"Lord Xiao, don't you be busy pleading for the crime first, let's talk about the current situation first, so that you can understand where the solid words they kept saying in the past are."

Qi Gong said to Xiao Wenkao, who was kneeling in the hall, expressionlessly, his tone was as calm as the ice of the moon, without any waves. When the ministers in the palace heard such words, they couldn't help but tremble in unison.

Looking at Xiao Wenkao again, his expression eased at this time, and he got up and saluted Qi Gong and said "yes".

"Ladies and gentlemen, the cavalry of the Rong people in the north entered Yan County through thousands of miles of quicksand, and this matter was assigned to me by the five great doctors of the Hexi General of the Qin State when I visited the Qin State.

Therefore, after Xiao returned to China, he immediately reported the matter to the king, and the king also ordered the lords, especially the ministers whose fiefs were in the northern counties, to do a good job of defense.

Three months ago, just half a month after Xiao returned to Beijing, 20,000 Rong cavalry appeared in Yan County, and it was less than half a month to connect the nine counties of Yan County. Later, his troops were divided into four routes, and in less than a month, they captured 19 counties in Beichuan and Nanliao counties.

Later, the king sent 100,000 forbidden troops to fight a decisive battle with the Rong army.

But the forbidden army was caught off guard and had no place to help, and the forbidden army and the Rong army, which seemed to be fighting locally but were actually fighting alone, lost more than half of the field battles, and our soldiers lost more than half.

Since then, the entire territory of Beichuan and Nanliao has been lost, and the half of Haixi County has also been lost.

At present, the Rong cavalry has confronted me across the yellow water in the north of Tokyo.

Now except for Hedong County, which is blocked by the Tianxing Mountain Range, the northern part of Huangshui has all been lost.

......”

Xiao Wenkao seemed to have been prepared early, waiting for Qi Gong to ask.

So when he talked about the situation at the moment, it was as if these numbers were being read aloud in the palm of his hand.

Because the Rong cavalry had amazing combat effectiveness and the speed of attacking the city was extremely fast, few of the ministers in the palace knew the real crisis facing the Qi State at this moment.

Now listening to Xiao Wenkao speak out in detail, there were bursts of noisy discussions and exclamations in the hall.

If it weren't for the fact that Xiao Zishuo, the Duke of Qi, had formed a powerful force in the hearts of the ministers for a long time, suppressing their restlessness, maybe they would have been in a panic at this moment.

After a while, after Xiao Wenkao finished telling the manuscript he had prepared, he bowed his head to Gong Qi and retreated to the side.

And Duke Qi, who had known about these things for a long time, still had a look of joy and sadness, he just looked around the ministers in the hall slowly and said coldly:

"Wang He, Liu Dao, Tian Bin, Zhang Xi, Wu Ziyin, Wei Lang...... Your twenty-four family has been guarding the northern counties for generations, and when the widow asked you to prepare to resist the invasion of the Rong army, you also swore to the widow that the people were in the city, and the people were dead in the city.

The widow believes in you, but how do you repay the widow?

The 20,000 Rong army crisscrossed the north in a month and a half, like a no-man's land, invading all the three counties of the widows.

The forbidden army sent by the widows to support you had not yet reached the city you were defending, and they were caught off guard by a sudden attack of the Rong people in the field.

The widows have heard a lot of this from ancient times to the present, but the widows have not understood how such a vast territory, such a large population, and so many generations of land-guarding nobles have allowed the 20,000 Rong people to fight helplessly in just three or two months, and flee in embarrassment.

Now that your fiefdoms have fallen to the enemy, then also

It's time for you to deliver on your promises. ”

As soon as the calm Duke Qi spoke, those ministers who were still thinking about what the monarch's words meant, saw dozens of golden gourd warriors silently enter the Qinglong Hall from outside the hall, and took down the twenty-four ministers who had just spoken in the mouth of the Duke of Qi like chickens.

At this time, the arrested ministers realized that Duke Qi was trying to take their lives to kill chickens and monkeys, but they were already shaking like chaff at the moment, except for instinctively shouting for spare their lives, none of them even said a word of complaint and explanation.

Seeing that the twenty-four ministers were taken away by the Golden Melon Warrior, half of the Qinglong Hall was empty in an instant, and the other ministers in the Green Dragon Hall were silent, and they all lowered their heads.

"Xiao Qing's family, how is the allocation of soldiers and horses from all over the country?"

Xiao Zishuo seemed to have killed nearly half of the ministers at all, and still calmly continued to ask Xiao Wenkao.

"Your Excellency, the 100,000 troops stationed on the Qichu border have already set out to rescue Gyeonggi half a month ago, and it is estimated that they will arrive in two or three days.

On the side of Hedong County, because of the need to guard against the Rong army of Xieyu Pass, Marshal Lian Min led 60,000 Hedong troops to garrison Yaoping City, and most of the remnants of the four northern counties who retreated to Hedong County were arranged by Lian Shuai in Lishui, intending to resist the Rong cavalry with the Tianxing Heavenly Trench and kill a horse gun. ”

Hearing this, Gong Qi pondered for a moment, and suddenly he let out a sigh and asked, "Xiao Qing's family, I heard that the Hexi general of the Qin State named Zhu Lihua once said that we should exchange the land of Hedong County for Gongzi Si.

What do you think about this? ”

"Huh?"

Xiao Wenkao was taken aback when he listened to Qi Gong's incompatible, and when he heard Qi Gong ask him about it, Xiao Wenkao immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

He didn't understand how Duke Qi knew about this, but this was not the time to find out who had revealed the news.

So Xiao Wenkao hurriedly left his seat and came to the hall, and said to Duke Qi again: "Your Majesty, Zhu Lihua is alarmist, Weichen has not agreed to his rude request in this matter, and he has never considered agreeing to this matter.

Originally, Weichen should have made this matter clear to the king, but Weichen felt that Lihua was insulting my great Qi national prestige, and Weichen really didn't want to let the king be humiliated. ”

Xiao Wenkao had just explained a few words, but Gong Qi waved his hand and said, "The Xiao Qing family doesn't need to panic, the widow doesn't mean to blame the Xiao Qing family."

Did he tell you what he thought when he made such a request?

Didn't he know that with only 60,000 horses and horses, it was impossible to hold the two counties of Hedong and Hexi at the same time?

And once we give him Hedong County, he will become the biggest obstacle to the eastward advance of the Rong people, and the war will also be attracted by him.

Couldn't he see this kind of idea that seemed to be cheap, but actually caused trouble, and Gu Daoyuan couldn't see it? ”

Xiao Wenkao, who was trembling, looked at Qi Ping's quiet face and listened to his doubtful words, only then did he believe that Qi Gong did not have any intention because he concealed this matter. So when he heard Qi Gong ask, he hurriedly replied:

"Your Majesty, Zhu Lihua did say his reasons when he proposed this to Wei Chen,"

He once bluntly said that the five counties of Xieyu Guandong were connected to Wangji, and once they had Hedong, they would be able to take back the Duke of Qin who was in Wangji.

And he also promised that as long as we gave him Hedong, then once our country encountered an attack by the Rong people, he would do his best to help our country contain the Rong army. ”

After finishing speaking, Xiao Wenkao suddenly found that all the words that Zhu Lihua said that he had disdained in his heart had been fulfilled one by one. In this way, if Hedong County could be given to Lihua at the beginning, then when the Rong cavalry went south from Yan County, Lihua would probably send troops to attack the Rong people and contain the Rong people from attacking the city in the territory of Qi State.

Thinking about it like this, the cold sweat on Xiao Wenkao's back continued to flow down like autumn rain, and his clothes were wet in a moment.

After listening to Xiao Wenkao's words, Gong Qi shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The widow said, Xiao Qing's family doesn't have to blame themselves. In fact, no one would have believed that the Rong people would make a detour to Yan County to attack our Qi country, let alone believe that millions of people and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the four northern counties of our country could not even fight against a mere 20,000 Rong cavalry.

Therefore, when Li Hua proposed this proposal, no one would agree to his request.

The widow was very curious about who this general was. He was able to anticipate things like a god to such an extent, and the widow had heard that this man was not yet young enough to stand, and if he had the opportunity in the future, the widow would like to meet him. ”

Xiao Wenkao listened to Qi Gong's "self-talk" but didn't know how to respond, he peeked at Xiangbang, Da Si Xing, Da Si Tian, Da Si Li, Da Guan and others sitting on the side, but saw that they all didn't look at him as if they were old monks.

Xiao Wenkao knew that these people would only protect themselves at this time, and they didn't want to get involved at all, so he couldn't help but complain in his heart.

But at this time, Duke Qi suddenly changed his tone and asked the ministers in the palace: "All the ministers have also heard it, then General Hexi of the Qin State wants us to exchange the land of Hedong County for Gongzi Si, what do you Aiqing think?" ”

When the ministers in the palace heard Qi openly asking, they all looked at each other and didn't know how to answer, but Xiao Wenkao breathed a sigh of relief.

Duke Qi's personality is weird, if the courtiers don't answer at this time, it will definitely make Duke Qi dissatisfied, but if they say the wrong thing, they will get into trouble.

Therefore, after Xiao Wenkao knew that he was safe for a while, he looked at the other ministers with a gloating look.

Sure enough, as soon as Gong Qi's words fell, Bang Tian Dong, the appearance of a hundred officials, hurriedly got up and said respectfully:

"Your Majesty, although the Rong people are powerful now, only 20,000 Rong horsemen in the north have embarrassed us and lost half of the country.

But Wei Chen thought that they had now reached the end of the crossbow, and it was almost impossible to cross the river to fight in a short time, so Wei Chen felt that the affairs in the north were very likely to have been settled.

First, in the past three months, the 20,000 Rong people in the north have not sent reinforcements to help, which means that the quicksand road in the north must be very dangerous, so it is not very likely that they will get reinforcements from the rear from there.

Second, the Rong people occupy half of our country's territory, dozens of cities and millions of people, but how to divide and rule them with their 20,000 horses, so for a long time after that, they will most likely focus on how to pacify the people of various counties.

Therefore, in the opinion of the ministers, it is very likely that the Rong people in the north will not move, waiting for the Rong people in Xieyu Pass to advance east to join them, or they will make a desperate bet to open the passage from the water to Shangdang.

But no matter what choice the Rong people make, we will most likely lose Hedong County. Therefore, according to Weichen's opinion, it is better to send Hedong County to Lihua in exchange for Gongzisi.

In this way, the people of Zhu Lihua and the Qin State will attract the Rong people to attack us, not to mention, we will also get nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses to return to Beijing, and at that time, Weichen believes that under the leadership of Lian Min Marshal, we will definitely hold Gyeonggi, so that the Rong people will not be able to cross the Yellow Water Trench. ”