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"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zuo... committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine."

When someone told King Lu Bai of Qi about this shocking incident, both Lu Bai and Tian Bao, Guan Zhong, Uncle Bao and others who were nearby were all astonished beyond words and could not speak for a while.

After a long time, King Lu Bai of Qi let out a long breath and said with a complex expression: "Prime Minister Zuo, you are worthy of our great Qi. There is no need to be like this..."

Qi King Lu Bai had no resentment towards Zhao Zhao, his brother-in-law, even though the country that was about to attack and destroy his Qi State was the Wei State from which his brother-in-law was born.

Because this brother-in-law has done so much for his country of Qi, from the "Civil War among the Young Masters" to the "Battle of Qi and Chu", and now, this brother-in-law has been extremely benevolent and righteous to his country of Qi, even if the country of Qi fell in the end.

And when he returned to Wei State, Qi King Lu Bai would not hate him for this. If he wanted to blame him, he could only blame Tianming for this, and he could only blame him for Qi State's own decline.

But what even Lu Bai did not expect was that his brother-in-law Zhao Zhao would eventually choose to die as a minister of the Qi State.

Although he also knew that Zhao Zhao's move was not because of his love for his country of Qi, but more to fulfill the promise he made to his father Lu Xi. This is what Lu Bai felt regretful about.

As the monarch of Qi State, he, Lu Bai, should bear the main responsibility for the decline and even collapse of Qi State, but his sister Kuan Ji really does not need to.

Just when Lu Bai was grieving, the right prime minister Tian Tao said with a cold face: "Your Majesty, I have something to say."

After that, with Lu Bai's permission, he told the exact scene on the city wall today, including the words of several palace ministers who ridiculed Zhao Zhao, the left prime minister.

"Is this happening?"

Lu Bai was furious after hearing this and immediately ordered the execution of those palace ministers.

On the side, Shangqing Gao Xi frowned slightly after hearing the monarch's order. He felt that in the current crisis, the whole country of Qi should work together to fight against the Wei army, and he should not kill his own ministers in front of the battle.

However, although his lips moved slightly, he did not plead for mercy in the end, because he also felt angry and believed that gentlemen like Left Prime Minister Zhao Zhao should not be criticized.

After giving the order to kill those gossiping palace ministers, King Lu Bai of Qi asked the ministers present if there was any way to repel the Wei army.

All the ministers in the palace remained silent after hearing this. Even the right prime minister Tian Ba, who had always been content and resourceful, was at a loss to do anything at this time.

The reason is that today's battle of the Wei army's attack on Linzi made most people see how powerful the Wei army was. Although the two famous generals Tian Dan and Tian Wu had fought to the death to defend Linzi, what was the result?

Tian Dan was unable to repel Wei general Zhao Jiang and was repulsed by the latter; and Tian Wu was also defeated by Wei general Le Yi.

It’s not that Tian Dan or Tian Wu are incompetent, it’s that the gap in strength between the two sides is too great. Unless God brings a natural disaster to the Wei army at this moment, Qi will not even have a 10% chance of winning. “PS: I’m thinking of Liu again.

Show, the meteorite falling from the sky is really awesome.』

At this point, they can only stick to the city and hope that God can give them some mercy in this desperate situation.

But it is a pity that God did not seem to have the intention to help Qi. In the next few days, the Wei army continued to launch siege on the north, west and east of Linzi.

To the north are Leyi and Qucheng, to the west are Zhao Jiang and Ji Wu, and to the east are Yanju. The Wei warships under Li Ji are anchored on the tributaries of the Zi River, with hundreds of crossbows, trebuchets, and dynasty troops. They bombarded the walls of Linzi City indiscriminately, as if they wanted to completely demolish the walls of Linzi City and destroy the last defense in the hearts of the people.

It is a pity that Wei general Xu Li is still in Langya County, entangled with Di Yangjun of Chu State Xiong Li and Yue State general Wu Qi, and is temporarily unable to catch up with the siege of Linzi. Otherwise, if Xu Li completes the south of Linzi, then Linzi The city was attacked from all sides.

But this was enough. After three full days of bombing, the west and north walls of Linzi City were bombarded beyond recognition. Several sections of the walls collapsed. This meant that Qi's last defense against the Wei army no longer existed. .

Seeing that the time had come, Zhao Jiang, the commander-in-chief of Qi, ordered the entire army to attack.

After receiving the general's order, Ji Wu, Cao Yan, Sima Tao, Le Yi, Ji Kuo, Qu Cheng, Yuanyi Hou Han Pu, Yan Kui, Li Wei, Zhou Kui, Cai Qinhu, Li Huo, Chen Si and other more than ten Wei officials The general of the country also ordered his generals to launch the final general attack on Linzi City.

To be fair, if the positions of both Wei and Qi had relaxed, the Wei army could still rely on the strength of its soldiers to engage in street battles with the invading enemy troops and engage in a final desperate struggle. However, now that the Wei army was invading in large numbers, the Qi soldiers were forced to launch street battles, and This means that the Qi army's desperate struggle in the city only delayed the doomed fate of Qi's fall.

Even among these Qi troops who fought desperately, there were also two famous Qi generals, Tian Dan and Tian Wu.

On September 14, the seventh year of Wei Zhaowu's reign, the capital of the King of Qi, Linzi, was finally defeated by the Wei-Korean coalition forces led by Wei general Zhao Jiang. Hundreds of thousands of Wei-Korean coalition forces poured into Linzi.

Seeing that the situation was over, King Lu Bai of Qi instructed his right minister Tian Bao to come forward and surrender to the Wei army on behalf of Qi, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties among the Qi people.

The state of Qi then perished.

After the Wei army entered the city, Wei general Sima Tao was instructed by his commander Zhao Jiang to lead his troops directly to the residence of Zhao Zhao, the left prime minister of Qi. However, he was shocked to learn that Zhao Zhao, the left prime minister of Qi, had committed suicide by taking poison three days ago.

Sima Tao hurriedly sent someone to report this matter to coach Zhao Jiang.

After learning the news, Zhao Jiang was shocked and immediately came to Zhao Zhao's residence, where he saw the body of his sixth brother Zhao Zhao parked in the mourning hall.

At that time, Zhao Zhao's mother, Wushi, was deceased. Kui Ji, Tian Wan, and their son Zhao Liang, and their daughter Zhao Mei were crying beside them. Zhao Jiang felt very unhappy when he saw this.

"Why don't you stop him from doing something stupid?"

Zhao Jiang, who had an upright personality, didn't care that he was in the mourning hall of his younger brother Zhao Zhao, so he grabbed Fei Wei, the chief guard of Zhao Zhaozong, by the collar and scolded him angrily.

Fei Wei lowered his head, his face full of shame.

"Shuai Zhao..."

Sima Tao secretly pulled Zhao Jiang's sleeve, indicating that he was in the mourning hall after all.

Only then did Zhao Jiang let go of his right hand that was holding Fei Wei's shirt, and looked at the body of his younger brother Zhao Zhao with a complicated expression.

To be fair, among the brothers, the one with the best affection for Zhao Jiang is Zhao Run and brother Zhao Xuan. For Zhao Zhao, a brother who went to Qi many years ago, he does not have deep feelings for Zhao Zhao. He still had some grudges in his heart, because when the Wei State was in trouble several times, Zhao Zhao, who was far away in the Qi State, had no intention of returning to the Wei State. Although Zhao Zhao returned to the Wei State at that time, it would actually be helpful to alleviate the crisis in the Wei State. There are no big changes.

But brothers are brothers after all.

After paying homage to Zhao Zhao and appeasing his two siblings, Zhui Ji and Tian Wan, Zhao Jiang left the Prime Minister Zuo's Mansion with a sullen face.

"Now, how should I report to His Majesty?"

He frowned and muttered.

Although he did not have a deep relationship with Zhao Zhao, it was just an ordinary brotherly relationship at best, just like how he, Zhao Run, and Zhao Xuan treated Zhao Jing and Zhao Xin.

But he knew that the monarch of Wei State, Zhao Run, had a very deep relationship with Zhao Zhao. Now that Zhao Zhao died from drinking poisonous wine, Zhao Jiang really didn't know how to report this to the monarch, Zhao Run.

"It's all this damn Qi country's fault!"

In a rage, Zhao Jiang ordered the massacre of the city, trying to kill all the Qi people in Linzi City, regardless of the royal family, ministers or civilians of Qi State, and buried his sixth brother Zhao Jiang with him.

Lieutenant General Le Yi was shocked to learn that the Wei soldiers under Zhao Jiang were massacring the civilians of Qi.

After all, the Wei army would never massacre civilians.

So Le Yi sent someone to find out what happened. After learning the truth, Le Yi stepped in to stop Zhao Jiang.

Le Yi said to Zhao Jiang: "Qi has fallen, and Linzi will belong to the Wei Dynasty in the future. How can His Majesty the King of Yan massacre the people under the Wei Dynasty? This will make the people of Qi hate the Wei Dynasty and lay long-term consequences for the country.

The root cause?"

Under Le Yi's persuasion, Zhao Jiang finally ordered to stop the massacre of Qi people, but even so, many innocent Qi civilians still died under Wei soldiers' swords, which caused some negative impact on Wei Jun's reputation.

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About the 20th, that is, in early October, Zhao Jiang's battle report was quickly sent to Luoyang and delivered to the hands of Wei King Zhao Run.

After seeing that the entire territory of Qi State had been occupied by his Wei army, Zhao Run was quite happy, but when he saw that Qi State's left prime minister Zhao Zhao actually committed suicide by taking poison before breaking the city, Zhao Run couldn't laugh anymore.

"Everyone, step back."

In the study room of Ganlu Hall, Zhao Run gave instructions to the general Chu Heng and the eunuch Gao He.

Chu Heng and Gao He followed His Highness's instructions and withdrew.

At this time, a loud bang was heard in the palace. The eunuch Gao He secretly glanced back and saw that a black jade toad that had been placed on the dragon table was violently thrown by the monarch of Wei State.

The wall was smashed to pieces.

This frightened him so much that he quickly quickened his pace and fled from the place of right and wrong.

After a while, Chu Heng, Gao He, Yan Shun, Tong Xin and other imperial guards who were guarding outside the palace looked at each other and heard a banging sound coming from the palace. It was obviously that the monarch of the Wei Kingdom was taking the table in the palace.

Cabinet furnishings vent.

After burning the incense for a long time, the movement in the palace gradually stopped. The eunuch Gao He hesitated for a while, but finally returned to the palace, hoping to persuade the monarch to take care of the dragon body. After all, this was his duty.

Returning to the study room of Ganlu Hall again, Gao He was not surprised to see that the study room was in a mess and many precious things were smashed. However, Gao He did not feel distressed at all. He was only worried about the physical condition of his Wei monarch.

"His Majesty……"

Seeing his monarch sitting on the messy steps, the eunuch Gao He stepped forward cautiously, brought the chair that had fallen not far away to this side, and helped his monarch up.

After venting, Zhao Run had calmed down a lot and sighed silently.

From the standpoint of the Wei State, Zhao Run actually had never resented Zhao Zhao. Zhao Run had never thought about resentment such as "being a Wei person but serving as the prime minister of Qi State".

Because in his opinion, Zhao Zhao has paid a lot for his country Wei.

Just like in the initial "Battle of Wei and Chu", if Zhao Zhao had not taken the initiative to go to Qi State as a hostage and persuaded Qi King Lu Xi to send troops from Qi State to the border of Qi and Chu to put pressure on Chu State, in fact, Chu State at that time would have

He is fully capable of killing Wei Guo with one hand.

You must know that the Chu State at that time was like Shouling Lord Jingshe, General Xiang Mo, Zhaoguan Guard Xiang Kuan, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, Diyang Lord Xiong Shang, and Xiling Lord Qu Ping were all there. If the Chu State was really against the Wei State,

If a full-scale war was launched, Wei would definitely lose - even if Wei recalled Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Nanliang, who was still exiled in Nanliang at that time, and Zhao Yuanke, the king of Yu who was living in seclusion, it would not help.

Because the Wei State at that time was simply not strong enough to compete with the Chu State.

Although Wei had repaid its debt to Qi in the "Four Kingdoms Campaign Against Chu" by going to war against Chu, Zhao Zhao had previously promised to "stay in Qi for the rest of his life" in order to persuade King Xi of Qi.

commitment, but it cannot be compensated for it.

Subsequently, during the war between Wei and South Korea, the Qi State, which had just put down the "civil strife among the princes" at that time, also sent the Julu Navy led by Tian Ao, Tian Wu, and Tian Tian's ancestors to Zhao Zhao's request.

In the east of South Korea, try to reduce South Korea's pressure on Wei as much as possible.
To be continued...