In Chang'an City, Jingzhao Prefecture and the Six Defense Office began to search in the city. For ordinary people, they just thought that the court was catching thieves or important criminals. They were more concerned about whether martial law would be lifted after dawn, because they still had to live.

The atmosphere in the palace was depressed at this time, and the original military discussion was temporarily interrupted. Su Yan and Su Bi temporarily returned to Yaqian Palace and anxiously waited for news outside the palace. Unfortunately, until midnight, the matter still did not progress.

Su Yan's expression was a bit cramped and uneasy. He wanted to ask Su Bi who stood at the door and looked at the dark outside, but in the end he didn't ask until Su Bi discovered the emperor's strangeness.

"Your Majesty has something to say?" Su Bi asked.

Su Yan then sighed and said, "Fourth Emperor Sister, can you stop... Don't look for me? Master, he won't harm me."

"The problem now is not that Liu Wenyan is trying to harm the emperor, but that he must be taken down. Only in this way can we deal with Hua Ji'an's chances of winning. I have said that we are not going to kill Liu Wenyan, but to treat him well. When the matter is calmed down, he can still enjoy his glory and wealth. Is it impossible for him to sacrifice this for the court?"

Su Yan stammered: "But... Master should... be reluctant."

"It's not his turn to be reluctant now. Since he is determined to make things difficult for Your Majesty, what kind of mercy do you need to leave for him? Should Your Majesty want the friendship between master and disciple, or the foundation of our Dashun Dynasty?"

Su Yan was speechless for a moment and couldn't say a word of refutation.

Su Bi is the commander-in-chief of this military plan. From the moment Yuan Bolang died, she knew that there was no room for harmony between the court and the military. Either you die or I die. At this time, Su Bi no longer listened to Su Yan's longing. She was already a little impatient.

Until dawn, the lights in the Yaqian Hall were not extinguished, and even the other civil servants and generals entering Chang'an City did not leave the palace. By dawn, the people from Jingzhao Mansion and Liufangsi went to the city to report, and no trace of Liu Wenyan's family was found. As well as being sent outside the city to block Liu Yu's road to the female army camp or Huo Bing's military camp, there was no discovery at all.

Because Liu Wenyan's family disappeared after the city gate was closed, and there was no incident of breaking through the gate last night.

"Do you go missing?" Su Bi clenched her fists tightly when she heard the news, and looked at the city map of Chang'an City. "Will you mingle among the female guards and go out of the city?"

What Su Bi is talking about was the trip that Xu Caihua, the deputy commander of the female army, suddenly entered the city last night. Xu Caihua's timing and motivation for entering the city were very strange, and she was also in a hurry to leave the city, which made Su Bi uneasy. However, his subordinates immediately reported that when Xu Caihua left the city, there were only a few guards around him, and they all checked in detail, but there was no Liu Wenyan's family.

"That's that I'm still in the city, and the whole city is martial law. Continue to search until Liu Wenyan is found!"

The prefect of Jingzhao asked carefully: "What if Liu Wenyan...resist?"

"Don't worry about killing!" Su Bi gritted her teeth.

Su Yan wanted to say something behind Su Bi, but he didn't say it in the end. Things changed too quickly, and no one expected that his master would suddenly receive the news and hide himself. For Su Yan, this kind of preparation for the war was still insufficient.

Chang'an City continued martial law throughout the city. From morning until dusk, the people searched in the city were overturned and all households were searched, but it was obviously not very effective. Chang'an City was too big. If Liu Yu's family was determined to hide, it would be difficult to be found within ten days and half a month. With Liu Yu's wit, he obviously would not find some places that were easily found. He would definitely hide himself in different ways.

The Liu Yu family in this city still had nowhere to go. At dusk, news came from Tongguan that Hua Ji'an had already been stationed in Tongguan Pass and issued an ultimatum to the soldiers guarding the city, saying that the three armies returned to Guanzhong and that they would break through if they could not return. Seeing that the next bloody battle in Tongguan Pass was about to begin.

Hua Ji'an gave the garrison to the Tongguan for three days, and the incident happened on the night of the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. That is, in the early morning of the 13th, the court had not allowed Hua Ji'an to lead troops back to Guanzhong, so Tongguan would become the battlefield for civil war. Chang'an City was already busy looking for Liu Yu, but now when Hua Ji'an was pressing, even Su Bi had lost her rules.

The military was like a series of moves. Liu Yu's disappearance and Hua Ji'an's pressing complement each other, as if it was agreed. Originally, the court wanted to take Liu Yu to threaten the female army and Liu Yu's old subordinates, such as Huo Bing and Qi Fang, but now it seems that because the court took action one step too late, it is likely that these people would be pushed into Hua Ji'an's camp.

"Liu Wenyan, are you going to help the country or to disrupt the country?" Su Bi had no other choice but to sigh.

Now we can only continue to search for Liu Wenyan’s whereabouts on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must hold a military meeting to discuss the issue of how many days can Tongguan be maintained.

It is absolutely impossible to let Hua Ji'an lead his troops into Tongguan. This is basically the consensus of the military. Tongguan is the last barrier outside Chang'an City. After passing Tongguan, there will be a flat horse. Chang'an City will fall directly under the siege of Hua Ji'an Iron Cavalry. At that time, the emperor will become a cage bird and Chang'an City will also become a dead city.

The military conference only lasted for more than half an hour at the twilight of the 10th day of the lunar month. Everyone knew that time was tight and there was no more time to discuss some irrelevant matters. The results of the conference discussion were actually very clear. With the strength of defeating the Turkic border army, it was only a matter of almost unprepared Tongguan. Now the most urgent task is to recruit troops from Guanzhong to rescue Tongguan immediately. Only in this way can Tongguan be guaranteed as a natural barrier to the rebels of Huaji'an.

This meeting was also the first time that Hua Ji'an was defined as a "rebel general" and Hua Ji'an's troops were defined as a "rebel army".

The generals who were in the palace to discuss matters were actually very complicated, because these rebel generals and rebels were once comrades who had pacified Huai land with them. The 70,000 new army and border troops led by the rebel generals headed by Hua Ji'an were also the basis of the Dashun Dynasty's troops, and the total number of soldiers and horses in Guanzhong was less than 70,000.

The court was about to issue an order to send troops to Tongguan, but immediately received a report from the intelligence personnel of the Huo Bing Department outside the city, saying that the Huo Bing Department had already set up camp before dusk today, and the direction was not to Chang'an City, but to Tongguan.

For a moment, there was a silence in the Yaqian Hall. No one believed that Huo Bing was going to help the court rescue Tongguan. Huo Bing's troops were probably Hua Ji'an sent to Guanzhong in advance as an internal agent to conquer Tongguan. The court had always been unclear about the movements of Huo Bing's troops, and now it seemed clear. Everyone present knew the speed of Huo Bing's troops' movement. Huo Bing took the lead, and no one could reach his destination faster than his troops. Huo Bing drove his village to Tongguan, and there was only one message that Tongguan was in danger!

"How is the female army now?" Su Bi asked casually.

The female army is now one of the two soldiers in Tongguan that are not fully controlled by the court. The other army, Huo Bing's headquarters has been confirmed to be an internal support sent by Hua Ji'an. The attitude of the female army is very important now. The court has too few bargaining chips, so it is difficult to increase it. Although the whereabouts of the female army commander Xu Xuanzhu and Liu Yu are unknown, Su Bi feels that the court still has the ability to control the female army.

The guards who came to inform the news obviously could not answer Su Bi's questions, but Su Yan answered her: "Didn't someone come to send a message at noon, saying that his daughter's army is preparing to go to Guannan to train troops? It should have already set off. Didn't the Fourth Emperor Sister see the report?"

Su Bi really wanted to slap Su Yan in the face. Such important information was not notified immediately. She always thought that Liu Yu's disappearance was not a bad thing. Anyway, no one knew Liu Yu's life or death. The court said that he was under house arrest would not doubt that the result might be the same as expected. Huo Bing's troops would be "recruited" by the court, and the female army would wholeheartedly help the court to eliminate the rebellion.

Now it seems that the bamboo basket is in vain.

It seemed that everything was ready before Liu Yu disappeared. Although she didn't know if he had any contact with Huo Bing, the "training" of the female army was obviously inspired by Liu Yu. Xu Caihua, who was originally very obedient to the court, would actually dispatch troops privately. After all, Xu Caihua is also the daughter-in-law of her adviser Wang Jian. Although she also knew that Xu Caihua's roughness made the Wang family very distressed, she was still a family!

"Fourth Emperor Sister, what should I do now...?" Su Yan saw that Su Bi didn't say anything, so he had to break the silence and asked.

Of course, Su Yan also felt that it was embarrassing for him to ask his sister's opinions in front of the minister, but now is no longer the time to take care of his face.

Su Bi was completely planning the conflict of conflicts and solutions to this conflict of conflicts and the solution. Now it seems impossible to directly confront them head-on. Tongguan cannot defend it, and using Chang'an City as a barrier to resist Hua Ji'an and his 70,000 rebels can do nothing. She can only passively change the original tactics.

"Please immediately pass the order to Tongguan and let my 70,000 soldiers from Dashun Dynasty return to Guanzhong." Su Bi bowed down and asked Su Yan for the order.

Originally, the minister suggested to the emperor that he should ask for advice, but her tone that was unquestionable at this time was more like giving orders to the emperor.

Su Yan was a little stunned. Su Bi's request was obviously contrary to the results of the discussions between the past two days. Could it be that the discussions between the two days were vain and would it be a waste of time to discuss them behind closed doors? Just like this, will you compromise on Hua Ji'an?

Su Yan wanted to continue asking clearly, but Su Bi turned his eyes and told him not to ask. Su Yan had to issue an order according to Su Bi's request and allow the Tongguan switch to welcome the "rebels". Because the discussion had not yet ended, the generals could not go home and could only temporarily rest at the rest room of Liutai Yamen and wait for the summons at any time.

"It's not okay to not let them go back." After all these generals left, Su Bi said, "If Liu Wenyan took the opportunity to usurp the military power of Chang'an City, then we would be in danger. Let the generals return to their own positions and wait for His Majesty's order at any time."

Su Yan nodded. He originally thought that he would be indifferent to keeping these generals in the palace, and what Su Bi asked for was just his wish.

"Sister Four Emperors, what should you do when you put flowers in Guanzhong?" Su Yan asked with confusion and worry.

Su Bi sighed and said, "We can only respond with kindness now. At this moment, there are many of our spies in the Huaji'an army, and some ministers are loyal ministers of my Dashun Dynasty. I will send someone to contact them and... assassinate Huaji'an in the army!" (To be continued...)
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