Chapter 331: The Fall of the Xia Dynasty
In order to get rid of the pursuers as soon as possible, Xia Qi ordered everyone to abandon unnecessary things, and everything was mainly to escape.
But the Qi people didn't give them this opportunity at all, and it was not easy to catch a breath, so they heard the shouts of killing behind them.
Suddenly frightened the Xia people's souls, and continued to flee in embarrassment.
One chased and one fled, and the two sides were in a stalemate for several days.
Qi Jun was like a dogskin plaster, not giving Xia Jun the slightest chance to breathe.
In order to escape for his life, Xia Jun abandoned his grain and grass, and now he can be said to have run out of ammunition and food.
The hungry Xia people had to kill the horses that had long since run away to satisfy their hunger.
On the other hand, on the Qi people's side, although the pursuit was urgent, no one carried enough fried noodles to eat for several days, and this simple and convenient marching food provided a great material guarantee for the Qi people's pursuit at this time.
On the thirteenth day of August in the sixth year of Hongwu, the remnants of Xia Qi were surrounded by Qi people on an unnamed hillside.
However, the Xia army, which knew that there was no way out of surrender, broke out with an extremely tenacious will to resist.
The Xia army was defenseless on the hillside, and under the condescending defense, it repelled several attacks by the Qi army.
In the face of his own casualties, after discussing with Liyang, Qu decided to give up the attack, changed his strategy and began to camp at the foot of the mountain, and sent people to notify the nearby Qi cities to drop grain and grass here.
The Qi people chose to besiege, and Xia Qi knew that if he continued to spend money here, he would definitely die.
Led the army, organized a breakout attack.
But in the face of the army of Qi State, after losing half of his manpower, Xia Qi could only retreat to the hillside and continue to resist stubbornly.
At this time, there were less than 4,000 people left around Xia Qi.
When tens of thousands of troops came, there were only so many people left, and Xia Qi's heart was extremely desolate.
Looking at the vast sky, Xia Qi knelt on the ground and looked up to the sky and roared.
Tears ran down his cheeks and left on the ground, from his birth to the present, this was the first time he cried, Xia Qi cried extremely sadly.
He knew that he was going to die soon, and he suddenly wanted to see his father and get guidance from him.
But he didn't dare to see his father, he failed Xia Yu, and the efforts of the two generations of father and son were completely lost in his hands.
He couldn't understand what had angered the heavens, and why he would descend the enemy of Qi when he was about to succeed.
A few days later, Xia Jun's war horses had already eaten.
The hungry Xia Jun began to look for everything they could eat, and after the bark of the wild grass and trees was eaten up, in order to survive, the extremely hungry people chose to give up the last trace of humanity and include their own kind in the diet.
Xia Qi was powerless to stop this human tragedy, and even human tissues began to appear in his food.
A few days later, when the Qi army attacked the hillside again, they did not meet any resistance at all.
But the hellish scene in front of him, even those who are accustomed to seeing life and death, are extremely shocked in their hearts.
In the camp of the Xia army, it was difficult to find a person who could stand up, and the bones were scattered on the ground at will.
And those who are still alive, thin as skeletons, lie on the ground weakly, silently waiting for death to come.
Everyone was shocked, and for a moment they froze in place, not knowing what to do.
After a long time, Li Yang said: "Go and see if Xia Qi is dead." ”
Soon Xia Qi, who was extremely weak, was carried out by two soldiers, still at Liyang's feet.
"You're a concubine."
Xia Qi wanted to stand up, how could he be the king of Middle-earth, like a lowly slave.
But he was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to stand up, and the little strength he had left could only make him roll over and lie on his back on the ground.
"Who are you?"
Li Yang sneered and said, "I am the general of the Great Qi Expedition to the West, and you are Ji Qi." ”
"I am the queen of Great Xia, Kai! Why don't you worship when you see me? ”
As soon as these words came out, Qi Ren burst into laughter as if they had heard an incomparably ridiculous joke.
"Worship you, my dignified Qi soldiers, how can I worship you, a barbarian and defeated king, Mo Feier is hungry and faint."
Qu Shi said with a smile.
Xia Qi closed his glasses, he didn't want to say another word, he became a king and lost a crime, since he failed, it was pointless to do these battles of words now.
caught Xia Qi, and this war was basically over.
In addition to Xia Qi and other main criminals who were arrested, the rest of the Xia army were all executed by Liyang's order.
This is the price that these people should pay, he wants to let the surrounding barbarians take a look and dare to slaughter the people of Daqi, this is what will happen to them.
Chang'an City, when the document of the victory came back, the entire Chang'an City suddenly boiled.
The state of Qi returned with one enemy and two great victories, which means that from now on, Great Qi will be the only master of this Middle Earth.
The troubled times are coming to an end, and how this does not make the people who yearn for peace ecstatic.
The people of Chang'an City rushed to tell the truth, and they poured into the streets, shouting long live Daqi and long live the king.
After receiving the documents, Yang Hao immediately convened a court meeting and began to discuss the next issue of receiving the new territory.
Killing the two strong enemies of Youqiang and Xia means that the Qi State has occupied most of the Central Plains.
From then on, the farthest part of the Qi state will reach the Yanshan area in the north, and the western part will border the later Ningxia and Gansu.
Such a large territory has almost reached an area of nearly one million square kilometers, which is absolutely an unprecedented area for all the civilizations in the East of Asia.
Unlike Zhu Xia, what they wanted was not submission, but direct rule over all territories.
After defeating the two most powerful opponents, Daqi no longer has a decent enemy, and since then, Yang Hao finally has the confidence to say that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.
What Yang Hao wants is unification, and now although he has defeated the Xia Dynasty and Youqiang, there are still some scattered small forces in the north.
How could he, who was so satisfied, allow such a situation to exist.
At the court meeting, Yang Hao put forward a proposal similar to that of the later generations to cut the feudal domain.
The leaders of the living clans of the Fang State were actually no different from the vassal kings of later generations, although they were subordinate to the Qi State, but the system and military were self-contained.
This is unacceptable to Yang Hao, who has a unified ambition, no matter what.
But as a last resort, Yang Hao not only used force.
Therefore, he thought of a note that he thought was not good according to the practice of later generations.
In the sixth year of Hongwu, at the beginning of September.
The army of the Western Expedition returned triumphantly, and Yang Hao led hundreds of officials out of the city for ten miles to greet them.
The monarchs and ministers of the Xia Dynasty, who were loaded into the prison car, paraded through the streets like exhibits.
Under the propaganda of the Qi State, the people of the Qi State hated Xia Qi, the biggest slave owner, and in order to prevent the angry people from rushing up and eating Xia Qisheng alive, the imperial court used the Praetorian Guard to maintain order in the city.
Even so, when the parade was over, the Xia Dynasty's monarchs and ministers had already broken their heads and bled miserably.