidence to prove that it was they who made the first move! Luo Minghai and his subordinates should be fully responsible for the misfortune that happened tonight! Please Your Highness severely punish them for their contempt for the law and discipline!"

Luo Minghai almost fainted for a while.

As usual, they engaged in all kinds of arguments, sarcasm, and insults in front of the commander-in-chief. Until Zichuan Shenxing slapped the table: "That's enough! Now it's not a question of who is right and who is wrong! What we have to do now is to immediately put down this chaos!"

The two of them shut up in unison. Di Lin spoke: "Your Highness the Commander-in-Chief, please leave this incident to the subordinate to be responsible! Maintaining order is precisely the duty of the subordinate military police. Xia Guan promised: Before dawn, let dìdū restore order!"

Luo Minghai shuddered when he heard this: as long as Zichuan Shenxing nodded, Di Lin would immediately rush into the city with his 40,000 gendarmerie troops, and repeat a remake of the bloody night, and before dawn, all the officials standing on Luo Minghai's side would be slaughtered.

Before Zichuan Shenxing could speak, Luo Minghai preemptively said: "Your Highness, I think that the people who participated in the Sāo Rebellion this time are not only military but also civilian, and it is not appropriate to dispatch military police troops. How about letting the Jǐng Cha troops, who have a small number of governors, carry out the task of quelling the chaos?"

"Now it's obvious that the group of rice buckets with less than your government can't control the situation!" Di Lin immediately replied: "Your Highness, no matter what, it is difficult for Jǐng Cha to confront the regular troops. Don't delay the timing and let the sāo chaos expand further!

My men are ready to go!"

"Bastard! This incident is the work of your subordinates! What kind of chaos are you letting them settle ......?"

"Fart! It's obviously your shit, and now I'm kind enough to help you wipe your ass, and you're still talking nonsense!"

"That's enough!" Zichuan Shenxing shouted angrily again. He turned to Luo Minghai:

"Luo Minghai, is there a garrison near Dìdū that can be drawn immediately?"

Luo Minghai thought for a moment and replied: "The 51st Infantry Division, which was transferred from the Western Front to the Far East, is passing through Dìdū, and there are four brigades camped outside the city. There are also three cadet brigades from the Far Eastern Military Academy that are also outside the city, but none of the cadets are armed. There are also three warships of the navy that also stay on the Vagne. Well, that's probably all there is to it. ”

"Tell the 51st Division to enter the city at once, issue weapons to the cadets, and transfer the sailors off the boats, well, and then transfer 5,000 men from the Praetorian Guard, and gather the troops, it should be okay! ”

"Yes!" the two saluted.

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At eleven o'clock in the evening of the 21st rì, under the light of the burning fire, the sailors from the Vagne River quietly poured into the dìdū from the west gate, braving the dense bricks and torches, silently attacking the rioting crowd, the resolute and brave sailors were outnumbered, and the fierce but silent struggle with the mob, the black sè sailors stabbed in the night. After ten minutes of fierce fighting, the sailors dispersed a large crowd of thugs several times their number.

In the eastern part of the city, the cadets of the Far Eastern Military Academy, armed with bayonets and spears that had just been issued, rushed into the residential area with a shout, and were warmly welcomed by the residents, who fought side by side with the residents to drive out the plundering mob. A cheer echoed over the residential area: "Long live the army!"

In the northern part of the city, it was the epicenter of the riots, where not only ordinary citizens, property owners, hooligans, and gangsters were fighting...... There are also quite a few professional soldiers, numbering nearly 100,000 people, and they are crowded into the streets! The infantry of the 51 st Division has only about 4,000 people, and if they are added, it will only add a little more chaos to the melee and will not help at all. The commander of the division whimsically found dozens of bulls from outside the city, burned them behind their buttocks, and the frenzied bulls rushed straight into the crowd, and the streets were suddenly cleared by chickens and dogs, and in an instant a road was cleared, and a large number of Janissaries rushed in, and whipped people with leather whips, making the crowd cry and howl wolves.

At dawn, after a night of efforts by various counterinsurgency troops, order was finally restored. Although the sāo rebellion caused a lot of damage, many people died. But the surviving citizens of Dìdū all felt: It's too exciting, it's too enjoyable, it's so refreshing!

In order to commemorate the passionate night of revelry and doing everything, everyone holds a parade to celebrate on December 21 every year, and in order to achieve a realistic effect, they find dozens of bulls tied to their buttocks and chase after them with torches behind their buttocks, and then everyone walks around the street with a candle just like they did when they burned houses with torches.

This became the biggest festival of the year. It is said that this custom later spread to other continents, and the countries of their country followed suit......

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However, the relationship between the Command Office and the Inspectorate became unprecedentedly tense, to the point that the heads of both sides had to be protected by the Armored Brigade even when commuting to and from work, and their subordinates were in a-for-tat confrontation with each other, setting up barricades in the streets, and clashes were on the verge of breaking out at any time. Everyone felt that they couldn't put Di Lin and Luo Minghai together anymore, otherwise the same sāo chaos would happen at any time. Luo Minghai wrote a letter requesting that Di Lin be sent to the Far East front - in fact, before that, some elders had long thought that it was a great waste to idle a famous general like Di Lin in Dìdū.

Originally, Zichuan Shenxing had always had scruples: Di Lin was a vulture, and it was easy to release him, but it was difficult to take it back! His sword was very sharp to kill the enemy, but it would also bleed his own people. But now that Di Lin and Luo Minghai are on the same footing, they have to be isolated.

He asked for Dilling's opinion. Di Lin's eyes were red and he said very sadly: "Your Highness, I haven't done anything wrong, why should I be sent away from afar?"

Zichuan Shenxing comforted him and said: "How can this be a distribution? This is the family's trust in you, the war situation in the Far East is complicated, and a high-ranking supervisory officer is needed to supervise the war! This is completely a work need!"

"But Your Highness, I am reluctant to leave you!"

"Alas, Dilin, you can make better use of your strengths in the Far East and serve the family, even if you are not by my side, I will be just as happy. ”

Zichuan Shenxing talked and persuaded for a long time, and repeatedly explained: This is not exile, but the family's reuse of him, Di Lin reluctantly agreed, wiped his tears and nodded, and his heart blossomed: Luo Minghai, you idiot! After arriving in the Far East, the sky is high and the sea is wide, and I count my class as the highest, and hundreds of thousands of family troops will naturally fall into my hands! Just wait for Zichuan Shenxing to lose his breath, at that time, I will command 500,000 Zichuan troops back to dìdū, with Zichuan Xiu on the left and Sterling on the right, what do you use to fight against me! At that time, it was easy to kill your dog!

"Your Highness, since you have said so, Your Majesty has agreed to go to the Far East. But there is one thing that the officials can't rest assured......"

"Oh, just say anything about it. ”

"Xia Guan's wife, Lin Xiujia, is pregnant and about to give birth, Your Highness, you know, that scumbag Luo Minghai hates me to the core, and he can do anything......!

"Oh," Zichuan Shenxing said very happily: "It turns out that Di Lin is worried about this! It doesn't matter, I've already helped you think about it, let Lin Xiujia move into the governor's mansion and live with me." No matter how bold Luo Minghai is, he won't dare to enter the governor's mansion to disturb him, right?

Di Lin was taken aback, and immediately replied: "Your Highness is really considerate, but this is too troublesome Your Highness, and the ministers dare not do it." The minister originally wanted Lin Xiujia to go with me, why would I be embarrassed to disturb His Highness......

"Alas, Dilin, that's not what you're thinking about. Lin Xiujia is already pregnant, how can she travel a long distance? What's more, let Jiali take the risk of sword soldiers, how can it be done by a wise man? Could it be that you don't worry about me, an old man? Hehe, I'm the father of you and Lin Xiujia at my age!"

Di Lin's forehead was mixed with sweat: "Your Highness is joking." I kept shouting, "Oh no, no, stealing chickens won't make it a mess of rice!" What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?

"Alright, that's it. Di Lin, if you refuse to agree any longer, I will doubt me!" Zichuan Shenxing's tone turned stern.

Di Lin was shocked, and lowered his head: "Minister, obey the order!" The sweat behind his back soaked through his thick clothes.

On December 28, 779 in the imperial calendar, the Inspector General Di Lin led 40,000 gendarmerie troops to leave Dìdū and go to the Far Eastern front to supervise the war.

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On January 1 of the New Year of 780, in the mountains of Wag Province in the Far East, a half-orc cavalry rushed along the mountain road in the dawn sun and rushed into the garrison of the Xiuzi camp, both men and horses were drenched in sweat. He jumped off his horse and said to the drunken-eyed sentry in a well-rounded human language, "Eight hundred miles in an emergency!

Xiuziying celebrated the New Year with a carnival all night last night, and Zichuan Xiu, who had just fallen asleep, was called up by Bai Chuan again: "Delun, the general manager of Alibaba Co., Ltd., has urgent news. He immediately came to his senses, and in the document Delen reported to him that a large number of unidentified rebels had appeared in the Sakka province, and that three branches of the "Xiuzi Battalion" had been destroyed, and the losses were very severe.

Shikawa immediately sent someone to inform Sterling.

Sterling takes this information very seriously. He wrote a long letter to Ming Hui, the Supreme Commander of the Far Eastern Theater stationed in Tussauds. In the letter, he argued that the recent movements of the rebels were quite unusual and that they should immediately be on heightened alert and concentrate their forces in order to prevent any sudden change.

Originally, he was supposed to ask the herald to bring the letter over, but Tang Ping, the chief of staff of the Zhōngyāng army, happened to have something to find Minghui, so Sterling handed the letter to him and asked him to bring it over.

However, Tang Ping was not able to reach Minghui's headquarters in the end, and in the wilderness, less than seventy kilometers from Tussaud Province, he was ambushed by the Demon Advance Team. A sharp and powerful arrow pierced his lungs and knocked him off his horse. Lying in the cold snowdrift, Tang Ping kept coughing up blood in his mouth, and in the face of the approaching demon dragoons, he trembled and tore Stirling's letter to shreds, and scattered it with the wind towards the snowy Far Eastern Plain......

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On this night, the beacon fire stained the night sky red. The army of the demon clan crossed the boundary monument of the border between the demon kingdom and the Zichuan family, and the invincible Great Demon God Emperor drove the expedition in person, with a total of 417 teams and 1.32 million people. More than 700,000 rebels of all races in the Far East opened the way in front of them as a forerunner.

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