Chapter 532

Chapter 532

"I'm going to kill him...... Kill him...... I want him to die, I want his life, I want him to die......"

In the inner chamber of the court, the young Emperor Garcia was still shivering, his clothes had already been soaked by the rain, and his hair was wet and sticking to his forehead.

He looked pitiful at the moment, like a bird shivering in the wind and rain.

In the inner room, all the shì servants had already retreated, and only the old prime minister, Sarun Bō Nili, was left alone. The old man stood there, looking at the emperor who was trembling and muttering, and quietly took a blanket from the couch beside him, and draped his hands over the emperor's shoulders.

The old man knows very well that today's events, the blow to the emperor, are almost fatal!

Such a blow, such a fear, is even far more than the time when the rebels broke through the city!

Such a mutiny completely tore away the so-called "majesty" and "imperial power" that was already weak on the emperor's body! It completely tore away the emperor's weakness, incompetence, and the weakness of the imperial power, and the tyranny of the emperor in broad daylight!

The prestige of the royal family was discredited, and he was forced to almost fall into a desperate situation by a general!

Under such a thorn, the young emperor was afraid that he would really collapse.

The Luàn army had withdrawn from the palace - to the slight reassurance of Salen Bōneli, Adric did not take the opportunity to make more and more drastic demands, and he had expected Adric to take over the city's defenses. Thankfully, Adric didn't do so, and the Luàn army completely withdrew from the Imperial City, which returned to the control of the Imperial Guards.

But......

What makes the old prime minister sigh is that the current Royal Forest Army can be trusted?

When the Luàn army was pressurized, it was the Imperial Forest Army itself that opened the imperial city and let the rebels in. When the Luàn army rushed into the main hall square and pressed His Majesty, there were only two or three hundred people in the huge Imperial Forest Army who were still loyally standing under His Majesty.

Such a Royal Guard...... It is no longer possible to be trusted by the royal family.

It's ridiculous!

In the empire now, looking at it, there are only two or three hundred people who are willing to die for His Majesty.

As for Adric, who became the "Marshal of the Protector of the Country", you must know that no one has ever received such a title since the founding of the Empire! The Marshal of the Protector of the Country, the commander-in-chief of the internal and external military affairs of the Empire, has the right to control all the armies in the Empire, and appoint and dismiss officials in the army! Such authority is absolutely not something that a human minister can bear!

But he Adric really did.

And after the war was over, Adric didn't make a gesture of pleading like the emperor as he had originally expected—this upright fellow, didn't he even disdain to make a simple gesture?

He just asked His Majesty to issue another secret decree.

And this secret order is what the old prime minister is most worried about now!

"Summoning the Duke of Minas back to the Imperial Capital!"

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The herald who chased the southward counterinsurgency army had already set out, and what was sent along with the herald was the most severe and urgent order of the emperor's ** department: the golden order.

The Golden Decree signed by His Majesty the Emperor himself, the Minister of War and the Prime Minister of the Empire represents the highest authority of the Empire!

Such a golden order was sent to the army that went south to quell the rebellion, and unless he, the Duke of Minas, immediately and directly reversed it, he would have no reason to resist such a supreme order.

As for the anti-......

Adric believed that even if Duke Minas had real ambitions, he would never get that far. He had only been going south for a short time, and although he had dismissed sixteen commanders and taken over military power, such a short period of time was not enough to really make the whole army surrender. If he really wants to rebel, even if his henchmen are willing to follow him, how many of the soldiers in the whole army are willing to follow him to do this kind of great crime of robbing the family and destroying mén?

In the golden decree sent to him, the words were extremely harsh reprimanding the Duke of Minas for his previous act of dismissing sixteen commanders in one go -- this is indeed a kind of overreach, even if he is a commander in chief, he does not have the right to dismiss so many front-line commanders before obtaining the authorization of the military department! Such a practice is very difficult to justify both reasonably and legally.

Jin Lingzhong has already ordered the army to go south to counter-insurgency and immediately station on the spot, and not to go further south! The commander-in-chief, Duke Minas, immediately resigned from his military post and returned to the imperial capital to meet His Majesty the Emperor to report on his work and defend himself!

At the same time, General Ruhr, the former Rhodrian Corps of the Empire, was ordered to go south to take over as the commander of the counterinsurgency army.

The herald sent more than ten horsemen and more than ten supreme golden orders in one go, and Ruhr and his accompanying subordinates were also preparing to take up their posts from the imperial capital.

Ruhr was accompanied by more than twenty subordinate officers, all of whom had been transferred from the City Guard and the Central Army, and were prepared to take over all command once they took over the southward counterinsurgency army.

In addition, there was a cavalry escort of a squadron transferred from Chōu in the city.

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Although it can be said that he is ready for everything he can, when he leaves the city, Ruhl's heart is still beating drums.

For some reason, he always had some bad premonitions in his heart, the officers accompanying him were all loyal to Adric in the Central Army, and the escort cavalry of that squadron was also a credible descendant of the Chōu from the city.

But......

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Leaving Oogillia to the south, Ruhl and his party only went to the main road, a squadron of fifty cavalry fully armed, plus Ruhl and twenty officers accompanying him, a total of seventy-six horsemen galloped south, with the emperor's own orders.

After a day of traveling south, the whole team did not dare to slack off under the strict orders of Ruhr. Ruhl himself is even more full of jīng gods. He was a fine man, and he sent more than a dozen scouts to explore the way, but he had only traveled for a day, and before he even ran out of the imperial capital of the Osgilian Empire, he really encountered the worst situation that Rul was worried about!

The cavalry who explored the road found an accident on the side of the road in front of them, and found a dead imperial cavalryman under a big tree next to the road, wearing the clothes of the Central Army, who was already dead, and after several arrows in his body, the body fell under the tree, apparently the person who killed him did not even have the interest of burying the body to cover up, and it seemed that he deliberately left the body on the side of the road!

After receiving the news, Ruer rushed up with someone, and when he arrived at the scene, he just took a look, and suddenly his face sank to the extreme!

He recognized that the dead cavalry of the Central Army was one of the heralds sent to the south from the imperial capital before he set out!

These military envoys sent more than a dozen horsemen in one go, but someone actually died here!

You must know that this is not yet outside the scope of the administrative region of the imperial capital of Osgilia! It is only a day's journey away from the imperial capital! In such a place so close to the imperial capital, it is simply bold to kill the messenger in the army!

"Lord Duke...... You're acting so ruthlessly this time......"

Ruhl muttered in a low voice, his face gradually becoming fierce, he took a deep breath, looked at the people around him, and immediately ordered the whole team to continue forward.

Encountering the fact that the military envoy was killed in the middle of the way, the whole team had already sensed the danger of this trip, and the cavalry in charge of guarding them were even more vigilant.

After walking for only a few hours, two more corpses were found on the road, and Ruhr saw that it was indeed the military envoy sent before!

It's only been a day since Osgilia, and I actually saw three dead military envoys, and now that I think about it, although the herald sent earlier had more than ten horsemen, they ...... Those who can go to the south, I'm afraid......

"Order, the whole team stops!"

Ruhl suddenly uttered such a strange order.

The officers around him, everyone was dignified, no one spoke, everyone just looked at Ruhl.

These officers were all transferred from the Central Army, and after being in the army for a long time, they naturally had some cautious thoughts, and when they saw three herald envoys killed in the middle of the way, they could guess that some of the situation was not good.

Someone intercepted and killed the herald envoy halfway, naturally because they didn't want the order of the imperial capital to reach the southern expeditionary army in the south......

What kind of person deliberately used such ruthless means to try to cut off the connection between the imperial capital and the Southern Expedition......ary Army? I'm afraid that many people don't understand, but don't dare to think about it!

"The whole team turns around, let's go back to the imperial capital!"

Ruhl sighed, and the god was very ugly.

I can only go back to the imperial capital!

Even Ruhl didn't expect that Duke Minas would be so ruthless and decisive!

You must know that the Duke of Minas has already led a large army in the south, and these hidden messengers on the road to the south must be the Duke of Minas's henchmen and descendants—and most importantly, these henchmen must be a force that the Duke of Minas has reserved before he goes south!

To know...... At that time, before the Duke of Minas went south, there was no mutiny in the imperial capital!

At that time, the Duke of Minas had already left such a ruthless backhand, and directly sent people to intercept and kill the military envoys on the road, so there was only one explanation!

From the very beginning, the old duke was already in ruin, and he had made up his mind to completely seize the Southern Expeditionary Army in his hands regardless of all the consequences! He was so desperate that he did not leave himself the slightest room or retreat!

That is to say, at the moment when the Duke of Minas led the army out of Osgilia and went south - he was actually reversed!

Originally, Ruhl and Adric's idea was to immediately send people south to take over the army after the mutiny, and summon the Duke of Minas back to the emperor, thinking that as long as he acted quickly and made a time difference, the Duke of Minas did not know that the imperial capital had mutinied......

But now it seems that both of them underestimated the determination of the Duke of Minas! The old man had no intention of delaying or holding out any other hopes, and he was ready to rebel at the first moment he led his army south!

No matter what the situation of your emperor is, whether your emperor is a mutiny or not, anyway, he turned against him from the beginning!

In this case, Ruhr knew that it would be a dream for him to run to the south to take over the officers with such a few dozen horsemen!

Since the old man has already made it clear that the chariot and horse are plotting rebellion, and he even dares to do the thing of intercepting and killing the emperor's ** envoy, what else does he dare not do......? I'm afraid that if I don't think about running to the south safely, I will be viciously intercepted and killed halfway...... Even if he had the life to run to the south, the old duke would never give himself any chance, and directly wiped out his dozens of horses!

The old man acted ruthlessly and skillfully, and Ruhl knew it deeply.

"Let's go back to the imperial capital. Ruhl took a deep breath, his face uncertain.

In order to regain the military power of the Yugoslav Expeditionary Army, it is already impossible to do so by peaceful means.

There is no need for these dozens of horsemen to forcibly go south to find death, or go back to the imperial capital to find a way, it is best to ...... From among the defenders of the imperial capital, Chōu transferred a Jīng Rui army, led the army south, and threatened the Duke of Minas with his army. After all, the old duke has just cleaned the army, and he has not really completely controlled the army in the south, as long as he takes the army south, even if the old duke wants to rebel, the army below will not all be with him.

There's only one way.

"Let's go back. Ruhl added his order: "Hold on a little longer, and let's get back to Osgilia overnight." Speaking of this, Ruer sighed softly and whispered to himself: "Lao Tzu is a step behind this time, I didn't expect the old man to do such a brilliant thing......"

As he spoke, Ruhl ordered to leave a few horsemen to bury the bodies of the intercepted envoys, and he was about to return to the imperial capital with the brigade first, but just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the sound of warning from the cavalry guarding in the distance.

The shrill warning whistle sounded in the army, and Luerton was a god of God! Could it be that he encountered the interception left by the Duke of Minas?

But then he knew he was wrong.

Just on the south side of the road, a cavalry team came slowly, seeing that the scale was about more than 100 horses, under the banner of the Southern Expeditionary Army, but it seemed that the speed of walking was not fast, more than 100 horsemen came slowly, and they were discovered by the guard and cavalry sentry under Ruhr from a distance.

Recognizing that the cavalry from the south did not seem to be hostile, and that the team was walking on the road with great fanfare, Ruhl immediately made a decision and sent his men to run to contact the other side, and the rest of the men were ready to fight in the same place.

Moments later, the cavalry who had gone to contact him returned, bringing news that surprised Ruhl.

It turned out that this cavalry team from the south actually came from the southern expeditionary army, and was ordered to go to the imperial capital of Osculia to overthrow.

What surprised Ruhl even more was that the mission of this cavalry team was actually "escort".

According to the news sent by the Duke of Minas to report to the imperial capital, he had dismissed sixteen commanders of the front-line armies in the army on various charges, and this cavalry team was ordered by the Duke of Minas to escort these sixteen dismissed officers who were "awaited" back to the imperial capital.

This change made Ruhl a little surprised, although he had known the news for a long time, he did not expect to meet this group of officer escorts who were deposed by the old duke here.

But then he immediately went up and summoned these people—from these mouths, he might be able to get the latest information about the current situation of the Southern Expeditionary Army!

However, when Jean saw the sixteen deposed officers, Ruhl was shocked again!

Because, along with the escort of these sixteen "guilty" officers, there was also another latest battle report sent to the imperial capital by Duke Minas, the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army!

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A few days earlier, on the same day that sixteen officers of the Duke of Minas had been dismissed, it had been only three days since the first victory of the Roddy vanguard cavalry had swept through a southern county.

According to the report, the main force of the Duke of Minas's army had marched a hundred miles day and night, besieging a large rebel army that had been forced by the Roddy vanguard cavalry to besiege a large city that had been relegated by the rebels.

The Duke of Minas immediately ordered a general attack, attacked the city overnight, and broke the rebel army and the city with lightning speed, and the rebel army immediately collapsed, crushing the rebel brigade of 60,000 people, of which more than 10,000 were killed and 40,000 were captured!

In this battle, one of the three largest forces in the southern rebels was completely wiped out with almost a devastating force!

Such a big victory, so fast!

A big victory!

Great victory...... Hey!!

Ruer looked at the battle report in his hand, and only felt that his heart was completely cold!

Just when he and Adric had just mutinied in the imperial capital and sent people south to regain the power of the southern army, the Duke of Minas had such a great victory?!

Hurry!

Ruhl knew very well that this was not what the Duke of Minas had done in response to the mutiny in his imperial capital with Adric, but rather ...... The Duke of Minas was basically ahead of himself and Adric in every step! He walked down step by step early, and Adric and his mutiny, whether it was going south to take power, he was lagging behind the old duke's actions every step of the way!

Southern Victory......

Such a great victory, destroying one-third of the southern rebels in a battle, and recovering the land of a county -- under such a great victory, with the momentum of a great victory, what reason and excuse did the imperial capital have to take back the military power of the southern army?

In a victory, all excuses have turned pale -- people have won a great victory, and it is impossible to justify and untenable to take back military power at this time. Unless it's really a face-tearing...... There is no other choice!

If before, the Duke of Minas was in a hurry and probably couldn't really control the army, and he might not be able to really control the army's heart.

But now the situation is different! Ruhr is an old soldier, and he knows very well that for an unfamiliar commander, if he wants to win the hearts and minds of the army, there are only two direct methods: One is to purge the middle-level officers and replace them with his own henchmen! The other is a big victory!

The action of cleaning the old man has already done. And now with a big win......

Things in the army have always been straightforward, a commander, if you can lead everyone to victory, you will get the true heart and respect of the soldiers. What's more, the old duke was originally prestigious, and after this big victory, even those in the army who originally had the heart of waiting and seeing, I am afraid that they would immediately return to the old man.

Historically, people have been accustomed to standing on the side of the winners.

Now, even if he really sent someone to the army, he showed the order of the imperial capital in public, to remove the old man from the position of commander, the old man didn't even have to resist forcibly, as long as he ascended to the heights, he was afraid that there would be many people in the army who would be dissatisfied on his behalf.

Depriving a commander who had just led them to a great victory, whose side would the soldiers stand on?

Ruhl's heart was cold, and he slowly put away this battle report, and his heart was full of húnluàn.

The situation has been terrible!

But at this time......

"General Ruhr, I want to see General Ruhr!!"

An angry voice came from the "escorted" team.

Ruhl looked up and saw that the sixteen officers who had been dismissed from their posts were in front of the escort procession, and although they were not bound, each of them was disarmed and dressed only in a cotton uniform.

It was one of the "guilty" officers who roared in anger.

"Who's shouting?" sighed Ruhl.

Soon, his men brought the shouting officer to Ruhl's side. Ruer glanced at it, the officer in front of him, tall, with a fierce appearance, his eyes were sharp, full of anger, Ruer sank slightly, and said: "I recognize you, you are from the Ninth Corps of the Central Army, your name is ...... Ned?"

"Yes General!" The officer raised his head, and his expression was angry: "My lord, I am Ned, I am from the Ninth Corps, I have seen you at the military headquarters!"

"I remember, you're a flag bearer, aren't you?"

"It's a deputy, sir. Ned gritted his teeth: "My lord, I want to accuse! I want to accuse! I want to accuse Mina......"

Ruhl's heart moved, and he immediately interrupted the other party's words, and shouted: "Your Excellency Ned, please think of your words!"

As he spoke, he glanced left and right, and said in a low voice, "Bring him with me." ”

Ruhl rode his horse to a remote place on the side of the road, and a guard behind him brought this Ned to his side, and Ruhl looked at the angry officer: "Your Excellency Ned, what do you want to complain about?"

"I'm going to accuse!" Ned straightened up, straightened his back, and said in a deep voice, "I'm going to accuse the Imperial Marshal Duke Minas of treason, collusion with the Luàn Party, and...... Treason!"

Ruerton looked at the officer named Ned: "Your Excellency Ned, do you know what you are talking about now?"

"I know very well, General. The officer said fiercely: "I know the seriousness of these accusations, but I will not retract my words!"

“...... Go on!" Ruhl's eyes narrowed.

Ned took a deep breath and looked at Ruhl, "My lord, I personally experienced the great victory a few days ago! I have good reason and evidence to accuse Lord Minas of secretly colluding with those rebels!"

With that, this Ned began his story.

The "great victory" just a few days ago, the decisive battle described in the battle report just sent by the Duke of Minas, is indeed somewhat intriguing.

"At that time, the army I led was on the second line, and we were originally listed as the second batch of sieges. I remember that in the evening, the general assault began, and the front began to beat war drums, and the shouts of killing were loud. My men and I were raising jīng in the back, and we were all speculating how long it would take for us to be transferred. This Ned said slowly: "My lord, I am also an old fighter, although those rebels do not look down on them, if it is a field battle, we can fight 10,000 of them with 1,000 people! However, this is a siege war! The rebels have tens of thousands of people, and they occupy a large city, they have sufficient equipment to defend the city, and when we arrive at the city, the woods outside the city have been cut down, and it is obvious that the city is fully prepared. I saw the piles of stones, huge trees, and billowing smoke on the top of the city, and they had prepared plenty of oil! Such a siege battle would definitely be a hard-fought battle! A strong city defense would greatly shorten the gap in quality between the two armies! Even if the other side was a group of rebels, even though we were a regular army, based on the superiority of the city defense, with my many years of experience in the army, it would be several times more difficult for us to capture such a large city with tens of thousands of rebels than in a field battle. Even if we make up our minds to attack and use our lives, according to my judgment, I am afraid that we will have to wait for the third offensive to break the city!"

Ruhl calculated a little in his heart, and nodded in affirmation of the other party's statement: "You calculated well. ”

"But I waited behind, and the drum had been beating for less than a quarter of an hour, when I heard shouts from the front, and everywhere I heard the shouts 'The city is broken!' No, even as I later learned the truth, the offensive of the first bō sequence was not fully launched, and I heard that it was only a matter of two thousand men who were transferred up to fight for a while, and the city was broken, and soon, the banner of the rebels at the head of the city fell, and the Imperial Eagle Head Banner was erected. The rebels in the city defense collapsed like a watery retreat, surrendered on the spot in groups, and even after entering the city, the rebels had no intention of fighting in the streets, and our vanguard quickly broke through the garrison in the city. Heard...... The leader of the rebels committed suicide when we entered the army, and the second man of the rebels gave the order to surrender as soon as possible. ”

This Ned smiled bitterly: "My soldiers, the blades in their hands didn't see blood at all, we just ran with a bang, Luàn shouted for a while, and then the city was inexplicably broken, and the rebels collapsed inexplicably, almost half an hour, and a team came up behind to collect and surrender the prisoners of war......! You are also an old battle, this kind of decisive battle with a scale of tens of thousands of people, and it is also a siege battle, which will be fought in less than half an hour...... Hmph, his subordinates are stupid, they have fought all their lives, and they have never won such an easy battle. ”

"You're a guy with a heart, though. Ruhl nodded: "However, you also said that the rebel leader committed suicide and died, and the rebel number two ordered to surrender......"

"My lord, here's the problem. When I drove into the city with my troops, I was far away outside the garrison and saw the surrendered rebel number two, and although it was dark at the time, fortunately, I recognized the guy. Ned was very serious: "That guy, I know it, and I know it very well! We served in the same army a few years ago, and I know the name of that person, but few people in the army knew it at that time, and he was a personal guard of the Duke of Minas, so he had the opportunity to be sent to the Central Army for training." It's just that when our army was transferred, he was transferred. I haven't seen him for a few years, but I didn't expect that when I saw him this time, he actually became the number two person in the rebels. ”

When Ned said this, the god became more and more sinking: "My lord, with your wisdom, you will not fail to see the problem in this! This guy is absolutely impossible to be the internal response of our army to enter the rebels after going south to quell the rebellion! You know, it has only been more than ten days since we went south to quell the rebellion, even if we want to enter the rebels, these ten days are definitely not enough! Besides, even if we really have an inner army, we have entered the rebels...... In ten days, this should be able to become the number two person in the rebels? I am afraid that it will not be believed even if I say it! The only explanation......

The only explanation is ...... This "Neiying" was already in the rebels as early as the time of the rebellion.

Ruhl sighed in his heart.

Almost instantly, a complete and huge plan had completely emerged in Ruhl's mind!

The return of the Duke of Minas - the rebellion of the south - the Duke of Minas takes the commander of the southern expeditionary army - leads the army south - the great victory......

"The old man is racing to be the first, and Adric and I are falling behind step by step......"

For a while, Ruhr found that what was in front of him had become a dead end!

In the current situation, there is no way to meet the Duke of Minas who really tore his face. The only way was to peacefully regain military power in the south and summon the Duke of Minas back to the emperor to control him.

And now this plan has gone completely bankrupt. The rebel in the south seems to have been inextricably linked with the Duke of Minas for a long time, and even ...... The old duke has the power to counter the rebels in the south, and because of internal reasons, he can easily defeat the rebels and earn the great prestige brought by the victory.

At this time, it was no longer possible to let Minas Jiāo send troops peacefully. The army will definitely be on his side, and the soldiers at the bottom will not understand these inside stories at all, and the soldiers will only instinctively have a heartfelt support for a commander with great prestige who can lead them to victory. If the imperial capital forcibly ordered to deprive the Duke of Minas from his position at this time, the old man was fully capable of provoking the army to mutin and rebound, so as to further control the army. The Duke of Minas can break the jar and break it, but not here in the imperial capital! Once the Duke of Minas provokes the Southern Army to rebel and mutiny, then for the rebels in the North, especially Hughes...... Definitely a big pie falling from the sky!

As for bringing the central army south directly from the imperial capital to fight directly with Minas, it is even more impossible.

Hughes, those northern rebels, will wake up with a smile even when they sleep!The fastest, the latest txt update book friends in the world: