Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 446

The sky is bright.

In the Chu Palace, Xiong Zhen was wearing a pitch-black armor, with a long sword on his waist, and led a group of strong guards, step by step into the bedroom where his mother, Empress Meng Ying, lived.

When Meng Ying saw Xiong Zhen like this, he couldn't help being stunned.

"My lord, what are you doing?"

Meng Ying asked puzzledly.

"Mother, the palace cannot be guarded right now, please ask the mother to go hunting with the widow."

Said it was "Xishou", but in fact Xiong Zhen just wanted to escape.

Nishikari is just an elegant name!
In other words, Xiong Zhen wanted to flee to the west of Chu State to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the Wu army.

Hearing this, Meng Ying couldn't help being dumbfounded and said, "Your Majesty, why do you abandon your subjects and the capital?"

"The palace city has not yet been broken, and the soldiers of the Chu State are still willing to fight bloody battles for the King and the State of Chu. How can the King ignore them and flee to other places just to survive!"

Meng Ying was very upset.

But Xiong Zhen seemed to have made up his mind, and said through gritted teeth: "Mother, these widows understand what you said! However, if people don't do it for themselves, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth!"

"Now that Yingdu has been destroyed, it is still unknown whether the palace can be defended, and whether the Qin King's teacher who guards the front line will arrive. I am the honor and disgrace of the rise and fall of Chu, and I must not take this risk!"

"You are ridiculous!"

Meng Ying stared at his beautiful eyes, and said to Xiong Zhen filled with righteous indignation: "Your Majesty, how can you be so selfish? The king dies, and the country is heroic. If you are like you now, who will abandon the city and flee?" Are you willing to sacrifice your life for your majesty, for the state of Chu?"

"Your Majesty, you have taken King Zhuang of Chu as your role model since you were a child, but what you have done today can have the slightest appearance of King Zhuang?"

"In the state of Chu, there are only monarchs who die in battle, but no monarch who flees without fighting!"

"When you were your age, King Qingji of Wu was born and died. He fought all the way from the Central Plains back to the Kingdom of Wu and regained his own throne!"

"Now you, how can you compare to Qingji?"

"Yes! Queen Mother, the widow is no match for Qingji!"

Apart from being ashamed, Xiong Zhen was even more annoyed, staring at Meng Ying and shouting loudly: "He is your lover, so you naturally think of him so much!"

"Now, it's Qingji, it's Wu, it's your lover who led the army to fight, and wants to destroy Chu!"

"How can a widow just sit and wait for death?"

"Queen, I feel that what you said before is correct. As long as I am still alive, the state of Chu will not perish!"

After a pause, Xiong Zhen looked at the heartbroken Meng Ying in front of him, and couldn't help softening his heart. He stretched out his palm towards her, and said slowly, "Mother, let's go with my son."

"Great Chu Kingdom will not perish just like this. I will definitely be able to regroup, and I will fight back to Yingdu in a few days, driving all the Wu people out of Chu Kingdom's territory! Regain the lost land!"

What Xiong Zhen said was righteous, but how could Meng Ying not understand his character?

At this time, Xiong Zhen can even do the thing of running away without fighting!
Meng Ying glanced at Xiong Zhen, who had become a bit unfamiliar, and clutching his heart, couldn't help but tearfully said: "Your Majesty, why have you become so greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"The queen mother has given birth to you for [-] years, can't she train you to be a qualified monarch?"

Hearing this, Xiong Zhen's face froze, and he immediately lowered his head and said, "Queen, why don't you understand? The Xiong Zhen of today is no longer the Xiong Zhen of the past!"

"The widow can't take this risk. Once the palace is breached, what will happen to the widow?"

"With Qingji's hypocritical character, he may not kill me, but he will be under house arrest for the rest of his life, or exiled to the remote Lingnan. Instead, I would rather commit suicide!"

So why can't you choose to commit suicide?

Meng Ying didn't say this sentence out loud.

After all, Xiong Zhen is her son, her flesh and blood.

How could Meng Ying watch his son Xiong Zhen die before his eyes?
"Ugh!"

In the end, Meng Ying let out a long sigh, and said, "Zhen'er, go by yourself. The queen mother wants to stay here, and Wu people dare not offend the queen mother."

Upon hearing this, Xiong Zhen's face was a little cloudy, but he still respected his mother's choice.

Xiong Zhen immediately lifted his skirt, knelt on the floor, kowtowed to Meng Ying, and said with tears in his eyes: "Mother, please forgive my son for being unfilial!"

"After this farewell, you and my mother and son may never see each other again! Please take care of the queen mother, and my son will go!"

As soon as the words fell, Xiong Zhen stood up and walked towards the outside of the bedroom step by step.

Looking at Xiong Zhen's back that was drifting away, Meng Ying couldn't help covering his small mouth, tears streaming down his face.

In a mother-son relationship, Meng Ying and Xiong Zhen depend on each other for life, and their relationship is not so good.

However, this time, it is impossible for Meng Ying to flee with Xiong Zhen.

Not to mention whether he would be in danger, Meng Ying wanted to stay in Chu Palace, waiting for the man he had been thinking about day and night to come and pick him up.

In the first half of her life, she paid a lot for Xiong Zhen and the state of Chu, but in the second half of her life, Meng Ying only wanted to live for herself.

……

"kill!"

at dawn.

Inside and outside the Chu Palace, shouts of killing soared into the sky.

I saw a group of armored soldiers in military chariots or on foot, rushing out of the palace and heading straight for the gate of the city.

Sun Wu, who was extremely tense, did not fall into a deep sleep. At the moment when the sound of shouting and killing appeared, Sun Wu woke up immediately from the private house on one side.

"what happened?"

"Report-"

A schoolboy hurried in and shouted loudly: "Da Sima, there are people from the Palace of Chu. There are no less than hundreds of people!"

"not good!"

Sun Wu reacted, immediately grabbed the sword on the bed, frowned and said: "It's the king of Chu who wants to escape! Order, no matter what the cost, the king of Chu must be captured alive!"

"promise!"

Just like Sun Wu, even the generals and soldiers of the Wu army who did not have the task of standing guard did not dare to go to sleep, nor did they disarm themselves. This ensures that they can react at any time if an accident occurs.

As for why Sun Wu only ordered the king of Chu Xiong Zhen to be captured alive, the reason is very simple.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was auspicious for kings to see blood.

In the past, ordinary soldiers on the battlefield would not be qualified to kill the king of a country, even if they were not qualified to fight against him.

You have to dare to attack the monarch, even if you capture and kill the enemy monarch, you will probably be punished after the war.

For the state of Wu, a living King of Chu, Xiong Zhen, is more valuable than a dead King of Chu, Xiong Zhen.

"Fire arrows!"

"Whoosh whoosh!"

The rain of arrows all over the sky was like locusts crossing the border, and they quickly shot at the guards of the Chu Kingdom who had been killed from the palace.

"Pfft!"

"what!"

The defenseless guards of the Chu State were shot by random arrows one after another, and then fell down in a pool of blood, dying of exhaustion.

At this moment, Xiong Zhen was standing on the military chariot, watching the arrows flying towards him with fear.

If the guard on one side hadn't sacrificed his life to protect him and raised his shield to block him, Xiong Zhen would have been shot by random arrows and died a terrible death!
(End of this chapter)