Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 537

[Chapter 537]

“His Royal Highness, the Beidi troops in Ningcheng have reached two king tents. This is not counting Beidi’s destruction of Xiliang. 400,000 soldiers.”

“Besides, Beidi’s scouts have suddenly increased their investigations of Yanguan, and the subordinate officials have also observed that a large number of trees have been felled near Ningcheng, and they are probably making siege equipment.” Xu Ke said slowly.

Zhao Xu nodded.

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

The royal family’s pro-army has almost reached 60%.

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

Nearly 60% of the soldiers died, and only 60,000 people under his command would remain.

These more than 60,000 people guarded the important cities of Feihuguan, Bastion, and Yancheng.

There are only 30,000 remaining in Yanguan.

“Finally we’re going to do it. If they don’t do it, I won’t be able to hold on anymore.” Beidi was about to call, and instead of being nervous, he breathed a sigh of relief.

It is easy to act in a play for one day, but difficult to act in a play for two or three months.

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

Furthermore, creating the false appearance of the plague is also a waste of money and delays in production.

It can be said that this time he spent a lot of capital in order to lure Beidi into the trap.

Still, it’s all worth it.

He and Mu Lehong really competed this time and finally decided the winner.

In the future, he will not give Beidi the opportunity to hoard heavy troops in Ningjindusi and use his vicious schemes to harm him.

“I just hope His Highness can deal with Beidi people severely.” Xu Hark said.

His face was serious.

In his opinion, the plague created by King Yan not only confuses Beidi people, but also gives them officials a deep vigilance.

Fortunately, the plague was detected in advance.

Fortunately, the king of Yan knew how to vaccinate against vaccinia, otherwise the false appearance of the plague in Yanzhou would have been real.

Beidi’s further southward travel will be successful.

And they will become innocent souls under Beidi’s butcher’s knife.

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

“It’s natural.” Zhao Xu looked north and narrowed his eyes.

From Tsui Hark’s gritted teeth expression, he could guess Tsui Hark’s emotion.

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

After all, if one link is neglected, everything they have accumulated will be turned into smoke.

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

After talking about Beidi, Xu Ke’s expression darkened suddenly, “Your Highness, I just got the news that the imperial palace has been firmly controlled by the Imperial Army under Xiao Cheng’s command. No news from inside the palace, nor from outside. ”

“What!” Zhao Xu was taken aback, “What’s going on, please explain it in detail.”

At this moment, Xu Hark presented a document to him.

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

After Yang Feng was exiled to Yanzhou, Zhao Heng handed over the Dianqian Division to Xu Meng, a general whom he trusted deeply.

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

Other generals did not escape this bad luck.

After that, Xiao Cheng used the generals installed in the Dianqiansi to control the Dianqiansi.

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

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

This means that the Dou family took the lead, and the seven powerful families jointly emptied Zhao Heng, the great emperor, and put him under house arrest in the palace.

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

“They, like Beidi, must think that the king is finished.” Zhao Xu said.

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

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

The powerful people must have thought that he would never recover from the fall, which is why he took such an aggressive move.

After thinking for a while, he gradually calmed down.

In his opinion, this is actually just a matter of time.

Since the beginning of the separatist regime, the powerful clan has long been unable to hold back.

Put Zhao Heng under house arrest and control the government, that is, a few months earlier and a few months later.

Da Song is really going to slide into the abyss this time.

“The capital is too far away, and the powerful clans are coercing the emperor to order the princes. The king can’t reach it, so he can only manage his own affairs.” Zhao Xu said to Xu Hark, “But you have to find a way to get it with Concubine Mi. Contact, it would be best if she can be rescued.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Tsui Hark nodded.

Then, Tsui Hark talked about the Liang family.

After Liang Feng arrived in Lincheng, he was training his navy.

I’m afraid there are only a few of them attacking Yizhou.

In this regard, Zhao Xu hopes that the Liang family can win Yizhou.

After all, Yizhou in the hands of the Liang family is better than half of it in the hands of the Dongying people, generally in the hands of the Frangji people.

Of course, it is the same as the changes in the capital.

He can’t interfere now either.

For him, the most important thing is to deal with Beidi’s attack.

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

Let Tsui Hark go back.

Zhao Xu called Chang Wei over.

In more than two months, under the high efficiency of the steam engine, Bing Zhansi completed all the transformation of the flintlock gun.

Moreover, 30,000 flintlock guns, 24 field guns, and 36 mortars were delivered to Ning Jinjun.

His plan to replace the entire army with rifled guns was almost complete.

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

“The people from Beidi are finally here.”

After Zhao Xu told Chang Wei the information Tsui Hark gave him, Chang Wei’s eyes immediately released a light like a war madness.

After the rifle was installed in the royal family’s army, he stared at Ning Jindusi like a fighting cock.

Even if Beidi doesn’t come to him, he probably will ask to take the initiative to attack.

“Don’t get excited. This time, this king will not only severely injure Beidi, but also take the opportunity to take down Ningjindusi. For this reason, this battle will be the first full-scale war between this king and Beidi, and this king will also use 90% of his resources Troops to fight this battle.” Zhao Xu said.

After a pause, he continued: “Go back and tell the generals that this battle is of great importance, and everyone should cheer up and praise the stormy weather in the country, and if this battle is fought well, we will be able to Sit firmly in Yanzhou and deal with the chaos in Dasong, otherwise you will fall into a passive situation of fighting on both sides.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei said: “Whoever hinders Your Highness, the first one will not be able to spare him ”

Zhao Xu nodded, and together with Chang Wei, he looked at the map of Ningjindusi on the wall.

He said: “In addition to fighting the enemy normally at Yanguan, the most important thing this time is to cooperate with Zhou Yi’s navy and launch an attack on Ning Jindu from the sea. Mu Lehong really wants to hide behind and watch the battle safely. It’s a beautiful idea.”

(End of this chapter)