In September of the twentieth year of Hongwei, the glorious Great Wei Dynasty finally ushered in its own historical turning point.

Due to the brutal strangulation of various forces and the vigorous manipulation behind the dark chess, Emperor Hongwei made a series of mistakes in the transition of power, resulting in the complete destruction of the political balance that he had maintained throughout his life.

In the past, all the forces that were played by Emperor Hongwei in applause took turns on the stage, and staged a political drama of six sons seizing the heir.

And after Emperor Hongwei and the new King Su were killed, this drama immediately turned into a big scuffle.

King Yu took the lead in ascending the throne in the south study, and was the first to announce to the world, ordering the whole country to raise troops to jointly eliminate other political enemies.

Before this, Huang Zhengyuan had made a lot of preparations, and after King Yu ascended the throne, he quickly controlled more than sixty percent of the troops of the twelve guards of the Beijing Division, reversing the passive situation in one fell swoop and becoming the party with the greatest advantage.

However, perhaps it was the exhaustion of the Great Wei Heavenly Mandate, and just when he was about to clear the entire capital and control the situation in one fell swoop, two accidents occurred.

First, Liu Yi led a group of idle old marshals to wear linen and filial piety in the name of the former emperor's spirit, and before rushing to the palace gate, he cried loudly while accusing King Yu of colluding with Prince Bao and Wang Shun, not only plotting to kill the first emperor, but also assassinating the new monarch with his own hands.

Although Liu Yi and others did not have the edict of the first emperor, nor could they produce any evidence sufficient to support it, Huang Zhengyuan caught Liu Yi and other old commanders for the first time, named them rebellion, and issued several holy decrees in a row to correct the public.

However, as soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused shocks from all sides, and there was an uproar from the capital to the local government and the opposition.

Like Xu Rui, many forces that were originally waiting and watching, and even inclined to King Yu, turned against him, and Huang Zhengyuan's plan to quickly pacify the forces of all parties was still bankrupt after all.

In addition, just when the 100,000 dragon guards surrounded the remnants of the Liao King in the inner city and launched a fierce attack, the Liao King Group lacked foreign aid, and its morale plummeted and was about to collapse.

Long Yun's 50,000 army, which had been blocked by King Han outside the city, finally arrived, and quickly tore a gap in the encirclement with powerful firearms, rescuing the army of King Liao who was about to collapse.

Immediately afterwards, including Yu Linwei of Zhuo Anguo, all the people who supported the King of Liao gathered one after another, and the number of people in the hands of the King of Liao has exceeded 200,000.

And King Yu's men and horses lacked a strong army like Tianqiwei that could make a final decision, and seeing that they could no longer quickly destroy the rebels of the King of Liao, they had to shrink their defenses and confront the King of Liao.

The King of Liao immediately took advantage of this respite to publicize the matter of King Yu's quest for power and usurpation of the throne, and held high the banner of righteousness, and was "elected" as the emperor by the remnants of the civil official group headed by Du Ruo, with the year name Shuozheng.

As soon as Fang ascended the throne, the King of Liao immediately ordered all the prefectures in Beijing and the local governors to put things in order and jointly crusade against the puppet emperor Zhao Heng, who was "inferior to pigs and dogs".

At this time, Emperor Zhao Heng (King Yu) of Chizheng received the support of the Xungui group, and Jingzhong responded coldly to the call of the Liaowang group, while Emperor Shuozheng (King of Liao) had been operating in the local area for a long time and received more extensive support, setting off a huge voice of rebellion.

The two sides were at a stalemate in Changxing City, and they both knew that the stalemate had been achieved, and the only way to decide the outcome was by bloody battles.

From the ninth day of the ninth month of September, both emperors began to enlist the support of other forces while mobilizing supplies and men to prepare for the final battle.

On September 12, after several days of stalemate, the two sides finally prepared for a decisive battle in Changxing City.

The Liaowang group had the support of the household department and had more abundant grain and grass, while the Yuwang group controlled the military department and was more abundant in new weapons and equipment.

The two sides set up positions along the line of the inner city.

At ten o'clock at dawn, the Huben Left Guard led by Long Yun, as the main offensive force of the Liaowang Group, entered the battlefield in advance and began to launch a fierce attack in the direction of the inner city of Jinsheng Gate, and the left and right Jinwuwei feints to attack Chaoyang and Hualong Gates, and contain the enemy from the flank.

On the Yu Wang side, Prince Bao was in charge of the Chinese army, and ordered the forbidden army to establish three lines of defense along the Luohe River in the inner city, while the left and right Longxiang guards held on both sides to protect the flanks.

Each side threw in more than 100 cannons, staging the largest artillery battle in the world to date.

At the beginning of the battle, Long Yun's Tiger Ben Left Guard showed his magic by virtue of his advantage in firearms, and under the suppression of artillery, he charged with infantry equipped with rifles, and opened the breakthrough very quickly.

On the 12th, during the day, they broke through two lines of enemy lines, and by evening, the advance was only three streets away from Miyagi.

The Liaowang Group was greatly excited, and immediately invested more forces in the night battle, wanting to penetrate the nerve center of the Yuwang Group in one go.

However, the Liao King thought that this was just the beginning of victory, but he didn't expect that it would be the closest they had to Miyagi.

After losing the first battle, Prince Bao and Huang Zhengyuan immediately adjusted their tactics, avoided the extremely powerful Longyun pro-army, and made full use of the inner city space to implement the containment of "the enemy advances and I retreat, and the enemy is tired and I fight", turning the frontal decisive battle into a tug-of-war.

This adjustment has had a noticeable effect.

The Tiger Ben Left Guard, who was dragged back and forth, seemed to have hit cotton headlong, and they couldn't use their strength, and when they were entangled by the enemy, the front became staggered, and they were more like being in a quagmire, unable to move.

The battle once again fell into a stalemate, no matter how many resources the Liaowang Group concentrated, it was unable to break through the defense line of the Yuwang Group, and even because of its unstable foothold, it was forced to vomit out a lot of battle results.

Three days later, after a full fight, and then a decline, the army of the Liao king, exhausted by three times, ran out of artillery ammunition reserves, and the momentum of the offensive finally stopped.

However, because Yuwang controlled the three arsenals of the military department, he was able to continuously replenish ammunition, began to form fire suppression, and sounded the horn of counterattack.

Long Yun immediately painted the gourd in the same way, learned from Prince Bao and Huang Zhengyuan, turned every building in the city into a battlefield full of hidden castles, relying on complex terrain to snipe at enemy troops layer by layer, and created another Battle of Stalingrad in this world.

The battle became extremely anxious, and in order to cut off the supply of grain and grass to the Yuwang group, the Liao king still gathered the main force under extremely difficult circumstances and carried out several attacks on the inner city of Caoyun Matou.

Huang Zhengyuan and Prince Bao also knew that the inner city Caoyun horse head was their lifeblood, so they naturally tried their best to defend.

In just three days, the two sides fought dozens of battles in the inner city, the position changed hands back and forth more than ten times, and the corpses were piled up more than a foot high, and finally they were barely held by the Yuwang Group.

In this way, the battle of more than 20 days passed in a flash, more than 100,000 people died in the narrow streets and alleys, and blood stained every street in Changxing City, and the world saw the real blood flowing for the first time.

With the continuous prolongation of the battle, the Yuwang group, which had ammunition replenishment, had more and more advantages, and gradually grasped the initiative in the war.

On the other hand, on the side of the Liao King, it is difficult to show the advantage of money and grain generated by the control of the household department for a while, although there are many supporters in the local area, but they are still more indifferent to the dispute between the two emperors.

This can't be blamed on the local grass, after all, it is a head-killing business, and the person holding the chips in his hand must look at the accuracy before he dares to bet.

It's just that in this way, the king of Liao can only use his own disadvantages to take advantage of others, and naturally the more he fights, the more he suffers.

At this time, the king of Liao got another bad news, that is, Wang Yi escorted the king of Han to retreat to the vicinity of Xichuan and occupied the three southwestern provinces and established himself as emperor.

This good Great Wei had three emperors in an instant, and what was even more embarrassing was that even if the King of Liao could create a miracle at the risk of being wiped out by the whole army and win the decisive battle in the capital, he would not be able to obtain the entire empire, and there was even the possibility that two tigers would compete and be picked up by the King of Han.

As a last resort, the Liaowang clique discussed countermeasures overnight, and when it was determined that the decisive battle was basically hopeless, they had no choice but to gradually withdraw their troops, flee to the hinterland of the civilian clique, and occupy the six provinces south of the Yangtze River to become an emperor in a remote corner.

Yuwang Group also took into account King Han, who was eyeing him in the southwest, and did not dare to continue the pursuit, so he could only acquiesce in the withdrawal of King Liao from Changxing, ending the month-long bloody battle of Changxing, and the drama of winning the heir basically came to an end.

At this point, the northwest of the empire was occupied by the king of Han, and the southeast became the world of the king of Liao.

Coupled with the northwest, which has long been controlled by Xu Rui, the situation that Xu Rui is most worried about still appears, the good Great Wei is instantly divided into five large and small political forces, and the former dignified Northern Dynasty has existed in name only.

And at the time of the battle in the capital, Xu Rui had already led the Apocalypse Guard to the northwest for more than ten days, and finally stopped in the Longshan Canyon, which was more than 600 miles away from Changxing City.