Zhuang Gong was entrusted by Zhou Tianzi to go to the Song Kingdom to collect protection fees, and it did not matter whether this protection fee was collected, he accidentally promoted Zhuang Gong to take the first step of "hegemony". Strength is also luck.
The Road to Little Bully (1)
Before, with the Song Kingdom or the Wei State, killing and fighting was all about survival, but now, the nature of the war has also changed significantly, no longer fighting for living space, but seeking the hegemony of the Central Plains, at least the leader of the Central Plains in the Central Plains with Song, Wei, Chen, Cai and Lu as the core circle.
What a state would it be if there was a circle of friends at that time?
After a few years, the Song Kingdom was tired of killing, the Wei State was disrupted, the Duke of Lu Yin had no quarrel with the world, and Chen Guo and Cai Guo were more and more like soy sauce. Obviously, Zheng Guo was already the regional boss in terms of strength, and he was just a few victories in the war to complete the deserved coronation.
Everything was difficult at the beginning, and what zheng Zhuanggong, who was full of spirit, did not expect was that Song Guo was a difficult bone to gnaw, and he could not spit it out for a while and a half.
And just as Qi and Lu were preparing to join the military alliance, new obstacles emerged. Taking advantage of the unfavorable situation of Zheng Guofa song, the Rong people invaded.
However, this Rong man had a feud with Zheng Guo, and King Zhou You's own sins were killed by Inuyasha, but Duke Zhuang and his grandfather also died in the bloody battle of the escort. Although the invader this time is not Inuyasha, he is also a close relative of Inuyasha, and the old vendetta has not been repaid, and new hatred has been added.
Song Guo stopped fighting for the time being, and first repaid his grandfather's revenge.
The three generations of Zhengzhuang Gong's ancestors were cattle people, grandfather Zheng Huan Gong Ji You Wulin master (died in battle after the Zhou You King was broken), old father Zheng Wugong was sober-minded (insisting on establishing Zheng Zhuang Gong as the heir), Zheng Zhuang Gong needless to say (Xiongcai roughly).
This battle brought out a military genius of Zheng Guo, Gongzi Tu.
In fact, Gongzitu's talent has been shown before. This second son of Zheng Guo was really like his father, good at strategy, especially military strategy.
In the face of the Beijong soldiers who grew up eating meat and had outstanding physical talent, Gongzi suddenly advocated not confronting the enemy with a hard bar, but adopting the tactics of roundabout envelopment and front and back attack. After all, Rong Di is a barbaric nation, unreasonable, not to mention etiquette, poor execution on the battlefield, loose discipline, and like to fight for each other.
Duke Zhuang took GongziTu's advice and selected a group of brave but unflexible soldiers to serve as forwards to meet the enemy. This force could not hold out long after the confrontation with Beijong and slowly retreated.
Zhuang Gong did not cut down the withdrawn soldiers because of the implementation of battlefield discipline, but let them retreat. At this time, the elite troops of the Zheng Army had secretly swerved back to the rear of the Beirong Army and completed the encirclement. For a time, the ambush troops rose up and divided and surrounded the Beijong army.
Luring the enemy to go deeper, dividing and encircling, and breaking through each one is a combat routine that will never be left behind in the history of the Chinese nation's war.
This time the Rong people were dumbfounded, they had always been two pairs of circles on the grassland, holding machetes at each other, compared to who had more strength and had never played a routine.
The Central Plains routine is deep, and I want to go back to the grassland.
The Rong people who were divided and surrounded did not know how to break the encirclement circle, nor could they break through the encirclement circle (the Zheng Army used chariots with infantry, and the Rong people were all flesh and blood, how to stop the chariots from crushing). Lacking the idea of mutual rescue, the warring men who fought for each other were almost killed (exhausted).
Doesn't it say that wars in the Spring and Autumn Period like to be until the end? How can it be killed?
Everyone's grandfather has been cut down by the Rong people, can this Zhuang Gong point be up to the end (no preferential treatment of prisoners)?
No one expected that the episode of the Invasion of the Rong people not only did not hinder Zheng Zhuang's public hegemony, but on the contrary achieved the name of hegemony. It is known that the Duke of Qi Huan became the overlord by relying on the successful implementation of the strategy of "Honoring the King", although the Duke of Zhengzhuang did not succeed in honoring the King (he did not receive the protection fee for helping Tianzi), but zheng zhuang was greatly powerful.
Since he wants to become a hegemon, he is indispensable to the king and the king. After finishing Yi, he returned to continue to shake the Song Kingdom, thinking that the King of Zhou collected protection fees in the name of picking up the Song Kingdom as the King of Honor.
The defeat of the Rong people came in the winter (nomads like to go south in winter, the north is too cold), and the Zheng people have been repaired during the New Year and plotted to continue to collect protection fees.
In the summer of the following year, the prince who had disregarded The Duke of Lu Yin's order to send troops on his own and the States of Song Wei and other states to fight against the State of Zheng, at this time, he led troops to unite with the State of Qi to help the State of Zheng to fight the State of Song (never seen such a shameless person).
This time, three dozen and one hit was much easier, and successively attacked the Song Kingdom's Gao and defenses.
It is reasonable to fight a war in the capital of the country, and zhuang gong does not play the set of upright gentlemen.
Any country is competing next, that is their own year less and less. Today, if you beat you Song Guo, you will learn murong fu and return the favor in the other way. That year, in order to kill feng, the prince who lived in Changge, you besieged Changge for more than a year, and now I will not attack your Shangqiu, and it is not a fight to beat you there, and it is good to beat me where I fight.
Zheng Zhuang's guild was a man, and he gave the two territories he had beaten down to Lu Guo. It is said that Lu Yingong is a kind person and will not accept gifts from Zheng Guo, how nai Gongzi is a greedy villain, Lu Yingong will laugh at him if he does not accept it. And Zhuang Gong also won a reputation for "righteousness" (acting in accordance with the right path).
But it is precisely because of this style of behavior that Zheng Guo lost the opportunity to expand its territory and weaken other countries in the war, killing so many people in the war, and in the end the territory did not increase, and the population naturally did not increase, and population and land are the basis for expanding strength. This is also one of the important reasons why Zheng Zhuanggong cannot enter the ranks of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons and can only be a small bully.
We can't blame Zhuang Gong for being too generous, after all, people in an era are constrained by the environment and ideas of an era.
At that time, it had not yet entered the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, and the so-called hegemony was also different from the Qi Huan Jinwen period.
Zheng Zhuanggong's hegemony in that era was only to make his neighbors afraid of him obeying him, reaching a realm that no one dared to provoke, so he had to fight Against Song Wei Chen Cai, and even later on to fight Zhou Tianzi's army.
And Qi Huan and Jin Wen essentially wanted to give orders on behalf of tianzi and become the masters (Fang Bo) of the princely states, which can be seen from the fact that the princes of Qi Huan and the nine princes of Qi Huan led more than a dozen countries to beat up those who disobeyed. Therefore, Qi Huan and Jin Wen did not fight the Son of Heaven, but instead respectfully accepted the canonization of the Son of Heaven, and then implemented their own diplomatic strategies in the name of the Son of Heaven.
In this version of the Spring and Autumn Five, Song Xianggong has a little water
Back to the war between the Zheng and Song states. Facing the three-nation alliance, the Song State chose to swallow its anger and hold the city. However, the strength of the coalition army is too strong, it is not enough to defend alone, so I have to wait for the coalition army to take advantage of it and retreat on its own, anyway, I concentrate my forces to defend Shangqiu, you can't take me.
In this way, after two months of fighting, the three-nation alliance army rushed home to collect the crops and withdrew. The crisis in the Song Dynasty eased.
However, this fight could not be stopped, and the entire "Northwest Jin" became a pot of porridge, the princely states joined the world war, and the Central Plains were once again full of smoke.
If you want to know how the princes will fight each other after that, please continue to pay attention to the next issue of interpretation.