Seeing the defeat of the royal division, the remaining henchmen of the princely dynasty took the opportunity to incite the craftsmen to launch a rebellion. The instigator said: "It is impossible for Zhou Meng and Shan Qi to win, otherwise why would they have already escaped from the royal city?" They threw us here as a victim just to buy time to run a little further!

"Taking a step back, even if they win, will they really be able to keep their promises? Were you sincere when you swore an oath? Are they sincere? What they are forced to give you in times of trouble, who can guarantee that they will not be happily taken back in good times?

"The prince's dynasty is different, he always takes the initiative to take care of us, gives us work and money, just like the previous kings. Why should we help those who hate us and hurt those who love us? It will be too late for us to come forward! When he entered the city, instead of taking credit, we became traitors in his eyes! Since Zhou Meng is doomed to fail, let's help Zichao! ”

These words reached the hearts of the craftsmen, and they armed themselves against the Shan clan. Shan Mugong's son who stayed at home was named Shan Yang, a young man who had both courage and resourcefulness. In the face of the menacing thugs, he was not afraid or panicked, but organized the defense in an orderly manner. In this extraordinary period, all major families have stepped up their vigilance to deal with emergencies; In this way, the rebels behaved in a "disorderly attack".

Shan Yang had already built several high platforms in the courtyard, and the defenders occupied the commanding heights to shoot arrows at the attackers. Although these guys, who usually only face gold, stone, earth, wood, silk brocade, and silk brocade, do not lack courage, they do not know how to fight. They had only realized that they had forgotten their shields after many people had been killed or wounded. So some people went back to look for shields, while others began to break into houses and loot them. But when the men returned with their shields, they saw their companions fleeing in all directions. It turned out that the criminal deeds of the rebels infuriated the Chinese people, and many of them spontaneously rushed out of their homes to fight the rioters; Shan Yang was overjoyed and immediately led the clan armor to launch a counterattack.

The rebels fled into the palace and took up a corner. Shan Yang guarded the palace gate and forbade anyone to enter. Liu Wengong quickly arrived with an army. He entered the palace and went outside the building where the rebels were hiding, and threatened the rebels that if they did not surrender, he would drag them to the center of the city and burn them to death, as he had done with the rebels; If you surrender, you will be forgiven. Desperate, the rebels tied up the ringleaders and surrendered to Liu Wengong.

Wang Zichao learned that the craftsman's "uprising" was suppressed by Liu and Dan, so he had to retreat to Jingyi again.

The royal rebellion shocked the Chinese nations, and the Duke of Jin gathered the princes and asked them to make a plan to help King Zhou Mourning put down the rebellion. A few days later, an envoy from King Zhou came to the Jin Kingdom to complain.

Jin Qing Shitan and Zhisong were ordered to assemble the army, and ordered the Rong of Kyushu (the Rong people in the area of River and Luo) to follow the Jin army.

On the thirteenth day of the tenth month of winter, Ji Tan and Zhisong led the coalition army to send King Zhou Mourning into the royal city and garrisoned it outside the city. Shan Mugong and Liu Wengong led the royal division to attack Jingyi, and the prince fled east when he saw that the situation was not good, and the royal division pursued closely.

Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, the prince set up an ambush in a dangerous place in the suburbs (east of Jingyi), and the king was in high spirits, and he didn't want to be ambushed by the prince's court; Wang Shi was defeated, and Shan and Liu fled back in embarrassment. As a result, the prince followed the two and killed them again. Wang Shi fled into the city, and the rebels took advantage of the victory to attack, and defeated Kyushu Rong who was about to take over the city in Qiancheng.

On November 12, King Zhou Mourning, who had not lived a single day since he was made crown prince, died of exhaustion, but the culprit who did not let him live a good life was still full of vitality. God made Zhou Meng the king of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, as if it was to torture him.

The Zhou people decided to make the king's half-brother Wang Zi Kuang king. Wang Zilu was still in the military camp of the Jin Kingdom at that time, and Shan Mugong and the other doctors hurried to the Jin camp with the clothes of the ceremonial officials and the Son of Heaven, and invited him to the home of the Dafuzi Lu clan who happened to be nearby, where a coronation ceremony was held for him.

On November 16, the prince succeeded to the throne as King Jing of Zhou.

The Jin people were very dissatisfied with the current situation of the war, because the Jin army not only did not achieve any results, but lost a large number of auxiliary troops. Ji Tan also felt a great deal of pressure, and he was determined to occupy Qiancheng and Jingyi before the New Year.

Through investigation and research, it was found that all the failures encountered in the past were caused by the lack of division of labor and cooperation. So he set up a special body responsible for the transmission of orders, and strengthened the cooperation between the ministries.

After doing the above, the Jin army began to clear the perimeter of Qiancheng, move the nearby residents, and cut off the road between Qiancheng and Beijing, thus isolating the enemy.

In leap December, the Jin army crossed Yishui to besiege Qiancheng. Due to the scarcity of rain that year, the water table continued to drop, and many wells in the city dried up in the winter. Although the former city was close to Yishui, the people still suffered from a lack of water, so they quickly surrendered.

The former city fell, and Gyeong-eup could not survive alone. Before the war, Shan Mugong led his army to attack Beijing, and he said to the soldiers before the war: "I have always felt very ashamed: because in the past six months, the king has failed in addition to failure, and the mourning king has also died of anxiety; If it weren't for the Jin people coming to help, we would have been driven into Taihang Mountain.

"Now the Jin division has occupied the former city, but the victor is the Jin army after all, not us. If we are a bunch of cowards who will be ridiculed and despised by the princes, what qualifications do we have to be called 'kings'? Now, Jingyi is in front of us, and I have declined the help of the Jin people—Wang Shi needs a chance to prove his strength. If we can't conquer Jingyi, I'll die under the city, so you can do it yourself! ”

Shan Mugong's words inspired everyone, and when attacking, everyone fought bravely, and the generals braved the rain of arrows and stones to stand at the forefront to direct the battle. The king's division attacked the city day and night, and finally dug down the wall of the southwest city of Jingyi, and the soldiers poured in like a tidal wave, and soon occupied the whole city.

Wang Zichao desperately broke through, tore a gap in the royal division's front, and fled eastward.

In the first month of the spring of the following year, the prince fled to the suburbs, where he had set up an ambush to defeat Shan Mugong last year. Shan Mugong and Liu Wengong pursued with their commanders, and the Jin army followed. The prince repeated his old trick and tried to ambush the king again. But this time, the royal division advanced along the two roads at the same time, and the prince dynasty covered one way, but the other army broke through the defense line, and as a result, many people were lost. He reluctantly fled into the city (that is, the fiefdom of the city), and the king and the Jin division who followed him joined forces and surrounded the city. The people of the city did not want to die for the prince, so they opened the city gate and rushed out of the city that night and threw themselves into the camp of the coalition army. The prince then entered the city, but the prince and some important figures were gone.

The king took advantage of the victory and attacked again, recovering several cities. Shan Mugong thought that the remnants of the enemy were no longer enough to cause trouble, and that Wang Shi could defeat the enemy independently, so he thanked the Jin Shi and invited them to return to China.

In fact, it has only just begun.