Just as white paper can't wrap around a burning fire. The bad news came back from around Luoyang one after another, completely stunned some people who originally had illusions about Huangfu Song's Northern Expedition and Yizhou's attack on Liangguo.

The first astonishing news is: because the troops defending Liangguo put all their troops near Wudu, in order to resist the crazy attack of 100,000 troops from Yizhou, they were picked up by the Hu people who broke into the Yumen Pass, and actually went all the way to the east to the western capital Chang'an.

This news was brought back by the dignitaries and even the peddlers and pawns who fled to Luoyang from the vicinity of Chang'an in a panic, and its reliability has been confirmed by the secret agents of the imperial court.

So someone in the court hurriedly suggested that Huangfu Song, who was on the northern expedition, quickly cancel the original plan, immediately lead the army back to Chang'an, and try to protect the emperor, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack and drive the rebellious Hu people back to Guanwai.

Just when everyone was spitting over this matter, the second shocking news was personally brought by the envoy of the Jin State from the direction of Gaonu: Huangfu Song, who led the army to invade the upper county of the Jin State, was defeated and captured under the city of Gaonu, and the 60,000 soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army were all wiped out, of which more than 34,000 were imprisoned in Diaoyin City, and the next thing was handled by the imperial court!

The 60,000 officers and men of the Imperial Forest Army were annihilated, Huangfu Song's father and son were captured, and there were no soldiers available near Chang'an! This news slapped the ministers of the DPRK and China who were still shouting that "if you go outside, you must first settle down," they suddenly became much more sober.

Without waiting for them to react, the third piece of news was published in the "Jin Daily": "The Han thief Sima Yi who led the army to invade the border has now been wiped out by more than 50,000 people, and only more than 40,000 remnants of the army are trapped in the road.

The 100,000 Yizhou army was unable to defeat the Liangguo, which was only garrisoned by 40,000 vanguard troops, and they were even made dumplings! At this time, even Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang couldn't sit still.

Luoyang, who was already a little numb, then learned that the 20,000 horses of Jin Xuan stationed in Hedong County were all captured by the Crouching Tiger Army, and now the Crouching Tiger Cavalry is rampant in Hedong and Hanoi County, and it seems that they are preparing to seize the Yellow River crossing and attack Luoyang in the south!

Just like a person who had already lost his mind, someone suddenly hit him with a needle on his buttocks, and the Luoyang court and the people of the city suddenly jumped up in pain. Because people suddenly discovered that the Shangdang of the Jin Kingdom was so close to Luoyang, as long as they stomped their feet over there, Luoyang might have to shake the mountains.

At this point, it's far from over. The Shangdang side, which had been silent for a while ago, successively published a series of news in the "Jin Daily" that made the people of Jin and Liangguo rejoice, but made Luoyang at a loss.

In response to the rumors of the imperial court that Lord Taifu plotted to kill the former emperor and held the two princes hostage, "Jin Bao" made a strong counterattack. The third prince Liu Rong and the fourth prince Liu Qian personally wrote signed articles to warn those villains who deliberately provoked their relationship with Lord Taifu that such despicable and shameless methods would not succeed. The two brothers pointed out very clearly that there was another person who murdered the emperor back then, not the beloved Taifu, if the two of them were not rescued by the powerful men sent by the general Zhenbei back then, they are only afraid that they are still in the hands of the gangsters, where can they still be crowned the king of the northwest.

Following the statements of the two princes, Zhang Rang, the number one eunuch who had been dead for many years, asked the little eunuch Sanshun next to him to stand up and speak. He exposed the whole process of the conspiracy that happened in the Chang'an Palace, and even mentioned several key witnesses, such as Zhang Xiu and several former imperial concubines who now live in the Jin Palace. Sanshun only emphasized one point at the end, saying that the fifth prince Liu Tian at that time was only three years old, could what he said be more trustworthy than the third prince who was already seven years old at the time?

Immediately afterwards, the third prince and the fourth prince issued a statement that in order not to be framed, the two of them were willing to go to Luoyang to confront the fifth brother face-to-face, but they didn't know if the thieves who secretly controlled the fifth brother would dare to let the fifth brother go to Luoyang!

After a resolute and thorough counterattack on the reasons for the imperial court's move against the Jin state, the "Jin Bao" issued an urgent report, claiming that the 40,000-strong army led by Guan Yu had finally joined forces with Zhou Cang, who had previously left the customs, and determined that Taifu Zhao Xing was now under house arrest by the Hu people in Wusun, and Guan Yu and Zhou Cang were preparing to launch a large-scale military operation to rescue Taifu.

Guan Yu said very confidently in an interview: "If the Wusun people dare to let Lord Taifu lose a single hair, he will not hesitate to wash Wusun with blood, and let the 1.3 million heads of the Wusun Kingdom witness the anger of Lord Taifu!"

Guan Yu's words are ruthless enough, Zhao Xing is going to kill all the people in Wusun Country if he has a single hair, so if Zhao Xing returns to the Jin Kingdom and finds that the imperial court dares to attack the Jin Kingdom while he is away, wouldn't even the emperor's head be cut off?

The situation that was originally thought to be under control suddenly reversed, once Zhao Xing returned to the Jin Kingdom, he was afraid that he would set off a monstrous sea of blood. So Liu Bei, who was worried, took Zhuge Liang to the Taiwei Lu Zhi's mansion to discuss countermeasures.

Liu Bei asked Lu Zhi: "Now that Luoyang is in danger, I don't know if the teacher has a good way to retreat from the thief?"

Lu Zhi replied: "There are still 80,000 soldiers stationed in the land of Gyeonggi, and the Jin State is not yet able to attack, but the Huangfu Song army was defeated suddenly, and Chang'an is now in dire straits. ”

Zhuge Liang said: "The students carefully reviewed the things since the drastic changes in Yumen, and they only felt that the Jin Kingdom seemed to be laying out from the beginning, adopting the means of wanting to promote and suppress first, first pretending to be tired and weak, causing everyone to think that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, but in fact they were secretly preparing for it, just waiting for the forces of all parties to take action, and then began to gradually close the net." ”

Lu Zhi pondered for a moment and asked Zhuge Liang: "Even if, as Kong Ming said, the Jin State planned ahead this time, what exactly are they plotting?

Zhuge Liang, who was like a god, was also asked by Lu Zhi this time, and he really couldn't see through what Zhao Xing was planning to make such a big formation. Because the current situation is too strange and complicated, Zhao Xing has not shown up yet, but the northwest has become a pot of porridge, and the Jin Kingdom, Liang Kingdom, Yizhou, Imperial Court, and Hu people are intertwined, and it is difficult to distinguish who is attacking whom. If you add the chaotic Jizhou and Qingxu and other places, it seems that everything is related to Zhao Xing, but he himself disappeared mysteriously.

Lu Zhi said: "The only way to do this now is to send people to the Shangdang while strictly guarding Luoyang, to probe the tone of the Jin State and see what they want to do." ”

Liu Bei then asked: "What should we do about Chang'an? The old general Huangfu Song has been captured, and Chang'an City is in danger of falling, if the imperial court sits idly by, won't it give people more truth?"

Lu Zhi replied: "If we can quickly appease the agitated Jin State and let it release Huangfu Song and more than 30,000 imperial forest troops, then the danger of Chang'an will be solved." ”