The news that Eastern Wu successively broke through the two important towns of Jingzhou in Xiangyang and Jiangxia and completely annihilated Cao Wei's Jingzhou Navy Division soon spread all over the world.

Wu Guoguo has never achieved such results in several northern expeditions, which makes the whole world can't help but re-examine Wu's combat power.

When the news came back to Luoyang, Cao Wei's emperor Cao Rong suddenly felt a splitting headache, and recently he had a new batch of beauties in the palace, and recently he beauties were diligent in cultivation, which caused his health to deteriorate.

Originally, since the end of the Battle of Longxi, Cao Wei has ushered in a stable situation for a long time, Jiang Wei is no longer making trouble in Yongzhou, and there is no movement on the side of Wu State, except for Gongsun Yuan to make him angry, the whole world seems to be under control.

Cao Rong was also able to live a peaceful year.

After the New Year, he issued several holy decrees in a row, urging Sima Yi to send troops to attack Gongsun Yuan as soon as possible, and then every time Sima Yi refused on the grounds that the mountain was closed by heavy snow and the road was difficult.

Finally, on the day of spring, Sima Yi sent a table from Beiping, saying that he had led the army to leave Beiping and began to march towards Liaodong.

Although Cao Ei didn't like Sima Yi, Cao Ei was extremely confident in Sima Yi's military ability. He believed that with Sima Yi's ability to command the army, there would be no problem at all if Liaodong was completely pacified within half a year.

However, Cao Rong was not happy for long, and received urgent reports from Jingzhou and Yangzhou in succession, saying that Wu had exhausted Jingyang's army and attacked Wei.

At first, Cao Rong was still a little unconvinced, after all, Wu Guo only transferred Gongsun Yuan's statement to Wu State directly to Wei State a few months ago, this behavior was undoubtedly to curry favor with Wei State, saying that he would never be in the same stream with Gongsun Yuan and be an enemy of Wei State, but he did not expect that Sima Yi had just begun to march into Liaodong, and Wu State set off a vigorous national war.

Cao Rong immediately ordered all armies to strictly defend the city, and began to send troops to support Shouchun, Xiangyang and other important military towns.

However, less than ten days after Cao Rong learned that Wu had launched a full-scale national war against Wei, he received many bad news in a row.

First, Xiangyang fell, Lu Xun burned Xiangyang, the defenders of Xiangyang were almost wiped out, and the defender Wen Ping was nowhere to be found. Then the Jingzhou Naval Division of the Great Wei State was defeated by the junior general Gan Xin of the Wu State, and the whole army was annihilated. Then Jiangxia was also captured by Wu State's Ding Feng and the young general Gan Xin.

This series of major defeats is not over, and what is more serious is that Lu Xun, the governor of Wu State, is leading the elite of Jingzhou's main force to attack Xinye with all his might.

Although Cao Rong was physically and mentally exhausted, he had to urgently summon several henchmen to discuss countermeasures.

Cao Rong invited Chen Qun, the most important minister in the court, Cao Shuang, his most trusted clan, and his emperor Gao Tanglong to discuss countermeasures.

Gao Tang Long, as the emperor's teacher, has a teacher-student relationship with Cao Rong, Cao Rong is called the emperor, and Gao Tang Long has always been very respectful and favored, but recently the relationship between Cao Rong and Gao Tang Long has been a little tense, and the reason is because Cao Rong is building a lot of buildings.

Gao Tanglong was very opposed to Cao Ei's large-scale construction, but unlike Chen Qun's exhortation, Gao Tanglong was accustomed to roundabout admonition, and at the end of last year, a fire broke out in Cao Ei's newly built Chonghua Palace, and the emperor urgently summoned Gao Tanglong, who would see the celestial phenomena, and asked:

"Is the fire in the palace a sign of calamity?"

Gao Tanglong replied: "Of course, this is God telling Your Majesty not to build the palace anymore, and to cherish the people's power, otherwise it will be a faint monarch and the country will be destroyed." ”

Cao Rong thought for a while and said: "You're not right, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once also had a palace fire, and then it was rebuilt immediately, is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also a faint monarch?" ”

Gao Tanglong said: "That is because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty followed the advice of the sorcerers of Yuedi and rebuilt the palace to suppress Huoxiang. But then there was a witch Gu incident involving the prince, which shows that this kind of thing is very ominous. ”

But Cao Rong didn't listen, and rebuilt the Chonghua Palace, which was regarded as a slap in the face of Gao Tanglong.

When the Sky Gate was built, there were magpies nesting on it. Cao Rong found Gao Tanglong and asked why?

Gao Tanglong said: "The palace has not yet been built, there are already alien species living in it, this is the heavens warned the emperor not to live in Lingxiaoque, the last kings of Xia Shang are all because they did not listen to the warning of heaven and died in the country." ”

Cao Rong scoffed at this and continued to build a large number of mountains.

Lingxiaoque and Jin Yong Palace, Lingyuntai and other huge palace complexes, but also have to use copper casting Yellow Dragon, Phoenix and other huge beast-shaped parts to decorate, which is very costly.

Gao Tang couldn't help it anymore and used a killer move. He wrote a long piece of music to the effect that.

Qin Shi Huang is great, right? He built the Great Wall to defend against the Xiongnu, and built the Afang Palace for his own enjoyment. His amount of work is several times that of yours, but I guess he must not have thought that he would be overthrown by a little person named Chen Sheng, and he would burn down Afang Palace with a fire.

The real purchasing power of officials' salaries is now only one-fifth of what it was when you ascended to the throne, and the finances are tight, with retired officials abolishing pensions and paying half the tax. Now not only the people, but also the officials are complaining, why? It's because the royal family spends too much and prices skyrocket.

I watched the sky at night and found that the purple microstar, which symbolizes the emperor's throne, was disturbed by a comet, which is God's admonition to His Majesty, and it is to let the emperor cultivate virtue and help the world. Otherwise, the country will not be protected.

This article completely angered Cao Ei, causing Cao Ei to have not summoned Gao Tanglong for almost a whole month, and now there is a major crisis on the border of the Wei army, in the face of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, Cao Ei found that he was the most trustworthy, and there were still very few, and Gao Tanglong was one of them.

After several people gathered in the hall, Chen Qun looked worried, but Cao Shuang had a sense of pride, while Gao Tanglong seemed to be angry and didn't give Cao Rong any good look.

Cao Rong said straight to the point: "Several of them are the important ministers of my Great Wei, and they are also the most trusted courtiers of Lone, now that Wu has attacked on a large scale, and has successively captured Xiangyang and Jiangxia, and the troops are directed at Xinye and Wancheng, you can tell me quickly, what is the best way to retreat from the enemy?" ”

Cao Shuang said first: "Your Majesty don't worry, give the minister 50,000 soldiers and horses, let the minister go to meet that Lu Xun for a while, the minister will definitely beat the rampant and proud Lu Xun so that he can't find the north, regain the lost territory in one fell swoop, and take Lu Xun's old nest Jiangling." ”

Cao Shuang spoke with a smug face, but Cao Rong did not answer Cao Shuang directly, so he looked at Chen Qun.

Chen Qun said worriedly: "Your Majesty, there are full favored generals on the battlefield of Yangzhou, and there are also General Wenqin guarding Lujiang, and the disciples of Zhu Huan, Quan Cong, and Zhuge Ke should not be worried. However, on the battlefield of Jingzhou, the most defensive general Wenpin was nowhere to be found, and the top priority was that General Zeyiliang would go to Xinye to stabilize the situation. ”

Cao Rong nodded and said: "Gu has already ordered Jingzhou Thorn Shi Hu Zhen to lead 30,000 Wancheng troops to aid Xinye, and will also send Runan soldiers and horses to Xinye to help, and the situation in Xinye should be stabilized." ”

Chen Qun stopped talking, but he still looked worried.

Cao Rong looked at Gao Tanglong and asked, "What is the teacher's opinion?" ”

Gao Tanglong was still a little angry, but at the moment of national disaster, when the major events are the most important, which is more important, he can still twist it clearly, so Gao Tanglong arched his hand and said to Cao Rong:

"Your Majesty, what the minister is worried about is not Eastern Wu, but Shu Han, if at this moment Shu Han Jiang Wei also raises troops to attack, then our Great Wei will be attacked on three sides, and the situation is critical. Now that the Great War is approaching, I ask Your Majesty to stop building the palace and save more money and food for the front-line soldiers. ”