This war was prepared for six years, under the harassment of successive attacks, the powerful enemy country was already exhausted, and the two commanders who commanded the war had a discord, destroyed the established strategic plan, and finally was eroded to the deathbed, if it were not for Shen Baoxu crying to the Qin State for help, the Chinese territory of the Warring States Period would probably lack the name of an important country.
This country is the state of Chu, which has the vast land of Jing Chu, and it is the state of Wu that is located in the south of the Yangtze River today. Although Wu was not included in the list of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, in the earlier sixth century BC, Wu was definitely the leader of many vassal states.
Recuperate and postpone the war.
King Wu took advantage of the gap in the expedition of the king of Wu to send someone to assassinate and seize the throne. At this time, Wu Zixu, who had a deep hatred for the Chu State, happened to escape to the Wu State and was reused by the Emperor.
Three years after He Lu succeeded to the throne, he wanted to raise a large army and fight a full-scale war against Chu. Originally, the state of Chu was the initiator of the murder of his father Wu Hao for Wu Zixu, and Wu Zixu dreamed that Wu Wang Lu could swing his army south, level the land of Chu, and break the body of the king of Chu to pieces.
But at that time, Wu Zixu temporarily suppressed his personal emotions, and with the strategic vision of a military strategist, he advised Lu that this should be the time for Wu to recuperate, and it is not yet time to attack Chu in a big way, please bear with me for the time being.
From 512 BC to 507 BC, Wu carried out a six-year "small fight" against Chu, and successively invaded the Chu lands many times, so that Chu repeatedly tossed and rushed between battle and defense, and spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
At the beginning of spring in 506 BC, the Jin State summoned eighteen vassal states to form an alliance to defeat Chu. In the winter of the same year, Wu Wang Lu thought that the time had come, and when he would wait for him without a fight!
Abandon the boat and choose the road and launch a surprise attack.
He Lu personally took command, and with the help of Wu Zixu and Sun Wu, two wise men on the left and right, he appointed his brother-in-law as the vanguard, led 30,000 soldiers, advanced by land and water, and set off violently towards the Cai State that was being invaded by the Chu State.
At that time, the state of Chu ordered Yin Nangwa Zhi to be very talented, and when he saw that the Wu army was murderous, he gave up the invasion of Cai because he was afraid, returned to the state of Chu, and strengthened his defense.
After Sun Wu led a group of soldiers to arrive in Huaiwei by boat, he suddenly decided to change his strategy, ordered all the soldiers to abandon the boat and land on the shore, and after passing the three passes, they arrived near the Han River.
The military report that the Wu army had arrived in Hanshui was immediately reported to the king of Chu, and the king of Chu was shocked and shouted what is good? Hurriedly summoned Ling Yin Nangwa, Zuo Sima Shen Yinxu, and Doctor Shi Huang to come and discuss countermeasures.
Shen Yinxu gave a good strategy that could best resolve the crisis: let the main force of Nangwa Shuai set up an ambush in the west of Hanshui, and he went around to the flank of the Wu army located in the upper city.
At first, Nangwa was very much in favor of Shen Yinxu's clever plan, but when Shen Yinxu implemented the plan as agreed, Nangwa was under the influence of two subordinates, for fear that Shen Yinxu would steal the merit, so he actually arrived in Hanshui first and started an attack on the Wu army.
Feign a rout and lure the enemy deeper.
In the face of Nangwa's fierce offensive, the Wu army not only did not fight back head-on, but took the initiative to retreat to the east of the Han River.
As a result, they chased to the lofty mountains near Dabie (the name of the mountain), and by virtue of the mountain situation, the Wu army that was waiting for work at ease flocked out at this moment, and won three battles and three victories, and the Chu army led by Nangwa was beaten to the ground, and it was embarrassed.
At first, the arrogant sac tile was like a deflated ball, and suddenly had the heart to escape. The soldiers under him have complaints, blaming Nangwa for being powerful in peacetime, and wanting to be a deserter in the face of adversity, is this what a boss should be?
Nanwa was so ashamed that he had to reluctantly fight. It entered a stalemate with the Wu army.
On the eighteenth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, the two armies of Wu and Chu opened their positions in the Bai army, and the brother-in-law of King Wu said to his brother Lu: Nangwa has no prestige in the Chu army, but is a villain who can only play with power and flattery, and there are few people in the Chu army who are willing to die for him.
He Lu did not adopt his younger brother's opinion, but the husband insisted on his own opinion, went against his brother's will, and personally led 5,000 Wu soldiers to break into the Chu army camp, killing the Chu army by surprise. Seeing that his younger brother's plan worked, he immediately ordered the main force to launch an attack on the Chu army, which injured the vitality of the Chu army in one fell swoop, and the Chu general Shi Huang was killed, and Nangwa also fled to Zheng in embarrassment.
The Wu army took advantage of the victory to pursue the remnants of the Chu army, and surrounded the Chu regiment that was burying the pot and cooking at a place called Yongxi on the other side of the Han River.
At the same time, Sun Wu also surrounded Shen Yin's army, and Shen Yinshu, who was stubbornly resisting, rushed from left to right, and after tossing for three days and three nights, he knew that the general trend had gone and there was no hope of survival, so he cut off his head and ordered someone to hand it over to the king of Chu, in order to express his loyalty to the state of Chu.
At this time, Yingdu was already gloomy and bleak, crumbling, after learning that the five-way army of Wu was approaching Yingdu, Xiong Zhen, the king of Chu Zhao, ignored the opposition of his subordinates, and took his cronies out of Yingdu and fled westward.
The news of the king of Chu's westward flight reached the front line, which made the Chu soldiers who had no intention of fighting even more discouraged, and they dispersed one after another.
On November 29, 506 B.C., the Wu army captured Yingdu and slaughtered civilians on a large scale.
Zixu whipped the corpse, and Bao Xu saved Chu.
After the Wu army entered Yingdu, Wu Zixu remembered the revenge of King Chu Zhao for killing his father, so he searched for the tomb of King Chu Zhao in the city.
As a result, the tomb of King Chu Zhao was not found, but King Chu Ping appeared in front of Wu Zixu, and he immediately ordered someone to dig up the tomb of King Chu Ping, exposed his body to the blue sky and white sun, and whipped him three hundred times with a leather whip before he could relieve his anger.
As Wu Zixu's friend, Shen Baoxu, after hearing such a ridiculous and cruel act of Zixu's whipping corpse, sent someone to blame Wu Zixu, saying that he was once a courtier of King Chuping, and the courtiers treated the monarch so cruelly, is it too contrary to heavenly principles? After Wu Zixu heard this, he ridiculed each other, saying that he was like a person in a hurry, the sun was about to set, and the road was still far away, so he had to go against the grain!
The fall of the state of Chu was already in jeopardy, and Shen Baoxu, as a loyal minister of the state of Chu, made a move diametrically opposed to Wu Zixu, he personally ran to the state of Qin, and asked the Duke of Qin for help, hoping that the state of Qin could send troops to save the state of Chu.
At first, the Duke of Qin did not agree, so Shen Baoxu sat on the main hall of the Duke of Qin, wept bitterly, and cried for seven days and seven nights, and finally moved the Duke of Qin and promised him to give him 500 military vehicles to save the Chu State, and the Chu State was able to recover the country.
Epilogue. With the help of the Qin State, although the Chu State was lucky to recover the country, its vitality was greatly damaged and collapsed.
Summing up the success or failure of the Battle of Baiju, the reason why the Chu State ended in a fiasco is that there is a problem with the core person who determines the direction of the war, if it is not for the stupidity and selfishness of Nangwa, jealousy of the virtuous and jealous, and the fear of comrades-in-arms competing for credit, how could the originally powerful Chu State be led to such an unbearable situation.
Because of his own incompetence, after the defeat, he fled because of fear in his heart, and ignored thousands of soldiers, which was really selfish, so his position in the hearts of the soldiers of Chu State was so unbearable, you can imagine. Even later, after the Wu army entered the capital, the Chu army was separated from Germany and had no fighting spirit.
How can such an army be invincible?
In order to avenge his father, Wu Zixu took out his anger on a deceased, which was really contrary to morality and cruelty, so he was finally sent to death by Wu Wangfu, which was also karma.
His friend Shen Baoxu was affectionate and righteous, and at the life-and-death juncture when the Chu State was facing its demise, he was able to stand up and go to Qin alone, and moved the King of Qin with bitter tears for seven days and seven nights, so in exchange for the revival of the Chu State, he was really a rare benevolent and righteous man!