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In the imperial palace of the capital.
"Bang!"
In Taiji Palace, Emperor Zhou Tai threw the memorial to the ground, his eyes filled with anger.
"Trash! A bunch of trash! 200,000 soldiers! A whole 200,000 soldiers! How did they do it?”
Even if the Emperor did not know much about military affairs, he knew that there were only 100,000 enemies. Even if he was going to be defeated, he would not be defeated so thoroughly, right?
The entire court was silent, but Wu Xun was calm. They already knew that the failure this time was caused by the civil officials.
Although most of the civil officials and generals were the Retired Emperor's men, they were still on opposing sides in the Imperial Court.
After a moment of silence, a figure bowed and stood up.
"Your Majesty, this battle was caused by Zhen Yuanyi. He used his military authority indiscriminately and deserves to die!”
Everyone was silent. Everyone knew that Zhen Yuanyi was also a member of the Clear Stream. However, this matter had blown up too much. The entire capital was in danger, so Zhen Yuanyi could not be left alive. Otherwise, many people would be affected.
The person who spoke was Qi Mu, the current Right Prime Minister and also the Imperial Censor.
(Censor Zhongcheng is only a small official of the fifth rank. This new leader of the Clear Stream is a little low-level, so he added the official position of Right Prime Minister.)）
At this moment, Qi Mu was standing at the head of the civil officials. Minister Ke had already retired, and he had thought that he would be promoted to the Left Prime Minister.
Who would have thought that the Empress, that woman who had caused chaos in the country, would actually recommend Xiao Qinyan to the Emperor!
How could Qi Mu not be furious when the Left Prime Minister was sent flying? Originally, they had fought for the position of supervisor because they wanted to use their military achievements to gain more authority for them to deal with Xiao Qinyan, who was about to return.
In the end, he didn't expect Zhen Yuanyi to be a good-for-nothing. How could he return in such a defeated manner?
In fact, these people were just talking on paper. Even if Zhen Yuanyi didn't mess around in this battle, it was impossible to win. The current Great Zhou Dynasty could only defend. Not everyone had Jia Huan's strength and could take the initiative to attack.
Emperor Zhou Tai glanced at Qi Mu but didn't say anything. He knew who Zhen Yuanyi was because his father was the favorite concubine of the Retired Emperor. Lady Zhen was the ancestor of the Zhen family!
"Pass down my order. All the provinces within the pass will mobilize their soldiers to defend together with the capital camp. We must beat the Tartars back!”
Although the capital camp was controlled by the Retired Emperor, the Tartar army was approaching the city. For the sake of his own life, the Retired Emperor would not care so much.
In the end, the officials decided that the capital camp would have 50,000 soldiers, the Imperial Army 30,000 soldiers, the patrol camp 10,000 soldiers, and the guards of the Imperial City Division would make a total of 100,000 soldiers. With the addition of the prefectural soldiers from various places, they would be able to gather 200,000 soldiers. It should not be difficult to stop the Tartars outside the capital.
Due to the complicated situation in Liaodong, the Tartars would not be able to stay for long. They would naturally retreat after plundering enough gold and silver.
Therefore, even though they were frightened, the officials were not too worried.
But this time, they had clearly misjudged the Tartars.
Ten days later, the Tartar army arrived at the city gates. After resting for a day, they immediately launched a fierce attack.
They attacked the city for days and nights!
The 200,000-strong Tartar army was split into groups of 50,000 and attacked day and night.
In just a few days, the capital's garrison had lost more than tens of thousands!
All the civil and military officials in the court panicked, the emperor was terrified, and the people in the city were scared silly.
This was different from what they had expected! The Tartars had already plundered the entire northern states. Why were they still not retreating? Why did they attack the capital without any regard for the consequences?
The reason for all of this was actually because of Jia Huan. The Tartar Prince that Jia Huan had killed was the favorite son of the current Tartar Khan.
In his rage, he directly ordered the attack on the capital, and he did not even care about it.
Within the Jia Residence in the capital, the previously colorful Jia Residence was now silent.
The womenfolk had already arrived at Rongxi Hall because there were rumors in the city that the capital might fall in a few more days.
There were even civil officials who had started to suggest that the emperor move the capital!
"This, what should we do?"
Grandmother Jia, who used to be high and mighty in the Jia residence, was now like an ordinary old man, her face full of helplessness.
But were the Jia family's men useful?
Jia Lian, Jia Zhen, and the others were all trembling, hiding in Rongxi Hall, not even daring to go out to take a look.
Jia Baoyu was still curled up in Grandmother Jia's arms even though he was in his teens. Only now did he truly feel fear when faced with such a situation.
One had to know that Jia Huan, who was one year younger than him, had already made countless military achievements.
However, the funny thing was that the Jia family had actually blocked a lot of information.
Madam Wang used her power to make the servants not mention anything about Jia Huan in the Jia residence.
As for the words of the womenfolk, they couldn't even leave the mansion, so they had no way of knowing.
Other than the first good news that came back, even Grandmother Jia did not know about the subsequent good news. It was all blocked by Madam Wang.
As for the men of the Jia family, they either ate, drank, and had fun, or they were afraid of Madam Wang and did not dare to mention it.
Jia Tanchun sat beside his sisters, curled up with the servant girl, and looked at the sky outside the Jia residence as he thought to himself.
"Brother, where are you?"
She still remembered how excited she was when the good news came back. Would her brother return now?
At the same time, when the capital was in danger and all the civil and military officials proposed to move the capital, Jia Huan had already arrived at the Wei River.
They had been marching day and night, and the Snowy Dragon Cavalry and the Back Wei Army had not closed their eyes for days.
If it were any other ordinary soldier, they would have already fallen asleep on the spot. However, the Snowy Dragon Cavalry and the Beiwei Army were different. Although they were not in high spirits, their morale was still high!
"Zaixing, can you still hold on?"
Jia Huan looked at Yang Zaixing and asked.
Because he was worried about his mother and sister, he could only rush as fast as he could.
"General, don't worry. I can charge ten more times!”
Yang Zaixing said confidently, but the fatigue between his eyebrows could not be resolved.
Jia Huan nodded and looked at the distant siege army. He had already known about the information sent by the Imperial City Bureau in advance.
The Tartar army was divided into four groups, attacking the city day and night while the front and back were all sleeping.
This was an opportunity! Because no one would have thought that Jia Huan would be able to return to the capital in such a short time.
"This is an opportunity!"
Jia Huan's gaze was like an eagle as he looked at the main tent in the middle of the army and roared.
"All soldiers, charge forward with me!”
As Jia Huan's voice rang out, the 3,000 Snowy Dragon Cavalry, 3,000 Beiwei Army, and 18 Yanyun Cavalry raised their weapons and charged forward!
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