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As soon as the king of Chu descended, Shouchun couldn't keep it.

Actually Shouchun couldn't keep it...

Because he was worried that Shouchun would be overrun by the Qin army too early, only the king of Chu and the guards of the capital knew about the plan to break through.

To be precise, even the city guards didn't know. They just obeyed Zhang Qi's order and said they were going to counterattack Yunyun. Only the people of the Zhang Qi level who really knew that Chu Wang was going out of the city.

In other words, the Chu soldiers guarding Shouchun were kept in the dark from beginning to end. They thought that King Chu was still in the city and they were protecting the safety of King Chu.

It was not until the King of Chu was escorted by the Qin army and a group of concubines and ministers to the city to persuade them to surrender, that they were stunned...

What's so special is that they were sold by the king of Chu, and let the soldiers guard in Shouchun, while the king of Chu fled with the woman's belongings.

Realizing this, Shouchun of course could no longer defend.

What's the point of keeping it?

Defending for whom and fighting for whom?

Wouldn't it be hard to get along with yourself?

So the guards opened the gate that night to welcome the Qin army into the city.

Since then, Qin Jun has made a lot of money...

Apart from other things, all the 50,000 defenders in the city surrendered, even if they were treated as hard labor, they were no small assets. There were also the people of Chu who moved all the way from Huaibei to the south. Many of them were concentrated in Shouchun and most of them were young and strong.

In addition, the warehouse was full of grain, equipment, workshops and craftsmen for making iron, arrows, and equipment... Shouchun was the capital of Chu, and Chu Wangfu originally planned to stick to this city for several years, so it was a complete set. The facilities are all available.

After Yang Duanhe and Shen Bing entered the city, they were stunned after listening to the general's introduction and counting. The materials and scale were not smaller than that of Xianyang, the capital of Qin State.

In fact, Shouchun originally had a larger scale than Xianyang.

As mentioned before, the territory of Chu State was the largest and most populous in the Warring States for a long time.

That's why it is said that among the six nations, the most difficult ones are the states of Zhao and Chu.

Zhao Guo is a strong military, and his famous generals have been fierce and fierce. Even after Changping was severely damaged by hundreds of thousands, he was able to defeat the invading Qin army again and again.

Chu State has strong overall strength, has food, soldiers and equipment, and is located in the south with sufficient space and time for development.

The problem is that the State of Chu itself is not up to date, and the domestic forces have failed to integrate and are not united enough. Otherwise, it is still unknown whether Qin will destroy Chu or Chu.

On the other hand, the Battle of Shouchun ended in a very relaxed situation... King Chu Wang was captured by Shouchun and surrendered. The city was besieged for more than ten days, and there was no fierce siege.

In contrast, the spoils gained during the capture of Handan and Daliang were much shabby... Handan of Zhao State was taken by force after years of disasters, and Daliang was flooded with water. What the Qin army occupied was nothing but ruins. Many people in the Zhao country even needed food from the Qin army.

In Shouchun, all the preparations were transferred to Qin Jun intact and almost intact, and it was only necessary to reorganize the household registration of the people and allocate the management of the staff, and the operation could be resumed immediately.

This broke Yang Duanhe's music. He couldn't close his mouth with a smile, stroking his silver beard and sighed:

"The old man has fought for decades and has experienced hundreds of battles, but he has never achieved such a result."

"Thanks to the lieutenant's clever tricks, you wisely captured King Chu, but you don't know how many lives you saved!"

What Yang Duan said to this.

Because before that, no matter what it was, everyone thought that the Shouchun battle was a protracted siege.

It was impossible for the Qin army to attack the city.

A capital city like Shouchun surrounded by water on three sides and thick with high walls is extremely difficult to attack by force, and it usually takes three times the strength of a siege to be equal.

While the Qin army only had 100,000, the Chu army in the city had 80,000.

The result of the Qin army's eagerness to attack the city was self-destruction.

And it is foreseeable that the Qin army will be unable to attack the city for a long time in the future.

Because Chu is not only a city in Shouchun, but also several big families and Xiang Yan are watching.

So Qin Jun could only surround him, month after month, year after year.

I'm sorry for the capital city of Shouchun for a few years.

Therefore, in the past few years, countless tragedies will inevitably occur, such as the fighting between the Qin and Chu armies, and the people in the city starved to death and freeze to death due to shortage of supplies...

Now all of these have been skipped because of the capture of King Chu Chu.

Shen Bing smiled and replied:

"Subordinates thought that this should be more thanks to King Chu. If he hadn't come out of the city and landed, I would have nothing to do with Shen Bing even with three heads and six arms."

Yang Duanhe couldn't help laughing:

"In that case, I still owe King Chu a favor."

"The old man will be more polite to him from now on."

Of course, Shen Bing knew what Yang Duanhe meant by "polite"... Don't think about it, Qin Jun would squeeze Chu King's usefulness to nothing.

For example, the king of Chu can be forced to subscribe to Zhaoshu and the cities in Huaibei that have not yet been subordinated to Qin.

Another example is to let the major clans of the Chu State bow their heads and claim their officials...Of course, the clans would definitely not agree.

But as a result of their refusal to agree, they became anti-thief, so the name was not right, and the Qin army became the master of conquering them.

But of course Xiang Yan would also think of this, so he would definitely announce that his negative cues had dropped and Li Changping was the new king...

Next, it depends on how Mr. Changping chose.

Xiang Yan did just that.

Before he even waited for the army to return to Dongting, he said to Lord Changping on the way:

"Your Majesty, the country cannot be without a prince for a day."

"Now that Ning Chu has no master in Chu, the king is the sage of the country and the brother of Ning Chu. At this moment, it is the time to say that the king saves Chu in distress. Don't reject the king!"

Mr. Changping had a one-hundred-point willingness in his heart, but he still had to refuse a few times, and said abruptly that he would lead his troops to rescue Yunyun.

Finally, under the persuasion of Xiang Yan and other generals, he was reluctant to be king...

There was this set when they were king, everyone tacitly cooperated with the performance, and then simply held a ceremony and it was over.

Then Xiang Yan immediately sent a quick horse to inform the various cities in the Chu Kingdom...including the nobles of Zhao, Qu, and Jing.

Although it does not seem to matter whether these nobles are notified, because when the Chu King is under his control, they will fight on their own. How can they easily surrender when the new king is on the throne?

However, it is very important from the perspective of fighting against Qin.

This is because if the nobles only admit that they do not recognize Changping Lord, then the Chu Kingdom will be dead, or it can be said that the nobles are divided into one family.

But if he still recognizes Emperor Changping as the king, then the Kingdom of Chu is at least in the face. One day Xiang Yan may organize these nobles to fight against Qin and launch a counterattack.

Therefore, Xiang Yan not only sent messengers to inform them, but also sent messengers to the nobles to express their grievances and hope that they would recognize Lord Changping.