Yu Ao led the demon army to break through Feiyun Gorge, the city of Yunzhou was broken, the Great Confucian was killed in battle, and the soldiers and civilians of Yunzhou were slaughtered by the demon clan......

When the news reached Kyoto, Kyoto was hit by an unprecedented earthquake.

This was the biggest defeat in the history of Great Xia in the face of the demon clan, not only losing a great Confucian, but even Yunzhou City was lost to the hands of the demon clan.

More importantly, the students of Guozijian and Taixue Mansion all fell into Yunzhou City, these students are all Xiaochu of Great Xia, if they also die in Yunzhou City, it is more serious than losing a great Confucian.

Emperor Xia Qi in the court was furious, angrily scolded the demon clan for its own destruction, and ordered the general to go north to eliminate the demon.

The Duke of Ning Guo Xu Yannian, and the Duke of Zhao and Qin Geng are both founding generals, and they are automatically asked to go north to level the demon and recover Yunzhou.

However, some people among the princes raised different opinions, believing that if the two fronts started a war, even if the war was won, the economy of Great Xia would definitely regress by ten years.

The two sides debated, and a cadre of ministers headed by Xu Yannian, the Duke of Ningguo, and Zhang Haitang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, advocated going north to level the demons, while the ministers headed by He Liansong, the Duke of the Song State, and Jing Baicheng, the secretary of the Household Department, thought that it was not appropriate to start a war on two fronts.

The two sides quarreled for a day, and neither could convince anyone.

On the second day, when he went to court, there was a news from the north: Hou Ping, the general of Chen Guogong and Ningyuan, led the remnants of the army to escape from Yunzhou City, and went to Xihai City to ask for reinforcements, counterattacked the demon clan, killed the demon marshal Yuan Hong with his own strength, and beat the demon clan out of Feiyun Gorge.

When such news came, the Manchu Dynasty was overjoyed, and Emperor Xia Qi also turned his anger into joy, and immediately transferred a total of 50,000 soldiers from the three major military camps in the northwest to Yunzhou to defend the town.

In Hou Ping's letter, he also mentioned a very important matter, which was very important, and he needed to return to Kyoto and make another announcement.

Emperor Xia Qi immediately summoned Hou Ping to return to Beijing in triumph.

Before Hou Ping returned to Beijing, a letter was quietly sent to the Imperial History Mansion of the Governor of Zuo.

Suddenly, rumors swirled in Kyoto.

First of all, there were rumors that Yunzhou City was extremely strong, how could it be easily broken by the demon clan? It is bound to be a mole in Yunzhou City, but who this mole is did not say.

Immediately afterwards, there were other rumors, saying that when the teachers and students of Taixue Mansion and Guozijian arrived in Yunzhou, the demon clan sent a reverse literati to attack, Jiang Han was taken captive, and his whereabouts are unknown, but a few days later, Jiang Han returned to Yunzhou City unharmed.

After these two rumors were combined, a "smart person" immediately deduced the truth: Jiang Han was kidnapped by the demon clan, feared death, and descended to the demon clan, so he could return to Yunzhou City safely, and then he joined forces with the demon clan, opened the city gate, killed tens of thousands of soldiers in Yunzhou City, and also killed the great Confucian Gu Qingqiu.

When such a rumor first spread, it was immediately attacked by many Confucian scholars and ordinary people, how could Jiang Han, as the son of Wei Guogong, do such a thing?

The former Jiang Han made the national fortune of the town of Silla and defeated the Silla literati in a poem on Chinese New Year's Eve, and has become a hero in the minds of many people.

How can such a figure who has won glory for the country be slandered by one or two rumors?

Subsequently, Sanwei Bookstore also published a newspaper to refute rumors, the newspaper said that due to the accident in Yunzhou City, Jiang Han's whereabouts are still unknown, and now there are people with ulterior motives who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic and slander a talented man in the town, and his heart can be punished! If necessary, the Jiang family will take action to punish those who spread rumors.

As soon as the newspaper came out, the rumor was immediately quelled, but the Jiang family finally did not find the person who spread the rumor.

However, although the rumors have subsided for the time being, there are still many doubts in their hearts.

And during this time, the Weiguo Mansion, the Taixue Mansion, the Guozijian Mansion, the Princess Mansion, and the Yue Wang's Mansion ...... These five forces all tried their best to send people to find Jiang Han's whereabouts.

It's a pity that after Yunzhou City was broken, Jiang Han's news was lost.

I don't know what happened to the teachers and students of the two universities, and only when Hou Ping returns to Beijing will they know the inside story.

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"What? Hou Ping, that traitor, dared to go back to Kyoto? ”

In a tea shop, Pang Qingyun slapped the table and got up, shocked and angry.

In the past few days, they have encountered several waves of demon tribes on the way back to Kyoto, and some soldiers have died, so they can only change their routes again and again, so they have not returned to Kyoto so far.

Suddenly, when they heard the news of Chen Guogong's triumphant return to Beijing from the tea shop, everyone was shocked and angry.

Yuan Bin calmly analyzed: "Hou Ping's triumphant return to Beijing proves that he 'repelled' Yu Ao, so he wants to make a contribution to this and return to Beijing to be rewarded." Recovering Yunzhou and repelling the demon clan is a great feat! ”

Originally, Yuan Bin was a beautiful young man, but these days of running, he not only lost a lot of weight, but his face was also full of scum, and he couldn't tell that he was the merry and talented Yuan Bin in Kyoto.

Pang Qingyun laughed angrily: "With us here, I don't think he can return to Beijing to be rewarded!" ”

Yuan Bin sneered: "So that traitor asked people to intercept and kill us on the way back to Beijing, as long as we die, the great miracle will fall on him...... I finally know what he's up to! ”

The students and soldiers all had ugly faces and hated Hou Ping.

After many days of running, Jiang Han's appearance has also been reduced a lot, with a beard under his chin, and he is restrained and sharp, no longer as sharp as before, he looks like an ordinary student, but those who get along with him will feel a warm and jade temperament.

After stepping into the realm of a gentleman, he restrained all his edges, restrained and gentle, and only at certain times did his eyes show a sword-like edge.

"Those demon generals alone are not enough to kill us all, if one of them can return to Beijing, it can show Hou Ping's collaboration with the enemy, he will not fail to think of this, so in addition to intercepting and killing us, Hou Ping only has another backhand......"

Jiang Han looked around at everyone and said slowly: "If I were him, after returning to Kyoto, I would definitely tell Your Majesty that it was Pang Xuezheng, it was Jiang Han, it was us, the demon clan, who betrayed Yunzhou City." And he was innocent. ”

When Jiang Han said this, everyone looked at each other, and their faces changed greatly.

"He dares!"

"Could it be that just one sentence of him can turn black and white upside down?"

"What reason do we have to fornicate with the demon clan and betray Yunzhou City? Hou Ping wants to blame us, it's not so easy! ”

Many Confucian scholars shouted angrily.

Jiang Han shook his head and said: "Hou Ping alone naturally can't reverse black and white, but if the people behind Hou Ping also help the trouble, it may not be!" That person must be a person who has great power in the DPRK...... There is a good chance that as soon as we return to Kyoto, we will become prisoners! ”

"But we have no choice, and if we don't go back to Kyoto, the crime will fall on us." Only by returning to Kyoto will it be possible to sanction Hou Ping! ”

Everyone was extremely uncomfortable when they heard this.

"Then we have to speed up our pace and return to Kyoto before Hou Ping!" Pang Qingyun said in a deep voice.