Chapter 451: Time to Seize the Throne

After Lu Chen entered the capital of Qi State, he immediately issued a series of policies that benefited the people.

In addition, Lu Chen did not even kill the people in Qi Wangfu, which immediately made the people of Qi State feel that the Northern King was a benevolent prince who would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, which also alleviated the fear of Lu Chen of the people of Qi State to a certain extent.

However, those families who had helped Qi State fight against the Northern Army basically did not have a good end.

After Qi State stabilized, Wei Siyuan and Mu Changtian each led an army of 200,000 and began to attack Daxia's homeland.

Mu Changtian and Wei Siyuan belonged to the vanguard troops. The army they led had to destroy most of Daxia's army, and then Lu Chen would go straight to the capital.

Time passed in a flash, half a month later.

Lu Chen's temporary office.

Lu Chen was browsing some official documents sent from Yancheng, at this time, Bai Qingqing's voice sounded at the door.

"Commander Qin wants to see you."

Lu Chen said calmly: "Come in."

Qin Yushan then entered the room, "Meet the prince."

Lu Chen nodded and said: "Well, what information do you have recently?"

Qin Yushan immediately handed the information in his hand to Lu Chen, and then reported: "The eldest prince's people found the materials for making gunpowder and have begun to think of ways to make firearms."

"And in order not to conflict with the Northern Army, the eldest prince has led his troops south."

Hearing this, Lu Chen was stunned.

The people in this world discovered gunpowder so quickly?

Lu Chen then calmed down his emotions. Although it was only a few years, the firearms of the Northern Kingdom had been replaced for several generations. It was not strange for people in this world to discover gunpowder.

Lu Chen then opened the letter in his hand and read it carefully. The information mentioned in detail how Lu Yi discovered gunpowder.

Seeing that Lu Yi discovered gunpowder when the fake Taoist priest was refining elixirs, Lu Chen thought to himself that if he had not appeared, even if they discovered gunpowder, they would probably only use it to set off fireworks. Without a few hundred years, gunpowder would probably not be used in the military.

But then again, even if Lu Yi and his team discovered gunpowder, the gunpowder they could make was at most black gunpowder, and its power was definitely not as strong as the gunpowder of the Northern Kingdom. Now the gunpowder of the Northern Kingdom has been replaced for several generations.

Of course, this is indeed a huge threat, and he has to seize the throne as soon as possible.

Lu Yi has discovered gunpowder, and other forces may also have discovered gunpowder. As time goes by, other dynasties may also have firearms.

Although their firearms are not as powerful as those of the Northern Kingdom, if other dynasties have firearms, it will be a huge threat to the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom. When the Northern Kingdom is ready to unify several major dynasties in the future, the process will inevitably be slowed down by firearms.

It is best to push down several major dynasties before other dynasties invent firearms.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately picked up a pen and began to write military orders.

Soon, the new military order was passed to Wei Siyuan and Mu Changtian. In the following time, Mu Changtian and Wei Siyuan accelerated the pace of attack.

At the same time.

A city in the south.

King Zhao looked at the intelligence in his hand, frowned, and did not speak for a long time.

At this time, there were more than a dozen of his subordinates standing in front of King Zhao. One of his subordinates said, "Your Majesty, now the eldest prince is taking advantage of our absence and colluding with the remnants of those vassal kings to occupy the territory we have conquered with great difficulty. We can't just let it go!"

As soon as this subordinate finished speaking, another subordinate also said, "Yes, Your Majesty, if we don't send someone to take care of it, I don't know what the eldest prince will do!"

King Zhao has his own clear goals. He doesn't care much about the gains and losses of some lands, but his subordinates are different. They have destroyed those vassal states with great difficulty, but the eldest prince occupied those lands as soon as he arrived.

King Zhao put down the intelligence in his hand, glanced at his subordinates, and then said lightly: "Qi State has been destroyed. The Northern State has sent a total of 600,000 troops to the south. It won't take long for the capital to fall. If the Northern King enters the capital before me, that position will belong to the Northern King."

"Once the Northern King becomes the emperor, all my efforts will be in vain. If I divide my troops to compete with the eldest prince for those pieces of land, how can I compete with the Northern King for that position?"

Hearing what King Zhao said, King Zhao's subordinates were stunned.

At this time, one of King Zhao's subordinates said: "Your Majesty has a long-term vision and foresight. We admire you!"

King Zhao continued: "We must hurry up and go north to stop the Northern Army from going to the capital!"

"Especially the army advancing eastward from Heyang County."

Speaking of this, King Zhao looked up at the distance, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

Is this what you want!

The war had reached this point. Even if the unification was finally completed, there would be no more vassal kings in Daxia, and the power of Emperor Xia would reach its peak, but what fell into Emperor Xia's hands was still a broken Daxia.

It would take many years for Daxia to recover to its pre-war level.

King Zhao felt that Emperor Xia was going too far.

But he was on Emperor Xia's side after all, so he couldn't say anything.

Now he could only follow what Emperor Xia said and go south as soon as possible to help the court get rid of the "last vassal king" of the North King.

Mu Changtian and Wei Siyuan accelerated their attack after receiving Lu Chen's military order. Emperor Xia did not intend to stop them from going to the capital at first, so in a very short time, most of the counties in Daxia were controlled by the Northern Kingdom.

However, Mu Changtian and Wei Siyuan's advancement speed was too fast, and they were almost at the area controlled by the capital.

Emperor Xia found that Lu Chen was still staying in the capital of Qi Kingdom, without moving at all. If the two armies of the Northern Kingdom continued to advance, I am afraid that the capital would be conquered by these 400,000 troops.

This is definitely not possible. We must find a way to delay them until Lu Chen goes south before letting them approach the capital. Then Emperor Xia began to dispatch troops and secretly sent a letter to King Zhao, asking King Zhao to find a way to delay the army led by Mu Changtian.

As for the Daxia court, it focused on dealing with the Northern Kingdom navy in the east.

It was just a small fight before, and the next step is the real war.

After receiving Emperor Xia's letter, King Zhao immediately dispatched troops to approach the direction of Mu Changtian's army.

At this time, the 200,000 troops led by Mu Changtian were still stationed in Jingjiang City for repairs. With the presence of the Jinyiwei, Mu Changtian knew everything that King Zhao did. Mu Changtian also knew that King Zhao had led 400,000 troops to approach Jingjiang City.

Although King Zhao's army was twice as large as theirs, Mu Changtian was not panicked at all.

King Zhao and he were old friends.

In order to help Emperor Xia fight for the throne, they had cooperated many times. Mu Changtian knew very well that King Zhao was Emperor Xia's man.

Although it seemed that King Zhao had rebelled, it could be seen from the fact that King Zhao did not directly attack the capital, but instead came to intercept the Northern Army that King Zhao was still on the side of Emperor Xia.

At this time, King Zhao did not know who led the Northern Army he was about to fight. After approaching Jingjiang City, he immediately led the army to make a tentative attack to test the combat effectiveness of the Northern Army.

It had long been heard that the Northern Army was strong in combat effectiveness, coupled with the achievements of the Northern Army in the north, which made King Zhao cautious.

But what surprised King Zhao was that when they were approaching the city, the Northern Army retreated inside Jingjiang City and did not attack. This made King Zhao feel something was wrong.

Just when King Zhao was about to order his soldiers to launch an attack, Mu Changtian appeared on the tower of Jingjiang City and froze King Zhao. (End of this chapter)