Humeng Lingcha began to organize people to build an altar. The wooden stakes dismantled in the camp were ready-made materials. The base was made of rammed earth, and wool felt was laid on the steps. Sacrifice to the sky requires rituals and music. The central army had ready-made snare drums and bronze trumpets, and danced after rituals and music. The Tang people of this period were not only good at bragging, but also very good at dancing. Any man picked out from the army could dance the passionate and generous Qin King's formation dance.

From the north gate of Dunduo City to the side of the altar on the river bank, the military formations and ceremonies are arranged on both sides, which are very representative troops, and they also need to take care of the emotions of the ethnic minorities in the Western Regions. Therefore, Fu Meng arranged the central army near the altar on both sides of the altar, and to go a little further, the Tuqi Shihemo's troops, and then the left and right Yuhou army led by him, and then the Bahan Khan's troops, followed by Yang Xilie's left and right wing troops. In this way, the teams of Shiguo and the United States and other kings could only stand at the city gate and wait far away.

The Eighth Regiment led by Li Siye was very lucky. They were arranged to stand in the forefront as representatives of the dance ceremonial guards, so that they could observe the entire sacrificial process.

Today is sunny and the west wind is bleak. Countless flags are waving in the wind on both sides of the sacrifice road. The military formation is solemn and solemn, and tens of thousands of soldiers gather together to exchange for the southern bank of the river. In Li Siye's view, such a scene is comparable to that of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

As the deputy priest, Fu Meng Lingcha presided over the entire priest process. He ordered people to light up the towering braziers on the left and right sides of the altar. When the sundial pointed at Chenshi, he shook his cloak and leaned on the horizontal knife, and shouted loudly at the city gate, "Chenshi has arrived! The sacrifice is on!"

The gate of Dundo City opened wide, and the low sound of bronze horns came out of the door, making the air full of solemn atmosphere. The two door flags of the Jiedushi were the first to leave the city, followed by the Central Army's tooth flags, holding up several feet high, and all the flags of the ceremonial guards on both sides were eclipsed in front of them.

The trumpets walked out slowly in a row, with a long and long voice. To achieve this effect, the trumpet array needs tacit cooperation. When the front trumpeters are not breathing enough, the trumpeters in the back trumpets quickly so that the trompets in the front row can breathe, and the trumpets in the third row will continue to push up when the front exhausts. The sacrificial ceremony is quite a bit, and it is a crime of beheading if the error is made.

The dense and rhythmic drum beats sounded, and hundreds of soldiers carried two junction drum platforms and came out side by side. Two big men in hardcover, with white foreheads wrapped around their foreheads, and their thick arms waved drumsticks and hit the cowhide drum surface. The sound was like thunder and shaking the sound of changing the river.

Amid the primitive horns and drum sounds, the wild factors in the soldiers' chests were aroused, as if a fanatical rhythm was beating with the drum beats, and the spears in the hands of the soldiers unconsciously hammered up and down the ground. Even Li Siye, a modern man who claims to be knowledgeable, was confused by this fanatical atmosphere and wished that he could rush to Thunder Ye City with a Modao and cut off hundreds of heads.

Behind the drum platform were a hundred long halberds and five hundred sway soldiers dancing out of the city gate, and the halberds were all covered with bright light armor. The dance he jumped out also seemed heavy and mechanical. The steps were leaping left and right with the drum beats. The long halberd in his hand stabbed into the air ahead in a swaying posture, creating a sense of beauty.

In the center of the halberd rectangle, there was a general carrying a horse spear dancing with a spear. He was wearing a blue-black mountain armor, with a red cloak on his shoulders, and exquisite lines of phoenix wings and crocodile. Although his dance seemed unfamiliar, he had a neurotic martial spirit.

Li Siye recognized that the person who danced was Gai Jiayun, the governor of Jixi. This surprised him. The governor actually came to dance in person, and he danced so ugly. However, in this case, no matter how ugly Gai Zhongcheng danced, no one dared to laugh at him.

The Tang people were more martial and more dancers. From emperors to ministers, anyone who was happy could do it. In the early years of Zhenguan, the war god Li Jing defeated the Western Turks. News came from Li Yuan and Li Shimin and his son danced against each other. Now the sheep thief in Youzhou has won the military governor of the Three Towns by dancing. Today is the big day for Gai Zhongcheng. What's wrong with others? What's wrong with them?

The dancers' dances seem much more agile. The scales on their bodies are light and their dancing postures are also scattered. The front row is a horizontal sword with the left hand and a shield with the right hand, and the back row is a spearmen. The dancing path is similar to that of combat. When the shield soldiers join side by side, they form a shield wall. The spearmen pierce out in the cracks of the shield wall, and then scatter and squat down.

The sword and shield soldiers bowed and squatted, and their feet walked out of the straight cat steps with the rhythm of the drum beats. The shoulders were shaking left and right like jumping bazaar. The horizontal knife in their right hand hit the shield with the drum beats, and the neat horns were issued in their mouths.

The drum sounded, dong! dong! dong! dong!

The knife hits the shield surface, slap! slap! slap!

The soldiers shouted, hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!

Even the flag bearers holding yellow banners in a row trembled up and down with the rhythm.

At the end of the long banner team, dozens of soldiers drove away the yaks and goats used to sacrifice.

According to the ritual system, the governor is a subordinate, and the sacrifice should be made with a young prison. The sacrifice is pigs and sheep. The emperor sacrifices it is too prison. He killed three animals of pigs, cattle and sheep to sacrifice to the heaven. However, after a hurry, he could not find the pig, so he had to replace it with yaks and goats.

When the sacrifice team arrived at the altar, the drummer shouted a trumpet, and all the sounds came to an abrupt end.

Fu Meng Lingcha shouted on the altar: "Open!"

The team separated to both sides at the same time, giving up the middle path, and the inspiration for the first phase of the sacrifice was declared to be over.

The atmosphere is temporarily in a state of silence, and everyone is silent, waiting for the formal ceremony of sacrifice.

Gai Jiayun was sweating profusely, and took the trouser off his head. The military inspector quickly presented a handkerchief. He reached out to wipe the sweat from his face. Another follower handed over the water bag, took it, raised his head and poured the remaining water on his head, wet his armor and clothes along his face, reached out to wipe his face and shouted: "Good!"

When he did these things, everyone present looked at him. In this solemn ceremony, everyone was nervous, afraid of making mistakes, and no one dared to say a word or make another move. Only Gai Zhongcheng was unrestrained and unconventional. In his opinion, this sacrificial dance was just a big show directed by him, and he could see the truth. Those involved were all in awe and solemn, but he did not. This was his advantage as a superior.

After all, wars need to be fought and sacrifices must be carried out. Life needs a sense of ritual, and war needs even more.

But what he didn't know was that there was another person who was not afraid of this during this grand sacrificial event.

Fu Meng Lingcha walked down from the altar, stood in front of Gai Jiayun, bowed and crossed his hands and said, "It's getting late, so please ask the Chief Executive to come on stage to offer sacrifices."

Gai Jiayun threw out the water bag in his hand, and the attendant hurriedly stepped forward and hugged it in his arms.

"Okay, killing will start a sacrifice!"

At the command of the Chief Gai Zhongcheng, the soldiers who drove the livestock pulled out their swords from their waists and slashed at the flock of cattle and sheep. In a blink of an eye, the livestock fell into a pool of blood.

Twenty-eight warriors carried the wooden board and put the cut cow heads and sheep heads on the board. They took seven bowls of blood with black porcelain bowls.

The sacrifice ceremony officially began. The warriors carried seven pairs of cows and sheep heads on wooden boards and walked side by side to the altar. Seven main priests and deputy priests followed side by side, namely Gai Jiayun, Deputy envoy Yang Xilie, Fu Menglingcha, Tuqi Shihe Modagan, Bahanna Khan, Shi Kingdom King Dututun, and American King Mochu. Behind them were their respective flags and tooth flags.

The warriors placed the sacrifice on the sacrifice table and retreated. Gai Jiayun and seven others held incense in their hands to worship the heaven and earth. After kneeling three times and kowtowed nine times, they stood up and held a bowl full of blood, and turned toward the Tang Dynasty United Army listed as a square formation below.
Chapter completed!