Fu Jian was overjoyed when he saw this letter, left the army in Xiangcheng, and led 8,000 light cavalry soldiers to Shouyang. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Fu Jian sent Zhu Xu to the Jin army camp to persuade Xie Shi to surrender. Zhu Xu was originally the Taishou of Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and when he arrived at the Jin camp, not only did he not persuade Xie Shi to surrender, but instead gave Xie Shi a plan and said: "If you wait until all the millions of soldiers of the Qin army have arrived before starting a war, it will be really difficult for the Jin army to be the enemy of the Qin army." Now, taking advantage of the fact that the various troops have not yet been assembled, take this opportunity to quickly attack the Qin army, and if you can defeat the forward troops of the Qin army, you can seize the morale of the Qin army and become an opportunity to break the Qin army. ”

Xie Xuan sent Liu Gaozhi to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to Luojian, and Liang Cheng's troops were waiting across Luojian. Liu Gaozhi crossed the water and launched an attack, broke Liang Cheng's army, and killed Liang Cheng. The Qin army's infantry and cavalry collapsed, scrambling to be the first to flee back to Huaishui, and there were 15,000 soldiers and dead, so Xie Shi's army, advancing by water, approached Huaishui.

Liu Jiaozhi is a famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Beifu soldiers, he was born in Jiangmen, brave and good at fighting, grew up in a martial arts family since childhood, and has been known for his bravery for generations.

Liu Gaozhi's face is purple and red, and his appearance is amazing, enemies are often frightened by his face, but his personality Shen Yi has a lot of plans, and later because of the war, his family fell into the middle. When Xie Xuan guarded Guangling, when Fu Jian's former Qin country was strong, Xie Xuan recruited Jin Yong to form a new army, Xie Xuan took Liu Jiaozhi as the army, and when he fought, Liu Gaozhi led the elite to rush to the front, winning a hundred battles, known as the Beifu soldiers, so that the enemy was afraid. He was deeply valued by Xie Xuan, which was the first turning point in his life, and Liu Gaozhi began his military life from then on.

Liu Gaozhi personally led 5,000 elite soldiers from Beifu to raid the 50,000 former Qin troops stationed in Luojian overnight, and sent troops to cut off the retreat of the Qin army, so that the former Qin army suffered from the enemy and quickly collapsed. Liu Gaozhi's first soldiers were not afraid of the rain of bullets and bullets, and his subordinates completely defeated the troops of the general Liang Cheng, Liang Cheng estimated that he had not woken up that day, and he died in the chaos before he could run.

Fu Jian learned that Luojian was defeated and the Jin soldiers were coming to Shouyang, he was shocked, and immediately climbed to the head of Shouyang with Fu Rong to personally observe the movements of the Jin army on the other side of the river. At that time, it was the middle of winter, and it was a cloudy day, looking from afar, the sky over the river was gray, Fu Jian looked at the city tower, and only saw the camp accounts of the Jin army on the other side of the river arranged neatly, and the Jin soldiers with swords and guns patrolled back and forth, and the lineup was strict and mighty. Looking further away, on the opposite side of Bagong Mountain, I vaguely don't know how many Jin soldiers there are.

In fact, there are no Jin soldiers on Bagong Mountain, but Fu Jian is dazzled and regards the grass and trees on Bagong Mountain as Jin soldiers. With a gust of northwest wind whistling by, the grass and trees on the mountain shook like countless soldiers in motion. Fu Jian's face suddenly turned like earth, and he turned back to Fu Rong in horror and said, "The Jin soldiers are a strong enemy, how can they be said to be weak soldiers?"

The Qin army was deployed close to the west bank of the river, and the Jin army entered the east bank of the river and confronted the Qin army across the water. Xie Xuan sent someone to Fu Rong and said: "Your army is deep, and the formation is approaching the river, this formation wants to fight a protracted battle, not a decisive battle as soon as possible. Wouldn't it be wonderful if your troops could move back a little, so that our Jin troops could cross the river and make the two armies fight a decisive battle. ”

The generals of the former Qin all said: "I have many enemies and few enemies, and we must not retreat at this time, so this is the best plan." ”

Fu Jian said: "But we can lure the enemy soldiers to come and retreat a little, and when they are halfway across the river, our iron cavalry will take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack, and we will definitely be victorious." Fu Rong agrees with the idea.

Fu Rong commanded the army to retreat slightly, but as soon as the army retreated, it would not be able to contain it. Xie Xuan led the Jin army across the water and rushed over. Fu Rong wanted to stop the retreating soldiers, but he didn't expect the mount to fall, and Fu Rong died under the hooves of the rebels.

Zhu Xu sent someone to take the opportunity to shout loudly behind the battle: "The Qin army has been defeated!"

As soon as Fu Rong died, the Qin army was already flustered enough, and when he heard that the Qin army had lost the battle, the defeat was out of control. The Jin army pursued and killed from behind, and chased more than 30 miles. The Qin soldiers fled and scattered, trampling each other and throwing themselves into the water to kill an incalculable number of people, and the water could not flow because of the corpses. The other soldiers discarded their armor and fled overnight, and when they heard the sound of the wind and cranes, they thought that the Jin army was chasing them, and they slept in the open, and they died of hunger and cold.

The Jin army regained Shouyang, Fu Jian was wounded by a stray arrow, and only led a few people back to Huaibei.

At the beginning of the decisive battle between Qin and Jin, the Former Qin army built fortifications on the north bank of the river, and Xie Xuan sent someone to convey the message to Fu Rong, the front-line commander of the Former Qin, that he hoped that the Former Qin army would allow the Jin army to cross the river and the two sides would fight a decisive battle. Fu Rong reported the request of the Jin army to Fu Jian, who was a soldier and believed that the Jin army's request to cross the river was simply an act of self-destruction, and that the Former Qin army could inflict a devastating blow on the Jin army when they could not take care of each other when they crossed the river, so Fu Jian agreed to the request of the Jin army and ordered the Former Qin army to retreat some distance and make way for the Jin army to cross the river.

Fu Jian's military thinking was absolutely correct, but something unexpected happened. After the order to retreat was issued, the composition of the Former Qin army was complicated due to the fact that the personnel came from different ethnic groups, which led to the lack of unity of the army and the inability to coordinate and command, resulting in great chaos.

Because the number of Former Qin's troops was too large, once chaos broke out, it would be as unstoppable as a landslide and tsunami. What's even more terrifying is that most of the main forces of the Qin army are composed of the Xianbei and Qiang people, who were once hostile ethnic groups, because Fu Jian's ethnic assimilation policy has not had an effect because of the short time, so in the minds of these foreign people, they still regard the Di people as enemies, and they have no intention of serving the former Qin.

Fu Jian and his brother Fu Rong are both outstanding military commanders, but it is a pity that the composition of the former Qin army is too complicated, there are too many unstable factors in it, and this army is not brought out by Fu Jian or Fu Rong himself, and there is a lack of a habitual subordinate relationship between the superiors and subordinates, and they cannot end this chaotic situation at all, so the chaos of the former Qin army became a foregone conclusion.

Xie Xuan, the chief general of the Eastern Jin army, was a generation of generals, who quickly commanded the army to cross the river when the Qin army was in turmoil, and launched a lightning attack on the former Qin army, and the Qin army was defeated. Fu Rong personally went out to sweep the battle, in a vain attempt to contain the defeat of the Qin army. Unfortunately, Fu Rong's mount was frightened in the chaos and fell down, and Fu Rong, a generation of fierce generals with brilliant military achievements, was trampled to death by the chaos army. The death of the front-line commander of the former Qin army hastened the defeat of the Qin army.

It was also at this time that Zhu Xu, who was still in the camp of the Qin army, led his cronies to shout loudly in the Qin army that Fu Jian had been defeated, which further disintegrated the fighting spirit of the former Qin army and made the Qin army retreat more quickly. Fu Jian himself was also hit by a flying arrow in the chaos, and he had no choice but to retreat. The final result of the Battle of Weishui was a crushing defeat for the Former Qin and a victory for the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The Eastern Jin Dynasty could not find any reason for its victory, whether it was in politics or military, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was already extremely corrupt. Politically, everyone who supported the Eastern Jin Dynasty had shown signs of decay, and the military side of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was even weaker, except for a Beifu army brought out by Xie Xuan, the Eastern Jin Dynasty basically had no decent military strength.

The Former Qin army was not actually defeated by the Jin army, they were defeated by Fu Jian's order to retreat, and the Battle of Weishui was not a real war. Strictly speaking, the Qin army was not defeated, but retreated, but the impact of this war far exceeded the war itself, and the chain reaction it caused was once again the fragmentation of the originally unified northern China.

The Battle of Weishui was actually only a defeat for the vanguard of the powerful Former Qin Empire, and it did not cause any major loss of national strength. However, the problem was that Fu Jian's pre-Qin empire was too complicated internally, resulting in this huge empire being like a giant building built on independent wooden stakes, and the slightest shock would cause it to collapse.

The founders of the former Qin were the Di people, who were originally a small people, and Fu Jian scattered these Di people, who were already inferior in numbers, throughout the country, making it impossible for him to gather the backbone of these empires for a period of time.

However, due to the short period of establishment and the short implementation time of the ethnic assimilation policy, Fu Jian's former Qin did not effectively integrate the former hostile ethnic groups of Xianbei and Qiang, and the result was that these hostile ethnic groups were still full of hostility and resentment towards the former Qin. What is even more terrifying is that there are many nobles in the Xianbei and Qiang ethnic groups who held important positions in the former Qin regime, and even held military power, and they never gave up their ambition to re-establish the country.

Fu Jian's defeat at the Battle of Weishui weakened the power of the Former Qin Central Committee for a period of time, and Fu Jian was unable to quickly gather strong enough forces to maintain the authority of the Central Committee, which made the Former Qin Central Committee lose control over the whole country for a period of time, and this just gave the former Qin a group of foreign careerists with heavy troops to realize their ambitions.

The first to challenge Fu Jian was once the first general of Xianbei, the former Yan Wu King Murong Chui, who was accepted and treated favorably by Fu Jian to explain to everyone what it means to be ungrateful. Murong Chui asked Fu Jian to inspect the area north of the Yellow River to deter rebellion, and Fu Jian was very grateful to him at that time and agreed to his request. As a result, as soon as Murong Chui crossed the Yellow River, the mercenaries stood on their own, and called on the Xianbei people to rebuild the Yan Kingdom, which was known as the Later Yan Empire in history.

A large number of Xianbei people in Guanzhong, who were destroyed by Fu Jian, established the Western Yan Empire under the leadership of Murong Hong, another prince of the Xianbei Murong clan. Yao Chang, the Qiang general under Fu Jian, united with several powerful nobles within the Qiang tribe to establish the Later Qin Empire in the Guanzhong region. As soon as Fu Jian's defeated army withdrew to Chang'an, it fell into a wave of rebellion.

Fu Jian has all the qualities of a great man, he has a big mind and a supreme wisdom. A great hero like Fu Jian could not be defeated by any enemy, and his defeat stemmed from a decision he made himself, that is, he did not listen to Wang Meng's dying advice, did not beware of the Qiang and Xianbei, and easily launched a war against Jin, only to ignite the fuse that destroyed him.