Section 582 King Xiang of Zhou sets up a gift
In the summer, on the first day of the fourth month, Duke Wen of Jin, Duke Cheng of Song, Guo Gui of Qi, Cui Yao, and Xiao Zi of Qin were stationed in the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The Chu army camped with its back against the dangerous place, and Jin Wengong was worried about it. The soldiers were heard chanting: "The grass in the fallow fields is overgrown, and the old grass is thrown away and the new grass is plowed." Jin Wengong was puzzled. The prisoner said, "Go to war!" If you win in battle, you will definitely get the princes; If we don't win, there will be big rivers outside our country and high mountains inside, and there will be no harm. Jin Wengong said: What about the favor of the Chu State?
Luan Zhi said: The countries surnamed Ji north of the Han River, the Chu State has swallowed them up. Thinking about small favors and forgetting about great shame, it is better to fight. Jin Wengong fought with the king of Chu in a dream, and the king of Chu fell on top of him and chewed his head, so he was afraid. The offender said, "Auspicious." I have been given the heavens, the state of Chu has been punished, and we have appeased them.
Ziyu sent 鬬 (dòu) Bo to challenge the Jin Kingdom, saying, "Please play a wrestling game with the king's fighters, and the king will watch from the side of the chariot, and the retainer can accompany the king to watch." Duke Wen of Jin sent Luan Zhi to reply: Our monarch knows what you mean. Chu Jun's favor, I didn't dare to forget, so I stayed here. We thought that the doctor had already retired from the army, but would his subordinates dare to resist the king? Since the doctor refuses to withdraw from the army, then the doctor will say to your soldiers: Prepare your chariots, be loyal to your state affairs, and meet again tomorrow morning. There were 700 Jin chariots, fully equipped. Duke Wen of Jin climbed the ruined city of Youxin to look at the army, and said: The young and the old, arranged in an orderly manner, are in line with the courtesy, and can be used. He ordered the trees on the hill to be cut down in order to increase the number of weapons.
On the second day of the first month, the Jin army set up a position in Xinbei, and Xu Chen asked the lower army to resist the Chen and Cai armies respectively. Ziyu led the Chinese army with Ruoao's one hundred and eighty times, and said: The Jin Kingdom will definitely be destroyed today. Zixi led the left army, and Zishang led the right army. Xu Chen put the horse on a tiger skin and attacked the Chen and Cai armies first. The Chen and Cai armies fled, and the right flank of the Chu army was scattered. Fox Mao sent two teams of the front army to repel the rout of the Chu army. Luan Zhi let the cart drag firewood and pretend to escape, the Chu army pursued, and the princes of the Chinese army led by Yuan Zhen and Yin Qin stopped and attacked. Hu Mao and Hu Yan led the Shang army to attack Zixi, and the left wing troops of Chu were scattered. The Chu army was defeated. Ziyu promptly ordered the troops to be withdrawn and was able to remain undefeated.
The Jin army repaired for three days, ate the grain left by the Chu army, and set off to return home on the sixth day of the first month. On the 27th, he arrived at Hengyong and built a palace for the Son of Heaven in Jiantu. Three months before this battle, Zheng Wengong sent troops to the state of Chu to help in the war, and because the Chu army had already been defeated and was afraid, he sent his son Jiu to make peace with the state of Jin. Luan Zhi of the Jin State entered the Zheng State and made an alliance with the Duke of Zheng Wen.
On the ninth day of the fifth month, Duke Wen of Jin and Duke Wen of Zheng formed an alliance in Hengyong. On the tenth day of the first month, the prisoners of war of the state of Chu were presented to the king of Zhou Xiang; There were a hundred chariots with horses and armor, and a thousand infantry. Zheng Wengong used the etiquette of King Zhou Ping as a courtesy. On the twelfth, King Xiang of Zhou set up a gift to entertain Duke Wen of Jin with sweet wine, and allowed him to toast back to himself. King Xiang of Zhou ordered Yin, Wang Zihu, and Neishi Shuxing's father to appoint Duke Wen of Jin as the leader of the princes with a letter of policy, and gave him a large chariot, a chariot, and the corresponding clothing and honor guards, a red bow, a hundred red arrows, ten black bows and a thousand arrows, a liquor made of black millet and herbs (yǒu), and three hundred warriors, saying: The Son of Heaven said to his uncle that he respectfully obeyed the orders of the Son of Heaven in order to appease the princes of the Quartet and punish the evil of the dynasty. Jin Wen thanked him three times, and then accepted the order, saying: Heavy ears bow and prostrate again, and accept and proclaim the great rewards and orders of the Son of Heaven. After accepting the proposal, he left Cheng Zhou. From entering Chengzhou to leaving, he met the king of Zhou three times.
When Wei Chenggong heard of the defeat of the Chu army, he was frightened and fled to the state of Chu, and then to the state of Chen, and sent Yuan Yu to serve Shuwu to accept the covenant. On the 26th, Wang Zihu and the princes swore an oath in the courtyard of the Son of Heaven, agreeing: Assist the royal family and don't hurt each other! Whoever will break the covenant will be put to death by God, and his army will be subverted, and he will not be able to enjoy the kingdom until his great-great-grandson, young and old. The gentleman believed that this alliance was credited, and believed that the Jin state would be able to attack with morality in this campaign.
At the beginning, Ziyu of the State of Chu made a jade-inlaid horse crown martingale by himself, which was not used. Before the battle, he dreamed that the god of the Yellow River said to him: Give it to me, and I will give you Meng Zhu's water meadows. Ziyu didn't send it. His son Daxin and Zixi sent Rong Huang to advise, but Ziyu did not listen. Rong Huang said: Death is good for the country, and you still have to do it, let alone Meiyu? Compared to the state, this is just dung. What is a pity if the army can be made successful? Ziyu still refused.
Rong Huang came out and told the two people: It's not the gods who let Ling Yin fail, and Ling Yin doesn't take the people's affairs seriously, it's really a self-inflicted failure. After Ziyu's defeat, King Chu Cheng sent an envoy to Ziyu and said: Most of the children of Shen and Xi have been killed or wounded, if the doctor comes back, how can he explain to the fathers and elders of Shen and Xi? Zixi and Daxin said to the envoy: Ziyu was going to commit suicide, but the two of us stopped him and said, don't commit suicide, the king is still going to kill you. When he arrived at Lian Gu, Ziyu committed suicide.
When Jin Wengong heard the news of Ziyu's suicide, he was overjoyed and said: No one will harm me anymore. 蔿 (wěi) Lu Chen is the order of Yin, but he is just defending himself, not for the sake of the people.
Someone slandered Yuan Yu in front of Wei Chenggong and said: He has set up Shuwu as the monarch. Yuanyu's son Jiao followed Wei Chenggong, and Wei Chenggong sent someone to kill him. Yuan Yu did not abandon Wei Chenggong's order because of this, and still served Shuwu to return to China as regent. Liuyu, the people of the Jin Kingdom allowed Wei Hou to return to China. 甯 (nìng) formed an alliance with the officials and clans of the patriotic state in Wanpu, saying: Heaven has sent disaster to defend the country, and the monarch and the minister are not in harmony, so they have encountered such a trouble. Now providence bless our country and let everyone abandon their prejudices and obey one another. Who will guard the country if there is no one left? Who will defend those who do not follow the king?
Because of the disharmony, pray for a clear oath before the great god for the blessing of Providence. From this day after the covenant is made, let not those who are outside take their merits, and those who remain do not fear sin. Whoever breaks the covenant will be evil. The gods and the ancestors were above and punished and killed. When the people of the country knew about this covenant, they did not have two hearts.