One month later.
Bianliang.
Taihe Palace.
The civil and military officials were divided into two sides, discussing state affairs.
Zhao Chong was feigning attentiveness on the dragon throne, but inwardly he was quite pleased because King Yan united with the three other princes and recently announced their opposition to Prince Zhen Nan, accusing him of monopolizing state affairs, harming loyal subjects, and slaughtering the Imperial Family. They had now amassed an army of a million, advancing toward Cold Water Pass.
Now the Capital had just over a hundred thousand Imperial Guards, lacking cavalry, and the remaining troops were not elite, because they had been dispatched to Jizhou, and there were also insufficient grain supplies in the Capital.
Now that King Yan was attacking, it represented a grave disaster for the Imperial Court.
The ministers were deliberating countermeasures, discussing how to resist King Yan's overwhelming force.
