Chapter 496: I kill, I kill, I kill!

There is no winter in the south of the Yangtze River, and flowers bloom all year round. Even if the imperial capital Chang'an City enters February, it has warmed up. March willows are green and flowers are red in April. However, in March, the wind in the northwest is not so shrill. Only in April will grass drill out of the ground, and only in May can we barely take off the thick cotton coat.

The grains in Jiangnan and Jiangbei are two seasons a year, and the northwest lands are once a year. In June, the wheat is already ripe in the Central Plains, and the northwest has just arrived at the time of sowing.

It was early June, and it was rainy in the south of the Yangtze River.

The first rain this year was also hit in the northwest. The rain was not very heavy but it barely wet the land, so it did not affect the fighting between the two sides. Although the imperial court had a slightly fewer troops, it had always maintained a high fighting spirit. From the beginning of passing Luoshui, it had only attacks and uninterrupted attacks.

Although Li Yuanshan ordered a strict seal of the news that the Mongols and Gao Kaitai joined forces to defeat the left vanguard, as the saying goes, good things don't go out and bad things spread thousands of miles, and the news could not be blocked at all. As a result, the rebel camp was even more panicked. The people from the law enforcement team killed people for two consecutive days, killing hundreds of soldiers who spread the news privately, but it was useless. The more they cut, the more they believed that the matter was true.

In order to prevent this decline from spreading, Li Yuanshan ordered the mobilization of nearly 40,000 troops to attack the imperial army camp, but the imperial army did not even defend, but took the initiative to fight. General Jin Shixiong personally commanded the warriors, and the heroes with high fighting spirits suppressed the rebels with heavy hearts and low morale back with just one charge. Jin Shixiong took the opportunity to advance directly, stuck behind the rebels' defeated soldiers and chased them for more than ten miles, and rushed to Xiping City in one breath before retiring.

In this battle, the rebels lost 80% of the troops, 40% of them were killed and captured, and 40% escaped by themselves.

This is the beginning. From this day on, soldiers fled in the rebel camp every day. At first, there were a few people, then dozens and hundreds, and then at the most, two Zhechong camps even took advantage of the opportunity to escape. Immediately afterwards, another unfavorable news began to spread. It is said that the imperial navy had already landed and transported at least 500,000 reinforcements. Luo Yao's defeated and retreated south of Mangdang Mountain, causing most of the troops to be damaged.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately covered the already fragile hearts of the rebel soldiers, and they began to calculate the day of their death. If the 500,000 reinforcements were true, it would take only more than a month to go from crossing the river to rushing to Xiping City. Many rebel soldiers were thinking that if they did not escape, their lives would be only thirty or forty days.

Li Yuanshan knew that the so-called court dispatched 500,000 reinforcements must be fake, because the court could not dispatch so many troops at all. The imperial navy had been patrolling the Luoshui River to the Yangtze River. Now it seems that its purpose was to prevent Luo Yao from taking the opportunity to cross the river to the east. This shows that the emperor had already predicted all possible things and nothing could hide from his eyes.

Li Yuanshan also knew that this fake news must have been spread by the emperor Yang Yi. This kind of news is sometimes more lethal than just slashing it with a knife. At most one person is killed with one knife, but one fake news can make hundreds of thousands of people panic.

At this moment, Li Yuanshan had to admit that he had indeed underestimated Yang Yi.

An emperor who can do everything he can join forces with the Mongols and Yuan people has given up all his concerns and all his ties is undoubtedly terrible. He no longer cares about his reputation behind him, so what else is he afraid of?

It was also at this time that Li Yuanshan realized that his situation had really reached the abyss. The most tragic thing was that not only was the abyss in front, but also the behind.

In just a few days, Li Yuanshan seemed to have grown up ten years old.

Since the rebellion, he never doubted that he could not turn his dream of turning his family into a country into reality. Over the past three years, he felt that he had been moving towards success every day. When he became king, he had many subordinates advised him to take advantage of the victory, advance east or south, and the fatigue of the northwest was not a place to raise troops for a long time. But he firmly followed his plan and had never wavered. Now, he finally regretted it.

He knew the fatigue of the northwest and the prosperity of the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River.

The reason why he did not advance was to decide the overall situation in the northwest. As long as he forced the emperor to personally fight to eliminate the emperor on this desolate land, the beautiful mountains and rivers in the south of the Central Plains would be destroyed as little as possible. What he wanted was the entire empire, not a corner, and in his eyes the tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were his things, and he was reluctant to destroy it. But this dream finally came to a time to collapse.

Li Yuanshan always believed that the Yang family owed their Li family too much. During the Taizong period, Li Xiao led his troops to conquer half of the territory of the Sui Dynasty. Such achievements were unprecedented and unparalleled. The Yang family was held up by Li Xiao in one hand. If it were not for Li Xiao, this empire would not be so powerful.

But later, in order to prevent Li Xiao from being strong and compelling, the emperor sent him to a poor and poor place in the northwest, saying that he was a heavy-hearted and guarding the gate, but in fact he was isolated in this place far away from the prosperity. Not only that, after depriving Li Xiao of most of his military power, he also sent another two guards to monitor the Li family, always guarding against Li Xiao for having strange intentions.

Few people know that Li Xiao once raised his head and sighed in his later years, regretting that he had made so many contributions to the Great Sui Dynasty that his descendants were implicated.

Li Yuanshan hated him from beginning to end.

Why should the Yang family treat him Li family like this?

Since half of the world of the Great Sui Dynasty was defeated by the Li family, why can't the Li family get it back?

Standing on the wall of Xiping City, Li Yuanshan looked at the battlefield outside the city and was speechless.

Or the wind and sand caught my eyes, and tears were flowing.

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In June, Li Yuanshan ordered sixteen orders to mobilize Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan's rebels to join Xiping City, but the sixteen orders were sent out and there was no news as if they were in the sea. Not to mention that Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan did not come, even no one sent to send the orders came back.

When you are proud, thousands of people admire you, and when you are frustrated, people push you down.

After hesitating for a few days, Li Yuanshan finally made up his mind.

It can no longer be consumed like this. The soldiers in the city are his confidants. Although the people are unstable, they at least maintain military discipline. Over the past few days, a large number of soldiers fled every day. The generals began to plan their retreat and did not have the intention to restrain their subordinates. If this continues, there is no need for the imperial army to continue attacking, and those rumors can defeat Li Yuanshan and will never be reborn.

On June 28, 15th year of Tianyou, the day when Li Yuanshan ascended the throne in Xiping City.

He announced the establishment of the State of Great Zhou, established the capital of Xiping, and established the Yuan of Wanshi.

In the cramped county magistrates in Xiping City, Li Yuanshan, wearing a dragon robe, was granted a great title to ministers. Li Xiaoche was the crown prince, Song Qianhui was the prime minister, and Wan Yansong of Zhou Dingguo was the general of the pillar country. Rebel generals and civil servants in and outside the city were awarded rewards, and more than a dozen first-rank officials were granted, and hundreds of second- and third-rank officials were granted. In a moment, an emperor, dozens of dukes, hundreds of marquises, and countless generals were suddenly born in the city.

After Li Yuanshan ascended the throne, he began to designate fiefs for his subordinates. Some were enfeoffed in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and some were enfeoffed in the northeast, which were all prosperous and prosperous places. However, everyone also knew that they probably wouldn't have the chance to visit their fiefdom in their lives.

Because there was no plan before, the emperor's throne ceremony in Xiping City was so simple that it was ridiculously simple. Li Yuanshan's dragon robe was still his black embroidered dragon king robe, and he temporarily sewed some yellow silk on the collar and cuffs. Li Yuanshan had already thought about the name of the Ding Kingdom, because Li Xiao's title was Duke of Zhou a hundred years ago. Because he could not collect the number of civil servants, he had to arrange for the guards to wear literati clothes to pretend. And because there was no jade seal, the seal stamped on hundreds of decrees issued by Emperor Li Yuanshan of the Great Zhou Dynasty was carved with a brick.

Imagine that His Majesty, the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was holding a brick in his hand and covering the so-called imperial edict again and again seriously. It was also quite interesting.

As for the officials who were enfeoffed, it doesn't matter if they don't have a suitable crown and uniform. No one cares anyway. Even the emperor's dragon robe is as good as that, what else can they not make do with them?

That night, the Emperor of Great Zhou was in the county magistrate's yamen... No, he was a banquet for ministers in the Great Zhou Palace. Because the city had limited food and grass, there were only two meat dishes on each table. A bowl of pork, cabbage and a portion of local chicken stewed mushrooms was the most luxurious main dish. A group of hou masters from the Duke County sat at the table, shook their heads and smiled bitterly at the food.

Of course, this was not the most disturbing thing for them. During the meal, Emperor Zhou of Great Zhou had someone read dozens of decrees, and he gave them an emperor title from his father to Li Xiao, especially Li Xiao, with a posthumous title of 64 words. I don’t know how much hair the man who thought about these words took off his hair to get it out. The decrees were then given to the descendants of the Li family. Li Yuanshan granted more than a dozen princes and more than 30 princes in one breath. For a moment, the Duke and County Marquis in the county magistrates immediately faded.

Everyone lowered their heads, and there was no joy on their faces.

but

Li Yuanshan seems not to be affected.

He sat on a temporary high platform, raised his wine glass and spoke generously, recalling the past and looking forward to the future. After a full half an hour of talking, the pork and cabbage were already cold, he had not finished speaking, but the hands of the officials holding the wine glass were already sore and numb.

Li Yuanshan kept laughing and looked really happy.

The banquet ended until midnight. The Emperor of Great Zhou, who had a great time, was supported by the eunuch, and returned to the "bedroom" to rest. Prince Li Xiaoche followed behind, walking with his head down, as if he didn't want people to see the embarrassed look on his face.

Back at the residence, Li Xiaoche served Li Yuanshan and took off his clothes and covered him with a quilt. Looking at this drunken man who was unconscious, the father who once regarded as the whole sky, Li Xiaoche felt bitter in his mouth. He knew how ridiculous his father's decision was, and how ridiculous the so-called throne ceremony was. But from beginning to end, he tried to make himself look solemn, just to comfort his father's actually broken heart.

emperor……

My father eventually became the emperor, which was enough, right?

Li Xiaozong stood beside the bed and stared at Li Yuanshan for a long time, and his heart felt as if it was a knife.

I don’t know how long he had been standing like this, but Li Xiaoche sighed and prepared to leave. Just as he walked to the door, he suddenly heard a low sob from behind. He turned around suddenly, but found that although his father was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his tears could not stop flowing.

Li Xiaoche quickly walked back, but opened his mouth but could not find words of comfort.

"Cheer..."

"Father"

"I owe you a grand ceremony for the crown prince, and I will return it to you for my father."

Li Yuanshan muttered, Li Xiaoche couldn't tell whether he was awake or drunk.

"The people from the Li family...the people from the Li family never give in!"
Chapter completed!