Not in the house?

Qigege's phoenix eyes were light, and she didn't go to answer the letter.

The contents of the epistle are unknown.

Four-four and fourteen are here, and opening the letter is equivalent to giving information to both of them at the same time.

Sisi's eyes were faint, "I have something to say to you." ”

Qigege raised his eyes and nodded slowly.

"Jingli, look at the fourteenth brother." After saying this, the figures of the two disappeared into the night.

The two of them went to the study.

The candles in the room were more than halfway through, and it was clear that there were people here before Qigege returned.

"What's going on?"

The butler had not left the General's Mansion for decades, and suddenly left, and he didn't even have time to say hello, either something big had happened, or there was something secret in it.

It was almost the end of the year, and when Qigege went out in the afternoon, he had never heard of anything big.

Since it is not the capital, there is a possibility.

This is a very small possibility, but it is also the most likely to happen.

That's - something happened to the West Side.

Xicheng is the junction of Western Xia and the Qing Dynasty, and once it is defeated, the consequences are unimaginable.

Sisi hesitated for a long time, but still said, "Cullen is defeated." ”

"Defeated? What do you mean? ”

Xicheng is a century-old foundation of the Qing Dynasty, it has been easy to defend and difficult to attack for generations, and it has only been a few months since Kulun sent troops to suppress it, even if it is defended, it will not fall so quickly.

"When the emperor received the secret report a few months ago, the military situation was already delayed."

Regarding the matter of Xicheng, the housekeeper told him not to tell Qigege.

After thinking about it, she felt that she had the right to know.

When he made up his mind to tell her, he thought about the worst consequences.

Seven grids were silent.

Four or four said: "When General Kulun arrived in the city with a large army, the west city had become a world where the enemy army was raging. ”

Xicheng is an important place on the border, and if it is lost, it means that the territory of the Qing Dynasty is in danger of being divided at any time, so Kulen scrapped nearly half of the soldiers and forcibly took it back.

The people fled, and the dead died, and there were only a hundred who survived.

A city without a people, if it is taken, it can only be regarded as an empty city.

In ancient times, thirty percent of the wars relied on the people's will, and before the war began, Kulun's chances of victory had been lost.

"What about him?"

"Life and death unknown." Sisi's indifferent voice couldn't hear a trace of ups and downs, like a lifeless creature, "On the eve of the siege of the Western Xia, Kulun pretended to be an enemy soldier and infiltrated the Xixia camp alone, and when the city was broken the next day, no one came back, and the deputy general took the rest of the soldiers to garrison the next town very close to the Xicheng, Ling Sacrifice City, and all the soldiers thought that Kulen was dead. ”

In fact, when the Western Xia army attacked the city, they brought the head of Kulun.

In order not to let Qigege have too much emotional ripple, Sisi only replied with an inaccurate message.

Qi Gege listened to all this very calmly, "Does the emperor know about this?" ”

"At the palace, there has been no update. The news of Xicheng this time was brought by Qiu Feng, the shadow guard beside Cullen. As soon as Qiu Feng left, he went to the palace. But even if Emperor Ama knew, there were still two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, and during this time period, Emperor Ama would not make the people in the DPRK panic about the affairs of the military, let alone send reinforcements. Sisi figured out the emperor's thoughts very thoroughly.

"Is there no other way?" The soldiers of the family and country are fighting bloody battles on the frontier, and the emperor, who is far away in the capital, has to have such a high-sounding reason for sending troops and reinforcements. -