The expressions of all the officials changed slightly. Some were secretly happy, while others were worried. But when they looked at Prince An, he was still so calm.
Just when everyone was wondering how Prince An was going to break this game, the guards suddenly called out from outside the palace!
It's an emergency report from the border!
Everyone's expressions changed again. Another border news came so quickly. Could something have happened? !
The emperor was also anxious and urged the guard to come into the palace to report.
"Report! A few days ago, the southern barbarians led their troops to raid the western border and launched attacks on four border towns at the same time, but they were all repelled by the western army!"
"After that, the Western Army counterattacked strongly, pushing the Southern Barbarian Army out of the border and back to the Southern Barbarian side!"
As soon as this news came out, the whole palace was in an uproar!
The Nanman actually launched an attack!
The situation couldn't be clearer now. These four countries are definitely joining forces!
In an instant, the emperor's face turned extremely ugly! It's like being slapped on the face several times, it hurts! It’s extremely embarrassing!
Thinking that he, the majestic king of a country, could be so useless, I just felt a surge of energy and blood, and my whole person was not feeling well!
One moment he said there was no war in the West, but the next moment he was slapped in the face!
And he was slapped several times hard!
Because the Western Army not only repelled the invasion of the Southern Barbarians, but even beat the Southern Barbarians back into their own territory! We can’t even keep the buffer zone at the border!
And after such a comparison, the emperor and officials also have a deeper understanding of the power of the Western Army!
While others were barely resisting, the Western Army still had the energy to fight them back to their hometowns! What a huge difference!
Seeing that the emperor remained silent for a long time with a gloomy face, the Queen Mother finally lost her sight and spoke again: "Since Prince An also has to guard the west and cannot support him, then the southwest should be handed over to General Chu for unified deployment!"
"General Chu has been stationed in Beijing for many years, how can he still guard the southwest?! Can he understand the situation better than General Yue who has been stationed in the southwest all year round?!" The emperor could no longer keep silent.
But his words were obviously arrogant.
Who doesn't know now that General Yue can't defend the southwest at all? The so-called "better understanding" is just a joke in the final analysis!
How could the Queen Mother not see what the Emperor was thinking? Her eyes were cold, and she no longer even had disappointment, because she had given up completely!
"Since the Emperor is determined to believe in General Yue's ability, let General Chu and General Yue each guard half of the southwest border." The Queen Mother said coldly, "Let's see who can guard the southwest border."
"Okay!" The emperor agreed immediately, then turned to glare at the Yue family member and said sternly, "Send an order to General Yue, if he fails to defend the border, then he should raise his head to see me! There is no need to wait for your head. It’s on my neck!”
The Yue clan members were so frightened that they knelt down to accept the order. Then they left the hall shaking their legs and hurriedly went back to deliver the message.
The Queen Mother looked at this scene with a cold face, feeling it was extremely ridiculous and ironic.
Although this proposal was made by her, she only felt that it was child's play, taking the lives of thousands of people in the southwest!
But if she didn't do this, how could she make the emperor see the reality clearly? Do you see Yue Jia’s incompetence?
It's impossible for her to really rebel against her son and become the head of the court, right? !
As the man from Yuejia left, there was a brief silence in the hall. The atmosphere was so awkward that many ministers felt uneasy.
Until this silence was finally broken.
"Your Majesty, the situation on the southern border is also unstable. As the general of Dingnan, I really cannot stay in the capital and enjoy the blessings with peace of mind. Therefore, I would like to ask for orders to go out to guard our southern territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
General Xi's deep and steady voice sounded, followed immediately by his only son, General Xi Zhenkun's plea for life.
The father and son have been detained in the capital for a long time. Now that the border war has begun and the situation is so unclear, they have not heard the emperor's order to go out for a long time, and finally couldn't help but take the initiative to speak.
Ordinarily, General Xi, as General Dingnan and the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, should immediately return to the camp and sit in the army when the war breaks out.
But as soon as the news came back yesterday, General Xi immediately submitted a request for help, but was rejected by the emperor on the spot.
It was brought up again in court today. To be honest, General Xi had no idea and didn't even have much hope, so the look on his face was a little bad.
Sure enough, as soon as General Xi finished speaking, he was immediately refuted by the emperor.
"General Xi is old, how can I let you go to the battlefield again?" The emperor looked like he was doing good for General Xi, but his face didn't look good either.
Immediately afterwards, the emperor did not even give Xi Zhenkun a chance to speak again, and directly stated the reasons for his rejection.
"As for General Xi, your wife is about to give birth. It is natural that you should be by her side at such an important moment. You have made great military exploits for the Great Zhou Dynasty, how can I treat you so lightly and make people feel cold?"
"As for General Xi, she has just gotten married. Women are different from men after all. What if she goes to the battlefield and finds out that she is pregnant? So it is best for her not to go south."
Outsiders didn't know that Xi Menghan was pregnant, but the emperor said this with sympathy for the Xi family.
But who is stupid here? This is obviously to prevent the Xi family from interfering in the war in the southwest, so that the emperor's confidant General Zhao in the south can take advantage of this war to control the southern army!
What do you mean by old age?
It is true that General Xi is over fifty years old, but with his physique, young men in their twenties may not be able to beat him, and he looks like he is no more than forty years old. Why does he need to stay in Beijing? Retired?
As for General Xi's wife, who is about to give birth, that is even more of an excuse. If this is the case, not many people will be able to go to the battlefield to fight.
As a result, after all the rhetoric, no one from the Xi family could return to the Southern Army, and they were all left behind.
The faces of General Xi and General Xi were very heavy. What they were most worried about at this time was the safety of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the safety of the people on the border. But now they don't even have freedom...
General Xi was really unwilling to give in and wanted to try to fight for it, but the emperor didn't give him this chance at all and directly stopped him and said.
"General Zhao's performance in this Nanlin country's sneak attack was really impressive. He stopped all the troops of Nanlin country. It seems that he is enough to take over the position of General Xi and guard the southern border!"
