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Chapter 1399 Bright Plan
At night, 20,000 troops surrounded the Holy Maiden Society from all directions. They got the map and blocked all the secret passages.

At the same time, the Holy Maiden's insider opened the Skyfire Gate, and five thousand troops rushed forward and quickly captured the Corridor of Light. The Corridor of Light was an important dividing line of the Holy Maiden's Society. On the left was the Hall of Light and the residences of thousands of Holy Maiden believers, and on the right was the administrative agency, including the treasury, the guard camp and the noble area, as well as the temple of the Holy Maiden of Light.

If the Corridor of Light is cut in two, the believers will not be able to support the Holy Maiden of Light.

At this time, the guard camp was alarmed, and a thousand saintly guards loyal to Jin Shanling rushed out and fought fiercely with thousands of troops.

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

Jin Shanling was awakened from her sleep. Her chief guard and more than thirty female personal guards rushed into the room and shouted, "Saint, they are coming to kill us!"

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

"Comilla knows all the secret passages. We can't escape. Execute the Bright Plan."

The Bright Plan is also known as the Burn All Plan, which leaves the greedy with nothing.

Dozens of female guards ran in all directions. The Bright Plan was to burn the Holy Maiden Society, including the information of millions of Holy Maiden Society members and the wealth that Comilla had always dreamed of.

They prepared thirty burning points and piled up a large amount of flammable materials such as sulfur, kerosene, and cotton. Once the fire was ignited, no one could put it out.

Jin Shanling came to the temple wearing a bright red robe and knelt before the holy statue of Ahuramaz. At this time, the surrounding buildings were already ablaze with flames.

The maid leader led dozens of female guards to kneel behind Jin Shanling. Each of them had an extremely pious look on their faces and chanted:

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

With a burst of shouting and killing, more than 500 soldiers rushed into the temple. They found the Holy Maiden of Light and shouted excitedly, rushing towards Jin Shanling and the guards who were kneeling on the ground.

They wanted to capture the Holy Maiden of Light alive, label her a witch, and burn her publicly 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, a raging fire broke out in the entire church, engulfing the entire church.

Thousands of female believers on the left side of the Corridor of Light escaped from the Holy Virgin Society, while the buildings on the right side of the Corridor of Light were engulfed in flames. The screams of the army were everywhere. Six thousand soldiers were surrounded by the fire and could not escape at all. They were all engulfed by the flames.

The nine holy elders lived in the noble area. They betrayed Jin Shanling and were also unable to escape.

Soon, the temples and residential areas on the left side of the Corridor of Light also caught fire, and the Holy Maiden Society, covering an area of ​​2,000 acres, was eventually completely engulfed by the flames.

This is Jin Shanling’s bright plan, dedicating everything to the holy fire of light.

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

The fifty million gold coins accumulated by the Holy Maiden Society over decades had long been transferred away.

This news left Constantine stunned, as he just wanted the wealth that the Holy Maiden Society had accumulated for decades.

Constantine was furious. He threw a handful of copper coins at his daughter's face and roared, "You burned 6,000 of my soldiers to death, and you only got me tens of thousands of copper coins? What do I need copper coins for? I want gold coins and silver coins!"

Kang Mi La said with a sad face, "I just found out that all the silver of the Saint Maiden Association was used to build Guangming Temple in Tuozhi City of Shiguo. That temple was our property, but it was captured by the Tang army." Constantine yelled angrily, "What about the gold coins? How could tens of millions of gold coins grow wings and fly away?"

"The gold coins were hidden by Jin Shanling. The map was in her hands, but she has been burned to ashes. 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 are needed to move them. Don't you know that?"

"One thousand guards loyal to her and thirty personal guards are all dead. No one is left alive. Now no one knows where the gold coins are."

Constantine was so angry that he spit out blood and fainted on the spot.

In the posthouse in Suiye, Li Fang was practicing calligraphy with two young girls. Li Fang was writing with great concentration, and the three-sword golden ring hanging around his neck was sparkling in the sun. It was the only remembrance left to him by his mother.

In Bukhara, the Kingdom of An, horns were blown continuously, the gates of Bukhara were closed, and countless soldiers stood on the city walls. King Amman looked nervously at an army in the distance. This army was the army of the Holy Maidens that retreated from the Kingdom of Stone, but in fact it had become Sabah's private army, and their goal was to capture Bukhara.

Bukhara is the second largest city in the Sogdian region after Samarkand, with a population of 300,000. Currently, there are not many troops in the city, only more than 10,000 people. Another 20,000 troops were taken to Samarkand by Prince Anguo, preparing to participate in the division of the land and wealth of the Holy Maiden Society.

Just at this critical moment, Sabah's army arrived. How could King Amman not be nervous? He knew Sabah too well, a brave, aggressive, and vengeful bastard who had made great military achievements. He was wounded and captured by the Arabs ten years ago. He was released a year later and became a hero of Bukhara and a general of Anguo.

But as other soldiers were released one after another, Sabah's true colors were revealed. He had converted to the Arabs, which was why he was released. Other released soldiers had also converted to the Arabs. This was a prerequisite for their release, and no one was an exception.

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

No one knows 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 Holy Maiden Society, which shocked Amman. He also wrote letters to remind the Holy Maiden Society, but unfortunately he received no reply to his letters.

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

He was also very clear about what his fate would be if the city was broken, so on the one hand he urgently sent people to Samarkand for help, and on the other hand he defended Bukhara to the death.

From morning to dusk, the army outside the city had not launched any attack, which made Amman suspicious. What did Sabah want to do?
In fact, Bukhara City was not difficult to attack. It was no more than two meters 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. The An Kingdom, the He Kingdom, the Cao Kingdom, the Xiaoshi Kingdom, the Kang Kingdom, and the Mi Kingdom were all distributed on both sides of this river.
There are large wheat fields on both sides of the river, and beyond that is the endless desert Gobi.

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

The Sogdians had only one siege weapon, the battering ram, which was used to break down the city gates or walls and the army would charge in. But it was extremely 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 had not had any water or food for a whole day, and he was really tired and hungry.

At this time, in a large courtyard near the city gate of Bukhara, five hundred warriors were gathering. They were the guards of the Arab Chamber of Commerce. They had opened martial arts schools in various Sogdian countries to specialize in providing guards for the caravan.

These guards were actually the Arab troops. They broke into small groups and entered the Sogdian region to lie in wait as caravan escorts.

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.

(End of this chapter)