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Not long after the son of Wei State fled to Chen State, he heard the news that his country was destroyed by Zhao Xuan.Young Master Shi's eyes turned black after hearing this, and his mind was buzzing. He never thought that just serving as a reward envoy would bring disaster to his country.

"Young Master, the ministers of Chen Guo have advised their king to hand you over to Zhao Guo. They said that Chen Guo can't keep the root of the disaster." The son Shi's Sheren ran in from the door to report.

"Why did the minister of the state of Chen want to add insult to injury! It was clearly the prince Zhao who was ambitious and set up a trap to frame me. He created something out of nothing and made an excuse to annex the country of Wei!" After a series of things happened, the young master thought about it and finally understood the truth .

Young Master Shi went to reward Zhao Jun half a month ago on behalf of King Wei with food, grass, fine wine, beauties and handsome men. His original intention was to curry favor with Zhao Xuan.Before Young Master Shi left, King Wei repeatedly told his younger son that when Young Master Shi met Zhao Xuan face to face, he should not offend him in the slightest.When Young Master Shi went to Zhao Jun's camp to meet Zhao Xuan, he was always cautious and trembling.

Zhao Xuan's amiable and easy-going attitude made Young Master Shi relax. At the banquet that night, he drank a little too much wine. His last consciousness was to fall asleep on the wine table, but when he woke up in the middle of the night, But he found himself in an exquisite bedroom with a naked woman lying beside him.

Young Master Shi didn't take it seriously at first about what might have happened to the woman around him last night. It is quite common for nobles to spend the night with their maids after drinking. Many hosts of banquets even specially arrange beautiful maids at home to stay with their guests overnight.

When the son couldn't call out to serve his servants, he finally realized that something was wrong. He was not in the palace of the king of Wei, nor the mansion of the nobles of the state of Wei, but in the military camp of the state of Zhao.It is impossible to have a woman in the barracks, unless it is the beautiful maid that Wei Guo gave to Zhao Xuan yesterday.

After thinking that he might have slept with Zhao Xuan's maid, Young Master Shi didn't panic, but was a little embarrassed.He was going to meet Zhao Xuan, to plead guilty to Zhao Xuan, and to ask Zhao Xuan to forgive him for being rude after drinking. As compensation, Young Master Shi felt that it would be enough to go back to the palace and pick a few beauties to send over.

Young Master Shi thought of a countermeasure, put on his clothes and went to Zhao Xuan to make amends.When they arrived at the big tent in the army, Zhao Xuan had already gone out to inspect, and the young master only saw Zhao Wuzai.After Zhao Wuzai listened to Young Master Shi's hesitant apology, he laughed, patted Young Master Shi on the shoulder, and said with a smile that he was only a maid, so that Young Master Shi should not take it to heart.Zhao Wuzai's relief dissipated the embarrassment in Young Master Shi's heart, and he followed the old courtier back to Wei Palace to report to King Wei with peace of mind.

What Young Master Shi didn't expect was that as soon as he and the old courtier left after finishing their errands, Zhao Xuan sent envoys to ask King Wei aggressively for the crime of insulting Zhao Xuan's favorite concubine. The favored concubine killed to cover up the crime, Zhao Xuan came back from inspection and found the pet's body was furious, and sent envoys to discuss the explanation with King Wei.

Although Young Master Shi is the youngest son loved by King Wei, King Wei repeatedly promised to hand over the youngest son to Zhao Xuan in front of the envoy Zhao's anger.

King Wei is weak and fearful, but Crown Prince Wei is full of anger, not to mention that Zhao Xuan's so-called favorite concubine is just a maid sent by the state of Wei, even if Zhao Xuan's favorite concubine is really Zhao Xuan's favorite concubine, she didn't ask a prince of a country for a lowly woman. Zhao Xuan went too far to bully others when asking about the crime.If for the sake of a poor and humble woman, Wei Guo handed over his country's son to be dealt with, what face will Wei Guo have in front of the princes in the future?What dignity is there in Daqin?

Prince Wei and King Wei had a dispute on the spot in the royal court, and the nobles in the royal court were also divided into two factions, each holding their own opinion.When the news spread to the harem, Queen Wei was afraid that her youngest son would be handed over to Zhao Guo to be insulted, so she quickly sent someone to send a message to Prince Shi, telling him to leave Wei State and take refuge in Chen State, and return to the capital after the matter subsided.

When King Wei learned that his son had escaped from the state of Wei, he humbly apologized to the envoy of Zhao State, and promised to make amends with a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and beautiful women. He only asked Zhao Xuan to forgive him for his young age and ignorance.Zhao Guo's envoy heard that Young Master Shi had fled, sneered three times on the spot, and flung his sleeves back to the barracks to report to Zhao Xuan.

Zhao Guo's envoy left straight away, but King Wei didn't dare to expose the matter. He still asked the old courtiers to bring a lot of gold, silver and jewels, and selected eight new beauties to send to Zhao Ying to make amends to Zhao Xuan.Before the old courtiers brought gold, silver, treasures and beauties out of the capital, the news came that Zhao Xuan led an army to attack the city of Weiguo.Zhao Xuan claimed that King Wei defended his son and refused to hand it over. In order to wash away his shame, Zhao Xuan wanted to capture the capital of Wei and search it himself.

King Wei's city was defended for half a month and then the city was broken. King Wei led the royal court officials out of the palace to surrender to Zhao Xuan, and Prince Wei committed suicide in the Prince's Mansion.Zhao Jun completely occupied Weiguo.

When the young master fled to Chen State, the king of Chen treated him with courtesy, and most of the civil and military officials in the court of Chen Wang sympathized with the young master Shi's experience.But when the news came that Zhao Xuan had destroyed the Wei Kingdom, the attitudes of some of Chen Wangting's officials changed.

Some ministers felt that Zhao Xuan could not allow Zhao Xuan to destroy the Kingdom of Wei, because the Kingdom of Chen was adjacent to the Kingdom of Zhao, and if the Kingdom of Zhao became stronger, it would threaten the Kingdom of Chen. big.

Some ministers of the royal court disagreed. They believed that the national power of Zhao State was stronger than that of Chen State. To defeat Zhao State, Chen State had to use the power of the whole country. Chen State did not need to make such a big sacrifice for a small country son who made mistakes.These ministers think that there is no need to worry about Zhao Guo becoming more powerful and threatening Chen Guo in the future.Zhao State will not become invincible just because it annexed a small country. At that time, Chen State can form an alliance with Chu State to deal with Zhao State.Both Chen State and Chu State are one of the six great Qin powers, and the alliance of two powerful countries, is it still afraid of a Zhao State?

When the court of King Chen was divided into two factions to argue, Zhao Xuan sent an envoy to the Kingdom of Chen, saying that Zhao and Chen had always been friendly, and that Zhao's use of troops against Wei was entirely due to personal grievances between the royal family of Wei.Zhao Xuan repeatedly emphasized in the document that Zhao Guo should continue to be good-neighborly and friendly with Chen Guo for generations. In order not to affect the good-neighborly and friendly relations between the two countries, Zhao Xuan asked Chen Wang to hand over the son to Zhao Guo.

With the arrival of Zhao Xuan's emissary, the radical ministers who suggested to help the young master restore the country were quickly at a disadvantage in the court meeting. The voices of the conservative ministers became louder, and more and more voices echoed the content of Zhao Xuan's document.The Minister of Chen Guo, who had a good relationship with the young master, quickly revealed the news to the young master Shi Shiren.

"My lord, we have to leave the country of Chen. The country of Chen is not the place where you live." The young master suggested Shiren.

"Leaving the Kingdom of Chen? Where else can we go after leaving the Kingdom of Chen?" Young Master Shi's eyes were red. The queen mother of King Chen is Princess Wei, the aunt of King Wei. The royal family of Wei and the royal family of Chen are related by marriage.

"Let's go to Chu. Chu State and Zhao State have never dealt with each other. My son went to Chu to take refuge. I think the king of Chu will welcome you." Since you can't count on the protection of your in-laws, you can only rely on the enemy's enemy.

Before King Chen's court could reach a conclusion, Prince Shi and his followers sneaked out of the city and headed south all the way to the state of Chu.

No matter whether it is the young master who chooses the country to flee to, or the lord of Chen and his ministers seeking an alliance to resist Zhao in the future, none of them put Wu in the selection range. In their eyes, the war-torn Wu is no longer A strong country is just a sick and weak country that is struggling to protect itself.

The surrounding vassal states thought that Wu State, whose vitality was seriously injured and had difficulty in self-protection, but the border guards stationed in Qucheng were extremely brave.When Zhao Xuan led the army to withdraw from the border of Wu State to attack the capital of the King of Wei, Wei Qing led two thousand cavalry and quietly took down the border defense city of Wei State, occupying the throat of Wei State leading to the border of Wu State.

After Zhao Xuan annexed the state of Wei, he learned that the throat was lost, so he quickly mobilized part of the army to return, trying to regain the lost ground.At this time, God once again helped the country of Wu, and the cold current from the north hit again strongly, and the temperature suddenly dropped to the point where dripping water turned into ice.Wei Qing commanded the soldiers and common people in the city to pour warm water on the city wall to freeze. The city wall, which was not considered difficult to attack, turned into an ice wall. The slippery ice wall had no point of strength, and Zhao Jun's siege ladder could not be erected. Vain.

Zhao Xuan commanded the army to attack twice, and found that the siege was difficult. Coupled with the cold weather, many soldiers of the Zhao army began to get sick, so they had to retreat to a small town west of the throat and stationed temporarily, preparing to launch an attack when the weather warmed up.

"Prince! The supply of food and grass in the army is no longer available." The report of Zhao Jun's quartermaster disrupted Zhao Xuan's battle plan.

"Can we collect food and grass on the spot?" Zhao Xuan's mood was irritable, he was very easy to fight against Wei, but he always did not know how to fight against Wu.

"No!" The quartermaster shook his head. In the past few years of continuous disasters in Weiguo, the people of Weiguo have long been struggling on food and clothing. In order to supply the Zhao army with food and grass, the king of Wei has sent ministers to search the country once. The oil has already been squeezed out.

"Where's the domestic grain and grass? Can it be shipped as soon as possible?" The people of Wei State are counted as the people of Zhao State, and Zhao Xuan definitely doesn't want to force the local people to death. He can only hope that the domestic grain and grass can be supplied.

"The road is muddy, walking is difficult, and it is really difficult to transport food and grass." The quartermaster continued to shake his head.

"How long can the army be sustained by food and grass now?"

"Up to 20 days."

Zhao Xuan nodded: "You step back, Gu knows."

When Zhao Xuan was worried about the army's food and grass, Wei Qing was also worried about the military supplies in the army.Wu Jun's grain and grass were transported by merchants. Although merchants made great profits, they could not overcome the bad weather.What Wei Qing was worried about was not food and grass, but the supply of weapons and arrows. Beihou hoarded food and grass in the fief, but the quality of the hoarded weapons and arrows was not good. The weapons in the valley could not be supplied, and the soldiers used inferior weapons and arrows. Compared with the enemy army, the soldiers led by Wei Qing and Zeng You had no advantage. Facing Zhao's army, which was more than twice as large as their own, it was difficult to Downwind everywhere.

The throat is of great strategic significance to both Wu and Zhao. If this place is occupied, the pressure on the border defense in the northwest of Wu State will be much less. times.Unless it is absolutely necessary, Wei Qing refuses to give up this city.Wei Qing is now praying that the temperature will not get warmer, relying on the ice wall to defend the city and waiting for backup.

Just when Zhao Xuan and Wei Qing were in a dilemma, Xihou was in the cold winter.