The dog Rong seemed to have come prepared this time, and soon invaded many cities in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was about to reach Jingyang in Wangji. The army of the Western Zhou Dynasty is not an ornament, the large army chariots are fast, the flags are waving, the vanguard army of the ten times has arrived, and a fierce battle is about to begin. At this time, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme.

The Western Zhou army was indeed like a soldier descending from heaven, and they repelled the attacking enemy to Taiyuan near the border with an invincible and awe-inspiring momentum. Such speed, such strength, and such results made everyone show joy, and everyone had to praise and admire the coach. How could it have been possible to end the tense battle so quickly without the strong command of the commander! After the triumph, King Xuan of Zhou held a banquet for Yin Jipu and all the soldiers to celebrate his achievements. The expedition of the army is to stabilize the country and secure the country, and the soldiers are united in their hearts, which is a glorious thing. However, this glorious acquisition is inseparable from the leadership of the coach, and it is really a matter of pride for Xizhou to have such a talent.

There were many ministers attending the banquet, such as Zhang Zhong, who was both loyal and filial:

In June, the dispatch of troops was urgent, and the military vehicles were ready. The horses were strong and mighty, and everyone wore military uniforms. The dog is fierce, and our border is urgent. The king of Zhou ordered me to go on an expedition to defend the country.

The four dark horses are well matched, and they are well-trained in advance and retreat. It was the height of summer in June, and it was made into the uniform of our army. The uniforms of our army have been completed, and the march is more than enough. The king of Zhou ordered me to go on an expedition to assist the Son of Heaven to stabilize.

The stallion is four tall, with a wide head and big ears. Just to crusade against the dog and establish supreme merit. Strict and cautious, take the enemy army seriously. Take the enemy army seriously and make our country stable.

The dog Rong is not weak, and it occupies Jiao and is garrisoned. I also committed a pickaxe and a fang, and soon arrived in Jingyang. It is woven with a phoenix bird pattern, and the white flag is bright. Our army rode ten times and charged and swept first.

The troop vehicle has been stabilized, and it is tilting forward and backward. The four stallions are neat, neat and calm. Just to crusade against the dog Rong, march into Taiyuan and attack. Civil-military and military Jifu, a national model hero.

Jifu feasted and drank joyfully and received many rewards. I returned from Nahokyo and walked for many days. Set up a table to entertain friends, steamed turtle carp delicacies. Which friends participated, loyal and filial piety Zhang Zhong is here.

"Picking": The Zhou army is mighty, and the heavenly generals are heroic

This is a song that people sing at the swearing-in banquet. The soldiers originally thought that this expedition was to fight, but when they arrived at the border, they learned that this operation was a garrison. Since the beginning of King Wen of Zhou, the Zhou Dynasty has had a system of garrisons. Every time the Zhou Dynasty occupied or prepared to occupy a place, it had to mobilize people to move to that place to live, so as to consolidate the stability of the country. Uncle Fang, the secretary and general of King Xuan of Zhou, conducted military exercises to deter Jing Barbarians, which was to prepare for the garrison.

Jing Man is the name of the ancient Central Plains people to Chu Yue or the Southern people, Jing Man is to the effect of a thorny barbarian land, which is discriminatory and hostile. In ancient times, the Chinese people in the Central Plains regarded themselves as orthodox and had a tendency to discriminate against the surrounding ethnic groups. The history of the Chu State and the Zhou Dynasty conflicted, the fourth monarch of the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou Zhao was drowned in the Hanshui Chuyang area when he personally conquered the Chu land, and the Zhou Dynasty's hostility to the Chu land can be imagined.

The state of Chu was a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty, and the ancestor of the state of Chu was named 鬻熊 (Yù Xióng), also known as 鬻子, and was one of the earliest known Taoist figures. In the last years of the Shang Dynasty, Manxiong assisted King Wen of Zhou in raising troops to destroy the Shang Dynasty, and became King Wen of Zhou's teacher and an important official in charge of fire. When King Zhou became the king, King Cheng thanked Xiong Xiong for serving King Wen of Zhou wholeheartedly and participated in the war to destroy the Shang, so he named Xiong Xiong's great-grandson Xiong as a viscount and established the state of Chu. When King Zhou Cheng was holding some large-scale hunting activities, Chu Jun Xiong Yi also came to participate. In the early days of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the relationship between the Zhou Dynasty and the Chu State was still relatively harmonious.

However, at that time, the strength of the Chu State was insufficient, and it was not qualified to participate in the official meeting of the princes, so it could only guard the fire that burned the heavens with Xianbei and other barbarians. In the political system established by the Zhou Dynasty, the state of Chu was only equivalent to a country of Zinan, which was the fourth and fifth rank of the fifth-class titles of the ancient princes, and their status was very low. But later, the state of Chu developed rapidly in the south and soon developed into a very influential vassal state. In order to maintain the authority of the Zhou Dynasty as the co-ruler of the world and the established political order of the Zhou Dynasty, King Zhao of Zhou launched two campaigns against the Chu State.

The first southern expedition took place in the sixteenth year of King Zhao of Zhou, who personally led a large army across the Han River. In this southern expedition, the Zhou army captured a large amount of booty, but the Zhou dynasty did not completely subdue the Chu state.

The second southern expedition took place in the nineteenth year of King Zhao of Zhou, but this time the southern expedition caused the Zhou people to suffer heavy losses, and the six divisions of the Zhou Dynasty were not only wiped out, especially King Zhao of Zhou drowned in the Han River on the way back to the north. However, this southern expedition cannot be said to have failed to achieve its goal, and the king of Zhou still subdued the state of Chu to a large extent, temporarily stabilizing the situation of the Zhou dynasty in the south. Later, after King Mu of Zhou ascended the throne, he did not carry out a retaliatory conquest against the state of Chu. King Mu of Zhou launched large-scale wars against the east, southeast, west, and northwest in his life, but did not attack the state of Chu, which was obviously the power of the state of Chu was too strong that King Mu of Zhou did not dare to march south.

In order to facilitate our thinking, I have written the names of all the monarchs of the Western Zhou Dynasty here: King Wu of Zhou, King Cheng of Zhou, King Kang of Zhou, King Zhao of Zhou, King Mu of Zhou, King Gong of Zhou, King Yi of Zhou, King Xiao of Zhou, King Yi of Zhou, King Li of Zhou, King Xuan of Zhou, and King You of Zhou.

Below, let's take a good look at the state of Chu:

The ancestors of the Chu people were the first to be active in the Central Plains of the Yellow River Valley, and in the early years of the Shang Dynasty, about 1600 BC, under the expulsion of the Shang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Chu people led the people to begin to move south. After moving south, the state of Chu brought advanced Chinese civilization to the south, and the state of Chu was based on the original Shang and Zhou civilizations, absorbing the culture of other local ethnic groups, and slowly developed into the Chu culture. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Cheng of Zhou named Xiong Yi as a viscount, and the Chu people began to build a country, and the Chu State was a very small country at the beginning, only more than 20 square kilometers.

The ninth monarch of Chu during the Western Zhou Dynasty was Chu Xiongqu, and during this period, Chu conquered Yongguo in the west and Yangyue in the east. In the early Spring and Autumn period, the state of Chu attacked the barbarians on a large scale. During the reign of King Wen of Chu, the state of Chu successively destroyed the vassal states of Deng, Han, Quan, Luo, and Shen. After forcing the Suiguo to submit, he destroyed the Xiguo. The Chu people continued to march north, attacking Cai and Zheng. After that, it occupied thousands of miles of fertile land from eastern Sichuan, Hubei, southern Henan to Anhui. During the reign of King Cheng of Chu, King Cheng borrowed the orders of King Hui of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to suppress Yiyue and vigorously explore the south of the Yangtze River, and by 655 BC, the state of Chu had destroyed more than a dozen small vassal states.