After ten days of bombardment, the walls of Daliang City finally collapsed.

To be fair, this was actually a bit beyond Zhao He's expectations. The confident young King Zhao originally thought that the walls of Daliang City would collapse earlier.

In these ten days, the artillery bombardment of Zhao State was not smooth sailing. The biggest accident was the explosion of the chamber five days ago. This explosion not only took away the lives of dozens of soldiers nearby, but also included five Zhao State craftsmen. The latter's losses particularly made Zhao He feel sad.

In addition to the problem of artillery in Zhao State, the craftsmen of Wei State were self-repairing and the excellent infrastructure restoration technology that might be derived from the blood of his ancestors also greatly delayed the damage to the city walls of Zhao State. When the second heavy artillery began to explode, Zhao He even considered whether to let Handan drag one or two more cannons over for two months.

Fortunately, an unknown Zhao craftsman accidentally discovered it and saved everything.

This Zhao craftsman was a child of the Mo family and was very interested in physics and arithmetic. In his spare time, he made a small Daliang City sand table, then used a slingshot to simulate stone bombs and proposed a inference based on his own knowledge, that is, the triangular bombing method.

Simply put, it is to make the landing point of three consecutive shells form a triangle, so that the entire city wall section within the triangle can be blown up in one fell swoop, causing much more damage than the continuous bombardment of three consecutive shells to the same place. (Note 1)

After observing a test shot on the spot, Zhao He promoted the craftsman's title to a junior doctor without hesitation, and then ordered all the remaining heavy artillery to be launched according to this triangle theory.

Then, on the afternoon of the tenth day of the shelling, the walls of Daliang City could no longer support it, and a large collapse of more than four feet appeared, forming a slope that was enough for the Zhao people to charge.

Zhao He almost immediately ordered the Zhao army to launch a full-scale offensive on this slope.

After two quarters of a fierce battle, thousands of corpses of soldiers on both sides were piled up on both sides of the gap. After paying a huge price, the Zhao army finally broke into Daliang City with its stronger combat power.

It was at this time that the generals of Wei who were killed and retreated finally thought of reporting to the King of Wei who was still thinking about whether to move the capital.

In the palace, the ministers of the Wei State who learned the news were in an uproar, some were shocked, some were crying, some wanted to run away on the spot, some asked the King of Wei to run away quickly, and so on, all of them were all there.

Only the King of Wei sat there quietly, like a clay statue.

Zhao's army entered the city.

The 130,000 Zhao army was completely incomparable to Daliang City at this moment. With the opening of the north gate of Daliang City, the ending of this city was completely destined.

Zhao He had only two orders to this.

"If you pass the order, let the military judge enter the city immediately. My military discipline is not a joke!"

"Send the order again and ask Le Cheng to ignore other places and go straight to the palace. If the King of Wei commits suicide, at least he must save one of his sons!"

Why do we need to save a son? Of course, we have to leave a bloodline for the Wei royal family.

This is also the convention of the Huaxia tribe. Not to mention the ancient Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, just talk about the closer Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. Whether the Shang dynasty replaces the Xia dynasty or the Zhou dynasty replaces the Shang dynasty, the bloodline of the previous dynasty has actually been continued, which is the so-called "restoration, destruction and succession".

The Zhou Dynasty even enthroned the bloodline of the Shang Dynasty as the highest first-class duke state in the Zhou Dynasty's title system. This duke state even survived until it was destroyed by Qi in a few years. Its name was Song State.

Why not eradicate the roots? On the one hand, it is to appease the hearts of the people in the old land of these monarchs, and on the other hand, these conquerors are actually for the sake of their descendants.

The royal power has no eternity. Zhao State is the winner now. Who knows what will happen hundreds of years later?

If Zhao He destroyed all the bloodlines of other princes now, then if the Zhao Kingdom was destroyed one day in the future, the Zhao royal family would definitely be wiped out by future conquerors.

It can also be regarded as leaving a way out for the unfilial descendants of future generations.

If possible, Zhao He hopes that the survivor will be the King of Wei. A king who has not died will play a very important role in Zhao's efforts to win over the hearts of the people in Wei.

In this matter, Zhao He really got what he wanted.

Two hours later, when the sky had turned completely dark, Zhao He walked into the main hall of the Daliang City Royal Palace surrounded by countless Zhao army soldiers and met the King of Wei.

The King of Wei was not alone. Beside him was the crown prince of Wei, and behind him was the Queen of Wei holding the young Xinling Jun Wei Wuji.

Zhao He and King Wei had different eyes in the air, and they had different thoughts.

What surprised Zhao He was that King Wei's expression was very calm, and it was a bit strange.

Zhao He nodded slightly and greeted King Wei: "King Wei, we meet again."

The corner of King Wei's mouth twitched slightly, revealing a curve that was barely considered a smile: "Yes, I didn't expect that we would meet again so soon."

Zhao He said very calmly: "I had expected this in advance."

Wei, who was standing next to the King of Wei, was furious when he heard this. He was about to speak out, but was hugged by the Queen of Wei behind him and covered his mouth.

The King of Wei glanced at Wei and said in a deep voice: "Gui'er, come here, don't let people laugh!"

Wei slowly became quiet.

The King of Wei turned his gaze back to Zhao He: "It makes King Zhao laugh."

Zhao He's expression did not change: "It's okay, since the King of Wei is still here, I guess he has already had a scheming in his heart, right?"

The King of Wei nodded slowly and suddenly said, "My mansion in Handan must be bigger than King of Han in the future."

Zhao He was slightly stunned. Obviously he didn't expect that King Wei would make such a request, but he immediately reacted and smiled and said, "This matter is simple, it's decided."

King Wei breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and picked up his youngest son Wei Wuji.

"King Zhao, the two hundred years of Wei's country will belong to your Zhao family from now on."

The Wei Kingdom, the first of the seven major warring countries to dominate the Central Plains and create a brilliant and hegemony, came to its end and completely withdrew from this stage of the battle for hegemony among the nations.
Chapter completed!