Chapter 1513: Han Banner World 203 Decisive Battle 17

Gou Yi staggered, rolled and crawled all the way into the black ice platform, pushed open the heavy door, and a cold breath rushed towards him. Although the sun was shining outside, the inside of the hall was extremely gloomy and dark. Lu Chao A person stayed in the main hall without even opening the window.

Once upon a time, when Lu Chao first took over Heibingtai, his favorite thing to do was to stand on the high terrace of Heibingtai and look down at the entire Xianyang. The feeling of having the world under his feet made him I feel extremely comfortable. But now, it's become a torture.

"What's the bad news?" Lu Chao's cold voice came from the darkness, as if coming from the Nine Nether Hell.

Gou Yi tried hard to adjust his eyes to the darkness in the hall as soon as possible, and finally saw clearly that Lu Chao was dressed in the emperor's attire, sitting upright behind the big table that had just been arranged in the Black Ice Platform Hall.

In the past, the Black Ice Terrace was empty, simple yet grand, but now it is beautifully decorated, with golden walls and brilliant walls, making it look extremely graceful and luxurious. But at this moment, Lu Chao was alone in the palace, dressed up and sitting upright, which made him look extremely strange.

Gou Yi took a breath, the emperor seemed to be getting more and more abnormal recently.

"Your Majesty, the new army led by Bai Qi was surrounded by several lines of Han troops in Baiyu. News has just arrived that tens of thousands of troops fought hard for many days in Baiyu, but failed to break through the enemy's defenses to join General Xu Yahua. The entire army was defeated. General Bai Qi’s whereabouts are unknown.”

There was silence after the imperial examination. Gou Yi raised his head anxiously and looked at the emperor. The expression on Lu Chao's face was very strange. In Gou Yi's surprised eyes, bursts of wild laughter suddenly broke out: "It's gone again. The 50,000-strong army is gone again!”

Gou Yi felt chills all over his body. The decisive battle in Xianyang that the emperor hoped for. What they have to rely on is Bai Qi's 50,000 new troops and Xu Yahua's 80,000 troops who have withdrawn from Hangu Pass. Only with them as the backbone, the rabble now gathered in Xianyang. Bai Qi had the strength to fight just now, but now he doesn't. Can Xu Yahua come back?

The Han people fully understood Lu Chao's strategic concept from the beginning. After several armies broke through, they actually abandoned Xianyang and sent an extremely elite army to quickly break through the territory of Qin. They inserted the two returning armies from the diagonal thorns. On the only way, these two elite armies were intercepted on the road. If it were normal times, this would naturally be impossible, but now. The Qin State was completely in disarray. Wherever the Han army passed, officials from all over the country surrendered. Not only did the Han army not encounter any obstacles, but they were able to obtain various supplies on the spot from the Qin State. Those Qin State officials who surrendered , all of them tried their best to provide services to the Han army, fearing that if they were not careful, the Han army would find an excuse to deal with them.

The separation of people's hearts has reached an extreme level. I don’t think Lu Chao will win.

"Where's Xu Yahua? I have high hopes for him.

He actually sat back and ignored Bai Qi? "Lu Chao's cold voice came from above.

"Your Majesty, General Xu sent an army to meet General Bai. But it failed. Now General Xu is also in a desperate situation. He has destroyed the Han army of Bai Qi's new army and is attacking General Xu from two sides. And in Xu In front of the general, the Han cavalry has also cut off their return. General Xu has just sent a letter asking for help, hoping that your majesty can send reinforcements to help him return to Xianyang. "

Reinforcements? The word comes to mind. Even Gou Yi knows that it is absolutely impossible, now the whole Xianyang. The real army only numbered more than 30,000 people, which was the emperor's last capital. The remaining hundreds of thousands of people were just young men who had just picked up weapons and went to rescue Xu Yahua. They were afraid that half of them would run away halfway.

Sure enough, there was no sound at all. I don't know how long it took before a few very low sighs came. Gou Yi tried his best to open his ears and heard Lu Chao say in an almost sleepy tone: "Leave it to fate, let him go, come back if you can, if you can't come back, you can't come back. It's the same on the left and right." ”

Gou Yi kowtowed silently, stood up, and slowly withdrew. Hearing these words, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor himself was in despair.

The fall of the Qin Dynasty is just a matter of time.

Returning to the headquarters of the Ying Department, it was still a busy scene. As the core and most trusted secret force of Lu Chao, the Ying Department gathered the last subordinates who were loyal to Lu Chao.

Even though everyone thinks that Da Qin will face the fate of destruction, the people here still stubbornly believe that they have no chance to make a comeback. Just look at the current Xianyang peripheral defense. The troops and horses are still strong, and the arsenal is rushing through day and night. To make artillery, almost everyone in Xianyang was mobilized to build fortifications. Whether it was forced or voluntary, they all contributed to the defense of Xianyang. If they were short of materials and there was no more in the treasury, they would go directly to the people for them. , demolish the house, move the furniture, take whatever you need. Xianyang city is now in a mess. Many houses have been demolished, stones and beams have been taken away to build fortifications, and almost everyone’s iron and bronze items have been collected. Go, even if it is a needle, these things are melted into molten iron, and then turned into cannons of poor quality. In order to collect enough materials for making gunpowder, every household's latrine in Xianyang City was carefully scraped.

And these are all completed by the Eagle Department.

They were confident that the Xianyang defense circle, composed of thousands of artillery pieces, would be impregnable and unbreakable.

As their supreme leader, Gou Yi was naturally impassioned and confident in front of them, but deep down, he knew that there was nothing to fight in this battle. He is not like those low-level loyal subordinates who are dull-minded. He has his own judgment and analysis, and he is also a good general.

With a heavy heart, he pushed open the deepest part of the yamen, a door in front of the long alley. On both sides of the deep alley, behind rows of wooden fences, were prisoners with haggard faces and bruises all over their bodies.

Seeing Gou Yi appear, both sides of the alley suddenly became lively. People were begging for mercy, yelling, and crying and complaining. Gou Yi turned a deaf ear and walked straight to the deepest part of the alley.

Some of these people were reformers who opposed Lu Chao, that is, officials from the former chief minister Wu Qi's faction. Some of them tried to collude with the Han people to leave a way out for themselves. Now, they are all members here.

There is an iron door at the deepest point, and two Eagle soldiers are sitting at the door. Seeing Gou Yi walking in, they both stood up and bowed.

"Open the door!" Gou Yi waved his hand.

The heavy iron door opened from the inside. In the room, only an oil lamp was lit. A man was lying on his side on the straw in the corner. Hearing the creaking sound of the iron door opening, the man turned around and narrowed his eyes. Look at Gou Yi.

Gou Yi walked in, and the iron door closed heavily behind him. Gou Yi walked to a small table in the room and looked at the empty bowl on the table. "You have a good appetite and you actually finished eating."

The man got up from the ground and said with a smile: "Although it tastes worse than pig food, it's better than starving to death, right? It feels uncomfortable to have a stomachache."

Gou Yi sat down and looked at the other party: "Master Tang, your heart is really broad."

The man walked to the small table and sat down. The light shone on his face. It turned out to be Tang He from the National Security Bureau of the Han Dynasty. This man was a veteran intelligence officer who had worked for Gaoyuan since the days when Jishi City was built. In the Military Justice Department at that time, his accumulated merits had steadily increased over the years, and he had long been an independent member of the National Security Bureau. After the founding of the Han Dynasty, he suddenly disappeared without a trace, and unexpectedly came to Xianyang.

"Of course I am open-minded, because I know that we will win without a doubt." Tang He chuckled and said: "I saw you, General Gou, today, and I am even more confident. Has our army already reached Xianyang City?"

Gou Yi was silent for a moment, "Although we haven't arrived at Xianyang City yet, we are almost there. Just a few days ago, your army just surrounded and annihilated Bai Qi's 50,000 new troops. Bai Qi's entire army was killed, and his whereabouts are unknown. "

"Then only Xu Yahua is left, but I'm afraid he won't be able to come back, right?" Tang He laughed.

"What's so funny about you? Don't you think that the faster the Han army comes, the sooner you will die?" Gou Yi said coldly.

Tang He laughed disapprovingly and spread his hands: "General Gou, although you became a monk halfway and joined our profession, you are still a fellow traveler. Do you think we people attach great importance to life and death? It seems that you have become a monk halfway. You are here to kill me today, why didn't you bring some good food and wine? The last meal should be sumptuous. You won't be so poor that you don't even have this little thing, right? Forget it, in fact, I still want it. Thank you. You caught me and locked me up here. Although you never saw the light of day and my days and nights were reversed, you didn’t torture me or make me suffer. I also want to thank you. I am different from you. You are a general. I was born with rough flesh and thick skin, but I am a white-faced scholar with thin skin and tender flesh without beating."

Faced with Tang He's teasing, Gou Yi didn't say anything for a long time and just sat in silence.

"Aren't you here to kill me?" Tang He looked at him in surprise, "You are not ready to surrender to our big man when you see that Lu Chao is gone, right?"

His question was playful, because Tang He knew very well that Gou Yi was Lu Chao's most loyal subordinate and would never surrender to the big man.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Gou Yi's expression changed, "I will never surrender to you."

"Then why did you come to me today? Isn't it just to see me?"

Gou Yi took a deep breath and looked at Tang He: "I'm here today to let you go. Of course, I also have something to ask you."

Tang He was suddenly stunned.

"My Gou family was originally a family of generals. It has been passed down to this generation. There are five brothers who are benevolent, righteous, polite, wise and trustworthy. Today, I am the only one left. The five of us brothers have worked hard for the Qin Dynasty. Only the eldest brother There is still a child left, how about I let you go and you take him away so that he can live the rest of his life in peace?"

Tang He looked at Gou Yi with a hint of pity in his eyes. (To be continued.)