In the late Spring and Autumn Period, a warrior scholar wrote a book called "The Art of War of Sun Tzu", which made Wu Wang Lu feel inspired, because he swept away the previous haze, and he realized that this young man could help him go north to dominate the Central Plains and compete with the Jin and Chu Dynasties.
Because in the big situation at that time, all countries had to pay attention to rules when fighting wars, first they had to write a battle book and then line up a platoon, and after a round of consolidation, everyone went back to repair and then attacked in the second round, so at that time, many times the war was completely dependent on comprehensive national strength, and there were really very few victories with less.
However, Sun Wu's sentence "Soldiers, devious ways" made many people realize from then on that fighting a war does not have to pay attention to rules, as long as you can win no matter what method you use, so from the Warring States era, war has become very exciting, all kinds of strategies emerge in an endless stream, anti-interstitial planning, divisive planning, annihilation warfare, ambush warfare, etc., everyone began not to talk about martial arts.
However, in fact, it was not Sun Wu who was the first to put forward the "soldier, the tricky way", and the first person to put it into action was not Sun Wu, more than a hundred years before Sun Wu, there was a person who took the lead in opening the era of "soldier, tricky way".
For people familiar with the history of the Spring and Autumn Warring States, this person's name may be somewhat familiar, but some people may be very unfamiliar, because this person is indeed not very well known, this person is also the first marshal in Chinese history, participated in the command of China's first ambush battle, but also let the Qin state out of the road out of the east completely broken, this person named Xianxun.
Jin Wengong and Xianxun
Regarding Xianxun, we have to mention one person, that is, the famous Jin Wen Gongzhong in Chinese history, because The origin of Xianxun is all due to him.
When Jin Xiangong reigned, there was a favorite concubine named Li Ji, Jin Xiangong himself liked him, and she was also angry in her stomach, and gave birth to a son for Jin Xiangong, thanks to the favor of his mother, Jin Xiangong wanted to make him a prince.
However, the Jin Xiangong lineage originally benefited from the "Quwo Daiyi" incident of that year, and the Jin Xiangong realized that if he did not properly arrange his brothers, then similar incidents would inevitably occur again in the Jin Kingdom, and under the influence of Li Ji, the Jin Xiangong actually killed several of his sons, which was called the "Li Ji Rebellion" in history, and the crown prince Shen Sheng was killed, and the remaining two sons fled, one of which was a heavy ear.
Although Shigeru himself was from an aristocratic background, he loved to make friends widely in his life, so he also gathered a group of like-minded friends around him, and Xian'er became acquainted with him when he was seventeen years old, and in the face of Jin Xiangong's attack, Xian'er and others suggested that Zhong'er quickly escape.
A person may have dozens of friends in his lifetime, but how many are truly confidants? Heavy Ear was very lucky, because he had several confidants who treated him sincerely, and in the past some people had befriended him because of his status as a prince, but he did not have this advantage at the moment of his downfall, but Xian'er and others did not abandon him, and Heavy Ear went into exile for nineteen years, and Xian'er and others also followed him into exile for nineteen years.
Therefore, after the later appearance of Heavy Ear, the eleven ministers who had been in exile with him were listed among the "Six Secretaries", which was a reward for them, and this move of Heavy Ear made the Jin State strong, but it also laid the foundation for the subsequent three divisions of Jin.
The Battle of Kun shattered the ambitions of the Qin state to the east
Unfortunately, Zhong'er was already in his sixties when he became king of Jin, and after defeating the Chu state at the Battle of Chengpu, Duke Wen of Jin died shortly after, and his son Duke Xiang of Jin took the throne.
At that time, the death of Duke Wen of Jin was the happiest for the State of Qin in the west, because Duke Mu of Qin had always had the ambition to fight for hegemony in the east, so he assisted three generations of Jin monarchs, but the first two were ungrateful after this, and the heavy ear was more emotional, but the Jin state was stronger in his hands, and the Qin state was even more hopeless, and now the heavy ear died Qin Mugong thought that the time had come.
The eastward departure of The Duke of Qin made the Jin state in difficulty, because the Qin state had always been good friends with the Jin state, and now the two countries were fighting each other.
Ran Xianxun and others believed that it was the State of Qin that took advantage of the death of the New Emperor to invade the State of Jin, so it was the State of Qin who was at fault first, and the State of Jin was forced to fight back, and his proposition was approved by the Duke of JinXiang, for which the Duke of Jin Xiang appointed Xianxun as a marshal and was fully responsible for blocking the events of the State of Qin.
At that time, the Eastern Expedition of the Qin State to the Jin Dynasty belonged to the Labor Division Expedition, and the rear supply was a problem, and its internal intelligence work was not meticulous, and Xianxun used this weakness to decide to carry out an ambush war against the Qin State, which also became the first ambush war in history, and from then on, the era of "soldiers, tricks" was opened.
At that time, the Qin army passed through the land of Kunshan, both sides of Kunshan were cliffs, only a small road could be passed, it was an excellent ambush site for the ambush site, and the three generals of the Qin State felt a little chilled after passing through Kunshan, and when they passed through Kunshan, they found the banner erected by the Jin State.
Meng Mingshi saw this flag and felt that it was a bit of an obstacle, so he asked his subordinates to cut down this flag, even though he knew that at the moment when the flag fell, a rain of arrows roared towards the Qin army, directly beating the Qin state into obscurity.
It turned out that the Jin State used this flag as a signal to launch an attack, the flag fell, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and at that time, the Spring and Autumn Period was also about etiquette, and no one had ever fought an ambush like this before, and there was no way to line up troops in this narrow canyon, and the Qin State fell into the inferior position from the beginning.
And jinguo? Knowing the marching route of the Qin state in advance, and ambushing in an excellent and favorable place, it fundamentally occupied the opportunity, so the defeat of this war was obvious.
The final result was that Meng Mingshi and other Qin generals were captured by the State of Jin, and the State of Qin did not give up after this, and several successive eastern expeditions were crushed by the State of Jin, and because this great war made the State of Qin realize that as long as the State of Jin was no longer possible in the east, Qin Mugong had to change his strategy in his later years, changing from the east to developing westward, and from then on Qin Mugong dominated Xi Rong.
However, for more than three hundred years after the Duke of Qin Mu, the State of Qin never went east, until the era of Qin Xiaogong, the State of Qin underwent the Shang Martingale Transformation Method, and its strength in all aspects was greatly enhanced, and more importantly, the State of Jin at that time was no longer there, and finally the State of Qin was able to go east.