Chapter 36: The Last Resort

Xingyi slowly walked to Zhao Jie's side and lay down beside Zhao Jie without saying a word.

Lying on the grassy mound, Zhao Jie and Xingyi were silent. After being silent for a long time, Zhao Jie spoke: "Do you really want to leave?" ”

"Hmm!" Xingyi replied, "Although I have never met him, he is my biological father after all, and as a child, he has to do his filial piety. ”

"And when will you be able to get back to me?" Zhao Jie asked, his voice a little dim.

"I don't know, I guess I won't be able to leave Chengzhou until my father dies." Xingyi replied.

"I'll wait for you." Without waiting for Xingyi to answer, Zhao Jie turned over and couldn't help but kiss Xingyi.

Xingyi felt that her mouth suddenly touched something, and when she opened her eyes, it turned out that Zhao Jie's mouth was firmly attached to her mouth. The star that has never been kissed before is a little overwhelmed. But soon he adapted to Zhao Jie's rhythm, and Lun fell into Zhao Jie's gentleness.

After a long time, their lips parted, and both of them were breathing a little rapidly, Xingyi dodged Zhao Jie's eyes, turned his back to Zhao Jie, and his little face was slightly red.

Zhao Jie looked at Xingyi's thin back, secretly took off her hairpin, and held it tightly in his hand.

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On the second day, the sun rose as usual, and the people of Jucheng also began their cookie-cutter one-day life, and no one thought that this day would be recorded in history and passed down for thousands of years.

On this day, everyone living in the tunnel gathered in the hall, and Zhao Jie and his party were no exception. Xingyi took Zhao Jie's hand and walked to the center of the hall, she held Zhao Jie's hand tightly, so that Zhao Jie obviously felt her nervousness. Zhao Jie also held his hand tightly, signaling that Xingyi was there, so there was no need to be nervous.

"First of all, loyal retainers of the royal family, I would like to thank you for searching for me for many years, so that I can recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors." Xingyi continued, "Now the city guards of this city have trapped me and my companions here. Fortunately, with God's help, we have come up with a plan, which needs everyone's help, and I hope you will support it. ”

"Whoa!" The many armor soldiers in the hall replied.

"This battle is the most taboo to divide troops, all of us must concentrate into a fist to fight, take advantage of the convenience of our tunnels to quickly transfer, mobilize the enemy's actions, grasp the initiative, and support the enemy's ......" Xingyi repeated the strategy that Zhao Jie told him yesterday.

"Please." After telling everyone the strategy, Xingyi said.

After listening to Xingyi's words, the armor soldiers in the audience also changed their opinions about her, and they were full of worship and loyalty to Xingyi in their eyes.

An hour later, it is the hour, there are more than 100 armor soldiers near the east gate of Jucheng, the elite armor soldiers break through the city gate, kill more than 20 soldiers defending the city, and then more than 100 armor soldiers go out of the east city, encounter an ambush by soldiers, and the officers and soldiers of Jucheng form a confrontation with more than 100 armor soldiers. Fortunately, the ambush reinforcements at the south gate were defeated, and the armor retreated, but the place where they retreated was unknown, and they disappeared like ghosts.

An hour later, that is, at the same time, more than 100 armor soldiers of unknown origin appeared at the north city gate, the same way, nearly 100 armor soldiers broke through the north city gate, killing more than ten soldiers defending the city, and then all the armor soldiers broke through the door, but it was similar to the matter of Chenshi, the two sides first confronted, and then the east and west city gates ambushed the army, and the armor disappeared like a ghost in the pursuit of officers and soldiers.

Another hour later, at noon, nearly forty people of the armor team again embraced Zhao Jie and his party to break through the south gate, and at this time after a morning of rushing, all the Jucheng officers and soldiers have shown a declining trend, when the completely exposed Jucheng officers and soldiers arrived at the south gate is already the end of the crossbow, Zhao Jie and a group of easily rushed out of the already chaotic formation, and killed dozens of soldiers who were still stubbornly resistant.

After rushing out of the formation, no one would stop Zhao Jie, and Zhao Jie and his party rode away, regardless of the flood behind them.

After Zhao Jie fled, Guan Zhi was extremely angry, and he took all his anger out on his subordinates, the housekeeper Xia Jing he had just promoted.

"What do you eat?" Guan Zhi whipped Xia Jing with a whip.

"More than 100 people beat you, three or four hundred people have no power to fight back, are you a pig?" Another horsewhip.

"The situation I worked so hard to maintain was completely ruined by you, do you know how much effort I put into it, and you actually ruined them? You're not even as good as a beast. Then another whip came.

For a few days, Guan Zhi beat Xia Jing every day, and the beating became more and more serious day by day. Gradually, Xia Jing, who was leaning on his whiskers and patting his horse, couldn't bear it anymore. So after more than ten days after Zhao Jie left, Xia Jing, who couldn't bear it, hid a sharp blade, and while Guan Zhi didn't pay attention, he pulled out the sharp blade and stabbed Guan Zhi in the abdomen with a sword. Guan Zhi bleed profusely and died not long after. Xia Jing, who killed Guan Zhi, saw that he couldn't escape, and he also killed himself.

Maybe it was providence, but what happened next made people feel the drama of the event. Guan Zhi was stabbed to death in the morning, and his eldest brother Guan Yi arrived in Jucheng at four in the afternoon. As soon as he returned to the city, he stopped until such a vicious Guan Yi's blood attacked his heart, and he vomited a bowl of blood before stopping.

At the same time, Guan Yong, who led the main force in Jucheng, also achieved initial success after feeling the power of guerrilla warfare. The internal guards who pretended to be Zhao Jie and his party reached an agreement with Guan Yong, and they released Guan Yong's son, and Guan Yong also let them flee to the Chu State.

A butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil will cause a tornado in Texas, a well-known prediction of the butterfly effect. The effects of Guan Zhi's death are not over yet, and the impact of the matter is getting bigger and bigger as time goes by.

Three years later, the leader of the army sent by the court came to Jucheng to hand over military power to the Guan clan.

5 years later, Guan Yi died of illness, and Guan Zhi took away his nephew's position as the head of the family and became the head of the Guan family.

In the 10th year of his reign, Xia Jing's son led the Chu army into Jucheng, and Guan Yong died in battle.

Guan Yi's branch of the Guan family declined, and then the court could only choose another branch from the Guan family, and the family town Jucheng continued the Guan Zhong bloodline.

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Zhao Jie and his entourage ran wildly all the way, and finally left the Qi State and came to the Chu State.

The state of Chu is a peculiar country, and in the course of hundreds of years, Chu alone has created a southern culture that is not different from the culture of the Central Plains.

The ancestor of Chu came from the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, the son of Changyi, and the emperor Gaoyang. In the later period of the Shang Dynasty, the Chu people gradually moved south from the Xinzheng area of Henan Province to the Xichuan area of Henan Province. At the time of the Battle of Muye, the state of Chu did not participate in either side of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and did not immediately submit to the Zhou dynasty.

During the reign of King Kang of Zhou, Xiong Yi, the founding monarch of Chu State, went to meet Zhou Tianzi and accepted the title of Zhou Tianzi. However, due to the fact that the Zhou Dynasty had always had a discriminatory attitude towards the south and regarded the Chu State as a "southern barbarian", Xiong Yi did not receive the courtesy that a prince should have.

During the reign of King Zhao of Zhou, due to fear of the rise of the Chu Kingdom, the King of Zhou conquered Jing Chu in the south. Unfortunately, however, King Zhao of Zhou was ambushed and killed when he crossed the Han River on the way back to his division, and as a result, the Western Zhou Dynasty "lost six divisions in Han".

During the reign of King Yi of Zhou, the princes began to despise Zhou Tianzi, and the authority of the Son of Heaven began to weaken slightly, and the Chu State began to make an initial attempt to resist the court, and Xiongqu had a high popularity and prestige in the Jianghan area, so he raised troops to annex the surrounding countries.

During the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, in order to resist the power of the Chu State, King Xuan of Zhou sealed many members of the Zhou family or forces attached to the Zhou Dynasty between the Jiang and Han Dynasty, trying to block the gateway of the Jiang and Han Dynasty to the Central Plains with these pro-Zhou forces to contain the northward advance of the Chu State and pose a threat to the Western Zhou.

During the reign of King Wen of Chu, King Wen of Chu set his capital in Ying, and his descendants were commonly known as "Yan Ying", and when Chu became king, Chu became stronger under the governance of Yin Ziwen. In the battle of Chengpu in Jin and Chu, the Chu people were defeated. Subsequently, the state of Chu did not dare to go north for decades, and made every effort to develop south.

During the reign of King Chuzhuang, his martial arts were brilliant, and he made great efforts to select Sun Shuao to implement Wenye, so that Chu was economically prosperous and culturally prosperous. Soon after, King Zhuang conquered Lu Hun Zhirong and sent someone to ask Zhou Tianzi about the importance of Jiuding.

After the Battle of Yi, the king of Chu Zhuang dominated for a while, but the state of Jin could not be ignored, and the Jin and Chu sides formed a north-south confrontation, each dominating one side.

When King Zhao of Chu, the monarch of Wu sent Sun Wu and Wu Zixu to lead an army to attack Chu, and the Chu army was defeated, and Chu almost fell. At this time, Goujian of Yue took the opportunity to attack Wu, and Qin also sent troops to help Chu, and Chu was preserved.

Entering the Warring States Period, the princes had carried out political and economic reforms, and the king of Chu Mourning appointed Wu Qi to start changing the law and rejuvenating the revolution in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army, so that the national strength of Chu became rapidly stronger. However, due to the unfortunate early death of King Chu Mourning, Wu Qi lost his strong backer and was brutally killed by the old nobles. Although the reform of the law did not take a long time, the results of the reform were still reserved.

In the era of King Chu Wei, the territory of Chu had expanded to Ba and Shu, and the Yue Kingdom was destroyed and prospered for a while.

After King Huai of Chu ascended the throne, he began to reuse Qu Yuan and other ministers, and carried out a series of innovations in response to major maladministrations, but it attracted the opposition of the unanimous aristocracy of Chu State. After a long time, it was difficult to resist the opposition of King Chu Huai, so he decided to raise the mountain, and the reform finally failed. In his later years, King Huai of Chu was deceived by King Zhaoxiang of Qin to go to Qin, and died in Xianyang, and the Chu army that wanted to raise troops to recapture the King of Chu was defeated by the Qin general Bai Qi. The state of Chu rapidly weakened.

More than ten years ago, King Qin Zhaoxiang deceived the princess into marrying the king of Chu Qingxiang, and Qu Yuan knelt outside the city to no avail. In the end, the Qin army took advantage of the opening of the city to welcome his relatives by the king of Qingxiang, drove straight forward, and attacked the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and the king of Chu Qingxiang moved the capital.

The reigning monarch of Chu is the king of Qingxiang, who is mediocre and cannot appoint virtuous people, and the national strength of Chu is currently declining.