The Shu people rebelled after the death of Xue Zifeng.

As mentioned earlier, the Shu Jiu people had secretly signed an alliance treaty with the state of Wu, but they did not recognize it on the surface. After the Chu people withdrew their troops from Qunshu, they did not immediately break away from the Southern Alliance. Wu Guoren was really impatient to wait, so he sent an envoy to urge the Shu Jiu people to fulfill their promise as soon as possible.

This is the case with small countries sandwiched between big countries: neither left nor right, and there is also a sin in advancing and a sin in retreating; Therefore, the kind of thing that offends one party can be delayed, and it will not be taken until the last moment.

Shu Jiuzi saw that he couldn't drag it out, so he had to issue an "order to drive Chu". The Shu people expelled the Chu people in the country, confiscated their property, and announced the abrogation of the alliance treaty signed with the Chu state.

King Chu Kang was furious and immediately put the plan to destroy Shu Jiu on the agenda. At that time, Qu Jian had been promoted to Ling Yin, and Qu Dang succeeded Qu Jian as Mo Ao.

Qu Jian said: "Wu Zi instigated Shu Jiu to betray, I am afraid that he is preparing for a full-scale war with the Chu State. Shu Jiu's status in the east is equivalent to that of Shen and Xi in the north; If this battle is lost, the soft belly of the Chu State will be exposed in front of the Wu State, so this battle can only be won and not defeated. My plan is to attack Shu Jiu in the name of destroying Wu reinforcements. The Wu army was defeated, and Shu Jiu could not survive alone. ”

In mid-July, the army of Chu was raised. The army left the Dabie Mountain in the east, passing through the cities of Longshu, Shuyong, and Shuliao, and finally surrounded the fortress of Licheng to the east of Shujiu. The Chu army besieged the fortress but did not attack it, waiting for reinforcements from the state of Wu to attack.

Wu Zizhufan received the information and said happily: "If we defeat the Chu army, we can go to Yingdu next year to hold a wax sacrifice!" ”

Zhu Fan sent Gongzi Meng and Gongzi Wuyu to lead the army to rescue. As the name suggests, Childe is fierce and belligerent, but his brain often can't turn around; Childe Wuyu is more than resourceful, but not courageous. The advantages of these two people are combined, and the Wu army will be invincible; When the shortcomings are combined, there is no victory.

Qu Jian learned that Wu's army was less than a day's journey from Shu Jiu, so he began to carry out the predetermined plan. He handed over the left army to the five military commanders Ziqiang, Xihuan, Zijie, Ziqiu, and Ziyu; The left army was ordered to spread out in formation and retreat slowly. Qu Jian led the right army to quickly insert into the rear of the Wu army. As a result, the left army blocked the path of the Wu army's advance, and the right army blocked the path of the enemy's retreat. The Wu army was attacked from east to west, but there was a big gap in the north and south directions.

The people of Wu were not in a hurry to get rid of the state of being attacked before and after, and even set up camp in the same place as if nothing had happened. Qu Jian climbed to the top and found that the Wu army camp was distributed on a rolling hilly area with a gentle slope, and the shape of the camp was like a "two-headed snake"; The head of the snake was facing outward, facing the left and right armies respectively. The enemy army was outnumbered, and the fortifications were very well built. In the face of this situation, Qu Jian did not have the certainty of a strong attack; At the same time, he also had to watch out for the Shu people behind him: those "rats" ran out from time to time to harass the Chu army.

Ziqiang and the others also had the same worries as Qu Jian, and they didn't dare to attack easily. The depressing news kept coming, and it turned out that the Shu people had sent envoys to the various city-states of Qunshu to encourage, persuade and even coerce the monarchs to betray the Chu state.

Those small city-states were weaker than Shu Jiu, and the monarchs, like Shu Jiuzi, knew how to see the wind and steer the rudder; On the surface, they expressed their willingness to follow the way, but secretly they were nervously watching the situation.

Now, seeing that the two sides are deadlocked, the little monarchs can't help but come out one after another to breathe and take the army to observe the situation from a distance. The situation was obviously unfavorable to the Chu army, which was deep in the hinterland of the enemy country, and this view has been shared by most people.

The camp of the Qunshu people was already entrenched around the battle zone, as if two male lions were facing each other, ready to fight for their lives, and the surrounding area was full of vultures, ready to get a piece of the pie when one side was bitten to death.

The confrontation between Wu and Chu has entered its sixth day. Ziqiang was so anxious that he gathered the generals together and said: "If the army stays in the territory of the enemy country for a long time, even the bravest soldiers will become cowardly, it is better to immediately engage in a decisive battle with the enemy army, otherwise even the courage to flee will be lost." ”

Xi Huan said: "But storming the enemy camp is equivalent to suicide!" ”

Ziqiang said: "Of course we can't attack, we should lure the enemy out." The surrounding terrain is complex, large-scale operations cannot be carried out, and the superiority of the enemy's numbers cannot be brought into play; And once the hand-to-hand combat is engaged, the fighting power of our army in individual combat will definitely overwhelm the enemy.

"I plan to lead the bait soldiers to challenge, and the enemy will inevitably send troops to fight. You led your elite troops to set up an ambush. I am victorious, you march immediately, I am defeated, you are moving. As long as we attack, we will have a chance to win no matter what, but we will definitely die in the barracks. ”

The four military commanders agreed, and Ziqiang sent someone to report the plan to Ling Yin Zimu. In the early morning of the next day, Ziqiang was ready to go, and the commander of the four armies gathered the army and was ready to fight at any time.

The Wu people spread the stall very large, and advanced several hundred meters in the past two days; There was a small camp under the gentle slope of a small hill separated from the side of the main camp, and Ziqiang targeted the small camp.

Ziqiang led his army to make a circle from the back of his camp, around the side of the enemy camp, and hid in the jungle. He carefully examined the terrain near the enemy camp and formulated tactics according to the actual situation. Ziqiang gave an order, and the sergeants strode towards the barracks with their weapons in hand.

The people of Wu were shocked - because this place was far away from the Chu camp, no one expected that the enemy army would attack him at the distance of the near and far. The soldiers hurriedly responded to the battle, but the hastily built and simple fence was immediately trampled under the feet of the Chu people, and the Chu people swarmed in and chased after the Wu people.

The people of Wu could not resist the fierce attack of the enemy, and turned around and ran in the direction of the main camp; The people of Chu made a big noise behind them and chased after them. For the suddenness of the incident, the soldiers in charge of observing the situation in the main camp of the Wu army panicked and knocked Jin Duo loudly, and everyone from the commander to the ordinary soldiers was frightened by the sudden sound of acute jaundice.

The Wu army reacted quite quickly, the generals quickly walked out of the tents to gather the troops, and the soldiers grabbed their weapons and ran around, looking for their own military flags and commanders. A moment later, the camp gate opened, and the main force of the Wu army came out of the camp to line up.

The fleeing Wu army ran to the slope and looked back, and found that the number of enemy troops was not very large, and there was no follow-up force, and the main force of the Wu army also rushed to rush at this time. The self-confidence of the battalion commander suddenly returned. With a loud roar, he led his sergeants and rushed down against the enemy.

Seeing that the tactics had worked, Ziqiang shouted: "Retreat!" As a result, the Chu army, which was still dancing with its teeth and claws just now, instantly turned around and fled, and the Wu army chased after him.

Ziqiang saw that he was about to lead the enemy into the encirclement, but the Wu army suddenly stopped pursuing. It turned out that Gongzi Wuyu stopped Gongzi Meng and said: "This is obviously a bait soldier, the terrain ahead is complicated, the Chu people will definitely set up an ambush there, the general should order the troops to be collected." The Chu army can no longer bear it, and will inevitably retreat after three days, and then we will pursue the enemy army and win a great victory. ”

Gongzi Meng said: "Our army can win today, why wait until three days later? ”

Despite the dissuasion of his lieutenant, he ordered the pursuit to continue.

Childe was relieved to see that the enemy army had begun to advance again.

The Wu army soon stepped into the trap, and the team was divided into several pieces by the Chu army. In a small space with complex terrain, and in a situation where friends and foes are mixed together, any tactics are useless. The only weapon that soldiers rely on to defeat is fearless courage and superb fighting skills. As a veteran powerhouse that has been famous in the world for two hundred years, the Chu army's individual combat effectiveness is on a par with Qin, Jin, and Qi; Although the Wu soldiers never lacked courage, their training skills lagged behind the Chu army. Therefore, although the Wu army tried its best, it was finally defeated and fled.

On the right side of the army, Qu Jian divided the army in two and advanced to the main camp from both sides. The generals of the Wu army who stayed behind did not dare to take the initiative to attack when they saw that Gongzi's fierce troops were ambushed. After that, the Wu army abandoned the barracks, slowly approached Gongzi's fierce army, and finally fled with Gongzi's fierce army.

After the Chu army defeated the enemy, it immediately surrounded the city of Shujiu, and the leaders of Qunshu, who had been watching the excitement, ran to the camp to congratulate Qu Jian, and hoped to make a modest effort to defeat the "traitors".

Qu Jian did not shirk and ordered these people to take the lead in attacking the city; As a result, the "allies" summoned by Shu Jiuzi have now become the vanguard of attacking him.

In late August, the Chu army conquered Shu Jiuzi, and Shu Jiuzi was killed in battle. Qu Jian confiscated the weapons of the aborigines and imprisoned the ministers and clan elders in the barracks. Later, King Chu Kang ordered the Shu people to be moved to the vicinity of Yingdu, and a large number of Chu people were moved into Shu Jiu City. In this way, Shu Jiu really became the Shen Xi of the Chu State in the east.