When they heard the words "officers and soldiers are coming", everyone in the room was stunned, and Wang Wenhua, who was always very timid, almost lost his balance.
Even Li Xuan, who always thought he was calm and calm, suddenly felt his heart beat faster and felt like he couldn't breathe.
Liu Bagou, on the other hand, remained calm. He turned around and looked at a bandit who hurried in, and then said in a low voice: "How unbecoming you are in a panic!"
Liu Bagou usually pays great attention to things like etiquette and status, and he will rarely scold him severely when encountering this kind of thing. However, today he only said one sentence and then immediately changed his subject: "What the hell is going on?"
What happened? What officers and soldiers are here?"
At this moment, the bandit who ran in gasped and said intermittently: "It's Long... the officers and soldiers of Huazhen, they... entered the mountain!"
At this time, Li Xuan had taken deep breaths several times in succession. After calming down his mood a little, he deliberately said in a calm tone: "Speak slowly, don't be anxious, speak carefully!"
Although his voice was deliberately kept calm and sounded a little calm, if you listen carefully, you will find that Li Xuan's voice was trembling.
The messenger who reported the news was very young, looking about twenty years old. He calmed down and said: "Your Majesty, I have been monitoring the officers and soldiers outside the mountain. Oh, no, they are from the Ming army. Two days ago,
I discovered that the Ming army in Longhua Town left the town early in the morning!"
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Bagou on the side asked: "Was it two days ago? Did they enter the mountain? Also, how many people did they come?"
It can be heard from Liu Bagou's words that although his tone is still calm, he hastily interrupted the messenger and asked directly, which shows that he is also very worried at this moment.
The envoy said: "Two days ago, as soon as they came out of Longhua Town, they went directly into the mountains. There is no specific number of how many people there are, but there are at least four to five hundred people!"
Then he added: "As soon as the young man discovered that the Ming army had entered the mountain, he immediately took a small road and ran back to report the news."
Then, Liu Bagou asked in detail about the situation of the Ming Army, such as where the Ming Army was now, who the Ming Army generals were leading the team, and so on.
When Liu Bagou asked the envoy for details, Li Xuan sat on the dragon chair with a worried expression.
Although it has long been expected that the Ming army will not be idle this winter and will definitely enter the mountains after the autumn harvest. For this reason, Li Xuan also tried his best to attack Jiguan Mountain some time ago, in order to prevent the Ming army from entering the mountains as much as possible.
Possibly strengthen Huang Zhushan's power.
But I didn't expect that before Jiguan Mountain was conquered, the Ming army entered the mountain.
The Ming army entered the mountains on a large scale. If they were allowed to successfully find Huangzhu Mountain, they might not end well by then.
Either he fled again, or he was captured by the Ming army and executed as a typical rebel. He might even be taken to the capital to enjoy the treatment of being executed in Lingchi.
When he thought that he would fall into the tragic fate of being executed by Ling Chi, Li Xuan became depressed and even more panicked.
Although he is a time traveler, he is also afraid of death. He is not an invincible superman. When facing death, he is just like ordinary people, he is extremely afraid.
what to do?
Today, Li Xuan keeps thinking of these words in his mind, trying to find a way to survive for himself.
Otherwise, he might as well just run away. Now that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren are away, although there are still a few guards watching him, he has stayed in Huangzhushan well in the past few months and has not escaped a second time.
Maybe they have let their guard down.
But how to run? Where to run?
Huangzhu Mountain is really located deep in the mountains. It would take several days at least to get out of the mountains. Moreover, there are no major roads in the mountains, only small roads, and the mountains are high and the forests are dense.
If you don't do it right, you'll get lost.
To put it bluntly, even if you ran out of the mountains, how could you escape the pursuit of the Ming army?
It is not popular for ordinary people to travel far away these days. In many places, no outsiders may come for several years or even more than ten years. If a stranger suddenly runs into a place, he must be shining like a firefly in the dark night.
I know I am a foreigner.
As long as the government isn't too lazy, it won't take long to find him.
And are the government lazy? Most of the time, they are quite lazy. What the government these days pays attention to is to govern by doing nothing. To put it bluntly, it means not doing anything and letting the people fend for themselves.
But facing the great achievement of capturing the false emperor Li Xuan, no matter how lazy the officials are, they will not relax. They will have trouble sleeping and eating until Li Xuan is found.
After all, such a huge credit is just wandering around. If they don't take this credit, they will regret it for ten thousand years!
The longer he comes to this era, to be honest, the less Li Xuan wants to escape. This is not to say that he doesn't want to run, but that he has stayed in this era for a long time and knows more things. He knows that the difficulty of escape is no more than what he should do.
How much easier is it to be the emperor of the valley?
In this situation, escaping from the mountain is an option, but Li Xuan knows that this is his last option. He will only do this if there is really no other way.
Now, he could only hope that the Ming army could not find Huangzhu Mountain, or that the Ming army got lost in the mountains, or simply encountered a landslide or something like a crack in the ground, which made him hiccup.
In this way, he, the Shangou Emperor, can continue to reign peacefully, at least in a short period of time without having to worry about being killed by the Ming army.
When Li Xuan was thinking about this in confusion, Liu Bagou also ended the conversation with the envoy.
After the messenger who reported the news went out, Liu Bagou said: "Your Majesty, now that the Ming army is invading, the situation is urgent. I think it is time for General Fang and others to come back early to prepare for the war with the Ming army!"
At this time, Wang Wenhua also said: "Yes, although the rebels in Jiguan Mountain are hateful, we will always be able to deal with them in the future. But now that the Ming army is invading, we, the Tang Dynasty, need to concentrate our forces so that we can defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop!"
Li Xuan also felt that at this time, he should not continue to entangle with the bandits in Jiguan Mountain. As Wang Wenhua said, although the bandits in Jiguan Mountain should be beaten, in fact, Jiguan Mountain was not important to the Tang Dynasty.
It was not a threat. The original attack on Jiguan Mountain was just to regain Jiguan Mountain, Black Tiger Village, and Huanggui Mountain to enhance the strength of the Tang Dynasty.
The real threat to the Tang Dynasty is the Ming army!
And this threat can kill people.
Once the Ming army attacks and the Tang Dynasty cannot stop it, not only Li Xuan, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, will be destroyed, but Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua and other important officials of the Tang Dynasty will also die, and even the more than a thousand people in Huangzhu Mountain will die.
The fate of ordinary mountain people is probably not that good.
It is very possible for men to be beheaded and women to be sold into slavery.
After all, from ancient times to the present, any political power has extremely low tolerance for those who rebel, and any of them will implicate the Nine Clans.
So Li Xuan didn't hesitate at all and said immediately: "Send someone to Jiguan Mountain immediately and let General Fang and others return to the court!"