He could also advance further and even take Qingshi State directly.
Comparing the two results, both are favorable to her. No matter how Ji Wan struggles, she is just a trapped beast fighting hard.
Royal capital.
When the emperor received the memorial early in the morning, he angrily swept all the memorials on the desk to the ground.
"She's a bastard, yet not only did she not die at the hands of Master Geng, she even managed to turn the tables on me and capture Stone City?!"
"Your Majesty, don't be angry. The Duke received news last night. Fanzhou's Grand Commander Yao Cheng has borrowed 80,000 men from Chuzhou and, along with his own 20,000, has sent a total of 100,000 troops to suppress the traitors. Furthermore, the Duke has dispatched our Cui family's General of the Cavalry with 100,000 elite troops to support them at full speed. We will make sure that traitor Ji Wan's head falls to the ground!"
The Duke, the Duke of Zhenguo Cui Renjie.
The General of Cavalry was a retainer of the Cui family and a military talent that the Cui family had fully cultivated.
The emperor, his hair loose, threw down the military report in his hand and said, "Hmph! I will make sure that bastard's head falls to the ground! Wang Changshou, what did the Queen Mother say?"
Wang Changshou bowed his head and silently recited the news that the Empress Dowager had passed on to him. "The Empress Dowager said that she has arranged everything. Although Master Geng only came to report a few days ago after being seriously injured, Your Majesty, don't worry. Master Geng's injuries are recovering quickly. A letter has been sent to his master, and he will be able to set off again in a few days."
Ji Qin then nodded in relief, relaxing the fatigue from last night's indulgence, and turned around to hug the palace maid who had been standing guard all night.
As the emperor, the speed at which his subordinates transmitted information was certainly unmatched by other princes. Only four days after Ji Wan captured Shicheng, news such as the commander-in-chief Yao Cheng led his troops to set off appeared on the desk.
Among the other princes, the only one with such a high speed was Ji Wan's third brother, Ji Ze. With the support of the Southern Xia Kingdom, his power had already expanded from the six cities of Jingzhou to the interior.
It wasn't just Ji Wan who got involved in this mess, but also Ji Wan's third uncle Ji Yuantang and many other princes.
Stone City.
Ji Wan didn't sleep all night. After enduring the cold on the city wall all night, she and her advisers came up with a plan to break the deadlock, which could be considered a rogue plan.
"Jiang Jian! Help me write a manifesto. The content is that Ji Qin killed his father to ascend the throne. I will enforce justice on behalf of Heaven and clean up the government of Donglin! Since all the princes in the world are watching me being the first to take action, I will seize the initiative and gain the reputation of justice!"
She wanted to use the power of the vassal states to disperse her own pressure. Before, all the vassal states had been watching the fight between Ji Wan and Ji Qin with cold eyes, simply because of the reason Ji Wan started the army, "to eliminate the rebels."
The rebel army has no direct conflict of interest with the princes of the world, so of course they cannot threaten the traitor Ji Wan, so they want to consume all the power of Ji Qin, the patricide.
But now Ji Wan refuses to let them have their wish. Since none of you will take action and take the name of justice, then naturally I will take it!
I will take the lead in punishing unfilial descendants and clearing the court of evildoers, and claim the reputation of justice!
Jiang Jian wrote a manifesto in less than half an hour. Ji Wan stamped it with his official seal without hesitation and added a sentence at the end: "The Army of Justice welcomes all those who fight for justice!"
Only by being shameless can you gain the attention and favor of talented people.
Ji Wan had been in the border state of Qingshi for less than a year when she launched two wars. To be honest, her reputation among the princes was not good.
There are countless names such as "warmonger", "brainless reckless man", "the most brainless woman", and "the warmongerer".
The princes of the world naturally looked down on her, but after more than half a month, the princes responded one after another.
Ji Wan's move now held the lifeblood of those who coveted that position, and the princes naturally had to express their stance. It was a joke. Without expressing their stance, how could they seize the opportunity to gain a reputation as a righteous army?
So the princes heard the news and took action, expressing their willingness to purge the emperor's side and then send troops together. None of them wanted Ji Wan to take the lead and seize the opportunity alone.
Half a month after Ji Wan used the protective barrier and remained in a stalemate with the 100,000 soldiers under the city.
Ji Wan waited for the first reinforcement. To call it reinforcement was not correct, it should be a third party force.
The Xie family is a prominent family in Chenzhou County. Of course, it must be mentioned that Yao Cheng, the commander-in-chief with 100,000 soldiers under the city, was a retainer of the Xie family.
How did Ji Wan know about this? That starts with the 8,000 soldiers brought by Xie.
The scouts in the city watched helplessly as the only 8,000 men brought by Xie stormed into the heart of the army of 100,000 soldiers without a single death.
In the end, they were all captured and brought to Yao Cheng's camp, and then news came from the army that some prisoners had been executed.
Obviously, the captives were executed = those who opposed Yao Cheng were executed.
Now the situation suddenly became interesting. Ji Wan and the emperor were at odds. Now that the Xie family had taken over the emperor's army, it meant that Ji Wan and the Xie family were at odds.
But Ji Wan and Xie's goal was to attack the emperor.
Logically, Ji Wan should have joined forces with the Xie family and advanced with the army. However, the difficulty lay in this point. If Ji Wan's forces were similar to the Xie family's, then their strength would be equal, and cooperation would naturally be possible.
But now, Ji Wan only has 20,000 people under his command. What about the enemy? The enemy has a full 108,000 people, which is 110,000 people if rounded up.
Given the inequality in power, if Ji Wan easily agreed to open the city gates and send his own soldiers to join him in attacking Chuzhou, what if someone took advantage of their numerical superiority and directly seized Shicheng?
If that were the case, Ji Wan's situation would be hundreds or thousands of times more miserable than it is now!
So how could Ji Wan easily agree to cooperate?
The bottom line is that Ji Wan doesn't trust the Xie family.
The situation was deadlocked again, and Ji Wan himself was helpless. He could only temporarily order half of the soldiers to stay and guard the city, and the remaining half to take turns to go back to Qingshizhou for training through the teleportation array in the middle of the city gate.
They also use teleportation arrays to continuously transport supplies and items to each other, and work together with the merchants' servants to build facilities within the city.
Cui Min once proposed to temporarily increase taxes for a few months to support Ji Wan's war with the 100,000 people under the city, but was rejected by Ji Wan.
Ji Wan's purpose in fighting was to give the people in the city a good life. If she turned around and exploited the peasants during the war, what else could this be but fighting for her own selfish desires?
In life, there are things we do and things we shouldn't do. Given Ji Wan's personality, it is absolutely impossible for her to compromise or even turn around and exploit the people to satisfy her selfish desires.
For the time being, Ji Wan sent Xiling Mingyue to Qingshizhou for safety. Previously, in order to conserve spiritual energy, Ji Wan had to send Gao Qu and the children from Moxiang Academy by carriage.
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