For ordinary people, it is only the imperial court that is arresting thieves or important criminals, and they are more concerned about whether martial law will be lifted after dawn, because they still have to live.

At this time, the atmosphere in the palace was depressed, the original military discussion was temporarily suspended, Su Yan and Su Bi temporarily returned to the Yaqian Hall first, anxiously waiting for news outside the palace, but unfortunately until midnight, things still did not progress.

Su Yan's expression was a little cramped and uneasy, and he wanted to ask Su Bi, who was standing at the door and looking at the darkness outside, several times, but in the end he didn't ask, until Su Bi noticed the emperor's strange appearance.

"Your Majesty, but you have something to say?" Subi asked.

Su Yan sighed and said, "Fourth Emperor Sister, can you stop...... Don't look for it? Master, he won't hurt me. ”

"The problem now is not that Liu Wenyan wants to harm the emperor, but that we can't help but take him down, only in this way will we have a better chance of dealing with Hua Ji'an. Didn't the concubine say a long time ago, we didn't want to kill Liu Wenyan, but to treat him well, and when things calmed down, he could still enjoy his glory and wealth. Could it be that he couldn't sacrifice this for the court? ”

Su Yanzhi said: "Can ...... Master he should ...... Reluctantly. ”

"Now it's not his turn to be reluctant, since he is determined to embarrass you with His Majesty, what else do you need to leave for him? Does His Majesty want the love of master and apprentice, or the foundation of our Dashun Dynasty? ”

Su Yan was speechless for a while, unable to say a word of rebuttal.

Su Bi was the commander-in-chief of this military plan, and from the moment Yuan Bolang died, she knew that there was no room for accommodation between the court and the military. Either you die or I die. At this time, Su Bi no longer listened to Su Yan's verbosity. She was already getting a little impatient.

Until dawn. The lights in the Yaqian Hall were not extinguished, and the other civil and military generals who entered Chang'an City did not leave the palace, and by dawn, the people of Jingzhao Mansion and the Six Defense Division had entered the city to report back, and no trace of Liu Wenyan's family was found. Together with the way sent outside the city to block Liu Yu's possible way to the women's army camp or the Huo Ill military camp, he didn't find it at all.

Because Liu Wenyan's family disappeared after the city gate was closed, and there was no incident at the city gate last night.

"Play missing?" Su Bi clenched his fists tightly when he heard the news, and looked at the city map of Chang'an City. "Will you get out of the city with the female guards?"

What Su Bi was talking about was the trip when Xu Caihua, the deputy marshal of the female army, suddenly entered the city last night, and the timing and motives of Xu Caihua entering the city were very strange, and she was in a hurry to get out of the city, which made Su Bi uneasy. However, his subordinates immediately reported again, saying that when Xu Caihua left the city, there were only a few guards around him, and they had all been checked in detail, and there was no Liu Wenyan's family.

"That is, it is still in the city, the whole city is under martial law, and continue to search and arrest until Liu Wenyan is found!"

Jingzhao Mansion Yin asked carefully, "If it's Liu Wenyan...... What about rebellion? ”

"Kill or kill!" Su Bi gritted her teeth.

Su Yan behind Su Bi wanted to say something. But in the end, it was not spoken. Things changed so fast that no one expected that his master would suddenly receive the news and go into hiding. For Su Yan, this kind of preparation for the big war is still insufficient.

Chang'an City continued to be under martial law throughout the city, from morning to dusk in the afternoon, the people who were searched in the city turned over on their backs, and every household had to be searched, but obviously it had little effect, Chang'an City was too big, and if Liu Yu's family had the intention to hide, it would be very difficult to be found within ten days and a half. With Liu Yu's wit, he obviously won't find some places that are easy to find, and he will definitely hide himself in a different way.

Liu Yu's family still has no whereabouts in the city, but at sunset and dusk, there is news from Tongguan, saying that Hua Ji'an has Chen soldiers under Tongguan Pass, and issued an ultimatum to the soldiers defending the city, saying that the three armies are in the pass, and they will break through if they can't. Seeing that the next bloody battle at Tongguan Pass is about to begin.

The time limit for Hua Ji'an to give the Tongguan guards was three days, and the incident happened on the night of the ninth day of the lunar month, that is, in the early morning of the thirteenth, the imperial court had not allowed Hua Ji'an to bring troops back to Guanzhong, and Tongguan would become a battlefield of civil war. Chang'an City was already busy looking for Liu Yu, but now that he was pressed by Hua Ji'an, even Su Bi lost his law a little.

The military seems to have made one move after another, Liu Yu's disappearance and Hua Ji'an's pressing complement each other, as if they were discussed. Originally, the imperial court wanted to hold Liu Yulai to blackmail the female army and Liu Yu's old subordinates, such as Huo Yi and Qi Fang and others, but now it seems that because the imperial court is one step late, it is likely to push these people into Hua Ji'an's camp.

"Liu Wenyan, do you want to help the society or disrupt the country?" Su Bi had no choice but to sigh.

Now we can only continue to search for Liu Wenyan's whereabouts on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must quickly convene a military meeting to discuss the issue of how many days Tongguan can be defended.

Hua Ji'an must not be allowed to lead troops into Tongguan, this is basically the consensus of the military. Tongguan is the most behind a barrier outside Chang'an City, after Tongguan will be followed by a horse Pingchuan, Chang'an City will fall directly under the siege of Huaji'an Iron Cavalry, then the Son of Heaven will become a caged bird, Chang'an City will also become a dead city.

The military meeting had only been held for more than half an hour at dusk on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and everyone knew that the time was tight, and there was no more time to discuss some inconsequential matters. In fact, the result of the discussion at the meeting was also very clear: with the strength of the Turkic border army that had just been defeated, it was only an overnight matter to conquer a near-undefended Tongguan, and the top priority now was to immediately requisition troops from Guanzhong to rescue Tongguan, and only in this way could Tongguan be an obstacle to the Huaji'an rebels.

This meeting was also the first time that Huaji'an was defined as a "rebel general" and Huaji'an was defined as a "rebel army".

The generals who were in the palace were actually in a very complicated mood, because these rebel generals and rebels were once comrades-in-arms who pacified Huaidi with them, and the 70,000 new troops and border troops led by the rebel generals led by Hua Ji'an were also the basis of the soldiers and horses of the Dashun Dynasty, and the total number of soldiers and horses in the entire pass was less than 70,000.

The imperial court was about to issue an order to send troops to aid Tongguan, but immediately received a report from the intelligence officers monitoring the Huo Sick Department outside the city, saying that the Huo Sick Department had already set up camp before dusk today, and the direction was not to Chang'an City, but to Tongguan.

For a while, there was a dead silence in the Yaqian Palace, and no one believed that Huo Ill was going to help the imperial court rescue Tongguan, and Huo Ill's Department was probably sent to Guanzhong by Hua Ji'an in advance as an internal response, preparing to conquer Tongguan. And the imperial court has always been unaware of the movements of Huo's department, but now it seems to be clear. Everyone present was well aware of the speed of Huo Ai's troops, and Huo Ai took the lead, and no one could reach the destination faster than his troops. Huo Sick pulled out of the village and approached Tongguan, and there was only one message to convey: Tongguan is in danger!

"How are the women doing?" Su Bi asked casually.

The women's army is now one of the only two soldiers and horses in Tongguan that are not under the full control of the imperial court, and the other soldier and horse Huo Sick Department has been confirmed to be the internal response sent by Huaji'an, and now the attitude of the women's army is very important. The chips of the imperial court are too small, and it is already difficult to add them, although the whereabouts of the female army commander Xu Xuanzhu and Liu Yu are unknown, Su Bi feels that the imperial court still has the ability to control the female army.

The guards who came to report obviously couldn't answer Su Bi's question, but Su Yan answered her: "Didn't someone come to deliver a message at noon, saying that the daughter army was going to Guannan to train troops?" It should have already set off, didn't the Fourth Emperor Sister see the report? ”

Su Bi really wanted to slap Su Yan who didn't know it, such an important piece of information didn't inform her at the first time, she always thought that Liu Yu's disappearance was not a bad thing, anyway, no one knew about Liu Yu's life or death, and no one would doubt that the court said that he was under house arrest, and the outcome of the matter might be the same as originally expected. Huo's department will be "recruited" by the imperial court, and the female army will wholeheartedly help the imperial court suppress the rebellion.

Now it looks like the bamboo basket is empty.

Liu Yu seemed to have everything ready before he disappeared, although I don't know if he had anything to do with Huo Ill, but the "training" of the women's army was obviously instructed by Liu Yu, and Xu Caihua, who was originally very obedient to the imperial court, would transfer troops privately, which still surprised her. After all, Xu Caihua is also the daughter-in-law of her conspirator Wang Jian, although she also knows that Xu Caihua's rudeness makes the Wang family very distressed, but how to say that it is also a family!

"Fourth Emperor Sister, now ...... What should I do? Seeing that Su Bi didn't speak, Su Yan had no choice but to break the silence and ask.

Of course, Su Yan also felt that it was embarrassing for him, as the emperor, to ask his sister's opinion in front of the minister, but now is not the time to save face.

Su Bi is thinking about the conflict of interests and the solution plan for this conflict, and now it seems impossible to directly fight hard, Tongguan can't be defended, and Chang'an City is used as a barrier to resist Huaji'an and his 70,000 rebels. The original tactics can only be passively changed.

"Please send the decree to Tongguan immediately, and let me return the 70,000 soldiers of the Dashun Dynasty to Guanzhong." Su Bi bowed down and asked Su Yan for advice.

Originally, the courtier suggested to the emperor that she should use the tone of asking for instructions, but her unquestionable tone at this time was more like an order to the Son of Heaven.

Su Yan was stunned for a moment, Su Bi's invitation was obviously contrary to the results of the discussion in the past two days, could it be that the closed-door discussion in the past few days is equivalent to a white discussion, so he compromised with Hua Ji'an?

Su Yan wanted to continue to ask clearly, but Su Bi looked at him and asked him not to ask, so Su Yan had to make an order to allow Tongguan to open and close to the "rebels" as Su Bi requested. Because the deliberations were not yet over, the generals could not go home, so they could only temporarily rest in the rest house of the Liutai Yamen and wait for the summons at any time.

"It's not okay if you don't let them go back." When these generals all went out, Su Bi said, "If Liu Wenyan takes the opportunity to usurp the military power of Chang'an City, then we will be very dangerous, so let the generals return to their own positions and be at the disposal of His Majesty at any time." ”

Su Yan nodded, originally he also thought that he would not be able to leave these generals in the palace, and what Su Bi invited was also to his liking.

"Fourth Emperor Sister, what do you want to do when you release flowers and set them into the Guanzhong?" Su Yan asked with a puzzled and worried expression.

Su Bi sighed and said: "We can only respond with Huai Rou now, at this moment, there are many of our eyeliners in the Huaji An army, and some ministers are loyal ministers of my Dashun Dynasty, and the concubines will send people to contact them, by the way...... Assassinate Hua Ji'an in the army! (To be continued......)