Chapter 180: Zhao Yue's defeat of Qi Division

In 431 BC, Zhao Jia conspired to expel Zhao Ni, and the position of suzerain was almost worry-free.

However, it was said that Zhao Jiayu would not leave Jinyang, but on this late autumn day, he received an envoy from Zhu Gou, the king of Yue.

The envoy said to Zhao Jia, "In order to prevent the Yue country, the Qi State repaired the city wall from the north of Langya, which stretched for hundreds of miles, but it affected the trade between the Yue State and the Qi State, and the exchange of the people. In this way, if the Qi people send troops to the Yue country, they can send troops freely, and if the Yue country wants to send troops to the Qi country, they will be rejected by the city wall. And on the way to come, I also saw that the city was also built with the city wall, which showed that the Qi people wanted to reject me with the Great Wall, which was equivalent to being invincible, but they looked at me and so on, and their hearts were bad, so the king of Yue hoped to join forces with Zhao Qing to fight Qi again, in order to break the Great Wall. ”

Zhao Jia listened to the calculation in his heart, he was about to face the succession at this moment, this Jinyang could not leave for a long time, if it was with Yue Fa, it would be impossible in a short time, it seemed that only Zhao Gou would lead the troops. Thinking of this, he said to the Yue envoy, "Please reply to the king of Yue, Zhao Jia agrees with the opinion of the king of Yue, and the Qi people are also very rude, not only to build the Great Wall, which is the side of the river, but to build two embankments, so it is really hateful to act in secret." "What does Zhao Jia mean by the two embankments? After the Qi people built the embankment, Zhao Yue and the Qi people no longer built the embankment along the river, but they built a long embankment like a city wall about twenty-five miles away from the river, so far away from the river, even if others see it, they may not know what this embankment is for, let alone not necessarily see it. But I didn't want this causeway to be brought to Handan by people who traveled all over the world, and Guanqin saw through the role of this causeway after some thought. Who is this causeway? But it is still Yin Ziqi, that Yin Ziqi was transferred to Pinglu and offered a plan with Xiang Fei, Xiang Fei I heard it and nodded and called it a clever plan, it can be said that the river embankment is not repaired on the surface, but the embankment is repaired in the distance, so that it can resist the threat of the river and not attract the attention of the Handan people, which can kill two birds with one stone.

The more you hear it, the more you rejoice.

Zhao Jia said again, "This time, I want to ask the Song State to help, and the forces of the three kingdoms will be overwhelming. ”

Yue made a big joy, "This is better, my king also said, this time, I want to combine my troops with your troops, and I will also borrow them to the Song State, just to give the Song State some benefits." ”

Zhao Jia laughed, "King Yue and I want to go to one place, or so, I will repair a book, send an envoy to the Song Kingdom with you to meet the Duke of Song, and the time of the war will be set for next year's Mengxia." ”

Yue Envoy said, "Good! ”

After the Yue envoy left, Zhao Jia repaired another book and sent someone to Handan to invite Zhao Gou to meet in Jiangdu.

In the middle spring of the following year, Zhao Gou rushed to Jiangdu to meet with Zhao Jia.

"Uncle Zhao Ni has been expelled from the Zhao Clan's major sect because of his betrayal of the sect master, and you and other small sects have more dealings with him, so I will inform you." Zhao Jia stared at Zhao Gou with his expression.

Zhao Gou was taken aback, and immediately understood what Zhao Jia meant. As the Handan Zhao clan, he is a small branch of the Zhao clan, and he used to rely on the Zhao Ni branch of the big sect. Now that this Zhao Ni has been expelled, who does his small sect rely on? Seeing Zhao Jia's question, it was obvious, this was hoping that he would show his loyalty, and this Zhao Jia was very likely to be the next sect master, although there was no successor designated. Thinking of this, he lifted his clothes and knelt down, "Zhao Gou and the small sect to which he belongs, in the future, only Gongzi Jia will follow!" ”

Zhao Jia wanted this sentence, and stepped forward to help Zhao Gou, "In this case, your family doesn't have to be too polite, but there are more people in the small sect, and people's hearts are inevitably uneven, in order to avoid chaos in the future, you still need to swear an oath!" Although these words are good words, they cannot be refused, and Zhao Gou understands it.

Three days later, Zhao Gou swore in the temple of the Zhao clan in Jiangdu: Dog, dare not to do half of his heart to do his own thing, but dare not to do his best from the alliance of Jia, the life of the palace and the flat casting, the dog dares not to cut his heart, to do his husband? Dare not to follow the alliance of Jia, and set the fate of the palace? Dare to break the oath and change his mind and not abide by the palace? Dare to restore Zhao Ni and his descendants, the descendants of Xianke, the descendants of Xiande, the descendants of Tongcheng, the descendants of Shi Cheng, those who are in the tomb of the Jin State, those who specialize in the alliance, the gods of heaven and earth, are willing to exterminate the clan and never turn over.

(This oath was unearthed in Houma in later generations and is part of the many "Houma League Books")

Zhao Jia got the oath of Zhao Gou, very happy, and after the oath passed, he said to Zhao Gou, "I have made friends with the King of Yue, and I want to unite the Song State in the Mengxia period, and the Three Kingdoms Alliance will attack the Qi State again. This time, it's up to you to command the whole army. ”

Zhao Gou knelt down on one leg, "I will not disgrace my mission!" ”

Besides, the Duke of Song, who defended the city Huangxi expelled Dazai Dai Xi, the imperial family can almost be said to be a monopoly, and the Duke of Song only felt a little bad at the moment, and the affairs of the court were almost all in the hands of Huangxi, and many decisions were also decided by him. At this time, the envoys of the King of Yue and the envoys of the Zhao family came and asked the Song State to send troops. This Song Duke wanted to take advantage of this to send troops to fight in order to regain some power, so he secretly met with the Yue envoy and asked the Yue King to personally lead the troops, so that the Song Duke could lead the troops at the same level. The king of Yue naturally met this request of the Duke of Song.

This Song Gong originally wanted to get acquainted with Zhao Qing's son-in-law Zhao Jia, but he never thought that Zhao Jia did not go on the expedition, but only sent a general to lead the troops.

430 BC, Mencha. Zhu Gou, the king of Yue, led the Yue army through the Song State and the Song Gong led the Song army to converge in Taoqiu, and the sailors of the country were pressed against the Qi country. Zhao Gou's troops also passed through Guiling, and wanted to attack Qicheng with the Yue and Song coalition forces.

The actions of the Triple Alliance Army can't hide Xiang Fei, and someone has already reported that this is not me personally leading the army of 600 times, and it is deployed in Jiami, Chengyang, and Judu.

This time, the generals of the three armies of the Qi army were as follows: Xiang Fei, the general of the Chinese army, Mu Luofei, the general of the left army, Sun Ji, Sima Ziwang, Sitian Yin Ziqi, and more than 36,000 soldiers.

The generals of the three armies of the Zhao army are as follows: the general of the Chinese army is Zhao Gou, the general of the upper army is handsome Yuzuo, and the general of the lower army is Luan He. There were 400 chariots and more than 24,000 soldiers.

Yue Song Coalition Army: Yue Gong is the mainstay, the Chinese army orders Yin Song, the left army Taiyun, the right army Yu Chang, and the Song Gong is the auxiliary army in the left army. There were 400 chariots and more than 24,000 soldiers.

The combined forces of Zhao, Yue, and Song were divided into two routes, but this time the strength of the coalition forces had the upper hand. Although the Qi soldiers were few, they had to separate to resist the enemy. Xiang Fei alone led 300 troops to the west to welcome the Zhao army, and Mu Luofei and Sun Xunan welcomed the Song coalition army.

The armies of Zhao and Qi met at Shouyuan (in the area of Chenqiang Village, 5 kilometers northeast of present-day Changyuan County, Henan).

Zhao Gou is in the crane wing formation of the three armies, the general of the Chinese army is located in the center, the upper and lower generals are arranged on both sides, and the wings of the crane are spread out on the left and right. The Chinese generals are well defended in this formation, which can prevent the enemy from breaking through; The two wings were maneuverable, closely coordinated, and attacked fiercely. When the soldiers attacked, there was a feeling of being surrounded on all sides and overwhelming.

Xiang Fei, on the other hand, confronted with a pluralistic phalanx, and divided into formations: "Qi" served as a flank attack or roundabout force; "Positive" troops acting as defensive or frontal containment; The "guerrillas" served as tactical units such as alert troops, forming a large phalanx in several small dense formations. In this way, the phalanx can occupy more space to deal with the enemy's strength stronger than ours, and some soldiers can do displacement maneuvers in the formation, so as to be suitable for hand-to-hand melee or luring the enemy into deep annihilation.

Changyuan, located in the plains, is suitable for rushing and killing duels.

A war of words before the war is inevitable. Xiang Fei ordered the soldiers to step forward and shout, and asked sharply, "I don't know why the Zhao army raised troops to invade me again?" You, the Zhao family, have repeatedly violated my borders and disturbed my people's livelihood, which is really not the work of the Lord of Benevolence! Ben Shuai had heard that Zhao Qing was also known as benevolence and righteousness, but now it seems that he is just in vain! If you leave the army early, the commander will not care about you, if you are obsessed, I am afraid that this is the place where your Zhao family's military horses are buried! ”

Zhao Gou also made people reply, "You are too deceitful!" Why don't you say that you will build a high embankment in the river, so that the danger of heaven will hang over the heads of our people? This is your unreasonableness first, and don't blame me, I am here to seek justice for the people! ”

Qi Ren said loudly again, "We have already stopped repairing the river embankment, why are we still chattering?" ”

Zhao Ren also said, "Hugh wants to confuse us and wait for the public!" I really don't know if I can't wait? What is the use of the long embankment twenty miles away from the river, this harm is even worse than the embankment! ”

Qi Ren said again, "Since this is the case, it seems that we have to do it!" ”

Zhao Ren also said, "Exactly! ”

The men and horses of both sides returned to their camps, and then a drum roared, and the carriages and horses of both sides surged.

Zhao Gou gave an order, "The Chinese army attacked, and the two wings were outflanked!" ”

This battle was ferocious, but when the Qi army rushed forward, it was copied by the Zhao army, and for a time the bow and arrow rained down, the chariot swept, and the flesh and blood flew sideways. The Qi army rushed left and right in the encirclement, and the Zhao army stuck to it.

This battle was fought until sunset, Xiang Fei's army was finally defeated by Zhao Gou's army, all the way to defeat and flee, from the surrender wall to the gate of the Great Wall, retreated into the Great Wall. In this battle, the Qi army lost more than 80 chariots and more than 2,000 casualties, which can be described as heavy losses.

Besides, Mu Luofei and Sun Ji went out of the Great Wall to the south to meet the Yue Song coalition army, and before they could talk to each other, Yin Song gave an order, and the coalition army rushed to the Qi army. The unprepared Qi army had never been prepared for the combined forces of the Yue and Song dynasties to start fighting without saying a word, and they were immediately caught off guard by the coalition forces, and the unprepared soldiers were killed and wounded under a rain of arrows.

The Qi army was in chaos, and when Namu Luo Fei saw that the situation was not good, he ordered the army to retreat to avoid its front, and scolded as he retreated, "The Vietnamese army is despicable, it is so insidious and deceitful!" Even so, he cursed, but he only expressed his anger.

On the way to retreat, Mu Luofei's car of the Qi army was hit by an arrow in the right and left shoulder, and Mu Luo Fei was also injured by a stray arrow, but fortunately there was no major problem. The tragedy of this defeat and retreat was unbearable, and the battle situation was completely one-sided.

In the pursuit, the left army of the Vietnamese army Taiyun was shot in the left eye, this Taiyun was also a ruthless character, he was so injured, he didn't fall off the car, his left hand pressed his left eye, his right hand grabbed the tail of the arrow, gritted his teeth and shouted, and he pulled it out. There was already a soldier who stepped forward to use medicine to stop bleeding and bandage. This Taiyun endured the pain, trembling all over, sweating like beans, and did not moan. After the bandaging was completed, this Taiyun clasped his hands, stood up tremblingly, and slowly walked to the chariot step by step, grabbed Changge to support him, and the green tendons on the back of his hands jumped. roared, "Continue the pursuit, the undefeated Qi army will not give up!" ”

There was a soldier who wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw Taiyun's hideous appearance, he was stunned and scared back the words. The left of the car was also stunned by Taiyun, stunned and did not move, this Taiyun lifted Changge to the car and slammed it, "Don't be stunned, pursue!" ”

The car Zuo reacted at this time, and his hands were a little trembling, but he was frightened.

This pursuit was to chase the Qi army from the Song-Qi border to boiled dates and then to Xiangqiu (west of Dongming County, Shandong). Exactly missed with the other way.

The two Qi armies were defeated and had to make peace. Xiang Fei and I sighed in the city, and then sent someone to make peace with Zhao Gou. In the coalition army, Zhao Gou's status was too low to negotiate, so he asked the king of Yue and the Duke of Song to come, and the coalition army gathered in one place, which put huge pressure on Xiang Fei.

After some negotiations, not to mention the compensation for grain and grass, this Zhao Gou proposed that Qi should not repair the river embankment, King Yue proposed that Qi should not repair the Langya Great Wall, and Song Gong proposed that Qi should not repair the Great Wall between Kang's father and Judu.

In the defeated country, I can only endure humiliation and agree.

Zhao Yue and Qi started and ended because of the Great Wall.