Leading an army to rescue the Song state, instead of directly reaching the Song state and engaging the Chu army, he first attacked the vassal states of the Chu state: Wei Guo and Cao Guo. After the Jin army defeated Wulu, which was defending the state, and fled Chuqiu, Duke Wen of Jin decided to invade the state of Cao. Jin Wengong's attack on Cao Guo was not as smooth as his attack on Wei Guo, and he also suffered some setbacks at the beginning.
In March of the twentieth year (432 BC), the Jin army besieged the capital of the Cao state. Ask the courtiers for advice. The doctor believes that when Duke Wen of Jin was still a prince, when he passed through the Cao Kingdom in exile, Cao Gonggong not only did not treat the heavy ears with courtesy, but also took advantage of the heavy ears to take advantage of the heavy ears to take a bath and value whether the ears were really ribs. Now Jin Wengong wants to repay the resentment of that year. Cao Guo should apologize to Jin Wengong for his sins, ask for peace, and save the difficulties of the people of a country, and he is willing to serve as an emissary.
Cao Gonggong said: The Marquis of Jin did not agree to make peace with Wei Guo, so how could he make peace with Cao Guo?
The doctor believed that he had given food and drink privately, and now he was asking for an envoy to the Jin Army, which was a traitorous strategy and could not listen to him. Yu Lang asked Cao Gonggong to kill Him. Yu Lang said that he had a plan to retreat from the enemy.
Cao Gonggong was a vassal of the Cao Kingdom and was exempt from killing and deposing officials.
Yu Lang offered a plan to Cao Gonggong: "The Marquis of Jin will be proud of his victory. The subject requested to write a secret letter to the Marquis of Jin, agreeing to offer the door at dusk. In advance, the elite soldiers took bows and crossbows, ambushed inside the city gate, coaxed the Marquis of Jin into entering the city, put the hanging gate down, and fired all the arrows in unison, so as not to worry that the Marquis of Jin would not become powder. ”
Cao Gonggong obeyed Yu Lang's strategy. Jin Wengong received Yu Lang's surrender letter and wanted to enter the city. He said: "Cao Guo has not suffered a loss now, how do you know that there is no fraud?" The minister asked for a tentative look. "Xianxun selected a tall sergeant with a long beard in the army, wearing the crown of Jin Wengong. The eunuch who had assassinated Jin Wengong twice before, Jin Wengong thought that he was obedient and forgave him. This time he asked to drive for the fake Jin Wengong.
At dusk, a flag was indeed erected on the city wall, the city gate was wide open, and the fake Jin Wengong led five hundred soldiers into the city. Before I was halfway in, I heard only the noise inside the city gate, and arrows shot like locusts. The fake Jin Wengong hurriedly turned around, the hanging door had been released, and the fake Jin Wengong and the eunuch Bo Yan and more than three hundred other soldiers died and made a bunch. Fortunately, Xianxun had one more heart eye, otherwise, Jin Wengong would have to be reimbursed here.
Jin Wengong had passed through the Cao Kingdom before, and there were soldiers in the Cao army who recognized Jin Wengong, and in a hurry at dusk, they did not distinguish between true and false, and the next morning, some soldiers recognized that the dead were fake Jin Wengong. The soldiers who did not enter the city fled to see Jin Wengong, and Jin Wengong became angry and attacked the city even more.
Cao Guo Yulang also offered a plan: "The Soldiers of the Jin Army who will be shot to death will be killed in the city, and the soldiers of the Jin Army will be depressed when they see it, and they will not try their best to attack the city." In a few days, the rescue army of the Chu State will surely arrive. This was a ploy to shake the hearts and minds of the Jin army. Cao Gonggong obeyed Yu Lang's plan.
The Soldiers of the Jin Army saw the corpses of dead Jin soldiers hanging from the city walls with scale poles, and they sighed endlessly. Jin Wengong said to Xianxun, "I'm afraid that the military's heart will be shaken, what should I do?" Xianxun said, "The graves of the Cao people are outside the West Gate." Please divide up half of the sergeants, camp in the cemetery, pretend to dig these graves, the city must be afraid, fear must be chaotic, and then we will take the opportunity to enter the army. Duke Wen of Jin agreed to Xianxun's plan and sent people to threaten in the army: prepare to dig the ancestral graves of the Cao people.
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Jin Wengong sent and led their soldiers to the cemetery, prepared shovels and hoes, and limited the next day to noon, and take the skeletons in the tomb to perform meritorious service.
When the Cao people heard this news, their hearts were broken. Cao Gonggong sent people to shout on the city wall: "Don't dig a tomb, I am really willing to surrender today!" ”
Xianxun also sent someone to respond: "You booby-trapped our army, and then you violently killed corpses on the city wall, and everyone couldn't bear it, so they had to dig up the grave, and if you could use the coffin to collect the dead, we would collect the troops and retire." ”
Cao Gonggong demanded a three-day grace period. First, he made a plan, and in advance made fox hair, fox yan, luan zhi, and Xu Chen rectify the military vehicles, and ambush them in four ways, and when the Cao people opened the door to send the coffin out, the four road military vehicles attacked at the same time.
Cao Gonggong did indeed use a coffin to collect every dead Jin soldier, and on the fourth day, Cao Gonggong asked the Jin army to retreat five miles, and then opened four city gates and sent the coffin out of four doors by car. When only a third of the time was sent, under the order of the first, the four ambush troops attacked at the same time, the city gate was blocked by the mourning car, and it could not be closed in a hurry, the Jin army attacked the city in chaos, Cao Gonggong commanded the bullet pressure on the city wall, saw it outside the city, jumped from the car to the city, and grabbed Cao Gonggong by the chest. Yu Lang, a minister of the State of Cao, tried to escape, but was stabbed to death by the Jin general. The Jin army attacked the capital of cao guo and killed more than three hundred cao guo doctors. Duke Wen of Jin ordered that he should not be alarmed by The Grand Master Cao Guo, who had helped him, and that he should be beheaded as soon as someone violated every plant and tree in his home.
Wei Yan and Qian Jie were not convinced, and set fire to kill Wei Bao's home in the middle of the night, Wei Yan jumped upstairs and jumped on the eaves of the roof in the fire, trying to find Wei Wei to kill him. Unexpectedly, the beam collapsed, wei Yi fell to the ground, just a burning pillar fell down, and it was hitting Wei Qian's chest, and Wei Qian spat out blood when he boarded. The fireballs rolled around, and Wei Qian struggled to climb up the court pillar, jumped up to the house, circled and jumped out, his clothes were already on fire, and everyone ripped off his clothes so that he was not burned.
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Seeing a fire in the north of the city, he was afraid that there would be a loss in the family, so he hurriedly sent a sergeant to put out the fire. The widowed wife hid in the pool with her son in her arms and survived. He led his family to put out the fire, was smoked down, and after being rescued, he was unconscious, and he died when he saw Jin Wengong. Duke Wen of Jin paid homage to his five-year-old son, Shu Lu, as a doctor, gave his mother and son a rich golden veil, and sent them back to their hometown.
Duke Wen of Jin ordered the killing of Wei Yi and wanted to kill Wei Yi as well, but Zhao Wan repeatedly interceded, and Duke Wen of Jin knew that Wei Yi was a rare general, so he removed Wei Yi from his post and spared him from death.
Duke Wen of Jin imprisoned Cao Gonggong in Wulu, who was defending the state, and after the Battle of Chengpu between Jin and Chu, the Jin army won a complete victory, and Duke Wen of Jin led the princes to accept the reward of King Xiang of Zhou. Due to his advanced age, Jin Wengong was overworked, overworked, and sick, and had nightmares. When Duke Wen of Jin was seriously ill, Cao Guo's lieutenants bribed Taibu of the State of Jin with a cart of gold to persuade Duke Wen of Jin to release Cao Gonggong, and Cao Gonggong was able to return to China.
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