When Fengji learned that Yingdu was in danger, he immediately mobilized all his troops to return to the army for rescue. Unfortunately, Wu Zixu also knew the news and immediately went to intercept with his army.
Wu Zixu sent people to shout, "Ying has been defeated and the King of Chu is dead."
The Chu army was in shock and doubt, and the Huai army took the opportunity to attack. Fengji was eager to withdraw his troops, and the generals had no intention of fighting. The Chu army was defeated for thirty miles.
When he met, he was frightened and did not dare to fight again, so he led his army to retreat. Wu Zixu immediately led his army straight into the capital of Ying. Wherever he passed, the Chu army looked at the wind and surrendered.
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Qingji led his army to hide five miles west of Yingdu. Soon, nobles in Yingdu fled from the city. Qingji did not take care of these nobles. Most of these nobles were minor nobles.
After waiting for about two or three hours, suddenly a team of hundreds of people rushed west quickly. Among these people, there were a lot of soldiers, more than 200 people. These people escorted three vehicles and drove west.
The spy who had been staring at the road suddenly stood up and observed. After a while, he seemed to have confirmed the identity of the man, and immediately said to Qingji: "General, this is the King of Chu. Although he has changed his clothes and chariot, But I have seen its appearance, and the person driving in the middle is none other than the King of Chu!"
Hearing this, Qingji instantly became energetic, hugged his shoulders and said, "Did you see clearly?"
"You see clearly, I am willing to risk my life to guarantee this!" This spy was one of the secret guards of the Huai Kingdom buried in the Chu Kingdom. He was also one of the few people who had seen the face of the King of Chu. He was specially sent to help in order to catch him. King of Chu.
"Okay, it will be your first achievement to capture King Chu this time!" Qing Ji said directly.
Seeing that the King of Chu's chariot had entered the encirclement, suddenly the sound of war drums sounded, and the ambush troops who had been waiting for a long time rushed out instantly.
Qingji took the lead, holding a long sword and shouted loudly, "King Xiong of Chu, Qingji of the Huai Kingdom has been waiting here for a long time!"
When the King of Chu heard the sound of war drums, he immediately understood that the situation was not good, and quickly asked the guards to turn around and flee. However, Qing Ji had laid a trap just to wait for him to come, so how could he let the duck with his mouth fly?
Three thousand Tengjia troops rushed forward quickly, and King Chu's guards drew their swords to resist, hoping to protect King Chu from breaking out of the siege.
It's a pity that facing the Huai Kingdom's elite vine-armed army, even if the King of Chu's bodyguards were doubled, it would be in vain.
I saw the Tengjia army approaching the battle with three arrows, and the arrows fell into the convoy. Dozens of guards were shot down in an instant, and then the Tengjia army charged. King Chu's guards fought hard, but were easily surrounded and killed by the Tengjia army.
Looking at the guards who kept dying, in less than a quarter of an hour, there were only thirty or forty guards left in the King of Chu. Seeing that the overall situation was decided, Qingji immediately said: "King Xiong Ju of Chu, you have no way out. Surrender will save you from death!"
Xiong Ju looked at the few dozen guards left beside him, sighed in his heart, and then shouted to Qingji: "Xiong Ju is here, I am the one who lost this time, but the Chu people will not give in, others can Surrender, but as a king, how can I surrender and survive?"
After saying this, he pulled out the sword from his waist and killed himself.
Although Qing Ji regretted seeing King Chu committing suicide, he did not stop him. After the death of King Chu, the remaining guards also surrendered. In addition to King Chu, the other two charioteers were his wife and one of his sons.
Qingji did not embarrass them, but ordered people to take Xiong Ju's body back to the military camp, while he continued to stop the fleeing nobles here. It's just that Qing Ji's siege of the King of Chu has been exposed, and many nobles have taken a detour and left elsewhere. The clans of the Chu State even dispersed like birds and beasts, fleeing in all directions.
When Sun Wu learned that King Xiong Ju of Chu was dead, he immediately ordered his army to attack the city. Although Qu Min was determined and actively prepared for defense and recruited strong people to defend the city, under the general situation, he was just a mantis trying to block the car.
At this time, the Chu army had long been defeated by the Huai army. Even if Qu Min spent money and food to boost morale, recruit strong men, and set an example, it would not help. What's more, the people knew very well that the King of Chu and the nobles had escaped.
Even the king of Chu and the nobles fled for their lives. Are they going to die defending the city? Therefore, the morale of the Chu army was low.
Sun Wu led his army to surround the three towers and ordered his people to shout that the King of Chu was dead. The morale of the defenders of Yingdu was already low. When they heard this cry, they became even more frightened and were directly attacked by the Huai army.
Come.
"God did not bless Chu. This battle was a huge defeat. Yingdu had been accumulated for decades, but it was all gone in one day." Qu Min watched Yingdu being defeated, feeling infinite sadness in his heart.
The city of Ying was destroyed, but Qu Min was unwilling to surrender. He jumped from the city tower and died with his head touching the ground. Sun Wu ordered that he be buried with a rich burial.
The Huai army occupied the capital of Ying.
Sun Wu sent troops to take over the entire city and ordered people to patrol the city. All the people in the city returned home to arrest the rebels. Anyone who dared to take advantage of the opportunity to rob, meddle, kill, or set fires would be killed.
At the same time, military discipline was strictly enforced. Fortunately, these Huai army troops were all elites, and military discipline was very high on weekdays. In addition, there were Tengjia troops patrolling, so there was no burning, killing, looting, or looting.
Then the palace of the King of Chu was sealed, and all the money, children, and letters in the palace were counted. The Chu State's treasury was also taken over, and soldiers were sent from house to house to deliver food to appease people.
After the initial chaos, Yingdu quickly settled down. The people in the city were still very hostile and afraid of the Huai army at first, but after Sun Wu released grain, although the people were still afraid, they were no longer hostile to the Huai army.
Immediately afterwards, Sun Wu ordered people to arrest those who oppressed the people and took advantage of the chaos to cause trouble in the city, built a high platform in the city, and listed all their crimes. After trial, they were executed. Seeing those nobles, bureaucrats and their minions who were usually arrogant and bullying the common people being pulled out, beheaded and killed, the people of Yingdu rushed to tell each other, and the people were greatly reassured.
In addition, Sun Wu also asked people to return the fields that those people had seized, or the people's property that they had oppressed and plundered. At the same time, the wealth of the nobles in the city was searched, and then distributed to the soldiers on the grounds of Duke Huai's edict. Soldiers receive rewards and have higher morale.
The people of Yingdu began to accept the Huai army. Three days after the Huai army occupied Yingdu, Yingdu gradually recovered, and the people in the city began to travel and trade.
When Wu Zixu came with his army, he was surprised to see that Yingdu had restored some of its former prosperity.
After learning that Chu King Xiong Ju was dead, Wu Zixu was stunned for a long time. Sun Wu handed Xiong Ju's body to Wu Zixu. Wang Qi had promised before that if the battle was won, Xiong Ju would be handed over to Wu Zixu for disposal.
Seeing Xiong Ju's death, Wu Zixu's hatred could not be eliminated. He immediately abandoned his body in the wilderness and did not allow anyone to collect it for him. He also cut off his royal title and gave him the posthumous title of Jie, and he was called Marquis of Chu Jie.
The cruelty and cruelty are called Jie.
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The impact of the Battle of Huaichu was huge. The Huai State took the initiative to invade the Chu State for the first time, defeated the capital of Ying in one battle, and captured the Marquis of Chu Jie. The Chu State declined from then on. Wu Zixu succeeded in revenge, and Marquis Jie was killed in the wild.
This battle was a large-scale and far-reaching battle at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. The Huai State defeated the Chu State in one fell swoop, knocking this powerful country from the Spring and Autumn Period into dust. It also made Sun Wu famous throughout the world. ——"Global History·Chinese History·Eastern Zhou Dynasty Volume 5"
Huai attacked Chu, and Chu was defeated. The dead were buried in their homes, and Qu Min committed suicide. The people of Chu wrote "National Tragedy".
