Huo Du and a group of soldiers surrounded Zhou Chun at the stern of the boat, and Zhou Chun had no way out. Huo Du hurriedly advised: "Young master, give me the knife quickly. That thing is very dangerous and cannot be played with by you.
How about if you give me the knife and I'll play hide-and-seek with you?"
Zhou Chun pondered for a moment, then raised his head and saw his mother Ouyang Yinying standing behind everyone and nodded to him. Zhou Chun said: "Okay, but I'm hungry now, so I need to eat first."
After saying that, Zhou Chun threw the steel knife in his hand on the deck and ran away happily.
Huo Du sheathed the steel knife, suddenly turned his head and glanced at Zhou Chun's back, and frowned hurriedly, with a bad premonition in his heart. So, he quickly ran to the bow of the ship and hurriedly opened the carriage.
He opened the roller blind, but suddenly saw Ouyang Yinying in the carriage with her shoulders exposed. He looked surprised, and before he could react, Ouyang Yinying had already shouted loudly.
"ah……"
The soprano's sharp cry resounded throughout the ship, attracting the soldiers behind to rush to the bow.
Huo Du felt as if he had lost his soul at the scream. He hurriedly put down the curtain, took a few steps back, and then explained: "The last general deserves to die, the last general deserves to die, the last general did not do it on purpose, the last general only
I just want to see if the commander's horse is there, the general..."
Ouyang Yinying was sitting in the carriage and shouted sharply at Huo Du: "You deserve to die, please commit suicide now to apologize."
Huo Du was stunned. He didn't know what to do. He just said it politely and didn't really want to commit suicide. How could he know that the other party really asked him to commit suicide.
At this time, the rolling shutter of the carriage opened, and Ouyang Yinying stepped out of the carriage. Huo Du took a sneak peek and saw that there was indeed a person lying inside, just covered by a thin blanket. He knew that Zhou Yu was still there.
Now, I breathed a sigh of relief.
"What? Are you reluctant to die? You committed such an evil thing, do you think you can still live? Even if I don't kill you, if the incident reaches the ears of the emperor, how can the emperor spare you?"
Ouyang Yinying took a step closer and pressed her words.
Cold sweat ran down Huo Du's back, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. He knew deeply the consequences of offending the princess, but he did not mean to do so. It was really not worth it to die like this.
Finally, Huo Du thought about it and said to Ouyang Yinying: "The general is not afraid of death, but the general has official duties and must safely send the princess and the horse to Xiling. By then, the general will not be afraid of death."
He will kill himself again."
When the other soldiers saw it, they hurriedly knelt on the ground and said to Ouyang Yinying: "Princess, please calm down, General Huo made an unintentional mistake!"
Ouyang Yinying had no intention of forcing Huo Du to death, but only Huo Du was the shrewdest person in the boat. She was worried that Huo Du would cause trouble again, so she gave Huo Du a warning first, so that Huo Du would not dare to approach the carriage again. She
Seeing so many people pleading for Huo Du, it was just right for me
After driving up a step, she went down the steps and said slowly: "I believe that General Huo made an unintentional mistake today, so I don't plan to pursue it any further. But from now on, you are not allowed to get close to the carriage.
I may have to change in the carriage at any time."
Huo Du took a look at Ouyang Yinying and found that Ouyang Yinying's clothes were indeed a little different from those he had seen before, so he cupped his fists and said, "Yes."
So Ouyang Yinying returned to the carriage and said to Lao Hu who was driving the carriage: "Go and have dinner with the young master."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Husband, I don't know whether it's right or wrong to do this, but please remember that you can't abandon us mother and son no matter what..." Ouyang Yinying felt melancholy in her heart, and she didn't know what she was about to face.
What is going on? What would the former sworn brother and the current emperor do to her if he knew that she let Zhou Yu go on purpose?
After the situation calmed down, Huo Du breathed a sigh of relief and asked people to speed up the boat, hoping to reach the other side as soon as possible.
In the Xunyang River, Zhou Yu swam to the shore with all his strength. At this time, the Chinese army controlled Xunyang, and there were relatively few patrol ships on both sides of the Xunyang River, so Zhou Yu was able to go ashore.
He lay all wet in the grass on the shore, breathing heavily, but in his heart he was thinking about how to get out of this hellish place.
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Wu Du built Ye.
Pingnan Marquis Lu Fan was sent back from Luoyang along the same route. When he arrived at Jiangdu Prefecture, Gan Ning specially sent Lu Fan across the river, and then Lu Fan returned to Jianye from Qu'a.
However, he did not even enter the city, but went directly to the Hanlin Academy where Sun Ce was.
In the prison cell of the Hanlin Academy, Sun Ce sat there quietly, wondering why Lu Fan had not heard any news since he had been gone for more than ten days.
Sun Shao, the adopted son, saw Sun Ce's sad face and took the initiative to persuade him: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Marquis Pingnan will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty when he goes here."
Sun Ce shook his head and said: "Now we and the Huaxia Kingdom are one and the same. If we can save Soochow, I am willing to make sacrifices. However, I just don't know if the Huaxia Kingdom will agree to what I propose.
suggestion."
While they were talking, someone came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Marquis Pingnan has returned and is outside the Hanlin Academy."
"Let him in quickly." Sun Ce suddenly stood up and walked out of the cage with a cheerful face.
Not long after, Pingnan Marquis Lu Fan followed Sun Ce's soldiers and came over. Seeing Sun Ce's unkempt appearance, Lu Fan burst into tears.
It has been three years. Lu Fan has never seen Sun Ce in three years. Since the Song Dynasty became regent three years ago, there have been rumors outside that Sun Ce is obsessed with weapons and spends all day researching new weapons in the Imperial Academy. But no one outside knows that.
, the so-called Hanlin Academy was actually a prison where Sun Ce was imprisoned.
"Your Majesty... I... I'm sorry, Your Majesty..." Lu Fan felt very complicated after seeing Sun Ce. They were good friends in the past, and Lu Fan married Sun Jian's niece, so the two were related by marriage.
, along with Zhu Zhi and Wu Jing, were all important ministers of the Sun family.
Sun Ce hurriedly helped Lu Fan up and said to Lu Fan: "There is nothing to be sad about. I have roughly guessed it, but I didn't expect it to happen so quickly."
"Your Majesty, it's my fault..." So Lu Fan told Sun Ce what he had experienced in Luoyang.
After hearing this, Sun Ce sneered and said slowly: "There is no proof. His method of framing me is really clever. In this way, he will have sufficient reason to attack our country of Wu..."
"Your Majesty, on my way back, I saw some very subtle things. The Huaxia Kingdom mobilized its troops very frequently. I pretended not to know anything along the way, but I knew that this was the Huaxia Kingdom adding more troops to our Wu Kingdom..."
With that said, Lu Fan took out a letter of credence, handed it to Sun Ce, and said, "This is the letter of credence given to your majesty by Gao Fei. Please take a look at it."
Sun Ce took the certificate of credence that had never been opened. After opening it, he saw three bright red characters, which turned out to be "Declaration of War." He browsed through it hurriedly, and found that everything written in the book was the state of China.
He blamed the State of Wu and then persuaded him to surrender, asking Sun Ce to surrender unconditionally. After surrendering, he could continue to serve as Marquis of Wu, but everything in the State of Wu would be brought under the jurisdiction of the Huaxia State, and Sun Ce would only be given one mansion as a settlement.
"Hahaha...I'm so naive. I'm like a sheep kneeling in front of a ferocious wolf and begging it not to eat me. Hahahaha..." Sun Ce burst out laughing. He has been doing this for more than two years.
After reading this letter of credence, I completely figured out the problem that I couldn't figure out. He will no longer compromise and follow Sun Jian's orders. He will lead the soldiers of Wu to resist the Chinese army to the death.
Sun Shao and Lu Fan were curious when they saw Sun Ce suddenly laughing, but no one said anything and just waited quietly.
"Prepare your horses and ask all the defenders to follow me and return to the capital." Sun Ce said to Sun Shao as he walked forward.
After Sun Shao heard this, he immediately followed Sun Ce's words. Lu Fan followed Sun Ce closely, as if he saw the frightening little overlord of the past in Sun Ce's back.
In the imperial palace of Jian Ye City, after receiving the declaration of war from the Huaxia Kingdom, the whole hall was in uproar.
The declaration of war was sent this morning. It threatened that the Huaxia Kingdom would use millions of troops to carry out a unification war. If the Wu Kingdom was willing to surrender, all civil and military officials and the Sun family could be considered as officials in the Huaxia Kingdom, and they would also be reused.
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Therefore, the civil and military ministers immediately divided into two groups on this issue.
Most of the civil officials headed by Prime Minister Zhang Zhao agreed to surrender, because the Chinese state had one million troops waiting for danger. For these people, what did one million troops mean? It was a huge number, and some people had not even thought about it.
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However, the generals led by Taiwei Cheng Pu advocated fighting to the end, stated their interests, and vowed not to surrender.
Sun Quan was sitting in the main hall. Hearing the quarrel between the civil and military parties, his head was almost pounding. The purpose of Zhou Yu's visit last time was to get a vaccination first. But facing the millions of Huaxia troops
Under pressure, Sun Quan hesitated again. If he did not surrender, the soldiers and common people in Jiangnan would suffer. When the people were displaced, Jiangnan, which had just improved economically, would be reduced to ruins, and it might also have great consequences for Jiangnan.
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"That's enough!" Sun Quan couldn't listen anymore, so he shouted loudly and stood up from his seat in the hall.
His seat is right next to the Dragon Throne. Since he has not officially ascended the throne, he cannot sit on it, otherwise it would be trespassing.
Because of Sun Quan's shout, the hall suddenly became quiet and completely silent.
Sun Quan glanced at every familiar face of the civil and military ministers, and said slowly: "Whether it is war or surrender, it is too early to say. I will make a decision after I write to Gong Jin and ask Gong Jin."
At this moment, an urgent report came. The person who reported the message was too panicked and immediately said loudly in the main hall: "Your Majesty, I just received the latest battle report. Last night, the Chinese army launched an attack on Xunyang and Chaisang."
In a sudden attack, the 100,000-strong army left there by the Governor-General, except for the 20,000-strong army led by General Chen Wu of the Left, retreated to the mouth of the lake. The rest of the army was wiped out. Those who were captured were captured, and those who were killed were killed..."
After hearing this, Sun Quan was so frightened that his legs went weak. He slumped down on a chair and asked, "What about Zhou Yu?"