northernbook Chapter 474: Concerns of Various Countries
Chapter 474: Concerns of Various Countries
...The white-haired Emperor of Northern Yan felt his heart broken time and time again, and each time it broke his heart.
Sitting on the dragon throne, he looked at the civil and military officials standing in double rows. He no longer had the winning mentality he had before, and was only filled with infinite hatred for Donglin.
"Is there no other way?"
"Are we just going to let Donglin dominate the world?"
He was unwilling and even more unwilling to accept.
If he doesn't have a good life, no one else can have an easy life.
"How are those deadly firecrackers made?"
These days, he has tried to imitate Dong Lin's explosives, but the power they produced was no different from ordinary firecrackers and could not be imitated at all.
He wanted to send spies to sneak into the Donglin camp, but they could not enter the military stronghold at all, and were discovered before they even left the camp, and died without a burial place.
The Emperor of Northern Yan could not think of a good plan, and neither could any of his civil and military officials.
Therefore, some civil officials knelt down and asked for surrender.
"Your Majesty, surrender."
"If you don't surrender, all lives will be destroyed."
"..."
The generals stood aside without saying a word.
Although they cannot win, they do not want to surrender and are currently in a dilemma.
"Someone come!" The Emperor of Northern Yan looked at the civil officials kneeling on the ground.
"Drag it down and chop it!"
The kneeling civil official was only thinking about living in disgrace, and when he heard what His Majesty said, his face turned pale with fright.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life..."
"..."
However, their pleas for mercy did not inspire the Emperor of Northern Yan to change his mind in the slightest.
So many people have died. In his eyes, killing is as easy as crushing an ant.
The rest of the civil officials who had originally wanted to kneel down and beg for surrender staggered and almost fell to the ground.
They were almost beheaded!
Their king is becoming more and more cruel!
Right now Northern Yan’s army is in disarray, and they don’t know how they can survive following such a king.
However, the decision-making power to kill lies in the hands of the emperor, so they can only keep silent.
The military commanders' icy faces also turned into panic because of His Majesty's killing.
Finally, they obeyed their king's orders.
“Even if there is only one city left, we must fight to the end!”
The Emperor of Northern Yan understood clearly that if they surrendered, others might survive, but he definitely would not.
Therefore, he must resist Donglin to the end.
Compared with the kings, princes, generals and ministers, the people of Northern Yan were the first to learn that the army of Donglin was unstoppable, and of course they were afraid.
However, when they learned that every city that Donglin conquered did not harm a single civilian, they felt less fearful.
However, the ordinary soldiers of Northern Yan had already been frightened out of their wits.
……
"What should we do? What should we do? The next target of Donglin will definitely be Xining!"
In the Xining Palace, King Xining paced back and forth, not knowing what to do.
All the civil officials advised him to submit to them.
But as a king, he lost his fighting spirit before the artillery fire from the east came. This is nothing short of ridicule.
Therefore, he called General Li to discuss countermeasures in the imperial study.
"General Li, tell me, how should we deal with Dong Lin?"
General Li clasped his fists and said:
"Your Majesty, there is only one solution now, which is to steal their gunpowder formula."
"Do you need to tell me that?" King Xining had already ordered General Lu to do so.
General Lu had thought of this plan long before King Xining, but it did not work. Now his life at the border is really uneasy.
General Lu could no longer detect Dong Lin's footsteps and wanted to follow him, but he was unable to leave the country.
Now, he fights wits and courage with Xia Yuanchen every day, but Xia Yuanchen has gunpowder in his hands and he cannot compete.
He was worried every day that Donglin's next target would be Xining, but now it seemed that Donglin wanted to completely destroy Beiyan before dealing with them.
"If we had known earlier, we should have taken the initiative!" General Li, like the King of Xining, racked his brains but could not think of a perfect strategy to defeat the enemy.
They had already known from General Lu's letter that gunpowder could destroy the world once it exploded.
"Taking the initiative will only allow Donglin's artillery fire to attack Xining prematurely!" The King of Xining thought of the time when he sent General Lu to attack Liangzhou, which ended in the loss of Qingzhou.
Yes, he thought so.
General Li: "If it weren't for the timely arrival of the young general from the east, our army would have already set out on the road to help the Great Jin."
"What about on the way?" King Xining shook his head: "She came to show off. Even if you have arrived in Dajin, I still have to order you to wait and see and not take any action."
"Otherwise, the army will be destroyed and killed."
"So, she shouldn't have come!"
General Li thought about it.
"That's true. If that young general hadn't come, I would have gone to help the Great Jin."
King Xining added: "That young general from Donglin seems to be showing off, but he is actually blocking our way." Since King Xining has been able to hold on to the throne for more than a decade, he must have his strengths.
It's just that he thought of it a little late.
"They are short of gunpowder and are afraid of sabotage from behind by our army. I have to say that this young general from Donglin is really courageous."
"Your Majesty, what you mean is that the Donglin army at the border of Dajin does not have much gunpowder?"
"It was before, but not now." King Xining guessed correctly. After all, Zhao Chongxu had limited explosives, and Ling Yunxiao had people deliver a lot of them later.
"This young general from Donglin deserves to die!" General Li had disliked Jiang Yue since the first time he saw her, and now he hated her to the extreme.
"She deserves to die, but even if she didn't come to stop them, Donglin would still win because of the gunpowder, but they would also suffer casualties!" King Xining agreed and continued:
"She said that Singh was unwilling to enter the palace. In my opinion, Singh did not come at all. They just used Singh to enter our Xining border smoothly, and then used the royal token in her hand to have an unimpeded journey!"
Jiang Yue only went into the palace once and refused to enter again. Even when he sent someone to invite her, she didn't give him any face at all, which made King Xining lose all his face.
"Perhaps Singh has died at the hands of that young general." King Xining thought of this possibility, but after all, she was his daughter, and he didn't know how to feel when he thought that Singh was no longer in this world.
He was thinking that if anything happened to Singh, he wouldn't have to worry about Singh coming into contact with General Yoon.
If they wanted to instigate rebellion, they would have taken action long ago.
During these days, he had been sending people to secretly observe General Yin's movements. Apart from the discovery that he, like himself, was frantically looking for Singh's trace, there was no other movement.
No, that's good.
General Li also thought so. After hearing this, he said:
"That young general from Donglin only brought over 200 men. Let me go and kill that kid named Jiang with my own hands to avenge the princess!"
"Kill him?" King Xining knew that if this man was not eliminated, it might be disadvantageous to Xining at this moment.
"If that young general has explosives in his hands..."
General Li: "I will kill her unexpectedly to relieve the king's worries."
King Xining: "If Donglin uses this as an excuse to attack our Xining..."
General Li: "They have had this idea in mind for a long time."
"Let Yin Shaoping go!" A fierce look flashed in King Xining's eyes.
If he was forced to surrender to Donglin, he could at least use Jiang Yue to eliminate dissidents.
"Just say that Singh died at the hands of that young general!"