As soon as these words came out, Mo said that it was Lord Fang, and even Xie Yixiang was shocked. Fortunately, Xie Yixiang knew that this little Taoist priest liked to pretend to be a ghost the most, and if he insisted on playing tricks, then no one would be able to answer the question no matter what; once he was in a hurry, he was afraid that he would turn his face on the spot.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang said to Lord Fang: "I know the ability of this little Dao Leader, he said that there is food sent into Ningyi City tonight, then there will be no fake, Lord Fang just do as he instructs." Anyway, Ning Yicheng has already fallen to such a point, Lord Fang might as well give it a go, and use the dead horse as a live horse doctor. If there is really food delivered tonight, Ningyi City will be able to come back to life, if there is no food tonight, there is actually no loss for Ningyi City, and I Xie Yixiang is willing to share the crime with him. ”

Hearing this, Lord Fang looked at Xie Yixiang, and then at the little Taoist priest with eyes in front of him, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! What do you want to prepare for you?" When the group came to the back hall of the yamen and sat down, Deyizi asked about the existing troops in Ningyi City, and the lord did not hide it, and replied: "Now there are a total of 563 sergeants stationed in Ningyi City, although they are not elite divisions, but they are also soldiers trained from the ranks. There are also 32 officials in various positions in the yamen, a total of 32 people, all of whom are shrewd and capable experts. In addition, as early as the beginning of the siege of the rebels, Xia Guan recruited strong men in the city to participate in the defense of the city, and now there are about 370 people who can be on call. ”

De Yizi was noncommittal, but changed the conversation, and then asked Lord Fang to take stock of the things he wanted to use in his practice, and it turned out that Lord Fang was asking Lord Fang to send someone to build a Taoist altar for him, so that he could open the altar tonight. Due to the rush of time, the altar must be completed before the third watch tonight, and it is too late to build a new high platform, so it can only be simplified. I had already planned about this, and I took a fancy to a restaurant called "Tianyunju" in Ningyi City, which is three stories high, which is the tallest building in the city, and has been abandoned for many days. He asked Lord Fang's servants to remove the roof of this "Tianyun Residence", and then build a high platform with a square table on the third floor, and pile it as high as he could, so that he could see the movement of the entire Ningyi City while doing the above.

Not only that, but Deyizi also said that the ritual he did tonight would also borrow the power of the five elements in the five directions of east, west, south, north and middle, so it should be marked with colors according to the direction of the five elements. Among them, the altar of "Tianyunju" in the city is the "soil" in the middle position, so each square table stacked into a high platform must be wrapped with yellow cloth; and the four city gates of Ningyi City, southeast and northwest, should correspond to the directions of the four elements of "wood", "fire", "gold" and "water", and clearly use blue, red, white, and black cloth to hang at the city gate, and hang as many as you can, so as to lay down the five elements of the great array, and enhance the power of the Taoist techniques used in his practice of opening the altar.

Lord Fang's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he muttered to himself for a long time. However, until now, the officials can only be asked to do it according to the requirements of the first son, and it must be completed before the third watch tonight. When the officials received the order and left, the first son still had an order, first asked Lord Fang to transfer 400 soldiers to be stationed on the city wall of the east gate of Ningyi City, and each sergeant should be prepared with bows and arrows, ready to meet the battle at any time; and then select 200 strong men from among the people, all of them gathered at the west gate of Ningyi City, and waited for dispatch; and the remaining 100 or so soldiers in the city all went to the south gate of Ningyi City, and dug a big pit on the spot in the street inside the city gate, at least one zhang deep, and its size was as big as it could be dug; as for the city gate in the north of Ningyi City, only two officials were sent to garrison it, and they were ready to be dispatched at any time。

That Lord Fang was born in the military formation, and he was in the position of Taishou, but he was not a stupid person. When he heard these arrangements, he suddenly came to his senses, and it turned out that the so-called "practice of opening the altar" of this little Taoist priest was just a pretense, and the so-called heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals sent food to the earth, which was even more nonsense. Whether there is really food sent into the city tonight, the mystery lies in the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Ningyi City.

However, he carefully calculated the layout of Yizi, but he couldn't understand its intention, and couldn't help asking: "The rebels outside the city have cut off my food and grass this time, and want to force our iron clothes to surrender. Now, at the foot of the 'Jishan' mountain to the west of Ningyi City, Tang Xiankai, the leader of the rebel army, has already prepared 5,000 catties of white rice, 10,000 catties of flour, and a large amount of fish, meat, vegetables and fruits. Listening to the arrangement of the little Taoist chief, does he want us to wait for an opportunity to seize the batch of food prepared by the rebels outside the West Gate? If this is the case, then it is absolutely unacceptable! You must know that the rebels have set up heavy guards in the west of Ningyi City, so let alone send only 200 elite men to grab food, even if the entire Ningyi City is exhausted, it is still asking for its own death!"

When the words fell, De Yizi had already stared at Lord Fang with his pair of gray-white pupils, and said coldly: "You just have to listen to my orders, how can there be so much nonsense? If you really have the ability, why do you need to listen to my dispatch?" That Lord Fang was choked by him, and was about to open his mouth to ask again, but De Yizi said in a deep voice: "When I open the altar, there will be heavenly soldiers and generals to come to help." And the two hundred sturdy men sent to the west gate were just doing some kind of hard work of transporting, and how could a fool like you guess about the mysteries?"

Lord Fang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at him, and he was about to have a seizure on the spot, but fortunately, Xie Yixiang knew Yizi's temper well, and he had already been prepared, and hurriedly persuaded him with good words on the side, which made Lord Fang calm down the anger in his heart. Seeing the pair of young men and women in front of him, one was a strange-tempered double-pupil demon dao, and the other was the stubborn Miss Xie Jiasan, when Lord Fang was angry, he didn't want to continue to stay in the back hall of this yamen, so he ordered the official next to him to do it according to the arrangement of the first son, and he also got up and left the table, and went to supervise in person.

Xie Yixiang then remembered the "human kitchen case" that he was investigating, so he wanted to ask Master Fang to ask for someone and ask him to hand over the girl in the room, but he was stopped by a loud shout and said: "Tonight is a big matter, for the sake of safety, you have to stay by my side the whole time, and you must not act rashly." Hmph, when the grain and grass are transported into the city, naturally no one will cook human flesh in the future, and then you are afraid that Fang Tieyi will not return a murderer to you?"

Xie Yixiang had already thought through this, and knew that the safety of Ningyi City was at stake now, although the girl was extremely weird, but compared to the survival of the people in the city, it was indeed nothing. So she didn't dwell on this matter anymore, and let Lord Fang personally go to supervise it. Xie Yixiang was about to listen to Deyizi's thoughts, but saw that Yizi had crossed his legs on the chair, his eyes closed, and put on a meditative posture. Xie Yixiang had no choice but to suppress her curiosity and wait patiently on the side.