Chapter 492: Unsustainable, life is harder than death
Zhang Xiu said with an ugly face: "How can you abandon the city and flee? Hold on, I have sent people to ask for help. I believe the reinforcements will arrive in a few days. As long as you hold on, I will help you when the time comes.
Waiting for credit!"
The county lieutenant surnamed Dong said with a troubled face: "Prefect, the general also wants to defend Xiangping and achieve a great feat, but Wu soldiers are so numerous that it is really difficult to sustain Xiangping with such a small force!
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Zhang Xiu replied firmly and stubbornly: "I won't listen to this. This Xiangping City must be defended by me. Tomorrow morning, I will go to the city in person to supervise the battle. I swear that this city will live and die together. The city is as long as the people are here, and the city is still alive.
Destroy people!"
Lieutenant Dong Jun was shocked and said: "Prefect, you can't do this. I will guard the city with you. If the city is destroyed, at worst we will surrender and do Goujian to wait for our Wei army to counterattack in the future. Why bother to do this?"
Fearless sacrifice, life at this time is more difficult than death!"
Zhang Xiu said with emotion: "It's true that the governor didn't know what happened to King Gou Jian of Yue, but it's very difficult to endure the humiliation and bear the heavy burden and survive. It's better to die in the city, so as to live up to Governor Du's trust in us!"
Lieutenant Dong clasped his fists again and urged: "Prefect, please think twice!" Dong Shu secretly thought in his heart that if he couldn't do anything, he would force the prefect to surrender. He could not bear such a shame alone.
Wu and Yue were adjacent to each other and had long-standing grievances. In 496 BC, when Gou Jian succeeded to the throne as the monarch of Yue, King Helu of Wu took this opportunity to attack Yue.
Gou Jian sent out warriors who were not afraid of death to deal with it and won. Helu was also shot and wounded.
Soon, Helu died of his injuries. Before his death, he warned his son Fucha not to forget his grudge against Yue.
In the third year of King Gou Jian of Yue (494 BC), King Gou Jian of Yue heard that King Wu Fu Chai was training his army to avenge Yue, so he decided to launch an attack on Wu first.
Fan Li, a senior official of the Yue State, opposed Gou Jian's initiative to launch an attack, but he did not receive Gou Jian's approval.
When King Wu Fu Chai heard about the invasion of Yue, he immediately sent troops to fight, and finally defeated the Yue army at Fujiao (now Mashan, Taihu, Wuxi).
After the defeat, Gou Jian retreated to Kuaiji Mountain (located in today's Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province) with his remaining 5,000 soldiers, and based on Fan Li's suggestion, he sent the official Wen Zhong to seek peace.
However, due to Wu Zixu's remonstrance to Fu Chai, the peace attempt failed for a while.
This made Gou Jian think that peace was difficult to achieve, so he prepared to fight to the death with Wu. At this time, Wen Zhong made a suggestion, believing that Wu's grand prime minister Bo Pi (pi) was greedy and could bribe him to help achieve the purpose of making peace with Wu.
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After that, Wen Zhong's suggestion was successfully implemented, and the State of Yue successfully made peace with the State of Wu.
Fu Chai also pardoned Gou Jian and demarcated the Qiantang River as the border between Wu and Yue. Finally, he stopped his troops and returned home.
After Wu King Fu Chai pardoned Gou Jian, Gou Jian returned to Yue.
When he was in the Yue Kingdom, Gou Jian did not forget the humiliation, worked hard and worked hard to govern. In May of the fifth year of King Gou Jian of Yue (492 BC), Gou Jian asked Wen Zhong to govern the Yue Kingdom on his behalf, and he, Fan Li and Zhe (zhè) Ji went to Wu.
as hostages.
When he arrived in the state of Wu, Fu Cha ordered Gou Jian to raise horses for him and imprisoned him in the palace.
Later, under the influence of Bo Pu, Fu Cha began to pity Gou Jian and believed that Gou Jian was sincerely submitting to him, so he decided to return them to Yue.
After Gou Jian came back from Wu, he was ready to exact revenge on Wu.
The doctor Feng Tong believed that the army should not be prepared for war at that time, otherwise it would cause unrest in the state of Wu. At this time, we should have good relations with the three countries of Qi, Jin, and Chu, and contact these three countries to send troops to attack the state of Wu. Wait until the state of Wu is exhausted.
The Yue Kingdom went to attack it again.
Feng Tong's suggestion was approved by Gou Jian, and the plan to attack Wu was temporarily shelved.
In order to provide Yue with the conditions for revenge, Gou Jian once asked the doctor Ji Ni for advice.
Ji Ni made several suggestions to Gou Jian: first, to develop agricultural production, then to select talents and develop commercial activities, and finally to rely on state power to control grain prices to achieve the effect of "both farmers and farmers".
Gou Jian followed Ji Ni's advice and made Yue become rich and powerful in a short period of time.
In addition, Ji Ni also suggested to Gou Jian that in order to prosper the country of Yue, Gou Jian should focus on selecting and appointing talents.
Gou Jian followed Ji Ni's advice and implemented benevolent policies, which united the people of Yue and gradually gave him the conditions to attack Wu.
Gou Jian once asked Wen Zhong how to successfully attack Wu, and Wen Zhong provided Gou Jian with nine different strategies (also said to be the Seven Techniques for Defeating Wu).
Later, according to Wen Zhong's strategy, Gou Jian sent people to go up the mountain to cut down wood to make railings and decorate them heavily, and then dedicated them to Fu Cha himself.
Fu Chai was very happy about this. Even with Wu Zixu's dissuasion, he still happily accepted the gift. Later, Gou Jian sent Wen Zhong to give the trained beauty to Fu Chai. Wu Zixu tried to dissuade him again, but Fu Chai once again chose to accept it.
Before the official attack on Wu State, Wen Zhong suggested to Gou Jian that he should ask Gou Jian to borrow grain from Fu Chai. If God abandoned Wu State, Fu Chai would definitely agree.
Gou Jian recognized and implemented Wen Zhong's suggestions.
In Wu State, despite Wu Zixu's dissuasion, King Wu Fucha still insisted on lending the grain, which made Gou Jian secretly happy.
In the fifteenth year of King Goujian of Yue (482 BC), Fu Chai went north to Huangchi (located in today's Xinxiang City, Henan Province) to make an alliance with the princes. He was accompanied by Wu's elite troops.
Gou Jian took the opportunity to launch an expedition against Wu.
However, Wu State was unable to resist due to the absence of its elite troops.
When Fu Chai learned the news, he did not dare to do anything because he was in an alliance with the princes. It was not until the Huangchi meeting was over that Fu Chai sent people to send generous gifts to Yue in an attempt to make peace.
Gou Jian believed that it was difficult to completely destroy Wu at this time, so he agreed to make peace.
In the nineteenth year of King Goujian of Yue (478 BC), the State of Yue, under the leadership of Goujian, once again attacked the State of Wu.
The Wu army was unable to resist, and the Vietnamese army defeated the Wu army. King Wu Fucha was also besieged on Mount Gusu (located in today's Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province).
After that, Fu Chai sent his official Gongsun Xiong to go forward on his knees with his upper body exposed, and beg Gou Jian for peace.
Gou Jian couldn't bear it and wanted to agree, but Fan Li dissuaded him.
However, Gou Jian still took pity on Fu Cha and wanted to relocate him to Yongdong (located in present-day Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province) and let him rule one hundred households. Fu Cha refused and chose to commit suicide.
After Fu Chai died, Gou Jian buried him and killed Bo Pi.
At this point, Gou Jian successfully achieved his revenge, and the Wu Kingdom was finally destroyed by the Yue Kingdom.
After Gou Jian destroyed the state of Wu, he led his troops northward and formed an alliance with the princes of Qi, Jin and other countries in Xuzhou (located in today's Shandong Province).
Later, Gou Jian also accepted the title of earl given by the King of Zhou.
When Gou Jian returned to the south of the Yangtze River, he took the initiative to return the land in other countries that Wu had previously occupied. At this time, the power of Yue was strong, and Gou Jian was known as the "Overlord".