Chapter 944: Driving away wolves and devouring tigers
Three days later, we arrived at the capital city and the imperial palace.
Ever since Wei Changtian arrived in Linchuan, the place has always been as depressing as a dark cloud.
And when Su Qi announced an "uprising" and led an army of 300,000 men toward the capital, this depression became even more intense, almost making people breathless.
Every eunuch, maid, court official, and court official walking in the palace had a sad look on their face. People they met on the street just nodded and passed by each other. Almost no one stopped to chat.
It was as if an invisible hand was strangling everyone's throat, causing everything here to fall into an extremely tight silence.
In fact, for the court officials in Daqian, it seems a little too early to be "desperate" now, and even a bit unfounded.
After all, the war has not yet started, and preparations have been made both inside and outside the capital. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to fear an attack by a mere 300,000 people.
What's more, among the 300,000 people, there are 200,000 surrendered troops from the previous battle of Xinfeng, and 50,000 Linchuan garrison, a total of 250,000 Dagan people.
Even now, these 250,000 people are still obeying Wei Changtian's orders, but if a war really breaks out, how many of them will swing their swords at their compatriots?
Even in the least optimistic scenario, this number will definitely not be less.
So, no matter how you look at it, no matter how brave and skillful the Tengu Army is, this thousand-year-old city seems to never be lost.
But at this moment, no one in the huge palace took this battle lightly.
Just because their opponent is Wei Changtian.
From establishing the Shu dynasty, to forcibly helping Ning Wenjun usurp the throne, to retreating from the enemy in Liangzhou, and defeating millions of returned coalition troops under Fengyuan City.
There is also the big one that was destroyed a month ago...
In just over two years, Wei Changtian has accomplished many incredible "feats".
And before these things happened, who would have believed that he could do it?
Therefore, none of the big shots in Daqian dared to sneer at Wei Changtian's words, "Daqian must perish."
Some people even have a copper leak in their hearts that symbolizes the "countdown to the country's subjugation."
As the 300,000 rebels get closer and closer, there is not much time left.
When the last grain of yellow sand falls, no one can guess whether Da Qian really changed his dynasty and changed his surname, or whether Wei Changtian retreated in defeat.
So all they can do now is to continue to strengthen the already impregnable city defense, try their best to mobilize more experts, and mobilize all the forces they can mobilize, just to tilt the balance of victory and defeat even a little more towards Daqian. .....
When facing a war that affects the survival of the country and having enough time to prepare, the energy that a dynasty like Dagan can unleash is huge.
After all, Jing Guoqing was not a foolish king. Apart from his mistakes in launching the Eastern Expedition, his "ruling career" had no major blemishes and he was quite popular among the people.
Then, the people are naturally willing to fight to the end against the "evil" Wei Changtian for such a king and such a dynasty, and the country's cohesion has reached an unprecedented level.
Then, it seemed that even God was infected by the "resistance spirit" of the Daqian people. How pitiful God was. Four days ago, information about the Son of Heaven suddenly spread throughout the world.
At first glance, this incident has nothing to do with this "battle to protect the country."
But if you think about it carefully, this is actually a great benefit to Daqian.
When two tigers fight, the loser will die and the winner will be injured.
Although the injured tiger wins, the third tiger is the most feared.
Before, no one dared to be the third tiger.
After all, Wei Changtian's vengeful character makes most people never take risks for a little profit.
But now it's different.
As long as this battle starts, no matter what the outcome is, it can be foreseen that countless forces will take the opportunity to kill Wei Changtian and seize his luck.
In other words, the piece of information about the Son of Heaven may not directly threaten the already extremely powerful Wei Changtian, but it has attracted countless evil tigers who are eyeing him.
These evil tigers were hiding in the forest, watching him all the time.
Normally, they don't act rashly.
But if one day Wei Changtian relaxes his vigilance, or is "injured" due to a fight, then they will swarm up and add insult to injury...
Faced with this situation, Wei Changtian didn't seem to have any good solution.
Unless he can never be "injured" or reveal his flaws.
But not being "injured" means not "fighting", and not "fighting" means that he will stand still from now on.
Since I can't kill you, then I will stop your "development" and make you dare not do anything... Obviously, this is actually the real purpose of the mysterious man.
It not only increases the difficulty for Wei Changtian to continue to plunder his luck, but also forces Wei Changtian to be timid in his actions. As Guan Kong said, such a plan to drive away wolves and swallow tigers is indeed a clever move.
Fortunately, Wei Changtian had figured out the key three days ago.
As for how he will respond next...
...
"clatter."
At midnight, Wei Changtian came to the deathly silent Daqian capital with a slight sound in a certain alley.
"Good guy, it looks like a doomsday fortress..."
Looking back at the city wall with endless flames and the soldiers walking around on top of the city, he muttered in a low voice, obviously not expecting that the city defense was so tight to such an almost exaggerated level.
With this defensive intensity, let alone the 300,000-strong disorganized army, even double the number of regular troops would probably only be able to return in vain.
Fortunately, Wei Changtian had no intention of actually attacking the city.
Yes.
From the beginning to the end, Wei Changtian never thought about destroying Daqian through war, but had a more direct plan.
First, force Su Qi to rebel, lead his troops to attack in a big way, and attract the attention of the government and the public to this rebel.
Then, he sneaked into the capital and killed Jing Guoqing and destroyed the Jing family.
Finally, during the chaos, 300,000 people outside the city were used to help Su Qi onto the throne.
Just three steps in total and you’re done! Simple and efficient!
Although the information leakage of the Son of Heaven broke out in the middle, it did not affect the entire plan.
And now it seems that Jing Guoqing has really been misled, and has already put all his focus on defending the city.
Then all we need to do is kill him...
Narrowing his eyes, he mentally felt the location of a certain "Thousand Miles of Smoke" mark. Wei Changtian immediately took a step forward and quickly disappeared at the end of the alley.
At the same time, Duan Fangping and the "Four Evil Men" who had been sent here long ago were waiting in a remote courtyard, with excitement on their faces that was difficult to hide.
"Brother Duan, the young master should be arriving soon, right?"
"After enduring it for so long, I can finally go on a killing spree!"
"Yes! It's so suffocating for me!"
"Hahaha, brothers, don't worry! In fact, my hands are very itchy, but we must not ruin the young master's important event."
"Brother Duan, of course we understand the truth, but when we think about following the young master and killing him right away and leaving his corpses everywhere, we can't wait any longer!"
"Hahahaha! Brother Lu, if you continue to endure, I will definitely let you kill me!"