Le Gonggong returned to Yuejing on the tenth day after the decisive battle of Nanping Mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Covered with injuries and covered in knowledge, he threw himself at the feet of the crown prince Wu Jing and cried loudly.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty is gone!"

Like five thunderbolts, Wu Jing's whole person froze there, for a few days, he had completely lost contact with Zhongping County, and a bad feeling had been haunting his heart, and the anxiety of failure was like a worm scratching in his heart, but he held on to the only hope.

The Tiger Ben Army is one of the strongest armies in the world, and his father is a master of grandmaster cultivation, no matter what, he will not lose this battlefield, at most it will be a stalemate. He kept sending spies to investigate the form of Zhongping, but the spies hadn't come back yet, and Gonggong Le, one of the two big eunuchs beside his father, had returned.

"Your Majesty, the Tiger Ben Army was wiped out, Commander Kang died in battle, His Majesty desperately opened a bloody road for the remnants of the army, but he was seriously injured, surrounded and killed by the Taiping army and rebel masters, and now, the army that went out, only Zuo Fu Zhang Xiang with more than 3,000 people is retreating, and the slaves are ordered by Zhang Xiang to return to Yuejing first, please His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately prepare to prepare for war!" Father-in-law Le bowed his head heavily, and his forehead was bruised.

After a while, Wu Jing reacted, his father was gone, from now on, he was the emperor of Yue, but what was left of Yueguo.

Sitting down on the dragon chair, he waved his hand weakly, "Ring the alarm bell, summon the ministers into the palace, discuss the plan, and deal with the crisis." ”

The sound of the alarm bell began to ring in the sky over Yuejing City, one or two, three or four sounds, the bell was leisurely, and with the continuous ringing of the bell, the whole noisy Yuejing City quieted down.

The people who were walking stopped, looked in the direction of the palace, and the diners who were eating put down the bamboo in their hands and walked out of the restaurant, looking in that direction, in the house, in the shops, more and more people walked up the street and looked there.

Eighty-one bells rang.

Since the construction of Yuejing, the sound of the alarm bell of eighty-one rings has only occurred once in history, that is hundreds of years ago, dozens of barbarian coalition troops in the mountains went out of the mountain to besiege Yuejing, but that time, the Tang army was in full swing at that time, galloped to the aid of a hundred miles within three days, and after defeating the barbarian coalition in Yuejing City in one fell swoop, such a bell never rang again.

Because after that war, the vitality of the barbarians was greatly damaged, and under the preferential policy of the Tang Dynasty, more and more barbarians walked out of the mountains, and in hundreds of years, they have been integrated with the people under the mountain, and it is difficult to distinguish each other at all.

For more than 100 years, such a bell has never sounded, and even if the emperor has died, it has only sounded seventy-two times.

The full eighty-one rings only represent one thing, life and death.

Yuejing is the largest economic and cultural center in the north, even if the war in Vietnam has been in turmoil in recent years, Yuejing is still prosperous as before, and the people who fled from many places have brought more popularity to Yuejing, among these people, there are wealthy business gentry, and there are also ordinary people who have nothing, and the arrival of these people has injected new vitality into Yuejing.

The bell stopped, and there was a dead silence on the street for a moment, and then there was a bang, and the whole thing was in chaos, and everyone ran as fast as they could.

The merchants and travelers rushed back to the inn, packed their bags, and prepared to leave the city immediately, which had become extremely dangerous, but the local natives, at the first time, rushed to the grain store with a cloth bag, and the grain was stored, which became a major matter for them, even the poor who did not have much money at home turned over the little savings they had at home and rushed to the grain store.

In the blink of an eye, in front of all the grain stores, there was already a sea of people. As soon as the alarm bell fell, all the grain shops had tightly closed their storefronts, allowing the shouting outside to be hoarse, but there was no sound inside.

A galloping horse accelerated through the street, the knight on the horse unceremoniously whipped the pedestrians on the street with the whip in his hand, forcing them to give way, these people, are ministers of the court, the bell rang, they rushed to the palace, the sedan chair that symbolizes the identity on weekdays, at this moment can no longer sit.

In the palace, above the main hall, although the number of people is numerous, it is silent.

The news that Le Gonggong brought back means that the Dayue Mansion will fall, and the last arm, which is also the life-saving straw of Dayue, has been wiped out, and the Qin people who had promised to form an alliance with the Yue State and jointly eliminate the rebels and the Taiping Army turned against the water, and now, in the entire Yuejing City, there is only one city gate army left, and the number is only 10,000. And the city gate army usually does more things, is to maintain law and order, catch petty thieves, open the way for the ministers to guard the gate, if they want to go to the battlefield, I am afraid that before they see the enemy's flag, they will flee without a trace.

"On weekdays, I take the money and make a fortune one by one, but at this time when the country is in danger, have they all become saw-billed gourds? You must know that you are one with the country, the more the country prospers, the more you prosper, the more the country dies, and your fate is not much better. Wu Jing roared and glared at all the civil and military officials in the hall.

One by one, the officials bowed their heads, looked at their noses, and looked at their hearts. It is difficult for a Qiao woman to cook without rice, and now Yuejing City, what to do to resist the joint attack of the Taiping Army and the Luo Yishui rebels.

Wu Jing sat on the dragon chair, glanced at the ministers below sadly, and sighed: "Yuejing is so big, there is no more Mrs. Xiao?" You guys are not even as good as a woman? ”

Everyone's faces were full of shame, Longyou battled, Mrs. Xiao led a thousand families and 3,000 county soldiers to block the attack of tens of thousands of Luo Yishui's troops, and was once considered to be a hero of the Yue Kingdom who turned the tide, but now, where to find another person like this?

"Your Majesty." In the dead silence, Zhou Tai, the secretary of the military department, stood up: "Today's plan is to mobilize all the people who can be mobilized in Yuejing City, and prepare to defend the city. ”

"Your Majesty, in addition, you have to immediately send someone to ask for help from the Qi State, asking the Qi State to send troops to attack the Taiping Army's lair and force the Taiping Army to return to save itself." Su Kairong, the head of the household, also stood up.

"Close the city gates and not allow anyone to leave the city. Everyone must live and die with Yuejing City. Zhou Tai's eyes showed a fierce light.

The two bigwigs opened their mouths, and the hall was also lively, but most of the ideas were not in this way, and in the entire hall, the ominous atmosphere spread invisibly among the people, although the mouth was still shouting slogans, vowing to live and die with Yuejing City, but in private, the eyeballs were rolling, and I didn't know what idea I was thinking.

It was not until midnight that this time the palace meeting was finally over, and the strategies of rushing to the hospital in a hurry, gathering the families of various prefectures, and arming the young and middle-aged people in the capital were all adopted, but people with a little military knowledge in the DPRK and China knew that such a rabble of temporarily armed people was completely vulnerable in the face of a well-trained army.

Coming out of the palace, Zhang Jian rode a horse and walked on the street, Yuejing City had begun a curfew, the street was empty, except for the occasional patrol soldiers, there was no one to be seen, but Zhang Jian knew that on both sides of the street, in those dark houses with no light in sight, no one could sleep.

Tonight's Yuejing City is destined to be a sleepless night.

How to fight? What to fight? Relying on his own city gate army and those family members, young and strong? It's a joke. Although Zhang Jian does not have any outstanding military talents, he has also honed himself in the military camp since he was a child, and he still has basic common sense.

The only good news I heard today is that my father is still alive and his sky hasn't fallen yet.

When he returned to the military yamen of the city gate and walked into his public hall, the oncoming soldiers had strange faces.

"What's going on again?" He asked angrily, but his heart was very calm, no matter what moths happened in the city gate army, compared to His Majesty's death in battle, the destruction of the Tiger Ben army, it was nothing.

"General, just now more than a dozen generals came here with their big seals, saying that they were going to resign and quit, and the villain asked them to wait for the general to come back, but they dropped the big seal and ran away." The soldier muttered.

"Ran away?" Zhang Jian was stunned at first, and then laughed dumbly, his grandmother's was still a family member, young and strong, and even the officers who were serious had already run away. "How are the ministries doing?"

"General, what else can I do, the generals who led the team have all run away, and there is still no chaos below?" The pro-soldier whispered.

Zhang Jian sighed, stepped into the public hall, but remembered something, retreated again, turned around and walked out.

"General, where are you going?"

"I'm out on some errands." Zhang Jian paused and said: "If there are such officers again, you can keep them for me no matter what, tell these bastards, Lao Tzu will go out now to find a way to live for them, and if they dare to run, Lao Tzu will kill people, and now that the capital is closed, where can they run?" Don't wait for Lao Tzu to bring someone to the door to take them out and cut off their heads on the street, and those officers who have left, you send someone to find them back immediately, it is also the same sentence, before I come back, they have not returned to the barracks, just wait to die! ”

"The villain understands." The pro-soldier said loudly.

Out of the yamen, Zhang Jian led the horse straight to a place, the way he said was a place he used to go to, heaven and earth. Now that the Taiping Army is in power, this Qinglou, which is inextricably linked with the Taiping Army, has undoubtedly become a lifeline for him. (To be continued.) )