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In September of the fourteenth year of Wei Zhaowu, Wei generals Sima An, Lian Pi, Wu Ji, Le Yi, Zhao Xuan, Wei Ji and others led a total of 300,000 troops to besiege Xianyang, the capital of the King of Qin.
Although at this time, the Marquis of Wuxin, Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Changxin, Wang Jian, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua, Yangquan Jun Ying Bo, and the Qin generals Wang Ling, Wang Lu, Zhang Tang and others still had some troops under their command, the Wei army was already victorious.
There is almost no possibility of retreating from the enemy.
However, just as the house leaked, it rained all night, and the Qin State was unable to lift the "siege of Xianyang". The chief concubine Zhao Ran heard that the army led by Wei generals Jiang Bi, Jin Piao, and Han Pu
, already on his way to his Qin country.
"The situation is over..."
After sighing deeply, Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, paid homage to Ying Sui, the new king of Qin, and said to the latter: "Before the death of the late king, he left a suicide note, and asked the minister to order it to be sent to the king of Wei in case of emergency.
Or in the hands of Concubine Qin, the Wei army is now encircling Xianyang in large numbers. We, the Qin Dynasty, are unable to resist. I want to fulfill the entrustment of the late king before his death. I wonder what the king's instructions are?"
The new king of Qin is Ying Ying's younger brother Ying Sui. This young king has always been in poor health. In recent days, he has been worried and has excessive mood swings due to various reasons such as "the death of his father" and "the country is in trouble".
Next, I couldn't afford to fall ill.
After listening to Zhao Ran's words, King Qin Yingsui lay on the couch and nodded weakly, indicating that he agreed with Zhao Ran's suggestion.
Seeing this, Zhao Ran, who returned to his residence after bidding farewell to King Qin Ying Sui, immediately sent someone to invite Lord Lantian to banish him, just because Lord Lantian was one of the few people who could still travel freely between Qin and Wei.
The Qin people, who would not be stopped by the Wei army, were naturally the best candidates to serve as messengers.
After seeing Lantian Jun Ying banished, the chief concubine Zhao Ran explained the reason and asked the former to immediately deliver the letter left by King Qin Hui before his death to Luoyang, the capital of King Wei.
Lord Lantian had long wanted to defect to the Wei State, but he did not want his Qin State to be beaten to pieces by the Wei State. He even hoped that the Wei State would peacefully annex the Qin State in the final stage of the war.
After reading the letter from his brother King Qin, Lord Lantian sighed: "If brother Wang had listened to my advice and not attacked Wei, how could we be in the situation we are in today?"
Having said this, he opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. After letting out a long sigh, he immediately left the city.
Since Xianyang was already surrounded by the Wei army at this time, Lantian Jun Yingban would inevitably bump into the Wei army's patrol soldiers when he left Xianyang. However, after identifying himself, he was brought to the Wei army's coach Sima An.
During this period, the final letter from the King of Qin in his arms was naturally found and presented to Sima An.
It has to be said that Lantian Jun Ying was relegated as a pro-Wei noble of the Qin State, and his connections in the Wei State were quite good, such as Sima An, Shen Yu, Wei Ji, Wu Ji, Zhao Xuan and other Wei generals.
Coming
In the past, they had given generous gifts in weddings and funerals, so even for this reason, Sima An, Shen Yu, Zhao Xuan and others would not make it difficult for Ying to be relegated. At best, they would just ask
The purpose of the banishment.
Lantian Jun Ying thought he had nothing to hide, so he told Sima An and other Wei generals about the entrustment of the concubine Zhao Ran, and said that the letter was written by King Qin to Wei King Zhao Run or Qin Concubine Ying Ying before his death.
Therefore, Sima An and others did not dare to demolish it privately.
After discussing with Le Yi, Shen Yu, and King Huan Zhao Xuan, Sima An decided to temporarily slow down the attack on Xianyang.
Because there are various signs that Qin may be ready to surrender to Wei. In this case, there is no need to continue to attack the city. After all, Wuxinhou Gongsunqi, Changxinhou Wangjian, Weiyang Jun Yinghua, and Yangquan Jun Ying Bo and other Qin generals are by no means mediocre. If the Wei army must forcefully attack the city, then even if the Wei army finally captures Xianyang, I believe they will pay a heavy price.
"One month, I will give you one month."
After returning the letter to Lord Lantian, Sima An said in a deep voice: "If no order is received from Tiance Mansion after one month, a certain general will launch another attack on Xianyang."
"One month is enough." Lan Tianjun thanked him.
In fact, one month is more than enough time.
After reaching an agreement with Sima An and other Wei generals, Lord Lantian left the Wei camp, boarded a warship of the Wei Ministry of War, and headed to Luoyang, the capital of the Wei Kingdom.
It only took five days before Lantian Jun arrived in Luoyang after being banished. He asked to see Wei Wang Zhao Run and presented the letter left by Qin Wang Hui before his death.
Holding this letter in his hand, Wei Wang Zhao Run felt very complicated.
To be fair, he did not intend to force his father-in-law to death a while ago. He was more inclined to use the decisive battle between the Wei and Qin armies to make the old father-in-law realize the gap between the two countries and surrender in accordance with the general trend. Wei State.
Unexpectedly, the old father-in-law had such a strong character that he would rather die quietly on the battlefield than say the words "surrender" from his mouth.
After returning to Luoyang, Zhao Run told Qin Concubine Ying Ying the bad news of King Qin Hui's death.
After learning the bad news, Ying Ying acted quite calmly in front of her husband and forced a smile to persuade Zhao Run to be concerned, because this was something that was bound to happen on the road to Wei's annexation of other countries, but Zhao Run afterwards But it was heard that Ying Ying was crying secretly in Youzhi Palace alone, and she alerted Zhao Run's fourth son, "Shang Jun Zhao Xing".
"Go to Youzhi Palace to invite Concubine Qin."
Zhao Run ordered the eunuch Gao Hedao.
Gao He retreated in response, went to Youzhi Palace in person, and invited Concubine Qin Yingying.
When she saw Lan Tianjun's banishment, Ying Ying was stunned for a moment. She seemed to have guessed something because of her intelligence. But even so, when she saw her father's last words, she still couldn't help but her eyes turned red. There was also a hint of crystal clearness in his eyes.
I saw her bending down and kowtowing in front of her husband, and said with choked sobs: "Your Majesty, I sincerely ask you to go to the State of Qin and persuade the State of Qin to submit to the Wei Dynasty. Please give me your permission."
Of course Zhao Run would not refuse. In fact, this was the purpose of inviting Ying Ying here. Although sending a woman to preside over the surrender of Qin seemed too disrespectful to the Qin people, in fact, it was just the opposite. In Wei, Ying Ying was the one who The most suitable person to come forward.
"After my beloved concubine arrived in Qin, remember to tell the ministers and generals of Qin that I am not a tyrannical person. It is a hundred-year plan to send troops to overthrow Qin. I hope that there will be no more wars and disputes in the Central Plains from now on. If they are willing to submit to me, the Wei Dynasty, I will naturally treat you kindly." Zhao Run told Ying Ying.
Ying Ying nodded and immediately followed Lan Tianjun to return to the Qin Kingdom.
Seven days later, Ying Ying arrived in Xianyang. She refused Shen Yu, Sima An and others' request to send troops for protection, and came to Xianyang City with only Lantian Jun Ying banished.
At this time, the entire Xianyang City was under martial law, and the soldiers guarding the city would naturally not let Ying Ying in.
Seeing this, Ying Ying asked Lord Lantian, "Who is the guard of Xianyang East City?"
"It's General Wang Lu." Lantian Jun replied.
Ying Ying nodded and scolded the Qin soldiers on the tower: "Soldiers in the city, listen, tell Wang Lu to come out and see me!"
It has to be said that Ying Ying served as the crown prince of Qin for more than 20 years, and then married to Wei and became an extremely favored concubine. Her aura was naturally extraordinary, and even the maids in the palace of the King of Wei privately spread the news.
In theory, I feel that Qin Fei Ying Ying is more powerful than Empress Mi.
After hearing what Ying Ying said, the Qin soldiers on the tower looked at each other in shock, as if someone had informed the guard Wang Lu.
After a while, Wang Hao learned about this and went to the city gate tower to look down. Suddenly, he heard a female voice yelling: "Wang Hao, do you still recognize me?!"
"Young Master?" Wang Hao was shocked when he heard the sound. He looked carefully and saw the woman next to Lantian Jun Yingying below the city. She looked very much like the 'Qin Shaojun Ying Ying' in his memory.
Immediately, Wang Hao waved his hand and shouted: "Hurry! Open the city gate!"
After a while, the east gate of Xianyang opened, and Wang Hao personally came out of the city to greet her. He respectfully saluted Ying Ying, who was walking towards him, with his hands and fists clasped: "Wang Hao pays homage to Young Master... er, pays homage to Concubine Qin."
It’s no wonder, after all, Wang Lu was a Qin general who was very close to Ying Ying. When Qin first went to conquer Wei, Wang Lu served as Ying Ying’s deputy general.
"Hmm."
Ying Ying responded casually and strode towards the city. Her posture and momentum made the nearby Qin soldiers look at each other in shock.
After entering the city, Ying Ying first went to see Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, and conveyed the goodwill of her husband Zhao Run. Then, because she learned from Zhao Ran that her younger brother Ying Sui was ill in bed at the moment, she immediately went to Xianyang Palace.
To meet her only brother.
When he learned that his sister Ying Ying had come to the palace, King Qin Ying Sui was both happy and ashamed.
Fortunately, his sister is a woman who is extremely favored by King Zhao Run of Wei. Since his sister has come to Xianyang, at least the Gaoyang Ying family will not be overthrown.
What is shameful is that he, a monarch who has just ascended the throne, cannot save his country, and finally has to turn to his already married sister, which makes Ying Sui quite ashamed.
It was precisely because of his complicated mood that King Qin Ying Sui didn't know what to say after calling "Sister".
At this time, Ying Ying had sat down next to her brother's couch, patted the back of her brother's hand, and said comfortingly: "Leave the rest to Yu."
Hearing this, King Qin Ying Sui felt at ease and nodded.
Suddenly, he asked hesitantly: "Sister, if I, the Qin Dynasty, are willing to cede the land, can I persuade Wei to withdraw its troops?"
Looking at her younger brother's pleading eyes, Ying Ying sighed in her heart.
Although she has married to the State of Wei and has made up her mind to assist her husband, this does not mean that Ying Ying has no nostalgia for the State of Qin. If she had a choice, she would of course hope to preserve the State of Qin, but she cannot, because
She knows that if she sees
I begged my husband to keep the Qin State. In fact, this was not a good thing for the Qin people. After all, if the Wei State did not completely annex the Qin State, then Wei and Qin would still have the possibility of fighting again in the future. By then, there would be more
The people of Wei and Qin died.
In order to avoid causing disaster in the future, Qin is destined not to be retained.
After thinking for a while, Ying Ying patted the back of her brother's hand and said comfortingly: "So, I believe that the annexation of Great Qin by the Wei Dynasty is not a bad thing either for the people of Qin or for the Ying family of Gaoyang..."
Upon hearing this, King Qin Ying Sui's eyes flashed with disappointment, and after sighing softly, he nodded slightly.
The next day, the great concubine Zhao Ran invited Weiyang Jun Ying Hua, Yangquan Jun Ying Bo, Wu Xin Hou Gong Sun Qi, Chang Xin Hou Wang Jian and other generals, as well as the ministers headed by Zuo Shu Chang Wei Yang to come to the palace. Inside, we carefully discussed the matter of surrender to Wei.
During this period, Ying Ying also represented the State of Wei, conveying the goodwill of her husband Zhao Run and appeasing these ministers and generals.
After Ying Ying's persuasion, most of the ministers accepted the surrender to Wei, but the generals who led the troops were quite controversial.
For example, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua, although he is the biological brother of King Qin Hui and Ying Ying's uncle, today, instead of speaking for Ying Ying, his niece, he questioned Ying Ying's words and thought she was not trustworthy - after all , Ying Ying once betrayed the Qin State, causing the Qin State to miss the best opportunity to weaken the Wei State, so that the Qin State fell into the situation it is in today.
Compared with Ying Hua, people like Wu Xin Hou Gong Sun Qi, Chang Xin Hou Wang Jian, Yangquan Jun Ying Bo and others did not say a word.
Of course, although Gongsun Qi, Wang Jian, and Ying Bo did not say a word, judging from the fact that they did not support Ying Hua, in fact, they may also be inclined to surrender to Wei - after all, once they come, This was the intention of the late king Ying Hui. Secondly, they were really not sure that they could defend Xianyang under the attack of the Wei army.
Seeing that no one supported him, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua was furious and cursed loudly in the palace, using words such as "treason", which made everyone in the palace lower their heads in shame.
Finally, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua left the palace in a hurry.
A moment later, when Ying Ying was discussing the specific matters of surrender with everyone in the palace, suddenly a guard from the palace came to report that Weiyang Lord Ying Hua had broken into the palace where King Qin Ying Sui was recovering from illness, and wanted to forcibly abduct the latter.
Upon learning this, Ying Ying was shocked.
Based on her understanding of Weiyang Lord Ying Hua, she certainly knew that this uncle was by no means a treacherous person, but an important minister who was extremely loyal to the Qin State. He kidnapped King Sui of Qin, obviously intending to abandon Xianyang and retreat to Longxi County or Qin State. northwest.
In this case, how could Ying Ying just stand by and watch?
Firstly, her younger brother Ying Sui is now bedridden and may die on the way if the carriage and horses are overworked. Secondly, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua's behavior may prolong the war between Qin and Wei. Both of these are Ying Ying. Don't want to see it.
Seeing this, Ying Ying quickly said to Wuxinhou Gongsun Qi, Changxinhou Wangjian, and Yangquanjun Yingba: "Wuxinhou, Changxinhou, and Yangquanjun, please help me intercept Weiyang Jun, and we must recapture it." My brother!"
Wuxinhou Gongsun Qi, Changxinhou Wangjian, and Yangquanjun Yingbo looked at each other and nodded slowly: "Yes!"
At this time, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua had robbed Qin King Ying Sui, placed the latter on a carriage, and drove the carriage out of the palace gate himself.
But it is a pity that Wuxinhou Gongsun Qi, Changxinhou Wangjian, and Yangquanjun Yingbao finally intercepted Weiyang Jun Yinghua at the west gate of Xianyang City.
The two sides had different ideas and fought hard. In the end, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua had too few soldiers around him, so the carriage that Qin King Ying Sui was riding in was eventually snatched back by the soldiers of Wang Jian and Ying Bo.
In desperation, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua had no choice but to fight his way out of Xianyang, gathered the remaining soldiers under his command at the military camp outside the city, and fled westward.
Around October of the fourteenth year of Wei Zhaowu, with the tacit consent of King Ying Sui of Qin, Zhao Ran, the chief concubine, and Wei Yang, the chief concubine of the left concubine, surrendered to the Wei State on behalf of the Qin State. The other ministers, including Wuxinhou Gongsunqi and Changxinhou Wang
Jian, Yang Quanjun Ying Bo and others all submitted to the Wei State.
During this period, only Weiyang Lord Ying Hua refused to surrender. He led his remaining soldiers to fight desperately out of Xianyang, broke through the siege of the Wei army, and fled westward.
It is worth mentioning that due to Ying Ying's favoritism, King Qin Ying Sui, who logically needed to immediately go to Luoyang, the capital of Wei King, to meet Zhao Run of Wei State, continued to stay in Xianyang to recuperate, and then went to Wei State after recovering.
At this point, Qin fell.
In November, Wei generals Sima An, Zhao Xuan and others integrated the Qin army in Xianyang. With the acquiescence of Wuxinhou Gongsunqi, Changxinhou Wangjian, Yangquan Jun Yingbo and others, the Qin army in Xianyang was discharged.
Armor and surrender.
In the spring and summer of the fifteenth year of Wei Zhaowu, Weiyang Lord Ying Hua fled to "Weiyang". On the one hand, he sent people to Yiqu to make an appointment with Yiqu to jointly resist the Wei State. On the other hand, he captured "Yong", the old capital of Qin State.
, and sent people to build a defense line in the "Guo Di" area east of Yongcheng, trying to resist the Wei army here.
Due to his own lack of strength, Weiyang Jun Yinghua personally went to Longxi County in the west and persuaded his distant cousin "Longxi Jun Yinghui".
Waiting until the beginning of May, Weiyang Jun Ying Hua proclaimed "Longxi Jun Ying Hui" as the king of Qin, and established the capital in Qin's old capital "Yongdu". He united with Yiqu and Longxi to fight to the death.
During this period, Ying Bo, Lord of Yangquan, witnessed the fall of his Qin state with his own eyes, and surrendered to the Wei state for the sake of his wife, children, and children. He was depressed and unhappy, and soon died of depression.
After learning about this, King Zhao Run of Wei sighed deeply and conferred the title of Lord of Yangquan on Ying Bo's eldest son Ying Jie, inheriting his father's fiefdom.
In the spring of the 16th year of Wei Zhaowu, Wei ordered Sima An and Le Yi to take charge of Xianyang. Wei Ji, Lord of Lintao, was appointed as the commander-in-chief. Gongsun Qi, the Marquis of Wuxin, and Wang Jian, the Marquis of Changxin, were appointed as deputy generals, together with Wang Lu, Wang Ling, Wang Ben and other generals.
, attack the "Puppet Qin" who established its capital in Yongdi.
The armies of Wei and Qin fought fiercely for several months, and Weiyang Lord Ying Hua took the lead in every battle, desperately trying to hold off the Wei army.
Unfortunately, at this time, Wei generals Shen Yu, Wu Ji, Lian Pi and others had led the Wei army to defeat Yiqu.
In this battle, the heroic King Yiqu was beheaded by Lian Pi, leaving Yiqu without a leader and defeated by the Wei army. Most of the remaining Yiqu tribesmen fled to the north, and some surrendered to Wei.
The destruction of Yiqu was equivalent to breaking an arm of Weiyang Lord Ying Hua.
In September of the 16th year of Wei Zhaowu, the Wei army captured "Weiyang", "Yongdu", "Guoxian" and other places. Weiyang Jun Yinghua tried his best to resist, but still could not withstand the Wei army's offensive, so he had to retreat to Longxi County.
After retreating to Longxi County, Weiyang Jun Yinghua desperately resisted the Wei army for a month, and then died of his injuries.
After Weiyang Jun Ying Hua died, the "Pseudo Qin" no longer had the power to resist. In just one month, Lintao Jun Wei Ji, Wu Xin Hou Gong Sun Qi, Chang Xin Hou Wang Jian and others captured the entire Longxi County.
Ying Hui, Lord of Longxi, had no time to surrender, so he was killed by the subordinates of Lintao Lord Wei Ji.
At this point, Wei completely occupied Qin.
From Zhao Run's first expedition in the 16th year of Hongde to the 16th year of Zhaowu, Wei State annexed other countries and unified the Central Plains. Wei King Zhao Run spent a full thirty-six years to successively annex countries in the Central Plains area, and finally in his fifth year
At the age of ten, he unified the entire Central Plains.
At this point, Wei Wang Zhao Run became the common ruler of the world.