King Yanqi led the army to put up a relatively heroic resistance, fighting to the last moment, but still defeated.

Xiahou Yuan led the army to kill all the Yanqi royal family and flattened the Yanqi Kingdom, leaving them with no possibility of recovering the country.

Then, Xiahou Yuan pointed at Qiuzi.

Zhang Fei's side also easily eliminated the end of the country and the country of Xiaowan, and pointed at the country of refinement.

Unlike the Elite Nation that Zhang Fei was about to deal with, the Turtle Country was a real Western Regions power.

With a population of more than 100,000 and more than 20,000 people in the general mobilization of the battleable army, it is the strongest among the countries of the Northern Mountain Dao in the Western Regions - if you don't consider Wusun.

There are slightly more cities in the country of Qiuzi, but just conquering a city cannot destroy the country of Qiuzi.

Only then can we conquer Qiuci, occupy Qiuci, and obtain the abundant grain, armament, wealth, population, and land of Qiuci country.

Xiahou Yuan salivated at the Qiuci Kingdom, estimated the 10,000 cavalry in his hands, and felt that it was unlikely that he would attack the Qiuci Kingdom alone.

But before Cao Xiu had said that he would find a way to seize Yancheng, the capital of Qiuzi State.

Xiahou Yuan thought about it, if Yancheng was occupied by Cao Xiu, and the dragons of the Qiuzi Kingdom would be leaderless, wouldn't it still be a situation of delivering food?

It was also he who sent a vanguard team to explore the reality of the country of Qiuzi.

Not to mention, it's really that Xiahou Yuan is too fast, he has sent troops for so long, he has destroyed so many countries and tribes, and most of Shanbei Dao has gone, and he is about to arrive at Qiuci Country, and Qiuci Country still doesn't know the news that the Wei army has torn his face and sent troops to crusade against the countries.

The Wei people can no longer be satisfied with being the suzerain, and the Wei people now want everything.

The suzerainty or something, that is, pretending, it sounds good, if you really want to say that there are interests, you still have to really occupy it, and set up counties to rule.

It's a pity that the country of Guizi doesn't know yet.

Because Cao Xiu was bold and careful, he knew that it would be very troublesome for the Qiuci Kingdom to really resist, so in order to end the resistance of the Qiuci Kingdom faster, Cao Xiu decided to take matters into his own hands.

He secretly summoned the two thousand Wei troops he could mobilize, let them change into the clothes of ordinary people as a cover, and entered Yancheng, the capital of Qiuci in batches.

Cao Xiu was not afraid of anything, swaggered to Yancheng, entered the palace of the king of Qiuci, and asked the king of Qiuci to come to see him.

King Qiuzi has always been afraid of the strong Cao Xiu, and he has never dared to resist Cao Xiu's request, but because this time he really poked his sore foot, it was really difficult for him to accept, and he really couldn't compromise when he touched the bottom line.

So, he also chose to simply burn all the account books.

It's okay to trouble yourself, but you can't let the evidence be discovered by the Wei people, otherwise who knows what Cao Xiu will do again.

Cao Xiu knew this, he came here to question the king of Qiuci on the surface, but in fact he was here to attract the attention of the monarch and ministers of Qiuci, so as not to let them discover the movements of the Wei army prematurely.

And once the movement of the Wei army is transmitted, it is time for Cao Xiu to make a move.

Cao Xiu, as before, called King Qiuzi to the front and rebuked him with righteous words.

"Burned? How can it be so coincidental? Have all your country's books been burned? All on fire? It just so happened that only the account books were burned, so why didn't the king's palace burn down together? ”

Cao Xiu has always been so yin and yang.

Listening to Cao Xiu's mouthful, the king actually didn't take him seriously, and King Qiuzi dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak.

"Cao Duhu, this incident happened suddenly, and we don't know what happened, so it was burned suddenly, this ...... It's all in ashes, and there's no way back. ”

King Guizi cautiously accompanied the smiling face.

"Yes, I know it's burned to ashes and can't come back, but I'm just wondering, why didn't I burn it before, but now it's burned? And so many people burned together, it's too much of a coincidence, right? ”

Cao Xiu smiled more and more yin and yang.

"Perhaps...... It's a coincidence, a terrible coincidence...... Maybe. ”

King Qiuzi was uncomfortable when Cao Xiu looked at him.

Cao Xiu nodded as if annoyed.

"Do you take me for a fool or do you take the Son of Heaven for a fool?"

"Don't dare! Can't! I really don't dare! The account books were really burned, and I was very helpless! ”

King Qiuzi waved his hand again and again, but he didn't dare to follow Cao Xiu's words.

Are you kidding?

Take the Son of Heaven for a fool?

Are you crazy or am I crazy?

"Do you dare to burn the account books if you know it?!"

Cao Xiu looked extremely angry: "This time, Bendu Hu came here to find out this matter thoroughly!" Check it out! Who burned it and why, Bendu must know! Your Majesty, you're going to cooperate with me, won't you? ”

The meaning of Cao Xiu's words, King Qiuzi seems to have gotten it.

"Protect it, and rest assured, this king will definitely cooperate with it."

King Qiuzi understood what Cao Xiu meant.

Cao Xiu was probably also under a lot of pressure, so he came to them to vent his anger and asked them to give an explanation, and he would go back to give an explanation to the person he couldn't afford to offend.

I see.

King Guizi made a calculation in his heart, and began to think about how to find a scapegoat that would be the most suitable.

Who is best suited to be a scapegoat?

King Guizi began to carefully select suitable scapegoats, and then chose one of his relatives who wielded military power but often did not deal with him, who was a member of the royal family.

This person's identity is important, and he also has military power, and the most important thing is not to deal with King Qiuci, King Qiuci feels that he has found a good opportunity to kill people with a knife, killing two birds with one stone.

So he proudly betrayed this person to Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu also seemed to accept the "kindness" of King Qiuci very sensibly, and listed the relative of King Qiuci as a sinner.

Then he used his power to protect the capital, and with the "cooperation" of King Qiuzi, he took down this relative and beheaded him in public to deter people's hearts.

After the death of the man, the king of Qiuzi felt that he had passed the test, so he was very happy to feast Cao Xiu, invite Cao Xiu to eat, drink and watch the beauties dance, and celebrate the achievement of his purpose and Cao Xiu's purpose.

Then, his family was served by Cao Xiu in turn.

Cao Xiu had already learned in advance that Xiahou Yuan's army was rushing towards here, so he took advantage of this banquet to act decisively, and he personally led three hundred warriors to kill dozens of princes, nobles, ministers and other figures of the Qiuci Kingdom, and captured the King of Qiuci and his family alive.

King Guizi was terrified.

"Why! Cao Duhu! What are you doing! ”

Cao Xiu wiped a handful of blood from his face, with a cruel smile on his face.

"What else can I do, seek peace for the country, and make contributions!"

After saying that, Cao Xiu killed King Qiuci with one sword, and asked his subordinates to kill all the family members of King Qiuci.