Chapter 182: The King Submits
Li Xingluo's betrayal gave the eldest prince a chance to breathe, and at the same time, it also cut off the momentum of the second prince's take-off.
In order to preserve their strength, in order to become the king, the eldest prince and the second prince did not want to fight with the powerful Li Xingluo, and both hoped that the other party could fight to the death with Li Xingluo, so Li Xingluo was given time to develop, so that Li Xingluo picked up the cheap and laid down a territory that the Grand Duke should have, and then stopped the pace of conquest.
In order to achieve victory, the Grand Prince reactivated Tieming.
After listening to Tie Ming's strategy, the eldest prince sent an envoy to contact Li Xingluo, expressing his willingness to canonize Li Xingluo as a duke, as long as Li Xingluo helped him defeat the second prince.
Li Xingluo refused such a condition, and Li Xingluo said that he could accept the status of a duke, but he would not send troops to attack the second prince, and of course he would not harass the eldest prince.
This is completely a strategy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, how can the eldest prince agree to fight to the death with the second prince, wouldn't it be cheap for Li Xingluo in the end.
Out of fear of Li Xingluo, the eldest prince listened to Tie Ming's second strategy, and the second prince temporarily put aside their prejudices, and joined forces to clean up Li Xingluo, the troublemaker, first. After all, this world is the world of their Chu family after all, and no matter who wins, the two of them will not be ashamed of their ancestors.
And if the world falls into the hands of outsiders, none of them can accept it.
The second prince accepted the eldest prince's proposal, so the two sides raised troops to prepare to attack Li Xingluo.
Before the coalition army arrived at Li Xingluo's territory, the second prince's camp ushered in Li Xingluo's envoy.
Li Xingluo expressed his willingness to resubmit to the second prince and help him defeat the eldest prince, but on the condition that he recognize his position as the Grand Duke and give him the territory he currently occupies as his fief.
After a fierce debate in the camp of the second prince, the second prince accepted Li Xingluo's condition. Because of Li Xingluo's influence, his strength is far inferior to Li Xingluo's, once Li Xingluo's forces are eliminated, he will not be able to defeat the eldest prince no matter what.
His younger brother, the stupid third prince, was still mired in the war of invading his neighbors, and after a few months, his sphere of influence had not only not expanded, but shrunk by about a third.
This battle for the king will arise between himself and the eldest prince.
However, because of Li Xingluo's criminal record, he was afraid that Li Xingluo would reap the benefits of the fisherman, so the request put forward by the second prince was that Li Xingluo's team would play the vanguard, allowing Li Xingluo to leave a team of 1,000 to protect himself, and the rest of the troops would need to be sent to the front line.
Faced with the second prince's almost rude request, Li Xingluo agreed.
The eldest prince's army was completely defenseless, and he never expected that the second prince would reach an agreement with Li Xingluo, and he was caught off guard, and the 60,000 army was defeated.
The defeat of the Great Army was accompanied by the loss of a large number of territories and the betrayal of the nobles, and the Prince's sphere of influence was reduced to one-tenth of the country.
Just when the second prince was busy accepting the oath of allegiance from nobles from all over the world, suddenly the little prince returned home with an army of 100,000.
The little prince's army is divided into ten routes, invincible, and the nobles and nobles are destroyed if they do not surrender, and the momentum is unmatched for a while.
However, under the leadership of Xu Xi and others, after attacking the territory, they actually occupied more than half of the country. The little prince, who had an army of more than 100,000 troops, was full of spirit, waved his hand, returned to the army, and competed for the throne.
Now the people in the country are panicking, the eldest prince is defeated, the second prince has a weak foundation, and the nobles have become grass on the wall for the continuation of the family, so in front of the army of the little prince, they are irresistible.
The most depressed is the second prince, who obviously defeated the eldest prince, but in the end it was the little prince who got the fruit.
In front of the army of the little prince, the army of the eldest prince was powerless to resist at all, and it was wiped out like a broken bamboo.
Before the little prince captured the imperial city, the eldest prince fled with only a few henchmen.
With the imperial city falling into the hands of the little prince, and as the nobles who suffered heavy casualties in the country took refuge in the little prince, the overall situation was decided.
In order to preserve the country's military strength, the little prince, who had already regarded the country as his own, sent an envoy to the second prince to persuade him to surrender.
After promising to spare the second prince's life, and to ensure that he had a duke's domain, and that his father-in-law would not be held accountable, the second prince surrendered.
For the second prince who has tens of thousands of troops, the little prince chose Huairou, and for Li Yihe, who has just over 10,000 troops, and they are not polite to Li Yihe, who has only less than 2,000 soldiers and horses, but they all occupy a dukedom, so the little prince held a meeting to send troops to fight them.
In this battle, Xu Xi and the others asked for canonization, and they all chose to quit, and they would not participate in this battle until the canonization they asked for was not settled.
It's not that the little prince is stingy, but the territory that Xu Xi asks for is too big, all the territory of the captured territory, and the territory of a duke between Dongtu Village and the territory, this huge territory is almost the same size as the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the little prince, if this is canonized, it will not be a country within a country.
The little prince did not refuse directly, but decided to drag it first, and then go back to clean up Xu Xi and the others after cleaning up Li Yi and Li Xingluo.
With the withdrawal of Xu Xi and the others' teams, the little prince found that the team he could mobilize was only 30,000, which meant that the power group led by Xu Xi could mobilize 70,000 troops, which made him frightened.
When he realized that Xu Xi's forces were too big to fall, the little prince felt the crisis, and felt more and more that he wanted to establish his prestige with a brilliant victory.
In order to ensure victory, the little prince requisitioned the armies of the nobles and nobles, and formed an army of 100,000 soldiers to encircle and suppress Li Yi and Li Xingluo in two ways.
This battle, which should have been without the slightest suspense, was defeated. Because Li Yi and Li Xingluo's army had an extra thousand shadow guards, they implemented the decapitation tactic, the commander of a battle was killed, and the little prince was almost captured, and the little prince himself knew that the other party deliberately did not capture him and let him back.
This incident made the little prince extremely angry, and the Shadow God Guard, who had always been his sharp blade, did not help him fight, but instead threw himself into the enemy camp.
This defeat discredited the little prince, and he even felt that his throne was crumbling. Fortunately in misfortune, Li Yi and Li Xingluo did not take the opportunity to continue to expand their territory, but wrote to ask for sealing.
The defeat of the little prince made him sober up from the pride of winning a hundred battles, and he had to take Xu Xi and the others seriously, and he now clearly realized that as long as he refused, the throne that was only a stone's throw away from him would be completely lost.
Shall I, a prince, who is destined to be king, submit to these lords?
(End of chapter)