Empress Mi Benji

Chapter 232 Let’s negotiate peace

The king of Zhao could not understand, but he could not prevent the defeat of the Zhao army. He captured the thief and the former king. He was controlled by others, and the Zhao army was finished.

King Zhao, who saw the defeat with his own eyes, struck his neck with a knife, hoping to use his death to stimulate the morale of the army. Luo Yuecheng hurriedly deflected the knife, thus preventing the staunch monarch from committing suicide.

To prevent him from resisting and committing suicide, Luo Yuecheng mastered the strength and knocked King Zhao unconscious, holding him in his hand and shouting: "King Zhao has surrendered, please put down your weapons and surrender as soon as possible."

This move hastened the army's rout.

The Xia army had a tendency to collapse in the face of the fierce and fearless Xia army. Now that their heads have been taken over, their will to resist is like a landslide.

Unstoppable, resisting, fleeing and surrendering, and confused in thinking, the Xia army was united as one to destroy the Zhao army.

It is also a wonderful sight to see hundreds of officials captured.

He Heng didn't even understand why he won, but he commanded quickly and hurriedly closed the siege and placed the prisoners in place.
At this time, Baiguan realized that he regretted why he gave the order to his soldiers to avoid the battle.

Let the tiger and wolf-like Tiance army rush all the way to surround them. In the end, the overall battle situation collapsed.

Under the avalanche, no snowflake is innocent. When the first person tells the army belonging to his family to avoid the Tiance army when encountering it, don't lose his life.

Either the soldiers were talking, or the personnel were guessing, other families had the same idea, this is a sure win game, why should I consume my power, so there was a second one, a third one, until the balance of power. tilt.

That's right, a sure win. The Xuanjia Army's are not heavy cavalry in the ordinary sense. They are more like the exoskeleton warriors from Zhuang Xun's hometown, beings close to magic.

Aristocratic families know best how powerful their own army is, and how expensive it is at the same time. People who drive such armor are not ordinary people. They need to learn martial arts and undergo specialized training. Therefore, for aristocratic families without the power of state machinery, every time a black armor soldier dies, every time Losing a set of armor will make you feel distressed.

Perhaps in desperate situations, these noble families will order these loyal troops to fight bravely because their lives will really be threatened. This is why King Zhao brought them to supervise the army. Thinking that their lives are threatened, they must contribute anyway. .

Then these aristocratic families gave him this humiliating defeat. They all thought he would win. How could he lose? He couldn't lose. Xia State had two thousand against eight thousand, how could he win? As for the other fifty thousand soldiers, even if they had armor and Horses are just ordinary things and cannot touch Xuan Jia Qi.

The aristocratic families are most afraid of the Tiance Army. Like the Xuanjia Cavalry, they are non-mundane and can hurt the Xuanjia Cavalry.

In a situation of guaranteed victory, why should my soldiers win against the Koutiance Army? The emperor's soldiers are behind to supervise the battle. As long as my soldiers are slow, soldiers from other aristocratic families will be on top.

As long as this kind of thought occurs, it will take root and sprout like a seed. If I take a step back, it doesn't matter. I will put straw on the camel's back and it will not be crushed.

In the end, it became the straw that broke the camel's back. Many people knew that the family gave the army an order to avoid the war, but they all thought that if they didn't follow the order, I would suffer too much, and I was not the last straw. , following the trend but not reporting it.

With the continuous victories along the way, while praising King Zhao, the ministers of these aristocratic families were also proud and did not think that dealing with Xia State was a big deal.

The second aristocratic family is in the same group. Reporting other aristocratic families is annoying, why not learn from it and let your own army avoid fighting and reduce losses.

As soon as the Tiance army charged, they charged as if they were dead. The army received the order to avoid the battle. After a brief contact, they immediately avoided it. There was no need to fight with the madman.

Therefore, King Zhao calculated everything and learned countless experience summaries. From before the expedition to before the battle, he played steadily and did not allow any loopholes to be taken advantage of. He always had the advantage. Even if he divided his troops and Xia Guo replenished its troops, he still had the advantage. He lost. .

The training level of the soldiers was higher than that of the Xia Kingdom, and the command level of the generals was higher than that of the Xia Kingdom. The recovery operations were carried out steadily without any flaws. The officials' suggestions were also selected from the best. Everything was so good. It was the crucial decisive battle.

He underestimated human nature, underestimated the pursuit of advantages and avoidance of disadvantages, and underestimated the greed of people.

When he woke up, he looked at the guarding sergeants and Zhao's ministers. Seeing their sad expressions, he immediately understood his situation.

The fire of shame suddenly ignited. He couldn't bear this shame, this shame of being captured. He was the king of Zhao and was captured. How could he still have the honor to live?

He found the nearest pillar and was knocked headlong by King Zhao who was tied up. Tianzhan, the imperial censor on the side, quickly hugged King Zhao and stopped him.

"Your Majesty, please don't do this. Your Majesty, please think twice..."

The surrounding ministers rushed up to stop him, and tried to stop King Zhao. From the emperor who was about to unify the world to the embarrassment of being captured, King Zhao couldn't accept it, and he was determined to die.

"Your Majesty, don't be discouraged. We still have two armies, and we still have 15 black armored cavalry. The Xia Kingdom does not insist on our death."

Tian Zhan, the censor doctor, comforted him and said that the most valuable among them was King Zhao. After King Zhao died, Zhao Guoguan really didn’t know whether they lived or died. King Zhao wanted to die, but they still wanted to live.

Seeing that they did not want to die, they did not shackle them, but only tied up King Zhao.

"How can I survive? How could this happen? How could we lose? I am ashamed to meet my mother, the national preceptor, and the prime minister..."

I'm sorry for my mother who is still working hard on the front line of Jingguo, I'm sorry for Xuannv who is still coordinating the dispatch in Zhaoguo, and I'm sorry for Prime Minister Xu Hongwen and Taiwei Ren Xusheng who are dividing their forces at this moment.

In order to better command the army, they were asked to lead the troops from the Xu and Ren families, so the two were not captured.

King Zhao had no face to live anymore. The superior troops fought step by step, but in the end he was defeated by the weak and the strong. He was stunned with disbelief, and his whole body was filled with sadness.

There was obviously nothing wrong with the decision he made. The purpose of using the imperial guards was to prevent Xia's two thousand troops suspected of being Tiance troops from bypassing the rear. The imperial guards with the strongest fighting will were used as a backing. It was as he expected at the beginning, but what else? The peasant army, who was not afraid of death, could only be defeated when faced with the Xuanjia army.

But the final result was that the invincible Xuanjia Army was broken through head-on, and all the officials were captured, humiliated, humiliated, and infinitely miserable and painful.

"That's why I want to leave a useful body to wait for revenge. If Your Majesty seeks death, the Crown Prince will be young and it will be difficult for him to manage the affairs of the country."

Tian Zhan advised him that he understood why he was captured and felt guilty. He deliberately ignored Empress Dowager Jiang, who could listen to politics from behind the curtain, in order to win back some of King Zhao's ideas.

"With my mother here, the prince does not need to worry. Since I have been captured, I must not become a pawn of the Xia Kingdom against the Zhao Kingdom." King Zhao became excited and tried to hit the pillar again, but the officials hurriedly held him down.

"Let's first look at the conditions of the Xia Kingdom. The Queen Mother has not been able to control the overall situation of the Zhao Kingdom for a long time. There are also various clan challenges. Your Majesty, think twice, think twice. If Your Majesty seeks death now, he will be criticized by thousands of people. Only by crossing this hurdle, Only then do you have a chance to restore your reputation, Your Majesty."

The imperial censor tried his best to dissuade him, and finally gave up King Zhao's idea of ​​seeking death. King Zhao thought of his mother's words to him about not giving up easily and persevering in desperate situations, and fell silent for a while.

"My army! My army!" Before he fell into coma, he had vaguely seen the defeat of the army, and now he couldn't stop the tears from pouring out.

The ministers lowered their heads in shame, but were more calm on the surface. They understood why the Tiance Army was able to march straight in and use 4000 people to tear apart a team of nearly 1 people, including [-] Xuanjia Army.

While the ministers were mourning, He Heng was not idle. He escaped with a thousand Xuanjia troops (the aristocratic army), defeated and killed three thousand on the battlefield (most of the imperial guards were in the palace), and four thousand surrendered (almost all the aristocratic armies). ).

They quickly changed their equipment and reorganized to directly block Zhao Jun's retreat. Fortunately, when Li Rusi was training, tens of thousands of them were trained, and they were all the best. He Heng stayed at Taiyunguan.

Now that he has new equipment, although he is not skilled in it, it is better than nothing. Now it is Xia Jun's turn to block Zhao Guo's opening.

At the same time, the news that King Zhao was captured also caused a sensation in Yuzhou and even the whole country. The first person to receive the news was Xuannv, who almost fainted when she saw the news.

Then she immediately realized that the two Zhao armies in the eastern area were in danger, and asked the monks to issue a retreat order.

Empress Dowager Jiang, who was attacking Jingguo and planning a war against the eldest prince of Jingguo, fainted after receiving the news.

To sow discord between the princes of Jingguo, to ensure that they would not aid the eldest prince, and to start a war against the eldest prince, and take over the eldest prince of Jingguo's territory in one go, this battle report appeared.

Empress Dowager Jiang fainted, the impact was too strong, and the eight thousand Xuanjia Army was defeated, which meant that Xia State's strength had become a climate change, which meant that they had to send people from Jing State to return to the country for rescue, otherwise they would not be able to defend Jin. It's sunny.

Give her another two years, no, one year, and she can capture Jingguo. The flying dragon is in the sky, but now the flying dragon is cut in half.

Seeing her delicate situation being destroyed, Queen Mother Jiang couldn't stand it. Even a practitioner would find it difficult not to be happy with things and not sad with oneself. After putting so much effort into it, it was like a castle in the air that was about to turn into nothing.

Queen Mother Jiang knew that King Zhao was going on a personal expedition, and she was a little bit dissatisfied. However, King Zhao gave her a written copy of the reasons and plans for the expedition, and she reluctantly agreed.

She has also been paying attention to the battlefield to the east. Looking at the Zhao country's victories in the battle report, it seems that she will strangle the Xia army and regain the entire territory in the next moment.

This should be the case. The huge gap in strength between Zhao and Xia should be like this. A fight between an ordinary peasant army and a Xuanjia army would be like fighting between feudal cavalry and a modern army with rifles. There is no chance of winning.

No matter what the people's support and support are, they can be suppressed when they should be suppressed. It was also the Zhao family who brought all the troops to Jinyang to guard against the royal family. Otherwise, whether the eastern uprising could be started is one thing.

After all, these aristocratic families never imagined that the people who had been docile for hundreds of years would one day rebel and resist the rule of the aristocratic families.

Similarly, when Queen Mother Jiang saw her defeat, she was really shocked, as if she had been hit on the head with a hammer, and her brain felt cold and hot at the same time.

Empress Dowager Jiang, who woke up after a long time, flew back to Jinyang without caring about her dizzy brain and aching heart. There was a more urgent piece of information that she needed to verify, so she almost rushed into Xuannv's residence.

"What about the two armies? The two armies that were divided have withdrawn? Let them withdraw quickly."

As long as we unite our forces, we still have the strength to fight, and there is still hope left. Even if we just stick to it, we can delay it until Jingguo is solved.

If giving up the east can allow Zhao to continue to use troops in Jing, then Queen Mother Jiang will give up the east without hesitation.

The aristocratic families in the east are nothing. She wants Jingguo, she wants to smash the chains that trap Zhaoguo, and she wants to make Zhaoguo fly in the sky.

"I'm also waiting for news from them. I've told them to retreat, but their position is too deep."

It's a pity that even if the message was delivered quite timely, the monks who traveled day and night to send it there were still one step ahead of the Xia State. He Heng had already sent people to cut off the Zhao army's retreat. The Zhao army was now replicating the situation of the Xia army before, and the retreat was blocked. It's blocked.

After receiving the news of King Zhao's capture and retreat, Prime Minister Xu Hongwen and Lieutenant Commander Ren Xusheng both thought of retreating first, but they pursued too deeply, and the Xia army refused to retreat.

They abandoned their chariots to protect their commanders, followed the general's advice, abandoned their county soldiers, and directly chose to escape with their elite troops. However, they were still a step too late. They also took the same route. Xia State was faster and did not bring any county soldiers at the beginning. Tiance's army traveled day and night to block the hole in advance.

Xia Guo blocked Danyang where Chidao met, blocking the retreat route. Attacking and defending aliens, they could only listen to the opinions of the generals and finally choose to stick to it.

Maybe someone could escape after fighting for a while, but the officials of the noble family could not escape. They could not give up and sacrifice themselves to let Zhao Jun escape. Even though Xu Hongwen and Ren Xusheng intended to sacrifice their lives for the country, they were stopped by them.

Three thousand of them were the emperor's armed forces. They could just send their own troops to break out of the encirclement. They sacrificed themselves to send the emperor's armed forces back. They did not have such noble sentiments. Their own armed forces were almost gone when they returned. They thought of waiting for peace.

So the rebels and Xia troops who had been forced to retreat came back to surround them. Now the two did not dare to fight, because neither the two nor their generals could bear the responsibility of burying the elite again.

Xuannv's order is better than nothing. It's not that they don't want to withdraw, but that they can't withdraw. With nearly 20 Xuanjia troops, plus more than [-] to [-] county soldiers (peasant troops), how can the layers of defense be retreated?

They didn't know that these elites from Xia State were all fake, and it was hard to predict whether they would win or lose in a regular battle with them, but to be frightened was to frighten them.

After all, the elite troops of the Zhao State led by King Zhao had just been defeated by the Xia State, and they had heard about the Tiance Army's bravery and fearless death. It was a strange misunderstanding.

They were like a turtle in a urn. The encirclement was tightened. They did not dare to fight and waited for Xia Guo to take the initiative.

"Retreat from Jingguo and negotiate for peace." When she learned that Xia Jun had arrived in Danyang first, Xuannv knew that there was no way to save her, and she said helplessly to the silent Empress Dowager Jiang.

(End of this chapter)