Chapter 1072: Three Ways Against the King
Jiangnan, at this moment, is already panicked, King Wu has raised troops is already the world shaken, plus King Run, King Qu corresponding, suddenly added another fire to the already chaotic situation.
However, although the three-way anti-king is violent, in fact, the three of them have different ideas about the rebellion.
Among the three kings, it is centered on King Wu, and the ultimate goal is to promote King Wu to ascend the throne, and then everyone shares the world equally, the ideal is very beautiful, but unfortunately the distance from reality is indeed a bit far.
First of all, King Wu was the first to raise an army against the king, and he was also the most prepared, and half of the strength of the rebel army came from his family foundation accumulated over the years.
At the same time, King Wu is also the one with the strongest antipathy, because in the original plan, the three kings actually had no intention of competing for the throne, after all, it is indeed very difficult to ascend to the throne as the king of the vassal outside Beijing.
So at first, their plan was to unite the old forces of the prince in the Northland, and after the matter was completed, the four of them divided the world equally, but after they raised troops according to the plan, they found that the response from the Northland seemed to be very small.
Among the three kings, the most ambitious is King Wu, but he is also the least courageous, so as soon as he found that there was no movement in the north, he immediately guessed that the prince was borrowing a knife to kill people, and subconsciously wanted to write a letter of plea, but was persuaded by the other two kings.
Then, King Wu, who was secretly annoyed by being calculated, was also thinking about his future plans, they were now raising troops, there was no turning back, and the prince planned to reap the profits of the fisherman, and he must not be able to count on it.
Therefore, King Wu planned to march to the capital in no hurry, but to fight a place south of the Yangtze River first, and then fight a protracted war with the imperial court.
And the confidence that he can be so sure of confronting the imperial court is also that the prince's letter mentions the chaos in Beijing, when the court situation is unstable and the position is unprecedented, they will definitely not have the energy to deal with the rebellion in Jiangnan, as long as the beginning is stable, the next thing will be easy to do.
Regarding the chaos in Beijing that the prince said, King Wu believed it, because it was not only the basic condition for his own army, but also the necessary condition for the prince to seize the throne, and it was impossible for him to deceive people and even deceive himself.
Therefore, King Wu, who still had hope in his heart, immediately began to act on the land of Jiangnan according to the original plan, but what he didn't expect was that his actions in Jiangnan would be so difficult.
In King Wu's original vision, the hardest bone in the land south of the Yangtze River should be the officials set up by the imperial court, but who knew that the first trouble to find him was actually the family he expected to be easily co-opted.
The many families in the land south of the Yangtze River are like reefs in the sea, and they suddenly gave him such a sudden cold, so angry that King Wu scolded him.
He thought that he could easily recover these wall grasses with a single shout, but who would have thought that before he even handed out an olive branch, the other party would tear down the bridge with his backhand.
King Wu, who was opposed by the family's army, began to act against these families in a hurry, so after some tossing, except for the city where his base camp was located at the beginning, his plan to occupy Jiangnan can almost be said to be inchless.
Similar to King Wu is also the prince of the northern land, God knows what kind of stunned expression he himself had when the anti-Wang Feng smoke of the Jiangnan Third Road was everywhere.
He never thought that these three people would have such ambitions, and they had not arranged the emergency situation in Jiangnan at all.
The reason for all this is because there are errors in the transmission of information on both sides of the north and the capital, to be precise, from the beginning, the matter of instigating the rebellion of the three kings of Jiangnan was led by the crown princess.
The crown prince didn't know about this from beginning to end, he was just used as a bargaining chip by the crown princess, so when the three kings got into trouble, he took it for granted that the prince would sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight if he didn't do it.
But these things have happened, and there is no need to be annoyed, and what the prince did not expect was that at such a critical point in time when the emperor was finished, all the spies he set up in the capital seemed to be uprooted overnight.
This can be regarded as a joint action of the crown princess and Meng Yuan, the crown princess used the excuse of transmitting the message to expose all the eyeliner set by the prince, and then Meng Yuan just grabbed one by one and asked the Jinyi guard to clean them all up.
So it wasn't until three or five days after he didn't receive the news that the prince reacted that something should have happened in the capital.
Then the news that caught him off guard came one after another, first he suddenly heard that His Majesty had been assassinated, and then he was shocked to hear that the news that he was still alive was exposed, and finally he heard that His Royal Highness Taisun was surrounded by ministers and was about to ascend to the throne.
The prince was really angry this time, this damn woman, who had planned that inexplicable assassination since twenty years ago, completely lost the opportunity to live in the sun.
For twenty years, he has been accumulating power day after day in the bitter cold land of the north, just to be able to return to the capital one day and get back everything that belongs to him, but when the golden opportunity came, he missed it so coincidentally.
When the dust had settled, he realized that the woman's child had sat on his throne, and that made him not angry.
"She's been using Hongu all along! That was true then, and it is true today! ”
The furious prince was furious in the face of a group of worried subordinates, and then remembered that this time His Royal Highness the prince actually had to personally lead the army to conquer him, and immediately sneered: "This yellow-mouthed kid didn't know that he was betrayed by Meng Yuan's house!" ”
"Your Highness, how should we respond?" One of the Dharma Protectors asked hesitantly.
"Hmph, the matter has come to this, is this palace still going to be killed!" The crown prince said coldly: "Gather people and horses, you have to let them know who is the orthodoxy of the royal family!" ”
The most angry thing about the crown prince is that after Shangguan Shaoqin sounded the drum of injustice and shocked the world, the entire court knew that he was still alive, but as a result, no one was willing to welcome him back.
The crown prince's anger was quickly vented on Liaoyang City, the closest northland town to the Xuantian Sect's territory, and then he was attacked head-on by Helian Ce.
The Xuantian Sect army, which was hastily assembled, was defeated when attacking Liaoyang City, the first line of defense in the north, and the white armor army under Helian Ce taught them very much that in the end, the army of the imperial court was very good at this kind of thing.
"Hmph, this is the first time that General Ben has encountered such an arrogant idiot in the past few years in the north, the times have really changed, and any cat or dog dares to violate my borders."
Helian Ce looked at the defeated Xuantian Sect members under the city, and couldn't help but sneer, if it weren't for the imperial court's decree to keep him, at this moment he would definitely personally lead the troops to kill and let the other party open his eyes.
After repelling the Xuantian Sect, one of his subordinates came to his side and said worriedly: "General, the news from Beijing is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not dead, but in the Xuantian Sect, if he appears, what should we do?"
The general's concern is that the crown prince has royal blood, and he is the biological father of His Royal Highness the crown prince, the theoretical heir to the throne, if they accidentally behead the other party, it will be a bit of fun.
However, Helian Ce didn't care at all, he said: "You remember, there has never been any His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and these usurped followers of the Xuantian Sect have no qualifications to pose in front of the imperial court. ”
The partial general was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted: "What does the general mean is that the imperial court has already determined that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has died?" ”
"Naturally," Helence said lightly: "Your Majesty's death has already made the royal family lose face, and now there is another prince who has fallen into the rivers and lakes to claim the king's hegemony, do you think the imperial court can accept it?" Heh, Wei Ming, I'm afraid I don't want to do it. ”
The general was thoughtful, and Helian Ce continued: "Moreover, this time, His Royal Highness the Taisun personally led the army to come, if the other party is really the crown prince, and the son does not say anything about his father's fault, how can you tell him to be able to do it with peace of mind?" So even if everyone knows that the prince is still alive, the prince in front of us must be fake. ”
The general nodded fiercely: "In this case, those of us who are subordinates should share the worries for His Highness, this kind of thing can't dirty His Highness's hands, and we should do it for us." ”
Helence smiled and bowed: "That's a good point. ”
(End of chapter)