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厲公六年,伐鄭,且使苦成叔及欒黶興齊、魯之師。楚恭王帥東夷救鄭。楚半陣,公使擊之。欒書曰:「君使黶也興齊、魯之師,請俟之。」郤至曰:「不可。楚師將退,我擊之,必以勝歸。夫陣不違忌,一間也;夫南夷與楚來而不與陣,二間也;夫楚與鄭陣而不與整,三間也;且其士卒在陣而嘩,四間也;夫眾聞嘩則必懼,五間也。鄭將顧楚,楚將顧夷,莫有斗心,不可失也。」公說。於是敗楚師於鄢陵,欒書是以怨郤至。