I really don't want to be a traitor

Chapter 506 Giving up and gaining

"Your Highness can't!"

The sound of high arches was like muffled thunder, blocking the way of Prince Wanli.

"What did you say?!"

Wanli glared at Gao Gong, but the latter ignored him.

"Your Highness, please take a look."

"The enemy's formation is very organized. I only made a cursory observation and found that it coincides with the stars in the sky, and there are changes in the yin and yang and the four phenomena."

"The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered. It will be disadvantageous to rush into the formation rashly. Only relying on Haozhou city defense, formations, and mechanisms is a good strategy to defend against the enemy."

What Gao Gong said was clear and logical.

It's a pity that Prince Wanli couldn't listen to a word.

He said angrily: "The Emperor of Jin only has a ninth-level cultivation of Hedao Realm, but he dares to provoke in front of the battle. If this prince, a powerful Mahayana man, avoids you and does not fight, won't he be ridiculed by the world? How will he rule the world in the future? ?”

Gao Gong was speechless.

How can you say the words "Kingdom over the world" in public?
What's more, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, only Prince Zhu Biao has been the emperor, looking forward to his early succession. The rest of the princes in the past dynasties strictly abide by the rules of monarch and ministers, and then they dare to discuss the relationship between father and son.

Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin also wanted to speak out to persuade, but Wan Li stopped them with fierce eyes.

Only Zhang Juzheng said nothing and was not angered.

"Open the city gate!"

"I will personally lead an army to defeat the Emperor of Jin!"

Wanli mobilized 100,000 Haozhou defenders and turned them into a torrent of steel pouring out of the city gate.

There are still 200,000 people in the city, and they are jointly controlled by Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin, who are ready to provide support at any time.

"Humph!"

Gao Gong failed to dissuade him and snorted coldly at Zhang Juzheng.

"Just now, why didn't you say a word?"

Zhang Juzheng smiled bitterly.

In terms of qualifications, he is not as good as Gao Gong.

In terms of cultivation, if he had not used secret methods to reduce his lifespan and greatly improve his cultivation, he would not be able to compete with Gao Gong.

If you are not as good as others and still want to get ahead, the only way is to curry favor with the leader.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng always regarded pleasing Prince Wanli as the first priority in his official career.

The four of them are all direct descendants of the crown prince. They will never become the first and assistant ministers in the Jiajing Dynasty. They can only look forward to Wanli ascending the throne in the future and seek positions of supreme ministers.

"Mr. Gao Ge, even you can't persuade His Highness the Crown Prince. How can Mr. Zhang be more persuasive than you with his humble words?" Zhang Juzheng asked humbly.

"Humph!"

Hearing this, Gao Gong's expression softened slightly.

They are both cabinet ministers and former officials in the Prince's Mansion. Among the four, Gao Gong has always regarded himself as the leader.

"A clever talker!"

"If the prince's battle goes unfavorably in a while, you must step down to support him first!"

Zhang Juzheng was ridiculed by Gao Gong. He was angry in his heart, but he still smiled on the surface and said: "When the elder Ge speaks, do you dare to disobey me?"

outside the city.

Fan Li has already returned to the Chinese army's tent.

As soon as he sat down, he heard the sound of a formation coming from the opposite side.

"Emperor of Jin!"

"I will lead a hundred thousand troops to fight with you. If you are brave, you will also lead a hundred thousand troops to show the world who is a hero and who is a coward!"

Is Prince Wanli really here?

Fan Li thought for a moment and understood the other party's purpose.

The Jin Dynasty had been in a state for ten years and was extremely mysterious. Now it is vaguely the most powerful existence among the countries in the alliance.

Prince Wanli wanted to make great achievements, so he used himself as the emperor of the Jin Dynasty to do it?

There's nothing wrong with this idea, but it's a pity that Fan Li can't let him do it.

"Huang Longshi."

"The minister is here."

"You play with Wanli."

As Fan Li spoke, he took out the armor that had been prepared and handed it to Huang Longshi.

"Your Majesty? What do you mean..."

Huang Longshi took the armor and looked at it. The auspicious clouds and dragon patterns on it were clearly worn by the emperor.

The style is exactly the same as the one worn by Fan Li!
"Put it on quickly and let Fan Chun allocate 100,000 troops for you." Fan Li said with a smile.

"But I am not a general leading troops, and I don't understand military matters!"

Huang Longshi was really panicked.

He is obviously a great farmer, in charge of a country's money and grain affairs, why do he suddenly want to lead an army?

"You can learn if you don't understand."

"You are the chess master of the Jin Dynasty. Your chess skills are all-encompassing. Can't you understand some tactics from it?"

After hearing what Fan Li said, although Huang Longshi had some understanding, he still had no confidence.

"Your Majesty, there is a small path for chess players. Although it is known as Paul's omnipotence and interprets the changes of heaven and earth, it has its limits after all."

"I use chess skills to deduce the art of war, which is far inferior to the real art of war masters."

Fan Li laughed heartily when he heard this.

He pointed outside the military tent in the direction of the main city of Haozhou and asked: "Do you think that guy Wanli is a master of the art of war? Just go ahead and let Fan Chun help you. Remember, suppress your cultivation. Don’t let Wanli find out that you are a fake.”

"……Yes."

Huang Longshi was still a little confused, but he vaguely felt that Fan Li had other deep intentions, so he had no choice but to go on stage and order troops.

"kill!"

Prince Wanli on the opposite side saw the 'Emperor of Jin' ordering his troops, followed by a murderous general, and had no doubts at all.

He gave an order, and one hundred thousand Ming troops, like giant steel beasts, roared and charged towards the coalition forces!

The two armies were strangled, like two giant mountains colliding together!
The earth also trembled!
The soldiers wore heavy armor and held weapons forged from spiritual minerals that had been refined over time.

Fancy moves and secret techniques are useless in a large army battle.

Only daily training, the simplest and unpretentious slashing skills, have become the most efficient means of killing enemies at this time.

The stench of blood soon filled the battlefield.

"ten years!"

"Ten whole years!"

"I finally regained control of the military!"

The excitement in Prince Wanli's heart was unimaginable to others.

"So what if the Emperor of Jin once forced Jiajing back?"

"I will personally lead the troops and fight him head-on without any loss!"

"If I can command all the troops of the Ming Dynasty, this battle will definitely make the Emperor of Jin fall in the territory of the Ming Dynasty!"

He rushed to kill left and right, and just as he was feeling invigorated, he gradually realized that something was wrong.

Why are there enemy troops in all directions?

There are fewer and fewer soldiers following him in the charge.
As he was thinking about it, he felt that enemy troops were surrounding him from all directions.

what's the situation?
Could it be that he was surrounded?

There was a giant man who looked like an iron tower and rushed towards Prince Wanli.

It's Hou Yi.

"His Majesty!"

"Our army is surrounded, please return to the city quickly!"

Upon hearing this, Prince Wanli's face suddenly became very ugly.

hateful!

It must be that the Jin emperor was incompetent and did not dare to use one hundred thousand troops to fight one hundred thousand troops, so he actually mobilized the entire army to encircle and suppress himself?
The coalition army has a total of 400,000 people, and Wanli's 100,000 soldiers are certainly no match.

His personal cultivation was strong, and although he killed many enemy soldiers, he could not change the overall situation.

"Soldiers!"

"Turn around and retreat, I will open the way for you!"

Prince Wanli is indeed tyrannical.

As a vanguard, he personally charged in and easily fought his way back to Haozhou City.

Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin came forward immediately.

"Is Your Highness okay?"

Gao Gong wanted to express his concern, but he was not good at words and what he said was really ugly.

"His Royal Highness did not listen to good advice and was discourteous in the first battle. If the news is reported back to the capital, it will only cause His Majesty to be held accountable."

Hearing what he said, Prince Wanli immediately darkened his face.

"Fart!" "Gu invited the emperor of Jin to fight with 100,000 troops, but he had no courage and actually besieged Gu with 400,000 troops."

"The soldiers of Haozhou are all witnesses. It is clear that the Emperor of Jin is afraid of being alone!"

"In this battle, one person killed nearly a thousand people!"

After Prince Wanli finished speaking, he found that the four cabinet ministers had strange expressions.

She was especially high-arched, and the look in her eyes as she looked at him couldn't even conceal her disappointment.

"how?"

"What did I say wrong?"

Prince Wanli asked.

Zhang Juzheng coughed lightly and then said: "Prince, you may be mistaken. In the battle just now, the other side only sent out 100,000 troops."

"nonsense!"

"How can it be!"

Prince Wanli's face turned red, and he finally understood the meaning of the eyes of the four cabinet ministers.

But how could he believe that in his first trial of strength, he actually lost to the Emperor of Jin in leading troops?
"it is true."

Gao Gong sighed while explaining to him.

"I am waiting on the city to watch the battle. Prince, you charged too fast and stretched the army into a long snake shape. The formation is too slender to concentrate."

"The Emperor of Jin, however, commanded wisely. He first used about 10,000 people to block the Crown Prince's forward line, and the remaining 90,000 people surrounded the rear, cutting off the Prince's connection with the army, and then completed the encirclement of the Crown Prince."

Gao Gong paused for a moment, and the look of disappointment on his face became even stronger.

"The prince only cares about killing the enemy. Although he beheaded nearly a thousand people, our army suffered more than 10,000 casualties."

"Almost all of the forward troops following the prince were lost in the encirclement."

Gao Gong stretched out his hand and pointed at a few inexplicably extra 'hills' outside the city.

Those were the corpses of Haozhou soldiers, which were piled up into mountains by the coalition forces.

At this time, Corpse Mountain looked extremely ironic, as if it was mocking Prince Wanli's recent achievements.

"How can it be……"

Wanli clenched his fists tightly, his voice squeezed out from between his teeth, and his body was trembling slightly from excessive anger.

Zhang Juzheng looked at Wanli, then at Gao Gong, who still had more to say, and after a moment of thought, he chose to shut up.

He knew that Gao Gong's more unpleasant words were yet to come.

"His Royal Highness."

"Say! I'm listening!"

Gao Gong hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said:
"The veteran minister watched this battle and thought that the Emperor of Jin was quite accomplished in the art of war. The four ministers and others are all civil servants. They are not talented commanders and commanders, and His Highness is no match for the Emperor of Jin."

"The old minister suggested that from now on we should not go out of the city to fight, but just stick to Haozhou City."

Gao Gong sighed bitterly, but it was indeed too harsh.

Zhang Juzheng shook his head secretly in his heart. He clearly saw that Prince Wanli's expression was extremely ugly!

In the past, the four major officials in the Prince's Palace, Gao Gong's status in the Prince's heart was originally higher than that of Zhang Juzheng.

But after today, I'm afraid even Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin will be inferior.

"That's fine too."

"When the new king ascends the throne, I will be the first and second-in-command."

Zhang Juzai secretly calculated in his heart.

"it is good……"

"You said it well..."

If looks could kill, Prince Wanli would have killed Gao Gong a hundred times.

But he managed to hold it back.

After all, since Emperor Jiajing held the [God List], the number of princeling officials has dropped sharply.

To this day, there are only four cabinet ministers in front of him who dare to support him blatantly, and who are advanced enough to be reused.

Prince Wanli exhausted all his patience and finally restrained himself from falling out with Gao Gong.

However, God did not wish.

Gao Gong suddenly said in surprise: "Look! Who is that person?!"

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and found another Jin emperor wearing a mask and golden armor with dragon patterns in the enemy formation.

The 'Emperor of Jin', who had previously commanded the army in battle, took off his mask and gave the man a royal courtesy.

Everyone understood instantly!

The Emperor of Jin did not take action at all. He just asked one of his ministers to fight against Prince Wanli!

In the end, they still won?

Shame!

The ministers of the Jin Kingdom defeated the Ming Prince?
If this news is spread back to the capital, Prince Wanli's majesty will be wiped out, and he may even be reprimanded by Emperor Jiajing.

The four cabinet ministers, including Gao Gong, who was the most outspoken, were all silent at this moment.

But at this moment, the silence was more harsh than the ridicule.

Prince Wanli's eyes were bloodshot, and he glanced at Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, Yin Shidan and Chen Yiqin one by one, as if he wanted to eat people!
……

…………

Chu State, Pengcheng.

"Ding!"

"[Emperor's Stairway] detected the host's personal conquest, killed over 10,000 enemies, weakened the enemy's spirit, and won the first battle, which is in line with the reward mechanism."

"The host's cultivation level has improved, and he has reached the ninth level of Hedao Realm!"

"Cultivation improves, and the ninth level of Hedao realm reaches perfection!"

"Cultivation improved, Hedao realm nine..."

In the Dragon Temple, Fan Li closed his eyes to calm down and frowned.

strangeness.

There are obviously system rewards, so why do you stop at the beginning?
He looked inside the sea of ​​qi and felt it was as vast as the ocean.

Above the Qi Sea, the Nascent Soul's golden light shines like the scorching sun in the sky, and it even has the aura of being the only one in the sky and on the earth!

This is indeed the sign of the Great Perfection of Hedao!
It is only one step away from the next great realm.

But it’s one step away, why can’t we cross it?
Mahayana?

Mortals enter the Mahayana, and then have immortality.

The emperor entered Mahayana and practiced Pangu.

Fan Li has never seen the fate of immortality, nor does he know about Pangu.

How to do?
Is there something wrong with my own cultivation, or is there a bug in the system?

"system."

"I'm here. What's the problem with the host?"

"Just now [Emperor's Stairway] rewarded cultivation, but I didn't become stronger. Is there a bug?"

The traitor system was silent for a while, but was unable to answer Fan Li's question immediately.

Fan Li waited quietly like this. Unknowingly, he waited for a whole day and night.

"Ding!"

"The system diagnosis is completed and the results are as follows."

"The host has one body and four clones. Once the cultivation level reaches the Mahayana realm and the [Pangu Giant Body] is understood, the luck of the country cannot support five bodies at the same time, which will directly lead to the collapse of the luck."

Fan Li was shocked when he heard this.

But upon closer inspection, it seems that this is really the case.

In particular, Xiang Ning named him [Minister Regent], letting Fan Li know that a country can support at most two people sharing their luck.

"System, what should I do?" Fan Li asked in his mind.

"Here's the solution."

"First, the system permanently solidifies the cultivation of the four clones and maintains the ninth-level state of Hedao Realm. They will not enter the Mahayana for life, and they will not be able to comprehend and display [Pangu Giant Body]."

"Two, the four major clones are merged into one, that is, the host only has two bodies: the main body and the clone. There are no restrictions on cultivation. After the Mahayana realm, the [Pangu Giant Body] will be realized simultaneously."

Fan Li couldn't help but feel entangled after hearing what the system said.

Analyzing the pros and cons, the second option is the best.

However, giving up multiple clones made Fan Li extremely painful.

He tentatively asked: "System, if I open another country, can I keep my clone?"

"No."

The system's answer was cold and heartless.

"Luck will identify the emperor."

"No matter how many kingdoms are founded, if the emperor is the same person, their luck will only merge. At most two people are allowed to share their luck."

"This system recommends that the host abandon the useless clone and become Pangu!"

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