Shattered kingly dreams
Wang Zi of Zhongshan is the second king of the Zhongshan Kingdom. He is ambitious, wanting to inherit the great cause of his ancestors and expand his territory. Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time.
In 307 B.C., Zhongshan provoked Wang Cuo and passed away with endless regrets. The crown prince succeeded to the throne.
Zhongshan Wang Zi was a precocious teenager, and after succeeding to the throne, he reformed and renewed. On the one hand, Wang Zi of Zhongshan appointed the ministers left by the previous king to govern the government. On the other side, Wang Zi of Zhongshan promoted Sima Xi, the deposed minister of state. Zhongshan Wang Zi saw Sima Xi's talent, and at the same time, he also believed that he could control Sima Xi well. Just when Zhongshan Wang Zizhi was complacent and ready to do a big job. Zhao Guo gave him great ambition and a heavy blow.
When Zhongshan provoked the reincarnation of the king, he called the king, the royal Qi, the broken Yan, and the rejection of Zhao, and was majestic, opened up the territory, and established fame.
Zhongshan Wang Ziyong passed away, and Zhao Yong had to personally give a generous gift.
In 306 BC, the state of Zhao attacked Zhongshan. In this battle, Zhao broke through the third checkpoint set up by Zhongshan in the south, recovered the city of Shancheng, broke Ningjia and occupied Jingcheng, and cut off the main road of Zhongshan to the west of Taihang. Zhao State achieved a lot of results, not only recovering the lost territory, but also capturing the Jingcheng, the main road out of Taihang in the east of Zhongshan State, and killing the enemy's alienated generals and tens of thousands of soldiers.
Zhongshan Wang Zi succeeded to the throne, but before he could establish meritorious deeds, he fell into a crushing defeat. Although he lost this battle, it also aroused his strong fighting spirit against Zhao State.
In 305 BC, in this year, Qi, Han, and Wei attacked Yue because of Chu's attack, and the three kingdoms united to attack Chu for the first time. After the death of King Wu of Qin, the state of Qin was left ownerless, which caused civil strife among the princes. Zhao Yong sent ambassadors to the vassal states on the one hand, and allied himself with Yan and Song on the other. Zhao Yong seized the God-given opportunity of the melee in the Central Plains and personally led nearly 300,000 troops to attack Zhongshan in three directions: south, north and east.
Wang Zi of Zhongshan took Leju as the commander of the northern Xinjiang and resisted the Zhao State from north to south. He also used Ji Xin as the commander of southern Xinjiang to block Zhao from south to north. Zhongshan Wang Zi sits in Lingshou and coordinates the overall situation.
In this battle, Zhao Guonan's Route Army and Bingfeng arrived in Dongyuan; The Western Route Army broke through Shiyi; The Northern Route Army arrived in Quyang. The three-way army of Zhao State pointed at Lingshou. Two-thirds of the territory of Zhongshan was broken by Zhao. In order to meddle in Qin's internal affairs, and at the same time avoid being interfered in the internal affairs of Qin, Zhao took the initiative to stop fighting with Zhongshan and conclude peace.
The alliance between Qin and Chu terrified the princes of the Central Plains. In order to suppress the state of Chu, the three kingdoms of Qi, Han, and Wei united and attacked the state of Chu for the second time. The kingdoms of Zhao and Zhongshan entered into a brief period of peace. However, Zhao Yong took advantage of the dispute between the two concubines of Zhongshan to break the balance of Zhongshan. Ji Xin was killed, and Leju resigned. Zhongshan Guowu is a general and is in prison.
Subsequently, the prince of Chu killed the doctor of Qin, causing Qin and Chu to fight each other. The four kingdoms of Qi, Han, Wei, and Qin united to attack Chu, triggering the Third Central Plains War. Zhao took the opportunity to make a northern expedition to Zhongshan. Zhao Guotieqi and Zhongshan Guohu people faced off at the peak. However, the general trend of Zhongshan has gone.
The king of Zhongshan was terrified, and took advantage of the night to escape from Lingshou and come to Fuliu. Zhongshan Wang Zi was afraid that Zhao Guo would come and had to flee to Qi State. Wang Zi of Zhongshan did not hesitate to lower his status, gave all the territory of Zhongshan Kingdom, and declared himself a vassal to the King of Qi.
Wang Zigang of Zhongshan fled to the state of Qi, and the state of Zhao took advantage of the situation to attack Fuliu, an important military town in the eastern part of the Zhongshan state.
With the death of King Xuan of Qi, the new king Tiandi succeeded to the throne. King Qi Tiandi was busy with state affairs and was unable to support the restoration of Zhongshan. Seeing that there was no hope of recovering the country, Wang Zi of Zhongshan was exhausted, and finally died in a foreign land, staying in Qi forever.
The kingly dream of Zhongshan Wangzi was shattered. Broken king's dream, broken king's heart. Before he died, Zhongshan Wang Zi remembered the people and things in the past, regretted his life, and died with hatred, "Zhongshan died in him, and he had no face to face his ancestors after his death." ”