Chapter 398: The Sacred Fire Sect that Comes Again
During the formation of the 200,000 army that went south to suppress the rebellion, Liu Ji stayed in the palace of the General of the Conquering the Rebels in Chengyin City. The most important thing every day was to linger with his wives and concubines, and then do some bed exercises.
Fortunately, Liu Ji's martial arts value has reached a certain point, and his physical fitness has become much stronger. He has taken the system-produced golden gun pills. Faced with many wives and concubines, Liu Ji can still be at ease, so that he can get evenly and get rid of the rain and dew, and there is no need to worry about being squeezed dry by his wives and concubines. Moreover, many of Liu Ji's wives and concubines are pregnant now, and Liu Ji is not so busy in bed every day.
The wife Zhang Wanting, the common wife Zhou Lanqi, Zhou Lanxin, Lin Xiya, Lin Xiwen, and two concubines of the Uighur tribe, Guliyati and Hanina, Zhu Qiguo's three concubines, Nadeva, Aisha and Fatini, and Su Hena, the concubine of the Loufan tribe, were about six months pregnant. Aguyili, Anina, Baileges, Dzenani, Nibali, Musier and Nafeisse of the Holy Fire Cult, were also four or five months pregnant.
Liu Ji was already in his thirties in his previous life, but he didn't even have a girlfriend, let alone a child. Now more than a dozen wives and concubines are pregnant, and Liu Ji is simply unspeakable to express his joy of becoming a father.
The premiered saint of the Eastern Diocese of the Holy Fire Cult was not willing to become Liu Ji's concubine, but when she learned that she was pregnant with Liu Ji's child, she accepted her fate. Moreover, her secret lover Rashid had no memory and no longer knew her, and became a puppet-like personal bodyguard beside Liu Ji. Zheoni had no other hope and could only be Liu Ji's concubine and give birth to Liu Ji's baby.
The situation similar to that of Dzenani is also Nibali, Musier and Nafisse, the three golden-level pyrench guards of the Holy Fire Sect. Since they were pregnant with Liu Ji's children, they have all accepted their fate and no longer rejected becoming Liu Ji's concubines.
In order to prevent any accidents, Liu Ji no longer exercises with pregnant wives and concubines. At most, he just needs to keep warm. Liu Ji devotes more energy to those pregnant concubines.
On October 2nd of the Great Jin Dynasty, a news from Heishuitai forced Liu Ji to temporarily stop this happy life of only envying mandarin ducks but not immortals.
In the Mansion of General Envoys in Chengyin City, Sun Xiu, a thousand household in Heishuitai, said to Liu Ji in a deep voice: "Report to the Lord, it is basically confirmed that a group of Western Regions secretly lurked into Chengyin County. After our Heishuitai's analysis, this group of Western Regions may have been sent by the Holy Fire Sect, with three or four hundred people. Their goal this time should be to assassinate you."
Sun Xiu, who was originally a hundred households, made great contributions because he captured six diamond-level pyrotechnic guards and three gold-level pyrotechnic guards of the Holy Fire Sect last time. Not long ago, he was promoted to Qianhu of the Hei Water Platform with another hundred household Sun Zhan who made great contributions in Gaochang Country.
Liu Ji frowned and asked, "Now the entire Western Regions Protectorate is controlled by our Polu Army. Why did this group of people from the Holy Fire Sect enter Chengyin County without knowing it?"
At this time, Jia Xu beside Liu Ji said: "Lord, our Polu Army can only control the cities of the Western Regions Protectorate. Once the people of the Holy Fire Sect encounter the city but do not enter, then we will not know that the people of the Holy Fire Sect have entered the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty. Although our Polu Army's control over the four counties of Yongjing County and Dai'an County is much better than the Western Regions Protectorate, it is not too difficult for the people of the Holy Fire Sect to secretly come to Chengyin County. They just need to choose some uninhabited places to go."
After hearing Jia Xu's words, Liu Ji nodded and asked Sun Xiu, a thousand-householder at Hei Shuitai, and said, "Where are the people from the Holy Fire Sect at present?"
Qianhu Sun Xiu said with a wry smile: "Master, I discovered this group of spies from the Western Regions. I just accidentally discovered that this group of people from the Holy Fire Sect, and then the group disappeared. Although our Hei Shui Platform conducted the most rigorous search of the entire Chengyin City and all the villages and towns outside the city, the group seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. Our Hei Shui Platform now does not know where the group of people has been hiding, except for confirming that this group of people has entered Chengyin County."
When Liu Ji heard this, his brows frowned a little more tightly, "Before going to the capital, we must eliminate this group of assassins from the Holy Fire Sect, otherwise I will go to the southeastern states to quell the rebellion and always worry about the safety of the General's Mansion of the Enemy!"
Jia Xu immediately said to Liu Ji: "Lord, most of the assassins sent by the Holy Fire Sect should be like Westerners, and they may even be Westerners. If such a group of Westerners enter Chengyin City, the officers and soldiers guarding the city gates will not be able to find it. Therefore, the subordinates believe that this group of assassins from the Holy Fire Sect should still be hiding somewhere outside Chengyin City, waiting for the opportunity to enter Chengyin City. According to the environment around Chengyin City, this group of assassins from the Holy Fire Sect may be hiding in the mountainous area south of Chengyin City."
Liu Ji still agreed with Jia Xu's judgment. Liu Ji pondered for a moment and said, "Jia Xu, the matter of clearing out this group of Holy Fire Sect assassins will be fully entrusted to you. You can mobilize the troops inside and outside the city of Yin, including those personal bodyguards with high martial arts around me."
"As for orders, lord!" Jia Xu took on this task calmly.
At present, in the General's Mansion of the General of the Conquest, Liu Ji arranged 900 Wei Wushus to protect the safety of his family. These 900 Wei Wushushus were also organized by the Guard Corps and were considered as guards of the General of the Conquest.
However, the news brought by Sun Xiu, a thousand households of Hei Shuitai, made Liu Ji think that the nine hundred Wei martial soldiers were slightly insufficient in terms of military strength in the face of the vicious Holy Fire Sect assassins. Last time, Liu Ji brought the Wei martial soldiers, the white horse cong Yi and the tiger and leopard cavalry who were exchanged from the system mall. Except for these nine hundred Wei martial soldiers, the other elite soldiers were all assigned by Liu Ji to the three main corps of the Polu Army and the Guards Corps, and used to serve as low-level officers in each legion.
Now Liu Ji's soul value is still more than 260,000. Without much hesitation, Liu Ji consumed 50,000 soul value. He exchanged 900 Wei Wushang from the system mall and added it to the guards of the General's Mansion of the General's Mansion, which brought the guards of the General's Mansion of the General's Mansion to 1,800.
Jia Xu's guess was not wrong at all. A group of assassins from the Holy Fire Cult were hiding in the mountainous area south of Chengyin City. The leader of this group of assassins was Gayaxi, the leader of the Holy Land Guard of the Holy Fire Cult.
After Gayasi led more than 300 pyrotechnic guards to assassinate Liu Ji in advance last time, Gayasi who escaped was only three diamond-level pyrotechnic guards, two gold-level pyrotechnic guards and three silver-level pyrotechnic guards. Including Gayasi himself, there were only nine people.
Gayasi, who was unwilling to fail, was not prepared to withdraw directly from the Holy Fire Church, but stayed in Liu Ji's territory, hoping to find an opportunity to assassinate Liu Ji again.
However, in the following days, Liu Ji was under the protection of a large army, and Gayasi did not find any opportunity to assassinate Liu Ji. Later, Gayasi used a carrier pigeon from a secret branch of the Eastern Diocese to contact the Holy See, and then he learned that the six current saints of the Holy See and two incumbent saints were all kidnapped by Liu Ji using despicable means, and several major dioceses of the Holy See and Fire have lost many saints of the Holy See and Fire Guards.
Pope Feko sent a secret letter to Gayasi, the illegitimate son, with a carrier pigeon, asking Gayasi to bring people back to the Holy See immediately. Gayasi wanted to assassinate Liu Ji with a few people. It was too dangerous. Pope Feko promised Gayasi that Gayasi would not need to bear the responsibility for the assassination failure.
However, Gayasi's hatred for Liu Ji was almost about to break through the sky. He had confirmed that his fiancée Nibali had been occupied by Liu Ji. Gayasi hoped to kill Liu Ji with his own hands and wash away the shame that Liu Ji brought to him.
In addition, because of Pope Feko's care, Gayasi has been smooth sailing since childhood and has never suffered such a big fall, so Gayasi is unwilling to escape back to the Holy See in shame.
Although Pope Feco was angry that Gayasi refused to return to the Holy See, he still drew some Holy Fire Guards from the Holy See and rushed to Gayasi to enhance Gayasi's strength, causing Gayasi to gather seven diamond-level Holy Fire Guards, twelve gold-level Holy Fire Guards, twenty silver-level Holy Fire Guards and thirty-six bronze-level Holy Fire Guards. Unfortunately, it was not until Gaochang State that it signed a peace agreement with the Polu Army, ceding the twelve provinces and twenty-eight dependent states to Liu Ji. Gayasi still did not find a chance to assassinate Liu Ji.
Then Liu Ji led 150,000 cavalry to the grassland, which made Gayasi a little desperate. After Liu Ji left the Western Regions, the difficulty of the Holy Fire Guards he led would be more than doubled. After all, the Holy Fire Guards led by Gayasi were all like people from the Western Regions. It would be very, very difficult for them to assassinate Liu Ji in Jin or on the grassland.
Gayaxi was hesitating whether to continue to assassinate Liu Ji. At this time, the newly established Western Regions Protectorate decided the Holy Fire Sect as an evil religion, forcibly let the people in the Western Regions Protectorate give up their belief in the Holy Fire Sect, and severely punish those who are obsessed with it.
This practice is even more serious for the Holy Fire Cult, than Liu Ji's sleep with more than a dozen saints of the Holy Fire Cult. Pope Feike made up his mind at this time and tried to get rid of Liu Ji, the confidant of the Holy Fire Cult, as soon as possible at all costs.
Next, Pope Feike directly transferred more than 300 martial arts masters from the four desert horse thieves, including Blood Hell, Sand Wolf, Poison Eagle and White Skeleton, to secretly join the Holy Fire Guards brought by Gayasi. Pope Feike asked Gayasi to eliminate Liu Ji no matter what, this time, Liu Ji's series of actions against the Holy Fire Cult in the Western Regions Protectorate's Office have shaken the foundation of the Holy Fire Cult.
In order to get rid of Liu Ji, Pope Feike also invited two guardian elders from the Holy Fire Church to assassinate Liu Ji together with Gayasi.
There are currently four guardian elders in the entire Holy Fire Sect, all of whom have extraordinary martial arts and their combat power is far above the diamond-level holy fire guard. Whenever a diamond-level holy fire guard breaks through to the realm of the guardian elders and is recognized by other current guardian elders, this diamond-level holy fire guard will be promoted to the guardian elder of the Holy Fire Sect. The guardian elder can be said to be the biggest trump card of the Holy Fire Sect. The status of each guardian elder is equivalent to that of the bishop of a diocese.
Pope Feike invited two guardian elders, and another purpose was to ensure the safety of Gaazis. After all, Pope Feike had only this son.
In a valley south of Chengyin City, Gayaxi and the deputy gang leader Su Haierka of the Blood Prison, Taleha of the Shalang, the deputy gang leader of the Poison Eagle, and the deputy gang leader of the White Skeleton, are discussing plans to assassinate Liu Ji. The two guardian elders of the Holy Fire Cult, Akhadi and Faruza, sat next to Gayaxi, one left and one right. Akhadi and Faruza are both only about thirty-five years old.
Su Haierka, the deputy leader of the Blood Prison, said: "Captain Gayasi, this time we sent 100 people from the Blood Prison, 60 people from the Sand Wolf, 80 people from the Poison Eagle, and 80 people from the White Skeleton. I counted that there were twenty-two people who were equivalent to diamond-level pyrotechnic guards, forty-eight peoples were equivalent to gold-level pyrotechnic guards, and the eighty-eight peoples were equivalent to silver-level pyrotechnic guards. The remaining 162 people were also equivalent to bronze-level pyrotechnic guards. Including the more than 70 pyrotechnic guards brought by Gayasi and two noble guardian elders, as long as we can enter Chengyin City, we will definitely be able to wipe out the general's mansion where Liu Ji lives."
The four desert horse thieves, Bloody Desert, Sand Wolf, Poison Eagle and White Skeleton, followed Pope Feike's orders and drew out most of the gang's good players. The deputy gang leaders of each gang were led by the team themselves. The four deputy gang leaders all had the strength of diamond-level pyrotechnic guards. The twenty-two horse thieves who were equal to diamond-level pyrotechnic guards mentioned by the deputy gang leader Su Haierka mentioned were the 22 horse thieves with the strength of diamond-level pyrotechnic guards, including the four deputy gang leaders.
Taleha, the deputy leader of Shalang, frowned and said, "This is Jin State after all, and we are completely disgusted with the situation of Chengyin City. In addition, we look different from the people of Jin State. It seems that it is not easy for so many people to sneak into Chengyin City. If they force themselves, it will be even more impossible to succeed."
Gayashi nodded and said, "It is indeed a troublesome to enter Chengyin City, but this time with Elder Akhadi and Elder Faruza, as long as we can enter Chengyin City, Liu Ji will be doomed!"
Gayasi is now a little energetic again. He has a blind superstition about the force of the two guardian elders. He feels that he will definitely kill Liu Ji this time and wash away the shame he has encountered.
At this time, the elder of the Dharma Protector Akhadi said, "Gayasi, in fact, there is no need to mobilize Liu Ji like this. It is better for Faruza and I to dress up as Jin people, sneak into Chengyin City, and then sneak into the general's mansion to get rid of Liu Ji! We have been choosing places where no one has happened along the way. Liu Ji probably didn't know that our team had reached the territory of Chengyin County. Faruza and I happened to kill Liu Ji off guard!"
Gayasi hesitated for a moment and said, "Dear Elder Akhadi, I think it's better to send two people dressed up as Jin people first and go to Chengyin City to inquire! Liu Ji has many powerful generals under his command, and many ants can even bite the elephant to death. It's better to have hundreds of us help the two guardian elders!"
The guardian elder Akhadi shrugged and said to Gayasi: "Since the Pope has appointed you as the leader of this assassination, then Faruza and I will follow your arrangements!"
Another guardian elder, Faruza, did not speak, but nodded after Akhadi finished speaking, which made Gayasi feel a secretly relieved.
These two guardian elders must not have any accidents, otherwise Gayasi would not be able to explain to Pope Feike and the entire Holy Church. After all, every guardian elder is extremely precious to the Holy Fire Sect. If it were not for Liu Ji's actions in the Western Regions Protectorate, which had shaken the foundation of the Holy Fire Sect, these two guardian elders would not have left the Holy Fire Sect.
Su Haierka, the deputy leader of the Blood Prison, Taleha, the deputy leader of the Shalang, Ogmai, the deputy leader of the Poison Eagle, and the deputy leader of the White Skeleton, had no objection to sending people to Chengyin City first to inquire. So Gayaxi sent two silver-level pyrotechnic guards with very firm beliefs, put on tattered clothes, buried their faces, and pretended to be beggars in Jin State, and went outside the mountainous areas to inquire about the situation in Chengyin City.
After these two silver-level pyrotechnic guards came out of the mountainous area, they headed straight to Chengyin City. However, as soon as they arrived at the south gate of Chengyin City, they were surrounded by the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.
"What are you doing? We...we...we... are just beggars!" A silver-level pyrotechnic guard explained nervously to the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.
"The refugees and even beggars who entered our Dai'an County from the south will be placed in by our Polu Army as soon as they come in. Where can I get the chance to let you go to Chengyin City and take down these two spies for me!" Today, the general who guards the south gate of Chengyin City is Gongsun Zhi, who has been crowned as a partial general. He is a first-class general under Duke Huan of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history. His military power is the point. Gongsun Zhi is now affiliated with the local legion and is the commander of the second infantry battalion of the first infantry brigade of the local legion.
When the two silver-level pyrotechnic guards saw that the matter was exposed, they immediately wanted to escape. However, under the leadership of Gongsun Zhi, the officers and soldiers at the South City Gate quickly captured a silver-level pyrotechnic guard alive. Another silver-level pyrotechnic guard saw that he had no hope of escaping, so he simply wiped his neck. If Gongsun Zhi had not had a quick eye and quick hand, the silver-level pyrotechnic guard who was captured alive would have wiped his neck himself.
Gongsun Zhi asked someone to wipe the face of the silver-level holy fire guard. When he saw a person from the Western Regions, Gongsun Zhi quickly took the silver-level holy fire guard to the General's Mansion in the city.
Chapter completed!