Chapter 4350 The highest bidder wins
Li Daozong was expressionless. Although it was difficult to accept it, he was mentally prepared the moment Fang Jun disappeared. How could Chai Zhewei get Fang Jun? It is reasonable to lose big and lose.
Yu Wenshiji on the side could not hold back, he sighed and said sarcastically: "Chai Shaohu, father and son, this Chai Zhewei is so embarrassed, the right camp guard has been mixed up by Li Daliang, and they are killing each other. Under such a good situation, It failed completely, it was a waste.”
Li Daozong snorted: "Chai Shao can't be called the 'Tiger Father'. If it weren't for Princess Pingyang Zhao's meritorious service, his Chai family would be a second-rate family at best."
He turned around and called his soldiers in front of him and ordered: "Give me the order, I will capture the North Gate of Wude within an hour. The first one to climb will be rewarded with a viscount and twelve levels of merit. If he fails to do so by the time, I will take the risk myself." Yaishi and the soldiers will live and die together!”
The soldier was stunned and hurriedly responded, turned around and ran quickly to deliver the order.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, Li Daozong has a very high prestige. It would be a shame for the whole army if he had to go into battle in person to capture Wude North Gate. Li Daozong had already gone into battle in person to capture Cheng Wuting alive and defeat the Ganlu Palace defense line. , if Li Daozong still needs to go into battle, the entire army will inevitably lose face. Soldiers have the highest honor, so this order is nothing more than conveying Li Daozong's true thoughts: Even if he dies, the entire army will die in the battle to attack the city.
If the commander is allowed to die in front of the army, how can the entire army survive with dignity? There is death on the left and right, and he died on the way to charge!
At this moment, the attack on the city was even more intense.
Yu Wenshiji secretly sighed, this is why the prestige of a veteran of hundreds of battles can increase the combat effectiveness of an army to the limit. If an ordinary general were to urge the army to fight to the death, not only would the combat effectiveness not be improved, but the generals of the army might not be able to do so. The morale is low due to complaints and another setback, and it is very likely to collapse instantly...
The drums were rumbling on the battlefield, and Li Daozong asked the scouts about the battle at Xuanwumen. When he heard that the right guards defeated the left guards' cavalry with thousands of musketeers, he looked solemn and turned to look at Yu Wenshiji: "Before, King Jin Has His Highness ever explored how much of the foundry’s output can be restored?”
In fact, almost everyone has overtly or covertly investigated the reconstruction and production of the Foundry Bureau. After all, firearms are very popular among Fang Junjun, and they are invincible in every battle. Who dares to despise them? Especially those with ulterior motives, if they don't understand whether the Foundry Bureau can fully supply firearms to the troops loyal to the emperor, they must not dare to act rashly.
He himself also investigated and found that the output was seriously insufficient...
So at this moment, Youtunwei offered up the musketeer, a killer weapon, because of the original inventory, or was it because the foundry bureau's true output was hidden?
Since there are musketeers, will there be artillery at critical moments?
Is it only the Youtun Guards who are equipped with musketeers, or are all the other troops loyal to the emperor such as the Sixth Army of the East Palace equipped?
Yu Wenshi nodded and said: "This is natural. With the power of firearms, how can His Highness be completely unprepared? In fact, not only His Highness the King of Jin, but also Yu Chigong, Cheng Yaojin, the other sixteen guards, etc., openly or covertly I have explored the output of the Foundry Bureau, but almost all the conclusions are the same, that is, it can only produce very little gunpowder and projectiles, not even thunderbolts, and artillery is completely impossible."
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After a pause, he looked at Li Daozong: "The matter has come to this, there is no retreat. No matter whether there is something wrong with the firearm detection, Wude Palace should be captured as soon as possible. As long as Wude Palace is captured, it means the change of imperial power. , we will talk about the future later.”
It is indeed a big trouble for His Majesty to die or escape, but no matter what, we need to overthrow His Majesty's rule first, and then support King Jin to ascend the throne. The trouble will be a headache in the future, but if the Wude Palace cannot be attacked for a long time, it may be delayed if it continues. Something unexpected happened.
Now those garrisons and nobles from all over the country who are eager to support King Jin might see that the situation is not good and simply support His Majesty. Then King Jin will become a complete rebel, and everyone will cry out for beatings. How can it be done?
This shows how great the impact of Chai Zhewei's defeat on Fang Jun was on the situation. According to original expectations, by this time Chai Zhewei had eliminated all the troops loyal to the emperor in the Xuanwu Gate, showing everyone in Guanzhong that the Jin Dynasty was ready. After hearing the news, the people who were watching the fire from the other side naturally came one after another to pay allegiance to the King of Jin, and then raised troops to assist the King of Jin in annihilating the six leaders of the East Palace, achieving great things.
As a result, Chai Zhewei was completely defeated, causing the situation to almost get out of control...
Li Daozong said calmly: "What I did was to fulfill the late emperor's last wish and assist the King of Jin in inheriting the great cause, instead of allowing the empire to fall into division and frequent civil wars to destroy the cornerstone of the empire. In any case, the emperor must be controlled. Personal life and death are the glory of the emperor. What does humiliation mean compared to the fact that the empire is about to fall into civil strife? So even though your Guanlong clan prospered for a while, you were eventually eliminated by the mighty trend and had to fall into the dust. It is too narrow-minded."
He could hear what Yu Wenshi meant. He probably meant that as long as the King of Jin could sit on the throne, everything could be put aside for long-term planning. In order not to bear the infamy of a regicide personally, he would rather sit back and watch His Majesty escape from Chang'an. From then on, The world is divided and ruled in two days.
But in Li Daozong's view, it was absolutely impossible. The reason why Emperor Taizong was obsessed with Yi Chu and promoted King Jin to the throne was because he believed that Li Chengqian could not be an emperor well, but King Li Zhi of Jin was a natural politician who could control the government with ease. , in the final analysis, Emperor Taizong wanted this empire to become better and better day by day.
And why did Emperor Taizong never issue the edict of Yi Chu until his death? It is because of concerns about Chu Yi that the original East Palace faction will be incompatible with the court. When King Jin ascends the throne in the future, they will also fight openly and secretly, and the fight will not stop, so that the foundation of the empire will be exhausted.
If Li Chengqian is allowed to leave the capital now, wouldn't he be responding to Emperor Taizong's concerns and running counter to Emperor Taizong's wishes?
For the sake of Emperor Taizong's last wish, he was willing to bear thousands of infamy, even if he would be infamous for thousands of years.
Yu Wenshiji was so convinced that he actually bowed and saluted: "The prince cares about the country and has high aspirations. He does not hesitate to sacrifice his own honor and disgrace to achieve the inheritance of the empire. The old man is far behind. He is full of respect, but also feels ashamed and inferior. Ashamed.”
Li Daozong turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear to such little tricks of "praising and killing".
"Many garrison troops in Guanzhong have been contacted by Duke Ying. I wonder how many of them can raise troops to approach Chang'an to contain Fang Jun this time?"
If Fang Jun completely defeated the Zuo Tun Guard and cleared the Xuanwu Gate, then he would attack Xuanwu Gate with all his strength. However, he thought that Chai Zhewei would have no problem if he took out the Right Tun Guard, so he only left two thousand people at the Xuanwu Gate. Now that Chai Zhewei's entire army has been destroyed, how can these two thousand men resist the fierce attack of Youtun Guards?
Once the Xuanwu Gate falls into the hands of Fang Jun, Fang Jun will completely isolate Taiji Palace. He will have no way to retreat, and no one will come to reinforce him. It is equivalent to being in a dead end, and he can only attack Wude Palace with all his strength. Advance without retreat, live toward death.
Moreover, he never dared to think that breaking through the North Gate of Wude would lead to the successful capture of Wude Hall. Your Majesty dared to indulge the Jin King's army from Tongguan all the way to Chang'an City, so how could he not have other preparations?
Within the Tai Chi Palace, there must be an armed force capable of undertaking preparatory tasks...
Yu Wenshiji shook his head and sighed: "If Chai Zhewei successfully defeats the Youtun Guards, it is estimated that at least five armies will go to Chang'an and enter the Xuanwu Gate to fight alongside us. But now that Chai Zhewei has been defeated and the Youtun Guards are powerful, the situation is complicated. , The outcome has not yet been determined, I am afraid that no one will dare to take the risk, and most of them will continue to wait and see.”
This is the worst result of Chai Zhewei's defeat. As long as Xuanwu Gate falls into Fang Jun's hands again, who has the confidence to take it back from him?
Without complete certainty, no one would take risks.
The original plan was smooth and logical, but now there are sudden twists and turns. It has to be said that Fang Jun gave up leading his troops to defend the Taiji Palace and instead sneaked back to the Youtun Guards. It was a seven-inch hit, and it was about to "attack in groups". Being cut off abruptly.
It is very likely that he will be the winner of this mutiny...
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God Heyuan.
Zuo Wuwei's tens of thousands of troops marched slowly, stopped thirty miles away from Yuanqiu, and set up camp on the spot. Although the King of Jin repeatedly sent people to urge them to rush to Yuanqiu to join forces as soon as possible, Cheng Yaojin went his own way and ignored them.
In the camp, Cheng Yaojin looked at the map with his hands behind his hands while listening to the intelligence that the scouts had gathered from all sides.
When he heard that Fang Jun sneaked back to the Right Guard to defeat Li Daliang's rebellion plot and organized an army to resist the Left Guard, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but sigh: "Chai Zhewei will definitely lose... It's strange to say that this Fang Er is like the nemesis of the Chai brothers. As long as he is around, the Chai brothers can accomplish nothing. How can a idiot like Chai Zhewei defeat Fang Er, who is invincible in the north and west expeditions? ? King Jin made a strange move. But having said that, the last time Chai Zhewei was defeated, it was all because Princess Baling came to the palace to intercede that His Majesty let him go. However, it was rumored among the people that Princess Baling asked for the house first. 2. Then Fang Er advised His Majesty to let Chai Zhewei go... I don’t know if it’s true or not. If it’s true, Princess Baling may have really paid a heavy price, hey!”
All the Zuowuwei generals in the tent looked at each other in silence. How could they tell whether the affair was true or not in the Chinese army's tent?
Without taking his eyes off the map, Cheng Yaojin asked again: "Where are the coalition forces of Xue, Liu, and Zheng now?"
The scout said: "We have arrived at Fanchuan and are following our army step by step. Our army is now encamped, but they are also standing still."
Cheng Yaojin remained silent, wondering what he was thinking about.
Niu Jinda said: "These three people have obviously received your Majesty's order and are here specifically to suppress us. If we dare to rely on King Jin, we are afraid that they will attack us immediately. In cooperation with the Sixth Army of the East Palace outside Chunming Gate, we will order Jin The king is under attack from both sides.”
Cheng Yaojin nodded and did not deny this: "Of course there is truth in this aspect, but it doesn't matter whether King Jin is attacked from both sides. It doesn't even matter whether King Jin can break through the city. The most important thing is whether Li Daozong can attack quickly. Wu Dedian has His Majesty under control... I originally had great hopes, but now that Fang Er has interfered with it, the variables have increased sharply. "
The focus of the entire battle is Wude Palace. Li Daozong hopes to enter Taiji Palace from Xuanwu Gate to wipe out all the defenders, and then directly enter Wude Palace to control the emperor. Naturally, the emperor will not sit still and wait for death. King Jin has already raised his troops, and everyone is ready to move. In such a situation If you still stick to the Wude Palace, you must be prepared.
Whether it was Li Daozong who caught him by surprise and his troops were swift and invincible, or whether the emperor strategized and made rock-solid preparations in advance, it was the winner of the entire battle.
Now it seems that Li Daozong has no way out and is alone without support. He is afraid that he will be defeated outside the Wude North Gate...
Niu Jinda frowned and said: "Then where should we go from here? Isn't the commander still thinking that the one with the highest price will get it? The situation is now chaotic. It is impossible to know who will win and who will lose. There are risks in any choice, and the prices of both parties have already been paid. To the extreme, even if we continue to drag it out, we may not be able to get the two parties to re-offer the price.”
Before Cheng Yaojin could say anything, a soldier came in from outside the account: "To report to the commander-in-chief, Zhongshu ordered Liu Jie to go outside the account to ask for an audience."
Cheng Yaojin laughed: "Isn't this coming?"
Niu Jinda: "..." (End of Chapter)