Chapter 5887: The Kingdom of Weis battle for the throne begins (Part 1)
The cavalry of Qing Kingdom was good at field battles, but Dai Kingdom was even better at hunting. In fact, the more west and north the countries were, they all started on horseback.
Although Dai State lost its barrier, it was not so easy for Ninglin to go deep into Dai State, because Dai State's land was even more desolate than Qing State. Although there were many vast plains, it was mostly half Gobi. Desolation was synonymous with Dai State. The richest place in the entire Dai State was the only Moon Lake where the capital was located.
Moon Lake is the richest piece of land on the Daiguo wasteland. The lake is composed of more than a dozen large and small rivers around it. Although many rivers are seasonal, Moon Lake is also very different during the aquatic and dry seasons, it is the place with the richest water resources after all. Therefore, around Moon Lake, 70% of the population of Daiguo is gathered. The dozen rivers gathered in Moon Lake are also rich in water and grass in the lower reaches. Daiguo's war horses are also famous for this. Although Zhao State has powerful cavalry, its war horses are not as good as Daiguo. If Daiguo's land was not too desolate, its national strength might not be under Zhao State. The reason why it invaded Daxia before and later occupied the three counties of Qing State was that it was eager to have more land to feed the population.
It is difficult to destroy Dai State, because after the army attacks, it will definitely fight with Dai State cavalry. They are all cavalry, and Ning Lin is not sure of victory. Although Dai State has lost a lot of people now, compared with Qing State, Dai State is the real country with a small population. As long as the man is healthy, he can fight immediately. Therefore, when it is really critical, it is not impossible to pull out hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
Therefore, after Ning Lin conquered Maoling County, he did not want to continue to destroy Dai State.
Ning Lin did not, but it did not mean that Wei Nao did not. In fact, with the Great Wei going westward and expanding its territory, starting from Wei Nao, everyone felt that as long as the Great Wei fights westward, they could take down all the princes one by one and finally win and lose with Daxia.
So under such thoughts, he only cultivated for a year. In the spring of the tenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, after Wei Nao issued a direct order, Ning Lin could only start sending troops from Maoling County to the west.
Ning Lin had actually guessed Wei Nao's thoughts for a long time, but he knew very well that there was only one move to quickly destroy Dai Kingdom, which was to carry the world's major events, just like encircling Maoling County, trapping Dai Kingdom to death. Unfortunately, Wei Nao could not wait, and Daxia would also support Dai Kingdom.
In this way, he could only use ten or twenty years to gradually erode. Every time he attacked a strategic area, he would repair the fortress, consolidate the territory and then swallow another piece. In this way, he could completely destroy Dai Guo in comparison with the strength of the country. Unfortunately, Wei Nao could not wait for a generation of people to wait for a generation. He was not equal, so Ning Lin did not write a letter to talk about this. However, after having to send troops, Ning Lin did this because he did not want to be defeated.
The 300,000 army dispatched from Bailong Fort and Wulong Fort, and did not go directly to Yueliang Lake. After leaving the customs, they went south and headed along the coast of Feng Lake.
Because of the current superior military strength of the Wei Dynasty, the Dai army did not want to contact easily. As a result, Ning Lin first built a camp on the edge of Fenghu Lake and then built a fortress.
Dai Guo also understood when he saw this. Ning Lin planned to build a wharf directly on Fenghu Lake. Originally, the lakeshore was not conducive to login. If tens of thousands of people were sent to build the wharf day and night, the Wei army could easily log in by water in the future.
So Dai Guo had to launch an attack, but the cavalry was only good at field battles and had no geographical advantage, so he naturally suffered a defeat. In the end, he could only watch Ning Lin repairing fortifications.
Wei Nao was a little anxious about Ning Lin's slow work, but Zhu Feiling completely agreed with Ning Lin's approach. The prime minister agreed, and he couldn't directly object, because as Wei Shan reached the age of sixteen, his Eastern Palace opened his home. With Zhu Feiling as a support, naturally, a group of talented people came in soon. He felt like he was the king and his status was challenged, so he subconsciously made some work on Wei Shan's marriage, or deliberately agreed to Daxia's request and asked him to marry a princess from Daxia as his wife.
If it was before, it was normal for the princes to marry Daxia princess or princesses. Wei Qian also let his eldest son marry because of this, but at that time he had already planned to not allow his eldest son to succeed to the throne in the future. At present, it was obvious that there was no need, but he still did this. He used this in exchange for Daxia's permission to send troops to Dai State, but secretly, or all the princes and the party felt a threat, so that on the day of the wedding, the four princes and the party also celebrated together.
With the wedding, it became doubtful who is the real heir between the prince and the fourth prince. Even if Prime Minister Zhu Feiling relied on it, there was a precedent at the beginning, which made everything confusing.
After two years, three solid fortresses were finally built on the west bank of Feng Lake. The coast of Feng Lake has also been renovated. Now large ships can dock, which looks more convenient to enter.
However, Ning Lin did not pass on the truth back. He only reported to repel Dai Jun's harassment or kill many Dai Jun's heads every once in a while. The credit was continuous, but the progress was slow.
In this way, in the 13th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Wei Nao seemed to be unable to wait and directly ordered Ning Lin to go west after Kaichun. However, at this time, Deputy Commander Wei Kang fell seriously ill and the news spread to the court. For the position of this Deputy Commander, the court was in chaos.
At this time, Wei Shan was still the crown prince, and he was already nineteen years old, but the fourth prince Wei He was also sixteen years old and also gained the power to open the palace. At the time of the palace, not only all the powerful people from the royal family of the Prince's Concubine Wang's mother arrived, but the inner minister Feng Shijian also came to congratulate him in person. Su Qunying, who had been promoted to left prime minister, also came to congratulate him. For a moment, the fourth prince's voice over the crown prince, and so the battle for the throne began.
Wei Kang's position as deputy commander is now the key to the competition between the two sides. Ning Lin is regarded as Zhu Xiang's person. After all, he was the one who helped Ning Lin back then. It can even be said that Ning Lin is the most important person under Zhu Xiang's party of the prince, so the position of deputy commander must be brought up no matter how hard it is.
Chapter completed!