Although most of the people in Luerling have left, and the town is almost empty, many of the nearby farmers should have left, they have no money and no savings, and they will starve to death on the road to escape the famine, so many of them did not leave, but chose to stay.

Because the people of the Western Regions did not slaughter the cities in the previous cities, I don't know why, this time they suddenly ordered to slaughter Luerling.

On the night when he received the news of the slaughter of the city by the army of the Western Regions, Su Mu was once again poisonous, menacing, and Liu Fan was busy all night in front of and behind the bed before he could barely stabilize Su Mu's injuries, but Su Mu still did not wake up.

On the third day of Su Mu's coma, news came of the first battle between the two armies.

On the second day, the Great Summer was defeated.

Su Mu was already unconscious, and Liu Fan said that his poison had soaked into his lungs and would soon invade his heart, and when the time came, he would fear that the immortals would be alive and would have no power to return to heaven.

On the fifth day, there was a battle report from the front, the two armies fought a decisive battle, Daxia was defeated, and the 300,000 army was killed by the 100,000 army in the Western Regions, lost their armor, fled in the wilderness, and hurriedly withdrew to Jinrong City to garrison.

Su Mu woke up that night, Qin Miaomiao didn't dare to tell Su Mu the news of the Great Xia fiasco, she knew that Su Mu always cared about the war and the safety of the people.

But the paper couldn't contain the fire, Su Mu still asked the news of the war from the mouth of the war eagle, and when he learned of the fiasco in Great Xia, he seemed to be calmer than Qin Miaomiao imagined.

The night was as cold as water, Su Mu got up from the bed, stood at the door wearing a dress, looked at the outside calmly, and Qin Miaomiao couldn't understand the emotions in his eyes at all.

At this time, Qin Miaomiao was also in turmoil, although she also felt sorry for the people who were slaughtered by the people of the Western Regions, and she also hated those murderous people of the Western Regions, but she was more worried about the poison on Su Mu's body, Liu Fan said that the next time the poison was released, Su Mu might not wake up.

Standing beside Su Mu, he spoke softly: "Xianggong, it's cold at night, you just woke up, go into the house and rest." ”

Su Mu didn't look back, his eyes were still looking at the sky in the distance, and he said leisurely: "Miao Miao, do you want to hear about my past?" "In the past? Although Qin Miaomiao was curious, she never asked, because she had already guessed that Su Mu's past must be bloody, otherwise how could he leave the country alone.

"I want to hear it."

Su Mu took Qin Miaomiao's hand and sat on the steps in front of the door, it should be the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, and the evening breeze was already a little cool, but Su Mu's voice was a little thinner and cooler than the gentle evening breeze, his tone was slow as if telling a story, and he told her the first twenty-five years when he didn't meet Qin Miaomiao: "Miao Miao, do you know what the imperial surname of Great Xia is?" "It can't be Sue too, right?" Qin Miaomiao seemed to understand Su Mu's identity and family background in an instant, but she had a lot of questions in the moment she understood, but she didn't intend to interrupt Su Mu.

"Yes, the emperor is also surnamed Su, I am his third son, and his sister-in-law, and my mother is the late Empress Xiaoxian." Su Mu said casually, but Qin Miaomiao was shocked when she heard it, she even almost exclaimed, is Su Mu's identity too scary, what the hell is this.

"I have been favored by my father and queen mother since I was a child, and I was named the grandson of the emperor by my grandfather, that is to say, whether my father succeeds to the throne or not, I am the crown prince of the next emperor." Hearing this, Qin Miaomiao was still a little puzzled: "Then why didn't your grandfather pass the throne directly to you?" ”

"That's not in line with the norm, the emperor's grandfather has an eldest son, and I can't inherit the imperial seal from him." Su Mu's father is the eldest son.

Such a noble status, but why does Su Mu live here alone now?

"I grew up smoothly until I was eighteen years old, the stars held the moon, and the imperial grandfather handed over the military power to me, but do you know Miao Miao? The pursuit of power can make a person lose their minds and even go mad. As I grew up, my father was the crown prince at that time, and he gradually distanced himself from me, and even guarded me day and night! Prevent me from taking his throne! Is it ridiculous? My biological father saw me as a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh, and he wanted to get rid of me day and night. But with the emperor's grandfather here, he didn't dare to blatantly disadvantage me, so he could only do some dirty things secretly, and my poison was caused by him and the people of the Western Regions. ”

Qin Miaomiao listened to Su Mu's words, and only felt depressed in her heart, why did she have such a father? Poisoning his own son.

"Father's side concubine at that time was the princess of the Western Regions, she had the poison of falling cherry blossoms in her hand, my father was afraid that the imperial grandfather would detect it in the imperial city, so he took me away from the imperial city under the pretext of going out on patrol, I was still young at that time, and I didn't have half a bit of vigilance against him, and came to Jinrong City with him.

One day he took the opportunity of hunting in the mountains to trick me into the mountains, but he took advantage of my unpreparedness and let his men become assassins, shoot me with a quenched sword, and push me down the cliff, but fortunately Liu Fan rescued me. Although Master can't cure Sakura's poison, he can prepare medicine to delay the toxicity, and I lived in this villa for two years before the injury healed.

But when I returned to Chang'an, I learned that my grandfather had passed away in the third month after my disappearance, and that my father had succeeded to the throne. When Su Mu recalled this, he was still full of regret, regretting that he couldn't see the emperor's grandfather again.

"Miao Miao, do you know what saved my life again?" Su Mu asked this sentence with sarcasm in his eyes. Qin Miaomiao naturally didn't know, and shook her head honestly.

"It was the invasion of the Western Regions, the king of the Western Regions at that time was not old, and he personally led the troops to attack Chang'an, and I also rushed back to Chang'an from Jinrong City when I heard that Great Xia was in danger. At that time, there was no one available under my father's command, and he knew that I was raised by the emperor's grandfather and was good at leading troops, so he pretended to reuse me and let me lead the troops. But when I repelled the army of the Western Regions, what I was waiting for was the truth, and the concubine beside him told me everything before she died. "Then did you ever think that the concubine would lie to you?"

"I thought so too, but when I knew that my father had proposed a tribute to the defeat of the Western Regions, I understood, and his first thing was to ask the Western Regions to destroy all the poisons and antidotes of the falling cherry blossoms, and not leave them at all."

Listening to Su Mu's words, Qin Miaomiao was speechless for a while, it turned out that anyone's seven tricks were polished by a knife mixed with blood, Su Mu was not born with resourcefulness, he was deceived miserably, and he slowly learned it.

The news of the defeat of Great Xia was transmitted back to the capital Chang'an at an expedited speed of eight hundred miles, and the middle-aged man on the dragon chair took the battle report in his hand, like sitting on pins and needles, he seemed to see the scene eight years ago again, the dark and dreary soldiers of the Western Regions stood under the gate of Chang'an City, and the cold spear was pointed straight at him.

It's just that at that time, there was a young man in a battle robe, single-handedly, shouting for his father, while breaking through thousands of armies to come for him, and now the young man is long gone, he was strangled by his own hands.

There was no sound in the quiet of the majestic Evergreen Hall, and the civil and military officials standing in front of the hall lowered their heads and frowned, not even daring to breathe loudly, for fear of provoking the anger of the people present.

But the one who should come is still coming back, standing in His Highness with a turtle can't hide, Emperor Su Zuyao threw the song in his hand to the ground, and then there was a thunderous rage: "Waste! It's all rubbish! The army of 300,000 was defeated by 100,000 people from the Western Regions. Ignore my expectations and trust! The swarm is rubbish! ”

The ministers were silent one by one, burying their already low heads even lower, and no one dared to say another word at this time, the wrath of the Son of Heaven was to kill.

The more the ministers were silent, the more angry Su Zuyao became and stood up from the dragon chair. strode to the middle of the hall and kicked down the prime minister Zuo, who was standing at the front; "You said, usually the court argues the most about what you say, why are you dumb today."

Prime Minister Zuo immediately knelt on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "The minister knows that he is wrong, the minister is a civil official, and he doesn't know anything about leading troops to fight, and he asks the emperor to atone for his sins!" Su Zuyao kicked him again: "Waste, get out." ”

looked at Ning Guohou on the side again: "Ning Guohou commanded the three armies when he was young, what do you say I should do?" ”

The elders of the two dynasties of Ning Guohou fought on the battlefield when he was young, so he always had to be calmer than others in the face of emergencies: "Your Majesty, the old minister has an idea, and I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

"Say!" The emperor was already a hot pot ant, and he was so anxious that he naturally couldn't see Ning Guohou selling Guanzi again.

"The emperor doesn't have to worry, have you forgotten that you also have a son who makes all the people in the Western Regions fearful? Back then, he led 30,000 soldiers to repel tens of thousands of troops in the Western Regions, and captured the king of the Western Regions among the thousands of troops. ”

Listening to Ning Guohou's words, Su Zuyao walked quickly in front of him, grabbed his clothes, and his eyes were full of anger: "Do you really think I don't dare to kill you?" ”

"The emperor is angry, everything the old minister says is the truth, and he is solving problems for the emperor." Ning Guohou didn't take the emperor's threat in his eyes at all, his words were correct and round, and every word was said loudly.

The emperor tugged at his collar and looked at him for a long time, and finally withdrew his hand, and sat back on the dragon chair angrily, without speaking, but began to look at the other ministers in the palace.

He is selecting, weighing, to see which one can turn the tide, reverse the decline of the Great Xia fiasco, and lead the army to drive the army of the Western Regions out of Great Xia in one fell swoop.

But no.

His two sons, the fourth and sixth, were already the best of the Great Xia military attaché generals, and they had already suffered a miserable defeat, and the rest of them were probably even more incompetent.

Su Zuyao emphasized literature over military force, and never paid attention to the training of the army, on the contrary, he was very fond of poetry and painting, so in order to cater to his preferences, the minister's children also abandoned military force and joined literature, which led to the decline of Daxia's military prestige.

And although Ning Guohou's words were immediately vetoed by the emperor, they were regarded by other ministers as a hope to save their lives, after all, the country was broken, their group of officials was even worse than ordinary people, and the people still had a chance to live, but they could only be beheaded.