The hard-working villagers have never seen this secret technique before, and have never felt this feeling of being stimulated by the power of life and all the pain eliminated. Both men and women feel like they have become ten years younger out of thin air. They are already in awe of "Yin Yang Lao" The deep-seated commoners suddenly pushed their worship of Amaterasu to its peak.
Seimei then took advantage of the situation and announced that Bai Lin was the messenger of Amaterasu and would lead the "magic soldiers" to serve Emperor T Qingjun, kill all the evil spirits, and restore a peaceful and bright world.
Seimei's "speech" was impassioned, but the villagers could not understand it, but the result was naturally exciting. The villagers took out hoes and wooden sticks and wanted to follow the "messenger of Amaterasu" back to Kyoto.
Bai Lin looked at this rabble, which was only a few hundred years old, and felt disdain for Qingming's operation. But a single spark can start a prairie fire. The peasant uprising was started by a small group of people. There are still three to four hundred people from here to Kyoto. Here, it depends on how big a formation Qingming can burn with this little torch.
After resting for a day at the inn, the three of them led the ragtag group to "march" towards Kyoto, picking up refugees from time to time along the way. Seimei also used the help of shikigami and monsters to capture some birds and animals, and let the officials The family distributed food to the refugees to satisfy their hunger, once again displaying the brainwashing tactics of "God said there was bread, so there was bread." But it has to be said that everything works.
From the homes of some fleeing officials, the three of them got a general idea of the situation in Kyoto. The Genji gathered very quickly. Before this time, no one knew that the Genji still had such a powerful force in the place. They dared to take Yorimitsu with him. The family members retreated to the deserted Haiqin Village, just to exaggerate the tragedy and let the daimyo of each government see the consequences of indulging the Fujiwara clan's arrogance and domineering.
So when the banner of the Genji "Sei-kun side" was raised, the Yamashiro family, Kawachi family, and Settsu family of Kinki Province...the Iga family, Ise family, Kai family, Musashi family, Anbo family, and Kamiso family of Tokaido... ...Dozens of families and daimyo from the Mino family, Ueno family, Deha family on Higashiyama Road sent troops to help.
Even the old Machiavellian Qingming and the former Crown Prince Minamoto Boya were dumbfounded by this situation. Didn't it mean that the warlords were divided into independent states and did not accept centralization of power? Isn't it said that the daimyo fight for territory and kill each other, and they never interact with each other until they die? Didn't it mean that the Genji and the local daimyo were like fire and water, and they often had to send troops to suppress them? What's the matter, have you been acting here with your father all these years?
Bai Lin raised his eyebrows and thought: Harmful! You two are still too young! In normal times, these big landowners and tycoons who were local emperors would of course be disobedient and resist the central government. But in the current situation, the Genji family, the largest family in the world, "initiated the righteous move" and they just followed the rebellion. This is just like the eighteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The reason for the princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo is that everyone is here to gain benefits, but if used well, it is also a considerable strength.
These families may have as few as a hundred or more people, or as many as more than a thousand. Genji actually summoned an army of nearly 20,000 to 30,000 people, which was simply more than the total number of his Kyoto city defenders and imperial guards. , once again made Qingming and Yuan Boya speechless.
They set foot on the official road and walked along the way. Qingming also summoned thousands of people. Although they were just a mob with impressive fighting power, they were very powerful, just like the Yellow Turban Army. Qingming asked people to tie white cloth to their arms to show the sky. According to the great god's holiness and wisdom, he calls himself the "Army of the Fierce Sun".
Bai Lin didn't quite understand Qingming's intentions at first, but gradually he began to understand that Qingming just wanted to gain more say in the meeting with Genji. If there are just three people, Genji will most likely let them eat, drink, hang high, and at most use them as free thugs during the decisive battle. After Kyoto is pacified, he, Genji, will naturally have power over the world, and the results of the battle will be divided among the major forces. Family, and he, Qingming, will continue to go back and be the yin and yang assistant for the next five people.
The farmers were not regular soldiers, so they marched very slowly. After two more days, they were finally less than a hundred miles away from Kyoto. The front was covered with clouds, and the sun was not visible. There seemed to be vague shadows walking through the dark clouds, which was quite similar to the situation on the dry mountains.
The scouts sent forward hurriedly reported that ghost soldiers had built checkpoints and blocked the way forward.
There was no radio at this time, so we could only collect intelligence from the refugee group, and the refugees basically saw it + guessed it + made it up. In the end, Seimei didn't know where Genji's army was at all, but they urgently needed a big victory to consolidate The image of the "messenger of God" in the hearts of the people has been
And it has the effect of further uniting people's hearts and enhancing combat power.
Bai Lin was very curious about the "ghost soldiers" that the farmers talked about. If they were the kind of little ghosts in Dajiang Mountain, Bai Lin didn't take them seriously. Basically, their skills were just chopping melons and vegetables.
The Great Tengu Yufeng lifted Qingming and followed Bai Lin into the air. He looked at the "ghost soldier" level that the scout said from a distance. He didn't know it, but Bai Lin was shocked at the sight.
"This, this, this...is this the Demon Slayer Squad being mass-produced?" Bai Lin blurted out in shock.
I saw a simple wooden village erected in the narrow place of the pipeline below. The strength of the wooden village itself is not worth mentioning. There are no houses and terraces in the wooden village, but a few square formations standing neatly. At least There were thousands of people, and the rows of soldiers in black armor were like stone and clay sculptures, motionless, but their size and the black energy wrapped around their bodies told Bai Lin that these soldiers had been used by the Demon Slayers' secret techniques. , transformed into a half-human, half-demon monster.
"Damn it! That's why Tamamo Mae approached the Demon Slayer Corps!" Bai Lin couldn't help but cursed.
Of course, Seimei and Minamoto Boya were equally shocked. Seimei felt a drop of sweat leaving his forehead. He knew clearly that Tamamo Mae had transformed the entire Kyoto City Guards and Imperial Guards into ghost swordsmen. No wonder the refugees said They are called "ghost soldiers" and are terrified.
Tamamo Mae didn't even limit the influence of demon energy on their human bodies. These ghost swordsmen would completely run out of life in less than ten days, either transforming into ghosts, or their bodies would collapse and rot. Obviously Tamamo Mae didn't care, she just needed these poor soldiers to help her resist the enemy until the full moon night two days later.
Not only are there ghost soldiers in the wooden village, but there are also dozens of horses patrolling the official road at the foot of the mountain. Those dark war horses are more than three meters high, and the knights on the horses are even more powerful and powerful, with strong demonic aura.
Just when Qingming frowned and didn't know what to do, the sound of war drums suddenly sounded in the distant mountains and forests, and then, colorful family flags poured out from the mountains and forests, at least tens of thousands of people.
"Lai Guang's front army has arrived!" Yuan Boya said with a complex expression.
