The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed!

Hong Xiuquan was killed!

Liu Bei changed color in shock, his old figure suddenly shook, and the bold words that had already reached his throat were immediately put back.

At the stairs, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and other civil and military ministers of the Han Dynasty changed their colors in shock and thought they had heard the wrong ears.

You know, less than a month ago, they had just received information that although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was defeated repeatedly, they finally stopped the Wei army's offensive in Longbian City. No matter how many means the Wei army used, they could not break through the city.

The Han people were optimistic that the pottery's offensive would end and would fall into a situation where they could not be defeated for a long time.

This means that the Tao merchants and the 100,000 Wei army will be nailed to the Longbian City and will take at least several months to return to the north.

In a few months, the northern states might have been captured under the attacks between their four groups of troops and internal and external forces. Even if the pottery merchants rushed back to the Central Plains, it would be useless.

However, they never expected that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which they had high hopes for, would be destroyed in one month!

How can they accept this amazing fact?

Liu Bei, who was shocked, came to his senses for a while and shouted: "A month ago, you said that the dragon weaving was solid as a golden soup, and the pottery thieves were trapped in the quagmire of Jiaozhou and could not get out. Why was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom destroyed so quickly? How could this be possible??"

The imperial guards did not dare to speak, so they could only crawl forward with fear and report the silk book urgently.

Liu Bei took it away and couldn't wait to take a closer look at it.

After just a few glances, Liu Bei's eyes burst into astonishment, his mouth shrank into an exaggerated circle, and his expression was frozen in an incredible moment.

In the silk book information, the process of the destruction of the Dragon City was simply written, but clearly:

Longbiancheng was collapsed by a sudden earthquake!

"Earthquake! Another earthquake..." Liu Bei gritted his teeth, his fists were clenched secretly, and his round eyes burst into his expression of shock and anger.

He remembered Zhending City.

At that time, Zhending City, which Hou Jing guarded, was also indestructible to him and all the civil and military officials of the Han Dynasty.

As a result, such a strong city was inexplicably collapsed by a sudden earthquake, causing Zhending to fall. His war on the southern expedition was told in failure.

The earthquake at that time completely shocked the military and civilians of the Han Dynasty. Many people had the idea that the pottery merchant was the Lord of Destiny, and that it was God who showed his spirit to help the pottery merchant, which was a huge blow to the morale of the Han Dynasty.

In order to calm the people, Liu Bei tried his best to liar that the earthquake was nothingness and that Zhending City had been destroyed because of the old city defense project. It was just an accident.

But today, the same thing happened again, once again proving that the pottery was the Lord of Destiny.

Otherwise, how could the heaven use two earthquakes to help the pottery merchant at a critical moment?

Even if you are stupid, you may not believe that this is a coincidence.

"Your Majesty, how did the Dragon City be broken?" Zhang Fei asked impatiently.

Liu Bei frowned and wanted to inform everyone of the information in his hand. His eyes turned, but he tore the silk book in his hand angrily to pieces and threw it into the air.

The ministers below were stunned for a moment.

Liu Bei took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down his anger, and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter how Longbian City was destroyed. Hong Xiuquan is incompetent. Just destroy it. Even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is gone, this time we have four troops besieged the pottery thieves, he will not be able to escape and die!"

Zhang Fei was stupid and couldn't guess what Liu Bei was doing. He didn't know that Liu Bei had torn apart the information, but he just didn't want him to know the truth about Longbian being forced.

If the subjects of the Han Dynasty knew that the pottery merchants collapsed with the help of God, with the help of heaven, how severe this would be for their spirit.

I am afraid that before the southern expedition was set off and before the troops started, their fighting spirit had fallen by half.

Therefore, Liu Bei could only try his best to conceal the truth and use the so-called disapproval to attract the attention of all the ministers.

Others couldn't see it, but Zhuge Liang saw the clues from Liu Bei's shocked and angry expression just now. He guessed that the battle of Longbiancheng must have happened again, which made Liu Bei unable to say what was going on.

His bright eyes turned slightly, and immediately followed Liu Bei and said loudly: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true. Now the pottery thieves are already internal and external troubles. Even if they return north in time, it will be useless. Our great Han cavalry goes south. The pottery thieves will be destroyed and the Han Dynasty will prosper!"

Zhuge Liang's words swept away the shock of the ministers just now, and helped Liu Bei rekindle everyone's fighting spirit.

Zhang Fei, the first one, Gao Wu, shouted: "The pottery thieves will be destroyed, and the Han Dynasty will prosper!"

"The pottery thieves will be destroyed, and the Han Dynasty will be prosperous--"

"The pottery thieves will be destroyed, and the Han Dynasty will be prosperous--"

The civil servants and military generals in the hall were ignited with their blood, responded in groups, shouting wildly, and the arrogant shouts of war resounded throughout the hall.

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyebrows were proud again. He stood up in a hurry, waved his hand and said sternly: "Transfer my will to raise all our Han troops to conquer the southern expedition. This time, I will wipe out Tao Wei in one fell swoop and restore the Han Dynasty!"

...

Jingzhou.

Above the Han River, countless warships were heading upstream and heading straight for Xiangyang, the capital.

The pottery merchant completed his wedding in Longbian, and took Mu Guiying as his concubine. The day after he obtained 1 additional force value, he pulled out of the gentle town and returned north and headed straight to the Central Plains.

In Jiaozhou, although Hong Xiuquan was destroyed, considering that Zhao Kuangyin was still fleeing to the South China Sea, the Tao Shang was not willing to relax his vigilance, but he left Zhou Yafu to lead 30,000 troops to take charge of Jiaozhou.

The Tao Shang himself led 70,000 infantry and cavalry soldiers to return north from the water road at night.

Just after he arrived in Xiangyang, he received information from northern Hebei, saying that Liu Bei had led a 130,000 infantry and cavalry army to the south again and the troops were approaching northern Hebei.

At the same time, Yelu Abaoji also led 80,000 Xianbei cavalry south and headed straight for Bingzhou.

The development of the situation was no longer obvious. This was when Liu Bei was entangled with the Xianbei people and invaded Hebei again. He wanted to take advantage of the Qingxu rebellion. He himself was not as good as he returned to his army and took over Hebei in one fell swoop.

Although there were two enemies from Sun Ce and Song Jiang in Qingzhou this time, the situation seemed to be urgent, in the eyes of Tao Shang, the situation was better than when he attacked Qin before.

Because this time, he left most of his main force, nearly 300,000 troops, on the Bingzhou line of Jizhou, just to guard against the two great enemies Liu Bei and Yelu Abaoji, which also means that Liu Bei and the others were dreaming of achieving the last battle results.

In northern Hebei, the pottery merchants had famous generals like Han Xin and Huo Qubing, leaving more than 200,000 troops. On the Bingzhou front line, there were generals such as Wei Qing and Li Mu, with nearly 100,000 troops.

In addition, there are many generals such as Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, including Fan Kuai, Meng Tian, ​​Cao Shen, Hou Yi, Luo Cheng, Ma Yuan, etc. Tao Shang believed that it was enough to resist the southern invasion of the northern enemy.

At least for quite some time.

According to the strategy formulated by Liu Ji, the pottery merchant first took the 70,000 troops to pacify Jiaozhou, went to Qingxu to meet with Wu Zixu's troops, destroyed Song Jiang's rebellion, and drove Sun Ce back to the sea.

Then, he went north to Jizhou to meet with the main army and gathered 400,000 troops to fight with Liu Bei.

At that time, the pottery merchants would no longer be satisfied with repelling Liu Bei's invasion, but would instead make a great effort to attack the Han Kingdom in the north and unify the world.

Given the tight situation in Qingzhou, Zhang Xun from Ju County had been surrounded by Sun Ce's army for nearly a month, and Tao Shang did not dare to stay in Xiangyang. He crossed the Han River north at night and headed straight to Qingzhou.

The army first passed Nanyang and then Yingchuan. In a few days, it entered the hinterland of Yanzhou. It traveled more than a hundred miles a day and advanced eastward at a starry night.

Ten days later, the 70,000 army led by the Tao Shang entered the area of ​​Schicuqiu City, where Jibei Kingdom was located.

If you don’t go further seventy miles, you will enter Taishan County.

The county of Mount Tai is named after it is bordered by Mount Tai. It borders Xuzhou to the east and south, Qingzhou to the north, and Yanzhou to the west. It can be said that the county is at the junction of the three counties and has dangerous mountains, and its strategic location is quite important.

According to the latest information, Song Jiang has occupied the entire Taishan County and used his original capital to Feng Gaocheng as the capital of the Taishan Kingdom. He has gathered under his command, mainly the Taishan gangsters of that year, with nearly 50,000 troops.

The purpose of Tao Shang's battle was naturally to enter Taishan County, capture Fenggao City, and destroy the guy Song Jiang.

Then, his army could lift the flank threat of advancing Qingzhou, from Xuzhou or Yanzhou, he could go straight to Qingzhou without any worries and go to the siege of Jieju County.

Just as the army was about to enter Schraqiu City and meet with the five thousand soldiers and horses of Ding Feng's troops who were guarding the city, Tao Shang suddenly gave an order, ordering Ma Chao and Shi Dakai to lead the subsequent 65,000 troops without rushing to Schraqiu. He directly took the banner of his emperor and changed the route to Wenyang City in the south.

Tao Shang himself, with five thousand soldiers and horses, continued to go to Snakeqiu City under the banner of Deng Ai.

"Your Majesty, there are only 5,000 soldiers in Snake Hill, and Your Majesty only leads 5,000 soldiers and horses. To sum up, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses. If you want to capture Juping City, it seems that there are not enough soldiers. It is better to wait for the subsequent main army to meet and send troops to Juping City." Deng Ai reminded.

There are two routes to capture Fenggao City from this direction. One of them is from Sheqiu City. First break the Juping City on the border of the two counties, and then advance east along Wenshui to capture Bo County. Only then can the troops be at Fenggao City.

Although this journey is close to the road, it has to pass mountainous roads such as Guishan and Youlai Mountain on the way, and the road is not very smooth.

"Ten thousand soldiers are enough." A strange look rose from Tao Shang's mouth, "Why do you need so many soldiers to break through a mere Juping City? I will use 10,000 soldiers to break through Juping and kick open the gate of Taishan County."

As soon as this statement came out, Deng Ai's body shook and his expression changed.
Chapter completed!