"Your Highness, what's wrong with you?" Shi Chao asked in confusion. He was passionate the previous second, but the next second, he looked like eggplant from frost. Even as a subordinate, and the subordinate who had just joined him should be cautious, he had to ask.

"The Qin King's army won consecutive battles and was besieging Hangu Pass." Sima Ji replied blankly, but his expression was full of sorrow, and it was not very happy, which was in sharp contrast with the look of Shi Chao and others celebrating each other.

Is Sima Ji happy? Of course, as the opposite of Sima Lun, he should be happy. But can Sima Jian stand the Guanzhong army withstand such a day and night siege? There are more than 50,000 Luoyang imperial guards in Hangu Pass. Once the momentum of the Guanzhong army is exhausted, can Sima Jian stabilize his position after these 50,000 imperial guards focusing on defense break out of Hangu Pass?

"Your Highness doesn't seem very happy?" Zhang Da was the first to notice Sima Ji's boredom and asked, "Does your Highness think there will be any problems with the Qin King's army?"

"It's too anxious, it's like trying hard." Sima Ji shook his head slightly, "It's too much loss to attack a well-known pass in the world. If I do this, I should have gone south and taken the initiative to cause trouble in Yecheng, rather than waiting for the King of Hejian to come here."

Of course, this is not the whole reason. There is another reason why Sima Kam is so powerful now, which is equivalent to muddling the water. Before there is a single result, other military towns will remain silent, and Sima Ji cannot judge where the situation will develop.

Don’t underestimate this. This is a very important thing. During the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion in the Western Han Dynasty, the kings and princes participating in the rebellion, the Wu and Chu coalition alone had the strength of the central government of the Han Dynasty. Zhou Yafu was powerful. Could it be that King Liu Bi of Wu was just a bag of wine?

If King Liu Bi of Wu was able to guard Xiang Yu's territory, who would believe that he had no choice but to deal with it? If Emperor Jing of Han was easy to deal with, he would not have waited for the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms to come, and would have long since taken away these vassal kings.

Similar to the rebellion of the vassal kings, the more people involved, the less decent cooperation they can't have. There are too many vassal kings who have the final say. As long as the central government catches a soft persimmon and beats it to death, the soft persimmon may cause chain effects.

When your allies fail one after another and only you are alone, you can't even exert your strength even if you have ten years of strength.

The reason for the defeat of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion is that they cannot form a joint force, but this is almost inevitable. Whoever listens to the vassal kings? The reason why the Eight Kings Rebellion was successful was that in addition to Sima Jiong's shout, several vassal kings who controlled the important towns rose up. There was a big reason why Sima Lun himself was too incompetent.

The combined force of Sima Jiong and Sima Ying was nearly 400,000, more than twice that of the entire Luoyang Imperial Army. The domino was directly activated and other vassal kings joined. In addition, during the march, the Hejian King who guarded Chang'an and the Xinye King who guarded Jingxiang joined, the number of each large army was not inferior to that of Luoyang Imperial Army. At that time, no matter how Sima Lun struggled, it was useless.

But now it is different. Only the King of Qin raised an army, and the outcome would be unpredictable if he continues to fight like this. Sima Ji slapped the table and asked, "Have you finished the suicide letter? I decided to use the five thousand vassal troops that were enfeoffed, and there were 10,000 Jin Guards to lead the 70,000 expanded Youzhou Army and 30,000 Jurchen Army to go south, join 100,000 troops, and 15 days later."

Sima Jian's urgent attack made Sima Ji feel dangerous. What if the King of Qin kneels down and Sima Lun uses the remaining power of the victory to order other military towns to besiege Youzhou? Now you can no longer stare at the King of Hejian. If the enemy does not move, I will not move. Since the King of Qin has sent troops, Sima Ji cannot watch it. He must turn the original intention of the defensive party into an active attack.

Even if Sima Lun has not officially usurped the throne yet, he will not refute it if he attacks Luoyang anyway, and he will say that he wants to usurp the throne.

"Your Highness, then Youzhou plus your 5,000 troops and 30,000 to 40,000 left-behind forces, isn't it a little less?" Li Shan said after hearing this, "No problem will happen."

"No, you underestimated Jicheng that I expanded. Yecheng has weaknesses that can be seen at a glance. Jicheng has no at all. There is only one way to conquer Jicheng, and it is to use human lives to pile up." Sima Ji stretched and said tiredly, "Let's take one step at a time."

There were so many military towns and vassal kings involved that they directly blinded Sima Ji and could only arrange them according to the worst situation. If he knew that Sima Ying and Sima Ji were ready to fight back, he would definitely not help the King of Qin in a timely manner. Instead, according to the first secret of Chang Gong's military strategy, friendly troops were surrounded as if they were surrounded, watching several vassal kings fight to the death and reap the profits themselves.

In Shu, Sima Ying had just returned to Yizhou and quickly summoned Li Mi, the prefect of Jianwei, Huo Gu, the prefect of Wenshan, and General Chen, the captain of the Western Yi, to discuss matters. He said straight to the point, "I have just returned from hunting and seeing the stability of the people in Yizhou, it is so happy. It's just that the world is unfair and there are treacherous slanders. What can you do? Now that the war in the Central Plains is on the rise, I don't know what the Lords have to plan?"

"Your Highness is your intention?" Mr. Chen, the captain of the Western Yi, asked in a low voice. It is not new to Qin King Sima Jian gathered troops to attack Sima Lun. They have heard of it, but they are not as clear as Sima Ying.

At this moment, Sima Ying's adviser Lu Zhi stood up and said, "Your Highness, the Qin King's army is now besieging Hangu Pass day and night. The King of Yan, who is far away in Youzhou, is preparing for troops. I believe that as long as the news of the King of Qin sending troops reaches Youzhou, it will go south soon. As long as your Highness sends troops, Sima Lun will die and live."

"Lu Zhi, you seem to have some understanding of Sima Ji." Sima Ying frowned slightly and asked at his confidant adviser. He knew that Lu Zhi had a very high origin, and was the great-grandson of Lu Zhi at the end of the Han Dynasty. He was from a famous family. His hometown was Fan Yang, and was on the south side of the founding of King Yan.

"My subordinates were born in Fanyang Kingdom. When Sima Ji was in power, King Fanyang and King Yan had a good relationship because they were adjacent to each other. At that time, the ministers also went to Jicheng. Once King Yan went south, King Fanyang's attitude might change." Lu Zhi answered in a lot of ways, but there was no question. His relationship with King Yan was more than that.

In the past, the Lu family of Fanyang participated in the slave transaction, and Sima Ji happened to be caught by him once. Finally, he bought the slave and kept it in the mansion. For this reason, he wrote a letter to the Lu family of Fanyang. At that time, it was Lu Zhi who received the letter. From then on, Sima Ji started to trade slaves that eat human flesh and drink human blood.
Chapter completed!