This inexplicable war took place in the year 518 BC, which coincided with the ninth year of King Wu of the State of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the eleventh year of King Chuping of the neighboring State of Chu. At that time, there was a small city on the border of the State of Wu called Beiliang. There is also a small city on the border of the Chu Kingdom, called Zhongli, and the two small cities on this border line are not far apart, and the people who live here have been growing mulberry silkworms for generations.
One day in this year, there was a very small quarrel, the cause of which was that a little girl from Chu Country was picking mulberry leaves and found that there was a very good mulberry tree growing on the border, full of mulberry leaves, and was preparing to run over to pick it. It just so happened that an older woman from Wu Guo's side also found this mulberry tree and hurried over to pick it.
At that time, neither of the two sides gave in to each other, and finally insulted each other: later, the women of wu guo directly gave the little girl of chu a few slaps, and the two sides wrestled together, and the little girl of chu was in the inferior position, and what was beaten was a blue nose and swollen face. At this moment, suddenly from behind the tree, several people came, all of whom were the family members of the Chu girls, when they saw that their children were being bullied, they beat up the Wu women in groups, and the result, of course, was that the Wu women were beaten badly and dragged back home with their scarred bodies. When the woman of Wu Guo returned to the village, she cried bitterly and told everyone about her own experience. At this time, the whole village stopped working, and the big guys picked up hoes and kitchen knives and went to the Chu people to settle the account that night. Can the people in the village over there in Chu Be unprepared? Of course not, the two sides fought bloody that night, but the Wu people fell into the ambush circle set up by the Chu State first, and only half of the people in a village fled home in the middle of the night.
The incident escalated, and the people in the village could not suppress this breath and immediately reported to the local governor. The local governor was very angry, so he led many soldiers and villagers from all over the county to kill the village of Chu Guo as quickly as possible, which were all well-trained soldiers, driving chariots and wielding long halberds, rushing to the territory of Chu Guo, and destroying the village of Chu women. The Wu people had a bloody nature, simply did not do one, two without stopping, and directly attacked the entire Zhong Li small city.
Because it was too sudden, Zhong Li's defenders did not expect that Wu Guo's side would directly send regular troops to raid, and they were frightened and fled in defeat. After receiving the report, King Chuping was furious and sent an army to attack the state of Wu. King Chu Ping directly led the elite division of the Chu state to flatten the city of Beiliang. Afterwards, King Wu received a report of defeat, and was furious and ordered Gongzi Guang to lead a heavy army to attack the Chu state. As a result, Gongzi Guang's sneak attack was successful and captured two larger cities on the border, so Wu and Chu launched a perennial bloody war.
This story is not over, in order to defeat the State of Chu, King Wu reused Wu Zixu to enrich the country and strengthen the army. In 506 BC, according to the conspiracy of Wu Zixu and others, Sun Wu's troops finally attacked the capital of the Chu state, and King Chu Zhao fled like a dog that had lost his family. After this battle, the State of Wu became one of the Five Great Powers of the Spring and Autumn Period, but the State of Wu also won a crushing victory. King Gou of Yue took advantage of the emptiness of the State of Wu to lead his troops to rise up, and defeated the State of Wu, king of Wu was cut off toe, seriously wounded and died, the new Junfu sent revenge, Shen Bing attacked the State of Yue, and Gou Jian was forced to ask Wu for peace, lying down and tasting his guts. Gou Jian reused Fan Li and Wen Zhong, and finally defeated the main force of the Wu army, and the husband committed suicide, and Gou Jian destroyed Wu's hegemony. And the original reason for these famous historical events was only the battle for sang at that time.
There have been thousands of wars throughout the ages, and the reasons are also strange. The protracted war between the two countries caused by the dispute between two women raising silkworms on the border and the civil dispute has a far-reaching impact on history, and this is the only case in ancient and modern China and abroad.
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