When she returned from horseback archery, the servant woman had prepared breakfast for her.

A cage of freshly baked hot cage cakes, people love to eat pasta, the world is heavy cakes, pasta is very common. And those who use flour as utensils are called bread.

The food made of various pasta dishes is basically called cake, the food without filling is collectively called steamed cake, and the stuffed food is called cage cake. The red line would get up very early every morning to ride a horse and practice archery, and also to practice a horse lance and sword. When I came back, I was already hungry.

When I saw the white and fragrant cage cake, I had already moved my index finger.

I don't care that the cake that has just come out of the cage is still hot, so I grab one and bite it. As soon as you bite into it, you will be able to eat the stuffing made with green onions and lamb, which is very delicious.

"This pancake is so fragrant."

Red Line said with a smile.

"You eat together, too."

The woman serving her shook her head, "This is for the princess." ”

Red Line likes to eat cage cakes in the morning, and after a morning exercise, cage cakes can satisfy hunger and be delicious, especially the filling with oil soup is the most delicious. She usually has more steamers, and in addition to eating herself, she also gives it to the female guards around her, as well as the personal servants who take care of her.

It's just that today the servant woman keeps refusing.

"What's wrong?"

The servant woman had no choice but to tell the truth, "The kitchen has only prepared cage cakes for the princess." ”

"Why?" Red Line asked.

So the servant woman had to tell the princess of Xia Kingdom truthfully that there was a shortage of food, and now the supply was restricted. The emperors have taken the lead in cutting back on food and clothing, so now the supply of fine grain and pasta here in the princess's mansion has also decreased. In order to ensure the supply of pasta for the princess, the kitchen could not have made more extra.

Has it come to this point? Red Line couldn't help but stop, and she was stunned as she pinched half of the cage cake in her hand. She suddenly had no appetite, put down the cage cake, wore a pleated dress that she had changed into after returning from morning exercise, a horizontal knife hung from her waist, and the long hair on her head was simply tied in a bun, "I'll go to the palace to see the emperor." She said to the servant.

The servant reminded the princess.

"Your Majesty is in a very bad mood now, I heard that no one wants to see you, not even Empress Cao can't see Your Majesty."

"Is there any bad news?"

The servant woman told the princess, "Your Highness, you stay in the women's camp every day to train, don't you know yet, now it is rumored that the king of Handong County was captured in Baishan Mountain in the clouds, and tens of thousands of Xia soldiers were also captured. ”

"How is this possible?" Dou Hongxian didn't believe it very much, Liu Heimin's bravery was even higher than that of his uncle Wang Fubao, although he lacked a little in strategy, but after all, he was in Daibei, where there were still 200,000 Turks.

"I heard that the Turkic army was defeated, and Jieli Khan was killed in battle." Red Line shook her head, even the servants in her house said this, it seems that there must be bad news.

She hurried out of the house, mounted her horse and hurried to the Jincheng Palace.

The Emperor's bodyguard stopped her, "Your Majesty doesn't want to see anyone. ”

"Get out of the way." Dou Hongxian glared at the commander of the guard like a wood, she knew that this person was her father's elder brother, who had followed her father for many years, and even saved her father's life several times, once when he was fighting with the thief army, his father was ambushed and injured, and he escaped with his father on his back.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is in a very bad mood right now."

Hongxian asked, "I heard that the king of Handong was captured?" ”

The commander of the guards was silent for a moment, and finally nodded, "Jieli's entire army has been destroyed, and the king of Handong County and the Xia army soldiers under his command have all been captured. Now that Luo Cheng has come east, His Majesty is not in a good mood. ”

Hongxian didn't expect what the servant woman said to be true, "The more this is the case, the more I need to see Your Majesty." ”

"I'll report it." The Commander of the Guards thought for a moment.

Hongxian waited at the gate of the palace for a while, and the guards came out, "Your Majesty said that you want to be alone today, and let Her Royal Highness the princess go back first." ”

When the red line heard this, he went straight inside, and the guards couldn't stop him.

Several guards hurriedly drew their swords, and the commander waved his hand to stop them, "Let Her Royal Highness the princess go down, now only Her Royal Highness can comfort and comfort Your Majesty." ”

"But Queen Cao was scolded by His Majesty when she broke in before."

The commander of the guards said softly, "The princess is different. ”

The red line passes all the way through the palace gates, through the front court, and comes to the back court.

Although this is the palace apse, but in fact it is not very luxurious, she knows that her father actually does not like luxury, let alone talk about pomp, now there are many things in the palace or Queen Cao arranged, otherwise this palace is actually like a landlord's backyard.

In the past, it was always very lively, but today, it is very quiet, and the quiet is a bit too much.

There is an oppressive aura that makes people very uncomfortable.

The people in the palace did not dare to stop Her Royal Highness the princess who broke into the palace, even if she was wearing a horizontal knife at her waist.

"Where is Your Majesty?"

"In the Xihua Palace."

She came to the Xihua Hall and saw that the emperor was wiping a large knife. She recognized that it was a large knife that had followed her father for many years.

"Father!"

Dou Jiande turned his head, "Why are you here, didn't you let you go back?" ”

"Erchen heard that the king of Handong was captured, and Jieli was also defeated."

Dou Jiande nodded and continued to wipe the knife.

"Well, Song Jingang's army was defeated and lost Zhao County, Zhen Zhai'er's army was defeated and lost Xiangguo County, Gao Kaidao's army was defeated and lost Shanggu County, Gao Tansheng's army was defeated and Zhuo County, and Chai Shao lost 80,000 Tang troops in one battle, making Luo Siye run thousands of miles like entering a no-man's land, and killed all the way to Lingzhou."

"Jieli has an army of 200,000, but before he even reaches Yanmen Pass, the whole army is gone."

"Hey!"

Dou Jiande's long sigh was full of loneliness.

"Isn't there still Liu Wuzhou, Yanmen City has also been lost?"

Dou Jiande shook his head, "Don't mention it, Liu Wuzhou is just a paper tiger, before Luo Cheng sent out the army, he was very crazy, but who knew that as soon as Luo Cheng went north, he would have no effect." Let Luo Cheng bypass him and besiege and annihilate Jieli, and now as soon as the Turkic army is destroyed, Yanmen City will be self-defeating. ”

"Self-defeating?"

"The generals under Liu Wuzhou in Yanmen City saw that the situation was not right, so they mutinied and killed Liu Wuzhou Kaicheng and surrendered, and it was pacified without Luo Cheng's soldiers, and the 50,000 Dai army did not cause any loss to Luo Cheng, and he didn't even delay it any longer."

Speaking of Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande couldn't help shaking his head.

From beginning to end, Liu Wuzhou sat on such an important place as the three counties of Mayi, but he did not play any of his due role at all.

When you encounter this kind of pig teammate, you also fall into blood mold.

"The red line, Luo Cheng has already attacked the five-way army, and we can't defend it." Dou Jiande's pessimistic way.

"Father, since the will of heaven is like this, then why do you need a hard top, it's better to simply lower it."

"Drop?" Dou Jiande looked at his daughter, but he didn't expect him to be so free.

"Yes, father, if today, Luo Cheng is in the big hands, no one can stop him from dominating the world, and now even Jieli has been defeated, no one in this world can stop Luo Cheng's footsteps, even if you add up all the remaining anti-kings in the world, they are not his opponents, why should my father stop the car with his mantis arm again?"

Dou Jiande hesitated, "But this part of Hebei was won by the brothers and me. ”

"Father, don't delay for a little fame."

"Red Line, do you really think that your father should surrender to Luo Cheng?" Dou Jiande held his daughter's hand and asked.

Dou Hongxian nodded, "Previously, the Qin army came to attack, and the daughter supported her father to fight, after all, the general situation of the world was unclear at that time, and my father had no chance." But now, there is not even half a chance. ”

Dou Jiande let out a long sigh.

Before Luo Cheng came to surrender, he wanted to mention the red line, but he refused. Unexpectedly, in the end, he still couldn't escape this failed ending.

But this decision is so difficult to make.