Updated: 2012-11-21

"Lei Ting!" The woman in the blue skirt glanced at Tan Zong sitting beside Lian'er quietly, looked at Lian'er with a smile, vomited her red lips, and said her name with a delicate voice.

"Sister Lei." Lian'er smiled and called out to the woman in the blue skirt.

Hearing the words "Lei Ting", Tan Zong couldn't help but see the situation before his eyes when he secretly went to Nanjing City to meet Zuo Yinglong in the inn last year. If it weren't for his help, Lei Ting, who had killed his enemy, would have been caught by the public in Nanjing City.

Tan Zong remembers that he had made an appointment with Lei Ting to meet in Nanjing this year, but he didn't know why she joined the Merit Deity Sect. What is certain is that when she met her last year, she had nothing to do with the Merit Deity Sect, otherwise she wouldn't have gone to Nanjing alone.

If Lei Ting told Deputy Gangmaster Liu about what happened in Nanjing, then the treacherous Deputy Gangmaster Liu will definitely see the flaws, and then Tan Zong's identity will be exposed, because the children of famous families played by Tan Zong will never go to Nanjing alone, let alone live in an inn. With this alone, Tan Zong cannot have an explanation that convinces Deputy Gangmaster Liu.

Tan Zong was sure that no matter how he defended or even denied it, Deputy Gang Leader Liu would believe Lei Ting because Lei Ting had no reason to lie to him at all.

However, Tan Zong glanced at Liu Kun. From Liu Kun's reaction, Lei Ting should not have leaked the matter in Nanjing City, otherwise Liu Kun's expression would definitely be abnormal.

"What do she want?" Tan Zong felt annoyed for no reason. The feeling of being caught in his braid was really bad.

While Tan Zong was talking to Bai Yu absent-mindedly, the opening ceremony officially began. The sound of drums sounded in the venue. The believers who were wearing brand new meritorious costumes immediately lined up in the yard, and the scene was silent.

The other guardian of the merit teachings was presided over the opening ceremony of the merit teachings, the Song guardian. In order to show his respect for these Protestants, Deputy Gang Leader Liu and senior leaders of the merit teachings such as Lu guardian were also present and sat in the first row of the VIP seats.

In Tan Zong's view, the so-called opening ceremony is a gang entry ceremony, burning yellow paper, cutting chicken heads, drinking bloody wine, worshiping Guan Er Ge, and swearing to be loyal to the merits of the religion of merit.

After all the procedures were completed, Deputy Gangmaster Liu stepped forward to speak. He first welcomed the new churchgods, and then introduced the situation in Huguang in an eloquent manner.

In the description of Deputy Gang Leader Liu, Meritism has steadily gained the upper hand in the Huguang area and has controlled two-thirds of the area. The official army can only huddle in some big cities, and it is just around the corner to capture the Huguang area.

In order to inspire the morale of these Protestants, Deputy Gangmaster Liu "specially" told them good news. Not long ago, the Meritorious Sect won a victory in Wuchang Prefecture and wiped out the three thousand vanguard troops sent by the imperial envoy to Jingzhou Prefecture, composed of the city defense force.

This news immediately caused the believers on the scene to fall into a carnival, shouting long live the meritorious teaching, and wishing to go to the front line to slaughter the official army immediately.

Deputy Gangmaster Liu promised confidently that when the day the court was overthrown, the newly joined believers would be the heroes of the founding country, and then they would be promoted one by one, and would be honored by the family.

Hearing this, the Protestants at the scene suddenly became excited, and their faces were filled with excitement. Most of them were farmers facing the loess and facing the sky. No one expected that they would become officials one day and live such a wealthy life. They could not help but believe in the merit teachings.

Facing the scene in front of him, Tan Zong watched coldly. He found that Deputy Gang Leader Liu was doing everything he could to win over those believers, and he actually opened his eyes and told lies there.

Guan Haishan was a civil servant and knew nothing about military affairs. When Tan Zong left Wuchang City, he left him with advice on dealing with merit teachings to do everything step by step and take steady steps. He was cautious by nature and would never act rashly without mobilizing enough troops.

The mobilization of the army is a very complicated matter, and Guan Haishan is the city defense force drawn from various prefectures and prefectures. He is not familiar with each other, so it requires a certain period of running-in. Only by integrating these city defense force from various prefectures can we form sufficient combat power, otherwise it will be a mess.

In Tan Zong's opinion, it would take three months to mobilize various materials and train the city defense forces. Now it is less than two months since he left Wuchang City. Guan Haishan would not send any vanguard troops to Jingzhou Prefecture no matter what. Deputy Gangmaster Liu must have lied.

Tan Zong knew that with the importance of Emperor Ping of Qing to Huguang, although the merit teachings still took the initiative in Huguang, life was getting harder and harder.

Guan Haishan not only mobilized heavy troops to encircle and suppress the meritorious religion in Wuchang City, but also the prefectures around the Huguang area have also strengthened their vigilance, recruited rural warriors, implemented joint guarantees, and gathered heavy troops on several important roads connected to the Huguang area to prevent the meritorious religion from inciting disaster victims into the jurisdiction.

The scholars of the Merits and Deity Church did not know that the reason why the official army did not attack them immediately was because the official army was arranged in an orderly manner according to the plan. The provincial capitals around them had gradually formed an encirclement of the Huguang area, forming a trend of closing the door and fighting dogs. As this encirclement became stronger and stronger, the situation of the Merits and Deity Church would become more and more difficult.

According to Tan Zong's plan, the government army mainly relied on the high walls of the city to defend the prefectures in Huguang area. For example, the counties and towns below could be kept in the rules, and if they could not be kept, they would be left to merit and religion.

The larger the territory received by the Merit Teaching, the more dispersed the power is due to the governance of the territory received, and the internal Maodun and conflicts will become more and more obvious, which greatly reduces the pressure on the official army.

Although the scholars of the Merit Teaching are not clear about the current situation, senior officials such as Deputy Gang Leader Liu, Lu Guardian and Song Guardian are still very clear about the current situation of the Merit Teaching. Only by constantly inspiring the morale of the believers can they win in the battle with the official army.

It was already evening after the opening ceremony. Merit and Desert held a banquet in the main hall to entertain people who came to attend the opening ceremony. People ate meat in big mouthfuls, drank large pieces, played boxing, and played wine in a lively manner.

Tan Zong, Lian'er and others were arranged in a private room, and Liu Kun, Lei Ting and others were sitting with each other. Everyone was drinking and chatting and laughing. The atmosphere in the room was very warm.

Since he is in the main hall of the Merit of Merit, the topics that everyone is talking about are naturally inseparable from the Merit of Merit of Merit of Merit of Huguang and the current situation. Liu Kun told Huang Weijie that he would go to Jingzhou Prefecture soon to participate in the war to capture Jingzhou City.

Since Guan Haishan mobilized a large army in Wuchang Prefecture, Deputy Gangmaster Liu decided to build Jingzhou City into a frontier fortress to fight against the imperial army. Therefore, he formulated a plan to seize Jingzhou City and prepared to fight the decisive battle with the official army in Jingzhou City when the morale of the victims was in full swing.

Tan Zong was not surprised by this news. If it were him, he would have chosen to fight the decisive battle with the government army in Jingzhou City. With his high morale and number of people, he defeated the government army in one fell swoop, because the longer the time delayed, the more unfavorable it would be to merit.

At the end of the banquet, Huang Weijie, Ye Zhenshan and others were already drunk and were supported by people to get onto the carriage.

After the carriage started, Huang Weijie, who was originally lying in the carriage, opened his eyes, slowly sat up, frowned and looked at the wall of the carriage in front. Liu Kun said at the table that he wanted to go to Jingzhou to participate in the war was definitely told by him, and the purpose was to ask him to send someone to urge Huang Haibo and Ye Hainiu of Dongting Lake to send troops to disrupt the order of the waterway.

Faced with the aggressiveness of the Merit Teaching, Huang Weijie really had no choice. If he didn't make any moves, Deputy Gang Leader Liu would probably find a way to deal with them, and there would be big trouble at that time.

After some careful consideration, Huang Weijie wrote down everything that happened here, instructed people to send the letter to Dongting Lake, and asked Huang Haibo, You Wuniang and others to make a decision and find ways to deal with the merit teachings.

Tan Zong seemed a little restless along the way. Lei Ting's existence hung over his head like a sharp sword, and could fall down at any time. His most urgent task now is to take down this sword, otherwise it would make him unable to sleep or eat, seriously affecting his emotions.

"We have to think of a way to talk to her and see what she thinks!" Tan Zong felt that he could not continue like this. Lei Ting's affairs must be resolved as soon as possible before she told others, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Tan Zong was almost with Lian'er and Bai Yu all day long, which made it difficult for him to act alone, but he had a way, that was to run out to play with the children in the town.

In contact with the children, Tan Zong gradually learned that this town is located in Ningyuan County, Lingling Prefecture, southern Hunan, hundreds of kilometers away from Dongting Lake. The terrain is remote. Once outsiders approach, they will be discovered by people from the Meritorious Death Church. It can be said that the defense is tight.

In addition to solving Lei Ting's affairs, another important thing for Tan Zong is to wait for Shen San, who followed him to find a way to get into the town and convey his orders.

Since the Merit Deeds wanted to fight to the death with the official army in Jingzhou Prefecture, Tan Zong refused to let the Merit Deeds go. He decided to adopt the "island-jumping" tactic of the US military against the Japanese army during World War II, so that Guan Haishan soldiers divided into two groups, confronted the people in Jingzhou Prefecture in Jingzhou City, and bypassed Jingzhou Prefecture along the way, and seized those areas when the Merit Deeds were empty in other areas of Huguang, so that the Merit Deeds could not take care of each other, and changed the power structure of the Huguang area with lightning speed, and then trapped the main force of the Merit Deeds in Jingzhou Prefecture.
Chapter completed!