56. The city is broken
Two months ago, since Qin An led his troops with pay, Jingzhong has not seen any progress in the battle in the north.
According to the rules of the imperial court, even if there is no war at the border pass, someone should be sent back to Kyoto every day. But after Qin An arrived in the north this time, the two armies faced each other in the land of Qizhou for a long time, and there was no other movement.
Three days later, just when Gao Yan was about to be angry again, the Military Aircraft Department finally got the news.
Qin Li reversed!
Qin Li has been in the mixed army for many years, and as the leader of the cavalry, he already has quite prestige in the barracks. Now after Sima Jing's incident, he unexpectedly won the position of commander and had the real power to command the Beiguan army.
Now he suddenly rebelled against the imperial court, allowing the enemy army to attack the city and plunder the land, unmoved, obviously the Huns have colluded!
In addition, the food and salary in the army were burned to the ground, and the soldiers and generals in the army have passed a few days of hunger, and the food and salary distributed by the imperial court again are now in Qin An's hands.
In front there was the order of the commander, the threat of grain and grass, and then there was the pursuit of the Hun army. And the emperor is far away in Kyoto, and he can't save the fire, and most people in the army still know how to judge the situation and naturally their own safety and interests are important.
Soon, General Qi and Deputy General Liu, who ordered the charioteers, had already obeyed Qin Li's orders and turned to attack and occupy the state together with the Xiongnu army.
Even Qi Rong, who led the archers and shield bearers in the army, was the younger brother of the mother of General Qi who died in battle, and the two had been practicing martial arts together in the general's mansion since they were children, but now they have followed Qin Li as traitors.
In this way, the Qin Li and Qin An brothers already had a large number of soldiers and horses in their hands.
Only half of the infantry in the army from Sima Mansion were still loyal, but they were like a plate of scattered sand and no one led them, and they confronted each other, which was not worth mentioning at all, and they did not survive on the battlefield.
After the DPRK and China got the news, the ministers were even more restless and played one after another. In this situation, the only way to let General Sima lead the troops to battle again may still have a glimmer of life!
But the emperor didn't know what the demon was, and he was still obsessed and unwilling to release Sima Jing who was imprisoned.
Gao Yan was actually panicking in his heart.
He had secretly noticed that Xu was looking away. Unexpectedly, Qin Li supported himself before ascending the throne, but he had already had ill intentions and was ready to put a long line to catch a big fish.
Now the real power of the Great Yuan army has fallen into the hands of traitors. If they don't send troops to deal with it, this Xiongnu and Qin Li are afraid that they will really take the entire Great Yuan Kingdom into their stomachs. But if Sima Jing was really released, wouldn't he have slapped his previous face in front of the courtiers.
Gao Yan naturally refused, and only decided that these were all Gao Xun's plans to confuse him.
This qiē must be the high inquiry from it!
She tried every possible means to take my throne, and I must not fall for her! If Sima Jing is really released, I am afraid that even the remaining military power will fall into the hands of Gao Xun.
In the Military Aircraft Department, no matter what the ministers below say, Gao Yan always kept a black face and did not say a word. Just when everyone was helpless, a person came from outside the hall.
"Your Majesty, General Sima is asking to see you outside the palace."
Gao Yan frowned, glanced at the eunuch who reported at the door, and said:
"Let him in."
After these days of affairs with Sima Jing, Sima Cheng has lost a lot of his appearance of not being angry and arrogant, and he has looked a little old. He slowly walked up to Gao Yan, bowed down, and said in a deep voice:
"Your Majesty, old minister, please fight."
The ministers on the side were all stunned by this.
Gao Yan frowned and was silent. As the emperor, he never thought of leading the troops to lead the battle in person, but he had never learned these art of war, let alone this weak body, I am afraid that as soon as he got on the horse, he would be kicked down.
And although he has a grudge against Sima Jing in his heart, he lacks these scruples about Sima Cheng. General Sima is also proficient in the art of war, and there are many generals from the General's Mansion in the rebel army, so at the moment, he is the best candidate among all kinds of people.
Soon, Sima Cheng led the only 150,000 remaining elite soldiers in the court, plus some stragglers from all over the country, to form a temporary army and go to meet the battle.
But the current situation is obviously exhausted.
On the Huns' side, at this moment, it is the time when the army is strong and the soldiers are full. One of them and Qin Li's army broke through from Qizhou and entered the hinterland of Minzhou and then occupied Yizhou, while the other followed the two Qin brothers and went straight to Yongzhou.
The center of Yongshu is Kyoto.
And Sima Cheng's side is now short of soldiers and food, so Gao Yan had to order to collect grain and grass from the people again, and at the same time forcibly recruit troops and horses in various places in the name of the imperial court.
For a time, it was the common people who suffered. How can a place that had already frequently recruited food twice be able to come up with enough food and grass for the army in a short period of time? Even the national treasury, which was once abundant, is now increasingly scarce.
And those states that have been plundered and occupied by the Huns are even more difficult for the people to live on. The khanates were cruel and brutal, and after capturing a state city, they began to loot property, and if they resisted, they were slashed to death. Most of the people in Qizhou, Yizhou, and Minzhou were broken and displaced. One by one, they fled, and they died.
Originally, the Great Yuan Kingdom, which was full of people and had good health and good things, has now fallen into a situation of war and chaos. After decades of stable life, the people of the Yuan Kingdom finally tasted the bitterness of war.
For a time, people everywhere were complaining.
Now this emperor is really incompetent. If the second prince had been in power, I am afraid that it would not have caused such a miserable scene.
Da Yuan Kingdom, I'm afraid it's really going to die this time......
Others even sighed:
Hey, if the third prince is still ...... The Huns are anti-thieves, I'm afraid they won't be as arrogant as they are now.
Tens of thousands of wars are raging, and Gao Yan can only shrink into this huge palace day by day, at a loss.
He shut himself up in the main hall all day long, and no one was allowed to disturb him. But this still did not help, but only made him panic more and more day by day.
The eunuchs guarding outside the door could only spread the news outside again and again:
"Your Majesty, our 200,000 troops were wiped out, and the old general was martyred......"
"Your Majesty, the ministers of the court are still waiting for you in the previous dynasty......
Gao Yan always sat on the dragon chair in the center of the main hall, turning a deaf ear to these until the voice of the report sounded outside the hall again:
"Your Majesty! The army of traitors...... It's already at the gates of the city! ”
Hearing this, Gao Yan knocked over the things on the table in front of him, clenched his fists full of cold sweat, and finally walked out of the hall with a blue face.