Jiao Rite Petition offered to the Six Jeong Spirits (六丁神), as above同前六丁神醮禮文
分上下於紫微。號稱六將。輔左右於玄武。力敵萬兵。苟以誠祈。卽蒙應速。彼胡雛之種。本猘犬之孫。奈緣厥土之失憑。闌入我邦而行掠。此特盜之巨者。豈是國之敵歟。然狼顧之民。習已成於呑噬。抑烏合之衆。力能扇於翼張。亘東北皆爲所屠。自古今未見如此。伏念某等。忝經邦之任。無濟難之才。槌胸仰嗟。徒極焦勞之思。聚首環顧。莫論制禦之謀。雖云國厄之所鍾。亦出吾儕之無狀。唯我神明之化。行於恍惚之間。搖大地不爲之難。移五岳不爲之重。矧玆頑寇。不足煩怒電之費鞭。暫借靈符。尙可掃腥涎之滿地。肆叢衷懇。式展明禋。庶歆潦酌之誠。遄降颷馳之助。致令士心益固。賊氣自摧。冬月未終。傾穴巢而盡掃。春風纔動。振皷吹而言旋。
In the Jami Palace (紫微宮) they are divided above and below and are called the six generals; aiding the left and right of the Dark Warrior (玄武), their strength matches ten thousand soldiers. Truly, if one prays in sincerity, a swift answer is received at once.
Those barbarian whelps are from the first the offspring of mad dogs. Having lost in their own land anything to lean upon, they have entered our country at will and plunder it. These are only the greatest among robbers; how should they be enemies of a state? Yet the pack that looks back like wolves has already hardened its habit of swallowing and biting, and the crowd that gathers like crows can beat its strength as a bird spreads its wings. Across the northeast all have been slaughtered; from of old until now no such thing has been seen.
Prostrate, we consider that we, So-and-so, hold to our shame the charge of governing the state and yet have no talent to rescue it from hardship. We beat our breasts and sigh upward, and to no purpose exhaust our anguished thoughts. We put our heads together and look about, and still cannot debate a plan to hold them off. Though it is said to be because the state's ill fortune has gathered, it also comes from our own poor worth.
Only the transforming work of the spirits is carried out in what is dim and dazzling: it does not find it hard to shake the great earth, nor heavy to move the five great mountains. Still more, these stubborn robbers are not worth troubling the lash of angry lightning. Borrow the numinous talisman for a moment, and the rank spittle that fills the land may yet be swept away.
And so we gather the earnestness of our inward hearts and spread a bright sacrifice. We pray that you partake of the sincerity of this poor wine and swiftly send down help that comes running like a whirlwind. Let our soldiers' hearts grow firmer and the robbers' spirit break of itself, so that before the winter months are out their den may be overturned and swept clean, and when the spring wind has barely risen we may come home sounding drum and pipe.