Hua Duo witnessed his brothers killing each other, one son was killed by another, and he fell in the car, and his heart was really like a knife, and he was in pain. Covered in blood, Hua Xiang ran over to his father and said, "I'm sorry for you, but this is all forced by that villain!" But now that it's started, let's let it go through to the end! ”

Several people then kidnapped Da Sima, rushed out of Shangqiu City, occupied the fiefdom and launched a rebellion.

Hua sent messengers to summon the exiles. On June 20, Huahai and Xiang Ning led the rebels to conquer the two border towns of the Song State; Walden was still lobbying Wang to support the rebels. Hua Cheng led his army from Fengyi to unite with the rebels, and the leaders prepared to attack Shangqiu from the west.

Song Ping Gong ordered Le Daxin, Feng Shou, and Hua Mo to build a defensive line in Hengyi, forty miles west of the capital. The rebels launched several attacks, but were unable to retreat due to lack of preparation. The rebels bypassed Hengyi and instead occupied the area of Lumen and Nanli on the southern outskirts of Shangqiu; The Song people strengthened the old city in the south and fortified it in the mulberry forest.

Neither side was sure of victory, so neither launched an active attack, but they were actively preparing for the attack.

One by one, Hua attacked the southern cities of the Song state, and if the feudal officials dared to resist, they were eliminated or driven away, otherwise their fiefs and power were retained. Huahai and Xiang Ning collected soldiers, weapons and food, built fortresses and defensive lines, and waited for reinforcements from Huadeng and Wu.

After Walden fled to Wu, the prince's cousin, Gongzi Kuyu, married his beloved daughter to him. You must know that political marriages are all centered on the exchange of interests, and it is very beneficial for one party to maintain a position in the country, so when Hua Deng asked Wu Wang to become a teacher, Gongzi Kuyu was the first to jump out to express his support.

Childe Hikaru took a tacit attitude. He had previously rejected Wu Zixu's proposal to attack the state of Chu, and could no longer raise any objections—he could not always obstruct the use of troops by the royal bureaucracy, otherwise he would be suspected of going against the monarch.

In the winter of October, Hua Deng and the generals of Wu State, Gongzi Kuyu and Yanzhou Yuan, led their divisions to invade the Song State. The military system of the state of Wu was modeled after that of the state of Chu (established by the prince of Chu, Shen Gong Wuchen), but the equipment was in the style of the Jin state (the manufacturing process introduced by the state of Jin); Sergeants are fierce and rude, with short hair and occasional tattoos under their clothes.

Song Yuangong was also actively seeking foreign help. He sent Le Yi to the Qi State and Gongzicheng to the Jin State to ask for support. Wu Zhiming, the doctor of Qi, soon led the vanguard army to Shangqiu.

The deployment of the office side was: people set up a semicircular defense line around the capital on the west, south, and east, and some fortresses were built on the defense line; The focus of the defense was to the south, and to the east was the Qi division led by Wu Zhiming.

Although the defense line of the office was very long, and the terrain between the enemy and the enemy was very flat; But due to the heavy rain this year (God knows if it had anything to do with the solar eclipse in July), many of the areas were very muddy and difficult to navigate.

The rebel leaders and the commander of the Wu army held a pre-war military meeting, and after research, they decided that a quick battle should be resolved. This is because they are still superior in numbers, and the morale of Master Wu is at its peak. They also heard that the follow-up forces of Jin, Wei, and Qi were rushing towards the Song state, and that delaying would cost them their numerical advantage.

The rebels began to make the final preparations for the operation, and the Song people were worried. Song and Yuan Dynasty had a famous minister named Pu, who was the elder brother of one of his favorite concubines, and was called "Chef Pu" because he was sealed in the kitchen.

Chef Pu Jinyan said: "There is a saying in "Military Chronicles": 'The ancestors have the heart to win people, and the descendants will wait for their decline.'" The enemy, although their morale is high, but their bodies are tired, and they have not made repairs and hastily put themselves in an offensive formation, and they are undecided, it is a good opportunity for us to attack! And our defense line is too long, there are many loopholes that cannot be guarded, once the enemy breaks through and stabilizes the position, with the number of Fahrenheit, our army will definitely be defeated, and then it will be too late to regret it!

Wu Zhiming also agreed with him, but Song Yuangong still hoped to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the princes before attacking.

Chef Pu said: "Fahrenheit will not give us a chance, they have frequently mobilized their troops, and the attack will be in the next day or two." ”

Song Yuangong said: "What can we do if we don't have enough troops? ”

Chef Pu said: "We concentrated our efforts on fighting Wu Shi. The people of Wu came from afar, their bodies were tired and they were not adapted to the cold climate in the north, and there were many people infected with wind and cold, so they should be easily defeated. Hua Shi only relies on the Wu people, and each has its own internal affairs, once the Wu division is defeated, Hua Shi will inevitably be scattered. ”

Song Yuangong was convinced, and he issued an order to quietly assemble his troops. Before dawn the next day, the Song and Qi coalition troops ate the extra cold rice they had made last night by a little starlight, and then quietly lined up in the cold wind of early winter. When the first rays of fish belly appeared in the east, the coalition forces suddenly launched an attack on the Wu army camp.

The enemy did not expect the coalition forces to launch a surprise attack before them, so the camp did not set up deep ditches and ramparts according to standard procedures, and there were not even lookout posts; Moreover, most of the armed forces are still in the process of mobilization and deployment, and there are no effective protection and emergency measures established among them. Due to the above reasons, Wu Jun suddenly fell into great chaos.

Childe Kuyu ran out of the tent and saw a mess around him, full of soldiers and slaves running around and shouting. A moment later, the guards and officers gathered around him. He ordered the officers to return to their ranks, and to be sure to stabilize the morale of the army and establish an effective defense; Then he jumped on the chariot and started beating the drums.

The drums of the Wu army guided the direction of the allied attack, as their first task was to kill the commander of the Wu army. In order to cause more confusion and harm, some people began to throw torches into the barracks, and immediately more people followed suit; As a result, strong northerly winds caused the fire to spread rapidly.

So that there was no one left to organize effective resistance, and the officers did not flee or were burned to death. The coalition forces did not dare to go too deep into the enemy camp, because the fire did not selectively burn the target, but the enemy had a choice to kill the target, they only tried their best to create chaos on the periphery and the shallow camp, and kill the Wu soldiers who escaped from the fire.

Seeing that he was no longer able to resist, Childe Kuyu had to order Ming Duo to retreat. When he escaped from the barracks, he happened to encounter a Song army searching for him, and the centurion led by him shouted: "Kill this barbarian leader, and the rebels will be finished!" "The sergeants swarmed with their weapons clenched; Pity this prince of Wu Guo, except for the head is still intact, the rest of the parts have been torn apart.