Chapter Eighty-Three: The Fuse
At this time, the Northern Dynasty sent an envoy to the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, and if you rushed from the Northern Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, it would take eight days to reach the territory of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom.
Just when this envoy arrived in the territory of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, he was killed and killed.
The Northern Dynasty was furious when they got the news, so they sent another envoy to the main hall of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, asking the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to give a reasonable explanation.
On the main hall.
"Accident, this incident is definitely an accident!" The king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty said with a very innocent look.
"Accidents? Could it be that our envoy died in the Eastern Zhou Kingdom in vain, and now the king of you replied to me with two words of surprise, this is really detrimental to the prestige of our country, if the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty does not find out the murderer, the 100,000 troops of the Northern Dynasty will attack the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, when the time comes? Later, the envoy of the Northern Dynasty threatened the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and said.
"What can you do Aiqing?" When the king of Eastern Zhou heard this, he was so shocked that his face changed.
"This ......" For a while, in the hall, the ministers were at a loss, and they looked at each other speechlessly.
This is exactly what the envoys of the Northern Dynasties want to see.
"If the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty can cut the land and apologize to the Northern Dynasty, maybe there is still room for maneuver in this matter!" The messenger spoke word for word.
"Mowing the land?" The king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was very unhappy at this time: "The widow said that the assassination of the envoy this time was purely accidental, and it was wishful thinking that my country would be ceded for a small envoy!" ”
"Ten days have passed since my envoy was assassinated in the territory of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, but now the murderer has still not been caught, and now I don't even apologize at all, so I can only return to China and ask the king to send troops to attack the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, so as to correct the national prestige of my Northern Dynasty."
The king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty saw that an envoy of the Northern Dynasty made a disrespectful speech in the main hall, and was furious: "It is impossible to cut the land, if you really want to start a war, then start a war, and the troops of the Eastern Zhou State will not necessarily be afraid of the Northern Dynasty." ”
This is a trap on the side of the Northern Dynasty, Zhao Wenhou never expected that he would be willful this time and ruin the foundation of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom for hundreds of years.
So the two countries opened the curtain of war, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Dynasty armies fought in Pingyang, the Eastern Zhou army was defeated, 80,000 soldiers were killed, and more than 100 officials were captured.
The Northern Korean army took advantage of the situation and captured Hanzhong County in the Eastern Zhou Kingdom. The king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty requisitioned all the troops in the country to attack the Northern Dynasty again, and fought a decisive battle in Wusui, but unfortunately the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty had already lost the support of the people, and the discipline of the recruited troops was loose, the people's hearts were unstable, and the Eastern Zhou army was defeated again.
In less than two months, the entire army of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom was annihilated, and the country was shattered.
"Report!" In the hall of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, a soldier ran in to report.
Zhao Wenhou stood up, looked at the panicked appearance, and knew that the Eastern Zhou Kingdom was about to fall.
"The Northern Dynasty army has captured Yincheng, General Tian has been captured, and at this moment the Northern Dynasty army is about to enter the Eastern Zhou Palace!" The soldier hurriedly announced the harrowing report of war.
After Zhao Wenhou listened, he woke up like a dream. After a while, he asked in that trembling voice, "Did the Eastern Zhou soldiers fight to the point that there is not a single one?" ”
At this moment, no one paid attention to Zhao Wenhou, and he staggered to the throne in the main hall.
Zhao Wenhou never dreamed that this war would end the foundation of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom for more than 500 years. At this moment, he fled out of the main hall in a hurry and fled to the Eastern Zhou Guozong Temple.
The temple of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, where the spiritual seats of the previous kings of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom are enshrined. Zhao Wenhou walked into the dimly lit temple, crying in pain.
The Northern Dynasty army rushed into the temple of Guozong of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and at this time, Zhao Wenhou was clothed and blamed the Northern Dynasty army.
"This is the temple of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, you can't come in." When Zhao Wenhou was dying, he still wanted to preserve what little dignity he had.
"The king has an order, take Zhao Wenhou's head, reward him heavily!" The soldiers of the Northern Dynasties were like irrational beasts.
Draw your knife and rush towards Zhao Wenhou.