The time entered the thirtieth year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in 484 BC, at the end of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

The Wu army entered Jinyang City, and after Zhao Ying committed suicide by poisoning, it was announced that the Zhao State, which had been established for more than ten years, was officially destroyed.

Bolu and Dou Yan, who were far away in Handan, were grief-stricken when they heard the fall of Jinyang City and the death of Zhao Ying.

However, at this point, there is nothing they can do.

The Zhao army was besieged in Handan City for three months, and the food and grass had long been exhausted, and in the end, the hungry Zhao army had to gnaw on tree bark, eat rat meat, and even eat dead corpses......

It's not that Zhao Jun didn't think about breaking through, but it was too late.

Every time the Zhao army broke through, it was beaten back by the Wu army, and it couldn't rush out at all.

Seeing that the morale of the army is weakened, everyone may starve to death.

After consulting with Dou Yin and other generals of the Zhao army, Beru decided to surrender to Tian Sui Tho, the chief general of the Wu army.

At the end of the day, they had no idea what was going on outside.

This is also due to the foresight of Tian Sui Tho before the war, capturing the three cities of Qianhou, Wushi and Quliang near Handan, and cutting off the main communication routes to prevent the Zhao army from breaking through and communicating with the outside world.

It can be said that it hit Zhao Ren with an information gap.

Because, if Bolu, Dou Yin and others knew that the alliance of princes had gathered in Chaoge and was ready to start a war with the Wu army, maybe they would stick to Handan City and fight the Wu army to the end.

However, there are no ifs.

Qingji ordered to canonize Bolu as the Marquis of Zhao, eat 500 households in Wudu, hereditary replacement, and send someone to send Zhao Bolu to live in Jinling City.

Beru was still treated kindly by Qingji.

Although Zhao Ying died, he also set up Zhao Wuxian as the prince before his death, but Qingji refused to admit it, and instead let the crown prince Bolu inherit the position of the suzerain of the Zhao family and worship the Zhao family.

It is a tradition throughout the ages that the destruction of the country will not be extinguished.

In order to reduce the resistance to dominating the world, Qingji can still treat the king of the dead country one by one.

After the surrender of the Zhao army in Handan, almost 40,000 people were all imprisoned with the previous Zhao army prisoners of war and sent to Hedong County and Sanchuan County of Wu State for temporary care.

In order to deal with the menacing alliance forces of Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, and Yan, Qingji concentrated 300,000 foot cavalry, Chen Yu in Yecheng and Zhangshui.

A big war seems inevitable.

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Yecheng, Wu military camp.

At this moment, Qingji is sitting on the handsome position, and on the left and right sides, there are Sun Wu, Wu Zixu, Tian Sui Tho, Fan Li, Gongzi Zhang, Gongzi Xi and other Wu army generals.

In the face of the upcoming big battle, everyone was calm, and there was no fear or solemn look on their faces, but they were very excited.

Hear the war, then rejoice!

Wu people are never afraid of challenges, never afraid of huge challenges.

With less to win more wars, has Wu fought less in the past few decades?

"Fan Li, you tell the second and third sons about the military situation of both the enemy and us."

"No!"

After hearing Qingji's command, Fan Li stood up, looked around at the screen with a sheepskin map, and said, "Everyone, according to the exact information."

"The allied forces of the five kingdoms of Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, and Yan will meet in Chaoge, with a total of about 620,000 soldiers and horses."

"The coalition forces are distributed on the line from Chaoge and Makino to Dahe (Yellow River), with a company camp of more than 100 miles, and the momentum is very huge, and the five countries are almost empty."

"Shhh

Hearing this, the generals of the Wu army present couldn't help but gasp and were shocked.

An army of 620,000 people?

That's a lot of money.

In this battle, if Wu can win it, sweep away the nations, and the war to dominate the world will be advanced.

If defeated, the hometown of Zhao, as well as Hedong County, Shangdang County, Yingchuan County, and even Sanchuan County of Wu State, will be divided among the nations.

This is something to be expected.

"In addition, half a month ago, the kings of the five kingdoms of Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, and Yan will

Yu Chaoge, respect each other's kings, blood alliance, to the Marquis of Qi...... No, it should be called King Qi now."

After a pause, Fan Li said slowly, "The princes take Lu Ren, the king of Qi, as the leader of the alliance."

"The coalition army is 620,000 horses, and the Qi State occupies one-third of them, about 200,000 soldiers."

"Lu State, 80,000 soldiers; defending the country, 80,000 soldiers; Song State, 100,000 soldiers; Yan Kingdom, 60,000 soldiers."

The matter of the five kings of Qi, Lu, Song, Wei, and Yan, Qingji has already been informed.

Why, the five kingdoms want to be kings?

The answer is self-explanatory.

Zhou Tianzi and Jiuding have been moved to Xianyang by Qingji to settle down, which is equivalent to the Zhou royal family, which has lasted for more than 500 years, and it has died in name.

No, but it has already been declared extinct!

In the absence of the co-lord of the world, only the Wu family is the king, and the rest of the princes canonized by the Zhou royal family are all duke, marquis, and earl, so they have become vassals of the Wu state?

Of course, Wu has this kind of strength, forcing the nations to become his vassals, and Qingji can also become the co-lord of the world like Zhou Tianzi.

However, this is not the result that Qingji wants.

And the nations of the country to crusade against the state of Wu need to be justified.

Since the Zhou royal family no longer exists, the princes have no restrictions, and it is reasonable to respect each other.

They want to pull themselves to the same level as Qingji.

Having said that, the matter of the Prime Minister of the Five Kingdoms was proposed by Qi Xiangtian Heng and led by him.

When this guy was still worshipping Qingji before, he proposed to let Qingji be the emperor and replace Zhou Tianzi as the co-lord of the world, so as to order the princes, but Qingji politely refused.

"Besides, on the side of Zhongshan Kingdom, he intended to form an alliance with the prime ministers of the countries, but he was rejected."

Fan Li smiled.

The predecessor of Zhongshan was Xianyu people, Rong Di was born, so he was naturally looked down upon by the Central Plains countries, and it was not surprising that he was ostracized.

"On the side of Han and Wei, the King of Qi secretly sent envoys to Daliang and Yang Zhai to lobby, but under the pressure of my Great Wu, Han Jun and Wei Jun did not dare to act rashly."

"It is estimated that it is still the two ends of the first rat, and the two sides are not offended, or they want to sit and reap the profits."

The two countries of Han and Wei, which had been crippled by the Wu State, had a great psychological shadow on the Wu army.

Moreover, under the surveillance of Wu State, the two countries did not dare to send troops.

When Wu attacked Zhao, Qingji left a back hand and sent a lot of soldiers and horses to garrison Hedong County and Yingchuan County, just to prevent Han and Wei from suddenly sending troops to rescue Zhao.

So far, Wu has not used the soldiers and horses of Hedong and Yingchuan counties, so Han and Wei have not dared to send troops, and watched Zhao State be destroyed by Wu State.

Qingji suddenly remembered something and asked, "Are Zhao Wuxian and the remnants of Zhao Kingdom still in Zhongshan Kingdom?"

"It's still there."

Fan Li was quite puzzled and said, "Is the king worried that Zhao Wuxian will suddenly join the war?"

"Nope. There are only a few thousand remnants of the Zhao Kingdom, and even if there is still one generation of Zhao Land left, and the Zhao family still has people in their hometown, it will not be able to become a climate."

Qing Ji said, "All Zhao Wuxian can do is just watch from the wall and wait for the times to change."