The calls within the Fengwu Army for Ye Mingsheng to proclaim himself emperor are getting louder and louder. At first, only some people from the Ye family were calling, but as the territory of the Fengwu Army expanded, some civil servants and generals within the Fengwu Army also joined in. In the queue·······························
Although their persuasion was very pleasant, and they expressed their utter loyalty to Ye Mingsheng with all kinds of beautiful words, as if if Ye Mingsheng did not ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, the sky would collapse and the people would have no way to survive!
But Ye Mingsheng knew very well in his heart that these people who persuaded him to join may be a little loyal, but more importantly, they hope that he can fulfill his promise to become a marquis and prime minister after he takes office!
Regarding the matter of ascending to the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, Ye Mingsheng felt that it must be done, but he felt that now was not the right time!
You must know that the banner of Fengwu Army has always been to clear the emperor's side, kill female ministers, and return power to the emperor!
Although slogans are slogans and actual actions are actual actions, after all, words are not farts!
As soon as he captured Luo'an, he couldn't wait to proclaim himself emperor. It would be too ugly to look at him!
And this is tantamount to slapping yourself in the face and telling everyone in the world that what you once said about slandering the emperor, killing female ministers, and returning power to the emperor are all nonsense. It confirms that you, Ye, are an ambitious female thief!
Although the world of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been very corrupt, the three hundred years of Guo Zuo have also made the sign of the Great Zhou Dynasty deeply rooted in the hearts of the people... ···
It would be fine if the Fengwu Army unified the world now, but the problem is that although the Fengwu Army defeated the Luoan court, it basically unified the north.
But there is still the Kipchak Khanate on the grassland, who is always looking for help and wants to intervene southward. There are also princes such as Xu Zhaojie in the south who need to be dealt with!
If you replace Dazhou now, there is no doubt that this will not be conducive to uniting people, and it will also increase the resistance to conquering the southern provinces!
Therefore, Ye Mingsheng believes that now is not a good time to proclaim himself emperor. His original plan was to keep the little emperor and continue to let him be a decoration on the table, and then move the capital to Yi Jing to actually control all the affairs. that power!
Now that Yuan Song and Ye Dong are doing this, Ye Mingsheng's plan has been disrupted, but Ye Mingsheng is not upset!
After all, judging from some information obtained by the Coordination Office, the young emperor Jiang Rui is not an honest character. Moreover, although he is young, he has been an emperor for more than ten years after all. People in the world also recognize him and keep him. Always a scourge!
So it would be a good choice to take advantage of this moment to kill Jiang Rui and blame Shangguan Changgong!
Anyway, it is a simple operation to randomly select a child of school age from the clan and then elect him to be the emperor, and it does not require much effort!
However, for such a big thing as Yuan Song and Ye Dong killing the emperor, they did it directly without their permission. Although Ye Mingsheng knew that the two of them had good intentions, he still felt a little... ····················
After pondering for a while, Ye Mingsheng decided to write a letter to Jiang Yuyan first, asking her to put down her work and go to Guanzhong to help him appease the clan. At the same time, he also studied to see how to get the pie of becoming emperor on that little unlucky guy. On your body!
Then Ye Mingsheng also began to study the next plan of rewarding based on merit.
Because there was an ancestral precept in the Zhou Dynasty that non-Jiang surnames could not be crowned kings, and those with different surnames would be punished by the whole world, so in order to cover up his ambitions and ambitions, Ye Mingsheng was not prepared to crown himself a king.
Although he does not want to make himself a king, Ye Mingsheng plans to make himself a prince, which will also make it easier to reward the generals below!
Ye Mingsheng's original plan was to make Yuan Song and Cui Shao marquises, in order to commend these two civil and military men for their contribution in the process of conquering the world.
As for the other three, such as He Jingyun, Gu Sansi, and Guo Zhiping, they were granted the title of uncle, but now Ye Mingsheng had a new idea, that is, he would first aggrieve his third uncle and grant the title of marquis to only Yuan Song!
Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng also fell into thinking. The reward for capturing Luo'an this time was regarded as a phased reward. He had to satisfy the appetite of the people below and not let them eat too much!
After all, although the defeat of the Luo'an court was a great success for the Fengwu Army, after all, the world has not yet been completely pacified, and everyone still needs to work hard, so there must be some reservations in the rewards, so that everyone has the motivation to continue to go south to conquer the city... ······························
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Yongliang, Jincheng
As the capital of Yongliang, Jincheng is also the largest city in the Yongliang region and a population gathering place. The permanent population in and around the city is close to 300,000, accounting for almost half of the population in the Yongliang region.
Because it is located on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty and close to the northern grasslands, it has been the frontline battlefield of the Great Zhou Dynasty against the northern foreigners since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it defended the buffer zone of Luo'an in Guanzhong.
Especially in the past twenty years, the rise of the Kipchak Khanate has made the situation in Yongliang even more severe. Fierce fighting broke out between the Kipchak Khanate and the Great Zhou around the Yongliang area many times.
Twenty years have cost both sides huge casualties, but the Zhou Dynasty has always relied on its stronger national power to firmly control Yongliang in its hands.
However, when Esdogan personally led nearly 100,000 Kipchak soldiers and horses to the outside of Jincheng, things changed!
Looking at the tall walls of the Golden City in front of him, Esdogan ordered his men with a gloomy expression:
"Tell the Zhou people in the city to open the city gate before the sun goes down today. As the Great Khan of Kipchak, I guarantee the safety of the Zhou people in the city!"
"But if they want to resist stubbornly, then wait until our warriors attack the city and massacre the city without leaving a blade of grass for seven days!"
"yes!"
As Esdogan's order was issued, the soldiers of the Qincha Khanate who gathered around him all became excited. They had long coveted the wealthy women in the Golden City. If the Golden City's defense was empty, they took advantage of it. It's a good time to enter the void...
Compared with the soldiers of the Kipchak Khanate around him, Esdogan was not in such an excited mood, and even looked a little solemn and sad in his expression.
Although an ultimatum was given to the Zhou people in Jincheng, to be honest Esdogan didn't care whether the Zhou people in Jincheng would choose to surrender.
After all, according to the information he received, there were no longer those difficult-to-deal-with Zhou Forbidden Forces in Jincheng at this time, and there were only some local armed militia groups.
Although it is said to be an armed militia, it is at best a few farmers who have just put down their hoes and picked up weapons. Their combat effectiveness is very low and they lack firearms to defend the city. In addition, they are not many in number, only about five or six thousand people. .
Therefore, such an armed force cannot stop their nearly 100,000-strong Kipchak tiger and wolf army at all!
Although the war has not started yet, in Esdogan's opinion, regardless of whether the Zhou people in the city choose to resist or not, everything in the Golden City is already in his pocket at this time!
Although the capture of Jincheng is a foregone conclusion, Esdogan has accomplished what his father Huo Dou has never accomplished in his life, but Esdogan knows that his goal of leading his troops south this time has failed!
This time, when the Luobi people continued to harass and invade the border of the Elonqen Grassland, he, Estogan, defied all odds and assembled two tiger divisions, five eagle divisions, and nearly 100,000 troops. Going south, the goal is not just to capture a golden city...
He gathered nearly two-thirds of the troops of the Kipchak Khanate and went south. His real goal was to intervene in the situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty to save the Luo'an court and prevent the Fengwu army from unifying the north!
But what Estogan never expected was that the Luoan court, which had been fighting with them for decades, would be so vulnerable to the Fengwu Army!
I am proud of it in just over a month
Wei Pass was captured by the Fengwu Army, and then Shangguan Changgong was killed and the city of Luo'an was destroyed!
While this caught Estogan off guard, it also made Estogan not sure what to do next!
You must know that just when he mobilized his troops to go south, the Luobi people, under the instructions of the Fengwu Army, did not stop at all. They continued to harass the Kipchak tribe, killing the men in the tribe, and plundering the wealth of cattle, sheep and women!
Although the Kipchaks currently have an absolute advantage over the Luobei in terms of overall military strength, the problem is that the main force of the Khanate has been forcibly transferred south by you, Esdogan, in the name of the Great Khan!
There is only one Tiger Division and a few Eagle Divisions left in the Khanate, but the remaining Tiger Division has to defend the capital city of Laisa and cannot be easily mobilized, so there are only three Eagle Divisions that can deal with the Luobei people in the Elonqen Grassland!
The troops of the three Eagle Divisions could only barely cope with the harassment of the Luobi people, and could not organize any effective counterattack at all, which also made the Luobi people more and more unscrupulous... ··········
The Luobi people seized this opportunity and happily vented the pain of being suppressed by the Kipchaks in the past few years, and their ancestral land was occupied and their cattle, sheep, and wealth were plundered!
These incursions and harassments by the Luobei people caused many nobles of the Kipchak Khanate to suffer considerable losses. They all believed that Esdogan was the culprit for making them suffer these losses!
If Esdogan didn't insist on going south to interfere in the situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty and prevent the Fengwu army, which was completely out of reach of them, from unifying the Great Zhou Dynasty, then it would be their Kipchaks who would completely wipe out the Luobi people!
So now that Esdogan can seek enough benefits for the Khanate during his journey south to make the nobles make a lot of money, then this matter may be settled like this!
But if Esdogan fails to achieve convincing results, then even as a Great Khan, he will still have to bear the wrath of his tribe!
Esdogan had already thought of the above when he decided to concentrate his forces and go south!
At that time, he weighed the pros and cons and felt that the entire Astai region plus the annual coins promised by Luo An were enough to satisfy the nobles of the Khanate and silence those conservative voices!
But with the fall of the Luoan court, all this has become a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water... ·····
Esdogan knew very well that behind the Luobei people's jump, it was the Fengwu Army who was instigating and providing all kinds of support!
And if he continues to insist on going south, then the Fengwu Army will undoubtedly increase its support for the Luobei people, and the Luobei people will become even more crazy and greedy, which will also make him bear more responsibility from within the Khanate and from behind. pressure!
Now, in order to prevent these news from the rear from shaking the morale of the army, Estogan has begun to block it, but Estogan doesn't know how long it can be blocked!
In such a situation where the rear is unstable and without the help and cooperation of the Luoan court, facing such a powerful opponent as the Fengwu Army, to be honest, Esdogan does not have much chance of winning if he continues to move south!
Therefore, even though Esdogan was very reluctant to see the Fengwu army defeat the Luoan court and unify the northern part of the Zhou Dynasty, at this moment he could only accept this fact helplessly, and at this time he was already thinking about retreating. idea!
But unfortunately, if the troops are withdrawn at this time, the results of Esdogan's march south will not be able to cover the losses of the Kipchak nobles!
What this means is very clear to Estogan. He knows that if he withdraws his troops in this way, he will fall into a crisis of confidence within the Khanate, and even his position as Khan may be challenged. This is Estogan Unacceptable······························
In the past few days, Esdogan had some communication with several great nobles of the Khanate, including Asu and Bahat. During these communications, Esdogan figured out what these nobles thought about this matter. The bottom line of sub-south earnings.
The bottom line is that the Kipchak Khanate completely occupied the Astai region, which the Zhou people called Yongliang Province. After realizing this, Esdogan felt heavy pressure!
Although and Fengwu
He didn't have many contacts with the army, but through these few contacts, Esdogan felt the strong, ferocious, and domineering style of the Fengwu Army!
Esdogan didn't know whether the Fengwu Army would choose to retreat and acquiesce to the fall of Yongliang in order to seek stability in this narrow encounter, but now he has no way out!
This time he has put all his chips on the journey south. Now he can only act like a ferocious beast, showing his sharpest claws and roaring continuously in a desperate posture, in order to make Fengwu Army Weigh the pros and cons and decide whether you should fight with him at this time!
But if the world could turn back time, Esdogan knew that he would never choose to go south again and put himself in such a dilemma... ··········
