At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Southern Chu lost its capital for ten months, and Wu defeated the Xiongchu in a battle
In the middle and late Spring and Autumn period, the contradictions between Jin and Chu became increasingly acute. After the civil strife in Chu, Wu Zixu fled to the state of Wu, where he assisted the king of Wu together with Sun Wu, making the state of Wu increasingly powerful. In the fourteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (506 BC), the Wu army invaded the state of Chu and was in"Battle of Berya"Zhong defeated 200,000 Chu troops and captured Yingdu, the capital of Chu. Wu Zixu dug up the tomb of King Chuping in Yingdu and whipped his corpse for 300 years. Ten months later, Wu Zixu had to withdraw from Chu due to Qin reinforcements and a fire in the courtyard. Let's take a look at the battle.
Wu Zixu fled to Wu in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, when the state of Wu rose in the southeast and the civil strife in Chu.
In the mid-to-late Spring and Autumn period, although the Jin state was in the leading position in the Central Plains, its strength weakened due to the alliance between Qin and Chu. Therefore, the Jin State decided to implement the policy of uniting Wu to control Chu, and sent Qu Wu to Wu to help the poor, and taught Wu Guo chariot driving, archery, queue and other techniques, so that Wu's ** team learned to fight with chariots. At the same time, with the help of the Jin state, the economy and culture of the state of Wu also developed rapidly, and began to rise rapidly in the southeastern region.
At the same time, the marriage between Qin and Chu never stopped. In the second year of King Chuping (527 BC), King Chuping sent the young prince Fei Wuji to Qin to marry the crown princess Meng Huan as the crown prince. Fei Wuji respected Wu She, hated Prince Jian, and said to King Chuping when he came back"The woman of the Qin State is so beautiful, the king himself can marry her, but he must marry the crown prince. "King Chuping then married the bride prepared for his son and gave birth to Duke Zhen.
Fei Wuji was worried that the prince would retaliate against him in the future, so he continued to slander the prince. As a result, the crown prince fled to the Song state, and the prince's tutor Wu Xu and his son Wu Shang were killed, and Wu Zixu fled to the state of Chu and joined the prince in the Song state. There was civil strife in the Song Kingdom, Wu Zixu fled to Zheng State with the crown prince, and was killed because he joined forces with Zhong Xingyin of the Jin State to overthrow Zheng Dinggong, Wu Zixu fled to Wu State with the prince's son Symbiosis, and Symbiosis was also killed in the process.
After Wu Zixu arrived in Wu, he learned that Gongzi Guang was ambitious, so he recommended the assassin Zhu Rong to him, killed the king of Wu, and became the king of Wu himself. After the accession to the throne of Wu Wanglu, he appointed Wu Zixu and Bo Yao as advisers, and Sun Wu of Qi as a general, so as to further consolidate the power of Wu and annex Xu and Zhongwu successively. At the same time, under the rule of King Chuping and King Zhao of Chu (sons of King Chuping and Meng Huan), the state of Chu was weakening day by day, and the situation was even more severe due to the contradictions between Tang and Cai.
The state of Wu attacked the state of Chu, and the battle of the factions broke out, and the state of Chu was defeated and the capital fell.
In the thirteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (507 BC), Cai Zhaohou, the monarch of Cai, and Tang Chenggong, the monarch of Tang, betrayed Chu and allied with Jin and Wu to avenge the three-year imprisonment of the prince of Chu, so that Chu lost its northern barrier. In the following year, at the instigation of Cai, eighteen countries, including Jin, Qi, Lu, Song, Cai, Wei, Chen, Zheng, Xu, Cao, Ju, Di, Min, Deng, Hu, Teng, Xue, Qi, and Xiaoyi, formed an alliance to attack Chu.
In the fourteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (506 BC), the state of Cai, with the support of the state of Jin, sent troops to destroy the state of Chu's courtier, the state of Shen, and in the autumn of the same year, the state of Chu sent troops to surround the state of Cai. After the rise of Wu, it competed with Chu for hegemony in the Jianghuai region from time to time. Seeing that Chu was not only weakened, but also at war with its neighbors, the monarchs and ministers of Wu thought that it was time to attack Chu, so they decided to attack Chu on a large scale.
In the winter of the same year, Wu Wang Lu personally commanded 30,000 land and water troops, including generals Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and their brother-in-law Gao, as the vanguard of the advance force, crossed the Huai River and entered the territory of the founding of the country. The general of Chu Sai, Ling Zichan, thought that the Wu army was too aggressive, so he gave up the siege and returned to China to protect himself.
After encountering Cai's army, Wu and Tang formed an alliance and continued westward along the Huai River, crossing the Dabie Mountains and entering the weakly defended area in the northeast of Chu. When he arrived at the Huai River, Sun Wu suddenly ordered the army to land, with 3,500 elite soldiers as the vanguard, quickly crossed the three dangerous passes of the Great Tunnel, the Zhizhi Organ, and the Xiangmian in the north of Chu, went straight to the Han River, and went deep into the interior of the Chu State, and attacked the east bank of the Han River in only a few days.
When King Zhao of Chu heard the news, he hurriedly ordered Zichang, Shen Yinxu, the left minister of Chu, and Shi Huang, the Shangqing of Chu, to lead the whole country to defend against the enemy. Shen Yinxu suggested that Zichang fortify the west bank, and he himself went to the rear of the Wu army to attack the Wu army. However, Zichan did not dare to cross the river until Shen Yinxu led his army north, in order to achieve the first victory by force.
In the face of Zichang's attack, Sun Wu decided to retreat as an advance, weaken the enemy army, wait for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle, defeated the Chu army three times, and finally defeated the main force of the Chu army in one fell swoop at Baijiao, the first emperor was killed in battle, and Zichang fled to Zheng State. On November 29, the 14th year of King Jing of Zhou (506), the Wu army finally attacked Yingdu, the capital of Chu.
Qin sent troops to rescue Chu, Wu's courtyard was burned down, and Wu's army evacuated Chu 10 months later.
After the Wu army invaded Yingdu, they not only burned and looted everywhere, but also wantonly **** the people, eager to rush out of the city. In order to avenge his father and brother, Wu Zixu actually found the mausoleum of King Chuping, opened the coffin, and killed more than 300 corpses with a whip. King Chu Zhao fled to Yunmeng, ** Peach Blossom Spring, and because the younger brother of Peach Blossom Yuan wanted to kill him, he fled to Suizhou.
In the spring of the fifteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (505 BC). In the spring of the fifteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (505 BC), Shen Baoxu heard the news that Wu Zixu had been whipped, and entered Qin to ask Qin Aigong for help. In June of the same year, Shen Baoxu ordered the generals Zipu and Zihu to lead the remnants of the Chu army to 500 to the south in chariots to help the Chu state recover the country, and defeated Wu Zixu's army in Yicheng, and the Chu general Zi Xie led the army to defeat the Wu army in Zhongxiang, and the Qin-Chu coalition army immediately attacked the Tang State to which the Wu State belonged and destroyed the Tang State. The Qin-Chu coalition then defeated the Tang state, which belonged to the state of Wu.
At the same time, in order to avenge the attack of Wu five years ago, Goujian, the king of Yue, after years of preparation, sent troops to attack Wu after learning that the people of Wu had gone to Loukong, and arrived at the capital of Wu. After the younger brother of Goujian, the king of Yue, was defeated by the Qin and Chu teams in Yida, he could not meet the battle due to the defeat of Helu, and fled to Wu to proclaim himself king (historical records record that Fucha returned to Wu after the defeat of Helu, and proclaimed himself king after seeing Helu's injuries).
Seeing the defeat of the front line and the fire in the atrium, King Lu of Wu led his army to attack the capital of Chu for ten months and returned to Wu to defeat Fucha, who claimed to be the king of Chu, and King Zhao of Chu was able to rebuild Chu with the support of Qin. However, after this war, the state of Chu collapsed, while the state of Wu prospered.