Chapter 54: Anguo Rebellion (Chen Zhiwei: Don’t…
Three days passed in a flash.
During these three days, Shen Zhiwei did not wait for the system to reply. She worked very hard and asked every day if there was a shipbuilder coming.
Because they went there every day, Wen Tao and Yan Xia could see the king's urgency. As there was no news from An Jin and Tao, Wen Tao and Yan Xia sent a shipbuilder to Shen Zhiwei.
Wen Tao brought his entire family over, but Yan Xia only found the master and his disciple.
This work efficiency is really admirable. Shen Zhiwei sighed that it must be someone who is dedicated to the work. It is so efficient!
However, the shipbuilders they sent were of average ability.
Jingchang is not near the sea, and there are no large lakes or rivers in the territory. How can excellent shipbuilders be cultivated without such an environment?
The East China Sea is full of salt fields, and there are many people boiling salt and going out to sea to fish, but there are very few people who can build big ships. At most, they can build a small fishing boat that goes out to sea less than a hundred meters from the shore.
Tai Sheng did have some good shipbuilders, but those shipbuilders had long ago followed the nobles and moved to Bian State. After the war in Bian State, the nobles suffered heavy casualties and many talented people also died.
Who made Shen Zhiwei not tell Hu Youan before that talented people should not be killed?
In Hu Youan's eyes, there are only enemies, comrades, and the king she is loyal to. All enemies must be killed, and comrades must be protected as much as possible. She will absolutely obey the king's orders.
Once on the battlefield, the general had no idea what it meant to show mercy.
With shipbuilders on hand, work can begin. Although these shipbuilders are of average ability, they can still do the basic work. Shen Zhiwei can let them work slowly first, and then speed up when more capable ones come.
It's better than doing nothing.
After finishing the arrangements for shipbuilding, the system's response arrived.
[The system has opened three taskbars. Starting today, the host can simultaneously conduct up to three special events. After testing, the host has proactively triggered special events - National War II, Trade I, and Bad Neighbor II. Please confirm.]
Shen Zhiwei hadn't expected that she could open three special events, and she hadn't expected that she had already triggered three special events.
I feel like there may be more than three. The system has three taskbars open, which really delayed her!
Shen Zhiwei hummed twice in his heart, and a cheerful smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
If she can get the SSR ending of all three special events, she can spend fewer years in this world!
"System, can special events be settled in advance?"
Shen Zhiwei is very anxious now and really wants to complete the task.
[Due to the opening of three taskbars, starting today, the special event settlement period is locked at three months. It will not be extended or shortened. Please forgive me, host.]
The system did not explain the specific reason.
Shen Zhiwei poked the panel a few times, but the system didn't pop up any more messages, nor did it collect any comments. It seemed that this rule was locked.
Okay, at least it won't be extended. But this way, it will be more difficult to get an SSR ending. If the event is still developing at the time of settlement and there is no specific ending, it will definitely affect the rating.
Shen Zhiwei thought about it for a moment. If this was a game, she would have started searching for strategies online long ago.
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't figure it out. I didn't want to spend time analyzing the game mechanics at all! So what? The system can do whatever it wants. She can even mess up the main quests. Special events are just like side quests. Why is she so serious about it?
After thinking this, Shen Zhiwei decisively gave up thinking further, turned off the system panel, and fell into a coma-like sleep.
While she was sleeping soundly, someone else couldn't sleep.
These people were the princes who were defeated by King An and had to submit to him.
At the beginning, King An only attacked one or two families. The princes thought that a man who knows the times is a hero. Instead of stubbornly fighting with King An and causing him to kill them, it would be better to agree to King An's request and surrender directly.
They used to submit to the Zhou emperor, and now they submit to King An. What's wrong with that?
So they bowed their heads.
Later, I saw King An destroying small countries one after another. He used the same operation for each small country. He would attack first, and then let the princes surrender. Then, after the princes submitted to him, he would lead his troops to the next princely country. He was very relaxed throughout the whole process, and he became more and more skilled as time went on.
He would never even look back at the conquered vassal states!
The surrendered princes also realized that the young King An conquered the surrounding vassal states not for any long-term ambition or the desire to unify the world, but because he wanted to compete with the King of the North and not let himself lose to Jingchang.
Among the seven most powerful forces in the world today, Anguo and Beiguo are at the top of the list. King An is fighting only for King Bei to see.
Realizing that their role in this battle was just a bargaining chip on the table of King An and King Bei, all the princes were furious without exception.
They were royal nobles after all! Their ancestors had all been glorious, and many of them shared the same surname as Prince An. Strictly speaking, Prince An had to call them uncles!
How dare the young Prince An be so rude and treat them so disrespectfully!
The more they thought about it, the angrier they became. The princes, who tossed and turned in bed at night and couldn't sleep, decided that they couldn't let King An continue to be so arrogant.
Let King An know that no matter how small a vassal state is, it is still the territory of a vassal, and it is not a place that a young man like him can trample on at will!
The princes who stayed up all night wrote letters requesting alliances and support, and sent them to various places. They casually connected with each other behind King An's army. King An, who was charging in the front and was already at the forefront, was completely unaware of the undercurrents.
Even when An Qu, the Prime Minister of An State, came to remind him, he said with dissatisfaction: "Prime Minister, do you think that I am not as powerful as my father? My father was able to conquer a few small vassal states, so why can't I do the same?"
"Your Majesty, please calm down. This is not the case!" An Qu pleaded earnestly, wishing he could reveal his letter to the king and show his loyalty to the An Kingdom. "It's just that those small vassal states haven't been completely settled yet. If we advance rashly, something bad might happen. If they join forces to cut off the main army's retreat, Your Majesty will be in danger!"
An Zhuo took it completely lightly. He snorted coldly and said disdainfully, "If those princes could unite, why didn't they unite when I attacked them before? What's the point of uniting now? It's just a desperate struggle. Prime Minister, there's no need to worry. Tomorrow I will go out to conquer the small country ahead and meet with the Northern King for a duel! After that, regardless of victory or defeat, I will lead the troops back to the court."
That’s right, there is only one small vassal state left, and An Zhuo can face the King of the North face to face.
He had previously sent Prince Rong, the elder brother of King Bei Yue, back to the Northern Kingdom in order to join forces with the King Bei to attack the Kingdom of Bian. Unexpectedly, in the end, the entire vast Kingdom of Bian was almost swallowed up by the Emperor Jingchang.
Having lost both his wife and his army, An Zhuo had to retreat and only captured Jiangcheng, the ancestral home of the king of Bian State, to vent his anger.
At least he managed to capture Jiangcheng, but the King of the North got nothing. He was so angry that when he returned, he destroyed all the small vassal states on the way and looted them to replenish his military supplies.
It was because of the Northern King's action that An Zhuo competed with the other party. If you destroyed a small country today, I will destroy one tomorrow. The two sides have been fighting until now, and the surrounding small countries have suffered great disasters.
Seeing that An Zhuo looked like he would never change his mind, An Qu had no choice but to give up and let An Zhuo go.
So much so that every time he thought about today's dispute, he would hate himself for giving up.
If he had persisted a little longer, Anguo would not have suffered such a great loss!
Shen Zhiwei calculated the time and waited for the first special event to be resolved. She felt that it was unlikely to obtain an SSR in this special event of the National War II.
She didn't really participate in it.
As for Biandi, there has been no new military report recently. It should be that the message that Shen Zhiwei asked Yanxia to convey before has reached Hu Youan's ears. Hu Youan followed her instructions and did not continue to advance recklessly. Instead, he cultivated and conquered several small countries.
Therefore, Bian, like Jingchang, fell into a peaceful atmosphere.
It's so peaceful, no one's causing trouble, there's really no hope for SSR.
SR is actually fine too.
Shen Zhiwei is not picky. She has plenty of time to argue with the system. And to be honest, no one knows whether the main task has completely failed until the last step.
Now the main mission has only failed by 40%. It doesn't matter, it can still be saved.
Then, a few days before the first special event was to be settled, one day in June, Shen Zhiwei heard a terrible piece of bad news.
There is unrest in Anguo!
Prince An's army was defeated, with over 10,000 casualties. Prince An's whereabouts are unknown, and Prime Minister An Guoqu was seriously injured, and it is unknown whether he can survive.
The entire An Kingdom fell into turmoil. At the same time, the situation in the Northern Kingdom was also not peaceful. The hidden dangers caused by the previous crazy competition between the two sides to fight against the vassal states exploded in an instant, and both sides were blown to pieces.
An Guo's condition was even worse. Not only was he covered in dirt, but he was also missing limbs.
After getting the news, Shen Zhiwei was really surprised.
When the officials in Jingchang heard the news, they were all beaming with joy and walked with a breeze every day.
Anguo is not too far from Jingchang, and there is a powerful enemy standing at the doorstep. They worry about the enemy attacking the city every day. Now, the two biggest worries have made them dying.
In the entire Jingchang, only the king was truly sad.
The failure rate of the main mission seemed to be over 40%, and Shen Zhiwei was moved to tears.
At the same time, Hu Youan, who was in Bian, submitted a request to go to war, hoping that Shen Zhiwei would take advantage of An Guo's illness and kill An Guo. If King An could die, Hu Youan would lead the troops and conquer half of An Guo!
By then, Jingchang will be the most powerful force in the world.
Hu Youan had a good idea and his timing was accurate. Wen Tao also agreed to send troops now. Only Shen Zhiwei truly disagreed.
Could An Guo just be offline like this? How could the opponent she had worked so hard to cultivate just disappear like this!
Shen Zhiwei stood up from the salted fish and stopped being a salted fish for a while. She wrote a long article, discussing the disadvantages of sending troops now from various angles. The general content can be summed up in four words - stay steady and don't recklessly!
First of all, arrogant soldiers will be defeated. When you think you can win a battle, the results are often not satisfactory.
Anguo was indeed in chaos, but the lineage of the Anguo monarchs was not limited to the young King An. King An had been leading troops outside recently, and there had been no major chaos in Anguo. This showed that the royal relatives of Anguo were able to stabilize Anguo. Moreover, there were Anguo's troops near Jiuqu City. They were the real elite of Anguo. If we attacked now, we would easily be stopped by the grief-stricken Anguo army.
Secondly, don't pursue a desperate enemy. The alliance of the vassal states and the surprise attack on King An failed to take his life. On the surface, An's army suffered heavy losses, but in fact, as long as King An was not dead, An's army could still regroup. An's army was said to have 100,000 soldiers, and if 10,000 died, there were still 90,000 soldiers left.
Moreover, the number of troops and deaths during this period were exaggerated. An's army might have had only 50,000 soldiers, and the coalition forces of the vassal states might have only killed a thousand of An's soldiers. We have to wait and see what the truth is. The news coming out now are all from the vassal states, and who knows how much water there is in them.
Finally, Bian has recently conquered several vassal states. With the successful precedent of the Anguo coalition, the vassal states in the north have begun to unite. It is hard to guarantee that the vassal states conquered by Bian will not have similar thoughts. Your own backyard may catch fire at any time, so don't be in a hurry to set fire to your neighbor's house. Keep an eye on it and prevent yourself from falling into the situation of being attacked from all sides like King An. This is the main thing.
Shen Zhiwei's writing is sincere and heartfelt. Although he is in Jingchang, it seems that he can see the entire battlefield.
After Hu Youan received Shen Zhiwei's letter, he hurriedly unfolded it, then stood there with his pupils shaking.
Chiwei asked doubtfully, "General, the king's order is to fight or not?"
Hu Youan took a deep breath, carefully folded the paper, looked Chiwei in the eye, and slowly shook his head: "Don't fight anymore, keep an eye on the small country we conquered some time ago. If there are any unusual movements, we can clean out the disloyal nobles and restless princes."
Chiwei let out a disappointed sigh. Under Hu Youan's urging gaze, he didn't dare to say anything else. He just bowed and accepted the order and went down to do his work.
She is not usually with Hu Youan, and came here today specifically to wait for the king to give the order to start the fight.
Unexpectedly, the news I received was that there would be no fight.
If you don't want to fight, then don't fight. It won't be a waste of time to clean up the restless guys.
Chiwei had no intention of acting on his own. Hu Youan had been increasingly strict in commanding the army recently, and as a result, everyone had become accustomed to following orders rather than acting on their own.
Just because Jingchang can remain stable doesn't mean other countries can endure it. The two countries of Yunning, which are not far from Anguo, really want to give the country a beating.
So after several discussions, the two countries of Yun and Ning each sent 5,000 troops to Anguo to attack from both sides, adding fuel to the fire and causing chaos.
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