After Zang Sunfu sent people to conduct a brief reconnaissance, he ordered the march to continue, and the official said: "The reconnaissance work has not been done comprehensively enough, and the people of Di already know the movements of our army (because many of the bridge guards have already fled back to the Yi division), and the enemy will definitely set up an ambush in a dangerous place." For the sake of safety, please pass from different roads in two ways, there are few people in the division, and it is impossible to surround the two route armies. And our army is attacked one way, and the other way can be supported. ”

Zang Sun Su said: "It has been determined that there is no enemy army ahead, and the soldiers are expensive and fast for a long time, so let's hurry up!" ”

As a result, the Lu army chased down the road of the division in a chaotic manner. After chasing five miles, the terrain began to gradually narrow, and the slopes of the mountains on both sides became steeper and steeper. The Lu army began to become cautious, and the sergeant drew his weapon and walked slowly and silently.

Unfortunately, the vanguard of the Lu army had already penetrated into the encirclement of the Lu division. As soon as the commander of the army gave the order, the sergeants rushed down from the slopes on both sides with a shout, cutting the Lu army into several sections. Dongyi people have always been known for their bravery, when the two sides are close to each other, the Lu army that entered the encirclement was ruthlessly slashed, but the sergeants outside the encirclement were blocked by the terrain and the line and could not rush in, and could only helplessly let the enemy slaughter.

Later, the soldiers climbed up from the mountains on both sides and went around the encirclement from the outside to join the battle group.

The Lu people immediately began to help the wounded, but it was discovered that almost all of their comrades who had been ambushed were dead and wounded. The sergeants shed tears as they gathered the bodies of the victims.

When the bad news came back to the country of Lu, Qufu immediately became a city of sorrow, and there were few houses that did not hang white charms and white lanterns in front of the door, and the coffins and white linen cloth were immediately snapped up. There was a great shortage of white cloth, and people had no choice but to adopt the etiquette of a woman's funeral - tying her hair in a bun with hemp rope. Later, this habit was handed down.

People rushed out of the south gate to bring back the bodies of the soldiers who had sacrificed their lives for the country.

The Lu people vented their anger on Zang Sunsu, but people had nothing to do with him except curse him. Lu Ren made up a paragraph and said: "Zang's fox Qiu, defeat me to the fox." My gentleman boy, the dwarf is an envoy. Gnomes, dwarfs, make me lose to Di! This fiasco not only caused heavy losses to the state of Lu, discredited Zang Sun Su, but also ultimately led to the demise of the state of Yan.

On the side of the Yan State, although the Ju division did not capture the capital, all parties believed that the Yan State would not survive for two years. After Jushi retreated, Jun Zi sent Prince Wu to the state of Lu to ask for help.

In the spring of the fifth year of Lu Xianggong (BC568), the state of Lu was still in mourning. Prince Wu quietly entered Qufu City, and Meng Xianzi secretly received him. Compared with the last time they met, Meng Xianzi has lost a lot of weight, his hair is about to fall out, and he looks ten years older. He said dejectedly; "If the prince wants to save Sheji, go with the old man to meet the Jin people! The Marquis of Jin only verbally agreed to the widow's request, and we will only hold a ceremony in the Jin Kingdom that the agreement will officially take effect; With the recognition of the Jin people, Dongyi did not dare to continue to use force against Yan. ”

However, Meng Xianzi suddenly fell seriously ill before leaving, and Lu Xianggong ordered his uncle Sun Bao to go to the Jin Kingdom instead of him. The Duke of Jin handed over the matter to Zhao Wu, and the two countries completed the bloody ceremony in the presence of Zhao Wu—as if they were wedding in front of the witnesses.

The two returned to Lu with confidence, and the people of Lu were very excited. People thought that with the support of the Jin people, the Qi people and the Dongyi people would no longer dare to fight the idea of the Yan State.

However, Qi Linggong secretly urged the people of Ju to hurry up and act, and Ju Zi replied that he was going to participate in the alliance convened by the Marquis of Jin in the autumn, and he would attack Yan as soon as he returned to China; He reassured Qi Linggong, because he wanted to destroy the Yan Kingdom more than the other party.

In the autumn, the princes held an alliance meeting in Qidi, and in addition to last year's countries, there were also more Wu Dafu Shouyue and the prince of Yan State. For the first time in history, the Chinese princes witnessed the honor of the Wu people: Shou Yue was tall, with a large purple jellyfish skin, a hideous face, hair up to the neck, a ceremonial crown barely fixed on the top of his head, and tattoos faintly visible on his neck and arms, but he was quite acceptable in terms of etiquette.

At the meeting, the Duke of Jin issued an order to jointly defend the state of Chen, and at the same time demanded that the people of Wu continue to harass the state of Chu in the east. This time, Lu Xianggong came with Shusun Leopard, and Shusun Leopard proposed to let Prince Yan attend the meeting as an observer, so that Yan State would look like an independent country. The Jin people agreed, and at the meeting that followed, Ju Zi swept Prince Yan's face with a threatening look from time to time, and Prince Yan replied with a "What can you do to me?" Uncle Sun Leopard couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw it.

In the winter of that year, Ji Wenzi died, and Lu Xianggong rushed to his home with the doctors to mourn as soon as possible. Ji Wenzi's body stood on the west side of the main hall, its mouth was stuffed with a wedge (to prepare for Hanyu), the soles of its feet were tightly pressed against the wall, the doctors buried Ji Wenzi, and Lu Xianggong sat on the east seat and watched silently - this was the highest standard treatment given to Ji Wenzi.

Ji's chamber elder was busy preparing funeral goods for the deceased, and Lu Xianggong specially went to look at those utensils, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "The master's funeral goods are too simple. He inspected the Ji family's mansion again, and saw that Ji Wenzi's concubines did not wear silk, and the horses did not eat corn, so he nodded and said: "With the loyalty of the master and the frugality of life, the more funeral goods will lower his reputation." ”

In the autumn of the sixth year of Lu Xianggong (BC567), after a year of vigorous preparations, the Ju people were ready to launch the final blow against Yan; But they still lack a reason to send troops. The Ju people then invited Yan Zi to meet with him at a certain place under the sign of holding peace talks, and Yan Zi was furious and drove the envoy out of the capital with insults. Ju Zi was overjoyed, and immediately personally commanded the army to kill Ben Yanguo.

The Yan people came to the country of Lu slowly and methodically, and asked the Lu people to come to the rescue. At that time, Ji Wenzi had died, and Meng Xianzi and his uncle Sun Leopard had a dispute in court.

Meng Xianzi asked to go on the expedition in person, and his uncle Sun Leopard said: "The Jin State can't prevent the destruction of the Yan State, let alone the Lu State?" Moreover, in order to offend Qi and Dongyi for the sake of the Yan State, the Lu State will be the next country to be destroyed! ”

In the end, it was Ji Wenzi's son Ji Wuzi (Ji Sunsu) who said: "The Yan people can't protect themselves, and they are rude to the big country; The Yan people will only drag the Lu country into the quagmire of war, and the Lu people will not gain more than they can lose. Who can sacrifice themselves for such a country? ”

In the end, Lu Guowan refused the request of the Yan people, and the envoy of the Yan State said angrily: "You have accepted bribes but cannot fulfill your promises, you knew that this is the case, and the widow would rather serve the Qi people!" Yan did not die in Ju, but in Lu! ”

The Lu people were speechless, and the envoy left angrily. A month later, the state of Yan fell, and the state of Yan was killed in the war, and the state of Yan perished.

After the fall of the Yan Kingdom, the reason for the evil relationship between Lu and Yi disappeared. Because the Lu people still held a lot of prisoners of war in the hands of the Lu people, Shusun Leopard was ordered to go to the Lu State to negotiate with the other party. Last year, the defeat of the Lu army relied only on the wisdom of the commander and the stupidity of Zang Wuzhong. Yi Zi pushed the boat down the river and reached a reconciliation with Lu State.

But the troubles of the Lu State were not over yet, and the envoys of the Jin State soon arrived. The Jin envoy accused Lu of failing to protect the Yan state, and his uncle Sun Bao first gave the envoy a large bribe, and then said: "The covenant between Lu and Yan states: 'When other countries rudely invade the Yan state, the Lu state should send troops to rescue it.'" However, the state of Yan was rude to the country of Ju first, so it caused a catastrophe. ”

In that era of cholera and cholera, people in big countries did not care much about the rise or fall of a small country, they only cared about what benefits they could get from the incident.