The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 689
The current situation gave Lu Liqing a headache.

"My lord, when I retreated back, I found that the bandit army was advancing eastward with all its strength..."

"Listen to what those bandit scouts said, their next step is to capture Hanbei City!"

"General... we have to prepare early!" Yuan Zheng spoke earnestly.

Two days ago, although Lu Liqing wanted to find out the identity of the enemy army, he also knew that the Yong army was advancing eastward, so he summoned the army.

Faced with Yuan Zheng's request, Lu Liqing did not express his position, but said: "I have already dealt with this matter, you go down and rest first..."

Seeing Lu Liqing's serious expression, although Yuan Zheng wanted to persuade him a little more, he recognized the situation and replied honestly: "Yes!"

After Yuan Zheng left, Lu Liqing immediately sent someone to summon his subordinates to discuss the countermeasures.

Now, the main forces of the various departments of the Western Front Army have gathered near Donghe Mansion, and it is not difficult to gather people together.

After giving the order, Lu Liqing walked to the desk, crumpled up the written notes, and threw them into the wastebasket.

He planned to send the explanation of the matter and the response plan of the Western Front Corps to the capital after convening the generals for discussion.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the commanders of the various guards and the officers of the capital division all gathered outside Lu Liqing's lobby.

Those who arrived long ago included Lu Liqing's deputy, Marquis Wuqing Zhang An, the supervisor Wang Shibin sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the eunuch Shen Cheng who was also the supervisor Bingbi who was also the supervisor.

After everyone was seated, Lu Liqing spoke first: "Everyone, Yuan Zheng from Longzhi Youwei escaped back just now and told me two things!"

"One, the bandit army is marching eastward, intending to capture Hanbei Mansion!"

"In this regard, how do you think we should deal with it?"

After Lu Liqing finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

How else to deal with it?Of course, it is to send troops to cross the Han River to strengthen the defense of Hanbei City.

However, there are many zombies in the area west of the Han River, and crossing the river is very dangerous, not to mention there are bandits watching, and all the generals present are reluctant to send troops.

"Secondly, the so-called bandit army is commanded by King Yong. Now that King Yong's army is overwhelming, how should our army respond?"

Good guy, this second news surprised everyone even more.

"King Yong? That King Yong?"

"King Yong is still alive?"

"Where did he get the army?"

The generals talked a lot, and Zhang An, the deputy general, and the two supervisors were already thinking about how to report this matter.

There was a lot of noise in the hall, and it was extremely noisy for a while.

"Quiet... shut up!"

As the chief general, Lu Liqing was old enough and had a high status, so he could naturally persuade and accept these people.

"Let's talk about the first one..."

Everyone didn't speak, Lu Liqing put forward his own opinion: "Now that the bandit army is aggressively invading, Hanbei City is isolated to the west of the Han River, or our army rushes to help Hanbei, and use Hanbei as a base to hold back the enemy!"

"Either our army takes the Han River as a natural danger and blocks the enemy army to the west of the Han River!"

Speaking of this, Lu Liqing actually said: "Of course, these two things can also be done together!"

Lu Liqing's two opinions are indeed reasonable and effective.

All the generals were thinking, and Zhang An, Marquis of Wuqing sitting on Lu Liqing's right, said, "General, the bandit army can pass through many monsters in Hexi, and its strength should not be underestimated!"

"And Hanbei City has no defensive ordnance. Even if more troops are stationed there, I'm afraid they won't be able to prevent the bandits from attacking!"

After Hanbei City was cleaned up, the imperial court only sent a small number of troops to garrison, just to guard the city and wait for the western front troops to station in the next stage.

In the preset plan of the Western Front Army, after cleaning up the east of Hanshui, the west of Hanshui should be recovered with the support of Hanbei.

Who would have thought that apart from zombies, the enemies facing the imperial court would also have serious troops.

Lu Liqing turned his head and asked, "So what do you mean?"

Zhang An replied: "Supporting Hanbei City, I'm afraid it will repeat the results of Longzhi Youwei, so I think it is more appropriate to defend Hanshui!"

Zhang An's words were indeed true, and everyone at the scene agreed.

Sending people to strengthen the defense of Hanbei City, facing the fierce bandit army, and guarding against a large number of zombies, it is indeed extremely risky to go suddenly.

For the purpose of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, everyone present supported Zhang An's opinion.

"You mean to hand over Hanbei City?" Lu Liqing asked.

In order to win Hanbei, the Western Front Corps spent a lot of painstaking efforts, so it is naturally not reconciled to give up Lu Liqing in vain

Of course, he also thought what Zhang An said was reasonable, but he was just unwilling.

Zhang An said in a deep voice: "My lord, everything is for the overall situation!"

Lu Liqing turned his head, glanced at the two people on the left, and asked, "Master Wang, Eunuch Shen, what do you think?"

"Our family doesn't understand wars, all you need to do is be loyal to the emperor and the imperial court!"

Although what Shen Cheng said was nonsense, it still showed an attitude of not getting involved.

Wang Shibin, the censor at the side, said: "To be on the safe side, it's better to defend Hanshui!"

The right guard of Longzhi was defeated, which caused the Western Front Army to lose a lot of power, so Wang Shibin's thinking was more cautious.

Hanbei is an empty city, so it's no big deal to abandon it.

"Since you all feel that defending Hanbei is more appropriate, then simply withdraw the defenders of Hanbei!" Lu Liqing said in a deep voice.

At this moment, Shen Cheng said: "My lord, I'm afraid it's too late!"

"The enemy cavalry must have arrived around Hanbei City. If people from the city come out, or if we send people across the river to pick them up, I'm afraid they will all be attacked by them!"

For the returning defeated soldiers, Shen Cheng also asked many people about the frontline.

When the cavalry was relatively small, it would take only one or two hours between coming and going for tens of miles, but now two days have passed.

If the "thief army" really wanted to attack Hanbei, they should have arrived long ago, but there was no big movement on the other side of the river, which can only mean that these troops are hiding.

In fact, Lu Liqing really didn't expect this.

In the past few years, there have been many zombies, which made him fall into a stereotyped thinking. On the contrary, an "outsider" like Shen Cheng could see it more clearly.

"Eunuch Shen is right..."

"That's true. I'm afraid that once we cross the river, not only monsters will attack, but also bandit cavalry will attack!"

From this point of view, it is even more unreliable to send troops across the river to defend Hanbei.

Lu Liqing sighed: "If this is the case, the Hanbei defenders can only ask for blessings!"

Zhang An on the side said: "General, the most urgent task is to find out the details of the bandit army. As the saying goes, know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles!"

The scouts they sent out either didn't come back, or the scouts who came back basically returned without success, and the news they brought back was extremely confusing.

"Ok!"

Nodding his head, Lu Liqing went on to say: "King Yong leads troops to attack, this matter should be reported to the imperial court as soon as possible, so that the imperial court can be prepared!"

Censor Wang Shibin nodded and said, "Exactly!"

It's just that I don't know how the news of King Yong's rebellion will affect the situation in the southwest... Lu Liqing thought to himself.

The intention of the imperial court was to use strong troops to force the country to surrender to the southwest.

If King Yong hadn't raised his troops, Lu Liqing felt that there was a [-]% chance of forcing him to surrender to the southwest.

But now that this happened, Lu Liqing now thinks that the forced surrender to the southwest is very likely to be false.

"Report... Fifteen miles west of Hanbei, more than [-] enemy troops were found!"

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To the west of Hanbei City, ten miles away, the army is marching at this moment.

It has to be said that there are indeed many zombies west of the Han River, which greatly delayed the progress of the Yong army.

But fortunately, Hanbei City is already in sight!

(End of this chapter)