Chapter 823: The Death of Zhao State
Jicheng Weile opened the city to surrender, and it was Yan Taifu Juwu who colluded with the Xiongnu just to report to the former general of the Qin army, Meng Wu.
Meng Wu only carried 20,000 soldiers, and he felt that his troops were insufficient, so he hurriedly informed his father Meng Ao of the news.
That Mandan Yu had suffered enough in the hands of Zhao General Li Mu, and now in the middle of winter in the north, there was a shortage of food and clothing, and Zhao Guo had no way to eat it, so he naturally aimed at other places, just when Yan was in turmoil, Ju Wu also sent news, and Tou Mandan Yu was immediately like an old wolf who smelled the smell of blood, and it was a person who went to inquire about the news, and he gathered the warriors of the Xiongnu tribe.
The news heard in this way is not much different from what Ju Wu said, Tou Manshan thought that even if he couldn't capture Yan Kingdom, at least it would be better to fight Qiu Feng, so he ordered all the soldiers and horses, and he killed Yan Guo in a mighty way.
Looking at the Great Wall of Yan again, in the past, when I saw such a powerful Hun cavalry, it must have been full of smoke, but now I have never heard even a shout, and Tou Manshan is even more convinced that the land of Yan may have been in chaos.
Besides, this Yan Great Wall is a moat to block the Xiongnu control of the strings, once it is crossed, it is the Xiongnu who completely grasp the initiative, so Tou Manshan Yu ordered a rush to attack the Yan State, let go of the warriors in the tribe to burn and plunder, so as to make up for the losses in the Zhao people.
What Tou Mandan Yu did not expect was that the Qin general Meng Wu led 40,000 Qin soldiers, as well as 50,000 or 60,000 Yan Di Yizuo, ambushed in the area of Zaoyang behind the Great Wall of Yan.
Since the death of Qin Kai, Yan has never had a victory against strong enemies such as Shangdonghu, and even after the defeat of the attack on Qi, although Donghu has been weakened, there is an extra Xiongnu in Saibei, and Donghu is even more headache for Yan people!
In the first battle of Zaoyang, Mengwu killed 30,000 Hun enemy leaders and captured tens of thousands, which was a big victory that could not be ignored!
The Yan people are not like the Zhao people because of the Battle of Changping, and they are not very hostile to the Qin people, and today they see the Qin army so powerful, especially the generals of the Qin State who promised to follow the Yan Di after defeating the Xiongnu, and they will soon be rewarded with houses and fields.
Therefore, the Yan royal family will inevitably break off, and the land of Yan is all Qin soil, after defeating the Xiongnu, Meng Wu also led the army out of the Great Wall of Yan, and attacked again along the road of Yan General Qin at that time.
If it is on the territory of the Qin State, there are more Shanggu, Yuyang, Guangyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi and Liaodong six counties, occupying the largest territory of the Yan State in the old days of 2,000 li.
If you don't bring the Lu State that has secretly turned its back on the Qi State and attached to the Qin army stationed in Pengcheng and Xiapi, now you can look at the Central Plains, that is, there is only one Zhao State left, one Qi State.
Among them, the State of Zhao is because of Li Mu's location, and the State of Qi is also because of Tian Tan, and now the State of Qin has occupied the State of Wei and the State of Yan one after another, and has seized Julu County, which is equivalent to cutting off the State of Qi and the State of Zhao, so that the two cannot communicate with each other.
Zhao Wangqian was originally an extremely mediocre monarch, after the battle of Changping, after the annual battle, even if Li Mu was struggling to support, this Zhao Wang still wanted to fill the gap, build a palace, build a high platform, look for beauties, and build a large number of buildings, which is comparable to the Qiang!
Today's Zhao State is also extremely dilapidated, even if Li Mu eats and lives with many Zhao State soldiers, after all, there are more than 200,000 mouths in this army, and the daily consumption is not a few.
When fighting with the Qin army, this Handan Zhao Ting was able to send some military salaries to the soldiers of the Zhao army on time, but since the withdrawal of the Qin State, Zhao Ting has continued to reduce military spending, Li Mu originally only thought that the inventory of the Zhao State was insufficient, who could have expected that the King of Zhao would be rampant in Handan, and build a large number of buildings, regardless of the precarious situation of the Zhao State, just for his own selfish desires!
Li Mu is upright, and it is inevitable to admonish Zhao Wangqian directly, but this Zhao Wangqian is also a master who only seeks enjoyment, for what Li Mu said, he should only respond, and act as before, Li Mu is also a direct admonition, so it is inevitable to annoy Zhao Wangqian.
Zhao Wangqian was angry and ordered Li Mu to be forbidden to enter Handan again, and Li Mu had no choice but to go to Jinyang to train soldiers and horses.
It just so happened that Zhang Lu's henchmen had already found Zhao Xiang Guo Kai with thousands of gold assets, although this Guo Kai was named Zhao Xiang, he was not as wise as the previous generations of Zhao Xiang, but a ten out of ten villain, greedy and greedy!
The villain has no intention of seeking the country, but the threshold of seeking himself is very fine. Lian Po left Zhao State in a bad mood, and he also has a great relationship with Guo Kai, and now in this situation, Guo Kai is not optimistic that Zhao State can win against Qin State.
Guo Kai thinks that no matter how capable Li Mu is, it is always just because the Qin State has not yet freed his hand, and now that the Yan State has been destroyed, how much better can the Zhao State, which was greatly injured after the Battle of Changping!
Zhang Lu also promised Guo Kai that Qin Guo had already given him a "receipt certificate", and in the future, Qin State annexed Zhao State, and Qin Ting worshiped Guo Kai as Shangqing, so Guo Kai naturally had nothing to fear when he sold Zhao Guolai. In the hearts of villains, doing one evil thing is evil, and doing two things is still evil, so simply do bad things and do it to the end.
Guo Kai got 10,000 taels of gold, so he put the survival of Zhao State out of the way.
He entered the court to meet Zhao Wangqian, framed Li Mu for fornicating with Qin, plotted to rebel against Zhao, and claimed that his disciples had stolen evidence of Li Mu's rebellion from Xianyang.
So, he used the letter written by Li Mu to Qin Shaojunzheng forged by the Qin people and handed it to King Zhao.
Zhao Wangqian was originally a mediocre person who did not distinguish between right and wrong, and was furious when he read the book, and immediately ordered the removal of Li Mu's military power, and replaced Li Mu with the general Zhao Cong as the commander of the Zhao army.
The Zhao general Sima Shang, who guarded the southern border of Handan, was shocked and hurriedly entered the court to persuade the king of Zhao.
Zhao Cong was ordered by the king to force Li Mu to hand over the military power of Yanmen, Li Mu felt that he had the ambition to serve the country, and he stood still in the face of Qin Shaojun's courtship, who could have expected that King Zhao was so mediocre that he was killed by a shameless villain.
After Li Mu handed over the talisman, he had nowhere to tell his grief and indignation, so he rode alone to a tavern outside Handan City and got drunk.
Zhao Cong is also a villain, he knows that Li Mu's talent is far above him, I am afraid that Li Mu will make a comeback in the future, threatening his power, so he wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, he selected dozens of warriors in the army, personally led them to hunt down Li Mu, found the tavern, saw that he was drunk unconscious, so he took the opportunity to kill him, and cut off his head, and went to the army to show the public.
The elite of the 100,000 Yanmen army led by Li Mu were all sad and wept when they saw the Zhao Guozhushi they respected die so tragically. Overnight, an army of 100,000 ran away.
When the general Sima Shang heard that Li Mu had been killed, he cried a lot, fearing that he would stay in Zhao and be killed by traitors, so he dismissed his family and left Zhao in a carriage with his wife and children, and he did not know where to go.
In April of the thirtieth year of the first century, Qin Shaojun heard that Li Mu, the general of Zhao State, had died, and the deputy general Sima Shang was also dismissed and fled, and immediately went to a heart disease.
Qin Shaojunzheng immediately asked Luoyang, and after obtaining the consent of the royal father, he immediately ordered Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe to lead another 200,000 Qin troops to attack Zhao, and informed Gongsun Qi, who was firmly guarding Yecheng, to cooperate with the army.
Zhao Wangqian heard that the Qin army was coming again, although he was nervous, he finally stabilized his mind and ordered Zhao Cong and Yan Ju to lead the troops to meet the enemy.
Zhao Cong was originally a straw bale, and he was able to become a general because he was born in the Zhao royal clan and the favor of Zhao Wangqian, where would he command the battle.
After Zhao Cong received the order, he didn't care about the height of the sky, and hurriedly led his troops to battle, but was stabbed to death by Wang Jian of Qin State in front of the two armies, and then the Qin army waved his army to cover up, and the Zhao army was defeated on all fronts.
Zhao general Yan Ju fled into Handan City with the remnants of the defeated generals, and without the obstruction of Li Mu and Sima Shangna and other capable generals, Gongsun Qi and Wang Jian led hundreds of thousands of Qin troops to the city quickly.
When Zhao Wangqian learned that Zhao Cong had been killed, he panicked and hurriedly summoned his ministers to discuss countermeasures.
Zhao Xiang Guo Kai further admonished: "The Qin army is powerful, and the Zhao State has few generals, and fighting against the strong Qin is nothing more than hitting a stone with an egg." ”
So Guo Kai took the opportunity to persuade King Zhao to surrender the city, and wrote a surrender letter for King Zhao, so that people took the map of Zhao and the priceless Heshi Bi to Qin Ying to offer treasure and surrender.
The envoys of Zhao State agreed with Gongsun Qi, the commander of the Qin army, to open the city gate the next day to welcome the Qin army into the city.
At this time, Zhao Guogongzi Jia and the general Yan Ju were inspecting the city, and heard that the king of Zhao sent envoys to the Qin camp to ask for surrender, knowing that the general trend had gone, he led hundreds of people from the clan to rush out of the north gate and fled to Daijun.
The next day, Wang Jian led the Qin army into Handan City, imprisoned Zhao Wangqian and all the ministers of the Zhao clan, and sent them to Luoyang to be handed over to the Qin court.
Qin Shaojunzheng wrote the strategy of how to separate the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State into letters one by one, and passed them to Luoyang, Qin Wangyan knew the reasons before and after, and he also named him to be able to break through Zhao State without much effort, which Guo Kai was indeed indispensable, so Qin Ting took Guo Kai's work and was named Shangqing.
Zhao Qian should have been punished for losing his virtue and losing the country, because he surrendered the city, was exempted from the death penalty, cut off the title, and exiled to Qiongya in the South China Sea.
Until this time, Zhao Wangqian saw Zhao Xiangguo Guo Kai, who had put on the court uniform of the Emperor of the Qin State early, and was his own concubine, who was actually a traitor who betrayed the Zhao State, and he was also full of remorse in his heart.
Zhao Gongzijia led hundreds of members of the clan to flee to Dai County and set himself up as king. But at this time, the state of Zhao was already in name only, and when he heard that the Qin state had set up Handan County in Zhao, he also hated it, so he recruited soldiers and horses in Dai County in an attempt to recover the lost land of Zhao.
At this time, Meng Ao and Meng Wu's father and son had already taken over the homeland of Yan State, so Meng Wu also sent troops from Shanggu to attack Daijun.
As for Handan, after Wang Jian took over the Yanmen area, he personally led the army to attack Daijun, and completed the encirclement of Daijun with Mengwu, and a few months later, the dynasty was broken, Wang Jia was captured, and the Zhao State was completely destroyed.
Let's talk about it later, this Guo Kai went to Luoyang, and he was indeed worshiped by Qin Ting as a Shangqing, and he was named Jianxinjun.
Guo Kai has been an official in Zhao for more than 20 years, successively serving as the prime minister of the two dynasties, and during his reign, he used his power to loot a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, which were buried in the underground of the Xiangguo's mansion.
After he became an official in the Qin State, he has been thinking about this wealth. Shangqing, who was a false finger, had nothing to do all day long, so he took leave and took more than 100 family members to the old house in Handan to dig up treasures, and loaded forty carts.
Guo Kai planned to transport these treasures back to Luoyang, part of which was dedicated to Qin Wangyan, and the rest was used to build mansions, support domestic slaves, and of course leave some for future generations.
But unfortunately, on the way back to Luoyang, Guo Kai encountered a group of vicious robbers, and more than 100 family members guarding Guo Kai were killed.
These people stripped Guo Kai of his clothes naked, and then tied him to a big tree, and thousands of people took turns to cut a knife on him, while shouting "Avenge General Li!" ”
In the end, Guo Kai was cut to only bones and a pool of blood.
Gongsun Qi, who was in charge of Zhaodi's military affairs, also immediately investigated after receiving the news, and it seemed that Luoyang also got the news, and when he saw that he was about to find out the truth by Shunteng, Luoyang's edict to stop the continued review came, and the case was over.
Therefore, those in the Qin State School Palace also have their own opinions on whether a villain like Guo Kai who has made a traitor to seek glory can be crowned a king and a king, regardless of it for the time being, just saying that Zhao Guo died on Guo Kai's mouth, which caused people in later generations to be vigilant.
If the villain gains power, he will inevitably end up heroically. The death of Zhao Guo is of course the current situation, but the king of Zhao moved to the villain, was far from the virtuous, and finally died desolate in an inaccessible place at the ends of the earth, which can also be said to be self-inflicted. I want to talk about "The Rise of Xiongqin" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~