A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 66
Meili, the capital city of the Wu Kingdom has been besieged for three months. Although the environment inside the city is better than outside the city, it is still extremely difficult.

With [-] people and the original residents, Meili City was packed to the brim.There are not enough houses in the city, many people can only be crowded together, the city is full of sewage, firewood is not enough, and a large number of people are also sick.In fact, both inside and outside the city have reached their limits.

Zhou Hong led a group of soldiers to patrol the city. On both sides of the street, there were a large number of civilians sitting or leaning on the walls, looking lifeless, and turned a blind eye to Zhou Hong's arrival.At this moment, a horn sounded suddenly, Zhou Hong's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly led his people towards the city wall.

As a result, as soon as he got near the city wall, more than a dozen arrows fell from the sky and fell to the ground. Just as he was about to step over, he suddenly found that there were no arrows on these arrows, and there seemed to be something wrapped around the shaft.Immediately, with a move in his heart, he picked up the arrow shaft.

When I took it apart, there were two lines of writing written on the silk cloth wrapped on the arrow shaft.Zhou Hong took a rough look, and his face changed suddenly.He didn't care about going to support the city wall, and took people back directly.

At the same time, a large number of arrows were thrown into the city, and the silk cloth quickly spread in the city.

Marquis Wu soon learned of the news, and when he saw the silk cloth saying that the country of Huai would build an embankment to store water, and that Meili was flooded, his face also changed drastically.

"Go and invite all the ministers here."

The ministers and ministers who got the news soon came one after another.

"Your Majesty, the country of Huai is ruthless and ruthless, so it wants to destroy our country of Wu! I implore you to gather elites to break out of the encirclement at night and destroy the dam!"

"Your Majesty, no, even if the dam is destroyed, the Huai people can still rebuild it. This is the strategy of the Huai people. If our army is dispatched, the Huai country will definitely take the opportunity to attack the city. At that time, Meili will be in danger, and the country will be in danger!"

"If we don't destroy the dam, it won't be long before the Huai people will flood Meili, and we will all be fish in the water!"

"It's useful to destroy the dam? They can rebuild it! And there must be traps outside the city. The Huai people are strong, how can they win?"

"Your Majesty, why don't you break out of the siege at night and go to Chu State or ask the Son of Heaven for help!"

For a while, everyone was disturbing and arguing endlessly.But no one can convince anyone.In the end, we argued all night without any conclusion.

For the next two days, the nobles in the city were still arguing about whether to break out and escape, or to destroy the dam.Wu Hou was also hesitant, after all, he also had luck in his heart.

While these people were discussing, rumors arose everywhere in the city.This kind of embankment storage and flooding of Meili has spread throughout the city.The whole city was terrified.

Especially two days later, when everyone discovered that the water level of several waterways in the city had dropped and almost stopped flowing, the panic became more serious.

People in the city were in a state of panic, and some nobles began to contact secretly, and even the folks gathered quietly into small groups.

The pressure of death made the nerves of the people in the whole city tense, and the atmosphere of the whole city became extremely depressing.

It was night, and a group of low-ranking officers quietly gathered together.

"Head, the Huai army is going to flood Meili, what shall we do?"

"What can we do? Either go out of the city and fight to the death, destroy the dam, or surrender."

"I heard that those nobles are gathering elites in secret, and I heard that they want to escape!"

"Escape? What should we do if they escape? Waiting to die?"

"Yeah, are we waiting to die here?"

"Brother, we can't wait any longer. The Huai Kingdom has built embankments to store water. If we don't make a decision, we will really have to feed the fish and turtles."

"Yes, brother, we all listen to you!"

"Yes, we all listen to Big Brother!"

The man at the head glanced at the crowd and said: "Our brothers are friends who have passed their lives. The soldiers of the Huai State are sharp. We are not opponents. We are not as skilled as others. There is nothing to complain about when we die, but we will stay in this city and be buried with those meat eaters." , I won’t do it!”

"They've had enough of fine clothes, gourmet food, and gorgeous beauties. What kind of life are we living? Why do we have to work for them? Duke Huai has already ordered that if you surrender, you will be exonerated. If you make contributions, you can also share the land and rank.

I have already planned to surrender to the Huai country. Brothers who are willing to talk to me, from today on, whoever has me will have yours. Brothers who don’t want to, we won’t force it. If we go out and forget what we just said, we will be strangers from now on! "

After speaking, the man looked at the crowd and stopped talking, but his eyes moved slightly. The soldiers next to him quietly took half a step back, and their right hands were already quietly holding the hilt of their swords.

"Brother, we will follow you!"

"Yes, brother, what do you think we should do? How did those nobles control us?"

"Yes, we did it with you!" Hearing what everyone said, those people didn't pull out their sharp swords.

"Okay!" The man immediately said: "In that case, let's open the city gate tonight and surrender to the Huai army!"

Immediately the man led the people out of the house, and then walked towards the city gate.At the same time, those nobles were quietly divided into two groups, one group wanted to break through directly, and the other group wanted to surrender.

The whole Meri is like a firewood piled with hay, as long as there is a little flame, it will burn instantly.

Before these nobles and officials had made a decision, several teams of soldiers had already quietly arrived at the gate of Meili City.

These people were originally Wu soldiers, and the soldiers guarding the city gate were rushed away before they could react.When they learned that the Huai people were going to flood Meili, these soldiers had already lost their morale and panicked.

Everyone didn't expect that they would take down the city gate so easily. Immediately afterwards, everyone opened the gate. The man at the head picked up a torch and shook it back and forth on the city wall. Soon, in the darkness outside the city, a group of black shadows charged go in.

After these people rushed into the city, they did not go inside to kill, but immediately controlled the gate.Then the army from behind began to enter, and three of the four gates of Meili City were opened, and the Huai army rushed into the city like a tide.

It wasn't until this time that the defenders in the city realized that the Huai Kingdom had attacked, but by this time, it was already too late.The wolves and tigers of the Huai army rushed forward, without the advantage of the city wall, these Wu soldiers were no match at all, and fell one after another.

The army was like a broken bamboo, and rushed directly to the Wuhou Palace in the city. Wherever it passed, the Wu soldiers fled one after another, almost without any resistance.

By the time Marquis Wu put on his clothes in a panic and wanted to escape, the fastest soldiers had already entered the palace and captured him directly. At the same time, the resistance in the city was pitifully weak, and a large number of people surrendered directly. The same is true for the soldiers. Some nobles and nobles wanted to escape, but were directly strangled by the Huai army.

By the time the next day dawned, the entire city had already fallen into the hands of Huaiguo.

In the 11th year of King Ping, Huai conquered Wu and encircled Wudu. After three months, the army was exhausted. Duke Wu Zhao wanted to retreat.In three days, the water in the capital of Wu was dry, and the people were terrified, so they sacrificed the city, and the state of Wu was destroyed. —— "Huai Palace Spring and Autumn"

(End of this chapter)