Chapter 45

At the beginning of 378 AD, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian, who couldn't wait to conquer the world, saw that the north had been decided, so he sent generals Fu Pi, Yang An, Murong Chui, Yao Chang and other four people, a total of 170,000 troops, to attack Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, wanting to use this as a springboard to march into the south of the Yangtze River.

In April of the same year, the four-way army converged to the north of Chushui, and Zhu Xu, the defender of Xiangyang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, believed that the former Qin army came from the north and had no boats and ships, so he could not cross the river for a while, so he was not prepared in the city.

However, the former Qin army gathered the high-headed horses together, and the former Qin general Shi Yue led 5,000 cavalry to cross the Han River from the shoals first, Zhu Xu was caught off guard, Shi Yue led the troops to conquer the outer city of Xiangyang, captured more than 100 ships, and sent troops to pick up the rest of the soldiers who had not crossed the river, and Zhu Xu had to stick to the inner city of Xiangyang. After Fu Pi crossed the river, he personally led a large army to attack the inner city of Xiangyang.

Zhu Xu mobilized the soldiers and civilians in the city to resist together, and his mother Han also personally climbed the city wall to check whether it was strong. And felt that the northwest corner of the city wall was low and dilapidated, fearing that it would be broken by the former Qin army, so he called on more than 100 maids and adult women in the city to build a new city wall more than 20 zhang high in the inner corner of the city wall overnight. When the former Qin soldiers attacked the city, they really broke through the northwest corner, and the defenders of the city moved to the new city wall to defend, and the former Qin soldiers saw that the new city wall was strong and towering, so they could only retreat. Later, the military and civilians of Xiangyang called this city wall "Lady City". Zhu Xu's family defended the city, which inspired the whole city to hate the enemy, so that the former Qin army attacked the city for a year without defeat.

At the beginning of 379 AD, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian saw that Xiangyang only had the inner city left, but held on for a year, he was furious, and ordered Fu Pi to attack the city, Fu Pi had to lead a large army to attack urgently, so that Xiangyang defender Zhu Xu and his defenders of the city were extremely tired, but they still held on as before.

In February of the same year, Zhu Xu's general Li Bohu saw that Fu Pi's siege was imminent, and he was afraid that Xiangyang would not be protected, and the jade would be burned at that time, so he secretly sent his son to the former Qin camp to express his willingness to surrender to the former Qin as an internal response. Fu Pi was overjoyed, so he ordered all the troops to attack Xiangyang again.

At noon the next day, Li Bohu took advantage of the fatigue of the guards to open the city gate, let the former Qin army enter Xiangyang, and guided the former Qin soldiers to capture Zhu Xu, and Fu Pi immediately escorted Zhu Xu and Li Bo to the capital Chang'an.

When the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian learned of the conquest of Xiangyang, he thought that Li Bo was a traitor to seek glory, so he beheaded him for public display. Because Zhu Xu adhered to the city and his loyalty was visible, Fu Jian appreciated it very much, and personally received him, gave him an official position, and stayed in office. Zhu Xu originally wanted to come to Chang'an to die, but he didn't expect to be awarded the official position of Qianqin, thinking that it was better to come and be safe, and maybe he could take the opportunity to serve the motherland in the future, so he happily accepted the order.

Fu Jian originally wanted to order Fu Pi to capture Xiangyang, take Xiangyang as the base camp, and march into the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but there were successive clan rebellions within it, so he had to order the troops to retreat.

Just when Fu Pi conquered Xiangyang, the former Qin clan Fu Chong, who was guarding Luoyang, thought that Guanzhong was empty, and he was stationed in Luoyang, and the soldiers were full of food, so he could inherit the ancestral industry, and then raised troops to enter the customs, however, the general Lu Guang, who assisted Fu Jian to ascend the throne, was serving in Luoyang, so he imprisoned Fu Chong and sent him to Chang'an.

At the beginning of 380 A.D., the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian prepared for the stabilization of the northern land and the conquest of the south of the Yangtze River, and then ordered the clan Fu Zhong to be the general of Zhenbei and garrison Ji (now Daxing, Beijing), and ordered Fu Chong's brother Fu Luo to be the general of Zhennan and transfer Chengdu to Chengdu.

Fu Luo at this time to guard and Long (now Jinzhou, Liaoning), has been dissatisfied because of their own efforts to destroy the country has not been rewarded, this time to defend Chengdu, and see his brother Fu Chong had rebelled, I am afraid that Fu Jian does not trust his brother, called the defense, in fact, it is killing, so Fu Luo Yu and Long raised troops, marched directly to Chang'an, Fu Chong who has arrived once again took the opportunity to support his brother, the two combined more than 70,000 people to attack Guanzhong, for a time Guanzhong people's hearts floated, panicked, the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian sent an envoy to the camp of Fu Luo, persuaded him to stop the army and make peace, And promised to let it Yongzhen Youzhou.

However, Fu Luo saw that Fu Jian sent an envoy to sue for peace, thinking that Guanzhong was empty, and his heart was overjoyed, so he ordered the messenger to return quickly, and asked the messenger to tell Fu Jian that he had been called the emperor and wanted to return the capital to Xianyang, inheriting the foundation of Gaozu, and ordered Fu Jian to wait for the drive in Tongguan, and also named him the king of the East China Sea.

The envoy returned to Chang'an, told everything that Fu Luo said, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian was furious, and then ordered Fu Rong and Lu Guang to lead the army to meet the Fu Luo rebels, and the two armies fought in Zhongshan (now Dingzhou, Hebei), Fu Luo raised troops in a hurry, and was soon defeated, Fu Zhong was also beheaded by Lu Guangyu under the horse, and Fu Luo was defeated and captured, and escorted to Chang'an. Fu Jian thought of the family affection of the clan, but still did not kill Fu Luo, but only sent him to the northwest border.

After the Fuluo rebellion was put down, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian continued to prepare for sending troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and in order to stabilize the Guandong region, he immediately ordered the kings of the clan to lead 150,000 households in Guanzhong to go to various parts of Guanzhong to guard and govern the place like the Western Zhou Dynasty.

At this time, Fu Jian felt that the places north of the Yangtze River had been stabilized, and the unstable factors of the clan had been eliminated, and the matter of pacifying the south of the Yangtze River was re-proposed.

Fu Jian immediately convened hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss the pacification of Jiangnan, if you know what the opinions of the hundred officials are, what is the matter of Fu Jian's invasion of Jin, and look at the next chapter.