Chapter 61 Anguo: The degree of autonomy is reduced, and the puppet state is half annexed by the puppet state
The capital of King An is Shenglong Mansion, in the royal palace.
There were elite soldiers wearing heavy armor guarding the palace, and they were constantly patrolling. If there was anyone walking around in the palace, they would immediately come forward to check and interrogate them without slacking off.
Because of Yun, the war between Xia and Xia has resumed. Yang Dayan, the general of Anton who was stationed in Anguo before, has now led most of his troops to invade Xiaguo.
Now the entire Anguo appears to be extremely empty of military strength.
In the huge Anguo, Yang Dayan's troops responsible for land reform were dispersed in various places, the elite soldiers guarding the palace, plus the troops stationed in the Anguo Prime Minister's Yamen, the full force was only more than 10,000!
Even though the land reform has initially achieved results, the people have surrendered and the civil resistance has gradually disappeared. However, the military strength of Anguo is so weak that if someone takes the opportunity to cause chaos, the situation will become out of control.
Therefore, at this time, the Anguo Prime Minister's Office and the Anguodong Police Factory did not dare to slack off for a moment, and overtly and covertly stepped up surveillance of the palace and Shenglong Mansion inside and outside.
The entire atmosphere in An's palace also became depressed and depressing, and there was a sense of imminent rain.
Several palace eunuchs bowed their bodies and walked towards the outside of the palace with small steps.
But before they had gone far, a lieutenant wearing the armor of the Royal Palace Guards, who was responsible for checking the people leaving the palace, suddenly frowned and shouted immediately:
"Wait a minute!"
The eunuchs suddenly stopped walking and froze in place, with their heads lowered and their eyes seeming to dodge.
The head eunuch's eyes flickered, and then he put on a flattering smile on his face, bowed forward, and said humbly:
"I wonder, Sir Captain, do you have anything to give me?"
The captain frowned, pointed at one of the eunuchs in the team, and said in surprise:
"Isn't that person a eunuch? Why do I look a little blue around his mouth, as if he has stubble... Hey, that's the third person standing upside down. Turn around and let me see!"
As soon as these words came out, the eunuchs who were frozen on the spot looked at each other subconsciously, with a hint of coldness flashing in their eyes.
And at this moment, I suddenly heard a cold voice coming from the side:
"Since we have already let them go, why are we still stopping them?"
Several white soldiers wearing heavy armor, with a dignified and formidable aura, who looked like the best in the world at first glance, walked over quickly.
When the captain of the palace gate saw Yun Jun coming, he quickly lowered his head and clasped his fists, with a flattering smile on his face, and said respectfully:
"Sir, I just saw that something was wrong with that person, so I wanted to inquire again..."
When the leader of the Yun Army heard this, he took off his animal mask, revealed a cold face, and shouted:
"What time is it now? The palace gate is about to be locked. Is it going to be delayed because of you?"
At this time of year, the situation between North Korea and China is extremely tense. The slightest disturbance will arouse the vigilance of the Prime Minister's Yamen and Dongchang.
The Gongmen Colonel was unwilling to face Dongchang's questioning. Hearing the implicit scolding of General Yun Jun, he was suddenly startled and quickly waved his hands and said:
"No, no, no, the general just asked this question casually!"
General Yun Jun waved his hand impatiently and shouted:
"Let go!"
"yes."
The group of eunuchs relaxed and hurriedly turned around and trotted away.
When they walked out of the sight of the elite soldiers, these people dressed like eunuchs all breathed a sigh of relief.
"It is said that the white soldiers of the Yun Kingdom guard the palace so tightly that not even a fly can fly in. Hum, now it seems that it is nothing more than that!"
"That's right, I'm afraid Yun Jun hasn't discovered it yet after I left the palace!"
"The embroidery envoy of the Xia Kingdom named Li Kan really has some skills. He actually found a way to sneak into the palace."
"But let me tell you, we shouldn't have entered the palace and gone through this! Li Hu's arrogant ambition and now becoming a puppet of the Yun Kingdom is just his own fault. Let's raise an army to restore the country, and after that is accomplished, we will welcome back the king who is in the Xia Kingdom.
That’s all, why bother acting in his name?”
"There is nothing we can do about this. Now everyone in the Shenglong Mansion respects him as the king. Only with his will can we mobilize the soldiers and horses to defend the city and open the city gate."
"By the way, where are the things?"
"Safe and safe!"
One of them, as he spoke, tore open his eunuch robe and took out several blank imperial edicts stamped with King An's seal from the interlayer.
The leader took over these blank imperial edicts, nodded, and said in a deep voice:
"While Li Hu doesn't find that the seal has been tampered with, quickly imitate the king's imperial edict to take over the city defense. Also, without further ado, we will open the city gate tonight and welcome General Rong from outside the city to enter!"
"Yes!" Everyone shouted in unison with excited voices.
And at this moment, over there at the gate of Anguo Palace.
Several Yunjun generals who had just let those people go were gathering together and lowered their voices:
"I almost broke the public announcement. Fortunately, I arranged for someone to be here in advance to prevent any unexpected events. Otherwise, I don't know how to report it to the public!"
"Fortunately everything went well."
"Sir, I don't understand, why don't you just kill all these people?"
"It's easy to kill them, but now in Anguo, there are still a lot of people under the resistance forces hiding in the mountains. We, Dayun, don't have enough troops in Anguo, so it will be difficult to wipe them out for a while. Now they finally have the courage to show their faces, so hurry up
Take this opportunity to put them into the city and annihilate them all?"
The subordinate suddenly understood, nodded repeatedly, and said:
"I see... Our Mr. Yu really has a plan that doesn't leave any stone unturned!"
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Jiuli rebelled against the party. At this time, he did not know that he and others had fallen into the scheme, so he foolishly sent someone to notify Rong Yichun outside the city.
Rong Yichun received the news and immediately summoned all his subordinates to come.
Looking around at the crowd, Rong Yichun looked solemn and said in a low tone:
"Since the Yun army entered our country, countless righteous people have come forward and fought in both the government and the public, risking their lives just to drive away the Yun people and restore our mountains and rivers. During this period, how many benevolent and righteous people died tragically as a result, I can no longer remember clearly... I just remember
, even until their death, they were thinking of reviving the country!"
When the subordinates heard Rong Yichun's words, they all showed moved expressions on their faces.
Speaking of this, Rong Yichun's eyes sharpened and he said loudly:
"Now there is news from the capital that the decree has been achieved! Please quickly rectify your troops and horses, enter Shenglong Mansion tonight, and repeat my great security to the Guosheji Ancestral Temple!"
At this moment, everyone's hearts were agitated by it, their blood was rising, and they could not restrain themselves. They immediately clasped their fists together, stretched out their bodies and shouted:
"I respectfully obey General Rong's orders!"
Rong Yichun had already received orders from Yu Huatian before, fully cooperating with the layout of the Jiu Li Ni Party and the Xia Kingdom, and quietly sent his soldiers to the vicinity of Sheng Long Mansion early on.
Seeing that the restoration of the country was about to be accomplished, everyone could not suppress their excitement and immediately turned around and left, arranging their troops and horses, preparing to enter the city tonight.
However, among these old Li rebels, there were some who felt a little uneasy.
After everyone left, he still did not leave. Instead, he advised Rong Yichun:
"General, the Yun State's methods are powerful, and they use both kindness and power. On the one hand, they suppressed us bloodyly, and on the other hand, they showed kindness to the people. The mighty restoration forces in the government and the public were now suppressed by the Yun people. Only the remaining
Our team... the general insists on blaming me for saying depressing words, but if we fail tonight, I'm afraid there will no longer be any force in the country that can resist the Yun Kingdom."
"Yes, General. Although this plan can work, it is still a bit risky. Why not leave some troops behind just in case?"
"General, please think twice!"
Rong Yichun knew very well that just as these people had guessed, the Shenglong Mansion tonight was a trap.
But he was originally a manpower deployed by Yun Guodong Factory, so how could he agree to keep him at this time?
Rong Yichun's eyes moved, then he shook his head firmly and said in a deep voice:
"The Yun Army is in the royal capital. In addition to the two thousand elite soldiers guarding the palace, there are also three thousand soldiers stationed in the Prime Minister's Yamen. In addition, there are those counterfeit soldiers who have abandoned their homeland and are willing to rely on the Yun Kingdom.
There are twenty thousand people."
"As for our troops assembled, there are only ten thousand soldiers and horses. Moreover, the troops are incomplete and have little training. If we don't take advantage of the Yun army's empty strength and attack with all our strength when they are unprepared, how can we resist the Yun army?"
When several people heard this, they were stunned and had no words to refute.
Tonight, the bet is that the Yun army will be caught off guard and quickly take over Sheng Long Mansion. Then they will cut off the palace from the outside world and strand the two thousand elite soldiers.
As for Li Hu, no one cares about him even if he dies, so it doesn't matter at all.
Now that we have reached this point, if we are still timid and do not dare to increase our entire net worth, we will not be able to blame others if we lose.
Thinking of this, everyone could only bow their hands and turn around to leave.
Rong Yichun sent everyone away and stayed alone for a while.
Looking at the empty lobby, Rong Yichun stood blankly for a moment, and a complex and sad look suddenly flashed in his eyes.
A faint sigh passed away quietly...
The night sky descends quietly.
The clouds covered the moon, making the night darker.
The city gate of Sheng Long Mansion opened quietly. Under the cover of night, more than ten thousand Fu Li troops quietly entered the city.
Thousands of selected elites rushed towards the palace non-stop, intending to block the siege. The remaining soldiers and horses rushed towards the arsenal, government offices, city gates and other important places in the city, hoping to rely on the power of Li Hu in their hands.
According to the imperial edict, he quickly took over Thang Long Mansion.
Among them, the generals of the Li Army led their troops and horses straight to the arsenal of Thang Long Palace. They raised the decree in their hands and shouted loudly to the defenders of the arsenal:
"According to the order of the king, the guards of the arsenal are temporarily changed. Open the door of the arsenal quickly. Anyone who delays the military situation will be dealt with according to military law!"
Facing the sudden arrival of the Fu Li Army, the arsenal defenders remained undisturbed.
The general of the garrison went straight to the top of the wall and shouted to the soldiers and horses outside:
"Please also check the imperial edict to verify its authenticity!"
When the general of the Fuli Army heard this, he put a lot of force in his hands, and the imperial edict was thrown directly into the hands of the defending general.
The garrison commander glanced at the imperial edict, threw it to the ground with disdain, and scolded:
"Although there is the King's seal, it has not been stamped with the Prime Minister's Yamen seal. This is a disorderly order, and I would not dare to obey it!"
The Anguo Prime Minister's Office was nominally an organization that assisted King An in handling government affairs. However, with the development of this period, its power has expanded, and it has become an organization that actually controls Anguo.
An Anguo government decree cannot be implemented and promulgated if it bears the seal of King An but does not have the seal of the Prime Minister's Yamen.
Hearing the words of the arsenal guard, the Fu Li army general was stunned for a moment, and then he yelled:
"Bold! How dare you disobey the king's orders? Do you seriously want to seek death?"
What responded to him was the sound of bowstrings.
"This is a rebel and traitor, falsely conveying the king's orders to shoot arrows!"
Seeing that he was exposed, the general of the Fuli Army did not dare to slack off. He immediately drew the sword from his waist and shouted through gritted teeth:
"Kill and seize the arsenal!"
"Kill the rebels!"
There were loud shouts from both sides.
At the same time, shouts of killing gradually sounded from everywhere in Shenglong Mansion.
The soldiers of the Fuli Army discovered something was wrong and started fighting with the guards in the city.
The more than 10,000 defenders in the city were stripped of their armor and weapons, and were ordered to stay in the camp and not go out.
However, the 2,000 elite white soldiers guarding the palace and the 3,000 elite Yun troops in the Prime Minister's Office all rushed out at this time, trapping the Fu Li army who rushed in and trapped them in Shenglong Mansion.
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The sounds of armor and weapons clashing, the sounds of fighting, and the desperate wails of soldiers resounded throughout Shenglong Mansion.
In King An's Palace, above the Nanhua Hall, all the ministers were summoned here late at night. At this moment, hearing the shouts of killing that rang out in the city, their faces suddenly turned white and they knelt on the ground tremblingly.
On the throne, Li Hu was wearing a royal robe. Although he tried to maintain a calm attitude, the panic in his eyes could not be concealed.
Yu Huatian, the director of Anguodong Anti-Security Factory, stood with his hands behind his hands. He suddenly turned around and glanced at the ministers of Anguo in the palace, and then looked steadily at Li Hu on the throne, shaking his head and saying:
"Your Highness Prince An, it's strange to say that the rebels who are causing trouble in the city now seem to be acting under your banner..."
When Li Hu heard this, his face turned pale, he shook his head and said:
"No! No... Gu, Gu was definitely not involved! The rebels must be cunning and lied about following Gu's orders!"
When Yuhuatian heard this, Danfeng raised his eyes and asked meaningfully:
"Really? Your Highness, King An, our family has been with you for a long time, and naturally we believe in your loyalty to His Majesty... However, the courtiers in the capital do not know your Highness's character. If they heard a few words and spoke in front of His Majesty, Your Highness should
How to prove it?”
Proof? What other proof is needed?
The person who wronged you knows better than you yourself how wronged you really are!
With Li Hu's intelligence, how could he not have guessed that this was a trap set by Yu Huatian?
But the current situation is like this, the government and the public are being cleaned up over and over again by the Yun people.
Whether they were those who supported Li Weining's restoration, those who supported Li Hu's rise to power, or those who simply supported "Da'an Shangguo", they have all been eliminated.
He Lihu no longer has any power to mobilize and use, so how should he deal with it?
After standing blankly on the throne for a long time, Li Hu took a deep breath, stood up slowly, walked down the steps, and said bitterly:
"I want to go to the capital in person to meet His Majesty to prove my innocence!"
Li Hu knew very well the purpose of Yuhuatian.
The land reform implemented by Yun Guo has now won the hearts and minds of the people of Anguo. The resistance forces in the country will disappear after tonight. The Anguo Prime Minister's Yamen has established a complete set of administrative systems outside the Anguo court.
system.
Now, Yun State no longer needs him as a puppet to rule An State.
The only thing Li Hu can do now is to be wise and use the merit of surrender to save the Li family's ancestral temple and his own life!
When Yuhuatian heard Li Hu's words, the corners of his mouth slightly curved, he immediately clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"Okay, Your Majesty will definitely be happy if you see His Royal Highness Prince An in the capital!"
When Li Hu heard this, he lowered his head slightly, his expression even more bitter...