Chapter 54: Killing the King
The soldiers shouted to everyone, "God bless the Great Zhao, the Qin army retreated!" The vehicles and pedestrians at the south gate, including Sima, were all confused at the beginning. They heard these eight words, but did not react immediately. Only when a man dressed in a doctor rushed out of the carriage, knelt down and shouted "God bless the Great Zhao", and solemnly bowed to the sky, all the people reacted.
"Ah——!" The excitement made them unable to even shout Long Live. Both men and women made a cry from the bottom of their hearts. This was an instinctive reaction. Most people shouted and cried, some hugged each other, while some threw everything around them. The madness outside the city gate quickly infected the entire city of Handan, followed by the entire Handan City. Finally, even the Empress Dowager Linghui and Zhao Qian, the King of Zhao in the royal city, heard this cry. Zhao Qian was strange, wondering why the city was shouting; Linghui was afraid. She stood up in a panic, deeply afraid that this was the sign of the Qin army breaking through the Great Wall, crossing the water and hitting Handan.
"Please see the Queen Mother, the King." Outside the bedroom was the voice of Zhao Liang, the Marquis of Chunping of the Prime Minister. When Zhao Qian heard this voice, he became a little displeased. Lingwen seemed to have grabbed a straw. She said anxiously: "Summon. Ask the Prime Minister why..."
"Reported to the Queen Mother, the King, the soldiers and people in the Great City, the Qin army retreated!" Zhao Liang people arrived before they arrived. When he came in, they were filled with joy and radiant faces.
"Ah." Linghui couldn't stand any longer, but Zhao Qian was displeased and surprised and happy on his face, "Is the words of the Father of the World?"
"Report to the king, it's true. The Qin army has retreated." Zhao Qian has not called himself "Shifu" for a long time. Zhao Liang was surprised when he heard this, and then said: "The three kingdoms of Chu, Qi and Wei stationed troops in Daliang. The Qi general Tian Luo insisted on reporting to the King of Qin first and forced him to retreat. Qin State retreated. As soon as the Qin army retreated, the cities and towns were all returned to me..."
Speaking of the cities captured by the Qin army, Zhao Liang couldn't help but feel sad. Those cities, regardless of gender, were all the people of Zhao. Thinking of this, Zhao Liang only said: "After three years of fierce battle, I, Zhao, died many people of Zhao. I, please ask the king to go and have a sacrifice."
Zhao Liang felt sorry for those Zhao people who were beheaded by the Qin army. Unfortunately, the dead in this era were regarded as not surrendering and could not even enter the ancestral tomb. As soon as his suggestion was released, his sarcastic sleeves changed. She said in a begging for mercy: "The king is young, and the sky is very cold. If he leaves the city..."
"The king is the king of Zhao. Many subjects die, so he should be polite." Zhao Liang looked at Linghui, then looked at Zhao Qian, and ignored Linghui's words. Although the Qin army retreated, the Zhao army and civilians died and were unable to recover their vitality for ten years.
"The king is the king of a country, how can he leave the royal city lightly?" Guo Kai's voice came from outside the bed. "The previous year, the prime minister protected the king and went east to Qi to join the alliance, but suddenly encountered the Qin army. The king was frightened and his fear has not yet recovered."
When Guo Kai heard the news of the Qin army retreating, he hurried over to tell the matter. He was the Grand Tutor and could go to bed without reporting. When he heard that Zhao Liang wanted the king to leave Handan again, he immediately expressed his objection. "If the Qin people have not retreated, what?"
"The Three Kingdoms want to attack Gongyi outside Baixing, how could the Qin army not retreat?" Zhao Liang suddenly laughed.
The eight passes of Taihang Mountain, Fukou Pass is just west of Handan. Fukou Pass is Jingxing to the north and Baixing to the south. With only Henei County, Dongjun cannot support the Qin army's battles on the south. It must rely on Shangdang County, Hedong County and Guanzhong west of Taihang Mountain to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops over the years. Gongyi is a key town west of Taihang Mountain connecting to the east of Taihang Mountain. If you control it, the Qin army under Li Xin will be alone and surrounded by the four-nation army.
"If the Taifu does not resolve military affairs, don't speak nonsense." After laughing, Zhao Liang advised again.
"What Xiangbang said is reasonable, but the king was young and he was not cured last time. He should not leave the city to sacrifice." Guo Kai was beside him, and the intention of asking in Lingshui's words was no longer so obvious. "If a wife (li, widow) could go there, she should go there."
"The Empress Dowager is not Zhao, so she cannot go." Since that harsh 'lecture', Linghui has become more obedient and dare not disobey Zhao Liang's intentions in many things. Seeing Linghui not agreeing, Zhao Liang could not help but say proudly: "Since the Empress Dowager does not know this, Liang will come to the bed in person to tell him tomorrow. Please give up."
In addition to Zhao Qian, the temple maids and palace maids present were all adults. Everyone knew the meaning of Zhao Liang's intimate visit to Xiaobing. Linghui's cheeks blushed in an instant, and he had to cover his face with his sleeves. Guo Kai, like the temple maids, seemed not to hear this sentence. Only Zhao Qian was a little confused. When he saw his mother raised his sleeves to cover his face, he went down from the sleeves, but saw nothing.
"Do you know what the world father said?" After everyone, including Linghui, Zhao Qian asked his official servant Yuan.
In another year, Zhao Qian was eleven years old, and even at the age of eleven, he might not know about men and women. But the king suddenly asked a question, and Yuan didn't dare to deceive him. When he thought of the consequences, Yuan was so scared that he fell to his knees and couldn't speak.
"Say!" Zhao Qian looked at him and shouted. He had not understood what he saw at the banquet last year. However, instinctively, he was increasingly disliked the world's father.
"I don't know." He wanted to say something but stopped. Although everyone knew about the Empress Dowager's relationship with the Prime Minister outside the palace, he still did not dare to tell Zhao Qian.
"Don't you know?" Zhao Qian looked at him, and after a while, his eyes turned naturally to other temple people. He pointed to one of the men and asked, "What do you mean by the father of the world?"
"The villain knows it, and the villain knows it..." Other temple people rush to the forefront. They are not the master servants, and they want to grow two horns on their heads to attract Zhao Qian's attention. Now the master servant dares not speak out, which is a good opportunity for them to stand out.
"Who dares to speak nonsense!" Yuan was anxious when he saw this. These temple people were usually respectful to him, but who would have thought that they would ignore him when they saw the king.
"Come on! Drag him out." Yuan's scolding made Zhao Qian furious. What the king of Zhao disliked the most was to be controlled by others. As a regular servant, Yuan dared to deceive him, which made him furious.
"Great King, I'm secretly informed that Xiangbang and the Queen Mother are always in contact..." After being dragged out by the black-clothed palace guards, the temple people were talking nonsense. One of them said the most outrageously: "Can the King of Qin know if the King of Qin? The King of Qin's mother Zhao Ji also had an affair with her fake father Lao Ai. Zhao Ji gave birth to two sons, and the fake father Lao Ai wanted to kill the King of Qin to make these two sons the King of Qin, but fortunately, the King of Qin broke up with Lao Ai and took two brothers to kill him. Now Xiangbang and the Queen Mother have an affair, and it's better if they haven't given birth to a son. If they give birth to a prince, the king will be in danger!"
Unknown was a strong curiosity before, but after knowing it, he was a strong fear. Zhao Qian was covered in sweat. He said in disbelief: "I am the King of Zhao, the world, the world... How dare the Xiangbang kill the king? Tai, the tutor, the courtier..."
"The king is wrong." The temple man who spoke lamented. "There are many followers in the prime minister, especially in the army. Even if you don't kill the lord, you can..." Everyone knows how King Wuling of Zhao died. It is not necessary to kill the lord, but you can be hungry. Thinking of the temple man cried, "We only want to serve the lord in this life, and we don't want to serve others anymore."
One person cried and several people cried. All the temple people hoped that the king could remember him, but there were always a few lucky people. Only the temple people who cried first were helped up by Zhao Qian, and everyone was envious for a moment.
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"Report to the King of Wei, the King, the Qin army retreated quickly." Feixun Officer rushed into the bedroom to report.
"Haha! The Qin army has indeed retreated. Haha..." Luo, the general of Qi State, who was sitting in the east, laughed happily. At this moment, the king, general, and ministers in the bedroom were many, and he was the only one who laughed. Even the King of Wei Wei Zeng, who was secretly happy, had a cautious look on his face.
The laughter suddenly came. Xiang Yan, who was heading down, felt uncomfortable listening to his laughter. He asked, "I wonder why General Tian is so happy?"
"Why are you happy?" Tian Luo looked at Xiang Yan very surprised. "I heard that the Qin people were not afraid of the five countries' alliances. Today, the Qin people fled fearfully. My soldiers were not bloody and I have been convinced. Shouldn't we be overjoyed?"
"The Qin army retreated without any damage. We will come back next year. General Tian thought this was a happy event?" Xiang Yan became more and more unhappy.
"The Qin army will come back next year and the Three Kingdoms will join forces again. Why is Xiang Bo unhappy?" Tian Luo restrained some joy. "With the power of our Three Kingdoms, why should we be afraid of the Qin people?"
"Hmph!" Xiang Yan was angry. What he wanted was a surprise attack, rather than an ultimatum, sitting in the Liang Dynasty, and listening to the news that the Feixun Officer reported the withdrawal of the Qin army. After three years of attack, the Qin State and the Qin Army were the weakest times. At this time, the Three Kingdoms should unite Zhao State to fight the Qin army to decisively, rather than letting them retreat safely.
"The Qin army retreats today, and will definitely come back in the future. I will have equipment for me again. I ask the King, and the King of Wei will lead the army north to Daliang to attack and defeat Gongyi." Xiang Yanyi said to Xiong Jing and the King of Wei. He was deliberately trying to fight a battle with the Qin army.
"What does King Wei think?" Xiong Jing was holding a strange iron tool in his hand. This was a gun, a flint revolver. The cannon can flintlock, but the cannon's flintlock device weighs more than ten pounds, so the revolver can only use the most primitive flintlock.
"How dare I overthrow the matter? If you are in the same way as the King of Chu, you should take the King of Chu as the leader of the King of Chu." Wei Zeng laughed. Every time he saw Xiong Jing, Xiong Jing would grow up a little, and he would become more and more majestic. This made him sigh that King Lie of Chu gave birth to a good son. In the next few decades, Wei State would probably rely on the people of Chu.
Xiong Jing was not interested in the mezzanine, but just tried to build it. He put down the gun and said, "The troops were sent only to save Zhao, since the Qin army..."
"You must not!" Xiang Yan knew when he heard Xiong Jing's tone that he did not want to order troops, and his face couldn't help but look painful. "Let the Qin army retreat and not attack, this is the so-called "raising a tiger and self-inflicted trouble."
Chapter completed!