Chapter 45 and Yue Wang Goujian for Xi Shi
Shu Yongguo took advantage of the defeat of the Chu army in the Battle of Yanling, and led the Wu army to attack the Chu State, besiege the capital of Chao State, crusade against the land, and besiege Jiao and Yu. The king of the Chu Communist Party sent his son to take advantage of Shu Yong's Wu army to take advantage of the fact that the Wu army was unprepared, and waved his army to raid and destroy Shu Yong's country.
The state of Lu demanded from the overlord Jin that it was willing to make the state of Yan its vassal state, and was responsible for providing a part of the tribute to the alliance on behalf of the state of Lu. Ju and Di jointly crusaded against Yan, and Lu sent the general Zang Su to the rescue, but was defeated in Huxiao.
The Yan people also participated in the alliance of Lu, Song, Chen, Wei, Zheng, Cao, Ju, Di, Teng, Xue, and Wu presided over by the Jin State to resist the Chu State.
Because of the backing of the Lu State, the State of Yan neglected the State of Ju. The monarch of Ju was very angry, and seized the opportunity of Lu to neglect to help Yan and destroyed Yan in one fell swoop.
The Xianyu clan is a mobile tribal state in Beidi. The Di people in central Hebei established three small states. Namely: Xianyu; Fat Country; Drum Country.
Xun Wu, the secretary of the Jin state, pretended to join the Qi army and entered Xiyang, the capital of the Drum Kingdom, through Xianyu, but did not destroy the Drum State. In August of the same year, the Jin army wiped out the Fei State, captured the monarch Miangao, and the old land of the Fei State belonged to the Jin State. Xun Wu then led the Jin army to attack the Drum State, captured the monarch of the country, and made the Drum State a subject of the Jin State. Xun Wu led the Jin army to invade Dongyang, so that the Jin army disguised itself as a retainer, and rested outside the gate of Xiyang, so he attacked and destroyed the drum country, captured the drum and returned with kites, and sent the Jin general Shi Tuo to garrison the local area.
In the late Spring and Autumn Period, when the struggle for hegemony among the Central Plains princes was coming to an end, the strength of Wu and Yue, which were located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, gradually increased. The first to rise was the state of Wu, the king of Wu Lu took Wu Zixu as the general, defeated the Chu army in the battle of Baiju, and then occupied the capital of the Chu state, Ying, and dominated the southeast. In order to restrain the state of Wu, the state of Chu actively supported the Marquis of Yue, which made the power of the state of Yue grow rapidly, thus becoming a big problem for the state of Wu.
Yun Chang died of illness, and his son Gou Jian ascended the throne as the Marquis of Yue, and soon changed his name to the King of Yue. Wu Wang Lu used this as an excuse to attack Vietnam on a large scale, but was defeated by the Vietnamese army at the hands of Mao Li. He Lu died of injuries soon after, and before his death, he instructed his son and husband to "not forget Yue" Wu Wangfu to avenge his father, and prepare to raise troops to attack Yue, and learned that Gou Jian ignored the opposition of Fan Li and others, and decided to preemptively attack Wu. Fucha met the elite soldiers of Wu State, defeated the Vietnamese army in the Battle of Fujiao, occupied the Yue Duji, and besieged Goujian in Huiji Mountain. Gou Jian adopted Fan Li's suggestion, sued for peace with his husband, and bribed Wu Dazai Boyao with a lot of money. Although Wu Zixu believed that "if you don't destroy Yue now, you will regret it later", Fucha, who was eager to go north and compete for hegemony with Qi, finally adopted Bo Yao's opinion and agreed to negotiate peace with Yue. After the war, Gou Jian was a slave according to the covenant, and finally deceived the trust of the husband, and the husband released Gou Jian back to Yue after 3 years.
After Gou Jian returned to China, he swore revenge to destroy Wu, lay down to taste the gall, recuperate, and at the same time reused Fan Li, Wen Chong and others, and the national strength was restored. However, Fucha set the goal of entering the Central Plains in the north, and launched a series of wars aimed at hegemony during the period, and listened to Bo Yao's slanderous words to kill Wu Zixu, but did not have the slightest precaution against Gou Jian. Gou Jian came to Longcheng to see Longhui, at this time Longcheng has changed from a city to the scale of ten surrounding cities, there are 500,000 people living here, and the army has reached 100,000 people, which is exchanged by Longhui for 10,000 merchant chariots. Long Hui saw Gou Jian come forward and salute, and King Yue was honored to come here to visit. Dragon City is now large enough to reach a country, and this king has come here to ask for a general. King Yue, please speak, this king wants to ask the general for some weapons, I don't know if the general can respond? King Yue is to avenge King Wu's revenge. That's exactly what I mean. In this way, I gave the king of Yue 1,000 Greek chariots, 10,000 African bronze swords, 10,000 Mesopotamian bronze swords, 10,000 Italian hand axes, 10,000 Malay battle axes, and 10,000 Roman double-headed battle axes, which were enough weapons for the king of Yue to arm an army of tens of thousands of people. Great, I wonder what these many weapons generals are going to ask for in exchange? It's very simple, I only need one person. Oh, who's it? Shih Tzu.
Gou Jian was a little hesitant when he heard this. Long Hui looked at it and said, the Yue Kingdom has the greatest hatred, and it is so burdened, how can it be because of a woman who disappoints the countrymen and disappoints the clan, I am adding a thousand chariots to the King of Yue. The general is right, the king will go back and immediately send Xi Shi to Longcheng, no longer work for the king of Yue, I will send 10,000 troops to the king of Yue to transport weapons back to the Yue country by the way to protect Xi Shi back to Longcheng. Long Hui immediately sent 10,000 soldiers, equipped with 10,000 Solomon Islands bone throwing spears, 10,000 Etruscan flat-headed axes, and 10,000 Egyptian bronze swords.