Chapter 313: Overwhelming
"King Zhennan has been meticulous all his life, loyal, and has extraordinary military talents, and he made great contributions to my Donglai country a few years ago, although he made some mistakes in the past few years, but compared with the previous exploits of King Zhennan, it can be ignored, therefore, I think that King Zhennan is the best choice for the commander. Looking at the silent ministers below, after a while, Zhao Bocai calmed down some of the anger in his heart a little, and said slowly.
As soon as these words came out, the entire court suddenly exploded.
King Zhennan?
Everyone in the court is familiar with this name.
To be precise, it's a name that none of them want to mention.
"Your Majesty thinks twice, the king of Zhennan can be punished, just Tianfeng Kingdom, it is not worth us to take such a big risk. The ministers hurriedly admonished, but this time they were the same enemy, and they unanimously aimed at the king of Zhennan.
King Zhennan is the only prince with a foreign surname in the history of Donglai Kingdom, and in the early years, his authority was not weaker than that of the Ye family.
In his heyday, even the current emperor Zhao Bo had to give him some face, and almost no one dared to be an enemy of the king of Zhennan.
Because, anyone who offended the king of Zhennan paid a terrible price.
The king of Zhennan was tyrannical, with the courage of being invincible, and on the battlefield, the enemy gave him the nickname of a thousand people, which means that the king of Zhennan can kill a thousand people.
In the process of external expansion, the king of Zhennan has made indelible contributions.
It was precisely because of those exploits that Luo Kui, the king of Zhennan, was awarded the first king with a foreign surname in Donglai Kingdom.
At the beginning, it may be the dazzling light and prominent status that made King Zhennan dazed for a while, and he openly disobeyed his orders and disrespected the emperor, which was something that no emperor could bear.
So, the next scene of the seizure of power was staged.
Although King Zhennan is powerful, everything he has is granted by the emperor.
In this way, the king of Zhennan soon lost the real power in his hands, and his status plummeted, but he only retained the false name of a foreign surname Wangye.
If you want to say who was the person who contributed the most at that time, it was naturally none other than the ministers in the court.
According to the temperament of King Zhennan, once the other party rises again, there will inevitably be no good fruit for them to eat.
Although the king of Zhennan has stayed away from their lives, his fierce and vicious face has always haunted their hearts and become their eternal shadow.
The emperor is reckless, but the ministers are not stupid, if the king of Zhennan is put back in power, then they will suffer next, and the king of Zhennan can be punished, who knows if the other party will complain about His Majesty, and then join forces with Tianfeng Kingdom, if the king of Zhennan is on the verge of rebellion, then it will be repaid?
Therefore, no matter from which point of view, the ministers will never allow King Zhennan to turn over.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, if you can't think of a feasible way today, I'll cut off your heads!" Zhao Bo was furious, in fact, when he punished the king of Zhennan, he was still instigated by the ministers, otherwise, he would not have done anything to the end, at most, it was just a wake-up call to the king of Zhennan and a beating.
The ministers sweated like rain again, but the matter had reached this point that it was irreparable, and they could only resist to the death at the risk of His Majesty's wrath.
At this time, a person stepped forward and said: "There are still 500,000 elite soldiers guarding the imperial city in the north, and the army of Tianfeng Kingdom will not be able to break through for a while and a half, Your Majesty can order that a general be arbitrarily selected from the border as the commander of the rebellion, and the three million troops will be surrounded by it, and it is bound to completely annihilate the enemy army." ”
"Fart!
Zhao Bo was very disappointed in his heart, what else would they do besides excluding dissidents?
This was also the first time he had the idea of expelling all his ministers.
Zhao Bo angrily reprimanded: "Wenchang Kingdom has always been eyeing the enemy, if the generals on the frontier leave, do you think that the Wenchang Congress will be indifferent?
The Wenchang country in his mouth is a country in Dongzhou, although it is only a small place in Dongzhou, but compared with Donglai country, it is a lot stronger.
The two countries have been fighting endlessly since ancient times, and the territory of Donglai was much larger than it is now.
And the existence of King Zhennan made Wenchangguo quite jealous, and the other party lost a lot of land in the hands of King Zhennan.
To compete with the Wenchang Kingdom, the Donglai Kingdom needs to do everything, but to compete with the Tianfeng Kingdom, it only needs hundreds of thousands of troops to keep the northern region.
This is also the reason why there is such a big gap between the deployment of troops between the north and the south of Donglai.
Therefore, if he chooses between the two, Zhao Bo would rather fight with Tianfeng Guo than create an opportunity for Wen Changguo.
The ministers below were once again speechless, Zhao Bo's words were so reasonable, they had no way to refute them.
"The matter has been decided like this, you don't need to say much, the king of Zhennan will lead an army of three million to the north, and strive to break the enemy in one fell swoop, and the merit will be in the future!"
Zhao Bo didn't give the ministers a chance to refuse at all, and after saying this, he immediately ended the court discussion, leaving a group of dumbfounded ministers.
In this way, the next day, the king of Zhennan regained his authority and led an army of three million to the north without stopping.
In the northern part of Donglai Kingdom, only the last 500,000 defenders remained, except for the hundreds of thousands in Dongyang City, although they were much more than the Xiaohuang Army, but the combat effectiveness between the two was not at the same level at all, and the 500,000 were like cannon fodder, completely unable to resist.
In less than five days, the 500,000 army lost nearly half, while the casualties of the Xiaohuang army were less than 30,000.
After another three days, the remaining 200,000 troops of Donglai Kingdom were damaged again, and in the face of the fierce offensive of the Xiaohuang Army, they retreated again and again, and retreated directly to the edge of the imperial city, which suddenly made Zhao Bo who was sitting in the court angry.
The remaining 100,000 troops of the Donglai Kingdom had no choice but to retreat to the imperial city.
The Xiaohuang army only lost less than 50,000 people, and more than 200,000 troops were under the city, and when they gave an order, they would fly up and tear the enemy apart.
During this period, someone naturally proposed to let the Xiaohuang Army take a temporary break.
However, Tu Shan Wuji refused, regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, and directly attacked the city and seized the imperial city.
Tu Shan Wuji knew that the Xiaohuang Army could not retreat, let alone relax, as long as the imperial city was captured next, the Donglai Kingdom would naturally be broken in a few days, on the contrary, if it was delayed until the arrival of the other party's reinforcements, the original advantage of the Xiaohuang Army would immediately turn into a disadvantage.