The rain hit the white jade dragon mouth on the steps of the palace hall, rolling down the coiling dragon on the steps, the Zhongbian Janissaries on both sides stood motionless, and Li Long, dressed in a big red robe, appeared at the door of the main hall, his face that should have been high-spirited was full of sparseness, the corners of his mouth smiled bitterly, raised his head and looked at the sky, Surabaya was defeated! It is not only the situation of the battle of the imperial capital that fluctuates, but also the court of Central Belgium, at the palace meeting just now, the generals of the military looked indifferent, saying that although Yang Zi is arrogant, he should not have the courage to deliberately lose Surabaya, and he is also a fierce general who really dares to fight a tough battle with the grassland army, but the grassland people pressed Surabaya is the 50,000 most elite grassland front army, and the 60,000 Luzhou army that was almost forced to starve to death in Yanzhou is in Shangjing, and the combat power is naturally not too bad, and Yang Zi is only 30,000 in his hands, even if there is the Surabaya River, he can't hold it for a long time, and if necessary, give up Surabaya, such a result is acceptable,

Compared with the insufficiently defended Surabaya Beach, the Wuling Slope, which is lying on the slope of a hundred miles of mountains, is more suitable for the defensive tactics of the Central Belgian army, and the 100,000 flattering troops from Hanglin in the south are now in a position less than fifty miles away from Wulingpo, and they should be able to arrive very quickly, even if Yang Zi does not block the grassland army, he can also come to deploy defense in the imperial capital, and the loss of Surabaya will have far less impact!

Hearing the explanations of the generals, the young emperor's face was a little better, the imperial capital has become the most painful weakness in his heart, he woke up from his dream several times, sweating, the first time the imperial capital was breached, at least the Central Biya army held on for three or four months, and finally gave up because of the unfavorable war situation. Hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in the imperial capital, and the bustling city was burned to the ground. has been regarded as a great shame by the whole country of Central Belgium, and he and the court have also been scolded bloody.

He is the emperor, but the emperor can't control others not to speak, so he finally downplayed some of the influences and mustered up the hearts of the army and the people who have suffered heavy losses. For an ambitious emperor, how could this humiliation be accepted!

"The defeat of Surabaya. Yang Zi is responsible, but the others are not responsible?" The young emperor's gloomy gaze swept over, the temperature of the entire palace was a few degrees colder, and the generals lowered their heads one by one. 30,000 infantry against 50,000 cavalry. It would be very good if he was not defeated, not to mention that Yang Zi also retreated to Wulingpo with all his troops, but this kind of thing, who dares to say that Chen Dongyang, the flattering army master, has just been dismissed, and the emperor has made up his mind to use this battle of the imperial capital to forge a new flattering army.

The minister thinks. The defeat of Surabaya, in addition to General Yang Zi's ineffective operation. It's mainly because the equipment is not powerful!" A military general in a red and green robe stood out of the queue with a solemn face. He glanced fiercely at the back of Li Long, who was standing in front of him, and said in a cold voice, "The important ordnance that the court bought for 500,000 taels of silver is so useless! Is there a problem to check here?"

"Although the purchase of Thor this time is an agreement between Zhongbia and the Falcon Empire, the person in charge is the Li family!

The general's words seemed a little uncertain, but it was like a stone smashed into the dead water, like a rock, and the arrow pointed directly at the Li family, the head of the four gates, "Is it?" The young emperor's eyes narrowed slightly into a line,

The person who spoke was the No. 3 person in the military cabinet, Hang Lin Zhenshou, Luo Wuyang, the commander of the Zhangwu Army, in red and green robes, was already a first-class figure among the military generals, and it was a higher order than Li Long's all-red, according to reason, he should stand in front of Li Long, but this military master stood behind Li Long. It's a little dazzling,

This is because the emperor appointed Li Long to be the head of the military department some time ago, and Li Long was promoted from the fourth person to the second at once, and the position was second only to the first place that was still vacant, so everyone thought that Luo Wuyang was not convinced by Li Long when he said such a thing

The Fengcheng army was ordered to march north to reinforce the imperial capital, and now it is 60,000 Zhangwu troops who remain in Hangzhou, although they have all suffered heavy losses in the battle of the imperial capital, but the Zhangwu army and the grassland army have fought several field battles, and almost lost all their belongings, when this Luo Wuyang military lord went south with the court, the troops around him were less than 15,000 people, and it took these months to recover to 60,000, but everyone knows that the Zhangwu army is almost synonymous with the new barracks, and being sent to the Dijing Plain is to send them to death," Yes, 500,000 taels of silver bought something like that, no wonder General Yang Zi on the front line is going to be defeated!" "The palace was suddenly a discussion, and the loudest voice was actually the Wenchen who had always looked at the face of the Li family in the past, this time he turned the gun collectively, and at the same time attacked the Li family, "a group of white-eyed wolves" What Li Long can do now is to bow his head, as if he didn't see anything, he didn't hear anything, this time is different from the past, the Li family is not as good as before, the old prime minister Li Tai resigned, and the Li family's sunshade umbrella is gone,

If it was before, how dare this group of wall grasses snort, since Zhang Valve died in the imperial capital, the power of the wealthy family was also uprooted in that war, and the remaining was less than a quarter, and the deterrent power of the gate valve for hundreds of years was weakened to the weakest era in hundreds of years

The emperor changed his way and wanted to rectify the power of the family to establish his true royal power, Li Valve lost power, where is the position of the prime minister of the empire vacant, the ministers naturally held back their strength and wanted to show themselves, everyone can see that Mrs. Li's resignation is not entirely active, but because the emperor's patience is about to reach the bottom line,

The emperor is about to make a move, the era of Li Valve's rule over the Wenchen is over, and all the Wenchen are looking forward to it.

The four major gate valves, the Li and Zhang clans control the civil and military parties, the Tang clan is simply the emperor's dog's leg, the Song clan is far away in the south, and has always lived their own days behind closed doors, and has no right to speak in the court at all, just a symbolic one-product gate valve, it turns out that when the empire is stable, the emperor also needs to rely on the Li and Zhang clans to support the court, so they are polite to both clans, but now the empire is in turmoil, and the emperor is a rather ambitious hero. The Zhang family has died in the imperial capital, and the military power has fallen into the hands of the emperor.

The Li family, who is the head of the gate valve. It's too much of an eyesore, if Prime Minister Mrs. Li doesn't resign by herself, it will force the emperor to do something to the Li family, originally many people wanted to see how the Li family would be uprooted by the emperor, and watched the behemoth that was pressing on everyone's heads collapse

Who knows that Mrs. Li is worthy of being a ruthless old minister who has been killed in countless storms, and she will never hesitate when she should put it down. The emperor's mind is very accurate, the imperial military power has been firmly controlled by the emperor since the defeat of the imperial capital, and now the emperor wants to ask for power. The Li family retreated to the next best, gave up the position of prime minister, and even took the initiative to draw a clear line with the Wenchen and hand over the control of the Wenchen. said that he would never interfere in the affairs of the court again. In exchange for Li Long's position in the military cabinet but rising,

Military power is in the hands of the emperor, so no matter how Li Long rises, it is actually in the palm of the emperor's hand, this is the cleverness of Mrs. Li, from the opposite side of the emperor, he stood in the queue of the emperor's loyal subordinates.

The defeat of Surabaya. It was an accident, and the emperor would not embarrass the Li clan because of this influence. Otherwise, no family will be willing to take refuge in the future, but the appropriate punishment is certain, if possible, just pretend to be deaf and dumb! Li Long reported the situation to the patriarch Mrs. Li at the first time, and also received the guidance of the old patriarch Mrs. Li, "Pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

Li Long nodded understandingly, worthy of being an old patriarch, at this time, no matter how much he said, it was useless, the facts were there. When signing the contract, it is the emperor's intention to buy ten thunder gods casually, but the executor is himself, and the Falcon Empire is Li Yuehua, and if he doesn't come out to carry it, will he let the emperor carry it? And now is not the era when the Li clan was in power to the government and the opposition, the grassland army has already reached the imperial capital, although reinforcements have been mobilized everywhere, it seems that a net has been laid out, in fact, Li Long is not optimistic about this battle of the imperial capital,

The Western Army Long family went to the rescue, but was appointed by the emperor as the town guard of Yanzhou, but the control of the Western Army was thrown to the Song people in the south, and it was hoped that the Western Army of Yanzhou would fight desperately to participate in the war, isn't this an international joke!

The combat strength and equipment of the Luzhou army are all okay, but the problem is that it has just been withdrawn from Yanzhou in the north, and it is exhausted, and Li Long, on behalf of the military department, has specially gone to offer condolences, and that scene is simply like a flower child, I really don't know how it came back alive from the blade of the grassland people, and it has not been ten days since it was repaired, and an order was issued to send the Luzhou army, which had just dispersed back to the various armies, to march north again, how could it enter? The mobilization of the army and the preparation of materials, how could it be possible to move without more than ten days!

The 100,000 flattering army arrived in the imperial capital as scheduled, and it seems that the battle situation has stabilized

But Li Long knew that half of the recruits of the Flattering Army were fully equipped, and the weapons in the hands of many soldiers were still wooden pole stabbing guns.

It's too short a time, the catastrophe of the imperial capital, the entire city turned into ashes, not only the civilians who died, but also the more than 100,000 weapons craftsmen accumulated by the Central Biya Empire over the past hundred years, and the workers from all walks of life, these people are the heaviest price of the empire.

The entire military forging system that took a hundred years to establish in Central Belgium was destroyed by the grassland people in World War I, and the court moved to the south, most of which were moved to the literary and historical classics, and never thought about the life and death of the military craftsmen, only to find that the number of craftsmen here is very small, and almost all the skilled military craftsmen are monopolized by the Luzhou army, if it were not for the military cabinet to forcibly borrow 5,000 craftsmen from Luzhou, the empire could not even guarantee the supply of weapons and equipment, not to mention, in a short period of time, armed with an army of 100,000 people, so the battlefield of the imperial war, that is, the surface looks like a rainbow, and the time when the battle is really going to die, except for Yang Zi's 30,000 emperors' army, I'm afraid that none of them can be relied on!

Li Long felt that he was a little distracted, the voices around him were still very loud, the civil officials were still arguing, the military attachés were in an angry posture, the emperor was more like a person watching a drama on the throne, and he, the only spokesperson of the Li family in the court, was pushed to the forefront at this moment,

In the report sent by Yang Zi, in addition to mentioning the forced crossing of the grassland army, a large part of the article is saying that the imperial thunder god is useless.

In fact, even Li Long himself felt that it was a bit too hasty to spend 500,000 taels of silver to buy the Imperial Thor, if it weren't for Li Yuehua's strong recommendation and watching the Thor test shot once, he probably wouldn't have bought it! Thor that thing also looks powerful, I'm afraid it's useless to really use it!" "The defeat of Surabaya, the military cabinet is hard to escape the blame, Lord Li Long has already asked for a month of ban, and at the same time, Li Valve took out 100,000 taels of silver as compensation for the soldiers who died in battle!"

At the end of the court hall meeting, Li Long, who had just been promoted to the military cabinet temporarily, returned to the fourth position at once, and at the same time the news of Li Valve's punishment spread all over Hanglin, Li Long was grounded, and Li Valve's scenery was no longer there, it was when I helped to rise up, after the court was dispersed, the most luxurious forest garden in Hanglin City, the first glass of wine filled with wine, was put into the river water in the forest garden by the ministers, in the past, these drinks were all needed to be cushioned, and they were sent to Li Xiang respectfully, and today, the ministers congratulated each other, and regarded the palace meeting as a major victory for the family gate valve,

The military ministers paid more attention to the position of the head of the military department vacated after Li Long's ban on the province, and Luo Wuyang, who was the number three person, was the first time to preside over a military meeting in the military hall of the ministry and cabinet, showing that he was the real person in charge of the military cabinet. Joke, if it's all such a simple thing, then I, Luo Wuyang, have fought a whole life, wouldn't I be able to stare the enemy to death with my eyes?"

The spring rain in April cut off the full wave of lake light in Hanglin, and sprinkled the cold and bleak spring rain on the earth.

Walking on the carriage waiting outside the door, Li Yuehua took one last look at the direction where Li Valve's mansion was located, she was going back to the southwest, and it took a lot of effort to get the thunder god, which was completely regarded as a waste by the Central Belgian military, so that the Li family was implicated, so that the progress that Li Valu had exchanged for the prime minister's position was beaten back to its original shape, for a family that is second to none, it can be said that decades of hard work were ruined, Li Long Province banned, even after the ban was lifted, I am afraid that there will be no progress in the military cabinet,

The Li family didn't say anything, but when they stood in front of the gate of Li Valve, the closed attitude of the gate had already explained everything, if you don't leave now, will you continue to humiliate here......?