I really can't control myself

"You...what did you say?" Li Qing was so frightened when he heard the news that he almost fell from the throne to the ground.

When he heard that Li Ying's troops were heading towards the capital, he was indeed a little panicked, but he was still somewhat confident. After all, it would be too difficult to break into an iron-walled city like Beijing.

Although there are not many defense troops in the capital now, Li Jinglong is rushing back with 100,000 troops. As long as these 100,000 troops enter the city, the city defended by 100,000 troops will be almost impossible to conquer.

Even if there are millions of people besieging the capital, it is almost impossible to capture the city. All we have to do is defend for a few days and wait for the enemy's food and supplies to run out.

But now you say that the 100,000 troops that were on defense this time were gone overnight? What the hell is going on? Are the soldiers on his side really papery? One moment the 400,000-strong army was gone, and the next moment the 100,000-strong army was gone. Even a hundred thousand pigs wouldn't be gone so quickly.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, this is all the fault of Li Jinglong." The general who escaped and reported quickly put the blame on Li Jinglong. "As soon as the battle started, Li Jinglong abandoned the army and ran away alone. It caused the entire army to completely lose its command and allowed the opponent to defeat it easily."

This is not wrong, because Li Jinglong did escape from the battlefield and had to bear a lot of responsibility. However, even if Li Jinglong did not run away, there would be no big difference in the outcome. After all, the morale of the army was unstable and the soldiers were completely unintentional to fight the enemy.

But this situation is very difficult to explain, and no one wants to take over this responsibility. Instead, it is very convenient to blame Li Jinglong. So those who escaped have basically passed the test and unanimously agreed to blame Li Jinglong for this matter. Forget it.

"Where is Li Jinglong? I'm going to kill him!" Emperor Li Qing was really easy to fool. When he heard what these people said, he didn't even bother to ask more questions and just roared angrily.

"Your Majesty, now is not the time to hold people responsible." A minister came out and said, "The enemy is approaching the capital. How to retreat the enemy now is the key."

When Li Qing heard this, his eyes suddenly turned fierce when he looked at the minister who had put forward the correct opinion. As for why he became fierce, it was because this minister was one of the ministers who advocated making Li Jinglong the marshal of the army a few days ago.

As I said before, Li Jinglong became the marshal because of the minister's recommendation. As for why the ministers recommended him, they naturally received benefits.

Compared with other generals, Li Jinglong's relationship with the civil servants was actually pretty good. Because Emperor Li Qing was petty and suspicious, if ordinary military generals had some contact with civil servants, it would directly arouse the emperor's dissatisfaction, and the ministers and generals under him naturally knew this.

But Li Jinglong is an exception, because his status is rather special, a member of the royal family who has not been granted a title and has joined the army. This strange identity, which seems to rely on both sides and neither, allows him to move between various forces.

Although Li Jinglong is not very good at fighting, he is really good at dealing with people and public relations, and his relations with all parties are pretty good.

The civil servants recommended him, on the one hand, they really took his money, and on the other hand, it also expanded the sphere of influence of their civil servants.

And they didn't expect such a big thing to happen. Because when Li Jinglong was recommended, the imperial court still had more than half a million troops including the vanguard. Li Ying's troops on the opposite side numbered over 100,000 at full strength. The difference between the two sides was huge.

In their view, this battle was a must-win. It was just a matter of gaining reputation. How could they have imagined that such a situation would happen.

And now that things have suddenly developed to this point, they are also panicking. Not only is the emperor likely to hold them accountable, but the enemy is about to invade the capital. What should they do if the city is really broken?

If they had known that Li Jinglong would be such a idiot, they would never have spoken for this guy. But now that the matter has come to this, what can they do if they regret it? They should first find a way to remove themselves from this matter.

Emperor Li Qing was so angry that he wanted to kill someone when he heard what these ministers said. This person was recommended by you, but now something has happened, everyone has the overall situation in mind and wants to get rid of this matter. Under normal circumstances, Li Qing would have been so angry that he would have killed someone on the spot.

But now, Li Qing also knows that the current situation is critical and it is not the time to settle accounts.

At this time, Li Qing no longer believed these civil servants at all, and he once again turned his attention to Wang Men next to him, the only general he trusted.

He also regretted why he didn't immediately send Wangmen to take over the camp. As he thought about it, he thought of those guys from Cang Qingshan. It was these guys who were looking for trouble these days. These people from Cang Qingshan have not only been looking for trouble and enmity in the past few days, but now that I think about it, they seem to be deliberately holding back the Wang Clan.

Because the reason why the people from Cang Qingshan came to see Wang Clan was that someone rescued him and then injured the senior sister they sent, so as the person involved, the people from Cang Qingshan would confront Wang Clan from time to time. Of course, every time I just casually asked a few questions about the so-called details at that time, and I asked them again and again.

Now that I think about it, these people obviously did it on purpose.

Not only that, he now resents his daughter, Princess Linchuan. If it weren't for my daughter's insistence on protecting the person named Chu Chengwen and handing him over as soon as possible, this matter would have been over a long time ago.

If this matter had been settled before, Wang Men could have returned to the military camp earlier. Even if he couldn't take over as marshal, he could arrange a deputy marshal position for him, and at least it wouldn't be like the current situation.

Li Jinglong abandoned the army and ran away immediately after the fight. If Wang Clan had been there at that time, it wouldn't have happened like this.

In short, Li Qing really regrets all kinds of things now. It's just that he knew about it for a long time, and it was all an afterthought. Now that things have become like this, it is indeed not the time to settle accounts.

"Your Majesty, under the current situation, it may be difficult to defend the capital." The Wangmen here thought for a moment, and then said in a deep voice, as if they had made some decision, "General, I sincerely request your Majesty to patrol the south."

"What?" Everyone present was shocked. The so-called southern tour is a nice way of saying it, but the actual meaning is to ask Emperor Li Qing to abandon the capital and run away directly.

"Nonsense! Your Majesty, you must not do this. This king's monstrous words are misleading the public and should be executed!" Immediately, a civil servant next to him said to Li Qing.

"Your Majesty, you must not do this." Another group of ministers came out and said.