But soon, the news that Wu, Cai, and Tang had joined forces to attack Chu reached the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and his spirit was suddenly full again. Liu Wengong began to formulate a plan to eliminate the prince in high spirits, and he constantly sent spies to find out the movements of political opponents, and formed an assassination team. Just when he was full of ambition to carry out his work, he suddenly suffered a stroke and died in the autumn and July, and the heavy responsibility of eliminating the prince's dynasty fell on his son Liu Huangong.

The allied armies of Wu, Cai, and Tang marched forward in that year and occupied Yingdu in one fell swoop, and the state of Chu immediately fell into anarchy. Wang Zichao fled Yingdu with his henchmen in advance, and fled all the way north to a small city in Huaishang, Baicheng (now in the east of Xi County).

Liu Huan was overjoyed when he heard the news, and in order to comfort his father's soul in the sky, he decided to personally lead the assassination team to carry out the mission. At that time, the caravans of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty traveled to and from all parts of the world, and no natural disasters**, landslides and ground cracks could stop them from traveling and doing business. Liu Huan Gong found a big businessman who specialized in business in the Huaishang area, and he mixed in with his men who disguised themselves as caravans.

At the beginning of the fifth year of Lu Dinggong, the caravan finally entered a quiet and comfortable town after a long journey. The spies of the assassination team quietly found the traitor who had been bribed by Wang Zichao's side and asked him to lure Wang Chao out.

Wang Zichao has not seen his hometown for a long time, and he misses the hometown of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty very much; He heard from the traitor that a caravan was coming from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so he wanted to chat with the merchants and find out the news in the capital. As a result, he was attacked by several outlaws led by Liu Huan Gong on a remote street (Baicheng was not prosperous), and Wang Zichao and several retinues were killed at that time.

Liu Huangong quickly evacuated Baicheng and returned to Chengzhou with his people. The locals later learned that the young man who seemed to be quiet and quiet, but was extremely vicious, and the leader, was actually a secretary of the Zhou royal family.

The people of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of depression, thinking that the tumor against King Jing of Zhou had finally been removed. But the situation was far less rosy than they had liked, and when the prince died, his supporters made his eldest son, Wang Sun Hu, the leader, and continued his anti-royal activities.

Because Zheng took advantage of the chaos to destroy Xu and break the alliance treaty, Jin used this as an excuse to order Lu to crusade against Zheng (this incident will be discussed in detail later); Zheng Guo immediately announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Jin State.

Overjoyed, he rushed to Xinzheng day and night, instigating Zheng to overthrow the rule of King Jing of Zhou and proclaim Wang Sun Hu as the Son of Heaven, thus establishing a pro-Zheng regime in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

At this time, Uncle Zi had passed away, and he was appointed as the secretary, and he called the secretaries together to discuss the issue. The ministers were almost unanimous in their support, and the proposal was adopted immediately. The plan to invade the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was put on the agenda - although Liu Huan Gong got rid of the Wang Dynasty, an enemy a hundred times stronger than the Wang Dynasty emerged.

In the summer of the sixth year of Lu Dinggong, Dan Pian led more than 5,000 parties of the Prince Dynasty to attack Chengzhou, while Zheng's army attacked Feng, Hua, Xu Mi, Negative Xiao, Fox, Quewai and other cities in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to contain the military strength of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Zheng's army was overwhelmed, and a month later captured all the cities except Xu Mi.

Cheng Zhou was in an emergency, Liu Huan Gong asked Jin Guo for help, and Jin Doctor Yan did not have a handsome teacher to rescue. The battle for the attacking week was quite fierce, and both the attack and defense knew that this would be the final battle that would decide the fate of both sides, and that the winner would become the ultimate master of the palace.

But attacking such a large city, five thousand people were indeed miserable; Moreover, the princes had just repaired the walls of Chengzhou, and the rebel attack was finally completely crushed. But the old city walls are still very damaged. Dan Pian left nearly a thousand corpses behind and retreated to the slippery city, and Yan sent a team to strengthen the city walls of Xu Mi before he finished cleaning the battlefield.

At that time, several cities in the east and south of Chengzhou were occupied by anti-Zhou Jingwang forces, and the rebels cut off Chengzhou's trade routes; The reinforcements sent by the Jin people could only last for a week and not be captured for the time being. Chengzhou is a commercial city, once the trade road is cut off, the merchants in the city immediately pour out of the city gate, abandoning the city where they had settled in the first place, and Chengzhou soon fell into a depression.

In the winter of December, Yan was not ordered to withdraw his army, and King Jing of Zhou was afraid that the rebels would make a comeback with the Zheng army, so he was not allowed to leave Cheng Zhou and retreated to Guyin City, which bordered the Jin state.

When King Jing of Zhou left, he took a large number of troops with him, and only the family armies of Liu and Shan were left in the Zhou Dynasty. Seeing this, Dan Pian lobbied again, hoping that he would help him capture Cheng Zhou. However, the Zheng people suddenly lost confidence in Dan Pian, and it turned out that the Zheng people collected the views of various princes on the Eastern Zhou dispute, and found that they still supported King Jing of Zhou, and they had fallen into isolation.

He needed to gather more allies to deal with the Jin Kingdom, so he politely refused the other party's request.

In the spring of the seventh year of Lu Dinggong (BC503), Zheng Guoren said to Dan Pian: "The Jin people will not sit idly by and watch our country occupy the five cities of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and they will definitely send troops to recover them, and slip is the top priority of the five cities." At that time, Zheng Guo will not be able to hold the slippery city, so it is better for the master to plan early, and don't find a way out when the time comes. ”

Dan Pian saw that Zheng Guoren had issued an order to expel the guests (in fact, what Zheng Ren said was also true), so he had to retreat to Yili City, which was far away from Chengzhou, with the rebels.

In April, the remnants of the Yin clan took advantage of King Jing's exile to launch a rebellion in Chengzhou, and Duke Shan Wu (son of Duke Shan Mu) and Duke Liu Huan drove the rebels out of Chengzhou with thunderous means, and defeated the rebels at Poor Valley (present-day Luoyangdong, Henan). The remnants of the Yin clan also fled to Yili.

Seeing that Dan Pian was hiding behind, he was unwilling to act as a pawn for the traitors, so he withdrew the occupation forces in all the cities except Slippery City.

The situation in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty returned to calm. In the winter of November, Liu and Shan took King Zhou Jing back to the royal city from Gucheng, and the Jin army led by Qin to escort him all the way into the royal city.

In the spring of the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Lu Ding (BC502), the Eastern Zhou people believed that the rebels who had lost the help of Zheng Guo were already at an absolute disadvantage. Liu Huan decided to strike while the iron was hot and eliminate the reactionary forces led by Dan Pian and others once and for all.

In February, Shan Wu's division attacked the rebel outpost of Gucheng (northwest of present-day Luoyang, Henan), and Liu Huan besieged Yili to prevent Dan Pian from rescuing Gucheng.

On March 26, Shan Wugong captured Gucheng, he left his deputy to deal with the aftermath, and then led the main force straight to Yili and joined forces with Liu Huangong.

On March 28, Wang Shi captured Yili, and the rebels fled by the way, some of them to Jiancheng and some to Yucheng. The two cities were very small, and the king's army also attacked the target in two ways. A few days later, Duke Liu Huan captured Yucheng, and Duke Shan Wu captured Jiancheng. Dan Pian, Wang Sunhu, Yin Ji and a group of die-hard elements refused to surrender, and finally all died in battle.

At this point, the eighteen-year-long rebellion of the prince's dynasty finally came to an end. This is the largest, longest-lasting, most influential, and most destructive turmoil of the Zhou royal family since King Wu of Zhou seized the power of the Son of Heaven. The most heart-wrenching thing is that when the prince fled, he swept away a large number of historical classics, all of which were unique, and did not return to his master until the fall of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has since become a country lacking history.

The cultural damage caused by the turmoil to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty could never be recovered with manpower, time, and money. After this difficulty, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, in addition to the title of a dynasty, has actually declined into a third-class small state (like Chen and Cai).