#历史故事 #
On the 30th day of the sixth lunar month in 575 BC, the Chu army was defeated at the Battle of Yanling, and the throne of the Spring and Autumn Allies was taken by the Jin people. At this point, Zheng Guoren was in big trouble.
Zheng Guo was the fuse of this Jin-Chu war and a staunch ally of the Chu State. It was impossible for jin guo not to teach Zheng guo a lesson. Therefore, the State of Jin summoned the States of Qi, Song, Lu, and Yi to form an international alliance against the State of Zheng. Zheng Guo knew that there was no hope of rescuing the Chu State, but this time, the Zheng People did not want to be a soft egg that was rebellious and obedient.
Each time it could only be a humiliating tear, and this time, it was better to bleed. Despite the opposition of his ministers, Zheng Chenggong wanted to resist the coalition forces. According to historical records, Zheng Chenggong said to the ministers: The king of Chu paid the price of one eye for our Zheng kingdom. Now that the Chu state has been defeated, we will betray them, and I cannot do such an ugly thing.
Yes, Zheng Chenggong was tragic to see the wounded scene of the King of Chu on the battlefield. Therefore, Zheng Guo launched a military-civilian resistance. What was surprising was that Zheng Guo actually defeated the League of Nations army. You know, there are two big countries, the Jin State and the State of Qi, who personally participated.
Zheng Guo, who had won a victory against the allied forces, simply did not stop and took the initiative to attack the Jin state. King Chu Gong took a look, yo ho, this Zheng Guo little brother has a kind. Therefore, he sent his sons Xiong Cheng and Xiong Yin to lead the Chu army to help Zheng Guo attack the Jin state. Although the Jin state won the Battle of Yanling, the Jin Dynasty immediately fell into an internal power struggle after returning to China. As a result, Jin Ligong was actually killed by several major families.
In this way, the Duke of Jin had just won the victory at the Battle of Chu Yanling in 575 BC, but was killed by several major families of the Jin State in the following year. In January 573 BC, JiSun Zhou of the Jin Dynasty was made the Prince of Jin, which was the famous Duke of Jin in history.
The Duke of Jin was only 13 years old at the time, while the King of Chu was already 28 years old. "At this point, jinguo should have stopped a bit." King Chu thought, but he was wrong.
Jin Guo successfully realized the transition of power, and no one expected that a 13-year-old young monarch had shown great personality charm and personal ability. The Duke of Jin quickly achieved centralized power, and then set his sights on the Zheng and Song states in the Central Plains.
Because there was another war between the Zheng kingdom and the Song kingdom.
Zheng Guo's self-confidence was also bursting because he repelled the International Alliance led by Jin Guo. The King of Chu gong saw that this little brother was very murderous, so he ordered Zheng Guo to simply attack the Song kingdom.
Zheng Guo people are very fond of fighting the Song people, because the first Song Zheng history has been discordant, which began from the zheng zhuang gong era; second, in front of Zheng Guo, the Song state is the kind of underwhelming, the strength is not good, but always have to say something to Zheng Guo; third, the Song state has always been a hardcore brother of the Jin state, and now Zheng Guo is on the side with the Chu state; fourth, over the years, Zheng Guo's weapons and equipment, especially chariots, were basically captured from the Song state, Zheng Guo's chariots are world-class, and The Zheng people like it very much.
In the summer of 573 BC, the State of Zheng invaded the State of Song, and the King of Chu did not rest, he personally led the Chu army north, all the way to the Song Territory, and after the victory of the Zheng Army led by the Song State and the Zheng Army led by Zheng Chenggong, the large army was stationed in Chao.
Then, the Chu-Zheng coalition continued to use troops against the Song State, successively capturing the three cities of the Song State, Nameng, Youqiu, and Pengcheng, and at Pengcheng, the King of Chu was ready to support the Fifth Column of the Song State. If you want the State of Song to truly follow the State of Chu and not to let the State of Song change the dynasty, it is not possible, and the current State of Song is dead set on the State of Jin, because the monarch Song Pinggong has an iron heart to follow the State of Jin.
Within each vassal state, there was a power struggle. The same is true of the Song Kingdom, and the power struggle in the Song State is also fierce. The power struggle in the Song dynasty was mainly concentrated in the struggle between the Gong clans, that is, the descendants of the Duke of Weiwu. For example, just a few years ago, there was a struggle between the Huan and Dai tribes in the Song Kingdom, and as a result, the Huan people failed, and the five Huan cattle people fled to the Chu state.
Now, after the Chu-Zheng coalition army had invaded several cities in the Song State, the King of Chu let the five "Huan tribes" who had fled to the Chu State stay in Pengcheng, allocating them more than 30,000 elite soldiers and 300 chariots to set up a separate center in Pengcheng. Subsequently, the King of Chu led the Chu army back to The capital, leaving Yin Xiongbaoqi to continue to lead the army to attack the Song state.
These Huan cattle people themselves had roots in the Song State, and at this time, with the full support of Zheng and Chu, they used Pengcheng as a base to gather the old Huan tribes to prepare for a counterattack on Shangqiu.
For the Song Kingdom, at this time, it really reached the point of life and death. Song Pinggong immediately sent an army to attack Pengcheng, but Pengcheng was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Song army besieged it for four months, and by November, Pengcheng was still firmly controlled by the Huan.
The King of Chu Gong believed that the Jin State was so chaotic, and the monarch was a young monarch who had just ascended the throne, and it would be a waste of opportunity not to take advantage of this time to eat the Song Kingdom.
However, the king of Chu gong thought wrongly, and the Duke of Jin, who had just been on the throne for less than a year, ordered the rescue of Song. He issued an order, summoned the princes, and personally led the combined forces of Lu, Qi, Wei, Cao, and Yi to rescue the Song state. The allied advance was extremely fast, and in December 573 BC, the international coalition led by the Jin army advanced to the vicinity of Pengcheng.
The Chu army that had just lost in the Battle of Yanling saw that the situation was not right, Xiong Baoqi was most afraid of losing the battle, and he was not afraid of fighting the Song Kingdom, but he had no bottom to fight with the Jin army. So he quietly withdrew.
In the spring of 572 BC, the combined forces of the princes surrounded Pengcheng and defeated the Huan forces that remained at Pengcheng. Then, in the summer of 572 BC, the coalition forces seized the position of Zheng Guo's territory, and there the Jin State convened an international conference of princes from all over the world, and the meeting made a decision to teach Zheng Guo a lesson. Subsequently, the coalition forces of various countries attacked zhengguo and burned the war to Xinzheng, the capital of Zhengguo.
Seeing that Zheng Guo was bullied like that, the King of Chu did not show weakness and sent the right marshal Xiong Renfu to lead the Chu army north to invade the Song state again. When Zheng Guo saw that the Chu state was sending troops, he took advantage of the situation to capture the Song state's Dog Hill.
In any case, in the past few years, the situation in the Central Plains has been like this: with Chu as the leader, Zheng, Chen, Cai and other states as a faction, Jin as the leader, and Qi, Lu, Wei, Cao, and Yi as one faction. Either you attack me or I attack you, and neither of them obeys the other. It can be seen from this that the so-called Battle of Yanling in Jin and Chu, the Chu state almost did not hurt anything.
In 571 BC, Zheng Chenggong, the ruler of the State of Zheng, fell under the pressure of endless wars, and Zheng Chenggong took the throne. The People of jin did not talk about the Zhou Li, who could not use soldiers in the enemy country, and actually invaded again. Zheng Guoren really couldn't bear it, and the surrender faction in China became lively again.
In addition, Zheng Guo's important pass, Tiger Prison Pass, had been seized by the Jin army at this time, and the Jin army strengthened the city defense construction of Tiger Prison Pass, making Tiger Prison Pass an offensive springboard that threatened Zheng Guo at any time. Zheng Guoren finally surrendered.
The King of Chu Gong looked at this scene helplessly and sighed darkly: Zhongyuan, let us give it to you Jin people for the time being.
The State of Chu really did not have the energy to toss in the Central Plains anymore, because the main trouble of the State of Chu was the threat of the State of Wu.