Hongdao seventh year, June 20th.
Outside Changsha City, in the northern suburbs, is the altar to worship the heaven.
The flags are hunting, and the spears are like a forest.
A sea of red was divided into several groups, neatly arranged on the field.
"Bah!"
The eagle was circling and flying in the sky. Between the fluttering wings, a pair of sharp eyes looked down from time to time.
In the mind of this air overlord, some people can't understand. What are the humans below doing together?
suddenly.
Wave after wave of sounds came from the crowd below.
"Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng!"
The sound waves soaring into the sky instantly startled the eagle flying in the sky.
With fluttering wings, he quickly moved away to a place, leaving this place as if he was running away.
On the field.
Lu Yuan rode a red horse that was one of a kind and wore a bright yellow armor. He rode the horse from the vacated area between the armies and walked slowly forward.
Behind him was a group of majestic knights also wearing yellow armor and holding long swords.
Wherever the team passed, the soldiers on both sides cheered, and the spears they held in their hands struck the ground, making a neat vibrating sound.
In this way, amid cheers, he walked through the long military column and came to the Temple of Heaven at the front.
At this time, under the Temple of Heaven, thousands of celebrities invited from local prefectures and counties looked at Lu Yuan coming on horseback, and all of them lowered their heads in awe.
In this troubled world, everything is respected by force.
Even if a country is established, it will not be enough to maintain the country without strong force.
And the man in front of him who is about to ascend the throne and become the king above ten thousand people is undoubtedly the one with the strongest force.
Only this kind of king can protect the place and bring peace to the people.
Dongting County, which has been ravaged by war for several years, is in need of kings like this to come and calm down.
Lu Yuan glanced at the gentry in these places, and no one dared to look at him wherever he looked.
Today, when this king ascends the throne, he is the protagonist of everyone and the only light under the sky.
An indescribable sense of accomplishment and pride surged from Lu Yuan's heart.
At this moment, he understood what Liu Bang said after seeing Qin Shihuang's traveling carriages and horses, "A true man, you should be like this." What kind of heroism would it be to sweep across the world and dominate the world in the future.
This power of being the supreme one in the world, with all the people bowing their heads, and no one dares to disobey the king's words, is indeed intoxicating.
He got off the horse and threw the reins to the followers behind him.
Lu Yuan put his sword on his waist and stepped onto the red carpeted stairs in front of him.
On both sides of the red carpet, the civil and military officials who had put on the official uniforms of the new dynasty and were arranged according to their rank, all bowed and saluted and surrendered when they passed by.
He walked up the stairs step by step, firmly and powerfully.
Soon, the three-story, 135-step staircase built in accordance with regulations was completed.
At the top of the stairs, Yang Jing, the angel in charge of reading out the imperial edict, glanced at the new king with a complicated expression, then picked up the edict and read it loudly: "I am ordered by heaven.
... General Lu Yuan conquered the south, suppressed the rebellion, and pacified Dongting... Such meritorious deeds cannot be rewarded except for the creation of a feudal state...
The emperor's decree is clear, and it is given by heaven.
Now the land of Dongting is given to Jia Luyuan for his contribution to the founding of Changsha. He ascends to the throne and becomes the king. He establishes the feudal lordship and becomes the vassal vassal of the imperial court. I hope you can stay safe..."
It took a short moment for Yang Jing to finish reading the edict of several hundred words, then he folded the edict together, handed it to Lu Yuan with both hands, and said: "King of Changsha, please accept the edict."
"I, King Lu Yuan of Changsha, accept the imperial edict."
Lu Yuan looked at the edict handed to him, took a deep breath, and then took it firmly.
Soon an attendant came over and took it from his hand again. Then he took off his armor, put on the royal robe, put on the crown, and brought him the seal, completing the change in status.
After doing this, another servant handed him a prayer to offer sacrifices to heaven.
Seeing this, Yang Jing sighed secretly in his heart, and then moved aside, looking at each other with Shangguan Ming and others who came to watch the ceremony, each with complicated emotions.
The two princes of the court were naturally lamenting and depressed, feeling worried about the decline of the country.
But Saint Monk Ji Hui and Qiao Kangquan had some joy and envy in their eyes.
The two of them were also promised by the court that they would establish a state and be alone.
Now Lu Yuan, Yan Wangqiu and other forerunners have already established their own countries and accomplished this.
Especially today, Lu Yuan is supported by thousands of troops, surrendered by hundreds of officials, and obeyed by his people. I don't know how majestic it is.
Seeing this scene, the two of them, who were both preparing to become princes, didn't want to follow suit.
At that moment, I was secretly cheering in my heart. When I ascend the throne in Japan, I will make it even grander than now.
At that time, 50,000 people, no, 100,000 people will be called to celebrate together, and the court will also be invited to come to see the ceremony.
We must not allow Lu Yuan to take the limelight.
The two of them thought so in their hearts.
Lu Yuan, who was in front of him, had already recited a prayer to offer sacrifices to heaven: "My lord, Lu Yuan, the king of Changsha, issued an edict to the emperor... I am here today to establish the country of Changsha, and the king is here. The emperor and heaven have learned from it, and the land of the future will inherit it, and bless our country." .”
After reciting the last prayer, Lu Yuan threw the prayer in his hand towards the bronze tripod in the center of the Temple of Heaven, which symbolized the mountains, rivers and the country.
In an instant, the prayers entered the cauldron and were burned by the flames inside. The prayers were sacrificed to the Emperor Tianhou Tu.
Lu Yuan watched the prayers being burned, then turned around, looking at the hundreds of officials and troops below with a pair of tiger eyes, and then he was so angry that he shouted loudly: "This king announces that today, Changsha is nationally established, and I am the king of Changsha." .”
The sound was like thunder, and with the help of true energy, it instantly resounded across the wilderness.
When the army of officials below heard this, they immediately knelt down and worshiped as they had rehearsed before, and shouted together: "Ten thousand years in Changsha! Ten thousand years in the king! Congratulations to the king!"
Three words, neatly aligned, echoed throughout the world.
Lu Yuan listened to these congratulations and stood on the Temple of Heaven. He looked down below and looked at the backs of those who knelt down and prostrated. While his heart was filled with pride, he couldn't help but think.
'With so many people here, is anyone thinking about who can replace them? '
The position of king not only represents power and wealth, but also represents responsibility and danger.
Today he is the king of Changsha, sitting in a county, with a territory of thousands of miles, and ruling millions of people.
But how do you know that no one in this country is coveting you, jealous of these powers, and wants to replace them?
'However, regardless of whether there is "Xiang Yu" or not, as long as I am here, this Changsha country and this Dongting land cannot turn the sky upside down. '
Lu Yuan thought this in his heart, closed his eyes slightly, faced the sunshine falling from the sky, and began to enjoy the cheers.
Seventeen years have passed since time travel, and this body is also thirty-two years old. Today, it finally ascends to the throne and is called the king.
The ambition I set in that cold cave when I traveled back in years past, to become a king and emperor, to lead millions of soldiers, to have a saint and witch as my wife, to have a harem of three thousand beauties, to achieve great martial arts, to be invincible in the world, has been mostly realized today.
Wouldn't it be great for a man to achieve this? Delight!
A true man should be like this.
On this day, June 20th of the seventh year of Hongdao, Lu Yuan worshiped heaven outside Changsha City, ascended the throne as king, and established the state of Changsha.
Then he conferred hundreds of officials and appointed his disciple Zhou Qing as the general to take charge of military affairs. With Cui Changqing as the left prime minister and Sun Siwen as the right prime minister, they are jointly in charge of government affairs.
The other generals and officials each received numerous titles.
Then that day, on the Temple of Heaven, Lu Yuan personally announced that he would lead an army of 100,000 troops to attack the Zhou people in the north to restore the lost land of Tianmen Mansion in the country.
The 40,000-strong army arrayed in Taiwan suddenly moved in the clouds and headed north, heading straight for Yiyang.
…
A few days later, outside Yiyang City.
Lu Yuan and his army had just arrived here, and the gates of Yiyang City were already wide open.
“Your Majesty, three days ago, the news came that your Majesty ascended the throne and founded the country and led his troops to the Northern Expedition.
The Zhou garrison in Yiyang City abandoned the city and fled north.
I led my troops to pursue them for hundreds of miles, killing more than 2,000 thieves and capturing more than 4,000. Another thousand thieves scattered in the countryside, so that they could be cleared and captured.
However, the leader of the thieves, Li Yanjing and others, still led hundreds of remnant soldiers to escape. I was unable to catch up with them, so I ask your Majesty to punish them. "
At the gate of the city, Lu Yuan sent his disciple Chu Wei who was staying here to report the crime.
After hearing this, Lu Yuan was a little surprised. He didn't expect Li Yanjing and others to escape without a fight.
But after thinking about it, this is also consistent with common sense.
Although he led troops to surround Yiyang City before, he never launched a strong attack, only surrounded it.
Combined with his actions of confronting the imperial court across the river and being wary of each other, it naturally gave the Zhou people the illusion that he could win over them.
So they sent an envoy to persuade Lu Yuan to surrender.
During that time, in order to take advantage of the Zhou people's influence, he showed a lot of good intentions. He even allowed the Zhou people in Yiyang City to go out to collect firewood and water outside the city. The relationship seemed harmonious.
At that time, Li Yanjing and the others were surrounded, so they naturally didn't panic. After all, there was still hope.
But now with the news that Lu Yuan accepted the imperial canonization and established the Changsha Kingdom, all the original hopes and illusions were naturally shattered.
Especially a few days ago, when tens of thousands of troops from the imperial court gathered, and under the banners of Shangguan Ming and Yang Jing, this made Li Yanjing and the others panic even more.
After all, including Lu Yuan's army outside the city, there were more than 200,000 strong soldiers and six innate masters.
Whether it is ordinary soldiers or innate combat power, they have surpassed Li Yanjing and the others.
If these Zhou masters are still in the city, it is really possible that they will be left behind when Commander Lu Yuan's army arrives.
And if he could stay at once, Lu Yuan, the three innate masters of the Zhou people, would not miss this opportunity.
Just keep people like Li Yanjing and kill them here.
That Zhou people lost three innate masters at once, and their top-level combat power was directly lost by half, and they were no longer a threat from then on.
By then, the pressure on the border in the north of Lu Yuan will be greatly relieved.
No longer need to worry about when the Zhou people will cross the river and invade their own country.
pity.
Presumably Li Yanjing and others also understood this, so after confirming that Lu Yuan had officially defected to Yue, they abandoned the city and fled.
Now that the three innate masters have left the prison of Yiyang, the world has become vast. It is extremely difficult to catch them, and it is almost impossible.
"It doesn't matter. It would be a good thing to take back Yiyang County."
With such a sigh in his heart, Lu Yuan looked at his disciples, shook his head and said: "As for Li Yanjing and others, they are all innate masters. They want to escape, but you don't have the help of an innate master. It's normal that they can't stop them. Get up." "
With the strength of the innate master, as long as he is not stubborn, he will stand up to fight against thousands of armies.
So among the thousands of troops, it is still very simple to find a direction to break out of the siege.
Not to mention there are three innate masters in the city. It is normal for a disciple of his not to be able to stop the other party.
It should even be said that it can be stopped, which is abnormal.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your forgiveness." Chu Wei was relieved when his master, who had been enthroned as king, said this.
honestly.
This disciple was really worried that since the new dynasty was established and he didn't stop Li Yanjing and others, his master would become angry and try to scare the monkeys.
At the moment, it seems that I have thought too much.
With some luck, he quickly asked someone to open the city gate, then led Lu Yuan's team into the city and headed towards the already packed government office.
…
After entering the city and settling down, Lu Yuan called Yang Jing and others together, and the two parties met with the county government to discuss matters.
"Now that Li Yanjing heard that our troops were coming, he fled in the face of the wind and abandoned the city. Yiyang County has been recovered without any effort."
Lu Yuan looked at the several Yue generals and national advisors in front of him and said sternly: "In that case, the enemies south of the Yangtze River have dispersed. In my opinion, we can take advantage of the victory and go north, cross the river, and fight the enemy decisively. .”
After the founding of the country, Lu Yuan's desire for war with the Zhou Kingdom began to rise sharply.
Of the ten prefectures in Dongting, Changsha is now under national control, and only the nine prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River are under control. The remaining Tianmen Mansion in Jiangbei is still in the hands of the enemy.
Even the original Baling County City and the county capital were not under his control and were still controlled by the imperial court.
This point was also one of the conditions reached by the imperial court and Lu Yuan after discussions.
The imperial court granted Lu Yuan the title of king and established the country, while Lu Yuan still controlled the Dongting County and temporarily entrusted it to the imperial court to serve as a logistics support base for the imperial army in the north of the Yangtze River.
Before repelling the Zhou people and regaining Xichuan County, neither Baling County nor Tianmen Mansion would be returned by the imperial court.
Therefore, if Lu Yuan wanted to keep his territory intact, especially to get back the symbolic city of Baling, he had to first help the court repel the Zhou people.
In this way, after the founding of the country, Lu Yuan was naturally very active in the Northern Expedition.
He planned to use Baling City as the capital of the country. Now the capital of a country is controlled by the imperial court. What does this mean?
What?
Why is it called Changsha Kingdom? It doesn’t have a capital in Changsha Prefecture, but it has to go to Baling City.
This has to be said about Baling’s superior conditions.
First of all, in terms of economy, this city is adjacent to the Yangtze River and connects the three countries of the north and south. It is most prosperous.
Secondly, in terms of agriculture, Yueyang Prefecture, where Baling City is located, is also irrigated by the Yangtze River and has fertile land. It is a first-class grain-producing land.
Finally, in terms of military affairs, Baling City controls the Yangtze River waterway. As long as this city is guarded, the Yangtze River can be cut off. It can even guard against enemies coming from the north, far away from Jiangbei.
Such an important town with extremely superior advantages in all three aspects, such a majestic city in the world, is naturally the best choice to build a capital.
At the beginning, the Yue Kingdom valued this point and placed the county government here.
As for the election of Changsha Prefecture, not only is the economy worse, the agricultural aspect is not necessarily better, and the military aspect is not necessarily safer.
Lu Yuan chose this because his brain was crazy.
However, in the face of his active request for war, Shangguan Ming and others, who had been forcing Lu Yuan to send troops, collapsed.
"King of Changsha, don't be anxious."
Shangguan Ming glanced at Lu Yuan, but shook his head and said: "Of course we have to fight against the thieves. But now that the armies from all parties have not arrived, it will not be easy for us to repel the thieves with our own strength.
It is better to wait for the armies of King Nanhai and King Ninghai to arrive, and I will wait for the armies from all directions to arrive before proceeding to the Northern Expedition.
By then, we will have nearly half a million troops, including nine innate masters.
Crossing the river and going north in this way is so vast, why worry about the Zhou people not breaking it? "
The imperial court and Lu Yuan had agreed that after the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, they would each send 100,000 troops to help the imperial court repel the Zhou people.
Now Lu Yuan, who is the closest and the latest to found the country, has fulfilled his promise and led an army of 100,000 to join them.
It even comes with an innate master, Lan Cai'er, who is extremely sincere.
But the other two, Yan Wangqiu and Su Xuange, who have already founded the country long ago, are in Lingnan, but there has been no movement yet?
The 200,000 troops promised by these two men did not come. At this time, the imperial court and Lu Yuan led their troops north.
With the combined efforts of both sides, it is not impossible to fight against the Zhou people.
But isn't it true that the two of them have become cannon fodder for Ninghai and Nanhai countries, using their own troops to fight for these two countries?
There are so many good things in this world.
Lu Yuan frowned when he heard this and said: "The two kingdoms of Nanhai and Ninghai have just been established, and the national affairs have not been sorted out yet, let alone gathering troops and horses. I'm afraid it will have to wait until half a year for their troops to come from Lingnan?
We and hundreds of thousands of troops are stationed here. Every day, people eat horses and chew them, spending countless amounts of money on them.
How can we waste it here?
Moreover, the soldiers in Lingnan were simply unable to fight.
If we expect 200,000 troops from these two countries, it would be better for us to go directly north and fight to the death with the Zhou people. "
Sometimes, more soldiers and horses are not always better.
In large-scale military campaigns and head-on confrontations, those who can really make a difference are the elite soldiers and generals who have been trained for many years and are used to seeing life and death.
But the land of Lingnan has been peaceful in recent years. Since the destruction of Jinghai Kingdom, there has been no war.
After a few years, in addition to some county soldiers, are there any elites in the country?
As for those county soldiers, whether the two countries combined can gather 20,000 is a question.
Under such circumstances, what can the two countries, Nanhai and Ninghai, do if they want to fulfill their commitments to the court and send 100,000 troops?
I'm afraid it won't be the last, so I can only recruit some Akatsuki to make up the number.
The bigger problem is the internal chaos in the two countries.
Yan Wangqiu and Su Xuange, unlike Lu Yuan, had started preparing for the founding of the country more than a year ago.
So now that he has ascended the throne, all civil and military officials, local prefectures and counties, and soldiers of the three armies have easily changed their flags and established a new order.
The two countries of Nanhai and Ninghai hurriedly came to power and experienced chaos by randomly dismissing officials, causing chaos and disorder in the local areas.
In this situation, do you expect the two countries to mobilize an army of 100,000?
It's not like he doesn't even have the ability to forcefully build a strong man.
And it will take several months before the two countries' national affairs are sorted out. If we wait to send troops north, it will take even longer.
