"I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him, I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going 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 attendants had already retreated, and only the old prime minister, Salembonili, 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 put his hands on the emperor's shoulders.
The old man knew very well that today's events, the blow to the emperor, were almost fatal Such a blow, such a fear, is even far greater 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, and completely exposed the emperor's weakness, incompetence, and the weakness of the imperial power in broad daylight The prestige of the royal family was discredited, and he was forced into a desperate situation by a general Under such stimulation, the young emperor was afraid that he would really collapse.
The rebels had withdrawn from the palace, and Salembonili was slightly relieved that Adric did not take the opportunity to make more and more excessive demands, and he originally thought that Adric would take the opportunity to demand that the imperial city's defenses be taken over.
But fortunately, Adric did not do this, and the rebels completely withdrew from the Imperial City, and the Imperial City 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 rebels were persecuted, it was the Imperial Forest Army who opened the gates of the imperial city and let the rebels in.
When the rebel army rushed into the square of the main hall and persecuted His Majesty, only two or three hundred members of the huge Imperial Forest Army were still standing loyally under Your Majesty.
Such a Royal Guards can no longer 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 becoming the "Marshal of the Protector", you must know that such a title, since the founding of the Empire, no one has ever received the Marshal of the Protectorate, the commander-in-chief of the domestic and foreign military affairs of the Empire, and has the right to control all the armies in the empire, and the authority to appoint and dismiss officials in the army is definitely not something that a minister can bear But he Adric really did.
And after the end of the war, Adric didn't pretend to be like the emperor to make a gesture of pleading guilty, as he originally expected, this upright guy, didn't 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 Duke Minas back to Yanjing" The herald who pursued the southward counterinsurgency army had already set out, and with the herald was the most severe and urgent order of the imperial department: the Jin Order.
The Golden Decree, signed by His Majesty the Emperor himself, the Minister of War and the Prime Minister of the Empire, represented the supreme 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 believes, even if the Duke of Minas is really ambitious, he will never go that way now.
He had just gone south, and although he had dismissed sixteen commanders in the army and taken over military power, it 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, there can be a few soldiers in the whole army who are willing to follow him to commit this kind of big crime of raiding homes and destroying people In the golden order sent, the words were extremely harsh and reprimanded the Duke of Minas for his previous dismissal of sixteen commanders in one go, which is indeed a kind of ultra vires, even if he is the commander of the army, he does not have the right to dismiss so many front-line commanders before obtaining the authorization of the military department, this practice is difficult to stand both reasonably and legally.
Jin Lingzhong has already ordered the army to go south to counter-insurgency to be stationed on the spot immediately, and the Duke of Minas, who is not allowed to go further south, immediately resigns from his military post and returns to Yanjing 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 Ruer and his entourage were also preparing to go south from Yanjing to take office.
Ruhr was accompanied by more than 20 subordinate officers, all of whom had been drawn from the city guard and the central army, and were prepared to take over all command once he took over the southward counterinsurgency army.
In addition, there was a cavalry escort of a squadron drawn from the city.
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.
I don't know why, he always had some bad premonitions in his heart, the officers accompanying him were all loyal to Adric from the Central Army, and the escort cavalry of that squadron was also a credible descendant drawn from the city.
However, as they marched south out of Osgilia, Ruhl and his party only went to the main road, and a squadron of fifty cavalrymen was fully armed, plus Ruhl and twenty officers accompanying him, and a total of seventy-six horsemen galloped south, carrying orders written by the emperor himself.
After traveling south, the whole team did not dare to slack off under the strict orders of Ruhr.
Ruhl himself was in high spirits.
He was a delicate person, and he specially sent more than ten scouts to explore the road in front, but he had only traveled a long way, and before he even ran out of the Yanjing administrative region of the Osgilian Empire, he really encountered the worst situation that Ruhr feared The cavalry who explored the road found an accident on the side of the road in front of them, and found a dead Imperial cavalry under a big tree next to the road, wearing the uniform of the Central Army, who was already dead, and was hit by several arrows, and the body fell under the tree, apparently the person who killed him did not even have the interest of burying the body to cover it, and it seems that he deliberately left the body on the side of the road After receiving the news, Ruhl rushed up with people, and when he arrived at the scene, he just looked at it, and suddenly his face was extremely gloomy He recognized that the dead cavalry of the Central Army was one of the heralds who had been sent to the south from Yanjing before his departure These envoys sent more than a dozen horsemen in one go, but some people died here You must know that this is not yet out of the scope of the Osgillia Yanjing Administrative Region, and the distance from Yanjing is only a horse journey, and in such a close place from Yanjing, it is simply bold to kill the messenger in the army "Lord Duke, you are acting so ruthlessly this time" Ruhl muttered under his mouth and his face gradually became fierce, he took a deep breath, looked at the people around him, and immediately ordered the whole team to continue on.
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 out of Osgilia, and I actually saw three dead military envoys, and now I think about it, although the herald sent earlier has more than ten horsemen, but if they can go to the south, I'm afraid that "the herald will stop the whole team" Ruhl suddenly uttered such a strange order.
The officers around him, all of them looked solemn, no one spoke, everyone just looked at Ruhl.
These officers were all drawn 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 he didn't want Yanjing's order to reach the Southern Expeditionary Army in the south, who deliberately used such cruel means to try to cut off the connection between Yanjing and the Southern Expeditionary Army, but I am afraid, many people don't understand, but don't dare to think about it "The whole team turned around, let's go back to Yanjing" Ruhl sighed, looking very ugly.
I can only go back to Yanjing Even Ruhl didn't expect that Duke Minas would be so ruthless and decisive You must know that the Duke of Minas has 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 the most important thing is that these henchmen and elite descendants must be a force that the Duke of Minas has reserved before he goes south You must know that at that time, before the Duke of Minas went south, there was no mutiny in Yanjingli 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 is only one explanation From the very beginning, the old duke was already in ruin, and he made up his mind, regardless of all the consequences, to completely snatch the Southern Expeditionary Army in his hands, he was so desperate that he did not leave half a point of room and retreat for himself In other words, at the moment when the Duke of Minas led the army out of Osgilia and headed south, he had actually reversed Originally, Ruel and Adric's idea was to immediately send someone 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 fought a time difference, the Duke of Minas did not know that Yanjing had mutinied, but now it seems that both of them underestimated the determination of the Duke of Minas, and the old man did not plan to delay or hold on to any other hopes, and he was ready to rebel at the first moment when he led the army south No matter what the situation of your Yanjing is, whether your Yanjing is a mutiny or not, anyway, he turned against him from the beginning In this case, Ruhl knew that it would be a dream for him to run south to take over the officers with such a few dozen horsemen Since the old man has already made it clear that the rebellion of the chariot and horse has even dared to intercept and kill the imperial envoy, then what else does he dare not do, these dozens of horsemen are afraid that they will run to the south safely, and they will be fiercely intercepted and killed halfway, even if they have the life to run to the south, the old duke will never give himself any chance, and directly destroy his dozens of horsemen The old man acted ruthlessly and skillfully, and Ruhl knew it deeply.
"Let's go back to Yanjing."
Ruhl took a deep breath, his face cloudy.
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, it is better to go back to Yanjing to find a way, it is best to draw an elite army from the defenders of Yanjing, lead the army south, and threaten the Duke of Minas with the 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, everyone, let's rush 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 so much."
As he spoke, Ruer ordered to leave a few cavalry to bury the bodies of the intercepted envoys, and he was about to return to Yanjing 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 Ruhl suddenly looked abrupt, could it be that he had encountered the elite of the interception left by the Duke of Minas But then he knew he was wrong.
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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 Yanjing Osculia to overthrow.
What surprised Ruhl even more was that the mission of this cavalry team was actually "escort".
According to the news that the military envoy sent by the Duke of Minas reported to Yanjing earlier, he had dismissed sixteen commanders of the front-line army in the army on various charges, and this cavalry team was ordered by the Duke of Minas to escort and repatriate the sixteen dismissed officers who were "to be convicted" to Yanjing.
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, and from these people's mouths, he might be able to learn the latest situation of the current Southern Expeditionary Army However, when Jean saw the sixteen deposed officers, Ruhl was once again shocked Because, along with the escort of these sixteen "convicted" officers, there was also another latest battle report sent to Yanjing by Duke Minas, the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army 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 Roddy vanguard cavalry had won its first victory in 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 army of the rebels that had been forced and assembled by the vanguard cavalry of Rodi in a large city surrounded 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 of the southern rebels was completely wiped out with almost a devastating force Such a big victory, so quickly, so suddenly A big victory Great victory, hehe Ruhl 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 Yanjing and wanted to send people south to regain the power of the southern army, the Duke of Minas made such a big victory It's going to be too fast Ruhl knew very well that this was not the Duke of Minas who responded after learning about the Yanjing mutiny between himself and Adric, but the Duke of Minas simply walked ahead of himself and Adric in every step, and he walked step by step early, and Adrik and his own mutiny, whether it was going south to take power, they were lagging behind the old duke's actions every step of the way Such a great victory in the south, destroying one-third of the southern rebels in a battle, and recovering the land of a county under such a big victory, with the momentum of the big victory, Yanjing still has any reason and excuse to take back the military power of the southern army A victory, any excuse has become pale and the white family has fought a big victory, and at this time to take back the military power, it is unjustifiable and untenable.
Unless it's really a face-to-face, there's 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 of the army, the fastest and most direct way is nothing more than two things: one is to purge the middle-level officers and replace them with his own henchmen, and the other is a big victory The action of cleaning the old man has already done.
And now under a big victory, things in the army have always been straightforward, a commander, if you can lead everyone to win the battle, 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 Yanjing's order in public to remove the old man from the position of commander, and 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, the soldier would be on anyone's side and could think of it with his ass Ruhl's heart was cold, and he slowly put away the battle report, and his heart was in chaos.
The situation has reached the extreme 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," Ruhl sighed.
Soon, his men brought the shouting officer to Ruhl's side.
Ruhr glanced at it, the officer in front of him, tall, with a lean face, sharp eyes, full of anger, Ruhr groaned 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 looked 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, my lord."
This Ned gritted his teeth: "My lord, I want to accuse me of accusing me of accusing 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 want to accuse" Ned straightened up, straightened his back, and said in a deep voice, "I will accuse the Imperial Marshal of the Duke of Minas, whom I accuse him of treason, collusion, and treason."
Ruerdon changed color and looked at the officer named Ned: "Your Excellency Ned, you know exactly 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, and I have every 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, that is, 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 recuperating in the back, and we were all speculating on how long it would take us to be transferred.
This Ned said slowly: "My lord, I am also an old fighter, although those rebels I don't think much of them, if it is a field battle, we can fight them 10,000 with a thousand people, but this is a siege war, the rebels have tens of thousands of people, and occupy a large city, they have sufficient equipment to defend the city, when we arrived at the city, the woods outside the city have been cut down, obviously the city is fully prepared."
I saw the piles of stones, giant trees, and billowing smoke on the top of the city, they prepared enough oil for such a siege battle, it will definitely be a hard-fought battle, and the strong city defense will greatly shorten the gap in quality between the two armies, even if the other side is a group of rebels, even if we are a regular army, but based on the advantages of the city defense, with my years of experience in the army rebellion, if we want to capture such a big city with tens of thousands of rebels, the difficulty will be several times greater than that of the field.
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 wave of 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. ” "However, I waited in the back, and the drum was beaten for less than a quarter of an hour, and I heard cheers from the front, and everywhere I heard shouts that the city had broken my army as a reserve for the second wave of the sequence, and before I even got the opportunity to go into battle, the city had already been broken.
The rebels in the city defense retreated like a tidal wave, and 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.
I heard that the leader of the rebels had committed suicide when we entered, and the second man of the rebels gave the order to surrender as soon as possible. ” This Ned smiled bitterly: "My soldiers, the blade in his hand didn't see blood at all, we just ran with a bang, shouted for a while, and then the city was inexplicably broken, and the rebels collapsed inexplicably, almost half an hour, and there was a team behind to collect and surrender the prisoners of war, you are also an old man, this kind of decisive battle of tens of thousands of people, and it is also a siege war, it takes less than half an hour to finish the battle, the subordinates are dull, and they have fought for a lifetime, I have never won such an easy battle. ” "But you're a guy with a heart."
Ruhl nodded: "However, you also said that the rebel leader committed suicide and died, and the second man of the rebels 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 looked very serious: "That guy, I recognize, and I am very familiar with the fact that we served in the same army a few years ago, I know the name of that person, few people in the army knew at that time, 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.
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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, his expression became more and more gloomy: "My lord, with your wisdom, you won't fail to see the problem in this guy, it is absolutely impossible for our army to be inserted into the rebels after going south to quell the rebellion, we should know that we have only been going south to quell the rebellion for only a dozen days, even if you want to insert Nei Ying into the rebels, these ten days are definitely not enough, besides, even if you really insert people to go for more than ten days, this Nei Ying can be the only explanation for the second person in the rebels who are afraid to say that they don't believe it."
The only explanation is that this "internal response" was already among the rebels at 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 Duke of Minas returned to the Southern Rebellion, the Duke of Minas took the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army and led the army south to 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 Yanjing to control him.
And now this plan has gone completely bankrupt.
The rebellion in the south seems to have been inextricably linked with the Duke of Minas for a long time, and even his shadow old duke has the power to counter the rebellion in the south, and because of internal reasons, he can easily defeat the rebels and earn the huge prestige brought by the victory At this time, it is no longer possible to make Minas surrender his military power 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 Yan Jing 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 mutiny and rebound, so as to further control the army.
But this road can't be taken, the Duke of Minas can break the jar, but Yanjing will never do it here, once the Duke of Minas provokes the southern army to rebound and mutiny, then for the rebels in the north, especially Hughes, it is definitely a big pie falling from the sky As for directly leading the Central Army south from Yanjing to fight directly with Minas, it is even more impossible.
Hughes, those northern rebels, will wake up laughing even from sleeping To be continued 〗Hanyu Pinyin "" is simple and easy to remember: