Chapter 404: Soldiers Approaching the King's City
After Ye Xingchen taught Yue Wufang a hard lesson, Yue Wufang didn't dare to despise Ye Xingchen in his heart, at this moment, Yue Wufang, the corners of his mouth were bleeding, his face was pale, he was pitiful, and he was very pitiful.
"Ye Xingchen, you are so ruthless. Yue Wufang said coldly.
"No need to install it anymore. ”
"Your physical body is a divine body, although the divine power is no longer there, but it is not easy to be injured, the Divine Pure Land suppresses part of your strength at most, and you are not as weak as it seems. ”
Ye Xingchen pinched the sword trick in his hand, and the sword qi surrounded him, forming a yin and yang Taiji pattern, guarding against the flawless moon.
The pitiful expression on Yue Wufang's face converged, and he looked at Ye Xingchen calmly, and said, "I promise you that I will not make any more moves in the future without your permission." ”
She was afraid, the projection of the gods around her greatly suppressed her strength, and the sword qi surrounding Ye Xingchen made her feel a sharp force, as if she could open the world.
"There is no basis for words, and I make a world vow. Ye Xingchen didn't believe what Yue Wufang said, and his voice came.
"This guy doesn't know how to pity the fragrance at all. Yue Wufang grinded his teeth secretly, eager to bite Ye Xingchen's body.
Ye Xingchen looked directly at Yue Wufang, the White Emperor's sword was unsheathed, the killing qi was surging like the sea, and the killing qi locked on her, as long as Yue Wufeng had the slightest movement, he would strike mercilessly.
Yue Wufang had no choice but to do it obediently and make a world oath.
Two days later, the army of the Xuan Dynasty in the Celestial Star Grand Canyon had been defeated, a small number of them fled, some were captured, and most of them died under the water attack and fire attack.
In two days, Mr. Wang and the others sorted out the army, and then divided the troops into five routes and attacked Wangcheng.
The Xuan Dynasty has eighteen counties, and Ye Xingchen has already occupied seven counties, and one of them is still the largest county in the dynasty, so it can be said that he has occupied half of the Xuan Dynasty.
The soldiers of the first army were divided into five routes, and the soldiers of each road were highly motivated, and they broke through the city and captured all the way, and in just two months, they actually broke through the land of three counties.
Of these three counties, two of them are the fiefs of the sword family and the Su family of the five major families, but the elites of their families are in the royal city, and there are not many masters in the fiefdom, they know that the Ye family is powerful, and they don't dare to send people here, so they were quickly captured.
The other county, although it is a high-grade county, the city lord and the county guard are all masters of the quasi-small heaven realm, but in the face of thousands of troops, as well as the small heaven realm martial artists, they can't compete at all.
Some city lords held out for a while, but the result was that the city was ruined and people died, while some city lords, when they heard that the first army was coming, some abandoned the city and fled, and some opened the city and surrendered.
The city families in the three counties did not resist, because they had investigated in advance, and as long as the city families did not attack the soldiers, they would not touch those families.
The more the army of the First Legion went to the royal city, not only did the strength not decrease, but increased a lot.
The first legion of the Ye family went to the royal city, and it was a long drive, and no force dared to resist, and even many families joined the army, wanting to get a piece of the pie.
After all, those people could see that the Xuan Dynasty had reached the end of its lifespan.
It took two months to break through three counties and three months to break through five counties, and at this moment the Ye family had already occupied fifteen counties.
At this moment, in the royal city, people are panicking, and they are all rumoring that the thieves are about to call.
In the palace, the hundred officials were also worried, and reported to King Xuan from time to time, hoping to send troops to fight against the thieves.
However, the report was lost, and there was no movement in the palace.
Ye Xingchen did not rush to march after they conquered the land of the eight counties.
Now they are not afraid that they will not be able to defeat the other counties, but they are worried that these eight counties will not be able to govern.
If they can't control the military and political affairs of these counties, it will be the same as not fighting, and they must also guard against those lords of the city to prevent them from taking the opportunity to cause trouble.
Ye Xingchen decided to hold the imperial examination in the fifteen counties he occupied.
The original land of the six counties has been held once, and those officials are very familiar with the imperial examination, plus Ye Tianfeng is in power, it can be regarded as calm, the imperial examination is held as scheduled, and talents are selected.
It was the first time that the imperial examination was held in the land of the nine counties, and this way of selecting talents was different from the past.
In the past, in these counties, the selection of officials to govern the city was based on force first, connections second, and families third.
They put force first, and then they see if they have a relationship and from what family.
It can be said that the former officials were all monopolized by the aristocracy, and no matter how talented and talented the poor were, they could not enter the power center in the city.
Therefore, as soon as the imperial examination was announced, a large number of children from poor families and poor people came to sign up for the imperial examination.
Not only that, those families know that this is a time of turmoil, but also a great opportunity, and all the children of the family have also signed up, not wanting to lag behind others.
In order to prevent the selection of officials from being the children of the aristocracy, Mr. Wang adopted a separate imperial examination, and in this imperial examination, three tenths of the nobles were hired, and seven tenths of the poor and poor people were hired.
The purpose of this is also to prevent the children of the nobility from holding power, which will make it difficult to govern the city in the future.
And the poor and poor people have to rely on the dynasty to take power, and it will take a long time for them to become a new aristocratic class, and with this time, Ye Xingchen and they have already thought of a better way to deal with it.
The original imperial examination of the land of the six counties ended first, and a large number of talents were selected, and the land of the nine counties that were defeated was transferred.
Tianxing County has the first imperial examination talent management, so the second imperial examination talent is all going to the other eight counties.
And the imperial examination talents in the land of the eight counties went to the land of the six counties to fill the vacancies there.
Although the poor and poor people had some opinions on such an arrangement, they did not have much opinion, but the officials of the aristocratic class constantly opposed it, but unfortunately the opposition was ineffective and could only be accepted.
On the seventh day of the fourth month, Ye Xingchen gathered the army of the First Army and set off towards Wangcheng.
Of the eighteen counties of the Xuan Dynasty, they had already occupied fifteen counties, and in addition to Wangcheng, there were three counties that had not been occupied.
Among them, Heixuan County and Heishui Dynasty are at the junction, with a large number of troops, the first army has not broken through for the time being, Feng County is a subsidiary county of Wangcheng, and they have not attacked, and the other county, at the junction with other dynasties, they have temporarily given up attacking, so at this moment, the army set off and went directly to Wangcheng.
As long as they directly attack the royal city this time, destroy King Xuan, and the other three counties can't make big waves, they can make those legions surrender.
On April 20, the Fifth Route Army of the First Army converged on the plain fifty miles outside the royal city.
On April 21, the 300,000-strong army of the First Legion approached the royal city to confront the Praetorian Guard and the large army formed by other families, and the battle was about to break out.