The Moon in the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 593 Broken Knife
Finally, the hunting knife that had been with him for more than 20 years broke.

But it doesn’t matter, the hand is the knife, and the person is the knife.

There was still eight feet left, and he swung his hand and slashed out the last time.

The sword intent penetrated the bodies of the three people and dissipated in front of King Chu You's head.

The head of the thuja was chopped off.

No one dared to think about capturing him alive.

Until the head was chopped off, Thuja still had an indifferent expression.

He repaid the favor with his life.

His blood soaked the small cloth bag around his waist, that clean little cloth bag full of patches.

There was also a small cloth bag around her waist, which was newer and had a small orchid embroidered on it, but it had turned white from being washed.

Back then, the poor little maidservant lived in an old house in his hometown, and from time to time she would go to pay homage to and clean the two lonely graves.

She could never wait for Yabai to come back.

King You of Chu was frightened to the point of being stunned. It was not until Yabai's body fell down that he shuddered and came to his senses.

With this shiver, a few strands of hair fell off the golden crown on his head, and a knife scar appeared on the crown.

The sword intent is so sharp.

While being besieged by thirty-eight top-notch masters of the time, including three who were considered the world's top grandmasters, Yabai killed eleven of them and injured twelve.

Get close to Wang Bazhang, cut off Wang's golden crown! Cut off Wang's black hair!

King You of Chu forced himself to cheer up, ordered people to clean up the scene, bury his personal guards, and gave out generous rewards and pensions. Only then did he return to his bedroom in a state of shock.

Everyone present was still frightened.

After King You of Chu returned to his bedroom, he drank a pot of wine in two gulps and slumped in a chair. Only then did he feel alive again.

King You of Chu could not sleep all night. He had nightmares and was chased by a knife all night, waking up several times.

He will never forget this knife in his life.

The next day, King You of Chu ordered his men to rush horses to deliver Yabai's body to Li Yuan at the front line.

Li Yuan attacked the city non-stop these days with such fierce attacks that Fu Chu's people dared not even show their heads. The entire Juchao city was on the verge of collapse.

He was originally full of confidence and had a high spirit of fighting, but after learning that King You of Chu had been assassinated, he was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat on the spot. Even at his old age, he almost suffocated.

Moreover, this assassin was his close confidant who was sent for safety!
Moreover, such a dangerous person had stayed by his side for four years!

Li Yuan was really scared and secretly felt lucky. He almost died and his family was wiped out.

Fu Chu had a gloomy mind and had actually placed chess pieces around him many years ago!
What a good move! What a good move!
He was able to make such a master willingly surrender and to plot for so many years. He is truly a formidable opponent.

Next, Li Yuan became even more alert and careful.

Fu Chu now really impressed him.

Li Yuan first quickly wrote a letter of apology and sent it back to King You of Chu. Although he knew that King You of Chu would not misunderstand, he still had to show his attitude.

After all, I am guilty of negligence and inappropriate recommendation.

Explaining it clearly now and showing an attitude of apologizing can help avoid bringing up old issues later. Even if old issues are brought up, they can be dealt with leniently.

You can't treat the king frivolously just because he can't do without you now. After the crisis, that will bring you disaster.

Afterwards, Li Yuan was about to make Fu Chu lose more than he gained.

At this time, Fu Chu was naturally waiting for good news.

Fu Chu has enough confidence in Yabai. As long as Yabai can get close to his eldest brother, his eldest brother will surely die.

Brother is not the King of Qin, there is no way he can block this shocking sword.

Even the King of Qin may not be able to stop it if he has intentional plans!

Fu Chu is very confident about Thuja sutchuenensis.

Although he was beaten and fled in fear these days, he remained calm, confident and hopeful. He was just waiting for good news so that he could launch a full-scale counterattack immediately!

As long as the eldest brother dies, the imperial guards will naturally prefer to listen to me rather than Li Yuan when I give an order. Even if they don't listen, they will have no intention of fighting.

The good big brother is not really popular.

Of course, in addition to Fu Chu, there were also the nobles and generals under his command, who were also struggling to support him despite Fu Chu's confident attitude.

Every time they talked about temporarily retreating and returning to Jiangdong to defend, Fu Chu always told everyone to wait a little longer. Seeing Fu Chu's confident expression, everyone followed him and gritted their teeth to withstand Li Yuan's extremely fierce attack.

Fu Chu’s confidence does not sound fake. As long as he holds on, there is hope!
Then Fu Chu saw Yabai's head in front of the battle line, and received the news of failure.

Li Yuan's volley of arrows shot the news that Fu Chu had sent an assassin to assassinate King You of Chu, but the assassination failed, into the city.

Li Yuan thought it over again and again, and did not hide the strength of cliff cypress. Instead, he explained it truthfully. Of course, he did not mention the embarrassment of King You of Chu.

He only said that the assassin was extremely strong, but he still failed, and he also explained Fu Chu's conspiracy clearly. You are such a strong assassin, and your plan for so many years was originally foolproof, but the king was protected by God, and it still failed. What else can you do?
The morale of Fu Chu's army collapsed in an instant, especially the many nobles and generals who saw Fu Chu's expression as if the sky had fallen and knew that the truth was true.

Then they too despaired.

The hope that I had been holding on to for a long time disappeared, and hope turned into despair in an instant.

This is also Fu Chu's fault.

In order to boost military morale and pass the message to Li Yuan, Fu Chu made the assassination known to everyone, at least the middle and high-level generals and officials on his side knew about it.

The greater the hope you once had, the greater the despair that will turn into when hope is shattered.

Fu Chu couldn't understand why things were about to succeed, so why did they suddenly fail?

But he didn't have time to think about that now.

Assassination is never a decent thing, especially when the assassination fails.

More importantly, it means that the most critical plan has failed.

Originally, everyone relied on this little hope to withstand Li Yuan's attack. Now that hope is gone, how can we withstand it?
Li Yuan's side was different. Fu Chu's morale was low, but his morale was rising. Although the difference was not much, the difference was huge.

Li Yuan took advantage of the situation to attack the city without hesitation, and Fu Chu made a prompt decision and sent his loyal men to cover the rear. He led a large army to abandon the city and flee back to Jiangdong.

Li Yuan would naturally pursue the victory, but Ying Zheng would not let King You of Chu win so easily.

Meng Wu, who had already deployed his troops in Shangcai area, led 20,000 elite cavalry to attack Shouchun directly.

Wang Jian then led an army of 100,000 to attack the city and capture the stronghold.

King You of Chu was so frightened that he dared not pursue Fu Chu anymore. He urgently ordered Li Yuan to return to Shouchun and summon troops from all directions to fight against Qin.

The original fence-sitter hurriedly rode to the king's aid after Fu Chu fled back to Jiangdong.

Although it is a bit scary to face the Qin State suddenly now, if we don’t show our loyalty now, we may have no chance.

This time, Ying Zheng did not intend to really attack the State of Chu. Now was not the right time, and attacking Chu for no reason was not in line with his personality.

Ying Zheng attacked the State of Chu under the banner of Lord Changping, in the name of helping the State of Chu to restore order.

The intensity was extremely limited, and wherever the army went, no one was harmed, which truly demonstrated the demeanor of the heavenly army for fairness and justice.

If you don’t know about the style of the Qin army, you might think it has returned to the early Spring and Autumn Period, when morality was the most important thing.

Under the command of Ying Zheng, Wang Jian and Meng Wu also respected Changping Jun and followed his opinions, of course, under the guidance of Ying Zheng and the principle of morality.

If you ask us to march directly and quickly to attack Shouchun, that definitely won’t work!
Even if you are willing to cede land, it won’t work!
We, the Great Qin, came here for justice and morality, not for these few cities of yours.

It is certainly not possible to capture Shouchun and kill King You of Chu!
Even if we are here to restore order, we have to find out the truth first.

Even if what you said makes sense and there are witnesses, but we still have to investigate it. The King of Chu hasn't spoken yet, so we should give him a chance to explain, right?

After Meng Wu forced Li Yuan to retreat, Wang Jian gradually stopped attacking cities and strongholds. After taking seven cities and leaving them for Changping Jun as a stopover, Wang Jian stopped attacking.

With the leadership of Changping Jun and his reputation as a righteous man, Wang Jian took the city very smoothly. After almost all persuasion, the people finally opened the city and surrendered.

The Qin army took the city just as they said, without moving an inch, and handed it over to Changping Jun to manage.

As long as the Qin army does not disobey Changping Jun's orders, there will be no unusual movements.

He never commented on Changping Jun's management.

The attitude is very clear. You should handle your own family affairs. We, the Great Qin and the Great Chu, are on good terms. We are here to help for the sake of justice. We are here to uphold justice.

It was also because the Qin Dynasty recognized Changping Jun that they came to help Changping Jun restore order.

It is definitely not to change the name on your house title!

The actions of the Qin State were praised by the people of Chu. They were truly worthy of being the army of the king and the teacher of the sage monarch. The King of Qin was truly a particular and respectable person!
Changping Jun was even more moved.

The king is such a respectable man! I know that the king values ​​friendship and loyalty, and I have a lot of face in Daqin!
But Changping Jun was also somewhat dissatisfied. The King of Qin was too righteous!

It has come to this, why bother talking about morality with that villain? It would be better to just deal with him directly when he sends troops to attack Fuchu and his rear is empty.

With his own name and the ferocity of the Qin army, when both sides are defeated, he can decide the outcome in one fell swoop, and there is a high probability that his throne will be secured!
As a result, I only have seven cities now.

Changping Jun finally adjusted his mentality and thought that seven cities were not bad.

A good start.

At least with the support of Qin, these seven cities are completely under his control. Although the territory is still small for the time being, it is his after all!
It feels good to be in control of everything! It feels good to not be constrained by anyone!

With the support of Qin, we will be able to defeat Chu sooner or later!
When the Qin army stopped its attack, King You of Chu did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

Even though he hated it to death, King You of Chu had no choice but to send envoys to negotiate.

As for Fu Chu, he also fled back to Jiangdong in a panic, but his loss was mainly in morale, and the actual loss was not much.

At this time he was also certain that his good brother and he were not of the same mind, and that he wanted to use the power of Qin to inherit the throne.

Fu Chu sneered. It was a pity that his silly brother was courting disaster. It was obvious that the State of Qin was not so compliant with his wishes.

(End of this chapter)