Xiangcheng, located in the south of Xuzhou, has a steep terrain.

Xiangcheng is only a small city, and the low adobe city walls appear to be a little decayed, and it is useless except for the large area of land. Such a small city, usually no one cares, but this moment is different.

Ten miles outside the city, there is a team of black armor soldiers, wearing strong and stubborn, three steps and a post, five steps and a sentry, patrolling in all directions. After this layer of armor, every hundred steps close to the city, there will be another circle of armor soldiers. If you stand in the sky and look down, you can find that the small earth city naturally derives ten miles, and the black torrent flows in a circle of rules, surrounding this small earth city with water. Such a big deal would take hundreds of thousands of soldiers to do it!

The interior of Xiangcheng is even more full of sentry posts, and the city walls have long been covered with black-pressed armor soldiers and equally black-pressed banners. The armor soldiers in the city are not strong, only control the strings, and the tools they use are two-stone hard-horned bows, and they are obviously all warriors who are one in a thousand. Together with the hundreds of thousands of armor soldiers patrolling outside the city, they guarded the man stationed in the city.

The changes in Xiangcheng are thanks to the fact that the master of this world, His Majesty the Supreme Great Qin Emperor, is stationed in this city!

In just a few months, Emperor Fu Jian of Qin was stationed in Xiangcheng twice.

The first time was before the outbreak of the Battle of Weishui, when the emperor drove his own expedition, and the army temporarily stopped in Xiangcheng on the way. Not long after, the emperor moved to the Shouyang front.

The second time is now, the defeat of Weishui, the fall of Shouyang, and the emperor's withdrawal to Xiangcheng.

At this time, ten miles away from Xiangcheng, there were still groups of armor soldiers constantly converging. These were all Qin troops that were defeated in the Battle of Xiangshui, and they all gradually got the news that the Qin Emperor was in Xiangcheng, and they gathered one after another, causing Xiangcheng's troops to continue to surge.

On the upper floor of Xiangcheng City, there is a pair of father and son wearing Lin armor. One is the commander of Xiangcheng, the champion general of Great Qin, Murong Chui, and the other is Murong Bao, the son of Murong Chui.

At this moment, Murong Chui and his son looked at the mountains and seas outside the city, as well as the civil and military officials who kept coming to converge and constantly entering the city to meet the Qin Emperor, and the father and son swallowed their saliva.

Murong Chui looked at Murong Bao and said lightly: "Idiot, now you know why you didn't do it to Your Majesty on the day you became a father, right?" ”

Murong Bao's face was already pale with fright, and he said again and again: "I see, so it is, my father is really prescient." ”

When the former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty fought fiercely on the front line, 30,000 people under Murong Chui's command stayed in Xiangcheng. In the first battle of Weishui, the million-strong army of the former Qin was defeated on the front line, and Murong Chui's troops were preserved because they stayed in the rear. Due to the collapse of the army and hundreds of officials, when the Qin Emperor withdrew to Xiangcheng, there were only more than 1,000 imperial fronts with weapons. At this time, Murong Bao and some members of the Murong clan thought that the emperor had no soldiers around him, and suggested that Murong Chui take the opportunity to put the emperor under house arrest and blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Some people even suggested that Murong Chui directly kill the emperor and stand on his own.

For these suggestions, Murong Chui rejected them all, he honestly went out of the city to meet them, and after the mountain shouted long live, he returned the military power to the Qin Emperor.

Of course, this is not because Murong Trai is loyal, in fact, Murong Trai is a big traitor, and when the Qin Dynasty was turbulent, Murong Trai also treasoned and established Houyan.

It's just that this person has an extremely high IQ and EQ, and he knows that the reason why the army around him obeys orders with him is because he is a champion general appointed by the Great Qin Emperor. If he instigated the soldiers to make a move against the emperor, maybe the first thing the soldiers below would do was to kill him, and then welcome the Qin emperor into the city; In addition, Murong Chui also knew very well that in the Battle of Weishui, the actual casualties of Former Qin were only hundreds of thousands. There are still hundreds of thousands of Qin troops who have fled in a broken and fled, but the establishment has been preserved, and these Qin troops will definitely rush to Xiangcheng one after another to escort them when they get the news of the Qin Emperor. If he really dared to be unfavorable to Emperor Qin, when these hundreds of thousands of Qin troops came over, he would be the first to die, Murong Chui!

Therefore, Murong Chui wisely chose not to do it, and the hundreds of thousands of Qin army armor soldiers who were now gathered in Xiangcheng on guard also proved that his choice was correct. In just half a month, Xiaoxiaoxiangcheng has gathered so many troops, and many of them were quickly sent to King Qinwang after getting the news, such as Yizhou sent 100,000 people over. And until now, there is still a steady stream of Qin troops converging here.

Just as Murong Chui's father and son were secretly saying that they were lucky, there was a rush of footsteps behind them. Murong turned his head and turned out to be Gonggong Li, a confidant of Emperor Qin's side.

Gonggong Li tore a duck-like voice and sang: "Your Majesty wants to meet with the ministers, and General Xuan Champion will go." ”

Murong Chui's father and son glanced at each other, and Murong bowed and said, "Weichen will go here, and Father-in-law Lao will lead the way." ”

Gonggong Li took Murong Trai away, but Murong Bao didn't dare to follow, so he had to continue patrolling the city alone. Emperor Qin only summoned Murong Chui, but did not summon him, and if he followed him, it would be a crime of trespassing.

The lobby of the Xiangcheng official mansion has become a temporary temple, although the conditions are simple, it is impossible to pick and choose at this time. Murong Chui walked into the lobby, Emperor Qin sat on a high place, and the civil and military ministers were divided into two shifts. After so many days of waiting, the scattered civil and military officials were basically gathered, and most of those who were not in place were killed in the battle of Weishui.

The position at the front of the ranks of the generals was vacant, and that position belonged to Fu Rong, the general of Zhengnan, and the corpse of the general had probably already sunk in the rolling water at this moment. There is also a vacant seat in the second row, which belongs to Liang Chengshuai, who died in Luojian. There are also two conspicuous vacancies in the first few rows of the civil ranks, one belongs to Zhu Xu, the secretary of the Duzhi Dynasty, and the other belongs to Zhang Tianxi, the Guiyi Hou.

At this moment, people such as Yangwu General Yao Chang, Pingyang Taishou Murong Chong, Yunzhong Taishou Tuoba Jue, Xinxing Hou Murong Wei, former General Qifu Guoren, Wuwei General Li Wei and others all cast goodwill glances at Murong Chui; For example, the secretary Lang Zhao Quan, the left servant of Shangshu shot the right wing, the later general Zhang Hao, the assassin of Bingzhou Deng Qiang, the assassin of Liangzhou Liang Xi and others, they glared angrily at Murong.

The emperor may not be able to tell who is loyal and who is traitorous, but the ministers below have a scale in their hearts. Traitors and traitors always sympathize with each other, loyal ministers and traitors are always incompatible, since ancient times, there is no problem!

"Weichen Murong Chui knocks to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Murong Chui didn't care about the kind or malicious glances that the ministers threw at him, he didn't squint, and saluted the Qin Emperor in a proper manner. His head was buried low, and he didn't dare to look directly at His Majesty the Supreme Great Qin Emperor.

After a while, there was a faint and faintly tired voice from above: "Murong Aiqing, calm down." ”

"Wechen thank the lord Longen, the emperor's grace is mighty!"

Murong Chui got up honestly, and according to the order when he was in Chang'an, he naturally found his place in a group of generals and squeezed in.

In recent days, every time an important minister gathers in Xiangcheng, Emperor Qin will always summon him, but today's meeting of ministers is the first time after the end of the war.

Qin Emperor Fu Jian wore a crown on his head, wearing the emperor's crown dress painted with the sun, moon, stars, mountains and rivers, and his feet climbed on the clouds, with an expressionless face. Although it was only the lobby of Xiangcheng Yamen, it sat out with a supreme majesty. The hundreds of officials were loyal or treacherous, their expressions were true or false, and their faces were full of grief and solemnity, and the atmosphere in the entire lobby was extremely depressed.

One after another, officials rushed to receive notices, and those who came were full of solemn faces, waiting for the emperor to speak. During this period, the Taishou Tuoba Jue in the clouds secretly exchanged colors with several petty officials in the back row, and those petty officials were the principals of several families attached to Tuoba Jue.

Don't look at them in front of the emperor, they can only stand in the back row, but the officials who can show their faces in front of the Qin Emperor, which one of them is not a role in calling for wind and rain? This is the central court of the Great Qin Dynasty, and those who can enter here are all big shots. Tuoba Jue was able to reach so many people in the temple, which shows how much this person can fool.

When the people arrived, Emperor Qin quietly glanced at the empty position that should have belonged to Fu Rong, the general of Zhengnan, and a trace of grief and sadness appeared in his eyes. Emperor Qin quickly expelled these emotions from his body, no matter when and where, the real emperor could not be sad, even if it was his own brother who died in battle!

Emperor Qin's eyes quickly regained their majesty and clarity, and he said solemnly: "Since I ascended the throne, I have swept away all countries in the past thirty years, and I have not tasted defeat. However, this time, Wang Shi was defeated by the water! ”