Chapter 578: The Coming Era of Troubled Times (4)
Shen Tujia's men and horses are not the only troops marching towards the Chu realm, after all, they are attacking the Chu front army, and there are at least 60,000 friendly troops within a radius of ten miles who are also marching towards the Chu realm.
Not everyone knows the details of what happened at the location of the alliance, for example, Shen Tujia only knew that he had launched a hunt with Qi Yan, and annihilated Qi Yan's hunting army at a small price, and captured Tian Rong, the chief general of Qi State, and Zang Tu of Yan State, but he didn't know anything else.
A good alliance has become a hunting, and the "protection treaty" with Wei Han was signed and declared to the world, but why did he suddenly attack the state of Chu?
Later, there was news back, it turned out that Lu Zhe and Xiong Xin were both assassinated by the Xiang family, and the two monarchs naturally disintegrated the assassination without danger, but instead wiped out the seven members of the Xiang family and their henchmen.
Xiang was so mad that he assassinated his own king? It doesn't seem to be impossible, after all, the Xiang family is a powerful minister of the Chu State and is known to the world. Powerful ministers, they must not take the king seriously to dare to be a powerful minister, so it is understandable that the king who has the courage to assassinate himself.
However, however, it was not enough for the Xiang clan to assassinate the king whom he had sworn allegiance, and even Lu Zhe dared to assassinate him...... Unforgivable, unforgivable!!
Lu Zhe and Xiong Xin jointly announced to the world that Xiang's assassination did not succeed but was exterminated, and Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao in the countries naturally didn't believe it, but Lu Zhe's rule and Chu Jing were convinced of this, and whoever made Xiang was the storage of the minister.
In addition, although Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao did not believe that the Xiang clan would assassinate in an army of hundreds of thousands, but from the king to the courtiers were all silent, after all, as long as it was a superior person, he was jealous of the ministers, and the Xiang clan was the minister of the Chu State. Besides, Lu Zhe can't be offended now. Not to mention that he is also a king figure immediately, and the nations are still counting on the purchase of supplies nearby to reduce the cost of this war.
The content of the announcement to the world is not so simple, but Qin, Qi, Yan, and Zhao are destined to not be able to get the complete content of the announcement in a short time, only Lu Zhe's rule and Chu Jing have a gallop to send the list to the counties and counties.
It turned out that the king of Chu had decided to make permanent peace with Lu Zhe, and in order to achieve the goal of "the end of the war", the two families would marry, the Chu royal family would become a family with Lu Zhe, and the two counties of Chu would belong to Lu Zhe as a dowry, and the Lin'er born after the marriage of Lu Zhe and the bear girl of the Chu royal family would be crowned the king of Chu.
Marriage merges, the two countries become one country, and the king of Chu will live in Nanling for a long time and become the Duke of Anle. Does this qiē look like child's play?
So the "end of the war" peace? I don't know how many people showed a stunned expression when they heard such news. I don't know how many people are stunned, what is in their hearts.
The whole life under the rule of Lu Zhe naturally thought that this was a great victory derived from diplomatic relations, and it was simply too cost-effective to be able to peacefully merge the two counties just by marrying the daughter of the Chu royal family.
What do the people of Huizhang County and Huiji County think? People with high status are too aware of the gap between Chu and Lu Shizhe, if the two sides really break out a war to destroy the country, Chu can give Lu Shizhe a heavy price, but it will definitely not be spared, it will definitely be a situation where the whole territory is mourning in a river of blood. The best part? Xiong Xin, the sheep herding baby, has no eloquence. has always been suppressed too badly by the Xiang family, and at the same time, he has no ambition and no ability to keep the Chu State.
Without the corresponding ability, to continue the survival of the ancestors in a peaceful way, who can say that Xiong Xin's choice is wrong? It's better than killing a river of blood, and no one from the ancestors will worship incense during the New Year's Festival!
The bear girl of the Chu royal family married Lu Shizhe. In the future, the child will become the king of Chu, which is a great stability for some people who are unwilling to the demise of the Chu State and understand that the destruction is inevitable. Wang, there must always be a feudal country, and if there is a king of Chu, there will be a state of Chu. The state of Chu just continued in another way, and it didn't really disappear.
There are those who accept reality, then of course there will be those who do not accept reality. After learning that the patriarch Xiang Liang and several important family members had been killed, the Xiang clan in the local area simply stood up neatly, shouting "The king of Chu has no way, colluding with outsiders to destroy the state of Chu", they are national thieves, and they are national thieves who must be punished by heaven.
The Xiang family is worthy of being the minister of the Chu State, the so-called minister is not so easy to be, it must be to recruit enough minions and eagle dogs, not only to be in a high position in the center, but also to be intertwined with local forces in the locality, otherwise how can this minister be a powerful minister?
The Xiang clan is a big family, and there are not enough young and strong people in the clan to have 8,000 children, but it is a pity that there are too many children and soldiers to follow to Chen County, and the children who can organize into soldiers are less than a year. At the same time, most of Xiang's army also went out, and shouted "Princely General Xiangning has a kind of" to attract ambitious and ambitious people, and the people who attracted it could not organize an army of 100,000 in addition to the original henchmen.
The prince and general Xiangning can be regarded as being shouted out, but unfortunately the person who shouted this sentence is Xiang Yan's sixth son, Xiang Zhu, the Xiang clan is a big clan in the south, how can the demagogic power of shouting such words be comparable to that of a commoner Bai Ding? Look at who are close to the past, either clans or wealthy families, so that any prominent control positions are occupied by those high-ranking disciples, and the civilian Bai Ding used to be the life of a big soldier, and the attraction was infinitely reduced.
The Xiang clan called itself an uprising, but as long as Lu Zhe and Xiong Xin did not really merge one day, Xiong Xin had a righteous name, and he immediately spread the entire territory of the two counties and defined the Xiang clan as a rebel.
There is Xiong Xin who defines the Xiang clan as a rebel, and there is a large army of Lu Zhejun under the banner of revenge and shame, and the Xiang rebels, who were originally gathered to more than 100,000 people, have been deserting in half a month, and the army of nearly 100,000 people has been continuously reduced, until a local wealthy clan has fought with the Xiang rebels under the banner of "fighting rebellion and defending royal power", and the army under the command of the Xiang clan has run less than 50,000.
There is the first Hao clan to play the banner of "fighting rebellion and defending royal power", then there will be a second, third and fourth ......, the Xiang rebels originally occupied twenty-three counties, but in just half a month they lost the control of fourteen counties, and some of the Hao clans who originally took refuge in the Xiang clan also began to rebel, just a month Xiang can only continue to shrink the force, Lu Zhe's army has not yet entered the territory of Huiji County, and the Xiang clan is only left to occupy Wu County in the end.
In fact, no one is stupid, if the Xiang clan can get up smoothly, it will be okay, everyone may be able to fight for a better future, but the Xiang clan is obviously unable to compete with Lu Zhe, who has eight counties and an army of millions, do you want to follow the path of the Xiang clan who cannot avoid extinction to go to the black?
Besides, Xiong Xin, who is the king of Chu, is no longer playing, what kind of "final war" peace to be An Le Gong, they can't fight for a better future with the Xiang family, but how can they eat under Lu Zhe's hands?
It takes a lot of perseverance to know that you can't do it, but more often than not, you are forced to go to the black with your neck stalked, and who wants to die when you have another choice.
Everywhere Lu Zhejun went, the city gate was wide open, and the local wang clan took out food to treat and condole, so that the so-called attack on Chu became a receiving city everywhere, and Lu Zhe's soldiers were welcomed by the citizens after entering the city, what is going on!
After more than ten days of marching in the rain, when the troops arrived at Huiji Wucheng, they were greeted by the smiles of the local county commander, and the 2,000 Wucheng defenders were also lined up early to beat the cheerful rhythm of drums.
After sending 500 advanced processes and making sure that there was no ambush, the second batch of 1,500 soldiers entered the city to take over the city defense, and Shen Tujia knew that another credit had been made.
When Shen Tujia led the remaining 3,000 soldiers into the city, Wucheng's Qianshou stood on both sides of the road and cheered, and from some whispers, he understood that there were already people who had come to Wucheng a long time ago, not only negotiated the terms with the officials and defenders, but also spread about what life the Qianshou would live under the rule of Lu Zhe.
After the surrender, the civilian officials will remain in their positions as officials, and the defenders will also be reorganized as a member of Lü Zhe's army according to the situation, and the head of the Qianshou, who will be able to enjoy the tax exemption and government orders that Lü Zhe should have under his rule. In other words, who will be stupid to resist if they are not cornered? Besides, Xiong Xin, the king of Chu, went to be An Le Gong by himself, and they were chaste martyrs...... Ah no, I don't have to be a loyal minister!
It is similar to playing, the attacking Chu front army did not encounter decent resistance, and took over city by city, and it was only within thirty miles of Wu County, where the Xiang rebels were entrenched, that they encountered a kind of battle.
Several friendly forces in front had already fought with the Xiang rebels, but Shen Tujia's army was ordered to stay in Wucheng, and the arrangement given in the military order was to wait for a team in the local area, and the leader of that team was called Zhong Liyi, and they would escort a very important person to Wucheng.
Shen Tujia didn't know who Zhong Liyi was, but he was curious about what kind of person would be someone Ji Bu thought was very important, and he actually needed a force of 5,000 men to carry out a special escort when attacking the Xiang clan and entrenched in Wu County.
The so-called important person is a little girl who is only eight or nine years old, what is the surname and name Shen Tujia will not be stupid to ask. However, he was very surprised when he saw Zhong Liyi, because Zhong Liyi looked tall and burly, not to mention, he also had a temperament that only a battlefield warrior would have.
With such a battlefield warrior as his bodyguard, and Ji Bu, the chief general of the Chu Front Army, personally wrote that the little girl was very important, Shen Tujia did not dare to be careless at all, and it was not until the new military order was issued that he knew the identity of the little girl from Zhong Liyi, who could talk...... (To be continued......)