The news that Cao Xiu and the others would flee back to Wancheng was like a boulder falling into a boiling oil pot, making the big furnace of Wancheng very restless.

The ministers in Wancheng, who were already anxious, all rushed towards the city gate when they learned that Cao Xiu and the others had returned.

But when the ministers and ministers rushed to the city gate, Cao Xiu and other Wei generals had already entered Wancheng.

And they consciously went straight to the general's mansion where Cao Pi was.

So naturally, the ministers who were holding out the news in advance rushed into the air.

It's just that this didn't stop the ministers of Cao Wei.

Eager to know the specific situation on the front line, they learned that Cao Xiu and other Wei generals had gone to the Cheqi General's Mansion, and they all turned around and headed towards the Cheqi General's Mansion.

The places where the ministers of Wei lived in Wancheng varied from the gates of Wancheng.

Therefore, when the cars of some of the ministers who had arrived at the gate of Wancheng first began to retreat, their cars met the cars of the ministers who were still driving towards the city gate.

Because there were too many ministers who came, the ministers who met each other drove in their cars and caused a blockage in the streets of Wancheng for a while.

Even in the anxious state of mind of both sides, there were some collision accidents.

That burst of congestion and collision caused a lot of panic in Wancheng, which caused a lot of damage to the people's livelihood in Wancheng.

And when this scene happened, compared to Cao Xiu and other Wei generals who fled back from Fancheng, the demeanor of the Wei ministers in Wancheng was not much better than them at this time.

And all this was caused by the battle of Xiangfan.

But at this time, where did the ministers of Wei have the mood to pay attention to the people's livelihood in Wancheng.

Even some ministers of low status can't care about their own damaged cars.

After they avoided the car of the minister with a higher status than them, they directly split the car in two.

Then they rode directly behind the chariot of the high-ranking minister, and continued towards the Cheqi General's Mansion.

In the past, the Che Cavalry General's Mansion given to Cao Ren by the first emperor has become the palace of Emperor Cao Pi of Wei after Cao Ren's death.

Cao Wei, who has a big family, will certainly not be stingy about the mansion of Cao Wei's status as the first general before.

So when many ministers came unannounced, they came to the outside of the Che Cavalry General's Palace.

Because of the vast space inside and outside the Che Cavalry General, and the fact that the Son of Heaven's pro-army was rectifying the order, the funny scene similar to what happened on the street did not happen again.

It's just that when many Wei ministers came to the Cheqi General's Mansion, they were about to continue to enter to see Cao Pi, but they were stopped by a burst of bright sword light.

"The Son of Heaven has decreed that anyone who does not enter the edict will be beheaded."

A Chinese military general conveyed Cao Pi's message in a tone without any emotion.

And under the deterrence of a ring-headed knife, many ministers of the Wei State, even the ministers of the Jiuqing with extremely high status, did not dare to enter again.

At this time, the power of the Shi clan had not yet invaded the system of Cao Wei's army.

At present, the Cao Wei Chinese army is still the most important barrier to protect the Cao Wei royal family, and in this case, no minister would be stupid enough to risk his life.

So under the deterrence of hundreds of Cao Wei's Chinese troops, many Cao Wei ministers could only wait helplessly and unwillingly outside the dormitory where Cao Pi was, waiting for Cao Pi's summons.

Cao Pi will issue this edict in advance, most likely because he is meeting with Cao Xiu and other Wei generals at the moment.

Maybe the truth is cruel, but Cao Pi will always see them.

The hundreds of Wei ministers who were guarding outside Cao Pi's dormitory were not wrong.

At this time, in Cao Pi's bedroom, Cao Xiu and other Wei generals, who fled back in embarrassment, were kneeling in front of a man, lowering their heads and not daring to kick them.

How badly they have been defeated, they themselves know best.

Because of this, they also knew how much anger from Cao Pi would await them next.

It's just that as time passes bit by bit, the anger of Cao Pi imagined by Cao Xiu and other Wei generals has not yet hit them.

But this does not mean that Cao Pi's heart is very calm.

Cao Pi, who was wearing regular clothes, sat on the throne of the Son of Heaven, and he attached great importance to his appearance in the past, but his demeanor at this time seemed quite casual.

Cao Pi in the dormitory was not crowned, and his slender hair was only bound by a hosta, so that his hair would not be completely scattered.

But no matter how expensive the hosta on Cao Pi's head was, how skilled the eunuch who tied his hair was.

In the case that he had been locked in the dormitory for several days and had not carefully taken care of his long hair, the long hair on Cao Pi's head also looked quite scattered at this time.

Hair is the most important instrument of the ancients.

Under the scattered long hair, Cao Pi's whole mood looked very sluggish.

Cao Pi, who sat quietly on the throne, remained motionless, like a lifeless piece of wood.

Only the faint sound of his breathing proved that he was still alive.

When Cao Xiu and other Wei generals had not yet returned, after learning the news that Fancheng had been occupied by the Han army, the Wei minister seemed flustered and at a loss.

As Emperor Wei, Cao Pi was surprisingly not as angry as usual.

He just sent more scouts to find out more news from the front line, and he just sent more Wei army squads, with Wancheng as the center, to continuously explore the whereabouts of a number of Wei generals.

In the end, he simply shut himself up in his dormitory, and did not summon any ministers unless necessary.

Cao Pi was not surprised and angry by the news.

On the contrary, it was because he was incredulous and extremely angry at the news that the Han army had occupied Fancheng.

Therefore, when things are reversed, a trace of extravagant hope appeared in Cao Pi's heart.

He hoped that the news he had received before was false.

After all, in previous years, after the war, there was often fake news circulating.

Moreover, even if the news is true, the whereabouts of the Wei generals and tens of thousands of Wei troops are still unknown, and it is not yet known whether the Wei army on the front line was defeated or defeated in the battle.

Two different outcomes represent completely different meanings.

Although the possibility of wishing to quench Mei is very low, and it can even be regarded as a fantasy, it can be regarded as the only way for Cao Pi to stabilize his emotions at present.

At that time, Cao Cao deceived the Wei army by quenching his thirst by looking at Mei, thus avoiding the end of the rout of the whole army.

Now Cao Pi also uses the way of looking at Mei to quench his thirst to get a trace of sustenance for his psychology, which can be regarded as a lineage.

Before Cao Pi found Cao Xiu and other Wei generals, the thought in his heart was that he didn't ask Cao Xiu and other Wei generals to tell him that all the news he had received before was fake.

He only begged Cao Xiu and other Wei generals to lead tens of thousands of Wei troops back to Wancheng, telling him that the Wei army had only lost Fancheng after a temporary defeat.

They weren't badly defeated.

Cao Pi thought that his idea was not too much, after all, the main general of the Wei army on the front line was Zhang Liao, the king of Wei who he had high hopes for!

But when Cao Pi learned that the Wei generals had fled back with only a hundred people, the extravagant hope in his heart was instantly shattered by this ruthless fact.

After being torn apart, extravagant hopes turned into sections of steel needles, piercing his heart frantically.

Perhaps the 70,000 Wei troops were not completely wiped out, some were captured by the Han army, and some were scattered all over the place, and sooner or later they would return to the territory of the Wei state.

But only hundreds of Wei troops returned to Wancheng in an organized manner, and this news was enough to make Cao Pi feel unacceptable.

And after quickly summoning Cao Xiu and other Wei generals, Cao Pi learned more about the battle, which made his heart continue to drip blood.

"The 70,000 Wei army was scattered, and countless dead people surrendered."

"General Wei Zhang Liao was trapped in the enemy formation and was beheaded by Guan Yu's formation."

"More than a dozen county towns north of Fancheng betrayed Great Wei almost overnight."

These pieces of news are either the news that Cao Xiu got when he fled, or Cao Xiu saw it with his own eyes.

And when this piece of news came to Cao Pi's ears, Cao Pi's whole person's spirit had fallen to the extreme.

In a head-to-head duel, the Wei army suffered a crushing defeat.

Any major victory of the Han army before, including Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army, can be said to be the result of strategy, but now?

There is no reason to be ashamed of the Wei army anymore, and there is no reason to belittle the Han army.

Incompetent, stupid.

This battle may not reflect the incompetence and stupidity of the Wei army, but it exposes his incompetence and stupidity at a glance.

Because this war was fought by him, Wei Dili, and in fact, all the arrangements before the war were also grasped by him.

So now, when tens of thousands of bones of the Wei army are piled up outside Fancheng, that bloody and shocking scene will nail him to the pillar of shame in history today.

One master is incompetent, and the three armies are exhausted.

This alone will prevent him from becoming the Confucian son of his dream of a flawless reputation.

This battle shattered all Cao Pi's illusions.

This is undoubtedly the most cruel to him.

Thinking of this, Cao Pi also thought about how much change the situation in Nanyang County would be caused after this big war.

Can Wancheng still hold on now?

And once Wancheng is not in the hands of the Wei army, then the Central Plains will always be exposed to the Han army.

The consequences will be unimaginable.

This realization made Cao Pi's mind suffer a heavy blow.

Cao Pi, who was sitting on the throne, looked at the Wei generals kneeling in front of him with red eyes, like beggars.

Cao Xiu, Zhao Yan, Zhu Shuo, Xu Chu, etc., what a graceful and graceful talent in the world in the past.

Now he is beaten by the Han army like a lost dog, which is really a great shame for Great Wei.

As his gaze continued to stare, Cao Pi felt that something was rapidly departing in his spirit.

Then, after a long silence, a bitter laugh with great sorrow suddenly sounded in the dormitory.

Because Cao Pi hadn't spoken much in the past few days, his timbre at this time seemed hoarse and sharp.

The bursts of grief and indignation, hoarse and sharp bitter laughter, like a burst of deadly bells came into the ears of Cao Xiu and other generals, frightening their bodies to the ground even more bent.

Cao Xiu, who had been waiting for Cao Pi to vent his anger, waited for Wei generals, but what they didn't expect was that Cao Pi's angry performance did not wait, but waited for Cao Pi's extremely abnormal performance.

And because of the abnormality, this made Cao Xiu and other Wei generals full of fear.

"There is no greater mourning for a husband than for the death of the heart, and death for a person is secondary."

This is a sentence from the classic book "Zhuangzi", and Cao Pi's state at this time is very similar to the description of this sentence.

When he let out a frightening wry smile, Cao Pi stretched out his hand to support the side of the table, and then he, who was only thirty years old, got up from the throne with some difficulty.

He first came to the sword rack of the throne, and on this sword rack was the Heavenly Sword.

Cao Pi used his somewhat shaky body to pull out the Heavenly Sword on the sword rack with great difficulty.

Then he put the tip of the Heavenly Sword against the ground, as if supporting his body, and walked towards Cao Xiu and the others step by step.

The sharp tip of the Yitian Sword hit the ground, and as Cao Pi's body advanced step by step, the sharp tip of the sword cut a long crack on the floor, and at the same time, it also made a piercing scraping sound.

This scraping sound was like the sound of arrows on the battlefield rubbing against their scalps, and when this sound fell on the ears of Cao Xiu and other Wei generals, it made their scalps numb.

After hearing this piercing scraping sound, Cao Xiu and other Wei generals cautiously raised their eyes and looked ahead.

Then they saw Cao Pi, whose eyes were covered by his long hair, and he was pulling the Yitian Sword towards them with a faceless face.

This scene made the Wei generals tremble with fright.

The distance between the throne and Cao Xiu and other Wei generals was not far, and as Cao Pi continued to approach, his heavy footsteps sounded in the hearts of all Wei generals like a requiem from hell.

Everyone thought that Cao Pi was going to kill them.

Even Cao Xiu thought so.

Don't think that Cao Pi didn't dare to attack the clan, Cao Tai's fate had already spread in Cao Wei's country.

It's just that compared to the panic of most Wei generals, there are still some Wei generals who can come back to their senses after panic.

For example, Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu, who has a heroic personality, can be valued by Cao Cao, and he is definitely not a simple person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

If Cao Pi really wants to kill him to vent his anger, then Cao Xiu is also fearless.

Under the panic in the hearts of the Wei generals, Cao Pi finally came to them with his sword.

And before and after Cao Xiu and other Wei generals with his sword, Cao Pi's somewhat shaky body stood up instantly.

His gaze was looking through the gap between the strands of hair hanging down his eyes, towards the dirty scepter standing in front of Cao Xiu.

This scepter was given to Du Xi by him at the beginning, and it was through this scepter that he could achieve remote command of the 70,000 Wei army.

It was also through this scepter that he gave the fatal sortie order to the 70,000 Wei troops.

After thinking of this, an irrepressible sense of shame and grief instantly rushed to Cao Pi's heart.

He raised the Heavenly Sword in his hand and slashed at the Dirty Scepter standing in front of him.

The Heavenly Sword is a hundred refined steel, and its sharpness is the best among all the sharp weapons in the world.

So when the blade of the Heavenly Sword came into contact with the scepter, a crisp slashing sound came.

The scepter that symbolized Cao Pi's own Son of Heaven in the past was cut into two pieces by Cao Pi's own hands.

And when the scepter broken into two pieces fell to the ground like a sinner, Cao Pi could no longer hold the Heavenly Sword in his hand.

As the sorrow in his mouth rang out, the Heavenly Sword in his hand also fell to the ground.

It was the first time he cried because of the big defeat.

This is also the first time that he has not held it tightly, symbolizing the Heavenly Sword of Cao Wei's imperial power.

There is still a chapter before 12 o'clock.

(End of chapter)