Chapter 323: The Battle of Yi (8)

Xun Shou couldn't help but be furious when he learned that his son had been captured, and he immediately returned to the battlefield with a large number of troops to rescue Xun Gang. Xunshou's imperial Rong is Wei Qi; He had several different arrows mixed in his quiver. Xun Shou kept shooting the enemy, but when he saw that it was a sharp arrow, he put it in Wei Qi's quiver, and the blunt arrow was shot. Wei Qi said angrily: "What's wrong with you? Couldn't the Jin Kingdom produce sharp arrows? ”

Xun Shou said: "How can I get back my own son if I can't get someone else's son?" There are so few sharp arrows, you have to wait until the last moment to use them. ”

The chariot turned a corner, and Xun Shou happened to see Lian Yin Xiang Lao driving Prince Gu Chen from the opposite direction, Xun Shou quickly pulled out a sharp arrow and shot Xiang Lao and injured Gu Chen. The Jin soldiers rushed up and drove away the accompanying infantry; Xun Shou jumped onto the opponent's chariot and drove back the bodies of Prince Guchen and Xiang Lao.

At dusk, the Chu army marched into the abandoned Jin army camp. The Chu army also no longer forced the Jin army, but only monitored the enemy's movements from afar. The Jin army crossed the river overnight under the supervision of the enemy, the ferry site was brightly lit and full of people, and the lights on the ferry were spread all over the river, and the Jin army spent the whole night noisy. When the sun rose the next day, Xun Linfu, Shihui, and Zhao Shuo, commanders of the three armies of the Jin Kingdom, left the river bank in the last boat.

The three armies of Chu then came to the shore, and the soldiers and horses drank the water of the Yellow River together.

Pan Dang said to the king of Chuzhuang: "Why doesn't the king gather the corpses of the Jin people and build a Jingguan to show your great martial arts to future generations?" ”

King Chu Zhuang said: "The meaning of 'martial arts' is not what you understand. Martial arts means to stop fighting and defend peace with force. Therefore, King Wu of Zhou said in the "Ode" after conquering the Shang: 'Carry the book to fight, carry the bow and arrow, I seek Yide, wanton with the summer, and allow the king to protect it.'" King Wu told the world that he was going to collect weapons, stop wars, seek virtue, and spread China.

"Therefore, 'martial arts' is to prohibit violence, to stop the army and to make a truce, to maintain the community, to establish meritorious deeds, to appease the people and the people, to make good alliances with princes, to enrich the people and wealth, and to show that the descendants will not forget the merits of their ancestors.

"Now it is very brutal to make the soldiers of the two countries violent in the wilderness; Now we have to do Jingguan to show violence and deter the princes, where can we talk about killing soldiers? Brutal and belligerent, where can we keep the community? The Jin State is still strong, where can we talk about establishing meritorious deeds? There are many violations of the will of the people, where will Yasukuni and the people be safe? If there is no Lingde but it is defeated by force, where can the princes be good? Taking advantage of people's danger but being at ease, taking this as their own credit, where will the people be rich? Wu has seven virtues, and I don't have any of them, where can I show my descendants?

"The ancient holy kings crusaded against disrespect, but only killed the culprits and built a Jingguan to warn the wicked. The Jin Kingdom is not guilty, and the soldiers died fighting for the country, so how can they build the Jingguan? Bugu can only tell the ancestors about the temple after the matter is completed. ”

The Chu people then collected the corpses of the Jin people and buried them properly, and then built a temporary ancestral temple, and placed the gods of the ancestors brought by the army in it to hold a temple ceremony.

After the king of Chuzhuang then sacrificed to the Yellow River, after the sacrificial ceremony was held, he came to Hengyong and Jiantu successively. Thirty-five years ago, the Duke of Jin Wen held an alliance there; Thirty-five years later, it was the descendants of the enemy.

King Chuzhuang visited the former site of the garrison of Duke Wen of Jin and the site of the alliance of practicing the earth, and some veterans who participated in the battle of Chengpu couldn't help crying, and people couldn't help but sigh that the world was impermanent; Things are not people, things are people. No one knows who will be next.

Chu won a great victory, while Zheng Guoda's spy stone system ended up getting nothing. What Shi Zhi didn't know was that he had lost the trust and support of the Chu people. It turned out that Zizhong thought that he deliberately delayed the battle situation and refused to help, and caused great losses to the Chu army as a result; He believed that the purpose of the stone delay was only to increase his own credit.

Shi Zhi was unwilling, and he rewrote a letter to Zi, blaming the other party for not fulfilling his promise. Zi was furious and immediately forwarded the letter to Zheng Xianggong.

On July 29, Zheng Xianggong executed Shi Zhi, Gongzi Yuchen, and their comrades. The traitors betrayed the country for personal gain, and in the end they were ruined.

Xun Lin's father marched to the outskirts of Xinjiang with the defeated army, he disbanded the army, and let the doctors return to China first; He put on mourning clothes and imprisoned himself in a simple house outside the city, where he waited for orders from Jin Jinggong.

The villains who repeatedly disobeyed military orders in the war were closely around Jin Jinggong at this time. They vigorously accused Xun Lin's father of his crimes, as if he was the only one who was responsible for the defeat. Jin Jinggong felt palpitations, he didn't want to continue listening, and ordered Han Ju to immediately punish Xun Lin's father.

Before Han Ju could speak, Taifu Shi Wuxun suddenly stood up and shouted, "Uncle Xun can't be killed!" After the Battle of Chengpu, the first doctors of the Jin Kingdom celebrated with their crowns, and only Duke Wen was worried. The doctors asked: 'If you are not happy about the victory, when will you be happy?' He said, 'Is the trouble really lifted?' Ziyu is still alive! The trapped beast is still fighting, let alone the secretary of a big country? Later, Ziyu committed suicide, and Gong Wen said with a happy face: "The sorrow is finally lifted!" 'Ziyu's death was another victory for the Jin State and another defeat for the Chu State, so the Chu State did not dare to fight the Jin State for thirty years.

"The Jin Kingdom is sick, and the Battle of Yi is a warning from heaven to the Jin Kingdom. If you simply put the blame on Xun Bo and don't investigate the cause, the Jin Kingdom will be defeated again. Xun Bo was a veteran of the fifth generation, and his loyalty and character were always praised by the Jin people, and no one would believe that he could cause the consequences of defeat alone, while others had no responsibility at all. Besides, if Xun Bo had the great ability to cause defeat on his own, the prince would definitely not be able to kill him.

"Uncle Xun serves the monarch, thinks loyally, and retreats to make up for his mistakes. This defeat is like an eclipse of the sun and the moon, where will it damage his light? Doesn't the prince want to know where the root of the Jin Kingdom's illness is? Does the prince want the innocent to be punished for the real criminals? If Xun Bo is killed again, won't it aggravate the victory of the Chu State again? ”

Jin Jinggong listened to Shi Wuyun's advice, he changed into mourning clothes, and went to the suburbs to greet Xun Lin's father in person. Jin Jinggong helped the tearful Xun Lin's father up and said, "This is the fault of the widow, and the widow cannot make a mistake again." Let's go back! You are the widowed Meng Ming, not Ziyu! ”