In the spring and March of the third year of the Son of Heaven, Kanto, the capital of the Liang Kingdom: Suiyang.

Two months after the outbreak of this rebellion, Suiyang, the capital of Liang, has become the focus of the whole world.

Every minute and every second, there were Wu Chu rebels besieging the city, as well as the soldiers of Liang Guo who defended the city, falling down the city wall from the city;

At every moment, every moment, there were patches of earth-gray walls, stained red with blood.

- The attacks launched by the rebels are becoming more and more violent;

And at the head of Suiyang City, looking at the thrilling battle, the heart of Liu Wu, the king of Liang, became more and more restless······

"Where is the captain's army?!"

Another wave of rebel offensive ended, leaving thousands of corpses at the head of Suiyang Wall;

It's just that Liu Wu, the king of Liang at this moment, did not feel the slightest happiness because of the 'rebels retreating again'.

Because of the countless attacks on Suiyang City in the past period, Liu Wu at this moment clearly realized that the war had just entered the white-hot stage.

With an attack like the one just now, Suiyang City, where Liu Wu is located, will face countless ······

Liu Wu asked, only to the side, the face was covered with blood, and the battle robe had already been stained red with blood stepped forward, and said angrily: "News came three days ago: just arrived in Luoyang; ”

"Count the days, don't count the days, it's time to go to Suiyang."

The general's low tone made Liu Wu, the king of Liang, feel a little calm, raised his head gloomily, looked at the soldiers on the city wall, who were collecting the corpses of the enemy and us, and couldn't help but let out a sigh leisurely.

"The widow originally thought that with so many weapons and ordnance from Shaofu, my Liang State was already the most powerful vassal state in the world;"

"I never thought that the hundreds of thousands of rebels of Liu Bi and Liu Wu would let the widows hide in the royal capital in such embarrassment."

"—Even defending the city is trembling, and you have to look forward to the reinforcements of the court······"

A sigh full of embarrassment also caused the general on the side to frown slightly;

After thinking for a moment, he shook his head and sighed in relief: "The king doesn't have to be so arrogant. ”

"The armies of Liu Bi and Liu Wu are the two armies of Wu and Chu, and there are also many armies of East Vietnam and South Vietnam."

"The fact that the king can stop Liu Bi's army from continuing to advance westward is enough to prove that my Liang country is strong."

"And before, Liu Bi's westward march was too smooth, and in less than a month, he went from Pengcheng, the capital of Chu, to Suiyang, the capital of Liang;

"The continuous victories have greatly boosted the morale of Liu Bi's rebels, and they will be so brave when they attack the city."

Hearing this, Liu Wu couldn't help but nod his head slightly, but his face was not a little good-looking;

He turned sideways with a grim expression, looking at the city wall, although he was not talking about the downfall of teachers and students, but also obviously a little demoralized, Liu Wu's eyebrows only added a little worry.

"Dou Ying's army arrived in Xingyang very early."

"But the messenger I sent, Dou Ying, did not give a clear answer."

"-If something happens in Suiyang, I'm afraid Dou Ying's army won't come to support."

The worried words caused the general to nod his head heavily: "Yes." ”

"The general's army needs to defend Xingyang-Aocang so that no rebels will bypass Suiyang and launch a sneak attack on Aocang and even Luoyang's arsenal;"

"Therefore, even if the Queen Mother orders the general, the general, I am afraid that she will not divide her troops to support Suiyang."

The general's kung fu when he spoke, but he saw Liu Wu, the king of Liang, turning sideways with a gloomy expression, and looking at the general, he was even more full of sorrow.

"Does the lieutenant think that the captain's army will support Suiyang?"

"-If so, then why did the Taiwei take a detour through Wuguan instead of going directly east to Hangu?"

"When you arrive in Luoyang, why did you send people in advance, saying that the army would not enter Suiyang City, but would go to Changyi?"

Hearing Liu Wu's successive questions, Zhang Yu's face only sank slightly, and some doubts faintly appeared in his eyes.

Regarding the marching route of Taiwei Zhou Yafu, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, may not be able to understand it very clearly.

But as the lieutenant of Liang State, the only general under Liu Wu, King of Liang, who could rely on him, Zhang Yu, saw the abnormality at a glance.

- Zhou Yafu led the army to detour through Wuguan, the only purpose is to delay time!

Because of Wuguan, the court has sent troops to garrison it!

Moreover, the three kings of the Huainan system did not oppose, which means that even if Liu Bi wants to go to Wuguan, he will not be able to pass through the Huainan system's fiefdom at all!

Since this is the case, then Zhou Yafu has no need to detour to Wuguan at all, and can directly march east from Chang'an, send a letter to Guguan as quickly as possible, and then follow Luoyang-Xingyang in Hedong County, and finally arrive at Liangdu: Suiyang.

But Zhou Yafu didn't do it······

"What the captain wants, the minister doesn't really understand."

"But Captain, His Majesty specially sent him to quell this rebellion."

"No matter what the Taiwei does, in the end, he will definitely be able to defeat Liu Bi and Liu Wu's rebels."

"The rebels were defeated by the Taiwei, and Suiyang's predicament was naturally solved······

Hearing this, even if he felt Zhang Yu's evasion of his question, Liu Wu finally had to nod worriedly.

After a moment, his face suddenly straightened again.

"Although the truth is this truth, but the widow can't sit still!"

"Please also ask the lieutenant to send someone to Chang'an immediately."

"——Tell the Queen Mother: Dou Wangsun, I plan to watch from the wall, regardless of the life and death of the widow!"

"Even the captain has the intention of not caring about the life and death of the widow!"

was full of serious explanations, but it only caused Zhang Yu to frown with some doubts;

After Han Anguo, who was on the side, nodded slowly, Zhang Yu put aside the doubts in his heart for the time being, and turned around and left as soon as he bowed his hand to Liu Wu.

After Zhang Yu left, Han Anguo took two steps forward;

He was about to speak, but he heard a rapid sound of music in the city behind him.

"King!"

"King!!"

I saw that inside the city wall, a soldier walked quickly towards the city wall, quickly climbed the city wall, and came to Liu Wu.

Seeing that the soldier was happy, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, also stepped forward with anticipation, holding the soldier's arm tightly with both hands.

"Is it the army of the Tai Lieutenant who has entered the city through the West City Gate?!"

But the soldier shook his head violently, but the joy on his face did not diminish in the slightest.

"Not a captain!"

"Yes, it's Bongchang and Zongzheng!"

Panting for a word, it only provoked Liu Wu, the king of Liang, and Han Anguo on the side to be stunned for a moment.

Before he could ask, he saw a carriage escorted by the guards of the Northern Army inside the city wall, which was rapidly approaching the direction of the city gate.

After stopping in the city gate, inside the carriage, a figure that Liu Wu was somewhat familiar with walked out.

I saw that the man was holding the Son of Heaven Yak, raised his head, and looked at Liu Wu, the king of Liang, on the city wall.

"Please also ask the king of Liang to order the city gate to be opened slightly;"

"We are ordered by His Majesty to go to Liu Bi and convey His Majesty's will."

Listening to this familiar voice, and looking at the Son of Heaven Festival yak again, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, only waved his hand under the city wall, signaled the guards inside the city gate, and opened the city gate slightly.

When the carriage, escorted by nearly 100 guards of the Northern Army, drove out of the East City Gate, and headed straight for the rebel camp dozens of miles away, Liu Wu, the king of Liang, only looked sideways in confusion;

Seeing Han Anguo beside him, he also had an unknown expression, and Liu Wu's mouth squeezed out such a murmur.

"That's ······"

"-Doctor Yuan Si?"

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Half an hour later, outside Suiyang City, the Wu Chu rebel army camped.

At this time, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, was sitting on the top with high spirits, and in his temperament, he was vaguely domineering with some contempt for everything.

raised his head playfully and looked at his nephew Liu Tong in front of him, as well as his 'old acquaintance' Yuan An, and the corners of Liu Bi's mouth only quietly put a sneer.

"This is really a time passing, things are not people?"

"-The widowed king has become the Taichang of Chang'an;"

"It's my nephew, and I also became the ······ of the imperial court."

"Hey ······"

Speaking sarcastically, Liu Bi couldn't help but squint the corners of his eyes, and looked meaningfully at his nephew Liu Tong, who was holding the Son of Heaven Yak in front of him.

"Shouldn't I see my uncle?"

"Without my father's teachings, have you forgotten even the etiquette of meeting your elders?"

"——Anyone who can't even distinguish between the elder and the young, and who doesn't even observe the etiquette, can be appointed as the ······ of the Zongzheng."

"The emperor of Chang'an, is this no one available?"

Liu Bi's joking words only caused the generals in the tent to laugh for a while, but no one showed due respect to the Son of Heaven Yak in Liu Tong's hand.

From the atmosphere in the tent, Liu Tong and Yuan Ang can also clearly feel that the rebels under Liu Bi should be in the joy of continuous victory······

"King Wu is indeed my uncle."

"But now, as Zong Zhengqing, I am here to convey His Majesty's will to King Wu."

"King Wu said, I have lost my father, and I have forgotten the etiquette when I met my elders;"

"What about King Wu?"

"——After being a king in the wilderness of Jingwu for a few years, have you forgotten the etiquette when you meet the envoys of the Son of Heaven and see the yak of the Son of Heaven?"

"——The family ceremony between the uncle and the nephew, or the monarch and minister ceremony between the king and His Majesty, which is more important?!!"

While the generals in the tent were laughing, Dehou Liu Tong's voice suddenly sounded in the tent, causing everyone to be stunned!

After a while, the generals who were still laughing stopped scolding at Liu Tong.

"Bah, that!"

"Is that how you talk to your uncle!!"

"How dare you speak to my king in such a tone!!

For a while, the generals in the tent were only angry with the enemy, and it seemed that Liu Bi had given an order to tear apart the 'disrespectful uncle' Dehou Liu Tong!

But when he saw that on the throne of the head, Liu Bi, the king of Wu, only raised his head slightly with a pleasant smile;

Stopping the shouting and scolding of the generals in the tent, Liu Bi slowly stood up, stepped forward with his hands, and came to Liu Tong's side.

"The emperor of Chang'an, what do you want to say to the widow?"

said a gentle word, but saw that Liu Tong was still in an iron-faced and selfless posture, holding the Son of Heaven in his hand, and took a step back with a solemn expression.

"Your Majesty has a will;"

"Please bow down to Your Majesty King Wu, and then listen to Your Majesty's edict."

Hearing Liu Tong's sentence 'Please accept the edict of King Wu', the generals in the tent became excited again, and they were about to scold again;

saw Liu Bi smiling and shaking his head, turned around, walked back to the throne and sat down.

He turned his head to the side and waved to the guard beside him.

"Take Dehou down."

"—Good student care."

"No matter what, he is also the only son of the Marquis of Deai, and the only nephew of the widow."

"In the future, the widow will live in the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an, and I will want this precious nephew to be the widow's King of Liang······"

Liu Bi gave an order, and Liu Tong, the envoy sent by the Chang'an court, was taken down by the sergeant on the side.

Then, Liu Bi's playful gaze fell on the deputy envoy sent by the court: Yuan An.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, Xiangguo, don't come unharmed, right?"

A playful inquiry, but Yuan Ang laughed bitterly.

turned sideways and looked in the direction in which Liu Tong left;

turned around again and looked at Liu Bi, the king of Wu in front of him.

Taking a deep breath, Yuan An, in the end, was still like Liu Tong, and took up the shelf that the 'Messenger of the Son of Heaven' should have.

"Dehou is right."

"Your Majesty has an edict, and King Wu, as a courtier, should bow down and accept the edict."

"Now, Dehou has been detained by King Wu, and His Majesty's edict can still be read out to King Wu by me."

"King Wu, it's better to bow down and accept the edict······"

Seeing that Yuan Ang also said 'kneeling down to accept the edict', Liu Bi raised his head full of melancholy, and raised his head to the sky and let out a long sigh.

After a while, Liu Bi leaned to the side slightly, held his chin with the palm of his hand, and looked at Yuan Ang with a sneer.

"Now, as long as the army of the court leaves Hangu Pass, it must be a battalion step by step, and the grass and trees are all soldiers."

"To the east of Suiyang, there is no vassal state that still accepts the dispatch of the Chang'an court."

"Even if the outnumbered people can't capture Suiyang, they can still use Suiyang as the boundary and divide the world into two halves, east and west."

"-I am already the Emperor of the East, who else do I have to bow to?"

"-Emperor Xiangxi?"

Liu Bi's joking remark caused the generals in the tent to laugh again, and they only raised their heads, hoping to use their nostrils to look at Yuan Ang who was standing in the tent.

After a long while, Liu Biao finally sighed a little and raised his head slightly to Yuan An.

"If Xiangguo wants to read the edict of the Western Emperor, then the widow, the Eastern Emperor, just sit and listen."

"After all, the edict of the widow was not sent to Chang'an, so that the Western Emperor knelt down to listen?"

said this with a relaxed face, and Liu Bi casually came down in the upper side hall and put on a posture of listening to the play and enjoying the dance;

At a position about five steps in front of Liu Bi, Yuan An's complexion changed several times, and in the end, he only turned into helplessness······

A moment later, the will conveyed by the Son of Heaven to Liu Bi was roughly explained by Yuan Ang to Liu Bi.

- Because the original of the edict is still in the arms of the envoy: Dehou Liu Tong.

Even if Yuan Ang wanted to 'read it', he couldn't read it from the book at all.

"Oh?"

"Emperor Xi, didn't you kill Chao wrong?"

From Yuan An's mouth, he learned that Tianzi Qi did not kill Chao Cuo, and Yuan Ang only raised the corners of his eyebrows slightly;

After thinking about it for a while, he chuckled and turned his head sideways: "It's because of Shen Tujia, right?" ”

"Hey ······"

"If it weren't for the presence of the 'Western Prime Minister', I don't know what kind of stupid thing the Western Emperor could do."

"-Maybe, you will really make a mistake and cut it in half outside the East Market?"

Hey smiled and said a word, and Liu Bi sat up straight again;

Raising his head slightly, he looked around at the generals in the tent, and looked at the generals in the tent, and his eyes were full of banter.

"Did you hear everything?"

"——If the widow is willing to surrender, the benevolent and magnanimous Western Emperor will allow the widow to commit suicide in front of the ancestral god card."

"Such a magnanimous and monstrous gift, if the widow doesn't accept it, isn't it too much to give the Western Emperor face?"

Hearing Liu Bi's obviously embarrassed tone, there was another burst of laughter in the tent.

It was Yuan An, and he couldn't help but look a little ugly.

Before coming, Yuan Ang had imagined countless times what it would be like to meet Liu Bi again.

How should he know it with affection, move it with reason, and persuade Liu Biao to lead the troops to retreat;

At the very least, it is necessary to abide by the battlefield etiquette of 'two countries are at war, and they will not be killed'.

But at this moment, looking at the 'Eastern Emperor' in front of him, who was laughing endlessly, and the rebel generals who were laughing at his side, Yuan An's heart fell into a deep valley little by little.

- Yuan An, can't go back······

Not only can't he go back, but Yuan Ang can't even guarantee that without the identity protection of 'uncle and nephew', will he be able to see the sun tomorrow······

While thinking about it, Liu Bi finally withdrew from the identity of the 'Eastern Emperor' and the endless ridicule of the 'Western Emperor' Liu Qi.

With a slight sigh on his face, he raised his head and looked at Yuan Ang with sincerity.

"The widow and the prime minister have known each other for many years."

"Once, the prime minister also received a lot of gifts from widows."

"-It is precisely because of this that the Western Emperor will send Dehou and Xiangguo to lobby the widow."

"Because everyone in the world knows: widows will never retreat from Suiyang."

"Therefore, the Western Emperor sent Dehou and Xiangguo to him, just to provoke the widow and kill Xiangguo by the widow's hand."

With that, Liu Bi got up from the throne, but did not step forward;

Just looked directly at the Wu Guoxiang who had an incomparable 'tacit understanding' with him, and Liu Bi's face immediately swelled with a heartfelt smile.

"Stay."

"Be the general who leads the troops, help the widow break through Suiyang and enter Chang'an!"

"The mean and ungrateful Western Emperor starved to death in the high temple of Emperor Taizu Gao;"

"Then, be the prime minister of the widow······"

The sincere words only caused Yuan Ang to shake his head with a wry smile.

Although he didn't say a word, in his firm gaze at Liu Bi, the line 'Please give me death' was also written.

Seeing Yuan An's reaction, Liu Biao did not feel annoyed.

Sitting back on the throne in a daze, he waved his hand to the soldiers beside him again.

"Take the prime minister with you."

"Let the rear military captain personally take five hundred people and take strict care."

Another order was given, and two sergeants stepped forward to suppress Yuan An.

Yuan Ang did not show a look of fear because of this, only turned around with a wry smile and let the sergeant escort him out of the big tent.

But after Yuan Ang was sent out of the big tent, Liu Bi's face was full of embarrassment, but he suddenly gave birth to a fierce look!

"I don't want to use ······"

"Don't blame the widow for being ruthless and not remembering the old love·········"

(End of chapter)