A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 200 Brothers are fighting against each other, and the people pay for it

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"Liu Jianglu, you are a traitor to your brothers. We agreed to start a rebellion together. Why did you change your mind before the battle?" Liu Ang, the king of Jiaoxi, said angrily.

Liu Jiang, the king of Qi, said in a dilemma on the city: "Brothers, the imperial court is not easy to fight. Because I am timid, I will not join you in trouble. Why do you have to make things difficult for me? You want the throne?" Just go and I promise not to send troops to attack you!"

"Fart, Liu Jianglu, you don't keep your word, how can we believe it? When we have a fight with the imperial court, and you send troops to attack our fiefdom, won't we be doomed? So today, if you don't want to rebel, you have to rebel. , come out of the city quickly and join us, otherwise don’t blame the brothers for being ruthless!” King Jiaodong also came out and said.

"Alas! I already told you that I won't join you. No matter how much I say, it's useless. You can do whatever you want!" After saying that, King Qi left the city wall and disappeared from the sight of the four kings.

"Arrogant!" Liu Ang said angrily, "The general ordered us to attack the city with the entire army. We will not seal the sword for three days after entering the city!"

After this order, the armies of the four countries were like hungry wolves, their eyes glowing green, staring at Linzi.

The army rushed towards Linzi without any plan, but was blocked back by the well-prepared Qi army.

The King of Jiaoxi saw that this was not going to work. If he was blocked in Linzi, the big event would be over. After discussing with the other three kings, he ordered that the first person to climb the mountain would be rewarded with a thousand gold coins and be granted the title of Marquis within the pass!

The morale of the armies of the four countries has reached its peak under the continuous heavy rewards, and everyone is attacking the city head regardless of their own safety.

Three months later, the four kings of Jiaodong, Jiaoxi, Jinan, and Sichuan led their soldiers to attack many times, but with little effect. They only attacked the city once, but it was quickly defeated, and then never again. We've been attacked. After all, Linzi is a famous city in the world, with a high city and sufficient food.

"What should we do? We have been delayed at the gate of Linzi City for three months. If we don't join up with King Wu and others, I'm afraid the imperial army will arrive."

"It's better to bypass Linzi!" King Sichuan said after hesitation.

"No!" King Jiaoxi refused decisively, "Linzi is the only way for our army to advance. If we can go around it, it will be fine if the war goes well. If the war doesn't go well and we want to escape, King Qi will cut off our retreat and we will be sealed off." The country cannot go back.”

"What should we do? Linzi is a famous city in the world. The city walls have been continuously built and repaired for more than a hundred years. Without hundreds of thousands of troops or several years of siege, it may be difficult to capture it!" King Jinan also said with a grimace.

"Yes! Now the army has suffered too many losses due to the siege, and its morale is already very low. If the attack continues, the army may collapse before Linzi is captured!" King Jiaodong said.

When the King of Jiaoxi heard the complaints from his teammates, he was heartbroken and said loudly: "Let's fight! I personally lead people to attack the city. I don't believe that a small Linzi can stop our army of hundreds of thousands?"

"This... brother has a body of ten thousand gold. It's not good to lead the charge!" King Jiaodong dissuaded.

"Yes! Brother, you should think twice!" The other two kings also tried to dissuade him.

"What's wrong? Now that we've reached this point, do we still have a way out? If you fight, you'll die. If you don't fight, you'll die. So why not fight? Okay, that's it. Tomorrow, the king will personally select the elites. I can defeat you in a single battle!”

The other three kings looked at each other, unable to persuade them any more.

Second day

Liu Ang selected three thousand warriors from the entire army and equipped them with the best armor and weapons. The other three kings also contributed their capital.

Liu Ang looked at his three younger brothers, then turned to look at his selected soldiers with a determined expression. He raised the big sword in his hand and said loudly: "Fellow warriors, you will charge into the battle with me. As Emperor Gao, I His grandson has never lacked courage.

Today, I put my words here. As long as you are here, everyone will be rewarded with ten golds. One gold for killing an enemy. Five enemies will be promoted to one level. There is no limit. The first one to follow me to the city. , be granted the title of Marquis within the Pass, and those who capture the King of Qi will be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Houses! Among all the soldiers, who is willing to charge into battle with my king? "

The three thousand brave warriors felt that their whole bodies were on fire, and they all shouted loudly: "Me, me, me!"

Seeing that his morale was ready, Liu Ang walked to the front of the military formation, faced the tall city wall of Linzi, pointed his sword forward, and took the lead to rush towards the city wall, "Follow me and kill!"

"Kill!~" Three thousand tigers moved behind him.

At the same time, the other two gates also started a feint attack.

After being baptized by the rain of arrows, Liu Ang finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall, asked his men to set up the escalator, and took the lead in climbing towards the top of the city.

Soon Liu Ang led people to open up the situation on the city wall. More soldiers from the Four Kingdoms attacked the city wall. Seeing that the city wall was about to fall, the King of Qi turned around anxiously, constantly sending his soldiers up in an attempt to block the gap and close it. Push down.

But because Liu Ang personally led the team, there was a dizzying reward, and victory was in sight, the future of the feudal lord was in front of him, the gold, silver, jewelry, wine and beauties in the city were in front of him, and the armies of the four countries were simply desperate for their lives.

Although the Qi army tried its best to stop it, it still couldn't stop the wolf-like and tiger-like armies of the four countries. The other three kings under the city also discovered this. In their excitement, they continued to command soldiers to support the city.

But suddenly smoke rose into the sky from behind. The three kings turned around and saw, no, it was the camp. Soon a messenger from the rear came and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial army has arrived. It has broken through the camp and is coming this way." .”

"What can we do?" King Jinan and King Sichuan were so frightened that they lost their minds.

"Quick! Ming Jin withdraws his troops! My brother is still up there!" King Jiaodong still had some sense and quickly asked the military commander to go to Ming Jin.

"Ding Ding Ding!"

Liu Ang, who was at the top of the city, also heard it, and was a little angry. He was about to win, so he asked for gold. When he came to the top of the city, he saw that there was smoke all over the rear. He knew something was wrong, so he quickly led his soldiers back down the city wall, and the Qi army followed. Take back the city wall later.

Liu Ang, covered in blood, came to the three kings and asked: "Why do you ring the gold?" King Jiaodong said quickly: "Brother, go quickly, the imperial army is here!"

When Liu Ang heard this, he felt dizzy!
He could only be passively dragged away by the other three brothers.

Because the armies of the four kingdoms in Jiaoxi could not attack Linzi City for a long time, the Han general Luan Bu seized the opportunity to force them to retreat. The four kings had to retreat and return to their feudal countries to defend.

Liu Ang returned to the feudal state in despair. His son Liu De said: "Father, the imperial army is attacking Jiaodong and Jinan now. It is better to take advantage of their unstable foothold and lead the army to attack. If it succeeds, the great event can continue. If it fails, we can continue." How about escaping to the sea and saving your life?"

Liu Ang turned to stare at Liu Jiandao: "Escape to the sea? We are the descendants of Emperor Gao. If we fail, we will escape from the Han Dynasty. Wouldn't it be impossible for us to even return to our roots?" After speaking, he sighed to himself:

"That's it, that's it. I lost this time! Surrender! So that the people of Jiaoxi will not suffer again!"

"Father!"

Liu Ang waved his hand to stop him and said: "My father was granted the title of King of Jiaoxi because as a descendant of Emperor Gao, I have the responsibility to serve the herdsmen of the Liu family. Now, it is inappropriate to drag the people of Jiaoxi for my own selfish desires. If we don’t admit our mistakes, how can we have the dignity to go see our ancestors?”

Then he went to the Han camp alone to apologize!
When the Han Emperor heard about it, he sent his censor Han Daidang to declare the imperial edict. On behalf of the Han Emperor, Han Daidang reprimanded him for conspiring to rebel. The King of Jiaoxi was so ashamed that he committed suicide. When the kings of Jiaodong, Jinan, and Sichuan, who were still resisting, heard about this, they also ordered their surrender, and each committed suicide in his own palace.

From this, the land became level.

Zhao Guo
Because of the harsh treatment of King Zhao in previous dynasties, King Zhao originally only had Changshan County. However, in order to stabilize his throne, Emperor Wen returned the originally reduced Handan County and Julu County to him. King Zhao also transferred the capital from Xiangguo to Xiangguo. Moved to the larger and more prosperous city of Handan. From this, King Zhao had the capital to have a second heart.

Wang Ji led the army and quickly arrived at the foot of Handan City, an unknown highland. Wang Ji was overlooking the city defense of Handan from above. Next to him, Yuan Song and Bai Su were standing there with generals at all levels.

"This city of Handan is difficult to fight!" Yuan Song said.

"Handan was originally a border city of the Bai Kingdom. After years of development, the city wall was already very high. Later, the Zhao Kingdom used a trick to seize it and moved the capital here. It continued to deepen and gradually reached its current height. The Qin Army also attacked It took several months to capture it, and our army only has more than 50,000 people, so don’t even think about attacking the city." A general said.

"Although our army only has 50,000 troops, they are all elites from each county. Plus my 5,000 white cavalry, it is not impossible!" Pioneer General Bai Su said confidently.

"But how much will we lose?" Yuan Song asked a key question.

"There are no undead people in this... attack on the city." Bai Su replied weakly.

Yuan Song shook his head and did not argue anymore.

At this time Wang Ji spoke: "After all, this war is an internal war within the Liu family. It is better for us to participate less. Isn't it too ridiculous to lose the power of the Bai family to fight for power and profit for the Liu family?

Therefore, Ben decided to siege rather than attack and wait for the outcome of the war in other directions. In addition, Bai Su, you need to disperse your white cavalry to prevent armies from other parts of Zhao State from coming to support. "

"Here!" All the generals behind him bowed.

Those who were able to go up the mountain with Wang Ji and others were all generals from the Bai Kingdom, and the rest of the court generals were left in the camp.

Soon, the imperial army, led by the generals of the Bai Kingdom, surrounded Handan City, but they did not attack and only made a siege.

King Zhao was very worried and kept sending cavalry to spread rescue orders.

But every time the Zhao army came to rescue Zhao State, they were defeated by Bai Qi led by Bai Su.

Three months later, no Zhao army came to rescue, and he received news that the Wu-Chu coalition forces in the south and the four-nation army in Qi had failed. Wang Ji asked Baisu to take the Han Emperor's edict and these two pieces of news and go to Julu County and Changshan County surrendered.

He also sent people into Handan to tell King Zhao about the failure of the other six kings, and asked him to surrender as soon as possible. Maybe he could get leniency from the court. But unexpectedly, King Zhao refused and asked people to send a message, asking them to just surrender. Come to attack, if he surrenders, he is not a descendant of Emperor Gao!

Wang Ji had no choice but to continue the siege and wrote to the court, saying that he did not have enough troops and Handan City was too high and the pond was too deep to be conquered, so he asked for reinforcements.

After the Han emperor received it, he sent Luan Bu's army, which had pacified Qi, to go north, cross the Yellow River, and support Handan.

After Luan Bu's army arrived, Wang Ji directly handed over the command and let him make his own decision. Luan Bu happily accepted the credit. After observing the terrain and weather, Luan Bu decided to use the Qin army's old method of attacking Handan. Water attack.

So they sent people to store water in the upper reaches of the river. When the time came, the embankments burst and the water poured straight towards Handan. The city of Handan was destroyed. Wang Ji and other Bai Kingdom generals watched the situation from the high ground. Wang Ji said coldly: "As expected. A general in the imperial court has his own style in attacking, but if brothers fight against each other and the people suffer, I can't do it!"

After that, he went back to Hanoi County with 50,000 unscathed troops. All the credit should be given to Luan Bu!
After the city of Handan was destroyed, King Liu Sui of Zhao committed suicide in the palace.
As the King of Wu, the King of Chu, the King of Jiaoxi, the King of Jiaodong, the King of Jinan, the King of Sichuan, and the King of Zhao successively surrendered, the war in the world was eliminated. However, the Han Emperor did not do anything to the King of Qi and the King of Jibei who participated in the rebellion but did not send troops. Let it go.

Liu Zhi, the king of Jibei, who was kidnapped by the lieutenant of the middle school, failed to send troops to participate in the rebellion, so the Han emperor pardoned him but did not kill him. Instead, he was moved to Sichuan and became the king of Sichuan.

The King of Qi, Liu Jianglu, served the court well in defending the city, but he once planned to seize the throne, and later participated in the planning of the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion. Especially when he was besieged, he conspired with the King of Jiaoxi and others, so he "confessed" that he could not Seeing Rong Yuhan, he was forced to commit suicide.

Since then, the chaos in the Seven Kingdoms has been settled.

(End of this chapter)