The Duke of Qi was coerced by Cao Mo's sharp blade and was forced to give up the land of Lu. Afterwards, he did not regret his word, and really returned the land and city to the Lu State, which surprised all the countries.

They know very well how low the bottom line of the superior is, otherwise there would not be so many king-killing, killing, revenge, and rebellion in the public offices of various countries.

Which one does an alliance leader with no moral bottom line choose or an alliance leader with a very high moral bottom line? I believe that as long as they are not stupid, these princes will choose the alliance leader with a high moral bottom line.

After the Marquis of Qi fulfilled his promise, his prestige was greatly enhanced, and even the powerful vassal states of Song, Zheng, Wei, and Yan came to support him as the leader of the alliance.

Even Zhou Tianzi gave sacrificial meat to the Marquis of Qi, ordering him to be the chief of the princes and the overlord of the world.

Recognized by the Emperor of Zhou, the Marquis of Qi began to enforce his policy of honoring the king, ordering the princes to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven and helping the weaker princes to defend against Rong Di. In three years, the prestige of Qi Hou grew.

And in the south of the Chu State at this time is not at peace, the Chu State is thousands of miles away, but it is only a viscount, and the successive Chu monarchs are very dissatisfied, so this generation of Chu Jun is arrogant and claimed the king, and began to attack the northern countries.

When the news of Chu Jun's claim to be the king reached the Central Plains, all the countries in the Central Plains were eyed by it, and at the same time, these vassal states were still waiting for the attitude of the Marquis of Qi, which was the highlight of the Qi State at this time, and now suddenly a Chu Jun was called the king, and he directly wanted to sit on an equal footing with the Zhou royal family, how could this make the high-spirited Qi Marquis swallow this breath?

After the Marquis of Qi got the news, he was furious and immediately sent an envoy to summon the princes to prepare for the attack on Chu, and the princes of the Central Plains responded in droves.

And after hearing that Chu was king, the happiest person should be Wang Sheng. Originally, Wang Sheng was guarding against the Qi State, but now that the Chu State has come out and attracted the attention of the Qi State, he will be able to do a lot of things.

After the annexation of the State of Wu, after all these years of development, the State of Huai has almost digested the State of Wu, and he now has his eyes on the Kingdom of Zhongli in the west.

Zhongli was originally a vassal state of Xu, but since Xu was defeated by Zhou Tianzi, suffered heavy losses, and suffered a great loss of national strength, Zhongli Guo became imminent, and later Chu rose and became a vassal state of Chu.

The Chu State attacked the Huai State and borrowed it from the Zhongli State, which was close to the Han Land and was a great threat. Wang Sheng has long wanted to clean it up, in the past, Zhongli State was a vassal state of Chu State, if Wang Sheng did it, Chu State would definitely participate, and when the time came to fight with Chu State, in case Qi State took the opportunity to send troops, he could only withdraw his troops.

Now that the state of Chu is dead, and the arrogance is king, Qi Chu will definitely have to do a fight, and he can take advantage of this opportunity to annex Zhongli State at that time.

At the beginning, in order to restrict the state of Chu, the Zhou royal family divided several vassal states surnamed Ji in the land of Hanshui and Hanyang. The state of Chu and these vassal states fought for hundreds of years. Several of them have been in decline, or have been annexed, or have become vassals of the Chu State, and only the Sui State and the Tang State are barely maintained.

The prince of Chu led an army of 50,000 to attack Suiguo, and Suiguo was invincible, asking Tang, Shen, Qi, and Zheng for help, and at the same time actively defending, but in the face of the suppression of absolute power, Suiguo was still defeated all the way, and soon retreated to the capital.

Suiguo sent people to sue for peace.

The envoy said: "I am a noble man surnamed Ji with the country, I have not offended the state of Chu, I have not made a mistake, and the king of Chu will not take me seriously!" ”

King of Chu: "I'm a barbarian!" ”

The envoy of the State of Qi soon came to the State of Chu, asked him to remove the title of the king, and called the Son of Heaven a tribute, but the King of Chu refused directly without thinking about it.

The king of Chu clearly remembered the treatment that the ancestors of Chu received when they went to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven.

The princes of the Son of Heaven Alliance, the state of Chu came with a rich tribute, and was arranged to guard the bonfire outside the palace. The countries of the Central Plains regarded the state of Chu as a barbarian. How did this make Chu Guo swallow this breath?

According to Chu Guo's thoughts, I am so strong, can I suffer this grievance? Directly drove out the envoy of the Qi State.

The envoys of Qi rushed back to Qi in embarrassment, and the Marquis of Qi was furious and gathered a large army to meet the alliance in Yanggu. The vassal states of the Central Plains led their armies to Yanggu to participate in the alliance.

After these years of development, the prestige of the Marquis of Qi is at its peak, and there are more than a dozen princes who came to participate in the alliance, and the army converged in Yanggu to jointly elect the Marquis of Qi as the leader of the coalition to rescue the country and crusade against the state of Chu.

When the state of Chu learned that the state of Qi had united many vassal states to crusade against him, he also began to contact his subjects and allies to fight a war with the state of Qi.

The Marquis of Qi led an army of princes to the rescue of Sui, and the armies of Song and Chen were the first to arrive.

The king of Chu was very disdainful when he saw the army of Song and Chen: "Just Song and Chen, do you think you can fight with my Chu State?" ”

Xiong Meng, the king of Chu, decisively let the army attack, and launched a surprise attack while the armies of Song and Chen were not firmly established. The Song army and the Chen army, under the command of Song Gong and Chen Hou, not only did not cooperate with each other, but fought separately. The army of Chu took the opportunity to break each one, and a clean defeat, and the two countries had to retreat in a hurry.

Fortunately, the army of Qi soon arrived and confronted Chu.

After seeing Qi Chu fighting, Wang Sheng couldn't sit still and prepared to annex Zhongli Kingdom. This time to annex Zhong Liguo, Wang Sheng did not plan to use too many troops, but prepared to transfer Wu Guo's soldiers.

Wang Sheng asked Wei Jun to lead an army to attack Zhong Liguo, in order to prevent Zhong Liguo from detecting that it was Huai Guo attacking, Wang Sheng deliberately asked him to lead 20,000 Wu Di soldiers and 3,000 Tengjia troops. Because of the broken hair and tattoos, Wu Di's soldiers are easily regarded as Yidi, let them do it, Zhong Liguo will only think that it is Yidi who is causing chaos, and will not think that it is Huaiguo attacking.

In accordance with Wang Sheng's instructions, Wei Jun sent Wu soldiers to attack Zhongliguo, all of whom had broken hair and tattoos, and the weapons they used were also replaced with Yidi styles. Wei Jun immediately led a large army to break through several cities in Zhongli Kingdom and defeated Zhong Liguo's army.

Zhong Hou was very angry after learning that Yi Di was in turmoil, when Zhong Liguo could be bullied by Yi Di, and immediately sent the general to lead the army to encircle and suppress.

After Yi Di converged near Zhongli City, Zhong Hou ordered Zhong Liyuan to lead a large army to encircle and suppress.

In Zhong Hou's view, these barbarians were just a rabble, relying on the large number of people to defeat Zhong Liguo's soldiers, as long as Zhong Liguo's army was dispatched, these barbarians could be easily defeated.

Sure enough, Zhongli's army was dispatched, and as soon as the battle began, those Yidi soldiers were crushed. Seeing this situation, Zhong Liyuan immediately ordered the army to pursue, and during this time, these Yidi have been harassing Zhong Liguo, and they must be strangled and then captured as slaves.

The barbarians fled quickly, their weapons and armor were thrown to the ground, and they looked embarrassed, as if they could catch up with them with a little more force, but the barbarians were as nimble as monkeys.

Although they looked embarrassed, they ran extremely fast, and they picked on the thorny and rugged paths, and every time they saw it, they had to catch up, and those people always escaped with the help of trees and thorns.

The army soon entered a hill, and after some pursuit, the barbarians probably lost their physical strength and slowed down. It's just that the physical strength of the pursuing Zhongli army has also decreased greatly. It's just that in comparison, the barbarian lost his shield weapon and carried a light weight, while Zhongli Guo pursued and consumed more.

Zhong Liyuan chased and killed, and the cold wind blew on his face, making him feel a chill. Subconsciously looked up at the surrounding rolling hills and the surrounding trees and thorns, and a bad premonition suddenly rose in my heart.

Since defeating the other party, these people have fled all the way, but there are not many real casualties, and the area in front of them is too suitable for ambushes.

Thinking of this, Zhong Liyuan's face changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted, "The army stops pursuing!" The heralds around him hurriedly waved their flags and shouted loudly, "Stop the pursuit!" ”

"Stop the pursuit!"

"Stop the pursuit!"

The soldiers stopped, somewhat surprised, and the barbarians in front of them quickly burrowed into the woods and disappeared.

The surrounding mountains and forests suddenly fell silent at this moment, quietly, not even a birdsong, only a gust of wind blowing from the mountain road.

Cold sweat flowed out of Zhong Liyuan's forehead instantly, and he immediately ordered: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

The heralds waved their flags, and the soldiers hurriedly retreated.

But at this time, a "jumping" sound suddenly sounded in my ears, which was the sound of the bowstring pulling, the next second. I saw countless bows and arrows shooting out of the woods on both sides.

The army was encircled in an instant, arrows rained down from the sky, and a large number of soldiers were shot. Immediately afterwards, I saw a large number of barbarian soldiers rushing out of the mountains and forests, and at the same time, on the hills on both sides, the rain of arrows continued to fall, and Zhongli's army was in chaos.

"Retreat! Evacuate! ”

Zhongli Yuan's eyes were split, but he could only order a retreat. But it was already too late, the mountain road was narrow, and Zhong Li's army was pulled into a long snake, unable to form a formation at all, and then could only watch the army being rushed down by the barbarians to cut it off.

A large number of Zhongli troops fell into a heavy siege and were then besieged and killed, and the barbarian soldiers who had fled just now also turned around and killed them.

Zhong Liyuan fled in disarray under the protection of the guards, and Zhong Liguo's chariot was surrounded by a large army because of the narrow roads, and he could not move at all, and was easily strangled.

In a big battle, Zhong Li's army suffered heavy losses, Zhong Liyuan fled in embarrassment, at this time Wei Jun directly sent the vine armor army to follow the attack, Zhong Liguo's army has been defeated, and the city is empty. Wei Jun's army was dispatched, and then Zhongli City was broken in one fell swoop.

Huai Guo didn't spend much effort at all, so he broke Zhong Liguo, and then directly forcibly moved Zhong Liguo's office and ministers, and those who dared to resist were all killed, and Zhong Liguo's army was also forcibly moved to Wu, and then a large number of Wu people were moved from Wu.

After moving away from the upper ruling class, Wang Sheng immediately sent the Huai army and officials to receive Zhong Liguo, and then took Zhong Liguo under control in the shortest possible time. Of course, this is only temporary, and it will take at least a few years to fully control it.

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In the eleventh year of Duke Huan, Chu Xiong was called the king, and Duke Huan ordered the princes to cut it down. Huaiguo took chestnuts in the fire and swallowed Zhongli. - "Historical Records: The Qi Family"