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After a moment, a knock on the door came from outside the study room. Liu Jing stepped forward and opened the door. Sun Shangxiang stood outside the door with a pot of hot tea. "It's so late, why haven't you rested?" Sun Shangxiang glanced at him quietly and asked with a hint of complaining tone.

Liu Jing held her hand and felt that it was cold to start. He quickly pulled her into the room and rubbed her frozen hands for her and smiled, "I'm waiting for the dragon. If he doesn't come in a while, I'll go and rest."

"It's so late and the weather is cold, General Zhao probably won't come."

Sun Shangxiang said, then sat down next to the brazier and poured a cup of tea for Liu Jing, "Come on the tea first and it's almost warm."

Liu Jing picked up the teacup, took a sip, and then looked at Sun Shangxiang carefully. She found that there seemed to be an undetectable worry between her eyebrows, so she asked with a smile: "Are you in a bad mood?"

"I feel like this. I don't know whether it's good or bad. I don't know. I always feel a kind of indescribable loss." Sun Shangxiang sighed softly.

Liu Jing sat down behind her, hugged her in his arms, and put her on her waist and asked, "I'm still worried about Xiao Qiao's affairs."

Sun Shangxiang shook her head, "This kind of thing is angry and then over. I've seen it out. As you are, there are only so many women. It's already very restrained. I don't need to be angry."

"That's why your eyebrows are always hard to stretch."

Sun Shangxiang was silent for a moment and asked in a low voice: "Mr., will you really destroy Jiangdong one day?"

Liu Jing then realized why Sun Shangxiang was worried. It turned out that he was worried about his homeland. He thought for a while and said, "It is not a question of destroying Jiangdong, but only restoring the Han Dynasty's governance of Jiangdong. In the past, including your father and brother, they were all Han ministers. In the future, your family will still be Han ministers. Isn't that good?"

Sun Shangxiang snuggled in her husband's arms and sighed softly: "Actually, I also know that the people of Jiangdong will not suffer from war again. This is a good thing, but I am always worried about my family."

Speaking of this, she raised her head, stared at Liu Jing with tears in her eyes, and choked up, "Will the husband destroy my family on that day?"

Liu Jing hugged her tightly in his arms with pity, gently wiped away the tears in her eyes, and said softly: "You should understand that the Sun family's difficulties were definitely not caused by me. Sun Ben died, and his more than a dozen children were massacred by He Jing, as well as Sun Yu and the Wujun tribe. Once the Jiangdong army conquered Wu County, I believe your brother will never spare them. I really doubt whether the Sun family will be left with your brother in the future."

Sun Shangxiang finally couldn't help but lie in her husband's arms and cried bitterly. Liu Jing did not advise her. After a long time, Sun Shangxiang's emotions finally stabilized. She raised her pretty face like a rainy pear blossom and begged her husband, "Mr., you must save my family."

Liu Jing nodded slowly, "I will do my best."

At this time, a hurried footsteps came from outside, and a maid said at the door: "Report to Prince, General Zhao is asking for a meeting."

Liu Jing knew that Zhao Yun was back tonight, so he ordered: "Please wait for me to go to my study outside, and I will be there soon."

The maid went, Liu Jing helped Sun Shangxiang up and said with a smile: "You go back to your room first, I will accompany you tonight."

Sun Shangxiang wiped away the tears, nodded silently, turned around and left the study. Liu Jing looked at her back and couldn't help but shake her head. Although he also hoped to solve the Jiangdong problem at the lowest cost, many things cannot be taken into account in the relationship between children.

After the New Year, Zhao Yun is also very busy. His wife Li is eight months pregnant. This will be Zhao Yun's second child. He is extremely expectant and temporarily put down everything in his hands. He stays with his wife every day, waiting for the birth of the child.

However, Zhao Yun would never abolish the public because of his own personal gain. Seeing that the preparations for the Hefei battle began to be implemented tensely, he felt itchy, hoping that he could participate in this war.

Zhao Yun sat in Liu Jing's study outside to drink tea and waited. At this time, footsteps came from the yard, and Liu Jing's laughter came, "I'm really sorry to let the dragon come so late."

Zhao Yun quickly got up and bowed to Liu Jing who had walked into the room and said, "I'm going to see Your Highness."

Although Liu Jing and Zhao Yun had an unusual friendship and Liu Jing always regarded Zhao Yun as his brother, since Liu Jing was named Queen of Han, Zhao Yun has tried to maintain the way of monarch and ministers between them. This is not only to maintain Liu Jing's authority, but also to Zhao Yun's own future. Since ancient times, it may not be a good thing to be too close to the monarch and ministers.

Liu Jing can also understand Zhao Yun's difficulties. He no longer deliberately shows his special relationship with Zhao Yun, and tries to get along with the relationship between the monarch and the subject.

Liu Jing waved his hand and smiled, "Let's sit down and talk."

Zhao Yun sat down and asked first: "I don't know what's going on in Hexi?"

"Hexi has temporarily stabilized. I don't think there will be any problems within one or two years, but it will be hard to say if it takes a little longer. I also hope that Ma Mengqi can do it well."

After a pause, Liu Jing continued: "If Hexi cannot be stable, it will be a big threat to our eastern expedition. So now, as long as the Qiang people do not do too much, I will try my best to tolerate it and settle accounts with them after the autumn."

Zhao Yun nodded, "I heard that Your Highness is going to take charge of Hefei in person, right?"

"Cao Cao is also in Hefei. Why don't I go? This time I will also use 150,000 troops. The battle in Hefei will determine the general trend of the world in the next ten years. It is crucial to us. We will do our best in this battle."

Zhao Yun finally couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, I hope to join the war."

Liu Jing knew that he would have this request, so he smiled and said, "Your child is about to be born, so stay this time. Although you are in Guanzhong, I still have to give you an important task."

Zhao Yun smiled bitterly. Since Liu Jing had already said that, there would be no chance of his own this time. He had to nod his head silently, "I am willing to obey your Highness's arrangement."

Liu Jing said again: "This time you must not only be responsible for the security of Chang'an, but also must restrain the Cao army in Luoyang and prevent them from going south to assist Nanyang. In other words, you need to station more than 50,000 heavy troops in Tongguan. Once Cao's army moves south, they will immediately go out of the pass and threaten Luoyang, forcing Cao's army to defend Luoyang steadily. If you do this well, it will be a great contribution."

Zhao Yun understood Liu Jing's intention and immediately stood up and said, "Abide by the orders of humble duties."

As time gradually came, the night became deeper, and a little bit of spring was gone, the night wind became biting cold, and there were no pedestrians on the street, and even stray cats and dogs no longer showed up. They hid in the corner and survived this cold night, leaving only piles of dirty black snow, piled up beside them, waiting for the final moment of complete melting to arrive.

Then at this moment, a black shadow hurried outside the gate of Xishi City. He moved very quickly, but he was cautious and looked around from time to time. The black shadow came to the door of a four-story restaurant and knocked on the door rhythmically. After a moment, the door creaked open, the black shadow flashed into the tavern, and the door closed immediately.

In the darkness, a guy walked in front with an oil lamp in his hand, followed by a dark shadow with a gloomy face. He was about ten years old, with a long face and a cold eyes. This person was Zhang Yang, the head of Cao Jun’s intelligence in Chang'an, that is, Zhang Lu'er, the former Zhang Lu'er.

He has been promoted now, and no one dares to call him Zhang Lu'er anymore, but everyone envies him. He used to be just a clerk, but because his relationship with Yang Tian was very ordinary, he was recommended as his successor by Yang Tian.

This tavern is one of the intelligence points set up by Cao Jun in Chang'an. It is mainly responsible for contacting the Central Plains. As soon as Zhang Yang walked to the backyard, the shopkeeper of the restaurant hurriedly greeted Zhang Yang and hurriedly saluted Zhang Yang. The shopkeeper's surname is Qin, who is about forty years old and is a small intelligence leader.

Zhang Yang waved his hand, "If you have important things to explain to you, go into the room and talk about it."

The two walked into the room, Zhang Yang closed the door casually, then took out a piece of information and handed it to the shopkeeper Qin and said, "This is the confidential information I just got. The Han army is preparing to send about 100,000 troops to suppress Tongguan. Zhao Yun is commanded by him. He is ready to attack Luoyang at any time. Please make urgent preparations for General Xiahou."

Manager Qin took the information and looked it out and asked, "Are you going out now?" "Of course, I have to send it to Luoyang overnight."

Manager Qin nodded, "I will send you to Luoyang immediately."

The next afternoon, Zhao Yun led an army of 50,000 to go to Luoyang. The army pretended to be 100,000 and held a grand military dispatch ceremony outside Chang'an City to worship all directions and horse gods. Amid the huge sound of war drums, the 100,000 troops rushed towards Tongguan.

And the next night after Zhao Yun sent his troops, another 50,000 army bypassed Chang'an City and secretly drove to the southwest. The team rushed on the official road, but the direction was Shangluo County.

At the forefront of the team was the vanguard Pang De's team. He led 6,000 elite cavalry to go first. Liu Jing ordered Wei Yan and Zhang Ren to be the generals of the left and right troops, Zhang Yi as the general of the rear army, Liu Jing personally took charge of the central army, Wang Ping as the flag-plaque official, and 50,000 troops raised troops at night and rushed straight towards Nanyang.

Two days later, the team arrived at Wuguan.

The terrain of Guanxi is relatively flat, only when you go out to the east, you can go across the mountainside and cross the mountainside. The cliffs are high and the valleys are deep, and it is narrow and difficult to move. Therefore, Wuguan is a must-fight for military strategists in ancient times. Guancheng is built on a relatively flat highland in the canyon. It is adjacent to the towering and steep Shaoxi Mountain in the north and is on the verge of dangerous places in the south. The surrounding area of ​​Guancheng is long and the city wall is tall and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The team was stationed in front of Wuguan, and the generals received orders from Liu Jing to rush to the central army tent. In addition to King Liu Jing of Han, there were military counselor Fa Zheng and Qin Mi, as well as generals of Wuwei Liu Hu, and other side generals such as Pang De, Zhang Ren, Wei Yan, Zhang Yi and others, and dozens of officers above the lieutenant were gathered together.

In the big tent is a huge sand tray, about 100 meters long and 2 meters wide. It is made up of sand trays from Guanzhong, Jingzhou and Central Plains. Fa Forehand holds a long pole and introduces the generals to the deployment of the attack on Nanyang.
Chapter completed!