Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 321 Bo Yikao's Reinforcements
Queen Jiang was confused. What was going on?
She asked hesitantly, "Can I go see my two sons? They must have suffered a lot."

The Golden Spirit Mother said calmly, "You have been dead for several years. A lot has happened in these years. I will let you see your two sons, but not now."

In fact, it would be most convenient to let Wen Zhong persuade Queen Jiang as the Grand Tutor at this time, but the Holy Mother Jin Ling refused. She wanted to see the virtuous queen's own choice.

Queen Jiang thought for a moment and felt that she had nothing to lose in her current situation. The Golden Spirit Mother was open and honest and directly stated her purpose, which made people like her very much.

She also wanted to gain some power, if nothing else, to at least protect her son.

She immediately bowed down and officially became the third disciple of the Golden Spirit Holy Mother.

Bo Yikao sent messengers to the State of Han every day to ask for help. The first messengers who came were already playing mahjong, and the messengers who came later kept coming here.

Deng Jiugong was, after all, a kindhearted man. He felt it was inappropriate for us to be enjoying ourselves and playing mahjong while our allies were slaughtered and blood flowed everywhere.

On the fifteenth day of the celebration, he issued a military order to Hanzhong, and Deng Ai and Zheng Lun led an army of 50,000 to rescue Xiqi. If nothing else, at least they should do something to show it was worth it, right?
The Shang general Qiu Yin immediately dispatched 30,000 soldiers from the besieging army to block the Han army at the northern end of Jinniu Road.

The two sides had a tacit understanding and sat in silence across the mountain road, which was not very wide. They sat there for three days without anyone shooting the first arrow.

Deng Ai sent a messenger to Bo Yikao.

We are here to help you, but the mountain path is difficult to walk on and we can't get out for the time being. Prince, please hold on a little longer.

Fifteen thousand elite Shang troops surrounded Xiqi, but at least thirty thousand of them have left now, and the value of the Han State as an ally has been demonstrated.

Bo Yikao expressed his gratitude to the Han envoy and then escorted him out of the city.

Knowing that this was an "envoy from a third party", the Shang soldiers did not stop him. The Han messenger came and left as if he were in an empty place.

As usual, Bo Yikao inspected the city walls, encouraged his brothers, and appeased Yin Hong, Weizi, and all the civil and military officials before returning to Ji Chang's prime minister's residence.

Ji Chang was ill, very ill.

The Zhou army camp and Mount Qi were lost one after another. It took them seven or eight years of hard fighting to reach the city gate of Sishui Pass. Now, they were beaten back home in an instant. The huge defeat was a little difficult for the 93-year-old man to bear.

He felt that this was a punishment from heaven, that he had offended heaven and that he was guilty.

"Is father feeling better today?" Bo Yikao fed the medicine himself, and the worry in his expression was very sincere.

Ji Chang was so thin that his bones were visible, and he spoke in a very soft voice.

"But, reinforcements are coming?"

Bo Yikao said objectively, "Yes, father, the Han State has sent 50,000 troops, but they are currently blocked at the Jinniu Road. The Shang army has sent some troops to stop them, so they are not attacking the city today."

Ji Chang coughed twice: "Where are those people?"

Knowing that his old father was talking about the immortals of the Chan sect, Bo Yikao shook his head slightly.

The intention of the Xianjiao to use Xiqi and treat the common people of the mortal world as pawns was too obvious, and he did not like the Xianjiao.

Especially the "strange-looking" Taoist priest Ran Deng.

Can he be a real immortal with this appearance?

Ji Chang grabbed his sleeve and said word by word: "Remember, there is no good, no evil, we just do our own thing." "Yes, father!"

Ji Chang felt very tired after saying just a few words, so he forced himself to be strong and asked, "What are you going to do next?"

"Father, I am sending a messenger to the north. We need reinforcements."

"You are not of my race. Cough cough!" Ji Chang coughed repeatedly, and his words showed his opposition.

Bo Yikao was quite persistent this time.

"If a barbarian is Chinese, then he is Chinese; if a Chinese is a barbarian, then he is a barbarian. The power of the Southern Han State is growing day by day, and some of these words do make sense."

Ji Chang shook his head. "Isn't that the same thing? The Han Dynasty forced the barbarians to learn Chinese, change their customs, and abandon their ancestral temples. If they didn't, they would die. What about us? We shouldn't just copy them!"

He felt that Bo Yikao was too idealistic, but there were no better options at the moment.

Nodding silently, Ji Chang soon fell asleep again.

North, Jin area.

Yuan Hong has been the overlord of the north for almost ten years. At the beginning, he wanted to lead these "monsters" and "demons" to fight for a way out, and then he would pat his butt and go back to Meishan to continue his practice.

Now? Meishan? Where is Meishan? Why am I going there?
His mentality is almost like "Today I know the joy of being a king". The human race's place is ten thousand times better than Meishan, and the most important thing is that he can also share part of the human race's luck.

When he fought against Wen Zhong before, he was already at the level of a celestial immortal. In recent years, he has been blessed with the luck of the human race, and scenes such as enlightenment, opportunities, and spiritual flashes have occurred from time to time. Now he has reached the realm of true immortal and is only one step away from a breakthrough.

Jin Dasheng's brothers were killed by the "unknown passerby", but at least he was left with two old brothers, Dai Li and Wu Long. Dai Li was a dog spirit with a dog treasure in his belly, and Wu Long was a centipede spirit. When Deng Chanyu made a great vow to destroy the five poisons, it did not involve the spirits that had become immortals before, so Wu Long was not affected much.

Today, Yuan Hong called the two old brothers to his front, unfolded the letter and let them read it.

"The Xiqibo Yikao asked me for help. He is willing to cede Jiameng Pass and the surrounding land to us if we send troops to rescue him."

Jiameng Pass was secretly captured thanks to the relationship between the Nine-tailed Fox Spirit and Hu Sheng, and now the commander guarding the pass is Ji Xukun.

Jiameng Pass and Xiqi are separated by a river. Xiqi is on the west side of the river, while the other side of Jiameng Pass is on the east side of the river. In the past two years, Xiqi has vigorously reclaimed the land on the east side of the river. Not only is the land there fertile, but the population is also much larger than before.

The north is getting colder and colder, and now everything planted in Jin is dying.

During the chaotic war between King Zhou and his two sons, most of the people fled south. At least it was warmer there, and a small number of them came to Jin, where they helped develop some of the local productivity.

Yuan Hong is greedy for more! He wants more!

Now Bo Yikao gave him a good opportunity.

"Brother, are we just ceding Jiameng Pass?" Dai Li asked.

Yuan Hong stroked his short beard and said, "Bo Yikao wants to become my sworn brother."

He was also quite puzzled. He had heard that Bo Yikao was a gentle and refined nobleman, but he had never met him before. Now looking at his conditions, why did he have the air of a bandit or a bully? Where did you learn this trick?
The Seven Freaks of Meishan called each other brothers, but they were not actually sworn brothers.

Nowadays, no matter whether they are immortals or humans, everyone still attaches great importance to heaven and earth. The place where sworn brotherhood is most frequent is a certain reactionary military group in the Southern Han Kingdom, which relies on sworn brotherhood and marriage to bridge the power between each other.

(End of this chapter)