When Wei Qing heard this, his body suddenly froze. After a moment, he stood up suddenly, stood in front of the window, and shouted to the messenger: "I am the Prime Minister of Daqian. Is there any urgent report from the front? Please bring it up quickly?"
However, what responded to him was that the ordering soldier fell off his horse and fainted, becoming unconscious.
When Wei Qing saw this, his heart skipped a beat.
To be able to make the messenger risk his life to run away like this, this battle report must be very important, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is extremely urgent.
But now the war between Daqian and Beiyan is coming to an end, and it will basically end with Daqian winning.
What news would be worth his exhaustion?
"Maybe it's a great victory on the front line?" someone speculated.
Wei Qing was noncommittal. It was indeed possible that it would be a great victory on the front line, and it was even very likely that it would be a great victory on the front line.
However, there is also a possibility that what comes is not a good news, but a list of the dead!
Wei Qing hurriedly went downstairs, greeted everyone, carried the messengers into the palace, and at the same time held another court meeting in the name of the Prime Minister.
The civil and military officials had just gone to court not long ago, but now they were going to court again, so they were a little emotional.
But as soon as the report from the front line came, the little emotion immediately disappeared.
In their opinion, this is good news coming again!
Especially the military attaches. Although Emperor Tianshun brought all the military attaches who could fight to the front line, there were still some who were quite old or incompetent in the court.
Looking at it now, after Emperor Tianshun ascended the throne, they became ministers of the Dragon!
If Emperor Tianshun wins this war with Beiyan, their status will become even higher.
As a result, when entering the Qiande Hall, some people were so arrogant that they almost walked sideways.
In the past, civilian officials looked down on uneducated military attachés, but now the military attachés united to fight back and collectively ostracized civilian officials.
After a while, in the court hall, civil and military officials gathered again, and the atmosphere was solemn.
The messenger woke up slowly, and when he saw the civil and military officials and the decorations in the Qiande Hall, he felt relieved and realized that he had returned home safely.
But then, he burst into tears, crying bitterly and shouting: "My lords! They are dead! They are all dead!"
The civil and military officials who were waiting for the good news, with smiles on their faces, suddenly felt a thump in their hearts when they heard this.
Wei Qing reacted quickly and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What did you say?"
"Speak clearly!"
"What died? Who died?"
The messenger looked at Wei Qing, as if he recognized that this was the Prime Minister of Daqian, so he cried even harder, and said tremblingly: "All the five hundred thousand troops are dead! The whole army has been wiped out!"
boom!
As soon as these words came out, it was like thunder on the ground. Many officials in the Qiande Hall seemed to be unable to believe their ears. They were dumbfounded and froze on the spot.
"absurd!"
"Shuzi!"
"How dare you deceive me!"
The military attachés left behind walked out angrily, rolled up their sleeves, and were about to greet the ordering soldiers.
"Quiet! This is the court! Can't we treat it as our own home? How can we behave like this?" Wei Qing shouted and said.
The military attaches looked at him, and even if they felt a little unhappy, they did not show it.
After all, the prime minister is the head of hundreds of officials. Even if they have the support of Emperor Tianshun, they only dare to despise ordinary civil servants, but they really can't show off in front of him.
Don’t you see that even though this person had a bad relationship with Emperor Tianshun, Emperor Tianshun still designated him as the minister of supervision before going on an expedition?
Therefore, this person cannot be offended.
"Prime Minister Wei, it's not that I have to use force. It's just that this person not only tells lies, but also dares to slander our generals like this. It's a heinous crime!"
"Yes, in the past few days, I, Dagan, have been victorious in consecutive battles, and Beiyan has been defeated."
"When it came to his mouth, it turned out that our army was wiped out. Isn't this nonsense? Isn't this slandering our officers and soldiers?"
"Our officers and men sacrificed their lives and blood on the front line and fought in bloody battles. This villain is good, but he dares to defame them in front of us and risk the disdain of the world. It is really a heinous crime!"
"Prime Minister Wei, in my opinion, this guy is a spy from the Northern Yan Dynasty, who specially sneaked into our Daqian army as a messenger. He is waiting for an opportunity to lie about the military situation and confuse the public! Please kill this beast and give justice to our Daqian soldiers!"
Wei Qing also hesitated when he heard this.
Even though he had always had an ominous premonition in his heart, he felt that this campaign would not go too smoothly.
However, the annihilation of an army of 500,000 people was so sensational and false that even he didn't believe it.
"Did you lie about military information?"
When the messenger heard that he was going to beheaded, he was extremely flustered. He was terrified all day long, and at the same time he felt aggrieved.
This military information was indeed extremely urgent, so from the moment he received it, he rushed back slowly and hurriedly, even staying awake for several days.
After a lot of hard work, he finally got back in the shortest time.
I thought I would have delicious food and clean water when I returned home.
Unexpectedly, what awaited him was the crime of beheading.
But he clearly didn't do anything, so why did he become a spy who had an affair with Beiyan?
The messenger didn't understand, but he knew that Wei Qing's question was his only life-saving straw.
So while shaking his head crazily, he also took out the frontline battle report and death list.
Wei Qing saw this and hurriedly took it over.
As soon as he saw it, he was stunned on the spot.
This word was written by a Qing Dynasty civil servant he sent there. The civil servant was deeply trusted by him and there was no way it could be false.
And when he read the entire memorial word for word, he froze in place without saying a word.
After a moment, he calmed down and immediately opened the death list. After reading it, he seemed to have been drained of energy, his eyes were dull, and he fell backwards.
"Prime Minister! Prime Minister!"
There are many officials in the Qiande Hall, so naturally someone will catch him.
But when everyone saw Wei Qing's appearance, their hearts twitched, and they had some bad premonitions.
Then he opened the memorial and read it carefully.
The more they looked, the uglier their expressions became.
The general meaning of the report was that Emperor Tianshun was dazzled by the victory and went deep into the hinterland of Beiyan regardless of the obstruction of the military attachés.
His eagerness to win allowed Beiyan to seize the opportunity. He first laid a trap to trap an army of 500,000 in the valley, and then sent elite troops to cut off food and grass.
Even when the Daqian army was in panic, they sent people to sing Daqian songs day and night around the valley.
For a time, the army was large and the people were distracted.
Later, Beiyan attacked with fire, burning all the people and the valley.
An army of half a million people was destroyed.
As Emperor Tianshun, Xiang Longyuan was even captured alive by the opponent!
Every official who read the report felt like there was a lump in their throats and was speechless.
What a shame!
What a shame!
