Chapter 14: Court Deliberations

"Everyone," Liu Xiu's hoarse but clear voice suddenly sounded, echoing through the silent hall.

"Before I came to Pingyan, the news I got was only that Yan Guo had made some moves on the border, but who could stand up and tell me why the intelligence was so biased, Yan Guo now claims to have an army of 500,000 to attack Pingyan, but you have not told me."

The officials were silent.

Song Xunwen's eyes flashed, he took a step forward, and said:

"Your Highness, knowing yourself and knowing that you are invincible in a hundred battles, presumably the monarchs and ministers of Yan Kingdom must understand."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but want to laugh, and they had the courage to look up directly at the main hall, and looked at the three princes of the empire who were almost thin and a little weak.

Liu Xiu leaned over, glanced at Song Xunwen deeply, sneered, and said:

"Although I have not led troops to fight before, nor have I sent troops, I also know that the movement of 500,000 troops will not be small and unnoticed."

Song Xunwen bowed his head and replied:

"In the past, I led troops to attack Yan Kingdom, and I would say that 30,000 soldiers and horses would be 300,000."

Hearing this, Baiguan couldn't hold back anymore and laughed.

Liu Xiu closed his eyes, and after a while, he said:

"Okay, then how many troops does General Song actually have in my Yan Kingdom?"

Song Xunwen was just about to answer, but Chen Fuxin, the Minister of Defense, suddenly stood up and said:

"Your Royal Highness, according to the news from the spies in front, Yan Guo was relatively normal at the beginning, and there was no large-scale troop gathering, and the terrain of the two cities of Lianbei and Zhongyan in the north of the Wei Kingdom is obvious, the two cities are each other's horns, and the King of Wei has placed heavy troops in the two cities, and the defense should be very strong, and the ministers really don't know what happened."

Fang Zhenyao glanced at Song Xunwen, saw that he was expressionless, and just wanted to turn around, but found that Song Xunwen's fingers were a little trembling, although there was still mockery in his eyes when he looked at Liu Xiu, but there was still a trace of fear.

His heart moved, and he didn't say anything, he took a step forward and said loudly:

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that now is not the time to pursue this, the current defense of the country is at a critical juncture, and the top priority is to solve the offensive of the Yan Tartars first, and then solve the danger of Pingyan."

Chen Fuxin frowned, and everyone's eyes also looked at this "foreign general" who didn't talk much on weekdays.

Liu Xiu looked at him, smiled slightly, and said:

"Okay, General Fang is right, so what can you do about the current crisis?"

Fang Zhenyao opened his mouth and did not speak.

But Sun Zhengwu stood up and said:

"Your Highness, for today's plan, the only way to mobilize the entire Han Dynasty, gather the people, make every effort to recruit troops and collect food, and at the same time order the soldiers of the Qin King from all over the country to gather in Pingyan, we only need to guard them in Pingyan to help."

"Reinforcements?"

Liu Xiu frowned, raised his head and said:

"How many days will it take for the Yan army to reach Pingyan at the earliest?"

Song Xunwen on the side continued:

"At the current speed of Yan Kingdom, it will only take ten days to reach Pingyan City."

Hearing this, there was silence in the hall.

"Hey, ten days?" Liu Xiu's heart tightened and said:

"It seems that Murong Ke, the Emperor of the Yan Kingdom, wants to eat us as soon as possible!"

With a turn of his eyes, Liu Xiu stared at Song Xunwen and shouted:

"General Song."

Song Xunwen didn't know what he was thinking, but when he heard Liu Xiu call him, he was startled and said:

"What's the matter, Your Highness?"

Liu Xiu looked at him and said:

"General Song, you have been fighting with Yan Guo for the longest time, can you tell me, what do you think of the current situation?"

Song Xunwen's eyes flashed, his brows furrowed, he hesitated for a while, and said:

"Your Royal Highness, with all due respect, the empire fought in Jingyun, and the defense of the country transferred a large number of elite Qinwang, and now in addition to the Weifu soldiers, only General Sun's 'Sun Mansion soldiers' These recruits are available, and Pingyan is far away from the empire and Dongping, if the whole country is stubborn to hold Pingyan and wait for help, it will not be able to insist on the arrival of reinforcements, if we have the right to give up Pingyan, go south, and guard Zhongping, then the Yan soldiers have not arrived, the reinforcements will come first, and when the reinforcements arrive, we will lose the ground again, I believe that with the wisdom of His Highness, sooner or later it will be recovered."

For a while, the officials were discolored, and everyone looked sideways.

Liu Xiu stared at him coldly and didn't say a word.

But I heard Fang Zhenyao sneer:

"General Song is really courageous, even Pingyan City dares to give up, you must know that Pingyan is the strongest city in the entire country, and it is the most important line of defense to defend the Yan Kingdom, once it falls, the country will have no danger to defend, no city to rely on, Zhongping is just an earthen city, not to mention the 270,000 army, even 20,000 soldiers can beat it down, am I right?"

Song Xunwen snorted coldly and ignored him.

No one spoke for a while, and the hall was silent.

After a while, Fang Zhenyao said cautiously:

"Your Highness, the last general heard that His Royal Highness King Wei had moved rescue troops, I don't know how many can come? When will it arrive? ”

Before Liu Xiu could speak, Song Xunwen had already answered:

"General Fang didn't think about it carefully, where are there any reinforcements now? The empire Jingyun was defeated, in order to prevent the attack of Shu, the empire's heavy troops were all used to guard the choke point, as a western barrier, if it was lightly mobilized, it would open the door to Shu, wouldn't it be a wolf in front and a tiger in the back, and then the enemy would be on the back of the enemy, how is it good? ”

Fang Zhenyao's throat moved, but he didn't speak.

The hall was quiet again.

Liu Xiu's gaze swept over these people one by one, and he saw that there were not many people who avoided his gaze, and many of them had schadenfreude in their eyes.

In this hall where hundreds of officials gathered, for some reason, the young prince felt empty, as if he was the only one standing in this high place, lonely and lonely.

He smiled suddenly, stabilized his young body, and looked out of the hall.

Beyond the main hall in the distance, there is a blue sky and white clouds.

"The order will go down, and the reinforcements will arrive in twenty days, and at the same time, they will recruit the people who can defend the country, protect Pingyan, and fight to the death with the Yan country."

A slightly weaker but clear voice came slowly from the throne.

Song Xunwen snorted and said:

"Your Highness, this reinforcement?"

"I will definitely come in fifteen days, Pingyan now has 100,000 soldiers, General Song won't be able to hold even fifteen days, right?"

Liu Xiu replied lightly.

Song Xunwen nodded and replied:

"Don't dare."

Liu Xiu snorted, glanced at the ministers with different expressions, and said:

"If nothing else, King Wei should be here tomorrow."

After saying that, he ignored them anymore and walked into the apse with his sleeves brushed up.

The officials who left a temple whispered-

Yan Kingdom, outside the city of Changping.

The wind swept in the yellow sand, enveloping everyone standing on the ground, but the people inside the wind and sand all showed irrepressible excitement.

After nearly half a year of preparation, the army of Yan State was finally assembled, and the soldiers scattered in various parts of Yan State have been in a state of readiness, so the time required for gathering is actually a little faster than expected.

In this midsummer season, this war related to the fate of the northern country is finally about to start in their hands!

Like an eagle about to soar high, look down on the earth and kill and block!

In the early morning, when the sun had not yet spread all over the earth, the Dayan Empire exhausted the 270,000 male soldiers available in the whole country, and galloped out of the wide gate of Changping City in turn, and in the sound of horses' hooves, the dust was flying, flooding this ancient city gate!

The iron hooves of the war horse trampled fiercely on the plain outside the city gate, and the whole earth trembled!

The flow of people is like a rushing river, moving forward, striving to be the first, roaring like thunder, and roaring iron hooves!

In front of the people in the city, there was a gallop of thousands of horses, and the sound of horses' hooves knocked on their hearts, making their hearts excited, these men, after returning from a successful battle, will bring back a lot of food and money!

Heroes, come back from more looting, we have suffered too long in this land covered with yellow sand!

The slightly aged Emperor Murong Ke was surrounded by Murong Chui, Bai Zhanyun and other generals, and his face was full of excitement.

A good man, you should put one person first, before the army, ride a horse and gallop, be the commander of ten thousand people, and build immortal achievements!

Murong Ke was wearing armor, riding on a brown horse, in front of the 270,000 army, he involuntarily drew his long sword and pointed to the south!

The sun shone through, white light flashed, and a sharp blade of light pierced into the depths of the eyes of all the warriors!

After a short silence, the entire 270,000 soldiers of the Yan Kingdom drew their long swords from their waists for the sake of their emperor and the people, and then shouted loudly:

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

Countless snow-bright blades were raised high into the sky, shining dazzlingly in the sun!

Ten thousand people meet! Crochet a pair of piercing swords!

Kill to the south, kill to defend the country, and build immortal miracles!

As if infected by the soldiers, Murong Ke's body trembled slightly with excitement, and his vigorous body could no longer see a trace of old age.

He clenched his fists like he was holding on to time, I am not old yet, the world is under my feet.

That sunlit earth is the surging desire in my heart!

Kill it!

Under the personal leadership of Emperor Murong Ke, the morale of the soldiers of the Yan State was high, and the defense of the country was defenseless, and in less than seven days, it had penetrated deep into the defense of the country, even the two cities of Lianbei and Zhongyan, which were defined as important towns, took less than a day to break through them.

Further ahead is the most important barrier of the Wei and even the Han State - Pingyan City.

The picture behind the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom is the breached city gate, and the blood poured on the city wall.

And on the streets of the city, there are still scattered belongings and the corpses of people who have fled.

These are accidents in war, appendages of war.

And in the hearts of the patriotic people, since the beginning of the war, the patriotic army has almost no defensive ability, and it will collapse at the first touch, and then it will be difficult to flee, and there is no fighting spirit at all, let alone victory, and slowly their hearts have begun to despair.

And the reinforcements of the empire, I heard that they will not arrive at all.

Is the defense of the country really coming to an end? In front of this bloodthirsty Yan State Tartar Iron Cavalry, the people on the front line and in the rear are thinking about this issue in their hearts.

This country, the prince Liu Hongwen who defended the country, did he really give up, and what was the point of those wars that defended the country in the past?