Chapter 257: The Battle of Ailing

Jin Dinggong felt that what Ah Ci said made sense, so he decided to lead his troops to attack Wu when Wu and Qi were both defeated, so as to maintain the hegemony of Jin.

At the same time, Jin Dinggong was grateful, thanked Zigong again and again, and saw that Zigong had a series of seals in his pocket, so he also planned to give him a part-time job, and this Zigong did have the talent of Xiangguo. After Zigong thought that his crisis public relations strategy was foolproof, Zigong returned to Lu to report to Lu Aigong.

His series of coquettish and hot operations finally saved the country from the suffering of war, and also harmed the people of the world.

After Zigong returned to Lu, Wu's army also arrived. Wu and Lu united, counterattack the Qi army, the two sides fought successively, laid down many areas of the Qi country, and finally launched a decisive battle in Ailing, the two countries won a great victory, annihilated 100,000 Qi troops, became the largest annihilation war in the Spring and Autumn Period, known as the "Battle of Ailing" in history.

In the contest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, encirclement and annihilation battles were relatively common. However, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were few large-scale sieges and annihilation battles. This "Battle of Ailing" is the only encirclement and annihilation battle, in the late Spring and Autumn Period, the Battle of Ailing broke out in Qi and Wu, which can be called an unprecedented grand occasion, and this only large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle laid the foundation for the large-scale encirclement and annihilation of the Warring States after that.

In the Battle of Ailing, Wu and Qi each invested 100,000 troops to start a peak duel. This is the real ability to fight, and the rules of the rivers and lakes can prevail, so, the question is, what is the result of this battle?

In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin and Chu states were fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains for a long time, and the Central Plains could only have one hegemon, which led to the loss of each other's strength. In the context of the relative decline of the Jin State and the Chu State, the Wu State continued to rise, and Fucha naturally thought of winning the position of the overlord of the Central Plains, and had already engaged in the Chu State, and broke the capital of the Chu State in the Battle of Baiju.

Wu was full of self-confidence at that time, and Wu Wangfucha immediately united the armies of Lu, Di, and Tan to attack Qi, and sent a boat division to attack Qi from the sea, but this husband was too conceited and was defeated by the Qi army. This is the first time to cut Qi!

In the spring of the following year, Qi sent troops to attack Lu in retaliation for the princes' attack on Qi, and was defeated by the little barbarian girl and Ran Qiu of the Lu army, and at the same time Tian Chang also felt the sweetness, those four major families were consumed after being consumed in front of themselves like a defeated rooster, and also felt Zigong's great talent, only by letting these four families fight with the Wu State, will they be defeated more completely, and then they will be the only family, and then the era of winning the throne of Qi will come.

In 484 B.C., Wu Wangfucha received the news that the Qi army was attacking Lu, and under Zigong's words, he decided to lead Wu to the north again, and united Lu and other armies to attack Qi. At that time, the combined forces of Wu and Lu conquered Bo, stationed in Win (now Laiwu, Shandong), and fought a decisive battle with the main force of the Qi army in Laiwu Ailing.

As a result, the Battle of Ailing unfolded vigorously within the territory of the Qi State. In this battle, the troops of Wu and Qi were about 100,000. Of course, in the Spring and Autumn Historical Period, this was a melee between tens of thousands of people, and this 200,000-person battle was undoubtedly a very big battle.

Even when Jin and Chu were fighting for hegemony, the scale of troops in many battles was only tens of thousands. In the Battle of Ailing, the upper, lower, and right armies of Wu were respectively commanded by Dafu Xu Menchao, Prince Gu Cao, and Zhanru, and Wu Wangfucha personally served as the commander-in-chief, and retained a reserve of Fucha.

The army of Qi was led by Guoshu in the middle army, Gao Wupi led the army, and Zong Lou led the army. In the early days of this campaign, the Guoshu army of Qi defeated the Shang army of Wu. Of course, this is a deliberate show of weakness by Wu Guo. In this regard, the soldiers of the Qi State, who had little experience, were really fooled and chose to attack the whole army.

After the 100,000 troops of the Qi State attacked, the Wu army was also difficult to resist. In this context, Wu Wangfu took out the reserves prepared before, and personally led 30,000 elite soldiers, divided into three units, and charged with Mingjin as the number, which was unprecedented.

This Qi army can't take care of each other. For the army of Wu, because of the support of the reserve and the personal command of Wu Wangfucha, the momentum increased greatly, defeated the Qi army, and won the victory in the Battle of Ailing.

The mighty army of 100,000 of Qi was almost completely annihilated by the Wu army. In addition, the Wu army also captured the generals of the Chinese army of Qi in this battle, Guoshu and the doctors Gongsun Xia, Lu Qiuming, Chen Shu, Dongguo Shu, etc. In general, the state of Qi lost 100,000 troops in the Battle of Ailing, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

Since the end of the war, the four major family members have all declined, and only the Tian family is dominant, and naturally there is a Tian family to replace Qi, which led to the civil strife of Qi and caused the decline of Qi for a long time. In 386 BC, King An of Zhou, under the influence of Wei, officially ordained Tian He as the Marquis of Qi, and since then the Tian clan has obtained the legal status of the Marquis of Qi.

"Historical Records: Tian Jingzhong's Complete Family" and other historical materials recorded. In 379 BC, Duke Qi Kang died, Fengyi entered the Yu Tian clan, and the Jiang surname Lu withdrew from the historical stage of the Qi State. As a result, the Tian dynasty, like the three families, became an important historical turning point in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Correspondingly, after defeating the Qi State, Wu Wangfucha basically achieved the goal of dominating the Central Plains, not only seriously weakening the Qi State, but also realizing the deterrence of the small and medium-sized vassal states such as the Lu State. The Battle of Ailing was a large-scale and more thorough siege and annihilation battle in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was also one of the first examples of the use of reserves in the history of Chinese warfare.

For the battles of the Warring States Period, the Battle of Ailing in the late Spring and Autumn Period undoubtedly has high reference significance.

After the victory, Wu Wangfu's self-confidence was extremely inflated, and he really wanted to defeat the Jin State in one go, and the two armies met in Huangchi, which was already prepared under the persuasion of Zigong, and the Jin army finally defeated the arrogant Wu army.

The king of Yue, who was in the rear, heard that the Wu army had been defeated, and as his brother-in-law Zigong said, he was full of faith and immediately ordered troops to invade Wu. King Wu knew about this guy and began to jump out again, and hurriedly returned to the dynasty and fought with Yue Guo in the Five Lakes.

The little brute girl is more active, and she has already come to the battle with a thousand iron horsemen who play the real pavilion! The army of Wu State, which had been fighting continuously, had long been tired, and at this time, Wu Zixu had been killed by Wu State!

As the saying goes, if you listen to people's persuasion to eat enough, Wu Zixu felt that King Wu would destroy the country if he let go of Gou Jian, and if he didn't listen to the advice, he would cause trouble sooner or later, so he sent his son to another country. After Wu Wangfu heard about it, he suspected that this goods wanted to betray him, not to mention that now that the hegemony was imminent, there was no need for superfluous Wu Zixu, and they all said that the bird was hidden with a bow, and this goods seemed to be useless, so he sent someone to kill him.

After the death of this Wu Zixu, Sun Wu was sentenced to death on the outskirts of Wudu! That's the end of the two gods of war.