117. The Great War begins

After all, Huang Feihu was empty-handed, and he was afraid that there was some trouble for these Praetorian Guards, and suddenly heard a vicious wind coming, and he flashed to the left, but he did not all dodge, his right arm was stabbed by a spear, and the bones were injured, and his right arm hurt, but it also made him sober up, and saw that the Praetorian Guards around him attacked, Feihu was startled, knowing that there was a king who was no less than himself here, and he did not have a weapon to take advantage of, and now he was injured, I am afraid that he was not their opponent, seeing a guard stabbing him, Feihu dodged sideways, reached out and grabbed the spear, raised his foot and kicked on the guard, snatched the spear, took a sharp breath, and the gun swept away, driving the surrounding soldiers away, and jumping out of the encirclement by taking advantage of the situation, glared at the king angrily, and shouted: "Faint king, he said that he will repay the humiliation today." With that, he turned and galloped out, and the Praetorian Guards around him hurriedly chased him out.

After a while, the Praetorian Guards also returned, but they did not come in, but only shouted outside the door: "Your Majesty, King Wucheng has escaped from the palace and does not know where to go." ”

However, after King Wen hired Jiang Ziya as prime minister, he handed over all the things of Xiqi to Jiang Ziya to deal with, and asked his second son Ji Fa to assist him.

It turned out that since the death of his eldest son Bo Yi Kao, Ji Fa, who is the second son of his relatives, has gradually received Ji Chang's attention, coupled with Ji Chang's old age and decay, his mind is depleted, so he put the burden of Xiqi's rule on Ji Fa's body. And with the joint efforts of Jiang Ziya and Ji Fa, Xiqi Dazhi can be said to be a road that does not leave a stone and does not close the door at night, and everyone praises it.

After everything was on the right track in Xiqi, Jiang Ziya began to prepare for the future war, after all, if the Shang Dynasty's corrupt rule was to be overthrown, it was necessary to have enough force to rely on. Ji Chang was not very dissatisfied with this, his eldest son Bo Yi Kao died at the hands of King Xu, and he was forced to eat the flesh of his son, such a big hatred, even Ji Chang, a good old man, was also furious. And who in the world will not sit on the throne above the ten thousand?

Everything in Xiqi was already going on in an orderly manner, but just when everything in Xiqi was ready to start a war, Ji Chang fell ill. As the saying goes: Illness comes like a mountain, but Ji Chang never had a chance to get better this time. When Ji Chang was dying, he passed the throne to Ji Fa, and ordered Ji Fa to worship Jiang Ziya as his father, and treat Jiang Ziya as if he were himself.

Ji Fa cried and obeyed his fate, and worshiped Jiang Ziya as his father. Shortly thereafter, Ji Chang died of illness, Ji Fa ascended the throne, proclaimed himself King Wu, and posthumously crowned his father Ji Chang as King Wen. Xiqi was in a great mourning, but he did not send troops to attack merchants, but only recuperated.

However, it was said that at this time, the imperial song was heard by the Taishi Zhong and returned to the court, which made the government suddenly clear, and the ministers also seemed to see the hope of Yin Shang's revival again. It's a pity that it backfired, and just when the government was improving, the wife of King Wucheng was passed on.

King Wu Cheng scolded all the way out of the palace, and there were dozens of Praetorian Guards chasing and killing him behind him, even people with a little heart will find out that things are unusual, after all, who is King Wu Cheng? The brother of King Wu and the brother-in-law of King Wu are being chased and killed by the Janissaries for no reason, which is really incomprehensible.

The matter was soon spread out, for a while, the whole court song knew about this matter, the whole country was compiled by King Wucheng, and the portrait of King Wucheng was posted everywhere, and the king of Wu Cheng gave a death order, not allowing King Wu Cheng to leave the country one step, no matter which pass, after seeing King Wu Cheng, he was killed on the spot, and at the same time ordered all the princes of all parties not to take in King Wu Cheng or advise him, otherwise they would be regarded as traitors.

For a while, King Wucheng didn't know where to flee, he was careful along the way, and when he heard that Xiqi Ji Chang was recruiting talents, King Wucheng thought about it, he knew that even though Ji Chang was a kind person, it didn't necessarily mean that Ji Chang would not oppose King Xu? King Wu killed his son, if he went here, under some persuasion, maybe Ji Chang would also turn against Yin Shang, and then take revenge, which is also fast.

And just after Huang Feihu arrived in Xiqi, Jiang Ziya discussed with Ji Fa, and officially raised the banner of anti-business, established the country as Zhou, and Ji Fa as King Wu of Zhou. worship Jiang Ziya as Shang's father and prime minister, Feng Huang Feihu as the king of Wucheng to lead the world's soldiers and horses, and all other officials at all levels have been promoted to one level.

After learning of Xiqi's rebellion, the king of Xuan was immediately furious, and immediately sent an edict to the world, saying: Ji Fa is a minister, the son of heaven is the king, and the next is for disloyalty; the great rebellion disgraces the ancestors and the virtuous family, and traps the ancestors in the name of rebellion for all generations, which is unfilial; it is unkind to launch a rebellion and abolish the new policy, causing the people to suffer hardships and fall into misery again; it is unkind to disregard the general righteousness and achieve the goal, and do not hesitate to collude with the nobles, traitors and thieves. Such a disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous person, what face do they have to accuse the king, and they should be rejected by the whole world!

This text was written by the king himself, and it caused a shock not only in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Great Shang, but also in the whole world. Under this article, Ji Fa's reputation for disloyalty, filial piety, and unkindness suddenly spread all over the world. After that, the king called on the conscientious princes from all sides to respond to the king's order, raise troops to Qin Wang, and get rid of the control of the traitor Ji Fa. Even if there has been a last resort in the past, the Son of Heaven will not be guilty of the past, and he will reward meritorious deeds.

Subsequently, the king ordered Wen Zhong, the Taishi who had just returned for a long time, to personally take command and lead an army of 300,000 to Xiqi.

Along the way, Wen Zhong's army was like a bamboo, almost did not encounter any obstacles, and the troops came to Xiqi City, the speed was so fast, it was jaw-dropping, and the good news on the song continued, so that the king was very satisfied, and it was rare to go to the court for a month, and the king had ordered the ministers of the court to prepare a celebration banquet, just waiting for Wen Zhong to return to the court.

It's a pity that the Great Shang army, which has been going smoothly, finally received a setback under Xiqi City.

Xiqi City is extremely strong, the city walls are high, the materials are sufficient, the weapons are excellent, even the fighting spirit of the army is also extremely high, coupled with the kindness of Ji Fa father and son for many years, the people in the city have supported, so, Xiqi Cheng will be a moat to block the Dashang army. And Jiang Ziya, the commander of the Western Zhou Dynasty, also seemed to have an iron heart, no matter how Wen Zhong provoked, he just couldn't hold out, and he cowered in the city like a turtle, and beheaded some dissenting generals and generals who wanted to lead troops out of the city to fight without authorization, so no one in Xiqi talked about the war in vain.

Wen Zhong saw Jiang Ziya use such a rogue move, and in desperation, he could only lead the troops to forcibly attack the city.

I have to say that Jiang Ziya's leading army is as steady as Mount Tai, and the entire Xiqi has exerted amazing combat power under his command, even a veteran like Wen Zhong who has been in battle for a long time is secretly admired. Under the Yin Shang army attacking the city in turn, Xiqi City was not damaged at all, and the city was covered with layers of corpses, even the Shang army camp was covered with scarred soldiers. And these results also made the merchant army, which had always been victorious in all battles, finally realize the strength of the enemy and put away its arrogance.

After these several sieges, Taishi also realized that this Xiqi is now indestructible and can not be broken by manpower, and wants to lure the enemy out of the city to fight, but Jiang Ziya, who is as cunning as a raccoon dog, will be easily fooled, and for a while, Taishi is also helpless, so he has to hang up the battle exemption card to fight again.

However, Jiang Ziya obviously not only has this means, as early as when the merchant army attacked, Jiang Ziya had already begun to lay out, among the land recovered by the merchant army again and again, Jiang Ziya secretly arranged a lot of chess pieces, these chess pieces gathered together, with the help of the familiar terrain to attack the grain road behind Wen Zhong, and repeatedly succeeded, so that Wen Zhong's front supply could not continue, and the rear was on fire.

Wen Zhong and the generals divided their troops to the rear to suppress the rebellion, and the two sides were like cunning foxes and diligent hunters in the rear, one scurrying around in the front, and the other following closely behind.

But that's not the biggest problem, the biggest crisis is food.

The drought for many years has emptied Chaoge and the granaries in various places, and there are still countless people waiting to be fed in all directions waiting for relief, and the little grain in Wen Zhong's hands is squeezed out of the mouths of the people bit by bit, and if the war is not ended, the Great Chamber of Commerce will really be in chaos! Wen Zhong thought to himself that maybe Jiang Ziya knew about his own situation before he adopted turtle tactics.

At this last moment, Wen Zhong finally made a decision, perhaps this is the decision he regrets the most in his life, that is, to invite his fellow sectarians to help him and break his iron wall with the art of immortals.

Wen Zhong first invited the outer disciples of the sect, the four saints of Jiulong Island, one surnamed Wang Mingmo, two surnamed Yang Mingsen, three surnamed Gao Mingyouqian, and four surnamed Li Mingxingba; these four people are the four generals of the Later Lingxiao Palace.

Before Shang and Zhou, the battles between the two sides were tightly confined to mortals in the world, even Wen Zhong and Jiang Ziya, who cultivated the truth, did not use the immortal method, but the entry of these four saints represented that the immortals were involved in the Shang and Zhou conquests in the world, and they were out of control from then on.

The participation of the four saints is indeed to greatly reduce the pressure on Wen Zhong's side, the impregnable Xiqi City is just a leaky house in the eyes of the four saints, full of flaws, under the joint attack of the four people, Xiqi is in chaos, Yang Jian, Jin Zha and others under the sect of the sect can't resist this momentum even if they can't resist this momentum, and finally the three generations of disciples of the sect Jin Zha, using the innate spirit treasure Dun Dragon Pile to fix the four saints one by one, and the disciples of the sect of the sect work together to kill the four.

Then Jiang Ziya was at the top of Qishan Mountain, blowing three strong winds, cold like the wind, and then the sky fell goose feather snow, at this time it was July autumn, how could the soldiers wearing single clothes and iron armor be able to withstand the cold cold, the three armies were frozen, Xiqi attacked under the leadership of Nangong and Wuji two generals, and the merchant army was caught off guard for thousands of miles, and the loss of the Taishi was strong, and finally stabilized the situation, but the merchant army suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers froze to death. Countless people died in battle, and the weather was cloudy, the wind was frozen, in this case, if you don't withdraw, you will die, and if you withdraw, you will be hunted down.