Gou Yi staggered, and even rolled and crawled all the way into the black ice platform, pushed open the heavy door, and a cold breath rushed towards him, although the sun was shining outside, but inside the hall, it was extremely gloomy and dark, Lu Chao stayed alone in the hall, and even the windows were not opened.

Once upon a time, when Lu Chao first entered the Black Ice Terrace, his favorite thing to do was to stand on the high terrace of the Black Ice Terrace, looking down on the entire Xianyang, and the feeling of stepping on the world under his feet made him feel extremely comfortable. But now, it's become a torture.

"What's the bad news?" In the darkness, there was a cold voice from Lu Chao, like from the Nine Hells.

Gou Yi tried his best to make his eyes fit the darkness in the hall as soon as possible, and finally saw that Lu Chao was wearing the emperor's costume, sitting upright behind the big case that had just been arranged in the Black Ice Platform Hall.

In the past, the black ice platform was empty, simple and atmospheric, but now, it is beautifully decorated, and the golden wall is brilliant, which is extremely graceful and luxurious. However, at this moment, Lu Chao was alone in the hall, but he was dressed up and sitting upright, which couldn't help but look very weird.

Gou Yi gasped, and the emperor seemed more and more abnormal recently.

"Your Majesty, the new army led by Bai Qi was surrounded by several military horses of the Han army in Baiyu, and the news just came that tens of thousands of troops fought hard in Baiyu and failed to break through the enemy's defense to meet General Xu Yahua, the whole army was defeated, and General Bai Qi's whereabouts are unknown."

After the imperial case, there was silence, Gou Yi raised his head uneasily, looking at the emperor, the expression on Lu Chao's face was very strange, and in Gou Yi's surprised gaze, he suddenly burst into bursts of wild laughter: "It's gone again, the 50,000 army, it's gone again!" ”

Gou Yi felt chills on his body. The decisive battle of Xianyang that the emperor was counting on relied on was Bai Qi's 50,000 new troops and Xu Yahua's 80,000 troops withdrawn from Hangu Pass, and only they were the backbone. Now these rabble gathered in Xianyang have the strength to fight, but now that Bai Qi is gone, can Xu Yahua still come back?

The Han people fully understood Lu Chao's strategic concept from the very beginning, and after the breakthrough of the several large armies, they actually abandoned Xianyang and sent extremely elite troops to make a rapid breakthrough in the territory of Qin, and inserted them from the oblique thorns to the road that the two armies must pass to return, and intercepted the two elite armies on the road first. If it were in normal times, this would be unlikely. But now, the Qin State has completely dispersed, where the Han army passed, officials from all over the country surrendered, the Han army not only did not suffer the slightest hindrance, but could also get all kinds of supplies from the Qin State on the spot, and those Qin officials who surrendered were all trying their best to provide services to the Han army, for fear that they would not be thoughtful. will be cleaned up by the Han army with an excuse.

The hearts of men have been lost, to the point of no return. Didn't think Lu Chao would win.

"What about Xu Yahua? I have high hopes for him, and he actually sits down and can't save him? Above, Lu Chao's cold voice came.

"Your Majesty. General Xu sent an army to meet General Bai, but it also failed, and now General Xu is also in a desperate situation, eliminating the Han army of Bai Qi's new army. General Xu was attacking from two sides, and in front of General Xu, the cavalry of the Han people also cut off the way back. General Xu has just sent a letter asking for help, hoping that His Majesty can send reinforcements to take him back to Xianyang. ”

Reinforcements? Thinking of this word, even Gou Yi knew that it was impossible, now in the entire Xianyang, the real army is only more than 30,000 people, which is the emperor's last capital, and the remaining hundreds of thousands of people are just young men who have just picked up arms, to rescue Xu Yahua, I am afraid that half of them will run away halfway through.

Sure enough, there was not the slightest sound from above. I don't know how long it took for a few very low sighs to be heard. Gou Yi tried to open his ears wide, and heard Lu Chao say in an almost dreamlike tone: "Leave it to fate, let him go, come back if you can, come back if you can't come back, you can't come back, it's like this left and right." ”

Gou Yi silently kowtowed, stood up, and slowly retreated. Hearing this, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor himself was already desperate.

The fall of Great Qin is only a matter of time.

Back at the headquarters of the Eagle Ministry, Yamen, it was still a busy scene, as Lu Chao's most core and most trusted secret force, the Eagle Department gathered the last subordinates who were loyal to Lu Chao.

Even if everyone thinks that Daqin will face the fate of destruction, the people here still stubbornly believe that they are not without a chance to turn the tables, look at the current Xianyang periphery defense, it is still strong and strong, the arsenal is rushing to make artillery day and night, almost everyone in Xianyang has been mobilized to build fortifications, whether it is forced or voluntary, they are all contributing to the defense of Xianyang, the materials are poor, there is no money in the treasury, so they directly ask the people to ask for it, demolish the house, move the furniture, take what you need, Now Xianyang City is in a mess, many houses have been demolished, stones, and beams have been demolished to build fortifications, and almost all the iron and bronze tools in their homes have been taken away, even if it is a needle, these things have been melted into molten iron, and then turned into low-quality cannons. In order to collect enough materials to make gunpowder, the thatched pits of every house in Xianyang City were carefully scraped.

And all of this was done under the auspices of the Eagle Department.

They are confident that the Xianyang defensive ring, which consists of thousands of artillery pieces, will be impregnable and unbreakable.

As their supreme leader, Gou Yi was naturally impassioned and full of confidence in front of them, but deep down, he knew that there was nothing to fight in this battle. He is not like those low-level and loyal subordinates, he has his own judgment and analytical skills, and he is also a good general.

With a heavy mind, I pushed open the deepest part of the yamen, a door in front of the long alleyway, on both sides of the deep alleyway, and in the rows of wooden fences, there were prisoners with withered faces and bruises all over their bodies.

Seeing Gou Yi appear, both sides of the roadway suddenly became lively, begging for mercy, scolding, crying and shouting injustice, endlessly, Gou Yi turned a deaf ear, and went straight to the deepest part of the lane.

Some of these people were anti-Lu Chao's reformists, that is, officials of the former Shoufu Wu Qi faction, and some were trying to collude with the Han Chinese to leave a way out for themselves, and now they are all part of the group.

There was an iron gate in the deepest part, and two Eagle soldiers sat in the doorway. Seeing Gou Yi walk in, both of them stood up and bowed.

"Open the door!" Gou Yi waved his hand.

The heavy iron door opened from the inside, and in the room, only an oil lamp was lit, and a man lay on his side on the straw in the corner, and heard the creak of the iron door opening, the man turned around and squinted his eyes at Gou Yi.

Gou Yi walked in, and the iron door slammed shut behind him. Gou Yi walked to a small table in the room and looked at the empty bowl on the table, "You have a good appetite, and you actually finished eating." ”

The man got up from the ground and laughed, "It's worse than pig food, but it's better than starvation, isn't it?" It's not a good feeling to have a bad stomach. ”

Gou Yi sat down and looked at the other party: "Lord Tang, your heart is really wide. ”

The man walked to the small table, sat down, the light reflected on his face, it turned out to be Tang He of the Han State Security Bureau, this is an old qualified spy officer, from the time when he built Jishi City, he served in the then Military Justice Department, over the years, the accumulation of merit has risen steadily, and he has long been a member of the National Security Bureau.

"Of course, I have a good heart, because I know that we will win." Tang He smiled and said: "When I saw General Gou today, my confidence is even stronger, has our army already reached Xianyang City?" ”

Gou Yi was silent for a moment, "Although we haven't reached Xianyang City yet, it's almost over, just a few days ago, your army just surrounded and annihilated Bai Qi's 50,000 new troops, Bai Qi's entire army was killed, and his whereabouts are unknown." ”

"Then only Xu Yahua is left, but I'm afraid he won't be able to come back, right?" Tang He burst out laughing.

"What's funny about you, don't you think that the faster the Han army comes, the sooner you will die?" Gou Yi said coldly.

Tang He laughed disappreciatively, and spread his hands: "General Gou, although you are a monk halfway through our business, you can be regarded as a peer, do you think that we people take life and death very seriously?" It seems that you are here to finish me today, why didn't you bring good food and wine, the last meal, why should you be rich, you will not be so poor that you don't even have this kind of thing, right? Forget it, in fact, I have to thank you, I was arrested by you and locked up here, although I don't see the day, day and night are reversed, but you didn't torture me, let me eat some flesh and pain, I also want to thank you, I am different from you, you are a general, the meat is rough and thick, I am a white-faced scholar, with fine skin and tender meat, without beating. ”

In the face of Tang He's jokes, Gou Yi didn't say anything for a long time, just sat silently.

"You're not here to kill me?" Tang He looked at him in surprise, "Wouldn't you see that Lu Chao was already in danger and was ready to surrender to our Han?" ”

There was a joking element in his question, because Tang He knew very well that Gou Yi was Lu Chao's most loyal subordinate, and it was impossible for him to surrender to the Han Dynasty.

Sure enough, hearing this, Gou Yi's face changed, "I will never surrender to you." ”

"Then why did you come to me today, didn't you just come to see me?"

Gou Yi took a deep breath and looked at Tang He: "I came today to prepare to let you go." Of course, I have something to ask you for. ”

Tang He was stunned.

"I have a family of Gou, originally a family of Jiangmen, passed on to this generation, five brothers of benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom, to this day, only I am left, five of our brothers, for the sake of Daqin, can be regarded as doing our best, only the eldest brother still left a child, I let you go, you take him away, so that he can live the second half of his life in peace, how?"

Tang He looked at Gou Yi with a hint of pity in his eyes. (To be continued.) )