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"This area was originally the territory of the Zhou family, more than ten years ago, Zhou Dafu Dan Pian led the prince to rebel against the Yu Party, leading the Zheng army into the Kou, so this Feng, slippery, Xu Mi, negative millet, fox people, Que Wai Liuyi was occupied by Zheng State, and then although the Jin State helped the King of Zhou to recapture it for a time, it was soon trapped in Zheng again."

Because Zheng Guo shrank his forces to Xinzheng, and his border towns resisted very little, after half a month of fierce fighting, a 35,000-strong Zhao division had occupied this area, and Wang Sunsheng was the commander of this army.

Once again, Wang Sunsheng felt a lot.

In the past, I went back, and the willows followed; Now I think about it, the rain and snow are falling...... It has been more than half a year since the tragic Battle of Luhun, and Wang Sunsheng and Meijianchi successfully resisted the northern invasion of the Chu army, and even dragged the king of Chu Zhao to death under the city.

However, afterwards, when he returned to Hedong to discuss meritorious deeds, Wang Sunsheng and Meijian Chi both sued each other fiercely, Wang Sunsheng said that Meijian Chi "did not understand the military and exceeded his authority to command", and Meijian Chi said that Wang Sunsheng "had no heart to die and wanted to retreat from the battle".

These two people have conflicting personalities, each saying their own reason, and it is intolerable for a while.

Zhao Wuxian's handling was fair, after listening to the testimony of Lu Hun's survivors, he did not punish Wang Sunsheng for being closer to Meijian Chi, but recognized him for responding to the situation in Lu Hun's first battle, and Zhao Wuxian personally summoned him to encourage him, gave him a number of gold silks, and added thousands of acres of food fields.

But that's all, because it is impossible for Wang Sunsheng's "reasonable judgment" to be publicly praised, on the other hand, Meijianchi's treatment is much higher, and after he survived from the ruins, he almost became a hero and model in the eyes of Zhao Jun on the southern front. Zhao Wuxian needed him to stand in the front desk as an example of not retiring, so he publicized it and added officials to the knighthood. However, after this incident, Wuxian also thought that Meijian Chi really had no military talent, so he simply transferred back to his side as Lang Wei, and his crime of killing the prince of Jin was so lightly exposed......

Although Wang Sunsheng was a little jealous and indignant, as far as he was concerned, as long as Zhao Wuxian didn't hide him, he could accept it. Considering that Wang Sunsheng had fought with the Zheng army many times and was familiar with the terrain of Yiluo, Zhao Wuxian asked him to command 5,000 men to attack the rear cities of Zheng Guo by borrowing the Zhou Dynasty.

In late September, after taking the Euphores of Negative Millet and other provinces, Wang Sunsheng led his troops eastward and marched along Yingshui because of the blockage of the Taimur Mountain (Songshan) with verdant rock curtains in the north. They marched through the rolling hills of western Henan into the Yingshui Valley, where the state of Zheng was fertile and rich, with not only mulberry farmland, but also many fruit groves, and the army could completely rely on food for the enemy.

Two days later, they arrived at Yongshi City......

Yongshi City has a long history, and it is said that it is the place where the Yellow Emperor ordered the minister Yongfu to make a pestle, so it was named Yongshi. The city towers over the vast and fertile Yingbei Plain, and after an autumn rain, the muddy ground is mottled with horses' hooves and footprints.

In Wang Sunsheng's eyes, everything is so familiar: the cracked rammed earth walls of Waiguo were built by Xia or Shang, and the autumn rain swept away, and the cracks were covered with thick moss. Neiguo has been renovated in recent years, the whole city wall is nearly very square, the wall is two zhang high, extremely thick. However, due to the lack of guards, the city quickly fell under the siege equipment of the Zhao army, and Wang Sunsheng found that most of them had fled, and only some lucky ones remained.

Due to the concern that the besiegers would take advantage of it, the woods within ten miles of the castle were basically cleared, but there was still a small forest near the Eupui Temple in the inner valley......

It is a strong banyan tree, and these trees are said to be as old as Yongshi City. Especially the one in the middle, which is the ancestor of this group of banyan trees, gradually falls off in autumn, leaving only the tendrils to hang down weakly, like a tired old man, but the huge branches are stubbornly stretched out to the sky like bony fingers, and the top branches can be seen even outside the city, and a few nests of cuckoos nest on it, and fly back one after another when the sun sets, making a short and mournful chirp.

"Zi Gui! Return! ”

When he stepped into the woods, Wang Sunsheng felt that his heart was about to stop.

This city, this tree, this scene, he especially remembers it in his heart!

Back then, his father, Prince Jian, was killed by Zheng Ren under this tree!

Although many things were recounted by Wu Zixu later, with this fragmentary memory, Wang Sunsheng can completely piece together the situation at that time......

His father, Prince Jian, was the crown prince of Chuping, because his fiancée (Bo Huan) was taken by his father, and there was a gap between father and son, coupled with the instigation of the traitor Fei Wuji, Prince Jian was forced to leave Chudu and live in the city. The following year, Fei Wuji slandered King Chuping again, framing Prince Jian to join Jin to rebel against Chu, and after King Chuping had a son Xiong Zhen, he had regarded Prince Jian as a thorn in the flesh, so he decided to put him to death, and by the way, Wu Zixu's family was also wiped out.

Prince Jian didn't want his predecessor Shen Sheng to be so stupid and loyal and filial, he immediately ran to the Song Dynasty in fear, where he gave birth to Wang Sun Sheng with a woman from the Qi Kingdom, and later in order to avoid the rebellion of Song Guohua, he was transferred to Zheng, Zheng Guo sealed him in Yongshi, became a local doctor, and Wu Zixu also ran to defect.

The first time in Yongshi should be happy, although it has belonged to the Central Plains, but it is not far from Chu, the climate is not much different, not only there are banyan trees in the south, but the folk are also gradually dyed with Chu wind. Wang Sunsheng can imagine that his infant must have been sleepy in this sunny banyan forest.

As for the adults, they are plotting in the shadow of the trees.

Although Zheng Guojun's ministers are not bad to Prince Jian, Prince Jian and Wu Zixu do not forget to return to Chu to restore the throne and take revenge, so they are extremely looking forward to hugging the thigh of Jin State. So the crown prince Jian colluded with the Jin Qinggong when he was the envoy to the Jin State for Zheng, and agreed that when the Jin State attacked Zheng, the prince Jian would be in the Yong clan as an internal response.

However, before the time was ripe, one of the prince's cronies betrayed the plan to Zheng Guojun's ministers, and Zheng Dinggong and Uncle Zi immediately made a decision and sent troops to the Yong clan, with the cooperation of the locals, in this banyan forest, the stubborn prince Jian's sword was killed.

As for Wang Sunsheng in infancy, after his mother committed suicide in despair, when Zheng Wei outside was arguing about whether to kill him or abandon him in the wild, he was rescued by the bold Wu Zixu, and one big and one small embarked on the road of escape, which is more than 30 years......

"Zi Gui! Return! "The cuckoo is still chirping, and that day, it must have been the cuckoo crying blood......

Now that Wang Sunsheng has returned, to the place where his father's life ended, he is thirty years old, and he has achieved nothing, and he must face this hatred, which is the basis for his survival.

After the army counted the grain and baggage that could still be scavenged in the city, a brigade commander came to ask for instructions: "Captain, what should we do with this city?" “

"Burn the city!" Wang Sunsheng gave the order without hesitation.

"But ......" The brigade commander hesitated a little, Zhao Wuxian's once announced "no killing of the people, no destruction of the room, no filling of the well" is still effective, his war purpose is not to turn the Central Plains into a no-man's land, especially the land that can be taken by certainty, if the Zheng people do not resist, there is no need to kill them all.

Wang Sunsheng has his own reasons: "The south of Yongshi is Yingshui, and dozens of miles south of Yingshui is the Chu State, which is the place where Chu Shi must pass through to save Zheng in the north, if the Chu people come here, Yongshi may not be able to defend it, rather than let the heavy cities here raise the enemy, it is better to burn it!" ”

The brigade commander left sneeringly, and muttered as he left: "Not to mention whether the Chu people will come, if you stay here, won't you be able to defend on the spot......

Having said that, because Wang Sunsheng had enough "reasons" for his subordinates to trust his judgment, Zhao Jun still carried out this order and reduced Yongshi City to ashes! Crackling, the brick walls cracked in the flames, and some of the people who hid in the cellars and did not escape became the ghosts of the fire.

Under the back of the burning city, Wang Sunsheng's face was cold, but he was laughing wildly in his heart.

Now that Zheng Dinggong is dead, Uncle Zi's son You Su has also died on the Hedong battlefield, but for Wang Sunsheng, his revenge has just begun.

First of all, it is this small town of Yongshi!

Zhao set fires along the way, and the entire Yingshui Valley was illuminated by the firelight, and the woods, farmlands, and orchards that surrounded Yongshi City were wiped out—leaving only dirt and ashes, and charred houses and broken walls scattered everywhere.

This is Wang Sunsheng's revenge for Yong's help Zheng Guojun to kill his father! He only hated that he couldn't openly follow the example of the thief and slaughter all his people!

However, it was not over yet, Wang Sunsheng, who had been carried away by his own selfish anger and no longer considered the overall battle situation, turned his eyes on the whole battle and turned north with the army.

Dozens of miles to the north, is the suburb of Xinzheng, where Wang Sunsheng and Zhao's army converge. This time, he wants to make the taxis and women who are smiling and smiling and looking forward to the water all day long in the bright lights of Qinshui and autumn hunting, and he wants to make Zheng Guojun and his ministers watch the city wall being broken through in despair, and he wants to watch the country that killed his father completely perish, and the temple is turned to dust!

However, as soon as he crossed the Weishui River and saw the city wall of Xinzheng, Wang Sunsheng learned a piece of news that shocked and angered him:

Zheng Guo has asked the Zhao family for peace, and Zhao Wuxian wants to release Zheng without extinguishing!

PS: There is one more chapter in the evening (to be continued.) )