Chapter 47: The war for Zheng Dan and Longyue
The predecessor of Zhongshan was the Xianyu tribe of the Di people, and Xianyu was a tribal alliance in the Spring and Autumn Period, consisting of several tribes of Xianyu, Fei, Gu, and Qiu. In 530 BC, Xun Wu, the great doctor of the Jin Kingdom, entered the drum capital Xiyang through Xianyu, but did not destroy the Drum Kingdom. In August of the same year, the Jin State eliminated the Fei State, captured the monarch of the Fei State, Miangao, and the old land of the Fei State belonged to the Jin State. In the winter of the second year, Zhao Gong of Jin learned that the Xianyu border was empty, so he led a large army with Xun Wu to break through the Xianyu Zhongren City. In the autumn of 527 BC, Xun Wu led an army to attack the Drum State, captured the monarch of the Drum State, and made the Drum State a vassal state of the Jin. Six years later, the Drum Kingdom was completely destroyed by the Jin Kingdom. In the autumn of 507 BC, Xianyu sent troops to Pingzhong of the Jin Kingdom, defeated the Jin army, captured the Jin warrior Guanhu, and avenged the Jin State for destroying the Fei State, the Drum State and occupying the Zhongren City. In 506 BC, the Xianyu people founded the country in China. Because there are mountains in the city, it is called "Zhongshan", that is, the Zhongshan country in the early Warring States Period, and the name of Zhongshan is first seen in the history books. In 491 BC, Xun Yin, the great doctor of the Jin Kingdom, fled to Zhongshan due to the civil strife in the Jin Dynasty. In order to avenge this, two years later, the Jin State sent the doctor Zhao Ying to "handsome and cut Xianyu" and broke Zhongshan. In 414 BCE, Wugong of Zhongshan led his tribe out of the mountains and migrated to the eastern plains, establishing a new capital in Gu.
At the beginning of the Warring States Period, among the three Jin states, Wei was the strongest [. In 408 BC, after Wei captured Hexi County of Qin, Zhongshan became Wei's next target.
Wei Wenhou wanted to destroy Zhongshan, but since Zhongshan and Wei did not border, Wei Wenhou hoped that Zhao would borrow a road for Wei to attack Zhongshan. Zhao Liehou Zhao Ji wanted to refuse Wenhou's request, but when the minister Zhao Li learned about it, he persuaded: "If Wei attacks Zhongshan, if it can't win, it will definitely consume a lot of money and weaken the national strength." If Zhongshan is eliminated, because our country is in the middle, we will not be able to retain the land of Zhongshan for a long time. After hearing this, Zhao Liehou finally agreed to lend the road to Wei Jun. In 409 BC, Marquis Wen of Wei sent Wu Qi to lead the Wei army to attack Zhongshan.
At this time, Zhai Huang's disciple was named Le Yang, who took the initiative to ask Ying to attack Zhongshan. Zhai Huang knew that he knew that he was a general, although his son died in the hands of Le Yang in the hands of Le Shu, the son of the general of Zhongshan Kingdom, but after weighing it again and again, he also recommended it to Wenhou and said: "If the king wants to seek Zhongshan, the minister recommends Le Yang." After hearing about this, the civil and military ministers of Wei strongly objected, thinking that let Le Yang lead the troops would definitely surrender, and Zhai Huang guaranteed that Le Yang would not betray with his own net worth and life. So in 408 BC, Marquis Wen of Wei led his troops to attack Zhongshan with Le Yang as the main general.
Le Yang captured Zhongshan and besieged the capital of Zhongshan - Gu had three years, Zhongshan Huan Gong killed Le Shu and boiled it into meat sauce and gave it to Le Yang. Le Yang sat under the tent and ate the whole cup of meat sauce. Wei Wenhou said to his master: "Le Yang ate his son's meat because of me. He said, "Even if you can eat your own son's meat, who else won't eat it?" "In the nineteenth year of Wenhou (406 BC), he destroyed the Zhongshan Kingdom. Wei Wenhou sent the crown prince to attack Zhongshan Jun and govern the border of Zhongshan.
After Le Yang returned to China, he inevitably had some arrogance about this achievement. When Wenhou found out, he called Le Yang to the palace and handed him the letters that slandered him, and Le Yang quickly knelt down and kowtowed and said, "This is not the merit of the minister, but the merit of the lord!" Wei Wenhou rewarded him for his merits and gave Lingshou to Leyang as a fief, but he no longer reused him.
The remnants of the Zhongshan Kingdom retreated into the Taihang Mountains. Ye Yu knew that Zhongshan Kingdom would soon be restored.
, Tian Mourningzi, the secretary of Qi, died, Tian and his heirs were in phase, there was a civil strife in Qi State, Tian Bu killed Tian Sun, and Tian Hui rebelled in Liqiu and took refuge in Zhao. [4 Afterwards, Tian Bu sent troops to surround Liqiu, and Tian Hui sent people to ask for help from Sanjin. Due to Tian Hui's request for help, the order of King Vaqi of Zhou, and the purpose of the Three Jin Dynasty themselves to ask for the name of the princes, the Three Jin Dynasty jointly sent troops to rescue.
The Three Jin Dynasty took the Wei army as the main force and the Wei general Zhai Jiao as the main commander, and launched a general battle with the Qi army besieging Liaoqiu. The allied forces surrounded and attacked the Qi army in a dense array of vehicles with scattered and agile infantry, and the Qi army was defeated, losing 2,000 vehicles and 30,000 troops, and the allied army piled up the corpses into two high hills. And Ning Yue, the strategist of the coalition army, suggested to the Zhao general Kong Qing that the corpses of the Qi army be returned to the Qi state, so that the people of the Qi state resented the people above them, so that the people above could no longer order their people to fight, so the Qi state could not continue to resist.
Wei and Qin often fought for the Guanzhong and Hexi regions. With Wu Qi as his general, Wei Wenhou led his troops to attack Qin, captured five cities, including Linjin, Yuanli, Luoyin, and He, and entered Zheng with a long body. The Qin State could only retreat to Luoshui, build fortifications along the river, and build Chongquan City to defend it. The Wei state occupied all of the Hexi region and established Xihe County here. On the recommendation of Zhai Huang, Wu Qi served as the county guard of Xihe.
After Wei occupied the Hexi region, it became a major problem for Qin's eastward advance, and Qin attacked the region several times, but all of them ended in failure.
Wu Qi, the commander of Xihe County, was a famous general of the Wei state, focusing on motivating the army to maintain high morale. He once asked the monarch Wei Wuhou to hold a celebration banquet for the soldiers, so that those who had made meritorious contributions sat in the front row, and gave the most valuable dishes and utensils; Those who make the next merit sit in the middle row, and the appropriate amount of food and tableware is reduced; Those who have no merit sit in the back row, and there is only a table without expensive utensils. After the banquet, they also gave meritorious service to the parents, wives and families of the meritorious ones outside the gate. In addition, every year, envoys are sent to the families of the deceased soldiers to offer condolences and rewards, so as to show that they will not forget. Three years after the implementation of this law, in 389 BC, the Qin state again mobilized 500,000 troops to attack Xihe County, and tens of thousands of Wei troops immediately did not wait for orders to wear armor and ask to fight. Wu Qi asked Wei Wuhou to send him to lead 50,000 soldiers who had not made meritorious contributions to counterattack the Qin army. Marquis Wu agreed and sent 500 chariots and 3,000 cavalry. The day before the battle, Wu Qi ordered the three armies: "All the officials and soldiers should ride from the enemy's chariot and apprentice. If the car is not carred, the ride is not ridden, and the vain is not in vain, although the army is broken, it is useless. ”。 The next day, the Qin and Wei armies fought in the Yin and Jin dynasties, and because of the high morale of the Wei army and the soldiers' lives, they finally defeated the 500,000 Qin army with 50,000 Wei troops and successfully kept Hexi.
On this day, Xi Shi came to see Long Hui, and the slave came to see the general today. What do the big beauties ask me for?
Can the general bring my friend Zheng Dan from Yue to Longcheng? Okay, I'll send someone to the country of Yue to meet the king of Yue. However, the king of Yue scolded the soldiers sent back to Longcheng, and Long Hui, who was rewarded, was very angry, this is with the help of my weapons, and his wings are full. Immediately ordered the Sixth Army and the Tenth Army 20,000 people to go to the Yue Kingdom to fight, the two armies fought the Yue Kingdom with the chariot defense, the secret weapon of the army of Longcheng is the spear, after the 20,000 throwing guns of the two armies, the Yue army suffered thousands of casualties, and then 20,000 soldiers rushed to the enemy position with flat-headed axes and rifle sticks, and so on to change the Egyptian bronze sword and war axe after getting close, and the killed Yue army scattered and fled, and finally the King of Yue surrendered and was willing to hand over the eight beauties of the Yue Kingdom that had been selected, including Xi Shi and Zheng Dan, and Long Hui also killed and injured thousands of people.