Zhuge Li did a great job.

He sent the nine Bailang brothers to Lu Yi's army in an orderly manner so that Lu Yi could inquire about the incident in which the vanguard corps was attacked by rioters, resulting in heavy casualties.

Zhuge Li did a great job.

Although I was entrusted by Zhu Song to try to make Lu Yi stay in Anping Prefecture and never return to Haojing in this life...

He actually sent the nine brothers of the Bai family to Lu Yi's army, and then asked his trusted officers to send a box of white deer money over.

A box of finely polished white deerskin.

Each one is worth 10 million dollars.

There are ten in total.

One hundred million coins is equivalent to about ninety thousand strings of cash!

It just so happened that there were exactly nine White Wolf brothers sent from Lu Yi’s army.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yi handed the box of white deer money to the accompanying eunuch Shougongjian, and asked them to register it and put it into the marching file - 'On a certain day of a certain month of a certain year, the vanguard corps of the Anping Prefecture's rebellion suppression army was attacked and lost a number of soldiers and horses. They bribed the accompanying military supervisor Lu with 100 million coins'!

"Zhuge Li sent you here?"

Under the hill, curtains and desks were set up, command flags and talismans were placed on display, and various ceremonial guards were set up, surrounded by countless arrogant and powerful generals.

Lu Yi sat behind the desk, looking at the nine Bailang brothers standing in a row in front of him.

The Bailang brothers looked at Lu Yi with distorted faces.

Once upon a time, just two months ago, they could still calmly arrange Lu Yi's fate for the rest of his life.

In just a short period of time, they were forced to stand in front of Lu Yi, allowing Lu Yi, in his capacity as the military supervisor of the army to quell the rebellion, to inquire about the attack on the vanguard corps.

As the eldest brother, Bai Lang suppressed the anger, resentment and hatred in his heart, gritted his teeth, took two steps forward and bowed to Lu Yi.

Bai Lang was filled with hatred. He hated the group of disciples from the Paradise Palace. When in front of them, they were so arrogant and looked down upon everyone in the world. How come the group of people sent out to assassinate Lu Yi were killed in one fell swoop?

Hate it!

Why didn't Lu Yi just refuse to die quietly?

Thinking of the cruel consequences, Bai Lang's expression couldn't help but become a little ferocious.

From the side, Yu Dianhu rushed out with two Shenwu generals, and hit Bai Lang's legs hard with the gilded Kunpeng-patterned stick in his hand. Bai Lang felt severe pain in both legs, and he knelt on the ground with a scream.

"It's against the rules. When you see the commander-in-chief, you must kneel down and salute him. You can only be exempted if you are wearing armor or in an emergency. There is no war going on right now, and you are not wearing armor, so why don't you kneel? You are an idiot who was born by your parents but not taught by them."

Yu Dianhu cursed to his heart's content.

Bai Lang and others were so angry that they almost vomited blood.

They knew the rule, but were asked to kneel down and salute Lu Yi?

Bai Lang's face turned red with anger. He clenched his fists in his sleeves, bent down in humiliation, and knelt down to Lu Yi in a standard manner: "Your humble servant Bai Lang..."

Lu Yu knocked on the case and said calmly, "Why don't the other eight kneel?"

The Bai Qiong brothers panted heavily, gritted their teeth, looked at the soldiers surrounding them, and finally knelt down obediently.

Lu Yi looked at Bai Lang and the others kneeling on the ground and laughed out loud: "I know that the Vanguard Corps suffered a loss and lost the battle, which has nothing to do with you... But Zhuge Li sent you here for questioning. If I follow the Dayin military law and execute you, it is reasonable."

"But Zhuge Li sent you here to die... Tsk, if I kill you, I will look a little stupid."

"You guys are still useful."

Lu Yi murmured in his heart, if he killed Bai Lang and his men now, wouldn't he lose Bai Lu and the two sneaky baits in vain?

Last time, Lu Yi mobilized the power of Feng Shui and caused thunder from the sky to severely damage those ghosts. I don’t know if they dare to cause trouble for Lu Yi again. If they avoid Lu Yi in the future, then Bai Lang and the others will not die.

"Drag them away and give them a hundred military sticks." Lu Yi waved his hand. "After the fight, throw them back and tell Zhuge Li that war is a major national issue and we can't be careless. If he continues to lose the battle next time... we can't send the Bais to take the blame every time, can we?"

The Bailang brothers were full of resentment and were dragged out by the military judge without saying a word. They were lined up in a row at the door of the curtain, had their pants stripped off, and were beaten with military sticks in their hands.

Bai Lang and the others were all strong in cultivation, and they instinctively used their Yuan Gang to offset the force of the military stick.

Even so, the one hundred military sticks had beaten them till their skin was torn and flesh was exposed. They fainted several times from the pain, especially the two who were the youngest and the weakest, whose pelvises were broken.

Lu Yi sent people to throw the nine brothers back to Zhuge Li. It is said that Zhuge Li did not even come forward to ask them anything.

In the valley, Zhuge Li's subordinates were rescuing the wounded and setting up a camp on the spot, blocking the valley tightly.

Because of the sudden attack by the rioters, the defenders of Anping Pass also became extremely cautious. The army under Zhuge Li entered the city in groups one by one. Only after one group of soldiers and horses had completely entered the city could the soldiers and horses at the rear leave the camp and march in order.

As a result, it would be impossible for Zhuge Li's army to completely pass through Anping Pass without five or six days.

The main force of the army to quell the rebellion, organized by the Ministry of War and the City Defense Army, which is said to have a total of six million people, is now halfway.

The main force of the riot-suppression army was rushing towards the south in a mighty force, covering the entire road.
After all, with such a large army, its marching speed is certainly not as fast as that of Lu Yi's supervisory army and Zhuge Li's vanguard army. Even so, the main army can still march thousands of miles every day.

Wang Pu, who was in charge of the main army, the captain of the city defense army, the general, the pillar of the country, the fake imperial seal, and the title of right vice minister of the Ministry of War, and came from the Wang family, one of the six saints of literature and education, was riding a large horse with blue spots all over its body and giving orders to the military officers beside him.

Wang Pu, who is nearly fifty years old, tall, elegant, with a slightly dark complexion and a voice as loud and powerful as the collision of metal, looked at the intelligence just sent by the hawk in the army and sneered with disdain.

"Zhuge Li is a piece of trash."

"Losing a battle is not uncommon; what is uncommon is being defeated by a group of ordinary people."

Wang Pu flicked his finger, and the small piece of paper in his hand exploded into powder.

"Let a cavalry unit of the front army rush forward to Anping Pass to join Zhuge Li. Don't let this guy be picked off before he reaches Anping Prefecture, which would be embarrassing for me."

"Send a message to the military supervisor Lu Yi, and ask him to wait for me outside Anping Pass. Tell the commander of Anping Pass not to allow Lu Yi to enter the pass."

"We should handle the affairs of Anping Prefecture ourselves. We cannot allow the eunuch party guarding the palace to get in the way."

"Hehe, the red lotus appears, and we enjoy peace?"

Wang Pu drooped his eyelids, with a strange light flashing in his eyes. He looked strangely at the burly men around him who were wearing heavy armor and had expressionless faces, then he laughed.

"The Secret Covenant of the Three Religions...Bullshit!"

That night, around Anping Pass.

During the day, Zhuge Li's vanguard army was attacked by rioters and suffered heavy losses. Zhuge Li's official documents had spread to the surrounding counties and prefectures for hundreds of miles, ordering the surrounding counties and prefectures to cooperate, capture the rebels, and help quell the rebellion.

Now, nearly 70% of the local officials in Dayin are disciples of culture and education. Zhuge Li used the private seal of the direct descendants of Zhuge family, one of the six saints of culture and education, on his official documents. Officials from various counties and prefectures took action upon hearing the news.

The city defense forces, yamen runners, and constables from all counties and prefectures came out in full force to conduct a strict investigation of the local area.

Even most of the imperial guards garrisons in some counties were mobilized to go out of the city for investigation.

It was obvious that the power of cultural and educational officials around Anping Prefecture had infiltrated the local imperial guard garrisons.

Less than thirty miles away from where Zhuge Li was attacked during the day, there was a huge town with bright lights.

Late at night, the two or three thousand people in the town all tied red ribbons on their heads, held lanterns, and gathered around an altar to worship. A large cauldron was burning red, and baskets of incense powder were continuously poured into the cauldron. A column of green smoke rose up to dozens of feet high.

On the altar, on a blood-red lotus platform, is a lifelike wooden sculpture of a human being.

The statue had a beautiful face, a high bun on his head, a red robe on his body, and jewels all over his body.

Two burly men, nearly ten feet tall and wearing heavy bronze armor and apricot-yellow robes, stood on the left and right of the wooden statue, like two clay-cast Vajras, motionless and silent.

Green smoke curled around, filling the wood sculpture and the two big men with a strong fragrance.

The elders in some towns held long incense sticks and read aloud the sacrificial texts toward the altar, which were nothing more than slogans like "Red Lotus Appears, Enjoy Peace".

As they recited, a big man on the altar waved his right hand, and a circle of red light lit up above the head of the wooden statue, and then a layer of red flames about a foot high quickly ignited all over the body of the wooden statue.

The flames were so hot that the village elder who was near the altar was sweating all over.

However, the wooden statue was not damaged at all despite being enveloped in the flames.

Not only that, two heavily armored men were leaning against the wooden sculpture. They let the flames linger around their bodies, but they did not suffer a single injury, and even their apricot-yellow robes were not burned at all.

Countless people shouted in unison: "The Red Lotus Fairy has appeared, the Vajra Dharma Protector is mighty!"

The sound rolled and spread over dozens of miles.

Right next to this town, across a river about a mile wide, there is a huge town on the other side of the river. It is also brightly lit, and there are countless elders kneeling and worshiping, and also shouting slogans.

Looking down from the sky, there are more than a thousand towns and villages that are still bustling in the middle of the night within a thousand miles east of Anping Pass.

With the sound of horse hooves, a mixed team of hundreds of yamen runners, constables, and city defense soldiers broke into the town. They galloped towards the busiest center of the town.

A police chief brandished a long knife and roared, "What are you doing? What are you doing? You are burning incense in the middle of the night..."

'call'!

A brick flew out from the darkness and hit the captain in the face, causing his cheek to cave in. He spit out blood and fell to the ground.

Countless townspeople stood up from all directions and moved towards the small team step by step.

The captain of the city defense army who led the team was horrified and said, "They, they want to rebel... Go, go, go..."

On the altar, two heavily armored men suddenly shouted, "Kill the monster!"

Tens of thousands of townspeople responded in unison: "Kill the monster!"

In the dark night, countless townspeople roared and rushed towards the official team that invaded the town like crazy.

Two heavily armored men jumped down from the altar, raised their arms and shouted: "Kill the demons, cleanse the world, the Red Lotus Goddess will serve as soldiers, and the people will enjoy the blessings. Worship the Goddess, abolish taxes, and kill the demons!"

Amid roars, hundreds of officers and soldiers were torn to pieces in just half a minute.