The former Qin army attacked Liang and Yierzhou, with Yang'an to defend Chengdu, Maodang to defend Hanzhong, Yao Chang to guard Dianjiang, Wang Tong to defend Qiuchi, and the Eastern Jin army retreated to Badong. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Emperor Sima Ji of the Jin Dynasty began to govern pro-government, Xie An was promoted to the post of Zhongshu Supervisor, Lu Shang Shushi, and took charge of the government, and the Xie clan of Chen County became the last axis scholar clan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the same year, Fu Jian unified northern China, and the war between the former Qin and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was approaching, when the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were controlled by the Huan clan, and the lower reaches belonged to the Xie clan.

Guangling lacked good generals to defend, Xie An ignored the opinions of others, and strongly recommended his nephew Xie Xuan to serve as the assassin of Yanzhou, guarding Guangling, and responsible for the military defense of the Jiangbei line in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Xie An was the governor of the military of Yangzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou, and was in charge of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Xie Xuan lived up to his uncle's trust, selected good generals in Guangling, trained elite soldiers, selected Liu Jiaozhi, He Qian and others, and trained a Beifu soldier, the most effective soldier in the whole of China at that time.

In order to enrich the military strength of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, defend the capital Jiankang and counterbalance the resurgence of the Huan clan forces in the upper reaches, and resist the southward advance of the former Qin, Xie An established a new army. The imperial court appointed Xie Xuan as the assassin of Southern Yanzhou, responsible for organizing the new army.

Xie Xuan immediately moved the military administration organs of Southern Yanzhou from Jingkou to Guangling, and overseas Chinese households in Nanxu and Nanyan Prefecture were conscripted into the army one after another. At that time, Pengcheng Liu Gaozhi and several others were bravely elected, Xie Xuan appointed Liu Gaozhi as a member of the army, leading the elite as the vanguard, because the people of the Jin Dynasty called Jingkou Beijing, so at that time people called this army Beifu soldiers. The former Qin generals and Peng Chao's troops attacked Huainan and surrounded San'a, and the Beifu soldiers rescued San'a, winning the first battle, forcing the former Qin soldiers to retreat north.

In the Battle of Weishui, the Beifu soldiers showed great courage and became the backbone of the defeat of the former Qin. The military strength of the Beifu soldiers made it the object of contention among various groups, and the generals of the Beifu also became an important force in the political situation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The Xie family, the gate lord of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, integrated the northern refugees, hooligans, and the elite of the original garrison, and formed an army of Gongwei Jingshi, which was enough to resist the northern cavalry and indirectly obeyed the orders of the gate valve. The Xie family's integration of the Beifu soldiers had a great impact on their own family, the politics of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and even the political situation in China.

Since the integration of the Xie family, the Beifu soldiers have become a veritable elite army, and the famous generals of this army such as Liu Gaozhi and Liu Yu have also become pivotal figures. Since Xie Xuan's integration, the Beifu soldiers have become mercenaries of the gate valve, and the command of the Eastern Jin Dynasty court is ineffective.

Xu and Yan'er Prefecture were originally concentrated in the north, with many strong people and rich combat experience, Huan Wen once said: "Jingkou wine can be drunk, Kei can be used, and soldiers can be used." Xie Xuan recruited vigorously and bravely, Xu and Yan people enlisted in the army, Pengcheng Liu Gaozhi, Donghai He Qian, Langya Zhuge Kan, Le'an Gaoheng, Dongping Liu Rail, Xihe Tianluo, Jinling Sun Wuzhong, etc., all responded with courage.

Xie Xuan joined the army with Liu Gaozhi as the leader, and often led the elite as the striker, and he was invincible in battle and shocked the enemy. Xie Xuan was the assassin of Xuzhou, guarding Jingkou, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty called Jingkou Beifu, so this army was called Beifu soldiers.

This army was established not long ago, and it made many military exploits against the former Qin. The Qin general Peng Chao attacked Pengcheng, and Xie Xuan led Gao Heng and He Qian to relieve the siege of Pengcheng. Later, Peng Chao, together with Ju Nan and Mao Dang, led the Qin army of 60,000 to the south and besieged the Jin Youzhou assassin Shi Tian Luo Yu San'a, and the court was shocked.

Xie Xuan led He Qian, Liu Gaozhi and others to relieve the siege of Tianluo, and successively defeated the Qin army. In the Battle of Weishui, the Beifu soldiers led by Xie Xuan and Liu Jiaozhi played the role of the main force.

After the Battle of Weishui, Xie Xuan lost his leadership of the Beifu soldiers. After that, Sima Yi, the king of Qiao, and Wang Gong, a relative, successively served as the assassins of Qing and Yan'erzhou, and commanded the soldiers of Beifu. Wang Gong raised troops from Jingkou against the Jin Dynasty, and the Beifu soldiers became a tool for internal fire and merger in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The new army formed by Xie Xuan is of extraordinary historical significance, and in the troubled times, the army must be rebuilt, and only by rebuilding the new army can we completely eliminate the accumulated shortcomings of the old army, and can we thoroughly ensure the strict discipline, advanced tactics, and high morale of the new army, and thus ensure a strong combat capability.

The Beifu soldiers are from recruiting displaced people from the north, many of whom have a strong Han blood, and the transformation from civilians to exiles gives them a strong revenge mentality, and the Shi clan gate lords have almost cut off all the opportunities to get ahead. Generally, the Han people want to gain power only by joining the army, coupled with the emperor's sense of crisis, the country is ruined, as long as the Han people have the idea of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, in addition to elite training, it is the will to revenge, and this army cannot not be strong.

After the Beifu Army was commanded by Xie Xuan, under Xie An's planning, as an important strategic force, it gradually had strict and regular training. The weapons of the Beifu army, infantry, cavalry, and chariots, according to different requirements, have knives, squeezes, crossbows, and arrows, and according to its siege tactics, they are also equipped with special engineers, using rushing cars, ladders, etc.

The navy has always been the strength of the southern army, and the tactics used by the navy of the northern army include the most primitive mutual collision and engagement warfare, and the navy also has the function of transporting grain and grass and soldiers to respond to the army when dealing with the north. The Moon Formation uses the naval army as a reserve barrier, using chariots and infantry to form formations, and at the same time using cavalry to attack from a distance.

After the establishment of the Beifu Army, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had formed two strategic defense zones of Jingzhou and Jianghuai in response to the southern invasion of the former Qin. The strategy of the Huanchong Jingzhou Army in the middle and upper reaches was to focus on the south of the Yangtze River and lightly attack the north of the Jiangbei. After the loss of Xiangyang, Huanchong's key defense line retreated from the northern part of Jianghan to the area along the river, and tried to prevent the former Qin army in the north of the Yangtze River from crossing the river to the south, blocking the former Qin naval army from Bashu and Hanshui from eastward to southward, and coordinated with the Beifu soldiers in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, reducing the pressure of the former Qin on the capital Jiankang.

Fu Pi, the general of the former Qin Zhengnan, led 70,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Xiangyang, and Fu Jian sent more than 100,000 people to encircle Xiangyang in three ways, with a total of 170,000 troops. Zhu Xu, the defender of Xiangyang, was captured after defending the city for nearly a year.

The former Qin occupied Fancheng with an army of 100,000 and stormed Xiangyang, and the defenders of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were defeated to the death, and even the women in the city also went to the outpost. In the end, Former Qin snatched a monk, and the battle was over. The former Qin Emperor Fu Jian declared that he had succeeded in the campaign and obtained one and a half men, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty defender Zhu Xu was taken prisoner, leaving only a memorable Lady City.

In order to escape the war, the senior monk Shi Daoan led more than 400 monks from Luhun to Xiangyang and established Tanxi Temple in Xiangyang. In this relatively quiet environment, Shi Dao'an used Confucian culture to annotate Buddhist scriptures, creating the first of the six schools and seven sects.

Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty issued an edict to praise Shi Dao'an, praised Shi Dao'an's desire to live in Taoism, and his achievements were both, and Emperor Jin praised Dao'an, so that he could enjoy the prince's minister's fortune. And the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian also knew Dao'an's reputation, but he couldn't get Dao'an.

More than once, he said to his ministers, "There is a Venerable Buddha Dao'an in Xiangyang, who is hardly a layman, but an artifact, and is there any way to get him to come to me?"

Fu Jian's question has become a hot topic in the minister's center, but no one has come up with a good way. In the end, it was Fu Jian who made up his own mind, the Jin Kingdom regarded me as an enemy, and if he invited him with courtesy, the Jin Kingdom would definitely not allow it. Although force is the last resort, there is only one way.

Fu Jian had made up his mind, and immediately sent the general Fu Pi to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Xiangyang, and it was much more difficult for an army of 100,000 to grab a talent than to occupy a piece of territory. Therefore, before the army left, Fu Jian confessed to Fu Pi: "This battle, revealing and announcing is to seize the fertile land of Xiang, Fan, and Wei, in fact, as long as you can fight for Shi Dao'an." ”

Fu Pi tacitly agreed, and the army quickly trekked to Xiangyang. When he crossed the Yellow River and approached Xinye, Zhu Xu, the Taishou of Xiangyang, found out that Fu Pi was attacking Xiangyang. At this time, Zhu Xu's first thought was to maintain Shi Dao'an, on the one hand, he was preparing for war to meet the enemy, and on the other hand, he sent people to Tanxi Temple to tell Shi Dao'an to break away from Xiangyang.

When Shi Daoan heard this, he carefully calculated, and he thought of using this seemingly escaping opportunity to retreat into advance, scattering his apprentices to the Yangtze River valley to spread the seeds of Buddhism in a wider field. Shi Dao'an called the apprentices in batches, and called Fa Yu, Tan Ji, and Tan Zheng to lead a group of students to Jiangling Changsha Temple; asked Seng Fu, Tan Jie, and Dao Xuan to lead a group of students to Shangming East Temple; and Huiyong led a group of students to Lushan Xilin Temple. When Dao An was planning to cross the Yangtze River south with Huiyuan, Zhu Xu sent troops to control Tanxi Temple.

Originally, Zhu Xu had already heard the inside story of Fu Pi's attack on Xiangyang, and it was completely to compete for Shi Daoan. He felt that it was his duty to defend the land, so he could only defend Xiangyang City, and he didn't feel worried about his own life. At this time, his subordinates offered him a plan and said: "The friendship between Master Rashi and Master An is very good, the Qin soldiers will not harm Master An, and with Master An, the Qin soldiers will not harm Master An." ”

Zhu Xu felt that this made sense, so he sent a team of people to Tanxi Temple to prevent Dao'an from leaving. When the army of Fu Pi approached Fancheng and crossed the river upstream, forcing into the outskirts of the city, Zhu Xu felt that the situation was critical, so he quickly coerced Shi Dao'an and went to the Taishou Yamen in Xiangyang City. In Tanxi Temple, only Dao'an's senior disciple Huiyuan waited to look at the figure of the master in the distance, thinking that this was the Taishou asking the master to be a talisman.

At this moment, a peasant hurriedly ran and said: "The Qin soldiers have arrived at our village, and they will immediately come to Tanxi Temple to rob Master An, and the other mages who resist will be tied up." ”

Huiyuan and his party listened, and quickly packed their luggage and left the Tanxi Temple, they had just walked a small road, and the Qin soldiers had arrived, and there was no one in the huge Tanxi Temple. Fu Pi's troops swept into the air in Tanxi Temple, and it was expected that Shi Dao'an must have been hidden by Zhu Xu into the Taishou Yamen of Xiangyang City. Therefore, the city of Xiangyang was surrounded by wind and rain, and Zhu Xu also mobilized all his troops to defend it.

Zhu Xu's mother Han personally inspected the city wall, and Han found that the Qin soldiers broke through from the northwest corner of the city, so they led more than 100 maids and women in the city to build more than 20 zhang in the corner of the city, and the soldiers and people in the city called this city the city Lady City.

Soon the Qin soldiers openly launched a fierce attack from the northwest corner, and despite the stubborn resistance of the defending generals, the old city wall was still breached by the Qin soldiers. Zhu Xu's generals quickly retreated to Mrs. Han's newly built Lady City to defend it. Because the grain and grass were about to run out, Fu Pi led the troops to attack hard, Zhu Xu defended and unloaded the enemy, and repeatedly broke Qin, Fu Pi repeatedly failed to break through, so he had to retreat to the outskirts of the city.