"The Xijon tribe has not invaded for a long time, what happened this year?" The empress looked at Kumon in surprise.

Liu Maolin and the Eight Sages King both shook their heads and said they didn't know.

"And he chose to invade in the winter, is Nurhari crazy?" The empress patted the official document.

The Eight Sages King stepped forward: "Your Majesty, it's a little late to say this now. For now, I might as well think about how to solve this problem. ”

The empress pinched her chin: "Sui Yang has finally been able to rest for a few years, the economy or something, he hasn't eased up yet, Nurhari chose this time to attack, it's really interesting." Uncle Huang. ”

The Eight Sages King clenched his fists and said, "The minister is here." ”

"What do you think is Nurhari's purpose?"

The Eight Sages King shook his head honestly: "Back to Your Majesty, to be honest, the minister doesn't know, in the past, Xirong invaded in the autumn, and it was understandable that while the weather was still warm, he entered the country and plundered." But now it is cold, even if they take Yongliang, the army is already exhausted at that time, and they are unable to fight again, and they will not get any benefits, except for creating some fear for the people of Yongliang, the minister really does not understand what Nurhari's intentions are. ”

The empress snorted: "No matter what, since Nurhari dares to offend me Sui Yang, then he has to be ready to lose his head." ”

Liu Maolin also nodded and said: "That's right, I have built a country in Sui Yang with a hundred battles, and the style of martial arts has not been broken for three hundred years. ”

The empress pinched her chin and said, "Do you think it's better for someone to take command of the expedition?" ”

"Wuhou, Lu Gongyou."

As if they had discussed, the two of them said at the same time.

The empress couldn't help but nod her head: "Duke Lu has never been defeated against Xirong, and he is indeed the nemesis of the Thirteen Rong in the Western Realm. ”

Gonggong Le, who was waiting outside the door, turned around and left, and after an hour or so, Lu Gongyou was taken.

After shouting long live, the empress went down to the hall with the Liangzhou official document in her hand, and said to Lu Gongyou: "Duke Lu, look at this." ”

Lu Gongyou took a look and was also stunned: "Is Nurhari crazy?" ”

The empress shook her head: "I don't care if he's crazy or not, but now his invasion of my Sui Yang has become a fact, Lu Gong, Yongliang battle, I handed it over to you, it's okay to lose a little." But I hope that the last laugh is you, the whole Sui Yang, understand? ”

Lu Gongyou clenched his fists and received: "Obey the holy decree." ”

The empress stood in place with her hands in her hands: "Daxing City's 80,000 royal city guards, I can only let you bring half of them, how long can I calm Yongliang and bring good news to me." ”

Lu Gongyou thought about it carefully: "When you go to Yongliang, it will take one month, one month to fight, and one month to return, at most three months, and the minister will return to Beijing with good news." ”

The empress nodded: "Okay, Duke Lu, I believe in you, the date of sending troops is set in three days, that is, I will personally sacrifice the flag for you to see you off." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

After saying this, Lu Gongyou turned around and left.

After Lu Gong left, the idea that the empress had been hiding in her heart finally couldn't be hidden, and she turned her head to look at the Eight Sages King and frowned: "Uncle Huang, do you think that when Lu Gong goes, he can repel Nurhari and recover Yongliang?" ”

The Eight Sages King asked the empress rhetorically: "Your Majesty, Gong You has been in the army for twenty years, how have you ever seen him defeat a battle?" ”

The empress shook her head: "That's not what I said, the Sui Yang army has not seen a war for three years, even if it is invincible, it has been abandoned in the capital for too long." ”

The Eight Sages King was very confident in Lu Gongyou: "Your Majesty, rest assured, I dare not say anything to others, Gongyou will lead the troops to battle, and the minister dares to guarantee that Nurhari is not an opponent." ”

The empress was still a little hesitant: "However, even if it is a good knife, if it is not sharpened, he will rust, let alone Lu Gong." ”

The Eight Sages King looked at the empress: "Your Majesty, why don't we make a bet?" ”

"What bet?"

The Eight Sages said: "If Gongyou returns to the court victoriously, Your Majesty will give me a jar of fine wine." ”

"What if not?"

The Eight Sages King spread his hands and said: "Then the old minister will give the house rewarded by Emperor Xuan at home to Wang Xiaolai, how about it?" ”

The empress thought for a moment: "Okay, I will order someone to prepare good wine." ”

The Eight Sages King smiled: "Alas, my house can't be sent out. ”

The empress smiled far-fetchedly: "I hope so." ”

Liu Maolin watched from the sidelines, the uncle and nephew cheered each other up.

"That's right, Lao Xiangguo."

The Empress suddenly turned around and said.

Liu Maolin clenched his fists and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you command?" ”

"These days, there will definitely be a lot of people fleeing due to war in the direction of Yongliang, you send an order to all counties and counties in Sizhou, but where there is an influx of Yongliang people, they are not allowed to be expelled, and the people must be settled."

Liu Maolin clenched his fists: "Obey, Your Majesty." ”

The empress sighed and held her eyelids and muttered, "Why, I still feel that my eyelids are always jumping, as if something bad has happened." ”

The two elders in the hall looked at each other, but neither spoke.

"Alright, let's go down first." Empress Dao.

Hearing this, the two turned around and left.

The empress sighed at this time, and before returning to the dragon book case, she took out a piece of rice paper, and wrote and painted on it, muttering while writing, not as calm as she was just now.

"As soon as the war started, not to mention the loss of money and food, the problem of sergeants' pensions, just this fleeing people, they can't settle down, Sizhou is a land of population, and suddenly there are hundreds of thousands of people in Yongliang and Liang, and there are so many vacant houses in various counties? In addition, the weather turned into the middle of winter, and those Yongliang people who could live in the houses were fine, and those who didn't live in them were not frozen in vain? In addition, in recent days, many victims of the disaster in the six southern provinces have also gone north. This one thing is all put together, just take the money and food out, I'm afraid it can't be solved, in case there are businessmen who ignore the overall situation, greed for money and price increases, control the market, alas, it's a headache to think about, little Laizi, if you are awake at this time, give me an idea, I'm afraid I don't have to think a lot of thought..."

This remark was very worried, and it can also be seen that the empress's calm appearance before was completely pretended, and the invasion of Nurhari did make the empress feel uncertain, after all, this was the first war in Suiyang after she ascended the throne.

Sighing, the empress thought about Wang Xiaolai again, and became even more depressed.

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On the gravelly plain, thousands of cavalry lined up, and the first one was the wolf king Nurhari, who was ninth on today's list.

He held the ancient pine pattern giant sword in his hand, looked at a city not far in front of him, and smiled: "But after three years of not fighting, is this Sui Yang army already weak like this?" ”

Before the expedition, those subordinates who opposed Nurhari had changed their faces at this time, and they had also tasted the sweetness of winning all seventeen battles, and their fear of Sui Yang was not as deep as before.

"Suiyang people are a group of waste, peaceful days have worn out their fighting spirit, with the king personally leading the team, these Suiyang people don't even dare to resist."

Listening to the sycophants of his subordinates, Nurhari laughed, pointed the giant sword in his hand to the city of Longyou County in front of him, and shouted: "Sons, before dark today, the king wants to drink in the city, do you want to follow the king?" ”

Thousands of horsemen raised their knives and roared.

Hearing the surging sound in his ears, Nurhari was arrogant, shouted, and with his crotch war horse, he suddenly ignited his arrogance, looking at the Longyou city, Nurhari shouted: "Drive!" ”

The horse was like a dragon, and 10,000 cavalry rushed up.

In Longyou City, there were only less than 2,000 defenders, and when they saw the cavalry rushing under the city, many of them were so frightened that they couldn't give up, and some even wanted to abandon the city and flee before Nurhari arrived.

The name of the captain of Longyou defending the city is Ning Changgeng, who is a descendant of Ning Baiyuan, the first military god of Sui Yang, but it has been passed on to his generation, and the Ning family has long since declined.

Ning Changgeng, who has been in the army for more than ten years, regards fighting Ning Baiyuan as his life goal.

His biggest purpose is to revitalize the past glory of the Ning family, and after more than ten years of hard work, this descendant of the Ning family, who is over forty years old, has become the captain of Longyou, and he thought that he would be promoted in the future, but he never thought that Sui Yang had been peaceful for three years without war.

So much so that Ning Changgeng often told his wife that he was useless as a hero.

Now, finally waiting for the war, how happy Ning Changgeng is, he wiped his sword and gun a few days ago, and said to himself that the time has finally come.

In the Duwei Mansion, seeing that some of his subordinates proposed to abandon the city and flee, the furious Ning Changgeng slashed to death the cowardly subordinate with a sword, raised his sword and faced everyone, angry, and said the famous words of his ancestor Ning Baiyuan that has been sung to this day three hundred years ago: "The family and the country are in trouble, as a soldier, the only way to fight to the death, not to live up to the king, not to live up to the people, how can there be reason to escape?" Today I will fight to the death, behead the chieftain of thieves, and drink bitterly with the kings. ”