Sun Wu, whose name is Changqing, is known as Sun Tzu and Sun Wuzi, and his ancestors can be traced back to the concubine who was canonized as the monarch of Chen Guo by the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Later, due to Chen's civil strife, Sun Wu's distant ancestor Concubine Wan took his family and fled to Qi and defected to Duke Huan of Qi.

After Fu Wan settled in Qi State, his surname was changed from Fei Wan to Tian, so he was also called Tian Wan.

Later, the Tian family became a major family in the Qi Kingdom, and its status became more and more prominent, and finally even replaced the Jiang family as the monarch, which was Tian Chen Daiqi.

Speaking of returning to Sun Wu's branch - Tian Wan's fifth Sun Tianshu, because of his meritorious service in leading the army, he obtained a fief in Le'an and was given the surname Sun.

Therefore, Tianshu is also known as Sun Shu, and Sun Shu's son Sun Ping became the secretary of Qi State, and this Sun Ping is Sun Wu's father.

Born into such a family, Sun Wu was able to read the ancient military classic "Military Administration", understand the combat experience of the Yellow Emperor to defeat the Four Emperors, and the historical facts of Yi Yin, Jiang Taigong, and Guan Zhong.

Moreover, at that time, wars were frequent and mergers were fierce, Sun Wu's grandfather and father were generals who were good at leading troops to fight, and Sun Wu had heard and witnessed some wars since he was a child, which was very important for military training.

However, at this time, the situation in Qi was not good, there were many internal contradictions, and the power struggle was intensifying.

In the early years of Qi Jinggong, the left minister Qingfeng destroyed the right minister Cui Zhu, and then the Tian, Bao, Luan, and Gao families united again and drove away Qingfeng.

At the same time, Wu Guolian in the south invaded Chu, the country was strong and prosperous, and it was very emerging.

Sun Wu decided that Wu was the place where he could display his talents and ambitions, so he left Le'an and went to Wu.

After coming to the state of Wu, Su Wu met Wu Zixu from the state of Chu on the outskirts of the capital of Wu.

Wu Zixu was originally a native of Chu, and fled to Wu because his father and brother were killed by King Chuping, and he was determined to raise troops to attack Chu and avenge his father and brother.

In fact, at this time, the situation in Wu was also in turmoil, so the two lived in seclusion, waiting for an opportunity......

In 515 B.C., Gongzi Guang used Zhuan Zhu as an assassin, attacked and killed the king of Wu, and then established himself as the king, called Helu.

After the accession of King Wu Lu, Corporal Lixian appointed a group of virtuous ministers such as Wu Zixu to sympathize with the people's feelings, pay attention to the development of production, accumulate grain, build city walls, and train the army, so that Wu State presented a thriving scene.

He Lu was determined to make the state of Wu stronger and more prosperous, develop to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and destroy Chu to become a hero. Sun Wu, who lived in seclusion on the outskirts of Wudu, saw his future more clearly, and he wrote the art of war while irrigating the garden, and asked Wu Zixu to introduce him.

In the third year of his reign, that is, in 512 B.C., the state of Wu was stable, the soldiers were well fed, and the preparations for marching west to conquer Chu were basically ready.

Wu Zixu proposed to He Lu that such a long-distance expedition must be planned and commanded by a military strategist who is well versed in Tao strategy in order to win, so Wu Zixu recommended Sun Wu to Wu Wang Lu.

However, Sun Wu has been living in seclusion since he came to Wu, and the king of Wu has never even heard of the name Sun Wu. Wu Zixu recommended it repeatedly, and recommended it seven times in just one morning, and then King Wu agreed to meet Sun Wu.

Sun Wu took the book of war he wrote to meet King Wu Lu, and he read the art of war one by one, and praised it, but he suddenly had a thought: The art of war is the way, is it applicable to actual combat?

He Lu wanted to give Sun Wu a difficult test, so he asked to use palace maids to practice, and ordered to summon 180 beauties in the palace to the training ground and hand them over to Sun Wu to practice.

Sun Wu divided the 180 palace maids into two teams, the left and right, and designated the two most favored Mei Ji of King Wu as captains, and asked them to lead the palace maids to practice, and at the same time assigned their own drivers and escorts to serve as military officials and be responsible for enforcing military law.

The assignment was decided, and Sun Wu stood on the command platform and loudly preached the essentials of the exercise. He asked, "You all know your heart, your back, and your right and left hands, right?" To move forward is to look ahead; To the left, look left; To the right, look at the right hand; Backwards, looking back. All actions are based on the sound of drums. Do you all understand? ”

The ladies replied, "I understand." ”

When the arrangements were ready, Sun Wu beat the drum and gave the order, but although Sun Wu gave three orders and five repetitions, the palace maids replied, but they felt novel and interesting in their hearts, they did not listen to the order, laughed heartily, and made the formation chaotic. Sun Wu then summoned the military officials and beheaded the two captains according to the law.

When King Wu saw that Sun Wu was going to kill his Aiji, he immediately sent someone to send an order and said: "The widow already knows that the general can use soldiers, and without these two beauties waiting, the widow has no taste for eating, please pardon them." ”

"Since the minister has been appointed as a general, he will be in the army, and the king's order will not be accepted." Sun Wu insisted on killing the two captains, appointed the leaders of the two teams as captains, and continued to train the troops.

This time, when Sun Wu beat the drum again and gave the order, all the palace maids went back and forth, left and right, went in and out, knelt and rolled, all in accordance with the rules, and the formation was very neat.

Sun Wu asked King Wu Lu to review, but Lu was unhappy because of the loss of his love Ji. Sun Wu said: "Orders and prohibitions, rewards and punishments are clear, this is the common law of soldiers, and it is the general rule of generals to govern the army." The soldiers must be dignified, only in this way will they obey the orders, and the battle can defeat the enemy. ”

After listening to Sun Wu's explanation, Wu Wanglu became angry and worshipped Sun Wu as a general.

Under Sun Wu's strict training, Wu Jun's quality was significantly improved. In 512 BC, the Wu army captured the vassal states of Chu, Zhongwu and Shu.

Sun Wu believed that the Chu army was a strong force in the world, and the Wu army was now tired and tired, and the military resources were consumed, so it was better to collect troops for the time being, accumulate strength, and wait for a good opportunity.

King Wu heeded Sun Wu's advice and ordered the class to be a teacher. Wu Zixu also completely agreed with Sun Wu's proposition, and offered advice to King Wu: "The men and horses are tired, and it is not suitable for expeditions. However, we can also try to make the Chu people tired. ”

So Wu Zixu and Sun Wu jointly discussed a set of strategies to disturb Chu, and formed three strong teams to attack and disturb Chu in turn.

The Chu army was exhausted, manpower and material resources were greatly spent, the country was very empty, the subject countries rebelled one after another, and the Wu state completely gained the upper hand in the confrontation with the Chu state.

In 506 BC, the state of Chu attacked the state of Cai, which had already been annexed to the state of Wu, giving the Wu army an excuse to attack Chu. The 30,000 elite soldiers of the Wu army rode up the Huai River in warships and went straight to the battle site between the Cai State and the Chu State.

Seeing the ferocity of the Wu army, the Chu army had to give up the siege of Cai, shrink the troops, and tighten the fortification with the Han River as the boundary to resist the attack of the Wu army.

Unexpectedly, the Wu army suddenly changed the route of the march along the Huai River, abandoned the warships, and attacked by land instead, penetrating directly into the depth of the Chu State.

Wu Zixu asked Sun Wu: "Wu Jun is accustomed to water nature and is good at water warfare, why did he change to march by land?" ”

Sun Wu told him: "The soldiers are very fast, and they should take the road that others do not expect, so as to take him by surprise." Sailing against the current, the speed is slow, and the Chu army will inevitably take the opportunity to strengthen its defenses, so it will be difficult to break the enemy. ”

Wu Zixu nodded yes, and in this way, Sun Wu chose more than 3,000 strong and agile people as the front line among the 30,000 elite soldiers, and defeated the Chu army again and again.

On November 28 of the old calendar, the Wu army invaded Ying, the capital of Chu, and King Zhao of Chu fled with his sister in a hurry.

Sun Wu attacked the 200,000 army of Chu with 30,000 troops and won a complete victory, creating a glorious example of winning more with less.

However, at this time, the Yue State took advantage of the situation to attack the Wu State, and the Qin State sent troops to help the Chu State deal with the Wu army, so that He Lu had to lead troops back to Wu.

While Sun Wu was helping Lu Xi break through the strong Chu, he planned to conquer the Yue Kingdom. In 496 B.C., He Lu heard that the king of Yue Yunchang had died, and the newly enthroned king of Yue, Gou Jian, was young and weak, and the country of Yue was not very stable, so he thought that the opportunity could not be lost, so he did not listen to the advice, and rushed to send troops to defeat the Yue country.

Unexpectedly, Gou Jian led the army to take the initiative to meet the battle, and the two armies met at the Wu-Yue border. Gou Jian performed a miraculous trick and sent the condemned prisoners to the battle first, lined up in three rows, put the sword on his neck, and performed one by one and then killed himself in front of the battle.

The soldiers of Wu did not know that it was a criminal, and they were at a loss to see what to do, and the Vietnamese army took the opportunity to charge, and the Wu army was defeated and retreated, and He Lu was also seriously wounded and died.

After the death of He Lu, Fucha inherited the throne, and Sun Wu and Wu Zixu reorganized their armaments to assist Fucha to complete the great cause of revenge.

In 494 BC, Gou Jian mobilized an army to march from the water to Wu State, and Fucha led 100,000 elite soldiers to meet Yu Fujiao.

The Wu army arranged a lot of deceitful soldiers at night, divided into two wings, holding torches high, only to see the fire in the dark night, quickly moving towards the Vietnamese position, the sound of killing shook the sky. The Vietnamese army was shaken, and the Wu army took advantage of the general attack and defeated the Vietnamese army.

Pursued by the Wu army, Goujian, the king of Yue, fled to a small city on Huiji Mountain with 5,000 armor soldiers, and because he was surrounded by the Wu army, Gou Jian had to sue for peace. Ignoring Wu Zixu's dissuasion, the husband agreed to Gou Jian's request for peace.

After the victory of the Wu hegemony in the south, he advanced to the Central Plains, and in 485 BC, Wu Wangfu sent a joint Lu and defeated the Qi army.

In 482 B.C., Fucha led tens of thousands of elite soldiers to the north by water, arrived at Huangchi, and allied with the princes of Jin and Lu. At this alliance, Wu Wangfucha was backed by a strong military force and won the position of hegemon.

However, with the prosperity of Wu's hegemony, the husband gradually became self-righteous and did not accept loyalty.

Wu Zixu thought that Gou Jian was forced to sue for peace, and he would definitely find a way to take revenge, so he must completely destroy the Yue Kingdom, and he must not tolerate the traitors and leave future troubles.

However, when the husband listened to the traitor's provocation, he not only ignored Wu Zixu's bitter advice, but instead made excuses to force him to commit suicide, and even refused to bury him, and ordered someone to put Wu Zixu's body in a leather bag and throw it into the river.

Flying birds, good bows hidden; The fox and rabbit are exhausted, and the lackeys are cooked. After that, Sun Wu quietly retreated, resting in the mountains, and based on his experience in training troops and commanding battles, he revised his art of war to make it more perfect.

Things really did not go out of Wu Zixu's expectations, the king of Yue Gou practiced lying on the salary and tasted the courage, determined to take revenge, he was born for ten years, ten years of lessons, at this time the country was rich, and the Vietnamese army was strong.

In 482 B.C., when the main force of the Wu army gathered in Huangchi to meet the princes of the Central Plains, the Yue army sent troops to attack the state of Wu and invaded the capital of the state of Wu.

After that, the state of Wu turned from prosperity to decline, and in 473 BC, it was destroyed by the Yue Kingdom, and the husband was full of regret and killed himself.