Liucheng area, Hebei Province, Khitan New Town.

A burly man stands at the head of the city, and he is the actual leader of the Khitan today, Sun Wanrong. Since the death of Li Quanzhong, the supreme Khan of Khitan, Sun Wanrong still harassed the Great Zhou army from time to time, and fought with the Great Zhou army several times, all of which returned with great victories.

Although the Khitan won the victory in Hebei, it was nothing more. Not long ago, news came from Hexi that Tubo had been defeated by the king of Wei of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and that the 200,000-strong army of the Later Turks had been wiped out overnight, which shattered his original hope that he could take advantage of this to occupy the entire Hebei Province.

King Wei of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he also knows a lot, he has studied under Li Ji since he was a child, and he has a strategy for the art of war in his chest, but he doesn't know who he inherits as a martial arts master. But judging by his track record, he is an extremely wise man. In short, it is their sorrow to meet such an opponent in this era.

Sun Wanrong looked at the low city, it was a mess above, the new city was only half built, only less than a zhang high, and it could only be used to defend against wild beasts, if you want to resist the army of the King of Wei of the Great Zhou, it is still a lot worse. Fortunately, after the Turks were destroyed, he did not have to worry about the Turks stabbing him in the back.

In this way, you can take advantage of the Han people's busy farming and attack in a big way!

Sun Wanrong pressed his hand on the treasure knife on his waist, then went down to the city, entered the big tent, and shouted: "Beat the drum and gather the generals!" ”

The sound of the drum "dong dong" beckoned the Khitan generals who were on the belly of the woman, and in a short time, more than 20 major generals gathered in the big tent, and several of these people were disheveled, obviously doing good deeds.

Sun Wanrong's face was gloomy and he said, "The ice and snow have melted. The warriors of the tribe have been recuperating for a winter, and the knives are rusty under the beds, you guys. Do you still have to rely on a woman's belly? My Khitan does not have enough strength to attack the Great Zhou, but I can attack their cities, make them unable to spring ploughing, and let them have a famine, so I am not afraid that they will not be chaotic. General Ben has decided to attack the Great Zhou and attack the Great Zhou. Let Da Zhou be exhausted. As a Khitan hero, are you ready? ”

"Please show the general, I will not give up until I die!" The generals bowed and shouted.

Sun Wanrong endured these "donkeys". He said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then General Ben is not welcome." Luo Wuquan and He Axiao, each of you will lead an army and attack Jizhou. Li Kaigu led his troops to attack Pingzhou. Forgive him, and he didn't dare to go out of the city to face the battle. The rest of the generals, follow me into Youzhou! ”

"The last general commands!" The generals bowed and roared, one by one as if they had drunk the blood of a deer, and screamed.

Pingzhou.

A slightly thin man stood at the head of the city, looking at the vast land of Hebei, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and then said to himself: "I, Chen Ziang, hate to abandon my pen and donate this body to serve the court." However, the king of Jian'an was timid and afraid, but as the commander of an army, he only knew how to shrink into the city. ”

Now Chen Ziang has been dismissed as a staff officer by Wu Youyi. It's just a small soldier, and he doesn't have his share in any heavy military counseling. During this time, Chen Ziang's poetry flourished and wrote a lot of poems based on ancient and modern times, which were sung by the people of Zhucheng in Hebei for a time, making it famous.

"Brother Boyu, how can you have the leisure to climb to the top of this city today?"

The person who came was a middle-aged man, with wide clothes and sleeves, and a scholar's dress. Chen Ziang turned around and saw it, and then smiled bitterly: "Brother Ziran, why did you come here when you didn't accompany your sister-in-law in the mansion?" ”

Fang Ziran, a place in Hebei, a famous rich family in Pingzhou, has a solid family, but it is a businessman's family, Fang Ziran likes to make friends with scholars since he was a child, so many poor scholars in Hebei have more or less received Fang Ziran's funding. Although Fang Ziran was a businessman, no one would laugh at him, and no one would look down on him. Even the famous Chen Ziang is the same, and he respects Fang Ziran very much.

There is no other reason, that is, when Chen Ziang was most frustrated, Fang Ziran took the initiative to befriend him, and gave him the warmth of home, Chen Ziang also lived in Fang Ziran's house, and was deeply taken care of by Fang Ziran and his wife.

And Chen Ziang's room also has a wishful girl, which makes Chen Ziang disappointed in officialdom, but proud in love. Fang Ziran and his wife are very grateful.

When Fang Ziran heard Chen Ziang say this, he smiled and said: "Brother Boyu may have forgotten, today is the day of my mother-in-law's biological father's sacrifice, I can't stand her crying and crying the most, so I ran out and walked around, but I didn't expect to see Brother Boyu here." ”

Chen Ziang said with a smile: "Mrs. Sister-in-law is a person of temperament, and Brother Ziran is in the midst of blessings and does not know blessings." ”

At this time, the ground suddenly trembled, and the alarm bell at the head of the city suddenly rang, and the soldiers guarding the gate shouted: "The Khitans are coming, close the city gate quickly, close the city gate quickly!" ”

So the city began to be in chaos, and the Khitans had not come for a long time, and the soldiers' weapons did not know where to throw them, so they were furious: "Who the took Lao Tzu's knife!" ”

"Put it down, that's my belt!"

“……”

Chen Ziang didn't dare to stay long, he wanted to rush to the barracks, so he said: "Brother Ziran, I'm afraid that the Khitans are going to attack the city today, you go back to take care of the family first, and the younger brother has to go back to the barracks." ”

Fang Ziran was a businessman and well-informed, so he said: "There are nearly 200,000 troops in this city, how dare the Khitan attack the city, it is just an attack, Brother Boyu will go by himself." ”

Chen Ziang didn't care about Fang Ziran's indifferent appearance, so he arched his hand, hurriedly got out of the city, and walked towards the Chinese army.

Wu Youyi had just finished drinking the lotus seed porridge boiled by the beauty, but when he heard the bell ringing at the head of the city, he couldn't help but be startled, until a soldier told him that it was the Khitan people attacking the city, but his heart was down-to-earth, there were 200,000 troops in the city, what was he afraid of. So he slowly put on his official uniform and gathered the generals.

Fang Ziran looked at the hurried soldiers at the head of the city, and then at the thousands of Khitan cavalry galloping outside the city, and there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes. Then he went down to the city, came to the mansion, entered the study, and opened a door in the study, which was a secret room.

Fang Ziran entered the secret room, and went straight to the only four-corner table in the secret room, on which was a small box, he opened the box and took out a gray brown paper, this kind of paper can only be used by them as secret agents.

That's right, Fang Ziran is the head of Wu Zheng's intelligence station in Pingzhou. Fang Ziran slowly opened the kraft paper. It is a map of Pingzhou City, which is marked with many dots, and those are the weak points of Pingzhou City. There was a hint of hesitation in Fang Ziran's eyes. Will he carry out the order? For the first time, he was suspicious of the orders of the upper peak.

Three days ago, he received an order from Shangfeng to reveal the Pingzhou defense map to the Khitans, but he could not let the Khitans suspect anything, let alone Wu Youyi. This task is not difficult for him. But if the deployment map is handed over to the Khitans, what will the people of Pingzhou do? The Khitans were red-eyed. But it doesn't matter if you are a commoner or a soldier.

Fang Ziran has been operating in Pingzhou for many years and also deeply likes it. Thinking of the kind smile of Aunt Guo in the neighborhood, and the humble spirit of Chen Ergouzi on the street, his hands trembled.

"Husband!"

Suddenly, his woman's voice came from outside the secret room. This woman is also one of the managers of the Pingzhou intelligence station. He is positive, and women are vice. Now that a woman is here, she is obviously not worried about him. Although they are husband and wife, they are also quite affectionate, but their identity determines the highest standard of their behavior.

The door of the secret room opened again, and a tall woman with a cold face stepped into the secret room and said, "Husband, what are you hesitating about? ”

"Rong'er. I can't bear it. Fang Ziran said.

Rong'er said slowly: "Husband, don't say it again. You and I both know the consequences of disobeying orders, not to mention that it is our honor to carry out orders. ”

Fang Ziran sighed, turned around, and said, "However, if the Khitans enter the city...... Ah, Rong'er, you! ”

I saw a dagger inserted into the back of the man's heart, bleeding non-stop, and in a moment it soaked the entire back.

The woman burst into tears and said: "The order is given, even if you know that you are dead, you have to carry it out, you have already delayed the execution of the task, and Shangfeng issued an order, let me kill you!" Don't blame me, husband! I'm just for our child, he's too young to lose his father and mother. ”

Fang Ziran sat paralyzed on the ground, he had thought of hundreds of ways to die in his life, but he never thought that he would die at the hands of his own woman, and he was a little heartbroken. But he felt that his vitality was passing rapidly, and he said slowly: "Rong'er, I don't blame you, one day, I hope you will tell Your Highness that the guilty minister is ashamed of him and cannot be loyal." ”

With that, he laughed three times, and then he was out of breath.

The woman threw herself on the man and began to weep bitterly.

A few days later, the Khitan Li Kaigu broke through Pingzhou, and Wu Youyi's 200,000 army was defeated. At the same time, Youzhou, Jizhou and other states were broken in just a few days, and the Khitan momentum was greatly shaken. Hebei was completely in turmoil, and the people who fled flocked to Zhuozhou and Weizhou.

The military information reached Shendu, and after Wu Chu reprimanded the generals with a gloomy face, he hurried to the palace. At this time, the empress also knew about the military situation in Hebei, and she had already sent people to urge Wu Chu three times in a row.

Wu Chu reprimanded in the political hall with a calm face, and then asked the prime ministers to urge the ministries, review the money, food, clothing, armor, weapons, etc., and then came to Lichuntai.

Today's Lichun Terrace has no frolic, and there is no sound of silk and bamboo. When Wu Chu stepped into Lichun Terrace, he saw the empress, she was calm on the surface, but Wu Chu still saw from her flustered eyes that she was extremely uncalm in her heart.

As the crown prince, because he did not move into the East Palace, he did not have subordinate officials, which made Wu Zheng have to be careful. Although he planned the turmoil in Hebei this time, his heart was painful, and the 200,000 rabble was counted, but the people in Hebei suffered a military disaster because of this, which was his sin.

But his position as the crown prince was not stable, Erzhang rapidly expanded his power, and the empress acquiesced arbitrarily, so he had to make this decision. If it weren't for the rapid expansion of Erzhang's power, he would definitely not have made such a decision.

Now that he sees the empress again, he really has some hatred in his heart. The second is just a face, and you can do whatever you want to have fun, but you shouldn't joke about the affairs of the court. That Guozi priest wine is in charge of the education of the Great Zhou, but he gave it to Erzhang, and as soon as he took office, he was embarrassed everywhere Qingxin Academy, if it was just like that, it would be forgotten. But he has done nothing in the position of the prince of the country, as the crown prince, does he really have to turn a blind eye?

Although the Sifu Temple is not an important department, there is a horse herding supervisor among them, who is in charge of the Great Zhou Ma Zheng, and as a result, he also gave the two Zhang people, and as soon as he took office, he gave all the good horses to the princes and ministers.

All this, Wu Chu is unbearable, he must do something, he must stop it, but although he is said to be in power, but if he does not ascend the throne one day, it is very likely to be abolished, or when the Khitan rebellion is put down, when the bird is exhausted, it will be abolished. In this way, then, he must have some means, and he must be guaranteed to stabilize the position of the prince before the Khitan rebellion is quelled. In this way, Wu Chu took such a path.

Looking at the empress, Wu Chu bowed his head and bowed, "The child has seen the empress." (To be continued......)