In June of the eighteenth year of King Zhou Ding (589 BC), because Qi Qinggong, who was ambitious and coveted the hegemony of the Jin State, sent troops to attack the allies of the Jin State, Lu and Wei, with the support of the Chu State, so the Jin Zhong army general and the ruling doctor Xun Ke said that the Jin King Jing Gong sent troops to attack Qi; With the consent of Jin Jinggong, Xun Ke personally served as the commander of the Qi Dynasty, leading a huge army formation of 800 military vehicles, and with the cooperation of the Lu State, Wei Guo, and Bai Di armies, he drove to the Lu State Nest Hill where the garrison in front of the tomb of the Qi State was ready to conduct a field battle with the Qi army.

After learning that the Jin State had launched a huge army of 800 military vehicles to rescue Lu and Wei, Qi Qinggong, who was still attacking the nest mound of the Lu State, was extremely panicked, so he immediately ordered the Qi army to retreat from the Lu State; Ke Ke refused to give up, and led the coalition army to chase after him, and chased to the Weiguo Xin Land (Shen County, Shandong), where Qi Qinggong was temporarily stationed. Qi Qinggong retreated to the foot of Milu Mountain (Qianfo Mountain, Jinan, Shandong), but Xun Ke once again led the army to chase after him.

After being chased by Xun Ke several times, Qi Qinggong, who was stationed at the foot of Milu Mountain, was angry, and the resentment in his stomach was nowhere to be released, and he also wanted to have a good fight with the Jin army to see who won and who lost in the contest between the overlords of the two generations of princes of Qi and Jin.

Therefore, Qi Qinggong sent an envoy to the camp of the Jin coalition army and sent a letter of challenge in the name of Qi Qinggong to the commander of the coalition army, Xun Ke; And the challenge letter sent by Qi Qinggong, Xun Ke couldn't ask for it, so he happily replied to the envoy of Qi and accepted the challenge of Qi Jun. And after the envoy of Qi returned to the camp of the Qi army and reported the reply of Xun Ke to Qi Qinggong for accepting the challenge, Qi Qinggong was annoyed and ashamed, and sent the envoy to the coalition army camp again to supplement the reply - the two armies must also meet on the battlefield tomorrow!

Just when the envoy sent by Qi Qinggong sent an envoy to the coalition army camp for the second time, Gao Gu, the doctor of Qi State, with the acquiescence and instigation of Qi Qinggong, went to attack the coalition army camp alone without driving or bringing an assistant.

Gao Gu took advantage of the unpreparedness of the coalition army, suddenly rushed into the camp, and then picked up the stones on the ground and injured many coalition soldiers in the battalion, and unexpectedly captured a wounded Jin soldier alive, and seized a military vehicle of the coalition army, and then proudly took the prisoner and drove the military cart to return to the Qi army camp smoothly. After returning to the camp, Gao Gu also showed off to the other Qi soldiers, asking those who wanted to be warriors to come to him to buy his extra courage.

And Gao Gu's ability to easily break through the defense of the coalition army, enter the camp of the coalition army and achieve certain results is the reason why the commander of the coalition army, Xu Ke, deliberately showed weakness to the Qi army before the war to paralyze the vigilance of the monarchs and ministers of the Qi state; Even Gao Gu's act of recklessness in this handful of heroes is also in Xun Ke's plan.

As soon as Gao Gu returned to the Qi army camp, the prepared Xun Ke ordered the coalition forces to immediately transfer their positions and move the camp from the foot of Milu Mountain to Qidi (now Mashan Town, Changqing District, Jinan) to be stationed, preparing to wait here for the next attack of the arrogant Qi Qinggong.

After learning the news that the coalition army took the initiative to retreat under Gao Gu's 'single camp', the arrogant Qi Qinggong really thought that this was a manifestation of the unstable spirit of the coalition army and the dare not easily engage the Qi army; Therefore, Qi Qinggong was even more determined to fight with the coalition army led by the Jin army on the battlefield and seize the hegemony of the Jin state.

Therefore, Qi Qinggong, who learned that the Jin army was 'cowardly retreating', immediately ordered the Qi army camped at the foot of Milu Mountain to give up rest, and the whole army pursued the coalition army overnight, and must catch up with and eliminate the coalition army led by the Jin army in the process of 'panicked retreat'.

In the early morning of June 17 in the 18th year of King Zhou Ding (589 BC), after a whole night of rapid marching, Qi Qinggong finally led his army to catch up with the combined forces of Jin, Lu, Wei and Di who were camped in the land; When the sky was twilight, the two opposing armies had already lined up in neat formations and were about to start an unprecedentedly fierce field battle.

In order to boost the morale of their respective armies, the main generals of the two sides involved in the war, the general of the Jinzhong army, and the monarch of Qi, Qi Qinggong, personally put on the battle, thinking that they were exemplary for their own troops. At that time, Xun Ke's car, Che Yu (driver), was Xie Zhang, and the right of the car (deputy and bodyguard) was Zheng Qiuchuan; And Qi Qinggong's car is Bing Xia, and his ugly father is the right of the king's car.

Before the start of the war, the proud and confident Qi Qinggong specially issued a declaration to the Qi soldiers before the battle, so as to inspire the whole army to fight bravely:

"The widow rate the second and third sons, and Gu Jian will destroy this and eat!" (The source of the later idiom - 'extinguish this morning food').

Then, without waiting for the war horse to put on all the armor, the impatient Qi Qinggong took the lead in driving out and took the lead in launching an attack on the Jin coalition army in front of him.

Seeing that Qi Qinggong had already led his troops to attack, Xun Ke, as the commander of the coalition army, was not to be outdone, and immediately led the main force of the coalition army out of the camp to meet the Qi army; After the two armies quickly approached and engaged, the battle was very fierce, and the ground was surrounded by charging chariots and armies fighting to the death.

In the fierce battle, as the supreme commander of the coalition forces, Xu Ke was quickly injured because he had been on the front line of the battle, and the arrows of the Qi army hit him in the shoulder, and the blood from the wound flowed all the way to the surface of Xun Ke's feet.

After being wounded, while insisting on beating the snare drum on the military vehicle and continuing to direct the coalition forces to fight, he quietly whispered to his own chariot Yu Zhang, saying:

"I've been wounded by an arrow!"

After Xie Zhang heard the coach's call, he continued to drive without looking back, and replied to Xun Ke categorically:

"As soon as the two armies fought, I was shot through the elbow by the enemy's arrow, and the blood stained the wheels red; But I was afraid that you would be distracted when you learned of this, so I secretly broke the shaft of the arrow, and continued to drive, and did not dare to tell you that I was wounded; For the sake of the victory of our army, you should be patient and continue to fight until victory! ”

Zheng Qiu, who was also on the right side of the troop car, also encouraged the coach and said:

"In battle, whenever I encounter a dangerous place, I take the initiative to get out of the car and push the military cart to walk, without avoiding the enemy's arrows, in order to get out of danger as soon as possible, you know these things; Now that the war is urgent, I hope you will endure the pain, do not slack off, and continue to command us to fight! ”

After receiving the positive encouragement and deeds of the two, Xun Ke was very emotional, so he gritted his teeth and persevered, continued to beat drums and wave flags, and commanded the army to launch a fierce attack on the Qi army.

But at this time, the pain on Xun Ke's body was indeed difficult to insist on beating the drum and waving the flag at the same time, so his chariot Yu Xie Zhang tied the reins of the war horse to his left hand, and took the drum hammer of Xun Ke with his right hand instead of Xun Ke's drum; Xie Zhang also continued to encourage Xun Ke, saying:

"Now, the whole army is watching you, the flag and the sound of the drum of our car is a sign of the advance and retreat of the whole army; As long as there is one person in the car, you can achieve great things! ”

As the current general of the Chinese army of the Jin State and the head of the Yin family, Xun Ke has been in battle for a long time since he was a child, and he has rich experience, so of course he knows the key to this victory; Therefore, Xun Ke desperately gritted his teeth and insisted, waving the banner on behalf of the command of the Chinese army, and coordinated with the drums beaten by Zhang, and commanded the whole army to launch a fierce attack on the Qi army.

Although the three of Xun Ke, Xie Zhang, and Zheng Qiu cooperated tacitly, fought hard, and commanded the whole army to continue to attack the Qi army with the banner and snare drum on the car, but because Xie Zhang was holding the bridle in one hand at this time, he could not fully control the direction of travel of the chariot, so it caused the horse pulling the cart to lose the control of the reins and began to run wildly, and directly rushed to the main formation of the Qi army with the three of them; For a time, Xun Ke was in danger of falling into the siege of the Qi army, being besieged by the Qi army, and being killed, or being captured by exhaustion.

At the critical moment, the Jin soldiers and soldiers in the rear of Xun Ke saw such an impassioned scene of the main general taking the lead, waving the banner and taking the lead in launching a decisive charge against the Qi army (Xun Ke: I am ashamed, I am ashamed, although I am not afraid of death, but this time I really did not take the initiative to launch a decisive charge against the main formation of the Qi army); As a result, the Jin soldiers who were inspired by Xun Ke to take the lead in charging also approached Xun Ke's car one after another, and followed Xun Ke's military vehicle to bravely attack the main formation of the Qi army.

In this way, by mistake, the defense line of the Qi army was broken through by the coalition forces in one fell swoop, and led to the collapse of the entire formation, and the military vehicles of the Qi army scattered and fled, and they could no longer organize an effective counterattack against the coalition forces.

Qi Qinggong, who was in the middle of the big array, saw that the coalition army had broken through his own military formation, and in order to save the situation, he hurriedly drove to collect the army in person and prepared to counterattack on the spot; But the defeat of the Qi army was decided, and Qi Qinggong's repeated orders to resist on the spot were to no avail, and the army could not be stopped from routing at all; Qi Qinggong could only be involuntarily dragged by the defeated army and retreated to the rear in panic.

When Qi Qinggong retreated with the defeated army to the vicinity of Huabuzhu Mountain (now Jinan Huashan Geopark), he happened to meet Sima Hanju of the Jin army who was attacking the Qi army's army with Heke. And Han Ju led part of the army to pursue the Qi army all the way, and chased to the back of Huabuzhu Mountain, and inadvertently saw from a distance the defeated Qi army in front of the retreating Qi army chariot, which actually planted a flag representing the identity of the Marquis of Qi; Overjoyed, Han Ju chased after him, wanting to capture Qi Hou alive on the battlefield.

Seeing that the pursuers of the Jin army had arrived, and there were few guard cars around him, Qi Qinggong was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the car Yu Bingxia to drive away, wanting to get rid of the pursuit of the Jin army; But Han Ju chased after him and kept following behind Qi Qing's public car, and the two sides chased three laps around the foot of Huabuzhu Mountain; Qi Qinggong was terrified and desperately fled, but he couldn't shake off Han Jue's hard pursuit.

Just before the war started yesterday, Han Ju dreamed in a dream that his father, Han Ziyu, who had been dead for many years, came to visit him, and solemnly warned himself:

"When the battle starts tomorrow, you must avoid the left and right sides of the troop and stand in the middle to avoid the danger."

Therefore, in the battle the next day, Han Ju changed his original position on the left side of the chariot to personally drive the chariot in the center and fight against the Qi army.

In this fierce chase battle at the foot of Hua Buzhu Mountain, seeing that he could not get rid of the pursuit of the Jin army's military vehicles, Qi Qinggong's car Yu Bingxia said to Qi Qinggong in a hurry:

"Your Majesty, you quickly order, and order the attendants on the auxiliary car to shoot the person who is chasing in the middle of the Jin army's chariot (referring to Han Ju), who is a gentleman ('Junzi' here not only refers to 'a person of noble character', but also means 'a nobleman with a high status in battle'; Bing Xia asked Qi Qinggong to order someone to shoot Han Ju with arrows, just to shoot Han Ju and make the Jin army's pursuers lose their commander and cannot continue the pursuit; Bing Xia and Qi Qinggong did not know at this time that the pursuing Jin army general was Sima Han Ju of the Jin army)."

Although Qi Qinggong has a light and arrogant personality and no one in his eyes, he is the king of a big country after all, and he still has the aristocratic demeanor and gentlemanly (high-ranking aristocratic) bearing that he should have; So, Qi Qinggong did not order the attendants of the guards to shoot Han Jue, and reprimanded Bing Xia and said:

"You know that the general of the pursuing Jin army is a gentleman, and you let the widow order to shoot him with arrows, isn't it trapping the widow for injustice? This is also not in line with the etiquette and morality of war! ”

Although Qi Qinggong did not order his attendants to shoot Han Ju (the person who chased the person who drove in the middle of the Jin army's military vehicle at the front), he was not a pedantic and brainless like Song Xianggong, and he naturally knew in his heart how to choose in the moment of life and death - the widow just said not to shoot the 'gentleman', and did not say not to shoot others!

At the signal of Qi Qinggong, the attendants on the monarch's deputy car fired arrows at Rong Zuo and Rong Zuo beside Han Ju; Under the volley of arrows of the Qi army, Rong Zuo on the Han Ju military vehicle was shot off the car, and Rong Right was also killed by an arrow and fell in the carriage; At this time, Han Ju was unable to support himself, and he could hardly continue to drive to pursue the fleeing Qi Qinggong.

At this time, Qi Wuzhang, the general of the Jin army, who followed Han Ju to pursue Qi Qinggong, but lost his military chariot due to the counterattack of the Qi army (in the fierce arrows of Qi Qinggong's attendants) in the pursuit, saw that Han Ju's car was the only one driving alone (Han Ju's Rong Zuo and Rong Right had been killed or wounded in the counterattack of the Qi army, and could not cooperate with Han Ju's attack), and it was inconvenient to continue the battle, so he took the initiative to run forward and apply to Han Ju, saying:

"Please allow me to ride in your car and assist you in the attack."

Han Ju couldn't ask for Qi Wuzhang's application, so he immediately let Qi Wuzhang get into the car and fight together as his deputy; However, Han Ju did not let Qi Wuzhang stand on his left or right, but pushed him behind him with his elbow, and was responsible for raising the flag and guiding the other Jin army chariots to fight (Han Ju did this because he had been warned by his father in a dream before the battle to avoid being injured in battle; Therefore, Han Ju let Qi Wuzhang stand behind him to avoid casualties from arrows).

In the close pursuit of Han Ju and the Jin army led by him, Qi Qinggong used Bing Xia's strategy to 'stealthily shoot' the Jin army's Rong left and Rong right, causing certain casualties to the Jin army and blocking the Jin army's pursuit to a certain extent; While fighting and fleeing, Qi Qinggong almost got rid of Han Jue's pursuit, and he was about to escape.

But just when Qi Qinggong was about to flee to Huaquan on the edge of Huabuzhu Mountain, the horses in his car (the horses on both sides when driving) were inadvertently yoked by small branches on the side of the road because the car was too anxious to drive and did not observe the terrain well; Bing Xia tried his best to whip the horses several times, but the horses just circled in place and exerted their strength, unable to get rid of the entanglement of the branches.

To add insult to injury, it stands to reason that Qi Qing's ugly father, who should get out of the car at this time and push the cart and get the vehicle out of trouble, was poisoned by a poisonous snake bite on the arm during the march the day before, and he didn't have the strength to get out of the car to push the car, so he couldn't let the vehicle get out of trouble; In a hurry, he saw that Qi Qinggong was about to be caught up and captured by Han Jue, who was following him.

Just when Qi Qinggong's car was trapped on the side of Huaquan, Han Ju and Qi Wuzhang had already chased after him by car, and led a large number of Jin army vehicles to surround Qi Qinggong's car and a few attendant cars; At that time, Han Ju's original Rongyou had been killed in battle, but the body was still lying in the carriage and was not placed; Han Ju couldn't bear to push the body of his comrade out of the car casually, so he took advantage of the time when he surrounded Qi Qinggong, temporarily stopped the car, and then bent down to lay Rong You's body flat and stable.

Taking advantage of the good opportunity that Han Jue's attention was still on his Rong You's body, Qi Qinggong's ugly father on the right side of the car hurriedly changed positions with the monarch in the car, and stood on the left side of the car, and let Qi Qinggong stand on the right (the reason why the ugly father wanted to do this was to pretend to be the monarch by himself when he was already surrounded by the Jin army, so that the real monarch, Qi Qinggong, could pass the test in confusion and take the opportunity to escape).

After placing Rong You's body, Han Ju continued to drive forward, and the soldiers who commanded the Jin army surrounded Qi Qinggong's car. When Han Ju saw that Qi Qinggong's military chariot had been caught by tree branches and could not break free, he immediately got out of the car, took out the prepared reins (in order to tie the feet of Qi Qinggong's chariot and make it impossible for the vehicle to move forward), took off his jade pendant and the liquor he brought with him, and walked towards Qi Qinggong's chariot under the high alert of the accompanying Jin soldiers.

After coming to Qi Qinggong's car, Han Jue first respectfully bowed to the courtiers of Qi (who was actually pretending to be his ugly father) and bowed twice in a row; Later, Han Ju offered wine and jade pendants to Qi Hou (etiquette regulations at that time); After doing these ceremonial actions, Han Ju politely said to 'Qi Hou':

"Our widow sent his subordinates here to intercede for Lu and Wei, and before leaving, the widow also specially explained to his subordinates and said: ' Don't go deep into the borders of the great powers (Qi State)'; the subordinates are really unfortunate enough to meet you here, and they cannot escape (because of the order of the widow monarch); and the subordinates are afraid that if they avoid you without permission, it will bring shame to the kings of the two countries and the soldiers who fought bravely, so they have to participate in the battle, so that they will meet you; the subordinates are not favored and talented, and they hold the current (acting) official position, but our Jin Kingdom lacks talents. ”

Seeing that Han Ju saluted himself seriously, and babbled about such a big scene, the ugly father immediately concluded that this Jin army general (Han Ju) must not know Qi Qinggong, which is why he has the above behavior; In order to let the monarch (Qi Qinggong) get out quickly, the ugly father who pretended to be the monarch put on the shelf of 'princes', not only accepted Han Ju's visit in a big way, took the wine and jade pendant he offered, but also deliberately pretended to be irritable and angry, and scolded the right car next to him (that is, Qi Qinggong himself faked) to get out of the car quickly and go to Huaquan to fetch water for himself to drink.

The real Qi Qinggong was already in a state of fear at this time, for fear that Han Ju would see the flaws and recognize himself as the Marquis of Qi, which would be bad (it would not be enough to be killed by the Jin army, but he would definitely be escorted back to the Jin army camp and handed over to the commander Xun Ke for disposal; Isn't it more embarrassing to meet the enemy than to die).

Qi Qinggong, who was panicking, suddenly heard the ugly father who was pretending to be the monarch loudly scolding and instructing himself, telling himself to go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink, in fact, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army generals (Han Ju) to distinguish the true from the false, and let himself take advantage of the chaos to escape after the 'scolding', his heart was really surprised and grateful, and he hesitated at the same time while feeling the loyalty of his ugly father, and he didn't know if the Jin soldiers who surrounded him would accept it. Qi Hou' (that is, the ugly father) asked the attendant Cheyou (that is, Qi Qinggong himself) to leave the encirclement and go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink.

Han Ju, who was under the car, heard that the 'Qi Hou' in the car was 'playing tricks', and he was already captured and arrogant, and asked the attendant to go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink (in fact, he also said it to himself), and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh and disdain - how can the monarch of a country be so lacking in etiquette and looking like a fierce and introverted (Qi Qinggong's character is really like this, so the ugly father played well, which made Han Ju even more convinced).

But in the end, Qi Qinggong is a 'king', he is a 'foreign minister', and his request to 'drink water' is not too much, so Han Ju did not object to this, but adopted a tacit attitude (that is, not to interfere with the 'Qi Hou'' scolding of his own car, let them decide for themselves).

Seeing that the soldiers of the Jin army did not come forward to interfere with their 'plan to get water', the ugly father who pretended to be the Marquis of Qi was ecstatic in his heart, so he continued to scold Che You (Qi Qinggong) in the name of 'Qi Hou', asking him to get off the car quickly and go to Huaquan to fetch water for himself to drink.

At the last moment, the real Qi Qinggong didn't have time to express his gratitude to his ugly father, so he immediately took the plan, obeyed the 'order of the monarch' and got off quickly, and then left in the auxiliary car, leaving the encirclement of the Jin army in the name of 'fetching water'. Han Ju did not object to this.

Because of the wit and loyalty of his father, Qi Qinggong, who had fallen into a desperate situation, was able to survive and successfully escape from the siege of the Jin army led by Han Ju, avoiding the embarrassing result of being captured by the Jin army and humiliated by Xun Ke. In June of the eighteenth year of King Zhou Ding (589 BC), because Qi Qinggong, who was ambitious and coveted the hegemony of the Jin State, sent troops to attack the allies of the Jin State, Lu and Wei, with the support of the Chu State, so the Jin Zhong army general and the ruling doctor Xun Ke said that the Jin King Jing Gong sent troops to attack Qi; With the consent of Jin Jinggong, Xun Ke personally served as the commander of the Qi Dynasty, leading a huge army formation of 800 military vehicles, and with the cooperation of the Lu State, Wei Guo, and Bai Di armies, he drove to the Lu State Nest Hill where the garrison in front of the tomb of the Qi State was ready to conduct a field battle with the Qi army.

After learning that the Jin State had launched a huge army of 800 military vehicles to rescue Lu and Wei, Qi Qinggong, who was still attacking the nest mound of the Lu State, was extremely panicked, so he immediately ordered the Qi army to retreat from the Lu State; Ke Ke refused to give up, and led the coalition army to chase after him, and chased to the Weiguo Xin Land (Shen County, Shandong), where Qi Qinggong was temporarily stationed. Qi Qinggong retreated to the foot of Milu Mountain (Qianfo Mountain, Jinan, Shandong), but Xun Ke once again led the army to chase after him.

After being chased by Xun Ke several times, Qi Qinggong, who was stationed at the foot of Milu Mountain, was angry, and the resentment in his stomach was nowhere to be released, and he also wanted to have a good fight with the Jin army to see who won and who lost in the contest between the overlords of the two generations of princes of Qi and Jin.

Therefore, Qi Qinggong sent an envoy to the camp of the Jin coalition army and sent a letter of challenge in the name of Qi Qinggong to the commander of the coalition army, Xun Ke; And the challenge letter sent by Qi Qinggong, Xun Ke couldn't ask for it, so he happily replied to the envoy of Qi and accepted the challenge of Qi Jun. And after the envoy of Qi returned to the camp of the Qi army and reported the reply of Xun Ke to Qi Qinggong for accepting the challenge, Qi Qinggong was annoyed and ashamed, and sent the envoy to the coalition army camp again to supplement the reply - the two armies must also meet on the battlefield tomorrow!

Just when the envoy sent by Qi Qinggong sent an envoy to the coalition army camp for the second time, Gao Gu, the doctor of Qi State, with the acquiescence and instigation of Qi Qinggong, went to attack the coalition army camp alone without driving or bringing an assistant.

Gao Gu took advantage of the unpreparedness of the coalition army, suddenly rushed into the camp, and then picked up the stones on the ground and injured many coalition soldiers in the battalion, and unexpectedly captured a wounded Jin soldier alive, and seized a military vehicle of the coalition army, and then proudly took the prisoner and drove the military cart to return to the Qi army camp smoothly. After returning to the camp, Gao Gu also showed off to the other Qi soldiers, asking those who wanted to be warriors to come to him to buy his extra courage.

And Gao Gu's ability to easily break through the defense of the coalition army, enter the camp of the coalition army and achieve certain results is the reason why the commander of the coalition army, Xu Ke, deliberately showed weakness to the Qi army before the war to paralyze the vigilance of the monarchs and ministers of the Qi state; Even Gao Gu's act of recklessness in this handful of heroes is also in Xun Ke's plan.

As soon as Gao Gu returned to the Qi army camp, the prepared Xun Ke ordered the coalition forces to immediately transfer their positions and move the camp from the foot of Milu Mountain to Qidi (now Mashan Town, Changqing District, Jinan) to be stationed, preparing to wait here for the next attack of the arrogant Qi Qinggong.

After learning the news that the coalition army took the initiative to retreat under Gao Gu's 'single camp', the arrogant Qi Qinggong really thought that this was a manifestation of the unstable spirit of the coalition army and the dare not easily engage the Qi army; Therefore, Qi Qinggong was even more determined to fight with the coalition army led by the Jin army on the battlefield and seize the hegemony of the Jin state.

Therefore, Qi Qinggong, who learned that the Jin army was 'cowardly retreating', immediately ordered the Qi army camped at the foot of Milu Mountain to give up rest, and the whole army pursued the coalition army overnight, and must catch up with and eliminate the coalition army led by the Jin army in the process of 'panicked retreat'.

In the early morning of June 17 in the 18th year of King Zhou Ding (589 BC), after a whole night of rapid marching, Qi Qinggong finally led his army to catch up with the combined forces of Jin, Lu, Wei and Di who were camped in the land; When the sky was twilight, the two opposing armies had already lined up in neat formations and were about to start an unprecedentedly fierce field battle.

In order to boost the morale of their respective armies, the main generals of the two sides involved in the war, the general of the Jinzhong army, and the monarch of Qi, Qi Qinggong, personally put on the battle, thinking that they were exemplary for their own troops. At that time, Xun Ke's car, Che Yu (driver), was Xie Zhang, and the right of the car (deputy and bodyguard) was Zheng Qiuchuan; And Qi Qinggong's car is Bing Xia, and his ugly father is the right of the king's car.

Before the start of the war, the proud and confident Qi Qinggong specially issued a declaration to the Qi soldiers before the battle, so as to inspire the whole army to fight bravely:

"The widow rate the second and third sons, and Gu Jian will destroy this and eat!" (The source of the later idiom - 'extinguish this morning food').

Then, without waiting for the war horse to put on all the armor, the impatient Qi Qinggong took the lead in driving out and took the lead in launching an attack on the Jin coalition army in front of him.

Seeing that Qi Qinggong had already led his troops to attack, Xun Ke, as the commander of the coalition army, was not to be outdone, and immediately led the main force of the coalition army out of the camp to meet the Qi army; After the two armies quickly approached and engaged, the battle was very fierce, and the ground was surrounded by charging chariots and armies fighting to the death.

In the fierce battle, as the supreme commander of the coalition forces, Xu Ke was quickly injured because he had been on the front line of the battle, and the arrows of the Qi army hit him in the shoulder, and the blood from the wound flowed all the way to the surface of Xun Ke's feet.

After being wounded, while insisting on beating the snare drum on the military vehicle and continuing to direct the coalition forces to fight, he quietly whispered to his own chariot Yu Zhang, saying:

"I've been wounded by an arrow!"

After Xie Zhang heard the coach's call, he continued to drive without looking back, and replied to Xun Ke categorically:

"As soon as the two armies fought, I was shot through the elbow by the enemy's arrow, and the blood stained the wheels red; But I was afraid that you would be distracted when you learned of this, so I secretly broke the shaft of the arrow, and continued to drive, and did not dare to tell you that I was wounded; For the sake of the victory of our army, you should be patient and continue to fight until victory! ”

Zheng Qiu, who was also on the right side of the troop car, also encouraged the coach and said:

"In battle, whenever I encounter a dangerous place, I take the initiative to get out of the car and push the military cart to walk, without avoiding the enemy's arrows, in order to get out of danger as soon as possible, you know these things; Now that the war is urgent, I hope you will endure the pain, do not slack off, and continue to command us to fight! ”

After receiving the positive encouragement and deeds of the two, Xun Ke was very emotional, so he gritted his teeth and persevered, continued to beat drums and wave flags, and commanded the army to launch a fierce attack on the Qi army.

But at this time, the pain on Xun Ke's body was indeed difficult to insist on beating the drum and waving the flag at the same time, so his chariot Yu Xie Zhang tied the reins of the war horse to his left hand, and took the drum hammer of Xun Ke with his right hand instead of Xun Ke's drum; Xie Zhang also continued to encourage Xun Ke, saying:

"Now, the whole army is watching you, the flag and the sound of the drum of our car is a sign of the advance and retreat of the whole army; As long as there is one person in the car, you can achieve great things! ”

As the current general of the Chinese army of the Jin State and the head of the Yin family, Xun Ke has been in battle for a long time since he was a child, and he has rich experience, so of course he knows the key to this victory; Therefore, Xun Ke desperately gritted his teeth and insisted, waving the banner on behalf of the command of the Chinese army, and coordinated with the drums beaten by Zhang, and commanded the whole army to launch a fierce attack on the Qi army.

Although the three of Xun Ke, Xie Zhang, and Zheng Qiu cooperated tacitly, fought hard, and commanded the whole army to continue to attack the Qi army with the banner and snare drum on the car, but because Xie Zhang was holding the bridle in one hand at this time, he could not fully control the direction of travel of the chariot, so it caused the horse pulling the cart to lose the control of the reins and began to run wildly, and directly rushed to the main formation of the Qi army with the three of them; For a time, Xun Ke was in danger of falling into the siege of the Qi army, being besieged by the Qi army, and being killed, or being captured by exhaustion.

At the critical moment, the Jin soldiers and soldiers in the rear of Xun Ke saw such an impassioned scene of the main general taking the lead, waving the banner and taking the lead in launching a decisive charge against the Qi army (Xun Ke: I am ashamed, I am ashamed, although I am not afraid of death, but this time I really did not take the initiative to launch a decisive charge against the main formation of the Qi army); As a result, the Jin soldiers who were inspired by Xun Ke to take the lead in charging also approached Xun Ke's car one after another, and followed Xun Ke's military vehicle to bravely attack the main formation of the Qi army.

In this way, by mistake, the defense line of the Qi army was broken through by the coalition forces in one fell swoop, and led to the collapse of the entire formation, and the military vehicles of the Qi army scattered and fled, and they could no longer organize an effective counterattack against the coalition forces.

Qi Qinggong, who was in the middle of the big array, saw that the coalition army had broken through his own military formation, and in order to save the situation, he hurriedly drove to collect the army in person and prepared to counterattack on the spot; But the defeat of the Qi army was decided, and Qi Qinggong's repeated orders to resist on the spot were to no avail, and the army could not be stopped from routing at all; Qi Qinggong could only be involuntarily dragged by the defeated army and retreated to the rear in panic.

When Qi Qinggong retreated with the defeated army to the vicinity of Huabuzhu Mountain (now Jinan Huashan Geopark), he happened to meet Sima Hanju of the Jin army who was attacking the Qi army's army with Heke. And Han Ju led part of the army to pursue the Qi army all the way, and chased to the back of Huabuzhu Mountain, and inadvertently saw from a distance the defeated Qi army in front of the retreating Qi army chariot, which actually planted a flag representing the identity of the Marquis of Qi; Overjoyed, Han Ju chased after him, wanting to capture Qi Hou alive on the battlefield.

Seeing that the pursuers of the Jin army had arrived, and there were few guard cars around him, Qi Qinggong was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the car Yu Bingxia to drive away, wanting to get rid of the pursuit of the Jin army; But Han Ju chased after him and kept following behind Qi Qing's public car, and the two sides chased three laps around the foot of Huabuzhu Mountain; Qi Qinggong was terrified and desperately fled, but he couldn't shake off Han Jue's hard pursuit.

Just before the war started yesterday, Han Ju dreamed in a dream that his father, Han Ziyu, who had been dead for many years, came to visit him, and solemnly warned himself:

"When the battle starts tomorrow, you must avoid the left and right sides of the troop and stand in the middle to avoid the danger."

Therefore, in the battle the next day, Han Ju changed his original position on the left side of the chariot to personally drive the chariot in the center and fight against the Qi army.

In this fierce chase battle at the foot of Hua Buzhu Mountain, seeing that he could not get rid of the pursuit of the Jin army's military vehicles, Qi Qinggong's car Yu Bingxia said to Qi Qinggong in a hurry:

"Your Majesty, you quickly order, and order the attendants on the auxiliary car to shoot the person who is chasing in the middle of the Jin army's chariot (referring to Han Ju), who is a gentleman ('Junzi' here not only refers to 'a person of noble character', but also means 'a nobleman with a high status in battle'; Bing Xia asked Qi Qinggong to order someone to shoot Han Ju with arrows, just to shoot Han Ju and make the Jin army's pursuers lose their commander and cannot continue the pursuit; Bing Xia and Qi Qinggong did not know at this time that the pursuing Jin army general was Sima Han Ju of the Jin army)."

Although Qi Qinggong has a light and arrogant personality and no one in his eyes, he is the king of a big country after all, and he still has the aristocratic demeanor and gentlemanly (high-ranking aristocratic) bearing that he should have; So, Qi Qinggong did not order the attendants of the guards to shoot Han Jue, and reprimanded Bing Xia and said:

"You know that the general of the pursuing Jin army is a gentleman, and you let the widow order to shoot him with arrows, isn't it trapping the widow for injustice? This is also not in line with the etiquette and morality of war! ”

Although Qi Qinggong did not order his attendants to shoot Han Ju (the person who chased the person who drove in the middle of the Jin army's military vehicle at the front), he was not a pedantic and brainless like Song Xianggong, and he naturally knew in his heart how to choose in the moment of life and death - the widow just said not to shoot the 'gentleman', and did not say not to shoot others!

At the signal of Qi Qinggong, the attendants on the monarch's deputy car fired arrows at Rong Zuo and Rong Zuo beside Han Ju; Under the volley of arrows of the Qi army, Rong Zuo on the Han Ju military vehicle was shot off the car, and Rong Right was also killed by an arrow and fell in the carriage; At this time, Han Ju was unable to support himself, and he could hardly continue to drive to pursue the fleeing Qi Qinggong.

At this time, Qi Wuzhang, the general of the Jin army, who followed Han Ju to pursue Qi Qinggong, but lost his military chariot due to the counterattack of the Qi army (in the fierce arrows of Qi Qinggong's attendants) in the pursuit, saw that Han Ju's car was the only one driving alone (Han Ju's Rong Zuo and Rong Right had been killed or wounded in the counterattack of the Qi army, and could not cooperate with Han Ju's attack), and it was inconvenient to continue the battle, so he took the initiative to run forward and apply to Han Ju, saying:

"Please allow me to ride in your car and assist you in the attack."

Han Ju couldn't ask for Qi Wuzhang's application, so he immediately let Qi Wuzhang get into the car and fight together as his deputy; However, Han Ju did not let Qi Wuzhang stand on his left or right, but pushed him behind him with his elbow, and was responsible for raising the flag and guiding the other Jin army chariots to fight (Han Ju did this because he had been warned by his father in a dream before the battle to avoid being injured in battle; Therefore, Han Ju let Qi Wuzhang stand behind him to avoid casualties from arrows).

In the close pursuit of Han Ju and the Jin army led by him, Qi Qinggong used Bing Xia's strategy to 'stealthily shoot' the Jin army's Rong left and Rong right, causing certain casualties to the Jin army and blocking the Jin army's pursuit to a certain extent; While fighting and fleeing, Qi Qinggong almost got rid of Han Jue's pursuit, and he was about to escape.

But just when Qi Qinggong was about to flee to Huaquan on the edge of Huabuzhu Mountain, the horses in his car (the horses on both sides when driving) were inadvertently yoked by small branches on the side of the road because the car was too anxious to drive and did not observe the terrain well; Bing Xia tried his best to whip the horses several times, but the horses just circled in place and exerted their strength, unable to get rid of the entanglement of the branches.

To add insult to injury, it stands to reason that Qi Qing's ugly father, who should get out of the car at this time and push the cart and get the vehicle out of trouble, was poisoned by a poisonous snake bite on the arm during the march the day before, and he didn't have the strength to get out of the car to push the car, so he couldn't let the vehicle get out of trouble; In a hurry, he saw that Qi Qinggong was about to be caught up and captured by Han Jue, who was following him.

Just when Qi Qinggong's car was trapped on the side of Huaquan, Han Ju and Qi Wuzhang had already chased after him by car, and led a large number of Jin army vehicles to surround Qi Qinggong's car and a few attendant cars; At that time, Han Ju's original Rongyou had been killed in battle, but the body was still lying in the carriage and was not placed; Han Ju couldn't bear to push the body of his comrade out of the car casually, so he took advantage of the time when he surrounded Qi Qinggong, temporarily stopped the car, and then bent down to lay Rong You's body flat and stable.

Taking advantage of the good opportunity that Han Jue's attention was still on his Rong You's body, Qi Qinggong's ugly father on the right side of the car hurriedly changed positions with the monarch in the car, and stood on the left side of the car, and let Qi Qinggong stand on the right (the reason why the ugly father wanted to do this was to pretend to be the monarch by himself when he was already surrounded by the Jin army, so that the real monarch, Qi Qinggong, could pass the test in confusion and take the opportunity to escape).

After placing Rong You's body, Han Ju continued to drive forward, and the soldiers who commanded the Jin army surrounded Qi Qinggong's car. When Han Ju saw that Qi Qinggong's military chariot had been caught by tree branches and could not break free, he immediately got out of the car, took out the prepared reins (in order to tie the feet of Qi Qinggong's chariot and make it impossible for the vehicle to move forward), took off his jade pendant and the liquor he brought with him, and walked towards Qi Qinggong's chariot under the high alert of the accompanying Jin soldiers.

After coming to Qi Qinggong's car, Han Jue first respectfully bowed to the courtiers of Qi (who was actually pretending to be his ugly father) and bowed twice in a row; Later, Han Ju offered wine and jade pendants to Qi Hou (etiquette regulations at that time); After doing these ceremonial actions, Han Ju politely said to 'Qi Hou':

"Our widow sent his subordinates here to intercede for Lu and Wei, and before leaving, the widow also specially explained to his subordinates and said: ' Don't go deep into the borders of the great powers (Qi State)'; the subordinates are really unfortunate enough to meet you here, and they cannot escape (because of the order of the widow monarch); and the subordinates are afraid that if they avoid you without permission, it will bring shame to the kings of the two countries and the soldiers who fought bravely, so they have to participate in the battle, so that they will meet you; the subordinates are not favored and talented, and they hold the current (acting) official position, but our Jin Kingdom lacks talents. ”

Seeing that Han Ju saluted himself seriously, and babbled about such a big scene, the ugly father immediately concluded that this Jin army general (Han Ju) must not know Qi Qinggong, which is why he has the above behavior; In order to let the monarch (Qi Qinggong) get out quickly, the ugly father who pretended to be the monarch put on the shelf of 'princes', not only accepted Han Ju's visit in a big way, took the wine and jade pendant he offered, but also deliberately pretended to be irritable and angry, and scolded the right car next to him (that is, Qi Qinggong himself faked) to get out of the car quickly and go to Huaquan to fetch water for himself to drink.

The real Qi Qinggong was already in a state of fear at this time, for fear that Han Ju would see the flaws and recognize himself as the Marquis of Qi, which would be bad (it would not be enough to be killed by the Jin army, but he would definitely be escorted back to the Jin army camp and handed over to the commander Xun Ke for disposal; Isn't it more embarrassing to meet the enemy than to die).

Qi Qinggong, who was panicking, suddenly heard the ugly father who was pretending to be the monarch loudly scolding and instructing himself, telling himself to go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink, in fact, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the Jin army generals (Han Ju) to distinguish the true from the false, and let himself take advantage of the chaos to escape after the 'scolding', his heart was really surprised and grateful, and he hesitated at the same time while feeling the loyalty of his ugly father, and he didn't know if the Jin soldiers who surrounded him would accept it. Qi Hou' (that is, the ugly father) asked the attendant Cheyou (that is, Qi Qinggong himself) to leave the encirclement and go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink.

Han Ju, who was under the car, heard that the 'Qi Hou' in the car was 'playing tricks', and he was already captured and arrogant, and asked the attendant to go to Huaquan to fetch water to drink (in fact, he also said it to himself), and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh and disdain - how can the monarch of a country be so lacking in etiquette and looking like a fierce and introverted (Qi Qinggong's character is really like this, so the ugly father played well, which made Han Ju even more convinced).

But in the end, Qi Qinggong is a 'king', he is a 'foreign minister', and his request to 'drink water' is not too much, so Han Ju did not object to this, but adopted a tacit attitude (that is, not to interfere with the 'Qi Hou'' scolding of his own car, let them decide for themselves).

Seeing that the soldiers of the Jin army did not come forward to interfere with their 'plan to get water', the ugly father who pretended to be the Marquis of Qi was ecstatic in his heart, so he continued to scold Che You (Qi Qinggong) in the name of 'Qi Hou', asking him to get off the car quickly and go to Huaquan to fetch water for himself to drink.

At the last moment, the real Qi Qinggong didn't have time to express his gratitude to his ugly father, so he immediately took the plan, obeyed the 'order of the monarch' and got off quickly, and then left in the auxiliary car, leaving the encirclement of the Jin army in the name of 'fetching water'. Han Ju did not object to this.

Because of the wit and loyalty of his father, Qi Qinggong, who had fallen into a desperate situation, was able to survive and successfully escape from the siege of the Jin army led by Han Ju, avoiding the embarrassing result of being captured by the Jin army and humiliated by Xun Ke.