After Lu Xiaoxian entered Fu Qi City, he didn't care about resting, and he didn't even have time to wash off the dust on his body, so he hurriedly came to the Shuai Mansion with Wang Xiaojie and Lou Shide. Time waits for no one, the situation is changing rapidly, and they must hurry to discuss their next move.

"How's it going?" Lu Xiaoxian picked up the tea that he had already wept, drank it all, and then smacked his lips and said, "I'm dying of thirst along the way!" ”

Wang Xiaojie blushed and didn't speak, Lou Shide hurriedly served tea for Lu Xiaoxian, and then said gloomily: "Master Lu, the situation is not good!" ”

"What's going on?" Lu Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows.

Lou Shide said with a bitter face: "I just got the news yesterday that Qinling had captured Liangzhou City three days ago!" ”

"Huh?" Lu Xiaoxian was slightly stunned, "Qinling went to attack Liangzhou City?" ”

Immediately, he understood what Qin Ling's intentions were.

After attacking Taozhou City for so many days, Wang Xiaojie was unmoved, so Qinling found another way to attack Liangzhou City. Obviously, he is very important to Liangzhou City, and he will not dare not save Wang Xiaojie if he calculates it.

Qinling has calculated everything, the only thing that has not been calculated, that is, Wang Xiaojie went to the air raid on the city. The distance between Fu Qi City and Liangzhou City is far away, even if he wants to save Liangzhou City now, he can't reach it so far.

No wonder Wang Xiaojie's face is so ugly, the loss of Liangzhou City will definitely make Wu Zetian angry, maybe a holy decree will come down, and Wang Xiaojie will be unlucky.

Lu Xiaoxian glanced at Wang Xiaojie, frowned and asked Lou Shide: "Liangzhou City is so important, didn't you have no troops deployed when you came?" ”

"Why not?" Lou Shide said angrily, "How could we not know the importance of Liangzhou, when we came, we left 20,000 elite soldiers for Liangzhou!" ”

20,000 elite soldiers?

When Lu Xiaoxian heard this, he was stunned.

Qinling's Tubo army left Taozhou City and went to Liangzhou five or six days ago, and Liangzhou City was lost three days ago, excluding the time spent by the Tubo people on the road, that is, the Tubo people broke the city as soon as they arrived in Liangzhou.

How is this possible?

As an important town of the Tang Dynasty, Liangzhou's city defense is much stronger than Taozhou, with 20,000 elite soldiers to defend, and there is no problem if it persists for half a month, how can it be lost so quickly?

"Didn't you get attacked by the Tibetans?" Lu Xiaoxian speculated.

Before Lou Shide could answer, Wang Xiaojie, who had not spoken, suddenly roared angrily: "Xu Qinming, he is simply a pig!" ”

Xu Qinming is the governor of Liangzhou, the same rank as Wang Xiaojie, if he wasn't very angry, he wouldn't have scolded such ugly words.

Listening to Lou Shide's detailed explanation, Lu Xiaoxian understood the truth of the matter.

It turned out that after Xu Qinming, the governor of Liangzhou, heard that Qinling was attacking Taozhou, although he also strengthened his defenses, he didn't expect Qinling to turn to attack Liangzhou so quickly. The vanguard of Qinling and the people of Suyitang secretly infiltrated Taozhou City, took advantage of Xu Qinming's unpreparedness to attack the Governor's Mansion, and captured Xu Qinming alive.

Xu Qinming was a soft bone, and under the persecution of the Tibetans, he ordered the defenders to abandon the defense, and the Qinling army easily captured the city of Liangzhou.

Lu Xiaoxian couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, it turned out that Qinling actually used the beheading tactics of later generations, no wonder he captured Liangzhou City so quickly.

Speaking of which, Qinling's method of capturing Liangzhou City is the same as Wang Xiaojie's capture of Fuqi City. The only difference is that there is an internal response of Qili Xu in Fu Qi City, but there is no internal response in Liangzhou City.

"Did Qinling slaughter the city? What is the situation in Liangzhou City now? Lu Xiaoxian asked again.

"Not only did Qinling not slaughter the city, but he also did not commit any offense against the city. But ......" Lou Shide paused, his face showing bitterness.

Qinling was frustrated in Taozhou City, and Lu Xiaoxian was most worried that he would kill after he occupied Liangzhou City.

Seeing that Lou Shide's face was wrong, Lu Xiaoxian asked, "Old Lou Ge, but what?" ”

"After Qinling attacked Liangzhou City, the eldest princess of Xiping committed suicide by hanging the beam!"

Princess Honghua is dead?

At this moment, Lu Xiaoxian's mind flashed the figure of the old woman in gorgeous palace clothes.

Princess Honghua, as a royal clansman, married Tuguhun far away, which can be regarded as a contribution to the Tang Dynasty.

After Tuyuhun destroyed the country, she accompanied Murong Nuo, the king of Tuyuhun, to live in Liangzhou and made unremitting efforts to restore the country. Although she didn't succeed in the end, her tenacity made Lu Xiaoxian admire it very much.

After Murong Nuo passed away, she was left alone.

She looked down on everything.

Qinling is the enemy of Murong Nuo's destruction of the country, and the Tubo people entered Liangzhou City, of course Princess Honghua did not want to see the enemy, let alone be humiliated by the enemy, the only thing she could do was to maintain her dignity in this way.

The woman who married far away went to her hometown of dreams.

The princess Tuyuhun, who was bent on recovering the country, went to follow her husband Murong Nuo.

The beauty-loving old woman went to find a paradise without intrigue.

At this moment, Lu Xiaoxian finally understood why Wang Xiaojie was so angry. Not because of the fall of Liangzhou City, nor because of Xu Qinming's stupidity, but because of the death of Princess Honghua.

Princess Honghua has a very heavy weight in the hearts of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian, if it weren't for this, the Tang Dynasty would not have fought with Tubo again and again and helped Tuyuhun recover the country.

Now, Princess Honghua was forced to commit suicide, leaving the royal family with no face, and the anger of the Son of Heaven is not something that Wang Xiaojie and Lou Shide can bear.

"It's come to this, it's useless to regret it!" Lu Xiaoxian looked at Wang Xiaojie and Lou Shide and said, "If our plan succeeds in the end, we can also atone for the crime." If the plan fails, and the eldest princess of Xiping takes the life of the eldest princess of Xiping, there is no need for His Majesty to condemn the crime, and the three of us will have to wipe our necks by ourselves! ”

Lu Xiaoxian is right, the top priority now is to cheer up and go all out to implement the next plan, and there is no room for mistakes.

"That's right! Lu Gongzi! Lou Shide seemed to remember something, "The day before yesterday, Tubo Changben Qili Xu came to see me and Chief Manager Wang, and he seemed to be in a hurry for us to kill all those Tuyuhun captives. That's more than 40,000 people, such a big matter, Manager Wang and I didn't dare to make a decision, so we pushed Qiao Ci and said that we can't decide until you come back. Now that you're finally here, what are we going to do about it? ”

At that time, Lou Shide only said that for the sake of perfunctory Qili Xu, and he didn't expect Lu Xiaoxian to arrive in Fu Qian City so soon.

Lu Xiaoxian's arrival, Qili Xu must have gotten the news, and now it will definitely be impossible to delay it any longer. So, Lou Shide kicked the ball to Lu Xiaoxian.

"Qili Xu said yes, killing is definitely going to be killed, and no one can be left!" Lu Xiaoxian said categorically without thinking about it.

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