Become a feudal king from today

"Your Highness, Beidi's military strength in Ningcheng has reached two royal tents. Not counting Beidi's destruction of Xiliang and the establishment of Xiliang royal tents. In fact, in just half a month, Ningcheng has gathered 400,000 troops. Read М"

"Moreover, the Beidi scouts' inspections of Yanguan suddenly became more frequent. The people from Xiaguan also observed that a large number of trees near Ningcheng were cut down, and they were probably making siege equipment." Xu Ke said slowly.

Zhao Xu nodded.

During this period, he created the illusion that at least half of the people in Yanzhou died of smallpox.

The number of royal troops has reached almost 60%.

In Beidi's eyes, he only had the 150,000 soldiers and horses allowed by the imperial court.

Nearly 60% of the soldiers died, leaving only about 60,000 people under his command remaining.

These more than 60,000 people then guarded important cities such as Feihu Pass, Bastion, and Yancheng.

It's almost enough that Yan Guan still has 30,000 left.

"We're finally going to take action. If they don't take action, I won't be able to hold on anymore." Beidi was about to fight, but instead of being nervous, he was relieved.

It's easy to do a play for one day, but it's difficult to do a play for two or three months.

And the longer the performance goes on, the easier it is to make mistakes.

Furthermore, creating the illusion of a plague also wastes people and money and delays production.

It can be said that he spent a lot of money to lure Beidi into a trap this time.

But it's all worth it.

The battle between him and Mullahon will finally come to a conclusion this time.

From now on, he will not give Beidi the opportunity to hoard heavy troops in Ningjindusi and use poisonous tactics to harm him.

"I only hope that His Highness can deal with the Beidi people severely." Xu Ke said.

His face was solemn.

In his opinion, the plague created by King Yan not only confused the Beidi people, but also gave them officials a profound warning.

Fortunately, the plague was detected in advance.

Fortunately, King Yan knew how to vaccinate against cowpox, otherwise the illusion of plague in Yanzhou would have been real.

Beidi's southern march will be successful again.

And they will become the victims of Beidi's butcher's knife.

Therefore, this made them realize more clearly that they could only fight Beidi until one side fell completely.

"This is natural." Zhao Xu looked north and narrowed his eyes.

From the expression on Tsui Hark's gritted teeth, he could guess Tsui Hark's emotions.

In fact, he was just as afraid of the plague as Tsui Hark.

After all, if one step is ignored, everything they have accumulated will turn into smoke.

Tsui Hark didn't need to remind him, he would beat Beidi to death.

After talking about Beidi, Xu Hark's expression darkened suddenly, "Your Highness, I just received the news that the imperial palace has been firmly controlled by the imperial army led by Xiao Cheng. The news inside the palace cannot be spread, and the news from outside cannot be spread either." ”

"What!" Zhao Xu was startled, "Please tell me in detail what is going on."

Tsui Hark then presented him with a document.

After hurriedly flipping through it, he understood the general situation.

After Yang Feng was exiled to Yanzhou, Zhao Heng handed over the palace department to a general he deeply trusted, Xu Meng, to take charge of it.

But seven days ago, Xu Meng suddenly vomited blood and died while drinking with his generals in a restaurant.

Other generals did not escape this fate.

After that, Xiao Cheng used the generals placed in the Dianqian Division to control the Dianqian Division.

The next day, Dou Wei teamed up with the Han family, Wang family and other powerful families to force Zhao Heng to make a decree and temporarily formed an organization called the cabinet.

The cabinet has the right to refute the emperor's will.

This is equivalent to the fact that the Dou family took the lead and seven powerful families jointly deposed Zhao Heng, the Great Song Emperor, and placed him under house arrest in the palace.

From now on, the court will no longer be the court of the Zhao royal family, but the court of the powerful family.

"Like Beidi, they must also think that this king is finished." Zhao Xu said.

Just when the plague in Yanzhou spread throughout Dasong, something like this suddenly happened in the capital.

He had to suspect that this was also a side effect of his plan.

The powerful people must have thought that he would never recover from this, so they took such a bold move.

After thinking for a while, he gradually calmed down.

In his opinion, it was just a matter of time.

Since the beginning of the separatist rule, the powerful clans have been unable to restrain themselves.

Putting Zhao Heng under house arrest and taking control of the government was a matter of a few months earlier or a few months later.

Dasong is really going to slide into the abyss this time.

"The capital is too far away, and the powerful clans are holding the emperor hostage to order the princes. I can't reach out, so I can only mind my own business at the moment." Zhao Xu said to Xu Hark, "But you have to find a way to get it with Concubine Mi. Contact us, it would be best if we could rescue her.”

"Yes, Your Highness." Tsui Hark nodded.

Then, Tsui Hark talked about the Liang family.

After Liang Feng arrived in Lincheng, he was practicing naval training.

I'm afraid these are the only ones who can attack Yizhou.

In this regard, Zhao Xu hoped that the Liang family could capture Yizhou.

After all, Yizhou is better in the hands of the Liang family than if half of it is in the hands of the Japanese or generally the Folangji people.

Of course, it is the same as what happened in the capital.

He can't interfere in this matter now either.

For him, the most important thing was to deal with Beidi's attack.

Only by severely injuring Beidi can he be free to deal with the current chaos in Dasong.

Let Tsui Hark go back.

Zhao Xu called Chang Wei over.

In more than two months, the Bingzhan Division completed all modifications to the flintlock muskets with the high efficiency of the steam engine.

Moreover, 30,000 flintlock muskets, 24 field guns, and 36 mortars were delivered to the Ning Jin Army.

His plan to equip the entire army with rifled guns was basically completed.

Now whenever war breaks out, soldiers can pick up rifles and go to the battlefield.

"The Beidi people are finally here."

After Zhao Xu told Chang Wei the information Xu Hark gave him, Chang Wei's eyes immediately released a war-mad light.

After the rifled guns were installed in the royal army, he stared at Ning Jindu Si like a cockfighting cock.

Even if Beidi didn't come to him, he would probably ask to take the initiative.

"Don't get excited yet. This time, I will not only inflict heavy losses on Beidi, but also take the opportunity to capture Ningjin Dusi. For this reason, this war will be the first all-out war between me and Beidi. I will also use 90% of the troops. We will use our troops to fight this battle," Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued: "Go back and tell the generals that this war is of vital importance. Everyone must be energetic and praise the storm in the country. If we fight this battle well, we can Sit firmly in Yanzhou and deal with the chaos in Dasong, otherwise we will fall into a passive situation of fighting on two fronts. "

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei said: "Whoever hinders Your Highness will be the first to be spared."

Zhao Xu nodded and looked at the Ningjin Dusi map on the wall with Chang Wei.

He said: "In addition to the normal confrontation with the enemy at Yanguan this time, the most important thing is to cooperate with Zhou Yi's navy to launch an attack on Ningjin Dusi from the sea. Mulehong really wants to hide in the rear and watch the battle safely. It’s so beautiful.”