Volume 10 Chapter 333
Chapter 333
There were no coalition troops stationed in the palace of the State of Zhen, but there were many scattered soldiers coming in and out. Xiao Xuan and Shao Fang led people around the palace. The scene here could only be described as horrible.
When they walked to the Cuijuan Palace, they happened to meet two soldiers of the Huan Army coming out. The two of them were tying their belts while talking and laughing.
"What do you think of this woman?" "She's so beautiful. I've never played with such a beautiful woman in my life!" "I heard she's the princess of the State of Zhen." "I thought she was the princess." "Haha——"
Xiao Xuan couldn't listen to it after listening for a while. He frowned, shook his head to the people behind him, and shouted in a deep voice: "Let's go! Leave the city and return to the camp!"
Xitang, including the palace of the State of Zhen, had been ruined beyond recognition. Xiao Xuan had only one feeling, that it was dirty. He didn't want to stay in such a place for a moment.
He urged his horse to go out and said to Shao Fang: "Order the whole army to set fire to the city. No one of the Zhen people in the city can be left alive!"
If the outside world knew what the coalition did in Xitang, not only would the evil An and Huan armies be discredited, but even the Chuan Kingdom would be implicated. The best way now is to completely destroy Xitang and wipe it out from this world, so that no one would know what the coalition did here.
Shao Fang nodded in understanding, shook his head and said: "Brother Wang is right. Xitang really can't be left here any longer."
The coalition of Feng, Yu, An, and Huan had already swept away all the wealth of Xitang. Now Xiao Xuan and Shao Fang proposed to massacre the city and set fire to Xitang. Naturally, Tang Yin, Lingshuang, Yueze, and Li Xin would not object.
At noon that day, the coalition hanged Li Hong in front of the palace gate of the Zheng Kingdom Palace. Next, the coalition blocked the city gate and launched a bloody massacre of the people of the Zheng Kingdom in the city.
The coalition army slaughtered people in the city, while the Feng army transported the people of Zhen from the outer city to Feng on a large scale.
Now the coalition army has ordered the execution of all the Zhen people in and outside Xitang. If they stay, they will die. Those Zhen people who originally did not want to move to Feng have to compromise.
While the Feng army was trying to win over the Zhen people to go to Feng, Pang Li quietly came to the teahouse run by Di You.
At this time, the teahouse was in a mess, with broken tea cups, tea bowls and tables everywhere, and dark black dried bloodstains were clearly visible on the ground.
Seeing this scene, Pang Li's eyes turned red again. She bit her lips tightly and walked through the teahouse carefully to the backyard. It was not much better here. It was messy and there were dried bloodstains everywhere.
The teahouse had been swept by the Feng army several times, and nothing was left. Pang Li walked around but did not find any valuable clues. Finally, she walked back to the yard, looked around helplessly, and couldn't help sobbing softly.
Could it be that the death of Brother Di will always be a mystery? Will I never find the person who destroyed my message? When Pang Li was feeling desperate, she accidentally saw the old tree not far from her.
Her heart moved, and she suddenly remembered that Di You had told her before that if there was important information to be reported and he happened to be away, she could put the information in the bird's nest on the old tree in the yard.
Thinking of this, she subconsciously raised her head. The bird's nest on the tree was still there. Feng Jun searched everything and ignored this place.
Pang Li came under the tree with the mentality of giving it a try. She used her hands and feet to climb up the tree in a few steps. She hugged the branch with one hand and reached into the bird's nest with the other hand. She touched it twice, and her fingertips suddenly touched a hard object. She was shocked and hurriedly took out the hard object. After a closer look, it turned out to be a bamboo tube.
With a look of surprise on her face, she slid down the tree trunk to the ground, quickly pulled off the lid of the bamboo tube, and poured out a roll of letter paper from it. She unfolded the letter paper with trembling hands. It was Di You's handwritten letter, and this letter was written to her.
Di You mentioned in the letter that if Pang Li could find this letter, it meant that he was dead. He believed that with Pang Li's intelligence, he would definitely find this letter.
He had received a letter from Pang Li, and he did think about escaping for refuge, but then he thought again that even if he could escape successfully, he would never be able to avenge his country and family hatred in his lifetime, and would instead implicate Pang Li.
Since he could not take revenge, he might as well sacrifice himself and create someone who could take revenge, and that person was Pang Li.
Tang Yin was suspicious by nature. Pang Li was his subordinate, and he would definitely not be trusted by Tang Yin. Moreover, Tang Yin's ability to tell Pang Li the news of killing him was also a test for her, so she thought of turning the tables and using her death to exchange Tang Yin's trust in Pang Li. Pang Li was originally a person close to Tang Yin. If she could gain Tang Yin's trust, revenge would become easy.
It can be said that the six countries that jointly attacked Zhen State were all enemies. He hoped that Pang Li would act according to the situation in the future. At the very least, she would get rid of Tang Yin, a despicable villain.
This is the full content of Di You's letter. After reading it, Pang Li suddenly realized that no one had destroyed her pigeon letter. The reason why Brother Di died was completely voluntary. He wanted to use his death to exchange her for revenge.
Tick, tick!
Drops of tears fell on the letter paper. Pang Li read the letter and cried unknowingly. How much sadness and anger, how much hatred and resentment it must be to make such a tough person willing to die.
It was unknown how long it took for Pang Li to come back to her senses in grief. At this time, she found that the letter paper in her hand was completely soaked with her tears.
She took out a fire starter and tried to light the letter several times but failed. Finally, she rolled it up and stuffed it directly into her mouth and swallowed it.
When Pang Li returned to Fengying, she seemed to have changed into a different person. She returned to her previous charming and amorous appearance. Her beautiful face was wearing a seemingly frivolous smile, but her eyes showed a cold feeling that kept people away from her.
From then on, she clung to Tang Yin even more tightly and was almost always by his side.
Although Tang Yin felt that Pang Li was too clingy, he did not hate her. It was mainly because of Di You's incident that he had developed a sense of trust in her. Tang Yin was always very tolerant and tolerant to those he trusted, and even indulged.
Xitang was destroyed by the coalition forces. The Li royal family in the capital and all the civil officials and military generals in the court were not spared and all became ghosts under the sword of the coalition forces. The monarch died, the court collapsed, and the Zhen Kingdom was leaderless. In fact, it existed in name only.
At this time, the emperor took the opportunity to come forward and issued a new edict, first praising the achievements of the six-nation coalition, and then announced that the fiefdom of Zhen State would be abolished and all its territory would be divided into four parts, which would be managed by the four countries of Chuan, Mo, An and Huan.
With the issuance of Yin Zhun's edict, Zhen State no longer existed in name.
So far, the Zhen State, which dominated the southwest, was known for its fierceness and ferocity, and had frightened countless people, was completely eliminated from the territory of Haotian Empire. Under the strong pressure of the six-nation army, the once arrogant Zhen State only lasted for a few months.
The demise of Zhen State was certainly related to its weak national strength, and Li Hong's arrogance was also an important factor.
He thought that since the emperor was incompetent and the imperial court was in decline, he could replace him. However, he was the first to be shot. He caused public outrage among the various countries. The powerful military but weak national strength of Zhen State could not stand alone. Moreover, Li Hong's actions made him lose the support of the people in Zhen State, causing him to be deserted by his relatives and friends, leading to the rapid disintegration of Zhen State, and he himself was hanged alive.
In the war to destroy Zhen, the most direct beneficiaries were undoubtedly the four countries of Chuan, Mo, An, and Huan. After all, the huge Zhen State was divided equally among the four countries, and the territories of the four countries increased by several counties at once. However, the most direct victims were still the four countries.
The Zhen land occupied by the four countries was actually a bottomless pit. Not only did it make it difficult for the four countries to make profits, but it also required a lot of manpower and financial resources.
The rebellion of the Zhen people was one of the headaches, and the military invasion of the western powers was an indelible nightmare.
The harassment and invasion of the western foreign states were originally only a problem faced by the Zhen Kingdom, and the Zhen Kingdom had always dealt with it well. The Zhen people used fierce force and vicious style to defeat many western foreign states.
But now that the Zhen Kingdom has perished, the Zhen Kingdom has been divided into four parts, becoming the Chuan Kingdom, the Mo Kingdom, the An Kingdom, and the Huan Kingdom. The western foreign states have begun to stir again, harassing and invading constantly.
In order to maintain the territorial integrity and face of the empire, the four countries that divided the Zhen Kingdom could only send troops and money to guard the border of Zhendi. Among them, the Chuan Kingdom, which dominated the overall situation in Zhendi, invested the most.
In the next few years, Zhendi became a black hole that devoured the national strength of Chuan. The decline of Chuan began precisely from the victory of destroying Zhen. Of course, this was also unexpected by Xiao Xuan.
The Feng and Yu countries, which seemed to have no benefits in the war to destroy Zhen, became the real beneficiaries. The Feng and Yu countries not only plundered a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from the Zhen Kingdom, but also migrated a large number of Zhen people back from the Zhen Kingdom.
The number of Zhen people who migrated from Yu State has exceeded two million, and the number of people who migrated from Feng State is even greater. Although there is no clear record, it is estimated that it is at least three or four times that of Yu State. Later, a large number of Zhen people continued to go north to find relatives and seek refuge, and migrated to Feng and Yu States. This greatly increased the population of the two countries in a short period of time, especially Feng State, which eliminated the disadvantage of a serious shortage of young and strong population at once, and Feng State's huge military force and strong military force were able to maintain.
Feng State annexed the eight counties of Ningbei, which made its national strength reach a qualitative change. The annexation of the five counties of Mobei did not make Feng State stronger, but instead aggravated the consumption of Feng State's national strength. However, the war to destroy Zhen led to another qualitative change in Feng State's national strength.
In the era of cold weapons, the number of people is also an important criterion for measuring the strength of a country.
The war that lasted for several months finally ended. The alliance of the six countries was automatically dissolved, and the coalition forces were disbanded on the spot. They had to return to their own countries. Before leaving, the monarchs of each country had to have another last dinner.