The person coming was a post soldier, a frontier soldier!

The empress's face has changed drastically.

Zhou An jumped out and rushed out, rushed out of the bead curtain, and rushed directly to the gate. He took the letter from the blood-spouting post soldier. The seal of the letter was covered with a fire-lacquered seal, which had not been opened before.

There are no words on the envelope.

Zhou An first opened the envelope and pulled out the folded letter. He shook it open and looked at it. He just wanted to make sure that there was no problem with the letter. There was no hidden weapon inside and there was no poison on the letter paper, so he could hand it over to the empress.

The empress lives in the deep palace, and everything she can come into contact with, whether it is food, clothing, or use, has been repeatedly tested layer by layer, and can only be given to her if she is sure there is no problem.

These eight hundred miles of urgent urgent letters were sent directly to the empress from outside, and they must also be checked before the empress can be seen.

Zhou An just wanted to check whether there was any problem with the letter, but at the same time, he also read the content of the letter and quickly scanned it.

call.

Zhou An immediately turned around and rushed to the empress.

The empress has walked out from behind the pearl curtain.

Zhou An handed over the letter to the empress.

The empress stared at her eyes and quickly glanced at her. Her face quickly became extremely ugly. Her brows frowned, and her hand holding her anxious letter was slowly exerting force, and her joints turned pale.

Zhou An knew why she was like this.

He also heard the post soldier's words and even read the content of the letter. Although he only glanced at it for a few seconds, with his strength, his memory was naturally extraordinary, so he quickly recorded it.

The emergency letter was written by Dong Weiwu, the commander of the Northern Army and the Marshal of the North.

The letter states that the "Etulu tribe" of the Northern Rong Empire sent 60,000 troops and rushed to the Dongqian Dynasty on the northern border of Qishan Pass last night. It took only one hour to break through the pass. The 50,000 northern border troops guarding Qishan Pass were directly killed and scattered. The general of Qishan Pass and the general Wei Meng, the general of Zhenbei, died on the spot.

Then, 60,000 enemy soldiers from the Beirong Empire attacked the Dongqian Dynasty. The 60,000 enemy soldiers were mainly cavalry and were extremely fast. They divided into multiple troops and attacked all night. In just one day, they broke through the three prefectures and 18 counties in the northern border, burned, killed and looted along the way, without anyone to stop them.

Most of the defenders in the northern border fled when they were expected to win, and even more cities opened the city directly to offer surrender.

The letter of emergency was written on dusk on the afternoon of the second day after the Beirong Empire attacked Qishan Pass at night. Dong Weiwu, the Marshal of Zhenbei, wrote at the end of the letter of emergency. He was about to lead the Northern Frontier Army to block the 30,000 main cavalry of the Beirong Empire.

The letter was sent from the Northern Xinjiang Post Station before the night of the 27th day of the winter moon.

And now, it is the first day of the twelfth lunar month.

In other words, the 60,000 enemy troops of the Etulu tribe of the Northern Rong Empire launched a surprise attack on the 26th night of the winter moon. It has been five days since today.

The speed of this message is actually quite fast.

Because the land area of ​​the Dongqian Dynasty was too large.

Now, the northern border should have a result. Whether Dong Weiwu will defeat or stabilize the situation should have a result. Just wait for the news.

I don’t know what’s going on there now, but I can infer... it’s very, very unoptimistic!

The Northern Frontier is a general term for the eight states in the north of the Dongqian Dynasty, bordering or near the Beirong Empire. Because the Northern Frontier Empire has always been a major concern of the Dongqian Dynasty, especially in recent years, the Dongqian country has weakened its strength and the Beirong Empire has repeatedly invaded the territory. In order to resist the repeated invasions of the Beirong Empire, Dongqian has deployed heavy troops in the northern border.

The Northern Frontier Legion and its subordinate units ruled by Dong Weiwu had a full 200,000 troops, and if the local army was included, the entire Northern Frontier would have a full 300,000 troops.

The Beirong Empire only sent 60,000 troops this time!

But in just one day, they broke through the three prefectures and eighteen counties in the northern border. This is... what a big problem does the Northern Frontier Army have to be so vulnerable? Are they all scarecrows?

The empress looked at the letter of emergency and her hands were shaking more and more violently.

Her face turned red and white.

Outside the gate of the hall, the post soldier vomited a few more mouthfuls of blood. He couldn't do it when he lay there. He had more breathing and less breathing. He didn't shake for long, and then he didn't move at all. The eunuch in the hall came over to see the situation and looked at him, and was startled.

"Saint, Master... He is dead." The little eunuch turned around and said with a trembling voice.

This is exhausted.

Eight hundred miles rushed, and he rushed for thousands of miles without sleep for several days and nights. I don’t know how many stations he passed, how many times he changed his horse, and how many horses he was exhausted from death.

Horses will be exhausted, and naturally, people will do so.

Crash.

The empress suddenly put down her hand holding the letter, slowed down her god, and said, "Great Burial!"

"Yes!" The little eunuch immediately took the order, and then he asked others for help, and he had to carry the body away first.

"Xiao Anzi, pass on my order!" The empress said with a cold expression, "Summon the chief minister of the cabinet, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, the auxiliary minister of the cabinet, the secretary of the six ministries, and the military generals above the third rank of the military officials, enter the palace to discuss matters!"

"Yes!" Zhou An received the order.

Something big happened!

This matter is so big that the empress temporarily let go of the open and secret struggle with Wu Xukuan. The empress also believed that when such a thing happened, Wu Xukuan would not be able to still be sick and not come. It can even be said that he dared not come.

Not to mention whether Wu Xukuan is concerned about the world's issues, just say... he has to consider the influence.

If such a thing happens, he still pretends to be sick and drags down the empress. I don’t know how many people will be disappointed with him. Those close and important officials under his command will probably have the idea of ​​"he is not a wise ruler". Wu Xukuan may not care about the opinions of the people of the people, but he has to care about the views of the civil and military officials of the court.

Wu Xukuan is a talented person. It is no exaggeration to say that his "civilization, military skills" are all as capable as emperors. It is precisely because of Wu Xukuan that he has the ability to reach this point today. Whether it is the important officials who follow him in the court or the generals who follow him in the army, many of them follow him because of this.

He will not ruin himself in this regard.

If he showed that he ignored the dangers of the border and ignored the turmoil of mountains and rivers, it would inevitably shake the determination of many people to follow him.

About half an hour passed.

Wu Xukuan has entered the palace!

Not only him, but many of them were summoned by the empress, who entered the palace as soon as possible, and some even prepared at home, changed their official uniforms and waited for the eunuchs in the palace to spread the order to announce their entry into the palace.

There was a problem with the frontier, and many people knew about this earlier than the empress, because the post soldiers who were expedited for eight hundred miles had to enter Qianjing City first, and rode their horses on the streets of Jingcheng, and ran half of Qianjing City before they could reach the palace... This would make many people see it, and would make many people guess what might have happened.

On the afternoon of that day, the empress summoned all the important officials and generals of the court to discuss the war in the northern border.

Zhou An didn't know what they had discussed.

Because he was not with him, Kang Longji would come forward in person to be with the empress.

Moreover, this matter has little to do with Zhou An.

No matter what result is discussed, he will not be able to be used.

Zhou An only needs to do his own thing well, that's enough.

However, this incident still had some impact on Zhou An.

It was precisely because of this incident that Zhou An had planned and received the empress's permission to carry out the action tonight, which was temporarily cancelled. There was no way. If such a thing happened, it would be difficult to immediately touch Wu Xukuan's people. The empress and Wu Xukuan's fight had to let go temporarily, and both sides had to let go temporarily.

...

This "emergency meeting" between the empress and the courtiers continued from the afternoon to the night before ending.

No discussion was made.

Because there is too little news now, the empress just received the first news from the Northern Xinjiang. She still doesn't know what the situation will be like, and she doesn't even know the situation. It would be too embarrassing to say that she can come up with a countermeasure immediately. Moreover, if the court mobilizes a large army for this, it will be very involved, and it will not be decided immediately.

the next day.

Early in the morning on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, soldiers from northern border entered the capital again.

Eight hundred miles of speed up!

News is here again!

Still an emergency letter.

The time when the emergency letter was sent was less than a day later than the first time, which was sent during the day of the 28th day of the winter moon.
Chapter completed!