Looking at the approaching convoy at the foot of the mountain, Ruyi was very anxious at this time, the emperor already knew that his father's return today was fake news!

Then he is still doing it, which is enough to show that the emperor's preparation has been foolproof, at least in the emperor's own opinion, it must be so.

No wonder General Hou Cheng, the garrison battalion who was originally swaying from side to side, would go against the trend and take refuge in the emperor's side, feeling that they already knew the false information that their father came back today, and they had nothing to fear!

This news is too shocking, and I have to urgently tell my mother and military advisor, otherwise I will regret it if I misjudge the situation.

Yan Xiuli received the Ruyi news, and couldn't help but wonder, since the emperor already knew that the news of her husband's return today was fake, why did he still make such a big move, did he really have no fear, thinking that he was winning?

After thinking about it, there is only one possibility, that is, Hou Cheng's 20,000 garrison battalion has defected to the emperor's side, coupled with all kinds of intelligence signs, this situation is almost certain.

After consulting with several military advisors, Yan Xiuli decided to continue the plan to lure the enemy, because if the boat against the current does not advance, it will retreat, and the emperor's strength has risen sharply, if the prime minister's office hesitates, it will inevitably further boost the enemy's arrogance.

Moreover, the current situation is delicate, if the strength of the palace is not dismantled today, after the people in the prime minister's mansion learn that the prime minister cannot return, they will definitely suffer a big blow to their confidence, and some vassals will also be scattered, and even if the husband returns later, I am afraid that it will be difficult to recover the situation.

Yan Xiuli arrived on the ping, ordered the army to rest temporarily, and sent dozens of scouts to ask them to investigate the enemy situation in Yangpo.

Soon after, the scouts came to report that there was no half a figure in the Yangpo forest at all, and they thought that the emperor would set up ambushes on both sides of the ramp to snipe the people of the Xiangfu in turn. I thought that there would be thousands of troops and horses hidden here, and everyone was already ready to break through the encirclement and stick to the preparations for help, but I didn't expect to miscalculate, Yangpo did not find the enemy's tracks, and suddenly made everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion at a loss, not knowing what medicine was sold in the emperor's gourd.

There was plenty of time, and Yan Xiuli was not in a hurry, so she ordered the scout to go deeper, and after a long time, the scout still returned with nothing.

In this way, the plan made by everyone before leaving was suddenly useless, and the development of events was beyond everyone's imagination, and they could only take one step at a time.

Yan Xiuli sprinkled hundreds of scouts to explore the road in front, followed by Guo Yan guarding the rear wing, and Ding Xu guarding in front of the officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion, all the way to the Yangpo ramp slowly down.

When passing the ramp, everyone saw that the dense forest on both sides was high and deep, and walking in it, they saw a clear blue sky hanging overhead, and the shadows of trees on both sides, which seemed extremely urgent.

If you can hide a soldier and horse here, it will be even more difficult for everyone to break out of the encirclement. It's just that somehow, the soldiers and horses hidden in the forest disappeared, but because of this, the Xiangfu guards were cheapened, and there was no need to make a big deal in this treacherous place.

Such a change also made Yan Xiuli's initial arrangement chaotic for a while, and Wei Xu's plan to divide troops to surround the mountains and forests suddenly fell through, and there was still an army in his hand that could not be used, so he was afraid that he would also be in vain.

Yan Xiuli had no choice but to send orders to secretly soldiers and horses, ordering them to follow behind the army, and wait for notification when the enemy situation was discovered.

Until the convoy was about to walk out of the slope ramp, there was still no trace of the Praetorian Guard.

Further on, there will be a long river plain, there is no room for ambush at all, the elite of the Prime Minister's Mansion is naturally unwanted, the Praetorian Guard without experience in battle, in the eyes of Guo Yan, Ding Xu and other generals are some embroidered pillows, useless, lost the terrain advantage, the Praetorian Guard will have no chance of winning.

But just when Yan Xiuli and others were about to walk out of the ramp, they heard that the guards in front of them were in chaos, and they hurriedly summoned Ding Xu to inquire, only to know that Lin Waihou Cheng ordered an army of 20,000 to guard the exit of the ramp, and said that the Fengling crossing Wei continued to rebel in front of him, and the situation was very dangerous.

The army of Xiangfu was blocked in the narrow slope of the sunny slope and could not get out, and wanted to break into the battle, but faced the army of Hou Cheng, who was also experienced in a hundred battles, Hou Cheng lined up outside, and the army of 20,000 was waiting for him, but the army of Xiangfu was limited by the terrain, and the battle formation formed a longitudinal long line.

Soon after, there was a fierce shouting of killing not far from the slope, and it gradually subsided after a long time.

Hou Cheng came to show off not long ago: "Wei Xu pretended to be the banner of the prince and the marquis, and was suspected of committing rebellion, and he was surrounded by me and the forbidden army, and he was defeated, and fled to Fenglingdu. ”

"Bastard, it was the emperor who provoked first, seized power and assassinated, and wanted to put the people of the prime minister's mansion to death, you ate the prince Hou Houlu, but you had a heart of betrayal, and you will be spurned by ten thousand people, and you are still ashamed to speak out here, don't you feel ashamed?" Ding Xu scolded angrily.

"Toast without eating and drinking, this is what you asked for." Hou Cheng was annoyed and angry, he originally just wanted to watch from the wall, but later learned that the news of the return of the prince was faked, and his purpose was obvious, he wanted to improve his morale in turn and find an opportunity to fight with the emperor.

How shrewd Hou Cheng is, it can be seen that the prime minister must still have no news, otherwise the Prime Minister will not be in a hurry to get a fake news out, let alone break with the emperor, the only explanation is that the Prime Minister is still poor in skills and at the end of the road.

If there is no Prime Minister Lu Bu's banner as a call, just these people at the moment, the Yan family is just a woman, and they can't become any climate, Lu Xing alone is still young, and he has no prestige in the army, so he can't suppress the arrogant generals under Lu Bu at all.

Among them, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others are all tigers and wolves, if Lu Bu dies, the prime minister's mansion will fall apart, and then it will be the time when the heroes will rise together, and Hou Cheng himself is the weakest one among the generals, if he doesn't plan early, he will not be able to drink soup at that time.

So when the emperor threw an olive branch to him, Hou Cheng almost didn't hesitate, and immediately led the soldiers and horses to come, planning that as soon as the prime minister's mansion fell, he could take advantage of the situation to recover the strength of the prime minister's mansion to supplement himself.

After learning that Wei Xu was not with him all the way, Hou Cheng hurriedly sent a message to the forbidden army in ambush in Yangpo, telling them that the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion had obtained the news that they had set up an ambush here, and that a large army was surrounding them from the periphery and wanted to wipe them out. The forbidden army immediately withdrew after receiving the news, and set up an ambush in the place where Wei Xu must pass, and joined forces with Hou Cheng to encircle the reinforcements, wanting to eliminate Wei Xu's Fenglingdu reinforcements first, trapping the people and horses of the Prime Minister on this mountain, becoming a lone army.

Now that Wei Yue was defeated, everyone was trapped in the narrow ramp and could not advance, so the collegial discussion had to retreat to the small city on Pingshang to make plans.

Now that the forbidden army and Hou Chengdu already know the truth, there is no need for Yan Xiuli to go to Fenglingdu again, after many days of disguise, almost even she herself already believes that her husband will return today. At this moment, I decided not to go to Fenglingdu again, but I was a little melancholy, like I would definitely miss something.

The small city on Pingshang was only built of adobe, and the population of the city was only a hundred households, which was considered to be the ambitious planner at that time, so that there were still many spare places in Pingshang City, which was enough to accommodate thousands of people.

Even so, an army of tens of thousands of people could only place a group of civil officials and subordinates in the city first, and let the rest of the generals camp in the open space outside Pingshang City.

Tens of thousands of people are crowded, which is not uncommon for the villagers in Pingshang on the outskirts, because the annual mobilization of soldiers and horses needs to pass through this place, sometimes the number of troops reaches tens of thousands, and there was a spectacular scene of soldiers and horses in the front and back mountains one after another.

And like this, tens of thousands of troops are stationed around the small city, but it is the first time, the villagers are not afraid of the army, after all, the idea that the state army Yu Minqiu has not committed any crimes has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even some villagers came in groups, carrying vegetable and fruit baskets, eggs and cured meat to reward the three armies, but they said that the things they carried were just a drop in the bucket for the army of tens of thousands of people.

Yan Xiuli received the villagers in person, and persuaded the villagers with kind words, not only did not take the people's things, but gave each person a certain amount of money to make up for the crime of nuisance.

The people are all grateful to Dade, and everyone praises the prime minister's wife for not only being beautiful and kind, but also managing the government and leading the army.

On that day, Yan Xiuli and the people of the Xiangfu were stationed on the ping, as for not returning to Anyi along the road, one is because the bend down the mountain is dense and difficult to speed up, if Hou Cheng attacks from behind, the soldiers on the bend will all be exposed to Hou Cheng's bow and arrows, so retreat is not the best choice. The second is because Yan Xiuli has her own arrangements in Anyi, and only by tightly attracting Hou Cheng's garrison and palace guards here can she act calmly in Anyi City.

At this time, the scene in Anyi City was different.

The Praetorian Guards and the Minister's Mansion guards almost left the city, but the originally tense situation in the city was not reduced by half a point, and even became more and more intense.

Taking advantage of the emptiness of the garrison in the city, the prime minister's mansion poured out, the emperor ordered hundreds of internal guards in the palace to detain and guard all the family members of Lu Bu and the party officials in the city.

The internal guards were exhausted, and the palace had never been relaxed like this, and there was an invisible pressure that shrouded the palace and only pressed the emperor out of breath.

The emperor knew that it was his fear of loneliness and unknown fate.

He didn't know if he was right or wrong, he could have been a comfortable and leisurely emperor, he was confident that in Lu Bu's lifetime, he would never have trouble himself, but what about after Lu Bu?

There are hundreds of people in the prime minister's mansion, and tens of thousands of soldiers and ministers, how can they give up the initiative? When Lu Bu was a hundred years later, his son inherited the great cause, and it was the time when he died as an emperor.

So he had to look for an opportunity, for the rest of his life, and for the sake of the Han foundation not to be buried in his own hands.

Since the innocent death of his two sons, the emperor has not been able to turn back, which is clearly a warning given to him by the Prime Minister, warning him not to touch things that should not be touched.

But the whole world is not the king's land, as the emperor, he should stand on the high platform and enjoy the cheers and support of all the people.

Now that Lu Bu has disappeared and there is no news, the Prime Minister's Mansion is the weakest time, the dragons have no leader, and the people's hearts are scattered, if he does not realize his great ambition in this way, once Lu Bu returns, or the Prime Minister's Mansion stabilizes the situation, he will have no chance.

Therefore, he could only make a desperate bet, even though Empress Zhang Yingying advised her to wait for his father Zhang Liao to return and then make plans, but the emperor was still determined to do it himself.

Zhang Liao's attitude was not clear, and he even hinted many times that he would accept it when he saw it and become a Taiping Emperor, which shows that he has changed his mind and is no longer the loyal general who was loyal to the king in the past.

Moreover, the current opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if Zhang Liao returns, then Gao Shun, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Zhao Zhao and other troops will also flock to Qi, even if Zhang Liao has the heart to help, I am afraid that he will be taken by the power of everyone, and he will not dare to act rashly. And you will miss the opportunity in front of you, and you can only be trapped and fighting, waiting to die.

As long as this battle is successful, there will be no more powerful princes like Lu Bu, and even those who support it later may not be wholeheartedly loyal, but now that the royal family has more than 10,000 military powers, he himself is not the naïve boy he used to be, and the ups and downs of the monarch and ministers will still have the power to compete.

After waiting for a long time, he never saw the internal guards return to the palace to restore his life, and the emperor finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted loudly: "Where are the people? Are they all dead? ”

For a long time, no one answered, and it seemed that the attendant guards disappeared in an instant, and only the emperor's voice was left in the empty palace, faintly echoing, through countless palace walls, and it was heard far and wide.

"Someone!" The Emperor finally couldn't hold back his fear, which he didn't expect.

"Your Majesty, it's been a long time."

A voice came in from outside the hall, it seemed gentle and cordial, like a greeting from a family member who had been separated for a long time, the voice sounded familiar, but the emperor couldn't remember for a while in a trance, who was the voice.

A purple robe entered from outside the hall, with a gold seal and purple ribbon, the official quality was above the hundred officials, and a gentle smile overflowed in his eyes, but it was like a cold and solemn north wind, which made people shudder.

The emperor's pupils constricted, his body shook violently, his legs were paralyzed and he sat on the ground, his face suddenly turned pale, and he trembled and said, "Prime Minister, are you back?" ”

Another voice shouted in his heart: "Lu Bu is not dead!" ”

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Your Majesty has been disappointed." ”