Li Shimin's failure to let Li Chengqian was actually a matter of face.

First, he is the emperor and must be responsible and cannot hand over the difficult son. Second, he cannot let Li Chengqian steal all the limelight. In the final analysis, it is a matter of face.

But the emperor took action himself, could Li Chengqian and the ministers not follow him?

So, all the ministers who were walking, including the leaders of the tribes who were standing at the door waiting to see each other, and Li Shimin and the guards of the East Palace went straight to the south gate of Lingzhou City.

Under the strict protection of a group of guards, Li Chengqian followed Li Shimin's ceremonial guard and soon arrived at the gate of the south gate of Lingzhou City.

Li Shimin jumped off his war horse angrily and was greeted by Li Shiji and other generals.

Li Shiji saluted Li Shimin in shame and said, "See Your Majesty, I am incompetent."

Li Shimin waved his hand with a calm face and said, "I'll take a look at the situation first."

As he said that, he walked forward and came to the city gate. He saw nearly a thousand archers drawing bows and arrows in the city gate hole. He looked at the soldiers sitting on the ground nervously on the opposite side.

Li Shimin looked at the tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers sitting on the ground opposite him with a calm face, turned around and asked Li Shiji and several generals around him, "Who is this person under his command?"

Several generals' faces turned pale and their heads lowered. Li Shiji had to bite the bullet and said, "I have asked, there are soldiers in several battalions."

Li Shimin was upset when he heard this, saying, "You ordered them not to listen?"

"I am incompetent." The generals had no choice but to apologize.

Li Shimin snorted angrily when he heard this, stretched out his hand and pulled away a few archers and was about to go out. Li Chengqian was about to follow closely.

"Your Majesty can't do it!" Fang Xuanling hurriedly grabbed Li Shimin's clothes and refused to let Li Shimin go out.

"Why do you want me to go there?" Li Chengqian suggested behind Li Shimin.

Li Shimin turned his head and saw that Li Chengqian was standing behind him, his face slightly warm, but then he subconsciously glanced at Li Chengqian's injured feet.

"What are you doing here?" He said that, and looked at Wang Fangyi behind Li Chengqian and ordered sternly: "Protect the prince without any mistakes."

"I obey the order!" Wang Fangyi said solemnly.

Ministers:...

Li Shimin did not step forward, but turned his head and asked Li Shiji: "Did they make any requests?"

"I just said I wanted to see Your Majesty, and I didn't say anything else." Li Shiji was embarrassed.

Li Shimin couldn't say at all, "Let the person in charge of them come to see me."

Upon hearing this, Li Shiji hurriedly sent someone to pass the order to the soldiers opposite him.

Li Chengqian walked up to the front and saw the archers waiting for the battle. He frowned and said, "If you take the archers down, these soldiers don't seem to be rebelling."

"Your Majesty and His Royal Highness are the best here." Hou Junji said hurriedly.

Li Chengqian said unhappy when he heard this: "Your Majesty and the Lone King are not so brave yet, and they cannot be looked down upon by the soldiers outside."

Li Shimin was not angry when he heard this and waved his hand and said, "Take it down first."

As soon as the archer retreated, the person sent by Li Shiji to send the order back in a bad mood, walked to Li Shimin and bowed and said, "I told you to tell your Majesty that they had no one in charge, but they just heard that there were treacherous slander in the court, and they wanted to tell Your Majesty that they could not believe the slander and let the treacherous ministers harm the Tang Dynasty."

"Rareless!" Li Shimin was so angry that the veins on his forehead were exposed.

After all, Li Shimin came from a family of martial arts and honors, and he could accept advice from scholars and officials, but suddenly he heard that the big-headed soldiers would also give him advice, which was really annoying.

"If this is true, they are also considered good intentions for the country and the people!" Li Chengqian said lightly.

"Huh?" Li Shimin turned around and looked at Li Chengqian angrily.

"But it is also possible that their kindness was taken advantage of by the traitor. My son thought that the father would still come forward to listen to him."

"The archers have all been removed, and they dare not come yet. What can I do?" Li Shimin spread his hands.

Li Chengqian looked up and hurriedly said, "It's better for the father to climb the city wall and teach them a few words."

Li Shimin turned around and ran up the city tower without even thinking about it. Li Chengqian and others hurriedly followed from behind.

Li Chengqian fell behind because of inconvenience in legs and feet. When he helped Liu Kui up, the soldiers under the city saw that Li Shimin in robe had already knelt on the ground and went up the mountain and shouted long live.

Only when Li Shimin looked at this scene did he believe that these were fooled by villains and they would never rebel now.

But when they thought of what the person said to them, they stopped listening to the military orders, and they broke the person who encouraged them to make trouble in their hearts.

"Soldiers, I heard you have something to say to me, I will listen here, and say whatever you have." Li Shimin spoke out the emperor's demeanor and shouted loudly to the lower place.

"I heard from Your Majesty. I heard that the Tang Dynasty had treacherous and slandered, and I was afraid that he would harm the Tang Dynasty, so I wanted to tell Your Majesty." A middle-aged man below stood up and said loudly.

"Who told you that the treacherous people came out of the court?" Li Shimin couldn't help but ask what he said.

Li Chengqian sneered in his heart from behind. If you could ask me about this, wouldn’t I have been giving it to you for a few days?

"Return to Your Majesty, there have been spreading all the military camps these days, and I don't know who said it."

Li Shimin was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he still asked perfunctorily: "What have you heard of? Do you have to see me?"

At this time, a man stood up from the crowd and clasped his fist at Li Shimin and said, "Report to your Majesty, I heard that the treacherous slander in the court would be promoted to the 200,000 surrendered soldiers in Mobei, and then release them back to Mobei?"

Li Shimin's face suddenly became gloomy when he heard this, and he replied lightly: "This is a state affairs that is not something you can ask?"

"Your Majesty is such a bad word!" The person who spoke was a gray-haired old man.

Li Shimin widened his eyes when he heard this, and an old man dared to denounce him in front of him.

"Bold, you dare to offend Your Majesty." Hou Junji shouted loudly from beside him.

The old soldier was unmoved by this, stood up tremblingly, hugged and fisted at Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, I have no plans to go back alive this time. Can you allow me to finish my words and kill me?"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said, "Tell me!"

"I am fifty-nine today. I joined the army during the former Sui Dynasty and have been in the army for more than 40 years.

But it’s shameful to say that I have been fighting for the whole life and I don’t know why I fought. Sometimes I think, we are fighting for the court, but it is indeed the order given by the court. We are fighting for the emperor, and the emperor is sitting on the road. When we fight for the general, we will be promoted to the general if we win.

So we only follow orders to fight and never care about other things. Anyway, we are not fighting for ourselves..."

When the old man said that tens of thousands of people were silent on the city tower. In the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that the young men at the bottom didn't know who to fight for, even ordinary farmers didn't know why they had to pay taxes for farming.

The old servant seemed to feel the atmosphere, and he became more and more energetic and talked: "But a few days ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince told us that we were fighting for the Tang Dynasty and defending the people of the Tang Dynasty and our families.

It’s right to think about it. When did the barbarians in the north suffer from the south invasion?

This is related to our old surname, why can't we ask?

Besides, if it is really a state affairs, we cannot ask about it, so why should we wait for us during war?"

This old man was too old and didn't speak softly, but every word hit Li Shimin's chest like a heavy hammer.

He was so angry that he couldn't breathe.
Chapter completed!