The Six Roads of the Jin State were cut down by Wu

In November 279 AD, Sima Yan adopted the plan prepared by Yanghu before his death, sent 200,000 troops, and attacked Wu in six ways: 1. Sima Bo, the general of the Zhenjun army and the evil king of Lang, marched from Xiapi County (now south of Pizhou, Jiangsu) to Tuzhong (now the Yellow River Valley of Chuzhou, Anhui); 2. Anton's general Wang Hun marched from Yangzhou (the seat of state governance in present-day Shou County, Anhui) to Jiangxi (in the direction of present-day Hexian County, Anhui) from the Hengjiang Ferry; 3. Jianwei's general Wang Rong marched from Yuzhou (southeast of present-day Xuchang, Henan) to Wuchang (present-day Ezhou, Hubei); Four. Hu Fen, a general of Pingnan, marched from Jingzhou to Xiakou (present-day Wuhan, Hubei Province, and Wuchang); Five. The general of Zhennan, Du Pre, marched to Jiangling from the direction of Xiangyang (now Hubei), and later went south to the south of the Yangtze River and Xiangjiang River, and reached Beijing and Guangzhou; Six. Wang Jun, the general of Longxiang, and Tang Bin, the general of Guangwu and the supervisor of Badong (the county was governed in Chongqing), went down from Bashu to the east of the river and went straight to Jianye. appointed Taiwei Jia Chong as the governor of the capital, and the champion general Yang Ji as the deputy, led the Chinese army to garrison Xiangyang and dispatched various armies; The Chinese book ordered Zhang Hua to support the book and plan the grain transportation. The general operation thought this: appoint Sima Xian and Wang Hun to directly approach Jianye, contain the main force of the Hao army, and make him unable to increase aid upstream; The armies of Wang Rong, Hu Fen, and Du Pre were appointed to seize the strategic key points west of Xiakou in response to the 17,000 land and water army led by Wang Jun down the river; Then from Wang Jun, Sima Xian, and Wang Hun's army went south and eastward to seize Jianye. Such an arrangement was in line with the actual situation at that time, through the Wu State still had more than 200,000 troops, in terms of relative military strength, the Jin army's southward strength did not have much advantage, but the Wu army's forces were scattered along the Yangtze River and south of the Yangtze River, and the Jin army had to be defeated by several ways in order to quickly destroy Wu.

Wang Hun approached the Yangtze River

A.D. 280 (the first month of the first year of Taikang). , more than 100,000 troops led by Andong general Wang Hun marched in the direction of Hengjiang (now southeast of Hexian County, Anhui), and sent out to join the army, Chen Shen and others led their troops to disperse their forces to attack Xunyang (now northeast of Wuxue, Hubei). Li Chun, the general who eliminated Wu, led his army to Gaojiacheng (now southwest of Jiangpu, Jiangsu) to attack the Wu army Yu Gong. On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Li Chun occupied Gaowangcheng, defeated Yu Gong's army, pushed to the east of the Hengjiang River, and seized the favorable crossing field for crossing the river. At the same time, Chen Shenjun, who joined the army, captured Yangse Township and defeated Wuya's goalkeeper Kong Zhong and others. Wu Liwu's general Chen Dai, Pinglu's general Zhu Ming and others led their troops to surrender to the Jin army.

The Jin army pacified Jingzhou

In the first month of the sixth year of the Jin Dynasty (280, the fourth year of Wu Tianji), Du Pre led an army to surround Jiangling (now Jingzhou City, Hubei Province), and sent troops Fan Xian, Yin Lin, Deng Gui, Xiangyang Taishou Zhou Qi and others to lead the army along the west of the Jiangxi River, and successively conquered the control points of the Wu army, clearing obstacles for Wang Jun's army to advance eastward. At the same time, he also sent Yamen generals to manage Ding, Zhou Zhi, Wu Chao and others to lead 800 cavalry, crossed the Yangtze River at night, deliberately set more flags, and set fire to Bashan, disguised as a large number of people, and constantly attacked the important places of Wu's army, and successfully attacked Wu's army psychologically. In a letter to Wu Yan, the governor of Wule Township, Sun Xin, said that "the armies from the north flew across the river." ”。

On the other hand, the armies of Wang Jun and Tang Bin were blocked by Wu Yan, the general of Wu, and had no way to conquer Jianping City (present-day Zigui County, Hubei Province). , and finally decided to bypass Jianping and continue eastward, and on the first day of the second month of February, he conquered Danyang County (now the east of Zigui County, Hubei Province), and killed the guard general Sheng Ji. In order to destroy the iron lock and iron cone used by Wuyan to block the river road, Wang Jun deliberately built dozens of large rafts with a length and width of more than 100 steps, and tied many straw men on the rafts, and selected soldiers with good water ability to take the raft to open the way. Once the iron cone in the water encounters the raft, it is pulled out and taken away. Wang Jun built a lot of torches that were more than ten zhang long and dozens of thick and surrounded, poured sesame oil, put them on the boat, lit the torch when they encountered the iron lock, burned the iron chains, and after breaking through the gorge, Wang Jun and Tang Bin conquered Xiling (now Yichang City, Hubei Province) on the third day of the second month, killed the guards Liuxian, Cheng Xuan, and Zheng Guang, and then on the fifth day of the second month, conquered Jingmen (now southeast of Yichang City, Hubei Province), Yidao (now Yidu, Hubei Province), and killed the guards Yu Zhong and Lu Yan. Sun Xin, the governor of Wule Township, led an army to meet the attack, but was defeated by Wang Jun and Tang Bin's army, and Du Pre-ordinate Zhou Zhi and Wu Chao took the opportunity to mix with the retreating Wu army and captured Sun Xin alive. On the eighth day of the second lunar month, after Wang Jun and Tang Binjun conquered Lexiang (now east of Songzi County, Hubei Province), they killed Wu general Lu Jing, and Wu Huxi general Shi Hong asked for surrender. Wu Yan, the defender of Wujiangling, attempted to feign surrender in order to attack Du Pre, but Du Pre saw through it and sent an army to attack Jiangling (present-day Jingzhou City, Hubei Province), breaking the city on February 17. At this time, Hu Fen's army attacked and occupied another important control point around Jiangling (present-day Jiang'an Gong'an County, Hubei Province). At this point, the Jiangling section of the Wu army was completely lost.

This is before, when Wang Jun captured Xiling, Du Pre wrote to him, telling Wang Jun that he might not necessarily accept his own dispatch, and let him directly take Jianye and achieve unprecedented success. Wang Jun was very happy when he saw the letter, and put Du Pre's letter on the table to Sima Yan. On February 18, Sima Yan issued an edict to promote Wang Jun to the rank of Governor Yi and the military of Liang Erzhou to show his appreciation, and ordered Wang Jun and Tang Bin to continue to attack Xiabaqiu (now Yueyang City, Hunan Province) to the east, and cooperate with Hu Fen and Wang Rong to conquer Xiakou (present-day Wuhan, Hubei Province) and Wuchang (present-day Ezhou City, Hubei Province). After the completion of the tasks of Hu Fen and Wang Rong, 7,000 and 6,000 men were allocated to Wang Jun and Tang Bin, and Jia Chong, the governor of the big city, moved to Xiangcheng (now Shenqiu County, Henan Province). After that, Du pre-held the edict to the south, and the counties of Jingnan in Wu Kingdom looked at the wind and declined. Du pre-general Haojun soldiers were promoted to Jiangbei, and set up chiefs in the southern counties to manage them, Jingzhou soon restored order, and the Wu people came to join them. Wang Jun and Tang Bin's troops cooperated with Hu Fen and Wang Rong's troops to win Xiakou and Wuchang in succession, and Wu's army had no strength to resist, and Wu's guards Yang Yong, Sun Shu, Liu Lang and others surrendered to Wang Rong's troops, and he later surrendered to Wang Rong in the two counties of Xianchun (now southwest of Qichun County, Hubei Province) and Yi County (now north of Huanggang City, Hubei Province) of Meng Tai and others, who were adjacent to Wuchang.

The 30,000 troops of Wu crossed the Yangtze River to meet the battle

In February, Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, learned that Liu Hun, the king of Jin, was leading a large army south, and immediately ordered Prime Minister Zhang Yi to lead Shen Ying, the protector of Danyang County (located in present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), the protector Sun Zhen, and the deputy military division Zhuge Liang to lead an army of 30,000 to cross the river to meet the battle, so as to prevent the Jin army from crossing the river. Zhang Yi marched to Niuzhu Mountain (now the north quarry of Dangtu County, Anhui), and Shen Ying analyzed the situation of the Jin army coming to attack him: "The Jin army has been in Shu for a long time, and now the whole country is mobilized, and all the troops of Yizhou must cross the river and go down." The armies in the upper reaches of our country are defenseless, the famous generals are dead, and the young are guaranteed, I am afraid that the cities on the border rivers will be completely unable to resist. The water army of the Jin Kingdom must come here! According to this, Shen Ying suggested that the forces should be concentrated on quarrying, waiting for the Jin army to come to a decisive battle, if the Jin army can be defeated, the Jin army can be prevented from crossing the river, and the lost territory can also be recaptured upward. If you cross the river to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army, and unfortunately fail, you must go. But Zhang Yi believed that the state of Wu was about to perish. People have already seen it clearly, and they don't know it today. In this way, as soon as the Jin soldiers arrive, everyone will be afraid in their hearts, and it will be difficult to use the army to fight again. Taking advantage of the fact that the Jin army has not yet arrived, cross the Yangtze River and fight a decisive battle with it, perhaps there is still hope for victory. If you are defeated and die, you will die without regrets if you sacrifice for the country. If I can defeat the enemy in the north and flee, our army will be greatly shocked, and then we will be able to defeat the enemy by going south to meet the enemy coming from the west. If you follow your plan and sit and wait for the enemy to come, you are afraid that the troops will have fled long ago. Here, Zhang Yi decided to lead his army across the Yangtze River to meet the Jin army. [9] At the beginning of March, after Zhang Yi's army crossed the river, he was arriving at Yanghe (now Hexian County, Anhui) by Zhang Qiao, the commander of Wang Hun's army, with 7,000 soldiers and horses. Zhuge Liang, the deputy military division, believed that Zhang Qiao had made a false surrender to delay the army, delaying time, waiting for backup, and we rushed to annihilate it. But Zhang Yi advocated giving up on him. , by being in front of a strong enemy, not because of a weak enemy. So after accepting Zhang Qiao's surrender, he led the army to continue to advance, and then faced Sima Sun Chou of Wang Tuguhun Monarch's forces and Zhou Junjun's army of Yangzhou Thorn History. Sun Jingying, the general of Wu, first led 5,000 elite troops to attack the Jin army, but the three attacks were ineffective, and the Jin army killed the second general and had to retreat the army. The Jin army took advantage of the chaos of the retreating army of the Wu army, and pursued the army with generals Xue Sheng and Jiang Ban, and the Wu army was defeated. At this time, Qiao Jun, who pretended to surrender, came from behind again, and the Wu army was defeated and fled. Zhuge Liang saw that the general trend had gone, and collected hundreds of remnants and fled back to Jiangnan. Zhang Yi refused to flee, and fought hard with Shen Ying and Sun Zhen to die, Wu army of more than 30,000 people, was beheaded nearly 8,000 people, the rest of the people fled, and the Jin army then victoriously advanced to the river. At this time, Yangzhou Don't drive He Yun to Yangzhou Assassin Shi Zhou Jun suggested: "Zhang Yi led 30,000 elite soldiers of Wu State, annihilated by me, Wu State was shocked, now Longxiang General Wang Jun has captured Wuchang, take advantage of the victory to the east, invincible, Wu has been in a state of collapse, I immediately waved the army across the Yangtze River, straight to Jianye, the army suddenly came, will be able to force the surrender of Eastern Wu without a fight." But when Wang Hun heard this suggestion, he thought that it was the Jin Emperor and ordered him to send troops to Jiangbei to fight against the Wu army, and if he crossed the Yangtze River, he would be disobeying the king's orders, and even if he won the battle, it would be difficult to get a reward; But if you fail, you will be guilty of a felony. Here, Wang Hun insisted on following the original order, waiting for the arrival of Wang Jun's army on the spot, and then uniformly controlled the army of Wang Jun and others to cross the river and fight. He Yun once again suggested to Wang Hun that as a general, when he saw the opportunity, there was no reason to wait for the edict. Wang Hun still did not listen.

The Jin army approached Jianye

The army led by Sima Bo, the evil king of Lang, quickly advanced to the road since the first month, and ordered Liu Hong, the evil minister of Lang, to lead the army to the Yangtze River and confront Jianye across the river to contain the Hao army; At the same time, he sent Changshi Wang Heng to lead the army across the Yangtze River and directly attack Jianye. Wang's army progressed smoothly, defeating the defenders of Wu along the river, destroying 60,000 Wu troops and capturing Cai Ji, the governor of Wu. Behind the victory of Wang Jun's army in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, he swung his army down the river and reached Niuzhu on March 14. When it was fifty miles southwest of Jianye, Sun Haocai, the lord of Wu, sent the guerrilla general Zhang Xiang to lead a naval army of 10,000 to meet it; However, the Wu army had become a frightened bird at this time, and Zhang Xiang's troops surrendered without a fight as soon as they saw the banner of the Jin army. Wang Jun's army spread all over the Yangtze River, and the banner reflected the sky, and the momentum was very grand, and it continued to advance.

Originally, the general Tao sent by the lord of Wu to Jiaozhi to conquer Guo Ma, when he arrived in Wuchang, he heard the news of the Jin army's large-scale attack, so he stopped going to Jiaozhi and returned to Jianye. As a result, the 20,000 troops were scattered the night before they were dispatched.

Sun Hao surrendered

At this time, Wang Hun, Wang Jun and Sima Xian and other armies had approached the north bank of the Yangtze River in Jianye, Kyoto, and Wu Situ and Jianwei General Sun Yan handed over the seal letter and surrendered in front of Wang Hun's army. Seeing that his internal disintegration had been disintegrated, Sun Hao, the lord of Wu, adopted the countermeasures of Guangluxun Xue Ying, Zhongshu Ling Hu Chong and others, and sent messengers to Wang Hun, Wang Jun, and Sima Xian respectively, asking for surrender, in an attempt to instigate the three to compete with each other for merit and cause a split within the Jin army. The messenger first sent the seal to Sima Xian. When Wang Jun came to Sanshan (southwest of present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu) on March 15, Wang Hun sent an envoy to order him to stop the march. When the sun came, Wang Jun commanded 80,000 troops on land and water, and when the ship was 100 miles, he entered Jianye. Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, Sun Hao, tied his hands behind his back, pulled the coffin, and went to Wang Junjunmen to surrender. At this point, the Jin army successively conquered the four prefectures and forty-three counties of Shuwu, surrendered the Wu army of 230,000, and the Eastern Wu regime was declared extinct, and the situation of the long-term division of the three countries also ended.

When the news of the victory came, Sima Yan held the cup and cried and said: "The effect of this sheep Taifu, it's a pity that he didn't see it with his own eyes!" When Sun Xiu, a hussar general who did not participate in combat operations, retired from the court, he went south and cried: "In the past, I crusaded against the rebellious young and used a lieutenant to establish a foundation; Now Sun Hao has given up the whole Jiangnan! O heavenly god from afar, what kind of person is this! ”

Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty gave Sun Hao the title of Marquis

In the summer, on April (28th), Emperor Wu of Jin issued an edict and gave Sun Hao the title of Marquis.

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