Before you know it, summer has passed quietly and autumn has arrived.

In the autumn of that year, something happened that was destined to go down in history.

On August 15, the princes gathered in Yecheng, south of Handan, for only one thing, that is, to participate in the alliance convened by the overlord of the world, the state of Zhao.

The monarchs of Qin, Chu, Qi, Wei, Korea, Yan, and even Yiqu appeared here, in order to meet Zhao Dan, the eldest brother!

Even Zhou Tianzi, who had no authority at all, specially sent envoys, not only to seal Zhao Dan in a big way, but also to declare Zhao Dan as the chief of the princes, with the right to conquer all the countries in the world, and to rule all disobedience!

Although it is said that Zhou Tianzi in this year is actually useless, and the rewarded things are not even used, but Zhou Tianzi is still Zhou Tianzi after all, and with such a halo blessing, it still makes Zhao Guoren talk about it.

For more than 200 years since Zhao Guoguo, he has never had the experience of becoming a hegemonic country, let alone such a glorious deed!

Millions of soldiers and civilians in Zhao State were all overjoyed, and Zhao Dan's reputation once again swished like a rocket, and even many scholars who had become Zhao Dan's brainless fans swore that Zhao Dan must be the reincarnation of the legendary Holy King, and he was the Ming Jun who God had mercy on Zhao Guo!

Putting aside other people's feelings for the time being, when Zhao Dan sat on the top and watched these kings of different ages and heights in front of him saluting him, even though he had already been mentally prepared, the joy and pleasure in his heart still kept spewing out like a volcanic eruption.

Once upon a time, at the funeral of Zhao Dan's great-grandfather Zhao Suhou, the envoys of the five kingdoms of Qin, Qi, Chu, Wei and Yan each led tens of thousands of troops to the city of Handan, called condolences, which was actually coveting the territory of Zhao.

That year, Zhao Guo had just come out of the shadow of Handan's attack.

That year, alarms sounded everywhere on the border of Zhao, Qin was eyeing it, and Yan invaded blatantly.

The Zhao State that year was almost the weakest Zhao State in history, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was on the verge of extinction.

But it was from that year that the Zhao Kingdom ushered in a great monarch destined to go down in history - Zhao Yong, the king of martial arts!

From that time on, Zhao finally rose from the lowest point.

After experiencing two generations of Ming monarchs, Zhao Yong, King of Wuling, and Zhao He, King of Huiwen, under the leadership of Zhao Dan, Zhao State spent three generations and seventy-one years, and finally stood on the top of China without controversy, becoming the contemporary overlord of all countries in the world!

It was also at this meeting that Zhao Dan mediated the war between the two countries of Yanqi, and the two countries were unwilling to fight, so they reached a peace agreement.

For this agreement, both Yanqi and Qi seem to be very satisfied.

For example, the prime minister of the Yan Kingdom, Bang Lejian, said to the young King Yan: "King, the current Yan Kingdom has returned to the territory of its former heyday!" There is no lack of smugness in the words.

And Qi Wangjian seemed to be a little disheartened at last, he said to his henchman Hou Sheng: "Hou Qing, this thing of dominating the world is really boring, it is far better to enjoy it in the palace!" ”

It was also in this year that the Empress Dowager of Qi, who had been urging Qi Wangjian to keep moving forward on the road of Mingjun, passed away due to illness, and no one could influence Qi Wangjian's opinion anymore.

And this King of Qi, who didn't have much ambition in the first place, seems to be going to return to his true colors in history and concentrate on being a hedonistic monarch.

In addition, Zhao Dan also helped the Yiqu State determine the border with the Qin State.

Due to Zhao's obvious favoritism, Qin lost a lot of land in this boundary survey, and the Yiqu people perfectly achieved the goal of opening up the territory on the map.

This made the young King of Qin, who had just ascended the throne, furious, and said to his prime minister Lü Buwei: "Lü Qing, there will always be a day when the widow will personally lead the army to level Handan and relieve the hatred in the hearts of the widows!" ”

But at least for now, the words of this young Qin king, who had just changed his name from Zhao Zichu to Zhao Chu, could only be just words, although his anger was real enough, but the defeated Qin army and the declining national strength of the Qin State could no longer support his thoughts.

And the excited Yiqu King Yiqu Sheng got drunk directly after returning to the camp that day, and smiled at his subordinates: "This king knows that the people of Zhao are all good people!" ”

In fact, these are not the focus of this alliance, before the alliance, all the monarchs were concerned about another matter, that is, the war between Wei and Chu.

Wei and Chu are also the only two countries on the mainland that are still at war.

In the eyes of the other monarchs, since the war between Yan and Qi had been mediated by Zhao, the war between Chu and Wei should also be mediated by Zhao.

However, to everyone's surprise, Zhao Dan did express his intention to mediate in this war at the beginning, but after some talks with Wei Wangyu and Chu Wangyuan respectively, Zhao gave up mediation, and Zhao Dan did not mention this matter until the end of the alliance.

It wasn't until some time later that the princes suddenly discovered that the territory that Wei had promised to cede to Zhao seemed to be hundreds of miles longer than rumored.

Then the princes found out that not only Wei, but even Chu had ceded to Zhao the part of the land on the border between Chu and Qi near Langya.

In this way, Zhao has achieved an unprecedented achievement - from a landlocked country to a seaside country!

Regarding this matter, Wei Wangyu said to Duan Ganzi like this: "Thinking about that Chu State, how can it resist the expedition of the widow's army? What the widow lost to the Zhao State this time will definitely be taken back ten times and a hundred times from the Chu State! The widow doesn't believe it, can Chu Wangyuan, a defeated general, still be able to set off any storms!? ”

On the other hand, Chu Wang Yuan said this to Huang Xie and Jing Yang: "King Zhao promised to provide 5,000 sets of armor and corresponding weapons and 30,000 stone military rations this time, if you and the others can't win against Wei in such a situation, then the widow thinks it's time for Chu to change two people to lead the army!" ”

So in the following autumn, Wei and Chu broke out one after another, although Wei was slightly stronger, but because of the loss of a large number of elites in the battle with Zhao, and at the same time Chu received material support from Zhao, so there were winners and losers under the successive wars.

Although Chu recaptured half of Jiujiang County and opened up the connection with the eastern territories, Wei also took back Suzhou and firmly maintained the connection with Shouchun through Xia Cai City.

If we look at the national border before the war, Wei still has the advantage, but in terms of the current situation, the Chu State, which is becoming more and more courageous the more wars, has a feeling that it is about to turn around.

It was under such circumstances that New Year's Day (the first day of the 11th lunar month) in 255 BC came.

And on New Year's Day of this year, something that was destined to go down in history also broke out.