On August 12, in Luyang, Wei State, the streets were already stinking.

Five watches.

Hubu Shangshu Longqiao took a carriage out of the mansion to the imperial city, passing through several streets and alleys, and the stench of feces and urine came into the curtain of the car.

Under the low eaves, the yellow-skinned, ragged people sat under the eaves of the street, the children were weakly held in the arms of their mothers, and the women numbly uncovered their clothes and let the children suck on the flattened chest.

A handful of men who still had strength gathered together, talked in a low voice, and looked at the nearby grain store that had not yet opened, their eyes shining with a vicious green light like a wolf.

Man was so hungry that he was forced to become a beast and could do anything.

Long Qiao's face was ugly, and he was a little indifferent, these people who were in a state of hunger, he couldn't do anything, just yesterday the army of Yan Kingdom, which was even more terrible than a beast, had been stationed thirty miles away, and the letter of persuasion to surrender yesterday evening was shot up the city tower by the other party.

Surrender was obviously impossible, but for the soldiers in the city, the hundred officials in the court were undoubtedly naked humiliation, but everyone was surprisingly silent.

In the past, the court, civil and military officials and the emperor who were like bears and tigers were obviously frightened, but no one took off this coat of shame.

The carriage soon arrived at the imperial city, and many colleagues from the DPRK and China had gathered outside the Zhengyang Gate, Long Qiao got out of the carriage, and the civil and military officials did not come forward to talk to each other as in the past, and they all remained silent and did not know what to think.

Soon, the gate of the imperial city opened, hundreds of officials entered the palace, and then, as usual, lined up to enter the main hall, today is the first time the emperor has recovered from illness to go to the court, what to discuss, everyone knows it.

In the Jinluan Palace, Zhao Chuanting came earlier than the hundred officials, he observed the civil and military expressions in the side hall, and after they entered the hall and stood in their respective positions, he took the eunuch dragon to come over, accepted the worship of the hundred officials, and then sat on the dragon chair.

"All the secretaries should know that the Yan army has come to the outside of Luyang City, my army has been completely defeated, many soldiers have become prisoners, and some people have simply become dogs, working for the Yan people, along the way, they have cleared the obstacles for the Yan people, they are anti-thieves, and their families are all beheaded in the market early this morning!"

The emperor's voice echoed in the hall, and Long Qiao, Yuan Feng and other ministers lowered their heads and closed their eyes and listened quietly.

Footsteps sounded outside, and a palace guard walked in with a tray, the ministers raised their heads slightly, Yuan Feng's face changed suddenly, and in the tray was Du Lingyan's head, his eyes widened without blinking, and his expression was painful and frightened.

"But there are also some people who want not to lead the army to fight and fight for the country, but to be greedy for life and afraid of death, abandon the army, and run back to Luyang, such a general, I am not rare, and he will never be allowed to live!"

Zhao Chuanting slapped the dragon chair and stood up, waved his big hand, and asked the guards to take the head out of the hall, his tone softened a little, "I made a bet with that Yan Guoer, and lost the bet, and the 160,000 soldiers and horses were damaged in a few days, I am sad!" I remorse! But the secretaries don't have any responsibility? In the past, whoever had a vegetarian meal and who was full of private pockets, I didn't care, the national disaster was at the head, and the great enemy was at present, so the secretaries should work together with me to drive out the enemy. ”

The Emperor walked up the imperial steps, his voice slow, steady, and deep.

"Yesterday afternoon, my imperial uncle left, the clan lost a mainstay, and my Great Wei lost a minister of the humerus, but the Great Wei has not yet fallen, the land of Sanzhou has been disrupted and eaten by the Yellow Turban Ant Thieves, but there are still eight states, and their reinforcements are also on the way, as long as they hold on to Luyang, when the reinforcements arrive, there is still a glimmer of life!"

"In the past few days, I have been thinking about it on the sickbed...... Zhao Chuanting stood at the entrance of the imperial stairs and looked at the ministers, "There is only this way, but the Yan army has come all the way, and it is also a loss of troops and generals, attacking Luyang, which has a strong wall, and they are already at the end of the strong crossbow, and I still have 50,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, and 10,000 Xiong Ben troops in hand, so I am not afraid."

Right now, I need an envoy to go to the Yan army camp, negotiate fake, snoop if it's true, bargain with them, delay the arrival of reinforcements, or regroup the remnants of the army outside the city! ”

With that, he looked at his ministers.

"Zhuqing, do you have anyone to recommend?"

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, Yuan Feng walked out of the queue and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, what do you think...... Liu Gon is the most suitable. He had been in Chendu County in Junzhou before, and had sent an envoy to the Yan State military camp, and he had also met the Xia King. ”

As soon as his words came out, an old minister at the end of the Wenchen queue suddenly showed a-like expression on his face.

"Liu Qing!" The emperor on the royal ladder called out his name, and the old minister gritted his teeth and walked out quickly, arching his hand and saying, "Your Majesty, the old minister is here." ”

Zhao Chuanting sat back on the throne and looked at the old minister below with serious eyes.

"Qing is going to do it this time, do you know what to do?"

"Minister...... Obey! ”

Liu Gon, who had a righteous face, took the order, and when he turned to leave the hall, his legs were trembling slightly under the hem of his robe......

……

The court dissipated, the emperor's order was conveyed to the various positions, facing the north gate of the Yan army, at this moment there was a tense situation, a wave of soldiers rushed here, and the recruited people hurriedly carried the equipment to defend the city.

On this morning, Liu Gon rode out of the north gate in a carriage with several guards and a deputy envoy, and went along the official road to the Yan military camp thirty miles away.

Thirty miles away in the wilderness, all the timber that had not been burned out of the Wei military camp had been transported by the slaves, and a camp of about ten miles had been set up here.

Banners were lined up, soldiers and horses came in and out, piles of bonfires burned vigorously in the camp tents, the iron pots above boiled the grain obtained from the Wei army, and the wounded war horses that could not fight again were all slaughtered and boiled together with porridge water to comfort the soldiers.

The large tent in the center is decorated with furs, swords and spears to set off the majesty of slaughter, and there is a bonfire burning in the center, and a spear is wearing a whole fat sheep, which is being roasted by the raging flames and dripping oil.

The generals here are not as majestic and fierce as before, they are busy turning the spears on the shelf, turning over the fat sheep, or helping to sprinkle the condiments, Dong Zhuo has prepared a towel early and tied it to his chest, while instructing Zhang He how to master the heat, while talking to Lu Bu and Ma Chao about the best way to eat mutton, so as not to feel greasy.

After Su Chen took off the mountain armor and washed away the blood stains on his body, he came over to the handsome tent in a royal robe, and bowed to Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo and others who were experienced in roasting mutton in the tent, and then sat down in the first place.

After the big victory, the whole army is always to be rewarded, and now that the army is in Luyang, even if you want to attack the city, you must let everyone rest well and eat well.

Soon, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other generals also set up their soldiers and horses, and rushed to the handsome tent for the banquet, and as soon as Zhang Fei came in, he put the wine jar sandwiched under the armpits on both sides to the ground.

"Zhang Yide, when you march to war, you also bring wine?" Li Dao came over with a smile, picked up a jar of wine and was about to pat open the mud seal, but the jar was then snatched back by Zhang Fei.

"This is what I prepared for the celebration banquet, see, won't you use it?! Ha ha! Zhang Fei hurriedly went over, squeezed Zhang He aside, and skillfully turned the whole sheep on the spear, "The pig and sheep are still here...... I'm very familiar with this, too. ”

"It smells so good!"

Zhang Liao and Gao Shun changed into regular clothes and strode into the tent, smiled and bowed their hands to everyone, and after stepping forward to salute Su Chen, they said to Zhang Fei, who was roasting mutton: "General Zhang is skillful, I didn't want to roast sheep in Zhuo County back then, right?" ”

"Hehe, let you taste my craft later."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and chuckled, and was about to walk to Zhang Liao's side and sit down, when laughter suddenly came from behind him, outside the tent, two veterans with gray hair followed behind Zhao Yun, one of them was wearing Tang Shi armor, everyone could see it, after all, they were also in this system.

"General Zhao...... Qiong read the wild history all over the world, and admired you for entering the million-strong army of Cao thieves, and later I fought with Your Majesty, and I took you as my ......."

The veteran stopped talking, and saw the generals in the tent who were extraordinary in appearance and burly for a moment, and arched his hand: "Under Qin Qiong, the word Uncle Bao, I don't know if you are like ...... Close...... Second Master Guan? ”

Qin Qiong recognized the figure beside Zhang Liao at a glance, and hurriedly stepped forward to give his hand, Guan Yu opened his eyes slightly, looked at the veteran in front of him, and slowly got up and returned the salute.

"It's Guan, where are you?"

"People in the Licheng of Qizhou in the Tang Dynasty!" Qin Qiong laughed, "When Qiong was still in Wagangzhai, the brothers all said that the second master was righteous. ”

Zhang Yu, who was behind Qin Qiong, also walked over at this time, carefully looked at Guan Yu in front of him, and murmured: "I finally saw a living ......."

At this time, heavy footsteps sounded outside, and Li Xuanba threw a pair of urn jin drumsticks outside the tent and strode in: "Who said it was a person from the Tang Dynasty just now?!" ”

His gaze swept over the tent, and then fell on Qin Qiong.

"You're also a Tang general?"

"Your Excellency?" Qin Qiong had never seen Li Xuanba, after all, at that time, the other party had already died of illness at home, and later he only occasionally heard Li Shimin mention that there was such a brother.

"Li Xuanba, my second brother Li Shimin, have you heard of it?"

Qin Qiong immediately stepped forward to salute and reported to the door, and for a while, in the handsome tent, the most common greeting, the first sentence was "Where is Your Excellency from?" "Datang's." "Da Ming."

"What about you?"

"The big man's."

Lu Bu and other generals in the tent said in unison, and then laughed, and the newcomers Qin Qiong and Zhang Yu were both heroic people, and they also laughed.

"Uncle Bao still has fellow villagers here, and Yu is afraid that he is alone."

"No, Dong has also seen a man from your Ming Dynasty before, who is a eunuch, and the king seems to call him something."

"The Three Treasures are here too?"

Zhang Yu's eyes lit up suddenly, Zheng He had also been following Yan Wang Jingnan, he was naturally very familiar with it, and he couldn't help laughing when he thought of the little eunuch at the beginning.

"When I return to Yanjing, General Zhang will be able to meet Gonggong Zheng."

Su Chen stretched out his hand and invited the two old generals to sit down on one side, he liked to see the excitement in the tent the most, a group of generals of various dynasties and generations sat together, boasting to each other, it was also a good picture.

At this time, outside the tent, Li Shimin, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei were looking inside, and Cao Cao whispered: "When I was below, I heard that Guan Gong was fighting Qin Qiong...... In other words, who is better Yun Chang or Qin Shubao? ”

"Naturally, it's my second brother!" Liu Bei's face was expressionless, and he spoke without thinking.

Li Shimin put his hands on his shoulders and tilted his face slightly: "I naturally think that Qin Qiong is better. ”

"Lone still thinks that Yun Chang is powerful, look at the look of stroking his beard and closing his eyes!"

Cao Cao pointed to Guan Yu, who was sitting in the tent, and his mouth was full of words, "Only this state of divine martial arts, even if the martial arts are not high, standing next to him has a lot of face, this is a place where Lone has always envied Xuande." ”

Liu Bei smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth, unconsciously straightened his back, and turned away with his hands in a graceful manner.

……

Outside the camp, the envoys of Wei who came from afar had already arrived at Yuanmen and were stopped by the soldiers, and the deputy envoys in the car came down and delivered the prayer post.

(End of chapter)