After General Chang Poyu retreated from Jinsha, he stepped up his journey while arming defenses along the way, and he knew that if he returned to Beijing this time, if he did not devote all his strength to fight with all his might, Daxia, which had the legend of the undefeated God of War of Tiankuihou, would be completely wiped out by the army of demon beasts.

What is even more terrifying is that this is a war with no way out, no room for compromise and surrender.

Either you live or you don't die, and it's the kind of death that is used as food and dies without a whole body.

Therefore, as soon as he returned to Sheng'an, the old general broke his armor and did not change it, and the dust was not washed, almost in a hard way, which triggered Xuan Junding overnight and pulled Hua Sijian out of the incense pavilion in the harem.

"This old thing, you can't fight a war, but it's not ambiguous to torture me. Hua Sijian secretly stretched out his finger and put it under his nose and sniffed it, and there was still a faint fragrance left on his finger when he had just passed over Lu Lijing's tender back.

Seeing that he had turned the corner and arrived at the Xuanjun Palace, Hua Sizhen hurriedly struggled to recover from his thoughts. Chang Poyu's rough voice, burly figure, and ruthless face-to-face admonition at every turn made this middle-aged Hua Sijian have a headache.

Chang Poyu was the minister of the former emperor of Great Xia and had the right to declare the monarch. When the king is proclaimed, most of them will feel very embarrassed, and it is inevitable that they will wear small shoes for the ministers of Xuanjun. The Xuanjun Ding in the Xuanjun Hall has not sounded for nearly a hundred years.

Xuanjun Hall is a small side hall specially set up by the founding emperor of the Great Xia to expand the territory next to the main hall of the imperial city, which is dedicated to a Xuanjun Ding that can only resound throughout the forbidden city.

The founding emperor Rong Ma lived his life, knowing that every inch of the country of Great Xia was watered with the flesh and blood of the people of Great Xia, and he was worried that his descendants would be greedy for pleasure and forget the responsibility of guarding the land in the future, so he cast Xuanjun Ding and placed it in the Xuanjun Palace.

Before the old emperor abdicated, he would definitely entrust a few important ministers, and these important ministers would help the new emperor to be optimistic about the country and the society of Great Xia.

Not only Da Xiazi, but even Huo Ping, the commander of the forbidden army who followed him, was also weak-hearted, but because of his duty, he had to stay by the side of the Son of Heaven.

Sure enough, the grizzled Chang Poyu, after seeing the emperor, didn't care about the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and saw Huo Ping who was following the emperor at a glance.

Chang Poyu couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, grabbed a few steps in a row, rushed forward, and hit with his fists.

This scared Hua Sijian on the side a lot, and thought that Chang Po's iron fist was coming at him. He raised his arms and hugged his head.

Huo Ping was weak-hearted, but he didn't dodge, he stubbornly put his head in front of Hua Sijian, and was hit by Chang Po's old fist, and rushed firmly in the chest, and couldn't help but take a few steps back, almost hitting the arms of the Son of Heaven.

"Bold!" Hua Sijian, who came back to his senses, couldn't help but be furious, "General Chang, are you going to splatter blood in my palace for five steps?"

The forbidden troops under Huo Ping, who originally saw that their commander was at a loss, were about to rush forward, but now there is the emperor's angry shouting, and everyone screams, with long guns and short knives, all of them greet Chang Po.

When he entered the palace, Chang Poyu's weapon had already been left by the guards on duty in the gatehouse, and now there was only a pair of old fists left, but in the face of the cold and shining blades of the forbidden army, Chang Poyu did not have a trace of cowardice, and first angrily reprimanded Huo Ping,

"Lord Warden, I didn't expect you to be promoted again. When you left, what about the sworn rescuers? Do you know that the brothers who saved you back then have already sacrificed their lives for the country? Are you not afraid that when you go down, you will have no shame in facing those soldiers who are worthy of brothers?"

Huo Ping and Hua Sizhen mentioned the appearance of a big demon in the north, but Hua Sizhen didn't pay much attention to it. The territory of Great Xia is connected from north to south, boundless from east to west, and all kinds of visions and monsters have occasionally heard of it, but most of them are gone.

In addition, Horn repeatedly told Huo Ping not to urge the emperor to send troops to reinforce Chang Po. Although Huo Ping did not forget the promise he made when he left the northern border, he did not want to anger this uncle who sent him to the official career, like a father and a teacher.

Now facing Chang Polu's face-to-face questioning, Huo Ping's sense of guilt rose sharply, and he didn't dare to raise his head to meet Chang Polu's aggressive gaze for a while.

Chang Poyu still wanted to have a seizure, but Hua Sizhen on the side lowered his face, "General Chang, don't be embarrassed by General Huo, I want to keep him as the head of the forbidden army." Did you fight the Ding in the middle of the night just to come and beat me in front of me?"

With the protection of the Son of Heaven, Chang Poyu glared at Huo Ping fiercely, and finally returned to the topic.

"Emperor Shengming, my northern Xinjiang often wins the defenders, and even lost the northwest border city of the dangerous pass, and now the demon beast army is afraid that it will attack Sheng'an City in the near future. ”

"What? Where did all the military salaries that the national treasury sends to northern Xinjiang every year go, and those wine bags and rice bags that have taken military salaries are not planted when it comes to war?"

Chang Poyu heard Hua Sijian's bastard words of "why not eat minced meat", and his palms trembled with anger, but after all, he couldn't vent his anger with this mediocre emperor, so he had to explain patiently,

"Holy Lord, this time it is not a warrior like a ranger or a Xiqiang who invades the northern border of my Great Xia, but an army of demon beasts that have broken into our northern frontier from the land of never go. ”

"The Northern Liang has been broken, and the cities of Xiqiang and Nanjun have all been broken, and those demon beasts like to eat human flesh. I, the man who has always won in the northern Xinjiang, has used countless blood and flesh to fight these demon beasts to the end. It's just that the difference in strength is too great. With less than 10,000 men and horses, the minister withdrew from the Jinsha Pass in northern Xinjiang to the inland plains, relying on our city to re-arm. However, the emperor ......"

When Chang Poyu said this, he glanced coldly at the mediocre summer. Looking at this emperor chosen by God for Great Xia, he was probably frightened by the cruelty of the demon beast army described by Chang Poyu, and his eyes looked at his feet blankly, as if he was in deep thought.

After a long time, Hua Sijian came back from his stunned thoughts, "Then in that case, what about the general according to the usual opinion, how can we break the situation?"

Chang Poyu thought about it and planned to tell the truth to this emperor of Great Xia,

"The demon beast demon army is powerful, not only the victorious warriors in our northern frontier, but also the worldly masters who have cultivated the Tao, but they have also been ruined by the demon king who led the demon beasts, and it is difficult to resist. ”

In fact, from the remnants of the armor and new injuries on Chang Polu's body, Hua Sijian could roughly guess that the battle situation ahead was unfavorable, but listening to Chang Polu's own narration of the tragedy on the front line, Hua Sijian was still a little overwhelmed, he rubbed his temples while asking with luck,

"Then, can we make peace with the army of demon beasts?"

Chang Poyu was speechless for a while by Hua Sijian's naivety, and glared at Huo Ping, who was hiding beside the emperor,

"The minister has already said that those demon beasts are real beasts, and their favorite thing is to eat alive all the people of Kyushu that they can meet. If our soldiers on the border had been able to get help earlier, they might have been able to hold on for a little longer with the help of a few passes. But right now, their flesh, like those precious cities, was trampled into mud by the demon beasts. ”

Speaking of this, the old general Chang Poyu remembered the vivid faces, although he saw life and death, he was not hard-hearted, his eyes were red, and he almost shed tears.

Huo Ping, who was on the side, finally couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice, "General Chang's mourning, that Beacon Captain Geng Zhong who saved my life, he, is he okay?"

Huo Ping still remembered Geng Zhong, and his face was concerned, no matter how much it was from the bottom of his heart, at least it showed that the commander of the forbidden army still had some conscience.

Chang Poyu paused for a moment and replied to Huo Ping,

"Captain Geng Zhong fought bravely, bravely and strategically, but when he was fighting against the Demon Beast Demon King, his eyes were damaged by the strong light of the demon magic. ”

"What? And where is he now?"

"Captain Beacon, with some men and horses to cut off the queen for me, is also vigorously mobilizing in various places. Execute my scorched earth military plan. ”

"You've already activated the Scorched Earth Army?" Hua Sijian couldn't help but want to confirm. This is a tactic that only the founding emperor Gaozu used when the battle situation was extremely unfavorable and he was almost driven to a dead end.

Scorched earth military planning is to destroy all the supplies that may be left to the enemy, and of course, absolute scorched earth, that is, to burn everything.

Although this is to cut off the enemy's supply, at the same time, it is equivalent to cutting off the people's way of life. The people who wanted to survive had to march with the team to fight, so that they could get back a bite to eat.

As a last resort, you must not use such cruel means to hurt the people, disturb the luck of Great Xia, and it is equivalent to hurting the foundation of the Great Xia Empire.

But Chang Poyu even dared to use it privately, although Hua Sizhen also wanted to convince himself that this was just forced by the situation, but another voice lingered, and Chang Poyu didn't take Da Xia Zi too seriously.

Even if all the people outside the Great Xia City have been scorched, Chang Poyu knows that even so, it will be difficult to support it for a long time, and now he is announcing Wang Dingxiang overnight, just to report his precautionary plan to Hua Sijian.

The current crisis cannot be delayed for a while.

"Your Majesty, when the demon beast army swept over, the strong and reckless demon beast army will definitely be able to easily break through our city passes, I have asked Geng Zhong to inform each city one by one, and they must help each other and rely on each other. If the city is broken, all the people of the city will be used as military food by the demon beast army. ”

"In this way, can we defeat the army of demon beasts?" Hua Sizhen didn't bother to think about it himself, he just wanted to listen to Chang Poyu give him an answer directly.

Chang Poyu shook his head, "These are just the resistance of the demon beast army, and they can't defeat them, just to buy time for our imperial city." The only place where we can have a chance to fight the demon beasts again can only be our imperial city of Sheng'an. Please ask the emperor to issue a holy decree, and all the five armies of Great Xia will be concentrated in Sheng'an City to come to King Qin. Also, please ask the national teacher to be merciful and benevolent to see that the world is unkind and the common people are born as dogs, and use immortal magic to defend the Jingshi together. ”

"Well, you allow me to think about it for two days. General Chang has also worked hard all the way, so it's better to go back and rest early, and we'll come back tomorrow morning to study. ”

Hua Sijian was a little sleepy, and with a yawn, he wanted to take Chang Po away.