Chapter 10: The Beginning of the Empire

At this time, Marshal Lian Po of the Zhao Army gathered 300,000 Zhao troops together.

"Soldiers! Tang Shu coalition army of 500,000, has been the Han army killed a piece of armor, we are difficult to deal with, and now the grain and grass is less than a day, our hometown is in front of us, but can not go home, the current emperor is mediocre and incompetent, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are redundant, our family members are almost all people, there are many taxes, I think everyone has heard, Jin Guojun gave our family a year of tax exemption, reclamation and free seeds, their military master Zongzheng promised me, if we make him the king, then we are all founding fathers, you are all brothers who have been born and died with me for many years, I don't want you to start to suffer from hunger tomorrow, you can't go back to home, now follow me to the military division Zongzheng, follow me into the city and go home"Lian Po walked out of the camp with 300,000 horses, Zhao Jun crawled for a long time, he was already tired, he heard that the Han army was beaten and ended up miserable, and now he can return to his original land without having to work hard, how can he not agree.

Emperor Zhao took more than a hundred guards to block Lian Po's way.

"Lian Po, you are treasonous! Why don't you get off your horse and die first?"

Lian Po looked at the emperor, and then looked at the soldiers behind him, "Haha, do you still have a country? There is no land, what are you, come and kill the enemy who is hindering us from going home." After Lian Po finished speaking, the emperor of Zhao and his guards were all killed.

Lian Po led an army of 300,000 and walked to the city of Zongzheng.

"Open the door, it's me Lian Po, I'm bringing my brothers home!" Lian Po shouted to the city wall.

When Zong Zheng learned that Lian Po had an army of 300,000, he immediately asked Lu Hua, Wanyan Thunderbolt, Wang Zixi, and Zhao Congjun to go out of the city to greet him.

"Welcome Marshal Lian Po and his brothers home! A banquet has been prepared in the city! Come into the city!" Zong Zheng happily hugged Lian Po.

After Lian Po hugged him, he immediately knelt on the ground, and the 300,000 troops behind him also knelt down.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Now the five princes of the Tang Kingdom and the third prince of the Shu Kingdom on the city wall were shocked when they saw such a scene!

"Brother Li, our Zong Zhengxian nephew seized the national territory of Zhao State, Marshal Zhao killed his own emperor, came with 300,000 troops, and actually knelt down, our virtuous nephew does not seem to be an idle person. The third prince of Shu looked at the five princes of Tang beside him.

"Brother Zongzheng, our virtuous nephew killed the top ten generals of Zhao State, and hatched hundreds of thousands of chickens with a pile of glass in Tang State to cure the locust plague, and after the locust plague, these hundreds of thousands of chickens are the food of the people of Tang State, and the virtuous nephew is not only here, but also to establish his own country, and what is more powerful is that he said that he has the ability to help solve the plague of Liao, and this 300,000 army is kneeling down to their future king. The fifth prince replied to the third prince.

"Don't underestimate it!" the third prince looked at Zongzheng in the distance, and his face rose.

"Get up! In the future, our Zongzheng Empire will not bow down, do you hear? Get up quickly!" Zongzheng shouted to the 300,000 army.

"This ...... Your Majesty, if you don't have the bow to worship, wouldn't you mess up the court? The rules that have been passed down through the ages, naturally he is reasonable!" Lian Po knelt on the ground and did not stand up.

"If you think I'm a good king, follow me. Zong Zheng helped Lian Po up, and the 300,000 army also stood up.

"Your Majesty's self-proclaimed 'I' can't be changed, otherwise the minister won't be able to accept such a rule. Lian Po looked at Zong Zheng.

"Okay! I'll take the Tang and Shu coalition army of 500,000 to meet the 300,000 army of Yelu Zhongyi of the Jin State, and when I accept Yelu Zhongyi, we will go to the Bai Yi City at the junction of Zhao and Han, and ascend the throne there, you will be rewarded for your meritorious deeds, you are the real founding marshal!" Zong Zheng patted Lian Po on the shoulder, and then introduced Yan Lili, Lu Hua, Zhao Congjun, and Wang Zixi to Lian Po one by one.

"Okay, Marshal Lian Po let's go to the city, I'm going to join forces with Tang Shu to be loyal to Yelu. Zong Zheng waved to the fifth prince and the third prince, signaling that he could set off with him with the Tang Shu coalition army outside the city.

"Your Majesty, let's go with you after our 300,000 army eats, this is the first battle of our founding of the country, how can we use the Tang and Shu coalition forces? Don't Your Majesty trust us?" Lian Po looked at Zong Zheng with his hands clenched into fists.

"Marshal Lian Po, I am going to subdue Yelu Zhongyi, not to annihilate them, we urgently need talents now, you rest for a few days, the battle is that I have named you the marshal of the Northern Expedition, and led 300,000 of its 300,000 to attack South Korea, which still has 100,000 soldiers and horses, and taking down Korea is the time when the Zongzheng Empire is really established, I have asked General Wang Zixi to take Lu Hua to supervise the army, go to find the second master who subdued the defeated generals of the Korean army, take the men and horses, as bandits, first annihilate the bandits and bandits in the country now, and when you capture South Korea as our territory, then let them go there to suppress the bandits, Zhao Congjun is the Qin Mission, and the corrupt officials in the country will be brought to justice, and Marshal Wanyan is responsible for domestic security, by the way, to assist Zhao Congjun, now I want the Tang Shu coalition army to deal with Yelu Zhongyi. After Zong Zheng finished speaking, he watched Lian Po and 300,000 troops enter the city.

In this way, Zongzheng and the fifth prince and the third prince walked towards the border of the Jin Kingdom with an army of 500,000.

The 300,000 troops in the city were eating, and Wanyan Thunderbolt walked towards Lian Po with a wine glass.

"I have long heard that Marshal Zhao Guolian Po has the courage of ten thousand people, and when I see him today, I hate to see each other late, come! ”

After drinking, Lian Po said to Wan Yan Thunderbolt: "Our Majesty is non-stop, and he usually does his best? How can the 500,000 troops borrowed by Tang and Shu are really admirable." ”

"What is this? Your Majesty's heart is filled with the whole world, he has a map of the world, you haven't even seen it, right? The whole world is estimated to be him, his goal is not only the territory of Zhao and Han, but the whole world, what is it that Tang Shu borrowed troops, and sooner or later he will rule the world. "It's not a day or two since Yan thunderbolt admired Zongzheng.

"Virtuous nephew, in front of you is the camp of the 300,000 army of the Jin Kingdom, do you want to go in directly?" The third prince rode a horse and asked Zong Zheng in the car, because Zong Zheng couldn't ride a horse.

"Such casualties are too big to be worth it, with my understanding of Yelu Zhongyi, he will arrange the grain and grass camp near the Shuai camp, so that the fifth uncle will lead 200,000 to enter from the left gate of the camp, and the third uncle will lead 200,000 to kill from the right gate. Later, I will lead 100,000 horses to call for battle at the main gate of the enemy camp, and then Yelu Zhongyi will definitely bring out the other two marshals of the four generalissimos of the Jin Kingdom, and I will entangle them later, and then you will lead the army to kill them according to what I said, and when the grain and grass camp is on fire, Yelu Zhongyi will definitely return to the camp, and I will lead 100,000 troops to enter from the main gate, and I will return here halfway through the killing and wait for you to come and meet. Zong Zheng looked up at the fifth prince and the third prince in the carriage.

"The virtuous nephew is right, he is worthy of being born as a military advisor, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, how do you know that Yelu Zhongyi will do what you say?" The fifth prince felt that it was such a simple layout, and he didn't want to fight, because he had also been on the battlefield many times, and he had never felt that it was so easy, and he didn't believe in Zongzheng, and the last time the Tang and Shu coalition forces easily scattered the Han army of 300,000, the five princes felt that it was accidental, but he didn't know that Zongzheng had already exhausted the Han army from a long journey, and the lack of food and grass led to insufficient food, and after Lu Hua and Wang Zixi's harassment of the enemy and burning the camp, the Han army was panicked and frightened.

"Fifth uncle, don't worry! Zong Zheng got out of the carriage and shouted in front of the tent of Yelu Zhongyi with 100,000 horses.

Yelu Zhongyi really came out with the other two marshals of the Jin Kingdom.

"Zong Zheng Xiao'er, Your Majesty trusts you so much and makes you a military advisor, you are good, you have a wolf heart and a dog's lungs, and you can stand up as the emperor, and you can't afford to die. Yelu Zhongyi rode on his horse and shouted to Zongzheng who was standing not far away.

"If you have a high merit, you will definitely die. Do you think that if you are leading the 300,000 troops of the Jin Kingdom now, the emperor will make you feel better in the future? He will not treat you like a bolt from the bottom of the face? Why don't you abandon the darkness and turn to the light now and build an empire of our own? After Zong Zheng finished speaking, he untied the cloth wrapped in the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword.

After listening to Zongzheng's words, Yelu Zhongyi fell into deep thought, he knew the emperor too well, the emperor had just ascended the throne, and wanted to use him to balance Wanyan Thunderbolt, and the two marshals behind him could replace Wanyan Thunderbolt and him Yelu Zhongyi at any time.

"Shameless child, don't die yet!" Behind Yelu Zhongyi, the two marshals rode horses and galloped towards Zongzheng with spears and knives in their hands.

In order to delay time, Zongzheng fought with these two marshals under his horse for twenty or thirty rounds, but he did not unsheath his sword.

Yelu Zhongyi watched it for a long time, and finally remembered that this Zongzheng was holding the Red Flame Sky Killing Sword that sharpened steel like mud, and it was the masked man who stole the grain and grass next to the Shuai camp when he attacked Qicheng.

"It's not good! Evacuate quickly! The grain and grass camp is in danger!" Yelu Zhongyi suddenly felt that Zongzheng would send someone to burn the grain and grass camp, so he hurriedly rode his horse and turned around, wanting to return to the camp of Shuai.

Zong Zheng took out the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword, and smashed the scabbard with his left hand into the eyes of a marshal horse, who was blind and bleeding.

With a sword in his right hand, he slashed at the leg of another marshal, and the horse's two front legs were cut in two.

The two marshals fell off their horses, and the two marshals stood up despite the pain all over their bodies, and at the same time stabbed at Zongzheng.

Zong Zheng slashed left and right with the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword, and the weapons of the two marshals were cut into several sections.

Zongzheng soldiers stepped forward to surround the two generals and fought with them.

Zongzheng asked the soldiers to bring bows and arrows with two arrows on them, aimed them at the two marshals, and after pulling the bows and letting go, they shot them at the necks of the two marshals respectively.

The soldiers beside him clapped their hands and applauded, the two marshals and the soldiers killed, ignoring Zongzheng, and a bow and two arrows shot at two people, this is all something that only happens in the story, they saw it with their own eyes, how could they suppress their emotions.

Yelu Zhongyi turned his head and saw that the two marshals were shot by Zongzheng, he gritted his teeth angrily, and rushed back to the camp to prevent the grain and grass camp from being burned by Zongzheng again, but he had already seen thick smoke coming out of the camp at this time.

"He has been transferred from the mountain, and the bottom of the kettle has been withdrawn, hateful, hateful!" said Yelu Zhongyi, riding his horse and saying in his mouth.

"Attack them all! Halfway through the killing, you'll be back!" Zong Zheng gave an order, and 100,000 troops rushed into the enemy camp.

A soldier rode up to Yelu Zhongyi and rode alongside him, and told him that there were enemy troops on the left and right, who had stolen most of the grain and grass, and burned the grain and grass camp.

Zong Zheng waited for a while, and his army of 100,000 men slaughtered out the front door and returned to his side. Zongzheng took them back to their original position separated from the fifth prince and the third prince, and set up camp.

"Cool! It's so cool!" the fifth prince and the third prince walked into Zongzheng's handsome camp.

"Virtuous nephew, why don't you take the opportunity to annihilate the Jin army in one fell swoop?" the third prince looked at Zongzheng.

"The three marshals of the Jin army have been killed by me, and now Yelu Zhongyi himself is left, and they have no food and grass, and they will definitely withdraw within three days. I still have to take Yelu Zhongyi as my subordinates, of course I can't kill them all, now they have about 200,000 left, and there is no food and grass, what are we afraid of them? Zong Zheng looked at the fifth prince and the third prince.

"So what are we going to do next? The fifth prince asked Zongzheng.

"The third uncle can lead the Shu army to attack the Jin country, and the Jin country still has less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and when the time comes, the city can belong to the Shu country. Zong Zheng looked at the third prince.

"Virtuous nephew, your resourcefulness let your imperial grandfather know, you must be excited, one person killed the top ten generals of Zhao State, and killed the two marshals of Jin State, it is too powerful, I will attack Jin State, and the city I have conquered will be considered a gift to Xian Nephew." The third prince walked out of the camp tent and set off with his troops to attack the Jin Kingdom.

"Just the top ten generals of Zhao State, the two marshals of Jin State, what is there to mention, I can hear the cocoon coming to my ears. Zong Zheng sat down and took a sip of water.

"It's not powerful, but what is powerful? Nephew, tell the fifth uncle. "The fifth prince thinks this is powerful.

"Once in Qicheng in the Song Kingdom, surrounded by 1,500 people, I could retreat with my whole body, and now I want to enter the camp of 200,000 Jin Army alone, capture Yelu Zhongyi, and prevent the enemy from attacking at night. Zong Zheng got up to leave.

"Virtuous nephew and slow, even if you capture Yelu Zhongyi in the army of 200,000, how can you rush out of 200,000 people and return safely with him?"

"The fifth uncle guards here, I'll go back when I go!" Zong Zheng knew that what he had to do now was to convince the five princes, so that diplomacy with the Tang State would also have a deterrent effect in the future.

Zong Zheng walked near the tent of the Jin army, found the dead bodies of the Jin soldiers, took off his clothes, put them on, and slowly blended into the enemy camp.

Walking to the vicinity of the camp and watching many soldiers carry away the dead bodies, Zong Zheng ran to help.

I heard a soldier complaining to him, "Brother, it is rumored that the gods of Zongzheng have descended to earth, and they can understand the world's characters as soon as they can speak, Zhao Guolian Po, Jin Guowan Yan Thunderbolt, the Grand Prince of Song and the Song General Wang Zixi have all surrendered to him, and now Tang and Shu are all helping him, do you think he is powerful?"

"I also heard that Lian Po led 300,000 Zhao troops to defect to Zongzheng, why did our department take refuge?" Zongzheng tested the soldier.

"Don't talk nonsense, watch your head. We all want to take refuge in Zongzheng, but we are not marshals, so what's the use? We heard that the place where Zongzheng captured the city was tax-free for one year, cultivated the wasteland, and distributed seeds for free, but unfortunately we were different from Zhao Jun, Zhao Jun took refuge in the country, and our family members were all in the Jin country, unless the Jin country was also taken by Zongzheng. The soldier also wanted to exempt his family from paying taxes.

"Brother, follow me to the Shuai camp in a while, a general has died, let us pass, we have lost the battle, you go in for fear that the generals will be angry, you wait for me at the door." After Zong Zheng finished speaking, the soldier followed him to the vicinity of the Shuai camp, and Zong Zheng walked into the Shuai camp and saw Yelu Zhongyi lying there, and there were four generals in the tent.

"Who let you in?" Yelu Zhongyi pointed to Zongzheng, Zongzheng lowered his head, afraid that Yelu Zhongyi would recognize him, it turned out that Yelu Zhongyi had just vomited blood, and when he entered the camp, he lay down, and his chest was out of breath.

"Kill him, if he spreads the news that I am lying here, it will disturb the morale of the army!" Yelu Zhongyi finished speaking, and the four generals drew their swords at the same time and walked towards Zongzheng.