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At night, 20,000 troops surrounded the Saint Society from all sides. They obtained the map and blocked all the secret passages.

At the same time, the secret agents of the Holy Women's Society opened the Heavenly Fire Gate, and five thousand troops swarmed forward and quickly captured the Corridor of Light. The Corridor of Light is an important dividing line for the Saint Women's Society. On the left is the Guangming Hall and the residence of thousands of Saintess believers. , on the right is the management organization, including the treasury, guard camp and noble area, as well as the church of the Saint of Light.

If the Corridor of Light is cut into two, the believers will not be able to support the Saint of Light.

At this time, the guard camp was alarmed, and a thousand saintly guards who were loyal to Jinshanling came out and fought fiercely with thousands of troops.

But these saintly female guards were all women. Although they all practiced martial arts, they could not stop the wolf-like army. The female guards were killed one after another, and there were screams.

Jin Shanling was awakened from her sleep. Her head guard rushed into the room with more than thirty female bodyguards and shouted: "Saint, they are coming to kill!"

Jin Shanling had long known that this day would come. She sent her son away, and she no longer had any worries. She could fight to the death with Kang Mira.

"Comilla knows all the secret passages. We can't walk through them. We are executing the bright plan."

The bright plan is also called the plan that will destroy both the jade and the stone, so that the greedy will get nothing.

Dozens of female guards rushed in all directions. The bright plan was to burn down the Saint Sisters, including the information of millions of Saint Sisters members, as well as the wealth that Comilla dreamed of.

They prepared thirty burning points and piled a large amount of flammable materials such as sulfur, kerosene and cotton. As long as they were ignited, no one would be able to put out the fire.

Jin Shanling came to the church wearing a bright red holy robe and knelt in front of the sacred image of Ahura Maz. At this time, the surrounding buildings were already in flames.

The leader of the maids led dozens of female guards to kneel behind Jinshan Ling. Everyone's face was extremely pious and they chanted:

‘The blazing holy fire burns my body, only the light will remain in the world forever! ’

There was a cry of killing, and more than 500 soldiers broke into the temple. They discovered the Holy Lady of Light, shouted with excitement, and rushed towards Jin Shanling and the guards who were kneeling on the ground.

They wanted to capture the Holy Lady of Light alive, label her a witch, and burn her to death in public in front of hundreds of thousands of people.

Jin Shanling sneered and threw a burning torch into the copper vat on the ground. In an instant, with a bang, the entire temple ignited into a raging fire, engulfing the entire temple.

Thousands of female believers on the left side of the Corridor of Light have escaped from the Holy Women's Society, while the buildings on the right side of the Corridor of Light have been engulfed in fire. The screams of troops are everywhere. Six thousand soldiers are surrounded by fire and cannot escape at all. All were engulfed in fire.

Nine saintess elders live in the noble area. They betrayed Jinshanling and cannot escape.

Soon, fires broke out in the temples and residential areas on the left side of the Corridor of Light, and the Saintess' Guild covering an area of ​​2,000 acres was eventually completely engulfed by the flames.

This is the bright plan of Jinshanling, dedicating everything to the holy fire of light.

Three days later, the army found the warehouse that had been burned to the ground. Logically speaking, real gold is not afraid of fire, and tens of millions of gold coins should be preserved intact. However, the army did not find a single gold coin in the end.

The 50 million gold coins accumulated by the Saint Sisters for decades have long been transferred away.

This news stunned Constantine, who wanted decades of wealth from the Saints.

Constantine flew into a rage, threw a handful of copper coins on his daughter's face, and roared like thunder: "You burned my six thousand troops to death, and you get me tens of thousands of copper coins? What do I need copper coins for?" , I want gold coins, I want silver coins!”

Kang Mira said with a mournful face: "I just learned that all the silver from the Saintess Guild was used to build the Guangming Temple in Tuozhi City in Shiguo. That temple is our property, but it was captured by the Tang army."

Constantine shouted angrily, "What about the gold coins? How can it be possible to grow wings and fly with tens of millions of gold coins?"

"The gold coins were hidden by Jinshanling. The map is in her hand, but she has been burned to ashes and we can't find it."

Constantine forced himself to calm down and asked: "Tens of millions of gold coins cannot be moved by one person. At least thousands of people must participate in the move. Doesn't anyone know?"

"A thousand of her loyal guards and thirty personal guards are also dead, leaving no one alive. Now no one knows where the gold coins are?"

Constantine was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot.

In Suiye's inn, Li Fang was practicing writing with two girls. Li Fang was very focused on writing. The three-sword golden ring hanging around his neck shone in the sun. This was the only memorial left to him by his mother. .

In Bukhara of Anguo, horns were blown continuously, the gates of Bukhara were closed tightly, and countless soldiers stood on top of the city. King Anman looked nervously at an army in the distance. This army was retreating from the Stone Kingdom. The returning Holy Sisters army has actually become Sabah's private army, and their goal is to capture Bukhara.

Bukhara is the second largest city in the Sogdian region after Samarkha, with a population of 300,000. Currently, there are not many troops in the city, only more than 10,000, and another 20,000 troops were taken away by Prince An. Samarkand, prepared to participate in the division of the land and wealth of the Order of the Holy Sisters.

Just at this juncture, Sabah's army came to kill him. How could King Amman not be nervous? He knew Sabah too well, a brave, aggressive and vengeful bastard who had made great achievements in battle and surrendered ten years ago. Shang was captured by Dashi and released a year later. He became a hero of Bukhara and a general of Anguo.

But as other soldiers were released one after another, Sabah's past was exposed. He was released only because he had converted to the Arab religion. Other soldiers who were released also converted to the Arab religion. This was the premise for their release, and no one was an exception.

No one else concealed anything, except Sabah, which made Amman extremely angry. He dismissed all his official positions, whipped him thirty times, and drove him out of Bukhara.

No one knew how Sabah spent those years. His wife remarried, his son died of illness, and his daughter became a slave. It is said that Sabah and a group of people became bandits in the desert.

Five years ago, Sabah suddenly became the commander of the Eastern Legion of the Saint's Society, which shocked Amman. He also wrote a letter to remind the Saint's Society, but his letter did not receive any reply.

Amman gradually forgot about this matter, but he never expected that Sabah would come back at the most unexpected moment.

He also knew what his fate would be if the city fell, so he urgently sent people to Samarkand for help, and at the same time defended Bukhara.

From morning to dusk, the army outside the city had not attacked at all, which made Amman doubtful. What did Sabah want to do?

In fact, Bukhara was not difficult to attack. It was no more than two feet high. It did not have the city-building technology of the Central Plains Dynasty. The city walls were thin, there was no moat, and there was no suspension bridge. A wooden city gate stood alone in the wilderness. There was a river to the north, the Nami River. This river was the mother river of the Sogdians. Anguo, Heguo, Caoguo, Xiaoshiguo, Kangguo, and Miguo were all distributed on both sides of this river.

There were large tracts of wheat fields on both sides of the river. In addition, there was an endless desert Gobi.

"It looks like the enemy won't attack the city today, maybe they haven't found siege weapons!"

The Sogdians only had one siege weapon, a battering ram, which broke through the city gate or wall, and the army rushed in, but it was too difficult to find a big tree that could be used to make a battering ram.

The king ordered the soldiers to guard the city well at night, and he returned to the palace. He hadn't had any water or food for a day, and he was really tired and hungry.

At this time, in a large courtyard near the city gate in Bukhara, 500 warriors were gathering. They were the guards of the Arab Chamber of Commerce. They opened martial arts halls in all Sogdian countries to provide caravan guards.

These guards were actually Arab troops. They broke up into small groups and entered the Sogdian region as caravan guards to lurk.

And now, their incubation period is over. The merchant guards from He State and An State have joined together, with a total of 500 people. It is still difficult to attack the palace with this number, but it is enough to help Sabah capture the city with internal and external cooperation.