"What? Murong Xiao ran away with Shi Xiuying? Wang Mang's heart moved, and he was secretly happy, and then pretended to be angry and said: "This Murong Xiao must have been bewitched by Shi Xiuying and betrayed us.

That Shi Xiuying was originally the princess of Dawan Kingdom, and she was scheming. Murong Xiao has followed me for many days and knows the situation of our army very well. Now Murong Xiao took Shi Xiuying to escape from our army, and the harm was not small. Deliver our military orders, strictly control every pass under our control, and once we find them, whether they are dead or alive, we must arrest them. ”

When Mr. Murong and the other Murong family masters heard the news, they were all stunned, and some of them couldn't react.

They never thought that Murong Xiao, who was still talking and laughing with them yesterday, would rebel? And the rebellion is so decisive that it is impossible to prevent it.

Mr. Murong was deeply ashamed, and immediately said: "Lord Wang, I am deeply ashamed that my Murong family has such an evil obstacle. Please give the old man a chance, let me personally arrest them and ask them for their guilt. ”

"No!" Wang Mang shook his head and said: "Now is the time to employ people, how can the old-timers leave now for the sake of Murong Xiao's affairs?" If Murong Xiao and Shi Xiuying dare to betray me, I will definitely not be able to spare them.

After I destroy the Xiongnu army, I will raise all my troops and horses to kill the Dawan Kingdom, and let them hand over Murong Xiao and the two. I don't believe it, that King Dawan still dares to do anything against me? ”

"Yes, your lord, you are very kind to the two of them. Especially Shi Xiuying, you arrested her, delicious food and drink, and she even betrayed and escaped, which is really unreasonable. When we have our hands free, we have to get them back. ”

"These little ones don't leave him alone beforehand, so as not to mess with our thoughts. In my estimation, since they have defected and eloped, it means that they must be prepared and not so easy to catch. ”

Wang Mang said quietly: "Since we took the Yumen Pass more than ten days ago, I have speculated that there must not be a single Hun soldier to guard the rest of the passes, and those soldiers must have been gathered together by Dadanyu.

And Da Dan is gathering these soldiers and horses, and there must be a major arrangement. Right now, we're about to reach the mighty pass, and we can't be careless. Generals must be cautious and strictly investigate the military situation, and there must be no loopholes. ”

At present, the only thing Wang Mang is worried about is that he is worried that Da Dan has another plan to get out. As for Murong Xiao and Shi Xiuying's elopement, this was all arranged by him in advance, and it didn't matter.

"Mr. Murong, I wonder what the situation is in Dingxiguan now?"

Mr. Murong shook his head and said, "Lord Wang, it's hard to talk about this. At present, there are several Hun handles between us and Dingxi Pass, but the old man does not dare to rush to send them a message, and he is a little worried that the Huns will intercept the carrier pigeons. ”

"Is that so?"

Wang Mang also knew his difficulties, and the Xiongnu army was stationed in the middle of the Han army. If the news is rashly transmitted, in case it is intercepted by the Huns, the harm will be not small.

"I wonder if you can re-open a safe route? In other words, let the carrier pigeon not go in a straight line and fly in a detour. If we can't get in touch with Dingxiguan, it's a trouble. On the side of Dingxi Pass, I can't help but grasp their situation. ”

"It's going to take some time!" Mr. Murong said: "Pigeons are not as intelligent as humans, and if we want to drive them to take a safe route, we need to be patient, and we need to open up a communication road first." ”

Wang Mang said: "In this case, then please take some pains, old man, to open up a safe passage as soon as possible for us to exchange letters with Dingxi Pass." ”

"Yes, sir!"

Wang Mang said to everyone: "Generals, you can pass on the order to let the soldiers rest and recuperate in Jinchang Pass." When I found an opportunity, I got in touch with Dingxi Pass, and then I came to charge Weiwu Pass. ”

Many generals nodded their heads one after another, allowing the soldiers to camp and rest and adjust their armaments.

Just after the generals walked out of the council room, another hurried report sounded.

"Newspaper..."

The messenger rushed into the hall in a panic and said to Wang Mang: "It's not good, it's not good, it's not good, it's bad." ”

"What happened?" Wang Mang asked, very puzzled.

He recognized this messenger as his Liaoning general, not a member of the Tianhan Battalion.

"Lord Qiqi, I can't say what the specific things are." The herald said: "General Sun Feng has just been in the city tower and is looking at the direction of Xiguan. Suddenly, he found that on the side of Lanzhou Pass, there was an emergency beacon signal from our army. General Sun Feng was worried that something was happening, so he specially ordered me to invite the adults to go up to the city tower to watch. ”

"An emergency beacon signal from our army came from Lanzhou Pass?" Wang Mang was stunned for a moment, and muttered to himself: "If nothing else, Lanzhou Pass should have been taken by our army." Now there is a beacon signal over there, could it be that the Hun army launched a general attack and broke the pass? Breaking out of the encirclement? ”

Wang Mang immediately speculated that the Xiongnu had launched a general attack, and he did not dare to be careless, so he hurriedly led many strategists to rush towards the direction of the city tower.

About an hour later, he led everyone to climb the city tower smoothly, and looked at the sky-high fire on the side of Lanzhou Pass, black smoke billowing up, straight up the clouds.

As soon as Wang Mang saw this signal, his face changed greatly, "This is a signal sent by my Liaoning general, not a signal that the pass is occupied by enemy troops. ”

"What? What do you mean by that, sir? ”

"Oh no, it's bad." Wang Mang thought about it for a while and immediately guessed a rough idea. "Damn bastard, it's a big thing to hurt me, it's a big thing to hurt me, I don't know which force launched the mutiny."

"Mutiny? My lord, are you saying that over there is a civil strife in our army at Lanzhou Pass? Someone seized power at this time and mutinied? ”

"That's right, that's what this beacon signal means." Wang Mang said in a deep voice: "Then the Huo family and the Wei family don't have the guts, it must be Ji Yun." It should have been this bastard who instigated Liu Zhi, and then Liu Zhi was forced by the pressure of the Ji family, so he launched a mutiny. Mr. Murong, please also arrange for a good hand to rush to Lanzhou Pass to investigate the specific situation. ”

"Zhang Hong, Sun Shan, Marquis of Southern Xinjiang, Marquis of Linyuan, a few of you quickly led some men and horses to secretly investigate the way to retreat, and prepare to withdraw at any time. If the situation on the Lanzhou Pass side is really irreparable, our army should quickly retreat and return to Liaoning. ”

"Retreat? Returning to Liaoning? The commander of the Tianhan camp exclaimed: "Lord Wang, at the moment, we are finally going to trap the Hun army here, if we give up at this time, then won't our previous efforts be in vain?" ”

"What's the solution? Those bastards in Lanzhou Guan, regardless of the overall situation, actually launched a mutiny at this juncture. If I do not seek a way out, then all of our armies will be destroyed. Since they don't care about the safety of Kyushu, then I can't care about it. These damn bastards, messing with me, messing with me. ”

Wang Mang never expected that such a big event would happen at this juncture, and he had the idea that the sky was going to collapse, and he was very annoyed.

He was afraid that things would expand, and that many other coalition forces would break up, so he had to prepare for the worst first, lest it be too late to regret it.

The main force of the Xiongnu has not been damaged much, at least there is about sixty percent of the strength, Wang Mang does not think that he can single out the entire Xiongnu with his own ability.

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