Cai Yan asked three questions in a row, but for these, Lu Su did not answer immediately, but raised his head and said in a slightly solemn voice: "Empress, I can't tell you about this matter." However, even if the emperor is there, we don't need to worry about how to solve it. ”

Lu Su is tantamount to refusal, you know, dare to refuse the queen's inquiry, that is not something ordinary people dare to do, but Lu Su did it, in addition to the fact that he himself is a true courtier, there is also a point that he is reminding Cai Yan that the Celestial Empire has a system, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics.

didn't expect Lu Su to reject herself, Cai Yan was also stunned, and then she thought of the system for the harem, and immediately said with a pale face: "It's that the palace is too anxious, but if there is something inappropriate, please forgive Lord Lu." ”

The dignified queen has already admitted that it is not, Lu Su is status is high, and at this moment she must not bow her head in fear and say: "It is Su reckless, but there is something inappropriate, please punish the queen." ”

"You did the right thing, where is there any possibility of punishment. In this way, even if the emperor is in Runan, I will rest assured, and Lord Lu will be busy. After saying this, Cai Yan also had to sigh, she really couldn't help anything about the Huagui Concubine Sun Shangxiang.

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Anyi Castle.

The capital of Hedong.

Because of the abundance of iron and salt here, by virtue of this unique condition, the land east of the river has always been extremely rich. After Zhang Chao occupied this place, it was also being developed in an orderly manner, so that everything here was transported out and used. In this way, the land east of the river is richer.

In the past, because of the wealth of Hedong, Zhang Chao attached great importance to it, and often sent a large army to be stationed nearby. Later, because of the occupation of Sili, and after the acquisition of Gunzhou and Qingzhou, the territory was larger, and the troops were somewhat insufficient.

But even so, there are 10,000 sergeants stationed here, and a division commander named Zhang Liang who walked out of Zhangjiajun is in charge of military affairs here.

But just seven days ago, suddenly a team of cavalry with no name and unknown identity appeared nearby. As soon as they appeared here, they robbed a lot of transport convoys that came out of Hedong, including iron tools, salt and some grain.

For this matter, Division Commander Zhang Liang personally led 2,000 troops to investigate, and it happened that he met a group of robbers, and the two sides immediately fought together.

Zhang Liang, who led 2,000 troops, thought that in the face of only 200 bandits, he would be able to capture them, but when he really started fighting, he knew that although the number of people was small, his strength was not weak at all, and in the end he didn't take any advantage, and watched them leave after losing more than 400 soldiers.

These people left very calmly, and even took away the bodies of their companions, which made Zhang Liang unable to find out the origin of the other party. There was such a powerful person in his own situation, and in desperation, he had to report to Jinyang City and ask for support.

The emergence of such a powerful unknown force in Hedong naturally attracted the attention of Lu Su and Guo Jia. Then Guo Fengxiao personally soldiers of 20,000 soldiers, plus 5,000 trapped camps, rushed to the east of the river. Even if these people can not fall behind in the slightest with one to ten, Lord Guo has to pay attention to it, and bring Gao Shun and his trap camp just in case.

The two hundred bandits naturally did not have no identity, in fact, they were the tigers and leopards of the Wei State who escaped with Cao Cao.

The tiger and leopard cavalry is the most elite force of the Wei State, even if they encounter the Zhang Jiajun, they have the strength to fight, which is no wonder that they have encountered ordinary soldiers of the Celestial Empire, who can fight against ten with one.

It's just that after the battle with Zhang Liang, these people also knew that their whereabouts were going to be exposed, so they immediately reported it to Wang Shang Cao Cao.

To say that Cao Cao is indeed a hero, as soon as he heard the report of the soldiers below, he knew that things were not good. He decided to hide, although he now had 30,000 tigers and leopards in his hands, he didn't think that with this little force, he could break into Jinyang City and defeat the powerful Celestial Empire. All he had to do now was lurk like a poisonous snake, and when his opponent didn't notice, he would leap up and deliver a fatal blow.

Cao Cao decisively ordered a retreat, and the army quickly headed for the nearby mountains. When Guo Jia and General Gao Shun arrived here, they naturally couldn't see anything.

A powerful force appeared in Hedong, and they dared to fight against the army of the Celestial Empire, and this matter was naturally reported to Zhang Chao's desk outside Runan City. But he didn't pay much attention to this.

Hedong is close to Bingzhou, and there are often Xiongnu, Xianbei and other foreign races in that area in the past, most of these people are outlaws, and they are not weak, maybe they are not necessarily. After saying that, even if Zhang Chao wants to take care of it, he doesn't have the energy now, and how to solve the problem of Dongwu is the most important thing at the moment.

After the army surrounded Sun Ce, the movement of the siege was much smaller. This is naturally not that Zhang Chao is incapable, but that he wants to surround the point to help, even if this is the case, of course, the bait in his hand cannot be eaten too early.

In this regard, Zhou Yu in the city may have a feeling, but he really has no way now, because he is alone, and if he dies, he will die, but there is still His Royal Highness here, this is the hope of the future of Dongwu, and he definitely does not want anything to happen to Sun Ce.

For this reason, he sent fast horses to rush to the city to report the battle situation here, and at the same time let the soldiers prepare to defend the city in the city. Now that he has given up the matter of fleeing the city, he can only wait for the Eastern Wu to send troops to help, and then find an opportunity to break the enemy.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu did not want to lead the war to Soochow, in fact, Zhang Chao also had the same idea.

In Zhang Chao's view, Soochow will be his own after all, it is only a matter of time. It would be best if it didn't destroy it, and it would save you the need to rebuild after the war. As for the city in front of you, hehe, it's already been beaten like this, so it doesn't hurt to destroy it.

Zhou Yu was intentional, Zhang Chao agreed, and naturally, Runan became the battlefield of the Celestial Empire and the Eastern Wu Dynasty.

Even in order to fulfill this idea of Eastern Wu, Zhang Chao also ordered the Waterway Army not to attack Eastern Wu without an order, and at the same time, he also asked the Taishi Ci Department of the Third Army to replace Lu Bu's department in Huailing, Xuzhou, and Lu Bu rushed to Runan with the vanguard army.

Zhang Chao never underestimated his opponent in any year, and this time he transferred Lu Bu to prepare for a decisive battle with Dongwu.

Once Lu Bu joined, in Runan, the Celestial Empire would have four legions, totaling 1.5 million people, and naturally had the capital to fight well with Eastern Wu.

I'm talking about Soochow.

When the messenger sent by Sun Ce returned to Jianye City in Eastern Wu, Sun Jian immediately convened the ministers to hold a court meeting, and the discussion was naturally about how to rescue Runan.

Sun Jian didn't expect that Zhang Chao was so powerful that he actually defeated the army he sent and killed General Han Dang at the same time, which made him angry and made him determined to go to Runan to fight Zhang Chao in person.

Originally, Zhang Chao had a life-saving grace for Sun Jian, but later Sun Shangxiang fell in love with Zhang Chao and became one of the six imperial concubines of the Celestial Empire, which made their relationship seem to be on a higher level. But then, because of interests, they finally parted ways.

Sun Jian also had his own ideals and goals, and ruling Jiangdong was not his ultimate goal. It is inevitable to go out, and even if he doesn't go out, he will eventually have to face the powerful Celestial Empire, and instead of passively attacking, it is better to take the initiative, and there is the current situation.

Sun resolutely decided to conquer the army and won the support of most of the ministers of the DPRK and China. Huang Gai, Ding Feng, Xu Sheng, and Han Dang had accidents one after another, and they lost more than 900,000 soldiers. If the Celestial Empire is killed across the river, then even the prosperity on the surface will not be there.

Of course, there is another main reason why the ministers will support Sun Jian, that is, they are a little scared when they see Zhang Chao killing the Eastern Wu army. After several battles in a row, they lost so much, the Celestial Empire must not be much better, so once the other party wins, will they be in a rage, and they will come to a violent killing, how can they have an end at that time?

Even if you really want to surrender, at least you have to win a game, let Zhang Chao know how powerful they are in Dongwu, maybe only in this way can they have better capital to talk to.

Under such a mentality, the courtiers who naturally supported it were in the majority.

After receiving everyone's support, Sun resolutely decided to personally lead an army of 500,000 to Runan. Among them, Zhou Tai is the vanguard, and Jiang Qin is the general.

These 500,000 troops are basically all the mobile forces that Dongwu can use for the time being, and in addition, there are only 200,000 sailors left in the entire Jiangdong, and he gave these military powers to the second son Sun Quan.

In this battle, Sun Jian was almost a battle of breaking the axe and sinking the boat, and he even instructed Sun Quan before leaving, that is, once he couldn't come back, let him leave here with his mother, and then find a place where the Celestial Empire couldn't find it for the rest of his life.

Sun Jian left without hesitation, and took the main army of Eastern Wu across the river and went straight to Runan.

At the same time, the team with Lu Fan as the envoy also headed towards Jingzhou, they were asking for help from Xishu, facing the powerful Celestial Empire, Dongwu hoped to ally with Liu Bei, he believed that Liu Bei could see the current situation Liu Bei could definitely see that once the Celestial Empire defeated Dongwu, Xishu could only face a strong enemy alone.

Lu Fan traveled all the way by boat, on the back land, all the way was to eat and sleep, and arrived at Chengdu, the capital of the Western Shu Han Dynasty, in less than 20 days.

At this moment, Lu Fan still has the appearance of an envoy, and under the rush all the way, his robe has long been worn out, and his spirit is extremely bad.