The general left a secret order, and after entering the city, the army immediately retreated to camp outside the city, waiting for the king of the enemy country to take the initiative to dedicate the city, and to send envoys to the capital to state their interests.
At this time, a soldier entered the palace and said:
"Your Majesty, the Hornet Army has withdrawn from the city." The Cockroach King finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little strange, and asked:
"Why did the army retreat again?" Then the envoy swaggered, held his head high and held his chest high. He supported the envoy into the hall and said:
"Your Majesty, the general has an order. Please leave the city immediately to offer prisoners. This will ensure your safety. If you resist stubbornly, the army will attack the city and kill them all." After saying this, he walked away.
The court fell into panic. The Cockroach King turned and scolded angrily, saying:
"Xiangguo, if you hadn't urged Gu to attack Bumblebee, we wouldn't have even protected the capital. Come on, tell me, what's the benefit of accepting the envoy from Ruluo Xizhou?" Faced with the Cockroach King's angry rebuke, Xiangguo's legs became weak. Kneel down and say:
"Your Majesty, I am wronged." The ministers persuaded the Cockroach King to kill the Prime Minister, and they all made a fuss. Xiangguo's eyes kept moving from side to side, and he secretly peeked at the ministers on the left and right. Beads of sweat were streaming down his face. He stretched out his trembling towel to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and lowered his head without saying a word.
A minister stood up and said:
"Your Majesty, kill it and send its head to the Qin Army's camp. It is said that its slander incited the King to attack the Qin Army's camp. It was not the King's original intention. Now I will present the head of the cockroach of the Prime Minister." Cockroach King Sleeves One wave.
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"Drag him out and kill him!" Xiang Guo raised his head in fear, looked up, and shouted:
"Your Majesty."
"Drag him out." Soldier Jia entered and was about to drag Xiang Guo out. Xiang Guo immediately shouted:
"Your Majesty, I have a plan to retreat the enemy troops outside the city." The Cockroach King stretched his sleeves, and the Prime Minister rushed up, knelt down, looked up and said:
"Your Majesty." The Cockroach King turned around and said:
"What plan does the Prime Minister have to retreat from the enemy?" The Prime Minister said without thinking:
"Recall Changming's million-strong army." The Cockroach King didn't know what he meant and asked:
"What does Xiang Guo mean by this?" Xiang Guo stood up and said anxiously:
"By defending Yongcheng, the king will have room for maneuver. Then he can send envoys to the Qin army's camp to discuss peace, and face the north and surrender." At this time, some officials stood up to retort, saying:
"Now the Hornet Army is close at hand, but our army is roaring thousands of miles away. Far water cannot quench the thirst nearby. If the army returns to the Hornet Army to pursue it at this time, it will be completely wiped out. If we return to the capital and defend it, we will send troops The envoy went to the Qin army's camp to discuss peace. What if the Hornet army does not agree to negotiate for peace?" The Prime Minister was at his wits' end. Before the Prime Minister could reply, the Cockroach King waved his sleeves and said:
"Drag him out and kill him!" The soldier rushed out, caught him in the middle, and dragged him out. Prime Minister shouted:
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I just came up with the idea. The decision-making power rests with you. I am just a scapegoat." The Cockroach King was furious and shouted:
"Behead!" Then he sat limply on the ground and propped up his head with one hand. He had a headache! Then the soldier entered the wooden box and opened it, which was Xiang Guo's head.
The Cockroach King waved his hand and said:
"Go." The selected envoy stood up and said:
"Your Majesty, you should lead all the officials out of the city to greet you." The Cockroach King was helpless and reluctantly said:
"I know, let's go." The messenger went out of the city with the wooden box in his arms and stood in the Qin army camp. He was stopped by the guards and said:
"Where's the cockroach?" The envoy came up to talk and said:
"It's the envoy from the Cockroach Kingdom who has come to see the general. Please inform him." The soldiers saw this and sneered:
"It's a surrender." The envoy immediately replied:
"Yes! Yes! It's a surrender." The soldier replied again:
"Wait here, I will report now." The soldiers entered the commander's tent and knelt down to report:
"The ministers of the Cockroach Kingdom are asking for an audience outside the tent." General Sting stood up and said:
"Let it come in." The envoy entered the handsome tent, bowed his head and said with a smile:
"General." The foreign envoy was begging for mercy at this time, very much like a bereaved dog. General Stinger saw it and said:
"Why did the foreign envoy come to see this general?" The foreign envoy presented the wooden box and said with a smile:
"This is the most important gift from the king to the general." Then he placed it on the desk. General Stinger opened the wooden box, which contained Xiang Guo's head, and asked:
"What do you mean, Your Majesty?" The envoy took a few steps forward, stared at the cockroach head in the wooden box, and said:
"My king has no intention of attacking your army. The Prime Minister is just greedy. By attacking your army secretly, he can get abundant food and grass. He can also use this to dominate the world and become the overlord of one party. He always slanders and incites the king. Send troops. To this day, the capital is about to fall, and he realizes the seriousness of the situation, so he kills him and offers it to the general to show his heart." No matter how clever the foreign envoy is, he can't explain the poisonous general's determination to destroy the Cockroach Kingdom. The envoy hesitated for a long time.
General Stinger raised his eyes and said:
"The king of your country is unwilling to dedicate the city." The foreign envoy immediately replied:
"Yes, yes, the king and his officials are standing outside the city gate to welcome the general into the city." Then General Stinger walked out of the Qin army's camp and mounted his tall horse.
The envoy was leaning on his side, about to lead the general's horse. The general whipped it with a long whip, leaving marks on its face, and scolded:
"Can you lead this horse? Lead the way from the front." The envoy wanted to flatter the general, but he slapped the horse's hoof instead. Instead, he had no choice but to lead the way from the front. General Stinger led the army out of the camp.
When the Cockroach King saw that the army had arrived, all the officials behind him knelt down. Only the Cockroach King stood and bowed with a white jade in his mouth.
General Stinger sat on the tall horse and refused to dismount, staring at the standing Cockroach King. The foreign envoy was watching the stinging general's expression, and hurriedly stepped forward and said to the monarch:
"Kneel down." The Cockroach King secretly looked sideways with a fierce look in his eyes. The foreign envoy said again:
"Kneel down." Pressing hard with one hand, the Cockroach King bent his legs and knelt down, saying:
"General, please enter the city." General Stinger dismounted and walked forward, bent down and looked at each other for a while, took out the white jade from his mouth, and whispered in its ear:
"Please, Your Majesty, lead the horse to the bench for me." The Cockroach King raised his eyes and looked at each other, his face filled with anger, and his eyes glared.
Looking at General Stinger's expression, the murderous intent was revealed, making the Cockroach King dare not speak out in anger. Only step forward and lie on the ground like a dog.
When the ministers saw their king being humiliated, not a single cockroach was afraid of life or death and spoke directly to him. They just knocked their heads on the ground, their bodies kept twitching, and they did not dare to look directly.
General Sting stepped on it and mounted his horse. The Cockroach King leads the general's horse and leads the army into the city. General Stinger sat on the king's seat, enjoying the feeling of being a king. What a dignity it was. He focused on the Cockroach King and said:
"Write it." The Cockroach King said with a cute look on his face:
"What does the general want to write alone?" General Sting said four words and said:
"The city is destroyed and the country is destroyed." The cockroach army used despicable means to seize the high ground and the stone island. General Hornet sent troops to surround Shidao, trapping the cockroach army on Shidao and encircling it instead of attacking.
A general led his troops down to Shidao to break out. He fired thousands of arrows and killed Yiyi. The breakout failed. The water source and food on the stone island had been cut off, and the soldiers began to eat insects, or gnawed on the corpses of soldiers who had died of starvation. They sat together to see who would starve to death first.
The Hornet Army under the stone island began to make fire and make food. At this time, some soldiers were already crazy with hunger and fled down the stone island to grab food. The Hornet Army surrounded them and drew their swords to chop them. Blood spattered and fled down the stone island. The soldiers were all hacked to death.
The commander on the stone island looked at these soldiers and collapsed on the ground with hunger. He had no strength left. He faced the deputy general and said:
"Kill the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, let the sergeants have a good meal, and prepare to break out tomorrow." At this time, the messenger went to Shidao to meet the commander.
The coach stepped forward and said anxiously:
"How is the capital now?" The messenger handed over the creed and opened it. He was shocked, and his hands were shaking violently. As he stayed there, his head was pounding, as if he had been hit hard by something.
Upon seeing this, the generals gathered around and asked:
"General, how is the capital?" The general asked in surprise:
"The city is destroyed and the country is destroyed." The lieutenant general did not believe it and said:
"This letter is false. It may be a trick set by the enemy general to provoke us to send troops down the mountain and annihilate all our troops." He then angrily scolded the messenger:
"Is this letter false? Tell me quickly. If you disturb the morale of the army with this letter, I will kill you with one sword." The messenger was shocked but did not speak. The commander stood up and said:
"The letter cannot be false, the Cockroach King's seal is genuine." The commander ordered his soldiers to sneak into the camp of veterans or disabled soldiers and kill them, cook and distribute food to the soldiers, and then assemble the army. The commander stood up and said:
"You need to eat and drink well. We will start breaking out tomorrow." They began to break out in four groups. The commander stood up and faced the army and said:
"Lieutenant General on the left, you can lead an army of 200,000 to attack the enemy's east side; Lieutenant General on the right, you can lead an army of 200,000 to attack the enemy's west; Lieutenant General on the left, you can lead an army of 300,000 to attack the enemy's south. I, General, personally Lead the main force to attack the enemy's north, test its strength, and finally join forces to attack the enemy's weak link. The next day, they divided their troops into four groups and went down to the stone island, attacking from all sides. The army divided into four groups and surrounded them. It was like a battle between trapped beasts. The army surrounded these cockroach soldiers who had broken through. They were approaching from all sides and fell into a pool of blood. The general was riding on the war horse and saw a chariot galloping in the distance and collided with the war horse. , General Ma Fan threw his horse off and chopped it into pieces. The northern side was defended by an army of termites, which was relatively weak. The commander rode on his horse and charged back and forth. He led a hundred thousand remaining soldiers to escape back to Shidao and committed collective suicide facing Yongcheng. This was also a sign of loyalty. . The general led the army to attack the stone island. There were corpses on the island, and the main army was wiped out. The news soon spread to Yongcheng. The Cockroach King was shocked. This was the army of the whole country, and the whole army was wiped out. The general led the army into Yongcheng, faced the Cockroach King, and said:
"You were defeated because of your incompetence, but the general's benevolence allowed you to retain the title of your country. You are still the king of the Cockroach Kingdom. Assist the general to attack the coastal city of Ruluo Xizhou. Please sign the peace treaty." At this time, Cockroach. The country is already a vassal state of Da Qin and is at its disposal.
The Cockroach King was forced to sign the peace treaty and begin peace negotiations.
