Chapter 567: The tragic battle situation captures Luodu
On the battlefield, the fierce battle continues.
It's just that although Zhou Tianzi launched his last fighting spirit and smashed the savings of the entire Zhou Dynasty into it, even the guards around him were sent to the top of the city tower to join the battle.
Although batch after batch of "people with lofty ideals" led by the Mo family, whether it was for fame or profit, they almost went forward to support Zhou Wangji;
Although the battle was once in a state of white heat, even the soldiers of the Qin army suffered a lot of losses in many places because of their carelessness......
However, as time passed, the balance of victory still irreversibly and slowly tilted in favor of the Qin army.
Without him, in the face of absolute strength, any intrigue and trickery would seem pale and powerless. The so-called one force down ten will be like this.
The Qin State, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, only knew the word ploughing and warfare, and its army was even more well-trained, the order was forbidden, and the armor was strong, and its combat power was not much higher than this group of improvised rabble;
Even, even with the determination to forget myself and be invincible, the Qin army is better than the Zhou army. The burning man who had obviously been burned by the flames and was in pain, but still wanted to rush into the enemy formation and die with the enemy, was not an outsider, but just an ordinary soldier of the Qin State.
The combat strength is insufficient, the determination is not enough, and even the willingness to sacrifice is not as good as the Qin army! Not to mention the confidence that will prevail.
Under such circumstances, it was already a surprise to be able to block Qin Jun's footsteps for a while!
With the huge sound of "boom", the city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time finally fell slowly under the brute force of the Qin army's stone-throwing carts. A huge gap abruptly appeared on the walls of Luodu.
Without hesitation, the Qin army on the front line would only care about Meng Yu and immediately waved the flag in his hand, and one after another of the elite of the Qin army rushed towards the gap in an instant.
Needless to say, the Qin army was going to use this gap as an opportunity to completely destroy the city defense of Luodu.
Fortunately, although the city fell, the people did not retreat.
Seeing waves of Qin soldiers rushing towards the gap in the city wall, the Zhou army in the city also instantly organized teams of soldiers to rush to the gap, trying to keep the Qin army out of the gap.
It's just that even the Zhou army, which has the advantage of the city wall, was pressed and beaten by the Qin army, not to mention that there was no height advantage.
Although the replenishment of the Zhou army was very timely, and although the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty had already fought with courage that they had never had, how could they be the opponent of the Qin army like tigers and wolves, who were tired all year round.
The Zhou soldiers who had just arrived at the gap were almost not the elite enemies of the Qin army, and in the blink of an eye, with tacit understanding, the Qin army was about to completely break through the defense line of the Zhou army.
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Listening to the bad news from the front line, looking at the black smoke rising in the air, the last son of heaven of the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Yu, stood alone in the empty hall, and there were few people in the Zhou court, but now there is no more than half of the courtiers, and the bell of the summoning and summoning in the palace keeps ringing.
The courtiers either surrendered directly to the Qin army, or went to other countries, and the slightly better ones also guarded the mansion in an attempt to shrink into it. Only no one wants to be the martyr of this ruined dynasty,
Except, he's the king!
King Zhou Yun put on the most solemn costume he had not worn for a long time, and combed his twelve wisps of crown slightly, and walked slowly to the square in front of the palace. The sound of the battle outside the palace gate could already reach his ears, and the entire city was full of beacon fire and wolf smoke, and there was no peace and tranquility in the past.
"In another quarter of an hour, the Qin army will be killed at the palace gate!" King Zhou Xun looked at the sky obscured by black smoke in front of him, and muttered to himself in his heart: "Then, the palace gate will be breached soon!" Then you will kill the widow's palace! Fortunately, the widow's sons and daughters have been sent away, so I hope they are all safe! ”
Just thinking about it, not far from the horizon, outside the palace gate, suddenly there was a cloud of dust.
Immediately followed by a burst of cheers, obviously, a key place in front of the palace gate was taken by the Qin army.
King Zhou Yun turned around, ignoring the things outside the palace gate, and with a flick of his right hand, the huge court clothes immediately floated, showing in front of King Zhou was the palace of King Zhou that had gone through a hundred years of wind and rain.
On it, the carved eaves and paintings are lifelike, just as majestic and magnificent when it was just completed, but the mottled colors silently tell the decline of a dynasty.
King Zhou Yu slowly stepped across the threshold of the palace, I don't know if it was because of his age, one accidentally almost tripped over the threshold, fortunately, the threshold of disrepair has long ceased to be vermilion, and the exposed log has already decayed after the baptism of wind and rain and years, and it has cracked into several pieces under this trip.
King Zhou Xun looked at the broken threshold, as if he saw that in the world that was falling apart now, he couldn't help but feel sad, and was about to feel a little nostalgic, but the fierce shouting and killing behind him became closer and closer.
"Well, let him go! Zhou destroyed Shang, and the king of Shang committed suicide by burning Lutai. The world of my Great Zhou is all over today! The widow was also buried in this hall to martyr me for the 800th year of the Great Zhou Dynasty! As he spoke, King Zhou Yun waved his big hand: "Burn!" ”
"No!" The eunuch who had been following beside him immediately threw the burning torch in his hand into the firewood pile that had been placed outside the hall and poured fire oil, and soon, the fire ignited all the firewood around the main hall, and the fire instantly illuminated the main hall.
The eunuch Ling, who lit the firewood, did not leave the main hall like other eunuchs, but returned to King Zhou's side with a calm face, and tidied up the crown for King Zhou, who was sitting on the dragon chair, for the last time.
King Zhou was obviously a little surprised by the eunuch order's actions.
But then King Zhou laughed again. I didn't expect that in my whole life, it was not my lover's wife and children who stayed by my side in the end, but the eunuch who came and went as soon as I called him. 33
That's good! That's good! It's better than the rebel kings of Shang!
It's just that I don't know how the Danqing iron pen describes itself in the history books thousands of years later?
Incompetent?
I guess there won't be any good words!
That's it! That's it! Is the king still arrogant and lascivious, jealous and resentful? The widow is better than him! It's just that I don't know who these thousands of miles belong to after all? It's good for anyone, as long as you don't return to the tyrannical Qin who destroyed my society!
That edict should have been sent to Handan!
Thinking about King Zhao's shocked expression when he saw the edict, and King Qin's righteous indignation after hearing it, King Zhou wanted to laugh. This may be the only thing that King Zhou Yu has been in charge of in his life!
"Although King Zhao is not a good thing, I can see Qin and Zhao dog-eat-dog, and the widow is worthy of the ancestors and ancestors!" King Zhou Yu thought secretly.
A click interrupted King Zhou's fantasy, and the huge palace finally stopped watching the attack of the fierce fire, and the wooden beams and pillars finally burst with crackling flames. Immediately afterwards, the mortise and tenon structure, which embodies the painstaking efforts of countless craftsmen, gradually broke off under the bursting of the beams and columns, and the heavy roof ridge collapsed violently and overwhelmingly.
King Zhou was buried in the ruins before he even had time to shout, and the dust raised by the collapse of the main hall even extinguished many of the flames around him, but then the flames continued to burn along the collapsed wood, burning even more vigorously.
Later history records that in 259 BC, the fifty-sixth year of King Zhou Xun, in the autumn, when Zhao went north to destroy Hu, Qin sent more than 250,000 troops to destroy Zhou.
In the middle of October, more than 30 cities of the Lianke Zhou Dynasty, 250,000 troops joined the Luodu of the Zhou Dynasty, attacked it fiercely, and then took it, and the king of Zhou Xun set himself on fire in the palace.
The Zhou Dynasty fell at the age of 787!
With the death of the palace hall, the resistance of the Zhou army to the Qin army in the Zhou Wangji gradually came to an end.
At dusk, the Qin army finally wiped out almost all the remnants of the enemy in Zhou Wangji. It's just that such a result is obviously not satisfactory to Wang Di. Because of the almost frantic counterattack and organization of the remnants of the enemy, although the Qin army had an army of 250,000, it was never able to break through the key node, let alone put out the fire in the palace of King Zhou in time.
After the huge flames engulfed the main hall of the Zhou Dynasty, they immediately spread to the surrounding palaces along the wind, and the royal family, eunuchs, and palace maids of the Zhou Dynasty had already fled for their lives with thin softness, and no one went to rescue them at all.
As a result, the 800-year-old palace of the king of Zhou, with hundreds of houses stretching endlessly, seemed to be unwilling to accept the occupation of the violent Qin, and at the moment before the Qin army stepped into it, it seemed to cut itself off, and the king who followed him turned into ashes together.
What a strong palace, what a strong dynasty!
Outside the palace, the fierce street fighting finally ended as the fire gradually went out. It's just that by the end of the street fighting, the originally prosperous Luodu was already full of broken walls and bloodstains.
Looking at the mess in this place, it was really difficult for Wang Di, as the chief general of the Qin army, to be happy.
The soldiers who went to search the palace brought back bad news again: the few silk silks and gold, silver and jade items left in the Zhou Dynasty's treasury and palace were either distributed to the defenders of the city before the war, or destroyed in the fire, and the legendary 800-year-old Zhou Dynasty Secret Treasure did not even have a ghost.
Even the grain, grass and ordnance that the Qin army hoped for the most, there was not much left.
This is not the credit of the fire, but the fact that the armor of the Zhou Dynasty has not been repaired for many years, and the natural grain, grass and ordnance are scarce. Even the few grains, grass and ordnance when defending the city were improvised.
Immediately afterwards, the troops responsible for pursuing the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty also brought back bad news: just as they were about to catch up with their princes, the vanguard of the alliance army suddenly appeared, welcoming the people of the Zhou Dynasty as if they were in the army.
The Luodu that he had worked so hard to defeat had become a scorched earth, not to mention grain, grass, ordnance and materials, and even the King of Zhou and his clan had not been able to catch it, which was obviously a little unacceptable to Wang Di.
It can be said that this raid on the Zhou Dynasty was not very successful.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the front-line commander's rebellion, but the Qin court's determination and degree of resistance to the Zhou people were miscalculated.
It's just that it's come to this point, and it's useless to think about it.
Fortunately, more than 30 cities of Zhou Wangji, including Luo, are still in the hands of the Qin army, as long as the group of coalition troops who are as annoying as flies are driven away, the victory still belongs to the Zhao State.
"Good time!" Hearing the arrival of the coalition forces, Wang Yi immediately roared angrily.
The loss of troops and the defeat of the generals, but the victory with little gain is in anger, but he meets the vanguard of the coalition who wants to pick up the bargain.
Can this king endure it?
Some people died, but not completely......