The two did not speak at all, and the leader of the dead men returned directly to the remote courtyard.

When the other Assassins saw their leader returning, they approached one after another, and one of them asked:

"Big brother, has the matter been clarified?"

The Leader of the Dead Warriors said:

"Wait a minute, this matter is a bit troublesome, let's talk about it when the steward comes!"

"It's really troublesome, these people are too messy, the other party has such a powerful archer, and they don't say a word. ”

The Leader of the Dead Warriors said:

"I guess it's not that they don't say it, it's that they don't know .........................................................................................."

After the king of Chuzhuang pacified the civil strife and the destruction of Yong, his rule had become stable, and he had the ambition to go north to dominate. At that time, the Central Plains country was still the strongest in Jin, it suppressed Qin in the west and controlled Qi in the east, although Qin and Qi gradually rose or recovered, they were still not strong opponents of Jin. However, the king of the Jin Dynasty, Jin Linggong, was very brutal and unreasonable, brutalizing his subjects internally, and accepting bribes externally without trust, so the domestic rule was unstable, and the prestige abroad was declining, which provided a favorable opportunity for the king of Chuzhuang to go north.

The top priority of the prince of Chuzhuang was to attack the rebellious Yongguo. In the third year of King Chuzhuang (611 BC), King Chuzhuang set aside Ling Yin Dou and rode a chariot to the front line against Yongguo, joined forces with the troops in front, personally commanded, and divided the Chu army into two teams: Ziyue sent troops from Shixi; Zibei sent troops from Qidi and contacted Qin, Ba and barbarian tribes to attack the enemy. The king of Chu supervised the battle, and the soldiers stormed the Yong country. Soon, the Yongguo was defeated and declared extinct, and King Chuzhuang won the first victory since his pro-government. After King Chuzhuang quelled the rebellion and destroyed the Yong, his rule tended to be stable, and he had the ambition to go north to dominate.

After the king of Chuzhuang pacified the civil strife and the destruction of Yong, his rule had become stable, and he had the ambition to go north to dominate. Princes of the Central Plains

King Chuzhuang

King Chuzhuang

It is still the strongest in Jin, it suppresses Qin in the west and Qi in the east, although Qin and Qi are strong, they are still not the opponents of Jin. Shi Jin Linggong was also in power, but the power was still in the hands of Zhao Dun (Zhao Xuanzi). As Linggong grew, he brutalized his subjects internally, and was bribed externally without trust, so his domestic rule was not stable, and his foreign prestige was declining day by day, and the contradiction with the powerful minister Zhao Dun was extremely prominent, and it was the same as fire and water. This provided a favorable opportunity for the king of Chuzhuang to go north.

In the fourth year of King Chuzhuang (610 years ago), Jin Huiwei, Chen and other princes Yu Hu, with Zheng You's two hearts in Chu, refused Zheng Mugong to attend the meeting, and Zheng Zi's family wrote to Zhao Dun, pleading Zheng Ju between the great powers to have to obey the hardships of the order, and Jin Cai allowed to ask for peace. It can also be seen that Chu has regained strength, and Zheng has to consider changing relations with Chu.

In the sixth year of King Chuzhuang (608 BC), Zheng was without faith in Jin, and he cut down Qi and Song, all because of being bribed by Qi and Song, and gave up halfway, so he rebelled against Jin and "accepted the alliance with Chu". Attached to Zheng of Jin, he took the initiative to form an alliance with Chu. With the stability and strength of the Chu State, some Central Plains countries began to look at the wind and rudder and seriously choose their own way out. At this time, Chen Gonggong died, and the king of Chuzhuang did not send people to mourn, and Chen Linggong was angry and formed an alliance with Jin. Seeing that the time had come, the king of Chuzhuang immediately led a large army to attack Chen, and then to Song. Jin Zhao Dun led the army of Song, Chen, Wei, and Cao Zhuguo to attack Zheng to save Chen and Song. In the winter of the same year, in order to get rid of the passive situation, Jin tried to attack Qin's ally Chong, trying to force Qin to come to the rescue, and then it was convenient to ask Qin for success, but Qin ignored it. Jin attacked Zheng again to avenge the Battle of Beilin.

In the spring of the seventh year of King Chuzhuang (607 BC), Zheng was ordered by Chu to attack Song to attack the Jin Kingdom. Zheng and Song fought in Dajiao, the Song army was defeated, Zheng imprisoned Hua Yuan, won Lelu, and a chariot of 460 rides. Hua Yuan fled and built a city for the Song Dynasty. In retaliation for the invasion of Chong by Jin, Qin sent troops to attack Jin and besiege Jiao. Relations between Qin and Jin were tense for a time. In the summer of the same year, Jin Zhao Dun relieved the siege, and then united Wei and Chen to attack Zheng to report the Battle of the Great Thorn. King Chuzhuang immediately ordered his son Yuejiao to lead the troops to rescue Zheng, and Zhao Dun quietly retreated on the grounds that Doujiao belonged to Ruo Ao's clan and "will die, and he will benefit from his illness". Zheng attacked Song, Qin attacked Jin, and Zhao Dun did not dare to confront Doujiao head-on, although there was a reason why Jin Linggong was not a king, it also showed that the strength of Chu was rising day by day at that time, and even Zhao Dun, who was not convinced all his life, did not dare to fight. Just when the Jin foreign competition was unfavorable, the country was tyrannical because of the Jin Linggong, and this year was killed by Zhao Chuan, Zhao Dun and other sons of the black buttocks were the Marquis of Jin, which was for the Duke of Jin. At the beginning of the establishment of the Duke of Jin, that is, in the eighth year of King Chuzhuang (606 BC), he led an army to attack Zheng and arrived in Xi (now north of Zhengzhou, Henan), where Zheng was forced to make peace with Jin and make an alliance.

Fight for supremacy

Main entry: Winning the Central Plains and the Battle of Yi

In the spring of the eighth year of King Chuzhuang (606 years ago), the king of Chuzhuang led a large army to the north, and attacked Lu Hun Zhirong in the name of "King Qin" (scattered in the south of the Yellow River and the Yin Land in the north of Xiong'er Mountain, also known as Yin Di Rong, and was later destroyed by the Jin State), as for Luoshui, it reached the vicinity of Luoyi, the capital of Zhou Tianzi, and demonstrated at the border of the Zhou royal family, "watching the troops in Zhou Xinjiang". King Zhou Ding was panicked and sent Zhou Dafu Wang Sun Man to comfort King Lao Chuzhuang. When King Chuzhuang met with Wang Sunman, he asked about the size and weight of Jiuding. Jiuding is said to be cast by Xia Yu, symbolizing Kyushu, Xia, Shang and Zhou Feng are the treasures of the country, and they are the symbols of the power of the Son of Heaven. King Chuzhuang asked Jiuding, with the intention of "showing his desire to force Zhou to take the world" and replace him by himself. Wang Sunman saw that the state of Chu was flourishing, so he had to reply euphemistically: "I am not in Ding." ...... Although Zhou De is declining, the mandate of heaven has not changed, and the weight of the tripod cannot be asked. On the one hand, the king of Chu Zhuang expressed his contempt with "the beak of Chu State is enough for Jiuding"; On the other hand, he also realized that the conditions were not yet ripe to replace the Zhou royal family, so he withdrew from the army. In the ninth year of King Chuzhuang (605 BC), King Chuzhuang took Ruo Ao as his appearance. They were afraid that the ministers of the government and the opposition would slander the king of Chuzhuang, and they were afraid that they would be punished, so they attacked the king of Zhuang instead, and the king of Chuzhuang destroyed the entire Ruoao clan in one fell swoop. In the thirteenth year of King Chuzhuang (601 BC), the army of King Chuzhuang destroyed the Shu Kingdom.

In the fifteenth year of King Chuzhuang (599 BC), the Battle of Yingbei broke out in Jin and Chu, and King Chuzhuang fell

The situation of the Battle of Yi

The situation of the Battle of Yi

Zheng, Jin Guoshi would lead the Jin army to rescue Zheng and defeat the Chu army led by King Chu Zhuang. In the sixteenth year of King Chuzhuang (598 BC), King Chuzhuang attacked Chen in the name of Xia Zhengshu, the minister of Chen, and killed Xia Zhengshu. After the Chen was broken, the county was set up in the hometown of Chen. The ministers all congratulated the king of Chuzhuang, and Uncle Shen returned from the envoy of Qi, but he was the only one who did not congratulate. The king of Chuzhuang asked him, and he replied: The king led the princes to crusade because of Chen's internal strife, and now he occupies his land, why will he dominate the world in the future. So the king of Chuzhuang restored the court of Chen.

In the spring of the seventeenth year of King Chuzhuang (597 BC), after a winter break, King Chuzhuang took advantage of the situation to order Yin Sun Shu Ao to general the Chinese army, Zizhong to general the left army, and Zi Chong to general the right army. The prince of Chu Zhuang commanded the elite troops of the three armies of Chu State to the Northern Expedition to Zheng State. This was the largest, most grandiose, and most aggressive advance launched by the Chu State over the years. In the face of such a great opportunity, King Chuzhuang is determined to win.

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