Fengji learned that Yingdu was in danger, and immediately raised an army to return to the army to rescue. It's a pity that Wu Zixu also knew the news, and immediately went to intercept it.

Wu Zixu sent people to shout, 'Yingdu has been broken, and the king of Chu is dead.'

The Chu army was shocked, and the Huai army took the opportunity to attack. Fengji was in a hurry to withdraw the army, and the generals had no fighting spirit, and the Chu army was crushed for thirty miles.

Fengji was frightened, did not dare to fight again, led the army to retreat, Wu Zixu immediately led the army straight into Yingdu, where he passed, the Chu army looked at the wind and surrendered.

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Qingji led the army to hide five miles west of Yingdu, and soon there were nobles in Yingdu who fled from the city, and Qingji did not care about these nobles, most of these nobles were small nobles.

After waiting for about two or three hours, suddenly a procession of several hundred men rushed westward, among whom there were many soldiers, more than two hundred men, and these men escorted three chariots to the west.

The spy who had been keeping an eye on the road suddenly got up to observe, and after a while, he seemed to have confirmed the identity of that person, and immediately said to Qingji: "General, it is the king of Chu, although he has changed his clothes and car, he has seen his appearance, and it is the king of Chu who is driving in the middle car!"

Hearing this, Qingji instantly came to his senses, put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Have you seen clearly?"

"See clearly, the lowly is willing to pledge with his life!" This spy is one of the secret guards buried by Huai in Chu State, and he is also a few people who have seen the face of the King of Chu, because he was specially sent to help, in order to capture the King of Chu.

"Okay, catch the King of Chu this time, count your head work!" Qingji said directly.

Seeing that the king of Chu's car had entered the encirclement, suddenly the war drums sounded, and the ambush soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed out in an instant.

Qingji took the lead, holding Changge in his hand and shouting loudly, "King Xiongju of Chu, Huai Guoqing has been waiting here for a long time!"

When the king of Chu heard the sound of war drums, he immediately understood that the situation was not good, and hurriedly asked the guards to turn around and flee, but Qingji laid a trap just to wait for him to come, how could he let the duck fly with a beak?

The three thousand vine armor army rushed forward quickly, and the guards of the king of Chu drew their swords to resist, wanting to escort the king of Chu to break out of the encirclement.

It's a pity that in the face of the elite rattan armor army of Huai State, even if the guards of the King of Chu are doubled, it is in vain.

I saw that the vine armor army was in battle with three arrows, and the rain of arrows fell into the convoy. Dozens of guards were shot down in an instant, and then the vine armor army charged, and the guards of the king of Chu fought hard to resist, but they were also easily surrounded and killed by the vine armor army.

Looking at the guards who kept dying, it was only a quarter of an hour, and there were only thirty or forty people left in the guards of the King of Chu. Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Qingji immediately said, "King Xiongju of Chu, you have no way out, surrender will save you from death!"

Xiong Ju looked at the dozens of guards left beside him, sighed in his heart, and then shouted at Qingji: "Xiong Ju is here, this time the widow is defeated, but the Chu people will not give in, others can surrender, but the widow is the king, how can he surrender and steal his life?"

After speaking, he pulled out the sword at his waist and killed himself.

Seeing the King of Chu kill himself, although Qingji regretted it, he didn't stop it. After the death of the king of Chu, the remaining guards also surrendered, except for the king of Chu, the other two chariots were driven by his wife and one of his sons.

Qingji did not embarrass them, but ordered someone to take Xiongju's body and return to the barracks, while he continued to block the fleeing nobles here. It's just that Qingji's siege of the King of Chu has been exposed, and many nobles have detoured and left from other places. And the clan of Chu was even more scattered, scattering and fleeing.

Sun Wu learned that Xiongju, the king of Chu, was dead, and immediately ordered a large army to attack the city. Although Qu Min was determined, actively prepared for defense, and recruited the people to defend the city, but under the general trend, it was just a mantis arm blocking the car.

At this time, the Chu army had long been beaten by the Huai army, and even if Qu Min took out money and food to boost morale, recruit strong men, and lead by example, it would be useless. What's more, the king of Chu and those nobles fled, and the people knew very well.

Even the king of Chu and the nobles fled for their lives, did they defend the city and send them to death? Therefore, the morale of the Chu army was low.

Sun Wu led a large army to surround Sanque Yi and ordered people to shout that the king of Chu was dead. The defenders of Yingdu were already demoralized, and when they heard this shout, they were even more frightened, and they were directly attacked by the Huai army

Come.

"God bless Chu, this battle was defeated, and Yingdu accumulated for decades, and once it was dispersed." Qu Min watched Yingdu be broken, and his heart was infinitely sad.

The city of Yingdu was broken, Qu Min was unwilling to surrender, jumped off the tower, touched the ground with his head and died, Sun Wu ordered people to bury him.

The Huai army occupies Yingdu.

Sun Wu sent an army to take over the entire city, ordered people to patrol the city, and all the people in the city returned to their homes to arrest the rebels, and those who dared to take the opportunity to rob, kill women, kill people, and set fires were killed.

At the same time, military discipline is strictly restricted, fortunately, these Huai troops are elite, and the military discipline is very high on weekdays, plus there are vine armor army patrols, so there is no burning, killing and looting.

Then the palace of the king of Chu was closed, and all the money, children, and books in the palace were counted. The treasury of the state of Chu was also taken over, and soldiers were sent to deliver food from house to house to reassure people.

After the initial chaos, Yingdu quickly settled down. The people in the city were still very hostile to and fearful of the Huai army at first, but after Sun Wu released grain, although the people were still afraid, they were no longer hostile to the Huai army.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Wu ordered the people in the city to arrest those who oppressed the people and took advantage of the chaos to cause trouble, built a high platform in the city, and killed them after trial. Seeing that the aristocrats, bureaucrats and their minions who were arrogant and bullying the small people on weekdays were pulled out and beheaded and killed, the people of Yingdu rushed to tell each other, and the people's hearts were settled.

And Sun Wu also gave back the fields that those people had seized, or the people's property that had been plundered by the people. At the same time, the wealth of the nobles in the city was confiscated, and then it was distributed to the soldiers on the grounds of the edict of King Qi of Huai. The soldiers were rewarded, and their morale was higher.

The people of Yingdu began to accept the Huai army, and after the Huai army occupied Yingdu for three days, Yingdu gradually recovered, and the people in the city began to travel and trade.

When Wu Zixu led the army to come, he was surprised to see that Yingdu had restored some of its former prosperity.

After learning that Xiong Ju, the king of Chu, was dead, Wu Zixu was stunned for a long time, Sun Wu handed over Xiong Ju's body to Wu Zixu, and Wang Qi had promised that if the battle was won, Xiong Ju would be handed over to Wu Zixu for disposal.

Seeing Xiong Ju die, Wu Zixu felt hatred in his heart, and immediately abandoned his body in the wilderness, and no one was allowed to collect the body for him, and cut off the king's name, and called Chu Jihou.

The barren Yin is said to be excessive, and the cruelty is said to be unkind.

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The impact of the battle of Huai and Chu was huge, and the Huai State took the initiative to invade the Chu State for the first time, broke the Yingdu in a battle, captured and killed the Marquis of Chu, and the Chu State has declined since then. Wu Zixu successfully took revenge, and the marquis was violently corpsed in the wild.

This battle was a large-scale and far-reaching war in the late Spring and Autumn period, in which Huai defeated Chu in one fell swoop, knocking this powerful country since the Spring and Autumn Period into the dust, and at the same time making Sun Wu famous all over the world. -- General History of the World, History of China, Eastern Zhou Vol. 5

Huai attacked Chu, Chu was defeated, the deceased pillowed, committed suicide in mercy, and the Chu people made "National Mourning".