On the battlefield, the fierce battle is still continuing.
However, even though Emperor Zhou exerted his last fighting spirit and poured in all the savings of the entire Zhou Dynasty, even the guards around him were sent to the tower to join the battle.
Although batch after batch of "people with lofty ideals" headed by the Mohists, whether for fame or profit, they almost always supported Zhou Wangji one after another;
Although the battle once entered a fierce state, even the soldiers of the Qin army suffered a lot of losses in many places because of their carelessness...
However, as time went by, the balance of victory still slowly and irreversibly tilted towards the Qin army.
Without him, any conspiracy would seem pale and powerless in the face of absolute strength. This is the so-called ability to defeat ten groups with one force.
The Qin State, since Shang Yang's reform, has only known farming and fighting. Its army is well-trained, has orders and prohibitions, and has strong armor and sharp spears. Its combat power is infinitely higher than this group of improvised rabble;
Even if they are determined to forget themselves and be invincible, the Qin army will be better than the Zhou army. The burning man, who had clearly been burned by the fire and was in great pain, but still wanted to rush into the enemy formation and die with the enemy, was none other than an ordinary soldier of the Qin State.
The fighting strength is insufficient, the determination is not enough, and even the willingness to sacrifice is not as good as the Qin army! Not to mention the confidence to win.
Under such circumstances, it was quite unexpected to be able to block the Qin army for a while!
Accompanied by a loud "rumbling" sound, the city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time finally slowly fell down under the brute force of the Qin army's trebuchet. A huge gap suddenly appeared on the city wall of Luodu.
Without hesitation, the Qin army on the front line immediately waved the flag in front of Meng Ao, and the elite Qin army rushed into the gap one after another in an instant.
Needless to say, the Qin army wanted to use this gap as an opportunity to completely destroy Luodu's city defenses.
Fortunately, although the city fell, the people did not retreat.
Seeing the waves of Qin soldiers rushing towards the gap in the city wall, the Zhou army in the city instantly organized groups of soldiers to rush towards the gap, trying to block the Qin army from the gap.
However, even the Zhou army, which had the advantage of the city wall, was suppressed by the Qin army, let alone without the advantage of height.
Although the Zhou army's reinforcements have been very timely, and although the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty have braved the courage they have never had before, how can they be the opponent of the tiger and wolf-like Qin army who are tired all year round.
The Zhou soldiers who had just arrived at the gap were almost no match for the elite Qin army. In the blink of an eye, the Qin army, which cooperated tacitly, was about to completely break through the Zhou army's defense line.
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Listening to the bad news that kept coming from the front line, and watching the black smoke rising in the sky, the last emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Nan, stood alone in the empty hall. There were only a few people in the Zhou Dynasty. Now, half of the courtiers in the palace are gone, and the summoning bells in the palace are ringing constantly.
The courtiers either surrendered directly to the Qin army, or went to other countries. The better ones also strictly guarded their houses and tried to hide in them. But no one is willing to be the martyr of this already ruined dynasty.
Except, he is the king!
King Zhou Nan put on the most solemn clothes for worshiping heaven, which he had not worn for a long time. He combed his twelve strands of crown and walked slowly to the square in front of the palace. The sound of fighting outside the palace gate could already be heard in his ears. The whole city was filled with flames of war and smoke, and there was no longer the peace and tranquility of the past.
"In another quarter of an hour, the Qin army will reach the palace gate!" King Zhou Nan looked at the sky covered by black smoke in front of him and murmured to himself: "Then, the palace gate will be breached soon. ! Then they will attack the palace of the widow! Fortunately, the children of the widow have been sent away, I hope they are all safe!"
Just as he was thinking about it, not far from the horizon, outside the palace gate, suddenly a cloud of dust arose.
Immediately afterwards there was a sound of cheers. Apparently, an important place in front of the palace gate was captured by the Qin army again.
King Zhou Nan turned around and ignored what was going on outside the palace gate. With a flick of his right hand, the huge court uniform floated around. What appeared in front of King Zhou Nan was the Zhou Palace that had gone through hundreds of years of ups and downs.
On it, the carved eaves and painted buildings are as lifelike as they were when it was first completed, but the mottled colors silently tell the decline of a dynasty.
King Zhou Nan walked slowly across the threshold of the palace. I don’t know if it was because he was too old. He almost tripped over the threshold accidentally. Fortunately, the threshold, which had been in disrepair for a long time, had long lost its vermilion color. The exposed logs had weathered the wind and rain. It had already decayed due to the baptism of time, and actually split into several pieces under this stumbling block.
King Zhou Nan looked at the broken threshold, as if he saw the world falling apart now, and couldn't help but feel sad. He was about to express his feelings, but the fierce shouting of killing behind him got closer and closer.
"Forget it, let him go! The Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, and King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty burned the Lutai with fire and committed suicide. The world of our great Zhou Dynasty is over today! I will also be buried in this palace to sacrifice my eight hundred great Zhou Dynasties. Nian Jiangshan!" King Zhou Nan said as he waved his hand: "Burn!"
"No!" ordered the eunuch who had been following him, and then threw the burning torch in his hand into the pile of firewood poured with kerosene that had been placed outside the hall. Soon, the fire surrounded the firewood in the hall. They were all ignited, and the fire instantly illuminated the hall.
The eunuch who lit the firewood did not leave the hall like other eunuchs. Instead, he returned to King Zhou Nan with a calm face and tidied up his crown for the last time for King Zhou Nan who was sitting on the dragon chair.
King Zhou Nan was obviously a little surprised by eunuch Ling's behavior.
But then King Zhou Nan laughed again. Unexpectedly, throughout his cowardly life, the person who stayed by his side in the end was not his lover, wife and children, but the eunuch who came and went as soon as he called him. 33
That’s fine! That’s fine! It's better than that of King Zhou of Shang who rebelled against his relatives!
I just don’t know how the Danqing Iron Pen described itself in the history books a thousand years later?
Foolish and incompetent?
There must not be any good words to say!
That’s it! That’s it! Is King Zhou still arrogant, extravagant, jealous and resentful? I'm better off than him! It’s just that I don’t know who belongs to these thousands of miles of land? It’s fine to belong to anyone, as long as you don’t return to the violent Qin that destroyed our country!
That edict should have been sent to Handan!
Thinking about King Zhao's shocked expression after seeing the edict, and King Qin's indignation after hearing about it, King Zhou Nan wanted to laugh. This may be the only thing in King Zhou Nan's life that he has decided on!
"Although King Zhao is not a good person, if I can see dogs biting dogs in Qin and Zhao, I can be considered worthy of my ancestors!" King Zhou Nan thought to himself.
A click interrupted King Zhou Nan's fantasy. The huge palace finally ignored the attack of fierce fire, and the wooden beams finally burst with crackling flames. Immediately afterwards, the mortise and tenon structure, which embodies the efforts of countless craftsmen, gradually came apart due to the explosion of beams and columns, and the heavy ridge of the roof collapsed suddenly without bearing the load.
King Zhou Nan was buried in the ruins before he even had time to shout. The dust stirred up by the collapse of the hall even extinguished many flames around him, but then, the flames continued to burn along the collapsed wood, burning even more Exuberant.
According to later historical records, in the autumn of 259 BC, the fifty-sixth year of King Nan of Zhou, while Zhao State was going north to destroy Hu, Qin State dispatched more than 250,000 troops to launch an attack to destroy Zhou Zhi.
In ten months, more than 30 cities of the Zhou Dynasty were conquered. A quarter of a million troops joined forces in Luodu of the Zhou Dynasty. They attacked it fiercely and captured it. King Nan of Zhou set fire to himself in the palace.
The Zhou Dynasty fell in 787!
As the palace hall was buried in the sea of fire, the resistance of the Zhou army to the Qin army in the Zhou Dynasty gradually came to an end.
At dusk, the Qin army finally eliminated almost all the remaining enemies in Zhou Wangji. It's just that this result is obviously not satisfactory to Wang Lu. Due to the almost crazy counterattack and organization of the remnant enemy, although the Qin army had 250,000 troops, it was still unable to break through the key nodes, let alone put out the fire in the Zhou palace in time.
After the huge flames engulfed the main hall of the Zhou Dynasty, they followed the wind and spread to the surrounding palaces and pavilions. The royal family, eunuchs, and maids of the Zhou Dynasty had already fled for their lives with Xinruan, and no one came forward. Go make the save.
Therefore, the eight-hundred-year-old Zhou Palace and its hundreds of endless houses seemed unwilling to accept the occupation of the violent Qin. Just before the Qin army stepped into it, they followed him as if to kill themselves. The kings were reduced to ashes together.
What a strong palace, what a strong dynasty!
Outside the palace, the fierce street fighting finally ended after the fire gradually extinguished. However, by the time the street fighting ended, the once prosperous Luodu was already filled with ruins and blood stains.
Looking at the mess in this place, Wang Lu, as the commander-in-chief of the Qin Army, really couldn't be happy.
The soldiers who went to search the palace once again brought back bad news: the few silks, gold, silver and jade items left in the Zhou Dynasty's treasury and palace were either distributed to the defenders before the war, or were destroyed in the fire. , and there is not even a ghost in the legendary Zhou Dynasty's 800-year-old secret treasure.
Even the food, grass and weapons that the Qin army hoped for most were very little left.
This is not due to the fire, but to the fact that the armored soldiers in the Zhou Dynasty have not been repaired for many years, so food, grass and weapons are naturally scarce. Even the few grains, fodder and weapons used to defend the city were temporarily collected and temporarily built.
Immediately afterwards, the troops responsible for chasing the Zhou royal family also brought back bad news: just when they were about to catch up with the prince, the vanguard of the alliance army suddenly appeared and welcomed the people of the Zhou Dynasty into the army. Due to the huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, only some troops were left to monitor. , the remaining troops all returned to Luoyi.
Luodu, which he had fought so hard to capture, turned into a scorched earth. Not to mention grain, weapons, and supplies, even the King of Zhou and his clan failed to capture him. This was obviously unacceptable to Wang Lu. .
It can be said that this raid on the Zhou Dynasty was not very successful.
Of course, this had little to do with Meng Ao, who was commanding the front line, but rather the Qin court's miscalculation of the determination and extent of the Zhou people's resistance.
It's just that the matter has reached this point, and it's useless to think about it too much.
Fortunately, more than thirty cities in Zhou Wangji, including Luodu, are still in the hands of the Qin army. As long as the coalition forces that are as annoying as flies are driven away, victory will still belong to Zhao.
"Well done!" Wang Hao roared immediately after hearing the arrival of the coalition forces.
Ying, who had lost his troops and gained very little, was furious when he encountered a coalition vanguard who wanted to take advantage.
Can this king bear it?
Some people died, but not completely...
