The Book of Kings.

Wang Jing (?) ——260), the word Yanwei, a native of Qinghe County, Jizhou, was the minister of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms era.

Wang Jing was a native of Qinghe, Jizhou (now southeast of Qinghe, Hebei), and Xu Yun was both known as a famous man in Jizhou and a peasant. Wang Jing was appreciated by his fellow villager Cui Lin and was promoted to official. At first, when he was appointed as a county warden, his mother said to him, "You are a son of a peasant family, and today you are an official of 2,000 koku, and the matter is too much and unlucky, so you can end it here." ”

The king did not listen.

In the first years, the general Cao Shuang asked Wang Jing to take twenty pieces of cloth and silk and let him go to Wu to do trade.

His mother asked him why he had returned to his hometown, and Wang Jing told him the truth. Wang Jing's mother thought that Wang Jing led the soldiers and horses but left without authorization, and sent him to Yousi, and the staff was punished fifty, and Cao Shuang heard about this incident, and no longer blamed Wang Jing.

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In July of the second year of Zhengyuan (255), the Shu general Jiang Wei decided to take advantage of the new death of the Wei general Sima Shi and his brother Sima Zhao to control the Wei dynasty and the foundation was not stable, and once again attacked Wei. The scale of this invasion was the largest of Jiang Wei's previous Northern Expeditions, with tens of thousands of people, and was commanded by Xiahou Ba, Zhang Yi and others. In August, Jiang Weijun went to Caohan and marched to Didao.

At that time, Wang Jing was newly appointed as the assassin of Yongzhou, and immediately informed his superiors, Chen Tai, the general of Zhengxi, that the Shu army launched an attack from Qishan, Shiying, and Jincheng at the same time, and suggested that the enemy be met from these places.

Wang Jing asked Ying to lead the army to meet the enemy in Shiying, and suggested that the troops should be divided to defend Qishan, and at the same time the Wei army of Liangzhou should be deployed to go to Caohan to reconnoiter the enemy army marching into Jincheng.

Chen Tai believed that the intelligence was unreliable, and it was unlikely that the Shu army would gather such a large army to deal with Wang Jing. But the size of the Shu army was indeed like this, and the Wei garrison was not enough to divide the troops. Once the Wei army in Liangzhou was transferred to fight elsewhere, the territory was unfamiliar, so it could not be used to the fullest.

Chen Tai therefore ordered Wang Jing to enter Tundi Road, avoid meeting the enemy, and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Chen Tai asked Wei Ting for reinforcements, and at the same time personally led the army to Chen Cang.

Wang Jing actually had no military experience, and seriously underestimated the Shu army, mistakenly believing that the Shu army would be tired after a long journey, and it was best not to give it a chance to rest and recuperate, and defeat it preemptively while it was earlier.

Wang Jing ignored Chen Tai's order to stay behind Di Dao, and instead led his army to venture out of the old pass in the upper reaches of the Tao River.

Therefore, it was in the north of present-day Lintao County, Gansu, on the west bank of the Tao River, where Wang Jing planned to annihilate the Shu army, which he believed was demoralized due to fatigue and lack of supplies.

In August, the two armies clashed on the west bank of the Tao River, and the Wei army suffered a crushing defeat: more than 10,000 soldiers drowned in the Tao River when they fled, and most of Wang Jing's army was missing, and tens of thousands of people died. Wang Jing had to lead more than 10,000 remnants to cross the Tao River and retreat to Didao on the south bank, and reorganize under the protection of the city wall. This battle on the west bank of the Tao River (also known as the Battle of Taoxi), also known as the Battle of Guguan,

After the victory in the first battle, the Shu army besieged Didao.

The news of Wang Jing's battle against Jiang Wei was learned by Chen Tai, who immediately accurately foresaw that the Wei army would be defeated, ordered the cavalry to gallop to help, and personally led the infantry to follow. At the same time, he was anxious to Wei Ting and asked for reinforcements. The imperial court sent Deng Ai to help Chen Tai.

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When Chen Tai led his army to Shangqi, reinforcements led by Deng Ai, Hu Fen, and Wang Mi also arrived. They wanted Wang Jing to defend himself and wait for the Shu army to be tired and slack before launching a counterattack. Everyone else agreed with Deng Ai's suggestion, but Chen Tai was against it.

Chen Tai reasoned that Jiang Wei did not have supplies due to logistical problems to deal with the long-term stalemate, and it was advantageous to solve the problem quickly. Once the Shu army ran out of food, its morale could not last. Everyone agreed with Chen Tai's idea.

Chen Tai then divided his troops into three routes, advanced to Longxi, bypassed Jiang Wei's army, and rushed to the high mountain southeast of Didao City that night, and then lit piles of beacon fires, and ordered the soldiers to sound drums and horns in unison. When the soldiers in Didao City saw that the rescue had arrived, their morale was greatly boosted.

Jiang Wei heard that the Wei army had been killed, so the whole army was shocked and panicked.

The Wei army marched to Longxi. Jiang Wei led his troops around the mountain peak to chase and kill, and after a battle between the two armies, Jiang Wei retreated back to the camp in defeat.

At this time, the Wei army in Liangzhou had rushed from Jincheng Pass to Woganhan, and Chen Tai and Wang Jing secretly agreed on a date to plan to attack the passage from which Jiang Wei's soldiers and horses returned.

When Jiang Wei and the others heard the news, they fled in a hurry, and the soldiers in Didao City were finally rescued. Wang Jing sighed, "The food supply is less than ten days, and the direction of the attack is not at the right time, and the whole city is almost destroyed!"

Chen Tai comforted the soldiers on the one hand, dispatched men and horses, sent people to garrison dangerous passes, and stepped up the renovation of the city barriers, and then led his troops back, still stationed in Shangluo.

After the war, Wang Jing, as the cause of the initial defeat and later destruction of the Wei army, was recalled to the capital to be appointed separately, and the post of assassin of Yongzhou was filled by Zhuge Xu, the general of Deng Ai's department.

After Wang Jing returned to Beijing, he successively served as the commander of the school and the monk, and was favored by the Wei Emperor Cao Chao (máo).

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Cao Chao was so angry that he summoned Wang Jing, Wang Shen, and Wang Ye on the sixth night of the fifth month in 260 A.D. (the fifth year of Ganlu), and said to them, "Sima Zhao's ambition is known even to the pedestrians on the road. I cannot sit back and wait for the disgrace of being deposed, and today I will personally go out with you against him. ”

Wang Jing said, "In ancient times, Lu Zhaogong ran away because he couldn't stand the dictatorship of the Ji clan and failed in the crusade, lost the country, and was ridiculed by the people of the world. Now that the power has been in the hands of Sima Zhao for a long time, it is not a day that the court and the ministers of the Quartet have served him regardless of the reason of obedience. Moreover, there is a vacancy in the palace guards, and the troops are very weak, what does Your Majesty rely on? And when you do this, don't you want to get rid of the disease, but make it worse? The scourge is likely to be unpredictable and should be re-examined in detail. ”

At this time, Cao Chao took out the yellow silk edict from his arms and threw it on the ground and said, "This has already been decided, even if you die, what is there to be afraid of, let alone not necessarily die!"

After speaking, he entered the inner palace to tell the Queen Mother.

Wang Shen and Wang Ye ran out to tell Sima Zhao that they wanted to ask Wang Jing to go with them, but Wang Jing didn't go.

Later, Cao Chao was killed by Cheng Ji, who was assigned by Sima Zhao's henchman Jia Chong, and Wang Jing was arrested because he did not report to Sima Zhao.

Wang Jing apologized to his mother and said, "I don't obey my mother, so far!" ”

The mother has no relatives, and the words say: "If you are a son, you will be filial, and if you are a minister, you will be loyal; There is filial piety and loyalty, why not bear my evil! ”

——The above mother-son dialogue was originally quoted from "The World Speaks New Words: Xianyuan"

So Wang Jing and his mother were put to death together. On the day he was killed, the old official Xiang Xiong wept bitterly, and his sorrow touched the people of the entire market.

After Sima Yan usurped Wei Jianjin, he issued an edict saying, "Although the late Shangshu Wang Jing was imprisoned in the criminal law, he deserves to be commended for sticking to his ambitions

No, I often feel pity and give the grandson of the King Jing Langzhong. ”

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History drowned out many details of the King Sutra and his mother. In fact, what we didn't see was that the mother warned her son, saying that you were promoted too quickly, which is not good; The son did not believe his mother's words, and the mother handed her son over to the official house and was beaten; Also, the mother and her son were arrested together, and in the face of death, the mother regarded death as her home and begged for loyalty and justice. Other than that, there's nothing more.

There must be many stories that have been buried by history and are not known to us. Otherwise, celebrities in history can't give their mother and son such a high evaluation:

The great writer Luo Guanzhong said, "At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, he boasted of the sword, and at the end of the Han Dynasty, he saw the King Sutra; True martyrdom is no different, and the determination is clearer. The knots are as heavy as Taihua, and the life is as light as a feather. The reputation of mother and son is there, and they should be tilted with heaven and earth. ”

Cai Dongfan, a famous writer and historian of romance novels, said, "But the king was ordered to see the danger, and he began to admonish, and then resisted the adversity. Why is it so different? The king reported that the lord was willing to die, and Chengji was also punished for killing the king; and so on, the net worth was wiped out, and there was a huge disparity between the smell of the fragrance. ”