The Wu army arrived at the outskirts of Zhongli on the afternoon of July 28, when the Chu army was stationed in the south of the city, the Chen, Hu, and Shen armies were stationed in the southeast of the Chu army, and the Cai, Xu, and Dun armies were stationed in the southwest of the Chu army.

Wu Wangyi took Gongzi Guang, Gongzi Baoyu and several senior generals to the front of the battle to check the situation. Seeing that the enemy coalition forces were three times their number, Wang couldn't help but be a little worried. Several people returned to the Chinese army, and Gongziguang said: "Although the number of princes following the Chu State is large, they are all the armies of small countries; The nations were afraid of the majesty of the Chu State, so they had to go out to help in the war. I have heard that "it is better to do great things with authority than with kindness", and that success can be achieved even if you are small.

"The monarchs of Hu and Shen were young and mad, Doctor Chen was young and fierce and fierce, and Dun, Xu and Cai hated the exploitation of Chu very much. Chu ordered Yin to die, and the morale of the Chu army was weakened; Although Xue Yue's status was high, he could not command the Chinese army and the right army; Nangwa and the military doctors were pampered and arrogant, and they didn't take Xue Yue seriously. The Chu army was divided into its own affairs, the seven countries did not have the same heart in the same battle, and no one could fully command the coalition army; Even if the coalition is outnumbered, it will also fail.

"I request that Shen, Hu, and Chen be attacked with light troops first, and the three armies will inevitably be defeated. If the three armies are defeated, the hearts of the princes' divisions will inevitably be shaken, and the divisions of the Chu State will not be able to fight alone, and they will also flee. Tomorrow is the obscure day (July of that year is a small month), and the "Zhou Li" has the precept of 'no war in the obscure day'; the Chu army will inevitably be unguarded tomorrow, and our army will launch an attack tomorrow. ”

The king was overjoyed. In the early morning of the next day, there was indeed no movement in the coalition positions. Wu Guoren first released 3,000 ragged prisoners who served as miscellaneous servants in the army of Shen, Hu, and Chen.

The prisoners ran wildly, shouting loudly: "We are escaped prisoner slaves, please don't hurt us!" The three kingdoms were overjoyed, and they poured out of the camp to capture the unexpected booty.

The prisoners shouted: "It's not good, the people of the Central Plains will not let us go, it is better to fight than to be captured!" A fierce clash broke out in front of the three armies, and the prisoners were outnumbered, turned and fled in all directions. The commanders could not figure out the truth, so they ordered the camp to leave; The three armies poured out of their nests, chasing and competing for the spoils of war.

Seeing that the time had come, the king ordered the Wu army to be fully pressed. By this time there was already a mess in front of the three military camps: prisoners fled and stopped in an irregular manner, and spread all over the battlefield; And where there are Wu prisoners, there are three ** soldiers. The Wu army lined up in a neat formation to attack, and the generals of the three kingdoms were short but unable to gather the scattered soldiers. The Wu army advanced the camp of the three armies like bulldozers, and Hu, Shen and Chen were killed in the Xia chaos. In less than an hour, the three ** teams disappeared.

Gongziguang cut off the heads of the commanders of the three armies, hung them on the flagpole of the chariot, and paraded around the group of prisoners of war of the Three Kingdoms, and then released many Hu and Shen prisoners of war, and chased them after them, driving them to the camp of the Cai, Xu, and Don armies. The prisoners of war fled into the friendly camp and cried: "We have been defeated! The monarch was also killed! The Wu army is about to be killed, let's escape! ”

After a while, the rumbling drums were heard from the easterners, and the soldiers of the Cai, Xu, and Dun armies climbed up to look at it, and saw that the Wu army was overwhelmingly pressing on them, and they couldn't help but be terrified in their hearts, and immediately abandoned the military camp and fled to the Chu army camp.

The commander of the Chu army, faced with the influx of deserters from all over the mountains, angrily ordered them to flee along the side of the camp wall. However, due to the suddenness of the incident, the Chu people did not have time to use the banner to guide those deserters in a unified manner, and as a result, the deserters who ran disorderly were mixed together, which caused even greater chaos. The Wu army took advantage of the chaos to kill, and the deserters continued to break into the Chu army's camp in a panic, and disrupted the order of the Chu army.

The Chu army could neither go out of the camp to line up, nor could it establish a defensive line in the camp, so it could only be coerced by friendly forces to escape from the barracks. The Wu army broke into the barracks, laughed at all the baggage of the Chu army, and won a hearty victory.

The Wu army was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but an urgent report came from the rear that the Yue people had crossed the Qiantang River north and captured Yu'er (now southwest of Jiaxing, Zhejiang), an important town in the south of Wu. Gongziguang was forced to abandon the pursuit and led his army back to Wu. Zhongli escaped for the time being, but in the end, he still did not escape the end of being destroyed.

The remnants of the defeated troops of the Seven Kingdoms returned to their respective countries, and King Chuping did not hold anyone responsible; In his opinion, only the kings of the prosperous era (such as Wu, Wen, Cheng, and Zhuang) could sanction the generals of the defeated army without causing unrest. King Chuping planned to appoint Xue Yue as Ling Yin, but Xue Yue resolutely refused, saying: "The minister is guilty, and the king's crime of not punishing the minister has been extraordinarily gracious, and the minister resolutely does not dare to profit from the crime." Besides, the minister only understands military affairs, not politics, and is old, so he is really overwhelmed by his responsibilities. The king should give Ling Yin to the young and promising! ”

After Xue Yue withdrew, he muttered to himself: "In the midst of a chaotic country, it is not easy to get a good ending, how dare I ask for Ling Yin's position?" ”

So King Chuping gave Ling Yin to the "young and promising" Nangwa. Nangwa is the grandson of the former Ling Yin Zizhen (Zizi Bag) and a student of the former Ling Yin Zifang.

Zhongli's defeat was the beginning of a series of defeats in the confrontation between Chu and Wu, and if this defeat was heroic, the next one was humiliating.

As mentioned earlier, Mrs. Chuping Wang was originally the daughter of the magistrate of Zhencheng, and her pursuit of her sweetheart was brave and romantic; The relationship between the two has always been close, and after the successful usurpation of the throne, she was named his wife. However, because Fei Wuji's villain instigated King Chuping to marry the princess of Qin, the negative man who got a new love abandoned his old lover.

Later, Wang Zijian was framed and left the Song Kingdom, and Mrs. Ping returned to Zhencheng (now Xincai, Henan) in a fit of rage, preparing to live here for the rest of her life. But later, due to the death of Zheng Guo by the crown prince Jianheng, the resentment that had been accumulated in Mrs. Ping's chest for several years broke out violently.

Madame Ping calculated, since she couldn't kill King Chu Ping, she had to find a way to disgust him to death - Madame Ping had been with King Ping for twenty years, and she knew her husband's heart best, what he liked and what he hated.

It turned out that King Chuping was an extremely arrogant man, and he tried his best to build himself into a promising king full of justice and benevolence on the surface, but his heart was full of greedy and shameless desires; He has done a lot of bad things, stupid things, and harmed the interests of the royal family and society, but he used all kinds of high-sounding reasons to whitewash his mistakes, for fear that his face would be damaged in the slightest.

For example, Fei Wuji used three indiscriminate means to expel Chao Wu, and some doctors accused Fei Wuji of this reason. He was unwilling to admit that he had used the wrong villain, so he explained that he had collected evidence that Chao Wu was preparing to betray the Chu State, so he secretly ordered Fei Wuji to get rid of Chao Wu.

In view of this, Lady Ping decided to give Zheng Cheng and herself to the people of Wu, so that the world would know that King Chu Ping could not even keep his own woman, so as to give him a resounding slap in the face.

After the defeat of the Chu army, Mrs. Ping felt that the opportunity had come, so she sent someone to secretly contact the people of Wu. The king was so happy that he wanted to marry a new daughter-in-law, and immediately ordered Gongzi Guang to enter the city with an army.