At this time, too, above the lobby, the pin drop can be heard.

In this silence, everyone's hearts set off a storm of turmoil.

Ludi is a very important area for the Dayue Imperial Court, and it is an extremely critical part of the overall situation of regaining the world.

With it in hand, the Dayue official army can be attacked, retreated, and defended, so as to enter the north of the Yellow River more smoothly and compete with the Guirong people.

The reason why Sun Ning dared to join the forces of the imperial court and fight a decisive battle with the Pingtian Army in Xingyang before, and then continued to attack Luoyang, was because there was an army of Ludi to contain it, so that the Guirong cavalry would not easily cross the Yellow River.

However, now it is such a result, if you calculate it carefully, for the Dayue Imperial Court, if you gain the land of Henan and lose the land, I really don't know whether it is a gain or a loss.

And this is only the loss of the territory of Ludi City, coupled with the casualties of the local garrison, and the death of important generals like Xiao Keding, the damage to the imperial court is even more immeasurable.

Therefore, everyone's joy before was gone at this moment, and some only left hesitation and uneasiness, and the courtiers looked at Sun Ning, and after a while, Shen Zhou reacted and said, "Please let Your Majesty calm your anger and mourn ......

After his mention, the others reacted separately, Xiao Keding, who died in battle, was Sun Ning's wife's uncle, and he was the uncle of the dynasty, which made the emperor feel more sad than the death of ordinary generals.

Sun Ning's expression was also a little stunned, and it took a long time before he exhaled: "Really...... I really didn't expect this to be the result. It was I who underestimated the Ghost Rong people that caused this casualty loss...... But what I don't understand is, how do they do it?"

As he spoke, he took the report again and scanned it carefully and quickly, but the contents on it could not give the answer he wanted.

Because as far as Sun Ning judged, although the Guirong people are extremely powerful, they still have their flaws, and they have always been a limitation as a northern nomadic tribe - they are good at field attacks, but they are short of attacking fortified cities.

Thinking about mastering this shortcoming of the Guirong people, Sun Ning dared to let Xiao Keding and other generals take the initiative to harass the northern Xinjiang with a small number of soldiers and horses, and at the same time defend Ludi.

But now the result is that the entire territory of Ludi was seized by the ghosts, and even the big cities of Ludi such as Jizhou and Zizhou were easily broken and captured by them. Is this because there is a problem with the defenders, or is it because the Ghost Rong people have suddenly changed their appearance and are actually good at attacking cities?

It's just that Sun Ning can't see the clues from this simple military report, because what is above is too brief, and it only writes that on a certain day in a certain month, the enemy army attacked a certain place, and then overcame it...... How the city was lost is not detailed.

This made Sun Ning can't help but look at the scout who was still kneeling in front of him, covered in wounds and dust, "Which city are you from? Do you know why your city has fallen?"

The general, who had run more than 1,000 miles in a few days, was already exhausted, and was about to fall asleep on his knees. At this time, when he heard the emperor's voice, he raised his spirit slightly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Back to Your Majesty, Weichen Huang Chujiu is from Ludi Yanzhou.

"Our Yanzhou is already located in the south of Ludi, and I have heard that the battle ahead is unfavorable, Zizhou Qingzhou and other important towns in Ludi have fallen one after another, and the Taishou and the garrison are also very prepared, and the seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses in the city have also been mobilized.

"But...... However, when tens of thousands of ghost cavalry suddenly killed our city, the whole city was still terrified, and then ...... And suddenly the gates fell......

"Lord Taishou only had time to hand over this battle report to Weichen and send it to Luoyang, and then the entire Yanzhou City was in chaos, and it was difficult for our soldiers and horses to resist the enemy's attack until the whole city fell......

As a messenger scout, Huang Chujiu's knowledge of the specific causes and processes of the fall of the city is really limited.

But even so, Sun Ning's face became more solemn at this time, and he had vaguely guessed the problem.

Yanzhou did not fall under the forcible attack of the Guirong soldiers and horses, which may be the reason why the entire Ludi was suddenly taken by the Guirong people, but the imperial court did not even have time to deal with it.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, and the enemy's advance was so fast, that the cities were too fast to deal with it, no

and to bring the situation to the court to ask for support...... The only explanation is that the cities of Ludi should have prepared for the ghosts.

Just like the capture of Luoyang by his own family this time, under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, as long as one city gate is broken, it means that the whole city is lost. Among them, the soldiers, horses, officials, etc., could not get out of such a sudden change, and even the transmission of information became extremely difficult.

"It seems that the Oni Rong people have been plotting for a long time." Sun Ning said coldly, he thought of the past when several forces were entangled in Ludi many years ago.

At that time, the Ghost Rong people had successfully entered the Qingyun Pass, and then conquered the city all the way, which also brought great pressure to the Ludi bigwigs in Jeju.

At that time, it was still relying on the forces of all parties to reverse the dangerous situation. And it seems that the combat power of the ghost at that time was much weaker than it is now, at least in terms of the speed of the march, it was much slower at the beginning.

As far as it was written in the war report, around November, the ghost Rong officially used troops against Ludi, but when they really entered Ludi, it was at the end of the first month of this year.

However, in more than two months, they have swept away the entire Lu land, even if there is an internal response, this result is quite amazing, reflecting the elite and terrifying of this ghost cavalry.

What worries Sun Ning even more is that once Ludi falls into the hands of the Ghost Rong, not only will the road to the north of his family be cut off abruptly, but more importantly, the Huaibei region, which is extremely critical, will also be exposed in front of the Ghost Rong Iron Horse.

If it were him who used his troops, since he had already done it, he would inevitably take advantage of the opportunity that the Dayue Imperial Court had not yet reacted to advance south again, enter Huaibei, and create even greater chaos.

Even if it can't encroach on the land of Huaibei in one fell swoop, it is enough to bring more pressure to the imperial court and even cause further chaos.

At that time, the Central Plains will once again fall into chaos, which will naturally be more advantageous to the Guirong forces in the north, so as to seize the real initiative.

"Your Majesty......" Shen Zhou called out at this time, so that Sun Ning could come back to his senses, and then he also said with a straight face, "Your Majesty, the most important thing we need to pay attention to now is not how to recapture Ludi, but the various threats that Huaibei and other places may encounter.

"The minister thinks that he should immediately send fast horses back to Lianghuai and other places, and order the local governments to bring the people into the city to settle down, and fortify the walls to clear the wilderness, so as to prevent the ghosts from invading our heart in the Central Plains."

"What you said is very true, and this is exactly what I am concerned about. Let's make an order!" Sun Ning immediately nodded.