The army suppressed the territory and the grain was robbed, which was a great shame for Zheng Zhuanggong, who was a man of great talent. But it was not too late for the gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and his wisdom and reason made him not eager to fall into a scuffle with the Five Kingdoms again. However, Zhuang Gong was not born a Lord who was willing to be beaten in vain, and if a man does not offend me, I will not offend, and if a person offends me, I will kill you. Revenge is still to be repaid.
Zheng Guo's counterattack
After the original fierce five-nation alliance army dispersed, the Weiguo took the lead in chaos, and did not work hard to do it, and for several years it was soft persimmons. It's time for the other four countries to pack up.
Zheng Guo, who had eased up, began to fight back.
It is still the old routine, pulling allies, and enhancing your own strength as much as possible. He also blamed the Song people for being greedy and robbing the land of the State of Qi. This country is not big, viscount, but it can't make you so bullied, the land is the root of life. But what if you can't beat the Song Kingdom?
The people of the Country of Yi thought of Zheng Guo: Zheng Bo, you are the Secretary of the Zhou Dynasty, you have to uphold justice for us, Song Guo, it is the bastard who beat you last year, and he has come to bully me again. The eldest brother helped me beat up.
Zhuang Gong listened, right in the middle of the heart: I originally wanted to fight you, but you Song Guo is also a big country, it is too tired to single out, and now that you have such a good excuse, Lao Tzu just uses this to mobilize the royal army to attack you, to see if you dare to do anything to Zhou Tianzi's army.
In this way, Duke Zhuang once again used public power and private use, and the slogans were shouted loudly: The Song people had no way and bullied The Emperor; the Son of Heaven was angry and ordered me to go down (this is somewhat a bit of a feeling of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to make the princes).
But who doesn't know that you are revenge for the siege of the East Gate and the grain robbery last year? (I don't know where this Wang Shi borrowed it, it is reasonable to say that Zhou Tianzi and Zheng Zhuanggong did not call ah, it is estimated that he bribed the relatives of Wang Qi and dug the corner of the Zhou King.)
The State of Song had always been a bully who was afraid of being tough, and it was not good at fighting, and in the face of the combined forces of the three kingdoms of Zhou, Zheng, and Yi, which was known for its fierceness and good fighting, there was no power to fight back, and this fight directly hit the outer city of the capital of the Song State.
The siege of the city was secondary, Zheng Zhengzhuang did not want to consume too much national strength under the capital of the Song Kingdom, and it was not realistic to destroy the Song Kingdom, almost got it. After some moral condemnation, seeing that Song Guogui could not shrink out, he expressed his instigation with actions, and Zheng Jun returned home.
When is the grievance? Here Song Guo had just been beaten, and within a few months, he was busy with the farm work in the field, harvesting the mature crops (harvesting and then fighting first, so as not to lose the grain), and immediately sent troops to Fight Zheng Guo, surrounded Zheng Guo's Changge, and finally laid down Changge.
The ancients did not pay much attention to the strategy of attacking the east and the west and breaking each other as the present people, and they thought that it was a manifestation of shamelessness and lack of courage. Only when the two armies pull away, the two fronts are round, and the upright fight is the work of a gentleman, if there are fierce generals on their own side who are not brave enough to challenge the division, this style of play they advocate is called "partial warfare", and the opposite "fraudulent battle" is not respected.
No matter how bad it is, one side is stubbornly defending the capital and the other side is besieging the city, but it must fight in the capital of the country being crusaded, and fighting other places is not a hero and a good man.
The Siege of Changge by the Song Kingdom this time is not rude, so "Spring and Autumn" takes the Siege of Changge as a typical scolding of the Song Kingdom for being rude.
In this way, the Song Kingdom also formed a bond with Zheng Guo, and the enmity between the two countries continued to be chaotic until the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, which can be said to have plagued several generations.
But in general, Zheng Guo was militarily dominant, while Song Guo was diplomatically dominant.
From the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Guo oscillated between the two superpowers of Jin and Chu, but was long named by Jin and Chu. The Song Kingdom was an iron-hearted horse boy of the Jin State, but it did not have as many external troubles as Zheng Guo. But even if Zheng Guo was beaten half to death by Jin Chu, he could always take advantage of Song Guo's head and be a full Song Guo nemesis. This is reserved for later interpretations of The Left Biography.
The second step in Zheng Guo's counterattack was to disintegrate the Five-Nation Alliance. Among the five countries, the least conflicting interests with Zheng Guo was the State of Lu. The State of Lu and the State of Zheng did not border each other, and were separated by the states of Song, Wei, and Cao, and even if they expanded abroad, they could not grab each other.
Zheng Guo and Lu Guo do not border each other, and there are fewer conflicts of interest
Kelu and Zheng have a vendetta against each other, and Lu Yingong was captured by Zheng Guoren on the battlefield, and this face cannot be pulled down.
In fact, this Duke of Lu Yin was an honest man with no ambitions, even if he was the monarch of the State of Lu, he was only temporary, and he had long planned to return the government to his younger brother (later Duke Huan of Lu). Therefore, even when the five kingdoms jointly attacked Zheng, Lu Yingong was also opposed to sending troops, and could not stop Gongzi Fei from acting without authorization.
Duke Zhuang felt that Lu Yingong's personality was okay, so he took the initiative to show goodwill, and in the spring of the second year of the Song Dynasty, he sent the most eloquent advisers to see Lu Yingong and ask for the abandonment of resentment and reconciliation (Yuping, Gengcheng). This Lu YinGong mostly agreed, anyway, Lu and Zheng did not fight again after that, even if Zheng Guo fought with other countries to the death.
In fact, as early as the previous year, Zheng Guo planned to reconcile with Chen Guo, but failed. Chen Huangong did not know which tendon was wrong (as I said last time, Chen Huangong had a mental illness, and this time the old disease recurred), knowing that there was no benefit, he had to go through with Zheng Guo. The reason is ridiculous: Wei Guo and Song Guo are the real scourges, and Zheng Guo has no ability. This means that Lao Tzu is defending the Song Kingdom and defending the Country, and allies like Zheng Guo should not be left alone.
What logic, I didn't understand anyway. Are you afraid of Song and Wei, and still allied with these two pit goods? (The world of mental illness we don't understand)
Toast not to eat and eat penalty wine, peace talks do not work, then fight, the year before you robbed me of my grain this year to spit it out. As a result, as soon as he hit it, the original form of Chen Guo's pseudo-big country was exposed, and he was single-handedly confronted with Zheng Guo, and he really didn't fight it. Zheng Guo won a great victory and returned, and even the hundreds of truckloads of grain were even taken back with profits.
There were gains and losses, and here Zheng Guo defeated Chen Guo, and the Song State took advantage of Zheng Guo's main force to take advantage of zheng Guo's main force to shake up the Changge that was besieged last year again and take it down.
After this round of counterattack, Zheng Guo and Song Guo were equal to a draw. It seemed that there was nothing to gain, but it won the neutrality and even support of lu guo, and incidentally rubbed Chen Guo on the ground. Overall, the intended purpose of this round of counterattacks has been achieved.
Flashing around, Zheng Zhuanggong's series of operations have once again created a good international environment and space for the development of Zheng Guo, where should Zheng Guo go next? What difficulties will Zheng Zhuanggong encounter and what achievements will he achieve?
Stay tuned for the next installment.