Ever since King Zhou Kaolie decided that it was legal for the three families to divide the Jin Dynasty, the status of the Zhou royal family had plummeted, and it was no longer the central state that commanded the princes. The disgrace of the Zhou royal family quickly inflated the ambitions of other countries. They were no longer satisfied with the King of Honor, but wanted to conquer the Central Plains.
In the Warring States period, the first country to rise was the State of Wei, which was surrounded on all sides. This country is adjacent to Korea, Wei, Qin, Qi, and Chu, and its geographical location is so poor that it explodes. But no one expected that this country would first become stronger, fight the Zhao state and fight Korea, then fight the Qin state, and provoke the Chu state.
On the surface, the State of Wei was a hegemon, able to knock down all the countries around it. But from a political point of view, the State of Wei was also a very stupid country. When the three families were divided into jin, they said that they should support each other, one family should move, the other two would also move, and the three victories would share the fruits of victory.
At that time, when Wei Guo was in the covenant, he spoke very well, sharing blessings and sharing difficulties. However, Wei Guo had his own plans in mind, every time Wei Guo took Korea and Zhao Guo to fight the world together, he always swallowed the fruits of victory alone, and did not even give Zhao Guo and South Korea to drink soup, so Korea and Zhao Guo were very dissatisfied.
Soon after, the State of Wei wanted to act again, and neither the State of Zhao nor Korea went. The King of Wei was so enraged that he directly sent troops to attack the State of Zhao and Korea, causing Korea and the State of Zhao to form an alliance against the State of Wei, and the so-called alliance of the three families had already existed in name only. But then again, the State of Wei was still very strong in the early warring states period, and the combat effectiveness of Wei Wushu was profoundly influential.
Looking at the countries at that time, the Qin State, the Zhao State, and the Korean State were not opponents of the State of Wei, and the State of Chu did not dare to act rashly, and the only one that had the strength to fight with the State of Wei belonged to the revived State of Qi. When the State of Wei attacked the State of Zhao, the State of Zhao could not hold out and asked the State of Qi for help, and the State of Qi immediately sent troops to assist the State of Zhao.
This was the first confrontation between the Wei general Pang Juan and the Qi general Sun Zhen. The two men went out of the same door, but they went to opposite fates. The Qi army did not go directly to the Zhao state to rescue, but made a posture to attack the capital of the Wei state. The King of Wei immediately ordered Pang Juan to return to the rescue, and Pang Juan immediately returned to the rescue after capturing Handan in the Zhao state.
But this was only Sun Zhen's plan, Sun Zhen did not want to attack the capital of the State of Wei, but placed the soldiers on the road that Pang Juan had to pass, fought a interception battle, crushed the Wei army, and captured Pang Juan alive, which was the Battle of Guiling. Later, after mediation by the State of Chu, the two sides reconciled. The State of Wei withdrew its troops to Handan, and the State of Qi released Pang Juan.
Pang Juan has always won a battle and has never lost a battle, so he holds a grudge against Sun Bin and has been thinking about how to find face. So there was the famous Battle of Maling Road, this battle Sun Zhen took advantage of Pang Juan's anxious psychology, set up an ambush in Maling Road, and pursued and killed the 100,000 troops of the State of Wei, after which the Wei State was seriously injured, the martial pawns were almost lost, and the hegemony began to decline.
From a grand strategic point of view, the country of Qi has won a great victory, and the road to rejuvenation is very comfortable. But for Sun Bin personally, is he really right to win? In this division-gate dispute, he lost both legs, and was also humiliated by the tattoo, and his brother Pang Juan committed suicide and died, emotionally speaking, did Sun Zhen really have no fluctuations? In fact, in history, many people believe that Sun Zhen originally did not want to kill Pang Juan, who knew that Pang Juan committed suicide in shame and anger.
The fateful duel between Sun Bing and Pang Juan was also the decline of wei's hegemony and the rise of Qi's hegemony, and it was also the most intuitive embodiment of the failure of Wei's strategic policy. If the State of Wei had maintained an alliance with Zhao and Han, and the three families had advanced and retreated together, it would have been very difficult for the State of Qin to move eastward!