The envoy of the barbarian immediately came to the camp of the Chu army and brought several carts of property. The messenger was a tall, strong, middle-aged man with a dignified appearance and a competitive face. King Chu Zhao suddenly remembered the account of Peng Zhongshuang seeing King Chu Wen, so he had a premonition that there would be a fierce and protracted debate; The doctors also held their breath, ready to hear what he was going to say.

King Chu Zhao was just about to speak, the expression on the envoy's face suddenly became distorted, and he fell to his knees with a "poof", prostrate in front of King Chu Zhao, choked so much that he couldn't even breathe. Those present did not expect the scene to change so quickly, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

But the messenger was not in the least moved by the ridicule, and continued his performance, and he began to make a statement when he was almost crying. He blamed all the crimes on the brother of the barbarian Chi, and sent the heads of several culprits, and handed over a valuable gift list; He said that the Barbarian clan was willing to go to the soup for the king of Chu, and finally hoped to get the understanding of the king of Chu Zhao.

King Chu Zhao is a rare benevolent monarch in the world, but at this time, for him, no matter how valuable a treasure is, it is not as valuable as the head of the barbarian Chi. King Chu Zhao smiled and listened to the envoy's speech, and just as he was about to speak, a messenger suddenly broke into the military tent in a panic, and shouted in shock: "Wu Guojun report!" After speaking, he handed King Chu Zhao a parchment scroll sealed with fire paint.

King Chu Zhao opened it and looked at it, and said in shock: "The husband is shameless!" He took advantage of the opportunity of our army going north to gather the national boat division in Zhufang, and he was about to go up the river to attack our country! Chuan Bugu order: Immediately pull out the camp and return to the division to meet the Wu army! ”

King Chu Zhao said to the envoy again, "Count yourself lucky! You go back, go back and tell the barbarian Chi, don't kill Master Wu and come back to settle accounts with him! ”

Happiness always came so suddenly, and there was not even a trace of sadness on the messenger's face. He bowed to King Chu Zhao, then stood up and danced out. The envoy also wanted to observe the movements of the Chu people, so he asked his entourage to deliberately slow down when unloading the car (which contained bribes for the Chu people), but his eyes were scanning around.

The order to return to the division immediately spread throughout the camp, and the sergeants began to pull up their tents, pack their bags, and arrange their baggage. Several soldiers approached the barbarians to help them unload their carts and urged them to leave quickly.

"It seems that the news is true!" The messenger thought so.

An hour after the messenger had left, the sergeants had finished their work, left the camp and lined up, waiting for the commander's order. Zuo Sima boarded the chariot, drew his sword and pointed in the direction of the barbarian clan and shouted vigorously: "Advance!" ”

There are so many things that happened on this day, even more than in previous years.

It turned out that the scene that happened just now was a plan directed by King Chu Zhao and the doctors to hide the sky and cross the sea, the purpose was to destroy the Barbarian clan with the smallest casualties and the fastest speed.

In the early morning of the third day, the Chu army attacked and captured Liang and Huo, who had been de-alerted, and then besieged the isolated city of the Barbarian clan. The barbarians opened the gates of the city that night and fled in all directions; Some of them did not escape the fate of being captured, but the barbarian Chi was killed from the weak point of the Chu army's defensive line.

The barbarian Zi Chi fled to the land of Jin Yin (in the northeast of present-day Lushi County, Henan) in the Jin Kingdom, where he gathered fugitives.

King Chu Zhao was determined to kill the barbarian Zi Chi. At this time, although the Jin State was in civil strife, it was powerless to stop the Chu army from attacking Jin Yin; However, King Zhao of Chu was also unwilling to provoke a new round of conflict between Jin and Chu, so he adopted a diplomatic method of saluting first and then soldiering against the Jin State.

King Zhao of Chu ordered Zuo Sima to gather the Rong Di army near Xichuan and place the motley army near Shangluo (now Shang County, Shaanxi, which was originally owned by the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and later captured by the Jin State and became an important town on the southwestern border of the Jin State); He also arranged the left army in Suhe Mountain (more than 100 miles east of Shang County) and the right army in Cangye (140 miles southeast of present-day Shang County), with the two armies as the support of the Rong army.

More than 180 miles east of Shang County stands the towering and dangerous Shaoxi Mountain, there is a Wuguan City in front of the mountain, which is the throat of the Jin Kingdom. As long as the Chu army occupied Wuguan, it could join forces with the Qin army to attack the Yin city of the Jin State (near present-day Houma, Shanxi); Yin City is the gateway to Xinjiang, and the Chu army can attack Xinjiang City if it captures it.

King Zhao of Chu sent an envoy to the great doctor of Yincheng and said contemptuously: "The barbarians have no way, and they will kill our people, destroy the farmland of our city, and rob property, cattle and horses when our Great Chu is invaded by foreign enemies; For the sake of the country's society, the widow destroyed the barbarian country. But the barbarians fled into the big country, gathered the remnants, recruited troops, and prepared to become enemies of our country again. Jin and Chu had an alliance first, and it was written in the book: 'Likes and dislikes are the same. 'If the Master remembers the spirits of the two ancestors (King Chu Kang and Jin Pinggong) and does not ado the orders of the ancestors, it will be what the widow wants to see; If he insists on sheltering the barbarians, the widow will open the Shaoxi Mountain and personally come to listen to the orders of the great powers. ”

In the face of the threat of war issued by his allies, Shi Yan did not dare to be careless; He asked the messenger to stay in the city and wait for news, and he drove into Xinjiang without stopping.

Shi Mi reported the situation to the new Chinese army general Zhao Ying. Zhao Ying was preparing to launch the final blow to Handan at this time, he didn't want to make trouble, so he said: "Heaven has sent disaster, and the country is in trouble; We can't go to war with the state of Chu for a handful of barbarians. Please give those poor men to the Chu people as quickly as possible! ”

Shi Mi informed the envoy of Chu of his decision, and the envoy said, "I have heard the order of the great power, so please ask the master to hand over the barbarian to the widow!" ”

Shi Mi knew in his heart that the Chu people would not withdraw their troops if they could not get the barbarians; He promised the messenger that he would hand over the target within a month.

Shi Wei is a wise man, and he does not use brute force to solve problems. In the name of Zhao Ying, Shi Wu gathered the leaders of the Zhurong of Kyushu who were entrenched in the area of Jinyin and Lu Hun's hometown, and said that they would give the tribes land and help them build cities.

The plan to build the city was originally proposed by Shi Ji a few years ago and "approved" by the Duke of Jinqing. Shijiji wanted to use this to win over Kyushu Rong, but the subsequent civil strife caused the plan to be postponed indefinitely. With Fan's defeat getting worse, Zhu Rong had already lost hope in this matter; Now that people know that the plan is restarted, they are dancing with joy.

With excited smiles on their faces, the leaders rushed into Xinjiang, and the barbarian red also mixed in with the team. The barbarian has become a turtle in an urn, and it is easy to catch him. However, Shi Wei did not want to make the movement too big, so as not to cause adverse effects; Under the guise of divination for the location of the new city, he summoned the barbarian Chi into Miyagi alone, and took him down cleanly.

The plan to divide the land and build the city was carried out in an orderly manner, and all the Rong were very happy, but the barbarian had been reduced to a prisoner. Shi Mi handed over all the barbarians and members of the mission to the people of Chu, and King Zhao of Chu ordered the withdrawal of the army.

The purpose of the Chu people has been achieved, but King Chu Zhao still has a residual hatred in his heart: several war criminals who committed heinous crimes against the Chu people are still hiding in Jinyin and living a good life, and they have not been punished so far. Every time he thought about it, he felt a sharp pain in his chest and couldn't breathe.

Among the captives sent by the Jin were five doctors from the barbarian kingdom, including the two sons of the barbarian. King Chu Zhao summoned one of his sons and sons: "Because the barbarian country betrayed the alliance, Bugu led his army north to crusade. The barbarian is so evil that he can't help but put him to death, but you are different, you have always opposed the barbarian's approach. Bugu is unwilling to destroy any country - otherwise Cai State would have become a county of Chu State again long ago. Therefore, if you are willing to be loyal to the state of Chu, Bugu will allow you to restore the barbarian kingdom and make you king. ”

Zizhi originally thought that he was going to be divided by five horses, but he didn't expect that he would not only save his life, but also ascend to the throne of the monarch. He prostrated in front of King Chu Zhao, touched the ground with his head, wept bitterly, and expressed his willingness to go to the soup for King Chu Zhao and dig out his heart and liver.

King Chu Zhao was satisfied with his attitude, and then released the captured and reduced barbarians to slavery, and returned the property to them. The barbarians returned to the devastated city in droves and began the work of rebuilding their homes.

Zizhi sent someone to recall his compatriots gathered in Jinyin and other places, and he said: "Chu Jun announced that only one barbarian would be punished, and the rest would not be held accountable; Those who return to China can get back their property and property, and those who remain in the Jin Kingdom will have their property recovered by the office and redistributed. "The exiles, who did not think that there was a great conspiracy hidden in it, returned to their homeland.

However, soon after the barbarians returned to their homeland, they were again surrounded by the Chu army, and this time almost no one escaped from the encirclement of the enemy army, and all of them became prisoners.

The barbarians went through three great deceptions, were deceived but did not learn their lessons, and as a result, they lost their country the first time, the monarch the second time, and uprooted the third time.