On the first day of the eighth month of the first year of the Marquis of Zhao (488 B.C.), fifty miles north of the water, a one-sided battle was nearing its end. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The two sides of the battle were Tian Ben, the vanguard of the Zhao army, Zhao Jiabu, and thousands of Song people under the command of Song Gongjiao and Huang Yuan.

It turned out that when Wu Wangfucha was shocked to hear that there were changes in the country, he had no fighting spirit, and retreated in a hurry, Huang Jin, the principal of Pengcheng, also knew that without the support of Wu, it was only a matter of time before Pengcheng was conquered by the Zhao army, so he persuaded Song Gongjiao to flee with Fucha.

Song Gongjiao didn't have much knowledge, but the emperor's intention was to obey, he agreed to evacuate Pengcheng and completely attach himself to Wu, after all, an exiled monarch is better than being killed by Nanzi. After the news came out, the nobles of the Song Kingdom who gathered around them also panicked, shouting to "protect the wing monarch's side" and go south together.

In the past ten years, the "Heavenly Taoism" that flourished in Shangqiu was essentially no different from the Mohists that were popular in the Song Kingdom a hundred years later. The core idea is that the first thing is to "see ghosts", to identify the existence of ghosts and gods, and ghosts and gods can promote good and punish evil. The second is "Heavenly Will", which created the concept of "Heavenly Dao" in the teachings, believing that Heaven is the supreme master of will, that Heavenly Will is to promote benefit and eliminate harm, and that all ghosts and gods are the embodiment of Heavenly Dao.

In addition, it is yin and yang, love, thrift, funeral, non-music, Shangxian, and Shangtong, but Shangtong was changed to the Song people to achieve Datong under the leadership of King Xuan and Xuanzi......

On the whole, the ideas of these teachings were biased towards the middle and lower classes of small businessmen and farmers, and the witches who went to the mountains and countryside to spread the teachings were able to twist them together. But these ideas dealt a great blow to the aristocracy: frugality, funeral, and non-pleasure limited their luxurious life, and Shangxian even denied their right to rule the people by birth. As the influence of the Heavenly Daoist Sect grew, it caused panic among many Song princes, so the imperial clan and most of the Song nobles supported the Song Gong and planned to expel Nanzi and regain power.

But people are not as good as heaven, this civil war is about to end in their fiasco, in the Song State, the failure of the coup d'état is not as warm as the Lu State, starting from the Huaxiang Rebellion, after each civil war is accompanied by extermination and massacre, the interesting Song nobles are ready to run away.

Only the stubborn Sima Ziniu resolutely did not leave, he claimed to hold the last piece of land for the Song State, and led a division of Xiang clan soldiers to stay in Pengcheng. In addition to him, the nobles of the Song State who were loyal to the monarch and the imperial clan all chose to flee with the Wu army, and their clansmen and tribes combined, a total of five or six thousand.

At the end of July, on the road south of Pengcheng, the nobles were in the hands of the nobles pushing small carts, which were piled with clay pots, rice grain, and other large luggage, pulled by horse-drawn carts or ox carts, and gold, silver, jewelry, and bronze ritual vessels.

It was precisely because these Song nobles carried a large amount of goods and baggage that slowed down the pace of the whole army, so Fucha unceremoniously abandoned them and left first with the fast-paced Wu army. Although Huang Ying kept urging in a hurry, to no avail, on the third day after leaving Pengcheng, the group of crane tails was finally caught up by the advance of the Zhao army.

The battle happened suddenly, the cavalry of the Zhao army chased from the rear, and the fierce soldiers led by Tian Ben were even more unstoppable, and the line formed by the Song people in a hurry was suddenly shocked to pieces.

The victory and defeat were quickly divided, and when the mighty Zhao army's main force of tens of thousands of troops arrived, no Song people could retain the will to fight. The soldiers of the Song nobles began to rout, they discarded their scepters and banners, and scurried in groups to the rear. The defeat of this deputy army is similar to the scene of Peng Cheng's army defeating the Shangqiu army in Xiaoyi a year ago with the support of Wu State, but the winner and the loser happened to fall by one.

The road to the south was filled with smoke and dust, and everywhere were Song people who had lost their armor and fled for their lives, while the Zhao army pursued them unhurriedly, just as hunters on the grassland calmly chased the fleeing herds in panic. Occasionally, the Song people wanted to gather, and the assault cavalry led by Zhao Jia and others would not hesitate to move forward and scatter them fiercely.

The battle was over at midnight, and many of the captives who had surrendered were ordered to gather in a depression, and one of the soldiers, perhaps trying to relieve himself, sneaked into the bushes on the outer side of the depression, where he was immediately discovered. The Shangqiu soldier with the spear in hand shouted and cursed, and the Pengcheng people stepped back in front of the tip of the spear, constantly explaining something, with an embarrassed and flattering smile on their faces. Although they were still fighting with weapons in their hands not long ago, at this moment, it seems that they are just some wood-faced craftsmen and farmers, no different from the Shangqiu Song soldiers mixed in the Zhao army, but on one side they are fighting for Nanzi and Le's clan, and on the other side they are being coerced by Song Gong and Huang's clan.

In addition, there were also a large number of Zhao troops with a small team of ten or twenty people distributed in the narrow plains between the mountains to clean up the battlefield and capture those Song nobles who were hiding in Tibet.

When Zhao Wuxian's car arrived, Tian Ben and Zhao Jia returned to report the battle to him, and at the same time escorted two dejected Song nobles, who were the nominal monarch of the Song State and the Grand Si Kou Huangyuan of the Song State.

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Where the army rested was a meadow dotted with gray mushrooms and tree stumps.

After being pressed to the front of Zhao Wuxian and kneeling, Huang Ying raised his head, looked at Zhao Wuxian dressed as a prince and Le Qi, the head of the Le family who was dressed in armor beside him, and couldn't help laughing miserably: "Zhao Hou was finally able to fulfill his wish and turn his son's surname Song Guo into Song Guo!" ”

Zhao Wuxian's face was expressionless: "Si Kou is afraid that he is confused, and the widow doesn't know what you are talking about." ”

"Obviously God, the light of the future, Nanzi said that the way of heaven is omniscient and omniscient, if he knows about your reluctance, I don't know what kind of punishment will be made? Could it be that Zhao Hou really thought that Nanzi could go up to the heavens? Manipulating Haotian's will? People are doing it, the sky is watching, don't think that everyone in the world is blind! ”

"Nonsense." With a wave of his hand, Zhao Wuxian was about to let people pull Huang Ying down and kill him.

Huang Yu was still unwilling, and said loudly: "The prince is now ambitious, have you ever thought that one day Nanzi will get out of control?" She can even murder her own father, and even her uncle can frame and harm her, Zhao Hou thinks that he can really control her? Tai swore and said: Chicken Si Chen, the woman's words are used. Maybe it is this woman who will subvert Ru Zhao Guosheji in the future! ”

Zhao Wuxian sneered: "The widow never does something that he is not sure of, there is no need for the big priest to worry, and when he dies, he will have to separate the relationship between Zhao and Song, it is really a hard work, Ziye!" ”

"Nephew here!" Song Guoda Sicheng Le Qi, who was waiting on the side, was stunned when he heard it, and felt as if he had heard something extraordinary. Although many people have speculated about this matter, they dare to say it in front of Zhao Hou, Huang Yu will definitely die, and at this time, he suddenly heard Zhao Wuxian call him, and suddenly a spirit was excited.

But he heard Zhao Wuxian say to him: "The Le family belongs to the Dai clan, you are the suzerain of the Dai clan, and the emperor is a traitor and traitor, according to the Le family law, he should be executed!" ”

"Yui!" Le Yu promised, and was about to instruct Chen Dingguo, the Sima of the Le family next to him, to find a few executioners to practice the family method, but was corrected by Zhao Wuxian: "The widow wants you to do it yourself!" ”

"This ...... Uncle, I'm ......" Le Qi suddenly trembled, this sixteen-year-old boy was the new head of the Le family, and he should have led the troops to the battle, but because of his young age, he had been staying in Shangqiu during the civil war. Zhao Wuxian came to the front line this time and specially brought him with him, just to train his wife and nephew, so that he could have the heroics, wit and ruthlessness that a secretary should have......

He patted Le Lu on the shoulder: "When the widow was sixteen years old, he had already donated armor and led the army to fight against the bandits in Lusi and wrestle with the Qi people. You have taken the crown, you must see the blood, kill the traitors with your own hands, and establish the prestige of the head of the Le family! ”

In Zhao Wuxian's opinion, at least this son is not like his dead ghost father, who is a rotten wood that cannot be carved. And in the future Song State, he also didn't want Nanzi to be single-handed, as Huang Ying said, to get out of his control, continue to support the Le family, and form a different theory with Nanzi, so that the two can contain each other, this is the policy that Zhao Wuxian intends to implement against the Song State in the next ten years...... (To be continued.) )