As the person with the highest martial arts and the most trusted by the Queen Mother, Li Wantang was confused by him, and he couldn't help but feel a little fever on his face.

He heard Xiao Xianmei admit that he was the killer, so he went to capture Xiao Xianmei, although Xiao Xianmei was later escaped, but he still believed that the killer was her.

But now, the murderer who assassinated Meng Yang and Meng Du came to the door by himself, and said that the killer was not Xiao Xianmei at all, which made the master of Ouchi lose face.

Empress Dowager Cao saw the embarrassment of Li Wantang, and she comforted: "Li Wantang doesn't need to panic, people have misses, horses have stumbled, not to mention that this is a trap deliberately arranged by the Lu family, you can fall into her trap, it can only show that the Lu family is really smart, not that you are incompetent." ”

"Empress Dowager Xie is exempt." Plough Wantang said embarrassedly.

Hearing this, Lu Shi hurriedly stood up and bowed to Li Wantang.

Plough Wantang is ashamed to return the courtesy.

"Why did you kill Meng Yang and Meng Du?" Empress Dowager Cao asked.

Lu Shi said: "Today, the Meng family is the best equipped and most ambitious of the three major gates, so I will attack him first. In fact, the most powerful person in the Meng family is still Meng Danqing, although his sons and nephews also have a few celebrities, but in the eyes of the ministers, they are just a vain name. ”

Empress Dowager Cao said with a smile: "That Meng Yang, it is indeed a nine-rank general, that Meng Du, who made great contributions to the eradication of Yipintang back then, how can you say that they have a false reputation?" ”

Lu Shi said: "That Meng Yang, if he is just a child of an ordinary people's family, I am afraid that he will not even be able to practice the eighth grade, but the Meng family is rich and rich, and he is supported by the secret medicine that blocks the door, so he has been raised into a nine-rank general." In fact, a medicine jar like him may not be excellent on the battlefield. In the face of those nine-rank generals who cultivated with their own understanding, they could only be defeated. ”

Hearing this, Empress Dowager Cao nodded: "What about Meng Du?" ”

Lu Shi said with a smile: "Speaking of Meng Du, the minister has something to say, in fact, the reason why he was able to exterminate Yipintang was all due to his husband, but when he reported the credit, he didn't say a word, just arranged Meng Du into the army and made him a lieutenant general." Later, when attacking Shu Han, he also asked his husband to carry the black cauldron for him. How can he be a great man when he uses people like this, and his measures are small? Even if he held the military power, at most Yuan Shao in the Han Dynasty, and gave him 200,000 soldiers, he couldn't beat Cao Cao's 80,000. ”

Empress Dowager Cao smiled: "I didn't expect that there would be a strange woman like you in my Daliang." Plough Wantang, go and bring me a set of my jewelry, and give it to her. ”

"The Queen Mother, the minister has already been rewarded, and he doesn't dare to accept any more gifts, and the minister is by no means an insatiable person."

"If you don't accept the temptation of money, you must have lofty ideals, so tell me, what are your ideals?"

"Minister, quite a female prime minister."

"Oh?" Empress Dowager Cao exclaimed: "Such a high ideal, it is really a bit of a fool's dream, but I like your statement, then you can talk about it, how to become a female prime minister, and also, you should explain to me in advance, since you think that Meng Yang and Meng Du are not good, why do you want to kill them." Since they are waste, shouldn't they be kept? ”

Lu Shi said: "Although they are not masters in my opinion, the two of them are reckless enough. That is, they may rebel as soon as their brains are hot. Kill Luoyang with soldiers and horses. Although with the twelve guards of the capital, they are sure to resist the attack of the Meng family, but the problem is that if the other two gate valves come in to stir up the situation at this time, even the twelve guards of the capital will probably not be able to return to the sky. ”

"Well said." Empress Dowager Cao felt a little excited: "Although you are a woman, you may have such a brain, but you are not weak in the talent of the prime minister, from today onwards, you will come to the palace to see me every day." Plough Wantang and arrange a gold medal for her. ”

"Yes."

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"Report! Oh no, no, Huo Zizhen actually rebelled! ”

Just when the soldiers of the Liang Army thought that the Northern Expedition was coming to an end, they suddenly heard a big news.

Huo Zizhen suddenly reorganized several divisions, led more than 60,000 people, and headed towards Shanhaiguan, at first everyone thought that he was going to fight Shanhaiguan, but the facts told everyone that Huo Zizhen had rebelled.

He joined forces with the second fierce general of the male Jia Wanyan Kuto to fight back against Dadu, and now he is only fifty miles away from Dadu.

Faced with such a situation, there was a panic in the Northern Expeditionary Army.

At this time, Zhao Guangda, the director of the Northern Expedition, Sima Zhan, the chief grain officer, and Lu Wuxuan, the general staff officer, were all taken away by Huo Zizhen, and it is estimated that they were either loaded into a prisoner car or had been beheaded at this time, but Zhang Zhikui, the deputy marshal, was not in the headquarters because he went to Danzhou to preside over the resettlement of the male people.

In fact, Huo Zizhen is very similar to detaining Zhang Zhikui together, but he can't wait.

He can't tell now whether it was Empress Dowager Cao who changed his hexagram or the Meng family who calculated him again, in short, he couldn't gamble with his life now, so it was better to unite with Wanyan Kuto to fight against Liang together.

The two of them combined, an army of 110,000, including 50,000 elite male cavalry, and the soldiers guarding the city were in a panic.

Hearing the news, Zhang Zhikui rushed back to Dadu overnight and gathered the generals.

"Quickly assemble the troops and bring in everything that can be pulled into the city. Each team quickly reported the number of people to me! ”

While running wildly, Zhang Zhikui ordered the scouts around him to assemble all the troops, including slaves and prisoners of war, and demanded that the strong men be captured and used to fight against the rebels.

Wang Caotian, the general of Shence Yunlu, also rushed to Dadu to attend the meeting, he said: "The four divisions of the three armies of Shence have a total of only 7,000 people, among them, the third division has already existed in name only, and most of the 7,000 people are still Tang Qi's temporary fourth division. ”

Zhang Yunlong, the general of Xuanjia Yunlu, said: "There are still 20,000 people in the Xuanjia Army, half of the main force and half of the recruits. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Zhikui's face sank like water, and said: "There are still 15,000 people in the Flying Tiger Army, including 7,000 people from the Cen Staff Department of the Fourth Division. ”

With only 42,000 people in total, how could it be possible to hold such a large city?

Although the capital is behind the high walls, it is difficult to defend because the city is too large, because the enemy's attack route is too long, and it is impossible for the defenders to release troops everywhere. Enemy troops can choose to attack a little bit that is weakly defended.

Most of them have nine city gates, if you only guard the city gates, divide the 42,000 people into nine points, and one point is less than 5,000 people, and the enemy army in front of you is 110,000, and a rain of arrows, it is basically over, what else to fight?

"What's the situation with the Tiger Army, why hasn't Xiao Han come to report yet?"

Zhang Zhikui looked outside the tent, but there was still no Xiao Han.

Suddenly, the scout came to report: "Hu Ben Yun and Xiao Han, leading four divisions of the Hu Ben Army, 28,000 people, have killed Huo Zizhen." ”

"What?" Zhang Zhikui was shocked and ashamed at the same time.

He is still making a plan to defend the city here, and Xiao Han has already killed him head-on.

Twenty-eight thousand against one hundred and one hundred thousand, what a spirit!