Yin Wengong divided the army into two groups, one attacked Shigu as originally planned, and the other made a detour back to the rear of the defenders. On the 15th, the two armies fought a big battle at Shigu, and Liu Wen's army relied on the danger to block the rebel attack, but was attacked by the strange soldiers behind them; Liu Wengong's army suffered from the enemy on its back and was crushed for several miles. Yin Wengong occupied the corpse city in one go, and repaired it in the city for another day.

Yin Wengong continued to move forward and finally came to the outskirts of Liucheng. Seeing that Liu Cheng's defense was very strong, he felt that he could not capture the city with his own forces, so he set up camp in a place with his back to the high ground, and asked the prince for more troops.

In mid-June, reinforcements set out from the royal city. However, due to the heavy rain for several days, the roads were impassable, and the bad weather hindered the movement of reinforcements. Reinforcements did not pass through the muddy Shigu until July 15.

On July 17, seeing that the defense was hopeless, Liu Wengong escaped from Liu Cheng with King Zhou Jing for the third time. The rebels then entered the city, and Yin Wengong had nowhere to vent his anger, so he even set fire to Liu Cheng and burned it to ruins.

King Jing of Zhou fled all the way south and finally entered the city of Slip (which was destroyed by Qin and later owned by Zheng State). At that time, the Jin reinforcements led by Zhisong and Zhao Ying also arrived. Zhizhen sent the doctor to lead the troops to defend the Longmen Pass, and ordered Zhao Ying to defend the slippery city.

Liu Wengong said at a military meeting between the Zhou and Jin people: "The rebellion has been going on for four whole years! If the rebels are not destroyed, they will not be defeated. Zhao Meng (Zhao Ying) once said: 'Next year will be the king.' But the 'next year' has passed, but the king is getting farther and farther away from the royal city, and the prince's dynasty is becoming more and more arrogant. The rebellion of the royal family not only disturbed the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, but also became a trouble for the alliance lord and a heart disease for the princes of the world.

"Although the rebels have won a great victory, they have suffered a lot of losses, and they are all physically and mentally exhausted. Some royal doctors were only forced to side with the princes, and they were still loyal to the Son of Heaven in their hearts. If we march into the royal city in a big way, they will inevitably turn against us. Therefore, I ask the alliance leader to help the Heavenly King put down the rebellion as soon as possible, so as to maintain the royal family's heavenly prestige and maintain the hegemony of the great powers. ”

Zhisong and Zhao Ying agreed, both of whom were overwhelmed by the endless turmoil within the royal family, so Zhao Ying came to Xinzheng and asked Zheng Dinggong for a teacher.

In mid-September, he led Zheng's army to Huacheng. On October 21, the combined armies of Wang Shi, Jin, and Zheng set out from Huacheng and crossed Luoshui to the north, and the army was divided into two routes. At the beginning of November, Wang Shi and Zheng Jun recovered the corpse clan and placed King Jing of Zhou in the city; After fierce battles, the Jin army captured Gongcheng, the feudal province of the Prince Dynasty.

At that time, Duke Yin Wen commanded military operations outside the royal city and summoned Duke Jian to manage the city's government affairs in the city. Seeing that the prince was gone, Zhao Jian Gong transformed into an Infernal One lurking beside the rebels. Taking advantage of the chaotic situation, he led the clan to drive the prince and his henchmen out of the royal city; Most of the princes fled to the state of Chu, and the traitors took with them a large number of classics of the Eastern Zhou as they fled.

At the end of November, King Jing of Zhou entered Chengzhou. Zhisong left an army to protect King Zhou Jing's safety, and then led the army back to China. In December, King Jing of Zhou finally returned to the royal city after a three-year absence, and the four-year rebellion of the prince's dynasty came to an end temporarily.

The prince dynasty in Yingdu was still unwilling, he always believed that he was the orthodox royal family, and the prince was just the "King of Zhou" who was pushed up by another Yu Gonghan (see the relevant content of King Zhou Ping's accession to the throne and eastward migration), which was an outright puppet regime; And the princes of the world are traitors and careerists who do not distinguish between good and evil.

The prince then wrote a long letter with the same content to all the princes who participated in the alliance of the Yellow Fathers except the Jin Kingdom, which read: "In those days, King Wu cut Yin Shang, became the king of peace and tranquility, and King Kang rested to support the people's livelihood. The feudal brothers of the Zhou kings in the past dynasties thought that they were used as a royal barrier. The first kings also said: 'I will not exclusively enjoy the merits of King Wen and King Wu, so the feudal princes. If I become extravagant and depraved to the point of causing trouble, you will all point out my faults and revive the royal family. ’

"When King Zhou Yi was in power, the king of heaven was suffering from a stubborn illness, and all the princes of the world did not fail to pray for the king, hoping that he would be cured as soon as possible. After King Li ascended the throne, King Li was tyrannical and the people could bear it, so he exiled him to Yiyi, Zhou, and the Republic. King Xuan had great ambitions, and Zhou and Zhaocai assisted him on the throne. When King You was in power, God abandoned the Western Zhou Dynasty, making King You faint and extravagant, and finally led to the destruction of the country and his death. Zhou brought the king to self-reliance, and the Marquis of Jin Wen corrected the royal family with the power of his brothers, and finally destroyed the king.

"During the period of King Hui, the heavens once again sent disaster to Zhou, causing the prince to have a bad heart, and when King Xiang was in charge, he was added to the prince's body, forcing King Hui and King Xiang to flee the royal capital and take refuge. Thanks to Jin and Zheng's help, the royal rebellion was quelled. This is how the brother can obey the command of the previous king.

"In the sixth year of King Zhou Ding (the eighth year of Lu Xuangong), a monster descended from Qin and said: 'There will be a baby born with a beard in the royal family, and he and the king behind him can calm Sheji. But the descendants will have troubles for the royal family, and the princes will not distinguish between right and wrong, so as to bring about the rebellion. 'After the second, King Ling of Zhou was born with a beard; King Ling and King Jing both got a good death. Before King Jing died, he had already prepared an edict to depose the prince and change me to the crown prince, but he didn't have time to issue it.

"And Shan Qi (Shan Mugong) and Liu Di (Liu Wengong), knowing the truth, but using selfish intentions to cause trouble to the world, and acting arbitrarily, saying: 'The first king has been capricious, who knows what he thought at that time? It's okay for us to do what we want, who would dare to oppose us? The two led the unscrupulous to rebel against the king's order, assisted the prince to ascend the throne, and established a puppet regime. Traitors are insatiable in plunder, greedy in excesses, blasphemous in spirits, contempt for criminal law, commit treachery in covenants, and slander the kings of their predecessors.

"As the legitimate successor of King Jing, Bugu had to rise up against Wang Zimeng in order to defend the "Zhou Li", the king's order and the righteousness of the world. Heaven finally opened his eyes, and the prince soon cut himself off from the world. However, Shan and Liu still acted against the sky and made the prince the son of heaven. Just when the prince was about to suffer a complete defeat, the Jin people were born. The Jin people have no way, assist the traitors, act recklessly and uncontrollably, save the prince from a desperate situation, and make Bugu go to the land of Jing Barbarians, and I don't know where to live.

"If one or two brothers and nephews among the princes obey the way of heaven, oppose the cunning, obey the orders of the king, avoid the punishment of heaven, and worry about the trouble, then they are willing to share the world with their brothers and nephews! Ponder, sovereigns! In those days, the king had a decree and said, 'If the queen has no concubines, she should be older, and if she is of the same age, she will be more virtuous, and if she is of equal virtue, she will do divination.' It's an ancient system. The king of heaven does not appoint a son of personal love, and the minister should also have a public heart. Empress Mu (Queen Jing of Zhou) and the crown prince died early, and Zhou Li should not be established, and Shan and Liu were young; That's why they deserve to be destroyed! ”

The princes did not take the letter seriously, but simply handed it over to the archives of the archive. No one wants to throw himself under the banner of "justice" with just one letter, not to mention that the people of the world have long regarded him as a usurper.

Dr. Lu Min Zima said: "Words are used to perform rituals. The prince sabotaged King Jing's order, and did not get the support of the Jin State, so he had no ambition and acted perversely, just fighting for the throne and doing all the rude things. What is the use of beautiful words? ”