Chapter 22: Killing Zheng Jun with Hidden Arrows (2)
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When the sacrifice foot arrived at Daling, he first sent detectives to spy on the movements of the four countries, and saw that the armies of the four countries were stationed in the villages, and there were gaps to take advantage of. Secretly rejoicing and calculating.
As soon as Shikoku set up camp and settled, Saizu sent four groups of elite soldiers to harass Shikoku at night.
The sergeants who had specially explained to the assault led the attacked military camp to the military camp of another country, and faced each other in pairs, provoking a short-handed encounter between the two countries, and immediately and quietly withdrew. And explain how to deal with emergencies and so on.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, four groups of elite sergeants marched to the barracks in the four countries. Taking advantage of the fact that the sergeants in the barracks were already asleep, they began to attack and harass, and ordered an open fire to fight and enter the barracks. The soldiers of the four countries attacked and harassed each other, and led the pursuers of the four countries to chase each other out. When Zheng Bing quietly withdrew, the armies of the four countries achieved a clever two-by-two docking.
At midnight, although the soldiers of various countries were lit by lanterns and torches, it was difficult to distinguish between the other army and this army. They all thought that the army coming from the opposite side was Zheng Guo's attack. In the end, it became a two-by-two battle between the four countries, and it was only when Tianming learned that Zheng Jun's plan to lure the enemy. In the killing, not a single soldier of Zheng Guo was seen. Each complained of hardship, and the fighting spirit plummeted.
Song Zhuang was the commander, but it was difficult to dispatch the soldiers of the four countries. Before the army of the four countries could directly confront the army of Zheng Guo, they complained to each other and fell apart. Song Zhuang Gong had no choice but to let them retreat.
Seeing that the four countries had withdrawn, he sent someone to report back to Zheng Zhaogong, and he led the army to attack Liyi, wanting to take Liyi in one fell swoop and eliminate Jitu's forces. He wanted to use all his strength to assist Zheng Zhaogong in raising Zheng Guoguo. This is an expression of the dedication of the sacrificial feet. In exchange, the relationship with the prince and the minister of Zheng Zhao returned to the original intimacy.
The armies of the four countries retreated one after another.
On the way back to China, Song Zhuang received a messenger from Ji Tu to tell him that he had turned around and killed Liyi, so that Song Jun would see the friendship in the past and help him, and Ji Tu was willing to fulfill all the unfulfilled conditions to Song Guo according to the promise of that year, and only asked Song Guo to guarantee that he Ji Tu would temporarily stabilize himself in Liyi and avoid being attacked and swept by Zheng Guo's army. And fight for the opportunity to resume the takeover of Zheng Guo.
Song Zhuang Gong sneered, you Ji Tu also has today! In fact, Song Zhuang Gong had long lost trust in Ji Tu and had no good impression of him. However, Song Zhuang Gong is also weighing the pros and cons. It is just a matter of which one of Ji Hu and Ji Tu is in power to establish a country for himself or the greatest benefit to the Song State. Thinking about it, it was more cost-effective for Song Guo to be in charge of Zheng Guo by Ji Tu. No matter what, he Ji Tu still has a bit of fate with the Song Kingdom. So he appointed Hua Du to lead 300 military vehicles to reinforce Zheng Ligong.
It can be seen that the princes are sometimes enemies and sometimes friends. The vertical and horizontal diaphragms are all in the middle of the scale. Zheng Ligong and Song Zhuang Gong, who were still meeting each other just now, began to reconcile again due to the appearance of Zheng Zhaogong.
Wei Guo personally led the army to attack Zheng this time.
Not long after Ji Shuo ascended the throne, he learned that the Duke of Song Zhuang invited Zheng to fight, and he happened to want to take this opportunity to have an exchange with the princes of various countries. Especially for Song Zhuang Gong, it is more meaningful to meet. Ji Shuo is not very old, but he has a lot of ideas, and it is also his preference to lead the army to fight. Although there was no head-on confrontation with Zheng Guo's army this time, and there were losses due to misunderstandings, it was not painful for Wei Guo, and it was no big deal.
On the way back to China, Ji Shuo was also leisurely, watching the mountains and mountains, crossing the water and watching the water, and he was in a good mood.
However, as soon as he entered the territory of Weiguo, there was a report that Weiguo had set up a new king.
"Huh?" This was greatly unexpected by Ji Shuo, he never expected that he Ji Shuo racked his brains to kill his two brothers and thought that there would no longer be anyone competing for the position of the monarch with him, how could a new monarch emerge?
Further on, I saw that the patriotic army had blocked the way. Either the sword meets and fights to return to China, or it is to flee from the country. Wei Huigong was in a predicament at this time.
It turned out that Ji Shuo designed to kill Jizi and Shouzi, angry Wei Xuangong, and ushered in his opportunity to succeed to the throne. The important ministers of the court, the left son Ji Ji and the right son Ji Zhi, have always been in their hearts. But now that Ji Shuo is on the throne, the two sons and ministers don't dare to say much, because Ji Shuo has a group of killers. Whoever dares to be his enemy will use his killer to take his life. Although the two important ministers did not speak, Ji Shuo still did not give up, and in order to prevent trouble, Ji Shuo still removed his two old ministers from the post of secretary. Although the two old ministers were dismissed, the influence of the two sons is still there. Speaking still has a great influence in the DPRK.
When Ji Shuo led the army to leave the Weidu, the two old ministers began to move.
On this day, the left son Ji Chu and the right son Ji Zhi got together to discuss the abolition of the big event. The two of them really find it difficult to recognize Ji Shuo's virtue. Especially after being dismissed, his hatred for Ji Shuo deepened. The two always felt that this Ji Shuo as the king of the country was a disaster to the country and the people. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the whole country is still thinking about the anxious son and the longevity son, he wants to oust Ji Shuo from the throne.
So who can stand? While the two were discussing, someone came to the newspaper doctor Ning knelt in front of the door and asked to see him. The two of them were stunned, thinking to themselves what this Ning was doing kneeling? Anyway, the two of them still made an appointment with the scholar and knelt down.
Ning knelt down and said, "Do the two sons still remember the grievances of the Qihe wooden boat?" Now the people on both sides of the Qi River are singing the sad song of the second son taking the boat, missing the anxious son and the longevity. You are important ministers of the court, and you should not miss this opportunity today. β
When the two saw that Dr. Ning and they wanted to go together, they told Dr. Ning: "We are discussing who is safe." β
The scholar knelt down and said: "I have observed that among all the sons, only the prince of Qianmu is benevolent, and his virtue and ethics are convincing to the people. And he is the son-in-law of the king of Zhou, and can influence the people and princes of various countries. β
King Huan of Zhou has many daughters, and Weiguo is the neighbor of the Zhou royal family. If you can't marry a prince, marrying a prince can be regarded as the face of King Zhou. At the beginning, King Zhou Huan wanted to marry his daughter to Wei Jun, but the two sons secretly did something wrong and said a lot of bad things about Ji Shuo, so the daughter of King Zhou Huan married Ji Qianmu, the son of Wei.
The two old ministers felt that the person recommended by Dr. Ning was just right. also spoke his heart. So the three of them planned how to achieve the abolition. The three of them agreed that they deceived the courtiers with the lie that Wei Huigong killed Zheng Guo in battle, and when the new monarch was established, they would help the government to expel Ji Shuo. So first spread the rumor that Ji Shuo died in Zheng Guo, and then the left and right princes came forward to gather the courtiers, and supported Qianmu as the monarch on the grounds that the country could not be without a king for a day.
In this way, Wei Huigong, who was still in the war, was ousted from the throne for no apparent reason. And Ji Qianmu ascended the throne in a dignified manner and became the monarch of the country. This Ji Qianmu is from Wei Xuangong's concubine, but he is kind and kind, and is appreciated and loved by the important ministers of the court, regardless of whether the rumors are credible or not, all the ministers support Qianmu.
In 696 BC, the third year of Wei Huigong's succession, there was a coup d'Γ©tat in the Wei court. Ji Qianmu was promoted as the monarch.
Wei Huigong was turned away from the country, and he didn't know what to do. The people under his command reminded: "The lord is still Ben Qi country, first, Qi Xianggong is the lord's maternal uncle, and he should be able to support the lord to regain the throne, and secondly, the domestic situation has changed suddenly, there must be important ministers in charge, if you insist on continuing to return to the capital, there will be a fierce battle." Besides, the other party has already prepared, and the lord has little chance of winning. Why not take a break for now. β
At this moment, Ji Shuo, who has always regarded himself as flexible and smart, is really stupid. He didn't know what else to do. So he turned the head of the car to the northeast and defected to the Qi country. That's 12 years.
Saizu rushed to Liyi, Ji suddenly saw Saizu leading the army to come, knowing that it was powerful, he didn't dare to face it directly, so he closed the door and didn't fight.
Just when Saizu was trying to forcibly attack the city, the Song State Prime Minister Guohua Governor led the Song State army to arrive.
Hua Du shouted: "Sacrifice to the thief, treacherous, and not be captured!" β
So the guards came from behind the Zheng army, and Ji suddenly saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and organized forces from the city to kill the generals.
Seeing that he was under attack on his back, and that he did not know how many guards were coming, he had to flee from the flanks. After fleeing for dozens of miles in one go, Fang sorted out the remnants of the army and returned to the capital.
Ji Tu opened the city gate to greet Hua Du, and set up a banquet to entertain Song Jun. Hua Tu did not take a stand at first. It wasn't until Ji Tu once again promised the Song State that the old accounts of the Song State included the delivery of the three cities, and then Hua Du reluctantly left some of the men and horses and chariots and retreated back to the country.
The desperate battle of sacrificial feet did protect the peace and security of Zheng Guo's capital, and Zheng Zhaogong acted cautiously in the capital, which can be regarded as a safe passage through the chaotic situation of external invasion and internal strife. But with the help of the Song State, he couldn't capture Liyi for a while, and formed a long-term confrontation with Ji Tu.
Gao Qumi, a major minister of Zheng Guo, has always been dissatisfied with Ji Hu.
This time the sacrifice brought Ji Hu back to be the king, and he felt awkward in his heart. He thought that when Zheng Zhuang Gong wanted to promote his title, it was he who did not agree and failed to achieve it, and he also thought that in the year of Yi Zhongnian, the general of Qi State, he dedicated all the gold to his account, and it was he Ji Hu who did not agree to the marriage of Qi State, so that he lost a chance to make a fortune. And he found that Ji Hu never looked down on himself and didn't respect himself, and he was the first to agree to Ji Tu's usurpation, and now that Ji Hu is reinstated, he doesn't have a good impression of himself.
Since Zheng Zhaogong returned to China, he obviously snubbed him. If there are any important matters in the court, they basically don't discuss with him, although they don't ask him about Gao Qumi, after all, they won't have their own good fruits to eat.
Gao Qumi was thinking about how to cure Zheng Zhaogong to death, and Chong'er gave him the opportunity to turn over. He privately sent outlaws to assassinate Zheng Zhaogong several times, but he didn't have a chance to do it.
On this day, Gao Qumi learned that it was the day of Zheng Guozong's ancestral hall, which means that Zheng Zhaogong, the monarch of Zheng Guoguo, must go to Taimiao in person, and felt that this was an opportunity that should not be missed. Gao Qumi calculated the path from Zheng Palace to Taimiao all the way from Zheng Palace to Taimiao when Zheng Zhaogong came to the scene to worship his ancestors, looking for the safest place to start.
This time, Gao Qumi bribed the assassins to choose the pass, waiting for the assassination of Zheng Zhaogong. He wants to start supervising the battle to see the results, and then go out in person, to ensure that Zheng Zhaogong is turned out on this sacrifice day, and to meet his turnaround day in Zheng State.