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Chapter 1042 Chapter 1043 Enthronement Farce
Congratulated by gunshots from the south of the city, Zhao Ji held the enthronement ceremony recklessly the next day. Because the preparations were hasty, the whole ceremony had a strong taste of improvisation.

It was originally planned to renovate the palace, but in the end the whole work was just barely repairing the previously collapsed courtyard wall.

The place like the hall that collapsed when Zhao Kai was injured before was just left there so indifferently, no one bothered to ask.

Zhao Ji was really scared. What he was afraid of was nothing else, but that he would be kicked out of here and lose his throne if he didn't have time to ascend the throne in the imperial capital.

For him, even sitting on that throne for one day is a very happy thing, and it is something that can make him happy for a lifetime!

So he held the grand ceremony without hesitation, and walked to the place that belonged to him amidst the sound of blessings and the sound of distant guns.

Because of the advancement of technology, the camera recorded the whole process in detail: citizens lined up to receive some moldy bread and rewards, and then they gathered outside the palace as required, shouting long live in the direction of Zhao Ji.

Then these people scattered amid the gunfire in the south of the city, and disappeared in the streets and alleys.Only some rags were left hanging in the high places, and the rags that could not be snatched away were blowing in the wind.

Zhao Ji exercised his power as an emperor: he canonized many imperial concubines, although most of these women were court ladies from his father's previous reign, he also directly left them to himself without any scruples.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered that the body of the former emperor Zhao Kai be transported out of the city and sent to the imperial mausoleum for burial.Just as the ceremony continued, news came that made everyone embarrassed: Fengjiang's troops had crossed the railway to the north, and had actually encircled two-thirds of the imperial capital with Zhao Jie's troops in the south of the city.

Everyone was frightened by the news, only Li Mingshun knew that this was almost certain to happen: the defense line he had arranged along the railway was too hasty, and there was no way to resist the attack of Fengjiang's troops.

You know, these troops are elites who have fought fiercely in Fengjiang City for more than half a year, and their experience in offensive and defensive warfare may be more than that of the troops of the Tang Empire.The line of defense that can stop them must be strong and thick, but in fact the northern line of defense is only a few trenches.

Luo Xiao, who was ready, didn't delay at all. He directly dispatched his armored troops, broke through Li Mingshun's northern defense line, and then began to attack the north gate.

The Fengjiang army with heavy artillery in place quickly smashed down a section of the city wall. Although the defensive troops of the imperial capital also had heavy artillery, the two sides launched a fierce artillery battle. Entered the imperial capital city.

The street fighting broke out, and the people in the city were completely confused. Countless people rushed out of the city, and the people crowded at the east gate and west gate completely blocked the road.

Li Mingshun, who had to rush back to his headquarters to organize a counterattack, left Zhao Ji's enthronement ceremony, which made the whole ceremony a complete joke.

Zhao Ji did not allow the cancellation of the ceremony, he gritted his teeth and ordered the ceremony to continue, and then brought his harem and a group of attendants and guards to continue the game pretendingly.

The sound of artillery outside the city was clearly visible. Although Fengjiang's troops were confined to the north of the city, in fact the defense of the entire imperial capital had completely collapsed.

Li Mingshun's defense line built by relying on the urban area was crumbling. He originally planned to defend the outer line of defense for a month, but only stopped Fengjiang Army for less than 2 hours.

In the midst of the chaos, another face-slap happened.Someone found a dead body in a well in the imperial city...

Because of the popularization of the tap water system used by the Tang Empire, the imperial palace of the Dahua Empire has not used the wells that were often used in the past for many years.

So no one cared about what happened in these wells for a long time.This time, someone found something in the well out of nowhere, and the guards were called to find the body.

Soon, the identity of the corpse was confirmed: he was Shen Chuan, Minister of the War Department of the Great China Empire, who had been missing since the melee in the imperial capital...

Although the person has lost its shape, the clothes and accessories on his body are easily recognizable.

This middle-aged man who has been serving as the minister of the military department of the Dahua Empire buried the Dahua Empire in his own way: he committed suicide. Unexplained death.

He was unwilling to choose to surrender to the Tang Empire like Chu Muzhou, and also lost all hope for the future of the Dahua Empire.So when Zhao Jie's troops appeared near the imperial capital, Shen Chuan, who already knew the situation was over, jumped into the well by himself during the chaos of Zhao Kai's death.

This incident cast a shadow over Zhao Ji's enthronement ceremony, which had become a joke: Zhao Ji insisted on continuing the ceremony, while the new ministers below had already started whispering and discussing how to escape from the city.

In fact, these people think clearly: leaving the imperial capital with their official status, they can still bluff and deceive when they go to the place, but they can only be buried with Zhao Ji's dynasty if they stay here.

On the other side, Li Mingshun, who was struggling to deploy troops in the headquarters, also learned the news that Shen Chuan committed suicide and died for his country.

He sighed, and then sat there silent for a long while: now he felt the pressure on his shoulders made him unable to breathe, and he even understood Shen Chuan's thoughts.

At this moment, his troops were retreating, and they had to give up block after block, trading space for time.

After all, the main force in Li Mingshun's hands is the imperial guards stationed in the imperial capital, and they don't have so much main battle equipment: you say that a city defense army is equipped with tanks and anti-tank guns, isn't it sick?
But now, Fengjiang troops have tanks participating in the battle, which suddenly highlights the shortcomings of the garrison troops of the Dahua Empire: they don't have so many heavy weapons, and the only large-caliber artillery is not enough.

That night, another shocking news came: Zhao Jie ran away overnight!

Just as Li Mingshun wanted to take the opportunity to regain the lost ground in the south of the city, he was told that the Fengjiang troops outside the city had occupied most of the south of the city, and the east gate was also lost that night!
Early the next morning, when Zhao Ji got up among the white and tender bodies of several women, he learned that his palace was only two or three thousand meters away from the frontline positions...

This news almost frightened the new emperor: "General Li...then, now, what should we do now?"

Li Mingshun could only bite the bullet and replied: "Retreat, Your Majesty... Before you are surrounded, retreat to Wangdu before making any plans."

"Then how?" Zhao Ji subconsciously retorted: "I just ascended the throne yesterday, and today I lost the imperial capital. Isn't this the laughing stock of others?"

Li Mingshun glanced at Zhao Ji, and thought to himself, do you still know that you have become a laughingstock?But he thought so in his heart, but he couldn't say it out of his mouth. He could only bow his head and persuade: "Your Majesty! If you keep the green hills alive, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. Stay here...your safety is..."

"I don't care what method you use! Stay here for a month! You can't retreat! You can't!" Zhao Ji ordered viciously.

(End of this chapter)