I have to say that whether it is Sun Ning or the Dayue Imperial Court in Luoyang at the moment, they are fast enough to respond in the face of this sudden change.

Just after the report of the complete loss of Ludi reached Luoyang, Sun Ning immediately made the most accurate and timely response.

On the one hand, the soldiers and horses that had been deployed more on the banks of the Yellow River were mobilized to the east, just to prevent the enemy from invading Henan, and on the other hand, they sent fast horses to the south to convey orders to Lianghuai and other places, so that they could gather the people as soon as possible and clear the wilderness, so as to prevent the occurrence of accidents in Ludi and other places.

But in the end, it turned out that even so, they were slow to respond.

Just three days after Sun Ning's decree was issued from Luoyang, urgent reports from all parties were sent to the imperial court like snowflakes.

First of all, in the area of Xuzhou, Huaibei, there was a large number of ghost cavalry.

As Sun Ning feared, they did not really attack a strong city like Xuzhou, but specialized in breaking it into pieces, invading the countryside and towns outside the city, killing and plundering on a large scale.

In just seven or eight days after these guys invaded Huaibei, three small county towns, 12 small towns, and more than 30 villages were plundered and slaughtered by them.

Fifty percent of these people who had no time to flee into the city to seek refuge died tragically under the swords and axes of the Guirong bandits, and some of them were forcibly adopted by them or turned into slaves of the Guirong people, and made them the forerunner to attack the larger cities......

If it weren't for the quick response of Xuzhou, and the message to the rear, so that several other big cities in Huaibei would have taken refuge in the city in time, I am afraid that more than 30,000 people would have died.

But even so, when Sun Ning saw this casualty figure, he still only felt a burst of shock and anger.

The Ghost Rong people were even more barbaric and brutal than they imagined, and they actually carried out looting and massacre in the hinterland of the Central Plains of Dayue......

And even if the people outside the city were later allowed to avoid the city, the losses in various parts of Huaibei were extremely staggering.

Since the ghost invaders could not find a target to kill, they simply wreaked havoc and burned in the vacant villages, towns and villages, taking away all the property and food that could be taken away, and the others were just burned clean.

What makes people hate even more is that the Ghost Rong people still come and go like the wind, and when the local officers and soldiers really organize a certain scale and want to kill them, they run fast one by one, and they are surrounded and intercepted several times, and there are almost no major gains and results, and they only kill dozens of enemies!

It wasn't until the local Huainan finally sent tens of thousands of horses to the north to support, united with the army of Huaibei, and reached a scale of more than 100,000, this group of ghosts who did not know the specific number and invaded Huaibei swaggered back to the north and entered Ludi after obtaining a lot of benefits and causing great damage to Huaibei.

However, the Da Yue official army was helpless about this.

Because almost all of these officers and soldiers of the two Huai were foot soldiers, how could they outrun the ghost cavalry with multiple war horses that could be rotated and ridden?

Sun Ning, who knew all this, was not only indignant, but also deeply worried.

Because he knows very well that this invasion of the Guirong people will only be the beginning, as long as Ludi is still in their hands, then their cavalry can enter Huaibei at any time, and the imperial court can only deploy defenses everywhere, and the result must be very unoptimistic.

It can be said that one of the Lu Di fell into the hands of the Ghost Rong people, making them a sharp sword hanging above the head of the Dayue Imperial Court, which made it difficult for people to sleep peacefully.

We must solve this problem as soon as possible, change the strategy of the Northern Expedition, and first seize the land of Lu, and then talk about other things!

In the end, Sun Ning could only come up with such a coping strategy.

Then, before the court could really make up its mind, more problems followed. It is not a ghost from Ludi, but from Liangzhou and the Nanyang area.

At the same time that Huaibei was invaded by the ghost Rong and suffered unspeakably, Guo Han of Jinzhou also sent troops to launch a surprise attack on the northern city of Liangzhou.

As the former lord of Liangzhou, the influence of his Guo family in Liangzhou is still quite large, and with his sudden rise to kill, in a short period of time, he really let him win several cities in a row, and put on a posture of forcibly taking Liangzhou

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At this time, Liangzhou, because of the relationship between the war in Luoyang, was still empty, which frightened the court generals who were guarding Liangzhou at this time, and hurriedly played the court and asked for support.

Although it seems that Liangzhou has not yet reached the time of real danger, judging from the posture of Guo Han and the rumors that continue to spread among the local people, the imperial court's control over Liangzhou is constantly weakening at this time. If it drags on for a while, if it really makes people's minds change, Liangzhou will not be able to keep it.

The last threat came from the Nanyang area, which actually faced a threat from Guanlong Li Wannian.

After Li Wannian failed to enter Sichuan, he was silent for only a year, and then sent troops again, and this time, he no longer ventured into danger to attack Sichuan and Shu, but directly led troops out of Tongguan, and the soldiers were directed at the Central Plains.

Luoyang and Chang'an are only 800 miles apart, and with the speed of Guanlong's cavalry, they may be able to kill them in a few days.

But this time Li Wannian obviously learned a lesson, did not rush to attack, but fought steadily, many small cities along the way were taken by him one by one, and then set the first target on Nanyang City, which was extremely critical to the Central Plains and Luoyang.

Although today's Nanyang has not yet assumed the important role of the granary of the national capital, its geographical location and symbolic meaning still make the court dare not ignore it, and can only defend it to the end while sending people to Luoyang for help.

Ludi, Huaibei, Nanyang, Liangzhou...... In this April day, Sun Ning was hit hard four times at once, and four huge problems were completely placed in front of him, which wiped out his joy and complacency because of the successful victory over Luoyang.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the imperial court changed from its previous initiative and continuous success to the current situation of being attacked everywhere and the situation was critical.

This made many courtiers feel panicked, and in front of Sun Ning, they didn't know how to react.

Even, in this Luoyang City, some people began to propose to pay some price to seek concessions from all sides.

After all, in the eyes of many people, the current situation of enemies everywhere is too dangerous, and no matter how strong the imperial court is, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deal with it on its own.

Such an idea quickly spread from the people to the government and the court, and at the beginning of May, it finally really entered the hall and came to Sun Ning, and several officials officially put forward Sun Ning at the court meeting......