After Ouyang Jie quickly sent Liu Chang's letter to Luoyang, the task was completed, and even Liu Chang's letter was presented to the palace by Xiaohuangmen, Ouyang Jie's grade was too low, and it was impossible to enter the palace to face the saint. After sending the letter, Ouyang Jie wandered around Luoyang City, not in a hurry to go back, first, Ouyang Jie had to wait for the results of the court's deliberations, on the other hand, Ouyang Jie didn't want to go back so early, although the Tiger Prison Pass was very steep, but after all, it was still a battlefield.

It's not that Ouyang Jie is greedy for life and afraid of death, it's really that the enemy is too strong, a city guarded by 3,000 people can be taken in less than half a day, Ouyang Jie doesn't dare to imagine what kind of soldiers the Jizhou army will be.

Liu Chang's letter was directly delivered to Empress He by Xiaohuangmen, and the emperor Liu Wei in the middle was too young to handle political affairs, and all political affairs were temporarily regent by his mother. After reading the letter, Empress He immediately found a group of important ministers of the imperial court to discuss countermeasures, and Taiwei Yang Biao, Situ Wang Yun, Lu Zhi, Cai Yong and others all arrived, and none of them were left behind.

"Zhong Aiqing, the former prince Fan Xiwen rebelled, raised troops to rebel, yesterday the army has come to the city, the tiger guard Liu Chang is worried that the thieves will not be able to resist, so he wrote to the court for help." Liu Chang can be said to be a party of He Hou's cronies, and He Hou pulled it up with one hand, at this time Liu Chang is like a wreck, but He Hou doesn't have to cover for Liu Chang, so he can only belittle Fan Xiwen and exaggerate Liu Chang. Only in this way can he save his face, and at the same time, he can increase Fan Xiwen's crimes, arouse the indignation of this group of loyal ministers, and kill two birds with one stone.

"Dare to ask the Queen Mother, how many soldiers and horses are left in the imperial court?" The first to speak out was Lu Zhi, this old minister was also one of the commanders who participated in the Yellow Turban Pacification War in his early years, and he had rich combat experience, so he was the most authoritative in military affairs.

"At present, there are 50,000 palace forbidden troops in the imperial court, 10,000 forbidden troops in the West Garden, and 20,000 troops in the Tiger Prison, which is the largest force that the imperial court can mobilize at present." He Hou said helplessly, all the troops add up to only 80,000 horses, even if it can repel the attack of the Jizhou army, but it must be a miserable victory, if you don't know it, you will still compete with the clams for profit, He Hou is a smart person, and he will never do such a stupid thing. Therefore, for the menacing Jizhou army, it can only be outwitted, not forced.

"Queen Mother, is there no longer an army of 30,000 in Gongwei's hands?" Gongwei is Zhu Jun's word, Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun are both the pillars of the Han Dynasty's military affairs, and the relationship between the two is quite deep, so when it comes to Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi loses his former calmness, at this time, He Hou did not calculate the 30,000 troops in Zhu Jun's hands, which can only mean that Zhu Jun's front-line battle failed.

"Hmph, Zhu Jun is a good general! The palace trusted him to hand over the 30,000 Sanhe elite to him, but he was good, he was wiped out by the Jizhou army at one time, and all the grain and grass were burned, what do you say the palace wants him to do? What is the use of the court raising him? Sure enough, as soon as Lu Zhi mentioned Zhu Jun, He Hou became angry, if it weren't for the fact that Lu Zhi is one of the few generals in the court who are loyal to him and good at fighting, He Hou must have pointed his nose and scolded his mother at this time, but what he said is basically no different from scolding his mother.

Lu Zhi immediately lowered his head in shame, Lu Zhi knew that Zhu Jun's reputation had been ruined, and the crime of defeat was not raided and his ancestors were destroyed because He Hou escaped by luck in order to take care of the overall situation, but if Zhu Jun returned to Luoyang, I am afraid that he will no longer be able to lead the army.

"The Queen Mother, General Zhu fought for the Han Dynasty in all directions, and his hard work was high, and the Queen Mother was asked to see that General Zhu's previous hard work was light." Lu Zhi must intercede, because if Lu Zhi does not speak, Zhu Jun's fate will be a little unpredictable.

"Okay, I'm not here to discuss these issues today, now it's time to say that the Jizhou army is in the Tiger Pass, with the solidity of the Tiger Pass, it can only be blamed for a month at most, and after a month, Luoyang will be unsuspecting in front of the Jizhou army, and our Yuan army will arrive in a month and a half at the latest. You all know that the catapults in the hands of the Jizhou army are capable of launching huge stones, which are the nemesis of the city walls. He Hou interrupted Lu Zhi's plea very impatiently, who is still in the mood to punish the crime.

The implication of He Hou's words is obvious, Lu Zhi heard it very clearly, as long as Lu Zhi can take action to defeat the Jizhou army, then maybe He Hou will not hold Zhu Jun responsible, in order to let his friend get out of trouble, Lu Zhi decided to let go.

"Queen Mother, we can't copy the catapult of the Jizhou Army for the time being, the first place where this kind of thing appeared was on the Mo family's treasure "Mo's Spring and Autumn", but no one will make it now." This time it was Taiwei Yang Biao who spoke out, this old man's favorite thing to do is to study ancient books, although he has never been on the battlefield, but he has also dabbled a little in this aspect.

"That is, there is a disciple of the Mo family under the command of the traitor? But wasn't the Mo family extinct hundreds of years ago? He Hou said in surprise, but this is a fact, the Confucianism of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty caused the Confucian family to dominate, and the rest of the sons have long been eliminated in the long stream of history.

"I guess it's a remnant!" It is not easy to explain the surprise of He Hou, so he can only explain it with ambiguous statements.

"Queen Mother, the Mo family's evil sect is crooked, since the siege weapon that Jizhou relies on is a catapult, then why don't we send someone to destroy it? Without catapults, the Jizhou army wants to rely on an army of 90,000 like capturing the Tiger Prison, which is simply impossible. Moreover, the Jizhou army came from afar but did not have logistics and transportation troops, presumably with the idea of a quick victory, if there were no catapults, maybe they would take the initiative to retreat. Lu Zhi came up with a clever plan immediately when Yang Biao spoke, he deserved to be a veteran of a hundred battles, and this ghost idea was not ordinary.

"A good strategy, but I don't know how to implement it? You must know that the kind of repeater in the hands of the Jizhou army can be fired five times in a row, and if you want to attack, you will only come back with the corpse of the bee. Situ Wang Yun and Cai Yong, who came to make soy sauce, suddenly had an opinion, if the catapult was so easy to destroy, it would have long since ceased to exist, and it was still used until now?

"Hey, if you can't do it, you can still sneak attack? It was enough to burn the catapults of the Jizhou army at night. Lu Zhi hurriedly argued.

"Okay, Lao Lu, haven't you learned about the Jizhou Army, according to the hundreds of wars that Fan Xiwen will only have in his life, nine out of ten of them are victories by night attacks or surprise attacks, what does this mean? Someone else may have more ways to prevent a night attack than you can sneak attack. Cai Yong said, Lu Zhi was suddenly like a frosted eggplant, and he almost forgot that the Jizhou Army was a rogue army at all.

"Zhu Jun has failed his holy grace in vain, he has come to deprive Zhu Jun of the throne, and Zhu Jun's family is old and young," He Hou felt that Lu Zhi should be given a little color, otherwise it would be easy for people's hearts to bear it if they always thought of something like this, but they were interrupted by Lu Zhi before they finished speaking, if they let He Hou continue to say it, then Zhu Jun's family would suffer, and it happened that He Hou's threat reminded Lu Zhi of one thing.

"Queen Mother, why don't you let General Zhu Lao be guilty of meritorious service. General Zhu should now rest in Linyang or Sanhe, even if there are not 10,000 or at least thousands of people under his troops, such a force is still a smaller target, so it just escaped the scout detection of the Jizhou army. If General Zhu had launched a night attack, perhaps it would have been better to grasp the success. Lu Zhi said, this may be a good idea, but it is also conditional, that is, Zhu Jun is still alive. In this era of extremely backward means of communication, how unfortunate these generals are, the lack of timely intelligence can only make people misjudge.

"Okay, this is a good idea, come on, Zhu Jun is not in a good position to fight, temporarily deprive him of his position, if he can make meritorious service for his crimes, he can be reinstated." He Hou was in a good mood, and the strategy was agreed, and the Shenma Jizhou Army and the Shenma Catapult were just floating clouds.

Just when the meat eaters were discussing how to deal with Jizhou, Zhu Jun's Chinese army Sima also passed through many obstacles and returned to the Tiger Prison Pass under Liu Ke's permission, and at the same time sent the news of Zhu Jun's death to Liu Chang.