Chapter 212: The Battle of the Waters (I)
Wang He often played with many things when he was a child, such as lighting the miscanthus pole, pretending to smoke like an adult, drawing a watch on his wrist with a ballpoint pen, wearing a frame with a leather wire hoop and pretending to be an intellectual, etc., when he grew up, he didn't learn to smoke, and he didn't like to wear any jewelry on his hands, but the glasses he had been wearing since junior high school, he didn't want to wear them, but myopia did not allow it.
The things that the elders argued about were disorganized, and Wang He's only gain was a task, and the song triggered was "Keep the Roots", which was a song by Tong Ange, and it was the song that was most ordered by the author for the starting point.
Wang He's mission world this time is located in the famous battle of the water.
As soon as you enter the quest world, the system begins to introduce the plot, which is very long:
In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and various forces in the north rose, and the former Qin emperor Fu Jian greatly increased his national strength after appointing the Han Wang Meng as prime minister, annexed the former Yan, Qianliang and other forces, and went south to attack Bashu to unify the north.
Wang Meng died in the eleventh year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty (375 AD), and on his deathbed he said to Fu Jian:
"Although the Jin Dynasty is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is orthodox in China, and it is peaceful from top to bottom. After the death of the minister, His Majesty must not try to destroy the Jin Dynasty. Xianbei and Xiqiang subdued the nobles and thieves are the enemies of our country, and sooner or later they will become a scourge, and they should be gradually eradicated for the benefit of the country. ”
After Wang Meng's death, Fu Jian mourned and wept in the coffin three times, and in accordance with the highest specifications of the Han Dynasty to bury the great Sima general Huo Guang, he ceremoniously buried Wang Meng, and posthumously called Wang Meng as "Wuhou" - just as the Shu Han Dynasty pursued Zhuge Liang as "Zhongwu Hou" (the world referred to as "Wuhou").
After that, the former Qin recuperated for seven years, and the national strength was extremely strong, and Xiangyang, an important strategic place in the north and south, was also in the bag. The strength of the country made Fu Jian forget what Wang Meng said on his deathbed, thinking that he could go south to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty, complete the great cause of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and unify China.
The Battle of Weishui took place in 383 A.D. at the Dongqi River in present-day Shou County, Anhui Province. Before the Battle of Weishui, a series of local wars had been fought between the Former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which was also the fuse of the Battle of Weishui.
From 373 AD, Fu Jian began a series of wars against the land annexation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. First of all, starting from the weakest place of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's military strength - Yizhou and Liangzhou, Wang Tong and Mao of the former Qin were appointed as commanders respectively. The two also lived up to the trust, and easily won Yizhou and Liangzhou, which are now southern Shaanxi and Sichuan.
After the end of the western front, Fu Jian began to plan an offensive in the center, starting with Xiangyang, an important town in Hubei (Jingzhou).
In 378 AD, Fu Jian sent his son Fu Pi to lead 170,000 troops to attack Xiangyang. Xiangyang in Jingzhou has been the hinterland of the Central Plains since ancient times. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was naturally heavily guarded, and the former Qin besieged it for a year before breaking through Xiangyang and capturing the defender Zhu Xu.
After the fall of Xiangyang, from 378 to May 383, the Former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty fought many small-scale wars around Xiangyang, and the two sides won and lost each other, although the Former Qin never broke through Jingzhou, but Xiangyang has been controlled by the Former Qin.
At the same time as attacking Xiangyang, Fu Jian also started the war on the Eastern Front, and the former Qin generals Wei Jian, Mao Dang, and Peng Chao, led 70,000 troops, and captured Xuzhou (Pengcheng), Huaiyin, and Xuyi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty respectively. Then he concentrated his forces to besiege Jiangsu Baoying (San'a) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At this time, the army of the former Qin was only 50 kilometers away from Yangzhou (Jiangling), an important town in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The Eastern Jin Dynasty sent troops to break the siege and counterattack, and regained Xuyi, Huaiyin and other places.
Since then, the war on the Eastern Front has stalemate in the square inch south of Xuzhou and north of Huaishui.
In 382 AD, Fu Jian prepared to personally lead an army of one million to attack the Eastern Jin Dynasty. According to the usual practice, there were naturally two factions within the former Qin: the main battle and the main peace. The main battle factions are Zhu Tong, the secretary and supervisor, and Murong Chui of the Xianbei tribe and Yao Chang of the Qiang tribe who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic. Among them, Zhu Tong once led an army to capture Liangzhou, so he thought that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was vulnerable, while Murong Chui and Yao Chang hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to break away from Fu Jian's rule and establish their respective regimes.
The main and faction is powerful, and Fu Jian's younger brother Fu Rong, the crown prince Fu Hong, the monk Dao'an, Fu Jian's wife Mrs. Zhang, and the deceased prime minister Wang Meng are all the main and faction. But Fu Jian himself is the main battle faction. Therefore, in July of 383 AD, Fu Jian announced that he would personally go south.
Fu Jian divided the route of the southern expedition into four routes, and in early August, 250,000 people led by Fu Rong, the vanguard governor, set out from Xi'an. The western army, led by Yao Chang of the Qiang ethnic group, marched down the Yangtze River from Sichuan. The northern army departed from Hebei, and the northwestern army departed from Gansu. The Chinese army was led by Fu Jian himself, leading 600,000 infantry and 270,000 cavalry, and set off from Xi'an.
The armies of the former Qin were very scattered, with armies in the west, northwest, north, and center, and the battle line was extremely long. In September, the Chinese army led by Fu Jian arrived at Shenqiu (Xiangcheng) in Henan, but at this time only the forward army led by Fu Rong arrived at Zhengyangguan Town (Yingkou) in the northwest of Shou County, the soldiers from Hebei only arrived in Xuzhou, the soldiers from Gansu were even slower, and they had just arrived in Xianyang, while the Western Army led by Yao Chang was slow and did not take active action.
So only Fu Rong's 250,000 troops were thrown into battle at the front. On October 18, Fu Rong first broke through Shou County and captured the defender Xu Yuanxi. Then Liang Cheng was sent to lead 50,000 men to be stationed in Dajian Gou (Luojian or Luohe) to block the Eastern Jin reinforcements coming from the east.
At that time, the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was Xie An. Xie An led 80,000 troops to resist the enemy with his younger brother Xie Xuan as the main commander, and sent Hu Bin to lead 5,000 sailors to march along the Huai River to support Shou County. However, before Hu Bin arrived, Shou County was broken by Fu Rong, so Hu Bin's 5,000 reinforcements were stationed in Shaanshi (next to Yuwang Mountain). Xie Xuan's army, fearful of Liang Cheng's 50,000 horses, set up camp 25 miles away from Da Jian Gou.
At this time, the deployment of the two armies was already very clear, except for Hu Bin's 5,000 naval army to go deep alone, the west of Dajian Gou was controlled by the Former Qin army, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was defended to the east of Da Jian Gou. Just when the two sides were facing each other, Fu Rong captured a secret envoy sent by Hu Bin to ask Xie Xuan for help, Fu Rong thought that the Eastern Jin Dynasty army had run out of ammunition and food, so he had the idea of underestimating the enemy. So he immediately sent someone to report to Fu Jian, and Fu Jian broke away from the large army and only brought 8,000 cavalry to Shou County to fight Fu Rong.
At this time, Fu Jian's thinking of underestimating the enemy became more and more serious, and he even made another stupid move. He sent Zhu Xu, the former defender of Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, to persuade Xie Xuan to surrender. You must know that although Zhu Xu was captured, he was also loyal to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At that time, not only did they hold on to Xiangyang for a year, but Zhu Xu's mother led her maidservants to repair the city wall to block the attack of the former Qin, which shows her loyalty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Fu Jian actually sent him to be a lobbyist, obviously his brain was short-circuited.
When Zhu Xu arrived at Xie Xuan, he naturally revealed the internal situation of Qianqin to Xie Xuan, and also came up with an idea, asking Xie Xuan to take advantage of the fact that Fu Jian's million-strong army had not yet been assembled, and quickly take the initiative to attack, so that the chance of victory would be greater. Xie Xuan felt that it made sense, so he sent Liu Jiaozhi to lead 5,000 troops to attack Liang Cheng's 50,000 people.
The 5,000 people led by Liu Gaozhi were called "Beifu Bing", and they were an army composed of ordinary people who had been exiled from the north to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
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