I have said before that five years is just a moment in the long river of history, but now I want to say that maybe just 50 days can be the most difficult dark period in history......

Sun Aoting was originally going to support Yuancheng, but before his team arrived in Yuancheng, he heard that Yuancheng had fallen, and the commander Zhao Zilin knew that 50,000 people could only be abused when they went to attack Yuancheng, so he led his team to retreat to the border city of Anyang, while defending the city, while waiting for Sun Aoting's large army to come to the rescue.

It is not completely silent in the city, in the end, there are many supporters of Cheng Hu, as well as the Shenghe people who have immigrated from the saint and the past, Wu Kunpeng and the Sima family have been busy with the internal affairs of the city, but they are not in a hurry to attack Anyang immediately.

After Liuyun, Ah Jiu and the others lost Chen Jia that day, Ah Jiu, as Chen Jia's personal guard, found Zhao Zilin and asked him to help find his master Chen Jia. When Zhao Zilin heard this, he also sent nearly 1,000 people to search along the way, but unfortunately they found the capital all the way, but they couldn't find any trace of Chen Jia.

Sun Aoting was anxious, and Cheng Dazhuang, Chen, Cheng Dong, Ruoyun, Shi Hailing, Jiang Youchun, including Yang Mingyuan and Chu Xiuyu, all of whom were extremely anxious when they learned that Chen Jia was missing.

Jiang Youchun is a prince, he can't leave his fiefdom casually, but he has already prepared his troops, and wrote to the emperor overnight to ask the emperor to lead troops to support Fancheng, he personally led 100,000 troops at the junction of the capital and Rongcheng to wait for Chu Xiuyu's order, let his former secret guard Xiaobei gather the militia from all over the country and accompany the 50,000 troops left behind to defend the city.

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Ah Jiu also looked for Chen Jia all the way, and when the others arrived in the capital, Chu Xiuyu summoned Ah Jiu alone, he learned that Ah Jiu was the one in a hundred who was picked up by Chen Jia, and he also glanced at him, and especially wanted to meet him.

Although Chu Xiuyu was worried about Chen Jia, what he was most worried about at this time was whether Fancheng could be saved, and he understood the truth of cold lips and teeth.

When the national crisis was at hand, he still cherished his talents, and he threw an olive branch to Ah Jiu. Chu Xiuyu told Ah Jiu that if Chen Jia never came back, Ah Jiu could go to the palace to find him, and he would reuse Ah Jiu. Ah Jiu did not agree on the spot. He only said eight big words with tears.

"To live to see people, to die to see corpses!"

Chu Xiuyu secretly sighed at Ah Jiu's loyalty, and seeing that he looked mediocre, he dispelled the idea of Chen Jia taking a fancy to him.

After discussing with Liuyun and the others, Ah Jiu decided to go to Yuancheng to find Chen Jia. They searched everywhere about Cheng Hu's whereabouts, hoping to rescue Cheng Hu, but unfortunately, they have not been able to find Cheng Hu's whereabouts. Cheng Hu didn't know where Wu Kunpeng had been hidden, and Liuyun and the others couldn't find it.

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Due to Chu Xiuyu's request, Cheng Hu had trained 150,000 soldiers and horses before, and among these 150,000 people, less than 20,000 of them were arrested or killed, and 50,000 people shouted grievances, saying that they were brought by Cheng Hu to serve as soldiers. They invited themselves to return to their hometowns to work as farmers, and Wu Kunpeng did not do large-scale massacres to reassure the people.

In addition, the rest of the people have joined Wu Kunpeng's command, plus the 200,000 army led by Wu Kunpeng himself, Wu Kunpeng has 280,000 mercenaries in the entire Yuan City, but Fancheng now only has 150,000 soldiers and horses, more than half of which are new soldiers.

Sun Aoting when he learned that Yuancheng had fallen. immediately reported to Chu Xiuyu,

Hearing this, Chu Xiuyu hurriedly sent an order to the remaining princes of the three cities to transfer troops, asking Jiang Wenhan and Yang Mingyuan to send 50,000 troops each to support Fancheng, and allowing Jiang Youchun to send 100,000 troops to support.

Less than twenty days. The entire Shenghe began to panic, and a large number of mobilized troops were rushing day and night, which, in the eyes of the people who did not know what was going on, was clearly a state of chaos.

Some people have been in the last war. They also have experience in coping with the situation, and they have begun to hoard grain one after another, and some profiteers have taken the opportunity to raise prices, and grain prices have skyrocketed.

Shenghe is in the spring ploughing, although there are more vegetables, but it will be the turn of the first season of early rice harvest, it will take about three months, these have led to the soaring prices of Shenghe throughout the country, especially rice and noodles, large and small officials are busy, they have to worry about the war, step up the training of the militia, but also worry about the economy, for the malicious price of the black-hearted traders to suppress, of course, there are many people who fill their own pockets.

The princes were busy sending troops and taking care of it flawlessly, and the commissioners sent by Jingzhong were busy with corruption. Some of the people of the Holy Peace are already living in dire straits......

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Wu Kunpeng's request for Chu Xiuyu to sacrifice Fancheng in exchange for Cheng Hu's life was naturally discussed in the early dynasty, and he was asked whether he would give up Fancheng in exchange for Cheng Hu's life. Ministers strongly objected.

"Your Majesty, you must not."

"Yes, Your Majesty, if Fancheng becomes the land of Jin'an, the capital will be in danger, the emperor must remember the truth of cold lips and teeth."

"Yes, yes, the emperor, if the emperor gives up a city for the sake of a marquis, won't it make the world laugh."

"Then what should I do?" Chu Xiuyu glanced at everyone, and saw that Cheng Dong just hung his head and frowned slightly.

"The emperor has already sent someone to Fancheng, the Marquis of Anding was able to defeat Jin'an last time, and he will definitely be able to win this time, it's just a Cheng Hu, the emperor only needs to govern the Holy He, and the Fancheng will be handed over to the Marquis of Anding to guard."

Chu Xiuyu looked at the cabinet bachelor, and was disdainful in his heart, hmph, he really is a person who can only talk on paper.

Wu Kunpeng wanted to let himself out of Fancheng, and it was impossible for anyone to agree, Chu Xiuyu just wanted to see if everyone had any particularly good ways. Maybe at this moment of crisis, there will be another prodigy like Chen Jia and Jiang Wenhan. It's a pity that he was disappointed this time.

Chu Xiuyu vaguely looked forward to Wu Taibao being able to persuade Emperor Jin An to stop because his daughter was Yelu Anrong's favored concubine. If his thoughts were known to Chen Jia, it is estimated that Chen Jia would scold him for pretending to be cool all day long, but in fact, he is a real brainless person in his bones! Isn't it a dream for a naked official like Wu Taibao to go abroad and want to come back?

"Cheng Dong, tell me, what should I do?" Chu Xiuyu suddenly asked Cheng Dong.

Cheng Dongzheng was panicked, but he suddenly heard Chu Xiuyu ask him. If it was before, there was no Cheng Hu and Chen Jia, although Chen Jia was his sister, but sometimes in his heart, Chen Jia gave him any trust and peace of mind, but now Chen Jia is nowhere to be found, and his younger brother Cheng Yanjin's whereabouts are unknown, and he has become a loner. is still a lonely man who gets a moment of peace with the help of his wife's maiden status. Cheng Dong knew that it was impossible for Chu Xiuyu to give up Fancheng in exchange for Cheng Hu, so why should he take the humiliation himself?

"The minister wants to personally lead the troops to crusade against Jin'an and rescue my brother Cheng Hu." After thinking about it, it is better to ask for orders and send troops yourself.

"I have another opinion, Jin'an now has Andinghou and Yong'anhou, but Rongcheng, which borders with Li Sheng, has no one to take over for the time being, why don't you help Andinghou take care of Rongcheng, and you can also let Andinghou be at ease in the war." With Cheng Dong here, at least Li Sheng's side is safe. After all, Li Sheng's emperor is Cheng Dong's eldest brother, and Li Sheng himself helped when he was in trouble.

"We're in command." Cheng Dong knew Chu Xiuyu's thoughts after thinking about it a little, so he had to thank him.

…… (To be continued.) )