On November 11, 696, the main forces of the Taiping Army launched the Heshuo Campaign again after meeting. On November 13, the Hejian Campaign broke out first, and the imperial army and the Taiping Army fought fiercely again in the southern part of Hejian Prefecture. The two sides used 150,000 troops to fight fiercely. After five days of fierce battle, the situation was already in a stalemate. On November 16, a small-scale Taiping Cult uprising broke out in Hejian Prefecture City. Tan Keren, the governor of Hejian Prefecture City, removed Fang Chengsong from the position of Hejian Prefecture City as the prefecture of neglecting military affairs and condoning the Taiping Rebellion Party, and appointed his confidant, the former director of the Heshuo County Internal Affairs Office, and also served as the acting city guard of Hejian Prefecture. This move aroused strong opposition from the scholars and merchants in the Hejian Prefecture City. The situation in Hejian Prefecture changed three times a day and was turbulent.

On November 19, a small group of elite Taiping Army who detoured from Heishan to the northern border of Tianshui into Hejian territory, rioted again with the hidden Taiping Cult hidden elements in the west of Hejian Prefecture, and echoed the remnants of the Taiping Cult in Hejian Prefecture. Due to the removal of the city guards, the senior officials of the troops were replaced at the same time. The morale of the army was dispersed and completely lost their combat capabilities. On November 21, the storm caused by the Taiping Army in the west of Hejian Prefecture finally took shape, colluding with the Taiping Cult Rebellion in Hejian Prefecture inside and outside, controlling the entire Hejian Prefecture. Tan Keren, the governor of Heshuo County, fled to Jinzhong in a panic, causing shock in the empire again.

On November 22, after receiving the news of the fall of Hejian Prefecture City, the imperial army on the northern front of Hejian was forced to retreat. The main force of the Taiping Army launched a general attack on the imperial army from the east and west directions. The entire imperial army was defeated. Wu Da, commander of the Western Military Region of the Empire, committed suicide after fleeing into Jinzhong Prefecture. Xie Lihou, the commander of the Imperial Third Army, was immediately sentenced to death by His Majesty the Imperial Emperor.

On November 24, the Emperor of the Empire issued an order to remove Yusufu, the commander of the Imperial City Guard Corps. He was appointed as the Imperial Military Affairs Deputy Minister and ordered Qian Pojun, the deputy commander of the City Guard Corps to take over. However, Yusufu refused to accept the order and refused to accept the order on the grounds of his life.

The Taiping Army took advantage of the victory to pursue. On November 26, the main force of the Taiping Army, led by Cheng Dacheng, conquered the Jinzhong Prefecture City, which was completely unprepared, and occupied the entire Jinzhong territory. The closest place to the imperial capital was only two hundred miles away. Since then, the door to the imperial capital has been opened. On November 27, Situ Jun, the third prince of the Empire, immediately led two divisions of the Empire's Fifth Legion and one remaining division of the Empire's Third Legion into Tianshui, and officially took over Tianshui Prefecture on November 28.

When the exhausted Situ Yutang finally saw her fiancée, it was already three days later. She saw the guy who had lost all over the place, unshaven and in disheveled clothes. Situ Yutang originally rushed to her lips and swallowed it silently, but stared at the guy in front of her who could not be described in words.

"Yutang, come, come, come and sit down." Wufeng's face, seeing the beauty, had no idea what was abnormal, so he naturally generously invited the jade man to take his seat.

He snorted softly. Although Situ Yutang had a lot to ask in his heart, he couldn't question him directly when he saw the other party's appearance. He had to sit down and wait for the servant to bring the tea up. There were only two people left in the whole tent, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little subtle.

"Yutang, it seems that you are in a bad mood. What's wrong? Is there anything unpleasant?" Wufeng put down the pencil in his hand and left the desk with a caring look on his face.

"Wufeng, I ask you, why haven't you sent troops yet? The war in Heshuo is so tense, why are you still procrastinating here? Do you really want to see Heshuo fall into the hands of those thieves? Are you satisfied with your heart? Do you really don't want to do your part for the empire?" Thinking of the past few days of running around, Situ Yutang couldn't help but feel angry. He rushed from Lulong Mansion to Heishiji in southern Lulong, and then chased from Heishiji to the Yangmakou in Bonan Mansion, and finally came from Sheshiiji to Queqiao Pass, finally blocking this guy who was "traveling" everywhere.

"Are you hiding from me? If you don't want to see me, you can just say it directly that I will not be entangled like those women, but I still want to remind you of your own responsibilities and obligations as a chief official in the empire." Situ Yutang might have felt that the previous few words were a bit extreme, and then eased his tone a little, but the implication did not change.

"Empire?" Wu Feng smiled slightly, and he seemed to have no effect on the fierce words of the jade man. Wu Feng slowly sat back into the chair behind the desk and said in confusion: "Yutang, you probably still don't know what happened in the past few days, right? Things in the world have changed too quickly, and it is beyond our expectations. I am afraid it has exceeded our imagination. I have run around these days. I am not trying to avoid anyone. It is really the change in the situation that forces me to run around."

"The situation changed?" Situ Yutang felt nervous. She had been rushing around the road these days. The information was already relatively closed. In addition, in the northwest, who could quickly surpass the guy on the other side, but from the tone, something bad happened. She didn't care about anything else. Situ Yutang quickly asked, "What happened?"

Shaking his head, Wufeng glanced casually at the stack of information on the desk, and sighed: "The situation has changed so quickly in the past few days. I wanted to tell Yutang slowly, but since Yutang is here, I don't think there is anything to cover up."

After a pause, Wufeng thought about his words before saying: "The Taiping Rebellion Army has captured Hejian and Jinzhong Prefectures. The empire's army in the Heshuo area has been wiped out. Only Tianshui Prefecture is currently controlled by His Highness the Third Prince. The Imperial City Guard Corps, which is staying in Qinghe Prefecture, has escaped from the control of His Majesty the Emperor and refuses to accept His Majesty the Emperor's orders. I think Yusufu has betrayed the empire!"

Wufeng's voice was not loud, but every sentence was like a thunderous slamming above the head of the Seventeenth Princess who had always maintained a considerable demeanor. She was in a daze in front of her eyes. The teacup in her hand fell to the ground with a "clang" sound. Situ Yutang could no longer remain calm, so she stood up suddenly and said sternly: "What did you say? Li Wufeng, how dare you spread rumors and confuse the public?"

"Spread rumors to confuse the public?" A contemptuous smile flashed across Wufeng's lips, "Yutang, you are too underestimating your future husband. Can these news be produced by spreading rumors? Be calm and think about it carefully."

He threw the stack of information on his desk in front of the jade man who was stunned and seemed to have not yet woken up. Wufeng didn't say anything more, but just sat down and quietly pondered.

Although Situ Yutang slowly sat back to her original position, although she was emotionally excited, the habit she developed since childhood still made her calm down and read the information that Wufeng had thrown to her seriously. One by one, each message pierced into her already overwhelmed heart like a steel needle. Especially the last few messages that Wufeng had not yet said made her feel like a burning fire in her heart. Yusufu's rebellion, Lin Guowei and Lang Yongquan both requested to be granted the title of king, which was clearly a provocation and contempt for the empire. All this happened in these few days. Situ Yutang only felt that the temples on both sides of her head were leaping violently, and she didn't even have time to take a breath, and there was a black look in front of her.

It seemed like I couldn't move, and there was another trance in my mind. I didn't know where it was. I struggled hard, and I felt like I had fallen into an endless abyss. A series of vague plots flashed through my mind. Where is this?

After slowly adapting to the dazzling sunshine outside the window, the delicate woman could finally see the environment she was in. A familiar and upright figure was still waiting by her bed.

"Yutang, you finally woke up." Seeing that the woman finally opened her eyes, although she still looked a little haggard, she finally woke up. Wufeng had put down a big stone in his heart. Although a doctor had already come to diagnose her, she said that she was just a sudden inflamed heart. She could take some rest and take some medicine to clear the heart of the fire, but Wufeng was still not relieved. At this time, when he saw the jade man opening his eyes, his heart felt much more at ease.

“Where is this?”

"Oh, this is my bedroom in Queqiao Pass. Please rest. Don't think too much. Things have happened. You and I cannot change and stop you. When you get better, let's think about it." Wufeng pulled the thin quilt for the jade man and comforted him considerately.

"No, I have nothing. Wufeng, the situation is so urgent now that we cannot do nothing here. We have to find a way to recover Heshuo as soon as possible and not let those thieves succeed." Situ Yutang's face was flushed again because he spoke too quickly. A pair of expectant and longing eyes in his almond eyes stared firmly at Wufeng's face, making Wufeng's words unable to say them for a while.

Slowly turning his head aside, Wufeng calmed down and sighed, "Yutang, it's not that I don't want to, but now the situation has come to this point. It's just my own strength that it's hard to support the overall situation. In the battle of Lulong, our Northwest Army has suffered a lot of losses, and now the Taiping Army has defended according to the dangerous barriers in the western part of Anyuan. If you want to break through there, it is obviously not too difficult to break through; and Longdong has now become a heavy throat in the eyes of Taiping Cult. I'm afraid that it will be too difficult to break through."

A heart gradually sinks again, Situ Yutang turns his head helplessly. At this moment, she only feels that the person in front of her is so ugly and despicable. She doesn't even want to hear the other party's clear voice again, "Okay, Lord Li, since you say that, I have nothing to say. Please go back, I want to take a rest."
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