Yao Hong had already lay down, sat up again, took the battle report sent by Yao Pu, and read it word by word from beginning to end. He couldn't remember how many times it was tonight, but he knew that every word looked beautiful.

Especially this paragraph:

"The South Barbarians are rampant, jumping off the beam; The soldiers were indignant and wept blood in their hearts. The thief has a contempt for me and wants to make a quick decision; I have insight into his treachery, and I have no thoughts of war, and I will be serious. It is a deep ditch and a high base, tempering morale, the army and the people are united, and the Jincheng soup pool. In a hurry, the ministers and thieves were exhausted, and all of us were determined to fight, but we risked the arrows and stones, and chose three thousand to fight, and the rest of the people took the city to cheer. If you repay the country and reward the king, you will have the strength to die; Kill yourself to become a benevolent, and there is no cowardice in the heel. Fight the thunder strike, raise the momentum of the torrent, the cry is shocked, the blood is drifting, the battle is slashed, Xu Yi's Pusaka is still there, and the wolf runs on the road; The north does not fall, and there is no worry about Chang'an. ”

Yao Pu obviously didn't know about the defeat of Yaoguan, and said that although Wuguan fell, His Majesty didn't have to worry too much. As long as the main force is concentrated and the hole from Tongguan to Chang'an is blocked, it will be difficult for the Jin army to make a difference. Don't look at the Jin army jumping happily now, when the Great Wei reinforcements arrive, they are in a dilemma, and the hard days are still ahead.

Yao Hong put down the battle report and let out a sigh of relief. In the end, it is a bystander. Yao Pu's words made the current situation very clear. The previous series of defeats knocked Yao Hong unconscious. The defeat of the pass made his internal organs rotten into mud. Now that I think about it, there is no fundamental change in the overall pattern. Cut off those details, the backbone is still one: the two armies of Qin and Jin confronted each other on the line from Tongguan to Chang'an. Now that Yao Pu has defeated the Jin army at Pusaka, not only has the morale of the Qin army been greatly boosted, but the Jin army has flank pressure, and they cannot concentrate on the front. In the future, the Qin army did not pursue field victory, as long as it held the fortresses along the line and did not retreat, it would be victory. The sincerity of Great Wei's assistance cannot be doubted, and the famous generals sent are also a hundred battles, this new force is currently catching up from behind the Jin army, and as soon as they make a move, they will definitely break the backbone of the Jin army.

Thinking of this, he sat up excitedly, and while stretching out his feet to look for shoes on the edge of the couch, he shouted:

Chen Andu, accompany me out for a walk.

A guard came in, lowered his head and said that His Majesty was here, and General Chen was gone.

Yao Hong suddenly remembered that Chen Andu had already died in battle at Yuguan.

He froze on the edge of the couch for a moment, then walked out. When I walked past the Nanmu shelf, I caught a glimpse of the sword. Yao and Bai Luopa, both wrapped around the scabbard, he had already put it away. He didn't know that Yao He was captured, and the next day after returning to Chang'an, he issued a decree announcing that Yao He was martyred, and posthumously awarded him the general of the Yulin Hussar, and all the adult children entered the palace as Lang officials, and the third rank of the official was already an official. Yao Hong always felt that Yao He was killed by himself, if he had listened to his advice at the beginning, the battle of Yaoguan would not have been so ugly even if he did not win. Thinking about it further, if you do it according to the meaning of the teacher Zhong Like, the current shape can be better.

Zhong Like, this name reminded him of another name.

Xue Meier.

The concubines in Yao Hong's palace have a total of twelve people. But Queen Gao is jealous, and she must make things difficult for the woman Yao Hong likes, so Yao Hong is fortunate to have only three or four people. However, Gao's family is very fertile, and the three children in a row are all boys, and the eldest son is the prince. And those concubines, either did not move, or gave birth to princesses, which is even more unshakable Gao's exclusive status. Yao Honggui is the Son of Heaven, but Gao's as a wife, the husband is still more than the word Tianzi, and he is taught to be dignified and solemn, saying that since His Majesty already has an heir, he should cherish his health and not indulge in women's sex. And His Majesty is determined to be a holy king, and he cannot be better than virtue. Some palace maids and eunuchs in the palace took the benefits of Empress Gao and reported Yao Hong's whereabouts from time to time. As long as Yao Hong was lucky with someone the night before, the Gao family would find fault with that concubine the next day, punish him by kneeling and scolding, and at worst not give him food, making everyone feel at risk.

Xue Mei'er's pregnancy was purely accidental.

She is the person next to Gao's side, and that day Gao went out of the palace to Huayin to put the finishing touches on the newly completed temple murals. Yao Hong passed by her dormitory and wanted to spend the night with another concubine. As I walked through the lotus pond, I heard the sound of rushing water and the laughter of girls. The guards were just about to go over and scold, but Yao Hong stopped them. He had never heard such a crisp and cheerful laugh in the queen's walls. Looking at the low wall, there were two girls standing in the pond and playing in the water. Yao Hong's eyes were immediately locked by one of the girls' arms like green onions, eyes like grapes, and mouth like cherries. The queen has never seen such a girl around. It's not surprising that as long as it is a girl who is likely to see the emperor, the Gao family will choose from thousands of choices, and they must find the ugliest one in the palace.

After Yao Hong stood still by the pond, two distraught girls knelt on the ground and begged the emperor to atone for their sins, saying that they should not take the queen out of the palace to make such nonsense. Yao Hong saw that the girl's pink face was covered with water droplets, just like pear blossoms with rain. Her breasts were nowhere near as big as the queen's, but like a pair of wayward sisters, she pouted silently to go out, and the water-soaked gauze skirt obviously prevented them from ostentatiously erecting.

Chen Andu poked his elbow, and he realized that he was looking at it like a goose.

He silently pointed at the girl, turned around and entered Gao's dormitory.

Chen Andu took off his cloak, wrapped the one in the emperor's photo, and carried it on his shoulders and sent it to the palace. Then he called all the people who saw this scene together, and told them that if anyone dared to say a word to the queen, be careful to cut out his tongue.

This girl is Xue Mei'er.

Yao Hong got pleasure from her that he had never gotten before.

And she quickly got the seed of the emperor after losing her daughter.

This is a secret that only a few people know in **, if it weren't for the invasion of the southerners, Yao Hong would have taken the opportunity to announce it, skip the levels, and directly make her a concubine.

Yao Shao's violent death and the loss of Wuguan made Yao Hong extremely pessimistic. He was worried that there would be no eggs under the nest, and he wanted to settle the children outside the palace, but this was too ostentatious, which was not conducive to the children's hiding and would also shake the morale of the army. Thinking about it, only sending Xue Mei'er, who had just conceived, out was a good strategy.

After Zhong Like left that night, Yao Hong asked Chen Andu to sneak into Empress Gao's bedroom, quietly wake up Xue Mei'er, and bring her over.

Chen Andu was guarding the door, and at first he could vaguely hear the eager gasps of the two people, then the sound of soft laughter and whispering, and finally the continuous sobbing of Xue Mei'er.

Early the next morning, Empress Gao was called by Yao Hong, who reprimanded her for being incoherent, and her envoy Xue Mei'er and His Majesty's guard** were caught and raped by Chen Andu in bed last night, and they had been taken outside the palace and buried alive. Chen Andu was not strict, and he was fined for one year and demoted to one level to stay in office; As a queen, you can't even look down on your subordinates, filthy **, offending the palace ban, shouldn't there be an explanation?

Empress Gao was taken aback, she wanted to say that she would see the corpse when she died, but this was not a bedroom after all, and she could not openly contradict the emperor. Besides, she has a ghost in her heart, she has been hiding Xue Mei'er and not letting the emperor see it, and she is also a bully when she chases after her, so she can only endure it, saying that the concubine deserves to be punished.

When I returned to the palace, I found someone to ask, saying that there was a lot of trouble in the palace in the middle of the night last night, and I saw Xue Mei'er and a guard being untidy and picked out by Chen Andu, and the emperor scolded in the house, and then they were escorted away.

This ** lawsuit spread quickly, and the palace immediately launched a deep investigation and rectification, and the palace maids, eunuchs and guards were silent, and they cursed the shameless palace maid and the cowardly guards.

No one knew that as soon as Xue Mei'er left the palace, she was taken by Zhong Like and a carriage to Zhongnan Mountain, where she waited for childbirth safely. As for the guard, he got a lifetime of money and a life-and-death gag order.

At this moment, Yao Hong passed by Gao Huang** and couldn't help but listen, as if he could find the sound of the water and the crisp laughter in this way.

A voice in my heart stubbornly said that you are a coward in your bones.

You enlarged the belly of a palace maid, but you didn't have the courage to immediately announce her canonization.

There was a stir on the battlefield, and you sent her away.

You think you've left your blood behind, but if the country perishes, it's useless to leave such a lonely child behind.

If the Jin army is defeated and the country turns evil into good fortune, how will this scam concocted by yourself end?

When the child grows up, what kind of explanation do you have to make people believe that this wild child from the folk is your own flesh and blood?

He subconsciously shook his head, as if to get rid of all these troubles. I can't care so much, now that the tide of the battle has taken a turn for the better, we must quickly think about what to do next. As long as the crisis passes, there will always be a way for women's affairs.

Looking up at the sky, the Big Dipper was like a scimitar, and a green cloud swept by, as if wiping the blood marks on the knife.

A team of night patrol Yulin rode by, and when the leader saw Yao Hong, he stopped the team and asked the emperor to say goodbye. Yao Hong walked up to them and said that the boys had worked hard. The guards proudly puffed up their chests and pledged allegiance to the emperor, and the ministers did not give up.

Yao Hong smiled with satisfaction, and said that if the enemy comes to Chang'an, you can't stay in the palace so comfortably, and you have to follow me to retreat from the enemy.

Without waiting for the guards to speak, the leading officer stepped forward:

Why did you say this? I, the officers and men of the three armies of the Great Qin, how can I allow the Nanban to offend Chang'an. As long as His Majesty is gracious, the minister will leave Chang'an and go to Dingcheng.

Yao Hong nodded, and just wanted to boast a few words and leave, when suddenly his mind turned:

Why should you go to Dingcheng?

The officer said that as long as we stuck in the main city, the enemy in Tongguan would not be able to advance. Dingcheng is guarded by General Yao Yan, he is my clan uncle, loyal to Daqin, and he will not retreat. However, the guards in other places, forgive the offense, may not be able to carry it like this.

These words were like a bolt of lightning, instantly illuminating a dead corner in Yao Hong's heart, he patted the young officer on the shoulder, praised him with his eyes, and then hurried back to the room and asked someone to bring a few more lamps.

He found Tongguan on the map, found Dingcheng to the west, and thought that Yao Yan was there, and was slightly relieved. Looking north, I saw Pusaka, here is Yao Pu, who has just won the battle, so there is no need to worry. Heading west from Kabasaka, he saw a place name, and his brow furrowed.

Xiangcheng.

The defender will be Yao Nan.

He should have replaced this person sooner.

It's not just that he can't carry it like Yao Xuan and Yao Pu.

It's even more that his name is too unlucky. Yao is difficult, isn't it that the Yao family is going to have a big difficulty?

He remembered the soldiers who had been killed that day, and they said that Yaoguan was to lock up Yao's family, and that they had committed a place name.

No way! Don't offend anyone!

Early the next morning, Yao Jiang, the general of Zhenbei of Qin, entered the palace.