Nolan and the Secrets of the Empire Chapter 62

In the summer of the 26th year of Alexander Yuan, the rebels broke into the capital.

Emperor Alexander Yuan hurriedly went hunting in the west. Some of the civil and military officials, their families, and the people of the capital followed him west to Sichuan, while the others fled south with their families to Jingchu and Huainan.

The Northern Yan cavalry retracted their defenses and broke out from the west. On the way, they encountered the Ningzhou army head-on. The angry Northern Yan army defeated the Ningzhou rebels. Adrian Fu personally drew his bow and shot the rebel leader to death with one arrow. Two Northern Yan soldiers climbed up to the top of Ningzhou City and hung the head high on the city gate tower under the dark night and strong wind.

After one battle, the Northern Yan cavalry remained fierce and ferocious. Wherever they passed, no one dared to confront them. In early July, the Northern Yan army and the Ganzhou army joined forces in Wuwei. Adrian Fu gathered the remaining soldiers from all over the northwest and reorganized the army. At the same time, he used Ganzhou as a base to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, rest and recuperate, and wait for a counterattack.

The northern defense line had been broken, and the three tribes of Tatar, Zhe, and Bohai were no longer blocked and marched straight into the heart of the Central Plains. Half of the country fell into the hands of foreign enemies, and the court no longer existed. In this situation, Yue Changfeng, the governor of Huainan, took the lead in raising troops to fight against the bandits, blocked the Bohai navy to the north of the Huai River, and stopped the barbarians from moving south. Following closely, Duan Guihong, the Prince of Xiping, said that "the southwest must protect itself" and only accepted the refugees from the north, and no longer sent troops to defend the king. With these two precedents in front of them, the governors of various places followed suit, limited their jurisdictions, formed their own organizations, and governed themselves. In addition to resisting foreign enemies, they agreed not to interfere with each other.