Liu Mingzhi didn't have much time to think about the look in his eyes that made his heart beat.
Putting aside the doubts in his heart, Liu Mingzhi rushed straight out the door.
"Liu Song, hurry up and bring the horse. This young master wants to enter the palace."
"Master, come right away!"
Liu Mingzhi got on his horse and galloped towards the palace.
Eunuch Fu repeatedly told him not to neglect, so Liu Mingzhi naturally did not dare to hesitate at all!
On the main road, Liu Mingzhi saw many familiar officials riding horses quickly towards the palace.
This scene made Liu Mingzhi even more nervous. It seemed that there was a big problem with the recovery of Heshuo and Shuo. Otherwise, the emperor would not have gone to such great lengths to fight.
"My lord, Your Majesty is waiting in the imperial study. You can go by yourself!"
"Thank you!"
"Shang Shu, please move to the Imperial Study Room. Your Majesty is waiting in the Imperial Study Room!"
"Thank you, I'll be there soon!"
Officials in twos and threes handed over their mounts to the eunuchs waiting at the palace gate and trotted towards the imperial study room.
When Liu Mingzhi rushed to the imperial study, Li Zheng was frowning and staring at an exquisite sand table with a gloomy face. On the sand table, the positions of the various tribes in the northern territory of Dalong and the Turkic grassland were clearly recorded.
"My son Liu Mingzhi meets my father!"
"No gift!"
Li Zheng waved his hand casually to Liu Mingzhi, without any intention of leaving the sand table in his eyes.
Several officials who had arrived nearby handed a stack of documents to Liu Mingzhi: "Master, take a look for yourself!"
Liu Mingzhi opened the document in his hand without hesitation and looked at it carefully.
After a moment, Liu Mingzhi suddenly closed the document in his hand, walked up to the sand table, and began to observe with a solemn expression, especially the tribes around Heshuo and Hetao patrolling back and forth.
The army that was marching north to Heshuo encountered a surprise attack by an unknown army in the northwest of the Bortie tribe in the Heshuo grassland area. More than 3,200 of the 5,000 forward troops under Rongwei Marquis Cai Jun were killed in the battle. The land southeast of Heshuo changed hands again, and the young lives of more than 3,000 soldiers were lost.
After the remaining more than a thousand soldiers joined the large group, they could not tell the identity of the enemy who attacked them. This cavalry that suddenly rushed out did not have any flag number to represent their identity. From the time they sneak attack on Cai Jun's forward battalion, they Prepared countermeasures.
During the tea time, more than a dozen important officials of the court gathered in the imperial study room. They also read the documents that Young Master Liu had read one by one.
All the important civil and military officials who had read the document stood quietly in front of the sand table, frowning and thinking.
Li Zheng, who had been thinking deeply for an unknown amount of time, suddenly asked Young Master Liu, "Can you guess which enemy it is?"
Liu Mingzhi sighed and shook his head: "It's hard to say. The Tatar Tribe, the Huali Mu Tribe, the Tukeli Tribe, the Zhadun Tribe... all eleven tribes may attack Rongwei Hou's forward camp, among which The Zaton tribe, the Hualimu tribe...the four tribes are the most suspect, but I can't figure it out!"
"Can't figure out what?"
Li Zheng stared at Liu Mingzhi closely, and the other dozen or so important officials in the court also stared at Liu Mingzhi intently, wanting to see what he had to say.
Liu Mingzhi put his fingers on the sand table and thought for a moment.
"Father, colleagues, please take a look. The battle report says that the forward battalion of Marquis Rongwei was attacked on the northwest side of Borte's tribe!"
"But according to our scout reports, the Bortie tribe is marching eastward to start a protracted battle with the Kruha tribe of the Huyan Royal Court!"
"The old Duke led the army to the border of Heshuo on May 12th and launched a surprise attack. In the southeast and southwest of Heshuo, the Cree tribe under the tent of King Spieth in the southwest had been beaten by the old Duke until they were running away. Join forces with the Muhua Li tribe to get the best of both worlds!"
"Since the old Duke dares to divide his troops into two groups, he must be 100% sure of winning the eleven units. The battle report also proves this point. The eleven units are being beaten back step by step by the old Duke's Northern Expedition Army. So Since then, I can’t figure out which tribe among these eleven tribes dares to take the initiative to stroke the tiger’s beard!”
"Maybe this army of unknown origin is not the people under the command of King Spisi who guard Heshuo and Shuo, but came from Huyan King's court in a roundabout way. But this makes it even more unreasonable! King Huyan's court is not a fool. , once they launch troops to attack the vanguard camp of Marquis Rongwei, it will mean a declaration of war, and what they will face will be the front and rear attacks from Dalong and the Royal Court of Spieth!"
"The purpose of this unknown army's attack on the forward camp is very clear! Cut off the connection between the Northern Expedition Army and Ganzhou, and cut off the food and grass of the Northern Expedition Army. Once the land southeast of Heshuo is recaptured by the people of King Spieth's Court, , there will be a big problem with the supply of food and grass for the Northern Expedition Army, and the food and grass shipped from Ganzhou will be exposed to the cavalry of the Hualimu tribe without any cover!"
"The most important thing now is to figure out the origin of this army. Is it a sudden rebellion from the Huyan Royal Court and attack on our Northern Expedition army, or is it an unexpected army sent by the Spieth Royal Court!"
Li Zheng stared at the sand table with a gloomy face: "The war is changing rapidly. It will take three days for the fastest Golden Eagle to send a message back. I don't know what the situation the old Duke is facing now. Has he figured out who this army belongs to?" Pai, the documents you see now are from three days ago..."
"Report...an urgent report to the border!"
"Send it up!"
"yes!"
Li Zheng checked the paint and couldn't wait to open the battle report and read it. It took Li Zheng two cups of tea to come back to his senses after three pages of paper.
"The grain and grass of the Northern Expedition were intercepted by an unidentified army of about 30,000 people in the Xianxian Canyon outside Ganzhou City. This unknown team had no intention of attacking. It just wanted to prevent the grain and grass from being transported to the old Duke. !”
"Judging from the situation mentioned in the letter from the old Duke to Zhang Kuang, the situation of the Northern Expedition Army is very bad now. Not only has it lost the southeast of Heshuo, the southwest of Heshuo and the eastern part of Hetao that is about to be captured have also become precarious at any time. Changed hands!”
Liu Mingzhi looked a little surprised when he heard the content of the letter Li Zheng said: "Father, is there any movement in the Kingdom of Jin?"
"The spies reported that the situation in the Kingdom of Jin is calm now, and there is no sign of any troops. This army is deliberately targeting my Dalong, or in other words, it is targeting the Heshuo areas that my Dalong is about to regain!"
Song Yu placed his fingers heavily on the sand table: "Your Majesty, this team of unknown origin should come from here!"
"Krim Grassland? That's where the battle between the Huyan Royal Court and the Spieth Royal Court took place. Which side will come from here?"
Liu Mingzhi shook his head with a gloomy face: "Father, it's pointless for us to speculate here now. Even if we know which side it is, what's the use? Water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the near. The problem that the old prince is facing now is With the food crisis, as long as there is enough food and grass to recover Heshuo and Shuo, it will only be a matter of time. We can only take a detour to Suzhou to deliver food and grass to the old Duke. It is better to waste a little more food than to destabilize the morale of the army!"
"Mingzhi!"
"My son is here!"
"You and Song Aiqing go to Honglu Temple to draft a diplomatic document and send it to the Huyan Palace as quickly as possible, saying that I want to borrow food from them. The rest of the beloved ministers will stay here. I have something to tell you!"
Liu Mingzhi was stunned for a moment and then understood the emperor's intention!
"My son, I obey!"
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