Li Daozong had no expression on his face. Although it was hard to accept it, he was already mentally prepared the moment Fang Jun disappeared. How could Chai Zhewei defeat Fang Jun? It was reasonable to suffer a huge defeat.
Yuwen Shiji on the side couldn't hold it back, he sighed and said sarcastically: "Chai Shaohu, father and son, this Chai Zhewei is so embarrassing, the right camp guards have been mixed up by Li Daliang and are killing each other. Under such a good situation
It failed completely, it’s a complete 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 be acting recklessly."
The stone and the soldiers will live and die together!"
The soldier was stunned and hurriedly responded, turning around and running quickly to deliver the order.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, Li Daozong's prestige is extremely high. It would be a shame for the whole army if he was required 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 is still needed now
When going 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 whole army have the dignity to survive? Everyone on the left and right will die on the way to the charge!
At this moment, the siege of the city was even more intense.
Yuwen Shiji 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.
There are complaints and morale is low, and if you suffer another setback, 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 Yuwen Shiji: "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 in Fang Junjun, and they are invincible. Who dares to despise it? Especially those with ulterior motives.
, if you don’t know whether the Foundry Bureau can fully supply firearms to the troops loyal to the emperor, you must not dare to act rashly.
He himself had also investigated, and the result was that the output was seriously insufficient...
So at this moment, Youtunwei is using the musketeer, a killer weapon, because of the original inventory, or is it hiding the true output of the foundry?
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 totally unprepared? In fact, not only His Highness the King of Jin, but also Yuchi Gong, Cheng Yaojin, and the other sixteen guards were all overtly or covertly
I have explored the output of the foundry, 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."
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’ll talk about the rest later.”
It is indeed a big trouble for His Majesty to die or escape, but in any case, we need to overthrow His Majesty's rule first, and then support King Jin to ascend the throne. The trouble will be a big 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 may 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 across the bank naturally came one after another to pay allegiance to the King of Jin, and then raised troops one after another 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 to assist King Zuo 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, honor and disgrace have nothing to do with the empire.
Compared to being about to fall into civil strife, what does it mean? So even though your Guanlong clan prospered for a while, you were eventually eliminated by the mighty general trend and had to fall into the dust. It is too narrow-minded."
He could hear the implication of Yu Wenshi's words. It was probably that as long as the King of Jin could sit on the throne, everything could be put aside and discussed in the long term. In order not to personally bear the infamy of a regicide, he would rather sit back and watch His Majesty escape from Chang'an. From then on,
In two days, the world was divided and ruled.
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 and 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 an edict on Chu Yi until his death? It was because he was worried that Chu Yi would make the original East Palace faction incompatible with the court. When the Jin Dynasty ascends the throne in the future, they will also fight openly and secretly, and the fighting will continue, so that the foundation of the empire will be consumed
Almost 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, has high aspirations, and does not hesitate to use 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 stationed 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 people resist the fierce attack of Youtun Guard?
Once the Xuanwu Gate falls into Fang Jun's hands, 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. 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 assurance, no one would take risks.
The original plan was going smoothly and logically, 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".
It was cut off abruptly.
It is very likely that he will be the winner or loser of this mutiny...
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Shen 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 was looking 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 has a strange move. But then again,
The last time Chai Zhewei was defeated, it was all thanks to Princess Baling who came to the palace to intercede for Your Majesty to let him go. However, it was rumored in the city that Princess Baling begged the Second Fang first, and then the Second Fang advised His Majesty to let Chai Zhewei go.
...I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if it’s true, then 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 false in the Chinese army's tent?
Without taking his eyes off the map, Cheng Yaojin asked again: "Where are the allied forces of Xue, Liu, and Zheng now?"
The scout said: "They 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 attach ourselves to the King of Jin, we are afraid that we will attack them immediately. In cooperation with the Sixth Army of the East Palace outside Chunming Gate, order
The King of Jin 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 the Wude Palace. Li Daozong hopes to enter the Taiji Palace from Xuanwu Gate to wipe out all the defenders, and then directly enter the Wude Palace to control the emperor. Naturally, the emperor will not sit still and wait for death. The King of Jin has already raised troops, and everyone is ready to move. In such a situation
If you still hold on to the Wude Palace even now, you must be prepared.
Whether it was Li Daozong who caught him by surprise and his troops were extremely fast 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 win? The situation is now chaotic, and there is no way of knowing 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 both parties to re-raise prices."
Before Cheng Yaojin could say anything, a soldier came in from outside the account: "To report to the commander-in-chief, Zhongshu ordered Liu to go outside the account to ask for an audience."