Wei Si did not move his troops near here, first, he did not see the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou divide the victory, and second, Wei Ran and Sima You had secretly brought hundreds of light horsemen each, disguised as the armies of the Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou, and lurked into the Zhou Wangji in order to set fire to the royal city and Cheng Zhou.

However, Wei Si was not worried about the regret that the ancient books of the Zhou royal family were burned, because he had already sent someone to borrow all the books of the Zhou royal family in the name of the Great Wei to rebuild the ancestral history, and copied them and transported them back to Daliang, but Wei Si still specially instructed Wei Ran and Sima You not to burn the Zhou royal family's book collection.

Cheng Zhou City.

This was originally the place where Zhou Tianzi lived, but since the war between the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was out of the most serious bloody storm.

Because after the two Zhou dukes fought to this point, they knew that there was no turning back, so they had already moved the idea of the Son of Heaven, and they all wanted to occupy Cheng Zhou and establish themselves as the Son of Heaven.

And because the strength of the two countries is almost the same, basically this Chengzhou City is constantly occupying alternately between the two countries.

Although Cheng Zhou was occupied by the two countries in turn, the palace was not subjected to any baptism of war, because the two Zhou dukes knew that if the palace of Cheng Zhou was destroyed by their own hands, even if they sat on the position of Zhou Tianzi, I am afraid that it would no longer be meaningless, and it would also be interfered by the surrounding powers.

Therefore, although the two countries fought to the death outside the palace, when the war was about to be brought to the palace, they immediately stopped in moderation, giving the defeated side a chance to escape.

Wei Ran took a hundred disguised soldiers of the Western Zhou Kingdom, forced back the Eastern Zhou army, and then followed the Western Zhou Duke into the palace of the Zhou Dynasty.

At this time, after repelling the Eastern Zhou army, the Duke of the Western Zhou, who reoccupied the palace, was naturally elated.

Before and after walking to the palace of the Son of Heaven, the Duke of Western Zhou did not enter the hall as usual at this time, but stopped anyway, turned around, and muttered to himself:

"Heh, this Tianzi Palace, this is the place that my Ji Gong dreams of, but with the strength of my Western Zhou Kingdom, I'm afraid I still can't hold it, isn't it going to be returned to that animal Ji Gen in two days? Am I willing? Willingly? ”

At this time, Wei Ran came over and comforted him:

"Zhou Gong... No... No...... Son of Heaven, Son of Heaven, since you are so unwilling to give up this palace to Na Ji Gen, why don't you find a way to defend it? ”

The Duke of Western Zhou glanced at the general who spoke to him not far away.

"You... Who are you? How come I have never seen you? ”

"Also, now I'm just Duke Zhou, and I don't have the ability to be the Son of Heaven yet, so don't talk nonsense here!"

There was a general next to him, who immediately walked over and said to the Duke of Western Zhou:

"Duke Zhou, I haven't seen him before, but when we killed the traitor army just now, thanks to him leading people to charge and kill the enemy in front, otherwise we wouldn't have repelled the traitor's army so quickly!"

Duke Xi Zhou looked at Wei Ran and nodded with great satisfaction:

"I'm still wondering just now, how can we defeat that beast Jigen's army so quickly, it turns out that there is such a brave person as a strong man!"

"What are you calling? Who is it? ”

Wei Ran replied:

"My name is Meng Ran, and I used to be a general in the Song Kingdom, but because the King of Song was incompetent and incompetent, he caused the country to die, and in the wild king, he was even more unrepentant, so in a fit of anger, I led these brothers who were willing to follow me to Zhou Wangji to defect to the Duke of the Western Zhou, and it happened to catch up with the righteous division presided over by the Duke of the Western Zhou."

As soon as the Duke of Western Zhou heard Meng Ran's words, he then looked at the hundred soldiers brought behind Meng Ran, all of them were strong soldiers, much stronger than the uneven soldiers under his command, and he was overjoyed:

"Well... Okay, although there aren't many people you brought to join my room, but all of them are what I like, okay... From this day on, you and your people will follow me, as long as I destroy Himegen's beast, I will never treat you badly in the future. ”

Then he asked:

"Listening to what you just said, do you have a way to defend this Chengzhou City?"

Wei Ran did not answer directly, but analyzed the current strength of Dongxi Zhou.

"Now there are 20,000 troops under your account, and Ji Gen is the same, but Ji Gen's 20,000 troops can be called elite compared to your army!"

"Moreover, although your army is not as good as Ji Gen's army, your army is braver than Ji Gen's army in battle, so your army will be on par with Ji Gen's army!"

"Also, every time you fight with Himegen, you are always not confident enough, and every time your army can pursue Himegen's army, you order to withdraw, so you can defeat Himegen!"

The Duke of the Western Zhou Dynasty asked:

"Really? According to what you say, then next time I only need to order the army to fight to the death, and when Himegen's army begins to fear and flee, I will personally lead the army to pursue that Himegen, then we will definitely be able to pacify the rebels? ”

Wei Ran replied:

"Yes, you were too cautious before, so every time you win, you give Ji Geun a chance to escape, if it continues like this for a long time, then you won't worry about South Korea pulling out and helping Ji Gen to deal with you?"

Duke Xi Zhou smiled lightly:

"If Korea comes to help Ji Gen, I can also ask Wei Guo to help me!"

Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh.

"Duke Zhou, I, Meng Ran, heard that not long ago, the Wei State passed through your country and borrowed grain from you because of the retreat of Qin, but you did not borrow it, but offended the King of Wei, do you think Wei can still help you deal with Korea now?"

Duke Xi Zhou sighed.

"Alas, I did offend the King of Wei because I was confused before, but the King of Wei didn't care about the villain, and he didn't pursue my country too much, so I really had to do it when the time came, so I loaded some of the utensils on the Wangcheng side and sent them to Daliang, presumably the King of Wei must have looked at the royal utensils to help me!"

Wei Ran couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart when he saw that this Western Zhou Duke still wanted to count on King Wei now

"Do you think that now our King Wei still looks down on those artifacts in your royal city? This Western Zhou Gong is really ridiculous, ridiculous! ”

After the defeat of the Eastern Zhou Gong Jigen, as usual, he did not return to his own capital Gong, but camped and rested by the Luoshui not far southeast of Luoyi, preparing to attack Chengzhou in a few days.

Suddenly, at this time, the Luoshui next to him skyrocketed, and when the Duke of Eastern Zhou heard the news, he was shocked, and hurriedly asked the Minister of State Zixun beside him:

"Zixun, what's going on? Why does Luoshui skyrocket, and I haven't seen any rain in the vicinity recently? ”

Zixun hurriedly grabbed the Duke of Dongzhou.

"Gong Zhou, since the water is starting to rise, let's hurry up and change places first!"

Dong Zhou Gong sighed.

"Alas, a change of place? Where to go? Is there a better place to set up camp now? ”

Zixun saw that the Duke of Eastern Zhou was unwilling to leave, so he continued to persuade him.

"Zhou Gong, but now Luoshui is constantly rising, and it will come up later, if you don't leave, it will be too late!"

At this time, the soldiers of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom also came over to persuade the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Seeing that Luoshui was about to flood ashore, the Duke of Eastern Zhou had to order the soldiers to quickly leave with him and retreat to the east.

After a while, the sky gradually turned dark, and the car of the Eastern Zhou Gong drove to a dense forest road, and suddenly heard a burst of wolf crying and tiger roaring from the forest on both sides, and the Eastern Zhou Gong was instantly frightened and did not dare to go any further.

I had to send a small vanguard of about a dozen people to the front to explore the way, but these pathfinders went for a long time and did not come back.

The Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was so frightened that his face turned blue at this time, so he wanted to order the army to withdraw, but a soldier came to report that the way back had been flooded by Luoshui, and now there was only the only way to pass through the woods in front.

After a while, the soldiers all ran back safely, but their expressions were terrified.

Zixun asked the soldiers who had returned:

"What's going on? Were you scared like this by a pack of wolves and a few tigers? ”

One of the soldiers replied:

"Your Excellency, this... This...... There are not just a pack of wolves and a few tigers in front of you, but the whole road is full of wolves and tigers, which is just too many to count! ”

Zixun directly slapped the soldier hard:

"Bastard, you cowardly thing!"

Then he was bold, took a group of soldiers, and went to explore the road himself.

The woods in the middle of the night were already gloomy, and they were mixed with the sound of tiger roars and wolf howls, although Zixun was bolder, he couldn't help but have a trace of fear in his heart.

After a while, Zixun's car drove to a hill, when a boulder suddenly rolled down on the hill in front of him, and the howling of wolves all over the mountain was getting closer and closer.

The hundreds of soldiers who followed Zixun were so frightened that they turned around and ran back at this time, ignoring their national minister Zixun at all.

Zixun saw the boulder rolling towards his car, panicked instantly, and immediately ordered the coachman to turn the head of the car and wanted to escape, but it was too late, the boulder directly hit Zixun's car at this time, and Zixun and the coachman were seriously injured by the boulder.

The countless wolves who ran over also rushed towards Zixun and the coachman like crazy, and after a while, the two of them couldn't even see their bones, only their clothes and a pool of blood stains.

The news of the tragic death of the Prime Minister Zixun was soon spread to the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and after the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty heard the news that the Prime Minister Zixun was eaten by wolves, he hid in the car and ordered the soldiers to surround himself hundreds of times before he settled down.

Dong Zhou Gong couldn't help but sigh loudly at this moment.

"God, as the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, what have I offended you? Why are you doing this to me? Are you punishing me for not fighting Ji Gongzhi? If that's the case, then I'll withdraw my troops and go back to Gongdu tomorrow, and I'll never compete with Na Ji Gongzi for the position of the Son of Heaven in the future, isn't it okay? ”

"Please God let me go, let me go, God, I really beg you... Please......! ”

Dong Zhou Gong knelt directly on the car, and kept kowtowing to the bright moon and stars in the sky to apologize.