After a fierce battle, Li Hongyun returned to the starting point again.
The situation turned around at the last minute, and his first attempt failed even though he thought he had great hope.
"Damn it, where exactly is the problem..."
Li Hongyun began to review his first attempt.
In the previous part of following the King of Qin to conquer the world, he felt that there was no big problem.
After all, in this process, he established military merit and prestige, regained Hebei generals such as Liu Heita, and cultivated his own power.
If the Xuanwumen Incident developed according to the original historical plan, then he and the prince would have probably won by relying on their superior strength.
The King of Qin inexplicably sided with the Emperor, which turned them into rebellion, and the situation reversed, causing all Li Hongyun's preparations to fail.
"Is it because I don't know enough about the details of the historical data?
"Or is it that King Qin read the script in advance?"
Li Hongyun thought about it carefully and realized that both situations were possible.
Previously, his completion rate for the Xuanwu Gate Change was only 74%, and he could not say that he had a perfect grasp of all the details.
Although the Xuanwumen Incident he staged is basically consistent with the ending in history, there are still hidden dangers after all. Perhaps after a certain known condition changes, King Qin's countermeasures will also change, and then the entire situation will turn out completely.
It’s different.
"Is it because King Qin has already placed undercover agents in the Prince's Mansion and Prince Qi's Mansion in advance to understand our movements?
"So, he originally planned to launch a coup, imprison Liang Gaozu first and then kill the prince. He changed his strategy temporarily. Instead, he took advantage of our attack on Xuanwu Gate to inform Liang Gaozu in advance and teamed up with the imperial army to ambush in the palace..."
After much thought, Li Hongyun concluded that this was the possibility with the highest probability.
In real history, the Prince's Palace and the Prince of Qi's Palace were basically in a state of leakage from all sides. The Prince and the Prince of Qi conspired to kill the King of Qin, but the King of Qin always got the news first.
On the day of the Xuanwumen Incident, King Qin had already mobilized so many people to complete the conspiracy, but the prince and King Qi were still completely kept in the dark.
This is enough to show how big the gap between the two sides is in intelligence.
"So, I have to find a way to find out the mole?
"But it's not so easy to find out the mole..."
There is no historical record of how many moles King Qin planted in the prince's and Prince Qi's palaces.
And it is basically impossible for Li Hongyun to find these people by his own strength.
A stupid way is to go back to the previous stage, replay the Xuanwu Gate Incident a few times from a God's perspective, keep an eye on everyone in the Qin Prince's Palace and the Prince's Palace, find all the undercover agents, and then come back and kill all the undercover agents.
Clean it out.
But this method is obviously not feasible.
First, there are too many people in the Qin Prince's Palace and the Prince's Palace. The Prince's private soldiers alone have 3,000 people. In addition, the Prince's Palace also has a whole team of officials. This number will reach a very exaggerated level.
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Even if the scope is narrowed to the core personnel of the Prince's Mansion, the number is still huge. If you want to follow them one by one from beginning to end, it is too inefficient and time does not allow it.
Second, the gap between the two sides does not lie in a single traitor, but in all-round intelligence capabilities.
Even if Li Hongyun removed a group of undercover agents in the Prince's Mansion, King Qin would still have the ability to continue to develop more undercover agents.
Even when Li Hongyun selected the first undercover agent, the King of Qin may have noticed it, changed his strategy, and replaced a group of people to instigate rebellion.
When the time comes, if he tries to copy answers from the previous stage, he won't be able to copy them at all.
Therefore, after some analysis, Li Hongyun found that according to his current method, this problem is basically unsolvable.
Because if you want to defeat the King of Qin in the Xuanwu Gate Incident, you must establish a more powerful intelligence network system than him, keep the King of Qin in the dark, and keep abreast of the latest developments of the King of Qin.
Not only that, Li Hongyun also realized a new problem in the process.
That is, what are the specific clearance standards for this level?
The goal of the game reads: "Play as King Qi and win the Xuanwu Gate Change."
But what does it mean to “win”?
Does killing the King of Qin count as a win? Or does helping the King of Qin count as a win? Or does it count as killing the Crown Prince, King of Qin, and Liang Gaozu together?
Based on Li Hongyun's understanding of this game, I'm afraid the default setting is the highest difficulty without saying anything.
Therefore, it is very likely that even if he helped the prince to kill the King of Qin, but did not kill the prince, he still would not be able to achieve his goal.
So, in his second attempt, Li Hongyun decided to verify this problem first.
On the whole, he still followed the idea of the first attempt, first defending Jinyang City, then following the King of Qin to conquer the world, and finally subduing the forces in Hebei for his own use.
In the final stage of the Xuanwu Gate Revolution, on the surface he stood firmly with the prince, but in fact he secretly helped the King of Qin unconditionally.
As a result, the difficulty of the game really dropped sharply.
With King Qi as the ultimate insider, the prince had no power to fight back, and the Xuanwu Sect incident naturally ended without any suspense.
But after completing all this, Li Hongyun did not see a clearance prompt in his field of vision.
This means that helping King Qin win the Xuanwu Gate Change does not count as completing the goal!
Because it was King Qin who won, not you, King Qi, who won. You are just a vassal of King Qin.
After getting this result, Li Hongyun sighed silently.
Sure enough, this crappy game has always been like this, and his guess was correct!
In this way, in fact, even if he helped the prince kill the King of Qin in the first stage, it would not be considered a clearance, because it was the victory of the prince, not the victory of the King of Qi.
The game is still in progress.
Even if Li Hongyun helped the prince to kill the King of Qin, or helped the King of Qin to kill the prince, he would have to continue to kill the prince and the King of Qin to be considered successful.
This is difficult to do.
After helping King Qin win the Xuanwu Gate Incident, then kill King Qin?
The level of difficulty is so high that it would be better not to help King Qin in the first place.
Therefore, as soon as the Xuanwu Gate Revolution was completed, while the King of Qin and his ministers rejoiced at the success, King Qi, who had played the first role in the Xuanwu Gate Revolution, silently drew out his sword and committed suicide.
"Fourth brother! Fourth brother!"
King Qin was shocked. He rushed to hug King Qi's body, only to find that blood was gushing from the aorta in his neck, and the man had completely lost his life.
King Qin cried bitterly.
He obviously couldn't understand even if he wanted to, why the two brothers shared hardships together, but when it was time to enjoy happiness, King Qi couldn't think about it and committed suicide...
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Returning to the original starting point again, Li Hongyun completely overturned the previous method and decided to fundamentally change the strategy.
“It has been made clear that ‘winning the Xuanwu Gate Change’ means becoming the final winner of this coup.
"Being attached to the prince or the king of Qin does not count as winning. You have to play the role of the king of Qi, kill everyone and succeed in monopolizing power.
"The difficulty has increased again..."
Li Hongyun naturally thought of a way to become a third force independent of the prince and King Qin and reap the benefits.
But after a few simple attempts, I found that this didn't work at all.
"Ansha" is quite user-friendly in this regard. If the previously played content does not need to be changed, you can directly jump to key nodes. So Li Hongyun tried several times, starting directly from the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
It didn't take much time.
The reason why this method doesn't work is very simple: not helping each other means that both sides will be on guard at the same time, and as the weakest King of Qi, he will naturally be killed first.
That is to say, the boss and the second child got into a fight and beat the third child to death.
The reason why the situation of three-thirds of the world rarely occurs in history is precisely because it is difficult for a weak third party to seize any good strategic window period to develop its own power.
Just when it showed signs of becoming the third strongest, the other two strongmen had already noticed this problem and immediately stopped fighting and strangled the third party to death. They would not be stupid enough to let him reap the benefits.
Of course, "being killed" does not mean that King Qi will be physically eliminated, but that under the joint suppression of the Crown Prince and King of Qin, his power has been reduced to a level where he cannot pose a threat to the two of them.
Then, the prince and the king of Qin continued to fight.
The result was undoubtedly the victory of King Qin.
So Li Hongyun found in great despair that he had tried all three possibilities but could not win.
Helping the prince, with Liang Gaozu's balance, King Qin could still make a comeback with overwhelming intelligence superiority;
Help King Qin, King Qin will become invincible immediately, and it will be more difficult to defeat King Qin next;
The two did not help each other and were suppressed by the alliance. King Qin still won, but he was still unable to overthrow King Qin.
So, after much thought, Li Hongyun came to a conclusion.
His original gameplay did not fundamentally change the pattern of the Xuanwu Gate Incident. King Qin was still sure of victory. He and the prince were powerful on the surface, but in fact they were powerful on the outside and could be broken at the first touch.
The root of all this is that in the process of conquering the world, the King of Qin was still the main one.
Although the King of Qi played by Li Hongyun also played an important role, in the final analysis he still followed the King of Qin as a deputy.
Then, the talents under his command, or the support of the people in the world, will naturally remain on the side of King Qin.
The King of Qi he plays still lives in the shadow of King Qin his whole life.
"So, the most fundamental way to win the Xuanwu Gate Change is to replace King Qin and become the true founder of the Liang Dynasty?"
Li Hongyun felt as if his head was as big as a bucket. The difficulty suddenly increased several levels.
But after a comprehensive analysis, this can only be the only way.
Thinking of this, Li Hongyun decided to start from scratch.
The first problem he had to solve was: age.
The King of Qi is four years younger than the King of Qin.
Therefore, when King Qi got his first opportunity to make military exploits in Jinyang, King Qin was already twenty years old.
The King of Qin began to lead troops to fight at the age of eighteen. He had been fighting for two full years at this time, including but not limited to "Yanmen Rescue", "Rescuing Liang Gaozu from the Ten Thousand Troops", "Planning Jinyang to Raise the Army", "
"The great defeat of Song Laosheng", "The great defeat of Xue Rengao in the battle of Qianshuiyuan" and many other famous scenes.
Then came the defeat of Liu Wuzhou, the crusade against Wang Shichong, and the capture of two kings at Hulao Pass.
At the time of the previous actions, King Qi was still too young. He just stayed in Jinyang and had no chance to make any achievements.
As for the following actions, although King Qi could accompany the army, King Qin had already established great achievements, and they were all decisive battles that determined the fate of the country. Liang Gaozu had no reason to divide his troops.
Therefore, due to his age, King Qi was destined to live forever in the shadow of King Qin, with no chance of success.
If the player plays the role of the prince, then Li Hongyun can still struggle a little.
You can take the initiative to lead troops in battles from the very beginning, and get a few more talents and skills that improve combat power and military skills, so as to seize these military merits.
But if it were King Qi, the age issue would be enough to give Li Hongyun a headache.
However, Li Hongyun did not give up because of this. After careful study, he found a breakthrough.
This breakthrough was the Battle of Asamizuhara.
The King of Qin was the most skilled emperor in history. From the time he started the army at the age of 18 until he personally conquered Goguryeo in his later years, he never suffered a defeat.
However, many people say that the Battle of Qianshuiyuan was the only defeat in King Qin's life.
This statement is incorrect, but for Li Hongyun, there is a hidden opportunity.
The historical records of the Battle of Asamizuhara are very clear, and it is divided into two battles before and after.
The first time, Xue Ju came to attack, the King of Qin led troops to confront him, deepened the trenches, raised the barriers, and did not confront Xue Ju. But at this time, the King of Qin happened to be suffering from malaria, so he entrusted the military to Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan, and repeatedly warned:
Xue Ju's army goes deep alone, there is not much food and grass, and the soldiers are tired, so they must fight quickly. You just need to hold on to the barrier, and you can defeat him after I recover.
As a result, Yin Kaishan encouraged Liu Wenjing to go to war, thinking that the other party would definitely despise Liang Jun when they heard that King Qin was ill, and it was just a good time to fight to deter the enemy.
As a result, he died after trying. He was surrounded by Xue Ju and attacked. Fifty-six out of ten soldiers died, and several generals were also captured. The heads of the fallen soldiers were even built into the Jingguan. It can be said to be a disastrous defeat.
But then, Liang Gaozu once again provided reinforcements to the King of Qin and made a comeback. This time, the King of Qin led the troops after recovering from his illness. He also could not hold on and waited for more than 60 days to wait for the other side to finish the food before launching an aggressive attack and completely pacifying Longxi.
Many people forcefully put this defeat on the head of King Qin, which is nothing more than the same old rhetoric: King Qin's illness is an excuse and the result of changing history. He just lost the battle, and then let Liu Wenjing take the blame.
But in fact this statement makes no sense.
First of all, Liu Wenjing is not a small person who can be used casually to take the blame. He was one of the Four Yuan Conspirators who raised the army in Jinyang. He had the privilege of "forgiving two deaths" and was the most important prime minister of the Liang Dynasty at that time.
Moreover, he also showed certain military capabilities, so it was very reasonable for him to take over the command instead of King Qin.
After being defeated by Xue Ju, Liu Wenjing was dismissed from office and imprisoned, but the King of Qin was able to lead troops to fight against Xue Ju again. Xue Rengao and his son were enough to see that Liu Wenjing was not the one to blame, but that he was the main person responsible for this failure.
Secondly, Xue Ju cannot be said to be a particularly powerful general. His combat effectiveness is indeed not weak, but except for the great victory in the first battle of Dioyuan, there is no special record of using his troops like a god.
Finally, the root cause of the failure in the Battle of Qianshuiyuan was Liang Jun's hasty attack, which was actually completely inconsistent with the King of Qin's consistent combat style.
The basic pattern of every battle the King of Qin fought was the same, which was to hold on, harass the grain routes, demoralize the enemy, and pursue them fiercely.
The King of Qin did this before and after Qian Shui Yuan, but it was completely unreasonable to attack rashly in the first battle of Qian Shui Yuan.
Therefore, there is no problem in the historical records. At that time, the King of Qin temporarily handed over the power to lead the army because he had malaria, but Yin Kaishan and Liu Wenjing messed around, which led to a disastrous defeat.
So for Li Hongyun, why was the Battle of Qianshuiyuan the only breakthrough for him to play King Qi?
Because before that, the King of Qi he played was too young to participate in the war; after that, King Qin undisputedly became the most capable person in the entire Liang Dynasty, and it was almost impossible to shake his status.
Impossible.
Only during the Battle of Qianshuiyuan, when the King of Qin was ill, did he achieve a victory that shocked Liang Gaozu, and then did he hope to lead the army independently from the King of Qin, or even replace him.
So the next question is: How can he go to Qianshuiyuan when he is in Jinyang?
Just drop Jinyang and run over? That definitely won't work.
That was an absence from duty, and he couldn't seize the military power from Liu Wenjing when he got to Jinyang. No matter how much Liang Gaozu doted on him, he couldn't hand over military and state affairs to a man who was only fifteen or sixteen years old and had never fought.
The younger son who has been through the war.
Therefore, if you want to seize this opportunity and win the battle while King Qin is ill, you must establish some meritorious deeds in advance to make everyone think that King Qi is qualified to replace King Qin.
Then, he must continue to advance this time point and play a decisive role in the two links of "raising troops in Jinyang" and "pacifying Song Laosheng".
For a middle school boy who was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, this was indeed quite ridiculous.
But Li Hongyun did not give up, because this was the only solution he could think of.
Just do it.
Li Hongyun started the trial again, and the first time he saw King Qi, the idea of moving the timeline forward flashed in his mind.
Sure enough, the entire trial illusion began to change, and it really kept going backwards, returning to the state when Liang Gaozu raised his army in Jinyang.
Naturally, King Qi's age further deteriorated and he became a boy of only fourteen or fifteen years old.
At such a young age, it is very troublesome to do many things.
It was impossible to march and fight, because his physical fitness was too far behind, and he would be wasted on fighting on the battlefield, and no one would listen to his command.
The only way out is to make plans.
However, suggestions may also be ignored by others, considered as children's jokes, and may not even be listened to.
The method Li Hongyun came up with was quite simple, crude and efficient: copy!
He wanted to copy the methods of Liang Gaozu and Qin Wang from historical materials, and put forward various suggestions before them.
In this way, Liang Gaozu and the King of Qin would find that this fourteen-year-old or fifteen-year-old boy had seen many people, and most importantly, he thought of them every time.
At that time, Li Hongyun will flatter these two people a little, and over time, his opinions will be taken seriously, which will lay a solid foundation for a series of actions he will take in the future.
There are contradictory records in historical records regarding the Jinyang uprising.
Some historical materials record the main figure who raised the army as Liang Gaozu, believing that Liang Gaozu had long had the idea of rebellion and implemented it step by step; while other historical materials record that the main person who raised the army was the King of Qin, believing that Liang Gaozu was hesitant and it was the Qin King who repeatedly persuaded him.
Liang Gaozu finally made up his mind.
It's hard to tell the specific situation clearly, but for Li Hongyun, it's not a big problem.
These two statements are probably not contradictory.
First of all, we can be sure that Liang Gaozu himself must have had the idea of raising an army. The previous dynasty was already in turmoil and turmoil was everywhere, and he was not stupid. There was no need to continue to hold the memorial arch of the loyal ministers of the previous dynasty to bury the previous dynasty.
Wouldn’t it be nice to raise your own army and become the emperor?
But he was the supreme leader at the time, and for such a big thing as raising an army to rebel, he had to make a decision after weighing all aspects of the situation and putting safety first.
Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, it may appear as hesitation.
As a young man who was just eighteen years old and full of energy, the King of Qin was very ambitious and his behavior of making friends with heroes and cultivating his power was unquestionable. It was also normal for him to persuade Liang Gaozu to raise an army.
Therefore, Li Hongyun believed that Liang Gaozu took the lead in this matter and made the final decision. However, because he was not sure of his appeal and strength, nor was he sure of the prospects at that time, and because he was in a high position, he could see better than the King of Qin.
There are more unfavorable factors, so hesitation and hesitation are shown in the process.
There is no doubt that King Qin played an important role in the process of raising troops in Jinyang.
So, after Li Hongyun thought hard, he decided to put the breakthrough first on King Qin.
The first step was to make suggestions and play a vital role in the process of King Qin persuading Liang Gaozu to raise an army.
