Chapter 54: Killing the King
The soldiers shouted at everyone, "God bless Dazhao, the Qin army retreats!" "The vehicles and pedestrians at the south city gate, including the city gate Sima and the soldiers, were all confused at first, they heard these eight words, but they did not react immediately, only until a person dressed as a doctor rushed out of the carriage, knelt on the ground and shouted 'God bless Dazhao', and then solemnly bowed to the sky, and all the people reacted.
"Ah——!h The excitement prevented them from even shouting hooray, and both men and women let out a heartfelt cry, which was an instinctive cry. Most of them shouted and wept, some hugged each other, and some threw everything around them. The madness outside the city gate soon infected the inside of the city gate, followed by the entire Handan city, and finally even the Queen Mother Lingluo and Zhao Qian, the king of Zhao, in the royal city, heard this shout. Zhao Qian is strange, strange why the big city shouted; Lingluo was afraid, she got up in a little panic, afraid that this was the Qin army breaking through the Great Wall, crossing the water, and hitting Handan.
"Minister, please see the Queen Mother and the King." Outside the main bed was the voice of Zhao Liang, the Marquis of Xiangbang Chunping, and when he heard this voice, Zhao Qian's face became a little unhappy, and the spirit robe was like grasping a straw, and she said hurriedly: "Call." Ask the Minister why he ......"
"The Queen Mother, the Great King, the call of the people of Dacheng is because the Qin army has retreated!" Zhao Liang arrived before he made a sound, and when he came in, the whole person was full of joy and radiant.
"Ahh Lingluo was a little unable to stand, but the displeased Zhao Qian's face was surprised and happy, "Is the word of the father true?" ”
"Your Majesty, yes. The Qin army has retreated. "Zhao Qian hasn't called himself 'Father' for a long time, Zhao Liang was first surprised when he heard this, and then said: "The three kingdoms of Chu, Qi and Wei are stationed in Daliang, and Sima Tianzong, the great Sima Tianzong of Qi, insists on suing the king of Qin first to make him withdraw his troops, and Qin Guoguo will also withdraw his troops." As soon as the Qin army retreated, all the cities and towns that had been pulled out belonged to me......"
Speaking of those cities that were captured by the Qin army, Zhao Liang couldn't help but feel a little sad. Those cities were male and female, and the vast majority of the Zhao people were already dead. Thinking of this, Zhao Liang only said: "After three years of fierce battles, many of my Zhao people died, and the minister invited the king to go to a sacrifice,"
Zhao Liang took pity on the Zhao people who were beheaded by the Qin army, but unfortunately the war dead in this era were all regarded as not surrendering, and they could not even enter the ancestral tomb. As soon as his suggestion came out, her robe changed color, and she said in a tone begging for mercy: "The king is young, and the sky is cold, if you go out of the city......"
"The king is the king of Zhao State, and many of his subjects have died, so he should be compensated." Zhao Liang looked at the spirit robe, and then looked at Zhao Qian, and was noncommittal to the spirit robe's words. Although the Qin army retreated, the soldiers and civilians of Zhao suffered numerous casualties, and they could not recover in ten years.
"The king is the honor of a country, how can he leave the royal city lightly?" Guo Kai's voice came from outside the bed. "The year before last, the king went east to the Qi National Alliance, but suddenly encountered the Qin army, and the king was frightened, and his illness has not healed so far."
Hearing the news of the Qin army's retreat, Guo Kai also hurriedly came over to tell him. He was a Taifu and could go to bed without a report, and when he heard that Zhao Liang wanted the king to leave Handan, he immediately objected. "If the Qin people don't retreat, what if?"
"The Three Kingdoms want to attack the Gongyi outside Baicheng, can the Qin army not retreat?" Zhao Liang suddenly laughed.
Taihang Mountain Eight Mountains, Fukou is just west of Handan, Fukou is Jing Cheng to the north, and Bai Cheng is to the south. Hanoi County and Dong County alone could not support the Qin army on the southern route, and they had to rely on Shangdang County, Hedong County and Guanzhong to the west of Taihang Mountain to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops over the years. Gongyi is the key town west of Taihang Mountain connecting to the east of Taihang Mountain, and if you control this place, the Qin army under Li Xin will always be alone, surrounded by the front and rear armies of the four countries.
"If Taifu doesn't understand the military affairs, don't talk about it." After laughing, Zhao Liang persuaded again.
"What Xiang Bang said is reasonable, but the king is young, and he has not recovered from his illness last time, so he really can't rashly go out of the city to sacrifice." Guo Kai was on the side, and the meaning of the plea in the Ling's words was no longer so obvious. "If a concubine (li) can go to it, let it go by the concubine."
"The Queen Mother is not Zhao, so she can't go." Since that harsh 'lesson', the spirit robe has become more well-behaved, and many things dare not disobey Zhao Liang's intentions. Zhao Liang saw that Lingluo did not agree, and couldn't help but say proudly: "The Queen Mother doesn't know this reason, tomorrow Liang should go to the bed to tell her." Please resign. ”
Except for Zhao Qian, the people and maids present were all adults. Everyone knows the meaning of Zhao Liang's kiss to Xiaobed. The spirit robe's cheeks instantly flushed, and he had to cover his face with his sleeve. Guo Kai, like the temple maid, didn't seem to hear this. Only Zhao Qian was a little puzzled, he saw that the queen mother raised her sleeve to cover her face, so he looked under the sleeve, but saw nothing.
"Do you know what the Father means?" After everyone, including the spirit robe, retreated, Zhao Qian asked his servant.
In another year, Zhao Qian will be eleven years old, and even if he is ten years old, he may not know about men and women. But the king suddenly asked, but Yuan didn't dare to deceive, and Yuan, who thought of the consequences, was so frightened that he fell to his knees and couldn't speak.
"Say!" Zhao Qian looked at him and shouted. He didn't understand what he saw at last year's banquet. Instinctively, though, he disliked his father more and more.
"I don't know." Originally, he wanted to stop talking, although the Queen Mother and Xiang Bang were well known outside the palace, he still didn't dare to tell Zhao Qian.
"You don't know?" Zhao Qian looked at him, looked at him for a while, and naturally turned his gaze to the other temple people, he pointed to one of the shafts and asked, "You say, what do you mean by the words of the father?" ”
"The villain knows, the villain knows, the villain knows......" other temple people scrambled to be the first. They are not righteous servants, and they can't wait to have two more horns on their heads on weekdays to attract Zhao Qian's attention, and now the righteous servants dare not speak, it is a good opportunity for them to come out.
"Who dares to speak up!" Seeing this, he was anxious, these temple people were usually respectful to him, and who would have thought that they would ignore him when they saw the king.
"Someone! Drag him out. "Yuan's drinking made Zhao Qian furious, and the last thing the king of the Zhao family liked was to be controlled by others. As a righteous servant, Yuan dared to deceive him, which made him furious.
"The king, the villain whispered that Xiangbang and the queen mother were in communication, and they were also ......" After being dragged out by the black-clothed palace guards, the temple people gossiped. One of them said the most outrageous: "Does the king know the king of Qin?" Zhao Ji, the mother of King Qin, also communicated with her false father. Zhao Ji gave birth to two sons, and the fake father wanted to kill the king of Qin and set up these two sons as the king of Qin, but fortunately, the king of Qin split his wife and took the two brothers to kill him. Now Xiangbang and the Queen Mother are connected, it's okay if they don't give birth to children, if they give birth to a prince, the king is in danger! ”
The unknown is preceded by intense curiosity, and after the knowing, there is intense fear. Zhao Qian's whole body was sweating, and he said in disbelief: "I am the king of Zhao, the world, the world, the ......world, how dare Xiangbang kill the king?" Tai, Taifu, courtiers......"
"The king is mistaken." The temple people who spoke lamented. "There are many henchmen in Xiangbang, especially in the army. Even if you don't kill the king, you can ...... "How King Zhao Wuling died, everyone who understands it knows." It is not necessary to kill the king, but it is okay to be hungry. Thinking of this, the people of the temple cried: "I only want to serve the king in this life, and I don't want to serve others again." ”
One person cried and several people cried, and all the temple people hoped that the king would remember him, but there were always a few lucky ones. Only the first to cry was helped up by Zhao Qian, and everyone was envious for a while.
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"Tell the King of Wei and the Great King, the Qin army will retreat quickly." 300,000 troops gathered in the Wei State of Liang, the flying officer hurriedly went to bed to tell him.
"Haha! Qin Junguo retreated. Haha......" Luo of the Great General of Qi who was sitting at the east head laughed heartily. At this moment, there were many kings, generals, and ministers in the bedroom, and he was the only one laughing. Even Wei Zeng, the king of Wei, who was secretly happy in his heart, had a cautious look on his face.
The laughter was abrupt, and Xiang Yan, who was headed down in the west, was very uncomfortable listening to his laughter. He asked, "I don't know what General Tian likes?" ”
"What's the joy of?" Tian Luo looked at Xiang Yan in surprise. "In the past, I heard that the Qin people were not afraid of the five countries, but today I said a few words, and the Qin people fled in fear.
"The Qin army retreated, unscathed, and it should be able to come back next year, General Tian thought this was a happy event?" Xiang Yan became more and more displeased.
"The Qin army will come back next year, and the three kingdoms will join forces again, why is Xiang Bo displeased?" Tian Luo restrained some of his joy. "With the power of my Three Kingdoms, why not be afraid of the Qin people."
"Humph!" Xiang Yan resented. What he wanted was a surprise attack, not an ultimatum, sitting in the girder, listening to the news of the Qin army's retreat. After three years of attacking, whether it was the Qin State or the Qin army, it was the weakest time, and at this time, the three kingdoms should unite the Zhao army to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army, instead of letting them retreat safely.
"The Qin army retreats today, and he will definitely come back one day. If you come again, you will have equipment for me, and the minister will ask the king and the king of Wei to lead the army north out of Daliang and attack Gongyi. Xiang Yan saluted Xiong Jing and the King of Wei, he was intent on fighting the Qin army.
"What does King Wei think?" Xiong Jing was holding a strange-looking iron weapon in his hand, this was a gun, an arquebus revolver - the cannon can flint, but the flintlock device of the cannon weighs more than ten catties, so the revolver can only use the most primitive arquebus.
"How dare a widow trespass, and the king of Chu should be the chief of the connivance." Wei Zeng laughed with him. Every time he saw Xiong Jing, Xiong Jing had to grow up, and he became more and more majestic as a king. This couldn't help but make him feel that King Chu Lie gave birth to a good son, and in the next few decades, the Wei State would probably have to rely on the snort of the Chu people.
Xiong Jing had no interest in arquebuses, and was only trying to build them. After putting down the gun, he said: "The troops were only sent to save Zhao, since the Qin army ......"
"The king must not!" As soon as Xiang Yan heard Xiong Jing's tone, he knew that he didn't want to order troops, and his face couldn't help but look painful. "Let the Qin army retreat and attack, this so-called 'raising tigers and leaving themselves in trouble' is also."
"What did it mean when the temple gave the axe? What is the discussion when the court is deciding? What did you say when you made an appointment with Qi Wei? Xiong Jing looked at Xiang Yan with a bitter face, he knew his thoughts very well, but he knew better that the power of the Four Kingdoms and the Qin State would be one and the other, and it would be beneficial for the Four Kingdoms to drag on time.