Frightened and enraged, he returned to the palace and ordered the arrest of Yao Li and his family. But to leave the country of Wu in the first place; In the end, only his wife was caught. As a result, the innocent woman was abandoned and burned, and she did not know until she died that she was only a victim of a conspiracy.

He wanted to flee to the country to join Qingji. Faced with the arrival of his own teacher and the first swordsman of the Wu Kingdom, Qingji did not show joyful emotions. After listening to the cry of leaving, he just lightly asked the other party to stay first, and then sent spies back to China to investigate the situation. The spy soon returned, and he told Qingji that he had indeed done the crazy act of assassinating the king, and all the information he said had been verified.

Qingji showed a smile at this time, he went to visit Yaoli in person, and asked two extremely sharp questions about Yaoli: "Why did the master suddenly remember to assassinate He Lu after two years?" Why didn't you notify your family to flee before the assassination? ”

Yaoli replied: "After the first king was assassinated, I returned home, and lived a stable life for two years. Later, when he asked me to be reinstated, I refused him, considering the danger of the court. He was so angry that he ordered me to assassinate my son, or else he would kill me. I can't survive! Rather than be killed, it would be better to kill Lu Lu to vent my anger, so I did it. But I haven't touched a sword for two years, and I'm clumsy, so I didn't succeed. As for my inner son, if she left the village, she would have received the report immediately, so he didn't tell her. ”

Qingji thought that his explanation was in line with common sense, so he dispelled his suspicions and kept him by his side.

The opportunity for assassination came soon, and Qingji was about to go to the Qi country, so he organized a fleet and took the first ship with Yao Li and the others. Kyungji is tall and does not appear to have a very stable center of gravity on a rickety ship, and needs to hold the railing to maintain his balance. If you want to leave, it is an out-and-out "black stripe in the waves", and you can move freely on the boat and walk on the ground. He was away from Qingji's eyes looking ahead, distracted, and suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed Qingji's left chest.

But this blow did not kill Qingji instantly, and Qingji roared and twisted his only arm, holding him firmly to the deck, and the guards all drew their weapons and surrounded him.

He said with difficulty: "It seems that I am really stupid!" ”

Qingji laughed and said, "I have no complaints if I can die in the hands of my master!" But I can't kill the teacher! Go back, Master, no one will dare stop you! With that, he let go of his hand.

He got up, knelt opposite Qingji and said, "I abandoned everything in order to complete my mission. I don't have anything, where can I go back? I'll die here with my son. With that, he pulled out the short knife in Qingji's chest and stabbed it into his heart, and the two fell together and died.

In the summer and July of the thirtieth year of Lu Zhaogong, Lu Lu sent envoys to Xu and Zhongwu, demanding that the two countries hand over the exiles. The two countries were the traditional allies of the Chu State, and the monarchs still looked at the new situation with old eyes, and to this day they do not take the Wu State into account.

But the two countries didn't want to cause trouble, so they informed the two of them of the situation, and Candle Yong and Cover Yu ran to Chu State.

King Chu Zhao was overjoyed, greeted the arrival of the two with extremely high specifications, and sealed the two border towns to the two, hoping to threaten the state of Wu accordingly. The great Sima Zixi did not agree, and he advised King Chu Zhao that he could take in the two, but not use them as a tool to deter the Wu State; And the state of Chu should adopt a policy of softness towards the state of Wu, and should not stimulate the sensitive nerves of the new king of the state of Wu.

King Chu Zhao just didn't listen. He Lu was furious, he had not yet made a plan to attack the state of Chu, so he spread his anger on Zhong Wu and the people of the Xu state. In the winter of December, He Lu led his army north to surround Zhong Wu, and Zhong Wu did not expect the revenge to come so quickly; The Chinese people did not have time to prepare, and there were no reinforcements from the outside world, so they had to open the city and surrender.

He Lu escorted Zhong Wuzi to the south and turned back to surround the Xu State. On the one hand, the people of Xu actively organized resistance, and on the other hand, they asked for help from the Chu State. When he heard that the Chu people were preparing to send out their army, he decided to capture the state of Xu before the reinforcements arrived.

To the west of Xu is the rolling mountains, and to the south is the Huai River, which meanders eastward. The autumn rain was very heavy, and there was still a lot of water flowing down at that time. The Wu people built a dam to the west of the city to divert the mountains and rivers; When the mountains and rivers reach a certain height, they burst the embankment and release the water, and the whole city becomes an isolated island in the ocean.

On December 23, the water in the capital was knee-deep. The Xu people couldn't make a fire to cook, and they couldn't sleep (the ancients slept on the couch on the ground); In addition, the weather is cold, and people with frostbite and illness are all over the city. Xu Zizhang Yu had no choice but to cut off his hair, open the city gate with his wife, and surrender to He Lu by boat. He Lu greeted the surrenderer with a sad face, and comforted Xu Zi with kind words, persuading him not to be sad and sad, as if he was not an aggressor but an ally.

The Wu army changed the waterway back, and the aborigines emptied the water, and the Wu army drove into the Xu country, destroying the ancient Yuxia kingdom that had existed for more than 1,600 years.

Xu Zi was allowed to go into exile anywhere, and he ran away to the state of Chu with his followers.

Although he had already won many glorious victories, it was the first great battle he commanded as king. He held a grand triumphal ceremony and offered a sumptuous sacrifice to the god of the ancestors; He gave part of the spoils to the soldiers, and part to the people.

There has never been a situation in Wu where the people of the country have been rewarded for their merits, and the entire Gusu City immediately boiled. The people of the country spontaneously held various celebrations and sacrifices to thank God for giving them a holy lord.

Soon, He Lu asked Wu Zixu: "When the master first arrived in Wu, he tried his best to persuade the king to attack Chu, and I thought it was feasible at that time. But the royal bureaucracy had long since lost trust in me, and I feared that the royal bureaucracy had ordered me to carry out a mission to defeat Chu, which would prevent me from taking the throne or dying on the battlefield; and was afraid of being taken away by others, so he strongly opposed it. Now that the widow has owned the state of Wu, of course, he must realize the wish of the master and the wishes of the widow and the office. Please tell me, Master, how should I cut down Chu? ”

Wu Zixu replied: "The ministers of Chu State are in their own ways, and their temperament is greedy and perverse, and they can't take on heavy responsibilities. If the three armies of Wu are divided into four divisions and one division is used to attack Chu, the whole army of Chu will come out; When the enemy comes, we will withdraw our troops. Then a second division will be sent to the battle, and the Chu army will still come to fight. Our army will go out once, and the whole army of Chu will go out four times, and it will be exhausted. Our army continues to release misinformation, if the Chu army is fooled, our three armies will be pressed on a large scale, and the Chu army will be defeated! ”

Wu Yuan's "Four Divisions and Three Armies" was an upgraded version of Jin Zhifu's "Three Divisions and Four Armies", and the Jin people used this tactic to successfully drag down the Chu State, and finally made Zheng Guo completely return to the Chinese Alliance.

He Lu adopted Wu Zixu's plan and began to implement this tactic, which made the people of Chu exhausted and anxious.