The substitute prince: Reported the emperor's brother at the beginning

It was useless for the Second Prince to be angry now. He could only grit his teeth and curse Ning Yi, calling him a mentally ill fool.

"Go and beat the messenger to death with clubs."

Since there is nothing I can do with Lao Liu, I'll just get rid of the person who reported the news to vent my anger.

The person who reported the news must be mentally ill to have said it out loud.

The counselors advised: "Your Highness, there is no need to be angry, even though the Sixth Prince said so in front of the Emperor."

"Your Highness could have said that he hadn't yet determined who was behind this and didn't want to alert the enemy. He simply asked the Sixth Prince. Who knew he would be so reckless?"

Others also think it is reliable. After all, this is all we can say at the moment.

The second prince had an ugly expression on his face. He also knew that the emperor must be dissatisfied with him because of this matter.

Ning Yi led two thousand aggressively armored imperial guards out of the capital and went straight to the Xiao family in the eastern suburbs.

The huge Xiao family was immediately in chaos.

They never expected that such a large army would suddenly come to surround them.

The left commander of the Imperial Guards sent someone to shout, demanding that the Xiao family surrender quickly, otherwise everyone would be killed without mercy.

But the Xiao family dared not surrender. They made weapons and armor, which were banned in the Dawu Kingdom, especially armor, which was strictly prohibited.

But the Royal Guards arrived so suddenly that they didn't even have time to dodge or move their belongings.

Similarly, the Xiao family dared to forge weapons and armor here, and they had a lot of manpower.

There were hundreds of guards alone, plus a group of handymen, other blacksmiths, and servants, totaling nearly two thousand people.

Seeing that the Xiao family refused to surrender, the Royal Guards began to attack.

When they forced the door open, they heard deafening shouts of killing and a large army fully armed and armored rushed out.

The Royal Guards, who had been well prepared, immediately stepped forward. They were an elite force and soon collided with the Xiao family's guards.

Ning Yi was riding on a tall horse, with Qin Haifeng and several of his personal guards beside him.

Watching the two thousand Royal Guards line up to meet the enemy, the various arms cooperated with each other in perfect harmony.

There are shields in front for collision and protection, sword and shield soldiers and hammer soldiers cooperating on the left and right, and spearmen constantly attacking from behind.

Finally, there were the archers, who, under the orders of the officers, fired waves of arrows.

Ning Yi asked, "How is the fighting capacity of the Imperial Guards?"

As a veteran, Qin Haifeng had fought on the battlefield several times.

He surveyed the battlefield for a moment and nodded slightly, "Your Highness, the Royal Guards are very formidable. Their weapons and armor are state-of-the-art, and each of them is a veteran of the battlefield. They are truly the most elite of Dawu."

The Imperial Guards are composed of officers and soldiers with outstanding military achievements selected from the border troops.

Every few years, Emperor Wu would personally select a group of people. He attached great importance to his own safety and naturally would not be careless.

Ning Yi said expressionlessly, "What if the army led by this prince's students is compared to them?"

Qin Haifeng stopped talking about this.

How could this be compared? Although His Highness's method of training soldiers is novel and the speed of training elite soldiers is fast enough, as long as the servants are successfully trained, thousands of elite soldiers can be recruited in a few months.

But compared with the real Royal Guards, that group of people is not on the same level at all.

Ning Yi knew what he meant by looking at his expression, and chuckled lightly, saying, "This prince can be sure of that."

"Once the army of servants is well-trained, they can easily crush the imperial guards and win."

Qin Haifeng widened his eyes. How could it be possible? Although those servants looked like junior officers, they were still little kids who had never been to the battlefield. How could they be compared with the Royal Guards who had fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood?

Are they just relying on this group of refugees who have barely been in the battlefield and have only been trained for a few months?

Ning Yi has the confidence that he wants to train an invincible army in the era of the strongest cold weapons.

Although the Xiao family resisted fiercely, they were still defeated by the powerful Imperial Guards.

After more than an hour, the entire Xiao family compound was breached. After batches of royal guards rushed in, it didn't take long for all the resisters in the entire Xiao family compound to be killed.

This time, the left commander of the Imperial Guard personally led people in to search the house.

The weapons and armor that were looted were enough for thousands of people. They had not yet been transported out in a hurry, as they had all been looted by the Royal Guards.

Qin Haifeng looked at the batches of copied weapons and armor with envy. If they were all given to their Yongying Camp, they would be able to raise an army of thousands and would not have to worry about iron materials.

But Ning Yi didn't care about all this. His target was the Xiao family's mine, and now he was only concerned with interrogating the person in charge of the Xiao family.

After everything was done, Ning Yi ordered the Imperial Guards to transport the remaining surrendered people and all the confiscated items to the palace.

He also went in person to report back to Emperor Wu.

After Emperor Wu inquired about the whole story, he flew into a rage and said, "Capture all the commanders of those battalions. Don't let any of them go."

In the next few days, Ning Yi led the Imperial Guards to raid mines everywhere and arrest officers from the Beijing camp, shocking the capital.

Ning Yi sealed off the mines that were seized on the spot. No matter whether they were iron mines, coal mines, copper mines, or even aluminum mines, all of them were confiscated. Even tens of millions of taels of silver were seized. Of course, all of these were handed over to the Emperor Wu's treasury.

On the other hand, the pockets of the royal guards were bulging, and they were all very grateful to the Sixth Prince for his generosity.

Ning Yi didn't care. It wasn't his money anyway, so it was a good thing to make the Imperial Guards happy.

In the main hall of the Fourth Prince's mansion, the Fourth Prince was burning with rage.

He smashed things around one after another, leaving broken porcelain all over the floor, cursing angrily: "Damn Old Six, this prince will tear out his tendons and skin him alive."

The two Beijing camps under his control were captured by the Sixth Bastard and the Imperial Guards, who successively captured many officers and completely severed their relationship with him.

There were also some nominal gangs outside the city, and a large number of them were dealt with.

The Fourth Prince has lost more than half of his military strength.

The Prime Minister's face also turned pale. This time, the Sixth Prince's attack with one sword strike had indeed caused heavy losses to the Fourth Prince.

"Your Highness, now is not the time to discuss this. We should quickly find a way to eliminate all those who know us and make sure they are not interrogated."

The Fourth Prince's eyes were already red and his face darkened as he angrily said, "So what if the interrogation revealed it?"

"At worst, I can lead the army to storm the palace and force the old man to get out of here."

"Your Highness, be careful with your words." The Prime Minister immediately stood up and said, "Don't say such things carelessly."

"Besides, the time is not yet ripe. We have suffered heavy losses. How can we possibly be a match for the powerful Royal Guards?"

"Moreover," the Prime Minister frowned slightly, "and the Second Prince has also been watching us covetously."

Speaking of the Second Prince, the Fourth Prince was even more furious: "Second Prince, you bastard! He was the one behind all this. He was the one who told the Sixth Prince the news and made him complain to me. Don't think I don't know."

This matter had spread a long time ago, and he also got the news from Concubine Xian.

But the news came too late, the Xiao family had already been raided.

"From now on, this prince will strangle that bastard, the second brother, to death with his own hands."

He hated the Second Prince even more than the Sixth Prince, but now he had no way to deal with the Second Prince.