Everyone withdrew from the big tent, and only Liu Bei and Pang Tong were left in the big tent. Liu Bei stood up, walked to Pang Tong, handed the bamboo slip in his hand to Pang Tong, and said, "Look at it." Pang Tong immediately took the bamboo slip and looked carefully. His expression of joy suddenly appeared on his face, praising: "This Xue Ding is really extraordinary! I underestimated him before!" Liu Bei couldn't help but say with joy: "I was worried that the raid plan I had made before could not do my best. I must attack Hanzhong. I am quite unsure of this battle! Now, if Xue Ding set up such a plan, Hanzhong will definitely fight!" Pang Tong rolled up the bamboo slip and clasped his fists at Liu Bei with joy and said, "The lord is the destiny of heaven, so the lord will give such a person to assist the lord in achieving great achievements!"

Liu Bei was very happy and laughed. He thought of his actions tomorrow night and couldn't help but ask with concern: "Shi Yuan, do you think there is any problem with this plan?"

Pang Tong thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "There should be no problem. The enemy should not notice Xue Ding's identity, so the midnight battle tomorrow is a sure win!" Liu Bei was very excited and couldn't help but say, "If this battle is successful, I will definitely use this Xue Ding!" Pang Tong smiled and clasped his fists and said, "Congratulations to the lord!" Liu Bei was happy and couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, a figure at the door flashed, and a man was almost out of here. The two of them couldn't help but look at the door and saw that Mi Fang, who had just gone out to pass the order, had come in.

Mi Fang quickly walked to Liu Bei, clasped his fists and said, "Lord, the third general has sent a messenger to him, saying that there is an urgent military information to report to the lord!"

Liu Bei's heart moved and said to Pang Tong: "It must be that there is news from Nanzhong." Then he said to Mi Fang: "Call the messenger in!" Mi Fang clasped his fists and responded, then turned his head and shouted outside the tent, "Lord has an order, the messenger will meet you!"

A figure at the door flashed, and a dusty officer quickly stepped into the big tent. He paid a visit to Liu Bei: "Go to see the lord!" Then he untied the bag on his back, untied it, took out a bamboo bag, held it up with both hands, and said, "Go to bring his handwritten letter to the third general order. Please check it out!"

Liu Bei took the bamboo slip bag, opened the bag, took out the bamboo slip, and opened it and looked at it quickly. Then he looked at it with joy on his face, and muttered to himself: "It's true that it's not what I expected! All parties started to act, and Lu Bu would not have expected that he would lose the entire Nanzhong in the near future!"

It turned out that while Liu Bei was planning to seize Hanzhong, he also adopted Pang Tong's suggestion and ordered Zhang Fei to lead tens of thousands of troops south to cooperate with Sun Jian and other parties to seize Nanzhong, in order to kill Lu Bu's arm that extended to the southwest. In fact, compared with Hanzhong, the situation in Nanzhong at this time was even more sinister.

As mentioned above, the head of Yongchang County, Hongfu, sent an envoy to contact Meng Huo. Meng Huo ordered King Duosi to hand over two strange poisons to the envoy back to Yongchang County and handed them over to Hongfu.

After hearing the messenger's return, Hongfa was very happy. His originally debauchery expression had been completely replaced by a fierce and vicious expression. Yu Fu, the old man next to him, couldn't help but say excitedly: "All parties are ready. This time the Qin army will definitely suffer an unprecedented defeat!"

Hongfu asked, "How are our people ready?" Yu Fu said, "Just report to the Lord that our two thousand men and horses were all secretly gathered in the mountains and forests outside the city. As long as the Lord gave the order, they could attack at any time." Hongfu nodded and asked with concern: "Zhou Tong and the others didn't notice anything, right?" Yu Fu laughed and said, "Don't worry! The ground of Yongchang is high and dense, with a small population, and there are many hidden places. The Han people can't figure out the east, south, west and north for a while. How could they find any clues!" Then he said anxiously: "Sir, we should start taking action immediately. It is better for us to seize Yongchang County before Meng Huo and Sun Jian came in!"

The Red Bat had the same idea as well and nodded.

After the meeting, Hongfa came to a room in the backyard of her mansion. He turned around and closed the door, and came to the bedside not far away. At this moment, there was a person lying on the bed, which turned out to be the female general Qionghua, Zhu Rong's most trusted one.

When Qionghua saw the red bat coming, she immediately glared at the red bat, as if she could not speak. When she saw Qionghua like this, she couldn't help but smiled proudly and sat down beside the bed. She reached out and touched Qionghua's cheek, exclaiming: "What a handsome face!" Then she said with a smile: "Don't look at me like this. You should thank me for not giving you to those hungry men." When Qionghua heard this, her eyes showed a look of fear.

Hongfa smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, I won't do that. Not only will I not harm you, but I will also let you go back. There is a big thing to leave to you." Qionghua widened her eyes, and she couldn't help but feel a very bad premonition in her heart.

Hongying took out a small gourd bottle from her waist, opened the bottle plug, poured a green pill out of it, and stuffed it into Qiongying's mouth. Then she quickly pinched Qiongying's teeth and forced Qiongying to swallow the pill in her mouth. Qiongying swallowed the pill of unknown origin, and was both afraid and angry in her heart, staring at the Red Bat. The Red Bat smiled strangely.

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Seeing that Qiongying had no reply and could no longer wait, Zhu Rong immediately planned to send someone to Yongchang County to investigate the matter. But at this moment, Du Juan accompanied Qiongying and walked in quickly. Zhu Rong suddenly saw Qiongying and was very surprised. He hurriedly stepped forward and shouted, "Qiongying, you are finally back!"

Qiongying said, "Empress!" Zhu Rong helped Qiongying up and said angrily: "Why did you delay so long? And no news has come back yet?" Qiongying said, "I am patrolling all over Yongchang, and I am negligent for a moment. Please forgive me." Zhu Rong smiled and said, "You and my sister, why bother to say this!" Then he asked with concern: "What's the situation when you go to Yongchang County to investigate? Did the red bat really do a lot of illegal things as rumored?"

Qiongying shook her head and said, "Those are false accusations. I have conducted open and secret investigations in Yongchang. All I have received is news of how she managed the local area conscientiously, but no clues were found." Zhu Rong nodded and murmured to herself, "That's great! She finally failed to let her brother down!" Then she smiled and said, "You have worked hard all the way, go and rest." Qiongying responded, and then said, "My little sister has obtained a huge Ganoderma lucidum in Yongchang County. I'm afraid it's not a thousand years. I specially brought it back to the Queen!"

Zhu Rong smiled and said, "It's better to leave such a magical thing for the elder brother." Then he smiled and said, "You and my sister haven't drunk together for a long time. Today I will drink him until I'm drunk!" Qiongying's eyes lit up, and then he begged for his willingness, "Then I'll ask the Empress to go to my younger sister's place tonight, and the younger sister cooks to cook a few side dishes for her sister!"

Zhu Rong was very interested, "No matter how good this is, it will be gone! I haven't tasted the dishes you made for a long time. I miss you so much!"

That night, Zhu Rong came to the small courtyard where Qionghua lived. At this time, the stone table in the yard was filled with various hot and fragrant dishes. Zhu Rong saw this, he couldn't help but feel salivation, and his index finger was moving. Qionghua was pulling a pot of wine over. Seeing Zhu Rong coming, he was happy and quickly put down the pot of wine, walked quickly to Zhu Rong, hugged Zhu Rong's arm and walked towards the stone table, and smiled and said, "I have made a few newly learned dishes, but I don't know if it suits the Queen's taste."

Zhu Rong showed a look of great interest. He came to the stone table and sat down. Looking at the dishes in front of him, he felt his appetite was greatly boosted. He couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of fried meat and ate it. He immediately showed an expression of surprise and applauded repeatedly.

Qionghua smiled slightly, sat down next to her, picked up the wine pot and poured a glass of wine for Zhu Rongman. She put down the wine pot, picked up the wine glass, and handed it to Zhu Rong. Zhu Rong took the wine glass behind her, raised her head to dry, and looked like she was enjoying her face. Qionghua looked very happy when she saw Zhu Rong eating.

Zhu Rong put down the wine glass, and the expression of enjoyment on his face disappeared. He frowned slightly, as if he had thought of something troubled.

Seeing this, Qionghua couldn't help but ask, "Empress have any troubles?" Zhu Rong couldn't help but sigh and said annoyedly: "It's not those guys who are right with the elder brother! Before he came, he received an urgent report from General Zhang Liao from Dianchi Lake, saying that Sun Jian sent tens of thousands of troops to invade Nanzhong and had already fought with Wuxi led by Shamoke! In addition, Meng Huo also made moves and had arrived near Ailao Mountain. Judging from his movements, he obviously had some contact with Sun Jian's army. They were probably agreeing to act together. In addition, Liu Bei's army, who was facing General Zhang Liao, now the three forces are all fighting against our Nanzhong!"

Qionghua couldn't help but worry and frowned. Seeing that Zhu Rong's wine glass was empty, she quickly picked up the wine pot and filled it with it. She put down the wine pot and said, "Empress, if this is the case, should we send troops?" Zhu Rong picked up the wine glass and drank it again. She put down the wine glass and said, "I plan to let you sit in the forefront of me. I will lead an army of 70,000 eastward to support General Zhang Liao early tomorrow morning!"

Qionghua was about to speak when she heard this. At this moment, Zhu Rong suddenly frowned and showed a painful expression. Then she looked at the wine glass in her hand and asked Qionghua: "What did you put in the wine?" Qionghua looked at the inexplicable and at a loss. Zhu Rong suddenly screamed, stood up suddenly, then turned back and fell to the ground. Qionghua was shocked and rushed forward to pick up Zhu Rong and shouted: "Empress!" However, Zhu Rong's mouth was cornered.

He was bleeding and his eyes were closed, and he was already unconscious. Seeing this scene, Qionghua was so scared that she was no longer looking at her face and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Come here! Come here!!" After a while, Qionghua's small courtyard became turbulent. Soon after, the four gates of Yucheng were closed, and teams of soldiers opened onto the streets, and at the same time, the orders of martial law spread throughout the city. The people felt that the atmosphere was very tense and unusual, and they were very uneasy, and all kinds of rumors spread throughout the streets and alleys.

At this time, a fast horse ran away from the palace, ran out of the city from the south gate, and rushed around Tianchi (Erhai Lake) and headed eastward.
Chapter completed!