Legend of the Knight

In October, the news that the imperial court and Cheng Wang's water army fought against Caishiji had spread throughout the Central Plains, and now the imperial army has surrounded Nanjing City.

After King Cheng was besieged in Nanjing by 20 troops, he suddenly found out a secret edict of the former emperor and announced it to the world.

In the secret edict, Emperor Taixian said: King Cheng and King Qi are brothers and sisters, and they should share state affairs.

Therefore, according to the content of the secret edict, King Qi, that is, after the death of the first emperor Li Kun, should be enthroned by his elder brother Cheng Wang Li Tan.

King Cheng directly denied the legitimacy of the emperor with the secret edict this time. As for whether the secret edict is true or not, it is not so important.

In mid-October, Cheng Wang Li Tan ascended the throne in Nanjing, with the reign name Shunping.

As soon as this news came out, the world was in an uproar.

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"Damn it, King Cheng is crazy." After Huang Xiaoshi learned that King Cheng had ascended the throne, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say. Then, he came to his senses, "You stupid old lunatic, you are so cruel!"

Huang Xiaoshi suddenly understood what King Cheng's intention was.

Didn't King Cheng know that if he just took a secret edict and ascended the throne on his own, the people of the world would come and worship him?

how is this possible.

On the contrary, when King Cheng did this, he also lost the righteousness he had always had since he raised the flag.

Before, although King Cheng said that he rebelled, he played the banner of the Qing emperor, that is to say, he agreed with the emperor in name, but he was dissatisfied with the treacherous minister Chen Chongying who was next to the emperor for disrupting the court, so he had to raise troops to set things right.

No matter how ridiculous King Cheng's reason is, everyone knows that he is rebelling, but on the bright side, this is still an "internal conflict" of the dynasty.

Now, under heavy siege, King Cheng ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing. From the high officials and nobles to the traffickers and pawns in Nanjing, everyone must kowtow to him and shout long live.

In this way, there are no more uninformed people in the entire Nanjing city, all of whom are involved in the rebellion.

Those who conspired to proclaim themselves emperor, according to the law, the main criminal was escorted to Beijing Lingchi and executed, and the accomplices were all beheaded.

According to this iron law, once the officers and soldiers break through Nanjing, they will inevitably and have to massacre the city.

King Cheng doesn't have many people in his hands now, but there are millions of people in Nanjing City. These people are inexhaustible sources of labor and soldiers, and even reserve rations. This is the so-called "two-legged sheep" .

In order to prevent the two-legged sheep from surrendering to the officers and soldiers, King Cheng proclaimed himself emperor first, blocking the way for everyone to surrender.

Although Huang Xiaoshi already knew how cruel people's hearts would be if they wanted to rebel, after he figured out King Cheng's ingenious plan, he still shuddered.

Although King Cheng was besieged in Nanjing, the outcome has not yet been decided.

In the battle of Caishiji, only the navy was wiped out by the court, and King Cheng's more than [-] troops in Nanchang were unscathed.

Now, King Cheng used his body as a bait to crucify the imperial army in Nanjing. Once the Nanchang army counterattacked, under the casualties and morale blows caused by the long-term attack, the imperial army might suffer a disastrous defeat if they were attacked from both sides.

The 20 troops were assembled by the imperial court from all the troops that could and could not be used.

The available troops in the entire Central Plains have been exhausted. Even now, soldiers are being recruited everywhere, but this will take a long time.

If King Cheng can defeat the imperial army, he might be able to use this window of force to fight back. If it is done well, it will be like the battle of the founding of the country, and the capital will be captured in one go.

Just when everyone's eyes were drawn to the Battle of Nanjing, the imperial court suddenly issued an urgent order to serve the king, requiring all soldiers and horses from all over the world, regardless of officials, righteousness and brave people, to go to the capital to serve the king.

What's going on, isn't King Cheng asking for King Qin now? Why is it that the court is sending a report all of a sudden?

Afterwards, the news of Qin Wangling shocked everyone in the world. Tens of thousands of Japanese pirates captured Shanhaiguan, and now they are burning, killing and looting all the way, heading towards the capital.

Bai Jiuchi, the chief counselor under King Cheng, his last plan for King Cheng before his death finally paid off.

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In the final analysis, this is still the root of the disaster planted by the emperor himself.

Before, under the plan of the emperor, he sent Faceless to Wa, and asked Faceless to incite the Wa to attack Goryeo with all their might.

After the Wa country was emptied, the emperor sent troops to attack the Wa country on the grounds that Goryeo asked for help.

At this time, the Wa Kingdom had no soldiers in its hands, and the lost daimyo inside Wa Island made a comeback after being armed by the imperial court, and soon overthrew Guan Bai's rule.

Subsequently, the Japanese kingdom surrendered to the Central Plains court, and Koryo was also destroyed by the Japanese army.

It can be said that the emperor embezzled the Wa country with the smallest cost, and all the costs were silently borne by Goryeo.

However, after the Japanese surrendered and Koryo was destroyed, the emperor adopted a strategy of letting the tens of thousands of Japanese elite troops stranded in Koryo leave them to fend for themselves.

Anyway, Goryeo is surrounded by water on three sides, as long as the opening to the north is tightened, and then the imperial navy seals off the sea area, in another ten years or so, the tens of thousands of Japanese elites will degenerate into monkeys.

The emperor's idea was very good, but this time in order to defeat King Cheng in one fell swoop, to what extent did he concentrate his troops? He only left 1000 troops in Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan is the most powerful pass in the world, and there is a tendency that one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it. It stands to reason that 1000 people guarding the pass should be enough.

But the emperor missed a problem. Shanhaiguan's defense against nomadic tribes was extremely effective because nomadic tribes were all cavalry.

This time, the Japanese stranded in Goryeo were all infantry, and many of them were master warriors who could easily fly over walls.

Under Bai Jiuchi's careful planning, at the same time that King Cheng raised his troops, the Japanese army also went south from Koryo.

It's just because the mobilization, marching and marching speed of the Japanese army were very slow, and it just happened to break through Shanhaiguan when the imperial army and King Cheng fought together.

I don't know if it's a fatal coincidence or Bai Jiuchi's foresight. The current situation is that the imperial army in Nanjing can't retreat now.

Once it tries to turn around, it will inevitably be followed by King Cheng.

Secondly, there is no way to withdraw part of the 20 army back to Jiangbei to go to King Qin.

Because King Cheng still has about 20 troops in his hands, the [-] troops want to attack the city on the one hand, and defend the attack from King Cheng's army on the other.

Drawing troops at this time is tantamount to saying that the remaining soldiers are left here and discarded.

Therefore, the 20 army could not move at all.

So, does the imperial court have other forces to deal with this elite Japanese elite of tens of thousands?
No more.

The emperor's hand is empty.

In a more vivid way, the emperor's capital chain was broken.

A broken capital chain is a sudden cardiac arrest for an enterprise. Simply put, once a capital chain breaks, the larger the enterprise, the more spectacularly it will die.

When the ambitious emperor was about to solve the chaos of King Cheng in one fell swoop, the Japanese who hid beside him sneaked up behind him and gave the emperor a sap.

Originally, King Cheng rebelled, and people in the four places were already in panic. When the order of King Qin came out, the world immediately fell into chaos. (end of this chapter)