Chapter 320: The Huns Go South?
Wang Bu, who just wanted to speak, was not hungry, but was instantly frightened by the shouting outside.
Several palace maids hurriedly ran in, panicked, quickly, and neatly helped the king not to get hungry and get dressed.
They are all people who mix in the palace, and they naturally understand the rules and everything.
Loud noises are absolutely not allowed.
Moreover, the sound of horses' hooves had been heard earlier, which meant that the messenger had run all the way to the palace on his warhorse, and then came here again.
This is the first time this has happened in the Han Kingdom.
It's been two years since the founding of the country, and there has never been a single such thing, so that everyone is a little uncomfortable, but they still act quickly.
The clothed king was not hungry and frowned tightly.
Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Lu Jia will come back with the prince of the Yue Clan, I don't know what the good news is, but Wang Bu is hungry and feels that there is a high probability that Lu Jia got a war horse from the Yue Clan, and it is a large number of war horses.
I thought that everything was going smoothly, and I had enough time to prepare before the Huns had the energy to go south.
But this sudden border emergency report made Wang Buyu a little stunned, although he didn't know what the content was on it.
Out of the courtyard, the messenger with an extremely tired face and even some unsteady legs hurriedly handed over the sealed bamboo tube.
Wang Bu was not hungry but took the opportunity to take a look, and there were five small red flags planted behind the messenger.
It means that this is the highest level of intelligence transmission at present, and those who pass along the way, regardless of the officials and the people, who dare to obstruct and delay, will be punished for serious crimes.
And for the messenger, being able to send the letter back as soon as possible is a great achievement.
As soon as Wang Buxian took the bamboo tube, the messenger fell directly to the ground.
"Let the Imperial Doctor take a look!" The surprised Wang was not hungry and didn't bother to open the seal, and hurriedly called someone.
Seeing that the people around him were busy, standing and waiting.
Wang Buxing opened the bamboo tube, it was not Zhang Buyi who was on duty today, the guard was very eye-catching with a lantern in front of him, and the whole person's head was twisted back as much as possible.
Looking at what was written on the internal silk cloth, Wang was not hungry and wanted to scold.
"Summoning Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Xiao He, Peng Yue, Guan Ying, Han Xin, Wang Li, Zhang Han, ......"
"No!" The officer of the forbidden army who was on duty at night beside him couldn't help but tighten his face.
This border emergency report with five flags made him nervous, and now Wang Bu is not hungry and has summoned so many ministers in one breath.
Except for the three prime ministers, the rest are all generals, even if they are fools, and they are aware of the seriousness of the problem at this moment.
Hurriedly ordered a few people and assigned their respective tasks.
The forbidden army hurriedly galloped all the way out of the palace, although the horse was fast enough, but it would take a lot of time to go to the stable to lead the horse at this time.
Fortunately, the residences of these ministers are not far from the royal palace, basically except for the royal palace.
At the same time, the imperial doctor also hurried over.
In the imperial family, the imperial doctor is the standard, basically no matter where the emperor goes, the imperial doctor will follow him.
When he went to court, the imperial physician waited in the side hall.
When he was in the council hall, the imperial physician was waiting in the small courtyard less than fifty steps next door.
The harem also has its own imperial doctors, and when the king is not hungry, these imperial doctors on duty temporarily mingle with them to survive.
Several imperial doctors hurriedly fiddled with the messenger who had fainted to the ground, and then looked at Wang Bu Hung, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Your Majesty, the physical overdraft is too serious......
"Can you get it back?" Wang Bu was not hungry and asked directly.
"It's hard to say, maybe some precious medicinal herbs will be used......" The imperial doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead again.
"Save! What herbs do you need, go get them from the palace treasury! Wang Bu was hungry and waved his hand, not distressed.
Now there is nothing in the palace treasury, but there are too many good things.
The good things of the Qin Palace have basically been moved, all kinds of things, if this is brought to the future generations, the king will dare to say that he can become the richest man in the world if he is not hungry.
But now, these things have no effect on him.
It was not uncommon in ancient times for messengers to die from exhaustion after delivering the letterhead to their destination.
Not to mention the messenger who ran all the way back from the border pass.
Although he is just an ordinary messenger, people are willing to overdraft their lives to complete their mission, and as a monarch, how can he be stingy with those things outside his body?
With the king's order not to be hungry, the imperial physician began to beckon several forbidden soldiers to help carry the messenger away.
Of course, it is carried to the place where the imperial doctor lives, and the palace has this advantage, and the place where he lives is basically the place where he works, after all, the profession of the imperial doctor, he needs to be on call.
In the beginning, the imperial doctors did not use many medicines, and they were not expensive.
First of all, I supplemented the saline, but the injection technology is not available at all now, so I can only replenish it by drinking.
Then there were some warm-tonic medicinal materials with a mild temperament and not so great medicinal effect, and then some precious medicinal materials were prescribed, and it was stated that these medicinal materials did not need to be taken, they could be found first, and they would be used when they were needed.
On the other side, the king came to the council hall with a silk cloth in his hand.
The palace people hurriedly began to light all kinds of lights, but the speed was not fast enough, and the guards had to personally go into battle to help.
Soon, the whole council hall was as bright as day.
If it was in the past, Wang would definitely be bored to count and light at least a hundred lamps.
But today he didn't have this mind, he kept picking up the silk cloth and reading it over and over again, thinking about countermeasures in his mind.
Soon, hurried footsteps could be heard outside.
The ministers who live in the capital are basically smart and discerning.
Even if they ignore it themselves, some people who want to climb will remind them.
Therefore, when the guards came to the houses of several of them, without exception, almost everyone was dressed and waiting for news.
Nowadays, Luoyang implements a curfew, except for the forbidden army, those who have not obtained the forbidden army warrant are not allowed to walk on the road.
Of course, there is one exception, for ministers who have left the palace or the official office and the route is the route home, and the official who has been approved by the official office.
Overtime is a common occurrence now, and you can't stop people from going home just because of overtime.
So there was such a system, and the patrol guards also knew which minister's house was and where the route was to go home every day.
If there is a stranger in the place where he is guarding, he must come forward and interrogate him.
"Your Majesty!" Zhang Liang and the others looked at Wang Bu, who was sitting there frowning, and hurriedly saluted.
Wang Bu was not hungry and handed the silk cloth down directly, and let them see it for themselves.
And he himself was not idle, and said: "The Huns suddenly attacked the Yueshi, and one of the Yueshi tribes suffered heavy losses, and the Yueshi people ran to the border pass, saying that among the tribes attacked by the Huns this time, there were 50,000 war horses that had been promised to us, and the other was a report from the scouts, and the shadows of the Hun scouts appeared all over the north!" ”
This is a two-in-one piece of information, perhaps just in time.
Two pieces of information were received at the same time, so they compiled one and sent it back.
Whether it is the matter of 50,000 war horses, or the shadow of scouts appearing in various parts of the north, which of the two things is qualified to issue the specification of five flags.
It was not yet his turn to read the letterhead, but after listening to Wang Buying's dictation, he instantly frowned.
"Your Majesty, it's not easy to do at this point in time...... "Guan Ying couldn't frown his brows on his scalp.
He said it was not easy to do, it was really not easy to do.
At present, Han Xin's 50,000 people have eyebrows, personnel and everything, and they will assemble in Hedong in ten days.
Han Xin, on the other hand, would go directly to Hedong to join his troops and head north after attending the enthronement ceremony four days later.
At present, there are only 50,000 people in the Han Kingdom.
The original troops were all repatriated, and the original plan was to issue an order for reform at the enthronement ceremony, and then directly announce the plan, and a new round of recruitment began in various places.
According to this plan, the new Han army will be fully formed within half a year and the initial training will be completed.
But now, the signs of war suddenly came, which disrupted the deployment of the military headquarters.
"Your Majesty, this point in time is a little unreasonable!" Chen Ping said suddenly.
"Oh? How unreasonable? Wang Bu asked hurriedly.
He didn't want to give up 50,000 war horses, but in the face of the early warning that the Huns wanted to start a war, he didn't dare to ignore it.
Now the defenses of the northern part of the empire are empty, or rather, almost unarmed.
The new army will not be in place until at least the middle of next year, and the previous army is the Great Wall Army led by Wang Li.
Now this group of people are all in Guanzhong's hometown, the previous Han Kingdom, there was no need to worry about the northern defense line at all, but now the family has a big business, and all aspects need to be considered.
"Some time ago, I heard that the main force of the Huns seems to be some distance away from the Yueshi, according to the saying, the Huns should launch an offensive after the beginning of spring, why is it suddenly advanced now?" Chen Ping wondered.
There is a certain pattern in the waging of wars.
The Han army needed to prepare, and so did the Huns.
And winter is coming soon, maybe the snow has already begun to fall in the north, and this is the time to start a war?
Chen Ping thinks about it and thinks it's unreasonable.
"Could it be that the Huns know about our envoy to the Yue Clan?" Xiao He said suddenly.
The purpose of the Han envoy to the Yue clan was to fight the horses, and the Yue people agreed, although now they don't know what exactly they promised?
But the Huns must know the news before they do, the distance is one of them, and the speed of the news transmission on the steppe is also faster.
In addition, they are also nomads, and it is easier for the Huns to get information about the Yueshi people than the Han State.
If the Huns knew that the Han State was asking for war horses to deal with the Xiongnu, then it would not be surprising to strike in advance.
"There is such a possibility, if it were us, we would never allow this kind of thing to happen, but it is too difficult to start a war in winter, and it is on the grassland!" Zhang Liang also nodded.
Wang Buyu has been thinking about the reason behind this matter.
It may be possible to be discovered, but is there another possibility?
"There may be two more possibilities......"