In the nineteenth year of King Xiang of Zhou (633 BC), he was rewarded with a great reward for rescuing the royal family, which greatly expanded the strength of the Jin state, and expanded the Jin army from the previous left and right armies to the upper, middle and lower armies, and set up six qing generals to command the three armies and assist him in governing and governing the country.
Under the recommendation of his confidant Zhao Wan, Jin Wengong adopted the practice of promoting the old nobles in the country and following his own cronies to serve as the six secretaries respectively, so that the distribution of benefits was relatively balanced and more Qing clans supported him; under the arrangement of Jin Wengong, the old nobleman of the domestic country and the old minister of the Hao clan, Hao Yu, served as a general in the middle army, and Hao Qin served as the middle military general, following his long-time cronies and uncle Fox Mao as the general of the army, uncle Fox Yan as the general of the army, the old nobleman of the country Luan Zhi as the general of the lower army, and the loyalist Xianxun as the general of the lower army; Zhao Wan, granted the post of secretary of state and praised the state administration. In this way, Luan Zhi, the head of the old aristocratic family in the Jin State, was able to become the first batch of six qing members of the Jin State because of the promotion of Jin Wengong. The true prosperity of the Luan clan also began.
In the twentieth year of King Xiang of Zhou (632 BC), the State of Chu sent troops to attack the State of Song; because duke Wen of Jin was in exile that year, the prince of the state of Song Xianggong treated him with courtesy and had a good attitude, so he decided to save song and repay the kindness that Song Xianggong had given him. In the first month of that year, Duke Wen of Jin led Liu Qing on a campaign to lead an attack on the Chu state's allies Wei Guo and Cao Guo, and successively forced Wei Chenggong into exile and captured Cao Gonggong. In February, the first general of the Jin Dynasty, the old minister Hao Yu, died in the army, and Jin Wengong was promoted to the rank of General of the Chinese Army because the Subordinate Commandery Was a close associate who had followed him for many years, and he was strict in governing the army and had outstanding talent, so he was promoted to a Chinese general and succeeded him as a subordinate. In this personnel adjustment, Luan Zhi still served as a subordinate general.
Originally, Jin Wengong attacked Wei and Cao in order to force the State of Chu to abandon the attack on the Song, go north to rescue its allies, and then wait for the Chu army to defeat the Chu army and relieve the siege of the Song State. However, the State of Chu was not deceived and continued to attack the State of Song, but the State of Song could not hold on, and once again complained to the State of Jin, asking the Jin army to send troops to directly save the Song.
Under the planning and advice of the new Marshal xianxun of the Chinese army, Jin Wengong skillfully provoked the contradiction between the two great powers of Chu and Qi and Qin with the tactic of "bribing and anger and stubbornness", and Qin and Qi formed an alliance with the Jin state and sent troops to attack the Chu state together. Faced with this unfavorable situation, King Cheng of Chu gave up attacking the Song and ordered a retreat to avoid direct engagement with the combined forces of Jin, Qi, and Qin.
However, the State of Chu ordered Yin Ziyu (Cheng Dechen) to be very unconvinced by the State of Jin, and several times proposed to King Cheng of Chu that he should send troops to fight the Jin army. King Cheng of Chu was very dissatisfied with Zi Yu's disobedience to orders, but it was not easy to refuse directly, so he reluctantly agreed to Zi Yu's request for battle, and gave him the command of his palace guards and his vassals Chen and Cai, as well as the military command of the two countries of Shen and Xie in the country, and gave Zi Yu full command of the battle to meet the Jin army.
In the spring of the twentieth year of King Xiang of Zhou (632 BC), Ziyu led the Chu army north and sent emissaries to the camp of the Jin army to negotiate with The Duke Wen of Jin before the war. Under the exquisite plan of Duke Wen of Jin and Xianxun, the original allies of the State of Chu, Cao Guo and Wei Guo, broke off diplomatic relations with the State of Chu and switched to the State of Jin. Zi Yu, annoyed and angry, immediately ordered the whole army to move out and go north to meet the Jin army.
In those years, when Jin Wengong was in exile, he had been taken in by the Chu state and received the favor of King Cheng of Chu, so he solemnly promised the king of Chu that in the future, in case the two countries were unfortunate enough to meet on the battlefield, the Jin state would definitely "retreat to the three houses" (that is, take the initiative to retreat ninety miles); therefore, when facing the Chu army, Jin Wengong fulfilled his promise of that year, led the army to retreat to Sanshe, and garrisoned in Chengpu (Fan County, Shandong Province) to wait for the Chu army.
After the Jin army retreated, Ziyu misjudged that the Jin army was afraid of the Chu army, so he did not dare to engage, so he continued to lead the Chu army to follow the Jin army north and camped at Qiling, determined to fight with the Jin army on the battlefield.
Before the battle, Ziyu sent Dou Bo, the commander of the Right Army of Chu, to the jin army camp to submit a challenge to Jin Wengong: "The foreign ministers ask junshang for orders, ask for a game with your generals, please junshang you support Shimu to watch, and the foreign ministers will also accompany you to watch the battle." After receiving the challenge letter from the State of Chu, Duke Wen of Jin ordered the secretaries of state to draft a reply letter, and the lower army sent Luan Zhi to write an imposing reply to the battle book, which was handed over to Dou Bo to bring back to Ziyu to show: "We widows have received your orders from the doctor, and the favors that Chu Jun gave to our widows in those years, we widows dare not forget at any time, so we retreated here." We widows thought that the doctor had retired (but did not), could the courtiers resist the monarch? Since the Doctor refuses to retreat, please say to the generals of your army, 'Prepare your chariots, obey your king's orders, and see you tomorrow morning!' Both the Jin and Chu armies had completed the diplomatic process before the great war.
In the early morning of the sixth morning of the first month of April in the twentieth year of King Xiang of Zhou (632 BC), the first general battle between Jin and Chu, the Battle of Chengpu, was officially launched, and before the war began, ziyu, the commander of the Chu army, arrogantly boasted about Haikou: "Today we must let all the Jin army disappear!" ”
However, in the course of the battle, the Jin army was flexible and scheming, while the Chu army was blindly reckless, so the situation on the battlefield was quickly tilted toward the Jin army; the Right and Left Armies of the Chu Army, deceived by the Jin Army's trick of dragging luan Zhi's branches and pretending to be defeated and retreating, first attacked easily, and then were raided by the Jin Army's Zuo Xuchen's "chariot and tiger skin" strategy, and they were defeated one after another, and the Marshal of the Jin Army, Xianxun, personally led the Jin Army to suddenly move out, intercepting the Chu army, and Luan Zhi, who pretended to retreat, also turned around and attacked, so the Chu army was surrounded on three sides, and the left and right armies suffered heavy losses. In desperation, Zi Yu had to lead the Chu Army, which had not yet been attacked, to cover the retreat of the left and right armies and take the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, so that the Chu army would not be completely destroyed.
After the Chu army withdrew, Jin Wengong ordered the Jin army to take advantage of the victory to enter the army, occupy the Chu army's camp, and rest here for three days and eat the Chu army's military food before returning home in victory. In May, Duke Wen of Jin took prisoner of heaven to King Xiang of Zhou for his great victory at the Battle of Chengpu, and King Xiang of Zhou comforted Duke Wen of Jin with a great courtesy and gave Duke Wen of Jin Nine Xi. Jin Wengong returned the four gifts of bows, horses, axes, and thorns, indicating that he only dared to accept the five tins. After that, the State of Jin justifiably followed the State of Qi and became a new generation of overlords among the princes, and the hegemony of the Duke wen of Jin was formally established. And the general Luan Zhi also made a strong contribution to his strength and wisdom at the critical moment when the Jin state was vying for the position of hegemony.
In the summer of the twenty-first year of King Xiang of Zhou (631 BC), Duke Wen of Jin, on the order of the Son of Heaven (in fact, on his own), ordered Hu Yan to be his own representative, held an alliance meeting at Zhai Quan (Mengjin, Henan), and presided over the alliance meeting, and the Song Dynasty's grand master Gongsun Gu, the Qi state doctor Returned to his father, the Chen Guo grand master Yuantao Tu, and the Qin state ZongMu were all invited to attend, and the royal minister Wang Hu also attended on behalf of the son of heaven and endorsed the Jin state; Jin Wengong's move was to consolidate the alliance of the land, reaffirm the great ambition of "honoring the king", and obtain the support of the princes' allies, and then secretly plotted. Preparing to send troops to fight against the State of Zheng, who did not submit to the State of Jin and colluded with the State of Chu, he took the opportunity to surrender this important princely state located on the main road of communication in the Central Plains.
In the spring of the twenty-second year of King Xiang of Zhou (630 BC), Duke Wen of Jin, in alliance with Duke Mu of Qin, used the excuses of "Zheng Guo turned his back on Tianzi and defected to the Chu state to fight Tongzong" and "when Jin Jun was exiled to Zheng Guo, he was treated arrogantly and rudely by Zheng Jun", and personally led an army to attack Zheng, occupying the important places in Zheng Guo's territory, Hanling (Henan XinzhengBei), And Nan (Henan Zhongmu Nan), and attacking the capital of Zheng Guo.
Under the attack of the Jin-Qin coalition forces, the city of Zheng du was full of panic, and Zheng Wengong had nothing to do in the face of a strong enemy, and almost personally went to the Jin army camp to ask for surrender. At the time of crisis, it was Zheng Guoyuanzheng (horse breeding official) Who, for the safety of the people of Zheng Guozong Temple, resolutely decided to take a risk to go out of the city, secretly met with Qin Mugong, the commander of the Qin army, and explained to Qin Mugong the complicated gains and losses between the three kingdoms of Jin, Qin, and Zheng, as well as the severe relationship, which persuaded Qin Mugong to retire and lift the siege of Zheng Guo. This is the content of the classic ancient prose in high school Chinese textbooks now, "Zuo Chuan - Candle Wu Retreat Qin Shi".
After the State of Qin retreated, the Jin masters, including Luan Zhi, were indignant and requested that Duke Wen of Jin immediately send troops to pursue the Qin army in order to teach the State of Qin a lesson in betraying its alliance. However, Duke Wen of Jin did not agree with the opinions of the doctors, and also took the initiative to help Qin Mu to openly escape, explaining that he had not done anything about demolishing rivers and bridges (Jin Wengong only succeeded to the throne with the support of the Qin state). As a result, the Jin army also lifted the siege of Zheng Guo, banshi returned to China, and Zheng Guosheji turned the crisis into safety.
In the spring of the twenty-third year (629 BC) of King Xiang of Zhou, because of the victory in the Battle of Chengpu and the success of the Battle of Zheng, the military strength of the Jin state was greatly enhanced, so the Jin Wengong held a military parade ceremony in Qingyuan (Wenxi, Shanxi), and in addition to the original three armies of the upper, middle and lower armies, a new upper army and a new lower army were established, totaling five armies (nominally, second only to the sixth army of Tianzi, but Zhou Tianzi could not even make up one army at this time, so the Jin army was now the strongest military presence in the world).
Because Zhao Wan, the first confidant of Duke Wen of Jin, and the shangqing of the Jin dynasty, had repeatedly resigned from the qing throne and recommended others to serve as military adjutants, Jin Wengong was too unwilling to go, so he forcibly appointed Zhao Wan as a new general when he held a ceremony this time. In addition, because the original Shangjun general and the uncle of Jin Wengong Fox Mao died of illness in this year, Jin Wengong promoted the son of the Chinese general Xianxun xian and juju as a shangjun general.
At this time, the positions of the ten secretaries of the Five Armies of the Jin Dynasty were as follows: General Xianxun of the Chinese Army, Zuo Qinqin of the Chinese Army, General Xianheju of the Shangjun Army, Zuo Huyan of the Shangjun, Luan Zhi of the Lower Army, Zuo Xuchen of the Lower Army, Zhao Wan, General of the New Shangjun, Zheng Father of the New Shangjun, Xu Bao, and Zuo Xiandu of the New Lower Army. In the new round of personnel adjustment, Luan Zhi still served as a general in the lower army.
In December of the twenty-fourth year of King Xiang of Zhou (628 BC), the second prince of Jin, Duke Wen of Jin, died, and prince Huan of Jin, with the support and support of the grand masters of the State of Jin, inherited the foundation of the great power left by duke Wen of Jin and became the twenty-third marquis of Jin, the Duke of Jinxiang.
Before Jin Xianggong succeeded to the throne, because when Jin and Qin attacked Zheng, the Qin state withdrew its troops privately, which led to discord and distrust between Jin and Qin, and then this mutual suspicion and wariness between Jin and Qin, and even the situation of mutual suspicion and separation between Jin and Qin became more and more serious, in order to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains, the two countries even began to secretly reorganize their armaments and prepare to fight a decisive victory or defeat by force. After the death of Duke Wen of Jin and the succession of Duke Xiang of Jin, the two countries of Jin and Qin were even more unable to maintain normal relations on the surface.
In the spring of the twenty-fifth year of King Xiang of Zhou (627 BC), because of the death of Duke Wen of Jin and Duke Wen of Zheng, Duke Mu of Qin, who had long coveted the hegemony of the State of Jin, made up his mind to take advantage of this good opportunity to send troops to attack the State of Zheng and defeat the State of Jin at the same time, achieving the hegemony of the State of Qin. Subsequently, Qin Mugong sent Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, and Bai Yibing to lead the Qin army from Yongcheng (Fengxiang, Shaanxi) on a long journey to secretly attack the newly bereaved monarch Zheng Guo.
The news of the Qin army's dispatch of troops was soon learned by the State of Jin, at this time the Duke of Jin Xiang had just succeeded to the throne, and was still serving the funeral of duke Wen of Jin, and when he learned that the State of Qin had actually taken advantage of the fact that both the State of Jin and the State of Zheng had sent troops to sneak attack and attempt to shake the hegemony of the State of Jin, the Duke of Jin Xiang immediately summoned Xianxun, Luan Zhi, Zhao Wan, and other secretaries of state to discuss countermeasures and arrange a counterattack against the rude and offensive Qin army.
During the discussion, the general Luan Zhi of the Lower Army replied to the Duke of Jinxiang that it was the State of Qin that had originally sent troops to quell the internal turmoil in Jin, and had also established the succession of the Former Emperor Wengong, so that the State of Jin could restore its hegemony in decline, and the State of Qin had given the State of Jin great favors. Now soon after the death of The First Emperor Wengong, the State of Jin will immediately send troops to attack the Qin army, which will make the princes of the world think that our Jin State will cross the river and tear down the bridge, be ungrateful, the reputation of the overlord of the Jin State will be greatly damaged, and the former Emperor Wengong, who has been working hard to maintain the relations between Jin and Qin before his death, will also be uneasy underground. For this dispute, Luan Zhi suggested that it would be better to use diplomatic means to resolve it.
However, the Chinese general Xianxun did not agree with Luan Zhi's suggestion, and he stressed that the State of Qin was unjust first, and that Qin Jun did not listen to advice, greedily rejuvenated the division, and crossed the border of the Jin State without authorization, and his behavior was crazy and rude, and it was an open affront to the State of Jin. Xianxun advised The Duke of Jin Hui from the three aspects of etiquette, national troubles, and future generations, and advised the Duke xiang of Jin to seize the opportunity to strike at the Qin state before its ambitions first appeared and were not yet strong, and completely thwarted the qin state's attempt to enter the Central Plains in the east and covet the position of the hegemon of the Jin state.
Under the unremitting advice of Xianxun, the generous Duke Xiang of Jin also changed his mind and decided to mobilize the Fifth Army to ambush the Qin army and maintain the hegemony of the Jin state and the hegemony of the princes of the Central Plains.
In order to paralyze the Qin army and better gain combat superiority, the Duke of Jin Xiang did not openly send troops to block the Qin army when it passed through The KunShan And left the Central Plains in the east, but waited for the Qin army to pass, and then led a large army to ambush on both sides of the Yishan Mountain, waiting for the Qin army to return to Zheng, by surprise and surrounded and annihilated.
In April of the twenty-fifth year of King Xiang of Zhou (627 BC), the Qin army, which had made a long-distance sneak attack on Zheng Guo, but returned because of the unsuccessful plan of Zheng Guo's merchant Xiang Gao, did not achieve the goal of attacking Zheng, and could only carry a large amount of booty obtained by the smooth slip, and the people were trapped and slowly entered the pass between the valleys from the east side of the KunShan, and the Jin army and the servant army Jiang Rong, who had been ambushed for a long time, immediately launched a two-sided attack, and the Qin army was caught off guard, and the whole army was destroyed, and the horses did not escape, Meng Mingshi, Xi Qishu, All three lords of Bai Yibing will be captured. This is what the "Battle of Kun" in the Chinese textbook of the first semester of the third year of high school now tells the story. Luan Zhi, as the main general of the lower army, also led the army to participate in this operation and made no small achievements.
After the victory at the Battle of Kun, the great chinese general Xianxun was unable to control his anger because he had released the captured three generals of the Qin state privately from the Jin Xianggong, and angrily rebuked the Jin Xianggong in the court. After the incident, Xianxun, who deeply regretted and guilty, decided to apologize for his sins with death, so he took the initiative to remove his armor in the battle against Bai Di, rushed into the enemy position, and committed suicide and martyrdom, and the position of General of the Chinese Army was vacant. Before and after the succession of the Duke of Jinxiang, the Jinzhong army Zuo Haoqin and the Shangjun Zuohuyan also died of illness (succeeded by Xianheju and Zhao Wan), and the jin dynasty secretary of state was urgently needed to be adjusted and supplemented.
In order to inspire the military and people of the Jin dynasty and reward the loyal warriors, the Duke of Jinxiang promoted Xianxun's son Xian and juju to be a general in the middle army, and the former Shangjun Zuo Zhao was promoted to a Chinese military commander, and other secretaries also added new people. In this change of the position of secretary of state, Luan Zhi was promoted from a lower general to a general in the upper army, and his position was more important.
After that, Luan Zhi commanded the Jin army with the Chinese general Xian and Ju, participated in the Battle of Peng ya, and won a great victory in the offensive operation against the Qin state. A year later, the State of Qin attacked again, and Luan Zhi echoed Zhao Wan's suggestion of "clearing the field and not fighting with the Qin army", causing the Qin army to retreat in vain.