Chapter 228: Withdrawal
To be honest, the eldest prince saw all this happen with his own eyes, and the fear in his heart arose, and he didn't dare to resist Yi Xingchen's order at all, but was quite cooperative, not noisy or noisy.
What's more, what Yi Xingchen asked him to do was not to hurt his life, but to give him a chance to take the throne in a short time, if he couldn't even do this, it would be too stupid.
The reason why Yi Xingchen asked the civil official Mu Huashi to draw up these three edicts was to gain a foothold in legal theory and make the matter of the transposition of the royal power justified. In short, these three edicts were for the common people of Xilin City to see, and they wanted to block their mouths.
Yi Xingchen's intention was to let the citizens of the East leave the country feel at ease to become the citizens of Xinghua State.
Although these three edicts are drafted today, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no regrets about leaving the country in the future, but Yi Xingchen doesn't care about it. Anyway, in Yi Xingchen's cognition, agreements between countries have always needed to be consolidated and maintained by military strength. There really has to be something restless about leaving the country, it's a big deal to fight a few more battles.
In addition, Yi Xingchen also has another trick to prevent future troubles - pushing the eldest prince to power. As long as the eldest prince is given this opportunity, let him grasp the real power, stabilize his power, and then let the king go back, the eldest prince will definitely be reluctant to give up the power he has already obtained again. It is not difficult to imagine that when the time comes, there will definitely be a period of time when the country leaves the east, and the government will not be able to stabilize. And that will be the best time for Xinghua to develop.
However, all of this requires the Xinghua Army to hold three edicts. Leave Wangdong City safely. It is possible.
At this time of life and death. Mu Huashi, the civil official and prime minister of Dongli Country, naturally did not take into account the long-term situation of the country, so he immediately took out the four treasures of the study and listed them one by one according to the points that Yi Xingchen said. With quick hands and feet, he wrote three gorgeous edicts in just a quarter of an hour.
After taking the edict from Mu Huashi's hand and looking at it one by one, Yi Xingchen then called the eldest prince hidden by the door into the palace and asked the king of Dongli to use the seal. The eldest prince signed and signed by the ministers present, recognizing the legitimacy of the three edicts.
Then, Yi Xingchen accepted the edict with a satisfied face, smiled slightly, and said to the eldest prince and the civil prime minister: "What about you Dongli King, I will take it away first." And ......" Yi Xingchen said this, paused deliberately, and then pointed to the more than a dozen officials in the main hall who had left the country, and continued to the eldest prince: "I'll give you three places. Pick three of these officials to stay as your faction, and you can let them stay. The rest. I will take them all away and let them serve the king of Dongli. ”
Even if the eldest prince had no choice but to appoint three ministers who were close to him.
Yi Xingchen's move is also for the eldest prince to better control the country. Give him time to expand his strength and cultivate a force group that truly belongs to him, so as to facilitate the struggle against the Dongli King.
In fact, Yi Xingchen supported the eldest prince and did not kill the king of Dongli, which was also a helpless way. Xinghua Kingdom is still too small to swallow the entire Dongli Kingdom. Even if it was to swallow Xilin City, it was still a little reluctant.
"Charlie, Eli, how much time do we have?" Yi Xingchen asked, glancing regretfully at the throne behind him. The throne of the king of Dongli is made of gold, which is extremely luxurious, and sitting on it, a sense of dignity that belongs to the emperor arises spontaneously.
"Commander, we have built a defensive position at the entrance to the palace, enough to withstand the enemy for an hour. Charlie replied.
"Okay, go and scrape the treasures of the Dongli Palace! Yi Xingchen said in front of King Dongli and other ministers.
When the ministers in the palace heard this, they all showed insulted and embarrassed expressions. But Yi Xingchen didn't pay attention to their feelings, the time of the Xinghua Legion was precious, and he wouldn't give any preferential treatment to the captives. Several soldiers immediately arrested the people of the palace and were responsible for leading the way to the treasury of the palace to collect and scrape.
Although the purpose of this attack was not for treasure, Yi Xingchen did not refuse to give his soldiers some war benefits. Of course, the soldiers of the Xinghua Legion, under the constraints of the officers, were not greedy, and without affecting the battle, they only took treasures that were small in size and easy to carry.
The Xinghua Legion quickly formed a team, and the royal rifle soldiers were divided into two parts, one in front and one behind, and the rest of the soldiers were in the middle position, waiting for the opportunity to attack and mend the knife.
The thousands of forbidden troops who had left the country in Wangdong City had already arrived at the entrance of the inner city of the palace. However, they were blocked by the Xinghua Legion, and several charges, all of which were forced back, leaving countless corpses at the entrance, unable to move forward. Until Yi Xingchen ordered the Xinghua army to retreat and evacuate from the gate of another palace.
Before leaving, Yi Xingchen didn't want to leave the country and the forbidden army pursued the Xinghua Army without pressure. If the people of Dongcheng are idle, they may send a large number of soldiers to pursue them, wasting the bullets of the Xinghua Legion. Therefore, Yi Xingchen ordered Eli to choose a few palace buildings at random and set them on fire to create chaos.
It didn't take long for a large amount of smoke to rise in the palace of the eastern country, and the entire Wangdong City, as long as it was a person, looked up in the direction of the palace, he could see this black smoke, and the entire Wangdong City immediately knew that the palace had also fallen, and the hearts of the army and the people were in turmoil.
The army of the Eastern Departure Kingdom was busy rescuing the palace, but they ignored the Xinghua Army led by Yi Xingchen, who marched all the way in the city of Wangdong City, unhindered and smoothly left the city.
It wasn't until Yi Xingchen and the others walked out of Wangdong City a distance of one or two kilometers that one after another Dongli cavalry appeared behind them, and they followed from a distance, as if they were waiting for an opportunity, looking for an opportunity to attack them.
Yi Xingchen attached great importance to the pursuing Dongli cavalry.
The mobility of these cavalry is too high, and if the Xinghua regiment is not careful, it may get into trouble.
However, these cavalrymen didn't seem to know what scruples they had, and they didn't mean to take the initiative to attack the Xinghua Legion, so they just followed closely behind the Xinghua Legion.
Could it be because the king of Dongli was in their hands and did not dare to attack? Yi Xingchen did not know their purpose. However, he was worried that it would take several days for the Xinghua Legion to return to his own territory, and there would be no problems on the way.
Yi Xingchen immediately called Charlie and Eli to discuss what to do?
In the end, Charlie and Eli didn't come up with a good solution.
The Xinghua Legion was not afraid of a head-on battle with the cavalry, but was worried that the other side would play tricks and carry out a surprise attack.
"Warn those Dongli cavalrymen that as long as they appear in the sight of our Xinghua Legion, once they appear, we will execute an official of Dongli until the king of Dongli is executed! Yi Xingchen said viciously. He came up with a solution that wasn't the way to go.
The reconnaissance team of the Xinghua Legion immediately passed Yi Xingchen's words to the cavalry who left the country.
To Yi Xingchen's surprise, the cavalry that had left the country in the east disappeared a quarter of an hour after they spoke. (To be continued......)