I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 432: When did the Huns become so lame?
"What's the commotion outside?"

Liu Che was a little absent-minded, and suddenly he shuddered when he heard such a noise, and asked Su Wen beside him in confusion.

The Weiyang Palace is not a place where you can make noise at will; it is only allowed in a few specific circumstances.

"Your Majesty, the people outside seem to be shouting... Master Gu won a great victory!"

Su Wen was very sure that Liu Che heard the shouting outside clearly, but he quietly omitted the two words in the middle.

After all, Liu Che was not deaf at all, and the eunuchs who delivered messages in the Weiyang Palace were required to have a tall stature and a handsome face as well as clear articulation, so it was natural that the words were shouted very clearly.

But Su Wen also thought he had heard it wrong.

What does "Gu Shi's earth-shaking victory" mean?
A great victory is a great victory, a great victory is a great victory, why add the word "earth-shattering"?

Who is the Heaven of this Han Dynasty? The Emperor is the Heaven of the Han Dynasty.

Victory is victory, defeat is defeat. Why must we say it is a shocking victory? What kind of victory could shock the emperor?

Do you look down on His Majesty?

In the past few years, Your Majesty ordered Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to attack the Huns in the north. You have personally experienced such great victories as the attack on Longting and the sealing of Langjuxu. You remained calm when receiving the victory news. No matter what kind of victory it is, you have to add the word "earth-shaking". Isn't it a bit too much and somewhat disrespectful?

Liu Ju was still young, so it was okay for him to like doing weird things.

The palace attendant who delivers messages should know what to say and what to avoid. How can he be so ignorant? I'll see who is delivering the message this time. I must give him a good lesson in private.

But...wait!
A great victory for the Gushi? !
Did you hear it right? It's Master Gu?
Su Wen finally reacted at this time. It turned out that the good news was about his master!
how can that be!

Liu Ju only had a handful of troops, and he had to attack Jiaohe City and deal with 20,000 reinforcements from the Xiongnu King You Riju. No matter how you looked at it, he was at an absolute disadvantage in this battle.

It’s really not that he doesn’t think highly of Liu Ju.

Liu Che has been very anxious recently.

Wei Qing had not even assembled all his troops, and even ignored the principle of sending troops with food and grass first, and led his troops west out of Chang'an to rescue. A few days ago, when he was sent by Liu Che to urge Wei Qing, he saw that Wei Qing had a ulcer on his lips due to anxiety.

And the Queen's wife Wei Zifu...

The palace maids in the Pepper House almost never left the ground. They ran more frequently than the emperor's attendants, traveling back and forth between the General's Mansion and the Golden Horse Gate to gather information.

In addition, the recent troop movements in Chang'an City and the urgent calls for troops from various regions around the capital and the three prefectures affected almost every official in the Sili Department.

People inside and outside the government have realized that the war in the Western Regions may be extremely unfavorable, and the deposed crown prince Liu Ju may be in danger.

However, whether Liu Che took such urgent action because he was concerned about Liu Ju's safety is a matter of opinion.

Most people only knew that Liu Ju was deposed, but did not know about the will of succession that Liu Che had hidden on the beam of the Greenhouse Palace... Therefore, most people did not think that Liu Che's reaction showed that he cared about Liu Ju's life.

They felt that Liu Che was probably just trying to save his own face. After all, Liu Ju was the eldest son of the Han emperor no matter what. Although he could be deposed or executed, he must never fall into the hands of foreign races, especially not be captured, otherwise Liu Che and the Han Dynasty would lose face both at home and abroad.

In short, no one in the Han Dynasty, from top to bottom, has any hope for the war with Gu Shi.

Now everyone is like a person waiting for the second shoe to drop, just waiting to see when the news of the defeat will come back, and to what extent the defeat will be, and how the warlike and proud Liu Che will deal with it... But now, a "Gushi's shocking victory" has been reported back? !

"It was Master Gu's great victory!"

Liu Che heard it clearly, and immediately stood up and glanced at Su Wen, correcting him while urging him urgently,

"You are only in your forties, how could you be so deaf that you missed two words? What are you still standing there for? Why don't you go and bring this report to me?!"

"promise!"

Upon hearing this, Su Wen hurriedly ran out.

However, he also heard that Liu Che also did not dare to believe in the so-called "great victory", let alone the so-called "earth-shaking victory", so he said "victory report" instead of "report".

Otherwise, why was he so anxious and angry before?

He knew better than anyone that even if Huo Qubing was in charge of this battle, it would probably be disastrous. After all, it was Huo Qubing who raided the Huns in the past, but this time it was the Huns who raided Liu Ju and had an absolute advantage in terms of military force.

……

After a cup of tea.

"Su Wen, my rebellious son has always been so bold that he dares to deceive the emperor. Do you think he is deceiving the emperor again this time?"

After Liu Che read the victory report, he allowed Su Wen to read the contents, but his brows were knitted into knots, and he showed strong doubts.

"Or maybe, this rebellious son has been captured by the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu sent such a false report in his name, trying to deceive me and deceive me so that I would not send reinforcements and wait for an opportunity to surround the Han garrison in Loulan and drive the Han out of the Western Regions in one fell swoop?"

"This……"

Su Wen was checking the victory report at a glance, and for a moment he didn't know how to answer Liu Che's question.

He knew what Liu Che wanted to hear. Liu Che now wanted him to express his objection and find evidence of his objection from the victory report, so as to prove that the content of the victory report was true.

But it doesn't mean he can just say whatever he wants just because he knows what Liu Che wants him to say!
This is a battle report, or a victory report, a major event concerning the destiny of the Han Dynasty. Even if it is not out of patriotism, he would never dare to say it carelessly, otherwise if he said something wrong, how could he bear the consequences.

Besides, he couldn't believe the content of the good news for a moment.

How did they capture Jiaohe City without bloodshed?
How come they killed 7,000 Huns in battle, captured 6,000, even captured the King of Youriju alive, and the remaining 2,000 were ambushed before the battle started?

Although the victory report stated specific strategies, such as taking advantage of the enemy's advance to enter Jiaohe City, slaughtering all the royal family and noble officials of Gushi, and specific tactics against the Xiongnu, it seemed to have cause and effect, reason and evidence, and all made sense, but the whole report still gave people a very unreal feeling.

But if you ask Su Wen to tell you what's wrong or what's not true, he can't explain it either.

The main reason was that Liu Che and Su Wen had never thought that such a situation would occur before.

They even suspected that the Huns Liu Ju encountered this time might be fake, and that King Yourizhu and the 20,000 Hun cavalry were also fake Huns, otherwise how could they suddenly become so bad?

What about the incalculable losses suffered by Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in their previous attacks on the Huns in the north?
What did it matter that Liu Che sold everything he had to conquer the Huns?
What about the humiliating history of marriage alliances of the Han Dynasty for nearly a hundred years since Emperor Gaozu?
What about the siege of Baideng that Emperor Gaozu once encountered?
(End of this chapter)