Chapter 246 Hailing City
Zhen Fu said calmly, "Master, our master said that you launched the attack too hastily. Now the time is not ripe at all. You have already lost."
"presumptuous!"
The ghost-faced man was furious. "If it weren't for your incompetence that allowed the Jinyiwei to detect my whereabouts, how could I be so eager to launch the attack? You keep saying that you control Jiangnan, but what's the use? Jia Cong is in Jinling City, but you can't do anything to him. Do you not dare or can't?"
"Master, the Champion Marquis has 2,000 elite soldiers around him. Even if we dispatch several times more troops, we may not be able to stop him. If we act rashly, the gains will outweigh the losses! This time, because of the Master's matter, our master has suffered a great loss."
“Hahaha!” The ghost-faced man laughed. “You are as cowardly as mice. When I rule the world, don’t be envious.”
Zhen Fu bowed respectfully, and then said, "After all, our master has a destiny with the leader. When the leader is defeated one day, our master will naturally help save the leader's life."
"Get lost! I now own several states. Do I need a coward like him to come to my rescue?"
Zhen Fu did not refute. After bowing, he left.
Jia Cong and Shang Xin led the army all the way into the northern part of Taizhou!
"In Hailing City, there are 20,000 members of the White Lotus Sect, and more than 100,000 rioters with them!" In the central army tent, the scout who rushed back reported to Jia Cong the situation in Hailing City ahead.
"On normal days, the four gates of Hailing City are basically closed, and there are soldiers guarding the four city walls. People entering and leaving are also subject to extremely strict searches."
"Marshal, you only need to allocate several thousand soldiers from me, and I will take down Hailing City for you!" Shang Xin said with a grin. He felt it necessary to show his bravery to his nephew. Otherwise, if they really recognized each other in the future, where would his uncle's dignity be?
Let him know today that although you have been awarded the title of Champion, you did not get it for nothing.
However, Jia Cong shook his head. Attacking a city in this era was not as easy as it was shown on TV in later generations. In this era of cold weapons, the towering city walls and moats could only be filled with human lives. The soldiers defending the city did not need to be elite. They only needed some courage and strength to make the attacking soldiers pay a heavy price.
Jia Cong believed that Shang Xin did have a relatively high chance of success, but the price he would pay would probably be quite heavy.
"We don't have enough soldiers, so we can't afford to lose them in vain. Therefore, it is important to defeat the rebels, but it is equally important to keep our men alive as much as possible!"
After thinking for a while, Jia Cong said to Shang Xin and the generals, "We are going to do this and that..."
…
The White Lotus Sect members in Hailing City are headed by an elder and two guardians. Below the leader, the White Lotus Sect has four elders and eight guardians as the core force.
Below them are the altar masters and incense masters of various places, and below them are the ordinary White Lotus followers! In fact, most of these White Lotus followers are ordinary people who can't afford to eat.
A hundred years ago, the original White Lotus Society was basically an orthodox Buddhist tradition, so although the Southern Song Dynasty court also banned it, it did not suppress it too much. In fact, Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty even summoned Mao Ziyuan, the founder of the White Lotus Sect, to meet him. In the original history, the White Lotus Sect was really linked to rebellion during the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the Yuan Dynasty adopted a coercive policy to deal with the people of the Central Plains, making it impossible for many people to survive.
As a result, the White Lotus Sect grew stronger and shouted the slogan "Maitreya is born and the King of Light is born", calling on the people to rebel.
In a short time, the White Lotus Sect spread all over the country. In the end, in order to appease the huge number of White Lotus followers, Zhu Yuanzhang, a cowherd boy, named the country "Ming" and called himself "King of the Great Ming". After that, he won the support of countless White Lotus followers and successfully ascended the throne as emperor.
But this world is slightly different. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian cavalry marched south, and strong uprisings broke out in various places. Including the White Lotus Sect and the tyrants called by Daqian Taizu, they were all part of the righteous army!
Although the Mongolian cavalry was powerful, they were attacked from many sides and were constantly hit hard by the rebel forces in various places. In the end, they even had to withdraw from the Central Plains and return to the north.
Afterwards, the rebel armies fought for the world! In the end, Daqian Taizu took over the world.
At the beginning, in order to appease the White Lotus Sect, he also gave the White Lotus Sect great courtesy, so that the White Lotus Sect members joined forces with him. However, knowing the significance of the White Lotus Sect's rebellion and the true situation inside, after he took over the throne, he immediately issued a ban on the White Lotus Sect.
At that time, Daqian had countless elite soldiers and generals. Although the White Lotus Sect secretly hated it, it had no choice but to obey. However, the White Lotus Sect did not completely disappear. Some backbone members went into hiding and secretly developed followers. In the past hundred years, the White Lotus Sect's rebellion has almost never stopped .
Of course, most of these rebellions were out of the original control of the White Lotus Sect and became means of certain people or purposeful support and instigation.
"Master Protector, our spies discovered that a very large caravan passed by more than ten miles north of the city."
In a luxurious courtyard, a man with a sinister face was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. He was Bai Ji, the guardian under the Third Elder Lu Jing!
In fact, their army heading north was led by Elder Lu Jing and his four Dharma protectors. However, two Dharma protectors had been defeated and killed when they marched into Yangzhou before. Therefore, only Bai Ji and another Dharma protector Meng Tan were left.
"Caravan?" Bai Ji narrowed his eyes .
"It's a huge caravan!" the visitor said with golden eyes, "There are more than a hundred carts pulled by mules and horses, and more than a thousand guards. Those guards look very strong, and some even have military weapons in their hands."
"Can we find out what they are transporting?" Bai Ji asked.
"I haven't found out yet. I'm afraid of alerting the enemy, so I just asked my brothers to follow from a distance. I think this is a great achievement, enough for the guardian to surpass Meng Tan in front of the elders. At that time, won't the position of the first guardian belong to you?"
"Besides, with such a large scale, how could it be possible that the items being transported are just ordinary things?"
Bai Ji finally showed a ferocious smile on his face, "You did a good job on this matter! The news was not leaked."
"Don't worry, Lord Protector. It was our people who discovered it. I came to you the first time I got back. Today, only my troops are patrolling the north of the city. "
"Okay, if this is accomplished, I will promote you to the position of Incense Master!" Bai Ji said, "Come here, gather all the followers under my command and prepare to leave the city."
