Chapter 193 Fight Xunyang again

In order not to drag down the royal brother, Sima Dewen was desperate for death, but because he couldn't find anything that could make him die quickly, he hit the stone pillar in the hall.

Fortunately, the stone pillar was not angular, so although it hit the head and broke the blood, it did not immediately swallow. However, after the imperial doctor's diagnosis and treatment, there was no breath for a long time. I don't know if his injury is too serious or the level of the imperial doctor is wrong.

After listening to the bodyguard's report, Liu Yu didn't think about the royal doctor, but thought that Sima Dewen was too seriously injured, so he couldn't save him.

After ordering someone to find a few more royal doctors to check whether Sima Dewen was dead or not, Liu Yu hurried back to the house and called Liu Muzhi and others to discuss.

Sma Dewen's suicide is equivalent to deepening his hatred with Lu Qiang, and now it seems that it is worthless without the emperor's health.

Liu Muzhi, who got the news, hurriedly came. In his heart, Sima Dewen was not a bargaining chip that could be used to negotiate with Lu Qiang, but now that Sima Dewen is dead, he has only one way to fight with Lu Qiang.

Not long after the two sat down and talked, a bodyguard came to report. Five royal doctors confirmed that Sima Dewen was indeed dead and his body was completely cold.

After the bodyguard reported and withdrew, Liu Muzhi looked at Liu Yu and said, "Is the general afraid that Sima Dewen will also come back to life?"

Liu Yu smiled bitterly: "It's always right to be careful"

"I want to give up Xunyang, set up a defense line in Shicheng and Guangyang, and fight against Lu Qiang. What do you think?"

Liu Muzhi understands Liu Yu's thoughts, but the iron war has occupied Xunyang. Meng Huaiyu on the other side also led 10,000 horses to build a defense line on the river. Liu Yu now abandons it, but wants to fight a decisive battle with Lu Qiang in Yangzhou. Does he feel that Meng Huaiyu, Tie Zhan and others can't defend Xunyang?

As if he could see Liu Muzhi's thoughts, Liu Yu couldn't help sighing and said, "Although I have been vigorously developing the water army, the time is still short. I can't train a water army that can compete with the Jingzhou navy. Although Xunyang is only separated by a river from Yuzhou, as long as the Jingzhou navy cuts off the waterway, Xunyang is bound to become a lonely city. As far as I know, there are 20,000 Jingzhou troops stationed in Poyang County opposite Yangzhou. As far as I know, Tan Daoji was originally from the Beifu Army and was very valued by the road. I am indeed very capable, so it is almost impossible to take it in a short period of time. We can't directly cross it to support Xunyang, so that the back will be left to him.

"So I have ordered Meng Huaiyu to give up Xunyang, retreat to Xincai County, and preserve his strength to fight again."

Liu Muzhi pondered for a moment and said, "That's the only way"

But Liu Yu said again, "I have ordered three times in a row for Iron War to obey Meng Huaiyu, if he refuses to obey..."

Liu Yu said this, and there is no need to go on. Liu Muzhi understands that if the iron war resists the order, he will definitely be secretly executed by Liu Yu. You should know that he has destroyed Liu Yu's overall layout. Liu Yusheng ate his heart and killed him lightly.

Lu Qiang will not let him go, because he also killed tens of thousands of Xunyang soldiers and civilians.

Is Sima Dewen really dead? Of course, the answer is no.

In order to rescue Sima Dewen, Dai Qianqiu has personally sat in Jiankang, but Liu Yu's people are too strict to guard. Even if the people of Zhifengtang can sneak into the palace, it is obviously impossible to bring Sima Dewen out unharmed.

Just when Dai Qianqiu's mouth was full of blisters, the news of Sima Dewen's suicide and being rescued suddenly came from the palace. Hearing the news, Dai Qianqiu suddenly saw hope and immediately ordered the spy lurking beside Sima Dewen to drug Sima Dewen.

This kind of medicine that can make people fake death was bought at a high price. When the drug occurred, it was no different from death, which deceived those imperial doctors.

Two days later, the bodyguard guard guarding the palace was finally removed, so the people of Qianqiu took the opportunity to give Sima Dewen a funeral and took Sima Dewen out of Jiankang.

I have to say that Liu Yu's whole mind at this time was on how to deal with the strong army, but he didn't care that the funeral of an emperor was so simple. When someone mentioned this matter, Sima Dewen had evaporated from the world.

As for the return of Sima Dezong, Liu Sinu once vaguely reminded Dai Qianqiu, but Dai Qianqiu finally chose to ignore Liu Sinu's idea after learning about Sima Dewen's character. In doing so, he could not bear to hurt Sima Dewen and was afraid that Lu Qiang would investigate afterwards.

However, in order to prevent Sima Dewen from being killed by Liu Si's daughter, after saving Sima Dewen on behalf of Qianqiu, he sent him to a secret temple and made him devote himself to practice.

After life and death, Sima Dewen was placed under house arrest in the palace for many times. He had already taken everything lightly. From then on, he devoted himself to Buddha, let alone did not care about the world.

When Lu Qiang received the news that Sima Dewen was successfully rescued, the army had arrived in Yangxin, but he was at the forefront with 5,000 pioneers.

Now the navy has gone down the river and can cut off the contact between the Xunyang Iron War Army and Meng Huaiyu in Xincai County at any time. If the iron war is fast, it should withdraw and return to the north shore at this time.

The Iron War Army did such a shocking evil thing, how could he escape so easily, so Lu Qiang personally led 5,000 iron riders and galloped all the way.

However, Lu Qiang was gratified that the iron war relied on the strong city and tried to defend the city. With the news, Lu Qiangjun accelerated his pace again.

In fact, deep in Lu Qiang's heart, he has always had a special feeling for the Beifu Army. He Wuji, Tan Daoji and Zhao Lunwen, these generals who are now stand alone under his command, are all from the Beifu Army. Whether it is Zhou Anmu or Iron War, they used to be generals that Lu Qiang appreciated very much, so if possible, Lu Qiang would rather surrender them than fight them.

But now everything is impossible. With the fall of the butcher's knife of the Iron War, the Northern Generals, including the Iron War, have been sentenced to death.

At this time, Lu Qiang's mood has calmed down, and the army has started. It is bound to fight this battle well and can't be emotional.

Yangxin is only dozens of miles away from Xunyang. Lu Qiang believed that Tie Zhan must have known the news of his arrival, so he simply ordered the troops to rest on the spot, and then ordered someone to write a war letter to Tie Zhan and ask him to fight a decisive battle tomorrow.

And there are only two of them in this battle.

Lu Qiang knew that Tie Zhan had always wanted to fight with him, so he would give him this opportunity. At the same time, if he couldn't kill Tie Zhan himself, he would also not pass his own.

Now Lu Qiang's mind is used in the upcoming war, so he doesn't pay attention to the placement of the brothers. In his mind, he can only defeat Liu Yu, kill Jiankang, and then take his brother back.

Iron War's mood is also very complicated now. He has never regretted all this in Xunyang, but this slight trace of regret soon disappeared.

War always kills people. What kind of Han people are not Han people? If it's not mine or the enemy, there is no need to talk about kindness and righteousness towards the enemy.

As Lu Qiang thought, the iron war has always been eager to fight with Lu Qiang. For this battle, he did not hesitate to risk being punished by Liu Yu or even losing his head. Now that Lu Qiang has finally arrived as promised, how can he retreat at this time? In that case, all the things he did will be in vain, and he will not be able to look up in the Beifu army from now on.

As for what Liu Yu will do with him afterwards, he can't care so much. He even thought that if he killed Lu Qiang in the first battle, wouldn't he end everything?

In these days, Iron War has been diligently practicing martial arts, wine and sex, which have been avoided. He wants to maintain his full energy to fight against Lu Qiang.

Meng Huaiyu is also in Xunyang City at this time. He is a very intelligent general with both literature and martial arts, and is deeply trusted by Liu Yu.

Meng Huaiyu is very disapproving of what the Iron War has done, but things have happened and it is useless to say anything. What they need to do now is to deal with the Jingzhou army.

He agreed with Liu Yu's idea, withdrew his army to Jiangbei, took the initiative to give up Xunyang, and left this mess for Lu Qiang to clean up.

But the problem now is that Iron War doesn't listen to him at all, and even he takes out Liu Yu's three emergency orders. What should I do?

He is now very entangled. The war is approaching. If the iron war is executed at this time, it will inevitably affect the heart of the army, and it must be said that the premise is that it can kill the iron war.

Everyone knows that once the iron war guy is crazy, no one can stop him. If he knows that Liu Yu is going to kill him secretly, he may have done something crazy!

So we must be cautious about this matter.

There has been news that the Jingzhou water army is going down the water, and although Jiankang's own water army is also rushing this way, one is smooth water and the other is against the water, which can't be said at the same speed.

Seeing that Lu Qiang is about to come to the city and the waterway is cut off again, their demise is only a matter of time, so after careful consideration, Meng Huaiyu intends to discuss it with Iron War.

It is unrealistic to kill the Iron War. Can Iron War allow him to agree to lead his army back to Jiangbei first?

The afterglow of the sunset sprinkled on the once lush streets, with dilapidated shops and garbage piled up everywhere, looking like the doomsday coming. Except for soldiers, the whole street can hardly see ordinary people.

Looking at such a scene, Meng Huaiyu sighed more than once, what is such a city going to do? In the past, the five chaos were just afraid of what they did, right?

As soon as Tie Zhan had eaten, he was making final preparations in the martial arts field. Every time he thought of a decisive battle with Lu Qiang tomorrow, his blood boiled, as if every sweat pore was steaming out.

When he heard that Meng Huaiyu was coming, Tie Zhan couldn't help frowning. Of course, he knew why Meng Huaiyu came, but when he thought of it, Xunyang City was so high and thick that it was impossible to be broken by the Jingzhou army so easily, and it would never happen again.

And as long as Xunyang is not broken, it can be like a nail in the abdomen of the Jingzhou army, thus effectively sharing the pressure of Liu Yu.

But Tie Zhan also knew that he could not go on this kind of thing. Before, he attacked Xunyang without Liu Yu's consent. Presumably, Liu Yu must have been angry and just refused Liu Yu's three orders in a row. If he was so tough, wouldn't he live up to Liu Yu's trust in him?

After some calculation in his mind, he ordered Meng Huaiyu to come in.