The eunuch still put a cushion on top of the Yutao, so that Yan Li could lean back slightly without hurting the wound.
Still in accordance with the old rules, he shouted in a clear voice on the jade steps: "This morning, if there is something to do, come, and if there is nothing to do, roll back the curtain!"
Because the people in the capital were in panic, the ministers already knew that Pan Meichen was going to enter the capital, so they all stepped out of the train, knelt down on the ground, and shouted in unison:
"My minister has something to do!"
It was the first time that more than a hundred ministers said that something had happened so neatly.
Yan Li frowned slightly, and looked at the ministers with sharp eyes, "My dear ministers, if you have anything to say, tell them one by one."
He looked at it and pointed to one of the ministers: "Tell me, what do you want to play."
The minister's face was panicked and dignified, and even his voice was trembling: "Your Majesty, it's not good! It's not good!"
Even if the sky falls and Mount Tai collapses in front of him, Yan Li will not be moved.
"You said, what's wrong?"
The minister swallowed his saliva: "Today, I came to the morning court and found that the people in the capital were busy at home, carrying old burdens and small burdens, riding horses and carts, running on foot, and fled the capital one after another. After asking, I was shocked."
Yan Li's face also became serious, it was obvious that what he was about to face was not an ordinary thing.
"Could it be that there are rumors to confuse the public, saying that the capital is about to have an earthquake?"
The minister shook his head like a rattle drum, without the slightest gesture of a minister: "It's not an earthquake! It's Pan Meichen who led the troops back!"
Yan Li finally understood what was going on, but he couldn't see any changes on his slightly reddened and blood-colored face.
"Isn't there Waqiaoguan blocking it? Pan Meichen won't be able to come for a while. We will concentrate on mobilizing our troops now and march towards Waqiaoguan..."
"Your Majesty!" The minister's voice was full of grief, "Waqiaoguan has... been taken down by Pan Meichen without bloodshed! Now he is going all the way south without any hindrance. In less than five days, he can reach the suburbs of Beijing."
Pan Meichen's speed of advancing troops was so fast and so strange that Yan Li couldn't help feeling admiration and fear in his heart.
"Waqiaoguan has a deep ditch and a high wall. It is built on the hillside. As the saying goes, one man is the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it. We have more than 5,000 defenders there. How can Pan Meichen take it easily? Even if he uses all his troops to break through Waqiaoguan, we should also get some reports. Why did we get the news when Pan Meichen broke through the pass? Are the people in the Ministry of War negligent of their duties?"
A minister with a little knowledge of the situation said: "According to the soldiers who fled back, Pan Meichen asked his subordinates to pretend to be people who traded goods, tricked the defenders into opening the gate, and then rushed in and captured the gate. The commander of the guard Already martyred, more than 5,000 defenders are basically dead."
Conspiracies and tricks, this is Pan Meichen's forte, pretending to be a commoner, it is hard to guard against.
What Yan Li hates is that Pan Meichen's plot to invade the country must have been there long ago. What are the officials who are mainly responsible for investigating the enemy's situation doing
More than 5,000 soldiers were basically dead, and sorrow and anger filled the entire court for a while.
With a flash of Yan Lilong's eyes, he swept the pen and ink on the case to the ground. Under the rage, Yan Li's face was full of purple, and his stern eyes seemed to burn a person to ashes.
"The corpses of the Ministry of War are vegetarian, and they don't seek their own government, which leads to the delay of war opportunities and harms the country. These officials should be beheaded one by one!"
The Minister of the Ministry of War and the Minister of the Ministry of War quickly climbed up to the imperial steps on their knees, kowtowing their heads.
"Your Majesty, as far as I know, before Pan Meichen invaded, someone had already received a report. Pan Meichen had a different intention, but I don't know what happened. The report has not been delivered to the emperor for the emperor to review."
Yan Li became even more angry.
The people who were originally from the Ministry of War were negligent and quibbled that "I don't know what happened" to evade responsibility, which is really abhorrent!
What Yan Li never expected was that Zi Yan was behind the scenes.
Just when the ministers thought that Yan Li would severely punish a certain minister, the trembling voice of an old minister reached Yan Li's ears.
"Your Majesty, the plan for now is not to find out who should be responsible for the fall of Waqiaoguan, but to come up with a solution, how to deal with Pan Meichen. If the minister is now beheaded and the hearts of the people are in turmoil, I am afraid it will be even more unfavorable to the battle situation."
As soon as Yan Li was furious, he touched the wound on his back, a burst of tearing pain spread across his face, and his right cheek twitched twice for this.
He pressed his temples, leaned back slightly, and looked down at the old minister.
"Tell me, what should we do?"
The old minister was about eighty years old, skinny and skinny, with a goatee as pale as snow, but a trace of blood could still be seen on his cheeks.
"Now that General Song Qiang has returned to the Northwest Camp, and Lin Hai is also strict with the Imperial Forest Army to guard the capital, the emperor ordered Song Qiang to move out of the Northwest Camp, lead the army to the north to attack Pan Meichen, and let Lin Hai lead the Imperial Forest Army to swallow the troops behind. , Thinking of rescue. Then make an order to dispatch the southern army, march north, attack Pan Meichen from the flank, and attack with several armies, I am not afraid that Pan Meichen's rebel army will not be defeated."
Yan Li pondered for a while, and felt that this was the only way to go for the present.
Now that Rong Changan has been deposed from a queen to a commoner, it is impossible for her to lead troops to the battlefield in a hurry.
Song Qiang was a capable general brought out by Rong Changan, and it shouldn't be a big problem to deal with Pan Meichen.
"Then according to this meaning, let the academicians of the Imperial Academy come to draw up the will for me."
At that moment, the eunuch called the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and according to the intention of the veteran just now, he wrote three imperial edicts, one to Song Qiang of the Northwest Camp, one to Lin Hai, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army guarding the capital, and one to the Southern Army.
The three imperial edicts were sealed in a bamboo tube, with feathers pasted on them, and a guard carried them on their backs, and hurriedly left the palace.
Ziyan had also received a secret report that Pan Meichen had seized Waqiao Pass, and 50,000 people rushed to the capital without stopping.
She was in a good mood, and she took Liu'er to play on the snow in the imperial garden, built a little snowman, put a certain fur hat on the snowman, and put on a scarlet cloak. Looking left and right, I felt that the hat I was wearing was not good-looking, and said to myself: "It would look much better if I wore a crown. Liu Er, don't you think so?"
Liu'er didn't know the deep meaning in Ziyan's words, so she responded with a slight smile: "If you wear a crown, it will be much more noble!"
The cracked marks on the corners of Ziyan's mouth stretched all the way to the ears: "It's not just noble, it's so noble that no one can match it!"
The two were talking, and a guard with a knife hurriedly walked over there, wearing red clothes, a black cloak, and a certain fanyang felt lily, with something on his back, passing the imperial garden Go to Jingyang Gate.