Chapter 440: The Battle of Cheng (1)
At this time, there was a heart-rending and miserable cry faintly in the distance, and the Bank of China was startled, and subconsciously jumped up and sat down again. He called in a guard and ordered him to investigate whether it was "something like that." The guards returned less than a quarter of an hour, reporting that it was indeed because of "that kind of thing". Zhong Xingyan couldn't help but show an extremely disgusted expression, and he said: "Luan Huang, if you are not sheltered by the shadow of Wuzi (Luan Shu's nickname), the Jin people can tolerate you!" Wuzi, how did you educate such a deceased person? ”
It turned out that Luan Huang had a cruel habit, he liked to torture and kill slaves in peacetime and prisoners in wartime; After Luan's death, his vice became more and more intense.
Zhongxingyan had to drive to a place far away from Luan's military camp for a while, and did not return to the tent until the screams disappeared. He issued another order, dividing the Jin army into two parts, led by himself and Luan Huang, to pursue the enemy in different directions. In this way, he avoided causing his ears to be sinned daily.
In the early morning of the next day, the Jin army continued the pursuit, and forced the Chu army into Fangcheng Mountain before giving up. On the way back to his division, the Bank of China plundered Xu Guo again, and then returned to China with great ambition.
After Gao Hou fled back to Linzi from the Broliang League, he told Qi Linggong that the new monarch of the Jin Kingdom was a foolish and ignorant Huangkou child, and that the continuous expansion of the Jin Kingdom had been blocked by the tomb of the Duke of Jin; The heyday of the Jin state has ended, and it is about to decline, and the loss of the alliance is a foregone conclusion (this analysis is generally accurate, but the decline of the Jin state has been very slow, and it took more than fifty years to lose its hegemony); The State of Qi should seize the opportunity to regain its strength and once again carry the great banner of the Chinese overlord!
Qi Linggong likes this kind of high-sounding empty talk and big talk the most, but he is anesthetized by the illusory "sense of historical mission"; Ignoring the opposition of Cui Zhu and Yan Qiang, he immediately began to formulate a "great revival plan".
At the heart of the revival plan is to provoke war and conquer by force. In the autumn, Qi Linggong began to implement the first step of the plan: to lead his army to invade Lu again.
The Qi division surrounded Chengyi, and Lu Xianggong wanted to send Zhongsun Shuai's division to rescue, but Zhongsun was too old and had difficulty moving; His son, Zhongsun Su (Meng Zhuangzi), asked to go on the expedition in place of his father. This Zhongsun Su has two advantages that are praised by the Lu people, one is his pure filial piety, and the other is his bravery. Lu Xianggong readily agreed, and Zhongsun Su led an army straight to Chengyi.
The Lu army camped ten miles from the enemy. Both sides sent scouts to get to the bottom of each other. Knowing the distribution of the enemy's forces, Nakasun decided to drive a wedge through its weak point in order to break up the enemy's encirclement plan.
That night, Zhongsun Suqin led a light army to attack. The light soldiers were ranked, the horses picked up the bells, and the flags were silenced, and they quietly sneaked to the target location and suddenly launched an attack. The Qi people couldn't figure out what was going on, and they couldn't organize effective resistance in a hurry, so they had to run around. Qi Linggong climbed up and looked up, and saw that the Qi army camp was shouting and killing the sky, but the main camp of the Lu army was dark (the military camp implemented light control), the Chengyi city wall was brightly lit, and the defenders knocked on any instrument that could make a sound and shouted loudly.
When Qi Linggong learned that the commander of the attack on the camp turned out to be Zhongsun Su, he said, "That person is used to doing brave things, so let the widow fulfill his wish!" He ordered his troops to focus on defense and not to attack.
At dawn, the Qi army's defense line had been torn open, and Qi Linggong ordered the camp to be retracted, and then the troops were withdrawn.
After the Qi army left the country, Zhongsun Su immediately built two forts on a pass (Haicheng) on the border between the two countries, and only returned home with his army after completion.
When Qi Linggong returned to China, the Qi people complained about his behavior, and people said: "The reason for the prince's retreat is really incomprehensible!" Isn't the opposite of achieving the prestige of the enemy being an admitting cowardice! Courage is an essential quality for a soldier, let alone a monarch of a great country. The puppet can't bear the humiliation of bravery, let alone the monarch of a great country? The State of Qi has never lacked warriors like Meng Ruzi (Zhongsun Su), so what reason is there to avoid him? If you want to say it, you can only say that the Chinese people are unlucky, and they are a master who is very inward-looking and will only play lewd and powerful to the Chinese people! How happy the people of the country were living in the era of the ancestors! ”
But then, Qi Linggong used brutal means to suppress the speech of the Chinese people, showing the people that he was the villain and coward described in the speech.
The Qi people used the actual action of attacking the Lu State to show the Jin State that the Qi State had defected from the Huaxia Alliance. Shusun Leopard immediately rushed to the Jin State and asked for revenge against the Qi State. But the people of the Jin State did not want to provoke the Qi State, and they said: "The god of the first monarch mourning the prince has not yet ascended to the temple; The country has just been at war with Xu and Chu, and the people are very tired, and they can no longer wage war in the near future. Otherwise, how dare we forget our commitment to the state of Lu? ”
Uncle Sun Leopard replied: "The people of Qi are venting their anger in the city day and night, and the danger of the city is already too late, so I have come to solemnly make a request!" All the people of the Lu country led the people to the west and said, 'When will the Jin people deliver us?' 'If the great powers complete the ceremony and recuperate, I am afraid that the country of Lu will no longer exist! ”
Later, Uncle Sun Bao visited Zhongxingyan alone and tried to persuade him to become a teacher. Bank of China still has to resign, and his uncle and grandson Leopard gave a song "Qi Father": "Pray for the father, give the king's minions." Hu transferred to Yu Xian, where did he stop? Pray to the father, to the king's claws. Hu transferred to the shirt, what did he stop? Pray for the father, I am not deaf. Hu transferred to Yu Xian? There is a mother's corpse. ”
Uncle Sun Leopard compares Zhongxingyan to the master who holds great power but eats a vegetarian meal, and this metaphor is already quite vicious; Bank of China blushed and said, "I know it's wrong!" How dare I disobey the Master's wishes and jointly support Lu Guosheji? ”
After receiving support, Uncle Sun Leopard went to lobby Shi Kuo, and he gave the last chapter of "The Wild Goose": "The wild goose is flying, wailing and wailing." This philosopher is called my hard work. Vibi fool, I am arrogant. ”
Shi Kuo said in his heart, "I am a philosopher, not a fool. So he replied: "I am here, how dare I not make the country of Lu peaceful?" ”
With the support of the Chinese military general and Zuo, Uncle Sun Leopard finally put his heart in his stomach. But Qi Linggong, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, still went his own way, constantly violating the border of Lu and provoking the anger of the Jin people, and as a result, the country was attacked by the fierce attack of the Huaxia Alliance in the eighteenth year of Lu Xianggong, and Qi Linggong also died in the second year after the war.
In the seventeenth year of the reign of Lu Xianggong (BC556), Qi Linggong used violent means to quell the slander of the Chinese people, and he himself felt ashamed of what he had done to escape Zhongsun Su, so he wanted to save face through a victory.
However, people of insight in the DPRK and China expressed opposition. Yan Wan said: "Lu Guoxiao and Jin Guoda, not to mention that there is a ten-nation alliance. The Lu people and the Jin people have reached an agreement that once the Lu State is attacked, the Jin State will never stand by the sidelines, so the entire Huaxia Alliance will help the Lu State fight at that time. Qi can seize the cities of Lu, but can it keep it? In order to vent his grievances, the prince and the prince have suffered heavy losses to the country, and the gains are not too much than the losses? ”
Qi Linggong said: "How did the master's courage become so small? The widow has the order of the king of heaven, and he should be loyal to the royal family; The Lu people disobeyed the king's orders and must be punished. The entire Dongyi was gathered under the command of the Qi State, and Song and Wei were the in-laws of the Qi State; Although the Jin State is large and the alliance is strong, it can't help the Qi State. ”