How did Chu Zhuangwang win the Battle of Thailand?

Chu Zhuangwang has long wanted to seek hegemony in the north. In order to observe the strength of the Zhou royal family and the northern vassal States and understand their attitude towards Chu, in 606 BC, the year before the demise of Ao's family, when they marched eastward to Lu Hunrong (now southwest of Luoyang), they led troops to the suburbs of Luoyi, the capital of Zhou Dynasty.

King Ding Zhou and his ministers were very alarmed, because two years ago, due to the civil strife in Zheng and Song Dynasties, Chu and Jin all sent troops to intervene, and they were in a state of panic. What does ChuJun really want to do this time? Therefore, the king of Zhou sent his minister Wang to comfort the king of Chu, actually for the purpose of observation.

1. Chu Zhuangwang? Win the championship? When the king saw it, he asked the king about its size and weight. At first, Zhou Ding was a very solemn bronze ritual vessel of one god in ancient China and a symbol of kingship. Zhou Wang regards it as the supreme mysterious treasure, and outsiders can't ask casually. Chu Zhuangwang actually asked about the size and weight of Zhou Ding. This? Ask? Word, meaning is very clear, is to ask the power of the king of Zhou, and the power of the king of Zhou can be asked, which is tantamount to denying the supreme traditional concept of hereditary inheritance of the king of Zhou since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and denying Zhou's power to rule the world and control countries.

Chu Zhuangwang's accession to the throne exposed Chu's attempt to rule the world instead of Zhou Shi. Seeing the purpose of the king of Chu, Wang Sunman solemnly replied:? Ruling the world depends on morality, not tripod. Dayu used to be virtuous. Distant tribes and small countries draw rare things in mountains and rivers and present them as images. They also contributed gold (bronze) to the director of Kyushu animal husbandry. In the Xia Dynasty, a tripod was cast with gold, on which images of ghosts and gods and everything were cast, so that people could prepare for famine and guard against evil. Later, Xia Jie was confused, and Ding turned to Yin people; Yin was so worried that Ding moved to Zhou's hand again. The national government is clear, and the tripod is small and immovable; The national government is confused. Although the tripod is big, it will definitely move. In the past, Wang Liding divined that the Zhou Dynasty could be passed down for 30 generations and lasted for 700 years. This is providence! Although Zhou Wang's power has declined a little now, his fate has not changed. No one can ask about Ding. ?

Chu Zhuangwang saw that the King of Zhou had little power, but he was supported by the governors of the Central Plains. Especially those in the state of Jin are still thinking, are they still at war? Respect the king and oppose the foreign countries? The flag has a great influence on the Central Plains countries. To dominate the central plains, we must compete with the state of Jin and beat down the power of the state of Jin. After Chu Zhuangwang made this plan, he left Luoyi with his army.

Second, Chu Zhuangwang conquered Zheng. A few years later, Chu Zhuangwang found a good opportunity to interfere in the internal affairs of the Central Plains countries and compete for hegemony with the State of Jin, and defeated the State of Jin to dominate the Central Plains.

It turned out that the two expeditions to Zheng were due to civil strife in Zheng. When Chen saw Zheng being invaded, he surrendered to Chu. Later, Jin sent troops to save Zheng from cutting Chen, and Chu sent troops to cut Zheng for the third time, forcing Zheng to be conquered. But soon Zheng betrayed Chu and turned to Jin, and later Chen Ye followed suit. Attack Chen again. Chen Ruchu and Zheng are willing to form an alliance with Chu under the threat of repeated attacks by the Chu army. At this time, he was killed by Minister Xia. Take the opportunity to send troops to kill Xia and destroy Chen, in order to change Chen into the county of Chu. Shen Shushi advised him: Wang led the princes to cut it because of Chen's chaos, and he was greedy for his county because of righteous cutting. How can he command the world! ? So the state of Chen was restored, and the princes of the Central Plains heard the news and drank a toast.

At this time, Chu Zhuangwang heard that Zheng Xianggong had joined the State of Jin again and felt that he had to defeat the State of Jin to conquer Zheng. Then, in 597 BC, with the help of Sun Bin, Chu Zhuangwang attacked Zheng with a great army.

Third, after the Taiji War, the army of Chu surrounded Zheng's capital for more than three months and finally broke through it. Zheng surrendered to Chu, and the Chu army withdrew from Zheng's capital. The state of Jin learned that Zheng was besieged and sent Xun as a general to send troops to save Zheng. As a result, after the Battle of Chengdu-Pudong, there was another Jin Chu War? The battle of tai chi.

This time, before the Jin Chu meeting, there was a serious division between the generals of the Jin army. When the Jin army arrived at the Yellow River, it was heard that Zheng had surrendered to Chu, and Xun wanted to return to the army. Another general will agree with this view. However, Gu Xian, who was foolhardy and brave, did not obey orders. He secretly took a group of troops across the Yellow River to pursue the Chu army. Zhao Tong, Zhao Kuo, Zhao and other three generals of the Jin army, relying on the prestige of their ancestors, showed their talents in the battle and left the army to follow Gu Xian to pursue the Chu people.

Xun is too weak to know what to do. Finally, he ordered the three armies of Jin to cross the river together and fight against the Chu army. Chu Zhuangwang accepted Sun Shuai's suggestion, first stood his ground, and proposed making peace with the State of Jin. Xun wanted to make peace, but others provoked Chu army to fight. Unbearable, I stormed the gold under my personal command. Xun Linfu was unprepared and quickly ordered the battle. The two armies scuffled in Zhai (now east of Zhengzhou, Henan). The generals of the Jin army are not United, the command is not unified, and the army has no fighting spirit; The Chu army unites up and down and advances together.

Shortly after the war began, the Jin army retreated. Xun Linfu panicked and ordered it quickly? There is a reward for crossing the Yellow River first! ? As a result, 8 jin j more confusion, scrambling to cross the river. Because there are many people and few boats, people on board want to sail, and people outside the boat desperately hold the boat with their hands. As long as you squeeze in, the general on the ship ordered a knife to cut off your hand. It is said that many fingers were cut off and more people drowned in the river. By the early morning of the next day, after the Jin army crossed the river, it had already suffered more than half of the casualties.

Fourthly, under the influence of the Battle of Tai, the Chu army marched into Tai City. Someone asked the king of Chu to pursue the Jin army, and someone suggested that the bodies of the Jin army be piled up into a hill to celebrate the victory and brag about the martial arts of Chu. Chu Zhuangwang said,? We achieved our goal by force. Overboasting about martial arts will make the world uneasy and fail to achieve the goal of stabilizing the country and establishing achievements! ? So, the body was buried and the army retreated.

Chu won the battle of Mount Tai. Among other things, Chu Zhuangwang is good at adopting reasonable opinions, and the monarch and his subjects are United and have high morale. The failure of the state of Jin is not that their strength is inferior to that of Chu, but the result of discord among generals, inability to cooperate in the war and low morale. At this time, it has been revealed that the Qing clan with real power in the state of Jin is becoming increasingly arrogant and the contradictions between them are intensifying, so the state of Jin lost in this war.

Chu Zhuangwang defeated the State of Jin and gained a great reputation. A few years later, because Song refused to join himself and killed the envoy of Chu, he personally led an army to attack Song in 594 BC and surrounded Song for almost a year. Finally, Dr. Huayuan made peace with Chu, and both sides agreed that Chu would withdraw and Song would join Chu. At that time, except Jin, Qi, Qin, Lu and other countries, almost all countries in the Central Plains regarded Chu Zhuangwang as the Lord of * * *, and many small countries joined Chu. Chu's reputation is even greater.

Chu Zhuangwang's hegemony and Jin Chu's long-term hegemony in the Central Plains have brought great losses to the lives and property of the people in the Central Plains. However, the strength of Chu has played a positive role in the development of the southern region, the economic and cultural exchanges between the Central Plains and the South, and the integration and development of the people of all ethnic groups in the South.