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"I ask you, when can we defeat the enemy?"

Li Huan walked down and went straight to General Xue, one of his eyes turned into a chaotic pupil.

"I think that with our current military strength, we can hold Chang'an for at most a month, and then the Liao people and Tubo will naturally retreat when they run out of food and grass."

"Retreat?"

"Yes."

"General Wang, no, Prime Minister Di."

General Wang and Prime Minister Di were both stunned. Prime Minister Di hurriedly bowed and said, "I am here."

"I heard that you were the best scholar in the academy."

Prime Minister Di did not raise his head and said, "Your Majesty, this must have been a misunderstanding. There is no ranking for scholars in the academy."

"I see. But since someone has spread this rumor, then your talent and learning must be quite good, Prime Minister Di."

Prime Minister Di frowned, not understanding what Li Huan wanted to ask, but he had to reply to the emperor, so he could only bite the bullet and answer, "I know a little bit of writing."

"Very good, very good. Then Prime Minister Di will tell General Xue whether defeating the enemy and retreating are the same thing."

Prime Minister Di and General Xue's faces changed drastically. Even General Wang, a rough man, realized that Li Huan wanted to force General Xue to go out of the city for a battle in the field!

"His Majesty!"

Prime Minister Di raised his head in disbelief. "The Liao lord personally led an army of 100,000, and the Tibetan army also had at least 50,000. They are all alone and deep in the enemy's territory. They are only brave for a while. As long as we hold on to Chang'an, they will retreat after a long time. If we leave the city now, the enemy's morale is high. It will be disadvantageous to the Tang Dynasty, Your Majesty!"

"Hey, they broke through my Tongguan Pass, and they must have surrounded Dongdu. I'm afraid that idiot Li Jian dared not go out of the house. If I were as cowardly as him, wouldn't I be laughed at by the world? How can I face my ancestors?"

He is ambitious, self-willed, unable to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, incompetent in governing the country, naive and stupid.

General Xue was not a scholar, had not read much, and did not know many civilized swear words. But he unexpectedly discovered that the words he knew could actually satisfy the emperor in front of him, who he was not sure whether he was even a human being.

"I hope your Majesty will think twice!"

Since General Xue was named General of the State, he had the privilege of wearing a sword and shoes into the palace without bowing. Although he had never actually tried to wear a sword and shoes into the palace, and he was old, at least he was given a bench to sit on every time he went to court, the same treatment as Prime Minister Di.

Today, the old man with white hair knelt down in the hall, crying: "The six guards of the Northern Court are more than capable of defending the city, but they have no experience in field battles. If we force our way out of the city, I'm afraid we will lose our lives in vain. I hope Your Majesty will think twice!"

Li Huan did not help him, but instead said with a hint of mockery: "Just now the old general said that he was ready to sacrifice his life for the country. It turns out that he is also afraid of losing his life."

General Xue’s crying stopped abruptly, and Prime Minister Di sighed heavily.

At this point, General Xue had no choice but to fight to the death.

"Old minister, take your orders."

General Xue stood up dejectedly, and stood back in the team of generals in a daze. He could hardly hear what Li Huan said afterwards.

The grand court meeting was over, and Prime Minister Di walked out of the Daming Palace. He didn't want to work at all today. Even though there were a lot of things waiting for his decision, he still resolutely left early.

Outside the Daming Palace, Prime Minister Di did not ride a horse, but got on the carriage of his own mansion. A man was waiting for him in the carriage.

"You are a great man. If you sit here, doesn't that mean you are telling everyone that you are here to see me?"

Prime Minister Di looked at General Wang who was sitting opposite him and poured himself a cup of tea. He always had delicious tea in his car.

"There are only three inner court officials in Chang'an City now. One of them is on good terms with me. As for the sneaky person, he can report it if he wants. Your Majesty, can you kill us just because we met?"

Prime Minister Di shook his head: "He is ready to kill General Xue."

General Wang suddenly waved his hand, and a burst of spiritual power erupted, covering the surroundings.

"Now Neijing can't hear you and me talking, Prime Minister Di, although I am Neijing, I also know that my brain is not as good as you scholars. Tell me the truth, what happened to Dongdu? Don't say you don't know."

"Why are you asking Dongdu?"

"Hey, you are the only scholar from the White Horse Academy among the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty for decades. Don't tell me that you have no contact with Dongdu. Do you think Li Jian can defend Dongdu?"

Di Xiang drank his tea slowly and said, "He can't keep it."

"The East Capital is broken?!"

General Wang stood up suddenly, fortunately the roof of the carriage was high enough.

"No, I held on."

General Wang suddenly realized that he was not being modest when he said that he was not smart enough.

"Li Jian escaped, and Li Tong ascended the throne. The news of his ascension was blocked at Tongguan, but it should have been delivered through other channels in the next few days. Li Tong personally went to the city and withstood several attacks by the Liao Kingdom's fourth prince. So far, it seems that he has won narrowly."

General Wang sat down with a plop: "Why is the world like this?"

Suddenly, General Wang realized something was wrong. As a military general, and a serious military commander at that, he immediately tasted something different in Prime Minister Di's words.

"Are they always narrow victories?"

Di Xiang finally smiled: "Yes, Dongdu has more than been defended."

General Wang's eyes widened: "You are hers."

"I am from the Tang Dynasty."

The fourth prince of Liao was personally invited by Li Jian to guard Wuguan. This move had long been defined by the academy and all knowledgeable people as inviting a wolf into the house, just like his father and brother asking the Liao people to attack the Red Lotus Sect. The sudden large-scale attack of Liao on the Tang Dynasty also confirmed this.

Li Jian was so scared that he fled to the southeast overnight before the Liao people surrounded Dongdu. This made the Fourth Prince very proud. He said, "You ran away before I even arrived, leaving me a great Dongdu. When I take Dongdu without bloodshed, won't it prove that I am the chosen ruler of the Liao Dynasty?"

When he learned that Li Tong ascended the throne, his first reaction was not shock, but the desire to laugh, and he wanted to laugh very much.

"She is just a puppet held up by the academy. Believe it or not, when I arrive at the city of Dongdu, this queen will voluntarily offer the city to me, or even devote herself to me, in order to live in peace and prosperity. Hahahaha!"

However, the Fourth Prince's smile was shattered by the woman in the dragon robe.

The other party directly tore up his frivolous letter of surrender, kicked the extremely rude envoy off the city wall, and asked the trembling deputy envoy to take back a message.

"If you want to fight, then fight. If you don't want to fight, then get out of here. Don't show your ugly face here. It's disgusting."

The Fourth Prince was so angry that he swore to massacre the entire city after it was captured, and immediately launched the most angrily attack of his life.

However, no matter how fierce the attack was, Li Tong held on time and time again. Even though it seemed that the city could be broken at any time, it was always just a little bit short.

"Come again! That woman is at the end of her strength and won't be able to hold on for much longer. You must capture her!"

The Fourth Prince was so enraged by anger and the near victory that he forgot one thing: being one step away from victory once or twice could be considered a coincidence, but what if it happened eight or ten times?

Just as Li Tong said, he had been held back.