I really can't control myself

At this time, the news of Qiu Zhen's defeat had spread back to the capital, and everyone was shocked.

Emperor Li Qing and his ministers were still arguing with the people in Cang Qingshan for several days about who should be responsible, who should be punished, and what punishment.

The main reason was that the Sixth Princess insisted on protecting Chu Chengwen. To be honest, this made Emperor Li Qing a little annoyed. In Li Qing's view, Chu Chengwen was of course expendable, and since he was not his, there was nothing he could not give up.

But his daughter just refused, and now Li Qing is a little bit reluctant to step down.

If the people on Cang Qingshan's side were more forceful, for example, if they insisted on dealing with Chu Chengwen, Li Qing would be able to agree to it.

But Qi Feng and others from Cang Qing Mountain are really not that strong. The Sixth Princess said that she wanted to guarantor, so they said that she could also guarantor, and then put forward another condition and so on.

Anyway, it was just nonsense, and Li Qing was already disgusted. This matter will never end, and his daughter seems to have been bewitched, giving him a headache.

Just when things were going up or down, shocking news came. No one expected such a thing. After all, it was only one night. An army of more than 400,000 people would be defeated. This was just one night. Who could have thought.

Li Qing even confirmed the news several times when he heard it. He really couldn't believe that such a thing would happen. He even didn't know what happened in the entire battle because the battle reports coming back were quite confusing.

Many people have sent battle reports to the capital, but so many battle reports don't seem to be talking about the same thing.

Some people reported that Shu Guogong Zhang Chun rebelled and attacked the coalition forces.

Some people reported that Li Ying's troops made a surprise attack on the coalition forces.

Some people reported that Zhang Chun and Li Yingli should be together.

There were so many statements that the emperor didn't even know which one to believe.

Of course, the battle report that should have been believed the most was Marshal Li Jinglong's battle report, but the problem was that Li Jinglong's battle report had not yet arrived.

The main reason was that Li Jinglong was seriously injured and he was in a coma for two days.

Yes, Li Jinglong was shot with two arrows by Xu Jing. Although neither of them were fatal injuries, the inflammation and infection of the wounds caused him to fall into coma and cause a high fever that would not go away.

His guards led him to flee all the way, and finally managed to escape back to Qifang City at the rear. Li Jinglong woke up once during the process, and then gave the only order he had given him in the past few days, which was to continue running away.

So Li Jinglong took some of the troops who fled to Qifang City and continued to run, and then ran to the city behind. After running for two days, he finally got over it.

Only when he woke up did he remember to send someone to deliver a message to the capital, so Li Jinglong's battle report was the last one to arrive.

However, his battle report was useless at this time, because just when he was sending out his side's battle report, the emperor's envoy had already fallen to his side. Emperor Li Qing ordered Li Jinglong to directly gather his troops and quickly return to the capital.

Yes, Li Qing was completely panicked at this time. Although he still doesn't understand what is going on, the news of the defeat has been confirmed.

It is currently unclear why Li Ying's troops appeared near Qiu Town, nor how many people Li Ying brought here. The problem he has to face now is the urgent problem of the capital.

Previously, the army gathered near Qiu Town, and most of the troops originally stationed around the capital were also sent to station near Qiu Town. There are only a few thousand Imperial City Guards left in the entire capital.

It must have nothing to do with it originally. After all, the coalition forces in Qiu Town will quickly wipe out the rebel troops. Although there are not many soldiers in the imperial city, there is definitely no danger.

Who would have thought that Li Ying's troops would appear near the imperial city so quickly, and who would have thought that the army of 400,000 would be defeated overnight.

Can Li Qing not panic? Qiu Zhen is not very far from the capital, which means that Li Ying's troops will soon arrive near the capital. I don't know how many people the other party has now. Anyway, the other party can defeat an army of 400,000. Li Qing thinks there should be quite a few, at least hundreds of thousands.

At this time, there are only a few thousand troops in the capital. If the other party attacks, they will obviously not be able to stop them. So the panicked Li Qing immediately ordered that the troops around the capital be quickly transferred back to garrison the capital together.

At present, the largest army near the capital is naturally the army led by Li Jinglong. Although the imperial coalition forces were severely defeated at this time, they were not completely destroyed.

Although tens of thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands were captured in that battle, the total number was only around a hundred thousand. In fact, more troops escaped, and more than 200,000 troops actually escaped alive.

After all, Li Ying only had more than 10,000 cavalry, and their lethality was just that. It was impossible to pursue many of them. Being able to kill tens of thousands and capture tens of thousands was already a quite exaggerated record.

But of course it is impossible for all of the more than 200,000 people who escaped to return to the team. These people were completely dispersed, running around with no one to organize them, because most of the senior officers were killed by Linton's mistakes, and Marshal Li Jinglong even disappeared without a trace.

This caused most of the soldiers to run like headless flies, and a large number of broken soldiers fled to nearby cities, villages and towns.

Many soldiers fled and never came back. Although the rest fled into nearby cities, some still couldn't find the organization and had no idea how to assemble.

Qifangcheng, where Li Jinglong stayed, was the city with the largest concentration of deserters. Because it was relatively close to Qiu Town, the first reaction of most soldiers was to flee to Qifangcheng. Then I heard that Li Jinglong had also fled here, so many soldiers found organizations here and returned to the army.

However, Li Jinglong quickly ran away again, taking only about 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers with him. He didn't care about the remaining soldiers who were still running away but had not returned.

When the emperor's order reached Li Jinglong, the troops he had gathered were probably only 50,000 people. The other soldiers didn't know where they were, and they were probably scattered in the surrounding towns.

After receiving the order, Li Jinglong naturally had no choice but to immediately prepare to return to Beijing with his soldiers. He obviously had no control over the remaining defeated troops that had not yet been collected.

And the soldiers he gave up quickly found their way to another place. Because at the same time that Li Jinglong received the order to return to the capital, King Cheng Li Ying came to Qifang City and started calling the door.

To be honest, Li Ying just wanted to give it a try. After all, the square city was still quite difficult to attack. The city wall was quite thick and it would definitely not be possible to capture it in a short time.

However, after shouting a few words, the city gate really opened.