The next day, in Hangu Pass, the residence of the guard.

Wang Di, Meng Fu, Gong Yingwei and other generals discussed the war around Qin Prime Minister Lü Buwei and argued with each other.

"Now that the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Han have made it clear that they will participate in the coalition army, they are secretly deploying troops. However, the number of troops of Wengong of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is not more than 10,000, and the defense of the city is acceptable, and the offensive power is not enough to threaten us. Gong Yingwei is the oldest, and he reminded him by relying on the old and selling the old.

"I'm afraid that under the fortified city of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the heavy troops of the Three Jin Dynasty will threaten our army's logistics grain and grass transportation lines, and Qi, Chu, Yan and other countries may also send troops to come." General Wang Yi also agreed.

"Hangu Pass must be heavily garrisoned, plus to ensure the safety of grain and grass along the line, the number of troops attacking on the front line cannot exceed 50,000. If this amount of troops encounters Li Mu's army, our army's front line will definitely be defeated. General Meng Fu also added.

"Generals, don't panic, as the commander-in-chief, he already has a plan. Everyone, let me do it. Qin Xiang Lu Buwei unhurriedly said his plan.

At the same time, inside the Huayang Palace in Xianyang, Qin State. A great net of conspiracy is coming towards Lü Buwei. Changwen Jun Qi Ling was eager to bring down Qin Prime Minister Lü Buwei, so he not only instigated Qin Wang Yingyi to send Lü Buwei to lead the army, but also secretly sent his henchmen to the Eastern Zhou Wen Office to secretly contact, trying to put him to death as soon as possible.

"Lu Buwei actually secretly provoked Yangquan Jun Michen to betray us, his heart can be punished!" Changwen Jun Mi Ling was furious after receiving the secret protection, and although the Empress Dowager Huayang was also very angry that Yang Quanjun Mi Chen and Lu Buwei hooked up, she still favored her own brother Yang Quanjun Mi Chen.

"Big brother, don't be in a hurry, Yangquan Jun Michen is just a villain, if it weren't for the face of the Empress Dowager Huayang, why should we look at his face?" Changping Jun Qiqi sighed, naturally knowing that the two brothers were just the brothers of the Empress Dowager Huayang, and the relationship with the Empress Dowager Huayang was still separated by a layer, which was the so-called "inseparable"!

"I have made up my mind, and I will have no place for Lu Buwei to die. I have secretly sent someone to contact the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and good news will come in a few days. Chang Wenjun Qi Ling suddenly revealed an amazing secret.

"Big brother is confused, how can there be an impermeable wall between the world, coupled with the strict laws of the Qin State, the Empress Dowager Huayang will not be able to protect you at that time." Changping Jun Qiqi was shocked and persuaded in fright.

"Hmph, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger. You can rest assured, this matter has nothing to do with you, let alone the Empress Dowager Huayang. Changwenjun Qi Ling insisted on going his own way and did not listen to dissuasion.

"Hey, I'm not afraid of death, it's just too risky." Changping Jun Qiqi saw that the wood was already in the boat, but made his brother laugh at his cowardice, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

"Lu Buwei deceives people too much, either I die, or he dies!" Chang Wenjun Qi Ling's chest was full of monstrous anger at the moment, and he only thought about getting rid of Lu Buwei, and he didn't care about other things.

The flags in Hangu Pass were fluttering, the army was frequently moved, and the soldiers built fortifications at the head of the city, and there were arrows, sasswood, boulders, boiling water, gold juice, etc. Coalition agents kept going back and forth and reported this information to the heads of state.

At this time, in the palace of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Ji Jie, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, was discussing with his son Ji Guang about the joint attack on Qin.

"The Qin State is the country of tigers and wolves, and the Qin army is the division of tigers and wolves, taking away the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty and forcing the Son of Heaven to kill King Zhou, and now they are also eyeing our Eastern Zhou Kingdom." Ji Jie, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom, was very angry, and he almost insulted the Qin State loudly.

"Father don't panic, this time there is the name of the righteousness of the Zhou Dynasty, and all countries have also learned from the pain, and they will definitely be able to force the violent Qin to retreat to Hangu Pass." Childe Jiguang can only comfort his father.

"I have a lot of etiquette and music, why are there many civil strife, otherwise how can I fall to the point of letting the tyrannical Qin who was born in Rong Di bully to the point of this time?" Ji Jie, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, silently wiped away his tears in pain.

"Father Jun should be careful of Lu Buwei's sneak attack on us, after all, the city of Gongcheng is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, not afraid of the enemy's strong attack, but afraid of internal trouble." Childe Jiguang saw that his father was crying sadly, so he had to change the topic, hoping that his father would cheer up.

"Don't worry, Benjun has already made people wary. In addition, there are already troops of the Three Jin Dynasty guarding the outside of the city, which is foolproof. Ji Jie, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, was very attentive this time, and said slowly, "In order to boost morale, this monarch decided to open the treasury, take out the property, and reward the three armies. ”

"Wise father! The Great Zhou will never die at the hands of the tyrannical Qin. Childe Ji Guang is also very happy, and his father finally did his best.

It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. The Eastern Zhou State intended to unite the six countries to suppress the expansion pace of the Qin State, how could Lü Buwei be willing to admit defeat?

On the one hand, Qin Prime Minister Lü Buwei made a great effort for the Qin army to defend Hangu Pass, and on the other hand, he sent the generals Wang Yi and Gong Yingwei from Xianyang to send a large army from Xianyang to threaten Handan, the capital of Zhao State, from the north. King Zhao was frightened and hurriedly recalled Li Mu's army, ignoring the safety of the Eastern Zhou. When Han and Wei heard that Zhao had withdrawn their troops, they also hurriedly withdrew their troops to protect themselves. At this time, the whole country of the Eastern Zhou Kingdom still knew nothing about this, and thought that "there was a strong city inside, and there were reinforcements outside". Unexpectedly, danger has loomed over step by step.

Gongcheng, the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, is strong, the north is close to the mountain, the south is close to the Luohe River, there are three city gates on each side of the royal city, a total of 12 city gates. There is a gate in the south, a dry sacrifice gate in the north, and a ding gate in the east. Each city gate has three passages, and there are nine longitude and latitude avenues in the city. The palace was built on the central avenue, with a palace in front of it and a trading market behind it; On the right side of the palace, there is an altar shrine, on the left side there is a ancestral hall of the temple, and there is a Ming hall thirty miles south of the city. This is a typical architectural layout of ancient China of "the front and the back of the city, the left ancestor and the right society".

That night, in a deep valley at the foot of the mountain, there were many figures, war horses covered their mouths, and flags converged. There were 30,000 elite Qin army in ambush here.

"Lord Xiangguo, Sanjin has already withdrawn." Lu Ying and Lu Xiong, who served as centurions, reported cautiously. The two brothers, Lu Ying and Lu Xiong, are nearly 20 years old, burly, but their faces are pale, and they look like sons and brothers who are greedy for pleasure and excessive drinking.

Lu Buwei was naturally unhappy when he saw it, but there was no way, the entire Lu family was able to come to the stage with Lu Ying and Lu Xiong's two nephews, and the rest were all timid and afraid of things, and fainted when they saw blood.

"Okay, without further ado, immediately take advantage of the night to secretly march to the north gate of Gongcheng for three miles." Qin Xiang Lu Buwei cleaned up his mood and issued a series of military orders, thinking: Fortunately, the coalition army didn't take me Lu Buwei seriously, and they all went to resist the army of the generals Wang Yi and Gong Yingwei, so let me Lu Buwei try it out!

"No." Lu Ying and Lu Xiong naturally went down immediately to prepare.

The Qin army was well-trained, and even in the dark, it was scattered and advanced, and the sound was so small that it was almost imperceptible. Until three miles outside the north gate of Gongcheng, the Qin army completed the assembly, but the soldiers defending the city of the Eastern Zhou State on the opposite side knew nothing.

"When the appointed time comes, when the fire at the head of the city starts, immediately send 300 iron cavalry to control the east gate, and the remaining three gates each send 1,000 iron cavalry to prevent the enemy from breaking through." Qin Xiang Lu Buwei was in a very good mood, after all, the first time he led the army, he could lead the army so smoothly, and thought: Could it be that I, Lu Buwei, am also a martial artist?

"No." The two brothers, Lu Ying and Lu Xiong, were as obedient as domestic dogs, and carried out orders without thinking.

Sure enough, the city was on fire, and the north gate of Gongcheng was also opened.

Three hundred Qin army iron horsemen roared out, their horses' hooves wrapped in thick cloth, and rushed towards the north gate like a ghost of death. The main force of the Qin army also slowly followed, and soon easily attacked Gongcheng.

That night, the sound of Gongcheng killing shook the sky, and all the stubborn Eastern Zhou soldiers were cut down. Ji Jie, the monarch of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, did not want to be humiliated like the monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty and Zhou Tianzi, so he set himself on fire and turned the palace into ashes. and Ji Guang, the son of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, is missing.

In May 249 BC, under the pretext that Ji Jie, the Duke of Wen of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, conspired with the princes to attack the Qin State, Qin Prime Minister Lü Buwei sent 30,000 elite cavalry to raid the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. At this point, the last remnants of the Zhou Dynasty were eradicated. Then, the Qin army continued to encroach on the Three Jin Dynasty and conquered large tracts of land, which fueled Lü Buwei's momentum and made his position as Qin minister more stable.

Moreover, in the secret room of the Eastern Zhou monarch, he found the correspondence between Changwenjun Qi Ling and the Eastern Zhou Wengong, as well as other ironclad evidence of betraying the military and political secrets of the Qin State!

If Qin Prime Minister Lü Buwei got the treasure, he immediately made a big noise and instigated the major forces of Qin to encircle and suppress his relatives surnamed Mi.

At present, there are five major forces within the Qin State: the Ying clan, the relatives surnamed Mi, the military nouveau riche, the meritorious family, and the Hundred Schools of Thought.

The first major force is the Ying clan, which has just undergone many years of rectification by Qin Zhaoxiang Wang Yingji, and the power of the Ying clan has been greatly restricted, resulting in the strength of the relatives surnamed Mi with the help of Qin Xuan's Empress Dowager Miyue. The Ying clan naturally hated the relatives surnamed Mi for a long time, and had the opportunity to fall into the well, of course, they were unwilling to be left behind.

The second major force is a foreign relative surnamed Mi, who is currently the strongest and most popular huge force in the Qin State. After the Empress Dowager's younger brother Mrs. Huayang, Changwenjun Qi Ling, helped her daughter Chu Ji become the queen, and hoped to let her grandson Cheng Jiao's son become the prince of Qin, which is really limitless. However, because Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei caught the handle of Chang Wenjun Mi Ling this time, and Qin Wang Yingyi has long been dissatisfied with the control of the government by his relatives surnamed Mi, so he will definitely use the topic to play. In addition, Mrs. Zhao Ji is more proficient in the tricks of confusing men than Queen Chu Ji, and she is more favored by King Yingyi of Qin, which naturally makes the eldest son of the king Yingzheng more favored.

The third major force is the new upstart of military merit, among which the Montessori father and son and the Wang father and son are the most popular. The military upstarts are also not accustomed to seeing their relatives surnamed Mi as having no merit and receiving mercy, and they are arrogant and arrogant, above the meritorious civil and military generals, so they are naturally willing to overthrow their relatives surnamed Mi.

The fourth major force is the meritorious family, which has experienced severe blows from several generations of Qin kings, and its power has been greatly reduced, and its influence on the military and government has been greatly weakened. But the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, and with the inextricable relationship with the Ying clan, these meritorious clans are slowly regaining their strength. Among them, Feng Quji's brothers, Zhao Tuo, and Ren Huan are the leaders. The meritorious family hopes to have more say, and hopes that the relatives surnamed Mi can give up more power.

The fifth major force is the hundred schools of thought, among which Confucianism and Legalism are the most favored. Since the high-level leaders of the Qin State had decided to dominate the world with their abundant national strength, they attached great importance to these schools. And these schools already had the strength to influence the direction of the Qin dynasty. Lü Buwei, as a representative of the miscellaneous family, rose to prominence in the court of the Qin State, and was ready to replace his relatives surnamed Mi and become a new great force in the Qin State.