A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 156
When Fengji learned that Yingdu was in danger, he immediately mobilized his army to return to the army for rescue.It's a pity that Wu Zixu also knew the news, and immediately the army went to intercept it.

Wu Zixu sent people to shout, "The capital of Ying is broken, and the king of Chu is dead." '

The Chu army was in shock, and the Huai army took the opportunity to attack.Fengji was eager to withdraw his troops, and the generals had no will to fight. The Chu army was defeated for thirty li.

Frightened, Fengji did not dare to fight any more, so he led his army back. Wu Zixu immediately led his army straight into Yingdu. Wherever he passed, the Chu army surrendered.

Qingji led his army to hide five miles west of Yingdu, and soon there were nobles in Yingdu who escaped from the city. Qingji ignored these nobles, most of them were minor nobles.

After waiting for about two or three hours, suddenly a group of hundreds of people rushed westward quickly. Among these people, there were a large number of soldiers, more than two hundred people, and these people drove westward with three vehicles guarding them.

The spy next to him who had been staring at the main road suddenly got up to observe. After a while, he seemed to have confirmed the identity of the man, and immediately said to Qingji: "General, it is the king of Chu. Although he changed his clothes and his car, But I have seen his appearance, and the one driving in the middle is the King of Chu!"

Hearing these words, Qingji regained his energy in an instant, put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Did you see clearly?"

"See clearly, I am willing to guarantee with my life!" This spy is one of the hidden guards of Huai State buried in Chu State. He is also a few people who have seen the face of the King of Chu. King of Chu.

"Okay, this time you captured King Chu, it's your first achievement!" Qing Ji said directly.

Seeing that King Chu's chariot had entered the encirclement, suddenly the sound of war drums sounded, and the ambush soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed out instantly.

Qingji took the lead and shouted loudly with a long dagger in his hand, "King of Chu Xiongju, Huaiguo Qingji has been waiting here for a long time!"

When King Chu heard the sound of war drums, he immediately understood that the situation was not good, and hurriedly turned the guards to flee, but Qingji set up a trap just to wait for him to come, how could the duck with its mouth fly away?

Three thousand Tengjia troops rushed up quickly, and the guards of the king of Chu drew their swords to resist, trying to protect the king of Chu and rush out of the encirclement.

It's a pity that facing the elite rattan armor army of the Huai country, it would be futile even if the king of Chu had twice as many guards.

I saw that the Tengjia army had three arrows before the battle, and the arrow rain fell into the convoy.Dozens of guards were shot down in an instant, and then the Tengjia army charged. The guards of King Chu fought hard, but they were easily surrounded and killed by the Tengjia army.

Looking at the guards who kept dying, in less than a quarter of an hour, there were only three or forty guards left for the king of Chu.Seeing that the overall situation has been settled, Qingji immediately said: "Chu Wang Xiongju, you have nowhere to go, surrender will save you from death!"

Xiong Ju looked at the dozens of guards left beside him, sighed in his heart, and then shouted at Qingji: "Xiong Ju is here, this time I lost, but the people of Chu will not surrender, others can Surrender, but as a king, how can you surrender and steal your life?"

After speaking, he pulled out the sword at his waist and killed himself.

Although Qingji regretted seeing the king of Chu committing suicide, he did not stop him.After the death of King Chu, the remaining guards also surrendered one after another. Except for King Chu, his wife and one of his sons were driving in the other two cars.

Qing Ji did not make things difficult for them, but ordered someone to take Xiong Ju's body and return to the barracks, while he continued to stop the fleeing nobles here.It's just that Qingji's siege and killing of the King of Chu has been exposed, and many nobles have already detoured and left from other places.And the clan of the Chu State scattered like birds and beasts and fled in all directions.

Sun Wu learned that the king of Chu, Xiongju, was dead, and immediately ordered the army to attack the city.Although Qu Min was firm in his will, actively prepared for the defense, and recruited the strong people to defend the city, but under the general situation, it was nothing but a mantis holding back the traffic.

At this time, the Chu army had long been beaten by the Huai army. Even if Qu Min spent money and food to boost morale, recruit strong men, and set an example, it would not help.What's more, the king of Chu and those nobles escaped, the common people knew it very well.

Even the king of Chu and the nobles fled for their lives. Are they defending the city to die?As a result, the morale of the Chu army was low.

Sun Wu led an army to encircle Sanqueyi and ordered people to shout that the king of Chu was dead.The morale of the defenders in Yingdu was already low, and they were even more frightened when they heard this shout, and they were directly attacked by the Huai army.

"God bless Chu, this battle was a big defeat, Yingdu has been accumulated for decades, and it will be gone in one day." Qu Min watched Yingdu being breached, feeling infinitely sad in his heart.

The city of Ying was destroyed, and Qu Min refused to surrender. He jumped from the top of the city tower and died with his head touching the ground.

The Huai army occupied Yingdu.

Sun Wu sent troops to take over the entire city, ordered people to patrol the city, and all the people in the city returned to their homes to arrest the rebels and kill anyone who dared to take the opportunity to rob, rape, murder, or set fire.

At the same time, military discipline is strictly controlled. Fortunately, these Huai troops are elite, and the military discipline is very high on weekdays. In addition, there are rattan armored troops patrolling, so there is no burning, killing and looting.

Then the Chu Palace was closed, and all the money, children, and letters in the palace were counted.The treasury of Chu State was also taken over, and at the same time, soldiers were sent from door to door to deliver food to appease people.

After the initial chaos, Yingdu quickly settled down.The people in the city were still hostile and afraid of the Huai Army at first, but after Sun Wu released the grain, although the people were still afraid, they were no longer hostile to the Huai Army.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Wu ordered people to arrest those who oppressed the people in the city and took advantage of the chaos to cause trouble, and built a high platform in the city to enumerate all their crimes. After the trial, they beheaded.Seeing those aristocrats, bureaucrats and their minions who were arrogant and bullying the ordinary people were pulled out and beheaded and killed, the people of Yingdu rushed to tell each other, and the hearts of the people were determined.

In addition, Sun Wu also asked people to return the fields that those people seized, or the people's wealth that they oppressed and plundered.At the same time, they searched the wealth of the nobles in the city, and then distributed it to the soldiers on the grounds of the edict of Duke Huai.Soldiers are rewarded and their morale is higher.

The people of Yingdu began to accept the Huai army. Three days after the Huai army occupied Yingdu, Yingdu gradually recovered, and the people in the city began to travel and trade.

When Wu Zixu led the army, he was surprised to see that Yingdu had restored some of its former prosperity.

After learning that the king of Chu, Xiong Ju, was dead, Wu Zixu was stunned for a while, and Sun Wu handed Xiong Ju's body to Wu Zixu. Wang Qi had promised before that that if he won this battle, Xiong Ju would be handed over to Wu Zixu.

Seeing Xiong Ju's death, Wu Zixu's hatred couldn't be dispelled. He immediately threw his body in the wilderness, and no one was allowed to collect it.

Unrestrained licentiousness is called Jie, and cruelty is called Jie.

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The impact of the battle between Huai and Chu was huge. Huai State took the initiative to invade Chu State for the first time, defeated Yingdu in the first battle, captured and killed Chu Jiehou, and Chu State declined since then.Wu Zixu succeeded in revenge, and Jiehou died in the wild.

This battle was a large-scale and far-reaching battle at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Huai State defeated Chu State in one fell swoop, knocking down this powerful country since the Spring and Autumn Period, and at the same time making Sun Wu famous all over the world. —— "General History of the World · History of China · Eastern Zhou Dynasty Volume Five"

Huai attacked Chu, and Chu was defeated.

(End of this chapter)