Cui Hongdu still underestimated Dugu Mu’s ability.
In order to preserve his strength, he split a large army in the northeast into dozens of armies and entered Beijing from different directions, but they were defeated one by one by Dugu Mu.
In the end, Cui Jiajun's million-strong army only had less than 500,000 troops left after two months.
But these 500,000 troops and horses trained intensively by Cui Hongdu alone are enough to subvert the entire capital.
Especially after Cui Hongdu captured alive all three princes who had been sent out of the capital by Dugu Ping, the situation became even more tense.
Those three princes were originally Duguping's biological brothers.
However, after he usurped the throne, these three princes voluntarily surrendered to him and were willing to leave the capital and give up their military power to go to three remote towns in the northwest, southwest and northeast to stand before Wanhu Hou. , had been idle for decades, but was thought to be captured by Cui Hongdu, held in his hands and became a hostage The total number of the imperial army in the capital was only 100,000 troops.
Including the troops around the capital, the number was only over 300,000, which was still slightly inferior to Cui Hongdu's fifty troops.
Especially when the news of the capture of the three princes reached the capital, the entire royal family was panicked.
Although most of these collateral lines are in the capital, many of their descendants are scattered throughout the country.
At this time, Cui Hongdu directly took the three princes as hostages, which was also a serious warning to the members of the royal family.
Duguquan, who Cui Hongdu wanted to support, also disappeared in the capital overnight.
No matter how Zimin searched, he could not find his whereabouts.
Cui Hongdu also lost the news about Duguquan, and he was so angry that he smashed several antique jades.
It’s not only Duguquan who’s missing, but also Peacock’s child.
Therefore, the two candidates Cui Hongdu wanted to hold as puppets were all missing.
This gave him a huge headache, so he directly selected two more candidates from the direct descendants of the three princes.
Cui Hongdu's 500,000-strong army rushed to Zhengzhou and stopped because he found that all the roads from Zhengzhou to the capital were smooth and clear.
Without the resistance from the capital, Cui Hongdu became a little worried.
He was worried that he would fall into Dugu Mu's empty city plan if he was not careful.
The spies from the front came to report that all official roads from Zhengzhou to the capital were completely undefended.
In other words, if Cui Hongdu rushed towards the capital in one go, he would be able to reach the Daxing Palace in the capital within ten days.
However, Cui Hongdu, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, hesitated when he learned that the road ahead was clear, and cautiously camped directly in Zhengzhou, waiting for a perfect opportunity.
The people of Zhengzhou had already fled before the arrival of Cui's army.
The entire Zhengzhou became an abandoned city, which gave Cui Hongdu's army a place to stay.
However, when Cui Hongdu faced an empty city like Zhengzhou, he still cautiously dispersed his heavy troops to hundreds of miles around Zhengzhou just in case.
When Cui Hongdu and his army were stationed in Zhengzhou, they found that Zhengzhou was really an empty city.
Apart from houses, there was really no other extra stuff.
Food and supplies were basically all empty.
Not only is Zhengzhou without supplies, but even the villages and towns within a hundred miles have no grain.
Cui Hongdu felt more and more that there was something fishy about this matter, so he had to increase his defense efforts.
He also asked all soldiers to reduce their rest time when setting up camp and prepare for battle at any time.
Since then, all the soldiers who have camped have been nervous, for fear of being attacked by the enemy.
Your Majesty, you lost a demon queen
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